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AMD 790GX - The Introductionby Gary Key on 8/6/2008 12:00 PM EST
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Selbatrim - Wednesday, October 08, 2008 - linkGuys.
Why is it that no review sites are doing a proper review of the 790GX motherboards? Maybe in particular finding out about hybrid crossfire, the DFI LanParty JR 790GX-M2RS which has crossfire on an mATX board.
I see people wanting reviews of this and the 4550 and 4350s. Why not include some crossfire on the 4550 and 4350? Think differently and let us have an interesting review that doesn't just include the same old stuff. Is 3 way crossfire with the onboard 3300 and 2 discrete cards even possible? Could be GREAT for a small low PSU box...
But at LEAST follow up your preview with a full review! Some of us stupid AMD fanbois have had precious little good news in the CPU and chipset department and the 750 southbridge might just have something interesting to offer! I want testing!!! GIVE ME REVIEWS!!!
*end rant* Reply
MikeODanyurs - Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - linkNo kidding, it's almost 2 months now since the preliminary review and still waiting... Reply
computerfarmer - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - linkGary Wrote, September 10, 2008
An update, DFI decided to proceed forward with their uATX 790GX board. My retail kit arrived today and I will be testing it shortly. Also, based on your comments and others I will show a 4870x2 vs 4870 CF on this platform and compare it to 790FX. The roundup should be up late next week, G45 is up on Monday with 790GX/780G/GF8300/NF750a comparison results.
This review is late. Reply
computerfarmer - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 - linkPerhaps we are waiting for Intel to see AMD.
I(we) have been waiting since August 6th for this review. Reply
MikeODanyurs - Thursday, September 18, 2008 - linkI take it the finished article should be out tomorrow? Reply
computerfarmer - Wednesday, September 03, 2008 - linkI have written to Gary about the upcoming article. Gary has said it is coming, perhaps by the 15th of September. From the email I received, it sounds like it is worth waiting for. This will include several motherboards with the same ChipSets, other comparisons may be there as well. This will include RAID5
Updated BIOS and Drivers will be part of this article.
Now we have time line.
Thank you Gary Reply
computerfarmer - Wednesday, September 03, 2008 - linkIt has been since August 6 since AnandTech first published an article on 790GX/SB750 from AMD. Certain remarks have been made about the products and the proof has been promised, but not delivered.
This is the second time in a row this has been done to an AMD motherboard chipset.
Trust is built on promises delivered. AnandTech is not delivering and is not saying why.
It is now September 3rd
Yangorang - Saturday, August 30, 2008 - linkHey I have a friend that wants to build a super HTPC with the 790GX and RAID5 5 X 750GB hard drives. Troubles with 4+ drives in RAID5 were mentioned in the article. Were they serious issues at all? Please elaborate. Reply
MikeODanyurs - Saturday, August 23, 2008 - linkFinal review please???? Reply
mpjesse - Thursday, August 28, 2008 - linkGoing on 3 weeks now... nice. Reply
mpjesse - Friday, August 22, 2008 - linkDid the writer get sick? Did he DIE? 2+ weeks to benchmark an integrated chipset? Practically the entire galaxy has already reviewed this chipset. I'm starting to get tired of both the physical speed (or lack thereof) of this website and the quickness (again, lack thereof) in which crap is published.
-Fed Up Reply
bravomail - Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - linkHere is the article with the pictures (in russian unfortunately)
The guy ripped apart AMD BE CPU only to find out some bubbled thermopaste between chip and attached lid.
Use Google translate to read this story. Reply
computerfarmer - Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - linkIt is now the 19th of August, perhaps the review is coming soon?
Beta BIOS was on the 13th of August.
OCedHrt - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - linkWith all this advancement in IGP, why does Hybrid Crossfire only work with low end cards? I would love to be able to use it with a 4850 or 4870 where the IGP switches completely over to the discrete as needed. Reply
MikeODanyurs - Sunday, August 17, 2008 - linkThe new DFI 790GX card states it has Hybrid CrossFire that will work with HD 3850 and I believe will even work with the IGP with 2 cards. Reply
someguy11 - Wednesday, August 13, 2008 - link"unless AMD can implement something akin to HybridPower from NVIDIA, which allows the discrete card to power down and switch to the IG unit at idle for less demanding tasks like Office Applications or Bejeweled. Otherwise, the IG unit and all of its potential benefits are wasted with a discrete card setup"
Does anyone know if the implementation of something like HybridPower from AMD on the current day 790GX boards is possible?
In other words, if I buy a 790GX will a power saving feature where the discrete card can be powered down be simply a BIOS flash or will new boards have to be made (assuming AMD develops something along this route)?
I ask b/c this "power down" feature really interests me and if this can be implemented via a BIOS upgrade, then I am more apt to get a 790GX today rather than a 790FX board who knows when. I also like the idea of having a board with onboard IG so you can play the graphics card price wars when you want to.
Thanks for the help! Reply
ZootyGray - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - linkThere are lots of unbiased websites offering useful reviews. I am sick of waiting for your uncompleted works and biased results.
Your review of 4870x2 is the end of the line - that is the worst trash I have seen.
Why would anyone want to wait for you to trash more AMD hardware.
Save your energy for yourself. I do not need your self-importance.
Maybe when you can followup on last May's 780G review, as promised, I might be interested - until then - I apologize for thinking you were some kinda good review place. Yer out. Bias is not quality. It's abuse. Not your victim anymore.
computerfarmer - Saturday, August 09, 2008 - linkOn page 2 it is noted as saying the new 790GX graphic is set(default) at 700mhz compared to the 780G at 500mhz. The manual for the Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H (rev. 1.0) page 42 has the default set at 650mhz. This leads me to believe that side by site tests from different manufacturers should show differences based on default settings. Also SidePort memory ratings need some attention. If SidePort is DDR3 at 1333mhz and system memory is at 800/1066mhz then how do they function together at different speeds? Or is the SidePort memory speed based on system memory up to 1333mhz?
Thank you Anandtech for such an informative article.
maree - Friday, August 08, 2008 - linkQuoting from the article
"For the multimedia user, ... The SB750 does offer ACC and along with it the opportunity to run lower voltages ..."
Does it mean motherboards running on this chipset can take a phenom 9550/9850BE an turn off 2 cores then expect the power performance of amd 4850e? Reply
ZootyGray - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkI really don't want to go dig up exact quotes from previous reviews.
"The Three Amigos" review revealed "pop goes the mosfet" issues with products produced by various mobo manufacturers. I really liked that review - BUT - a followup was indicated as coming - and it never appeared.
This review ends in a similar manner.
And the Foxconn review seemed to really sidetrack and resulted in 3 articles; and for my little brain, I found it difficult to follow the coherence of the whole thing.
Now we have a whole new chipset and a bunch of mobos you say you are benching soon. Ok, so that makes sense - assuming this will actually happen soon. No problem there.
BUT - there's this really interesting comparison to 780G which you are presenting. I wonder what happened to the mosfet issue that you so beautifully revealed. I wonder - Is it in play here as well? I DOUBT that! This is a performance board - right?
BUT - are you trying to lead some people to buy the original 780G boards regardless of resolution (if any) of the "pop goes the mosfet" issues. And asus has produced new mobos that clain 125watt handling power - ie no "pop"???
I think all this uncertainty might be dangerous for some people with great expectations.
I think some unfinished business should be clarified.
I think some comment on 'mosfet' should be included in these upcoming benchies.
I think this might be misleading a lot people - and your unfinished work is a little underhanded slight on AMD products. I REALLY HOPE you clear this mess up; since it was your baby to start with - and that was good. And that caused me to respect Anandtech.
Please don't leave me just hanging on and waiting - I doubt I am the only one. I would prefer completion rather than assuming this is another antiAMD site, and have to go elsewhere. It's your credibility, for me, at least, at this point.
Golf taught me that follow through is a big part of the golf swing. I know you are busy. Some loose ends can bite you. How close IS this to the 780G boards anyway? Has the "pop" been fixed?
I hear Vanilla Fudge "Keep Me Hanging On" playing in the background - wow, it has been a while since I heard that.
Thank you. Reply
Janooo - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkGary,
you could be right when you say:
"Curiously enough, AMD cited "competitive concerns" as a reason why it would not disclose exactly what's going on with this new overclocking feature. We still cannot help but wonder if it is because AMD is going a little too far in the sacrifices, it is willing to make in the quest for higher clock speeds."
Though, another reason could be that AMD found something nice that would give Intel even higher edge if they knew what AMD did. Reply
ZootyGray - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - link"reason could be that AMD found something nice"
Agree. And this same statement was uttered when ACC appeared in the SB750 review.
I would like to know - WHAT is the sacrifice? The apparently unqualified statement seems to cast doubt and nasty slur, and really should be explained, methinks. Reply
ET - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkFirst of all, I'd like to say well done on letting us know of the issues and not rushing out a review like other sites. (Though I must say that having access to both fast and in depth reviews is the best of both worlds, so I'm also glad these other sites exist.)
One thing which wasn't clear to me was: "vertex and texture caches are fully associative instead of separate." "Fully associative" has a meaning when it comes to caches, yet I imagine that's not what it's about. Sounds from the sentence like the caches have been unified (as opposed to separate).
Since according to the text this is the only departure from the 2400's architecture, it'd be nice to clarify this point. Reply
steveyballmer - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkToo bad AMD has no clue in other areas!
http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com">http://fakesteveballmer.blogspot.com Reply
Frumious1 - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkToo bad you're a douche spammer with a completely lame blog, and an even worse name. Come on AT! Get on the stick and ban this prick. I'm all for arguing on the message areas, but spam stinks. Reply
steveyballme - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkSheesh! You really hate Microsoft don't you?
As far as I know, spam is that cheap canned meat you poor people eat! Reply
quanta - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - linkIt seems the 'new' Advanced Clock Calibration is based on something that already existed in SB700 but was undocumented.[1] Based on the speculation, ACC could be the clock skew feature used by some other motherboards.
That aside, RAID5 is a definite welcome addition, but unless it includes XOR offload, it really isn't much of an improvement. BTW, it is inexcusable for not having Ethernet support these days.
The claim of adding 2 specific 1.1 ports for compatibility reasons is confusing. USB 2.0 ports are 1.1 already compatible, just using slower speeds.
HyperFlash is a poorly implemented idea, especially when production Flash SSDs already exceed the maximum bandwidth of HyperFlash modules anyway. It is better off to just wait for Flash SSDs to mature.
[1] http://www.overclockers.com/tips01369/">http://www.overclockers.com/tips01369/ Reply
Goty - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - linkIt's possible, but I find it odd that a notoriously anti-AMD site (at least recently) like overclockers.com did absolutely no testing to confirm this hypothesis. Reply
chucky2 - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - link...to please give us 690G results along with it, for the benchmarks and power consumption. This way, we can see if 780G and/or 790GX, or one of the other competing solutions, is a worthwhile upgrade for us. One of the Gigabyte 690G boards would be perfect...
Chuck Reply
ZootyGray - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkAnd which manufacturer's 780G mobo would run with a Phenom 9950BE ? Is that possible?
I am wondering how far the 780G comparison can go; since several mobos were destroyed back in April or May anand testing. (search The Three Amigos or "pop goes the mosfet"). Did the various manufacturers make any changes to replace the cheap mosfets they were using? 780G is a great N/B chip but some older(?) boards need lower-power cpu's. Other newer boards? - not sure yet. Still awaiting the update on all that. Did I miss something? Reply
chucky2 - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkSo when the review comes out, use the maximum CPU that the 690G board supports, and carry that forward to the 780G and 790GX boards.
Also it'd be nice to see the CPU comparison on like minimum CPU needed to play 1080p content.
Also, best price/performance CPU out, cheapest dual core out, and older AM2 CPU's such as the 3600+ X2.
Show us what we can expect when it's not a Phenom running in there, i.e. give us information users - both existing and new - would find helpful in the review.
Chuck Reply
yyrkoon - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - linkLets just say that Stability is the main reason why I purchase what I purchase name brand wise. Motherboards, memory, and power supplies are my main concerns and probably will be for a long time to come.
Anyways, performance numbers etc are always good to know also, but I think it would be good if you guys at anandtech could put some 'stability figures' in your motherboard results as well. "This board performed well ..." would not work for those of us who want to know actual figures either. So maybe you guys can include a page, half a page or something dedicated strictly to stability ?
One of the main reasons why I am asking for this is as an example, I have an AM2 opteron system, as well as Core 2 Duo system, and while I love my AM2 system, and it *is* 'very stable', it still can not touch the rock solid stability of the Intel system. I do not pretend to know why, but I would love to figure out why . . . Both system have a board made by the same manufacturer, have used the same memory, video card(same company made both the GPU, and motherboard chipsets - nVidia)power supply, and hard drives. Hell, the Intel system has even been overclocked for 6-7 months now : /
Going from the above I am left at guessing that it is either 1) a hardware implementation, or 2) drivers. User error *is* a possibility, but I would like to think that since I have been fixing / integrating systems since the early 90's . . . well that I at least know half of what I am doing. That said, this 'issue' is still over my head. Reply
Calin - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkIt could be hardware implementation, it could be something that could be solved by a microcode/BIOS update, or maybe not. Also, there might be a difference between individual components (as similar as they are in theory), difference in general quality between the two mainboards, difference in component quality on boards (either by design or by chance/bad capacitors). It might be in the drivers, or just in things written in the processor errata which are not taken into account by the software. Reply
flipmode - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - linkWhat does underrated mean - that the Phenom hasn't been given the credit it is due? That's pretty much what it sounds like, and if that's the case then, isn't that ball in you guys' hands? Reply
flipmode - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - linkgah! the quote button didn't work. my above post was supposed to start with this quote:
"That brings us to what we see as the jewel of this product release, the SB750. It brings sorely needed overclocking headroom for the underrated Phenom processor" Reply
Calin - Thursday, August 07, 2008 - linkIn this case, I think underrated means "rated at an inferior clock speed" Reply
ZootyGray - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - linkit means it should be rated higher - but due to bias, market manipulation, and the gullibility of the general public - not to mention deliberate choice of test conditions designed to make look bad, unbeknownst to the gullible public, or deliberate intent to just emphasize all problems with little or no basis in fact - etc etc etc
- and then delays and other self-important indulgences.
Opposite to overrated. Result of market hype - a belief that the usual is superior when it has already gone flat.
You know there are test reports all over the internet. Reply
MikeODanyurs - Wednesday, August 06, 2008 - linkWhat's the word on the AMD OverDrive 2.1.2 release? Reply
Ephebus - Saturday, August 09, 2008 - linkThey can't even get a simple utility like AMD Power Monitor right, so I wouldn't expect much if I were you. AMD Power Monitor won't report the cores' clocks correctly anymore if the processor is overclocked - it shows the values as if it wasn't overclocked. The last version that worked OK with overclocked processors was version 1.0.2. There have been 3 releases since that version, and I've complained to AMD every time a new release would come out that the utility had stopped working correctly. Then finally some AMD guy said he tested it under Vista and it worked OK, but not under XP. Maybe they are not aware of all the people who won't touch Vista with a ten-foot pole? I was really disappointed by this kind of "support" and pretty much gave up on AMD. I've been buying inferior processors from them just to support the company (yes, I'm that idealist), but in my next upgrade I'll go Intel all the way. Reply
ZootyGray - Tuesday, August 12, 2008 - linkI don't believe anything you say. Your problem is not AMD's fault - is it?
And do you suppose we should assume that an antitrust busted monopolist will babysit and care for us all?
If so, you would probably put me in charge too - right? Careful. Reply
Ephebus - Thursday, August 14, 2008 - linkThe utility is made by AMD for AMD processors, so yes, it is AMD's fault, fanboy. Reply


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Grab a pen and paper before you tackle Justin Cronin's hefty second instalment in his post-apocalyptic vampire trilogy. You'll need them to keep straight who's who and who's doing what to who and why. The world gets a whole lot bigger in The Twelve.
Cronin's massive 2010 bestseller, The Passage, was divided into equally strong sections. First, the government injects 12 death-row inmates with a virus. The not-very-well-thought-out secret project is supposed to create a breed of super soldiers. Instead it creates 12 monsters that turn most of the rest of humanity into psychically connected killing machines known as virals.
Flash-forward almost 100 years and a small outpost of survivors must leave the safety of their colony to find and destroy the original 12. If they can do that, all the virals will die.
The Passage is a thought-provoking thrill ride. But the sequel strays too far from that tight storyline and introduces too many new characters and subplots.
Cronin takes the reader back to "Year Zero" -- the year the virus destroyed the world -- for the first third of The Twelve. We meet a whole new cast of characters, some who end up being pivotal to the plot 100 years down the road.
This section also gives Cronin a chance -- very poignantly in some cases -- to remind readers of what humanity is fighting to save. He does wander into Stephen King's The Stand territory here, giving detailed back-stories to minor characters.
This section is so glaringly like The Stand, just not as well done, that it is distracting. And some readers will be frustrated having to wait so long -- almost 200 pages -- to get back to our heroes in the post-apocalyptic future.
Once we get back to the future, most of the action jumps back and forth between Kerrville, a large city of survivors in Texas and a compound called "the Homeland" in Iowa.
Collaborators working with the virals run the Homeland. They keep a stock of 70,000 survivors in a concentration camp of forced labour. The survivors also provide a steady diet for the always-hungry virals.
Cronin's most chilling moments in the Homeland are the simple ones -- the metal plate with an etched number inserted into each survivor's inner arm, the people who suddenly disappear from the factory line and the very real terror you could be next.
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Even though The Twelve does not live up to the first book, the story is compelling enough to keep most readers hanging on for the final chapter in this trilogy.
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A Real Guy Tells: Why Your Date Didn't Work Out
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My, my, my how time flies! Here we are at the end of another year and another decade. Hopefully this year was better than the last. Or as my favorite toast goes, "May the best of your past be the worst of your future!" As you lovely and glorious ladies march onward into the two-thousand-teens, let's take some time to reflect upon what may not have gone so well in the past and what we can do to have you OWN these next few years!
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Now, having a wonderful mother that raised me right (black shoes go with a black belt) I was brought up learning that men make lots of mistakes in dating. The trick is to catch them before they come too ingrained. I still make 'em but I have managed to cull them to a controllable quantity.
To me, women are the greatest creation on the face of this planet. A smile from a beautiful girl can make all your worries just wash away. However, this is not to say that they are infallible. They are human also and are subject to the same forces, foibles and foolishness that men are. So ladies, in the spirit of the holidays and goodwill towards all, here are some reasons that your dates may not have worked out.
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With women working in many high powered, high demand jobs we don't look at you like shrinking violets anymore. But even though you know you could do a better job, leave it to us. I write for a fashion mag, but do you think I'm ever going to give my lady advice on what to wear?


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New C-PES Report Calls for Consolidating Tax-Based Student Aid, Using Metrics to Improve College Choices and Completion
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The Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success (C-PES) at CLASP released today a major report, Reforming Student Aid: How to Simplify Tax Aid and Use Performance Metrics to Improve College Choices and Completion. The report describes college affordability and completion challenges and provides detailed policy options for Congress and the Obama Administration on making federal aid more effective, more efficient, and simpler for students and parents to use.
Funded as part of the Gates Foundation's Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery project, our paper focuses on two areas that have received scant attention from federal policymakers: tax-based student aid and the use of performance metrics in aid policy. It's little known that tax-based student aid now accounts for nearly half of all federal student aid outside of loans and has more than quadrupled in recent years. Unfortunately, as currently designed, tax-based aid likely has little effect on college access or completion. Moreover, many low- and modest-income families cannot use tax-based student aid; for those who do, the tax aid doesn't reach them when they need it most -- when college bills are due -- but months later.
Our paper offers a range of policy options for consolidating the various tax-based aid provisions and better targeting this aid toward low- and modest-income families. We also propose piloting "real-time payment" of the American Opportunity Tax Credit to deliver this aid to students when they enroll, not just at tax time. Our ideas are backed by ten-year revenue estimates and distributional estimates from the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center. We've crafted our recommendations to be revenue neutral or modestly positive to respond to current budget realities, and we believe these proposals are timely, given the potential for tax reform in this Congress.
In addition, our paper describes the current landscape of rising college costs, financial pressures on students to work more, and the negative impact this has on completion. Beyond increasing aid to lower-income students through the tax system, we propose greater transparency in college outcomes and costs, including information on employment and earnings by program for each institution. Our idea for a new Compact for College Completion among the federal government, low-income students, and colleges would combine increased financial aid and supports for low-income students with incentives for both students and colleges to focus on progress toward completion.
Over the next few weeks, C-PES will release a series of blog posts highlighting aspects of the new report. The first in the series appears tomorrow.
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I can sense some early signs of the spring in the air here in Sydney, and the past couple of days have been so sunny and beautiful. As the rays of the afternoon sun were filtering through my Venetian blinds , and I was snapping photos of the flourless orange cake I had just baked, I couldn't have felt happier. Sometimes it's the small things that matter :-)
This is a super easy cake to make, and you can make it totally gluten free by using gluten free baking powder. It's my first flourless cake I've made, but I have my eyes fixed up on the recipe of Tetsuya's flourless chocolate cake, so I'll be making that one very soon, I'm sure.
In the mean while, here's the simple recipe for this moist and tasty flourless orange cake.
Flourless Orange Cake
(Recipe from taste.com.au)
2 oranges
3 eggs
215g caster sugar
300g almond meal
1 tsp baking powder
Wash the oranges, place them in a large saucepan and cover with water. Bring to boil and simmer for 15 minutes. Drain, then return to pan, cover with water and bring to boil. Let simmer another 15 minutes. Drain and coarse chop the orange discarding any seeds.
Place the oranges in the bowl of a food processor and process until smooth.
Whisk the eggs and the sugar until thick and pale. Add the orange, almond meal and baking powder and fold until just combined. Pour into a greased, 22cm round pan and bake in 170C for about 50 minutes or until skewer inserted comes out clean.


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Hi all,
I'm actually a virgin to both Linux and Python (and to programming in general - aside from some very very OLD Basic programming and some batch scripting I have no programming experience).
I want to be able to do the following:
- Connect an XBOX 360 controller to a Raspberry PI. AFAIK, there is a user-space Linux driver for the XBOX 360 Controller: xboxdrv.
- Get axis/button values at a predifined sampling rate (tens of Hz).
- Apply a specific smoothing function (ie: Kalman filter) to certain value groups.
- Encoding smoothed data as PPM and sending it to GPIO pins of Raspberry PI (I have no idea how the GPIO controller registers in Linux).
First question: How exactly do I ask the driver to output sensor data into some defined variables?
You do not need to be very specific (although it would be much appreciated) - just point me to whatever you know will help me learn the steps in order to be able to solve said problem. Thanks.


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Having been born and raised in Seattle,where 'rain' is a way of life, the word 'Bumbershoot'.....(meaning umbrella) has been part of my vocabulary for as long as I can remember.
Tonight, I saw ads for Seattle's three-day Arts and Music festival 'Bumbershoot 2012' , which began yesteday...and that brought the word into my consciousness again. Does anybody know the background of 'Bumbershoot'? It is a funny word...for both eyes and ears.
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Re: Bumbershoot
The dictionaries say bumbershoot combines alterations of umbrella plus parachute. I remember a Paul Bunyan story as a child entitled something like "The Year It Rained Up." Turned out a baby raincloud got caught in a cave and cried in fright, thus raining from underground. There were drawings of townspeople inverting bumbershoots and wearing them on their feet to stop it raining up their pantslegs. I had always thought that was the only source until I began seeing the word elsewhere. Could a couple of influential journalists or writers read the same children's book?
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I first heard the word bumbershoot from my wife's Australian aunt. Actually she called it a bumpershoot, an alternative pronunciation/spelling. She also called an umbrella a brolly. In England I have heard people say brolly and sometimes they say gamp. Don't them thair furrin folks talk funny?
Umbrella comes from the Latin umbra which also comes directly from Latin to English and means, in the most general non-technical sense, a shade.
I think the slang words for umbrella are just for funzies.
Umbrella comes from the Latin umbra which also comes directly from Latin to English and means, in the most general non-technical sense, a shade.
I think the slang words for umbrella are just for funzies.
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Oh, to have been a fly on the Colchester United home dressing room wall at 5pm last Saturday night.
For the second successive match, Joe Dunne was driven to conduct a candid, in-depth discussion with his players about where they are heading this season, following another disappointing defeat.
Their spiritless home loss against Oldham Athletic led to the U's boss asking them if they are a team reliant on the trio of loanees who have made such an impact since his appointment as manager – Jabo Ibehre, Craig Eastmond and Sanchez Watt.
Even the Colchester manager admitted that recent results suggest that they are, on the day he confirmed that Eastmond will follow his Arsenal team-mate Watt back to the Emirates from treatment on a foot injury.
Colchester must now prove that they can cope without the talented Gunners duo; they have little choice.
But they must do so quickly, for a run of six defeats in seven games has left them perched perilously close to the drop zone ahead of a busy Christmas period.
It now seems an age since a resurgent Colchester side registered five wins in six matches in the first few weeks of Dunne's reign and the contrast in form between then and now could not be more marked.
But there is rarely any middle ground in football.
Just as winning becomes a habit as it did for the U's in the month of October, so too does losing games.
Somehow, Colchester must lift themselves out of the rut in which they find themselves and sooner rather than later.
It will not be easy, though.
Their next game is at Bournemouth, who like their last opponents are a team in form in League One, having gone 12 matches without defeat.
Now more than ever though is the time for them to roll up their sleeves and rediscover the kind of spirit displayed by Dunne during his time as a U's player and turn their flagging fortunes around.


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Welcome to Monday's The Crap We Missed featuring an epic battle between everyone's two favorite public drunks, The Hoff and Dennis Rodman. They're both clearly shit-faced and handling women's clothing, although Rodman is actually wearing it and frightening the shit out of a woman who's probably gotten paid to do despicable things, so he wins. He wins. We've also got a Katy Perry wardrobe malfunction (Well almost, that's why she's in here.), Miley Cyrus topless (Again, tossed in here because no labia.), and Kate Walsh, because in every picture of her, there's always her boyfriend in the background saying "Oh jesus, I didn't think anything could be worse than working in sales but if I have to go down on that one more time…" with his eyes.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - For those who have been waiting for those holiday deals but haven't wanted to fight the crowds to get them, Monday is their day -- Cyber Monday.
Cyber Monday is the Monday following Black Friday, and retailers will be offering special deals online instead of in their stores.
Retailers said they're feeling pretty optimistic about Cyber Monday this year, and they have every reason to be optimistic. Black Thursday sales were strong and reveal consumers are searching for the best deal.
Instead of waiting in those lines in the cold, folks can now shop for the deals from the comfort of their own home.
About $1.25 billion -- that's about how much consumers spent on Cyber Monday last year, making it the biggest day for online shopping in history.
Some estimates put this year's sales over $2 billion. Channel 4 talked to shoppers who said waiting to shop on Cyber Monday is all about efficiency.
When shopper Anneesah Napier was asked why she likes shopping for deals online, she responded, "I guess because I can see it all in one place instead of getting to the store and having to visit so many different stores. So it just makes it more convenient."
Retailers are listening to customers. At Sears in Regency Square Mall, the store manager said it's making it easier to find many of the same deals online as shoppers find in stores. It's also offering extra incentives, like free shipping.
"It means a lot to us. We've been working with our customers all year with our rewards program," Sears Regency Square store owner Gary Griffin said. "Getting them online to shop. And we started early because they were able to buy our door-busters early this year by shopping online."
Sears is also offering a five-minute guarantee. If a shopper orders online, he or she can go pick up their item in the store and have it within five minutes.
Despite the perceived perks, some shoppers still prefer the brick and mortar stores.
"Online, sometimes you just don't know what you're getting," shopper Jessica Winebarger said. "You get it to the house and you're like, 'Oh, it doesn't have the same effect.'"
The hot items for Cyber Monday are electronics, jewelry, clothing, bedding and furniture.
While there are many winners on Cyber Monday, there are also losers. Many local shops and the state budget are just a few of the casualties of the busiest online shopping day of the year.
It's estimated that the state will miss out on more than $10 million sales tax by the end of the day. That figure will more than double by the end of the holiday shopping season.
The state budget relies on sales tax to pay for everything from schools to prisons.
Online stores with locations in Florida collect the 6-cent tax, but retailers outside the state normally don't. When the tax isn't collected, the onus falls on the shopper to download a form from the Florida Department of Revenue and mail it in with the taxes they owe.
"Last year about 7,000 people downloaded the form, filled it out and sent a check," said Rick McAllister, of the Florida Retail Federation. "That's miniscule compared to the number of people who bought things where taxes were not collected."
The Florida Retail Federation says stores that don't collect the tax have an unfair advantage over those that do. They're asking lawmakers to streamline the state tax code to make it easier for online shops to know what to charge.
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We have an issue with our SSL not validating.It says there are insecure elements on the page, which is not the case since a refresh then shows it validates.When browsing on http:// and going to or redirecting to https:// causes this problem.When browsing on https:// already and going to another https:// page doesn't cause this problem.
Any ideas why?We are stumped.
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Can you elaborate on that part? Are you using htaccess to handle the redirection? If so, can you provide the Rule you are using? Are you using something else?
I'm currently using PHP header location but I've tried .htaccess mod_rewrite as well.Is there a specific header needed? 301 maybe?
Do you have links to any assets on the page (such as images) that start with http://? That's often the cause of problems.
Nope, no insecure elements/resources with http:// . All resources are https://The SSL shows insecure and refreshing the page makes it validate and work as expected.
I can show you the page but I'm not sure if I'm supposed to paste links here
If it's your Sig cart, my wild guess is the search form action attribute.
If the site isn't "family friendly" you could PM to either of us. (though I'm going offline to get some sleep now)
I agree with Mittineague, and I also feel this is a case where providing the link will help you get a better response (otherwise, we can guess till were blue in the face).
If it is family appropriate, feel free to provide it (if you don't mind everyone will see it), otherwise, feel free to PM a few of us it and we'll take a closer look.
Thank you for your responses, guys.
It is the link in my signature: http://tribulant.com
From the home page, add something to the cart by clicking "Buy It Now" button on any of the products in the slider.You'll see it adds, redirects to the cart which is on https:// (SSL) but it doesn't validate. Refresh the page and then it validates.
With something in your cart, go to the home page again which is http:// (non-SSL).Then click the "My Shopping Cart" link in the header to go to https:// (SSL) cart page, it doesn't validate.Then clicking that link again or refreshing, it works.
We've used SSL on many sites and never seen this problem.It also used to work fine. I'm just stumped, that's why I'm posting here because there are very savvy and clever guys here which could spot something which we cannot.
Basically from the message above... going from https:// to https:// works fine.But going from http:// to https:// doesn't... it doesn't validate and only validates with a refresh.
Yes, it was the search form action attribute.I changed it to https:// and it seems to have fixed the problem.
Never seen this before.I assume it's not the actual attribute but rather something that the Google CSE script running on that form does with it as the document has finished loading?
Either way, thanks for your help, I think it is sorted now
Maybe I spoke too soon, the problem is not resolved. I may have had cache
Not sure if this makes a difference but your fonts.css uses http://themes.googleusercontent.com for the Open Sans url. In fact that seems to be what it is complaining about. Here is what I have in Chrome Developer Tools:
Yes, you are right, thank you for that. That solved the problem.What a hassle... I never bothered to look into the CSS files to see the sources they are loading.Thanks again man!


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As Lt. Gen. Darrell Jones, the Air Force's deputy chief of staff for manpower, personnel and services, tries to steer the service through a force reduction in 2014, he's keeping one eye on the sequester.
Jones said in a Sept. 4 interview at his Pentagon office that he doubts the cash-strapped Air Force will have to roll out any additional programs to reduce the service's ranks next year, beyond what has already been announced, unless the fiscal 2015 budget appears especially dire. That could prompt the Air Force to add new voluntary or involuntary force management programs.
"The real question is, how long will sequestration last?" Jones said. "And what will be the budgetary pressures ... on the Air Force?"
The Air Force has already unveiled a slate of voluntary and involuntary force management programs for fiscal 2014, including 15-year retirements, service commitment waivers, an expanded Palace Chase program that allows active-duty airmen to serve out the rest of their time in the Air National Guard or Air Force Reserve, and selective early retirement boards for colonels and lieutenant colonels.
But Jones said those targeted cuts will likely be enough to get the Air Force to its expected 2014 active-duty end strength of 327,600 — a reduction of about 1,860 airmen from the expected 2013 end strength of 329,460.
"Unless we decide 2015 is going to be a totally different picture than we foresee right now, we don't foresee having to modify that," Jones said.
"But we could. If we were to realize significant reductions in 2015, there would be an opportunity that we might have to go back and readdress 2014 programs in the end of the year," he said. "But short of having that new [end strength] number, we're not going to make any changes."
Jones said the Air Force also could reconsider its force management programs if too few airmen volunteer to leave under the already-announced plans. But he said he thinks the Air Force has accurately predicted the number of people who will take advantage of these plans.
Jones said he is conscious of pitfalls that cutting airmen arbitrarily could create. One of his biggest concerns is avoiding a so-called "bathtub" effect, which would come from significantly cutting accessions. That would be an easy way to lower the number of airmen, he said, but it would create a dearth of airmen of a certain age that would be felt for 20 years.
The Air Force has fallen into that trap before, Jones said, most recently in 2005, when it cut enlisted accessions by 38 percent. But now, Jones said, he wants 2014's accessions to be at least 97 percent of what is planned.
"The bathtub, you just can't recuperate from," Jones said. "We felt [the 2005 cuts] for years, so we don't want to do that. But if we can maintain accessions at 97 percent, I'm confident we can sustain the force without the bathtub."
Uniform tweaks
Jones said no significant changes to the Air Force's uniforms are on the horizon, beyond minor tweaks to things like zippers and where patches are located.
He credited the Air Force with significantly improving uniforms in recent years, such as the Improved Physical Training Uniform Running Suit. The new PT clothes, he said, are more compatible with the outdoor activities airmen engage in, and no changes to them are in the works.
"The [PT uniforms] we have are working well, and continue to do that," Jones said. "We really don't get much blowback."
Jones said he thinks that a switch to a more comfortable fabric — as well as cultural changes stemming from more than a decade of deployments — is resulting in a greater use and acceptance of Air Force PT uniforms.
"When I would visit bases 20 years ago, you never saw airmen out in Air Force PT gear, exercising together and working out together," Jones said. "You see that now. You see it at the base fitness center, you see it [at] unit exercises. Part of that is a result of people deploying and coming back from deployment, where you wear your PT clothes all the time, and that's your alternate uniform. That's really becoming part of the culture, and I think that's a great thing we can all be proud of."
Jones said he is open to the Air Force adopting the same utility uniform as its sister military services — a change that would likely save the government money on mass production costs.
But he would not say whether he supports such a change yet because the Pentagon is still studying the issue. A provision in the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act — which has so far passed the House and is awaiting passage in the Senate — would require the services to transition to a single camouflage utility uniform by 2018.
"I think it's something we have to look at, going to one uniform," Jones said. "I'm looking forward to seeing what the report says. I'm not saying no. We want to have the best uniform that best protects our airmen, our soldiers, our sailors, our Marines, when they're downrange, outside the wire, inside the wire.
"It's got to be comfortable, it's got to be functional, and it's got to provide the right degree of protection when they do their mission."
Squeeze on amenities
But if the sequester continues, Jones said, it is likely to put the squeeze on the amenities enjoyed by airmen and their families. Some base amenities rely on funds appropriated by Congress — in addition to fees paid by the airmen and families who use them — and Jones said budget cuts could prompt the Air Force to cut down on those features.
"What I foresee in the future is, money is tight," Jones said. "When money is tight, the ability to use appropriated funds to support certain programs on base is going to be very limited. So that's going to add pressure on bases."
Air Force bases are going to have to start asking if certain amenities are sustainable — and whether they're worth saving — in these cash-strapped times, he said.
"I think what we have to evaluate there is, is the function used by our airmen?" Jones said. "If the answer is yes, does it support resilience and reconstitution when the airmen come back from overseas? Is it something that helps the airmen get ready to go back to work?
"If the answer is yes, and we can afford to run it, we have to keep it. But if it's hardly ever used, and it's a big drain on our funds, then I think we have to look very carefully at whether we can keep it."
Programs that contribute to resiliency do everything from helping airmen and families exercise to letting them decompress and "blow off steam," Jones said.
Outdoor recreation is one of the most important activities for young airmen, he said. Coffee shops and other common places to build community are also important, Jones said.
"These programs form, to me, the culture of what being an airman is like," he said. "What it's like to work at a base, what it's like to be part of a community. These are all contributors to the community.
"The longer we are in sequestration, the more pressure there is going to be on appropriated fund support for family programs, and we're going to have to make decisions on whether we can continue to do these programs."
Jones also said he hopes all bases will have loaded information on their amenities into the Air Force's MyAirForceLife app by the end of 2014.
"The days of [paper] fliers being the way we market to airmen are gone," he said. "It's now apps on the phone that tell them what they can do."


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SCOUSE comedian John Bishop is preparing to appear in East Lancashire this week.
The 47-year-old comic and actor is performing his 'supersonic tour', Work In Progress, from 8pm on Thursday and Friday at King George's Hall, Blackburn. He will use the shows to try out new material before his autumn UK Arena shows.
Bishop, who has appeared on shows such as 8 Out Of 10 Cats and Live at the Apollo, raised more than £3m for Sport Relief in 2012.
He played non-league football and worked as a pharmaceutical salesman before trying his hand at stand-up comedy.
He has also acted in E4's teen drama Skins and in the Ken Loach film 'Route Irish'.
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Through the hustle and bustle of the holiday season – making sure the decorations are all hung, planning for holiday travel, juggling parties and engagements, and sending out your Christmas cards – it's easy to let some of your holiday shopping fall by the wayside.
Through the hustle and bustle of the holiday season – making sure the decorations are all hung, planning for holiday travel, juggling parties and engagements, and sending out your Christmas cards – it's easy to let some of your holiday shopping fall by the wayside.
But if you're still needing to score gifts for your brother-in-law, cousin or college friends -- and don't want to be too cliche with a gift card -- there are some great last-minute ideas that are sure to bring joy to your loved ones without breaking the bank.
For the Incessant Texter
Know someone who is always glued to her phone, constantly texting and checking emails? Cold weather isn't going to stop this gal from getting her social media fix, so give her these sleek Pilayo Gloves from Athleta. They let her look cute while not missing any messages. (Hint: If you have a teenage girl on your list, these just may be the perfect gloves for her).
For the Adventurous Drinker
If someone on your gift list likes to drink good wine without being a self-proclaimed wine snob – and is interested in new and creative vino brands – then Uproot wine is the perfect choice.
This new company out of Napa features a fresh new way to look at wine. The front of the label includes what's called a flavor palette, which shows the flavors that are present in the bottle, and how prominent each one is. Try the crisp 2011 Sauvignon Blanc for the white wine drinkers, and the 2012 Grenache for the red lovers.
The best part? These unique bottles ship in 1-3 days – just in time for the holidays.
For the Beauty Obsessed
Urban Decay's best-selling eye shadow palette Naked now has a highly-anticipated follow-up, appropriately titled Naked2. This new collection of eye shadow boasts 12 shades, including 5 new colors. Although the $52 price tag on Sephora may seem steep, it's guaranteed to last the average consumer a couple years, even with daily use.
Give to someone who loves her makeup -- and from whom you can readily borrow the palette. (If you're looking for something a little less expensive, go for the Naked Basics palette for just $27 for 6 shades).
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Pixie, The Psychedelicolor Dream Cat
We set up an Indiegogo a week ago for a little not-too-serious game, mainly as a perk for helping us pay for our cat's eye operation. Don't really need the promotion as we're fully funded, but though it'd be fun to show people anyway since it's turning out to be rather silly.
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There are some non-cat-related stretch goals too, mostly involving software licenses so I can make the actual real game I am working on a bit better, and to perhaps put this silliness on mobile devices. If we don't reach it, we'll likely just donate the money to the nearby cheetah sanctuary.
The other game is this:
Over-game similar to SPAZ. Gameplay bits reminiscent of Desert Strike, Raid Over Bungeling Bay, Cyclone. General flavour is 60s-ish, Thunderbirds, Stingray, New Avengers.


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Leather Star Of David Kabbalah Bracelet
A Leather Star Of David Kabbalah Bracelet will quickly become a favorite of the Bar Mitzvah boy. The leather bracelet includes an Evil Eye charm in the center. The leather bracelet is adjustable, and the hardware is done in pewter. This Kabbalah bracelet is part of the Lara Levi Kabbalah Jewelry collection.


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"The French government is strongly advocating the teaching of Arabic language and civilization in French schools."
Stressing the importance of cross-cultural dialog, the President Sarkozy said:
"Arabic, the language of the future, of science and of modernity", and he expressed the hope that "more French people share in the language that expresses great civilization and spiritual values.
The positive approach shown by Nicolas Sarkozy and other prominent world leaders towards Islam, Muslims and morals of the Qur'an is certainly crucial. All such developments indicate that Islam is increasingly spreading and embraced with great admiration all over the world.


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There are other arguments proffered in favor of retaining the straw poll. Among the more novel comes from the media. It is argued that Ames occurs during a key moment in campaign-narrative construction — a news lull before the caucuses in which the mainstream media is already staffed up for full-bore election coverage but does not have much of anything to cover. In this environment, the fair-like (or is it carnival-like?) atmosphere of Ames is nothing short of a "Woodstock for politicos" and a respite for assignment editors in this cruel, cruel summer. You'll forgive us if we are not moved by the exigencies and enthusiasms of the lot who quadrennially cover the Republican nomination process as an anthropological curiosity.
In fact, the spotlight is part of the problem. The media as much as anyone have imbued the story of Ames with an import that the reality of Ames has not justified — and cannot justify. And they help sell the fiction that the straw poll highlights the divergent preferences of the "grassroots" and the "establishment," and not the divergent preferences of a hand-picked, bused-in sample and the Republican electorate nationwide. This fiction now infects the debate about Ames's future, because the Ames we read about is not the non-predictive, distortive Ames of reality, but a mythic creature in a story. And like so many mythic creatures, this one needs slaying.


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Other than her obvious talents in marketing and public relations, Heather's resume grabbed our attention when we saw that she spent her spring break doing a service project in Nicaragua assisting in sustainable community development, as Dennis said, "rather than partying in Fort Lauderdale".
Heather completed a summer service trip in Tanzania as well, teaching school children English and participating in many projects to enhance the community's quality of life. She did somehow manage to fit a Spring Break trip to Hilton Head in addition to these altruistic excursions so we're relieved to know that Heather likes to have a little fun sometimes, too. I think she'll fit right in.
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I noticed Lee does. My house is haunted as schitt. Moved into the wife's Gdads house in '85 when the kids were young. I did some modifications, cutting out walls, making 2 living rooms into 1 living room and attached the kitchen so the wifey could cook and mingle. that's when things got weird. I'd put stuff down, come back, it's gone. I'd blame the kids for messing with my stuff, come back and it would be there. "I KNEW YOU'RE MESSING WITH MY CRAP" I'd say. after they grew up and, I thought it was too much mota messing with my memory. that, I didn't actually look where it showed up. I would tap the place I thought I left it, return, and there it'd be. I'd say thanks. Once I went to get the tray with my weeds. I asked the wife where it was, she said under the chair by the bed. when I got to the chair, the pan was indeed ther. as I stepped for it, the pan came out from the chair. Again, I said thanks, and added, for not touching me.
We were partaking in the living room and my son just walked in like he still lived there. The wife put the hitter between the couch arm and cushion. after he finally left, she reached for it and couldn't find it. We removed the couch cover and shook it. felt around the edges of the couch, nothing. so we put it back together, sat down and my wife was showing me how she stashed it. and pulled it out from between the arm and cushion.
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And I did! Dear Myrtle and I were sitting across the table from him, though silhouetted as he was against a bright window, I couldn't really see him. But I did snap a photo:
Shoot. Well, he says to tell you that if Brad Pitt wore suspenders, they could be twins.


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I'm faced with a bit of a conundrum: day-glo yellow just isn't my colour, yet I feel the pressure to make myself as visible as possible when I ride on the dark and gloomy roads.
In an ideal world, motorists would just take extra care to look out for cyclists in the darker evenings, see my bright lights and not leave me feeling that I'm somehow to blame for not being painted head-to-toe in glow-in-the-dark paint.
As someone who uses their bike as a form of transport to get to work, the shops and visit friends, I like to arrive at my destination and blend in – this is obviously difficult when you are wearing a colour palette only found in ranges of highlighter pens. So what are the choices? How can I be seen on the winter roads?
I like to arrive at my destination and blend in – this is obviously difficult when you are wearing a colour palette only found in ranges of highlighter pens."
Just as it is harder to see a car with no headlights, it is difficult to notice a bike without lights. Lights are the best way to be seen in the dark on a bike and the law agrees. If you ride a bicycle on a UK public road between dusk and dawn there is a legal requirement for you use a white front light and a red rear light. Your cycle must also have a red rear reflector and amber pedal reflectors.
The lights must be marked as conforming to BS6102/3 or an equivalent EU standard. That's assuming they emit (or can emit) a steady light, which most lights do. After years of campaigning by CTC, in 2005 it finally became legal to have flashing lights on your bike. However, whatever lights you choose you, do make sure your lights are bright enough (at least four candela).
The regulations on lighting [2] for cycles are a bit of a mess as it stands. A rechargeable set-up that lights up the night with 80 Watts of brilliance? Illegal. A dynamo lighting set that goes out completely when you stop? Legal. That little blinky LED? Might be legal, might not.
The good news is that the police sensibly turn a blind eye: if you've got reasonable lights and they're the right colour, then they're content. The bad news is that a lawyer might take a different view. If you were in an crash at night and were using 'unapproved' lights, the lawyer could try to make a case for contributory negligence. You can legally use unapproved lights in addition to approved ones. You just need one front and one rear light that is legal.
The main thing to remember is don't get caught out without your lights: always carry spare small lights in case your main lights are not working and if your lights need batteries, chuck a few spares in your bag or pannier.
Thankfully, there is no law in the UK to insist we all wear hi-viz, so you can still wear what you like on a bike. This is not the case if you are cycling in France, Spain and Italy too, where it is compulsory to wear a fluorescent 'gilet' if you're on your bike outside built-up areas in the dark or in poor visibility.
CTC believes there is simply not enough research into the effectiveness of wearing of fluorescent or reflective clothing to warrant a law demanding that all cyclists to wear it all the time. I think it is ludicrous to imply that if a cyclist is involved in a crash and is not wearing hi-viz, they are somehow to blame. It implies that all pedestrians should have to wear hi-viz too!
Personally, I don't cycle in dark colours and normally have bright - yet normal colours on. For longer rides, I do wear my bright blue cycling jacket. But for short journeys, my bag/panniers have some reflective star stickers [3] and I have a woolly hat that is reflective [4] too.
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Don't forget that cycle training [5] can also help you see and be seen by other road users by helping you to understand how to position yourself on the road for maximum visibility.


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Wagner takes down top-ranked Churchill
Updated 11:24 pm, Monday, February 20, 2012
Wagner didn't need any miracles this time. No last-second 3-pointers. No double overtime.
The Thunderbirds beat Churchill 56-52 in the Class 5A third round Monday at the UTSA Convocation Center in relatively normal fashion.
But the improbability of Wagner's run to the regional semifinals wasn't lost on its coach.
"I mean, who would have thought?" Wagner coach Christina Camacho said. "I still don't think they realize what they've just done."
All they did Monday was beat the top-ranked team in the area. The Chargers (30-6) had beaten their first two playoff opponents by a combined 76 points. The T-birds (24-13)? A total of two.
"Give credit to Wagner," Churchill coach Cal Wulfsberg said. "(Camacho) is doing it with smoke and mirrors as far as I can see."
The Chargers set the tone early. Senior guard Jordan Holub scored 12 first-quarter points, including two 3-pointers. Junior point guard Leslie Vorpahl penetrated at will and racked up four assists as Churchill took an 18-12 lead.
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Wagner adjusted its zone defense in the second period. Then its guards took over.
Sophomore Corrina Moncada hit two 3-pointers during a 10-2 run to tie the game 22-22. Sophomore Ashley Ross then hit a half-court shot at the buzzer to pull Wagner within two going into halftime.
The T-birds stepped up their defense in the second half, with twin guards Adriane and Aundrea Davis double-teaming Vorpahl every possession. Adriane Davis gave Wagner its first lead since the opening seconds with two free throws midway though the third. She hit a 3-pointer at the end of the quarter for a 37-35 lead that the T-birds wouldn't give up.
Wagner's free-throw shooting controlled the fourth as the T-birds made 15 of 21 in the frame. Their final 11 points came at the line.
Holub, who had a game-high 21 points, hit a pair of 3-pointers in the final minute to keep Churchill within striking distance, but Wagner made two free throws after both baskets.
The T-birds' guards stepped up with their posts held to just seven total points. Moncada and Adriane Davis each scored 15 points and grabbed five rebounds, Ross added 10 and Aundrea Davis had nine.
Wagner will face either Del Rio or McAllen Rowe in the regional semifinals on Thursday at UTSA.
"We came in so underestimated this year," said Adriane Davis, who made 8 of 10 free throws. "We work to prove them wrong."


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This article was published 9/6/2010 (2630 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There is a brass statue of a handsome man in a long coat at the side of Serbska Street in the historic centre of Lviv not far from city hall.
On closer examination, brass hands can be seen reaching out from under his jacket, an opening in the chest reveals a sepia photo of a woman at his heart. His left pocket gaps open, its hems polished by countless hands reaching in to discover by touch two half-orbs and a brass ridge.
While not as famous or as photographed as the monumental statue of Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko that stands on Svoboda (Freedom) Avenue a few blocks away near the opera house, this small statue nevertheless attracts thousands of tourists who pose for pictures with their hands in the pocket, most unaware of its significance as a sign of an independent Ukrainian present and future, and not a symbol tolerated in a Soviet past.
The statue is a likeness of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch, a 19th-century romantic author who was born in Lviv and whose claim to fame is not so much his writing as his desire to be cruelly treated by dominant women dressed in fur and with whips close to hand. Although a writer of great renown in his time, and although he was an ardent anti-anti-Semite and crusader for the emancipation of women, it was his fetishes that led Richard Frecherr von Krafft-Ebling to take Masoch's name to describe a pathology we today know as masochism, sexual gratification from pain, the mirror image of sadism, gratification by inflicting pain, also coined by Krafft-Ebling in reference to the depraved writings of the French Marquis de Sade.
Masoch's Ukrainian roots were suppressed during Soviet times, but he has been outed, so to speak, by Yurko Nazruk, 29, the lank-haired visionary with a pencil-thin beard drawn across his cheeks and lip who is at the forefront of the entrepreneurial movement sweeping western Ukraine.
Cafe Masoch, in fact, is but one of 10 restaurants opened or in development by Nazruk, all of them themed to provoke pride and interest in Ukrainian culture and history while creating 500 jobs and considerable wealth, which Nazruk dismisses. "Let's say I have a lot of credit," he deadpans. "I'm close to being happy."
As popular and naughty as Cafe Masoch certainly is -- historic soft porn, manacles and sex toys adorn the walls; the menu is covered in fur that disguises sharp nails imbedded in its cover; and the specialty is bull testicle -- it is not even a close second to Nazruk's first restaurant, Kryjivka (Bunker), which last year attracted 650,000 visitors, one of the top-ranked attractions in all of Europe.
Like Cafe Mascoh, Kryjivka is "a room of emotions" to remind Ukrainians of their struggle for independence, particularly from Communist Russia, and especially during and after the Second World War. It celebrates Gen. Roman Shukhevych, who led German-trained Ukrainian battalions against the Russians during the war. They continued an armed insurrection until Shukhevych was trapped and killed by Russian paratroops in 1950.
While Poles, Hungarians and others might properly claim that Shukhevych was a bloodthirsty assassin and revolutionary criminal, and while his legend was also suppressed in Soviet times, today he is a hero. In fact, he was named a "Hero of Ukraine" by former president and Orange Revolutionist Viktor Yushchenko in 2007.
"It was the only moment in the history of Ukraine when we were fighting for the idea of independence from within," Nazruk says. "It was the best time for this idea."
It is a mark of the restaurant's fame that there are no signs indicating where it is, only an open door into a nondescript building where a flight of stairs worn hollow over centuries leads to a peephole at which guests are challenged to give the password "Glory to Ukraine." Inside, a false wall of library books opens to reveal a labyrinth of rooms, all seeming enlarged bunkers dug underground in a forest.
Everywhere are artifacts of the insurrection, including small arms and machine-guns, period photos, information panels, even a shooting gallery where guests can take aim at Stalin with pellet guns.
At mid-afternoon on a Tuesday, the 250-seat "open museum" was near capacity, and so it would remain until early Wednesday, and so on year round.
Nazruk makes no bones that his interest is business, but his passions are patriotism and politics, evidently a successful combination.
He is unfazed by the results of the recent election, which saw pro-western Yushchenko humiliated and his former Orange Revolution partner Yulia Tymoshenko defeated by Viktor Yanukovich, whose attempts to rig the 2004 election inspired the Orange Revolution and whose Russified attitudes worry many both within and without Ukraine.
But not Nazruk, who sees Yanukovich as the "last gasp of the past."
Nazruk suspects his presidency will be in shambles within a year, in large part because he lacks sufficient support in the parliament to move Ukraine closer to the Kremlin, and because there is no real advantage in doing so. You can read whatever subterfuge into it that you want, Nazruk said, but it is not lost on Ukrainians that Yanukovich's first foreign visit was to Brussels, not Moscow.
"We outlived the period of the U.S.S.R. (68 years), we outlived the period of (former president Leonid) Kuchma (nine years). This period will not be so bad, or so long.
"They will never dictate what we should do.
"This is like the period of (George) Bush. We can make cartoons of him (Yanukovich) and it is just funny."
He said while Ukrainian politicians play separatist politics -- pitting the Russified east of the country against the westernized west -- Ukrainians themselves see that there is more that unites them than divides them, and that their best interests are their common interests in stability, family and economic growth.
And it is those fundamentals that already are cementing the day -- a whole new generation has grown up over the past 20 years that has never known tyranny and won't accept it, and a burgeoning class of entrepreneurs that understand everyone profits if "gangster business" is relegated to the Soviet past.
"The young people and the business know what is the past and they don't want it," Nazruk said as we walked through the city centre.
Then he climbed into his $45,000 Mitsubishi L200 Sporteo and was gone.


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Cattle and calves on feed for slaughter market in Texas feedlots with capacity of 1,000 head or more totaled 2.62 million head on February 1, 2013, down 10 percent from a year ago.
According to the monthly report released by the Texas Field Office, the estimate was down 4 percent from the January 1 , 2013 level.
Producers placed 390 thousand head in commercial feedlots during January, down 2 percent from a year ago and down 6 percent from December. Texas commercial feeders marketed 465 thousand head during January, up 12 percent from 2012 and up 22 percent from December.
On February 1, there were 2.27 million head of cattle and calves on feed in the Northern High Plains, 87 per cent of the state's total. The number on feed across the area was down 7 percent from last year and down 3 percent from the January 1 total.
January placements in the Northern High Plains totaled 347 thousand head, down 4 percent from the December total. Marketings were up 20 percent from last month to 406 thousand head.


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