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First Ever Texas Native Plant Week Set for Oct. 19-25
New Texas Wildscapes DVD Available To Aid Fall Gardening
AUSTIN, Texas — Sprawling fields of Texas bluebonnets and vibrant orange Texas paintbrushes highlight fields and highways across the state. Travelers stop to take pictures or simply admire these native wildflowers, though many may not realize the many economic, environmental and aesthetic benefits of Texas native plants.
That could change this October, when native plants and flowers will receive the homage they deserve.
Starting this fall, the first ever, official Texas Native Plant Week will be celebrated annually the third week in October. The new designation comes at the best time of year to start a native plant garden, and this year there's a new Texas Wildscapes DVD to help Texans realize their dream gardens.
State Rep. Donna Howard of Austin and Sen. Glenn Hegar of Katy, authored a bill recognizing the state's native plants during this year's legislative session. Gov. Rick Perry signed the bill into law June 16. The week-long event that focuses on native plants is new, although Texas has had an annual Wildflower Day each April 26 since 1980.
Faye Tessnow of the Native Plant Society of Texas urged Howard to author the legislation because she felt the official state recognition could serve to emphasize the role of native plants in conservation efforts, support efforts to teach school children about native plants, and make the public aware that native-plant species are threatened by loss of habitat and invasive, exotic species.
The week seems appropriate in October because fall is the best time to start a garden using native plants. Natives are more economical, hardy and drought resistant than exotic species, which are not adapted to Texas weather extremes and pests. Additionally, native Texas plants are better able to provide food and shelter to beneficial wildlife, such as songbirds and butterflies.
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The Pentagon's investigative agency has cleared the Marine Corps' top general of allegations he and other senior officials manipulated military justice to ensure several troops were punished for a making an inappropriate video three years ago in Afghanistan, Marine Corps Times has learned.
The Defense Department Inspector General's Office concluded its investigation July 24, a Pentagon official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Friday. What's become known as the scout sniper urination scandal has dogged the service's commandant, Gen. Jim Amos, since last May, when news first surfaced that a Marine attorney accused some of the Marine Corps' most powerful men of interfering with the prosecution of those connected to the video.
A spokeswoman for the inspector general declined even to confirm the existence of an investigation, which is consistent with the agency's policy. A spokesman for commandant declined to comment.
Investigators focused their inquiry on accusations Amos exerted unlawful command influence, the Pentagon official said. His accuser, Maj. James Weirick, alleged that in February 2012 Amos removed a well-respected subordinate, Lt. Gen. Thomas Waldhauser, from his role overseeing disposition of the legal cases tied to the video, which shows four Marine scout snipers urinating on Taliban corpses.
The inspector general's finding contradicts Waldhauser's sworn testimony that Amos wanted those connected to the video "crushed" and discharged from the service. In fact, it suggests the cases were handled properly and that Amos' interaction with Waldhauser did not affect their outcome.
In an interview with NPR last winter, Amos denied the claims Waldhauser made under oath.
At the time he filed his inspector general complaint in March 2013, Weirick was a legal adviser for Waldhauser's replacement, a job that afforded him access to emails and other sensitive documents related to the urination cases. He was troubled by what he viewed as excessive involvement by Amos and his legal advisers in a matter for which Weirick's boss was supposed to have independent oversight.
Reached Friday evening, Weirick offered only a brief statement via email.
"The inspector general has withheld the entire investigation pursuant to the Privacy Act," it states. "Thus I, along with all members of the public, am in no position to evaluate the rigor of the investigation or determine if the inspector general applied the correct legal standard when determining there was no unlawful command influence."
The inspector general's ruling would appear to conclude the investigations connected to Weirick's complaint.
Amos was cleared in November of allegations he showed preferential treatment to the son of his predecessor as commandant, a field grade officer who held a senior leadership position with the scout snipers' parent command. Then last month the inspector general determined Weirick was not the subject of reprisal when he was removed from his job for confronting one of Amos' legal advisers.
Weirick had also petitioned the Information Security Oversight Office, the federal agency governing regulations related to information security, claiming senior Marine leaders improperly classified evidence in the urination cases. In May, that investigation determined there is no proof Amos' office acted illegally.


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St Blaize is the patron saint of people who suffer from sore throats.
Cape St Blaize is a rocky promontory that juts out to sea and is part of the Mossel Bay town structure.
There's a huge cave at Cape St Blaize that was once occupied by Khoikhoi hunter-gatherers, who probably had the finest ocean-view residence in Africa at the time.
Looming above the cave is the still-working Cape St Blaize lighthouse, which was always a favoured posting among the South African light-keeper community.
Often light-keepers and their families were sent to far-flung coastal places, where they lived in isolation and where schooling and supplies were a constant logistical headache.
This particular lighthouse stands in one of the most active, booming towns along the Western Cape coastline. There have always been good shops and schools and a welcoming community available to the ocean guardians sent there.
The building of the Cape St Blaize lighthouse was completed in March 1864. The tower has a spectacular placement on a cliff overlooking both Mossel Bay and the passing ocean lanes.
In his landmark book called Southern Lights – Lighthouses of South Africa, author Harold Williams says that in 1880 a public works official complained of the lighthouse that: 'Quarters and light satisfactory, but goats must not be kept in the quarters.'
Williams comments: 'It must be assumed that he had in fact discovered goats or evidence of them in the living quarters – strange bedfellows?'
The lighthouse is fully automated these days, but still manned by light-keepers who maintain radio watch and do meteorological studies.
Up until the late 1970s, however, the lens turned on a clockwork system, which meant that a light-keeper had to ascend the tower and wind it up at three-hour intervals.
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Omar Review
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By Joe Langham
Omar is directed by HanyAbu-Assad, whose previous directorial credits include films such as Paradise Now and The Courier. It is a brutal story of love and betrayal doubling as a steadily paced thriller, set in Palestine. We see the film open with Omar scaling a giant wall which the purpose of, we discover, is to visit the object of his affection. At first this seems merely metaphorical; a titanic obstacle to overcome in order to win her heart, but its political relevance becomes more prevalent as the film progresses. The wall, which oppresses and imprisons the Palestinians within its boundaries, is seen vividly looming over the characters in many shots, a big reminder to the audience of the cause of many of Omar's and his friends' problems and thus the course of action that they take. A series of events lead to his life coming crashing down around him and makes the wall between him and Nadia seem the least of his problems.
Omar is a mere bread maker by day but a freedom fighter at night, who is portrayed by Adam Bakri. He wishes for Palestinian freedom from Israeli oppression along with his friends and fellow freedom fighters. Amjad is Omar's friend and is played by Samer Bisharat. The trio of main characters is completed by Tarek played by Iyad Hoorani.
Bakri brilliantly plays the interesting and conflicted Omar. The believability of his performance makes it seem like he is acting out personal experiences rather than imagined ones from the script. This may be true however as many of the cast and also the director come from backgrounds that are not too dissimilar to those portrayed in the film. Bakri convincingly and consistently offers an array of emotions throughout the film from joy to anger to poignancy. It is hard to not become involved both intellectually and emotionally when such a powerful story is played out so well. His ability to cover such a spectrum in his performance shows just what a talented and promising actor he is and I look forward to seeing future work from him.
Amjad is a good friend of Omar and a rather quirky character overall. Whilst being a bit slow, I believe he is also described as such in the film, this does not detract from his performance. Often characters that are intended to be humorous have their performances lost in the comedy therefore making it hard to appreciate the more serious side to them; however Samer Bisharat finds a great balance between the two. His Marlon Brando expressions and strange stories offer some humorous relief to a serious and gripping story.
Finally, Leem Lubany plays Nadia who is Omar's love interest. Nadia is another great character although she is one of the weaker ones overall. When compared to Bakri however, this is no insult. At times she seems rather naive for such a smart girl and it is hard to know whether to feel sorry for her or annoyed at her. Omar and Nadia have a heart-warming, almost childlike romance that is hard not to smile it. At times it seems as if they actually are infatuated with each other which speaks volumes of their performance. Omar's dedication to Nadia is shown through the fact he regularly risks his life to visit her, and shows that the things you care most about in life are worth fighting for.
Despite the cast having no major acting experience, they offer performances that would be worthily attributed to any award-winning and established actor or actress. This is shown by the fact that the film was nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category and scooped several other wins including the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. The brilliant Adam Bakri was also nominated for a best actor award. Abu-Assad states his reason for picking people with little to no film experience was to try and get an air of realism and he well and truly succeeded.
Omar is a deep and thought provoking film that is to be admired. Acting and storyline take precedence over spectacle and result in an intriguing and hard hitting film.
Omar is out now in selected cinemas, distributed by Soda Pictures in the UK.
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AS THE home of the Melbourne and Caulfield cups, Victoria is rightly regarded as the staying capital of Australia.
While other states have been busily reducing the distances of their premier staying races, Victorian officials are continually tinkering with the program to find new ways to encourage owners and trainers to breed staying horses.
One of the more established distance races on the Victorian program is the Bagot Handicap, a highlight of the New Year's Day card at Flemington. It is the next big stamina test on the horizon and it is a tempting target for Cranbourne trainer Mick Kent, one of the best conditioners of distance horses in the state.
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Kent rattled off the Mornington Cup, races in Tasmania or the Moonee Valley Night Series final as potential local targets for his stayers, although he suggested he would not make Bagot plans for Unusual Suspect until he knew what weight the former American-trained nine-year-old would receive.
''We were actually thinking we might go Bagot, Mornington Cup, Auckland Cup - that's the feeling,'' Kent said of Unusual Suspect's program, explaining that the logistics of travelling to New Zealand had made it difficult to aim the gelding at the Wellington Cup at the end of January, as he would have liked.
''You can't fly direct to Wellington, that's the problem. You have to fly to Auckland, it's 10 hours down, come back and leave him there for a month [until the Auckland Cup] and there's not much on, one little lead-up race the week before. At this stage he's probably going to run here.''
You Think So will also have a busy summer.
''There are so many options. The Moonee Valley Night Cup, the Mornington Cup, the Bagot … he's on an upward spiral. He's always shown a bit. We thought he would handle the wet, he's out of a Montjeu mare, but he's hopeless in it. His performance is better in the firm ground.''


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Intel's Core i5-655K & Core i7-875K: Overclocked and Analyzedby Rajinder Gill on 5/28/2010 5:00 AM EST
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wavetrex - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkIn the table it sais $284 for the 980X, that MUST be a mistake! Reply
mianmian - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkIn a previous Anandtech aritical, it was $999, maybe it is $824 now Reply
Texpat - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkI think the price for the 980x might be wrong. $1,000 would be closer tot he truth. Reply
ltcommanderdata - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkI'm really pleasantly surprised that the 2.93GHz Core i7 875K at $342 is cheaper yet has more features than the 2.93GHz Core i7 870 at $562. Although I'm guessing that's only temporary as the upcoming 3.06GHz Core i7 880 will probably take over the $562 price point, with the Core i7 870 dropping down to $284 and the Core i7 860 being phased out. There's also a Core i5 760 to replace the Core i5 750. Reply
DrMrLordX - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkYou guys really busted out the big guns with the dual-stage cascade! Please do this more often when overclocking. I would love to see a C3 Propus at -100C (or a Thuban). Reply
jleach1 - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkOn the second page, i believe in the 'test rig' table the proc is listed as a i5-870 instead of the i7-870 Reply
Rajinder Gill - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkThanks - fixed! Reply
GeorgeH - Friday, May 28, 2010 - link"it's full of talk about voltages and harps on about overclocking"
No need to be shy about that - Anandtech is bookmarked because of awesome articles and analyses like this one. Reply
FlanK3r - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linknot bad, my x6 1090T is full stable 4300MHz 2800MHz NB with aircooling ,-)...for games and benchmarks 4400-4450 MHz :) Reply
AstroGuardian - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkGuys, i think you should not hurry to release articles instead of taking them slow and sure. Many typos especially in the graphs.
i3-530 vs i5-540 Reply
Ph0b0s - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkNot covered so much on these websites but I slurged on an I7 965 when I7's were new, becuase it was unlocked, even though I knew it did not have any extra head room than the cheap chips in the family. The reason I did this was so that I could use the I7's new turbo feature to overclock on demand instead of having to use static timings to overclock. With unlocked I7's and the right motherboard you can change the value of the turbo mulipliers to be more than just one or two steps.
So for my chip if I have all 4 cores in use my turbo muliplier is set to x29 (3800 ghz, only using factory voltages at the moment) and higher amounts when less cores are in use. So when not doing anything my CPU clocks itself to 1.6 GHz and runs at 3.2 GHz if not doing too much and then clocks itself to 3.8GHz when extra power is needed.
So I really welcome Intel putting out these cheaper unlocked CPU's, as next time when I want to overclock using the turbo funtionality I won't have to fork out for an Extreme Edition again.
Also I would love to see more coverage of this type of overclocking that it is new with the Nathelems, Before it was only the I7 Extreme Edition chips that could do it, but now that are more options avaliable, maybe Anandtech could do an article taking about it. Reply
Death666Angel - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkHello guys!
I was really looking forward to Intel -K material. But the whole bunch of "i5 540" is more than an annoyance. It is downright embarrassing and I would urge you to re-read any future texts, as I am really not interested in reading stuff when so little time is put into the text. Really a shame since the content is looking good. Reply
Rajinder Gill - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkSorry, blame me for that. Those skipped under the radar this morning.
-Raja Reply
Griswold - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkIf you wonder why Intel does this, it most likely boils down to two letters: BE. They were never priced as if they came straight out of Absurdistan. And perhaps Intel felt a little itch because of that... Reply
Maroon - Friday, May 28, 2010 - link^^^we have a winner! Reply
DanNeely - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkWhere are you getting those numbers from? Software or are you using hardware to measure it directly off the mobo itself? Reply
Rajinder Gill - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkHardware measured using a clamp meter.
Raja Reply
DanNeely - Sunday, May 30, 2010 - linkSo you were measuring the current going into the mobo via the 4/8pin 12V cpu power cable? Reply
Rajinder Gill - Monday, May 31, 2010 - linkYes. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkDid you also monitor the main ATX power connector to see if there was any increase in power draw there when overclocking? Reply
Rajinder Gill - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkAs the graphs state - this is VCC/VTT power only, the two major power rails of this architecture. The 12V ATX fan headers and PCIe 12V only on the E659 motherboard. Power to DDR3 is not something I focused on but may do in a future piece (there will be a frequency proportional rise in power provided timings are not changed). A very crude guess - I'd expect the rise over stock to be around 5 watts on the DRAM side in this frequency band (and total draw to be no more than 10~15w). Although figures would differ according to the scaling capabilities of various modules.
Other than that, there's not much else aside from CPU PLL which is specified at around 1.1 amps at 1.8V (around 2-3 watts tops). Reply
Rajinder Gill - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkEDIT: The 12V ATX fan headers and PCIe 12V only on the E659 motherboard.
That should read the 12V ATX line supplies fan headers and PCIe 12V power only. The 3.3v and 5V rails supply DDR, CPU PLL, IOH (and all derivatives such as IOH PLL, SB~IOH termination voltage etc).
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DanNeely - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkTime permitting I'd be interested in seeing those numbers as well. I understand your desire to measure power consumption closer to the source. My concern is that increased power consumption from the secondary items you're not measuring is a black box; while the AC-DC conversion loss in the PSU from measuring power at the wall can be mostly corrected away by looking at what the efficiency rating of the PSU used in the test setup is. Reply
DanNeely - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkTime permitting I'd be interested in seeing those numbers as well. I understand your desire to measure power consumption closer to the source. My concern is that increased power consumption from the secondary items you're not measuring is a black box; while the AC-DC conversion loss in the PSU from measuring power at the wall can be mostly corrected away by looking at what the efficiency rating of the PSU used in the test setup is. Reply
Rajinder Gill - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkI prefer to keep things at the DC level. There are plenty of articles covering wall level consumption with your standard kill-a-watt type unit (and they also state the PSU used so users can factor out the losses if they know the effective efficiency curve). I think you are worrying too much about the lesser rails. Sure they will make interesting reading at some point - but there is nothing that pulls more than a couple of amps so the effects on power consumption will not be huge.
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Rajinder Gill - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkOk "DanNeely", this is for you,
I just ran tests on the 3.3V and 5V rails. At stock the combined power consumption of these two rails on the E659. Bear in mind this is an enthusiast level board (higher switching losses due to higher switching speeds on VDIMM, plus using an NF200 for PEG multiplexing):
Running DDR3-1333 CAS 8-8-8-24 with 4GB of memory. (3.3v + 5V rails combined).
20.2 watts idle
Linpack load = 26.36 Watts.
That's a change of 6 Watts between idle and load.
At 4.551GHz, now running DDR3-1820 (1.60 VDIMM):
Idle = 22.86 Watts (2 Watt idle increase)
Load = 27.86 Watts.
That's a 1 Watt increase over stock speeds under load with an overclock of 1GHz on the CPU (running QPI over 4GHz). Hardly worth writing about. Do note - the effective change will vary from board to board according to VRM switching efficiency (which is coming into play if you look at the deltas between idle and load). Of course, I am not including things like HDD's etc although, some of the static 3.3V and 5V rail consumption is due to the GPU (GTX 275) which also draws a little power from that rail.
Hope that answers your questions.
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DanNeely - Tuesday, June 01, 2010 - linkyes it did. thank you. Reply
tno - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkSetting aside typos, I know wall of text is to be avoided but this felt almost like the opposite problem. Additional clicks for additional adviews. Clearly you didn't like what you saw out of the chips despite the voltage improvements evident in the more modest chip. Yet in the end despite devoting 1/9th of the coverage to it, you reward your recommendation to the pricier chip just one page after showing it severely underperforming its non-K analogue in both overclocking and voltage.
I have said it before and I think its worth mentioning again, clearly there is a lo of passion for tech in the growing AnandTech team, but maybe adding a team member whose passion is writing and across whose hands every article will pass would give the site that extra polish that elevates it from other tech sites.
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7Enigma - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkAt first I thought the same thing (saying nothing at all in the final page about the 655K does leave me puzzled as it is good), but Rijinder did clarify his recommendation for the 875K by saying PRICE. He is saying for the price of these chips and where they fall in line with the rest of the offerings from AMD and INTEL, the 875K is in a sweet spot. Remember the 655K is a dual-core,4 thread chip for $215 (lots of competition from both camps), while the 875K is a quad-core, 8 thread chip for under $350.
In the end (and after re-reading the conclusion and article) I think the last page needs to have a bit more meat behind it. The data in the article itself is very detailed, but the final wrap-up needs some work. But honestly, since it's a free site, I'll take the good data and sketchy conclusions (I tend to make my own).
Thanks for the article! Reply
troun - Friday, May 28, 2010 - link
"Past 3.9GHz, we're already looking at a 10W increase in power consumption for every 20 MHz rise in CPU frequency"
But I read 20W for 100Mhz (or 10W for 50Mhz), with ~160W @ 3.9Ghz and ~180W @ 4Ghz...
However very interesting article, a similar curve (W/Mhz) would be also appreciate for an i7 9x0 comparison, 32nm Vs 45nm (980 Vs 930?). Reply
Rajinder Gill - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkHi,
The actual "break point" is at 3.962GHz to be precise. A 9W step to 3.986GHz, followed by a 11w step to 4.009GHz. Anything higher than this and I'm loading up at 85C (according to DTS) and I can't get Linpack stable. I've extended x to show the 4.009GHz point. We'll endeavour to plot some more curves featuring some of the parts you mention if time allows.
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Spenny2112 - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkThis only further confirms the change that the pc industry will be undergoing in the near future. Reply
Interitus - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkWhy does this make any sense on the 1156 platform? Intel created 2 different platforms, 1366 enthusiast and 1156 mainstream. Why is this on 1156 and not on 1366? Does that make any sense since 1366 is supposed to be the enthusiast/OC/hardcore version?
Keep in mind I'm not arguing the viability of either socket. I'm just saying that Intel designed 1366 to be the high end, so why do this for the low end, but keep the unlocked chips for 1366 at $1k? Reply
blandead - Friday, May 28, 2010 - link1 reason that comes to mind first... $$$$$$
2 this isn't targeted toward the enthusiast overclocker
the ones buying 1366 don't need unlocked multipliers to reach 4ghz or 1800+mhz ram speed.
I'm an AMD fanboy and my friend bought an i7 930 and 2000mhz ram and asked me to overclock it. I've never played with an i7 before, but surprisingly it was easy as cake to get it to 4.1ghz and 1850mhz ram on air and still have QPI overclocked past 6.4 dont quite remember i dont use the i7. Point is, with those achievements on a 930 I don't see a need for unlocked multiplier or k series. Reply
TheBLK - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkSo why the messing BLK ???? Reply
geokilla - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkThat's a huge jump in power consumption... But then these are engineering samples. I hope the retail ones will be better. Reply
Jamahl - Friday, May 28, 2010 - link"This is another of those situations where we've had to make an eleventh-hour conference call with Intel to work out what and who these processors are aimed at."
How about you make your own minds up instead?
First Anand did it with the awful clarkdale now you are doing it with these similarly awful cpu's. If intel gives you shit, TELL US ITS SHIT. Take a look around the web and see how poorly these cpu's were received elsewhere.
My respect for AT is at an all time low - there is no longer any pretence that you aren't an intel shill. Reply
Hrel - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linkBut it's about F***ing time! Reply
zodiacfml - Friday, May 28, 2010 - linksimply, the new unlocked chips does not offer real advantages compared to their siblings except for dynamic overclocking and the one posted which is little better turboboost speeds.
yet, the additional cost compared to the performance of AMD's black edition processors is not that reasonable. Reply
sergiu - Saturday, May 29, 2010 - linkIt would have been nice if we could see the power consumption when dual cascade cooling has been used (both in stock and overclocking). I'm interested to see the leakage scalling with temperature! Reply
Rajinder Gill - Saturday, May 29, 2010 - linkHi,
I ran out of time to test any further unfortunately. The emphasis was kept on air/water cooling because it's practical to run 24/7.
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TheBLK - Saturday, May 29, 2010 - linkI'll ask again. Unless the screen shots are wrong you used BLK clock to over-clock rather than multiplier on the chip.
Other reviews kept the BLK at the same value and just used the multiplier and seemed to get higher results. Reply
Rajinder Gill - Saturday, May 29, 2010 - linkYes I did on the 655-K stock VID (added 2 BCLK because the next multiplier up was too far (133 multiples in frequency is a large jump) :
Also describe why BCLK overclocking is not the way to go on the 655K for performance:
Finally the 855K - this chip is limited to 4GHz even on water cooling. BCLK overclocking is not going to change that. 167 BCLK at DDR3 1670 is nowhere near stressful for the Lynnfield IMC. Multiplier overclocking is NOT going to make any difference to the clock speed limitation.
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Rajinder Gill - Saturday, May 29, 2010 - linkJust for you :)
That is all the water loop can handle (the chip is drawing over 190W). I can drop the multiplier down to 30 (but then we are back to 4GHz).
Hope this helps!
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DJMiggy - Thursday, June 03, 2010 - linkIt seems like you guys used the wrong motherboard or got a dud i7. Other reviewers don't seem to be having as tough a time overclocking these higher. Reply
Rajinder Gill - Friday, June 04, 2010 - linkThe motherboard is EVGA's E659 - works fine with my i7 870 ES taking it to 4.4GHz Linpack stable. It's the CPU that is the limiting factor here. Bear in mind that not all articles you've read will have stability checked stability with Linpack as well.
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DJMiggy - Friday, June 04, 2010 - linkThat makes sense. Cool thanks! I appreciate the explanation. Reply
ReaM - Saturday, June 05, 2010 - linkI must say, what a crappy K-series! I can bring every i7 860 up to 4ghz. I have tested many of them, so there is really no reason to put any hope into these Ks. Just buy a regular one.
My personal sample of 860 runs @ 4200 with 1.29V on air Noctua U12 with low temps. Reply
ReaM - Saturday, June 05, 2010 - linkDid you put Load Line Calibration into LVL2?
I don't know what's that called on EVGA. Enhanced Power Slope. VDrop Adjustment. Lynnfield, unlike Bloomfield, likes their load line to be adjusted. Reply
Rajinder Gill - Sunday, June 06, 2010 - linkMakes no difference to the stability of this chip. Reply
ehume - Friday, October 08, 2010 - linkI finally got around to getting the 875k. Using the brand new Real Temp 3.60, I can now adjust the Turbo Boost multipliers so that under load all four cores go to 30x. That means with a bclk of 134MHz I now see a cpu clock range from 1206MHz on idle to 4020MHz on load. Nice.
But Intel advertised an adjustable memory multiplier as well. Since my memory is rated at DDR3-2000 I would like to push it beyond the 1608MHz that 12x134 allows. So, is it possible to push the memory multiplier beyond 12x? Does the 875k have that in it?
I have checked a number of reviews and found nothing other than a repetition of Intel's statements that the memory multiplier is unlocked. Well, is it? Reply


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Cooler Master Storm Scout II Advanced Case Review: Falling Behind the Curveby Dustin Sklavos on 3/19/2013 12:01 PM EST
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MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkOn page 4 in the ATX Test Configuration table in the GTX 580 description you have: "(full fat testing only)" which is actually a little bit amusing but it should probably say: full fan testing based on context. Reply
MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkwell... I guess since you used that terminology again I guess it was intentional. Reply
JarredWalton - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkIt's a reference to types of milk or cream: you have the "light" options with reduced fat (easier on your body in theory), and then there's the "full fat" milk and cream where you get all the flavor along with all the fat. I suppose it's probably used outside of dairy stuff as well, but you get the point. :-) Reply
MrCommunistGen - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkYeah after I kept reading I realized it was meant to by synonymous with "heavy duty" or the like. The terminology just caught me off guard. Reply
pcfxer - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkThe power of a hyphen ;)>. Full-Fat Testing! Reply
Grok42 - Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - linkI really liked your comment about the bog standard ATX case layout design as "...been done". Couldn't have said it better. Why through yet another ATX case at us, give us something different. Reply
bogda - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkWhy is gallery at anandtech simplified to stupidity?
You can go next by clicking anywhere on picture but you cannot go back by clicking on left side of image as it is usual. If you want to go back you have to click on "film strip" at the bottom. It is not intuitive and requires more time, especially if "film strip" moved to next page. Reply
REALfreaky - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkThe best performer for the price (Antec GX700) is ugly as sin. One of the better looking cases (this CM Storm Scout) is a poor performer and overpriced.
Why is it so hard to find both? The exterior looks of this CM Storm Scout and the internal configuration and price of the GX700 would impress to no end. Reply
TGressus - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkThe case could be a a good performer. It has 5 fan mounts that the reviewer chose to leave unpopulated, instead relying on the manufacturer's bare minimum. It is up to the consumer to design and tune their own system, and it is true the less experienced in the community would benefit from more detailed guidance in this area. Reply
alsmith - Saturday, November 22, 2014 - linkBoth as in poor performer and ugly? I bet there'd be a few suggestions ...... Reply
Donniesito - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - linkJust an FYI: The gallery isn't working at all for me in Chrome. Works fine in Firefox - haven't checked IE. Reply
Blibbax - Wednesday, March 20, 2013 - link"This is not a case suitable for overclocking, at least not unless you're planning on adding additional intake fans to the side panel."
So why didn't you? I can't imagine many users putting a powerful system in this case without installing 2 or even 4-5 extra fans. Reply
milleron - Saturday, March 23, 2013 - linkCooler Master got it right with the Storm Sniper for this class of enthusiast. It has 3 large-diameter, low-RPM fans in place of all the little yippy fans in this thing, and it has sturdy handles. My Sniper is a laid-back Golden Retriever to the Scout II's terrier. Sniper does not have front-panel USB3 ports, but it's otherwise perfect for anyone looking for a very portable mid-tower. I keep my fans on low all the time -- just barely audible and niece and cool. Sure hope they make a Storm Sniper II with USB3 ports, but CM's not advertising the Sniper at all, so I'm not optimistic. Reply
mikeymop - Wednesday, April 03, 2013 - linkWhat ODD is that in the final picture? Reply
smellykaka - Friday, May 31, 2013 - linkThe problem here is that few (or none?) of the alternatives you mentioned have carry handles. Since my PC travels with me 2-3 times a month, that makes them no good to me. Reply
Protocol48 - Saturday, March 07, 2015 - linkI would rather buy a "handled" case than mod my own.
I need a mid-tower case with carry handle(s).
If this case is so-so, what is the best mid-tower case with carry handles? Reply


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Interim Billing and Financial Worksheets
Interim Billing and Financial Worksheets
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Worksheets to cross-compare CPT billing and diagnostic codes for integrated health services.
Worksheets are for FQHCs and community behavioral health organizations to use in aligning codes with Medicare and Medicaid (payable/non payable and credentials required for staff delivering service). State-specific worksheets address variations in state Medicaid programs.


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Birthday Flowers
This was a cake I made for my neighbor's birthday last week. I was anxious to try making some fun flowers so this was my excuse to play. The cake was white chocolate with swiss meringue buttercream (the cake was too fluffy for fondant). The flowers were made out of modeling chocolate with about 30% pre-made gumpaste added. I was going for a cabbage-style rose, magnolia and peony. They sort of resemble that. Anyway it was fun and a learning experience :)


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Jennifer Aniston
On the baby rumors: "But it's not what you read. There's no desperation. If it's meant to be, it's meant to be. I'm at peace with whatever the plan is. But will you hate me if I say I don't want to talk about my relationship?"
On a time when she stood up to a male director: "I threw a chair at a director. It wasn't my proudest moment. He was treating a script supervisor horribly... When the director walked in, I threw a chair at him. I missed, of course. I was like, 'You can't speak to people like that.' I can't tolerate it."
Jennifer Aniston wears a cotton tank top from Balmain, satin shorts from Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière, yellow gold necklace with diamonds from Cartier, and link bracelets (some with diamonds) from David Yurman.
Naomi Watts
On her breakthrough role in Mulholland Drive: "It was a game-changer, but I knew I had to be careful. You can get a lot of attention and still be gone in a flash."
On what made her want to become an actress: "One of the things was seeing the movie Fame, as cheesy as that sounds. I was like, That looks fun! It wasn't that I wanted to be famous. I just wanted to go to acting class."
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Tottenham has yet to publicly lament their loss, but out of nowhere, League One club Leyton Orient has come forward to express their dissatisfaction with the decision. Leyton Orient's current stadium and surrounding fan base is located directly between the fan bases of Tottenham and West Ham (as shown by this amazing football supporters map of London [1]) Their stadium is in the immediate vicinity of the Olympic Park and as shown in the map, their fan base is quite compact. Thus, the club is under the impression that a West Ham relocation to Olympic Stadium would damage their own club's standing as top ticket in the neighborhood. Personally, I think Leyton Orient needs to chill out. If they actually believe their fans would abandon the club in favor of West Ham, just to shave time off their commute to the stadium, they should cut their losses now and start downsizing. True fans would never abandon their team and they are the only fans worth having.On the other side of things, is this really the right move for West Ham? They are selling their old venue, Upton Park, to pay for renovations of the Olympic Stadium, which they will only be leasing. It doesn't sound like a very promising move, especially considering that West Ham is currently in position to be relegated from the top flight of English football. If they find themselves in a rut outside of the Premiership, they'll be faced with lower ticket sales in a very large and expensive stadium. It might also be a disgrace to the legacy of the London Olympics if the Games' primary venue is occupied by a second-tier football club. I also think that having an athletics track separating the pitch from the supporters is a no-no. Isn't there some clever way to lower the track and field down in the ground and put bleachers over the track? Anyway, I attended a World Cup match at Berlin's renovated Olympiastadion in 2006, and although it was an amazing experience, the absence of that big blue track would have made it more intimate and exciting for the fans. I love EPL stadiums for their intense atmosphere. The supporters sit close enough to the sideline to receive a Cantona Kung-Fu kick to the chest. If I were a fan of West Ham, I'd be bummed about the track and worried about filling that monstrosity. I mean, cozy old Brisbane Road is right around the corner. Championship, League One, what's the difference?
What do you think about the future of London's Olympic Stadium? Any Hammers supporters out there?
UPDATE: Tottenham, apparently, has just now decided to publicly lament their loss. They have "questioned the legitimacy of the decision" and officially begun legal proceedings to challenge the Olympic Park Legacy Company's selection of West Ham. [2]


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Manufactured Ignorance
MERCHANTS OF DOUBT: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. x + 355 pp. Bloomsbury Press, 2010. $27.
Historians a thousand years from now may wonder what went wrong: How, after scholars had so thoroughly nailed down the reality of anthropogenic climate change, did so many Americans get fooled into thinking it was all a left-wing hoax?
Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway give us some very good—if disturbing—answers in their fascinating, detailed and artfully written new book, Merchants of Doubt. In it they show how a small band of right-wing scholars steeped in Cold War myopia, with substantial financing from powerful corporate polluters, managed to mislead large sections of the American public into thinking that the evidence for human-caused warming was uncertain, unsound, politically tainted and unfit to serve as the basis for any kind of political action.
Their story begins with what they call the "Tobacco Strategy," the campaign launched in the mid-1950s by cigarette makers to refute and ridicule the evidence linking smoking to mass suffering and death. One might suppose the strategy is connected to global-warming denial purely by analogy—a case of yet another powerful industry trying to stave off regulation by obfuscating—but Oreskes and Conway show that key climate-change denialists actually became masters at doubt-mongering while working for the tobacco industry.
Frederick Seitz, for example, a former president of the National Academy of Sciences and ex officio member of the President's Science Advisory Committee, in 1979 was hired by the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, makers of Camel cigarettes, to head their Medical Research Committee. A solid-state physicist with Manhattan Project credentials, Seitz was assigned the task of handing out $45 million in research grants to buttress the prestige of tobacco—grants that, as he would later admit, steered clear of anything that might impugn tobacco. "They didn't want us looking at the health effects of cigarette smoking," he said in a 2006 interview. Seitz was paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over the six years during which he served in this capacity. It was not long thereafter that he and a crew of Cold Warrior colleagues also began denying the reality of human-caused climate change.
And deny they did, with a vengeance. In 1984 Seitz, Robert Jastrow and William Nierenberg founded the George C. Marshall Institute, which basically did for climate change what the Tobacco Institute had long been doing for cigarettes. Seitz and his colleagues claimed that global warming was caused by natural variations in solar flux, just as acid rain was caused by volcanic eruptions. They argued that any warming caused by greenhouse emissions is swamped by natural climate variations. The Marshall Institute on its Web site claims even today that there is no global climate-change consensus, and that there may actually be "benefits" from having more CO2 in the atmosphere (higher agricultural productivity is one fantasy). Seitz and his cohorts, joined by another Cold Warrior physicist, Fred Singer, gained enormous media attention from journalists taken in by the bluster. Their claims also found sympathetic ears among higher-ups in the Reagan and Bush administrations.
Why were Seitz and company so adamant in their opposition to the reality of global climate change? Oreskes and Conway show that climate change was really a surrogate for larger fears of a regulatory state—a state seen as increasingly willing to curtail free-market liberties in the name of environmental protection. To counter an imagined Soviet missile threat, Seitz and his clique had defended President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a multibillion- dollar effort to weaponize space. In fact, the original purpose of the Marshall Institute was to defend Reagan's hawkish—and much criticized—plan to erect a high-tech missile shield in orbit. When the Soviet empire collapsed in 1989, these Cold Warrior physicists moved on to attack a new enemy, environmentalism, which they saw as furthering the same anti-American agenda. Environmentalism (and in particular climate science) was conjured up as the latest in a long line of threats to liberty—"a green tree with red roots," as conservative journalist George Will once put it.
All of which helps explain why these free-market fundamentalists, steeped in Cold War oppositions (market economies versus command economies, the individual versus the state, the free world versus Big Brother), attacked any and all efforts to trace environmental maladies back to corporate chemicals. Chlorinated fluorocarbons were not really eating away at the ozone layer, and the sulfates being belched from coal-fired plants were not causing forest-harming acid rain; even secondhand cigarette smoke was not causing any provable harm. This tobacco connection is significant. Oreskes and Conway show that Singer, Seitz and a number of other climate-change denialists served as advisors to the Advancement of Sound Science Coalition, a Philip Morris front run by APCO Associates to challenge the evidence linking secondhand smoke to disease.
Of course, efforts of this sort don't come cheap. Oreskes and Conway describe an elaborate network of extremist scientists, all with links to well-endowed "think tanks" such as the Heritage Foundation, the American Enterprise Institute and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Trade associations such as the Electric Power Research Institute, the Global Climate Coalition and the Tobacco Institute have provided funding as well. Denialists also have at their disposal polluter-friendly media outlets such as the Washington Times, Fox News and the National Review. Additional assistance comes from libertarian talk radio and Web sites fronting for one or another well-oiled interest.
Oreskes and Conway lament the fact that climate-change denialists have been so successful in getting their message out. Legitimate climate scientists publish corrections or refutations, but these usually appear in publications read chiefly by other scientists. The doubt-mongers, however, are often able to effectively exploit the "balance bias" of the mainstream media. Newspapers often take the position that a good story has "two sides." Controversy sells, which makes it easy to overlook settled facts. In one study of U.S. media, Max and Jules Boykoff found that more than half of all stories on global warming from 1988 through 2002 gave equal time to denialists, with another 35 percent giving space to them while recognizing the consensus view. This helps explain why the U.S. Senate in 1997, only three months before the Kyoto Protocol was finalized, resolved to block its adoption by a vote of 97 to zero. Oreskes and Conway put it grimly: "Scientifically, global warming was an established fact. Politically, global warming was dead."
Oddly enough, that ignorance seems to be continuing, or even growing, despite the presence of a more science-friendly president in the White House. A number of national polls indicate an increase in public disbelief in the reality of global warming in recent years. Oreskes and Conway lay part of the blame on the Internet, which they describe as "an information hall of mirrors" where disinformation can flourish without hindrance—"pluralism run amok." A particularly snowy winter seems to influence public opinion, but so do the utterances of some media ideologues. Glenn Beck, "the second most popular television personality in America" according to a 2010 Harris poll, often regales his viewers with gems like this: "I see the issue of global warming as nothing but trying to entangle us and the rest of the world into one world government."
There is much in this book to outrage anyone who cares about the future of the planet, human health, or scientific integrity. We find an excellent account of revisionist attacks on Rachel Carson (now blamed for deaths from the banning of DDT), and a good explanation of the links between recent authors of antienvironmentalist screeds and right-wing think tanks. There is an interesting discussion of the politics of type I error (thinking an effect is real when it is not) versus type II error (missing effects that are really there). Some statisticians say that the latter are not really errors at all, just "missed opportunities." Lots of tobacco-industry conniving is exposed, and the science and politics behind the discovery of ozone depletion, acid rain and climate modeling are clearly explained.
The authors also point to a certain irony in the fact that libertarians are now using tricks once pilloried by one of their traditional heroes—the great George Orwell. Orwell's is one of the most powerful literary voices ever to speak out against fact-crushing authoritarianism. He coined such expressions as "memory hole" and "newspeak" to designate the means by which totalitarian regimes suppress the truth. Oreskes and Conway point out that the "right-wing defenders of American liberty" have resorted to similar tactics, seeking to ambush facts judged inconvenient for their corporate paymasters.
There are other books treating the history of manufactured ignorance: Think of David Michaels's Doubt Is Their Product (2008), Ross Gelbspan's The Heat Is On (1997), James Hoggan's Climate Cover-Up (2009), Chris Mooney's The Republican War on Science (2009), David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz's Deceit and Denial (2002), my own book Cancer Wars (1995), and a book I coedited with Londa Schiebinger—Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance (2008). But Oreskes and Conway's book is the most powerful exploration to date of how climate-change denialists managed to infiltrate high ranks of the Republican establishment and to block the translation of scientific facts into intelligent action.
Of course what's really at stake in most environmental science defiance is the proper role of government in limiting the right to pollute. The Seitz-Singer-Nierenberg crew are not so much antiscience as antigovernment and pro–unfettered business. Ever since the "Reagan Revolution" of the 1980s, libertarian ideologues have managed to convince large numbers of Americans that government is inherently bad—worse even than carcinogens in your food or poisons in your water. So for followers of this line of thinking—expressed in some recent Tea Party activities but more potently in many of the trade associations and "think tanks" established by major polluters—the view seems to be that if science gets in your way, you can always make up some of your own. The foolishness of such myopia is now evident in the oil spreading throughout the Gulf of Mexico—vivid proof that, as Isaiah Berlin once observed, liberty for wolves can mean death to lambs.


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text: Expanded opportunities for fall turkey hunters By John McCoy October 12, 2013 Story Share Courtesy photo In the early days of the fall turkey season, birds should be in fields hunting for insects -- at least until the first hard frosts have taken place. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- West Virginia's fall turkey hunters have some new territory to explore this year.Division of Natural Resources officials have opened six more counties, which means 42 of the state's 55 counties will be open for at least one week during the Oct. 12-Nov. 16 season. Curtis Taylor, the DNR's wildlife chief, said he's eager to see if hunters decide to take advantage of the expanded opportunity, or if they'll opt instead to bowhunt for deer."We're opening some counties that haven't been open [during the fall] since the 1940s," he said. "We'll see whether people want to hunt turkeys or want to continue pursuing deer with a bow."He has good reason to wonder. Four of those counties - Lincoln, Logan, McDowell and Wyoming - have been popular with bowhunters since the 1980s, but only in the past few years have become turkey-hunting destinations."Those counties used to have very rich fall turkey-hunting traditions, but at that time the only turkeys were up in the eastern mountains," Taylor explained. "People from the southern counties had to travel if they wanted to hunt turkeys. Is there a rich turkey hunting tradition in the southern counties now? I'd say no."Taylor believes southern hunters will probably treat turkeys more as targets of opportunity."If a turkey walks under a bowhunter in a tree stand, I figure the hunter won't hesitate to use an arrow on it," he said. With 46 counties open, there's a chance that this year's fall harvest might top 2012's total of 1,272 birds. Open counties, however, are only one factor in the equation. Others include weather, food and the number of hunters who participate.Because the bulk of fall-season counties are open only for one or two weeks, weather could play a role in the season's success - or lack of it."A little bit of rain isn't bad if you're a turkey hunter, because birds congregate in fields and walk on roads. They don't like to get any wetter than they have to," Taylor said. "But if we get a stretch of really bad weather, it could affect the harvest. When you have a season that's only a week long, weather could play a huge role. If people only have one Saturday to hunt, and if weather is really bad on that Saturday, fewer turkeys are going to get killed."At first blush, turkeys' food supply appears to have taken a hit. The DNR's annual Mast Report and Hunting Outlook, published three weeks ago, said this year's acorn crop failed. Turkeys usually rely heavily on acorns. Taylor said, however, that the situation might not be quite that bad."There is some oak mast up high, above 2,500 feet," he explained. "At lower elevations, it's spotty. It will have some impact on fall hunting, for sure. But at the same time, soft mast and beechnuts are pretty abundant, and that will offset the oak situation somewhat."Early in the season, especially if the weather holds and there isn't a hard frost, birds will be in the fields eating insects and grass seeds. After that, they'll be on dogwood, grapes and any blackberries that are still on the vine. They're also going to be hitting beech pretty hard, and also ironwood and ash seeds."For the second consecutive year, the fall season will have a one-week break built into it. DNR officials in 2012 created a new firearm season for antlerless deer, and they decided to plop it smack in the middle of the turkey season. There was some concern that punching a hole in the turkey season might reduce the harvest, but Taylor said the gap didn't appear to affect the kill at all, and the numbers bear him out.The harvest total of 1,272 birds was actually a slight increase from the previous year's harvest of 1,186. Both figures were about average for the past 10 years, during which the autumn kill has ranged between 1,130 and 1,511.The halcyon days of fall turkey hunting took place in the early 1980s, before bowhunting became all the rage. Today's harvests run about half what they did back then. Taylor believes the drop-off has happened largely because there are fewer fall turkey hunters."I think interest in fall turkey hunting has kind of gone by the wayside," he said. "Today's sportsmen look at it with a ho-hum attitude."Today, because game is so abundant statewide, people focus on one species a lot more than they did back then. Nowadays people go deer hunting or squirrel hunting or grouse hunting. Back then you just went 'hunting.' A lot of the turkeys killed back then were by guys out hunting for deer or squirrels or whatever. If turkeys happened by, they got shot."The authors of the DNR's Hunting Outlook expect this year's fall turkey season to produce more birds than last year's. "Last year 15 counties were open for a one-week season and seven counties were open for a two-week season," they wrote. "[This year] there are still 15 counties open for a one-week season, but there are now 13 counties open for a two-week season."Due to the larger number of counties open for a fall season and the poor oak mast conditions, we are predicting a higher fall turkey season harvest." Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 WV Gov. Justice discharged from Johns Hopkins Hospital after two-day stay 2 Kanawha magistrate facing judicial misconduct charges 3 On file: Aug. 20, 2017 4 Mission trip brings South Charleston, Haitian families together 5 Driving during Monday's solar eclipse? 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Hi Guys,
Need some major help, trying to work with this to make it responsive. Like make the navigation one of the things where you can click then the Navigation pops out etc.
And trying to make it all into one columns but having a hell of a time.
If someone could help me get on my way with this that would be great.
Thanks guys,
I've started playing around with it and running into some issues. Below is list of what I can tell right now...
All help is greatly appreciated and if you see any other issues with the mobile please let me know or if you have any suggestions.
On Chrome on mobile devices on my Samsung S3 it doesnt even scale the website down and I have my meta tag for viewport there and some other pages don't scale either.
Also, on some devices the slider shows up on landscape mode...
This is very frustrating, my apologies for the multiple posts, just running into issues as I try to solve it lol.
There are a [few tutorials around that will show you how to create the mobile button menu type of navigation. There's a new course on responsive design at [URL="https://learnable.com/courses/responsive-web-design-in-action-2765"]learnable](http://webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/mobile-navigation-design-tutorial) but of course there's a cost.
How can I add some padding or right margin to the right so content and border lines don't go right to edge,
I'm not sure if this is what you meant but you have a minimum width which is stopping that from happening at smaller viewports:
.row {
margin: 0 auto;
max-width: 1140px;
[B] min-width: 755px;[/B]
overflow: hidden;
width: 100%;
If you remove that min-width then those borders will not go off the screen as they do now (of course you may have put that min-width in there for a reason so you need to check if anything else is affected).
Forms on Service & Parts -> Online Booking and Contact Us are too wide seems to go right too edge or further of the screen
That seems to be the same issue as above with the min-width.
Thanks Paul,
The min-width was a huge issue, never even realized that.
The navigation menu, I can take a look at the link you supplied to work my way to solving it.
Still having major issues with it on landscape mode, the slider still shows and it goes over the navigation. It almost seems like its not reading my media queries.
The major issues though are on the Used Cars page and when you click on a Car Picture going into the single vehicle details.
It looks as though the tabs are not wrapping with the layout and overlapping other content.
Try changing the display to inline-block and see what happens.
ul.tabs li {
display: inline-block;
You are floating elements in some places but not containing them properly. make sure where you have a series of floats in a parent that has a background colour that you contain them. e.g. your random_inventory_items are floated but not contained.
content:" ";
Got to work with the search fields on the Used Cars page but that shouldnt be too difficult and figure out some spacing issues looks like theres line right across Used Car Inventory and the sorting icons are over top the pictures. And got to solve the picture issue either by moving the title of the car below the picture and maybe making picture 100% width. Or just making the picture small, what would you recommend? That would be only fixes I can spot for the User Cars page.
One you get into one of the single cars though still got some issues. Should I make the main picture full width and if so how can I add the thumbnails below it and info all below that. And I'll have to move all the information down (pictures and text) as it is too high cause goes over the checkered pattern. And still got issues with the tabs, not sure what I should do for the single pages with the tabs. Its getting there now though.
The styles still also dont be applying for landscape view on a mobile when I rotate my phone everything becomes a mess.
Still trying to solve some of the issues on the mobile especially when flipping it to landscape mode then the car pages but pretty sure thats just some simple styling issues to make it look correctly for those pages.
Sorry Mike, I've been away all day. I will have a look in the morning and see if I can help with the issue.
Really appreciate the help, your the best!
Good Morning Paul, just wanted to see if you had chance to take a peak at some of the issues with the responsive stuff on the site especially when flipping phone to landscape.
Regarding the landscape problem then refer to these two articles which may offer fixes.
You could also try changing the meta tag to:
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
Which seems to be the one recommended for best results.
You'll have to point me to the page that is giving you the problem so I can try and test (I assume you are testing on an iphone). I believe ios4 had problems with landscape mode which has since been fixed in latest versions.
For the single cars yo can make the cars go full width like this:
.car_main_photo_box {float:none;width:100%}
#main_thumb img{max-width:100%;height:auto;float:none;}
The above are over-rides and should go in the media query for the smaller window width (around 750px).
It's really a matter of going through each element and changing height and widths and floats to a more suitable arrangement for smaller widths. There is only so much you can do with an existing design because when you start from scratch you can arrange things to work better. You can't actually change html with media queries so you have to make the best of what you can do.
You will have to point me to one issue at a time (with a link) as I get lost going back up and down the thread trying to work out where I am
Hey Paul,
Thanks yea the meta tag didnt seem to work.
This is link where seeing trouble with landscape I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S3.
When I go to landscape it still shows the slider, my header navigation is messed up somewhat and the footer is messed up, which is on all pages on landscape. Thats what I can notice there on this link...
Used Car Inventoryhttp://fuzzypanda.ca/cardemon/cars-for-sale
How can I just have the Picture up top then the title below it, cause right now the title goes over top of the picture. Ad my black divider border goes over top of the title Used Car Inventory so looks like I have to push content down more.
Single Car
Only issue I'm seeing here now is the tabs anyway I can make it so they stack or something and dont flow offscreen.
Also on Landscape for
Service and Parts
As mentioned, header and Navigation are messed up and the sub nav Complete Care, Online Booking and Shop Capabilities I'd like to stack like how I did on Portrait view for mobile devices.
Basically if I can get all the styles for portrait view to work on landscape view thats what I really need to fix the landscape view then just couple minor issues with the Used Cars and Single Cars as mentioned above.
Thanks man,
Appreciate it huge.
You have the media query set to max-device width 768px and smartphones are 480px I believe (according to css tricks)
You can try 480px and see if it works for your galaxy.
However, you are going about this the wrong way in that you don't need to be concerned with device widths as such. You should target the viewport width and just change the design at the places where the design breaks. Desktops in most cases will need the smaller styles when the window is closed and makes the job a little easier overall.
I would use something like this instead of device-width:
@media only screen and (max-width : 768px) {
rules for smaller windows... etc
Then you can adjust for smaller when you see something breaking.
@media only screen and (max-width : 480px) {
more rules if needed...
The main point being in that you only apply rules when you notice the layout looking odd or breaking. Just open and close the window until something breaks and then set a media query at that breakpoint and forget about devices. Just make the page scale from small to large and collect everything on the way.
Just clear the float.
Basically the same as I said for the other picture.
In the media query use this
.inventory_photo_box {
width: 100%;
.random_widget_image {
.inventory_img {
As I said above if you use max-width instead of max-device-width you can test most things in the browser by just opening and closing
In that case why didn't you use the same styles as the other page rather than putting them in a separate css file not called on that page? The header styles are here in style.css:
.header {
border-bottom: 10px solid #004964;
height: 130px;
position: relative;
z-index: 998;
Those global styles should have been the ones altered in the media query for smaller widths.I would have done something like this in your media query:
.header {
background: none;
height: auto;
width: 100%;
.header ul{padding-top:10px}
.header li,.header li a{line-height:24px;height:auto}
Hi Paul,
Thanks for all this, looks like everything is working except that one issue with the Used Car Inventory I put in the CSS to drop the title of the car down below it but it didn't seem to do it when testing on my Samsung everything else seems to work correctly now.
I couldn't see the CSS I gave you above.
Where did you put it? It needs to be in that media query.


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The Mysterious Girl singer will be signing copies of his new perfume and album on Saturday from 11:30am, near TK Maxx, while former The Only Way is Essex star, Amy will be at the Brierley Hill shopping centre all weekend promoting her new fashion range.
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It was one of those hectic days when my to-do list was longer than my arm, yet my mind was full of new ideas I wanted to add on to that list. I was trying to multi-task, but of course I ended up doing a little bit of everything, but not a whole lot of anything. If there is one thing I don't compromise even during the busiest times, however, it's my eating habits.
This lentil salad is one of my favourite quick lunches and seconds beautifully as a side dish for fish, tofu or meat. I love the tangy dressing that the lentils suck up and the oranges bring a beautiful seasonal twist on this meal. Perfectly quick yet satisfying meal for the busy of days!
Lentils with daikon and orange
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1 cup (French) lentils
1 medium sized daikon (white radish), peeled and thinly sliced
2 oranges
1/2 lemon
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 tablespoon pomegranate balsamic vinegar
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard powder
sea salt
freshly ground black pepper
1. Rinse the lentils. Drain and place in a saucepan with 4 cups of water. Bring to boil, then let simmer for 20-30 minutes or until just tender. Drain and place the lentils in a large mixing bowl.
2. In a small bowl, whisk together the olive oil, juice and zest of one orange and half a lemon, pomegranate balsamic (or normal balsamic vinegar with pomegranate molasses) and mustard powder. Season the dressing with a pinch of salt and freshly ground black pepper and pour all the dressing on to the lentils. Mix thoroughly to coat.
3. Add in the daikon slices. Peel and cut the orange into segments and add them in as well. Mix everything together and serve.