4.3 Grains of Trailboss. .430" 200 Grain RNFP bullet. Been using this load for years. Works well in a 3" Sheriff's Model, a 12" Buntline Special, and everything in between. .44 Special is a fun caliber to shoot. Too bad there are not more guns out there chambered for it.
All I'll say about it being in .380 is why the heck didn't they make it in .38 Short Colt or .38 S&W? The intended market is clearly Cowboy shooters, and we pretty much all reload.
Like Driftwood, I use a .428" bullet for .44-40. (It is worth noting that for this game, you have to use lead bullets.) I've never checked to see what the actual bore diameter is on any of my guns, but I have a feeling that their is probably some variation. 1st Gen Colt (Antique) Colt 1878 (Antique) S&W New Model 3 (Antique) S&W Model 3 DA (Antique) Merwin & Hulbert (Antique) 3rd Gen Colt Uberti Clone Colt Sheriff's model with dual .44 Special/.44-40 cylinders (x2) Colt 3rd Gen Buntine. .44 Special, recently acquired a .44-40 cylinder Uberti Henry Uberti '66 AWA Lightning. Other that the antiques getting black powder only, I run the same load and bullet in all of these guns. I know the Sheriff's and the Buntline have .429" bores since they were made for .44 Special. Accuracy, even from the snub nosed Sheriff's, is fine with the .428" bullet. (.44 Special get's a .430) I remain convinced that fretting over what the actual bore size is in your .44-40 guns and then going and using different bullets for the different guns is not necessary. Besides, even if the bore is "oversized" the chamber might be too tight for the bigger bullets anyway, rendering it all a moot point. I've never really checked to see how hard or soft the lead is in my bullets. I just buy what I can find for a 200 grain Round Nose Flat Point of .428" caliber. The box always says "Hard cast." whatever that means, but I assume they are not really soft pure lead. Take it with a grain of salt.
I just read that the last of the Doolittle Raiders has passed away. And so this band of brave men has passed into History. Let us never forget who they were or what those 60 seconds over Tokyo meant for America.
Based on my own experience, I can tell you that my 2 AWAs run great. So does my Colt. Real Colts are usually prohibitively expensive, but mine was "restored" which made it very pretty, and ruined it's "collector" value to the point where I can afford it. I have handled a Taurus, and thought the action was like scraping 2 sheets of sandpaper together. Others here will tell you that they are very useful tomato stakes. I've never actually fired one, but that is the general consensus. I handled a Beretta once. Found it clunky. The prevailing opinion is that the Pedersoli is excellent. The USFA's which are as rare as hens teeth, also have a good rep here on the Wire.
Warning! The Lightning is a very addictive and super fun gun to shoot. There are several remakes out there, and opinions vary on them from being tomato stakes to excellent rifles, depending on who made it. I myself have three of them. Two AWA reproductions, one in .45 Colt and another in .44-40. I also have a real Colt in .32-20. Now, I love lever guns. Have since I was a kid. I've got a 73, 4 '92's a '66 and a Henry and a Spencer. I've also got a 2 94's a '95 and an '86. All guns I wanted since I was a wee little lad. And yet, somehow, the Lighting has become my favorite gun for SASS. I even shot EoT clean with the .45 3 years ago. So, beware of the Lightning bug. Once it bites you, you are hooked forever.
I load Trailboss for just about everything, including .44-40. I just like it. I do not find it to be a "clean burning" powder, but I also find that it cleans up pretty easily when you are done shooting. I have also found that it does not cause my guns to bind up or slow down or malfunction if I do a lot of shooting with no cleaning. With one minor exception that I suspect is more a function of the gun in question than the powder used. One time, when I was shooting my Colt Lightning clone in .45 Colt, I had a handful of failures to fire. Took the gun home and flushed out the firing pin channel with gun scrubber, and the problem went away and has never reoccurred. As I mentioned, this particular gun was in .45 Colt, which tends to have a lot of blowback that .44-40 does not. Also, Lightnings in general have a reputation for needing to be kept clean. But for the typical revolvers and lever guns used in our game, especially in .44-40, even with Trailboss finding a "clean" load is not something you need to worry about. Heck I use Trailboss for .45 ACP in my 1911's and Tommy guns with no problem.
Named after a cartoon character that was created to be my avatar in a couple of online animation forums I frequented back when I first came online in the mid 90's Said character: And that's all I'll say, for now. Maybe someday more details will be forthcoming. Actually, I will say that the Uriah part was indirectly named after Uriah the Hittite, but it's far to complicated to explain how.


When should you test your website? A stock answer might be, "During the Quality Assurance phase of a redesign." And that is a good time to test things. But there's a deeper answer to the question of website testing.
In a perfect world, we would do fully test-driven development. This would allow us to test various aspects of the site during every phase of web development. It takes a bit more time, but ultimately creates a solid product built to last.
In the chart above, we've diagrammed how website testing could be applied to each phase of a website redesign. Such testing is designed to ensure the best possible end product.
At the project start, there is a step before any new work begins. This is to set up analytics, heatmaps, and other tracking. It's an important step. If you don't really know what people are doing on the current site, it will be tough to improve on it with a redesign.
This type of data is helpful for finding where on a page users fall out of the funnel.
Piwik, Mixpanel, or Heap Analytics offer more granular tracking than basic analytics. They can help explore usage patterns and user info. When there's a specific question to answer, these tools can help get you to the answer faster with funnels, cohort analysis, segmentation, and more.
Tree testing does not actually use the website itself. During these tests, users are presented with text lists and given a task to complete. One example task would be finding an ecommerce product. Then the Information Architect observes the steps taken to navigate down to that specific item. IAs use tree testing to confirm that the structure of the information makes sense. Then they will iterate on that to make the structure as efficient as possible.
This test examines what a user clicks on first in order to complete their task. It can be performed on a functioning website, a prototype or a wireframe. They are good tests to run on existing sites during the IA phase. They help provide important user needs and preferences to the Information Architect.
According to MeasuringU, a user who clicks down the right path on their first click will complete their task successfully 87% of the time. That makes first click tests useful on wireframes to evaluate (and hopefully confirm) that the layout of information supports and communicates the proposed navigation structure.
A/B tests splits traffic to a page in two buckets, and serve a different option to each bucket of users. A/B tests can be used to measure interaction based on different calls to action or page layouts.
Employing the right tests at the right time help minimize waste and ensure you move forward with the best possible version of your site or app.
One other way an IA or UX expert may test a proposed feature is with paper prototyping. This involves making a paper version of a wireframe. Pages and pieces can be moved around based on "user clicks on the screen" (finger presses on the paper). This is a quick way to gauge user reactions to a variety of ideas. And since it uses paper, no developer time for coding is invested on ideas that don't thrill end users.
One other test-related activity that may take place during IA is requirements gathering for transactional tests. Doing this early on allows the team to create designs that accommodate all the required features and processes. The tech team can also start planning tests their code must pass in order for the site to do its job.
As wireframes get approved, the visual design phase can begin. During this phase, high fidelity testing may take place. This differs from the paper prototyping in the IA phase. These prototypes will include design elements and will likely be on a screen and clickable. They will not be coded but may use a program like Adobe Experience Design that simulates coded interactions on design comps.
Such tests can measure user reactions to different images and layouts. For example, if there is a large image area on a homepage or landing page, the design phase is a good place to test the gaze of people in those images. In 100 More Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, Weinschenk share a flowchart to decide which gaze is best, but this could always be tested for your site's unique audience.
The design phase is also the time to do desirability testing if time and budget allows. Experience questionnaires and quick memory tests are good ways to gauge emotional responses and attitudes toward site designs.
Once developers are ready to have implemented approved designs into code and added interactive features, the temptation is to start writing that code right away, and worry about testing it afterwards. This is not the best approach however. A better idea is to write the tests first. In fact, this is where the concept of "test driven development" actually originated–an idea that grew out of the test-first philosophy of extreme programming (XP) before being formalized as TDD by Kent Beck, one of the original co-authors of the Agile Manifesto.
In this conception, developers begin by creating unit tests that correspond to the requirements captured (ideally in an iterative manner) in specification work with clients & users. These tests will of course initially fail (after all, the code to make them succeed hasn't been written yet!), but the important thing is that when they do succeed, developers know that their units of code do in fact fulfill the requirements they have been given. In short, this methodology, properly executed, can prevent code that does not meet requirements from getting into the production.
TDD is all about having a high degree of confidence that your code really does do what it was meant to do.
It's crucial that the Unit Tests built during TDD test the smallest modules ("units") of a code base that can be independently exercised. Once written, such unit tests should be runnable over and over, using an automated process. That way they can be put to use during QA and after launch for regression testing, to keep the code base in a known-good state even as changes are made to it.
QA should also ensure developers are using forward-compatible methodologies. This practice leads to code that will work as designed in browsers adhering to modern web standards, now and in the future.
A note about forward compatibility: it does not cover minute default browser rendering variances. Nor does this guarantee code will work in all future versions Manufacturers may introduce breaking changes from time to time. Our friends at ZingChart recently blogged about the trend of website errors after browser updates. At PINT, we monitor these industry trends and try to alert clients when their codebases should be upgraded.
Transactional monitors help alert us when some necessary part of a process gets changed or fails and unexpectedly breaks a process on the site.
It is best to set up transactional monitors after everything has been tested. That way they are monitoring a known-good process. Alerts can make you immediately aware of when something starts erroring, so you will know it before your customers do.
Good RUM tools and services can also conduct this monitoring from a number of different geographical locations, and under a number of different bandwidth and device conditions, thereby covering your entire target audience in all its diversity.
This is the same type of website testing that may have occurred during the IA phase. However at this stage, the point of the test isn't to test different new ideas against each other. Post-launch, you're more likely to test the new site against new ideas that emerge after reviewing user activity patterns. What changes will help move users further down the funnel?
This an important step. If the web team updates processes on site but doesn't update the monitoring tools and tests, they will all break.
But testing is also helpful if you're trying to encourage evolution. It doesn't matter whether your team is resistant to change or on a tight budget. Suggestions for changes backed up by user data or performance metrics are much harder to turn down.
Looking for help gathering data or setting up tests? We help people do just that every day. Let's talk.


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Barkowo  () is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Gryfice, within Gryfice County, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, in north-western Poland. It lies approximately  south of Gryfice and  north-east of the regional capital Szczecin.

History
Following the decisions at Potsdam Conference, the village's German population was forced out of their homes in March 1946.

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Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 | 3.1 miles from Gurkhas Diner
Built by Sir Christopher Wren 1682-1692, the Grade I-listed Royal Hospital Chelsea was intended by King Charles II to be a home for soldiers who... More
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A continuous series of exhibitions and events of architecture and design are held in this fantastic 1930s Grade II listed building. There is an architectural... More
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11 St Andrews Place, Regent's Park, Regent's Park, London NW1 | 5.8 miles from Gurkhas Diner
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The first newly built public art gallery in London since the Hayward Gallery opened in 1968, Rivington Place is a beautiful glass fronted building designed... More
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The Royal Artillery Barrracks are not open to the public. But you can learn about the history of the Gunners at Firepower, The Royal Artillery... More
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2018 marks the centenary of the Royal Air Force and, coinciding with the celebrations, RAF Museum underwent a multi-million pound redevelopment. Here you can test... More
Red House (William Morris Museum)
Red House Lane, Bexleyheath, DA6 | 12.4 miles from Gurkhas Diner
The William Morris-designed Red House in Bexleyheath was once described as "the beautifullest place on earth" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, whose paintings are on show... More
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Rockarchive Gallery Chelsea
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108 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW7 | 3.6 miles from Gurkhas Diner
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Welcome to The Diamond Dish. We are officially launching our blog by thanking in advance anyone who is reading and checking this blog now and in the future.
Softball is a fun sport that people play at the recreational, amateur and professional levels across the world. The "DD" will focus mostly on recreational gay slow pitch softball. More precisely we are focusing on covering NAGAAA member city leagues, their tournaments, the NAGAAA Cup and of course the always looming Gay Softball World Series.
With that being said, we here at the DD want to make it perfectly clear that we are an independent blog spot and that we are in no way affiliated or influenced by the NAGAAA. From time to time we may have guest blog reports and those views may not reflect the views or values of the DD.
By launching the DD we hope to illuminate the public on the world of gay softball so that league members in any city can check out the goings on in the tournament scene, league play and of course at the GSWS.
The biggest question we've asked ourselves here at the DD before launching is if what we're planning on doing is important? The obvious answer to that question has been and always will be that the gay softball community will decide that…..not the DD.
With that being said the majority of the leagues around the country have already begun their regular seasons to decide World Series berths with a few starting over the next few weeks as well. We look forward to working with the leagues around the United States and Canada along with various league members to bring you as much accurate and up to date information as we can.


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The discography of Finnish symphonic metal singer Tarja Turunen, consists of eight studio albums, one compilation album, four extended plays, fifty six singles and thirty nine music videos.

Turunen is best known as the former lead vocalist of the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, which she founded with Tuomas Holopainen and Erno Vuorinen in 1996, being dismissed from the band on October 21, 2005. As part of Nightwish Turunen released five albums between 1997 and 2005, as well as three live albums, one extended play, two demo albums, six compilation albums, one box-set and fifteen singles (for further information see Tarja Turunen and Nightwish discography). Turunen started her solo career in 2006 when she released a Christmas album called Henkäys ikuisuudesta and toured Finland and Russia.

In 2007, Turunen released her second solo album, My Winter Storm, and in 2010, she released her third album, What Lies Beneath, Tarja had a cameo role in the Finnish film Yhtä Kyytiä (2011) before starting the What Lies Beneath World Tour, which lasted until April 8, 2012.  A live DVD, recorded in Rosario during the What Lies Beneath World Tour, was released on August 24, 2012. Turunen released her third rock album, Colours in the Dark, on August 30, 2013. Turunen released her first classical solo album Ave Maria – En Plein Air on September 11, 2015.

Studio albums

Rock/Heavy Metal albums

Classical albums

Christmas albums

Live albums

Video albums

Compilation albums

EPs

Singles

As lead artist

With Nightwish

Promotional singles with Nightwish

As a featured artist

Music videos

As lead artist

With Nightwish

Other

Collaborations

See also
 Nightwish discography

References

External links

 Tarja's Official Website

Discographies of Finnish artists
Heavy metal discographies