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Bullet imbalance is one of the largest contributors to dispersion, and I knew about it for nearly 30 years. However, the problem was, that only in the last several years I have really understood exactly how it causes dispersion. Also, aside from making or buying perfect bullets, I couldn't fin a way to correct the situation. So, let's start out by understanding the problem.
right Figure 9-1 - Sketch showing how bullet imbalance causes a lateral drift velocity, which causes deflection of the bullet trajectory as it leaves the muzzle
Figure 9-1 demonstrates how bullet imbalance causes the bullet, when it leaves the muzzle, to be deflected. The sketch on the left Figure 9-1 side shows, how the Center of Gravity (CG), offset from the center line or geometric axis, is forced to rotate about the geometric axis. This is an unnatural condition. A spinning projectile will always spin about its principal axis and the principal axis always passes through the projectile CG, if free to spin so. Consequently, the instant it exits the muzzle, the bullet will start to spin about its principal axis and its CG. However, while the bullet is in the bore, the CG offset produces a tangential velocity component (Vt). When the bullet exits the bore, this tangential velocity component (Vt) will as a lateral drift velocity (Vd) be maintained. The lateral drift velocity direction will be perpendicular to the plane containing both the geometric and principal axes at the instant of muzzle exit, Obtained the distance, that the bullet will deflect, by multiplying the lateral drift velocity by the flight. time (FT). The equation that calculates the amount of bullet deflection at the target is
right Figure 9-2. Photograph of a .270" Bullet modified by drilling a hole to deliberately produce an exaggerated 0.00118 inch CG offset.
In the next section we will experimentally determine the dispersion radius for a 0.00118 inch CG offset. This exaggerates three to four times the maximum CG offset, to be expected in a production bullet. This CG offset value was determined by the diameter and length of the hole drilled in the side of the Bullet, used in the experiment that follows. Let's calculate the dispersion radius to be expected at 100 yards from this oversize CG offset.
s = 24*3.14159*(2900/10)*0.1*0.00118 = 2.58 inches
In 1909 Dr. Franklin Mann published a book (Reference 21) with an equation, that is equivalent to the here presented one. While his equation was correct and he tested it experimentally, his physical reasoning was flawed. However, this was a remarkable book for its time. Now we will experimentally evaluate the effect of CG offset.
Figure 9-3 - Plot of a target showing four 3-shot groups formed by indexing the bullets in 90 degree increments in roll angle. The bullets had a large CG offset c` 0.00118 inches. The experimentally determined radius of dispersion at 100 yards was approximately 2.5 inches.
We again turn to the "Olde Engineers Trick" to exaggerate an effect, to become measurable. This time we deliberately unbalance the 90 grain .270" bullets, by drilling a hole in the bullet side, that reaches exactly half way through. The hole is placed at the longitudinal CG position. Figure 9-2 chows a bullet picture, that has been modified to obtain a 0.00118 inch CG offset. Figure 9-3 plot shows the bullet holes from four 3-shot groups, fired with the hole-up, -right, -down, and -left at muzzle exit. The square symbols show each group's center. The circular sketches near the group show the hole direction in the bullet sides, when they exit the muzzle. If you look at group l, you can see that the hole in the bullet points up at muzzle exit, which means that the bullet CG was below the geometric axis. With a clockwise rotation direction (right hand twist), the CG in group 1 translates to the left, that means the bullet will be deflected to the left, as it was. If you draw a 2.5 inch radius circle, you can see, it passes close to all four groups centers. In the previous section we calculated a 2.58 inches dispersion radius value. Roll angle is simply the rotation angle about the bullet geometrical axis (centerline). If you try this test, be sure to remove the extractor and the ejector and allow ample headspace between the bolt face and cartridge head. Otherwise you will rotate the cartridge in a random fashion to mess the results. Under ordinary conditions, the bullets deflect in completely random direction, only depending on the CG asymmetry roll angle orientation. This test confirms our problem diagnosis and determines the dispersion sensitivity to the CG offset amount. The question now becomes, how badly balanced are production bullets? Unfortunately, that requires a lot more work, but can be done.
| Figure 9-4 - Photograph of a device that
checks the static balance of bullets. The design is based on the
principle of the torsional pendulum. See Appendix C for complete
Two ways, to measure bullet imbalance, static and dynamic are. To measure static imbalance is the easiest, but least accurate and slowest method.
Figure 9-4 shows a static balance rig, based on the idea of a torsional pendulum, there two tightly stretched steel wires suspended the cradle, that holds the bullet. If there is a CG offset, the cradle will rotate, as the bullet is rotated and deflect a light beam, that shines alight spot on a screen. This light spot motion indicates the bullet CG offset amount. The nut on the screw on the cradle to, balances the device. The vane, hanging down between the two magnets, damps its rotational motion. Appendix C in detail describes to construct, calibrate and use such device. The results to measure the CG offset on box of one hundred 90 grain .270" HP bullets shows a bar graph in figure 9-5. Most bullets have a CG offset between 0.1 and 0.2 mils, while some of them are unbalanced by about 0.3 mil, can there be seen. This is for ordinary commercial bullets typical. Custom match bullets have about a third of this CG offset amount. Bear in mind, the 90 grain .270" HP is intended to shoot varmint and for that use certainly accurate enough.
|Figure 9-5 - Bar chart showing the results obtained in checking the static balance of a box of 100 caliber 270 bullets.
|Figure 9-6 - Photograph of a dynamic balance device used to check the balance of bullets. It is based on the principle of the air bearing, where the unbalanced bullet spins inside the plastic cylinder producing an oscillating force on the two earphone diaphragms. This motion produces an oscillating electrical signal proportional to the imbalance. See Appendix C for complete description.
Figure 9-6 shows a dynamic balance device. In this device, the bullet is run at 120 revolutions per second (rps) in an air bearing suspended between two magnetic microphones serve as electrical transducers. As the bullet spins, less touching the plastic cylinder inside surfaces, the air pressure between the spinning bullet and the cylindrical cavity walls force the cylindrical carrier to oscillate. This mechanical oscillation is transmitted to the two headphone diaphragms and converted to an electrical signal, that then on an oscilloscope can be observed. Appendix C also in detail describes to construct, calibrate and operate such dynamic balance device. The balance check results of the same previously staticly checked one hundred bullets shows Figure 9-7. The results are essentially the same, can there be seen. However, the dynamic balance data are smoother and probably accurater, than the data obtained from the static balance device. The dynamic device is much easier to use and more accurate, but much more difficult to make than the static balance device.
right, Figure 9-7 - Bar chart showing results of measuring the dynamic imbalance of the same 100 bullets used in the static balance measurement shown in Figure 9-5. Miss distance at 100 yards for a given imbalance is shown on the top scale.
The Figure 9-7 graph top shows the miss distance (dispersion radius) in inches for the corresponding CG offset. I developed a computer program that uses a random number generator to pick both the CG offset and roll angle orientation, and "fire" twenty 5-shot groups. Using this computer program with the same 100 bullets in Figure 9-7, with a 10 inch twist barrel, i found, the average group size would be around 0.7 inches. The maximum computed group size was 1.3 inches and the minimum group size 0.3 inches. This compares favorably with the last accuracy test fired in Chapter 8, so there is little doubt, bullet imbalance accounts for most remaining inaccuracy in the experimental rifle.
I hasten to point out, the measured imbalance on this particular bullet is typical for ordinary production bullets, that I tested. In fact, I found other manufacturers bullets worse. The most likely cause of bullet imbalance is the circumferential jacket wall thickness variation, that results from deep drawing a flat copper disk to form the jacket. In fact, I am amazed, bullets can in mass production be made as accurately, as they are. When you measure bullet jacket thickness run out at the same distance from the bullet base, you find circumferential variations consistent with measured CG offsets . The manufacturer states in their brochure, their hunt bullet jackets are held to 0.6 mil maximum and their match bullets to 0.3 mil" jacket concentricity. Since the jacket of these 90 grain hollow points is about 1/3 of the total weight, the CG offset is about 2/3 of the jacket concentricity. This means that the CG offset will be about 0.4 mil" for ordinary bullets and about 0.2 mils" for their match bullets. The 0.4 mil" imbalance agrees well with the measured data in Figure 9-7. The fact, lead to be much denser, (heavier per volume) than copper, of course, causes the CG offset. Some match bullets are held to less than 0.1 mil" CG offset. I tested 6mm 68 grain match bullets and got about 0.07 mils" maximum CG offset. If the bullets weren't balanced to 0.1 mil or better, even with a bench rest rifle, you would at 100 yards never be able to average 0.2 inch five shot groups. Match bullets are shorter than hunt bullets and made with thinner jackets, that, I guess, lets uniform thick jackets easier to draw. Unfortunately, the general purpose bullets jacket thickness must for reliable expansion characteristics on game animals be rather thick kept. Consequently, I doubt, any manufacturer may be able to produce ordinary hunt bullets significantly better, than they are now, unless somebody invents a better way to make bullet jackets. Before the bullet leaves the barrel, we need some way to compensate unavoidable, existing bullet imbalance.
The trick to solve the bullet imbalance problem would be, to allow the bullet before leaving the barrel to spin about its centroidal axis. The centroidal axis passes through the CG and is parallel to the geometric axis. If this could be done, the barrel would decrease the lateral drift velocity and the bullet imbalance effect. I tried three approaches to make a compensator. All three attempts failed.
The first approach for three inches distance to counterbore the muzzle. For this to work the radial clearance between the bullet and bore must be kept small (less than 3mils"). The reason for this small clearance is, the corrective effect depends on viscous interaction between bullet and barrel. I tried this, starting with a 1 mil" radial clearance, and the groups were enormous. I gradually increased the clearance. At about a 10 mil" radial clearance, the gun shot about as well, as it did before modification. After the muzzle blast shadowgraph tests, as we saw small partially burned powder granules traveling along with the bullet, I doub this method to ever work. After those tests I sectioned the barrel and found the counterbore to have been off bored center. So that may have doomed the test from the start. If anyone wants to try this, I suggest to grind piloted reamers in 1 mil" increments. According to computer calculations it should work, but I may have missed something in the physical model.
Another way to compensate the CG offset would be, to allow the barrel to move about the bullet CG, before the bullet exits the muzzle. I tried two different approaches. Neither one worked. One appeared to be work slightly, but as a result of thermal distortion drew straight lines of bullet holes. I tested the barrel on the bench and found, the muzzle warped with a modest temperature change enough to explain the drift.
While gave on this problem not up, I decided to go ahead and publish this book, because it is a difficult problem, that may not be solvable. Meanwhile all you can do, is to buy the best bullets to be found. Bullet manufacturers continually try to improve the quality of their bullets and, since this data were some time ago taken, the situation may by now have changed, also should be pointed out.
I would rather have a root canal operation on a tooth, than to make my own bullets. But on occasion I was forced to make some special bullets. Numberous articles appeared to make custom bullet. I take iissue with some recommendations. One of these procedures advises to lubricatie the slugs, before they are swaged into cores. Lead wire is cut into slightly heavier than swaged core slugs. The a mixture of vaseline and lanolin lubricates the slugs, although other lubricants were used . Lubrication is usually accomplished by rolling the slugs on a lubricant coated cotton cloth. Another way is to mix a known lubricant amount into a known solvent volume and then to dip the slugs into the solution. Drain the solution off and allow the solvent to evaporate. That leaves a thin uniform lubricant coat on the slugs. This seems to be the preferred method, because the coat should be thin and uniform. The core swage die then swages the lubricated slugs. There the excess lead bleeds off. Then a solvent degreases the swaged cores. Commonly use Methylene chloride, d since the EPA restricted trichlorethylene and l,1,1-trichloroethane use. The problem is, the solvent is usually over and over used. With repeated use, that procedure results the lubricant to increasingly concentrate in the in the solvent. This can result in a thin lubricant coat left on the cores.
To avoid this problem, some bullet makers degrease the cores by passing them through a series of three or four solvent containers, that are frequently replaced, so the last container remains relatively solubilized lubricant free. This technique requires a lot solvent, but is preferred over to repeatedly use the same solvent batch. To use lubricant, can cause potential problems. If lubricant is left on the cores, then during bullet spin-up cores may strip off the jacket, causing dispersion. Also, when the slugs are swaged into cores, could lubricant be trapped in the lead surface. This would in the finished bullet cause a gravity center offset. I never found to lubricate the slugs prior to swaging them into cores necessary. In fact, I first, by tumbling them in a water solution of detergent (Lemon Joy), clean and degrease the slugs, before I swage them into cores. Just to make sure the cores are clean, I also clean the swaged cores in the same manner. However, I made no custom bullets volume, that some bench rest shooters make, so for large volume situations may be a need to lubricate, that I'm not aware of.
In this business "Cleanliness is next to Godliness". In fact, match bullets should be made in same type clean room that is used to produce electronic chips. All it takes, is a very small speck foreign matter either on the lead core or the jacket inside to cause the one flyer in one group, that causes you to loose a match.
At the moment jacket concentricity problem is a limiting factor. I
tried to correct jackets with machining less success. Maybe you could
use a boring tool in a super accurate lathe with essential zero (<
100 m inches) spindle runout to improve the
jackets, but I doubt that . Lathes this good exist in large shops, but
are expensive and difficult to keep adjusted. The best match jackets
come from a company called J-4 which apparently is connected with
Berger Bullets and are very good.
I think, I already mentioned the fact, that I accidentally found a small void in the lead core of a sectioned bullet, that would cause a large CG offset. A small piece slag, that was in the lead wire, probably caused that . Short of X-raying every core, I know not how one makes sure all cores are uniform. Of course, this would be prohibitively expensive production.
Another problem with hollow points is, during the point swaging operation, the core top surface may not stay flat and perpendicular. The coy may also bleed by the punch edge in the core swaging operation, causing a flash at the core to jacket junction. These problems offset the CG and principal misalign its axis. On commercial bullets that I sectioned I observed this problem. As you would expect, they shot very poorly. Reducing the amount of diameter reduction at the core front to leave a short (0.06") core projection, like to be seen in Figure 8-10, helps to alleviate this problem. Just don't make it too long. This problem lets you wonder, what in the throat during spin up happens to the into the rifling swaged core. Remains the core symmetrical? Nobody knows. You might be able to test this, when you proof the dynamic balance before and after fire, using a very soft recovery. I plan not to do it, because it would need enormous effort. Slender nose bullets perform well, may be, because less bullet length contacts the rifling. Some bench rest shooters seem to obtain superior performance from these slender nosed bullets, but I experienced that not.
Another problem with hollow point cores is, that extend too far forward into the ogive nose. To form the ogive nose, the jacket collapses in short segments and is usually not uniform thick. To swage the core into this forward jacket location could produce a CG asymmetry.
Some commercial bullet makers, as far as balance is concerned, turn pretty good match grade bullets out. In the last 30 years commercial bullets improved a lot. However, custom hand made bullet still win practically all bench rest matches. I guess the difference is jackets quality plus during swaging you discard a bullet "feels not right". An ordinary machine doesn't have such capability to feel.
If you decide to make your own bullets, be sure to use a slightly rounded heel at the bullet base. A sharp corner combined with the rifling lands can produce small fins, that the muzzle blast can break off. I have seen this in old spark shadowgraphs and recovered bullets. Such will cause an asymmetry. As far as I am concerned, unless you need to try a new idea or you want to do it for the "fun" of it, to make your own bullets, is a loosing proposition. It would help to be slightly crazy!
|Here comes the final accuracy test on the .270"
14" twist barrel experimental rifle. In the last test in Chapter 7
(Table 8), using 90 grain hollow point bullets with a 10" twist barrel,
we shot 0.804 inches average group size at 100 yards. With this
chapter's theory we also estimated, if bullet imbalance was the only
error contributing to dispersion, the .270" should average about 0.7
inches at 100 yards. Consequently, with no other rifle errors
contributing to dispersion, with the 14" instead of a 10" twist barrel,
we should expect 0.7* 10/14 = 0.5 inches average group size. The 270
with a 14"twist barrel test results are shown in Table 11.
I think this test shows bullet imbalance dues most dispersion left in this experimental rifle. I also believe, with match grade bullets and a 14" twist barrel this gun would at 100 yards average around 0.2 inch groups. At this time unfortunately .270" match bullets are unavailable. This concludes our work on the .270" sporter.
Above was taken from the following Book, Rifle Accuracy Facts Written by Harold R. Vaughn . If ypu would like to improve your shooting, i strongly strongly advise to buy, read, understand Vaughn's Book, then act accordingly.
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Written by Harold R. Vaughn This book makes the
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by Duncan MacPherson
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Precision Shooting, Inc.
222 McKee St., Manchester, CT 06040soft cover $34.95, hard cover, $39.95 +$3.50 S&H 290 pages, many photos, figures, and graphs
A book review in V3#3 of the Wound Ballistics Review and a comment on this review in V3#4 brought up the issue of a good book describing exterior ballistics for the general reader. I said I didn't know of one then, and Rifle Accuracy Facts is not devoted to this subject, but will fill this purpose for many readers. With this as an introduction, we will go back to a standard review format.
Harold R. Vaughn is an engineer whose distinguished technical career was spent at Sandia National Laboratories in flight dynamics and aerodynamics. He retired in 1986, and devoted his considerable technical skills to an orderly analysis and test program to understand and demonstrate what factors contribute to making rifles shoot more accurately. I called Mr. Vaughn to discuss some technical details not relevant here, and we had an interesting discussion about small arms and technology. We both deplore the fact that modern engineering capabilities and techniques are so little used by those interested in small arms. There is little hope that this situation will be rectified anytime soon by the firearms and ammunition manufacturers, who are forced to be very bottom line oriented in this very competitive market. The amount of money required to run a laboratory that could revolutionize understanding of a variety of small arms features is relatively modest, but there is little hope for anything like this anytime soon. The few government facilities that might fund this work do not have staff with the required technical skills, and there is no obvious other source for the money. As a result, the primary source of advances in understanding is talented individuals who are willing to devote their own resources and efforts to this end for the satisfaction of accomplishment. That is what Mr. Vaughn has done in the area of rifle accuracy, and fortunately, he has not only done this well, but has written it up well in Rifle Accuracy Facts.
Readers should be under no illusions; Rifle Accuracy Facts is not light reading, and not for anyone who thinks Guns and Ammo is a technical publication. Rifle Accuracy Facts is a superb book; most attentive readers will understand all or almost all the material in the main text. On the other hand, almost all readers will find that they have little or no interest in most of the appendix material (about 20% of the total) even though this will be invaluable to readers who wish to do sophisticated experimentation on their own or who are interested in detailed equations. The bulk of Rifle Accuracy Facts is a detailed description of Mr. Vaughn's experimentation in making rifles shoot more accurately. This work is a true technical advance in understanding this issue, and the description of this work is interesting in its own right. Anyone seriously interested in rifle accuracy should own this book.
Anyone who wants a solid understanding of either interior or exterior ballistics should get this book even if they are not interested in rifle accuracy. The descriptions of interior and exterior ballistics (one chapter each) are both precise and understandable without forcing the reader to follow the details in a lot of equations. The important equations are there for readers who want them, but can be skipped without losing comprehension for readers not technically oriented. Each of these chapters could be "puffed up" to longer length and some readers might prefer this, but the information is efficiently imparted in the chapters as written and I personally prefer this approach.
Perhaps the best summary of the contents of Rifle Accuracy Facts is the chapter description given on the contents page of the book:
Appendices: Accelerometer design, barrel vibration computer equations, bullet balance device design, six degree of freedom computer equations, tunnel range construction, rail guns, shadowgraph testing.
As the chapter descriptions indicate, most of the material in Rifle Accuracy Facts is related to rifles, not handguns. However, those interested in handgun interior and exterior ballistics should not despair. The material in chapters 2 and 10 uses rifle bullets as examples, but the principles also apply to handgun bullets.
Reviews are supposed to describe the book's shortcomings, but I found only two small faults, neither important to most readers for different reasons. There is a typographical error in the equations for F1 and F2 on page 187 (exponent ½ on wrong bracket), but this will be recognized by most people attempting to use this equation and is of no importance to anyone else. The second topic is in the Chapter 11 discussion of "moly coated" bullets (the relatively recent technique of coating bullets with molybdenum disulfide and carnauba wax). Vaughn has done testing of some claims relative to the effects of moly coating bullets and has very interesting comments on several issues, but is essentially neutral on the effects of extended barrel life because he hasn't proved this. This is a good example of how careful Vaughn is in making claims, a stance that many others in ballistics would do well to emulate. The careful distinction Vaughn makes throughout the book between what he has demonstrated and his speculations is laudable and very evident here. However, in this instance the advantages of properly moly coated bullets in extending barrel life have been established beyond reasonable dispute by many others, and Vaughn's "could be true" is unnecessarily weak even though he hasn't personally verified this. Again, readers who care will know this, and it doesn't matter for the others.
Rifle Accuracy Facts is going to be recognized as a classic in years to come, you will be glad you got it.
Duncan Mc Pherson
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5:22 PM Subject: Re: [Fullbore] Bullet imbalance
Lutz and Larry, Have either of you or any listers used the Vern Juenke's International Concentricity Comparator (I. C. C.) According to the evaluation, that is quite capable of detecting bullet imbalance in bullets making trying to compensate for the imbalance unnecessary. I have never seen or used this device but you can see the evaluation in it's entirety at: http://www.shootingsoftware.com/reloading.htm Below is a copy of the text the evaluation of this device by the people at: Recreational Software (http://www.shootingsoftware.com/index.htm) A very interesting site with evaluation of reloading equipment and techniques and design of better devices for reloading.
It doesn't actually x-ray your bullets but Vern Juenke's Internal Concentricity Comparator (I. C. C.) seems to. This device uses sonic pulses to look "inside" bullets for concentricity problems
caused by voids and jacket irregularities. One past International Heavy Rifle Champion says, it is the secret to shoot 6 inch groups at 1000 yards. If you do everything else correctly, and still get an occasional flyer, it may be your bullets. Weighing bullets can not tell you if an entire box was made from jackets with walls that are thin on one side. But, if the lead core is not centered they can fly as bad as the worst out-of-round projectile. Top competitors with one of Vern's machine often use only 40% of the best hand swaged bullets for serious work. You may find only 10% of the less expensive or production bullets you have been using measure to "Golden BeeBee" standards, with as many as 1/4 or more actually measuring as "junk. Sam
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The gossip mill is circling around Ludacris (real name Christopher Brian Bridges). When it reached AfroGay's ears that Ludacris is gay, he decided to go looking.
You see, though I had heard of him, I didn't know what Ludacris looked like or what type of music he plays. I still don't know who Ludacris is but I am a little more educated about his music because I have You-tubed it.
The music is … how shall I put this delicately? Different? I listened to the Ludacris song called My Chic and I shook my head in bewilderment at how anyone can call such misogynistic and incondite stuff music. But this is about Ludacris, not obscene rap.
As you can see from his pictures Ludacris is pretty, very prety. He is a beautiful, very beautiful man. He needs no make-up whatever to look hot, hot, hot.
In my book, that is a sign of gay, gay, gay.
Another tell-tale is that he lives in Atlanta. I don't know of any single, pretty men such as Mr. Bridges who live in Atlanta that are not gay. Some jealous girls whine about the 'waste' that is Atlanta precisely because every stunningly pretty man in Atlanta is gay. The less charitable people (likely those who have no men of their own) have gone so far as to refer to Atlanta as Faglanta. We gay boys prefer to call it Hotlanta because that city sizzles with homosexual black men.
And Hotlanta is where Ludacris lives. Another giveaway surely.
I stand by my generalizations of many moons ago:
Too delicately pretty and sensitive – … A lot of gay men tend to have the kind of delicate, porcelain features, flawless complexions, magnetically glassy eyes, luscious lips, sensitive temperaments that you either see or sense. Such men are automatically associated with 'sweetness' even though they might in reality not be. Though not always a dead giveaway, such men are more often than not gay.
Ludacris is doing whatever he can to maintain a thuggish 'nigga' image as his lyrics about women in sexual acts show, but I think his physical beauty tells you more about him than what comes out of his mouth.
In fact, the crude, sexually explicit lyrics and the man whose mouth they come out of are so diametrically opposed that it is impossible to listen to the disrespectful music and pick Ludacris out from a line-up as the man who sang them. It must be then that, like Trey Songz, Ludacris also is trying too hard not to be gay – in his case by overdoing the macho, thug, 'you're my bitch' ghetto act.
And as the rumors suggest, the act is not really convincing.
|Christopher Brian Bridges (Ludacris)
But, my goodness, is Christopher Brian Bridges beautiful or what? As the Americans say … Damn! This man makes it hard to keep one's hands where they belong.
Like I do with Colin Jackson, I really, really, really hope Bridges is gay!
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The visitors lost Steven Davies to the last ball of the first over, Murali Kartik and Jason Roy in the second and then Rory Hamilton-Brown midway through the third as they slipped to nine for four after winning the toss.
Surrey slipped to 42 for six when Gary Wilson and Matthew Spriegel departed, leaving Zafar Ansari, who made an unbeaten 38, and Gareth Batty to lift their side to 94 with an unbroken seventh-wicket partnership of 52.
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–.On 11/22/2013 at 11:53PM Ptl. Jonathan Sperber responded to the area of Sand Rd in reference to a suspicious person call involving two subjects. Upon arrival Pt. Sperber observed a male in the area which fit the description of one of the males reported by the caller. Sgt. Papa, Sgt. Robert Paul and Ptl. Robert Ashton also responded. Further investigation revealed the subjects were attempting to steal home air conditioning units from occupied homes. Further, the subjects were also in possession of stolen cast iron which was also found to be stolen from a nearby residence. As a result, Casey Sinopoli 18, of Lacey Twp. was charged with three counts of theft . A juvenile was also taken into custody for this incident.
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On 11/23/2013 at 5:03AM, residents of Dolphin Circle called to report of two males entering vehicles and sheds. Det. Joseph Santoro arrived in the area a short time later and observed a male hiding behind a pool in one of the yards. The suspect fled on foot but was apprehended a short time later. The juvenile subject was taken into custody and juvenile charges are pending.
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- On 11/23/2013 at 10:40 PM Ptl. D.J. Williams and Ptl. Jason Malley responded to 445 Rt. 9, Berkeley Plaza, for a report of an erratic driver. A vehicle description was given by the caller. Upon their arrival the vehicle was located and a female driver was observed slumped over in the driver's seat. Further investigation found the female, identified as Jamie Pinder 23 of Toms River, to be under the influence of alcohol. Pinder was placed under arrest and transported to police H.Q. Pinder was uncooperative during the process and was eventually transferred to Community Medical Center. Sgt. Phil Smith also assisted.
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at 4:09PM Ptl. Michael Tier was on patrol near the area of CG Landscaping 318 Rt. 9. It was at this time that Ptl. Tier observed a male, later identified as Philip Castellano 32 of Bayville, taking firewood from the business. It was determined that Castellano did not pay for these items. Castellano was arrested and charged with theft. Castellano was released on a summons.
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N 11/25/2013 at 9:25PM, Ptl. Patrick Stesner and Ptl. John Houghkirk responded to the Rite Aid located at 416 RT 9 in reference to a shoplifting incident. Upon arrival Store management advised that a female later identified as Samantha Cannella 25 of Bayville, had stolen approximately $100.00 worth of merchandise. When confronted Cannella attempted to escape by pushing the loss prevention officer and store manager into a security device which caused $1,800 worth of damage. Canella was arrested and charged with robbery and criminal mischief. Bail was set at $5,000 with the10% option. Cannella was transported to the Ocean County Jail.
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- On 11/26/2013 at approximately 1913 hrs, Sgt. Brian Woermer, Ptl. Patrick Stesner and Ptl John Houghkirk responded to Rt.9 and Frederick Drive for a motor vehicle crash involving a pedestrian struck. The pedestrian a 42 year old female from Bayville was transported to Jersey Shore medical Center for a head injury. The driver, Carol Sedilo of Bayville was not cited at this time. Heavy traffic, low visibility poor lighting as well as poor weather were all contributing factors to this crash. Ocean County Sheriff's Department CIU, the Ocean Gate Police Department, Bayville Fire Department, Bayville First-Aid and MONOC paramedics also assisted.
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Another OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 Beta Is Out
Just several days after releasing the previous version, Apple has seeded a new beta of OS X Mavericks 10.9.5 to developers for testing. The update contains a number of minor improvements and bug fixes aimed at making the operating system more stable. This beta contains no new features, this was confirmed by a number of developers from all over the world.
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According to the latest rumors, Apple's iPhone 6 will get a 2.0GHz A8 processor, a separate NFC chip, an improved Touch ID fingerprint sensor, 802.11ac Wi-Fi radio and one special chip. This chip will reportedly be used for the recognition and authentication of Beats headsets. Well, at least this is what VentureBeat reporters claim.
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As you probably know, Apple's iPhone 6 will feature a new A8 processor manufactured by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. According to what the Wall Street Journal reporters write, Apple's collaboration with TSMC is hurting Apple's main market rival Samsung, which used to produce processors for the previous generations of the iPhone and iPad.
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Following the rumors that suggested that Apple will unveil its next-generation iPhone on October 14th, a new report from Re/code appeared online on Tuesday that denies such suggestions and says that the new handset will be released on September 9th. For several years in a row, September has been the month of the iPhone release and looks like the guys from Cupertino decided not to change the tradition. Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal confirmed the date of the iPhone 6 launch.
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Did Brian Archie Jr. send out distress signals before taking his own life? Studies related to suicide victims suggest he probably did. Dr. Steven L. Dubovsky, professor and chair of UB's School of Psychiatry, said it's common for people contemplating suicide to drop hints, although sometimes in such subtle fashion their intent becomes difficult to discern.
"The majority of people who commit suicide communicate the intention to commit suicide in the 30 days prior to dying," Dr. Dubovsky said. "It might not be direct. They might not say, 'I'm going to kill myself.' But it is extremely common to leave clues and hope that someone will pick them up. The folklore that people who really do commit suicide don't talk about it and people who talk about it don't really do it is completely untrue.
"You still might not have caught it. It might have been very subtle. In retrospect, you might notice, yeah, that was a clue, but you still might not have picked it up not knowing because a lot of people leave these clues that don't do anything. But the fact is that the majority of people that commit suicide will in some manner communicate that intention."
The suicide rate for college students is 7.5 per 100,000, which is less than the adult rate of 12-12.5 per 100,000 and greater than the adolescent rate of 2-3. But rates are on the rise, Dr. Dubovsky said, with depression likely being the primary cause. Archie was undergoing counseling for depression.
"The rate of suicide has been increasing in recent years and in part this may well be related to the rate of depression increasing," he said. "In fact, the incidents, the number of new cases of depression, has been increasing in every generation since World War II. And it continues to increase. This is probably not a function of better diagnosis, it's a true increase in the rate. And also depression is appearing for the first time at younger ages in each new generation."
If someone expresses suicidal thoughts, Dr. Dubovsky said it's best to contact a psychiatrist or other mental health care professional. If that's not possible it's safe to open a dialogue with the person about their situation.
"If there's nobody to advise you I would still sit down with that person and just say, 'I'm concerned about what you said. This worries me. What's going on?' Talking about suicide does not put the idea into people's heads. If the idea's in someone's head it's there. If it's not there, you're not going to make somebody suicidal by asking them about it.
"People are often relieved when you say, 'It sounds to me like you're thinking about killing yourself. What's going on here?
"If you're shy and you don't want to be direct just say, 'You seem to be feeling really bad. And if they say, 'Yeah, I am feeling bad, ask 'How bad do you feel?' And if they say, 'Sometimes I feel pretty bad, say 'Do you ever feel bad enough that you wish you weren't alive?' And if they say yes, say, 'Did you ever think about killing yourself?' If they say yes, that person needs help right then and there."
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Meenhard Herlyn, DSci, of Philadelphia's Wistar Institute, says that more patients might agree to take high-dose interferon therapy if it could be made less physically difficult.
"Anything you can do to reduce the side effects of interferon would be a big help," Herlyn says. "Many people have to stop the treatment because they can't handle it."
People with hepatitis C also are treated with interferon infusions combined with the drug Virazole.
Though it's likely that many of these patients become depressed from interferon, few studies have documented how widespread the problem may be. The CDC says nearly 4 million Americans are infected with hepatitis C, a liver disease transmitted from one person to another through exposure to blood or blood products.
Miller's next study will look at whether Paxil can reduce depression among hepatitis C patients. So far, it seems to be working, he says.
Hepatitis C expert Adrian M. Di Bisceglie, MD, tells WebMD he gives antidepressants to patients on interferon therapy at the first sign of a problem. If patients have a history of depression or have experienced depression once before while on interferon, he gives antidepressants before interferon therapy.
"We started doing this without [research to support it], though," says Di Bisceglie, a professor of internal medicine and chief of hepatology at St. Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri. "It's good to get some science injected into this." But he says the study does not mean that everyone who receives interferon needs to be pretreated with antidepressants.
While it looks as though Paxil has a similar potential to reduce depression in hepatitis C patients, the drug has sexual side effects that could become an issue for people living with a chronic disease like hepatitis than for those trying to get through cancer treatment.
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There are four players on the Vikings that deserve to be on a fantasy football team this year, and I'm stretching that definition by including the defense. And even then, that's a MAYBE. You have Adrian Peterson and his league leading yardage, Percy Harvin and his league leading receptions, Blair Walsh with his golden leg (probably good for a bye week start) and the Vikings defense, because what are you going to do, start the Raiders? OK.
If you're starting anyone beyond that, you've already lost your league. I learned that quick. I think I drafted Christian Ponder in one league and dropped him by week three because he was just eating up roster space. My crowning achievement was starting Kyle Rudolph one week over a gimpy Rob Gronkowski. Guess who had two touchdowns and who didn't?
Lesson? Drop your Vikings players, or at least trade the good ones to me. Let's do this recap.
Editor's Note or whatever – I'm super lazy this week and am not doing a full blown recap. Instead here's some notes to discuss in the comments below. But certainly, if I miss anything, let me know and we'll chat about it, or I'll at least call you names:
– Very Tight Butthole got back to his winning ways and became the team with the best record so far this season at 6-2. The worst ceremoniously belongs to Legit Roethlisberger at 2-6, which teaches us a valuable lesson … That God WANTED him to go 2-6, and if it wasn't suppose to happen, his team would have found a way to reject that record and be a winner.
– Speaking of Very Tight Buttholes, they also have the lead league in point total for the season at 565. Close behind (the Very Tight Butthole … That's a funny sentence there) is Feisty Fingers with her 5-3 record and 528 point total on the year. I told y'all … Watch out for the finger bangings. She's 'coming'!
– The division, "Harvin's Swisher Sweets" clearly sucks. Probably because the PJD team is in it. at a paltry 5-3, I hold the best record in the division. I also hold the highest point total on the year at 499, which means that no one in the Harvin division has topped 500 points total on the year. WEAK REPS, BRO. The "Ponder' Absent Shirts" division has three teams who've tallied over 500 points. They be good. Maybe.
– The two cellar dwellers in the divisions at the aforementioned Legit Roethlisberger and Victorious Secrets. But you look at the total points against them this year and they both equal 532. You would figure that by year's end, everyone's points against total would even out, but I'm still waiting for that to happen. Otherwise, it just says that these two guys have some real shitty luck.
– Right now, Percy Poppin' and Peyton's Robot Neck are the only two teams from the Harvin division that would make it into the playoffs. Percy Poppin' would be the #2 seed and Peyton's the #6 seed. Apparently playoffs are by overall record, and not division based. I mean, whatever I guess, but holy crap, some people better step their game up.
– Last week I predicted Cheeseheads to upset Feisty Fingers. I was wrong, dropping my prediction record on the year to 3-3-1. Woohoo, mediocrity! This week, I'm eye banging the Bring the Weeden vs. Cheeseheads match up. Currently, Cheese is #5 in playoff seeding while Weeden is #9. However, with a Weeden win, fortunes could easily flip. That's how precarious this situation is, just like the East coast! If I had to pick though, I'd still pick Cheese and his roster of Brees, Peterson, and Julio to gang bang Weeden's, so pencil in a Cheese victory prediction.
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Two teenage brothers helped catch a man running from police in Chickasha on Sunday. Holden and Dakota Doucet say they saw the chase. Their young cousin was playing in the back yard so they got worried. When the brothers saw the man trying to hop a fence they say they grabbed the suspect and held him down until police arrived. Police arrested James Stuckey on suspicion of obstructing an officer.


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Cristina A. Pope has been named director of the Heath Sciences Library at SUNY Upstate Medical University.
Pope joins SUNY Upstate from the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine (NEOUCOM), where she served since 1998 as assistant director for education and public services at the Oliver Ocasek Regional Medical Information Center, managing on-line library services serving more than 2 million people, including faculty, staff and students at 10 teaching hospitals. From 1992 to 1997 she managed various library centers and services at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She began her library career at Simmons College.
The only medical library in Central New York, the Health Sciences Library, offers more than 190,000 volumes and 1,450 journal titles as well as more than 350 on line texts and journals. The library is open to the public.
Pope is a member of numerous national organizations, including the American Library Association, Medical Library Association and EDUCAUSE, a national organization that examines ways to use information technology to improving the delivery of education. Pope also was a member of the board of trustees for NOLA, a membership driven regional library system serving the library needs in northeaster Ohio.
She has received funding for various research studies examining the impact of technology on the learning process. She authored a 2002 study assessing the benefits of using PDAs in medical school.
Pope earned a bachelor's degree from Colgate University, and a master's degree from Simmons College and will complete her MBA at the University of Akron this year.
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: a person who likes going to parties and other social occasions and who enjoys good food, wine, etc.
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Jimmy D. Shoels, 45, of Amarillo died Thursday, July 1, 2004.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Greater Love Fellowship with the Rev. Jackie Riles officiating. Arrangements are by Warford-Walker Mortuary, 509 N. Hughes St.
Mr. Shoels was born in Amarillo and attended public schools in Amarillo.
Survivors include his wife, Linda; a daughter, Gracie Shoels of Amarillo; two stepdaughters, Constance and Shaquanna Denson, both of Amarillo; three sons, LaQuintin, Brian and Jimmy D. Shoels, all of Amarillo; a brother, Lacy Shoels of Dallas; a stepsister, Patricia Robinson of Pittsburgh; and two grandchildren.
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Hello, I'm newish here. I peek in every once in a while to pick up some wisdom and to shake my head "yes" at some issues like cheese addiction.
Today is a week since I cold turkeyed on dairy. This is the second time this year I am attempting this. The first time I had no support; and when I came down with a "flu" after 6 weeks and couldn't face the foods I'd been eating during the week leading up to it (up to the flu) I had to go back to my old comfort foods: dairy products.
Trying it again now. Now I know that it was probably part of the process -- the bone tiredness, the mental, physical, spiritual lethargy, the unending mucus...
Today I woke up in a sea of brain fog (mind, this is only a week in). I am hoping my previous attempt counts a bit and that this withdrawal will be a little easier.
I am pretty much Paleo. But I think of it as vegan-carnivore. Meaning, I seek out vegan foods -- vegetables, obviously, and protein bars, shakes and things made for vegans, so they're dairy-free. And then I eat meat. I realize I eat the meat my cats eat: chicken, turkey, seafood, beef in descending order.
Anyway, that's my tale so far. Oh, I have been off of grains for a couple of years now. But dairy took some working-up-to.
Nice to meet you. Hope I can add something worthwhile here!
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Nice to meet you Queen. In looking at your post, just be careful of the processed vegan food such as the bars/shakes/etc. You can be dairy free without including those items in your diet. Good luck on your journey.
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Unless you were hiding under a rock this past Thanksgiving (which for some, is an understandable move), you heard about the woman who used pepper spray in a Walmart in Los Angeles so she could ensure her take of good deals. Add that to the police officers who pepper sprayed student protesters at UC-Davis. The awareness of pepper spray is at an all-time high. In the spirit of "stretch PR" in which a communicator takes a newsworthy item and finds a dubious connection that the press might latch on to, (ie – pitching a story about your locksmith company in light of the NBA lockout), I hereby present 9 media relations tactics you might want to metaphorically pepper spray to oblivion:
1. Using the following words or phrases in your press release: "the leader in," "solutions provider," "the best" and "ground-breaking" (not true)
2. Leaving a reporter a voice mail message without stating the reason for the call (as good as nothing)
3. Worse than above, calling to make sure a press release was received (desperate)
4. Contacting a journalist for the first time – during a crisis or product launch (ineffective)
5. Sitting in on a CEO interview and clarifying statements or points to be, er, helpful (annoying)
6. Friending a reporter on Facebook and worse yet, liking and commenting on his/her postings multiple times a week (creepy)
7. Not having a drink with the journalist – having lots of drinks (inappropriate)
8. Having an online press room without a real person listed as a contact – ie "info@" emails (useless)
9. Pitching a story idea to a reporter and expecting coverage. (If only it were that easy)
What other media relations tactics would you pepper spray?


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American officials only need to look at the natural gas market to find a potential solution to the prolonged high fuel prices that are sapping families and the economy.
Area gasoline prices continue to hover at the $4 a gallon mark, a costly figure already surpassed by diesel fuel. While there are some indications that prices might level off or perhaps drop slightly in the next few weeks, no big declines are foreseen.
That means filling up your vehicle's tank will remain an expensive venture.
But some continue to oppose the easiest solution to high fuel prices: increasing supply through more exploration of domestic oil supplies.
Only a few years ago, Americans, including area residents, were reeling from high natural gas prices.
Four years ago, the gas cost recovery rate for Dominion Peoples - now Peoples Natural Gas - jumped 22 percent to $12.44 per 1,000 cubic feet. The rate represents what the utility paid to buy the natural gas supplied to customers and is about 75 percent of a residential customer's bill.
This month, the same 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas costs $4.13, about a third of the price four years ago.
And the price potentially could go lower in the coming months.
Last week, the futures' prices for natural gas fell below $2 per 1,000 cubic feet, the lowest rate in a decade.
A mild winter that decreased demand assisted in driving down prices, but the biggest factor is the increased supply thanks to drilling in the Marcellus and other shale deposits nationwide.
So much more gas is on the market that officials are worried that unless drilling slows down, the United States might run out of room to store the excess supply this fall.
That's great news to the tens of thousands of area residents and businesses who use natural gas to heat their homes and facilities.
Now imagine what could happen to gasoline prices if oil drilling had the same growth spurt as shale gas exploration. Americans finally might have a chance for real price decreases at the pump.
Such drops won't happen instantly, but as more and more domestic oil supplies come on the market, the principle of supply and demand shows prices will fall.
We might not see a two-thirds decline, as is the case with natural gas, but imagine how much better your family's budget would look with gasoline at $2.75 instead of $4 a gallon.
Some ridicule politicians advocating more oil exploration. But are you better off paying $4.13 or $12.44 for 1,000 cubic feet of natural gas?
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Flair Beauty College is offering haircuts for the boys and glamorous styling for the girls. Corsages or boutonnieres are provided, and Flair Cleaners has volunteered to alter the garments if necessary.
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