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Australian Meteorology Bureau Corrects Record On Former Research Head William Kininmonth's Actual Climate Change Experience
Australian Meteorology Bureau Corrects Record On Former Research Head William Kininmonth's Actual Climate Change Experience
WHEN it comes to climate change science, as with most things in life, it pays to listen to actual experts with a solid background in their field.
Work undertaken in the National Climate Centre during the period 1985 to 1998 mainly centred on climate database management and climate monitoring activities, with the National Climate Centre responsible for the management of the national climate database known as ADAM (Australian Data Archive for Meteorology). Climate monitoring activities included improving the datasets for monitoring climate variability and change.The processes and methodologies developed within the National Climate Centre have established that Australia has significantly warmed since 1910. A warming trend was established and published by the National Climate Centre during the period of 1985 to 1998. Mr Kininmonth was a contributing author for the observational chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Second Assessment, Climate Change 1995.Aside from some limited research activity on historical observations, The National Climate Centre had no formal role in undertaking or directing climate change research during the period of 1985 to 1998. Specifically, the National Climate Centre did not have responsibility for climate change attribution work (i.e., linking observed climate change to CO2 emissions/concentrations). Such work in Australia was undertaken in the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, CSIRO and the University sector during the 1980s and 1990s.The role of the National Climate Centre was, and still is, somewhat distinct from the Bureau's research operations, which were formerly managed through the Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre (BMRC). The research centre has primary responsibility for climate change research. The BMRC is now part of the joint Bureau-CSIRO Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research (CAWCR). Scientists in CAWCR contribute significantly to international climate change research, including work on the link between increasing greenhouse gases and climate change.
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Mr Kininmonth makes an ideal spokesperson, being a person with no relevant experience yet making exaggerated claims about his credentials. No wonder he gets on well with lordy lordy Monckton, that paragon of virtue and expert on everything.
Why, if we could not get such eminent leaders to talk to the media, we would have to put up with, oh, I dunno, maybe a climate scientist or two. Imagine how boring that would be: WSJ and Fox reduced to reporting facts. Horrible idea.
"The group also debunked the misleading notion that global warming had stopped. "Climate experts know that the long-term warming trend has not abated in the past decade,'' the group wrote. "In fact, it was the warmest decade on record. Observations show unequivocally that our "planet is getting hotter."
Benny Peiser is one of the leading sources of the misinformation campaign that there has been no global warming this century, with the graph on the home page of his GWPF website. Can anyone point me at the data that explains the contradiction between that graph and the above statement that "it was the warmest decade on record"?
Keith I'm not sure which graph you're referring to from the GWPF - is it this one? http://www.thegwpf.org/the-observatory/4868-the-mail-on-sunday-the-met-office-and-the-temperature-standstill.html (that's the only one I can find on the GWPF front page).
As you can see, the GWPF graphic is a tiny snapshot of time - ie only 13 years (1997-2012), which suits the denier claims of hottest years.
In contrast, check out this one that shows a much longer timeframe (up to 2009, but 2010 was hotter than 2009 so that data would have gone up) of 130 years. Then you get to see what everyone is talking about. Could even be described as a hockey stick.
To take just a ten year window to make claims about the long term trend is just silly - and pretty unscientific in terms of looking at climate change.
"with the graph on the home page of his GWPF website."
I could only see one on the banner that went from 2001 to 2011. Its the ol escalator trick.
Obviously, a 'skeptic" would want to narrow in on any leveling out & cherry pick that as evidence. Ignoring the overall trend.
"To take just a ten year window to make claims about the long term trend is just silly - and pretty unscientific in terms of looking at climate change."
Exactly, he GWPF/Monckton/Carter/WUWT/Plimer/Audit/Depot/Nova etc etc are looking at small variations & cherry picking any flat or downturn, then completely erasing the long term trend. I like this short video on trend & variation.
Shindig and Phil M,
Yes, it was the graph on their front page banner that I meant.
I know the arguments about cherry picking and short term trends, but surely the evidence that the same period was the warmest on record should trump that. The GWPF are making as much mileage out of that claim as they are about "climagate", so it would be good to have a straightforward way to discredit their graph, which the hard of thinking can understand:
(Study links dimwits to conservative ideology)
"The GWPF are making as much mileage out of that claim as they are about "climagate",so it would be good to have a straightforward way to discredit their graph, which the hard of thinking can understand:"
Skeptical science has covered the whole sorry Daily Mail & GWPF saga in detail.
Lots of easy graphs there to check out. A noticable absence in the comments is the usual "skeptics" with science background or training. They know the Daily Mail & GWPF stories are con jobs, where the only acceptance they would gain would be on WUWT, where commenters jettison objectivity & critical thinking. It is left to a brave, but ignorant denier Elsa.
Phil, thanks for the link to that timely article on skepticalscience.com. I enjoyed the graphic depictions for the skeptics' guide to global warming!
I wonder how long it will be before the denialati start trying to cherry pick the lowering sea levels discovered between 2010-2011? No doubt the Daily Mail & GWPF will have articles for their kool aid loving fans like " so much for global warming causing sea level rises".
When so much water is picked up out of the warming oceans & dumped on Australia, Asia & South America, its easily explained.
...it's already going back up
"Just curious.. You're from somewhere over there right?"
"Is Australia's drought over?"
Mostly , yes. There are pockets here & there that didnt get a drenching last year & are still in drought.
But this year Western QLD & Northern NSW have recorded record floods again for the 2nd year in a row.
Some town have been completely evacuated this time with 13M (42 feet) flooding. Reinforcing the link that I posted above from Yale that so much water was sucked out of the pacific & dumped on QLD & other parts of the world, that ocean levels actually dropped.


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Purim is different from all other Jewish holidays in at least one very interesting aspect. Purim is observed in some places exclusively on the 14th of Adar and in others, exclusively on the 15th (Shushan Purim).
The observance of Purim was thus originally ordained by the Sages: "To observe these days of Purim in their times. 'In their times:' In the specific time of each."
The reason for the different dates designated for the observance of Purim is that the Jews of Shushan originally observed the festival on a different day than the Jews who lived elsewhere. Whereas Jews in Shushan waged war on both the 13th and the 14th of the month, and observed the 15th as a day of festivity and rejoicing, in all other provinces the Jews waged war on the 13th and observed only the 14th as a day of festivity and rejoicing.
Therefore our Sages chose to distinguish between Shushan and all other places in accordance with the original event.
Wishing however, to accord honor to the Land of Israel which then was desolate, they determined as follows: The capital city of Shushan, in which the miracle occurred enjoys special preeminence and the festival is to be observed there on the 15th. This is despite the fact that in the days of Yehoshua, under whose leadership the Jewish People first entered and conquered the Land of Israel, Shushan was not yet surrounded by a wall, and hence enjoyed only minor status as a city.
All other cities which were already settled and were surrounded by walls in the days of Yehoshua, are to be accorded the preeminence of Shushan - although they might presently lack surrounding walls and might be in a state of ruin - and they are to observe Purim the 15th. Cities which were not surrounded by walls in the days of Yehoshua though they may have surrounding walls presently - are not to be accorded the status of Shushan, and they are to observe the festival on the 14th.
What then is the criterion for judging the status of a city?
The condition of the city during the days of Yehoshua. That is to say, walled cities either found by Yehoshua in the Land of Israel, or built with walls in his time, are assured of eternal existence. Their present destruction is viewed as passing. Cities outside the Land of Israel - though they later acquired the status of walled cities - are not regarded as assured of permanent existence.
Therefore the Purim which is observed on the 14th is called 'Purim-of-the-open-cities;' (Purim De'Prazot) and the Purim observed on the 15th is named the 'Purim-of-the-walled-cities' (Purim De'Mukafot).
In our times, the only city besides Shushan in which Purim is observed the 15th of Adar is Jerusalem, "Yerushalayim."
In a number of other places, the Megillah is also read the 15th - but only because of doubt. In these communities, the essential observance of Purim is fixed for the 14th, and though the Reading of the Megillah is repeated in them the 15th as well, the required brachah which precedes the Megilah-Reading, is not recited.
PURIM KATAN - Little Purim
On a leap year when, according to the Hebrew calendar there are two months of Adar, I and II, Purim is observed for two days in Adar II, which is followed by Nissan. However, the 14th and 15th of Adar A on a leap year are traditionally called "Little Purim". On these days also one is supposed to celebrate, is forbidden to mourn or fast and omits certain prayers.
Sometimes Purim falls on a Friday, therefore making the next day, Shabbat, Shushan Purim. However, it is forbidden to read the Megilla on Shabbat, and of course, Shabbat cannot be postponed because of Purim.
For Jerusalem and other walled cities, the procedure is as follows:
"Mikra Megillah" is done on Thursday night and Friday morning, as in the "open" cities; "Matanot La-Evyonim" are given on Friday.
The reading of "Parashat Amalek" and the insertion of "Al HaNisim" into the "Shemoneh Esray" and the "Birchat HaMazon" are done on Shabbat, their regular Purim in ordinary years.
"Seudat Purim" is served and "Mishloach Manot" are exchanged on Sunday, the sixteenth of Adar.
Thus, the holiday is felt and marked in Jerusalem for three days, and therefore Purim in such a year is called "Purim MeShulash," Triple Purim.
Other Purim(s)
Learning from the Purim experience, a custom has evolved for Jewish communities to celebrate the anniversary of their escape from destruction. These special communal Purims are also called 'Purim Katan.'
This is a day of rejoicing, feasting and the distribution of gifts which Jewish communities, families, or even individuals set aside in commemoration of a miraculous event through which they were rescued from catastrophe or destruction or from evil and oppressive edicts.
There are such festivities which are established for a definite period of years and others which are to continue through all the generations. These were called "Second Purim" and an effort was made to celebrate them like the first Purim following the pattern which Mordecai and Esther established for all the generations.
In honour of the Second Purim special megillot were written and read in the synagogue on that day in the cantillation of the Book of Esther (the megillot of the Purim of Castile, of Saragossa and of the Casablanca Hitler). Poets composed special poems on the pattern of "On account of the miracles" to be said during the "Amidah" (Shmona Esreh) and as part of the grace after meals (Purim of Candea, of Carpentras, France, and others). In other places they would recite the Hallel during the morning prayers as is done on Hanuka and the first day of the month even though the Hallel is not said on Purim.
The number, both in the Diaspora and in the Land of Israel during foreign rule, comes to hundreds. Many have been forgotten or have disappeared in the course of time, and others are recalled only in community annals and in history books.
Sometimes such a Second Purim was even established on a day of national mourning if the redemption occurred on that day; thus Purim of Candea falls on the 18th of Tammuz (1538) even though Tammuz is a month of mourning according to Jewish tradition. The Purim of Ibrahim Pasha on the first day of Av (when festivities are reduced to a minimum) commemorates the miracle by which the Jews of Hebron were rescued from the army of Ibrahim Pasha. And there are others.
Sometimes a Second Purim is established on a holiday without qualms about mixing celebrations: For example, the Purim of Ancona (Italy, 1740), on the second day of Succoth, the Second Purim of the community of Carpentras (France, 1651) on the eighth day of Pesach, when the community was rescued from a blood libel.
At times a Second Purim was established for a family as happened in Vilna where the 16th of Kislev (1803) is called "the Purim of Abraham Danzig". In a nearby military camp there occurred a heavy explosion. Many houses were destroyed and there were many killed and wounded. The house of Rabbi Abraham Danzig, scholar and poet, was in the area of the catastrophe but was undamaged and its occupants unharmed.
In 1629 Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Heller, the Rabbi of Prague and the author of the famous commentary on the Mishnah, "Tosefet Yom Tov", proclaimed as a Second Purim for his descendants the second day of Rosh Hodesh Adar to commemorate his deliverance from death.
A famous Second Purim is that of Frankfurt-am-Main on the 20th of Adar (1614-15). The baker, Vincent Fettmilch, who called himself the "New Haman", organized attacks on the Jews, who defended themselves. However, after a battle which lasted a full day and night they were forced to surrender and were expelled from the city, despoiled of all their belongings.
After several months the king of Germany learned that a flagrant injustice had been done to the Jews. He commanded that the baker be killed, his house destroyed, his body beheaded, quartered, and hung on the gates of the city.
The story of Vincent Fettmilch's crimes and of his punishment were inscribed in German and Latin on a column erected on the site of his house. The king called upon the Jews of Frankfurt to return to their homes with full honours, accompanied by a military band and with a reception by the local authorities. This Purim the Jews called "Vincent Purim" and they also proclaimed a special fast and penitence. Rabbi Elhanan Ha'elen composed a "Vincent Megillah" in Hebrew and Yiddish.
A "Hitler Purim" was proclaimed by the Jewish community of Casablanca (North Africa) on the 20th of Kislev (1942) because on that day it was saved from the Nazi invaders and their followers. A special Megillah, the "Hitler Megillah", was composed ("...and the month which was turned for us from sorrow to rejoicing and the making of holiday and the giving of gifts to the poor. Cursed be Hitler, cursed be Mussolini... etc...." From the Hitler Megillah).
- Casablanca Purim Katan, celebrated on the 2nd of Kislev, commemorates the Jewish community there being saved from anti-Jewish riots and Nazi occupation in 1943.
- Purim Winz was established by the Jews of Frankfort on the Main (Germany) on the 20th of Adar in 1616, and celebrates the expelled Jews being admitted into the town, as well as the execution of the chief Jew-baiter and anti-Semite, Fettmilch.
- The Jews of Tiberias celebrate a Purim Katan on the 7th of Elul dating from 1743 when they were saved from the danger of war from the surrounding Arab countries and their foreign allies.
- Cairo: called 'Purim Mizrayom,' the Jews of Cairo celebrated the 28th of Adar, 1524, when they were saved from extermination.


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Oh come on USC! You're not fooling us with some shitty recreation scene! You're better than this! THE JAUNT (Walter & Grant) Student Film SAG-AFTRA USC Graduate Student Film Casting Director: Meena Rama Interviews: 2/10, 2/15 Shoots: 3/29-3/31 Pay Rate: SAG WAIVER,COPY, CREDIT, MEALS Location: L.A. SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE SUBMIT ACTOR'S ONLINE DEMO CLIPS ALONG WITH EACH ACTOR SUBMISSION. [ WALTER ] (Male, 30-45, any ethnicity)—a middle school English teacher who can't catch a break. Divorced, broke, and incapable of enjoying himself, Walter's best friend nowadays is a bottle of wine. A connoisseur of all fine things, he knows how to live, but has trouble really living. Walter's a wet noodle, but has an inner courage not many could match. [ GRANT ] (Male, 30-45, any ethnicity)-Walter's best friend. A charming B...ok maybe C-list actor. The kind of guy who would ditch you at a party, and the next day act like nothing happened. About to get married, but can't help hitting on anything with a pair of legs. Grant might come off a little self-centered, but if Walter killed a man, he'd help bury the body. STORYLINE: When two friends take a trip out to wine country, they succumb to their weaknesses, confront their flaws, and find out they need each other a lot more than they ever thought... USC GRAD PROJECT - SCENE STUDY Student Film SAG-AFTRA Director: Faisal Attrache Casting Director: Faisal Attrache Interview Dates: 2/12-15/13 Shoot/Start Date: 2/20/13 Pay Rate: None - Copy, Credit, Meal Location: USC - Los Angeles SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY PLEASE SUBMIT BY MONDAY EVENING, 2/11/13. IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE SUBMIT ACTOR'S ONLINE DEMO CLIPS ALONG WITH EACH ACTOR SUBMISSION. This is a scene study for a graduate directing course in comedy that will be rehearsed and shot over several weeks. It will be a unique opportunity to do a scene study with a graduate student director and have it filmed for your reel. In addition, the scene will be workshopped in class at least twice under the supervision of the amazing BARNET KELLMAN, a veteran TV and film director (check out his IMDB page!) http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446060/ The scene is from a major motion picture in which two friends take a trip to wine country before one of their weddings. [ JACK ] (30-50)- confident and outgoing. He likes to seize any opportunity to have fun. Jack is a B-list (or lower) actor and doesn't concern himself with rules and technicalities. He has been a bachelor his entire life and finally thinks he is ready to settle down. However, as his wedding day approaches he is having second thoughts, especially after meeting a beautiful, free-spirited woman on the trip. [ MILES ] (30-50)- divorced, uptight and depressed, he is having a midlife crisis and feels worthless. He has forgotten how to have fun and relax, especially when it comes to his dating life. He is a failed writer, but is very smart and a wine connoisseur. | |||
Robert DeNiro |
"Sideways" was a great movie and immediately recognizable. Re-naming it is not going to fool anyone. | |||
Jack Nicholson |
Also, maybe I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that you couldn't get waivers or Taft-Hartley'd from student films under the SAG agreement. That it solely existed to allow SAG actors to be in your film. | |||
Marlon Brando |
You can't unless it was SAG AFTRA New Media. A lot of the top film schools have agreements with the union where they can hire union actors and not have to pay them. | |||
Jack Nicholson |
Okay this is what I thought. It never occured to me though to do a student film as a New Media. | |||
Marlon Brando |
Oh come on USC! Enough of these Sideways recreations! Ostrich Farm Student Project - General, Other Posted: 2/12/2013 Union Status Other Rate SAG STUDENT FILM AGREEMENT Submissions Due By N/A Institution USC Audition Dates 2/16/2013 Audition Location Edward Kim 10133 Tabor St. #9 Los Angeles CA 90034 Shoot/Performance Dates 4/13/2013, 4/14/2013, 4/20/2013, 4/21/2013 Shoot/Performance Location TBD TBD Shoot/Performance Dates Note Not all dates are mandatory, most likely only take 1 day to shoot. We will have rehearsals beforehand as well as in class at USC. Will be able to work with Barnet Kellman! Synopsis A directing scene. Jack comes back to the motel and tells Miles that he left his wallet back at the waitress's house. Audition Note The location will be on USC. Building TBD MILES / Other / Principal / Male / All Ethnicities / 25-40 A divorced writer. He is hard on himself because nothing is satisfying for him. Not a very outgoing guy, but has talent. He is Jack's best friend. Wardrobe: Pajamas or something comfortable. Rate: NO PAY Role Added 2/12/2013 12:01 PM JACK / Other / Supporting / Male / All Ethnicities / 25-40 A free spirit. He is getting married in a week and wants to enjoy the bachelor life before doing so. He is an actor that had some good role sin the past, but not so much anymore. Is Miles' best friend. Wardrobe: Underwear. Rate: NO PAY Nudity Situations: Not full on nudity, will be wearing nothing but underwear in the beginning of the scene. Will wrap self with blanket for the rest. HERE'S MY BOY! Student Film SAG-AFTRA Casting Director: Kyle Dare Interview Dates: Friday, Feb 15 12pm-5pm; Saturday Feb 16 12pm-5pm Shoot/Start Date: March 29-31 or April 5-7 Pay Rate: Copy/Credit/Meal Location: TBD - Los Angeles SUBMIT ELECTRONICALLY BY FRIDAY, FEB 15, 12PM. IF POSSIBLE, PLEASE SUBMIT ACTOR'S ONLINE DEMO CLIPS ALONG WITH EACH ACTOR SUBMISSION. This is a student production that will shoot for 1 day. There will be several rehearsals to specifically work on the director & actor process. We will have auditions on the USC Campus. Specific building and room will be posted soon. [ MILES ] 30s-40s. An aspiring author who teaches middle school English, Miles is only happy drinking and talking about wine. Though intelligent and articulate Miles would rather hide from his problems than face them. [ JACK ] 30s-40s. Jack is a handsome, aging actor who only wants to get laid and get his friend Miles laid before they head back for Jack's wedding. He goes after what he wants without always thinking through the consequences. As written the scene calls for Miles to be shirtless. This may be changed later but for now it is still in. | |||
Hilary Swank |
I don't get why these kids are taking on this expensive education to copy their fellow students and do essentially the same crappy recreation. ---- just another actor.. | |||
Glenn Close |
Yep, this year it seems everybody is doing either Sideways or The Big Labowski. | |||
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You may have read our report from earlier today, covering the main points that AMD was trying to make in its recent teleconference with the European press (which includes us). While in the call, we were a little jolted by the choices of words some of AMD's executives used to describe their company's consumer graphics outlook for 2013, how they believe they can hold out for almost the entire year with little or no major updates to their product stack, and more interestingly, a few above-the-belt jabs at NVIDIA and its upcoming GeForce GTX Titan product. The crux of AMD's emergency meeting with the press was to bust some misconceptions spread in the press over the last couple of weeks, to tell them a Graham's Number of times that they still hold the fastest single GPU on the planet, which powers the fastest graphics card there is (ASUS ARES II). The most ironic part of AMD's emergency meeting with the press was the one in which they called GeForce Titan NVIDIA's emergency/knee-jerk reaction to AMD's getting cozy with game developers, and netting some of the biggest PC game launches of the season for its Never Settle Reloaded bundle. Although we sat through the teleconference, it was only today that its audio recording was released to us. No text transcript of the recording exists on the web. AMD states that the content of the conference are not bound by an NDA or any other confidentiality agreement, and so we spent the last couple of hours transcripting the audio recording, including grammar correction, stammer correction, and ethical redaction, all on a war-footing. Find the transcript below, and attempt to read through the lines. You could draw several inferences, and laugh your rear vents out on some of the more weird/ironic parts. Please link back to this article if you're copy-pasting the text from below. We know exactly what we edited. Transcript of the AMD Teleconference, held in the week of 11th February, 2013. **Conference coordinator welcomes participants, briefs on the technical format of the teleconference** "...thank you for standing by, and welcome to the AMD graphics strategy update. At this time, all participants are on a listen-only mode. There will be a presentation, followed by a question & answer, at which time if you wish to ask a question, you need to press * and 1 on your telephone." "…I would now like to hand over the conference to your speaker for the day, Chris Brown, please go ahead." **Speaker for the day Christine Brown takes over, welcomes journalists, and makes opening remarks** "Thank you [coordinator], good afternoon everyone, my name is Chris Brown, from AMD EMEA PR, and I'd like to thank you all for joining us today. We really appreciate your time. During our call today, we'd really like to focus, and provide you with an update on the AMD graphics strategy, so to be clear, we're not providing any major announcements today, we really brought you together, because this week we've seen some confusion, I think, in the markets, and we wanted to clear the air, and answer any questions you may have. So, to that end, we brought together some key AMD executives to support this call. On the line, we have Roy Taylor, vice president of worldwide component channel sales; we have Darren McPhee, director of worldwide graphics product marketing; and we have Devon Nekechuk and David Ballman, product managers from the graphics team. Our update will last just about five minutes, and then we plan to open up the call to your questions. There's no presentation, and no NDA, this is really your chance to have your questions addressed on AMD's GPU strategy for 2013, as well as for us to provide any insights on what we're seeing in the current marketplace. So with that, let me hand you over to Darren. **Darren McPhee takes over** "Thanks Christine, thanks everyone for joining. I'm going to just talk just a couple of points to build on what Christine was saying. The first place I want to start is talking about "Sea Islands," because that's something that there's been a lot of misconception, and maybe a little bit of confusion about what that is. "Sea Islands" is basically a codename for a series of products on our roadmap this year, for both notebook and desktop, and prioritized especially for our OEM business on the notebook side. When you saw us launch the 8000M in January of this year, it was part of the "Sea Islands" series of products, we'll be releasing other products this year, as part of that series. There was some perception that "Sea Islands" was desktop-only, but that's actually not the case. "Sea Islands" was very much about notebook and OEM design cycles, as well as some desktop parts." "That said; let's talk about the first half of this year. The first half of this year, as of today, and going forward, for us and the channel, the 7000 series is very strong. We have performance leadership at every single price-point, we see that family continuing to gain momentum, and we have plans in the first half to actually add into that product family as well, with some new editions. We have right now what we think is the best promotion we, or anyone else, has ever done, with the "Never Settle Reloaded" bundle, and we're getting fantastic feedback from customers and partners on that, and that's really driving additional momentum for the 7000 series." "We have the world's fastest graphics card with ASUS, when they launched the ARES II, a few weeks ago, and that gives us performance leadership, and 7990. So the first half for us, 7000 series is very strong, and we see it just doing nothing but better. As we go into the second half of this year, we are on track to continue to execute our graphics roadmap plan, and you'll see us starting to ship new products in the channel by the end of this year. Hopefully, that is a very quick summary of where things are, but hopefully that clears up things a bit, based on some of the coverage that was out there, in the past week or two. With that, we can open it up for some questions, Christine?" **Christine takes over; coordinator opens up the participants' lines for questions** Coordinator: "your first question comes from [journalist A], go ahead." [journalist A]: "Hi guys, are you releasing a reference 7990 anytime soon? Obviously we've seen them from the partners, and that ARES card from ASUS, but AFAIK nothing from yourselves?" Devon: "Yeah, we have a couple of partners that have launched HD 7990 SKUs, this includes VTX3D, it includes PowerColor, it includes ASUS, and I can't give you any specific details about what else is coming up, but we definitely do have more 7990 goodness for you guys, coming up in the next couple of months. We definitely are not sitting still there, but we're in a very good situation right now with the world's fastest graphics card, partnering with ASUS on that, and we'll continue to hammer on that drum, bringing really cool SKUs to gamers all over." Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist B], go ahead." [journalist B]: "Hi, I wanted to ask about the 8000M series, you said that this is the "Sea Islands" family, is that correct?" Devon: "Yeah, that's correct, a kind of a subset-codename in the "Sea Islands" is "Solar System," for the 8000M series, that's another codename that you may have seen out there." [journalist B]: "Okay, and what is basically the difference between the 7000 series and the 8000 series when it's called by a new codename, because I know there was a new chip released with 8300 and 8400, and the rest of the family was rebranded 7000 series?" Devon: "For the parts that we've already announced for the 8000M series, there are new chip configurations; "Mars" is a new chip, that's also the equation to "Oland" on the desktop side, which we've announced as 8600 series for OEMs, but a roadmap name does not designate a specific set of IP (intellectual property), it's always been the case that we have mixed IP within a roadmap, sometimes there has been a tighter correlation to one single set of IP, other times there hasn't, so "Sea Islands" is a mix of different IPs." [journalist B (sounding confused)]: Oh, okay, so that means there will be another, perhaps, some new chips under the "Sea Islands" family name but with newer technology than GCN (Graphics CoreNext micro-architecture)?" Devon: "Yeah, well, we're not making any specific references at this point in time." Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist C], go ahead." [journalist C]: Hi, just to confirm, what you said means that Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition stays AMD's fastest single-GPU graphics card until the end of the year?" Devon: "Yes." [journalist C]: "…and, if I may ask another question, how do you plan to compete with NVIDIA's GeForce Titan?" **5 seconds' silence** Devon: "Are you referring to the GK110?" [journalist C]: "Yes." **Roy Taylor interrupts** Roy: "Basically from what we've seen so far, we don't think there's any conc…[stops short of saying "concern"]…of course things could change, but early indications are, that this (GeForce Titan) is not something which was designed to be a graphics card." [journalist C]: "Yeah, but performance-wise, it seems to be that it's going to be faster, based on the rumours that we're hearing, than 7970 GHz Edition, so actually you're competing with dual-GPU cards, so there's no competitor from your side, talking about single-GPU?" Roy: **choppy audio** "I may appear so, however the [leaks?] that we've seen, and certainly from an article written on "Bright Side of News," would indicate that indeed so far, it will not be the fastest product around." [journalist C]: "Okay, thank you." **Coordinator reminds participants how they can ask questions** **Brief silence** **Christine speaks** "While we're waiting for other questions, Roy, since you've recently joined AMD, it would be great to get your perspective on our current product stack, and what you're hearing in the markets, at the moment." Roy: **speech is choppy and inaudible due to technical problems, Roy was joining the call over Skype.** Christine: "[coordinator], have we received any other questions, or does anyone like to come back to Roy with any questions?" Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist D], go ahead." [journalist D]: "Hi folks, I'm just wondering if it's just me, or was everybody having a bad line when Roy was speaking, it was very hard to understand some portions?" Christine: "Sorry [journalist D], good point, I was catching most of it, so I thought it would be quite clear…" Roy: "…you know what Christine? Can you just let everybody know that I'm on Skype, I'm gonna dial-in on my phone directly, gimme two minutes, and I'll repeat what I just said." Christine: "Wonderful." **Brief pause** Christine: "So, while Roy is dialling back in, any questions for Darren, or Devon, or David?" Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist E], go ahead." [journalist E]: "Hi, I'm just wondering what your feeling is towards the 7700 series and 7800 series, getting towards the second half of the year; whether or not it's going to be capable of frame-rates people are expecting from new games like Crysis 3." Devon: "The products have great performance, and they have the feature-set, that are very aligned to, or perform very well with the latest set of games, especially with our DirectCompute capabilities, which new titles are leveraging more and more. We have the best compute architecture out there, at the moment, but additionally, as Darren mentioned, we are augmenting the 7000 series, and it's in that segment that precisely we'll see some additional product updates, so some good things coming up fairly soon." Darren (addressing [journalist E]): "The key difference there, that I'd like you to help in making clear to gamers, is that keeping the 7000 series branding for the rest of the year is different from not introducing any new products. We definitely have more products up our sleeves that we will be launching. The perception out there that we don't have new product because the naming (7000 series) is not changing, is something I'd like you help to clear up." [journalist E]: "Okay, thank you." **Roy returns to the conference, this time over a proper phone, and repeats his statement** Roy: "I'm really glad to be back, and to able to talk to the press again. On this call I recognize some old names, and some old friends, and it's good to be back. What I wanted to say to you all was that right now, as it stands, AMD has the fastest GPUs at every point in our stack. I don't think it feels like that, and I don't think that it's been widely reported in the press. I'd like to ask you (the press) to make that clear to your readers, and I'll tell you why that's good for you. The reason I think it's good for you is because in the good old days of the fight between NVIDIA and ATi, it created a lot of good fun press. It was exciting to wake up in the morning, grab a coffee, and read the latest instalment in the battle [someone reads TPU] , and so I'm here to tell you that that battle is back on! So let's have some fun with it! We have the fastest GPUs, and until we've clearly established our performance leadership, we don't necessarily start talking about new products, because first of all we need to make it clear that we already have the lead, and as Devon just mentioned, we have some new products coming, and having got the lead back, we don't intend to drop it. Even in the latest games, and the latest benchmarks, we're in the lead. Now, we have more games coming, that will continue to show that leadership. Unlike our competitor [NVIDIA], we have game bundles which are both exciting and fun. We have more of those coming, too. I also said that I'm personally going to be in Europe in a few weeks, Christine is organizing some meetings for me now, and if any of you would like to meet me one-to-one, and hear more about the coming battle, and how that would extend to Intel as well on the CPU side, I'd really enjoy the chance to meet old friends, and make new ones." Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist F], go ahead." [journalist F]: "Actually it's not on the little speech I'm afraid, but an earlier question that was answered, which stated that the 7970 would still be your most powerful single-GPU product until the end of the year, why is it so? Are there any technical reasons for that, because at that point you would have announced that part almost two years ago? Is it a technical issue, or is it simply because you don't feel the need to put something newer out there?" Darren: "Definitely, I got a two-part answer for that one. We launched the 7970 in December of 2011, and then we followed up with the GHz Edition in July of 2012. So the GHz Edition has been out there for the better half of the year now, and that will continue to live on until the end of 2013. From a technical perspective, no, there's absolutely no technical reason; from a product perspective, we have the world's fastest GPU now, with the GHz Edition, and as Roy mentioned, the GK110 is coming, but is something NVIDIA is leveraging from a completely different space. It's a Tesla product, it's a workstation product, it really was never intended for the consumer market, and I think that way they're kinda shoe-horning that product into their GeForce stack. So, we took them by surprise by having the world's fastest GPU, and you see all these kinds of reactions from them right now, but we're very confident that the 7970 GHz Edition is the best GPU for enthusiast gamers out there. So this is purely for marketing performance reasons, nothing technical." [journalist F]: "And just as a quick follow-up to Roy's point that, if there's such a battle between you guys and perhaps Intel, and if it's for marketing reasons and not technical, is there really a battle going on, or are consumers being left with the same product basically for two years?" [he meant how can AMD have a "battle" and a slow product cycle at the same time] Roy: "Can I jump in on that? The recent sales success of our "Never Settle Reloaded" bundle shows us the appetite of consumers for that product [7970 GHz Edition] is wonderful. I know this is a European call, but Newegg.com in the USA were sold out. We're seeing record sales throughout Europe. So as measured by people spending money, I'd say that we're in pretty good shape." Devon: "Also, some of the stuff coming out, as I mentioned, stuff like Crysis 3, Bioshock Infinite, Tomb Raider, those are real reasons for end-users to buy high-end GPUs right now. So if people didn't upgrade last year, and they're generally on an 18 to 24-month upgrade cycle, there are a lot of really good reasons to buy a 7970 GHz Edition." Roy: "…and Darren touched on it earlier, that the simple fact is that the 7000 series is still ramping. We're still seeing higher sales, growing sales on the 7000 series, so yeah, there's an appetite in the channel for product stability, and we're seeing that it actually accelerates the sales. You can argue that the channel cycles previously were a bit too forced." Darren: "The only thing that I want to throw in there too, is that one of the luxuries of being able to have a long lifecycle for these parts, is because of our games strategy, where we've been investing in all these titles, and you're seeing these huge AAA franchises working with AMD. We're optimizing for our architecture, and that's why a product like the 7970 GHz Edition still has such great performance, and such a healthy standing versus the competition. So that's a big part of our long term strategy, and that also adds in value to the customers who bought the same products last year, who will be getting the most out of the latest games." Roy: "I think we've also improved the drivers incredibly too, so their experience has improved along the way." [journalist F]: "Thank you." Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist G], go ahead." [journalist G]: "Hello everybody, you (Roy) said you would be coming to Europe, are you going to be at the Mobile World Congress, and second question is that there were some rumours that AMD would focus more on the chips for the PlayStation 4, and that's why you decided not to launch in January or February, the 8000 series?" Roy: "Oh boy, let me answer this one! So first of all, I sadly won't be at the MWC…" Christine (interrupting): "…we will actually have spokespeople at the MWC, but Roy won't be joining us this year, but I can check later if it makes sense for you to meet the folks coming over. Sorry Roy, please carry on." Roy (continuing where he left off): "We can't comment on unannounced products and unannounced partnerships, but I can tell you that no decision that we're making has been any external factors. They're entirely influenced by our desire to make it clear that we have GPU leadership. Once that's done, then we're going to be back with you very, very soon." [journalist G]: "Okay, thank you very much." Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist H], go ahead." [journalist H]: "While I'm really hear you in the price-performance side of the product, what about image and marketing? I mean, even if NVIDIA only pumps out a handful of GeForce Titans, they can still run around saying they have the fastest GPU for gamers, how are you going to compete with that?" Darren: "Actually I'm happy that they're launching this, because it's a proof point that the ARES II will continue to be the world's fastest graphics card. From all the data that we have, they aren't going to be able to beat the ARES II." Devon: "…and frankly from a marketing perspective, you know, we're tied up with all the latest AAA titles at the moment, so how can NVIDIA compete? They're launching GeForce Titan as a reaction to us being signed up with all the best game developers right now. Also as a marketing point, I assume everyone's seen the game bundles that NVIDIA has launched recently, right? I thank them for launching their game bundle, because it goes to show have great "Gaming Evolved" (developer program) has become. Just look at the titles in the "Never Settle Reloaded" bundle versus their "Free to Play" bundle, and you'll see which company is more serious about gaming for desktop and PC users." Roy: "We should make it clear that NVIDIA is a good company, and we respect their attempted transition into being a smartphone company." Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist G], go ahead." 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We get more engineers to develop great drivers, and performance optimizations, as you've seen with Catalyst 12.11, and put engineers alongside developers to get more features and performance, to make the games run better on the product." Devon: "Yeah I think you'll see some really exciting things coming out of the partnerships in the "Never Settle Reloaded" bundle. The Crysis 3 partnership is not just about that specific game, it's about the exciting things we're working on with Crytek that we'll be developing over the course of the first half of this year, Bioshock has already come out with some great press on how much they've invested on the PC side of the game with us, and Tomb Raider will ship with a new feature we've been working on with them. So it's about performance optimization, but also creating a great experience on the Radeon graphics, and kind of pushing industry forward in terms of new effects as well…" Darren: "A criticism that has probably been levelled against the historical ATI and to a certain extant AMD, is that we're an engineering company first, without understanding the content side; but over the past five years, we got more serious on the content side, so our engineering focus is still a 100% there, but we're paying a lot more attention to the content side." Roy: "Many of you know many of the leading celebrities and starts of the gaming world, and you'll know that these people are very independent-minded, you cannot push a games developer to use your product. He would use whatever one he thinks is best. I can tell you that developers are using Radeon, because it's the best GPU around, and they wouldn't use it for any other circumstances. And I can assure you that they are developing on Radeon. At this coming GDC (game developers' conference), for any of the European press that's visiting, we'll be able to make some introductions for you and set up some interviews, so you could hear that for yourselves, first-hand." Coordinator: "your next question comes from [journalist A], go ahead." [journalist A]: "Yeah, just one last question on Titan, and a fairly pointed question. Do you concede that in a couple of weeks' time, you probably won't have the single fastest GPU in graphics?" Roy: "How can we possible concede to what actually hasn't been delivered?" [journalist A]: "Obviously, you know a fair bit of what's going on, do you believe that in a couple of weeks you'll still have the fastest single GPU? Let's flip the question around." Darren: "I think what matters for end users, is the graphics card. And that's what ASUS' ARES II delivers. I see absolutely no threat to the ARES II's market position right now…" [journalist A] (interrupting): "…with all due respect, I'm not asking that question about the world's fastest graphics card. I'm asking about the world's fastest single-GPU graphics card?" Roy: "I don't think we can comment until we've seen it. Based on what we know so far, I don' think that this (GeForce Titan) is a threat to our business." Darren: "…and it's not like it's a surprise. You know, the GK110 has been known about for a long time. Our roadmap stayed, once we knew about it. We didn't need to react." [journalist A]: "Okay, fair enough." Roy: "…however writing about this is going to create lots of fun for you, and lots of readership." ***Coordinator runs out of questions from the participants, Darren reiterates the key points of AMD's position, the meeting concludes on a lighter/personal note between AMD and some of the journalists***
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I think people are too held up on who has the best and fastest. Maybe in a few years better GPUs will actually be needed for next gen console graphics at 4k res but right now, I don't think people really need a $800+ titan. The bundles AMD has are actually really good. Its better for most people for AMD to offer the current bundles they do than having a card very few people can afford.
Ohh AMD talks about having the best single gpu card (even though reviews say the green camp has that crown) and ofc the best graphics card with the asus ares. Also they talk about how they have game developers in their pockets optimizing games for their graphics cards (like they optimized benchmarks to get better scores?). You know the usual.
Basically, AMD says screw Titan, the ARES II is faster. At any given price point, they offer more, and the high-end SKUs like Titan don't sell big numbers. 7970 GHZ to remain top model through 2013, but they have other 7-series cards coming, including the 8-series SolarSystem mobile cards. I think so. WTF would they bother engineering a card for a market that sells less than 5k units? Let NVidia have the sales, I say, and so does AMD.
Looks to me like the biggest takeaway of this all is that they're focussing a lot more on the software side these days. The most recent iterations of their driver also reflects this and I can only applaud this development.
Yeah, most people don't have (or aren't willing to spend) the money on a GTX Titan priced card. Hell, most people aren't even willing to buy a 7970. It's not where the bulk of the market is. If profit is nVidia concern, I think they're going to be disappointed with Titan. Also, I find it interesting that they're saying Titan was initially was supposed to be a Tesla card. It makes you wonder if it will actually stay within that 250-watt TDP and how much more power this GPU will consume. If the TDP increases by 25% over the 680, it makes you wonder how much more the consumption is, because only a percentage of that consumed power is released as heat.
I guess ASUS forgot to mention the dual GK110 Mars they are working on. But yeah in all seriousness, I don't think nV consider the ARES II a threat either, they are probably already rarer than a net profit on AMD's quarterlies. People always want new toys to play with, and for the peeps that chase the top benches, the Titan is a far more appealing option.
It's funny, because that's exactly what I was saying last week. And if the details given out recently are true, even I was overstating things. But the proof is in the pudding, so they say, and I've yet to see Titan, and AMD has yet to release suitable options for me for Eyefinity. The hardware is here, sure, but anyone that's run three or four AMD GPUs knows all about those problems. I think they binned chips since September of last year or so, honestly, if not longer. Maybe 250000 cards? That'd definitely cove the "R&D". Devs will buy the cards. Anything under 350W for a high-end card is fine. Actually, seeing such a large slice of silicon is rather cool, I want two or three myself. I almost bought GTX690 and held off.
AMD makes sense to me. Why release a newer model until sales for their POPULAR product reach a market saturation and diminish significantly?
True enough. Nvidia are only putting Titan into the marketplace because the GPU was already up and running. The PR alone arguably worth more to Nvidia that the realized profit from selling the boards. I also think that R600 made a lasting impression with ATi/AMD on what happens when you move outside your comfort zone. AMD don't have the engineering resources to spare to cover all areas of development in any case. I'd note that holding up a limited edition $1600 Ares II as an example of AMD's prowess then the AMD flacks pointing out perf/price advantage throughout their stack as being somewhat disingenuous- if not outright contradictory. You either play the perf/price card or the outright performance card at the expense of the former- you don't get to play both then criticize the competition on the same points when it suits- especially not within the same interview.
Seems that the many vendors of AMD graphic cards can and do offer a large spectrum of PRICE & PERFORMANCE...take XFX for just ONE example...TDBC, TNBC, TDFC and TNFC.
Unlikely imo. Releasing the Titan in any quantity means that the card stays at the top of benchmark charts until it is dethroned by a better performing reference model. By my estimation, that will comprise most of this year at least. Also likely are the chances that the GPUs are salvage parts (high leakage, errors in ECC) not suitable for Tesla and the soon to be released K6000 The board is likely load limited as is just about every new offering these days. The only way you'd likely exceed spec is if the user made a deliberate choice to raise the power limit. Technically, virtually all the input power is released as heat in one way or another. The Kepler arch actually seems to be rather energy efficient, and more interestingly, gains efficiency with overclocking (compared to the competition here)
Am I the only one that on this one. Given Nvidia only supplied chips for 1 smartphone HTC One X in 2012 and now its switched to Qualcomm HTC One. Looks like the claws are out Meow, Cat-Fight, watch the purses fly.
It's strange that there's all this fuss about AMD keeping their product lineup stable in order to keep cash flowing in and giving away free stuff for gamers, but no-one mentions that Nvidia is doing the exact same thing with Maxwell. Then again, that announcement was last year and everyone seems to have forgotten about it. Both companies seem to be moving to a 18-month product life cycle because desktop performance at 1080p is at a plateau. Unless we all move to 30" screens tomorrow, or every second person buys a triple-monitor setup, there's not much incentive to make new stuff for people using the same monitor they did last year. You can add on the eye candy, but there's a point where it transitions from looking great to just being a waste of good resources.
An Nvidia engineer said lets make the K20X into a consumer card for the <1% of users for mega epeen, a filler between Kepler and Maxwell.
ATI tooting its horn on a card ASUS made, strange. Show me the reference 7990's please. I find it silly that their answer to the Tiatan is a card made by only ASUS and costs 1500-1600US and is dual GPU vs single GPU Would two of the very best 7970GHz edition cards do about the same as the Ares? For a lot less? Yes I'm a nvidia fanboy, I'm also a ATI fanboy as I love both companies equally, my current gpu is by ATI.
The ARES II is widely available all over the EU. That isn't going to be the case with limited stock (Xbit say 10k) Titan. A dual Titan is out of the question if you don`t have enough chips (Got a link for Mars GK110?). Thats an out dated argument, its widely excepted that the HD7970 Ghz beats the GTX680 by 25%+ at times in higher Resolutions with AA applied. I think you better get used to games being optimized for AMD once the Consoles come out with AMD tech. AMD finally understands that Software/Drivers and Optimization matter as much if not more than Hardware. I think we are going to see a stronger, leaner and aggressive AMD. The reviews you mention are outdated, plus the new drivers show AMD Ghz with up to 25% more performance with only 20W+ max at fully overclocked (Idle & Sleep state AMD wins). The reviews at Hardcop and many more shows Nvidia 680 (Especially GTX670 overclocked) using more or same power vs HD7970 (Check HardCop latest Over clocked reviews), which is why you don`t see the "power card" being used much often now vs before (Outdated Drivers). Check out the S/A article on Tegra 1/2/3/4, most was known/out there anyway but still a good read.
Oops. Ares 2 is limited to 1000 units. Special Edition. It's in their marketing blurb. By your own argument the Titan will outnumber it 10 to 1.


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07-22-2012, 07:49 PM #4Bumping to see who else will be there. I may look at the other thread when I get off work in the morning. I will have that Saturday night off so I'll be able to attend (albeit tired). Gonna try to get a female friend of mine who has a Chevy truck to come and bring her truck with her. I don't know what I'll bring as far as food goes as I will still be unpacking from moving this upcoming weekend.
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O'neill Renegade Jacket
O'Neill Renegade bomber style jacket with satin lining, standard fit welt hand pockets, chest pockets, ribbing at cuffs, logo trims and embroideries Learn More
O'neill Tierra Mar Jacket
O'Neill Tierra Mar Jacket. 100% cotton canvas work wear jacket. Standard fit front zip with side pockets and Sherpa lining. Learn More


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Eight Sixty
Tank Dress
Eight Sixty features a modern collection of trendy prints in colorful palettes. Their tops and dresses feature ruffles and color blocks with fun trims and embellishments that are sure to catch your eye.
- 100% poly
- Shoulder seam to hem measures approx 35" in length
- Fully lined
- Hand wash cold
- Elastic waist
- Styled with Kelsi Dagger Wynette Platform Heel in Black.
- Styled with Low Luv x Erin Wasson Oceanus River Fish Ring in Silver.
- Styled with House of Harlow Horseshoe Nail Cuff in Antique Gold.
- Styled with gorjana Star Ring Small in Gold.
- Styled with House of Harlow Olbers Paradox Ring in Gold.
- Styled with House of Harlow Horeshoe Nail Wrap Ring in Antique Gold.
- Modeled in size S. See fit guide for model's dimensions.
- Revolve Style No. EIGH-WD254
- Manufacturer Style No. CQY890449


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Lo Res LoBurgundy
The Lo Res is part of United Nude's digital design revolution. Computer aided design cuts the smooth rubber surface like a diamond. With a removable strap and leather foot bed, these classy and comfortable pumps will become a girl's new best friend.
Actual Height: 30mm/1.2"?
- Burgundy rubber
- Nappa sock
- Rubber outsole
Product availability and shipping rates are based on the set country.


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WelcomeFrostburg State University is a destination for students seeking a challenging and enriching educational experience. Academic programs in the sciences, education, business, the arts and humanities at both the undergraduate and graduate level prepare learners for lives of distinction. University Profile
Maryland Resident | Contiguous Counties** | Out-of-State Resident | |
*Tuition | $5630 | $12166 | $16278 |
*Fees | $2098 | $2098 | $2098 |
*Room & Board | $7694 | $7694 | $7694 |
Books | $1200 | $1200 | $1200 |
Transportation | $750 | $750 | $950 |
Personal | $1000 | $1000 | $1000 |
*The above figures are costs per year, based on a 9-month academic year. Expenses for tuition and fees are for a full-time student, 12 credits or more. Room and board costs can vary because they are subject to choices made by each student. The $7,694 price listed above is the sum of a typical freshman double/triple dorm room and the silver meal plan. Books, transportation, and personal expenses are estimates only.
*Notwithstanding any other provision of this or any other University publication, the University reserves the right to make changes in tuition, fees, and other charges at any time such changes are deemed necessary by the University and the University System of Maryland Board of Regents:
**Contiguous County discount for full-time students from the following counties: - in PA; Bedford, Franklin, Fulton & Somerset; - in VA: Loudoun; - in WV: Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Jefferson, Mineral & Morgan.ext here.
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Frostburg State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Institution. Admission shall be determined without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, status as a veteran, or handicap.
FSU is committed to making all of its programs, services and activities accessible to persons with disabilities. You may request accommodations through the Americans with Disabilities Act Compliance Office, 301/687-4102, TDD 301/687-7955.
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