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Letter from Our Southern Editor
SavedBy John Jeremiah Sullivan
Ten years ago I was on the highway from Tennessee to Kentucky—can't even remember the reason for the trip—but I kept the car radio on the AM band, set to "Scan," because I'd noticed, over several years' driving around this part of the world, how almost every small town you pass has at least one little church that's broadcasting a low-wattage radio show, and you often hear fascinatingly crazy preaching on those transmissions and, less frequently, fine singing. That particular Sunday in January it was raining, and I was somewhere north of Memphis, passing depressing roadside storage buildings, when a remarkable live signal came across. The sound at first was like that of a giant wet towel rhythmically slapping on somebody's back. After a minute I realized it came from hundreds of rain-soaked shoes stomping in unison on a concrete floor. I tried to imagine the inside of the church. It must have been cavernous. Or maybe—more likely—it was a warehouse, where this Pentecostal group had been forced to convene. Slap … slap … midtempo, it filled the car, as the people chanted a single line, "If He sends me, I'll GO-oooo … If He sends me, I'll GO-oooo," a three-note melody, simple to the point of crudity, but with a strange elegance. Folks got up and started testifying. A woman thanked God because on Christmas Eve she'd gone to the welfare office to get food stamps, and there'd been something wrong with her forms—a paper she hadn't known was expired—"but the man give it to me anyway," she said. "God softened his heart."


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Miley Cyrus to reveal album title if Twitter followers reach 13 million
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Miley Cyrus is giving fans some incentive to follow her on Twitter. The singer says she'll reveal the title of her much-anticipated new album if she reaches the 13 million followers mark on the social media site.
As of Thursday afternoon, Miley had more than 12,600,000 followers. Miley said she wanted to "make getting to [her] lucky number an event" and that the campaign to hit 13 million was inspired by rapper Jay-Z's much-talked-about Twitter spree earlier this week.
The rapper dubbed the singer the "old world's worst nightmare" during his Q&A with fans. Miley hinted that her album title would be a hashtag, followed by a seven-letter word - and said she'd answer whatever fans sent her way once the goal was met.
think ill release my album title if I get to 13 mill 💣💣💣 hint: *******— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) July 10, 2013
Meantime, her latest single "We Can't Stop," is spending another week at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.
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ATLANTA – "To be the first company that, by its deeds, shows the entire industrial world what sustainability is in all its dimensions: people, process, product, place and profits—by 2020—and in doing so we will become restorative through the power of influence." That's the Mission Zero commitment at Interface Inc., and it includes ambitious goals to eliminate the company's negative environmental footprint by 2020. The company is now 10 years from that goal, and is launching a yearlong look at its EcoMetrics™, assessing progress and creating a vision for what success looks like. First up is the release of the company's most recent waste reduction and re-materialization metrics.
"We're 10 years out from making business history, a vision that no one would have imagined for this little carpet company of ours," say Dan Hendrix, CEO of Interface Inc. "More importantly, we have nearly 16 years of data to use in understanding our progress and evaluating where we need investment, where we need innovation, and where we'll be focusing people and resources as we look to 2020 and beyond."
Interface has described sustainability as a mountain climb, and charts its progress up the seven fronts of that mountain—an analogy referring to the need to innovate and make progress on various initiatives simultaneously. Front 1, Waste Elimination, refers to eliminating all forms of financial and process waste—everything from the cost of order errors to landfilled scrap. Closely related is Front 4, Closing the Loop, which refers to the redesign of processes and products to close the technical loop using recovered and bio-based raw materials. For the year 2009, the company announced that globally, in the physical waste category, of the more than 400 million pounds of raw materials purchased in 2009:
Continued savings from the QUEST program—the employee-driven "Quality Utilizing Employee Suggestions and Teamwork" initiative that rewards employees who identify and then reduce all forms of waste—has netted the company $433 million in cumulative, avoided costs since 1995.
Through the company's reclamation and recycling initiative, ReEntry® 2.0, 25 million pounds of reclaimed carpet and post-industrial carpet scrap was diverted from the landfill in 2009, bringing the total global material diverted to 200 million pounds since 1995. ReEntry 2.0 is illustrated in this video, and contributes to high recycled-content products like the Convert™ line from InterfaceFLOR®.
Putting those metrics into perspective, vice president of sustainability, Erin Meezan notes: "These numbers indicate that we are headed in the right direction. Looking ahead, we will have to be even more collaborative, reaching further and wider into our supply chain to forge partnerships like the one we have with our yarn suppliers, who have partnered with us on ReEntry 2.0 and Convert.
"We will also take what we have learned with ReEntry 2.0 and multiply it into a robust reverse logistics operation, closing the technical loop and perhaps creating new markets for ourselves with excess yarn and vinyl feedstock."
"What the March to 2020 requires is that we act even more like a global company, rapidly replicating the successes we have in one market to every market, when that is the right thing to do in terms of sustainability and the local business," adds Hendrix.
Interface will release additional metrics in the coming months, culminating with a Sustainability Report to be published later this year that will detail the company's plan to get to 2020.
Interface Inc. (IFSIA) is a worldwide leader in design, production and sales of environmentally-responsible modular carpet for the commercial, institutional, and residential markets, and a leading designer and manufacturer of commercial broadloom. For more information, go to www.interfaceglobal.com.


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Friday, September 16, 2011
Kitchen Towel Rag Quilt
32 comments:
- Jen said...
That is the cutest thing I've seen! I have never really thought of leaving my quilt tops raw like that, I love it. With the right (thicker) fabric it would be perfect and so much less work than adding backing and having to do the binding. Gonna be doing me one of these...or 10...I may not go back to the other way...this suits my busy lifestyle so much better :)
- September 16, 2011 at 9:14 AM
- Tammy said...
This is a great idea!! Thanks for sharing.
- September 16, 2011 at 11:06 AM
- Just Jaime said...
What a great idea!
- September 16, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- Ms POSH said...
Stopping by from the Friday Hops to say hello.
Have a great day!
- September 16, 2011 at 11:40 AM
- Karan said...
Love the quilt. I bet it does not take long to do those either. I have thought about rag quilts for the grandkids for Christmas. You may have just made my mind up seeing how cute yours is. Guess I had better get busy.
- September 16, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- Fort Living Room said...
I love your quilt. I have several old quilts my great-grandmother either made that needs to be patched or started but never finished. I have got to learn to quilt.
New follower from the blog hop til you drop.
- September 16, 2011 at 12:40 PM
- Chloe said...
That is so cute!
I'm a new follower from the Finding New Friends Hop. Hope you can stop by www.mamasmusingsblog.blogspot.com
- September 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM
- Terry said...
It never occurred to me either to leave the back open. Fabulous idea!! Hilarious about your tea towels though. Have a great weekend!
- September 16, 2011 at 1:11 PM
- Baye said...
Love the long and narrower idea for the lap quilts. Sometimes those lap quilts are just too short. I am gonna get busy on a few of these. Thanks for the inspiration as always.
- September 16, 2011 at 2:32 PM
- corabeth said...
New follower from Finding New Friends Weekend Blog Hop!!! Please follow back!!!! =D
- September 16, 2011 at 4:13 PM
- TigerEyes2001 said...
So cute and creative!
I'm a new follower from FNF blog hop! I hope you'll follow back! Thanks!
- September 16, 2011 at 10:56 PM
- Emily said...
love rag quilts. What a great idea to mix the flannel and towels, love it!
- September 19, 2011 at 6:32 AM
- Joni Nickrent said...
WOW! What a great idea! Very cute! TFS! POP ART MINIS
- September 19, 2011 at 6:53 AM
- Priscila said...
This is an awesome idea! Thanks for sharing!
- September 19, 2011 at 1:16 PM
- Kelli- AdventurezInChild'Rearing said...
oh great job! I have several towels stashed with very good intentions- I am inspired by yours- just lovely!
- September 19, 2011 at 9:17 PM
- Joni Nickrent said...
Loved this...tweeted too! POP ART MINIS
- September 20, 2011 at 4:34 AM
- OhioMomPatriot said...
This is adorable! I love the towel idea. Thanks for sharing!
- September 20, 2011 at 9:34 AM
- Jill said...
Lovely quilt - I really want to try a rag quilt - so maybe I need to look for those special scissors first! Thanks for the tip!
Thanks for linking to a Round Tuit! Remember the voting is now open – if you want to head over and vote for your project! The most voted link will get a full post feature/promotion next week!
Hope you have a great week!
Jill @ Creating my way to Success
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- September 20, 2011 at 9:51 PM
- Tina said...
I love your quilt! It turned out great!
I'm definitely going to 'borrow' this idea! Thank you for sharing!!
- September 21, 2011 at 12:48 AM
- Handy Man, Crafty Woman said...
It looks SO COMFY! Thanks for linking to Wicked Awesome Wednesday!
- September 21, 2011 at 7:30 AM
- Donna said...
Oh I love it!
- September 21, 2011 at 4:14 PM
- Rachel said...
I just bought a bunch of kitchen towels to make baby bibs, but now I'm getting other ideas.... LOL! Thanks for sharing this!
- September 22, 2011 at 8:23 AM
- Madison said...
What a neat idea! I've never heard of using kitchen towels to make a quilt before. How creative!
- September 22, 2011 at 10:12 AM
- Tonia @ TheGunnySack.com said...
I love it...your kitchen towels never made it to the kitchen :) The quilt is wonderful! Thanks for linking up this week!
- September 22, 2011 at 11:22 AM
- Jessica said...
Super cute idea. I am your newest follower. Feel free to check out my site and follow me back here: www.utahcountymom.com
- September 22, 2011 at 3:55 PM
- The Zoo Keeper said...
This is such a cool idea!!! I have an old towel that is falling apart that belonged to my Great, Great Grandmother, think I am going to do this with it!!! SO beats putting it up and leaving it sitting!!! Thanks for the great idea! Following now, come and check out my site when you have time!!!
- September 22, 2011 at 8:59 PM
- The Answer Is Chocolate said...
What a great idea and looks so cozy!
- September 23, 2011 at 11:47 AM
- Shelly @A Creative Space said...
This turned out great. Better get some ugly dish towels so that you won't be tempted next time. :)
- September 23, 2011 at 5:26 PM
- Karen said...
Love, love, love the quilt! I am a new visitor and I have happily spent a few hours looking at all your lovely ideas. Pity I never got around to that pile of laundry waiting for me...)
- September 23, 2011 at 6:37 PM
- Megan said...
very pretty. I've never tried a rag quilt before.
- September 24, 2011 at 8:02 AM
- Kassi @ Truly Lovely said...
That's very creative!! And a great use of matching fabrics of course! Thanks for sharing this fun quilt on Fancy This Fridays!!!
- September 26, 2011 at 11:58 AM
- To Sew With Love said...
Quilts had always been in my to do list, hopefully this winter when I have more time, I'll make some of them. Thanks a lot for this tip. your style is really nice! thanks for sharing this with us! have a lovely weekend, Terri...
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Four reasons Jason Lewis can beat Al Franken
Look out Sen. Al Franken; talk radio host Jason Lewis will soon replace you in the U.S. Senate.
Conservative-libertarian talk radio host Jason Lewis is seriously entertaining a run against Minnesota Sen. Al Franken in 2014. It will not be a slam-dunk, but Lewis can pull off a win for the following four reasons:
1. Franken Never Won Fair and Square
Remember when Franken "beat" former St. Paul Mayor Norm Coleman by a scant 312 votes in 2008 and 1,009 votes were later determined to come from felons? Well, this time around, everyone in the country will be paying close attention to the voting process and the votes that come through for Franken. Felons will not be able to just slip in and potentially determine the contest.
2. Franken is not Klobuchar
Last fall, Kurt Bills made a strong and courageous run against Franken's pal in the senate, Sen. Amy Klobuchar. But he lost. Big time. Klobuchar beat Bills by over 2 to 1, garnering 60.5 percent of the vote compared to his 31.1 percent.
Klobuchar has a massive following in Minnesota, including many businesspeople who have bowed to her tempting tactic of handing out goodies to their industries. For instance, she did her best to "boost" Minnesota's auto industry by advancing the federal Cash for Clunkers rebate program (which incidentally did more harm than good to the environment). In January, Public Policy Polling crowned Klobuchar with a 65 percent approval ranking as the "Second Most Popular Senator in the Country."
Franken simply does not have the luxury of "feeling the love" the way Klobuchar does when she returns from D.C. to the land of 10,000 lakes. He only had a 52 percent approval ranking as of this January. Also, while pollsters say that Franken has a good chance of winning in 2014, this is largely because they have only ranked him against a weak bench of tired GOP candidates. Pollsters have not ranked him against a challenging candidate like Lewis.
Read more at TownHall.com.


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AMD's Holiday Plans: Catalyst 12.11 Performance Driver & New Holiday Game Bundleby Ryan Smith on 10/22/2012 12:01 AM EST
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Vini - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkBF3 was very playable even before on the 7000s on high detail, but this really is a good psychological victory for eradicating the deficit as far as the average buyer is concerned.
Well done to AMD's driver dept! Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkIt's behind in the chart they show, it only works well on certain maps, and is otherwise "not there" then.
So, behind in the test they show, only 10% on some or less and map specific, thus even further behind, but according to the article "it has eradicated it's performance deficit or even went ahead".
Further, only a fool would believe no eye candy drop, as Ryan for well over a year claimed there was none with the infamous perfect circle no visible game advantage driver he fell in love with... until he finally had to admit it - so he cannot see any eye candy problems with amd until after they release their next card series, then suddenly he will finally tell you about all the amd faults he had been hiding for the past year.
That's how fan boys work, unconsciously.
So what we have here is what AMD is over 1 FULL YEAR late on.
That's what we have, release drivers finally here after being 1 full year late.
Even so, a full year of recommending amd cards above all others hasn't changed a single bit. LOL
This site is so much fun. Reply
Remon - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkWait, if these should have been AMDs release drivers, and the 7970, although released 2 months before the 680, beats the 680, which had 7 months of driver upgrades, are you actualy trying to say that S.I. is kicking GK1xx's butt? Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkNice try epic fail - his own frikkin chart shows the amd 7970 behind...
That's why I find it so strange the wording surrounding the amd failure, as if it won.
So I guess we have to go to gigahertz edition, which was already proven slower anyway. About 1200 core is where the 7970 ties the 680, but then again OC the 680.
So I just find it a bit hard to take, that's all. It didn't do it. It only did great on some maps... it's shader hacks, but "no detectable" difference.. LOL heard that for a year before the added 10% IQ cheat by amd, and the wish here "that nVidia doesn't do the same thing" - which they never did.
Whatever.... it's just so sad. Might as well become a politician. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - linknVidia have used driver cheats in the past, stating otherwise is plain false.
It was big in the days of the Geforce FX as nVidia had woeful shader model 2.0 performance on those cards.
Also, just because they haven't been caught, doesn't mean they still don't do it either, these company's are incredibly competitive, you would be surprised what they will do to get a small edge and get gamers to hand over their wallets, defending either is simply ludicrous. - They won't send you flowers and cake for purchasing their card, they care about money plain and simple like all good business's do. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkDidn't state otherwise, you lied about it by removing context and going prior to my statement, then you said nVidia does it even if they don't get caught. LOL
Another fanboy.
Another one, big surprise. Reply
lambchowder - Saturday, October 27, 2012 - linkYou're the fanboy, lashing out at the author with personal attacks, very obvious threat driven posturing, shorthand laughter meant to cover up some concern or insecurity (the oldest trick in the book), restating arguments and providing no rebuttal. saying "epic fail." That is an epic fail Reply
Spunjji - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkThis comments section would be so much more bearable without you in it. Reply
formulav8 - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkThis is the first time i've noticed him and can already see what you mean. Pretty sad Reply
junky77 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkwill the 12.11 release include a mobile drivers update too? Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link12.11 will be for all AMD products, desktop and mobile. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkI'll add a few short comments on a second Pipeline piece in a bit.... Reply
xdeadzx - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkBeing that we now have much greater performance on AMD cards, are you going to be updating the chart on your graphics card benchmarks? I love the tool a lot, and would like current relevant data when comparing cards quickly.
Also, I'm really glad AMD stepped up the frostbite 2 game... Literally can't wait for the sales to start on the bundles, I'm looking forward to picking up a 7950. :D Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkBench will be updated. Though it may take some time to get all GCN cards updated since this overlaps with the insanity that is the Windows 8 launch week. Reply
StevoLincolnite - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - linkSo are they updated yet? :P Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkOf course, but they will use the old nVidia scores on old systems, but there's no chance in hades the amd won't be updated.
Those meals they get wined and dined on and that yearly vacation is much to cool. Reply
Spunjji - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkBlah blah blah whine gripe whine blah. Reply
Articuno - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkBecause I bought a 670 FTW mostly to play BF3 and by now it's too late to get a refund.
At least I still have PhysX. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkWell trade it over, you had a long kicking the amd backside, now you can do so again, right ?
I feel bad for you too, having the fastest card that doesn't crash all the time and reduce eye candy on the screen.
Kodongo - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkI was wondering why you have shown the marquee cards from both the 7700 and 7800 lineups whilst not showing the flagship AMD card, the 7970 GHz Edition.
On other sites (TechPowerUp) which did show this card, the new drivers are enough to propel it above the 680.
Great synopsis, if a little incomplete due to the GE omission. Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkWe only had enough time to run 3 cards. So I picked one of each GPU, going with the 7970 (versus the GE) so that I could trace the performance of the 7970/GCN back to its launch. Reply
Kodongo - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkFair enough. I just wanted to ask why it wasn't there as these drivers elevate the 7970GE clear of the 680 now.
Thanks for answering and keep up the good work! Reply
Meaker10 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkWHERE THE HELL IS THE ENDURO HOTFIX DRIVER WE WERE PROMISED................... Reply
HOODY - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkLOL I'm with U homes!!!,
I read the article and see nothing mentioned again about the 76xxM cards, ie mobel, ie switchable, ie "enduro".
And never any mention that AMD "provides" the intel driver part, check your device manager properties for the intel graphics part.
I'll still hold out hope, just till their "final" comes out. Reply
JarredWalton - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkThis is it, sort of... more on that in a bit. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkThere ya go bro, this is it "sort of" from the site master tech article man.
LOL - amd = sort of
No kidding ? No kidding, it's serial. Reply
Tegeril - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - linkUgh get over yourself. Reply
Spunjji - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link+1 Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkWhen the amd fanboys don't like the message, attack the messenger. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkIt's not about me losers, but when the message cannot be attacked, the amd fanboy attacks the messenger. Reply
k2_8191 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkLooks like they are reluctant to make Skyrim on RADEON stable...
Issues including missing or weird textures on Adaptive AA and poor CFX performance(CPU utilization is under 100% out of 200% using 2 GPUs) was reported in forums long time ago, but they're not fixed until now.
Also, there were strange problems such as misrendered book text and missing HUD.
And they've missed 7970 shadow issue... did they test new Catalyst before releasing it?
Tired of them, I'm not going to buy next generation RADEON for upgrade unless they improve the situation... Reply
k2_8191 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkTypo: CPU utilization -> GPU utilization.
Oh I want to edit my post! Reply
RussianSensation - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkYou shouldn't expect 100% GPU utilization in CF in any game since CF and SLI have inherent bottlenecks. Also, Skyrim itself is very CPU limited without heavy use of mods. If you use mods, you end up with way faster performance on AMD side, by a magnitude of 20% with older drivers:
The missing HUD has long been fixed. NV had texture filtering issues in BF3 with GTX650Ti launch as noted by Tom's Hardware. They also took months to fix Shogun 2 performance. Both companies have driver issues and continue to work on them. Have you tried using SSAA in Skyrim on your 7970s? Reply
k2_8191 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkThanks for information.
Mmm, could more powerful CPU help improving GPU utilization?
Oh, I didn't know the issues on GeForce other than Skyrim...
Perhaps I should reconsider my decision for games for them.
I don't have 7970 due to budget limitation so I can't try. Sorry for that... Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkLOL - watch it the RS is a raging fanboy of amd.
Notice the words "on launch" and "by Tom's" which has a gaggle of radeon fans who downvote to a minus 20 every comment that isn't super dooper amd love on every single videocard article.
It's beyond pathetic.
nVidia is superior and mad is cutting 15% more of their workforce, expect their drivers to suck ever worse starting Q4.
What AMD did here was hammer the CRAP out of their driver team to come up with something before they get fired. Kind of like training your replacements. Reply
quasi_accurate - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkThat's odd... I haven't had any issues on a 5870 and a 7970 in Skyrim. Reply
k2_8191 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkHave you tried Adaptive AA on 5850?
Some texture is partially rendered (e.g. stone paving on Whiterun roads) or weird (e.g. roof of Temple of Kynareth).
I'm going to try 12.10 whether the problem is fixed.
Note that I have seen a blog article of a Japanese user experiencing the same shadow issue mentioned in article here only if the shadow map resolution is 4096. Reply
k2_8191 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkOh, another typo: 5850 -> 5870
I tried 12.10 just now, but didn't help :(
Here is screenshots below.
This is reproducible only when Adaptive AA is turned on, so I set AA mode to MSAA.
I'll report the issue to AMD again... Reply
Deaks2 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkConsidering the major boost in BF3 performance, has the new driver also fixed the 6xxx cards' performance deficiency in Ultra mode? Reply
Ryan Smith - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkWe haven't tested any 6000 series cards. Other sites have and have found no change in performance. Reply
Deaks2 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkBoourns, you're right: http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12... Reply
RussianSensation - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkI don't think HD6000 or even 5000 series would benefit since the issue appears to have stemmed from some shader inefficiencies specifically related to GCN architecture. VLIW-4/5 have been well optimized by AMD as HD5800 traces back to September of 2009. Unfortunately if you want more performance for BF3, you'll need to upgrade to NV/AMD or next gen. You can probably play BF3 well without MSAA on HD6900 series. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkRecall when the 7000 series amd was released, this site proclaimed the virtues of amd "geting rid of the 69xx" series in the channels, praising a job well done.
Instead of hearing amd competed with itself like we hear when nVidia releases any card, we heard how amd did so wonderful getting rid of that "old" series the 69xx.
So now, after they got "rid of it", they can forget it.
That's amd's driver policy.
Ain't it grand ! Reply
ddarko - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkRyan, while discussing image quality in Skyrim, you wrote:
AMD has told us that they haven't seen this issue in-house (it would admittedly be hard to miss [emphasis added]) so this may be some esoteric issue;
Did you mean to write "hard to see"? "Hard to miss" seems to be the opposite of the intent of your sentence, which appears to me to be trying to say that the rendering error you saw on the 7970 was obscure and difficult to spot. Reply
arthur449 - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkI believe Ryan's wording of the matter translates to: If AMD have not seen the issue in-house, then the rather obvious rendering error Ryan noted is likely attributable to some other hardware or software discrepancy in his test machine. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkWhich of course is what AMD is famous for. Reply
chizow - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkLooks like a nice parting gift from AMD. :)
But in all seriousness, hopefully this prompts Nvidia to "step-up their game" and counter with more game promos, may be a bit optimistic but both Borderlands 2 and Assassin's Creed 3 for all their GTX cards would be amazing. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkAgree. Too bad these companies won't reward people who've recently purchased their products as well as new buyers, but I can understand why they aren't. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
It's called not going bankrupt like amd is.
I guess your imagination is like, not working at all. Reply
RussianSensation - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkGood post chizow. More competitive AMD offerings from price/performance and value perspectives should prompt NV to offer more value through price cuts, its own driver improvements or future game bundles. Win-win for all gamers. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - link
nViodia already forced the price scalping greedy corporate pig monster failing bottom line amd to cut 4 their lying scalp price 4 times, and they still don't have the sales.
Thank nVidia, and don't beg for more. nVidia lowers prices, amd can close the doors. Reply
HisDivineOrder - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkI think this is great. This is the kind of scrappy competition they should have been doing for years now. Problem is, I think it's more of a reaction to all the bad press AMD's been getting (and the uncertainty we all feel about their overall future) than competition against nVidia.
And I don't think games plus honed drivers really address the issue that I wonder if AMD will even be around making video drivers two years from now. Reply
andrewaggb - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkUnless something changes they have design wins for all 3 of the upcoming consoles for graphics and in some cases cpu's as well. Hopefully that means they'll still be in business one way or another. But I hear you, all the bad press about AMD, huge earnings misses..., mass layoffs, worries me about their future. Even if they get bought, nvidia didn't keep making 3dfx drivers once they bought them... so we just hope AMD gets their house in order fast. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - link
I just want the hundreds that attacked me when I was blowing the whistle for the past number of years to say " Thank you Cerise, you were right and we lied and attacked you in our fanboy ignorance and blind drooling amd backside kissing".
Not like that will happen, not even once. Reply
Spunjji - Tuesday, October 23, 2012 - linkNope, it won't! :D So kindly FOAD. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkAnother great amd fanboy, kind as usual. Reply
RussianSensation - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkThey couldn't offer this level of competition since ATI buyout. 2900 series development and targets suffered due to the merger transition (this was admitted publicly). The whole point of the small die strategy with HD4000-6000 series was to save costs on developing large die and achieve higher yields, hoping to gain market share through larger volume sales by targeting price/performance. That didn't work either. With HD7000 series they finally tried something totally different, the first mover advantage strategy, by launching first and dictating high prices while they had a small window of more advanced technology. Then promptly reverted to the old price/performance strategy once NV launched its cards at lower prices.
The execution was poor though as up to Cats 12.6, the drivers weren't great and NV won the key BF3 performance. At the same time I don't think NV went for the performance crown this generation as Kepler gen 1 feels like IVB money-making part from them. I think GTX780, if based on GK110, could easily retake the performance crown. Will NV do it or continue on offering just enough performance to stay near the top but not necessarily the best like they had with 8800GTX/GTX280/285/480/580 series.
Imagine how much more competitive AMD's GPU division could have been if its CPU division wasn't losing $ hand over fist every year. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkThey couldn't offer this level of competition since ATI billions overpaid buyout.
2900 series development and targets sucked initially but due to the merger transition this was the public excuse for failure.
The whole point of the small die strategy with HD4000-6000 series was to go cheap and achieve higher fanboy yields, hoping to gain a hatred advantage through whining about nVidia big dies and power usage, targeting idiots that screamed housefire. That didn't work either, but the fanboys pretended it did, and they took their Verdetrol pills to keep the illusion going.
With HD7000 series they tried to COPY nVidia, sick of being hammered to a long behind second place by the GTX580.
The first bowel movement came at a high price with no drivers.
While they had a small window, more advanced technology from nVidia was at the ready.
Then AMD promptly reverted their overblown corporate rape artist prices downward, again, and again, and again, and again, now again.
Price/performance strategy was a JOKE once NV launched its much superior cards.
The execution was poor though as up to Cats 12.6 and beyond , the drivers sucked as usual, with so many errors and problems no one dre track them all.
The great NV won the key BF3 performance and is still winning it, depite the fanboy characterization in the article above.
At the same time I don't think as the Russian Sensation I've liked nVidia at all, and that won't change ever, that's why I hate the feeling I get when deep down inside I know nVidia is making big money from Kelper.
It burns me up inside, I'm a raging fuming amd fanboy.
I think GTX780, if based on GK110, could easily retake the performance crown from itself, since nVidia holds it as well right now, something I cannot admit, my rage is so complete on the dark side.
Will NV do it or continue on offering just enough performance to stay near the top but not necessarily the best like they had with 8800GTX/GTX280/285/480/580 series. (Did I just say that ? I have cut down all those cards as losers for years from nVidia, what is happening to me ?!)
And finally, this is why AMD is the very best and at the top of it's game and the world: Imagine how much more competitive AMD's GPU division could have been if its CPU division wasn't losing $ hand over fist every year.
I could never admit they were losing money just last week I ranted and raved about their massive gains from the card sales stock release stuff from John Peddy.
I figure if I'm in a deep depression once a year and I actually let the truth slip out in my personal despair my amd handlers will understand....
ROFL - there we are, all fixed. Reply
Zink - Monday, October 22, 2012 - linkIt's someones job at AMD to read these comments and you're just hurting their head. Reply
formulav8 - Wednesday, October 24, 2012 - linkDo you have a real pupose? Nvidia obviously loves your useless blahing and wouldn't be surprised if your in on it with them. You even know this, and yet continue your nvidia is god blabbering. Reply
CeriseCogburn - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkNo just correcting the amd fan boy lies, it's big job but someone should do it. Reply
nleksan - Thursday, October 25, 2012 - linkHow can anyone say this is anything other than a GOOD thing? The people in charge, the ones with their fingers on the big red, and big green, "Release!" Buttons care about profits and market performance, which comes primarily from BUSINESS-SECTOR sales. I swear, the employee's of the companies must be laughing their behinds off at the baseless vitriol spewed all over the internet by the ignorant "fanboys" (and fangirls; no sexism here!), while wondering why in the world anyone would get so worked up about a company that they personally have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH! I don't care if you support AMD or if you back nVidia or if you are a die-hard Matrox loyalist or what, the result is the same: you are spending your (likely limited) brain cells defending something that, in reality, is nothing more than a concept, a group of people who collaborate together to make themselves rich!
The GPU market is no different than the CPU market, although I must say that I have seen the fanboyism die down much more in the latter, especially over the past year or two, while the former just gets worse! It is truly mind-boggling.
We have three companies, really: Intel, AMD, nVidia. AMD competes against both, although to be fair, they do a pretty darn good job when you look at it that way: one company competing against two companies in two different sectors, each of whom has significantly (as in a LOT) more money/resources available, yet the one company is still remaining competitive to a degree, and certainly isn't bankrupt! I tip my hat to AMD for that, as they are the bravest of the three in many ways (the first and in my mind only REAL "FX" processors which introduced 64bit CPU's to the mainstream enthusiasts while at the same time outperforming Intel's 55% higher-clocked P4 Emergency Edition; their risky acquisition of ATi; their original implementation of the HyperTransport link, doing away with much potential bottlenecking; making dual-channel memory available and worthwhile; and of course, they have always been the ones to take the giant risk of designing a from-the-ground-up-new architecture and have, historically, always been about 3-4 years ahead of the curve). However, sometimes the risks don't pay off, and while we may look back in 5 years and see BD/PD as the beginning of a new era, or do the same for the A8-xxxx/A10-xxxxx APU's, the fact is that RIGHT NOW they are nowhere near the levels of performance offered by the premium Intel chips.
They are doing quite well with their GPU's, although I fear that their entire GCN architecture was laid out too soon, and that they don't have the Ace in the Sleeve that they might need should nVidia decide to go all-out with the 7xx series of GPU's. And perhaps that is what nVidia has been counting on: they have GK100, which is a terrible design for gaming but could be "stuffed" onto a gaming platform card just as with Fermi should the need arise, but unless AMD has some giant surprise in store, they can continue to make money out of an architecture that has already been paid for.
Anyway, I really, really, really don't think that the 7xx series, or rather the 780, will utilize the GK100 core as we know it. I have used the Tesla K20 briefly, and have handled it, and there is NO WAY that chip can be made to fit into a "reasonable" power envelope, nevermind the immense amount of cooling required!
AMD made some very smart moves this round, while I do think that nVidia was either unable to produce the card they REALLY wanted or perhaps just lazy after the unrelenting beat-down they gave AMD with the 5xx series vs 6xxxx series "battle".
They handled things much better than they did with the 6970, which could never compete with the 580 even when it had a frame-buffer size advantage; they learned from the mistakes they made, and (unless I state otherwise, I will be referring to only x970/x950 and x80/x70, the flagship cards from each make) they have become absolutely competitive with Team Green.
Some examples of their forward progress:
- AMD gave their cards a 384-bit GDDR5 Bus and 3GB of "the good stuff", while nVidia oddly took a step backward and settled for a 256-bit memory bus
- AMD was first-to-market by a not-insignificant amount of time, which put pressure on their competition, who were (in all likelihood) having some yield issues to begin with
- AMD has taken a very "holistic" approach to product development and integration, with their APU's being actually very advanced compared to anything else similar (oh wait... there is nothing else similar)
- The idea of Hybrid Crossfire-X is ingenious, and while the implementation may need some work, it may become a savior to all those trying to build a "respectable" gaming machine on a budget especially if they are able to make a more well-rounded package with the high-end offering on-die GPU's equivalent to the ~7870/7950, as then a single $600 purchase (idk, but a hex-core 4.5Ghz CPU with 12MB L3 and a, say, 8870/8950 GPU with its own on-package frame-buffer would probably be not-cheap) would cover both CPU and GPU with only a motherboard and RAM left to purchase; of course, when the individual decides that he/she needs more horsepower, $250-350 for a PCIe x16 8950 3GB(4GB? 6GB?) would actually be a SECOND GPU despite there being just one card
- The theoretical implementation of Hybrid CF-X given above would allow for either significant improvements in PCIe bandwidth use for GPU's for those wanting the absolute largest amount of power they can get...
- Or it could free up a huge number of said-lanes for other devices such as 12-18x SATA/SAS 6Gbps Ports, 20+ USB3.0 native ports, Extreme-Quality Onboard Audio supporting 13.4ch surround, native x16 PCIe RAID Hardware Chip allowing for RAID0/1/5/6/10/50/60 from the board with zero CPU overhead and massive throughput, Integrated Solid State NAND Flash and/or micro-SSD's that are of low capacity (~32-64GB) and low cost ($20/ea) but can be Teamed by an on-board quad-core/hex-core SSD Controller so that the more you add the faster it gets (similar to RAID but based on the way an SSD works) while capacity rises as well, Significant reductions in overhead for LAN or other similar external connections, or any few of a thousand other things....
I see the next true "revolution" in GPU tech coming when ALL cards are multi-GPU cards communicating over a practically bandwidth-free pathway with one another, and being able to utilize the entirety of the onboard memory in a shared manner. The only other way I can really see BIG improvements coming, and with 2560x1440/1600 becoming increasingly common not to mention 5760x1080/1200 (or larger) multi-display setups, is to overhaul the way in which Crossfire-X (and SLI) is performed; specifically, to allow the VRAM to "stack" so that having 3-way CFX/SLI with 3x 6GB cards doesn't equal 6GB of buffer but rather 18GB. As we head towards displays beyond 3-Megapixels, a "stacking" frame buffer COULD become vastly advantageous.
Or, perhaps the way to do this is to prevent GPU's from accessing the HDD directly, and instead stick a large number of moderate-size SLC NAND modules and a controller on the GPU's PCB itself, allowing for textures to be loaded first into a 16-way SLC NAND "texture pool" via the system memory, and then allow the GPU to simply send a small Request Signal to the NAND controller regarding what it needs, at which point it is sent to the GDDR5/GDDR6 frame buffer after processing via an extremely short and thus extremely high-bandwidth parallel AND serial pathway. Remove the weakest link, allow the GPU and CPU to communicate much more freely yet with much reduced overhead, and wonderful things may happen.
HOWEVER, I am no hardware/software engineer, so maybe I am just a crazy person. Well, okay, I AM a crazy person, but even a blind squirrel finds a nut ;)
For the record, I am running a 3930K and GTX670 FTW in my newest, biggest build. My first self-built PC, which I still have and which is being completely "polished" and brought back to full strength, consists of an AMD FX-51 (even rarer due to it being one of the first 1,000 chips ever produced, period) and an ATI X800XT-PE. Both systems are/were absolute top-of-the-line for their time, and both overclock abnormally well (easily hit 5.1ghz on 3930K and 1400core/7800mem on 670, both using custom water; the FX-51 was 24/7/365 stable for 4yrs at 2.45Ghz with a circa-2003 air cooler and the X800XT-PE was at 604/1292 with the stock cooler and the simple addition of a PCI slot blower).
I buy whatever gives me the best price:performance to price:longevity total ratio, and this time I felt Intel and Nvidia simply couldn't be beaten. I know that there is not a single TRADITIONALLY COOLED system made of AMD parts, with equivalent numbers of components (i.e. 1x/ea CPU/GPU) that can beat mine in anything and I am happy, yet I am also sad.
I am sad because WE NEED for a "neck and neck" competition, or prices will be controlled not by market but by manufacturer, and innovation WILL stagnate.
Let's all of us get a case of Red-Green colorblindness for a while and do what we can to help ensure that ALL OF US win in the end, what do you say? Reply
CeriseCogburn - Friday, October 26, 2012 - linkI read about the first paragraph, then I scrolled down, and saw the gigantic obviously totally hypocyryphal bs.
You cared so much you nearly wrote a freaking book. Well, read it yourself, you're more obsessed than anyone else here, obviously.
What a doof. Reply
Gastec - Tuesday, November 13, 2012 - linkI normally don't post but I had to come online just for you. You are a troll and you will be banned. Reply
akamateau - Saturday, October 27, 2012 - linkDoes anyone else consider that NEXT is not only used by AMD as in AMD NEXT but evidently is also in the name of Microsoft's XBOX NEXT. Apparently XBOX 720 is out and XBOX NEXT is in. Is it becasue AMD NEXT is INSIDE? Reply


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Apple announced this past Tuesday that it will be holding an event on September 12. Most people believe this will be the event the new iPhone 5 will be announced, especially after the invitation shows the number 12 casting a shadow that looks like the number 5. It has already been widely expected that Apple would announce the new phone in September and the event looks to confirm everyone's suspicions.
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Wagner To Become Acting Commissioner for GSA's Federal Acquisition Service
November 28, 2005
Contact: GSA Press Office, (202) 501-1231
Washington, DC – Marty Wagner, currently Associate Administrator for the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Governmentwide Policy (OGP), will become Acting Commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service (FAS) on December 21 replacing Barbara Shelton, who will return to her position as GSA Regional Administrator, Mid-Atlantic Region.
Ms. Shelton came to Washington in February 2005 as Acting Commissioner of the Federal Technology Service (FTS). She has been Acting FAS Commissioner since June 2005 and led the on-going effort to design and establish the new Service. The FAS organization was officially established by GSA order in September 2005. During the transition period, Ms. Shelton served concurrently as Acting Commissioner of FTS and Acting Commissioner of the Federal Supply Service (FSS). She assumed the National Headquarters positions after three years as GSA Mid-Atlantic Regional Administrator.
Acting GSA Administrator David Bibb praised Ms. Shelton's time with FAS noting that: "Barbara has been the heart and soul of the work done to establish the Federal Acquisition Service. She stepped into a very challenging role and helped create a new-look U.S. General Services Administration that will be better able to serve our customers and by extension, the American people."
Mr. Bibb also said that he is looking forward to working with Mr. Wagner in his new position.
"Marty and I have had a good and productive working relationship for many years. He is definitely the right person to carry this work forward as we drive ahead to complete the reorganization," said Mr. Bibb.
Marty Wagner has been the Associate Administrator for Governmentwide Policy since 1995, where he has played an instrumental role in improving the government's management policies and in developing innovative approaches to providing services throughout the government. Prior to his role with OGP, Mr. Wagner served as Deputy Commissioner for the Information Resources Management Service from 1990 to 1995, where he managed what became the Federal Technology Service as well as the information technology schedules in the Federal Supply Service.
John Sindelar, currently the Deputy Associate Administrator for OGP, will serve as Acting Associate Administrator of the organization in Wagner's absence.


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Russian Billionaire – And His Newspaper – Among Roadblocks To TeliaSonera Deal
Introducing William Mauldin, the new deputy bureau chief of the merged Wall Street Journal/Dow Jones Newswires bureau in Moscow.
Doing business in Russia is as difficult as ever. You just have to look at the difficulties mobile operators Teliasonera of Sweden and Russia's Alfa Group are experiencing.
In addition to a combative shareholder in Turkey and the regulatory caprice of the Kremlin, Sweden's Teliasonera and Russia's Alfa Group are facing another obstacle to their mobile-telephone tie-up: Billionaire Alisher Usmanov, the second biggest shareholder in British football club Arsenal, and his influential business daily.
Kommersant today devotes nearly 2,000 words to an interview with the head of Usmanov-controlled Telecominvest, which owns 31% of MegaFon, one of Russia's three big mobile companies. Alfa and TeliaSonera yesterday said they would unite their telecom shares in MegaFon and Turkey's Turkcell,to form a new, as yet unnamed company that would incorporate outside Russia and seek listing on the New York Stock Exchange.
"The devil is always in the details. We believe that this agreement is a 'paper tiger,'" said Ivan Streshinsky, general director of Telecominvest, controlled by Usmanov's AF Telecom, in the Kommersant interview.
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By Ashley Marshall / Special to MiLB.com
Astros right-hander Mike Foltynewicz didn't exactly struggle during the piggyback era in Corpus Christi, but he's certainly not sad to see it go.
For most of his baseball career, the 21-year-old pitched every fifth day like clockwork. Now back on that schedule, he's looking to thrive in the second half of the season.
Foltynewicz (5-1) scattered six hits and a pair of walks while striking out eight batters over a season-high eight innings in the Double-A Hooks' 5-0 win over the visiting San Antonio Missions.
"I think my performance was the best of my career," said Foltynewicz, selected 19th overall in the 2010 Draft. "I just felt good out there and let all my pitches fly. All of my pitches were working -- my fastball, slider and changeup. I just threw them over the middle of the plate and let them try to hit it."
Houston's No. 7 prospect used an inning-ending double play to work around a couple base hits in the first inning, and he stranded two runners in scoring position in the fourth. He left another two runners on base in the sixth, and he escaped unharmed in the final two innings despite allowing singles in each.
"I just let them hit it on the ground," he said of pitching out of the stretch. "I pitched down in the zone and tried to get them to hit into double plays.
"That [fourth inning] was big. We like to talk about the shutdown inning, but we've not had success with that the last couple games. I beared down and threw strikes. I had good command of my fastball that inning and I got [Robert Kral] to pop up a changeup because he was out in front. It was a big-time pitch."
His eight innings were two innings more than he had gone in any start this year. The reason for the short leash can be traced back to the Astros piggyback system -- the concept of alternating a pair of pitchers between the rotation and bullpen.
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SANTA ANA - The man charged with killing eight people at a Seal Beach hair salon was arraigned Wednesday on a grand jury indictment - a move designed to speed the judicial process.
Attorneys say they hope the indictment will provide closure for the survivors and victims' families.
"I'm hoping to get this case to trial in about a year," Deputy District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said. "We want to get it out of the way for the survivors and for the victims' families so we can have justice at the earliest possible time."
The county's top prosecutor - speaking to a throng of news media who attended the hearing - personally handled Wednesday's arraignment for Scott Dekraai, 42, of Huntington Beach.
Dekraai, appearing thinner and older since his last court appearance in November, spoke only to his attorneys during the brief arraignment. Dekraai's face was gaunt, and his hair was long and gray.
The arraignment was fairly routine, but there was some legal wrangling over selection of the judge that will hear the death penalty case.
Dekraai's primary defense attorney, Scott Sanders, used his one chance to challenge the first judge assigned to the case, Francisco Briseno - the county's longest standing jurist. Rackauckas, meanwhile, challenged the second judge, Richard Toohey, selected by the arraignment court.
The case was ultimately assigned to Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals.
Rackauckas said his office pursued the indictment after the defense announced how long it would take them to prepare for a preliminary hearing.
The indictment removes the need for a preliminary hearing, which means the case could come to trial within a year, the prosecutor said.
The trial itself could take up to three months, he said.
"It could have taken ... three years" to get to a trial under the more common method of a criminal filing, the DA said.
As he spoke, more than a dozen family members of victims killed in the melee at Salon Meritage stood behind Rackauckas.
Several said they were happy to hear of the indictment and vowed to attend every court hearing, as they have since Dekraai's first arraignment just days after the slayings.
"We wanted to be here for our family members, who couldn't be here," said Chelsea Huff, the daughter of Michelle Fournier, one of the eight people killed in the shooting. "We're here to take a stand to show that these people were loved and they need to be remembered properly."
Dekraai is accused of storming the salon, located in the 500 block of Pacific Coast Highway in Seal Beach, following an argument he had on the phone with Fournier, his ex-wife.
He had just lost a bid to get sole custody of their 8-year-old son, and was reportedly angry with Fournier and her friends and co-workers who supported her, police and prosecutors charge.
Fournier, 48, of Los Alamitos, was among nine people shot and she was one of the eight people who died, making it the worst mass killing in Orange County history.
The others killed were Randy Lee Fannin, 62; Victoria Ann Buzzo, 54; Lucia Bernice Kondas, 65; Laura Lee Elody, 46; Christy Lynn Wilson, 47; Michele Daschbach Fast, 47; and David Caouette, 64.
The lone gunshot survivor was Harriet Stretz, 73, of Los Alamitos.
About 15 people were inside the salon when Dekraai allegedly walked in clad in body armor and armed with three handguns. Several survived by running out of the business, hiding in small rooms or playing dead on the floor.
Dekraai is being held without bail at the Orange County Jail.
He is scheduled to return to the Santa Ana courthouse on Jan. 27 for a pre-trial conference.
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Is Happiness a Choice?
Do you consider yourself a happy person? Can we simply choose to be happy? It may be a little more complicated than that – but it's always worth it.
-Pamela Gail Johnson
When I founded the Secret Society of Happy People, in 1998, I intellectually knew a lot about happiness. However, I was probably a little naïve about its complexities. I wanted to believe that if you wanted to be happy, you could simply choose to be. I thought that if I were smart enough— and I definitely thought I was— being happy was an on-command emotion.
Time and experience have taught me that it's much more complicated than that. Happiness and unhappiness usually happen in the same day. In fact, if we watch our Facebook or Twitter feeds most days, we can see posts that make us smile and fight tears within minutes of each other. While we may not feel both happiness and unhappiness at the same exact second, we can feel them concurrently of each other.
Many days, many of our unhappy experiences are mere annoyances. They are fleeting, like a dead car battery, not getting invited to lunch by our best friend at work or getting stuck with a last minute school project for the kids. Although the actual unhappy moment may create chaos, hurt feelings or extra must-do's, they are ultimately fleeting and certainly something that we probably won't remember a year from now.
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So while we may not have a choice of being happy at a specific moment, we do have a choice about how long we hang onto our unhappiness over a specific situation. If we hang onto the unhappiness of a fleeting annoying situation for virtually no reason, all we're doing is magnify our unhappiness because all we're seeing is what's wrong. A glass half empty attitude, if you will.
Having said the above, when we're unhappy a bridge to happiness doesn't magically appear. We need to find a catalyst so we can move beyond our annoyances. We may need to cry, work out, vent once and no more than twice to a friend or finish the annoying project. This helps us let go of the unhappy so we can have room for the happy. And sometimes the relief of letting go, finishing a project, or fixing the problem is…happiness.
If we just pretend we're happy, and ignore the frustration, it eventually comes out sideways. We'll yell at someone for no real reason or do something self-destructive like eating a whole cheesecake.
Our happiness is interconnected to the moment we're in. For example, if we're exhausted our reaction to an annoyance is different than if we're rested.


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Science Archives Now AvailableMonday, July 20th, 2009
UVM Libraries is pleased to announce that patrons now have access to Science, one of the most influential scientific publications, back to 1890. The Science Classic back file includes the very first issue of Science published under founder Thomas A. Edison and complements Science Online, which covers issues from 1997 until today.
Publishers say this about Science Classic:
"Science readers may now access a wealth of scientific literature. This archival content includes groundbreaking Research Articles and Reports, News of the Week and News Focus, Letters, Books et al., Policy Forum, Reviews, Perspectives, Association Affairs, Technical Comment Abstracts, Brevia, even advertisements found in the print issues published before 1997. Readers will have at their fingertips key articles in the history of science from the late 19th, the 20th, and the early 21st centuries such as the human genome, the genes for breast and colon cancer, and the Bose-Einstein condensate in physics."
Access this archive as you would any Science article through the publisher's website or UVM Libraries Online Catalog and Electronic Journals List.
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Undergraduate Requirements
Here you will find the requirements for the various different programs of study which are possible within the History Department. If you cannot find the information you are looking for here, feel free to email the department office or contact us by phone. You may also make an appointment to see the Undergraduate Advisor, Dr. Richard Weigel by calling or signing up in the main department office (200 Cherry Hall).
Major in History:
The major in history (reference number 695) requires a minimum of 33 semester hours and leads to a bachelor of arts degree. Courses required are HIST 101, 102, 240, 241 and 498. Of the remaining 18 hours, a minimum of 15 hours in upper division courses is required with at least one upper division course coming from each of the following areas: United States History, European History to 1648, European History since 1648, and an area other than Europe or the United States.
Minor in History:
The minor in history (reference number 392) requires a minimum of 24 semester hours. Courses required are HIST 101, 102, 240, and 241. The remaining 12 hours must be taken in upper division courses with no more than two upper division courses coming from any one of the following areas: United States History, European History to 1648, European History since 1648, and Areas other than Europe and the United States.
Major in Social Studies:
The major in social studies (reference number 592) requires a minimum of 60 semester
hours and leads to a bachelor of arts degree. Students completing this major with
the Secondary Education curriculum may be certified in social studies.
The courses required are distributed as follows:
- HIST: 27 hours, including HIST 101, 102, 240, 241 and 498. The remaining 12 hours must be taken in upper division courses and must include a course from each of the following areas: United States History, European History to 1648, European History since 1648 and Areas Other than Europe or the United States.
- PS: 9 hours, including PS 110, a choice between PS 250 or 260, and an upper-level course selected from PS 310, 316, 326, 327, 328, or 370.
- ECON: 6 hours, including ECON 202 and 203
- GEOG: 9 hours, including 101 or 110, and two upper-level classes selected from the following: 350, 360, 425, or 430.
- SOCL: 3 hours, SOCL 100.
- ANTH: 3 hours, ANTH 120
- PSY: 3 hours, PSY or PSYS 100.
In choosing elective courses, students should keep in mind the number of upper division courses required for graduation. Students who complete this program will not be required to offer an additional major or minor for their degree and teacher certification.
Students who pursue the social studies major should also bear in mind that at least a minor in a particular discipline is required by many universities for graduate study in that discipline. The equivalent of a history minor is included in the social studies major. The number of additional hours required to meet minor requirements in PS, ECON, and GEOG is as follows: PS: 15 hours; ECON: 15 hours; and GEOG: 12 hours. Students seeking to minor in any of these disciplines should consult the appropriate department head for specific requirements. You may also link to the four-year plan for a degree in Social Studies. (Note: This plan will appear in a new window and you can print from there.)
History by Interactive Television: The History Department offers upper division courses via interactive television sufficient to meet the requirements for the history major with the exception of History 498 which must be taken on campus. These television courses will also meet the upper division requirements for the history minor and the history component of the social studies major. For more information see the course page, under ITV courses.
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