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Taco March Madness: Final Four Winners
All week we've been sharing the national taco bracket we worked on with Everyday with Rachael Ray magazine (you'll find the full story in their March issue). So far we've told you all 64 picks in the four regions: West, Midwest, South, and East. Now it's time to announce the Final Four tacos and the tournament's big winner!
See all of the Sweet Sixteeners in the slideshow »
The Final Four
Barbacoa from Gerardo's Drive-in Grocery: Go on a Saturday or Sunday, when the house specialty is available—the pigs head taco, also known as barbacoa. The meat is cooked in a spicy chile broth in enormous metal vats out back, resulting in intensely meaty, concentrated flavor. It's scooped into a flaky flour tortilla hot from the griddle (or comal), with a hefty squeeze of lime, smattering of cilantro and onion and a drizzle of mouth-searing red jalapeño salsa to cut the richness.
609 Patton Street Houston, TX 77009 (map); 713-699-0820
Al Pastor from Los Guachos (Columbus, OH): Served all night and into the wee hours of the morning in the parking lot of a Spanish night club, Los Guachos serves all the options of a typical taco truck—lengua, carne asada, carnitas—but the majority of the long line is there waiting for one thing: the spit-roasted al pastor taco. Strips of chile-marinated pork, almost bacon-like in consistency, are stacked in layers on a spit, then slow-roasted in front of a gas flame. The cooks stack fresh pineapple above the meat while it cooks, so the sweet juices drip down over the edges where they caramelize into crispy, sweet charred spots. The spitmaster slices the meat to order, catching the savory strips on a waiting warm corn tortilla. Diced onion and a sprinkle of cilantro seal the deal.
5221 Godown Road, Columbus OH 43235 (map); 614-538-0211
Chorizo and Papas from La Verdad: Located in the shadows of Fenway Park, the tequila bar at this sit-down restaurant can be packed with game-goers come Sox season. Dodge the crowds, the waiters and the wait, and instead head straight for the take-out window. Any taco you order comes atop a mini made-from-scratch tortilla. But the taco that knocks it out of the park is the Chorizo and Papas: Plump bits of ground pork sausage seasoned with a slew of warming spices like cinnamon, allspice and ground chile are served over tender potatoes that act like a sponge to soak up the sauce and grease. On top, thin slices of pickled red onion and a tart salsa verde.
1 Lansdowne Street, Boston MA 02215 (map); 617-351-2580; laverdadtaqueria.com
And the Winner Is...
Carnitas from Cinco Puntos: Part piñata shop, part super cocina market, Cinco Puntos also has an incredible kitchen behind the counter with giant pots of slow-cooking meats and wads of masa ready to become tortillas on the comal flat grill. They pile the meats on high but each thick, still warm and puffy tortilla—made lovingly by one of the ladies in the back—impressively stays intact. The carnitas—juicy hunks of pork shoulder slow-cooked in its own fat then crisped up before serving—are a mouthful (and chinful, if you're not careful) of porky flavor. Make sure that no matter which taco you order, you get it with plenty of the bright nopales (cactus) on top to cut through the rich, fatty meats.
3300 E Cesar E Chavez Ave, Los Angeles CA 90063 (map); 323-261-4084


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For $40 you get 12 issues of Racer X plus an all-day pit pass. If you're buying more than one pass you can get a multi-year subscription or give the subscription as a gift. This offer is good for new and renewing subscribers.
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'Traditional masculinity' causes 'homophobia', 'bullying': Report
Put down the toy tools, baseball bats and G.I. Joes.
Men and boys, you're baaaaad.
At least according to the American Psychological Association (APA) in its new 'Guidelines for the Psychological Practice with Boys and Men' regarding so-called "traditional masculinity."
The APA calls it "harmful" and says it could lead to homophobia and sexual harassment.
"The main thrust of the subsequent research is that traditional masculinity – marked by stoicism, competitiveness, dominance and aggression – is, on the whole, harmful," the organization said in a news release.
It goes on to reveal that "traditional masculinity is psychologically harmful and that socializing boys to suppress their emotions causes damage that echoes both inwardly and outwardly."
The APA research also coins the term "masculinity ideology," which it says hurts men and boys.
"Traditional masculinity ideology has been shown to limit males' psychological development, constrain their behaviour, result in gender role strain and gender role conflict, and negatively influence mental health and physical health," the report warns.
Among the pillars of "masculinity ideology" are "anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence."
And that means masculine boys devote their energy towards "disruptive behaviours" like homophobia, bullying and even sexual harassment.
Instead, boys should be striving for academic excellence, the APA says.
"Though men benefit from patriarchy, they are also impinged upon by patriarchy," said Ronald F. Levant, EdD, a professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Akron and co-editor of the APA volume The Psychology of Men and Masculinities.
So, what to do?
The APA says psychologists should address their own biases when treating boys and men.
Address how "power, privilege, and sexism work both by conferring benefits to men and by trapping them in narrow roles," the report says.


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All five UFC 131 contestants who underwent testing for performance-enhancing drugs and recreational/drugs of abuse at UFC 131 passed their tests.
Main-event contestants Shane Carwin and Junior Dos Santos, as well as UFC 131 winners
Donald Cerrone, Dave Herman, Nick Ring and Krzysztof Soszynski were
selected for testing. However, due to Carwin's condition after his
hard-fought decision loss to Dos Santos, he was not required to provide a
The remaining five were all tested using the World Anti-Doping Agency's international standard for in-competition testing.
UFC Vancouver Athletic Commission today confirmed the drug-testing results with MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
Featuring a heavyweight title eliminator between Dos Santos and Carwin, UFC 131 took place on June 11 at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
VAC officials made special mention in today's report that Carwin was willing to assist in the process. Nevertheless, the VAC elected to err on the side of fighter safety in declining to follow through.
"Samples were taken as soon as practicable following each athlete's respective contest at the event," the statement read. "All 'A' samples were subsequently tested for prohibited substances and prohibited methods in compliance with WADA's International Standard for Laboratories.
"Despite Mr. Carwin's willingness to complete the sample collection process, the VAC unilaterally exercised its discretion to rescind its selection of Mr. Carwin for anti-doping testing shortly following his bout at the event. In making such a determination, in its absolute discretion, the VAC seeks to balance the guiding values of 'fairness' and 'fighter safety.'"
When asked to clarify as the whether Carwin was tested pre-fight, VAC representative Jonathan Tweedale explained that anti-doping tests are only issued post-fight. However, after evaluating Carwin's condition, the commission elected to send him to the hospital rather than hold the fighter for a urine sample.
"Under the Commission's procedures, as implemented by the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport at the event, those athletes selected for anti-doping testing were tested only after their contest," Tweedale told MMAjunkie.com. "Shane Carwin, like most of the other fighters on the card, wasn't tested because of the discretionary call that the Commission made in the circumstances following his fight."
Following his UFC 131 loss, Carwin was suspended for 60 days with no contact during training for 45 days due to "multiple facial lacerations and a nasal fracture," according to the VAC's official report.
For more on UFC 131, including the night's official results, check out the UFC Events section of MMAjunkie.com.
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From Openmoko
GSM, (Global System for Mobile communications) is the phone standard and network type supported by the Neo1973. Future phones may support other standards.
GSM covers making phone calls, sending SMS text messages, and access to Internet via GPRS. A SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card is given along the contract with an operator, and the customer inserts the card in the phone to authorize it for use other than emergency dialling. The card is plastic (approximately 15mm*23mm*1mm) with 8 electrical contacts on. It's main purpose is identifying for the phone, the relationship between the contractor and the operator. This includes information about the mobile phone number, the home network, sms center phone number etc. The user (i.e. phone) usually has some amount of storage available on the card for a simple phonebook. SIM cards are standard ISO/IEC 7816 smart cards with a special SIM application on it.
The Neo1973 phone should work with any operator that has a GSM network (see Neo1973 compatible cellphone providers); it is quad-band and thus supports every frequency (850, 900, 1800, and 1900 MHz). Thus it will work in most countries, with the exception of some of the US and some other parts of the world that completely lack GSM coverage.
Calls can be placed using the graphical Dialer or the textual gsmd-tool.
Rest needs to be done on the command-line manually using GSM and manually using GPRS, until gsmd supports more.
The GSM features (including dialing, SMS, GPRS, and SIM access) will be programmed via gsmd.
Standards information
You can find a full list of GSM/3GPP standards at this ETSI site (attention! more than 2000 entries) or at the light-weight ETSI site.
GSM 02.07 - Required features
See GSM02.07.
GSM 07.07 - Main AT commands
07.07 describes the main commands used by the Gsmd software of the Openmoko system to communicate via a serial interface with the GSM subsystem of the phone.
For more, see Hardware:AT Commands.
Note that the descendant of this specification is 3GPP TS 27.007 - AT command set for User Equipment (UE). (Does OpenMoko support any of these newer versions?)
GSM 07.05 - Additional AT commands (SMS and CBS)
A more user-friendly resource is:
GSM 07.10 - Multiplexing
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Sydney Harbour was the location of the first European settlement in Australia. Discovered by Lt James Cook in 1770. The harbour is a flooded river valley and said to be the perfect natural harbour. Before it was discovered by Europeans, the area was populated by various tribes including the Gadigal, Cammeraygal, Eora and Wangal peoples.
There are no kangaroos in Austria. We're talking about Australia, the world's smallest continent. That being cleared up, let's dive right in! Australia is a sovereign state under the Commonwealth of Nations, which is in turn overseen by Queen Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth. The continent was first sighted and charted by the Dutch in 1606. Captain James Cook of Britain came along in the next century to claim it for Britain and name it "New South Wales." Shortly thereafter it was declared to be a penal colony full of nothing but criminals and convicts, giving it the crap reputation you may have heard at your last cocktail party. This rumor ignores 40,000 years of pre-European human history, especially the Aboriginal concept of Dreamtime, an interesting explanation of physical and spiritual reality. The two biggest cities in Australia are Sydney and Melbourne. Sydney is more for business, Melbourne for arts. But that's painting in very broad strokes. Take a whirl around the panoramas to see for yourself! Text by Steve Smith.


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As my East Coast education ran its course, I headed back to The West, where I could see sunsets and horizons, stars and mountains. My father had a little studio apartment, where I squatted for a few months.
It was shortly after that I started on the course that has led me along the wine trail. I started in the three-tier wine industry, in Hollywood, working in a restaurant across from Paramount studios.
When I moved to Dallas (which I recently heard it characterized as "provincially clueless") I imagine I was the clueless one. Little did I know I would be embarking on a career in the three-tier industry that today is being demonized by some as "stupid", "conspiratorial", "corrupt" and "mafia". The last one is particularly repulsive to me as I consider the use of the word mafia to be as racist as the pejoratives used to belittle African-Americans or Jews.
After I got my footing in little old Dallas, a "flat", "dumb" "flyover" "rail-stop" (other vituperatives I have recorded), I looked around and kind of liked the place. There wasn't a lot of wine business, but what there was, the people in it were embracing of this tenderfoot and within a few years, I had a place, a career and a community.
Over the years, because of my ties via the three-tier industry, I have had access to some of the great wines and wine people in the world. One day when I was building a display of Glen Ellen Chardonnay, my boss called me and asked me to lunch at the Mansion on Turtle Creek. He wanted me to meet Jean-Pierre Moueix, the proprietor of Petrus.I went from sweating an end-cap of Proprietors Reserve Chardonnay to enjoying a glass of 1966 Trotanoy. I was on my way to willingly being corrupted.
I have met many of the great Italian winemakers living and dead. I have dined in their homes and they have dined in mine. You see, we are a world community, not a world conspiracy. Oh yes, we do plot to persuade people to drink better wine. Sometimes we even slink so low as to just get people to switch from iced tea to any kind of wine. We figure that once we get them hooked, they'll never go back.
Those of us crusaders of the three-tier system aren't put off by the one-sided arguments of folks who slam the system. Everyone has an agenda. And it is fashionable to find a bad guy, to demonize a standard or a status-quo. It plays into our 21st century drama of hoping people will share our viewpoint because we are victims. Often people look into the drama, not because they feel sorry, but because they crave the joy from the schadenfreude that the drama creates. Everybody loves a winner, especially if they aren't witnessing it from the losing end. The argument that the three-tier system is bad will always backfire on the people that use the argument because it diminishes their power and it essentially emasculates them. Rather than cursing the darkness, there are those of us happy warriors who have made a life of building brands and bringing wine to the cities and the provinces, to the wealthy and the workers, day by day.
Competition has been steep. The industry has been consolidating since 1987. So those of us in the fray don't fret over our enemies or our problems too much. It's part of the landscape. If we lose a line to another distributor, we don't cry that it is unconstitutional and bawl till crocodile tears flood us out of our accounts. Many of us just know that it isn't a fair world and sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. All part of being a grown-up.
I have really enjoyed all of it; working until 2 or 3 AM, building displays that looked like the leaning tower of Pisa or the Eiffel Tower, out of corr-buff (corrugated cardboard). I have spent countless evenings doing wine dinners for restaurants, wine classes for universities, wine training for new colleagues and much, much more. I have been part of the army that has grown the American wine drinking population so that online retailers and bloggers could have a platform for their projects.The wine business is changing, as it has been ever since it has been a business. From the time when the Chaldean winemakers negotiated with the wine brokers of the Pharaohs, 4,500 years ago to now in the 21st century. Nothing is easy, and nobody is going to get a gimme every time. The vines struggle. Why do people think they don't have to? That's what I call "stupid."
When I see how many people I touch, handing them a bottle of wine on the floor of my favorite Italian wine store on a Saturday, and then having them flash me the thumbs-up sign as they open it and enjoy it with a handmade sandwich, I know my crusade is a fulfilling one. And while my life hasn't been filled with non-stop happiness, it has been a good life. And I know my work has been good work. And the naysayers cannot demonize my good work or my good intentions with their glass-half-empty rhetoric.
Some years ago, I got another call from a boss. Again, it was an invitation to come to lunch to meet a winemaker. The winemaker was heading back to his vineyard for harvest and was stopping in Dallas to meet with clients. His vineyard was in the Bekaa Valley, and a devastating civil war was waging at the time in Lebanon. I asked him how he did it, how was he able to pull the grapes and get them to the winery, while tanks rolled through the fields. He answered that some of us are called to make war and some of us are called to make wine. But all of us are called to be warriors in one way or another. And the grapes are growing and they must be harvested. Just as it was done, some 800 miles away and 4,500 years ago, in Chaldea.
The winemaker, Serge Hochar of Chateau Musar, and his world, became part of my world that day in the early 1980's, along with so many of the happy warriors who do the work of their lives, knowing that their livelihood is right. And anyone who has experienced right livelihood, and the excitement and passion that accompanies it, knows that the wine trail isn't for everyone. But for those crusaders who get on it and get with it, it is a life full of meaning and wondrous expectation.


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Chapter 2
Section 179 deduction.(p5)
Alternative minimum tax (AMT).(p6)
The Basics(p6)
What Rental Property Can Be Depreciated?(p6)
Property you own.(p6)
|Rented property.(p6)
|Cooperative apartments.(p6)
Property having a determinable useful life.(p6)
What Rental Property Can't Be Depreciated?(p6)
Excepted property.(p6)
When Does Depreciation Begin and End?(p6)
Placed in Service(p6)
Conversion to business use.(p6)
Idle Property(p6)
Cost or Other Basis Fully Recovered(p6)
Retired From Service(p6)
Depreciation Methods(p7)
Rental property placed in service before 2017.(p7)
Use of real property changed.(p7)
Improvements made after 1986.(p7)
This publication discusses MACRS depreciation only. If you need information about depreciating property placed in service before 1987, see Pub. 534.
Basis of Depreciable Property(p7)
If you used the property for personal purposes before changing it to rental use, its basis for depreciation is the lesser of its adjusted basis or its fair market value when you change it to rental use. See Basis of Property Changed to Rental Use in chapter 4.
Cost Basis(p7)
Loans with low or no interest.(p7)
Real property.(p7)
|Real estate taxes.(p7)
|Settlement fees and other costs.(p7)
|Assumption of a mortgage.(p7)
|Separating cost of land and buildings.(p7)
Basis Other Than Cost(p7)
Adjusted Basis(p8)
Increases to basis.(p8)
|Additions or improvements.(p8)
The cost of landscaping improvements is usually treated as an addition to the basis of the land, which isn't depreciable. However, see What Rental Property Can't Be Depreciated, earlier.
|Assessments for local improvements.(p8)
|Deducting vs. capitalizing costs.(p8)
Decreases to basis.(p8)
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Game-addicted teenager stabs sister with knife
By Chung Hyun-chae
Posted : 2015-05-01 16:58
A teenager has been arrested for allegedly stabbing his sister 11 times with a knife after playing a violent online game, police said Friday. His family said he was addicted to games.
According to the Gyeonggi Provincial Police Agency, the suspect, Choi, 17, attacked his sister, 21, who was sleeping in a living room, with a 12-centimeter knife in Gwangju City, Gyeonggi Province, Monday. He will be charged with attempted murder, police said.
The sister is still being treated in hospital although her injuries are not life-threatening.
According to police, Choi called 119 after he stabbed her.
The suspect reportedly told police, "I admit that I stabbed my sister, but I don't know why I did so."
Police said Choi played violent video games for more than three hours before the attack.
The game involves the story of someone killing people while escaping from a mental hospital. It has yet to be released in Korea.
Choi played online games for hours every day.
He dropped out of high school last year and has devoted himself to computer and video games since then, so much so that he rarely goes outside, police said.
"Given that he was totally immersed in the games, we assume that he took his sister for an enemy in the game for a second," a police official said.
Police will look into his computer to figure out what kind of games he enjoyed and if there is a link between the games and the stabbing.
"We will also conduct a psychiatric examination of him," the official said.
Game addiction has long been a social issue in Korea as there have been various violent crimes including infanticide or murder perpetrated by game junkies.
Among them was a murder case in which a 22-year-old man killed his mother in 2010 for telling him not to play games.
Another homicide happened in 2010 when a man in his 20s, who was addicted to a fighting game, felt a sudden urge to kill and stabbed his neighbor.
Game-addicted teenager stabs sister with knife
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Tuesday Results:
* At 8 p.m. ET, "Betty White's Off Their Rockers" (1.4/4 in 18-49,
5.2 million viewers overall) ranked #2 among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox in total viewers.
* At 8:30 p.m. ET, a second telecast of "Betty White's Off Their
Rockers" (1.5/4 in 18-49, 5.3 million viewers overall) built on its lead-in by 7 percent in 18-49 rating and 2 percent in total viewers. In the half-hour, "Off Their Rockers" ranked #2 among ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox
in total viewers.
* For the 8-9 p.m. ET hour, "Off Their Rockers" finished within
0.1 of a point in adults 18-49 of ABC's week-two telecast of "The Taste"
(1.5 vs. 1.6) and moved ahead of the new ABC series in total viewers
(5.3 million vs. 4.8 million).
* At 9 p.m. ET "Go On" averaged a 1.2/3 in 18-49 and 3.9 million
viewers overall. At 9:30, "The New Normal" (1.1/3 in 18-49, 3.1 million viewers overall) retained 92 percent of its 18-49 lead-in from "Go On."
* From 10-11 p.m. ET, "Dateline NBC" (1.3/4 in 18-49, 5.0 million
in total viewers) ranked #2 in the hour over the drama competition on ABC and CBS in adults 18-49, adults 25-54, total viewers and most other key categories.
* From its first half-hour to its second, "Dateline NBC" grew in
every key category, including gains of 25 percent in 18-49 (to a 1.5 from a 1.2) and 17 percent in both adults 25-54 (2.1 vs. 1.8) and total viewers (5.4 million vs. 4.6 million).
In Late-Night Metered Markets Tuesday night:
* In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The
Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 2.7/7; CBS's "Late Show with David Letterman," 2.7/7; and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 2.0/5.
* In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49
Wednesday results were: "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno," 0.8/4; "Late Show," 0.5/3; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.7/4.
* From 12:35-1:05 a.m. ET Wednesday night, ABC's "Nightline"
averaged a 1.3/4 in metered-market households and a 0.4/2 in 18-49 in the Local People Meters.
* From 12:35-1:35 a.m. ET, "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" (1.4/5
in metered-market households) beat CBS's "Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson" (1.3/5). In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, "Late Night" (0.5/4 in 18-49) topped "Late Late Show" (0.3/2).
* At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly" averaged a 0.9/4 in
metered-market households and a 0.3/3 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
NOTE: All ratings are "live plus same day" from Nielsen Media Research unless otherwise indicated.


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On Sept. 14. Tickets are for sale now.
Comedian Doug Stanhope is smart. Crazy smart. Crazy and drunk and smart. His social criticism -- spit out of his potty mouth alongside trails of cigarette smoke -- is some of the best in the biz. And, you lucky louses, he's coming to Columbus. Get your tickets to see him now at Woodlands Tavern on Sept. 14. They're $20. Go. Now. This video is NSFW. Stanhope don't care.


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Miss America to air from Atlantic City on Sept. 15
This next Miss America pageant will be broadcast from Atlantic City, N.J., on Sept. 15.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced the broadcast date Wednesday and said the pageant will be held at the place where it began in 1921. The pageant had been held in Las Vegas the past six years.
The entire pageant will span 13 days from the end of Labor Day weekend through the broadcast finale.
Three nights of preliminary competition will be held Sept. 10-12 at Atlantic City's Boardwalk Hall. The traditional "Show Us Your Shoes Parade" will be held on the boardwalk on Sept. 14.
The Miss America pageant left Atlantic City in 2006 after deciding it was just too expensive to stage its production there. It went to Las Vegas, where the current Miss America, Mallory Hagan, was crowned in January at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino. Hagan will have her reign cut short when the pageant is broadcast in September, but will be paid for the full year, pageant officials said.
The move to Las Vegas came amid sliding TV ratings for the pageant, as it tried to interest a younger demographic and incorporated elements of reality television programming.
Last year, the Miss America Organization and its state and local organizations made available more than $45 million in scholarship assistance.
"This September, we will be proud to showcase Atlantic City and Miss America together on network television," said Art McMaster, president and CEO of the Miss America Organization. "Miss America has evolved into a national pastime and our organization enables over 12,000 young women to participate in our scholarship program each and every year. We know that the country will embrace our return to our birthplace and experience a new and very relevant Miss America."


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Fruity Pops
Match 3 or more fruits to let them pop in this fun free online mobile game! Combine fruits and use randomly popping boosters to collect some extra points! Just start playing now for free without any subcriptions! This online Match 3 game for smartphones is so easy and fun! And you can play it for free on your mobile as long as you want! Start now!
Puzzle Games, Board Games
Berry Bug
Bob the adorable bug dreamed of delicious strawberries day in, day out! Help him to solve his way through the level by collecting as much strawberries as you can! Unlock the endless mode and beat up the highscore!
Puzzle Games
Alien Bio Lab
Help Flubby to create new and rare alien species in one of the zaniest free online games! Alien Bio Lab is like some of the other free matching games such as Candy Crush or Bejeweled, except with a nice little twist. Instead of swapping gems or other items, you have to move and shift paired aliens around the board via tetris style gameplay. Combine aliens 3 of a kind to morph them into a new species à la traditional match 3 games! Be careful though, because if you fill up the board with clutter it's game over! How many different aliens can you make in this charming online puzzle game?
Puzzle Games
Puzzle Bobo
Classic arcade action at it's best! Strike down similar bubbles to fill your energy bar! Once filled, you are able to use powerful boosters like bombs and iron balls! Solve difficult level and beat up the highscore!
Board Games, Puzzle Games
Jelly Picnic
Jelly Picnic is one of those games where you think you'll just play one quick round and then you don't stop playing for hours. Like the other Match-3 games, you have to make groups of three out of the jellies which then dissolve, making room for new pieces. If you're lucky, the new pieces match the existing ones, setting off a chain reaction and suddenly racking up your points. If you combine more than three jellies of the same colour, they leave behind a bonus block that makes a whole row or colour vanish in seconds. And the clock that loads extra time onto the timer ticking away on every level is just as useful. Don't let the timer run out! Or back you go to level one – where you'll get caught over and over again trying again just one more, seriously just one more time this time...
Skill, Board Games
Bug Match
A new type of Match-3 game to break your mind! Compete against the clock and collect points while matching bugs! But remember to match a bug on each tile of the grid until the time runs out. Two interesting logics combined in this cute game. Play it now. (Best experience on tablet devices)
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A principal standing in the hallway says, "You are one of my favorite students!" In class, a smart girl says, "You are the nicest person in our class!"
Many children would smile and eagerly return those compliments, but some with social anxiety may be too terrified to respond.
Researchers at the University of Central Florida's Anxiety Disorders Clinic and the Atlanta-based company Virtually Better want to give more children with social anxiety the practice they need to become comfortable in social situations. They have developed a new, one-of-a-kind computer simulation program that enables children to interact with avatars playing the roles of classmates, teachers and a principal.
The simulation, designed for children ages 8 to 12, allows clinicians to play the roles of the avatars while the children sit at a computer in a different room and respond to situations they encounter routinely. The children practice greetings, giving and receiving compliments, being assertive and asking and answering questions.
"These kids come in and say, 'I don't know how to make a friend,'" said Deborah Beidel, director of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic and a psychology professor at UCF. "We have to teach them the skills that most people learn from being around other people."
The National Institute of Mental Health, part of the National Institutes of Health, provided a $500,000 grant to fund the development of the software and a 12-week study that will begin this summer. The study will involve 30 Central Florida children ages 8 to 12.
Many children are nervous and slow to warm up in new social situations, but those with social anxiety disorders have severe distress that doesn't go away, Beidel said.
"If a fear is so severe that it prevents a child from doing something he or she should be doing, such as going to school, playing on a sports team, being in a dance recital, going to birthday parties or making friends, then a parent should call a mental health professional," she said.
Under Beidel's leadership, the UCF Anxiety Disorders Clinic has treated children with anxiety disorders for five years. The clinic offers what Beidel calls the "gold standard" of treatments. Children with anxiety disorders are paired with socially comfortable peers for outings to places such as bowling alleys, restaurants and miniature golf courses.
The new study will give parents multiple treatment options at UCF. But parents in most communities aren't so fortunate. Many clinicians who treat children don't have the time or resources to recruit socially comfortable children and organize regular outings. Guiding clients through a simulation in the office may be the only feasible solution for them.
The simulation features a realistic school setting, designed with the help of elementary school teachers. The pre-programmed responses of the avatar classmates which include a cool girl, a smart girl and a bully -- were recorded by children to ensure the language reflects how they talk.
"The most important thing is that this was designed by clinicians with a very specific intention to help people get better. That's the big difference between this and a game, and there is nothing like this on the market," said Josh Spitalnick, clinical psychologist and director of research and clinical services at Virtually Better, an Atlanta-based company bringing interactive technologies to behavioral healthcare for treatment and training.
The six characters and the varying levels of difficulty in the simulation allow clinicians to design scenarios appropriate for their patients. More challenging scenarios include dealing with a bully who is demanding that a child give up some of her lunch money.
If the initial trial goes well, researchers hope to conduct a yearlong trial with more children. If that is successful, the simulation could then become available to clinicians. The program eventually could be expanded to include other settings, such as playgrounds, and to serve other children who need help improving social skills.
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Before midnight storms will be very isolated, and most will be dry. Much of the activity is expected to develop after midnight and continue off and on thru the morning hours on Friday. Our latest model forecasts put down varying amounts of rain, but, the bottom line is rain for almost everyone and pockets of very heavy rain for some. Any time this much rain is expected over such a large area the threat of flash flooding becomes a concern, and that will be something we watch for carefully.
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The 4th annual Detroit Lions Town Hall Meeting
>> 3.20.2012
"In 20 years in the NFL, that Monday Night Football game was the best football atmosphere I've ever been a part of." That's what Jim Schwartz told me and over 700 fellow Lions fans Monday night—at least I'm pretty sure that's what he said, because the last few words were nearly drowned out with applause.
I was lucky enough to be present at the fourth annual Season Ticket Holder Town Hall Meeting. The event was exactly as you see it pictured above: a panel of Tom Lewand, Martin Mayhew and Jim Schwartz, moderated by Lions radio voice Dan Miller. The entire event consisted of the three men running the Lions talking about running the Lions. It was outstanding.
My phone couldn't capture it, but Ford Field at twilight had a surprisingly intimate feel. The simple nature of the event, the mostly-empty stadium, and the mood lighting contrasted sharply with every other experience I'd ever had at the venue. Men in blazers and slacks rubbed elbows with jersey-clad fans carrying beers from the single open concession stand. The few staff present were extremely friendly and welcoming.
As I began to Tweet my early impressions, a Lions executive politely asked me to stop. The event was a special privilege for season-ticket holders; the team wanted those present to have a valuable experience, one you couldn't get from skimming Twitter or YouTube. I appreciated and respected this request.
The three men took a turn making opening remarks, and the overwhelming message was one of gratitude to the fans. Tom Lewand thanked the fans for coming out to the event, but more strongly thanked fans for coming out in the fall and "creating what we think is the best home-field advantage in the NFL." That sounds like a rock band professing every single city on their tour is the best crowd in the world, but Lewand insisted he was sincere.
"It's not a cliché," he said, "when we say you're the best fans in the NFL." Jim Schwartz backed Lewand up. "You actually affect the the game on the field," he said. The energy Lions fans release into Ford Field helps drive the players to better performances—and, as we know, can disrupt the opponent.
I've waxed philosophical about this before. It's the fan's ultimate thrill: to literally be able to help your team win. To actually tilt the playing field in your team's favor. To change the final score, even the game's final outcome, with nothing but the strength of your passion.
"Don't underestimate the effect you have on the networks, either," Lewand said. "I had more than a few people at the NFL and NBC say, 'We heard about that Monday Night game in Detroit. We want some of that.'" It's a heady thing to hear the President of your team tell you to your face you're raising the Lions' national profile with your cheering.
The real headline out of all of this wasn't the latest news on the draft or free agency; Mayhew is ludicrously close-lipped about such things. When asked about the re-signing of Jeff Backus, Mayhew said "Well, I don't like to announce things until they're officially official, but I'll say you're probably right" that Backus had been re-inked—despite Lewand and Schwartz openly discussing Backus's return on either side of him.
Yet, Mayhew spoke openly about "getting Tully's contract done," a phrase which smacked of inevitability—and indeed, as I wrote this, PFT reported the Lions inked Tulloch to a five-year deal. When asked to talk about his philosophy of what positions should be taken in what round of the draft, Mayhew glibly demurred. "Our philosophy is not to talk about what positions we'll be taking in the draft," cueing a round of laughter.
The real takeaway from the Town Hall meeting was the class of the organization, and the quality of its leaders. Time and again, they stressed doing things the right way, working hard, trusting in each other and their collaborative process, and never resting on their laurels. "We approach it day by day," Lewand said. "Get better every day. Tackle the mission of that day. Maybe you look back at the end of the month and say 'that was a good month,' or at the end of the year say 'that was a good year,' but we can't get caught up in some grandiose goal, or listen to the kudos, or especially read the press clippings."
Schwartz built on Lewand's comments: "Just because we don't talk about playoffs and Super Bowls doesn't mean those aren't our goals. In our experience, the teams that do the most talking about things like that aren't there at the end." He stressed that that emphasis carries through to the players: "We're fortunate that our best players are also our hardest-working players," he said.
Lewand echoed that with a story: "When Calvin was in to sign his contract, he met with the press, and the first words out of his mouth were, 'I'm just looking forward to getting back to work.' That wasn't rehearsed or prepared. He'd just signed a contract that will set him, his children, his children's children, his—" "—neighbors," Schwartz interjected, "—many future generations of Johnsons up for life, but his focus was getting back to work." Lewand said. "It was said from a place of authenticity. It was genuine."
Lewand went on to emphasize how players like Calvin have changed the culture in Detroit. After praising the leadership of veterans like Backus and Kyle Vanden Bosch, Lewand said "You have a lot of young guys we drafted beginning to come into leadership roles and have expectations of winning," noting the players that join the Lions now are entering a locker room full of players acquired by the current regime, all pulling in the same direction.
Jim Schwartz talked about the community pride the Lions' success has inspired. "You see people wearing Lions hats at the gas stations now. One of the first things my wife did when we moved here was to go to a sporting goods store. The manager told her, 'Ma'am, we don't carry that stuff.'" Now, you see Honolulu Blue everywhere.
The subject of ticket prices was brought up. Lewand thought intensely as he answered the question. "I want to say this: we respect the investment you make in us." Lewand explained the Lions' ticket and concession prices are in the bottom half of the NFL—and that is a hard cap the staff works under at the explicit mandate of the Fords themselves.
I left Ford Field brimming with pride. I'm absolutely convinced that the Lions are being run by the right people; that if anyone can bring a championship to Detroit, it's these three men. They have, against the odds, retained every key coach and player that made last year a success—and they'll continue to add talent through the offseason. This team is primed to be one of the NFL's best, now and for years to come.


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Samba can serve as an NT4-style domain controller. Jack Wallen shows how to do this on a Ubuntu Server 11.04 machine.
Samba is one of the most versatile tools in all of Linux/Unix/Mac land. It enables those machines to connect to Windows shares and other heterogeneous services/machines.
Samba can also serve other, more advanced needs such as that of a domain controller. A domain controller is a machine that serves as a responder to security authentication requests. This is usually handled by a Microsoft Windows-based machine, but for those who want the security and reliability of a Linux machine handling this task, it's completely (and rather easily) possible.
Samba cannot act as an Active Directory Primary domain controller; it can serve as an NT4-style domain controller. In this tutorial, I describe how this can be done on a Ubuntu Server 11.04 machine.
Step 1: Install Samba
Follow these steps:
- Open a terminal (or log in to the machine if it's GUI-less).
- Issue the command sudo apt-get install samba libpam-smbpass.
- Type the sudo password and hit Enter.
- Accept any dependencies.
Step 2: Configure Samba
There is quite a lot of configuration to tackle, so we'll take this section by section. You should open the /etc/samba/smb.conf file in your favorite editor (mine is nano) and edit the following sections accordingly.
You only need to modify these directives:
- security =
- Workgroup =
Security must be set to users, and Workgroup can be set to any descriptive word for your organization.
In this part of the configuration file, look for this section:
domain logons = yes
logon path = \\%N\%U\profile
logon drive = H:
logon home = \\%N\%U
logon script = logon.cmd
add machine script = sudo /usr/sbin/useradd -N -g machines -c Machine -d /var/lib/samba -s /bin/false %u
Here are the descriptions for each directive:
- domain logons: Provides the netlogon service that makes Samba act as a domain controller.
- logon path: Places the user's Windows profile into their home directory.
- logon drive: Specifies the home directory local path.
- logon home: Specifies the home directory location.
- logon script: Determines the script to be run locally once a user has logged in. Note: This script must be placed in the [netlogon] share (more on this in a bit).
- add machine script: Automatically creates the Machine Trust Account needed for a workstation to join the domain. Note: The machines group must be added to the new domain controller for this to work. Use the addgroup command to create this group.
Share definitions
There are two sections to focus on here: [homes] and [netlogon]. The [homes] section should be uncommented and look like this:
comment = Home Directories
browseable = no
read only = no
create mask = 0700
directory mask = 0700
valid users = %S
The netlogon section should look like this:
comment = Network Logon Service
path = /srv/samba/netlogon
guest ok = yes
read only = yes
share modes = no
The path for the [netlogon] section probably doesn't exist on your machine, so you'll need to create it with this command: sudo mkdir -p /srv/samba/netlogon.
The logon.cmd script must be referred from the [netlogon] section. That script does not exist yet, so create an empty file to be used with the command: sudo touch /srv/samba/netlogon/logon.cmd.
As for the content of the logon.cmd script, any Windows logon script command will work. For more information on logon scripts, read Brian Posey's TechRepublic article "Simplifying network options through logon scripts."
Step 3: Restart Samba
Issue these two commands to restart the necessary services:
sudo restart smbd
sudo restart nmbd
Step 4: Configure rights
For security purposes, root is disabled by default. Because of this, a system group needs to be mapped to the Windows Domain Admin group; this is done with the Linux net command like so: sudo net groupmap add ntgroup="Domain Admins" unixgroup=sambaadmin rid=512 type=d.
The group sambaadmin probably doesn't exist, so you'll need to create it. You will also need to add whatever user will be used to join the domains to this new group (as well as to the admin and sudo group). That user will also need Samba credentials, which is done with this command sudo smbpasswd -a username (where username is the name of the user who will be used to join the domains).
Finally, rights need to be explicitly provided to the Domain Admins group to allow the add machine script (and other admin functions) to work. This is accomplished by issuing this one command (where EXAMPLE is the actual domain): net rpc rights grant -U sysadmin "EXAMPLE\Domain Admins" SeMachineAccountPrivilege SePrintOperatorPrivilege SeAddUsersPrivilege SeDiskOperatorPrivilege SeRemoteShutdownPrivilege.
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Astronomers have come up with a new technique for measuring an alien planet's mass, and therefore its composition and potential habitability, even when standard methods don't work.
You'd never ask a woman her weight. (Actually, you'd never ask a man either.) But for exoplanets, the answer is crucial.
Knowing the mass of an alien planet, along with its radius, tells astronomers whether the exoplanet is rocky, watery, or gaseous. In modeling, the mass can even influence whether the planet could host magnetic fields or plate tectonics. In the December 20th Science, Julien de Wit and MacArthur Fellow Sara Seager (both MIT) have found a forward-thinking technique to measure the all-important number.
To measure the mass of an alien planet dozens or hundreds of light-years away, astronomers usually watch for the star's wiggle in response to the planetary tug. The wiggle comes from the fact that planets don't actually orbit their parent stars — the star and planet orbit a mutual center of mass. So as the planet orbits, the star orbits too, albeit in a much smaller circle. (The mutual center can be inside the star itself, even if not at the core.)
Stellar wobble is easiest to see when massive planets orbit close to their parent stars, such as with hot Jupiters. But the punier the planet and the farther it orbits, the more weakly the star wobbles. And even if we could measure a star's slowest sway, which we can't yet (current telescopes can only measure a star's velocity down to about 1 mile per hour), starspots and other activity on the star's surface might cover up a planet-induced signal. That's the case for hot Jupiter WASP-33, whose parent star pulsates strongly.
A New Way to Weigh Exoplanets
With some creative thinking, de Wit and Seager have found a new way to weigh an exoplanet: by watching it transit across the face of its parent star. When a planet transits, starlight passes through the thin sliver of its outer atmosphere. This passage imprints the starlight with the chemical fingerprints of the atmosphere's composition. Astronomers collect this transmission spectrum during transit observations, measuring which wavelengths pass through the atmosphere and which are absorbed.
De Wit and Seager determined that, because a more massive planet can collect a thicker gaseous shroud around itself, using these transmission spectra to measure the atmosphere's extent could in theory also reveal the planet's mass.
It's not a clear-cut connection: the atmosphere's extent also depends on its temperature (heat comes from the parent star and the planet itself) and the weight of its molecules. A hot Jupiter will have light molecules in its atmosphere, mostly hydrogen and helium. But a rocky planet's atmosphere will be composed of heavier stuff such as oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen. De Wit and Seager show that they can calculate each of these parameters directly from the same transmission spectrum.
This isn't just a theoretical exercise: the astronomers used the well-studied hot Jupiter HD 189733b to prove the technique works. Radial velocity had already shown the planet has a mass between 1.1 and 1.2 Jupiters; de Wit and Seager's transmission spectroscopy calculations gave a mass of 1.15 Jupiters.
"This [technique] appears to be very promising," says exoplanetary scientist Jonathan Fortney (University of California, Santa Cruz). "I think that in practice clouds will confound the technique a bit more than they suggest, but I think it will work a lot of the time."
Scaling Down
For now, hot Jupiters remain the main target for the new technique. Their puffy, extended atmospheres make them good targets for transmission spectroscopy. But de Wit and Seager aim to describe super-Earths and Earth-size planets. Current telescopes can't take transmission spectra of these smaller words, but the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope could. Scheduled for launch in 2018, it will be able to weigh Earth-size planets orbiting the coolest M dwarf stars up to about 160 light-years away. Its reach will extend twice that far for super-Earths.
Unfortunately, that means Kepler's 167 confirmed exoplanets and 3,500 candidates will be largely out of reach.
"You wouldn't be able to do this for stars in the Kepler field, which are too far away and faint," Fortney explains. "But Kepler wasn't designed to find planets around bright stars that would be amenable to atmospheric characterization." Instead a number of upcoming projects, including SPECULOOS and TESS (launching in 2017), will focus on finding planets orbiting nearby stars, whose atmospheres will be easier to study.
The ultimate goal. says de Wit, is to combine all the available data for an exoplanet — including both the wobble of its star and the extent of its atmosphere — to better estimate its mass and understand its atmosphere . The more tools in astronomers' toolbox, the better, because it's not enough to just count exoplanets anymore, it's time to see what they're made of.
Robert Casey
December 19, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Yhis method may get confused if it was looking at a planet like Venus. And an Earth, which is more massive, but has a much thinner atmosphere.
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Monica Young
December 20, 2013 at 7:56 am
Robert, that's an excellent illustration of the issues discussed in the article - an atmosphere's extent depends on mass, but it also depends on the atmosphere's temperature and the weight of its molecules. Venus's atmosphere has heavier molecules (it's carbon-dioxide-based, whereas Earth's atmosphere is nitrogen-based), and it's hotter too, three times hotter than Earth's atmosphere. So the vertical extent of its atmosphere is almost twice that of Earth's even thought they have the same mass. The authors of the study point out that transmission spectra can get at all three numbers (mass, atmospheric temperature, and molecular weight) directly.
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|March 26, 2013, 11:36 AM
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Welcome to the forum.
The cause of the confusion is differences in round nose shapes. Some molds cast more blunt hemispherical nose bullets that use shorter seating and some cast longer elliptical bullet nose profiles that more closely mimic the military ball bullet shape. Thus you can find 225-235 grain round nose bullets in lengths that vary from about .610" to about .680" inch. .45 Auto has a SAAMI COL of 1.175-1.275" to accommodate all bullet lengths from light target to heavy round nose shapes.
What actually matters is seating depth. That's because how far the bullet sits into the case determines how much space is underneath it for the powder to start building pressure in. Seating depth should be figured with respect to a maximum length case, regardless of your actual case lengths, to keep the powder space under the bullet constant.
Seating Depth = Case Length + Bullet Length - COL
So, for a given manual load in .45 Auto, since maximum case length is 0.898":
.45 Auto Seating Depth = 0.898" + Bullet Length - COL.
The military ammo is the .680" bullet, and it usually has a COL of about 1.260" to about 1.270" in what I've measured. Using the minimum end of that scale gets a maximum seating depth:
Maximum Seating Depth = 0.898" + 0.680" - 1.260" = 0.318"
That's for a military powder charge that develops about 400 ft-lbs of energy with a 235 grain RN bullet. That's a bit more than commercial hardball, which is usually a 230 grain RN bullet loaded to about 350 ft-lbs; about what the age-old standard load of 5.0 grains of Bullseye powder with a standard large pistol primer will get you. But let's keep that lower energy level as a extra safety margin. So, since that bullet is longest, consider 0.320" seating depth your lower limit.
To figure out if your bullet falls inside that range, calculate a minimum COL for it from that information by rearranging the first equation to:
COL = Case Length + Bullet Length -Seating Depth
If your RN bullet were 0.640" long (a common number), then:
Minimum COL = 0.898" + 0.640" - 0.318" = 1.220"
You can use that formula to get minimum COLs for different lengths and here's a table of the results if you do:
225-235 grain RN Bullet in .45 Auto 5.0 grains of Bullseye Standard LP primer. Bullet Length Minimum COL 0.695 in 1.275 in 0.690 in 1.270 in 0.685 in 1.265 in 0.680 in 1.260 in 0.675 in 1.255 in 0.670 in 1.250 in 0.665 in 1.245 in 0.660 in 1.240 in 0.655 in 1.235 in 0.650 in 1.230 in 0.645 in 1.225 in 0.640 in 1.220 in 0.635 in 1.215 in 0.630 in 1.210 in 0.625 in 1.205 in 0.620 in 1.200 in 0.615 in 1.195 in 0.610 in 1.190 in 0.605 in 1.185 in 0.600 in 1.180 in 0.595 in 1.175 in
Another catch is that you might have a design that has to go shorter to chamber. In that case, you want to reduce the powder charge and work it back up, watching for pressure signs just to be sure you are safe confining the powder more than originally intended.
Another factor is just the opposite of the above one, and that is that in .45 Auto, particularly with lubricated lead bullets, the small powder space allows a primer to produce enough pressure to unseat the bullet, often before the powder gets fully lit up. In that case, the seating depth changes in the chamber, lowering peak pressure. Again, load work-up is key.
A final consideration with lead bullets, specifically, has to do with how they align in the chamber. Their ability to shoot accurately and to reduce leading, it can make a significant difference to seat the bullet out to touch the lands. With some bullet designs this becomes too long to fit the magazine or to chamber properly. But if your bullet shape is short enough to allow it, then the gun will tend to shoot best when seated as follows:
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Thanks Unclenick for setting me straight. The loads I had done were luckily at the minimum charge and they were set .045 deeper than they should have been with the shoulder beneath the case mouth. With the .665 bullet set to an OAL of 1.245 they chamber well. With 3.6 gn of Clays that I had shot they were running about 730fps. and you could shoot them at paper all day.
The other questions I have are about swc in my Sig 220. They are .640 and the bullet manufacturer recommended 1.245-1.250 and my dummy load I made 1.250. The tip of the bullet gets scuffed chambering---should I be concerned?
I've read that plated lead takes the same load data as lead. Is that indeed true.
Thank you again for your help. I'm trying to go slow and learn all I can.
|March 27, 2013, 12:22 PM
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Glad the seating depth got sorted out.
The scuff may just be the way that bullet hits the feed ramp or the way it turns to level in the chamber. I wouldn't be concerned unless it builds lead up somewhere.
Plated lead usually does use lead data. The issue is becoming confused because Hornady has been plating actual gilding metal jackets onto bullets rather than forming cups. But what are called plated bullets are usually covered in soft copper and are best treated as lead bullets. The other recommendation is not load them past the middle range of jacketed bullet data. It seems to me this information is in the FAQ at the Berry's bullet site.
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Reloading 45 acp 230 gr JHP
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I'm new to reloading, as well as this form. So bare with my terminology! I have reloaded probably about 40 shells completely.(have not shot them and don't not want to until I know it is safe to do so, because of the way I have reloaded them)I used a lee 50th anniversary reloading kit with RCBS 3-die set( it seems to fit and work well with the lee press). Bullseye powder, federal shells , Winchester small primers, and hornady xpt 230 gr JHP. I have only one reloading book, Lyman 49th edition and it does not have 230 gr JHP. The closest is 225 gr JHP. It states that the OAL should be 1.243", I have reloaded mine to be around 1.200 give or take .005...will my bullets shoot safety??
|May 7, 2013, 10:12 AM
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Unless you say what charge weight of Bullseye you put into each case, there is no way for anyone to even guess whether the load is safe or not. If you are new to reloading you should begin with a starting load of around 4.5 grains of Bullseye and then gradually creep the charge up at your seating depth, while watching for pressure signs. I would expect 4.5 grains to be safe because the Alliant web site has a maximum load of 5.0 grains of Bullseye posted for the Speer 230 grain Gold Dot seated to 1.2" COL and it is a similar type of bullet (though not identical, so you still need to work the loads up to be sure they are safe).
For the future, the Hornady Manual says the correct seating depth for your bullet is 1.230". If you email Hornady, they will give you their COL and recommended loads free, but they do not have Bullseye powder listed for that bullet.
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The problems I had with mine were resolved after I bought a new set of dies I had a old set of dies my dad gave me but I usually spent more time re adjusting the dies due to the finished rounds not chambering. The new dies were put into place and adjusted and everything is working fine just fine 800+ rounds later with a periodic check every 50rds and testing 5-6 rounds every one chambered and no lead shaving to cause the slide to go out of battery. Uncle Nick thanks for all the information that you have provided it has been a great help
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Diameter of pulled bullets after Lee FCD
I am a little late to the party but this might be of interest.
I made 10 dummy rounds while trying to solve a won't chamber problem(this thread was very helpful). All used once fired Winchester 45 ACP brass. Five had Missouri Bullet 230 RNL .452 and five were Bear Creek Supply 230 RN polymer coated lead .452.
The dummies were crimped lightly with a Lee FCD. The bullet diameters were
measured before loading, and after pulling, with a micrometer. The interesting thing was that the MBC bullets were NOT sized by the FCD while the BCS bullets WERE sized:
From box MBC avg .4521 >> after pulling avg .4520
BCS avg .4526 >> after pulling avg .4509
I was surprised by the difference. These results seem to undermine generalizations about the goodness or badness of LEE FCD for lead bullets.
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Sounds to me like normal case neck tension is ironing out the soft polymer coating on the BCS rounds. Try loading a few with no crimp to see if they don't shrink, too.
The Lee Carbide Factory Crimp Die won't iron anything that doesn't rub the carbide sizing ring at its mouth, so try pushing a finished round up into the ring with your fingers. If it goes, you're not getting rubbing. It if resists, you are getting sizing action (any bullet will spring back out a little after being sized down, to the fact it went through the ring under the force of the press already should not make it small enough to pass through the ring freely).
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I'd like to add a cpl thoughts to the above excellent posts.
* There are many good bullets made of lead alloy out there, but arguably the best of all is the H&G 68, a truncated SWC type that will feed through virtually any 1911...In the dozen or so that I've worked with, it chambered and gave top accuracy in all ranging from a tricked out Colt Gold Cup, to a WWll Remington-Rand. You don't need a round nose to get good feeding.
* Seating depth for most lead alloy bullets works best for my guns when kept out to around 1.260". For those bullets with a shoulder, I leave the barest hint of the shoulder (of the full dia. lead) showing above the case mouth. This hint of a shoulder (roughly 1/32" or so) cushions the bullet/case mouth junction as it chambers in the the barrel breach. If your 1911 has less than a sterling throating job on the breach, the lead cushion will help prevent jams.
* Case neck tension, not a crimp, keeps the bullet in place during chambering, and prevents setback. Your sizing die needs to be small enough to give sufficient case neck tension. NRA used to recommend 40# pressure, as a test of adequate neck tension. You push the completed round against your bench edge, or a scale and compare OAL measurements before and after.
* Crimping can be done on the seating die, using the roll crimp feature, but only so as to remove the case mouth flare, and perhaps just a smidge more. I do like to seat in one die, then crimp in another (really it's just removing the bell from the case mouth.) My favorite "crimping" die is a taper crimp, and here again, I use it solely to remove the bell.
* I don' t hunt with my 1911's, and don't carry concealed with hand loads. The latter for legal issues if I'm forced to use my carry piece. So...I cast my own bullets for target and practice use, and don't strive for high velocity. I want good 100% functioning, and when that's assured, I strive for top accuracy. I'm critical of my cast bullets, and discard those that show any deformity. My best loads, without in exception, run from 770 to 830 fps with the H&G 68 TWC bullet. I have only one 45 now that will not group under 2" at 25 yds from rest, and with my cast bullets too.
* If you're interested in casting your own, I have found that a Wheel Weight to pure lead ratio of 2/1 is hard enough to prevent leading in my .45's. With a pinch of tin added when necessary to allow good mold fill out. (Usually less than a cpl oz.'s to a 20 lb. melt.) For guns that need harder bullets, you can drop them straight from the mold into a diaper pail of water, quenching them and increasing hardness in the process. Currently (Feb of 2014), I'm paying $20 per 100 lbs. of wheel weights from a local tire shop but the guys there warn me that lead based weights are going away due to OSHA regulations. For that $20 I get about 60 lbs. of lead based weights, 10 lbs. of stick on pure lead weights, and the rest is some other metal: zinc, steel, or aluminum, plus clips etc. That yield allows me to shoot .44 Magnum Keith 250 gr LSWC's for less than a penny a piece. Primers are going for about 4c's now and powder is about 2c's....that's less than 7 cents per shot...cheaper than .22 lr when and if you can find it....yep...casting has it's benefits...some of my molds are over 50 yrs old now so the cost of the equipment is negated over time, plus you can shoot so long as you can get primers, and powder.
* For lube, I use an ancient Lyman 450 sizer/lubricator to size to .452" and apply 50-50 alox-beeswax lube. I do have one .45 that needs an add'l application of Lee Liquid Alox by swirl lubing. Easy to apply, I've added that step to all commercial bullets I buy...finding them overly hard and with granite hard lube that does nothing but look pretty..the LLA cures that and makes them leading free as good as my own castings.
* I don't clean primer pockets anymore with any handgun load. I assemble my loads using a Dillon 550B progressive and just seat the primers while sizing. I've never had a FTFire traced to a dirty primer pocket either and accuracy is superb. I do clean rifle pockets but probably don't need to there either. Winchester Large and Small Primers are my choices but I have used Federals for some auto's that seem to have lighter than normal firing pin strikes.
* I do clean my brass, tumbling it to remove the grit picked up when ejected on the ground. I use walnut media, adding a cut up dryer sheet from my wife's laundry room trash, plus a dollop of NuCar polish to each tumbling session. The dryer sheet keeps the media clean, and the NuCar shines up the brass to some extent. An hour does it...I want it clean but I'm not anal about its looks.
That's about it...HTH's Rod
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|February 13, 2014, 10:47 PM
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This is pretty much what I read to get first hand know-how on the .45acp.
With the help of some manuals and this post, I am dialed! Thank you!
|March 30, 2015, 12:33 PM
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I cast the Lee 230 gr TL RN bullet from straight wheel weights...
they actually weigh 240 gr.
I TL with either LLA thinned with mineral spirits, or Rooster straight from the bottle.
I've found that 5 gr of W231 is too hot and leads up my commander barrel pretty badly.
Going to back off to 5 gr next batch and see if that is an improvement.
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