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AMD Launches Never Settle Forever: Choose Your Own Game Bundles
Subject: Graphics Cards | August 14, 2013 - 12:00 AM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: radeon, never settle forever, never settle, amd
It should come as no surprise to our readers that we at PC Perspective have been big fans of what AMD has been doing with game bundles over the last year. With the start of the Never Settle campaign in October of 2012, AMD began down a path to help sell Radeon cards with amazing game bundles and pack ins that NVIDIA and its GeForce brand still have yet to match. It was an amazing move for a company that really wanted to drive sales and gain market share in the discrete graphics space.
Fast forward to today, past the Never Settle Reloaded and Never Settle Level Up campaigns and AMD has another offer for gamers looking to upgrade their GPU: Never Settle Forever. The crux of this new campaign is choice. AMD is allowing gamers to select the free game or games they get out of a curated list rather than having AMD select them for you.
Depending on the card you buy and the tier it falls in, you'll be able to select 1, 2 or 3 games from a list. There are a few catches though that we need to discuss. First, the game list for each tier is NOT the same.
For example, Tomb Raider is only avaiable in the top tier. The currect tier sets work out as follows:
- Gold Tier (3 games): HD 7950 and HD 7970
- Silver Tier (2 games): HD 7800 series
- Bronze Tier (1 game): HD 7770 and HD 7790
The Radeon HD 7990 is not included on these tiers but it will continue with the "8 free games" bundle for the life of the card we were told.
When you buy a card from a participating retailer you'll get a code that you can then take to AMD's Radeon Rewards website and redemption portal. You enter your reward code, register yourself and then you get to browse the games in the available packages. Here are some of the interesting notes:
- Once you register your code, you have until December 31st, 2013 to perform your transaction.
- You can only perform a SINGLE transaction meaning you must use all of your game choices at one time. You CANNOT select one game now and another game later.
- Other games can be added or removed at any time in the Never Settle Forever bundle so once something leaves you cannot get that game anymore.
- There are no promises on what other games may or may not be added to the program between now and the end of the year.
Not being able to split up your selections is a hard pill to swallow as you means you cannot pick up Tomb Raider today and then plan on getting another title next month; if Tomb Raider is gone when a new game is added you will not have access to it. There is likely no techical reason for this restriction other than publisher and business agreements in place with AMD.
It is a letdown that AMD has not included any new games with this bundle refresh. All 9 of the available titles in the Gold tier have been bundled with AMD cards before. Even worse, arguably the two best titles from the previous campaign are missing: Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 3. We do expect other games to be added but AMD would only allude that "new retail games will be added on several occasions" before the end of the year. Does that mean Battlefield 4, Thief or watch_dogs? While I can't say for certain I think it is pretty likely.
So where does that leave us with the new Never Settle Forever bundle today? It's kind of a mixed bag as it stands with the games avaiable in the tiers today getting long in the tooth. Of the 9 games available in Gold only DMC, Tomb Raider and Blood Dragon were released this year. Dues Ex and Dirt 3 were released in 2011 and the rest were sometime in that magical year of 2012. And of those 9 games only two of them are currently for sale for the $49 value (DMC and Tomb Raider) that AMD places on a single game title. Others can be found for $39 (Far Cry 3), $24 (Hitman) or $14 (Blood Dragon).
AMD is still the leader in the bundle and add-on battle for discrete graphics cards but this particular launch is a bit less astounding than the previous ones have been. The upside though is that AMD can now very easily add other games to the mix without having to re-launch the entire program which was obviously the point of this revamp. So while Never Settle Forever doesn't have me as excited as the original campaign, I have a feeling 2013 holds some very good things for it!
AMD Drops Radeon HD 7990 to $699 with 8 Free Games
Subject: Graphics Cards | August 7, 2013 - 01:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: amd, radeon, hd 7990, never settle, never settle reloaded
An interesting bit of information just came to PC Perspective this morning and it revolves around the price of the AMD Radeon HD 7990. If the title didn't tip you off, we have found that Newegg.com is listing various HD 7990 dual-Tahiti graphics cards for $699!!
When the card launched in April, it had a retail price of $999 and since then had come down to the ~$880 range. Today though, AMD has definitely made an aggressive move against NVIDIA by lowering the price of its flagship product a full $300.
Not only that, but the Radeon HD 7990 6GB dual-GPU card will still include 8 free PC games, while supplies last. As part of the Never Settle series of bundles, the HD 7990 includes Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, Far Cry 3, Blood Dragon, Hitman Absolution, Sleeping Dogs and Deus Ex. If you don't own all or some of those titles, that makes the HD 7990 price drop even MORE appealing.
The Radeon HD 7990 hasn't been a card to avoid controversy. Our initial review of the card showed that CrossFire scaling was resulting in very poor perceived performance and our Frame Rating system was able to detail how and why very precisely. But on August 1st, AMD released a new Catalyst 13.8 driver that introduced a frame pacing fix for the problem for single monitor (non 4K) users.
I would highly encourage any user thinking about buying the Radeon HD 7990 to read over my Catalyst 13.8 updated article to see if the hardware makes sense for you. With a $699 price tag, compared to the $999 of the GeForce GTX 690 or GTX TITAN from NVIDIA, the product is spectacularly interesting as long as you don't use multi-display Eyefinity or one of the new 4K dual-head displays like the ASUS PQ321Q.
For gamers that are using a single panel though, hopefully at 2560x1440 or 2560x1600, this price drop might turn things around. Check out those new $699 prices at Newegg!
So you want a second opinion on Frame Pacing, eh?
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | August 2, 2013 - 12:44 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: video, stutter, radeon, nvidia, hd 7990, frame rating, frame pacing, amd
Scott Wasson from The Tech Report and Ryan have been discussing the microstuttering present in Crossfire and while Ryan got his hands on the hardware to capture the raw output first, The Tech Report have been investigating this issue as in depth as Ryan and Ken have been. Their look at the new Catalyst and the effects of Frame Pacing show the same results as you saw yesterday in Ryan's article; for essentially no cost in performance you can get a much smoother experience when using a CrossFire system on a single display. In their article they have done a great job of splicing together videos of runthroughs of several games with the Frame Pacing disabled on one side and enabled on the other, allowing you to see with your own eyes the difference in game play, without having to have your own Crossfire system.
"Can a driver fix what ails the Radeon HD 7990? Will the new Catalysts magically transform this baby into the fastest graphics card on the planet? We go inside the second to find out."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- AMD Catalyst 13.8 Beta Frame Pacing CrossFire Driver @ [H]ard|OCP
- AMD Frame Pacing Explored: Catalyst 13.8 Brings Consistency to Crossfire @ AnandTech
- NVIDIA Shield Review: At the Crossroads of PC and Mobile Gaming @ AnandTech
- Gmail, Outlook.com and e-voting 'pwned' on stage in crypto-dodge hack @ The Register
- Boffins: We have FOOLED APPLE with malware app @ The Register
- iOS 7 Fix for Malicious iPhone Chargers Requires User Savvy @ DailyTech
- Happy 20th birthday, Windows NT 3.1 @ The Register
- NASA JPL boss Brian Muirhead talks about Mars exploration @ The Inquirer
- Man Builds Fully-Functional Boeing 737 Flight Simulator In His Son's Bedroom @ Slashdot
- Printing an Aston Martin DB4 @ Hack a Day
Frame Pacing for CrossFire
When the Radeon HD 7990 launched in April of this year, we had some not-so-great things to say about it. The HD 7990 depends on CrossFire technology to function and we had found quite a few problems with AMD's CrossFire technology over the last months of testing with our Frame Rating technology, the HD 7990 "had a hard time justifying its $1000 price tag." Right at launch, AMD gave us a taste of a new driver that they were hoping would fix the frame pacing and frame time variance issues seen in CrossFire, and it looked positive. The problem was that the driver wouldn't be available until summer.
As I said then: "But until that driver is perfected, is bug free and is presented to buyers as a made-for-primetime solution, I just cannot recommend an investment this large on the Radeon HD 7990."
Today could be a very big day for AMD - the release of the promised driver update that enables frame pacing on AMD 7000-series CrossFire configurations including the Radeon HD 7990 graphics cards with a pair of Tahiti GPUs.
It's not perfect yet and there are some things to keep an eye on. For example, this fix will not address Eyefinity configurations which includes multi-panel solutions and the new 4K 60 Hz displays that require a tiled display configuration. Also, we found some issues with more than two GPU CrossFire that we'll address in a later page too.
New Driver Details
Starting with 13.8 and moving forward, AMD plans to have the frame pacing fix integrated into all future drivers. The software team has implemented a software based frame pacing algorithm that simply monitors the time it takes for each GPU to render a frame, how long a frame is displayed on the screen and inserts delays into the present calls when necessary to prevent very tightly timed frame renders. This balances or "paces" the frame output to the screen without lowering the overall frame rate. The driver monitors this constantly in real-time and minor changes are made on a regular basis to keep the GPUs in check.
As you would expect, this algorithm is completely game engine independent and the games should be completely oblivious to all that is going on (other than the feedback from present calls, etc).
This fix is generic meaning it is not tied to any specific game and doesn't require profiles like CrossFire can from time to time. The current implementation will work with DX10 and DX11 based titles only with DX9 support being added later with another release. AMD claims this was simply a development time issue and since most modern GPU-bound titles are DX10/11 based they focused on that area first. In phase 2 of the frame pacing implementation AMD will add in DX9 and OpenGL support. AMD wouldn't give me a timeline for implementation though so we'll have to see how much pressure AMD continues with internally to get the job done.
Continue reading our story of the new AMD Catalyst 13.8 beta driver with frame pacing support!!
AMD Catalyst for Windows 8.1 Release Preview
Subject: General Tech, Graphics Cards | June 26, 2013 - 06:05 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Windows 8.1, radeon, amd
You should be extremely cautious about upgrading to the Windows 8.1 Release Preview. Each of your apps, and all of your desktop software, must be reinstalled when the final code is released later this year; it is a detour to a dead end.
If curiosity overwhelms reason, and your graphics card was made by AMD withing the last few years, you will at least have a driver available.
It would be a good idea to refer to the AMD article to ensure that your specific model is supported. The driver covers many graphics cards from the Radeon, APU, and FirePro product categories. Many models are certified against Windows Display Driver Model version 1.3 (WDDM 1.3) although some, pre-Graphics Core Next architecture (as far as I can tell), are left behind with WDDM 1.2 introduced with Windows 8.
WDDM 1.3, new to Windows 8.1, allows for a few new developer features:
Enumerating GPU engine capabilities
- A DirectX interface to query card capabilities
- Helps schedule work, especially in "Linked Display Adapter" (LDA, think Crossfire) configurations.
Using cross-adapter resources in a hybrid system
- For systems with both discrete and embedded GPUs, such as an APU and a Radeon Card
- Allows for automatic loading of both GPUs simultaneously for appropriate applications
- Cool, but I've already loaded separate OpenCL kernels simultaneously on both GTX 670 and Intel HD 4000 in Windows 7. Admittedly, it would be nice if it were officially supported functionality, though.
Choice in YUV format ranges, studio or extended, for Microsoft Media Foundation (MMF)
- Formerly, MMF video processing assumed 16-235 black-white, which professional studios use.
- Webcam and Point-and-Shoot use 0-255 (a full byte), which are now processed properly.
Wireless Display (Miracast)
- Attach your PC wirelessly to a Miracast display adapter attached to TV by HDMI, or whatever.
Multiplane overlay support
- Allows GPU to perform complicated compositing, such as video over a website.
- If it's the same as proposed for Linux, will also allow translucency.
AMD's advertised enhancements for Windows 8.1 are:
Wireless Display
- Already covered, a part of WDDM 1.3.
48 Hz Dynamic Refresh rates for Video Playback
- Not a clue, unless it is part of an upcoming HFR format for consumers.
Aggressive V-sync interrupt optimization
- Again, not a clue, but it sounds like something to be Frame Rated?
Skype/Lync video conferencing acceleration
- ... just when we move to a dual-machine Skype broadcasting setup...
DX 11.1 feature: Tiled Resources
- Some sources claim DirectX 11.2???
- Will render the most apparent details to a player with higher quality.
If you own Windows 8, you can check out 8.1 by downloading it from the Windows Store... if you dare. By tomorrow, Microsoft will provide ISO version for users to create install media for users who want to fresh-install to a, hopefully unimportant, machine.
The drivers, along with (again) the list of supported cards, are available at AMD.
Frame Rating: AMD plans driver release to address frame pacing for July 31st
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 20, 2013 - 04:05 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: radeon, nvidia, geforce, frame rating, fcat, crossfire, amd
Well, the date has been set. AMD publicly stated on its @AMDRadeon Twitter account that a new version the prototype driver we originally previewed with the release of the Radeon HD 7990 in April will be released to the public on July 31st. For a problem that many in the industry didn't think existed.
Big news for CrossFire! We plan to release our driver that delivers improved multi-GPU frame pacing on July 31. More info soon.
— AMD Radeon Graphics (@AMDRadeon) June 20, 2013
Since that April release AMD has been very quiet about its driver changes and actually has refused to send me updated prototypes over the spring. Either they have it figured out or they are worried they haven't - but it looks like we'll find out at the end of next month and I feel pretty confident that the team will be able to address the issues we brought to light.
For those of you that might have missed the discussion, our series of Frame Rating stories will tell you all about the issues with frame pacing and stutter in regards to AMD's CrossFire multi-GPU technology.
- Frame Rating Dissected: Full Details on Capture-based Graphics Performance Testing
- Frame Rating: Visual Effects of Vsync on Gaming Animation
- Frame Rating: AMD Improves CrossFire with Prototype Driver
AMD gave the media a prototype driver in April to test with the Radeon HD 7990, a card that depends on CrossFire to work correctly, and the improvements were pretty drastic.
So what can we expect on July 31st? A driver that will give users the option to disable or enable the frame pacing technology they are developing - though I am still of the mindset that disabling is never advantageous. More to come in the next 30 days!
Rumor: AMD Gets Exclusive Optimization for all Frostbite 3 Games
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 18, 2013 - 03:39 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: radeon, nvidia, geforce, frostbite 3, ea, dice, amd
The original source article at IGN.com has been updated with some new information. Now they are saying the agreement between AMD and EA is "non-exclusive and gamers using other components will be supported."
The quote from an EA rep says as follows:
DICE has a partnership with AMD specifically for Battlefield 4 on PC to showcase and optimize the game for AMD hardware," an EA spokesperson said. "This does not exclude DICE from working with other partners to ensure players have a great experience across a wide set of PCs for all their titles.
This could be a huge deal for NVIDIA and AMD in the coming months - according to a story at IGN.com, AMD has entered into an agreement with EA that will allow them exclusive rights to optimization for all games based around the Frostbite 3 engine. That includes Battlefield 4, Mirror's Edge 2, Need for Speed Rivals and many more games due out this year and in 2014. Here is the quote that is getting my attention:
Starting with the release of Battlefield 4, all current and future titles using the Frostbite 3 engine — Need for Speed Rivals, Mirror's Edge 2, etc. — will ship optimized exclusively for AMD GPUs and CPUs. While Nvidia-based systems will be supported, the company won't be able to develop and distribute updated drivers until after each game is released.
Battlefield 4 will be exclusive optimized for AMD hardware.
This is huge news for AMD as the Frostbite 3 engine will be used for all EA published games going forward with the exception of sports titles. The three mentioned above are huge but this also includes Star Wars Battlefront, Dragon Age and even the next Mass Effect so I can't really emphasize enough how big of a win this could be for AMD's marketing and developer relations teams.
I am particularly interested in this line as well:
While Nvidia-based systems will be supported, the company won't be able to develop and distribute updated drivers until after each game is released.
The world of PC optimizations and partnerships has been around for a long time so this isn't a huge surprise for anyone that follows PC gaming. What is bothersome to me is that both EA and AMD
are saying are rumored to have agreed that NVIDIA won't get access to the game as it is being developed - something that is CRUCIAL for day-of driver releases and performance tweaks for GeForce card owners. In most cases, both AMD and NVIDIA developer relations teams get early access to game builds for PC titles in order to validate compatibility and to improve performance of these games for the public release. Without these builds, NVIDIA would be at a big disadvantage. This is exactly what happend with the recent Tomb Raider release.
AMD called me to reiterate their stance that competition does not automatically mean cutting out the other guy. In the Tomb Raider story linked above, Neil Robison, AMD's Senior Director of Consumer and Graphics Alliances, states quite plainly: "The thing that angers me the most is when I see a request to debilitate a game. I understand winning, I get that, and I understand aggressive companies, I get that. Why would you ever want to introduce a feature on purpose that would make a game not good for half the gaming audience?"
So what do we take away from that statement, made in a story published in March, and today's rumor? We have to take AMD at its word until we see solid evidence otherwise, or enough cases of this occurring to feel like I am being duped but AMD wants us all to know that they are playing the game the "right way." That stance just happens to be counter to this rumor.
NVIDIA had performance and compatibility issues with Tomb Raider upon release.
The irony in all of this is that AMD has been accusing NVIDIA of doing this exact thing for years - though without any public statements from developers, publishers or NVIDIA. When Batman: Arkham Asylum was launched AMD basically said that NVIDIA had locked them out of supporting antialiasing. In 2008, Assassin's Creed dropped DX 10.1 support supposedly because NVIDIA asked them too, who didn't have support for it at the time in GeForce cards. Or even that NVIDIA was disabling cores for PhysX CPU support to help prop up GeForce sales. At the time, AMD PR spun this as the worst possible thing for a company to do in the name of gamers, that is was bad for the industry, etc. But times change as opportunity changes.
The cold truth is that this is why AMD decided to take the chance that NVIDIA was allegedly unwilling to and take the console design wins that are often noted as being "bad business." If settling for razor thin margins on the consoles is a risk, the reward that AMD is hoping to get is exactly this: benefits in other markets thanks to better relationships with game developers.
Will the advantage be with AMD thanks to PS4 and Xbox One hardware?
At E3 I spoke in-depth with both NVIDIA and AMD executives about this debate and as you might expect both have very different opinions about what is going to transpire in the next 12-24 months. AMD views this advantage (being in the consoles) as the big bet that is going to pay off for the more profitable PC space. NVIDIA thinks that AMD still doesn't have what it takes to truly support developers in the long run and they don't have the engineers to innovate on the technology side. In my view, having Radeon-based processors in the Xbox One and Playstation 4 (as well as the Wii U I guess) gives AMD a head start but won't win them the race for the hearts and minds of PC gamers. There is still a lot of work to be done for that.
Before this story broke I was planning on outlining another editorial on this subject and it looks like it just got promoted to a top priority. There appear to be a lot of proverbial shoes left to drop in this battle, but it definitely needs more research and discussion.
Remember the issues with Batman: Arkham Asylum? I do.
I asked both NVIDIA and AMD for feedback on this story but only AMD has replied thus far. Robert Hallock, PR manager for gaming and graphics, Graphics Business Unit at AMD sent me this:
It makes sense that game developers would focus on AMD hardware with AMD hardware being the backbone of the next console generation. At this time, though, our relationship with EA is exclusively focused on Battlefield 4 and its hardware optimizations for AMD CPUs, GPUs and APUs.
Not much there, but he is also not denying of the original report coming from IGN. It might just be too early for a more official statement. I will update this story with information from NVIDIA if I hear anything else.
What do YOU think about this announcement though? Is this good news for AMD and bad news for NVIDIA? Is it good or bad for the gamer and in particular, the PC gamer? Your input will help guide or upcoming continued talks with NVIDIA and AMD on the subject.
Just so we all have some clarification on this and on the potential for validity of the rumor, this is where I sourced the story from this afternoon:
AMD wants you to know there is a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition for $419
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 7, 2013 - 02:33 PM | Ryan Shrout
Tagged: amd, radeon, hd 7970 ghz edition, HD 7970, never settle
AMD just passed me a note that I found to be very interesting. In an obvious response to the release of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 that offers the GK104 GPU (previously only in the GTX 680) for a lower price of $399, AMD wants you to know that at least ONE Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition card is priced lower than the others.
The Sapphire Vapor-XHD 7970 GHz Edition is currently listed on Newegg.com for $419, a cool $30 less than the other HD 7970 GHz Edition cards. This is not a card-wide price drop to $419 though. AMD had this to say:
In late May I noted that we would be working with our partners to improve channel supply of the AMD Radeon™ HD 7970 GHz Edition to North American resellers like Newegg.com. Today I'm mailing to let you know that this process has begun to bear fruit, with the Sapphire Vapor-X HD 7970 GHz Edition now listing for the AMD SEP of $419 US. Of course, this GPU is also eligible for the Never Settle Reloaded AND Level Up programs!
Improving supply is an ongoing process, of course, but we're pleased with the initial results of our efforts and hope you might pass word to your readers if you get a chance.
This "ongoing process" might mean that we'll see other partners' card sell for this lower price but it also might not. In AMD's defense, our testing proves that in single GPU configurations, the Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition does very well compared to the GTX 770, especially at higher resolutions.
I did ask AMD for some more answers in regards to what other partners think about a competitor getting unique treatment with AMD to offer this lower price unit, but I haven't received an answer yet. I'll update here when we do!
For today though, if you are looking for a Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition that also comes with the AMD Never Settle game bundle (Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Tomb Raider), it's hard to go wrong with that $419 option.
The Architectural Deep Dive
AMD officially unveiled their brand new Bobcat architecture to the world at CES 2011. This was a very important release for AMD in the low power market. Even though Netbooks were a dying breed at that time, AMD experienced a good uptick in sales due to the good combination of price, performance, and power consumption for the new Brazos platform. AMD was of the opinion that a single CPU design would not be able to span the power consumption spectrum of CPUs at the time, and so Bobcat was designed to fill that space which existed from 1 watt to 25 watts. Bobcat never was able to get down to that 1 watt point, but the Z-60 was a 4.5 watt part with two cores and the full 80 Radeon cores.
The Bobcat architecture was produced on TSMC's 40 nm process. AMD eschewed the upcoming 32 nm HKMG/SOI process that was being utilized for the upcoming Llano and Bulldozer parts. In hindsight, this was a good idea. Yields took a while to improve on GLOBALFOUNDRIES new process, while the existing 40 nm product from TSMC was running at full speed. AMD was able to provide the market in fairly short order with good quantities of Bobcat based APUs. The product more than paid for itself, and while not exactly a runaway success that garnered many points of marketshare from Intel, it helped to provide AMD with some stability in the market. Furthermore, it provided a very good foundation for AMD when it comes to low power parts that are feature rich and offer competitive performance.
The original Brazos update did not happen, instead AMD introduced Brazos 2.0 which was a more process improvement oriented product which featured slightly higher speeds but remained in the same TDP range. The uptake of this product was limited, and obviously it was a minor refresh to buoy purchases of the aging product. Competition was coming from low power Ivy Bridge based chips, as well as AMD's new Trinity products which could reach TDPs of 17 watts. Brazos and Brazos 2.0 did find a home in low powered, but full sized notebooks that were very inexpensive. Even heavily leaning Intel based manufacturers like Toshiba released Brazos based products in the sub-$500 market. The combination of good CPU performance and above average GPU performance made this a strong product in this particular market. It was so power efficient, small batteries were typically needed, thereby further lowering the cost.
All things must pass, and Brazos is no exception. Intel has a slew of 22 nm parts that are encroaching on the sub-15 watt territory, ARM partners have quite a few products that are getting pretty decent in terms of overall performance, and the graphics on all of these parts are seeing some significant upgrades. The 40 nm based Bobcat products are no longer competitive with what the market has to offer. So at this time we are finally seeing the first Jaguar based products. Jaguar is not a revolutionary product, but it improves on nearly every aspect of performance and power usage as compared to Bobcat.
Continue reading our analysis of the new Jaguar and GCN architecture!!
AMD to erupt Volcanic Islands GPUs as early as Q4 2013?
Subject: Editorial, General Tech, Graphics Cards, Processors | May 8, 2013 - 09:32 PM | Scott Michaud
Tagged: Volcanic Islands, radeon, ps4, amd
So the Southern Islands might not be entirely stable throughout 2013 as we originally reported; seismic activity being analyzed suggests the eruption of a new GPU micro-architecture as early as Q4. These Volcanic Islands, as they have been codenamed, should explode onto the scene opposing NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 700-series products.
It is times like these where GPGPU-based seismic computation becomes useful.
The rumor is based upon a source which leaked a fragment of a slide outlining the processor in block diagram form and specifications of its alleged flagship chip, "Hawaii". Of primary note, Volcanic Islands is rumored to be organized with both Serial Processing Modules (SPMs) and a Parallel Compute Module (PCM).
So apparently a discrete GPU can have serial processing units embedded on it now.
Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA) is a set of initiatives to bridge the gap between massively parallel workloads and branching logic tasks. We usually make reference to this in terms of APUs and bringing parallel-optimized hardware to the CPU. In this case, we are discussing it in terms of bringing serial processing to the discrete GPU. According to the diagram, the chip within would contain 8 processor modules each with two processing cores and an FPU for a total of 16 cores. There does not seem to be any definite identification whether these cores would be based upon their license to produce x86 processors or their other license to produce ARM processors. Unlike an APU, this is heavily skewed towards parallel computation rather than a relatively even balance between CPU, GPU, and chipset features.
Now of course, why would they do that? Graphics processors can do branching logic but it tends to sharply cut performance. With an architecture such as this, a programmer might be able to more efficiently switch between parallel and branching logic tasks without doing an expensive switch across the motherboard and PCIe bus between devices. Josh Walrath suggested a server containing these as essentially add-in card computers. For gamers, this might help out with workloads such as AI which is awkwardly split between branching logic and massively parallel visibility and path-finding tasks. Josh seems skeptical about this until HSA becomes further adopted, however.
Still, there is a reason why they are implementing this now. I wonder, if the SPMs are based upon simple x86 cores, how the PS4 will influence PC gaming. Technically, a Volcanic Island GPU would be an oversized PS4 within an add-in card. This could give AMD an edge, particularly in games ported to the PC from the Playstation.
This chip, Hawaii, is rumored to have the following specifications:
- 4096 stream processors
- 16 serial processor cores on 8 modules
- 4 geometry engines
- 256 TMUs
- 64 ROPs
- 512-bit GDDR5 memory interface, much like the PS4.
20 nm Gate-Last silicon fab process
- Unclear if TSMC or "Common Platform" (IBM/Samsung/GLOBALFOUNDRIES)
Softpedia is also reporting on this leak. Their addition claims that the GPU will be designed on a 20nm Gate-Last fabrication process. While gate-last is considered to be not worth the extra effort in production, Fully Depleted Silicon On Insulator (FD-SOI) is apparently "amazing" on gate-last at 28nm and smaller fabrication. This could mean that AMD is eying that technology and making this design with intent of switching to an FD-SOI process, without a large redesign which an initially easier gate-first production would require.
Well that is a lot to process... so I will leave you with an open question for our viewers: what do you think AMD has planned with this architecture, and what do you like and/or dislike about what your speculation would mean?
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Shomari firstname.lastname@example.com joined the staff in March 2015 and is responsible for oversight of Campus Rec programs and marketing . He is a native of Shelby, North Carolina and attended East Carolina University where he received his Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. After graduation, he moved to Illinois to attend the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He worked as the Graduate Assistant of Intramural & Club Sports in the Division of Campus Recreation while receiving his Master's degree in Recreation, Sport and Tourism. In 2006, Shomari began his professional career in collegiate recreation in Washington, DC where he served as the Assistant Director of Intramural Sports at The George Washington University. In 2011,he took the position of Assistant Director of Intramural & Club Sports at American University. He served four years at AU while being recognized as a Certified Pool Operator and working as the Interim Aquatic Coordinator. While in DC, he met his wife Silvana; they have two sons, Shomari II and Obadiah. Shomari enjoys spending time with his family and is a passionate fan of college football and the New York Mets!
Emma is originally from Rochester, New York where she attended The College at Brockport State University of New York. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology but following her passion for aquatics and programming she received her Masters in Recreation and Leisure Services Management. Emma left New York and joined the Campus Rec staff in May of 2009. She is very active and enjoys playing hockey for her Gulf Coast Sea-Gals travel team.
Chad is originally from DeLand, Florida. He attended Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University as an undergraduate where he studied business. Through the course of his undergraduate studies he developed a passion for recreation and became involved in special events and facilities as a student employee. He received his Master's degree from Ole Miss in Parks & Recreation Management where he also served as a facilities graduate assistant for campus recreation. Go Rebs! Hotty Toddy
Billy grew up in Tennessee, where after graduating high school he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. During his enlistment, he served for six years in locations including Iceland, Iraq and the Florida Panhandle. Afterwards, he decided to follow his love of the outdoors and received his bachelor's degree in Outdoor Recreation from Middle Tennessee State University. During this time he worked for MTSU's Outdoor Pursuits program and then went on to Louisiana State University. At LSU he completed his Master's in Sport Management, and served as LSU UREC's first Adventure Education graduate assistant. Billy joined the FGCU team in the summer of 2014. Some of his favorite outdoor activities include fishing, climbing, and kayaking.
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Sarah is originally from the metro Detroit area and completed her undergraduate work at the University of Michigan where she was a member of the women's rugby club and discovered her passion for campus recreation. She graduated in 2015 with her MPA in Nonprofit Organization and Management while serving as the Graduate Assistant for Intramural and Club Sports at Oakland University. Sarah was excited to get away from the Michigan winters and enjoys reading, playing soccer, and supporting her Wolverines and Detroit sports teams.

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I have a Cisco WAP4410N AP device.
Since yesterday, it is supposed to serve a network of about 15 (max 20) clients at the same time, but not all clients will be using bandwidth simultaneously, since it's a mixed network of notebooks/tablets/smartphones. It is configured to work in B/G mode (instead of default B/G/N) because it appeares to have a stronger signal that way.
Somewhere in settings (Wireless > Advanced Settings), there is a following screen:
Note the "Load Balancing" section above. Embedded help page says this:
Load Balancing
Load balancing enables the access point to reject any newer wireless client to associate when the utilization reaches the configured threshold. If you do not want it, select Disabled.
Administration manual makes it a little bit clearer what's the intended use for this feature:
First question: In which scenario would it make sense to load balance clients between SSID's emitted from same AP? From my understanding of wireless networks, a single AP would become saturated with max 25 clients, and in my mind, it is pointless to load balance on the same device, all while sharing same channel and BSSID. Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
(I'll try to sneak in two more related question, if anyone is able to answer them, so I don't repeat similar questions.)
Second (sub)question: Manual says that "utilization" is actually current CPU utilization of the unit. Does it mean that if utilization is near 100% most of the time, unit is becoming saturated and is working sub-optimally? It's weird to me that a single AP unit (and a quite pricey one at that!) would get to 100% utilization with some 10-15 clients...?
Third (sub)question: Is capacity of AP to handle more clients going to improve when N-mode is disabled (the way I did), and AP is set to work in G (or mixed B/G) mode?


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Your QuestionMy family and I have a genetic tooth disorder, and I am convinced it is amelogenesis imperfecta (AI). Is it possible to prevent my children from inheriting this condition? Are there any treatments for those already affected?
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How is amelogenesis imperfecta inherited?
Amelogenesis imperfecta can have different patterns of inheritance, depending on the gene that is altered. Most cases are caused by mutations in the ENAM gene and are inherited in an autosomal dominant pattern. This type of inheritance means one copy of the altered gene in each cell is sufficient to cause the disorder.[1]
Amelogenesis imperfecta may also be inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern; this form of the disorder can result from mutations in the ENAM or MMP20 gene. Autosomal recessive inheritance means two copies of the gene in each cell are altered.[1]
About 5 percent of amelogenesis imperfecta cases are caused by mutations in the AMELX gene and are inherited in an X-linked pattern. A condition is considered X-linked if the mutated gene that causes the disorder is located on the X chromosome, one of the two sex chromosomes. In most cases, males with X-linked amelogenesis imperfecta experience more severe dental abnormalities than females with this form of this condition.[1]Other cases of amelogenesis imperfecta result from new mutations in these genes and occur in people with no history of the disorder in their family.[1]
Can amelogenesis imperfecta be prevented?
If an affected individual has a known mutation in one of the genes associated with this condition, it may be possible to test for the condition during pregnancy using fetal DNA obtained through chorionic villus sampling (CVS) or amniocentesis. Another form of genetic testing, called preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), could potentially be used if a mutation has been identified in a family. To perform PGD, a couple must first undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF). One cell is removed from each of the resulting embryos and is used to perform DNA testing. Only the embryos that test negative for the mutation are put back into the mother. The availability of PGD is limited due to its high cost and a lack of centers that perform the procedure.
How might amelogenesis imperfecta be treated?
Detailed information on the treatment of amelogenesis imperfecta is available from the UNC School of Dentistry.
What causes amelogenesis imperfecta?
In some cases, the genetic cause of amelogenesis imperfecta can not been identified. Researchers are working to find mutations in other genes that are responsible for this disorder.[1]
Click on each gene name to learn more about the role it plays in the development of tooth enamel.
- Amelogenesis imperfecta. Genetics Home Reference (GHR). May 2015; http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/amelogenesis-imperfecta. Accessed 9/10/2015.
- Amelogenesis imperfecta. MedlinePlus. February 25, 2014; http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/001578.htm. Accessed 9/17/2015.
- Wright JT. Amelogenesis Imperfecta. Developmental Defects of the Teeth. https://www.dentistry.unc.edu/dentalprofessionals/resources/defects/ai/. Accessed 9/17/2015.
- Crawford PJM, Aldred M & Bloch-Zupan A. Amelogenesis imperfecta. Orphanet. April, 2007; http://www.orpha.net/consor/cgi-bin/OC_Exp.php?lng=EN&Expert=88661. Accessed 9/10/2015.


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Uniting the faithful in the Amarillo Diocese is the goal of the 2006 Eucharistic Congress on Friday and Saturday.
In addition to providing sessions in Spanish and Vietnamese as well as English, the emphasis of the congress will be bringing the various groups together despite any differences.
"Some people confuse the word 'congress with a form of governance. A congress is a meeting, an encounter, a formal gathering or assembly. Our Eucharistic Congress is a holy convention or convocation a calling together of the faithful to deepen strengths, and celebrate our faith in the mystery of the Eucharist," said Bishop John W. Yanta of the Amarillo Diocese.
The final mass of the congress will be presided over by Renato Cardinal Martino, president of Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People. The cardinal, who comes for the ceremony from Rome, will perform the Mass in traditional Latin.
"Usually our masses are in English, but the language of our religion is Latin, so it will be a good experience," said Kim Richard, director of office development and stewardship for the Amarillo Diocese.
Some of the special speakers for the breakout session include Dr. Alveda King, Amy Welborne, Rachel Scott and the Rev. Frank Pavone.
The breakout sessions will include a general track, a Spanish Track, a "pro-life" track, youth track, kid track and Vietnamese track.
"We wanted to have something for everyone," Richard said.
King, the niece of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., will speak about civil rights and abortion. Rachel Scott will give families tips on raising large families. Amy Welborne, an author, will "decode" the "Da Vinci Code" as she speaks on her latest book.
Friday nights events will end with a concert by Tony Melendez. Melendez who was born without arms, has learned to play the guitar and other instruments with his feet.
"It will be a great time to get together with other people of the faith," said Helen Sage, an Amarillo resident who attended the last congress four years ago. "There will be something there for everyone."
Admission to the congress is free and a catered lunch of $5 per person will be provided on Saturday. Confessions can be heard from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday.
For more information and the complete list of breakout session speakers visit the Web site at http://www.amarillodiocese.org.
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|Numéro de publication
|Type de publication
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|Date de publication
|12 oct. 1993
|Date de dépôt
|3 oct. 1991
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|8 juil. 1991
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|Chaim Chacham, Roni Friedman, Uri Amir
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|Interplex Solar Corporation
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This invention relates to an electrical flasher circuit and, in particular, to a miniature electrical flasher circuit suitable for use in standard cats' eyes and in memorial symbols.
Cats' eyes including self-illuminating LED flashers are known for mounting on the boundaries between adjacent traffic lanes or on sidewalks so as to reflect a vehicle's headlamps and thereby indicate to a driver the lane boundary.
Also known are cats' eyes including an electrical flasher circuit operable from a small rechargeable battery which is charged via a solar panel fixed to a housing of the cat's eye, so as to recharge the battery during daylight hours. The LED flashers improve the visibility of the cat's eye, thereby increasing road safety.
A primary requirement of cats' eyes of the kind described having integral LED flasher circuits therein is their compatibility with existing, conventional cats' eyes which do not include the enhancement of flashing LEDs. Conventional cats' eyes are designed to be mounted in the road surface so as to protrude therefrom only a minimal distance, their protruding edges being rounded so that, in the event of a motor vehicle mounting the cat's eye, no damage will be done to the tires of the vehicle or to the cat's eye itself. Typically, such cats' eyes have an overall depth not exceeding 18 mm.
Existing cats' eyes including LED flasher circuits have not been able to conform to this standard height and have therefore included a deeper housing adapted to be sunk into the road surface. For example, the Japanese company Kyocera manufacture a curb flasher under the name Accless having an outer casing whose height above ground is 28 mm but which has an extended casing for sinking below the ground surface having a depth of 133 mm. A pair of solar panels are mounted on an upper surface of the housing and are coupled to a circuit enclosed within the lower housing and including a pair of rechargeable batteries which are recharged by the solar panel during daylight and provide electrical power to the flasher circuit at night.
Clearly, such a cat's eye cannot easily replace existing, conventional cats' eyes on account of the effort required to sink the housing into the road surface which, particularly on long stretches of road, is a major undertaking.
Likewise, a flashing light for mounting on a curb is manufactured under the trade mark Swareflex including therein an LED solar-powered flasher and a storage battery for storing electrical energy transformed by a solar cell. The storage battery has a capacity of 14 days power consumption when fully charged. In order to become fully charged, fine weather (corresponding to intense ambient illumination) is required for a minimum of four days.
It would obviously be preferable to provide an LED flasher circuit within a standard cat's eye housing so as to provide the additional safety resulting from their improved visibility whilst nevertheless not requiring any major roadworks for their installation.
It is envisaged that such a miniaturized flasher circuit would also find application in memorial symbols such as are commonly fixed to gravestones, and the like. In this connection, U.S. Pat. No. 5,013,972 (Malkieli et al.) discloses a symbolic/religious memorial light having a flickering-candle appearance and operated either by a solar cell unit or by a rechargeable battery charged thereby.
The flasher circuit disclosed by Malkieli et al. is based on a conventional astable multivibrator, whilst the solar cell has a nominal current rating of only 18 mA. The rechargeable battery includes a couple of conventional nickel-cadmium cells, each having a nominal voltage of 1.25 V. In such an arrangement, the solar cell would not be able both to energize the flasher circuit and also maintain the rechargeable cells fully charged for extended periods of time in the absence of intense ambient light conditions.
It is an object of the invention to provide an electrical flasher circuit suitably dimensioned that it can fit within a standard cat's eye housing.
It is a further object of the invention to provide such an electrical flasher circuit which has improved operating characteristics over hitherto proposed flasher circuits, in particular by providing continuous illumination for a longer period of time from a fully charged battery and employing a battery recharging facility which achieves full charge in a very much lower period of time than has been achieved with hitherto proposed systems.
According to the invention there is provided an electrical flasher circuit, comprising:
a rechargeable battery having a nominal voltage no greater than 1.2 V,
a solar panel having a nominal current rating of 70 mA and a nominal voltage of 3.6 V coupled to the rechargeable battery,
an oscillator circuit coupled to the rechargeable battery and to the solar panel having a nominal current drain under 0.5 mA and operative from a supply voltage in excess of 0.5 V for producing an output voltage which oscillates at a predetermined frequency, and
at least one LED having a nominal drive current of 0.5 mA coupled to the oscillator circuit for flashing in response to the oscillating output voltage;
whereby the solar panel provides sufficient power to energize the oscillator circuit and to recharge the rechargeable battery when at least a predetermined threshold of light acts on the solar panel, and the rechargeable battery alone energizes the oscillator circuit for at least a first predetermined time period in the absence of said light.
In accordance with a preferred embodiment of the invention, the oscillator circuit includes an integrated circuit which facilitates miniaturization, the circuit permitting the rechargeable battery to become fully charged in a time period of 2 hours and then to continue operating continuously for 18 days even in the absence of ambient illumination.
Whilst such an electrical flasher circuit has particular application as an auxiliary safety measure for use in cats' eyes, it also has application in memorial symbols for mounting on, or near, grave stones and the like so as to provide substantially perpetual illumination.
For a clearer understanding of the invention and to see how the same may be carried out in practice, some preferred embodiments will now be described, by way of nonlimiting example only, with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
FIG. 1 shows schematically an electrical circuit diagram of a flasher circuit according to the invention;
FIG. 2 shows a cat's eye having mounted therein the flasher circuit shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 3 shows a first memorial symbol including therein the flasher circuit shown in FIG. 1;
FIG. 4 shows a second memorial symbol including therein the flasher circuit shown in FIG. 1; and
FIG. 5 shows a third memorial symbol including therein the flasher circuit shown in FIG. 1.
Referring to FIG. 1 there is shown schematically a circuit diagram of an LED flasher circuit designated generally as 10. The flasher circuit 10 comprises an LM 3909 integrated LED flasher circuit 11 manufactured by National Semiconductor and having a nominal low voltage operation from just over 1 V to 6 V and a low current drain averaging under 0.5 mA. Connected to the integrated circuit 11, in accordance with the manufacturer's data specification, is a rechargeable battery 12 having a nominal voltage of 1.2 V and rated at 280 mAH. The rechargeable battery 12 is trickle charged by a solar panel 13 having a nominal voltage of 3.6 V and rated at 55 mA, via a rectifier diode 14 which prevents current flowing from the rechargeable battery 12 to the solar panel 13.
An output of the integrated circuit 11 is connected to a light emitting diode (LED) 15 in series with a 47 μF capacitor 16 whose value in combination with the internal circuitry of the integrated circuit 11 provides a flashing frequency of approximately 0.7 Hz.
The LED 15 is a GaAlAs (gallium aluminum arsenide) high brightness component such as manufactured by the Toshiba Company of Japan under the product code TLRA120. Such a device is operable from a drive current equal to 20 mA at a typical forward voltage of 1.8 V but can, in fact, operate at a drive current as low as 0.5 mA. This feature is exploited in the particular construction employed in the preferred embodiment so as to permit the lower operating range of the LM 3909 integrated circuit 11 to be reduced below the manufacturer's specification. This allows the circuit to operate even when the voltage of the rechargeable battery 12 falls to as low as 0.8 V, below which voltage the circuit stops operating so that the rechargeable battery 12 can never completely discharge.
The flashing circuit 10 has a current consumption of 1 mA hr at a voltage of 0.9 V such that if the voltage of the rechargeable battery 12 climbs to as little as 1.2 V, the rechargeable battery 12 has enough residual charge to energize the integrated circuit 11 on its own in the absence of sufficient ambient daylight.
However, even in moderate ambient daylight such that the solar panel 13 provides a voltage exceeding 1.2 V, the rechargeable battery 12 does not participate in energizing the integrated circuit 11 and is maintained fully charged by the solar panel 13.
On an average light intensity equivalent to 20 mA hr, the rechargeable battery 12 is rapidly recharged, achieving full charge within a time period of 2 hours and then has enough residual charge to permit continuous operation of the flashing circuit 10 for up to 20 days.
It should be noted that whilst only one LED 15 is shown in FIG. 1, up to four LEDs may be connected in parallel without derogating from the operating characteristics as described.
It should also be noted that, by adjusting the value of the capacitor 16, the oscillation frequency of the LED 15 may be raised above the critical frequency of fusion (approximately 25 Hz), so that any flicker of the LED 15 is undetectable by the human eye.
FIG. 2 shows a conventional type of cat's eye including a housing 20 containing therein the flasher circuit 10 described above with reference to FIG. 1 of the drawings. A solar panel 21 is mounted on an upper surface of the housing 20, a pair of LEDs 22 and 23 being provided on each of two opposing reflecting side walls 24 and 25 of the housing 20.
During daylight hours, the solar panel 21 recharges an internal storage battery such that in the presence of sufficient ambient illumination, the solar panel 21 is alone responsible for providing power to the flasher circuit 10 (FIG. 1), any residual solar energy being used to trickle charge the rechargeable battery 12 and maintain it fully charged.
Under these conditions, the LEDs 22 and 23 flash continuously so as to provide a visual warning to motorists and thus enhanced safety.
The solar panel 21 is mounted within a small recess in the upper surface of the housing 20 so as not to protrude above the upper surface of the housing 20. This prevents damage to the solar panel 21 in the event that a vehicle's wheels mount the cat's eye.
The overall height of the housing 20 protruding above a road surface is nominally 18 mm and the housing 20 is, in all respects, identical to that currently employed in standard cats' eyes.
Referring now to FIGS. 3 to 5 there are shown various forms of memorial symbols including therein the flasher circuit 10 shown schematically in FIG. 1.
Each of the memorial symbols depicted generally as 30, 31 and 32 is formed from a plastics moulding and includes a solar panel 35 in a front surface thereof as well as a substantially candle-shaped window 36 behind which the LED 15 of the flasher circuit 10 (shown in FIG. 1) is mounted.
The memorial symbol 30 shown in FIG. 3 is particularly adapted to be fixed to a grave stone, the rear part of its housing being so shaped as to be accommodated within a recess in the grave stone and fixed therein with a suitable adhesive. On account of the operating characteristics of the flasher circuit 10, maintenance-free operation is assured for a long period of time.
The memorial symbol 31 shown in FIG. 4 has a crucifix shaped housing 39 whilst the memorial symbol 32 shown in FIG. 5 has a housing 40 in the shape of a Star of David. For these memorial symbols, it is preferred that the flasher circuit operate above about 25 Hz so that the light will appear constant to an observer.
In all cases, the housing may be of slim-line construction owing to the miniature dimensions of the flasher circuit 10 shown in FIG. 1.
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Five Excel Features That Everyone Should Know
Microsoft Excel is just about as famous for being frustratingly difficult as it is for being exceedingly useful. These five tricks will make your data-crunching experience a much more relaxing one. 1. What Day Is It? Excel's "Today" feature is no doubt a quick way to insert the day's date into your spreadsheet. If you are not familiar with it, entering =TODAY() into a blank cell puts the day's date into the cell. A word of warning, though – Even though this seems like it would be a useful tool to track when you input important data into your spreadsheet, the date will automatically update whenever you open the spreadsheet. If you wish to keep a log of when important data was put into your spreadsheet, Ctrl + ; will do just that. If you wish to input the date but not the time, Ctrl + Shift + ; will do the trick. (Extra tip: Inserting =NOW() will insert the day's date and time into the cell.) 2. Protect Your Formulas! If you have important formulas you do not want others to see (such as how employees' bonuses are figured) you can prevent Excel from showing that formula when the particular cell is highlighted: On the Excel toolbar click Edit + Go To Click the Special tab to open the Special menu Click Formulas and make sure all four of the options are checked. Click OK and Excel selects every cell that has a formula. Select Format, Cells, and choose Protection Place a check mark next to the Hidden option, and make sure that there is a check mark next to the Locked option. Click OK 3. Take Notes! On the topic of formulas, it is also possible to add hidden text to any particular formula. This is incredibly useful to help remember what each number in the formula represents. For example: you have a budget formula that reads "1000+ 250- 200*2." If you are having trouble remembering what each number represents, simply add + N() behind the formula. Excel will translate the +N() into 0 and it will not affect your formula. Then you can add in notes (in quotation marks) to jog your memory for the next time you open the spreadsheet. For example: =100*(1+10%)+N("10% was the projected increase from 2011's rates″) What this formula is actually doing: =100*(110%)+0 4. Freeze Panes As if number crunching wasn't already painful enough, it becomes exceedingly difficult as you work farther and farther down or to the right. There is nothing more frustrating than forgetting what each row or column represents, scrolling all the way back up to remember, and then rapidly scrolling back down to begin working again. Luckily, Excel has realized this frustration and included a "freeze pane" feature that will keep a column/or moving as you move in the worksheet. Simply click and select the row below or the column to the right of where you want to freeze. Then, on the Window menu, select Freeze Panes. Viola! You will never forget what you are inputting again. 5. Where Did That Column Go? Oh, There It Is. There are a never-ending amount of situations within Excel when you just may not want to include information that was pertinent to you with others. You may be displaying productivity reports to the office, but you don't want everyone privy to who exactly it was that somehow managed negative productivity. Excel allows users to hide columns in the spreadsheet before printing and while working. To hide a column: Highlight the columns/rows you want to hide. Click Format, Column, Hide To...read more
A Simple Mail Merge Can Save You Time
[Originally published in The Coloradoan on 4/6/12] If you have a list of contacts on your computer and are ready to start mailing to a large group of them, then you can put down your pen and let your computer do all the dirty work. With two of the most popular Microsoft programs, Word and Excel, you can quickly and easily create a mail merge system for your contacts. A mail merge is the combination of a data source and a word processing document to produce mailing labels, envelopes, form letters and more. It is an extremely powerful tool that most administrative professionals use to save tons of manual labor time. The way a mail merge works is that you must begin with some kind of data source. This can come in many forms including a table from a database, a list of your Outlook contacts, a CSV file or even a simple Excel spreadsheet. Since most contact applications can export to a spreadsheet format, Excel can be used in a variety of scenarios for your business. Once you have a data source prepared properly, you can open Microsoft Word and begin the mail merge process. This begins with either a blank document or you can even use a pre-existing document. Envelopes and mailing labels come in standard sizes, and Microsoft has these already built into the program, too. By inserting placeholder fields into the mail merge document, you are allowing the program to replace the placeholders with actual values from your data source. This will repeat for every record in your data source. In a form letter example, you also have the option to customize individual letters, just in case you want to send a more personalized message to an individual client. When it is time to print the mail merge document, you simply finalize your merge and advance to print the entire batch. A mail merge is an amazing tool for simple administrative tasks, and the reach of how it might save you time is limitless. So, the next time you need to send those holiday cards to a huge list, check out a mail merge and save yourself some precious time. Stu Crair is the owner and lead trainer at The Digital Workshop Center, providing digital arts and computer training instruction in Fort Collins. Call him at (970) 980-8091 or send email to stu@...read more
Business Book Club: Would You Like to Achieve a State of Stress-Free Productivity?
In this day-and-age, we're all juggling so many different responsibilities: a gazillion passwords, emails, hard copies, phone calls, Facebook, blogs, work responsibilities – tasks, files, projects, meetings, reports; home responsibilities – eating, cleaning, family, chores, insurance companies, cleaning out the garage (is that task ever completed or does it just live on the to do list permanently for you too?). So, how do we simplify things in an ever-growing-more-complicated world? By having a simple yet surefire system for helping you keep track of everything that needs to get done with reminders of when it needs to be completed, all without taking up anymore of our already crammed mental ram! Getting Things Done, by David Allen, outlines an ideal system that is simple, and customizable for your unique needs. According to David Allen's book, the key to a successful workflow system is: Documenting every single activity, project, task, etc. EVERYTHING Process everything through an inbox Determine what the next physical action is for each item Organize everything into different categories that are visually, physically and psychologically separate Put action triggers for each category where you'll see them So, how does this translate to technology? There are a number of computer programs out there that can help you implement this work flow management system. I use Things MAC and I have it on both my computer and my iPhone. Two other popular programs are Nozbe and MyLifeOrganized. Check them out and see which one fits your needs and feels right for you. Keep in mind, you don't need to use software to implement this workflow management system if it isn't a fit. At the very least, David Allen's system can help you to better manage your inbox! Are you one of those people that has an inbox filled with 1,000+ messages (at least half of which go unread)? I was! And I had always heard from colleagues that keeping your inbox empty is a great management tool but never had an effective system that ensured the important stuff didn't get lost. David Allen recommend a simple solution and ever since I implemented it I process my inbox daily and it stays EMPTY. Are you ready for this simply effective secret? Create these three folders (or tags) @Action @Read and Review @Waiting If something requires an action, you need to write an email back, or edit a draft of a document, then put it in the @Action folder. If you just need to read over an email, like all those newsletters you enthusiastically and naively signup for, then put it in the @Read and Review folder. And if there's an email that you're waiting for a response from someone else, put it in the @Waiting folder. Pretty simple, yeah? Just remember to review those folders regularly to stay on top of things and viola, you too can have an empty email inbox. The challenge for me and anyone implementing David Allen's workflow management system, is the discipline to actively practice it day-in and day-out until it becomes habit. Discipline is the sixth and possibly the most vital key to achieve a state of stress-free productivity. About the Author: Ariana Friedlander is the Founder and Principal for Rosabella Consulting, LLC and has over nine years of experience working with small businesses, nonprofits and government agencies to create strategies for successful organizational growth. A dedicated life-long learner, she is also the Lead Facilitator for EntrepreNerds. Getting Things Done was read and reviewed at EntrepreNerds, a business book club for professionals and entrepreneurs who are committed to expanding their knowledge and skills through self-paced learning. Every month EntrepreNerds participants read the assigned business book then come together for a...read more
Microsoft Excel: Using Conditional Formatting
[Note: This article was originally published in The Coloradoan on 2/24/12] A client recently came in looking for help with Excel spreadsheet issues. As the director of a youth program, she was using an Excel spreadsheet to track participants' enrollment information. She needed the name of an active participant to show in green. If the participant was transitioning out the name was to show in yellow, and if the participant had left the program, the name was highlighted in red. She had approximately 3,000 participants to work with at any given time, and she manually went through every entry to review the enrollment status and change the color accordingly. My first thought was "what a horrible waste of time." Hopefully, we all know that computers save time when doing repetitive tasks, and a program such as Microsoft Excel was built to replace paper spreadsheets and at the same time make users more efficient in our daily lives. Along these lines, a feature of Excel that I love to teach people about is called "Conditional Formatting." Conditional formatting is when you want to format cells in your spreadsheet based on one or more conditions. Based on criteria that you as the user can set, Excel can automatically highlight cells, create data bars, use icon sets, and much more. Below is an image showing what this dialog looks like in Excel: In my client's example, I worked with her to set a conditional formatting statement that read "if the participant was in the youth program between a specific start date and a specific end date, then we will format the cells to background highlight in green. Or else, if they are transitioning out of the program, we will use a different format to background highlight in yellow." And so on. Excel does all the dirty work of deciding when the participant falls under which condition, and formats accordingly. All of my client's manual work is now replaced with literally a couple clicks of the mouse. The manual process of scrubbing through data certainly works for some situations and may be your only option. However, it also leaves a high risk for human error because human beings are much more prone to mistakes than a computer. So, let the computer and Excel do what they do best, handling your repetitive tasks cleanly and let Excel pick up the slack whenever possible. Stu Crair is owner of The Digital Workshop Center. Reach him at (970) 980-8091. Want to learn more about Microsoft Excel and what it can do? Register for one of our Excel classes...read more


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Lawrence Cunliffe
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Walkden, Lancashire, England
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Lawrence Cunliffe (born 25 March 1929) is a retired British Labour Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leigh from 1979 to 2001.
Early life[edit]
Cunliffe was born in Walkden, Lancashire, in 1929. He was a National Coal Board engineer, where he became involved in the National Union of Mineworkers.
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Cunliffe first stood for Parliament at Rochdale, where he lost the Labour-held seat to the Liberal Cyril Smith at a 1972 by-election, and was again defeated by Smith at the following General Election in February 1974.
He served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Leigh from 1979 until he retired from the House of Commons at the 2001 general election.
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A gripping inside look at high-stakes lawyering, A Patent Lie is further evidence that Paul Goldstein is an emerging master of the legal thriller.After being forced from his high-powered Manhattan law firm, Michael Seeley--the tough-but-wounded hero of "Errors and Omissions"--has set up shop in his native Buffalo. Partly out of need, partly out of pride, Seeley takes on a case for his estranged brother, whose small biotech firm is suing a Swiss pharmaceutical giant over a controversial new AIDS vaccine. Seeley heads out to Silicon Valley to lead the case, but soon realizes there is much more at stake than he was first led to believe. As certain partnerships come to light, and financial gains become staggeringly clear, Seeley's own life may be in grave danger.
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Author Deirdre Barrett talks about her book, Waistland: A (R)evolutionary View of Our Weight and Fitness Crisis. She explains how farming ruined our figures and our health. Barrett also offers advice on how to lose weight: eat less and exercise more.
Deirdre Barrett, an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard Medical School; she is also the president of the Society for Psychological Hypnosis and a past president of the Association for the Study of Dreams
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Are you ready to set sail, and embark on an adventure with a pillaging pirate crew? NBC sure hopes you are, as their new swashbuckling summer drama 'Crossbones' is set to premiere in just over a month. To give audiences a taste of what they're in for, the Peacock has released the first full-length trailer for the John Malkovich fronted series. Check it out below.
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As part of the College's celebration of Women's History Month in March, the Association of Lafayette Feminists hosted a photo display event called "Is Feminism Still Necessary?" Lafayette students, faculty, staff, and friends wrote down personal reasons why feminism is important to them. The month also captured the spirit of International Women's Day on March 8 by featuring events on and speakers from Africa, Russia, the Caribbean, and Asia and exploring Native American topics, spirituality, body image, feminism, sexual assault, and women in the STEM fields.
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