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I don't load SMK 77's to very high velocity for my 20" rifles. Accuracy and velocity are not interdependent on their own. You do not need a high velocity to get small group sizes.
Quite often a lower velocity will provide smaller groups downrange IF that velocity matches the bbl node. You will always find more than one bbl node across a good range of velocity so there is no real reason to load to the point of primer piercing.
High muzzle velocity is needed only for maintaining supersonic speed to a longer useful range AND reducing wind drift comparatively.
I typically like to see no more than 2650-2700 fps from a 77gr in a 20" bbl.
My pet SMK77 load goes 2665fps out of my 1:8 JP AR.
24.3gr Varget
LC brass (weight segregated and uniformed)
WW SR primer
I put 24.5gr Varget under the SMK69 at 2.245" COAL and get 2700ish fps and same point of impact at 200 yards as the SMK77 load. I like not having to change my scope settings on my multi-gun competition rifle
Here are some groups shot with the SMK77 load in my JP 1:8 20" mid-weight bbl.
BTW, 77gr boattails (VLD's actually) are still wallowing around and not fully spin stabilized at less than 125-150 yards so they tend to group larger than they ought to at 100 yards. 55gr flatbase is your best bet if all you want is the smallest group at 100 yards
10 shots at 200 yards
5 shots at 100 yards
Last edited by GeoffLinder; 12-27-2010 at 4:28 PM..
Best load I have found is
winchester brass trip 1.750"
24 gr TAC seat to 2.26"
and use a half turn on a Lee factory crimp die
There are sniper everywhere and nowhere.....who knows what is out there.
I havent read all 5 pages, but AA 2520 is a pretty good powder for the 77's.
Accurates site has them going 2900 + FPS out of a 24" bbl.
bullet start FPS max FPS psi OAL
This a "nato pressure" load. It dont say but I'd assume a 5.56 chamber.
From their site.
I'm not sure what you'd lose with a tube 4-6" shorter, but it cant be much.
Even with a higher-pressure chamber, start lower and WORK up to a given load--never take a max published load and assume it is safe for YOUR barrel.
Yea, I figured that. Just thought I'd throw the fact out that they specified it was NATO pressure.
I listed the starting loads just for that reason. I had the post pretty lined up,(bullet start FPS max FPS psi OAL) but when I posted it it went all to hell.
Accuracy will be different in every barrel. Some actually prefer hot loads.
I wouldnt suggest anyone start learning about reloading on this specific (MK262 clone) load.
I'm adding my load using Alliant ARComp powder because I haven't seen any other loads with it.
77gr smk w/cann
22.7gr ARComp (22.5gr out of Lapua brass)
LC brass
CCI 41 primers
Don't know the OAL, I load them max length for my Cproducts mags (which will also fit in pmags)
Shooting out of a 18" superior barrel with a wylde chamber and 1/7" twist.
I don't shoot for groups but when I have I've gotten sub-moa with this load, around .9 moa. I've shot this at 1000 yards using 52moa elevation and can hit a 20"x18" at about a 80% hit ratio. I've never shot this over a chrono so I have no idea what the velocity is.
Chrony'd my first loads and thought I would add them. Chrony was about 4ft in front of barrel.
AR15 w/26" WOA Upper
77gr SMK HPBT
Reloder 15 22gr -OAL 2.26" - Lake City '11 - Average FPS 2588 (10 rounds)
Varget 23gr - OAL 2.26" - Lapua - Average FPS 2706 (10 rounds)
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Mk 262 Mod 1 etc.
It's cool to see that I am not alone in the quest for reproducing this amazing round. I've recently produced a few of my own. I too am using RL-15 and TAC. As these seeem to be the closets powder to what is being used. apparaently RL-15 is acctually specified for the m-118.
my first run of Nosler CChpbt in 77 grain was backed with 23.0 grains of RL-15. I loaded them to a col. of 2.25" the chronographed out of a 16" carbine at 2614 I believe. but, I have changed that recipe and my manufacturing process all together.
I have a dillion RL-550B and a single stsge RCBS for sizing and trinimng with a Dillion rapind trim 1200. It allowed me to get the cases to very tightghtly trimmed tollerances and fast. After trimming then some brass needed primer crimp removal. done, using the Dillion superswage 600. easy. then every case needs to have the case chamfered for theses VLD style bullets. alot of work. But, now I have uniform brass!
So, that brings to me to what I am currently working up.
last night after careful thought of Noslers recipie for the 77 grain CCHPBT and TAC ma charge of 23.5 grains. I chose to back up to 23.2 grains. I am trying to get near the magic velocity of 2750 to 2800 fps. That seems to be the speed where most of the match and sniper ammo is produced.
so: 77 grain Nosler CCHPBT over 23.2 grains of TAC CCI 400 primmer mixed headstamp brass trimmed and chamfered to 1.75" and COL of 2.252 I will let you know how they group and velocity etc.
Next up I am going to losd the Sierra 77 grain MK over 24.5 grains of TAC and same COL.
The Sierra bullet definitely has a different profile so the must be where the difference in speed comes in. Also Ramshot has a recipie list for new NATO pressures above 62350 PSI. Thier max load shows 24.8 grains of Tac. So, I am backing off a half grain. but according to thier recipies I should still get the velocity I am looking for. The Sierras. manual has 24.0 as thier max. So we will see. I like my riffle and don't neccesarily want to be pushing max loads through it all the time.
Anyway good luck. I look forward to hearing which losd works for you. I havn't even touch on the loads I plan on working up for RL-15. the first stuff I made was shootin dme sized 10 shot groups through an ADAMs Arm Carbine upper with a twist rate of 1-7". Can't wait till it is broke in. I think I'll tryu a match.
If your looking for a velocity for the 262, my dope for Oceanside area is
100 yd zero
200 yd- 1.5 moa
300 yd- 4 moa
600 yd- 14 moa
Work it backwards and you might find how far off some of you are on your velocities. The round shoots very well and doesn't show any over pressure signs.
This is one of the rounds that got our company going.
Initially, as a garage handloader, I worked with up to 25 grains of Varget in Military brass. Around 24 grains was good for 5.56 pressures. Anything more, and primers started to pop occasionally.
As as a commercial loader, we've had success with Varget, H4895, and IMR 8208 XBR. The latter we switched to early, and have had great results with.
For MK262 type performance, i recommend starting around 23.2, and working up to 23.8 grains. We seat these at 2.250 max COAL, in military brass, with a CCI military or #450 primer. This is what we load our match ammo with, and it is outstanding. Our sponsored shooter used it along with our 308 to win the Summer Mammoth Sniper Challenge in 2011.
This is for 223 Wylde or 5.56 chambers only
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I only got a small box of 50 to try; I think I'll load em up with BLC2 and try em out.
I actually hope the Hornady 68gr Match ammo I loaded up shoots really well, they are cheaper than the SMKs and I like that. I haven't tried any Nolser bullets. Want to do a little trading?
Velocity duplicates of Black Hills 77-grain "blue box" according to Quickload
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Black Hills 77-grain "blue box" ammo consistently chronographs about 2710 fps through the rifle I use for all my AR15 ammo testing.
These loads were determined by Quickload version 3.6.
Quickload is a fairly expensive computer program for reloaders.
Quickload has been around in various forms since 1987.
Comparison history
The only load listed here, and actually tested over a chronograph, is the load for TAC powder. For all intents and purposes, TAC provided a velocity identical to the velocity obtained from Black Hills "blue box" 77-grain ammo with the Sierra 77-grain MatchKing bullet. Moreover, the powder I inspected from an actual 77-grain "blue box" cartridge weighed exactly 23.9 grains, and had an appearance exactly like Ramshot TAC powder.
Quickload consistently predicts about 90 FPS faster velocities than actually obtained over a chronograph.
Based on my empirical testing of various loads over the chronograph, and comparing the chronographed velocities of those various loads, I have discovered that Quickload routinely predicts a velocity 80 to 100 feet per second faster than the velocity actually obtained by chronograph measurement when the ammo is fired in an AR15 type rifle. My theory for the consistent velocity discrepancy is that Quickload does not account for the loss of pressure due to gas escape through the AR15 gas port.
Black Hills 77-grain "blue box" ammo consistently chronographs about 2710 fps through the rifle I use for all my AR15 ammo testing. Similarly, 23.9 grains of TAC provides the same velocity with the same bullet. Quickload suggests that 23.9 grains should generate 2807 fps from an un-ported 20-inch barrel. Based on this consistent discrepancy, I have selected for my investigation, loads modeled by Quickload which also are predicted to be in the approximate 2800 fps range.
Magazine-length dimensions
All Quickload modeled loads assume bullet seated to 2.250" overall cartridge length.
SAAMI specification maximum length is 2.260"
I find that ammo loaded to SAAMI maximum length will sometimes be just a bit too long for AR15 magazines.
Ammo loaded to 2.250" or less never causes a feed-malfunction due to excess length.
Pressure info
The SAAMI industry specification for 5.56 NATO ammunition is 62,366 maximum PSI.
According to Quickload, all loads listed in the following chart fall below SAAMI maximum pressure, at 70 degrees temperature. This modeling exercise does not attempt to account for any variations which may occur due to temperature.
This information is provided only for educational purposes. None of these loads are specifically recommended for any particular, or general, purpose. Persons using this information to construct live ammunition do so at their own risk, and with the understanding that this information may not be accurate, and that the result of use of this information may result in damage to property or injury to person.
So I won 1000 of Nozzy's 77g projo's at the Crimson Trace Midnight 3 Gun match last month, and I've also been trying to figure out how to do a Mk262 clone load. The heavier 77g projos do much better on knocking down steel than the 55g pills. I noticed that CFE223 tends to show higher velocities in Hogdons data charts than the other usual powder selections. "Hmmmmm..." says I. "Higher velocities before reaching max pressure in almost any given bullet weight..."
Yes, Hodgdon only lists a 53,500 psi SAMMI load that max's out at 24.3 grains for a reported 2811 fps (apparently from a 24" bbl), but I'm not afraid to experiment with slightly "+P" loadings of the CFE223 in my mil-spec guns. If Hogdon had published NATO spec 62,500 psi loads like Ramshot does, I bet CFE223 would be prominantly displayed. If uncle sams guns can do 62,500 PSI, so can mine. Increasing .2-.3g at a time, I was able to get the following results from a 14.5" carbine, and a 20" HBAR. Both chrome lined 1/7 twist 5.56 chamberings, using LC brass and CCI "5.56 military" primers, 2.25" COL. 5 shot strings, barrel was warm to touch, ambient temp 92 degrees, chrono 10 feet from muzzle.
CMMG M4- 24.3g = 2525 fps av, 24.6g = 2580 fps av, 24.8g = 2618 fps av, 25.0g = 2654 fps av, 25.2 = 2675 fps av.
Colt AR15A2 HBAR- 24.3g = 2650 fps av, 24.6g = 2740 fps av, 24.8g = 2790 fps av, 25.0g = 2834 fps av, 25.2g = 2890 fps av.
I read, and re-read all the helpful comments here before proceeding, and appreciate all the work that you guys have done. Now obviously you are proceeding at your own risk with loads that are 4-5% above published max if you choose to follow this path. Your mileages may vary! Just to be clear, I DID NOT START WITH +P LOADS. MY STARTING LOADS WERE 5% BELOW MAX TO CONFIRM THAT NO PRESSURE SIGNS WERE PRESENT BEFORE PROCEEDING UP TO THE "+P" NATO'ISH PRESSURE LEVELS. I did not do any chrono or other data collection at the lower levels, as that was not the intent of my endeavour. I do not have a pressure transducer, but have unfortunately peirced my fair share of occasional primers in over pressure .223 service rifle / 3gun loads over the last 35 years. Not proud of it, just giving reference that I recognize the over pressure signs listed below when I exceed them. "Good judgement comes from experience, and experience usually comes from bad judgement."
As far as range notes on this session; much of what has already been discussed applies. The comments about the repeatable measured weight of CFE 223 are correct. This stuff meters like water! I never threw even a .05g variation in weight from my RCBS measure. Best accuracy was in the 1-1.5 MOA department, and was with the lower velocity loads (24.3g -24.6g = 2525-2700 fps). Groups opened to 2.5" at 25.2g. Groups were fired with 4x optics, comparable to the ACOG's in use today (so theres likely a bit better accuracy possible with a higher magnification optic used on Mk 12 clones). Not a single sign of over pressure was detected all the way up to and including the 25.2g load in either rifle. I had reached my velocity goals, and accuracy was deterriorating, so I did not persue it further. No flattend/cratered/peirced primers, no scuffed ejector marks, no incipient case head seperation ring, no split case necks. I used 3X fired LC 85 cases. I used sorted cases with a slightly heavier weight (94g deprimed) to push the limits of the smaller case capicity / higher pressure envelope. Muzzle blast and felt recoil were noticeably higher after 24.6g loadings. All rounds were magazine fed and functioned 100%, and brass was deposited on the deck at 4 o'clock about 5 feet out. It appears that in MY guns, the clone load for the M4 is going to be 24.7g of CFE223, and 25.0 for the A2 based on reported Mk262 velocitys in Jicko's OP. However, due to the lower accuracy produced there, I will be using loads in the 24.5g - 24.6g range.
Listed velocitys of spec Mk262 are:
So to summarize: I pushed the envelope with CFE223 by over loading by almost 5%, using heavier weight cases, shot in hot weather, and got away with it. Inventory reveals 10 fingers, 2 eyes, and all bodily fluids accounted for. Probably the most useful information I take away from this experiment is that IN MY GUNS there is going to be AT LEAST a .6g+ margin of safety before I reach over pressure loads when I shoot the 24.6g loads. I will likely load some of the 24.8 loads and try them at 300 yards to check accuracy, since the longer "VLD" type bullets (its hard for me to call a .34 BC projo "VLD") have a tendancy to not fully stabalize until the 150-200 yard mark. But given the 2"-2.5" I got at 100, I don't hold out much promise. Remember speed is fine, but accuracy is final.
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What do you think of the Nolsers vs the SMK? So far I have found the 69 and 80gr Nolsers kick the sh*t out of sierras, but I haven't tried the 77's yet.
Also was your barrel any cleaner after shooting with CFE223?
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I don't notice its any cleaner in the carbon fouling department, and I'll run some Sweets down the bore to see what blue I can scrub out (if any) later on. I have an 80g SMK load that uses 4895 for my 600 yard line that absolutely shoots X ring all day. I have sent hundreds down range over that load and love it. This is my first time running the Nozzy's, and I'm not unfavorably impressed. They were shooing 1 moa with my lighter loads, and basically "0" load development since all I was going for was a Mk262 clone load with the CFE223. I cant help but think that if I was to work with several powder/primer/brass combos, I could probably get a very nice load. I would like to see if it hangs in there at the 300 line. I used the 75g Hornady's for a time at the 200 and 300 lines, but the results were mediocre at best out of my guns. 69 SMK's always did fine by me there, so I stayed with them after the 75g supply was expended.
Attached is a 5 shot group I shot last month with my 80g SMK load at 100, just reconfirming my zero's after a barrel change out. I think it was .4 CTC! Strange that the big ol' 80g had already "gone to sleep" and become stable in flight at the 100 yard line, but thats probably why its so dead nuts on out at 600!
Found this doing some light bedtime reading on Fr. Frog's "Care and Feeding of the AR15/M16 Rifles" page.
Immediately thought of this thread/sticky and thought it may be useful to anyone still developing a clone:
24 TAC + 77 @ 2.245 is closest I got in LC brass.
You are much better off picking a more temp stable and accurate powder like varget H4895 etc and developing a good load than trying to clone the mythic Mk262.
I used a hornady OAL gauge and seat at various lengths off the lands usually around .001 - .003". The length of the round from primer to bullet tip averages around 2.39ish. So you have to single load them.
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Got some interesting results from the last trip out to the desert. Taking notes on bullet drop for various loads at 650 yards, I've reverse engineered the drop using the android app "Shooter" to come up with a velocity for the loads.
My standard load is 23.8 grains of Ramshot TAC in LC brass using a Nosler 77 grain CC seated to 2.25" COAL. Primers are CCI #41. At 650 yards, my drop for this round is 5.5 mils at an elevation of 1500 FT. This gives a velocity of around 2710 FPS according to the "Shooter" app.
I loaded up another batch of basically the same round, only using 24 grains of Hodgedon CFE-223 in place of the 23.8 grains of TAC. These rounds were only dropping 5 mils at 650 yards, with a muzzle velocity of around 2820 FPS if the app is correct. Pretty impressive numbers out of an 18" barrel.
For both of these loads, I worked up until I began to see flattened primers, then backed off 1/10 grain for the final load, so these are both right at the the threshold for showing pressure signs out of my SPR. I definitely wasn't expecting to see such significantly higher numbers out of the CFE load. I think the next test will be to try the CFE powder with the slightly lighter 75 grain Hornady HPBT's to see how fast they can be pushed out of an 18" barrel. The Hornady bullets have a better BC than the Nosler (.390 vs .340), so it should add quite a bit to the usable range of the rifle.
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Make sure to re-work your loads this summer as your winter loads will not be the safe when it's 30 degrees warmer...
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It was about 75 to 80 when I took the CFE loads out there last weekend. I'll definitely be monitoring them closely as the weather warms up. I've heard that CFE is pretty temperature stable as far as ball powders go, but I'll need to see that for myself.
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I have not found anyone able to replicate such low temperature sensitivity in the real world.
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Another thing I read online was that the military chose TAC for their 77 grain OTM rounds because it showed only HALF the temperature sensitivity that their spec called for (in addition to meeting their performance requirements), and they were concerned about temp. sensitivity since that ammo would be used in both Iraq AND Afghanistan.
Again, this is something I read online. It could be Internet B.S. but I'm just throwing it out there. It does NOT equal real-world experience, which you have.
All I can say in my limited experience with TAC is that my zero does not change in 45 to 85 degree weather. But that's only at 100 yards. Which is a distance that I know you laugh at, Randall.
Record the hard dope and weather conditions on 3-5 different days that you shoot the groups.
Use a ballistic calculator to reverse engineer the velocities, taking weather conditions into account for each day.
You will learn how much dope difference the weather makes and how much velocity difference the temperatures make...
On a hot day, keep some ammo in the shade and leave some out in the sun to bake.
Get dialed in at 600-800 yds and then switch between the two batches and see how much the elevation changes in the same weather conditions when the only change is ammo temp.
It's eye opening stuff for sure!
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Dwell time of the round in the chamber can also have a significant impact on powder temperature, especially in semi autos after long strings of fire.
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During the 600 yard slow fire prone stage I will usually:
1. Fire the shot.
2. When target comes down, I'll record the previous shot score and location on my data sheet.
3. I will then take a round and put it in the ejection port and let it sit loose over the SLED/magazine.
4. I'll look down range until the target comes up.
5. When target comes up I'll look through my spotting scope, check shot location and score, note the mirage (make a wind adjustment if necessary) and then roll into my stock.
6. When I'm stocked, I'll start the round into the chamber with my finger and then drop the bolt by pressing the bolt catch lever.
7. Then I'll take my shot in about 10 seconds.
8. Repeat
This usually minimizes the amount of time the round is baking in the chamber.
BTW: This is with an AR.
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You get to control chamber dwell time by not loading rhe chamber and closing the bolt until a few seconds before you are ready to fire.
Those damn magazine-fed autoloaders make the assumption that you are firing quickly as they put a new round in the chamber right after you fire each round!
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A representative from Velasquez's camp insisted he was never planning on going to Brazil, but dos Santos said he didn't here anything to that effect until after a Thursday stop in Houston.
"I asked, 'Cain is coming to Brazil, too?'" dos Santos recalled. "Somebody told me, 'No, no. He's not going anymore.'"
Dos Santos (16-2 MMA, 10-1 UFC) completed his responsibilities at the final stop on the tour without Velasquez (12-1 MMA, 10-1 UFC) while meeting with reporters throughout the day before hosting a fan Q&A session prior to Friday's UFC 163 weigh-ins. Meanwhile, Velasquez was able to return to American Kickboxing Academy and resume his training.
In a sport in which small variables can mean all the difference in the world, one could argue that additional time was an advantage for Velasquez, but dos Santos said he's not concerned.
"It's going to be just two days more," dos Santos said. "I don't think he's going to get that much better than me in just two days. I do think he could have come to Brazil, but he didn't want to."
So with both men now done with their tour commitments, it's time for the two heavyweights to shift their focus to an upcoming trilogy bout, which headlines UFC 166 on Oct. 19 in Houston.
Velasquez and dos Santos first met at UFC on FOX 1 in November 2011, when dos Santos stopped Velasquez in just 64 seconds. That was Velasquez's first defense of the belt after taking it from Brock Lesnar.
In their rematch at UFC 155, though, Velasquez dominated dos Santos for five rounds to win back the belt. His win over Silva marked his first successful title defense.
Some fans have suggested Velasquez likely will have the mental edge heading into the third contest since he was caught quickly in the first meeting but turned in a through beating for 25 minutes in the rematch. Dos Santos actually believes the opposite is true.
"In his mind, he knows he gave his all – he gave everything he had – and he couldn't finish the fight," dos Santos said. "I finished the fight in one minute. I think I have the advantage, and he knows that. But both me and him have to be perfect in our strategy to win this fight."
For the latest on UFC 166, stay tuned to the UFC Rumors section of the site.


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Step into the Arkham action like never before! Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment today announced Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition for the Wii U™ system from Nintendo. Developed by WB Games Montréal the game delivers the same impactful story and gameplay of the award-winning blockbuster created by Rocksteady Studios, now with enhanced gameplay features made possible with Wii U and the Wii U GamePad™. The game is scheduled for release holiday 2012.
Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition contains all of the content from Batman: Arkham City, including all available downloadable content, and introduces Battle Armored Tech (B.A.T.) Mode and the new Armored Suits for both Batman and Catwoman. Fans can become the Dark Knight like never before with the upgraded battle suit that gives players an additional power-up by allowing them to build kinetic energy during combat. When activated, players enter B.A.T. mode and dole out more damage than previously possible.
"Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition harnesses the power of the Wii U system and the Wii U GamePad with features that allow fans to further immerse themselves in the role of Batman like never before," said Martin Tremblay, President, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. "WB Games Montréal evolved the incredible hit game by Rocksteady into a truly unique experience on Wii U."
"WB Games Montréal is very excited to unveil the all new Wii U features we've created in Batman: Arkham City Armored Edition," said Reid Schneider, Vice President and Executive Producer, WB Games Montréal. "The new controller allows for a different twist on the Batman: Arkham City game, as players now have the power of the Batcomputer and gadgets in the palm of their hands."
The Wii U GamePad provides instant access to the wrist-mounted Batcomputer throughout the game, allowing players to use the touch screen to seamlessly select objectives, choose their gadget, track forensic evidence, upgrade their gear, detonate explosive gel, and more, all while remaining immersed in the action. Additionally, all gadgets have been reimagined to utilize the power of the GamePad, offering an unprecedented level of accuracy when using the Batarang and scanning for clues.
Batman: Arkham City builds upon the intense, atmospheric foundation of Batman: Arkham Asylum, sending players flying through the expansive Arkham City – five times larger than the game world in Batman: Arkham Asylum – the new maximum security "home" for all of Gotham City's thugs, gangsters and insane criminal masterminds. Featuring an incredible Rogues Gallery of Gotham City's most dangerous criminals including Catwoman, The Joker, The Riddler, Two-Face, Harley Quinn, The Penguin, Mr. Freeze and many others, the game allows players to genuinely experience what it feels like to be The Dark Knight delivering justice on the streets of Gotham City.
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Series HH Bond Offering to End August 31, 2004
February 18, 2004
The Bureau of the Public Debt announced today that Series HH Savings Bonds would no longer be offered to the public after August 31, 2004. HH bonds issued through August 2004 will continue to earn interest until they reach final maturity 20 years after issue. HH bonds, issued since 1980, are available in exchange for Series E or EE bonds.
HH bonds are current-income securities that pay interest to their owners semiannually. The current annual interest rate paid on new HH bonds, or HH bonds entering a 10-year extended maturity period, is 1.5%. There are $13.3 billion worth of Series HH bonds outstanding.
The Treasury is withdrawing the offering due to the high cost of exchanges in relation to the relatively small volume of transactions. After the HH offering is withdrawn, holders of eligible E and/or EE bonds may choose to invest the proceeds of maturing issues in marketable Treasury bills or notes at auction, or new Series EE or I savings bonds.
Owners of Series E or EE bonds wanting to complete an exchange prior to the withdrawal date should complete a Form PD F 3253, "Exchange Application for U.S. Savings Bonds of Series HH," and submit it with the bonds being exchanged to a qualified savings bonds agent. Financial institutions that serve as agents are able to help customers fill out the application form and forward appropriate materials to a Federal Reserve processing site or the Bureau of the Public Debt. The E/EE bonds being exchanged must have a minimum redemption value at the time of the exchange of $500; there is no maximum. More information about Series HH bonds and the exchange transaction can be found on the Bureau's website, www.treasurydirect.gov.
TreasuryDirect offers Series EE and I savings bonds only in electronic form (that is, no paper bonds are issued), with purchases and redemptions made through electronic payments to or from a checking or savings account designated by the account holder. Investors can track and manage their holdings online – 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – from anywhere they have Internet access. Since the launching of TreasuryDirect, investors have opened more than 150,000 accounts and now hold approximately $875 million worth of electronic securities.


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The bugs we've encountered ranged from app specific usability issues to general issues common amongst many apps. Today, we want to highlight 5 issues that we've encountered repeatedly, using some of the most popular apps as examples. The list below is presented in no particular order.
1. Handling Bad Network Connections
iOS devices are inherently mobile, so apps cannot assume permanent, fast connections to the internet. Tasks requiring network connections should generally be asynchronous and notify the user if they fail due to lack of connectivity. Facebook Messenger and iOS FaceTime handles this nicely.
In Facebook Messenger, a warning message is displayed prominently, indicating that Internet connection is required for the app to function.
In FaceTime, an alert is displayed with buttons that take the user directly to network settings.
On the other hand, Vine and Instagram do not handle this well.
In Vine, users see a sad face and posts simply do not load. There's no indication that this is caused by network connectivity.
Instagram shows a large reload button on images that cannot load. This button has no effect while network is off.
2. Handling Chinese (extended) Keyboard
iOS has a number of international keyboards built in. While most of these keyboards are of the same size, a few keyboards have extended sections. The Chinese Pinyin keyboard is an example of the extended keyboard. Apps should not assume a fixed keyboard size and should adjust their content appropriately.
The Google+ app, as shown above, has a small button above the normal keyboard that hides the keyboard when pressed.
However, when the Chinese keyboard is used, the extended keyboard covers most of the button, rendering it useless.
Using the device in landscape mode exacerbates the problem. In Twitter, the extended keyboard, custom buttons, navigation bar, and status bar combined take up almost the entire screen, leaving no room to display the input text field.
3. Handling Privacy Settings
iOS privacy settings control third party app access to photos, locations, and contacts. Apps needing access to these assets need to handle cases when access has been denied either inside the app or outside through system settings. A great way to handle this is to let the users know about the necessary permissions and give them instructions on how to turn them on.
A good example of how to handle this is the Facebook app. When it lacks permission to access location, it shows a clear message with step-by-step instructions for users on how to grant access.
On the other hand, when Vine lacks permission to access location, it gets stuck searching for nearby places with no indication of what's wrong.
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Many apps allow users to input username, birthdate, or other account information. Basic input validation should be implemented, and if the user's input is invalid, a clear explanation should be presented.
Skype does not validate user's birthdate, so a completely bogus date can be entered.
Path has very few restrictions for usernames. In the screenshot above, the username is set to a large number of blank spaces followed by a period. Path does not allow usernames to contain only blank spaces and will fail silently (i.e. it does not save the username and shows no explanation).
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'Out In The Dark,' Where Nothing Is Black Or White
Paving the way for a brand-new subgenre — the gay romantic thriller — the atmospheric neo-noir Out in the Dark tells of a Palestinian university student who seeks refuge from the homophobia of his traditionalist West Bank village in the more gay-friendly atmosphere of metropolitan Tel Aviv.
There Nimr (Nicholas Jacob) falls in love with Roy (Michael Aloni), a privileged Jewish lawyer from a seemingly liberal family. Israeli-born director Michael Mayer handles their love affair with sexual candor, but his heroes' godlike physical beauty also, somehow, projects a blazing, innocent purity.
As Nimr slips back and forth between the big city and his loving but hidebound home, the two men briefly inhabit an illusory free zone, letting down their guard to bask in the freewheeling colorblindness of a community that understands marginality all too well. Then, shattering the lovers' fragile bubble, Mayer throws them into the cauldron of the Israeli-Palestinian stalemate.
Rejected by his devoutly religious mother, sister and a militant, gun-running brother on the one hand, Nimr is also the target of manipulative Tel Aviv intelligence operatives, who want him to spy on his fellow students at Birzeit University. (If you think the plot is far-fetched, I refer you to The Gatekeepers, a sobering Israeli documentary about Shin Bet's divide-and-conquer machinations in the West Bank.)
Tel Aviv and the West Bank may be worlds apart in terms of culture, politics and religion, but Mayer cleverly merges them into a single claustrophobic continuum of paranoia, violence and corruption that corrodes everything it touches. Soon Nimr finds himself on the run, his loyalties cruelly divided by forces larger than himself. Nor will family prove a reliable refuge; just as Nimr is devastated by his mother's response when he's outed, so Roy is embittered to learn that his nominally enlightened parents' liberalism has its limits.
Out in the Dark suffers a bit from a stiff, sometimes sentimental script, co-written by Mayer and Yael Shafrir. And stuffing the Israeli mafia into the plot feels like gilding the lily.
But as the movie gathers steam, it deepens into an examination of the way politics and tribalism can contaminate everyday life. Here, they sink in so thoroughly that even the two-against-the-world solidarity of young men in love becomes stained with mistrust and betrayal.
In such a universe, the movie's climax tells us, there are no clean hands. Nimr and Roy find themselves trapped between two crippling forms of anxiety: the Palestinians' rage and sexual terror faces off against a deeply rooted Israeli fear of being engulfed by the Other. It's a lethal brew, one guaranteed to bring out the bully in otherwise decent people of any stripe.
Inevitably Nimr, who has no power in either world, takes most of the brunt. But in the end, Roy too learns what it means to be a disenfranchised outsider cornered with no exit. There's heroism and an escape of sorts in Out in the Dark — but in Mayer's despairing vision, there are no winners.
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They have been sitting out the budget impasse that led to the government shutdown — and only been a spectator in the bitter battle between House Republicans and Senate Democrats.
But some uneasy Senate Republicans are eager to take matters into their own hands.
Moderates like Susan Collins of Maine, conservatives like Rob Portman of Ohio and deal-makers like John McCain of Arizona have quietly begun to reach out to top Senate Democratic leaders to see if they can help break the political logjam. There's no indication the informal talks will lead to a resolution, particularly since the White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid refuse to negotiate before House Republicans agree to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government with no policy strings attached.
(WATCH: Key moments leading to shutdown deadline)
But as the shutdown drags on, the back-channel discussions are a sign of the growing frustration among Senate Republicans that there is no end to the shutdown in sight — and that their House colleagues appear to be at an unbreakable impasse with the White House.
"We have discussions going on, I'm on my way to one right now," said Collins, who spoke with two Senate Democrats Friday morning. "I think that the vast majority of our conference believes the shutdown needs to be brought to an end as soon as possible."
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the No. 3 Democratic leader who has helped broker bipartisan deals on immigration and the filibuster "nuclear option" this year, said he's already hearing from Senate Republicans.
(POLITICO interview: Rep. Steve King predicts longer shutdown)
"Look, I think there are a good number of Republicans, even very conservative ones that would like to come to an agreement and get the government open again," Schumer said. "There are talks going on, but I'm not going to speak about any details."
Reid added: "I think there are a number of them who have been working very hard to try to get something done. They've come to me."
Portman, the Ohio Republican who was on the short-list to be Mitt Romney's running-mate last year, said he's spoken to seven different Democrats and was "trading ideas back-and-forth." Among his ideas are to push Democrats to lower the spending cap on the continuing resolution from $986 billion to $967 billion, as well as instructions for the House and Senate tax writing committees to produce a tax reform proposal and to find $600 billion in mandatory savings outlined in President Barack Obama's budget in order to raise the national debt ceiling by a similar amount.
(PHOTOS: 25 great shutdown quotes)
In exchange for that, Portman would agree to a one-year stop-gap resolution, though he would open to the $986 billion level if the parties agree that the automatic sequestration cuts would continue.
"There's a growing consensus that we have to do something about spending in the context of the debt limit," Portman said.
While Portman is not demanding proposals to gut Obamacare, like his House GOP counterparts, his calls for spending cuts go much further than Democrats have thus far been willing to tolerate. For instance, Reid said Friday that the "biggest compromise" he's made in 31 years on Capitol Hill was agreeing with House Speaker John Boehner to lower federal funding to $986 billion, the level currently in the Senate's continuing resolution.
And Reid reiterated Friday that he wouldn't compromise further or offer Boehner a concession to end the shutdown.
(PHOTOS: Shutdown's little-known side effects)
"This is not a face-saving deal," Reid told reporters. "This is not a date to the prom. This is our country."
Standing in the way of a potential deal is the fact that a number of Senate Republicans are unwilling to undercut Boehner in the high-stakes fight, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has mostly taken a backseat role but has echoed the speaker's demands for changes in the health care law.
While Boehner and Reid aren't talking, Senate and House Republicans are coordinating closely during the bruising fall fiscal fights. McConnell, Portman and Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) huddled with House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) and House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Thursday afternoon, according to a source familiar with the meeting.
Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), who has been sharply critical of the hardball tactics of tea party Republicans in the government shutdown fight, said it's still up to the House Republicans and Senate Democrats to lead the charge.
(WATCH: Veterans storm World War II Memorial)
"At the end of the day, we're dependent on the House to pass good policy," he said.
Corker was part of a group of Senate Republicans who have previously entertained the idea of a major fiscal deal with the White House. The GOP group repeatedly met with Obama and senior White House officials over fiscal matters this year, though those talks stalled and broke off in August.
Some are renewing those efforts with Senate Democrats.
Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) said Friday he's buttonholed Schumer with some thoughts on how to end the crisis.
"It was very informal, it was talking to somebody who actually has the ear of Harry Reid and the president," Coats said. "Simply saying: This is where Republicans are coming from."
And with public anxiety growing over the shutdown — and Republicans worried they may suffer more of the blame for the gridlock on Capitol Hill — some are clearly ready for the fight to be resolved.
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), who joined Senate Republicans in earlier fiscal talks with the White House, said he's ready for the impasse to end.
"This is not a position I want us to be in," Johnson said. "I don't want this brinksmanship — I think the government does enough harm to our economy; we don't need to put on a whole new layer."
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Researchers in Spain have found that at least some of the individuals claiming to see the so-called aura of people actually have the neuropsychological phenomenon known as "synesthesia" (specifically, "emotional synesthesia"). This might be a scientific explanation of their alleged ability.
In synesthetes, the brain regions responsible for the processing of each type of sensory stimuli are intensely interconnected. Synesthetes can see or taste a sound, feel a taste, or associate people or letters with a particular color.
The study was conducted by the University of Granada Department of Experimental Psychology Óscar Iborra, Luis Pastor and Emilio Gómez Milán, and has been published in the journal Consciousness and Cognition. This is the first time that a scientific explanation has been provided for the esoteric phenomenon of the aura, a supposed energy field of luminous radiation surrounding a person as a halo, which is imperceptible to most human beings.
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We are the only country that would find "natural" naughty. A pig runs natural and it is reflection of time when we ran natural as well. All natural written on food, etc. We flock to it. And we will continue to flock to things that have the word "natural" written on it. It is not gay or straight it is just natural for Americans to think this way about any Ad that prompts imagination.
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An experimental solar-powered plane completed its first 24-hour test flight successfully Thursday, proving that the aircraft can collect enough energy from the sun during the day to stay aloft all night.
The test brings the Swiss-led project one step closer to its goal of circling the globe using only energy from the sun.
Pilot Andre Borschberg eased the Solar Impulse out of the clear blue morning sky onto the runway at Payerne airfield about 30 miles (50 kilometers) southwest of the Swiss capital Bern at exactly 9 a.m. (0700 GMT; 3 a.m. EDT).
Helpers rushed to stabilize the pioneering plane as it touched down, ensuring that its massive 207-foot (63-meter) wingspan didn't scrape the ground and topple the craft.
"We achieved more than we wanted. Everybody is extremely happy," Borschberg told reporters after landing.
Previous flights included a brief "flea hop" and a longer airborne test earlier this year, but this week's attempt was described as a "milestone" by the team and comes after seven years of planning.
The team says it has now demonstrated that the single-seat plane can theoretically stay in the air indefinitely, recharging its depleted batteries using 12,000 solar cells and nothing but the rays of the sun during the day.
But while the team says this proves that emissions-free air travel is possible, it doesn't see solar technology replacing conventional jet propulsion any time soon.
Instead, the project's overarching purpose is to test and promote new energy-efficient technologies.
Project co-founder Bertrand Piccard, himself a record-breaking balloonist, said many people had been skeptical that renewable energy could ever be used to take a man into the air and keep him there.
"There is a before and after in terms of what people have to believe and understand about renewable energies," Piccard said, adding that the flight was proof new technologies can help break society's dependence on fossil fuels.
The team will now start to build a second solar plane that will be more efficient and have a larger cockpit to allow for longer flights. That plane should be ready for international flights by 2013, said Borschberg.
The round-the-world flight will eventually be made with five stops along the way.
Borschberg took off from Payerne airfield shortly before 7 a.m. Wednesday, allowing the plane to soak up the sunshine as he flew gentle loops over the Jura mountains west of the Swiss Alps.
The custom-built aircraft with its thin fuselage and the wingspan of a Boeing 777 passenger jet managed to climb to 28,000 feet (8,535 meters) and reached top speeds of over 75 mph (120 kph).
Borschberg, a 57-year-old former Swiss fighter who was wearing a parachute -- just in case -- dodged low-level turbulence and thermal winds, endured freezing conditions during the night and ended the test flight with a picture-perfect landing to cheers and whoops from hundreds of supporters on the ground.
"The night is quite long, so to see the first rays of dawn and the sun returning in the morning -- that was a gift," Borschberg said after touchdown.
Borschberg said he did yoga exercises in the cockpit to stimulate the blood circulation and used breathing exercises and a water spray to stay awake, as the plane has no autopilot.
Former NASA chief pilot Rogers E. Smith, one of the project's flight directors, praised Borschberg's feat of endurance and the overall success of the mission.
"We ended up with perhaps 20 percent more energy than we in the most optimistic way projected," Smith told The AP.
After completing final tests on the plane after landing, Borschberg embraced Piccard before gingerly unstrapping himself from the bathtub size cockpit he had spent more than 26 hours sitting in.
"When you took off it was another era," said Piccard, who achieved the first nonstop circumnavigation of the globe in a balloon, the Breitling Orbiter III, in 1999. "You land in a new era where people understand that with renewable energy you can do impossible things."
Piccard said he was confident the success of the night flight would help to secure the 20 million Swiss francs ($19 million) still missing for the privately funded project with a total budget of 100 million francs ($95 million).
Associated Press Writer Frank Jordans in Geneva contributed to this report.


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Sony is ending a 10-year mobile-phone joint venture with Ericsson, buying out its business partner's 50 percent stake for 1.05 billion euros, or about $1.47 billion.
Through the deal, which had been rumored earlier this month, Sony Ericsson will become a wholly-owned Sony subsidiary, Sony said today. In addition, Sony will assume ownership for mobile phone patents and get other patent rights through a cross-license deal with Ericsson.
Consumers can expect a tighter integration between Sony's phones and the other main devices in the company's "four-screen strategy," said Sony Chief Executive Howard Stringer in a statement today.
"We can more rapidly and more widely offer consumers smartphones, laptops, tablets and televisions that seamlessly connect with one another and open up new worlds of online entertainment," Stringer said.
The partnership linked Sony's electronics experience with Ericsson's telecommunications technology. Sony Ericsson, late to recognize the rise of a new generation of smartphones, now is a fervent Android partners with its Xperia line.
The two companies will continue to be partners through a new effort, though. Sony and Ericsson are "setting up a wireless connectivity initiative...to drive and develop the market's adoption of connectivity across multiple platforms," Sony said.
The patent deal, while not a surprise, could be helpful for Sony. A storm of patent-infringement suits sweeping the mobile marketplace right now, perhaps most notably pitting Apple, with iOS, against Samsung, a major user of Google's Android operating system.
Of this aspect of the partnership, Sony said, "The transaction also provides Sony with a broad intellectual property (IP) cross-licensing agreement covering all products and services of Sony as well as ownership of five essential patent families relating to wireless handset technology."


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Of all the UK's food award schemes, the GREAT TASTE AWARDS is considered by far the most important. Completely independent and uncompromisingly rigorous, it is trusted by retailers, buyers and consumers alike. GREAT TASTE is to speciality food and drink what MICHELIN is to fine dining.
So when the moment that all gourmet food producers eagerly await in mid-July each year – the announcement of the winners in what are commonly known as "the Oscars of the Food Industry" – it's an anxious & exciting time.
Thus when the jangling phone heralded the voice of Sally from the Guild of Fine Food the other day, I was fervently crossing my fingers that we might be rewarded with some wonderful news….
Following on our success in the 2009 Awards when we achieved the successful pinnacle of not only our year, but indeed our fledgeling careers as professional Gelatières Artigianales – a Gold with our Honeycomb Gelato – we are immensely proud & delighted to announce that this year we have excelled ourselves: not only has Lovespoon's sumptuous new Turkish Delight Gelato won a Gold Award; so has our beautiful Lemon Grove, which also took a coveted First Prize at the Royal Welsh Show last year. And that's not all….!
Each year, the Awards' organiser – the Guild of Fine Food – seeks to improve the judging mechanics. Before Gold is awarded, a minimum of eight experts – & generally as many as sixteen – taste, discuss and agree. This year, the Guild recruited even more experts who, working with key buyers, retailers, chefs and food writers, blind tasted the many thousands of entries to ensure they were skilfully and independently assessed: a tough task, considering that entries were up by 25% on 2009's already fierce competition.
But before I go on, let me tell you a little more about these two gorgeous gelati. Ironically both these varieties were made in response to challenges. Whilst I do enjoy a chomp on a good quality cube of Turkish Delight I've never been a personal fan of ice cream purported to be of that flavour; as I find the premixed pastes & gels from which it is generally made, tend not only to be an off-putting lurid pink colour, but taste of something akin to washing up liquid.
Indeed having been offered a particular pot from another producer to try I was so utterly horrified at the gobsmakingly dreadful slurp of the first-&-only spoonful of the vile, claggy concoction to pass my lips; I felt I absolutely had to try & make something better – no matter my own misgivings regarding overall flavour.
So I sent fellow afficiando Tony away to the sultry spice souks of Damascus, to scour said emporia for the ultimate ingredients; & he returned triumphantly clutching bottles of beautiful Lebanese rosewater. From this, we made a subtle infusion to create that wonderfully authentic flavour.
The result? Not only does it taste like genuine Turkish Delight in frozen form, the delicate perfume which wafts forth from every scoop is reminiscent of a rose garden…& sports its' own lovely, simple, natural creamy colour…with not a hint of luminescent pink!
Mind you whilst I am delighted it won an award I have to admit that this particular entry was from a batch which was "thrown together" in a bit of a hurry at the end of a very long & intense day…so I know it could have been even better. And I still have further experimentation to do before I have satisfied myself that it's as good as can be; perhaps we'll add a further subtle hint of exotic cardamom into the infusion; maybe a few flecks of dark, delicate, brittle São Tomé chocolate to enhance those floral notes….exciting stuff.
Meanwhile our beautiful Lemon Grove – a favourite of local celebrity chefs – was created in response to a bland assertion that "you can't possibly make a 'proper' ice cream, from real lemons. Their acidic juice would only curdle the mixture; all you can do with lemons is make a nice sharp sorbet."
Oh, really…?
So: I ensured I became thoroughly acquainted with these luscious little fruity friends…! I ultimately selected the juice & peel of organic Verna lemons from some lovely little groves in Spain; as the Verna has an unctuous thick, oily peel which infuses our unique crème anglaise recipe, to perfection – without any curdling! Hah.
I also love to use (when I can get my greedy wee mitts on them) the plump & vivacious organic Italian Primofiore fruit as they sport such a beautiful fresh, floral aroma: put one to your nose; close your eyes, & inhale…with the subtle caress of a warm summer breeze you'll be transported to the beautiful grove where that cheeky little lemon was born & bred.
Imagine the brightly effervescent sunshine blush of the ripe fruit, peeping coyly amidst the lush green leaves of the mother tree. Imagine warm, dark, umber earth against the vibrant backdrop of a cerulean sky; plunging down to merge with the stunning, sapphire sea…
These are nuggets from our treasured images of the Italy in which we were both personally so very lucky, to live; eat; & explore. Now our new journey relives & indeed revitalises the original delight of direct experience through the more subtle experience of sheer taste. What we wanted to achieve with Lemon Grove, transports our imaginations back to the Italy we knew & loved….indeed; that which sparked our passion for beautiful, artisanal Gelato.
But let's cut to the taste….quite simply, a balanced amount of freshly-squeezed lemon juice and fragrant shards of peel cut through the richness of this gelato to create a delicate & refreshing dessert; which for a real "wow" factor to conclude an elegant dinner party looks stunning when served in hollowed-out lemon shells & dressed with a little zest.
P.S. We always use organic lemons; because when using the peel you want to ensure there have been no poisonous chemicals sprayed on them.
But the icing on the cake, is this proud announcement: Lovespoon has achieved an awesome Double Gold with our new Cappriccino flavour; which we created in response to the wishes of you – our valued customers. Comments that you just couldn't find "a really good coffee ice cream" spurred us to satisfy your desire.
So (as ever) we did some thorough research; & eventually hit upon a lovely blend of Fairtrade Colombian & Costa Rican coffees – both made with Arabica beans: balancing the subtle, fruity flavour of the first with the deep, full-bodied intensity of the second. This creates a superbly robust & well-rounded palate without being overpowering or bitter; the smooth taste lingering pleasurably rather than (as so often tends to happen in a coffee ice cream) disappearing into watery nothingness.
Anyway: it was evidently a significant hit with the Great Taste judges; of whom twenty must unanimously agree that an entry has achieved absolute perfection for it to be awarded those coveted two stars. And as out of all the many thousands of entries submitted this year only 456 were awarded a Double Gold…we're feeling somewhat chuffed.
To have the accolade of FOUR Great Taste awards within the space of a year….well; it doesn't get much better than that!
And as for our wonderful Milkforce ladies whose life of luxury produces such delicious milk – the heart of our gelato…? Rest assured they thoroughly enjoyed their celebratory slap-up supper banquet including a wide variety of fresh caprine hedgerow delicacies followed by a hearty "toast" of their favourite warm molasses tipple.
But it is all thanks to YOU – our wonderful Customers – who have made this dream a reality with your imagination, originality & insightfulness when selecting or requesting special & unique flavours which have led us to explore & to push adventurous boundaries on your behalf.
Thus it is we offer our sincere & grateful thanks, to all those who have helped & supported us throughout what has been another challenging but immensely rewarding year: we couldn't have done it without you. :0)
Best wishes –
Jo, Tony + all our Cheeky Caprine Chums.


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American women have participated in defense of this nation in both war and peacetime. Their contributions, however, have gone largely unrecognized and unrewarded. While women in the United States Armed Forces share a history of discrimination based on gender, black women have faced both race and gender discrimination. Initially barred from official military status, black women persistently pursued their right to serve. EARLY PATRIOTS No documented records have been discovered of black women's military service in the American Revolution. They may well have served alongside black men. During the Civil War, black women's services included nursing or domestic chores in medical settings, laundering and cooking for the soldiers. Indeed, as the Union Army marched through the South and large numbers of freed black men enlisted, their female family members often obtained employment with the unit. The Union Army paid black women to raise cotton on plantations for the northern government to sell. Five black nurses served under the direction of Catholic nuns aboard the Navy hospital ship Red Rover. Four of their names—Alice Kennedy, Sarah Kinno, Ellen Campbell and Betsy Young—have been recorded. Black nurses are in the record books of both Union and Confederate hospitals. As many as 181 black nurses—both female and male—served in convalescent and US government hospitals in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina during the war. Susie King Taylor, Civil War nurse, cook, and laundress, was raised a slave on an island off the coast of Georgia. In April of 1861, Major General Hunter assaulted Fort Pulaski and freed all the slaves in the area, including Mrs. King. When Union officers raised the First South Carolina Volunteers (an all-black unit), Mrs. King signed on as laundress and nurse. Able to read and write, she also set up a school for black children and soldiers. Mrs. King's experiences as a black employee of the Union Army are recounted in her diary. She wrote of the unequal treatment: The first colored troops did not receive any pay for eighteen months, and the men had to depend wholly on what they received from the commissary…their wives were obliged to support themselves and children by washing for the officers, and making cakes and pies which they sold to the boys in camp. Finally, in 1863, the government decided to give them half pay, but the men would accept none of this… They preferred rather to give their services to the state, which they did until 1864, when the government granted them full pay, with all back due pay. Susie King was never paid for her service. I was very happy to know my efforts were successful in camp, and also felt grateful for the appreciation of my service. I gave my services willingly for four years and three months without receiving a dollar. I was glad, however, to be allowed to go with the regiment, to care for the sick and afflicted comrades. Following the war, Mrs. King established another school for freed slaves. When her husband, Sergeant Edward King of the First South Carolina Volunteers, died in 1866, she collected a widow's pension. In 1879, she married Russell Taylor. For the remainder of her life, she continued her advocacy for black Civil War troops. Immediately following the Civil War, William Cathey enlisted in the United States Regular Army in St. Louis, Missouri. William Cathey, intending to serve three years with the 38th US Infantry, was described by the recruiting officer as 5'9" with black eyes, black hair, and a black complexion. The cursory examination by an Army physician missed the fact that William was actually Cathay Williams, a woman. "William Cathey" served from November 15, 1866, until her discharge with a surgeon's certificate of disability on October 14, 1868. Despite numerous and often lengthy hospital stays during her service, her sex was not revealed until June 1891, when Cathay Williams applied for an invalid pension and disclosed her true identity. She did not receive the pension, not because she was a woman, but because her disabilities were not service related. Cathay was probably the first black woman to serve in the US Regular Army. SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR During the Spanish-American War, black women served as nurses. The yellow fever and typhoid epidemics led Surgeon General Sternberg and Dr. Anita Newcomb McGee, Acting Assistant Surgeon in charge of nurses, to seek out female "immunes"— women who had survived the disease. On July 13, 1898, Namahyoke Curtis (wife of Dr. Austin Curtis, Superintendent of the Freedman's Hospital in Washington, DC) was asked to recruit immune nurses. Herself under contract to the Army as an immune nurse, Mrs. Curtis hired 32 black women who were allegedly immune to yellow fever. Most of her recruits went to Santiago, Cuba, in July and August 1898, to serve in the worst of the epidemics. At least two of their number, T.R. Bradford and Minerva Trumbull died from typhoid fever. Other black graduate nurses received direct contracts from the Surgeon General for service in the Spanish-American War. Tuskegee Institute records reveal five nursing graduates served in Army camps. Black women nurses were also recruited from the Washington, DC; Freedman's Hospital, Provident of Chicago; Massachusetts General; Charity Hospital in New Orleans; and the Phyllis Wheatley Training School. As many as 80 black women may have served. WORLD WAR I At the outset of World War I, many trained black nurses enrolled in the American Red Cross hoping to gain entry into the Army or Navy Nurse Corps. As the war escalated, public pressure increased to enlist black women. Finally, shortly after the Armistice, 18 black Red Cross nurses were offered Army Nurse Corps assignments. Assigned to Camp Grant, Illinois, and Camp Sherman, Ohio, they lived in segregated quarters and cared for German prisoners of war and black soldiers. Cessation of hostilities halted plans to assign black nurses to Camp Dodge, Camp Meade, Fort Riley, and Camp Taylor. By August 1919, all black nurses had been released from service as the nursing corps were reduced to their peacetime levels. One of these pioneering women, Aileen Cole Stewart, later wrote: The Story of the Negro nurse in World War I is not spectacular. We arrived after the Armistice was signed, which alone was anticlimactic. So we had no opportunity for "service above and beyond the call of duty;" But each one of us… did contribute quietly and with dignity to the idea that justice demands professional equality for all qualified nurses. Following the war, demand for a permanent place for black women nurses in the military nursing corps continued. In replying to one such request from Congressman Somers, Colonel C.R. Darnell, Executive Officer, Army Medical Corps, wrote, The question of opening the Nurse Corps to…colored nurses has from time to time received the serious consideration of this office; but because of the necessity… of arranging their tours of duty in various regions of the United States as well as in our overseas dependencies[,] and of the difficulty if not impossibility of arranging proper quarters and messing facilities for them[,] their employment has been found impracticable in time of peace. You may rest assured that when military conditions make it practicable…to utilize colored nurses they will not be overlooked. Black women served their country in other capacities. Four black women were among the 3,480 "Y" women volunteers who helped soldiers and sailors overseas. At the request of the Army, the YMCA provided recreation for the American Expeditionary Force by staffing canteens, nursing, sewing, baking, and providing amusement and educational activities for the soldiers. WORLD WAR II In January 1941, the Army opened its nurse corps to blacks but established a ceiling of 56. On June 25, 1941, President Roosevelt's Executive Order 8802 created the Fair Employment Practices Commission which led the way in eradicating racial discrimination in the defense program. In June 1943, Frances Payne Bolton, Congresswoman from Ohio, introduced an amendment to the Nurse Training Bill to bar racial bias. Soon 2,000 blacks were enrolled in the Cadet Nurse Corps. The quota for black Army Nurses was eliminated in July 1944. More than 500 black Army nurses served stateside and overseas during the war. The Navy dropped its color ban on January 25, 1945, and on March 9, Phyllis Daley became the first black commissioned Navy nurse. Black women also enlisted in the WAAC (Women's Army Auxiliary Corps) which soon converted to the WAC (Women's Army Corps), the Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), and the Coast Guard SPARS. From its beginning in 1942, black women were part of the WAAC. When the first WAACs arrived at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, there were 400 white and 40 black women. Dubbed "tenpercenters," recruitment of black women was limited to ten percent of the WAAC population—matching the black proportion of the national population. Enlisted women served in segregated units, participated in segregated training, lived in separate quarters, ate at separate tables in mess halls, and used segregated recreation facilities. Officers received their officer candidate training in integrated units, but lived under segregated conditions. Specialist and technical training schools were integrated in 1943. During the war, 6,520 black women served in the WAAC/WAC. Black women were barred from the WAVES until October 19, 1944. The efforts of Director Mildred McAfee and Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune helped Secretary of the Navy Forrestal push through their admittance. The first two black WAVES officers, Harriet Ida Pikens and Frances Wills, were sworn in December 22, 1944. Of the 80,000 WAVES in the war, a total of 72 black women served, normally under integrated conditions. The Coast Guard opened the SPARS (from the Coast Guard motto Semper Paratus, "Always Ready") to black members on October 20, 1944, but only a few actually enlisted. THE PATH TO FULL INTEGRATION Following World War II, racial and gender discrimination, as well as segregation persisted in the military. Entry quotas and segregation in the WAC deterred many from re-entry between 1946 and 1947. By June 1948, only four black officers and 121 enlisted women remained in the WAC. President Truman eliminated the issues of segregation, quotas and discrimination in the armed forces by signing Executive Order 9981 on July 26, 1948. WACs began integrated training and living in April 1950. Meanwhile, on January 6, 1948, Ensign Edith De Voe was sworn into the Regular Navy Nurse Corps and in March, First Lieutenant Nancy C. Leftenant entered the Regular Army Nurse Corps, becoming the corps' first black members. Affirmative action and changing racial policies opened new doors for black women. During the Korean and Vietnam Wars, black women took their places in the war zone. Chief Warrant Officer Doris Allen recalled: As a senior intelligence analyst in Vietnam, I was recognized as having been responsible through production of one specific intelligence report, for saving the lives of "at least" 101 United States Marines fighting in Quanq Tri Province…. During my years of service I survived many prejudices against me as a woman, as a WAC, me as a soldier with the rank of specialist, me as an intelligence technician and me as a Black woman; but all of the prejudices were overshadowed by a wonderful camaraderie. On July 15, 1964, Margaret E. Bailey became the first black nurse promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Army Nurse Corps and would later become the first black colonel. Hazel W. Johnson became the first black woman general officer on September 1, 1979, when she assumed the position of Chief of the Army Nurse Corps. HONORING BLACK WOMEN'S SERVICE Charity Adams Earley, commander of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion in World War II, summarized the history of women in the military when she wrote in 1989: The future of women in the military seems assured…. What may be lost in time is the story of how it happened. The barriers of sex and race were, and sometimes still are, very difficult to overcome, the second even more than the first. During World War II women in the service were often subject to ridicule and disrespect even as they performed satisfactorily…. Each year the number of people who shared the stress of these accomplishments lessens. In another generation young black women who join the military will have scant record of their predecessors who fought on the two fronts of discrimination—segregation and reluctant acceptance by males. Brigadier General Hazel W. Johnson-Brown, USA NC (Ret.), a groundbreaker herself, told attendees at the Groundbreaking Ceremony for the Women In Military Service For America Memorial on June 22, 1995: "In the past, women, particularly minority women, have always responded when there was a crisis or need. We acknowledge all minority women in uniform, both present in this audience and not present. You are the strength of our success. You represent the patchwork quilt of diversity which is America—race, creed, color and ethnicity."
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