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December 27, 1933 - August 28, 2013
Wurtsboro, NY
Fritzie Johanna Weinert, a 35 year resident of Wurtsboro, died suddenly on Tuesday, August 27th at Orange Regional Medical Center. She was 79.
The daughter of the late Magda and William Gerders, she was born on December 27, 1933 in the Bronx, NY. Fritzie worked as a Nurse Administrator for Middletown Psychiatric Center. She enjoyed traveling with her Senior groups and visited many interesting places including Alaska and Hawaii. She was a parishioner at St. Joseph's R.C. Church in Wurtsboro.
Fritzie is survived by her son, Frederick Weinert of Otisville; her daughters: Suzanne Weinert-Korycki and her husband, Ronald of New Hampton, and her daughter, Jeanette Weinert-Smith and her husband, David of San Jose, CA. She is also survived by her former husband and longtime friend, Albert Weinert of Otisville, as well as many friends.
She was predeceased by her parents and her stepfather, Karl Strobach.
Visitation hours are from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Tuesday, September 3rd at Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc., 130 Highland Avenue, Middletown, NY 10940. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, September 4th at St. Joseph's R.C. Church, Sullivan Street, Wurtsboro, NY 12790. Cremation will be private.


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Lakers-Mavericks Game 1: Mavericks rally to defeat the Lakers, 96-94
Mavericks 96, Lakers 94 (final)
After losing Game 1 in the last series against the New Orleans Hornets, the Lakers were certainly looking for a better start Monday night against the Dallas Mavericks in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series.
But the Lakers built a 16-point lead only to lose, 96-94, putting themselves in the same hole they started the last series.
The final 1:20 went like this:
--Kobe Bryant hits a two to give the Lakers a 94-81 lead with 59 seconds to go.
--Dirk Nowitzki makes his shot and Dallas is down by one with 40 seconds to play.
--Bryant loses the ball with 20 seconds to play and it is the Mavericks' game to win.
--On the inbounds pass Pau Gasol fouls Nowitzki, who makes both free throws and the Mavericks lead, 95-94, with 19.5 seconds to play.
--Jason Kidd commits a non-shooting foul against Bryant with 8.8 seconds to play.
--Gasol loses the ball after the inbounds play and fouls Kidd, who makes one of two free throws, leaving the Lakers with 3.1 seconds to tie the score or win the game.
--Bryant misses a three-pointer at the buzzer off a well-designed inbounds play that gets him a clean look from the top of the three-point area.
Bryant was the game's leading scorer with 36 points. Gasol added 15.
Nowitzki had 28 points and 15 rebounds to lead the Mavericks.
Kobe Bryant rejoined the game with 6:38 to play. The Mavericks scored quickly but Bryant answered with a jumper. Then after a Mavericks miss, Lamar Odom drove to the basket and gave the Lakers a five-point lead with a little over five minutes to play.
After a Mavericks timeout, Dirk Nowitzki hit a fadeaway over some tough defense by Odom. After a Bryant miss, Nowitzki tried the same shot but missed.
Bryant then made a jumper, giving him 34 points in the game, and the lead was back to five. But an alley-oop to Tyson Chandler made it a three-point game. Bryant missed badly the next time down the court. Nowitzki then missed and there was a timeout with 2:12 to play.
Lakers 86, Mavericks 83 (6:38 left in fourth quarter)
Certainly Kobe Bryant has been the key for the Lakers but he needed a rest and he opened the fourth quarter on the bench, as he usually does.
A fadeaway by Dirk Nowitzki cut the Lakers' lead to five and three-pointer by Peja Stojakovic cut it to two. But a breakaway by Matt Barnes got it back to four. Nowitzki answered with a three-pointer and it was a one-point game with a little more than three minutes gone in the quarter.
After a timeout, Andrew Bynum went to the foul line and made both free throws. He now has eight points in the game. Jason Terry closed it to a one-point game and after a Shannon Brown miss the Mavericks had a chance to take the lead. But Nowitzki missed his shot and Brown made a basket underneath, was fouled, but missed the free throw.
J.J. Barea closed it back to a one-point game before the Lakers missed two shots. Jason Terry missed for Mavericks but Lamar Odom made a reverse under the basket as the teams headed to a timeout.
Lakers 78, Mavericks 71 (end of third quarter)
Coming out of the timeout, Kobe Bryant sank an uncontested jumper. The Mavericks had good ball movement and Tyson Chandler scored underneath. Ron Artest then put up an airball. Pau Gasol fouled Chandler, who missed the first of his foul shots but made the second.
Bryant came down court and made the next shot and the lead was back to four. Bryant then hit a three-pointer, giving him 27 points so far, and it was a seven-point lead.
The Mavericks then picked up a couple buckets and the Lakers' lead was cut to three. Bryant then got to 30 points with another three, but followed that up with a miss.
Phil Jackson's normal substitution pattern would have Bryant on the bench resting at this point. But he waited until 41 seconds remained in the quarter to rest him. Gasol then hit two free throws and the Lakers were up by eight.
Gasol finished the quarter at the foul line, making both shots to give him 14 points and the Lakers a seven-point lead entering the fourth quarter.
Lakers 64, Mavericks 61 (5:19 left in third quarter)
Things started well in the second half for the Lakers as Ron Artest stole the ball on the Mavericks' first possession and drove in for a layup. The Lakers then followed that with a Pau Gasol slam and their lead was 13 points. After Derek Fisher stole the ball, Kobe Bryant hit a three-pointer and the Lakers were on a 7-0 run to start the half and a 21-2 run if you go back to the second quarter.
The Mavericks called a quick timeout, trailing by 16 points, with less than a minute and a half gone in the second half.
Dirk Nowitzki broke the Mavericks' dry spell with a jumper, which turned into a three-point play when Fisher fouled him.
Andrew Bynum countered with a nice hook shot but that was answered by Tyson Chandler. A turnover led to another Mavericks basket and the Lakers' lead was cut to 11 points. Fisher then missed a jumper and Jason Kidd hit a three-pointer to slice the Lakers' lead to eight.
But Bryant then made a basket, which was answered by Corey Brewer. Nowitzki closed Dallas' deficit to six points and the Staples Center crowd became nervous. Artest then missed and Brewer made a three, cutting the once 16-point lead down to three.
Lakers 53, Mavericks 44 (halftime)
Out of the timeout, Lamar Odom fouled Dirk Nowitzki, who upped his point total to 10. Odom then scored, cutting the Mavericks lead to three.
The Lakers closed it to one, 38-37, on a fadeaway jumper by Kobe Bryant, his 11th and 12th points of the game. Nowitzki missed his next shot as did Ron Artest. But a bad pass gave the Lakers the ball back but Derek Fisher missed a layup. Jason Terry followed with a two and the Lakers just couldn't shake the three-point spread
Coming out of a timeout Bryant missed a shot as did the Mavericks. The game closed to one when Pau Gasol converted on a Bryant miss. But Terry was hot and made a two, giving him 13 points. Odom answered that as the period headed to the two-minute mark.
Nowitzki missed his next shot and Fisher drove the floor, got the two, was fouled and converted for a three-point play. The Lakers had the lead, 44-42.
Things were getting spirited and the referees gave technicals to Tyson Chandler and Gasol.
After a miss, the Lakers drove down the court, Bryant was fouled, and suddenly the Lakers were up by four.
The Lakers caught another break when Chandler was assessed a foul, sending Gasol to the line. He missed his first foul shot but made the second. The Lakers picked up a block and Fisher drove the lane again for a basket and the Lakers were up by seven.
Nowitzki scored what should have been the last points of the quarter. But Terry fouled Odom on a desperation shot with less than one second left. Odom went to the line and made all three.
But things got worse for the Mavericks as Nowitzki was assessed a technical. Bryant made the shot and the Lakers were up by nine.
Bryant was the leading scorer for the Lakers with 15 points. Odom had 11. The Lakers were 20-for-42 shooting (48%).
Terry's 13 points led the Mavericks while Nowitzki had 12. The Mavericks shot 18 of 42 (43%).
Mavericks 39, Lakers 36 (6:15 left in second quarter)
The Lakers came out of the timeout by adding Pau Gasol to the lineup while Kobe Bryant stayed on the bench. It paid off when Gasol's assist to Andrew Bynum gave the young center his first points of the game. The Mavericks answered and then a series of misses and fouls sent Jason Terry to the line. He made both free throws and the Mavericks' lead was five points.
With 6:34 to play, Bryant and Ron Artest rejoined the game and the Lakers had their starting five on the court.
Bynum then picked up a slam off another Gasol assist and the Lakers had closed the deficit it to three.
Mavericks 32, Lakers 29 (8:00 left in second quarter)
One thing the Lakers need to do as the second quarter starts is get Andrew Bynum involved in the game. In 10 minutes he was zero for two from the field with no rebounds.
Lamar Odom tied the score with a 11:18 left until haftime but Dirk Nowitzki answered with a two. After a three-second violation, Mavericks guard Jason Terry put the Lakers down by four.
The next few minutes saw a series of mistakes and the Lakers got back to within three points when Shannon Brown scored his third and fourth points of the game on a drive down the lane.
The teams went into a timeout with the Lakers having the ball.
Mavericks 25, Lakers 23 (end of first quarter)
The Lakers did something they haven't done too much: started a game strong. Kobe Bryant scored the first seven points for the Lakers. But as the quarter developed the Mavericks started getting hot from three-point range. They took the lead, 21-19, with about three minutes left in the quarter after a 9-1 run.
With 1:35 to play Jason Terry's bucket gave the Mavericks a four-point edge. Lamar Odom then went to the line and made two free throws for the Lakers; it was the first bench points of the game for the Lakers. The Mavericks had 10 at that point. Matt Barnes then gave the Lakers two more points off the bench.
The Lakers closed it to two after a Mavericks miss but Steve Blake missed a three-pointer and the Lakers were down by two.
The Lakers were nine-for-23 shooting for the quarter while the Mavericks were 11 of 23. Each team sank three three-pointers.
Bryant was the leading scorer with 10. Dirk Nowitzki had six for the Mavericks.
The last time the Lakers were at Staples Center -- Game 5 of the New Orleans series -- all the talk was on how Kobe Bryant's ankle would hold up. Clearly, it held up just fine.
But on Monday, before Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinal series against the Dallas Mavericks, the mood was very different.
"I think he's a lot better," Lakers Coach Phil Jackson said before the game. "He took a limited amount of shots (at the shootaround) and that's always a good sign."
Bryant is a lot different than Jackson's previous superstar. Michael Jordan, when he played for the Bulls, did not have the injury problems and showed up for every practice with intensity. Bryant doesn't really like to practice.
"I don't anticipate that he'll ever practice again," Jackson joked before the game.
Staples Center is filling up and game time is approaching, Come back for updates throughout the game.
--John Cherwa
Photo: Lakers forward Ron Artest strips the ball from the grasp of Mavericks power forward Dirk Nowitzki in the first half Monday night at Staples Center. Credit: Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times


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Mitch McConnell, the senate Republican leader from Kentucky, was the original author of the United States' sanctions on Myanmar.
So these last six months have been astounding for him. Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, has gone through an amazing transformation. Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's leading opposition figure, has announced she will seek public office and the U.S. has reestablished diplomatic ties with Myanmar.
NPR's Michele Kelemen spoke to McConnell after his recent trip to the country. She asked him what first drew him to the country.
"I read about it in the newspaper like everyone else," he said. "It was an interesting story: the uprising in '88, the election in 1990 in which Suu Kyi got 80 percent of the vote and their outrageous decision to put her under arrest for most of the next 20 years, the inability to go accept the Noble Peace price in '91.
"All of that I found a fascinating and interesting story. Even though I tought the chance of influencing events there were quite remote, I started taking about it."
Eventually he got the sanctions through congress and he said one day Suu Kyi managed to send him a hand-written note that he said he framed and hung in his office.
"To be perfectly candid with you, I wasn't all that confident things would ever change," he said.
But they have: Over the past six months, the country's ruling military junta disbanded and Myanmar is now headed toward elections.
Michele shared this bit of tape with us in which McConnell describes meeting Suu Kyi:
Michele will have a piece on All Things Considered tonight, so tune into your local NPR member station to listen. Well also add Michele's piece to this post, a little later tonight.
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Melissa Block.
This week, an improbable partnership called on Congress. On one side, animal rights advocates. And on the same side, big egg producers. They're advocating together for a law that's supposed to improve the lives of egg-laying chickens.
As NPR's Dan Charles reports, if passed it will be the first federal law that takes into account the emotional lives of farm animals.
DAN CHARLES, BYLINE: Ask two different people and you can get two completely different opinions about what makes a chicken feel comfortable.
JOHN BEDELL: You hear that sound? That's happy chickens.
CHARLES: John Bedell manages egg production for JS West, a family-run farming operation in Modesto, California.
BEDELL: When they're just sort of calmly clucking away, that's what happy chickens sound like.
CHARLES: We're standing in a long, windowless, dimly lit building. It's home to a whole city of chickens: 150,000 of them in endless rows of wire cages, eight birds to a cage. On average, each hen has a little less space than a single sheet of paper. So, are they really happy?
Ask Paul Shapiro, from the Humane Society of the United States, and he says impossible.
PAUL SHAPIRO: These are living, feeling, sentient animals. And at a bare minimum, certainly they deserve not to be tortured for their entire lives, not to be immobilized to the point where they can't even extend their limbs.
CHARLES: Advocates of animal welfare have been angry about chicken cages for a long time. But until recently, they couldn't do much about it. The system gives us cheap eggs. In fact, 90 percent of all the country's eggs come from chickens in cages.
But in the last few years, activists here and around the world have started to win some victories. They succeeded first in Europe. By law, Euro chickens now have more room in cages and many aren't in cages at all - they're running around loose in barns. Then, three years ago, voters in California overwhelmingly approved something called Proposition 2.
Paul Shapiro, from the Humane Society, helped write it.
SHAPIRO: Well, what Prop 2 says is that laying hens must be able to stand up, lie down, turn around, and fully extend their limbs. That's it.
CHARLES: They have to be able to do that by 2015. It sounds simple, but egg producers say they still have no idea what it requires. Does it mean chickens have to be cage-free? Does it just mean bigger cages? How big?
On top of that, similar voter initiatives passed in other states. Gene Gregory, who's president of United Egg Producers, the egg industry's biggest trade association, says it looked like the industry would have to satisfy dozens of different and confusing state requirements.
GENE GREGORY: It was going to be it was going to be a nightmare, trying to produce eggs and have a free flow of eggs across state lines. And so, we reached out to the Humane Society and said let's have a conversation about this.
SHAPIRO: And indeed, we were able to hammer out agreement to jointly lobby the Congress for new federal rules on the treatment of egg-laying hens.
CHARLES: The proposed law was introduced in Congress this week. It would require all egg producers in every state to move all of their animals out of traditional cages within 15 years. At a minimum, the chickens would have to be in so-called enriched cages - a style developed in Europe. These cages are a compromise between efficient, large-scale production and letting chickens do some things that they seem to really like.
CHARLES: At the JS West farm, one chicken house already has these cages. The chickens in this building have almost twice as much space as the ones I saw next door.
Jill Benson, one of the company's owners, points out other things. There are metal bars for the birds to perch on. Also, some enclosed spaces, called nest boxes, which seem really popular.
JILL BENSON: The birds, in fact, line up to go into the nest box. They like to go out of the bright light and go into a nest box to lay their eggs.
CHARLES: Jill Benson says she wants this law to pass. Building new chicken houses will cost her company millions of dollars, but she says she can live with that. It probably works out to about an extra penny per egg.
So if the United Egg Producers, representing 95 percent of all U.S. egg production wants this law and some of the industry's fiercest enemies also want this law, who could be against it?
Well, as it happens, some influential farm organizations. Beef producers, hog farmers, dairy farmers and the American Farm Bureau have all lined up against it.
Bill Donald, a rancher in Melville, Montana and president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association, says it would be a terrible precedent. Who knows what regulations might come next?
BILL DONALD: It isn't a very large leap to go from egg production to chicken production to beef production.
CHARLES: It's a political situation that would have been unthinkable just a year ago: egg farmers, arm-in-arm with the Humane Society of the United States, doing battle with ranchers and dairymen.
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Congratulations on finally catching on... Delitaaaaaaa! Using my time travel powers, I ventured back to 1986 to decimate the Ushiromiya family, so that you fools today could sit around your computers all day discussing such ridiculous concepts! I even went back even further to drag Lincoln into this whole mess... Kyahahahah...
This also explains why Kinzo has in his possession a sniper rifle from 1996. Everything fits...
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Unless of course, Kinzo invented the sniper rifle and the culprit secretly sold off the plans later. No one ever learned that the plans came from Rokkenjima because the culprit wanted to keep it that way.
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This all aside, shouldn't we get back on topic?
|2010-06-26, 21:41
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OR.....Ryukishi07 just omitted it to -us- so we don't realize the truth behind it >.>
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|2010-06-26, 21:52
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That is a good idea, and possibly a clever trick on Ryuukishi's part. Battler, being his innocent self, finds it hard to deal with the horrifying scenes of the early games. So he breaks down and shuts out the world, making it impossible to receive and clues in that state.
Assuming this is a game between us and Ryuukishi, it would be quite devious of him to exclude important clues of the game during these moments. Could we flip the chessboard around to assume now whenever Meta-Battler has a mental breakdown, something important is happening in-game?
This might explain why the early games feel so difficult, while the difficulty level given to some of them are lower than they appear to be.
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Can the Knox rules forbid the detective from fabricating hints to satisfy Knox 8th?
EDIT: And not so abstract. In Ep5, the following is said when Erika is introduced:
Bernkastel: "I proclaim that Furudo Erika is the detective. The detective is not the culprit. No proof is needed to show this."
Lambda: "There was an exception clause in the original, but for this game the detective isn't the culprit has been proclaimed in red, so you don't need to consider the exception."
Now wait a minute.
EDIT EDIT: Aha! Found the true original.
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I doubt it. First off, there has been no one who has been described as capable as passing as Battler, and nor has there been any evidence of another one of Battler's suits lying around.
Furthermore, that would limit the people capable of dressing up as Battler to Kyrie and Rudolf, as only they would know what he would be wearing to the reunion and thus be able to prepare a disguise in advance. The setup to have a fake Battler is more or less impossible, as unlike with Piece Beato, we lack the means, the person, and the motive for someone to pretend to be Battler.
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Yes, but Rosa lied in episode 2. She said she spoke to Kinzo, remember? Well, either she's being malicious, or she's being crazy.
In any case, common sense can tell us that the Battler we see as a piece is the Battler we know and love. Unless it's all part of Rudolf's ingenious plan to hit on Jessica and Shannon without them knowing, of course.
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In a sense, Battler is an impostor. He's not who others think he is. But he's also not who he himself thinks he is. I don't think he's an impostor in the sense Rosa was thinking. And even if he were, and Knox 7 didn't apply, when exactly was Battler in a position to do anything anyway?
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Rosa also said she saw Beatrice in episode 2. So...
Come to think of it, what if "I" in "I am Ushiromya Asumu's ughugugh" refers only to meta-Battler? If they're two distinct entities, it could work out without Rudolf disguising himself.
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I don't quite think it works like that. Beatrice claims to have killed various people in red, but it doesn't mean that she, a witch, killed them. Also, remember, Ange used the red to prove that she was Battler's sister. As things stand, the most we can get out of the Asumu trap Beato used in episode 4 is that another person named Battler exists, one that pretty much HAS to be female.
After all....
Ushiromiya Battler was born from Ushiromiya Asumu
Ushiromiya Battler is not Ushiromiya Asumu's SON
Battler is not Asumu's SON
I propose this other Battler, if alive, is either Jessica or Piece Beatrice.
Piece Beatrice has the benefit of Meta-Beatrice using this name trap on Battler, mainly, how would Beato know how to snare Battler in such a precise manner?
Jessica has her immunity from the name constriction red text in episode 6, in addition to dubious circumstances with her birth.
And Oliver, I see what you are saying, but we have to work with clues which are presented. It's possible that Battler and George could have manically plotted to buy out the Ushiromiya family while the camera is not focused on them, but we have no scenes to indicate this. We're given nothing to work with.
This is more or less the whole "trust" thing at play here. We have to more or less trust the author to give us the proper clues needed to solve the story. If we suspect that things are happening with Battler which we don't see, well, we're basically not trusting the author. So I wouldn't quite believe that during these "downtimes" something critical happens with Battler that we are not aware of.
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It's more about this... There are multiple moments in the story when Battler is essentially dormant and doing absolutely nothing. Like Renall just said, he isn't in a position to do anything anyway because for much of the time he's doing nothing interesting with the other cousins, and it's so uninteresting that we don't see it on screen at all. This starts being particularly prominent Ep3 onwards, though even in Ep1 there are still long periods when his activities remain not well defined.
What if something interesting does happen to him and the cousins during those periods and we just don't get told?
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Wasn't the point of those reds to kind of dance around the idea that having a mother is NOT the same as being born from someone?
IIRC the exact red has been, at least in the anime...:
Ushiromiya Battler's Mother is Ushiromiya Asumu.
I was born from Ushiromiya Asumu.
Having a mother and being born from someone are two different ideas. This is supposed to open up wormholes for the "Jessica isn't Natsuhi's blood daughter" theories.
For example, I call my best friend my "mom" in real life (not kidding, real life example). We even are listed as mother and son on Facebook. Was I born from her? No. Does that make me any less of my REAL mother's son? Not really, I still have her blood.
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Beatrice: "I am the Golden Witch, Beatrice. And I opened this game in order to fight Ushiromiya Kinzo's grandchild Ushiromiya Battler."
Battler: "Ushiromiya Battler's mother is Ushiromiya Asumu. My name is Ushiromiya Battler. It was from Ushiromiya Asumu that Ushiromiya Battler was born."
Battler: "It was from Ushiromiya ~~Asumu that I was born.~~"
Beatrice - "You are not Ushiromiya Asumu's son."
Battler - "Ange is, ...my little sister."
Notice that "Ushiromiya Battler is not Ushiromiya Asumu's son" does NOT follow necessarily from this set if it refers to the Other Battler, so the Other Battler can still be male if it wants. In fact, no specific information about the Other Battler may be concluded other than that a creature like this has to exist or have existed. What does inevitably follow is:
We still can't say anything about the Other Battler, and the Other Battler is highly dangerous because it poisons the formal context -- no red that mentions Battler can be trusted while this monster is around.
There has to be some other clever way to solve the paradox of "My name is X but I am not X."
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For reference, here's the original Japanese for all of this mess:
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TTR - I'm using the game red texts, which clearly indicate that a Ushiromiya Battler was born from a Ushiromiya Asumu. In a nutshell, we do have a Battler who was born from Asumu.
Oliver - This does indeed come down to an issue of the red text. Can a red text be wrong? Because there are two statements said about Battler not being Asumu's son.
One way to look at it is indeed to go for the contextual argument that implies THIS Battler is not Asumu's son. But the fact that it is mentioned twice, that it says Ushiromiya Battler is not Ushiromiya Asumu's son in ADDITION to Battler is not Asumu's son that makes me worry.(these two reds are used by Ange to snap Battler out of it, it's in the wiki if you think I am messing them up or something)
Sure, you could say that it's referring merely to the Battler we know and love. But, however, that is not quite the case. The series of red texts, including the two critical ones I listed, state that Ushiromiya Battler was born from Ushiromiya Asumu, and paradoxically, Battler is not Asumu's son.
Plain and simple, the red text would be wrong if there is a Battler who is Asumu's son. If the texts used referred to Battler in the second person only, I'd agree with you, but we have these troubling third person texts that make a Battler being a son of Asumu more or less break the red text. Period. I believe the child in question being a female solves this problem quite neatly.
Any other approach doesn't make too much sense.
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- Lee said...
To clarify, ProGen was *never* intended to be a gateway into certification. ProGen was created with the up and coming professional genealogist in mind. While some folks may wish to be certified, others may not or may go the route of accreditation instead. If it has moved away from the original intent, I am not aware of it, and if it has then it is no longer the program I created and they need to change the name to reflect that.
- September 16, 2009 at 7:30 AM
- Thomas MacEntee said...
Thanks Lee for the comment. I don't believe that ProGen has moved away from its original intent as you had created. I probably could have clarified my point better. For me, I am using my participation in ProGen as a gateway for certification - a way to immerse myself in the various practices and procedures. I will be pursuing other avenues for actual certification.
- September 16, 2009 at 9:01 AM
- Lee said...
Thank you for the clarification, Thomas. I won't deny you had me worried there. :-) I had no choice but to step away from the program when I did, but I am still just as passionate about it today as I was the day I pitched the idea.
- September 16, 2009 at 9:12 AM
- Thomas MacEntee said...
You should be very proud of your creation - I think the concept is super!
- September 16, 2009 at 9:18 AM
- Lee said...
Thank you, Thomas! I am proud and I am proud of Angela for all she's done to make the program grow.
- September 16, 2009 at 1:14 PM


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Tribute to the U.S.S. Arizona
Jane Holestine 1/7/2011 8:30:50 AMGreat lines, comp, and contrast of the neutral tones against the blue sky. #1342167
Sarah A. Christian 1/7/2011 8:38:20 AMMagnificent, Richard! Definitely a wonderful tribute! #9148452
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 1/7/2011 9:48:36 AMGreat POV, design and details. Excellent work Richard! #9148613
Joy Rector 1/7/2011 12:10:43 PMgorgeous shot #9148824
Nikki McDonald 1/7/2011 3:45:59 PMUnique and, as Joy says, gorgeous, Richard. I love the design elements and simple palette here. #9149113
Christopher Budny 1/7/2011 4:12:49 PMI love the abstraction of the building forms here, offset by the sky. #9149146
Thomas E. Hinds 1/7/2011 6:07:04 PMBeautiful color, angles, depth, texture, and light! Really terrific image with this wonderful pov! Nice work, Richard! #9149346
Karen E. Baumann 1/8/2011 8:46:55 AMLove how my eye went straight up the column and then around the blue tones and then continued to enjoy the rest of the lines, once again resting on the blue window. Very nice! what a neat tribute to your dad... dad's are great! (no matter what age they could be ) #9150137
Rona L. Schwarz 1/9/2011 10:50:55 AMI've so been enjoying your shots of campus, Richard and this is no exception. Superb POV here - marvelous design with wonderful curves, lines and angles against a deep blue sky. Love the simple composition and the tribute. #9151869
Merna L. Nobile 2/10/2011 3:22:41 PMBlack and White, Bright Colors, Full Frame or Cropped, it does not matter. Youre a winner! CONGRATULATIONS, Merna #9227463
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 2/10/2011 5:30:34 PMGreat use of light and design Richard, congrats again! #9228487
Patti Coblentz 2/10/2011 6:02:30 PMCongratulations on this striking finalist, Richard! #9228716
Rona L. Schwarz 2/10/2011 7:28:10 PMAnother one of my favorites, Richard! CONGRATULATIONS on another outstanding Finalist, and good luck in the next round! #9229429
Usman M. Bajwa 2/11/2011 12:37:18 AMSuper. CONGRATZ on the Finalist badge, Richard!!!
Katarina Mansson 2/11/2011 2:30:38 AMExcellent EoD finalist with great POV - congratulations on your finalist Richard! #9230378
Christopher Budny 2/11/2011 5:42:09 AMGlad to see this one again! Congratulations! #9231081
Katherine Kuhn 2/11/2011 7:20:40 PMCongratulations on your win -- beautiful capture! #9233631
Donna La Mattino Pagakis 2/11/2011 7:21:28 PMCongratulations on your win Richard, super work! #9233636
Jean E. Hildebrant 2/11/2011 7:59:11 PMWell seen and shot, Richard. Great design elements in this image! Congrat's!!! #9233813
Patti Coblentz 2/11/2011 9:03:47 PMBig congratulations on this stunning winner, Richard! #9234044
Violeta Harrington 2/11/2011 9:07:50 PMCongratulations on your win, Richard! Great composition! #9234049
Michele Peterson 2/11/2011 9:31:18 PMWonderful image, Richard! Congratulations on yet another win!! #9234124
Rona L. Schwarz 2/11/2011 9:42:16 PMWTG, Richard!!! I am so happy for you - such a marvelous image!! HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ON A SUPERB GOLD WINNER! #9234149
Michelle Alton 2/12/2011 2:18:17 AMA unique and beautiful perspective shot with amazing light and color!
Melissa G. Meiselman 2/12/2011 7:16:25 AMI love the dynamic composition, Richard!! Congratulations on your wonderful winner!!! #9235229
Mitch Spence 2/12/2011 8:23:20 AMCongratulations on your dramatic winner, Richard. #9235503
Michael Umbreit 2/12/2011 9:07:24 AMRichard - Congratulations on your win!! - Mike #9235670
Emile Abbott 2/12/2011 12:06:38 PMCongratulations on a wonderful winner Richard. #9235999
Karen Celella 2/12/2011 1:03:29 PMCongratulations on your excellent winner, Richard! #9236185
Kimber Wallwork-Heineman 2/12/2011 1:05:59 PMCongratulations Richard,
Christopher Budny 2/12/2011 4:25:58 PMCongratulations, Richard, on your win! #9236516
Katarina Mansson 2/13/2011 3:41:31 AMIt´s a beauty Richard - big congrats on your winner! #9237242
Maria Coulson 2/13/2011 7:28:50 AMCongratulations Richard! #9237770
Datha Y. Thompson 2/18/2011 8:35:02 PMBeautiful Richard!!!
Usman M. Bajwa 2/19/2011 2:31:45 AMC O N G R A T U L A T I O N S on your wonderful Second Place Winner, Richard!!!
This structure within the University of Arizona Student Union Memorial Center is an architectural tribute to the memory of the sailors of the U.S.S. Arizona, who lost their lives on December 7, 1941 in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The shapes, curves, and domes are designed to evoke features of the battleship. This is an upward view in the multi-story cylindrical drum, the central element of this tribute.
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At forum on Monday, Raider families voice concerns over proposed athletic cuts
With the future of a few Immaculata sports hanging in the balance, numerous families gathered Monday in hopes of saving the trio from the chopping block.
Just over a week and half ago, the Leavenworth Regional Catholic Schools administration announced it was exploring the idea of cutting soccer, golf and tennis, beginning next fall.
The reasons presented included three main points ― budget concerns, a lack of participation and the school's new league affiliation, which starts next school year.
And so, in front of nearly 80 concerned parents, students and supporters inside Immaculata High School Monday, district administrators explained how and why they reached this conclusion in two different forums.
The administrators included acting superintendent and Xavier Elementary principal Karen Davis, Immaculata High School principal Helen Schwinn and Immaculata athletic director Sean Sachen.
"What our finance council has really pushed for is a balanced budget," Davis said. "For it to be a balance budget, we did have to make cuts across the board."
This past January, Davis and Schwinn submitted an overall budget together, which was returned by the finance council with guidance "to reduce every area possible by a given percent," according to Davis.
A second draft was then created in February with that input in mind, and thus came about the notion of eliminating the three sports.
The presentation included what considerations were taken to select these athletics, such as:
* What sports are offered by other schools in the new conference?
* What sports help counterbalance expenses with gate monies?
* What sports might possibly be offered through co-operation?
The new league, the Northeast Kansas League, has two out of its nine schools besides Immaculata whom offer golf, one other school that offers soccer and no other member who offers tennis according to the presentation.
Schwinn stated that no income is gained from golf or tennis, while soccer's gates have been unsuccessful. Lastly, co-op opportunities in golf and tennis are possible according to the high school principal, but unlikely for soccer.
"Contact with Leavenworth High School has been positive for golf and tennis," Schwinn said. "Soccer is a different note. As a team sport, they would have to add our entire enrollment. When they add our 120, that would push them up to 6A."
She also said phone calls were made to Lansing, but presently, nothing had materialized.
While figures were not included in the presentation, Davis did state that the cuts would
hold a savings of 11.5 percent, right around $12,000, if all three sports were eliminated.
"It was never our intent in balancing the budget to take anything away," Schwinn said. "I'm just asking you, what are the solutions?"
The parent and student responses, while varied in nature, all called for the same action Monday ― save the sports.
Raiders' tennis coach Manuel Hernandez, who spoke in the first session that had around 30 people in attendance, replied quickly to the three considerations. After explaining the expenditures used to finance his program, Hernandez dissected the other two points
"Tennis has never been affected by our league," he said. "And you are not going to find the opportunity to play at the bigger schools like you do here."
Several parents in the crowd joined him:
* "Why eliminate this individual sport that is really peanuts compared to other sports like football?"
* "I know I'm willing to throw in a case of tennis balls. I understand why the school needs to cut money. What I don't understand is why tennis?
* "The learning continues on the court… It doesn't stop in the classroom."
Lastly, after parents began complaining about a lack of transparency shown, a parent stated, "You are making cuts and it doesn't hold water. It's only the tip of the iceberg. You are going to lose people if this doesn't stop."
At the end of the hour and 15 minute discussion, Imac junior Phillip Hernandez presented 86 student signatures from the 120-person school in support of saving the athletics.
Five minutes later, the same presentation was given to the soccer contingent that had just under 50 in attendance, which included families from the first meeting.
In the second session, figures detailing the lack of schools offering soccer in Class 4-1A (238) were shown along with the other previous mentioned slides. Out of the 38 schools that offer the sport, 29 are 4A, four are 3A, four are 2A and one is 1A.
Immaculata is the only 2A team to offer both soccer and football.
While those numbers were debated for a little bit, the conversation quickly moved toward solutions. Out of that, an idea for corporate sponsorship was presented as well as increase fundraising.
The most accepted concept was one that called for the formation of the "Green Machine", an aggressive booster-like group. However, it would be more than just a fundraising group. It would also include support for local Catholic entities, community service projects and special events, and student-athletes participating in community outreach.
"Let's make this bad news story into a good news story," one of its proponents said. "It's time to roll the sleeves up and get to work."
After an hour of discussion, Davis said she would present the ideas and thoughts from the evening's forums in a board meeting today. From there, a course of action would be laid out.
Still, it was unclear if the concerned parents would be given a chance to enact a rescue plan, whatever that may be. No time frame was presented, either, on when a final decision or the money would be due by.
Nevertheless, at the end of the session, there certainly seemed to be an air of hope that the fight to save these sports would at least live to see another day.
"This is a step," Schwinn said. "This is a step and our No. 1 step is how are we going to remain a balance budget while offering these sports. We need to find a solution."


text: There is nothing quite like spending Christmas in the mountains. The air is cooler and the chance of snow is greater. Not to mention, it does not take nearly as much effort to make your home really feel like the cozy holiday season. Natural Christmas decorations can be gathered from your backdoor with ease – mix the evergreen, with the twigs, pinecones, and a few flowers and your Christmas decorations are done! Using only white lights continues the natural Christmas décor theme perfectly. Red wired ribbons and artificial red berries are also decorating items you can pull out of the closet season after season. This Christmas, sneak away with your family and leave the fussy holiday décor behind. At Southern Living we are always embracing the easy simplicity of holiday decorating and these natural Christmas decorations will surely inspire. Spend your Christmas in the mountains, or bring a bit of mountain nature in to your home with these natural Christmas decoration ideas. Curl up by the Christmas tree and roaring fire and let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The brother-in-law of a man shot by a New Orleans police officer days after Hurricane Katrina testified Wednesday that Henry Glover was hit while he was standing still lighting a cigarette, but a fellow officer later testified Glover was running away.
Jurors in federal district court listening to the retrial of Officer David Warren must sift through such conflicting accounts when deciding whether Warren acted reasonably when he shot Glover on Sept. 2, 2005. Glover was shot outside a strip mall where Warren and the second officer were guarding a second-story substation.
U.S. District Judge Lance Africk has said he expects the trial to take two weeks.
Wednesday marked the first day of testimony in the retrial for Warren, who is charged with violating the 31-year-old Glover's civil rights and using a weapon in a violent crime. Warren testified in his first trial that he thought Glover had a gun.
The brother-in-law, Bernard Calloway, said he was with Glover the day of the shooting and that he was shot as he stood lighting a cigarette. But during testimony later in the day, now-retired New Orleans Police Officer Linda Howard, who was on duty with Warren the day of the shooting, said that Glover and Calloway were running away in separate directions when Warren fired his gun at him.
Calloway was the trial's first witness. Howard wound up the first day of testimony.
Howard testified that as she drove Warren to the substation on New Orleans' west bank, he asked her to stop at his house.
"He came out with an assault rifle," saying he needed its protection and asking if she wanted one, Howard recounted. She told him no, she testified.
Howard said that at one point during the day prior to Glover's shooting, Warren fired the rifle in the general direction of a man walking through the mall parking lot. Asked why he did it, she testified, "He said he just wanted to see something."
Later that day, the officers saw two women near a store carrying suitcases in a shopping cart, Howard said. A bit later, she heard screeching tires and saw a truck back up to the shopping cart. The driver and a passenger jumped out and ran toward it. Neither had a gun, she said.
Warren yelled something to get their attention. They ran — one down the street behind the building, the other toward a nearby corner — and Warren fired, Howard said.
The man, Glover, collapsed at the corner, she said.
Howard said she never felt threatened until Warren fired and she saw Glover fall.
She said Warren denied hitting anyone, refused to look when she said the man had fallen, and told her she didn't have to report the shooting. Howard testified that she was too shaken up at first to talk to the supervisor who showed up at the scene after Howard called. After giving the supervisor her account of events, she said, she asked to return to the main station because she didn't want to stay with Warren, who still had his gun. "He had just shot someone and I was the only witness," she testified.
Howard did not return to the station, however, she said. She said the rest of their shift was uneventful, but added that she sat up nights after that in her house, afraid.
Calloway testified that he and Glover intended to pick up family members from Glover's New Orleans apartment and head out of town four days after the devastating storm. Glover, driving a stolen truck, stopped at a curb where a sister-in-law of his said she had left a suitcase.
Calloway said Glover was standing next to the truck and lighting a cigarette. Calloway said that as he turned back to the suitcase, he heard gunfire.
"I heard POW! — a gunshot. I heard a voice that said, 'Leave now,'" Calloway testified. Calloway said that as he ran, he looked back and saw Glover stumble. When he looked again, Glover had fallen. Calloway ran back to help Glover, who was bleeding.
"He just said to tell his mama that he loved her. He was holding his chest," Calloway testified.
The trial is the second in three years for Warren, who was serving a prison sentence of nearly 26 years when a federal appeals court in December overturned a manslaughter conviction handed down in 2010.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Warren should have been tried separately from four other former officers, who were charged with participating in a cover-up. Gregory McRae was sentenced to more than 17 years in prison for burning Glover's body after he was gunned down and Travis McCabe of writing a false report on the shooting. The other two were acquitted.
While jurors were out of the courtroom, Africk noted that the jury did not include anyone who knew that Glover's body had been burned, that there had been a cover-up or that this is Warren's second trial.
In 2011, the Justice Department issued a scathing report alleging a pattern of discriminatory and unconstitutional conduct by police. The city and the Justice Department reached an agreement calling for sweeping changes in police policy, though the city has since objected to the potentially expensive agreement.


text: James Stewart\nThe Star of It's a Wonderful Life and The Philadelphia Story in Beverly Hills\nThe Stewart home in Beverly Hills.\\n\\nThe house on Roxbury Drive in Beverly Hills, where actor James Stewart and his wife Gloria lived for nearly 50 years, had changed little since he bought it in 1949.\nThe entrance hall of the Stewart home.\\n\\nA profile sketch of Pie, the horse Stewart rode in Broken Arrow (1950) and How the West Was Won (1962) hangs in the entrance hall. Although Stewart seemed completely natural on screen, Alfred Hitchcock, who directed him in Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958), described him as "a painstaking craftsman."\nThe Stewarts' living room.\\n\\n"I've never been a Hollywood glamour boy," claimed James Stewart, who starred in nearly 80 films. Signed by MGM in 1935, he was first cast in The Murder Man, with Spencer Tracy. "I told him to forget the camera was there," said Tracy. "That was all he needed."\nThe library in the Stewart home.\\n\\n"The library was the most used room in the house," says Kelly Stewart. "Family and friends always gathered there before dinner." On the low table are a Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, and a book of poems Stewart published in 1989.\nThe master bedroom of the Stewart home.\\n\\nHenry Fonda, one of Stewart's first roommates after he moved to Hollywood, created the still life on the easel in the master bedroom. Fonda once said of the Stewart residence, "It's as comfortable as Jimmy, with a splash of style thrown in by Gloria."\nAwards and photos on display in the library.\\n\\nStewart's Oscars—for Best Actor in The Philadelphia Story in 1940 and for lifetime achievement in 1984—are displayed in a niche in the library. On the wall is a 1939 New York Film Critics Award for Stewart's classic early role in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.


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Jen chose Lemon Meringue Pie for this month's challenge because after all the holiday treats, she wanted something lighter. I've made lemon meringue pie heaps of times before and was excited to try a new recipe. I actually ended up baking this pie twice during the two weeks I was in Singapore because my family loved it so much. Jen, my family thanks you for picking this pie because it's my sister's favourite dessert.
I made a "standard" pie for the challenge (very un-daring of me, I know...) but you can check out my mini lemon meringue tart that I wrote about last year here. Do check out the other pies created by the other Daring Barkers here.
Kitchen Notes:
- Working in hot & humid weather:
If you still haven't made your own Lemon Meringue Pie, I urge you to have a go. Here is the recipe:
Lemon Meringue Pie
from Wanda's Pie in the Sky by Wanda Beaver, 2002
Makes one 10-inch (25 cm) pie
For the Crust:
¾ cup cold butter; cut into ½-inch (1.2 cm) pieces
2 cups all-purpose flour
¼ cup granulated sugar
¼ tsp salt
⅓ cup ice water
For the Filling:
2 cups water
1 cup granulated sugar
½ cup cornstarch
5 egg yolks, beaten
¼ cup butter
¾ cup fresh lemon juice
1 tbsp lemon zest
1 tsp vanilla extract
For the Meringue:
5 egg whites, room temperature
½ tsp cream of tartar
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp vanilla extract
¾ cup granulated sugar
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HAMBURG, N.Y. (AP) — Nik Wallenda is planning to take his high-wire act to a county fair in western New York where he performed with his family when he was 13.
The daredevil visited the site of the Erie County Fair near Buffalo on Thursday to announce his plans.
He says the Aug. 14 tightrope walk will be his longest so far this year — 1,400 feet or almost double the length of his usual tightrope walks. He says he will be 125 feet in the air, on a wire measuring 5/8 of an inch in diameter — about the size of a nickel.
Wallenda has walked across the Niagara Falls and Grand Canyon. He's part of a family of acrobats that has been thrilling audiences for decades as The Flying Wallendas.


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Playwrights Horizons is once again putting women front and center in the company's 2013-2014 season, staging four plays by women, including two world premieres. Three of the first five plays the Off Broadway company announced on Thursday will also be directed by women.
The season will begin with "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play," a post-apocalyptic tale by Anne Washburn about a future in which the "Cape Feare" episode of the "The Simpsons" is all that remains of Western literature. The play was unveiled last year at Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington, D.C., to good reviews. The New York production will have the same director, Steven Cosson, and previews will start Aug. 23.
Playwrights will also host the premieres of "The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters," by Marlane Meyer and directed by Lisa Peterson; and "The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence," by Madeleine George and directed by Leigh Silverman.
"Patron Saint," a comedy about a determined romantic who falls for a hard-drinking womanizer, will begin on Oct. 18. "Watson Intelligence" is a time-jumping meditation on human and machine, revolving around four characters named Watson — Sherlock Holmes's sidekick, the engineer who built the first telephone, a supercomputer that won "Jeopardy!" and a present-day technology lover. It opens in November.
Beginning in May 2014, the company plans to stage "Fly By Night: A New Musical" by Kim Rosenstock, Will Connolly and Michael Mitnick, a darkly comic rock fable about a lowly sandwich-maker set against the blackout of 1965. The show had its premiere at TheaterWorks in Palo Alto, Calif., in July 2011, but has never been produced in New York.
Also on the schedule for next spring is "Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra," a new play by the Texas playwright Kirk Lynn, directed by Anne Kauffman ("Belleville"). It is a comedy about a married couple who agree to re-enact their sexual histories for one another.
The current Playwrights Horizons season includes plays by Annie Baker, Amy Herzog, Tanya Barfield, and Lisa D'Amour, with Ms. Kauffman and Ms. Silverman among the directors.


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I was on the airplane, looking forward to reading Taylor Branch's new book, The King Years: Historical Moments in the Civil Rights Movement. As I opened my Kindle, I realized that it offered large excerpts of Branch's previous works, and was glad that while I have the other books in hard cover, I had these stories in my Kindle. But as I re-read some of the accounts, I realized that my 40-something-old self reacted differently than when I first read some of the accounts when I was 20-something. My younger self yearned to know: How did they organize? How did they deal with differing motives and different movements? And I yearned to believe that I, too, would have sacrificed my being for "The Movement."
My late 40-something-old self read these words as a mother — as someone who understood the fury of the parents who were scared as their children sacrificed their very lives for justice's sake:
The smallest questions of logistics — should they ride segregated from Nashville to Birmingham, or should they stick to their principles at the risk of being stopped even before they could begin to take up the Freedom Ride? — opened large questions of philosophy and personal belief, and just when one issue seemed to be settled someone would confess an old doubt or a new fear. Phone calls from . . . sobbing or angry parents who had just seen gruesome news footage of wounded rider Jim Peck disembarking from the plane in New Orleans destabilized the emotions beneath a wobbly consensus. [Branch, Taylor (2013-01-08). The King Years (p. 25). Simon & Schuster, Inc.. Kindle Edition.]
I pondered on if the eagerness and the passion of my younger years that drove what I thought possible would be sturdy enough for the practicality of my later years. My plane landed and I reached my hotel to attend the Samuel DeWitt Proctor conference (named for the minister and professor who was one of Dr. King's pastors).
The next morning I was enjoying the Dallas sunshine (10 inches of snow was on my deck back home). As I sipped on my coffee, I smiled as William Lucy and Allan Boesak and other modern-day prophets sat at another table. Perhaps you've not heard of these men. Bill Lucy is the person who sought to define the struggle for the sanitation workers in Memphis when the Rev. Dr. King was asked to go to Memphis in April of 1968. Finally, Dr. Lucy summed up the basic message of what so many people failed to understand: "I Am a Man." Allan Boesak was a powerful force in the anti-Apartheid movement; Archbishop Desmond Tutu calls him "one of our most brilliant voices."
I looked down at my New York Times to read: "Voting Rights Act is Challenged," and I felt transported to the 50 years prior that I read about the previous evening. I read about "Jerome Gray, a 74-year-old black man" who lost the privilege to vote because his name was "improperly culled" based on the utility records.
My eyes started to tear and I felt a lump. I didn't want to read more — of course I knew of voting challenges and redistricting for the 2010 and the 2012 elections. I wept when President Barack Obama pointed to Desiline Victor, the centenarian who waited hours to vote right after calling the names of those who "deserve a vote" regarding gun violence. I weep because I know experientially as a white person who has ministered in a predominately African-American area that gun violence affects African-Americans disproportionately. I've known that the voting challenges have been largely targeted toward African-Americans and Hispanic Americans. But I've wanted to believe that somehow the voting challenges will work themselves out. I've wanted to pretend that the Supreme Court that hosted Thurgood Marshall will, of course, do the right thing. Besides, I've got to figure out how to pay my mortgage and send my kids to college. So when I spoke to Dr. Lucy and he spoke to me passionately about how Section 5 is coming to the Supreme Court I comforted myself with the knowledge that someone is doing something about it — while grieving that it is the same folks who fought the same battles 50 years ago.
But one line, in particular, haunted me from the New York Times piece: "Chief Justice Roberts seemed skeptical about the continued need for Section 5. 'Things have changed in the South,' he said."
But I know that not to be true, because I know that racism is steeped in the fabric from which we were collectively hewn and that, indeed, as the Rev. Dr. Gardner Taylor says, "Racism is in the air we breathe and the water that we drink."
But that night the Rev. Dr. Boesak preached a sermon and asked the congregation a question that we as a nation need to answer. He spoke of a school principal during Apartheid that the white community appreciated. Dr. Boesak preached: "He was one of those 'disciplined' black people, not one of those 'emotional black people,' and he told them to 'wait patiently on the Lord' and 'don't get riled up' and 'don't alienate the white people' and he was liked by the whites — the liberal white people." Boesak continued:
Then one day this principal was on the streets with the students and he was confronting the police and the next day he was making speeches to the students and telling them it was time to act now. The white folks said, "We understand their impatience but your role has been so important in keeping them calm. What happened?" And the principal said that he realized, "If I die one day the judge of all eternity will ask me: 'where are my wounds?' and when I say to God, 'I have no wounds' and God will say, 'Was there nothing to fight for?"
Boesak challenged the people: "Where are your wounds?" and asked us, "Was there nothing to fight for?"
So ... the fight continues. With those who lead the way, as they did 50 years ago. With students on the streets in Chicago demanding safe neighborhoods. And with middle-aged mothers who will continue to insist that the fight is not over.
Indeed, as Frederick Douglass wrote, "Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
The Rev. Ruth Hawley-Lowry has pastored in the NYC, Chicago, and Grand Rapids areas. On the 40th Anniversary of his martyrdom, Naomi Tutu and she organized a gathering with moms from Nashville and professors and pastors from Boston, Baltimore, and D.C. on the steps of Lincoln Memorial to honor the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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About Johannes VanDerBeek
Johannes VanDerBeek examines notions of time, transformation, and dreams in his sculptures, installations, and 2-D works. VanDerBeek avoids a personal or "signature" style, instead using unconventional mixed-media and eclectic installations to create layered sequences of allegory that encourage viewers to consider (and re-consider) the ways in which material qualities can become condensed and distorted over time. In a 2010 exhibition titled "Another Time Man," VanDerBeek created an elaborate installation of objects rendered in everyday materials—ghosts made of wire mesh, cubistic sculptures of sliced tin cans, giant slabs of foil made to look like textured, rusty metal, a TV screen made of cardboard, and delicate abstractions on paper towel such as Towel Tablet 6 (2010)—fusing an interest in the fantastical with the cast-off nature of his mediums.
American, b. 1982, Baltimore, Maryland, based in New York, New York


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The boyfriend of a missing Ruch woman has been named a "person of interest" in her mysterious disappearance on July 4.
Jackson County sheriff's investigators say they believe Lennie Laverne Ames, 60, has vital information into the sudden disappearance of Stephanie Anne Warner, 43.
Ames was Warner's boyfriend at the time of her disappearance and was the last person known to have seen her on July 4.
Today deputies and a search and rescue team searched a wooded area on Bureau of Land Management property near a camp site recently occupied by Ames. Jackson County sheriff's investigators previously searched Ames' travel trailer and vehicles at the camp site. Several items were collected as evidence in that search, officials said.
More evidence was collected Wednesday at Warner's home in the 9000 block of Highway 238.
Jackson County sheriff's Detective Eric Henderson said investigators have been in regular contact with Ames throughout the nearly two-month investigation. Henderson described Ames as being cooperative.
"We named him a person of interest because we can't definitively clear him of her disappearance," Henderson said.
Ames cannot be labeled a suspect in a crime because Warner has not been found, Henderson said.
"These are difficult cases because she literally disappeared off the face of the Earth," Henderson said. "We have no sign or activity from her at all since she was last seen by Ames."
Warner was spotted marching in Ashland's Independence Day parade on behalf of the Jackson County Fuel Committee.
Following the event, she vanished and no cell phone or bank account activity has been noted, Henderson said.
Warner was not known to randomly take off from her home or family for extended periods, Henderson said.
"In fact, the opposite is true," he said. "She was making future plans to do things locally. There's no evidence to suggest that she planned to take off and leave."
Warner's family, who live in Louisiana, called to report the disappearance. Her family told police it was unlike her to go without contact for a lengthy period of time.
Henderson declined to discuss what evidence was seized at the Ames' camp site and Warner's home.
"We hold out hope, and the family holds out hope, that she will be found alive," Henderson said. "We cannot completely discount the possibly the she is alive."
Warner has brown eyes, red hair and stands 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. She was wearing black pants and a pink tank top when she was seen at the parade.
Missing person fliers state that Warner typically wears a small, metal cross necklace fashioned of nails and bronze wire strung on a long black cord. Her tattoos include a green peacock on her left thigh, a woman's face in profile with a large butterfly in her hair on her right thigh, and a pink flowered vine with an owl sitting on it on her right ankle, Henderson said.
Anyone who has information about her disappearance is asked to call the Jackson County Sheriff's Office tip line at 541-774-8333 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
— Chris Conrad
Boyfriend of missing Ruch woman named 'person of interest' in disappearance
The boyfriend of a missing Ruch woman has been named a "person of interest" in her mysterious disappearance on July 4.


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|February 19, 2011, 02:25 PM
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Old, standard load for C&B revolvers? No such thing
The February 1975 issue of the American Rifleman has an interesting article on what loads were used in Civil War .36 and .44-caliber paper cartridges for Colt revolvers.
No mention is made of Remington or other cap and ball revolver charges but they were likely identical or nearly so.
No granulation (FFG or FFFG) is noted in the article. Round balls were not used in paper cartridges, but were loaded loosely.
There was a surprising disparity in bullet weights and powder charges in paper combustible cartridges for the Colts, according to the article.
Conical bullets for the Colt M1860 Army .44-caliber revolver ranged from 207 grs. to 260 grs. Powder charges ranged from 17 to 36 grains of black powder.
Conical bullets for the Colt .36 Navy ranged from 139 to 155 grs. Charges ranged from 12 to 21 grains.
Nearly all of these variations are found in prepared, paper cartridges manufactured by private contractors. It appears that U.S. government arsenals made few paper revolver cartridges, preferring to contract this task.
Union Army ordnance manuals of 1861 specify a load of 30 grs of powder with a .46-caliber, 216 gr. conical ball in Colt M1860 revolvers of .44-caliber.
The same manual specifies a .39-caliber conical bullet of 145 grs., over 17 grs. of powder, for the .36-caliber revolvers.
An official Confederate States publication specifies a 250 gr. conical bullet over 30 grs. of powder for the Colt M1860 revolver.
The Confederate specification for the Colt Navy is the same as the Union (.39 caliber conical of 145 grs. over 17 grs. powder).
In the 1860s an average load for the Colt M1860 .44 revolver was 25 grs. of powder with a 146 gr. (about 460" diameter) round ball or a conical bullet of about 230 grs.
The average load for the Colt Navy was 15 grs. of powder with an 81 gr. (about .380" diameter) round ball or a conical bullet of about 146 grs.
Old loadings will occasionally list a 218 gr. conical bullet with a 40 to 50 gr. powder charge. This is intended for the Colt Model 1847 Walker or the later Dragoons, which have a larger capacity than the Colt M1860 .44 revolver.
Of great interest in this article is the apparent dissection of original paper cartridges and the weighing of their powder charge and conical ball weight.
The results follow:
Hazard Powder Co. - 211 gr. conical / 36 grs. powder
Bartholow's - 260 gr. conical / 19 grs. powder
Johnston & Dow - 242 gr. conical / 35 grs. powder
Unknown - 257 gr. conical / 17 grs. powder
Unknown - 207 gr. conical / 22 grs. powder
Hotchkiss - 207 gr. conical / 22 grs. powder
Hazard Powder Co. - 141 gr. conical / 21 grs. powder
Bartholow's - 139 gr. conical / 14 grs. powder
Johnston & Dow - 150 gr. conical / 17 grs. powder
Unknown - 155 gr. conical / 12 grs. powder
Unknown - 149 gr. conical / 13 grs. powder
The Dixie Gun Works catalogue recommends loads very closely resembling the above, but with a ball, not a conical bullet:
All .36 caliber revolvers: .376 inch ball over 22 grs. FFFG black power.
.44 Remington and Colt original gun: .453 inch ball over 28 grs. FFFG black powder
.44 Remington and Colt reproductions: .451 inch ball over 28 grs. FFFG black powder
In my own experience, I've obtained the best accuracy in reproduction guns with balls measuring .380 inch in the .36 and .454 or .457 inch in the .44 Remington and Colt. I have never fired an original cap and ball revolver.
In "A History of the Colt Revolver From 1836 to 1940" by Charles T. Haven and Frank E. Belden, the authors list load recommendations from Colt in the 1850s and 1860s.
Haven and Belden note, "FFG black powder is best for the large and medium-size revolvers, and FFFG for the small pocket models, but any grade that is available will work reasonably well."
Gatofeo notes: In my own experience, I use FFFG in my .31, .36 and .44 revolvers with fine accuracy. I don't see much need to use FFG powder in the .36 and .44 revolvers if you can get FFFG.
Colt recommended the following, more than 125 years ago:
1 dram = 27.3 grains (grs.)
.44 Dragoon: 1-1/2 drams of black powder (41 grs.) and a round bullet of 48 to the pound (about 146 grs, which calculates at about .46 caliber) or a conical bullet of 32 to the pound (about 219 grains).
.44 M1860 Army - Powder charge about 1/3 less than the Dragoon, or 27 grains. A conical bullet of 212 grains (33 to the pound) or the same round ball used in the Dragoon above (about .46-caliber or 146 grs. weight).
.36 M1851 Navy - Powder charge of 3/4 of a dram (20 grs.) and conical bullet 140 grs. (50 to the pound ). Or a round ball of 81 grs. (86 to the pound, which would be about .379 or .380 diameter).
.36 M1862 Pocket and Police - Conical bullet over 15 grs. of powder. No weight is given the conical bullet for this model but it's known that it had its own bullet mould, casting a shorter and lighter conical bullet than the Navy .36 revolver.
Presumably, the .380 ball above is used with the same powder charge. In my own 1862 reproduction, I use 20 grs. of FFFG under a .380 inch ball.
.31 Old and New Model Pocket Pistols - Conical bullet of 76 grains (92 to the pound) over half a dram (13.5 grains) of powder, or a round ball of 50 grs. (140 to the pound and about .320 inch diameter).
Gatofeo notes: Present day 0 buckshot measures about .320 inch and makes an excellent ball for the .31-caliber cap and ball revolvers. Cheap too!
.265 M1855 Sidehammer: Ball of 35 grains (200 to the pound, about .285 diameter) or a 55 gr. (128 to the pound) conical bullet. No charge is listed, but I would guess that 10 grains of powder would be correct.
The late gun writer Elmer Keith (1898 - 1984) wrote a book, "Sixguns" in the mid 1950s. In it, he included a chapter on cap and ball revolvers.
Keith learned how to load and shoot these revolvers from Civil War veterans when he grew up in Helena, Montana. In 1912, at the age of 14, he began carrying a Colt 1851 Navy in .36 caliber.
Keith recommended FFFG black powder for the .28 and .31 caliber revolvers, and FFG black powder for theh .36 and .44 guns.
He didn't list loads by weight, but he instructed to pour in the powder until it almost filled the chamber, leaving room for a greased felt wad.
Keith punched felt wads from an old hat, and soaked them in a lubricant made of melted beeswax and tallow.
Gatofeo notes: I use a mix of paraffin, beeswax and mutton tallow. I use canning paraffin, regular beeswax and order mutton tallow from Dixie Gun Works.
This wad was placed over the powder, then the ball rammed down with it until the ball was slightly below flush of the chamber.
Gatofeo notes: I seat the wad as a separate operation, then seat the ball.
Keith noted, "A percussion sixgun thus loaded will shoot clean all day if you blow your breath through the bore a few times after each six rounds are fired. It will also shoot very accurately if it is a good gun.
"I had one .36 Navy Colt that had a pitted barrel, but with the above load it would cut clover leaves for its six shots, at 20 yards, all day with seated back and head rest and two hands used between the knees to further holding," Keith wrote, adding that he later traded it for a modern .38 Special revolver that was never as accurate as that Navy.
So, as far as a "standard load" for the old Colts, there ain't no such animal! The soldiers used what they were issued, and that issued ammunition varied greatly.
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|February 19, 2011, 09:22 PM
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Good post. I've never been able to get more than about 17grs powder under a conical in the 36 navy (cast LEE 130gr conical). I don't see how the Hazard company's 36 cal load could be chambered. One could probably get 21 grains VOLUME equivalent of Pyrodex P into the gun as that powder will compress quite a bit and needs a fair amount of compression to fire consistently.
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|February 20, 2011, 10:48 AM
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Hellgate; I agree, even the Hazzard load for the .44 revolvers is substantial {sp} that it'd be kinda hard to fully get the projectile into the chambers of a 60' Army or NMA but the Dragoon & Walkers wouldn't have a problem.
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|March 20, 2011, 07:14 PM
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I'm new here, but a long time pistoleer with cap and ball revolvers. Gatofeo, I seem to recall you posting this info a few years ago on another board; Greybeards or The Frontier Spot? Don't recall now, but I'm glad to see it again as I lost your old post during a computer crash a while back.
I use a similar mix of paraffin and beeswax (haven't tried the tallow mix yet), pour hot mixture into a pie pan to about 1/8'' depth, let it cool then use an empty .45 case to cut out wads. Like you, I place them directly on top of the powder them ram the ball home over it. Works like a charm and I am able to fire off six or seven cylinders full in my '58 Remington before it even begins to show signs of binding. I will admit that I cut grease holding grooves in my cylinder pin which helps too. I just rub a little SPG or Lube 103 on the cylinder pin and then go to shooting.
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|March 21, 2011, 01:47 AM
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So let me ask this related question. How much compression does the powder need? The first time I loaded up my 61 Navy, I used 15 grains FFFG just like Pietta specified, no wad. The first two times I tried shooting it, the balls kept jamming in the forcing cone. I also noted one day that i could press the ball further down into the chamber with a pencil, suggesting that the powder wasn't compressed at all.
So I increased the amount of powder to 20 grains and added wonder wads over the powder. Now the gun (andits two brothers) shoot flawlessly. I also note that I am indeed getting compression on the powder.
So the question I guess is how hard do I press down on the loading lever--is there a "proper" amount of compression one wants to achieve? Or is this a variable depending on the powder? ON a tangent, I read around here somewhere that having gaps between the powder and the ball could be very dangerous, but I can't imagine why--wouldn't such a condition merely reduce the amount of pressure in the chamber when the gum was fired?
|March 21, 2011, 03:23 AM
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The danger is that the ball might act something like a bore obstruction and instead of pushing out the ball you may actually split the cylinder or the barrel.
From what I gather it is something like using too greatly of a reduced load with modern powders, the small load in the overly large space can actually create an overpressure.
On a side note, if the balls on your gun were jumping forward you may be using balls that are not large enough, you want to make sure you are shaving a decent ring of lead off the balls when loading
|March 21, 2011, 05:59 AM
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With regard to compression: there is no one 'right' amount. You need to be sure the ball is firmly seated against the powder; beyond that there's no need to use a great deal of force to tightly compress the powder, but at the same time a heavy hand doesn't necessarily hurt anything either (except with the synthetic 777 powder - significant compression using that brand results in very unpredictable, inconsistent results). The key is to be consistent: firmly seat the ball on the powder, using the same technique each time so the results will be predictable.
I suspect the balls you were using were not fully swaged into the chamber, thus relieving the pressure and leading to the ball failing to transition through the forcing cone. Be sure the balls leave a complete ring of lead when swaged into the chamber. A .375 ball is not large enough to ensure a complete seal in at least one brand of .36 cal revolver; a .380 ball may be necessary in those guns.
|March 21, 2011, 07:23 AM
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Great and interesting OP
In your post you present Confederate recommendations for loads in the 1860 Colt Army.
Approximately how many 1860s or their equivalent revolvers were officially in service in Confederate units?
Depending upon the answer to this question, I have additional inquiries.
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|March 21, 2011, 08:19 AM
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Several thoughts on all above:
Reccomendations from the Dixie Gun Works catalog should be taken only as guidelines. There is much 'information' in the catalog but not all is the best and some may even be unsafe. You still need to use your head and consult with other experienced shooters.
Compressing the load in a C&B cylinder is OK. Methinks the amount of pressure will be limited by possible damage to the loading lever and/or the hinge pin. If you load the cylinder out of the gun just don't use too big a hammer.
Most importantly is to work up loads that work for you. Testing and shooting is the fun part.
|March 21, 2011, 09:25 AM
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Good points, Rifleman1776.
|March 21, 2011, 10:27 AM
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Doc, the South bought 1,500 before the war. The North bought 17,000 Navies and over 107,000 Armies. None were bought after 63.
|March 21, 2011, 11:41 AM
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First of all, I would think that the pressure at ignition starts high and then reduces as the bullet travels down the barrel. There is probably some ramp-up to peak pressure and then a reduction as the bullet moves.
With a bullet fully seated, this maximum pressure is distributed over a smaller area of chamber. 20,000 pounds per square inch is only a little bit of force over a small area, but can become a large amount of force over a large area. So if there is a gap under the bullet, you have effectively distributed the same amount of pressure over a larger area of the firearm, resulting in the firearm bearing more force.
Another possibility is that the air under the bullet is itself compressible. Perhaps having a larger volume of air results in higher pressures somehow.
|March 21, 2011, 11:48 AM
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Do you put all your wads in a little zip-lock bag or something? Do they stick together?
|March 21, 2011, 03:25 PM
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Yes, I do put the beeswax wads in a ziplock bag. In very warm or hot conditions they are a little tacky so they will stick to each other but are very easy to pull apart. I find using these wads much easier and less messy than either Borebutter or Crisco and much cheaper than Wonder Wads. They also have the added benefit of keeping your pistol well lubed while firing resulting in less binding without the dripping mess.
I have only experienced one chainfire in over 40 years of shooting cap and ball, and that was when I first started out in 1969 and hadn't read or heard about using lube in the cylinders. Little printed info and no interenet in those days!
|March 22, 2011, 08:19 PM
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Doc Hoy: I have no idea how many Colt 1860s the Confederates used. The specification of 250 gr. bullet over 30 grs. powder was taken from the February 1975 issue of the American Rifleman, as I noted in the beginning of the post.
That article cites, "an official Confederate publication ..."
I haven't purchased Wonder Wads in some time. Not since I found Durofelt on the internet, and bought a sheet of 1/8" thick hard, wool felt that will ultimately provide me with about 8,000 wads -- for about $27 as I recall. Durofelt is a fine company, and offers free shipping within the U.S. lower 48.
Even with a punch factored in, I can make wads for well under 1/2 cent each.
I use a 3/8" inch wad cutter (or hole cutter for gaskets, depending on how you look at it) for my .36 caliber revolvers. For the .44 cap and balls you can use a sharpened .45 Long Colt or .45 ACP case, or purchase a .45-caliber wad cutter from Buffalo Arms, as I did.
Brass cases eventually become dull. The Buffalo Arms cutter doesn't, if you use the end of a small log and cut into its end grain, as I do.
I prefer using wads over straight grease cookies. Force of habit, I guess. But also, I suspect that the hard wool wad helps scrape fouling from the bore as it passes. Purely my suspicion, but since I began using a properly lubricated felt wad I've seen a marked decrease in fouling in the bore.
I can't specify how much pressure to apply when seating a ball, other than to say, "seat the ball firmly on the powder."
However, there is no need to bear down hard on the seated ball; doing so may crush the individual powder kernels and affect its burning rate, which could affect ignition or accuracy.
Myself, once I feel a "grittiness" to the powder under the ball, I stop. I often hear or feel a crunching under the ball, indicating that I've reached the seating limit. You certainly don't need any more than this.
As long as your seating pressure eliminates any possibility of an airspace between ball and powder, you're good.
The airspace between ball and powder may create an unsafe condition. The physics and mechanics of WHY this is true, I don't fully understand. Suffice to say it exists, and has been documented a long time.
It's a puzzlement because you can load a small amount of smokeless or black powder in a cartridge case, load a ball on the end of the case, and fire that ball without a problem. Recreate the same conditions in a rifle or revolver, using black powder with a space between the powder and ball, and pressures soar.
I can't explain it. I just know that leaving a space between powder and ball in a black powder gun can be catastrophic.
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Thanks, Gatofeo
The reason I asked is because I was curious about official Confederate policy regarding arms acquired through non-official sources.
Your OP made me wonder about two numbers:
1) the actual number of revolvers that were carried by soldiers during the conflict
2) What percentage of those revolvers were officially provided to the combatants.
I think the historians among us have a good handle on how extensively the two governments armed their troops with captured weapons. I am no historian, myself, but my sense is that the Confederacy with its less than optimal manufacturing structure might have been compelled to rely on the practice a bit more than the Union.
That loading recommendation is an interesting bit of history.
The person who wrote the original recommendation (or the member of the Confederate Army who promulgated it to the troops) must have been driven by a perceived need to make the data available. Perhaps he believed that the use of the revolver was more prevalent among the troops than would be indicated by official purchases of the revolver. Prevalent enough that it was worth his time to find and publish the recommendation.
We didn't see the original document and of course it is possible that the loading recommendation for the 1860 Colt was at the bottom of a long list that included every weapon that might be encountered by a Confederate soldier.
My rambling doesn't go anywhere. I was just wondering.
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Very interesting thread. I am surprised I didn't come upon this earlier.
I think someone here said that if you use muzzleloaders, then you are a reloader.
With that said, the cap and ball revolver is one of the most versatile weapons out there for the hunter or cowboy. Take the 1858 New Army for example. Loaded to full power with 35 grains of FFFg and a roundball or 190-grain conical, it can take elk and moose at reasonable ranges and will likely stop a bear if such an emergency arises. Load it down to about 25 grains of propellant and you have a load that would reliably dispatch the odd urban criminal or home invader. Now for paper punching at the local range, I wouldn't really need that much power at all.
I heard that many of Nathan B. Forrest's troopers loaded their Colt's Navy and Army revolvers with only a minute pinch of powder because they almost always engaged enemy fighters at arm's reach.
During the Battle of Fredericksburg, Confederate defenders often tore apart the paper cartridges of their Enfields and loaded only half the powder into their rifles because the advancing Yanks were so many and so close.
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no offense but ive seen the original packages from online gun collectors. the hazard loads for "army" caliber revolvers seems to have been meant for colt dragoons. just saying.
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Excellent information you put up there! There is a lot of food for thought and thinking about it , when in the heat of battle I doubt much measuring went on...
Government contracts back then must've been as broadly spec'd as they are today, hence the HUGE variations in powder loads and bullet weights. The poor Soldier ultimately paid the price by never knowing which lot of ammo was the best.
I guess when the used to load loose powder, they loaded very heavy and didn't worry about Crisco!
Thanks for that info and thanks to all the other guys also!
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It was the February 1972 issue of the American Rifleman that has the article, not the 1975. This recently came to my attention when a cap and ball shooter in France ordered the 1975 issue and there was nothing of the sort in it.
So, if you wish the full article (which really doesn't contain more loads than I've listed) order the February 1972 edition.
Colt's manufacturing used women to assemble its paper cartridges. The famous writer Charles Dickens, wrote of this when he visited the factory in the late 1850s or early 1860s. I can't recall the exact year.
Manpower was short during the war, so I'm sure that contractors used women and children to assemble paper cartridges as well.
Colt's was a very benevolent employer. Employees lived in company housing, were treated very well, had recreational opportunities and were encouraged to expand their knowledge through education or additional training.
Among those who profited from from Colt's encouragement were Mr. Pratt and Mr. Whitney, who went on to design early aircraft engines.
Employing women and children was a common practice. Sam Colt and those who managed his factory after his death recognized that happy workers were productive.
They also recognized that if you created a favorable work environment, word got out and some very talented, innovative and creative people would apply to work there.
Sam Colt may have had an illegitimate son with his brother's wife. His brother may have been convicted of murder and sentenced to execution (he killed himself just before the execution). Sam may have engaged in what we today consider questionable or shark-like business practices -- but the more I read about him, the more I have to admire his treatment of employees.
Getting a job at Colt's Firearms in the 19th century, and well into the 20th century, was a good career move for many.
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BOSTON, Mass. – The MIT men's fencing team fell to Boston College (18-9), Brandeis University (17-10), and host Harvard University (21-6) at the annual Beanpot Invitational on Tuesday night. The epee team had the best showing with a 13-14 record, followed by the sabre squad (7-20), and the foil contingent (6-21).
The Engineers' epee unit registered 5-4 victories over Brandeis and Harvard, but lost to BC, 6-3. Junior Jackson Crane (San Francisco, Calif.) led the way with a total of 5-4 while freshman David Wyrobnik (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) came in at 4-4. Sophomore Joseph Rafidi (Los Angeles, Calif.) contributed a 3-4 effort as Thomas Boning went 1-2.
The sabre squad was edged out by BC, 5-4, in the last bout and had tough losses to Brandeis (7-2) and Harvard (8-1). Sophomore Ehsan Izadmehr (Wayne, N.J.) finished with a mark of 4-5 as junior Nathan Arce (Madison, Ala.) posted a tally of 2-2. Senior Vinayak Ramesh (El Dorado Hills, Calif.) recorded a mark of 1-8 while sophomore Luke O'Malley (Los Angeles, Calif.) rounded out the team with a ledger of 0-5.
The foil team comprised of seniors Daniel Levine (Succasunna, N.J.) and Benjamin Nield (Preston, Wash.), junior Alexander Siy, and freshman Daniel Mendelsohn (New York, N.Y.) fell to Brandeis (6-3), BC (7-2), and Harvard (8-1). Levine and Nield both generated totals of 3-6, followed by Mendelsohn at 0-3 and Siy at 0-6.
MIT (8-14) begins its postseason push on Saturday, Feb. 25 at the New England Championship hosted by Vassar College.