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Frame Rating: Eyefinity vs Surround in Single and Multi-GPU Configurations
AMD Eyefinity and NVIDIA Surround plus 4K
As I mentioned on the previous page, Eyefinity and Surround are technologies that have been around for a long time but are picking up steam as the price of high quality 1080p monitors drops. AMD was the progenitor of multi-display gaming with Eyefinity and it has been a part of their promotion and marking for Radeon graphics cards for years, both high-end and mid-range cards.
These configurations put a lot of pressure on GPUs. A 2560x1440 screen results in a pixel count of 3.68 million while a 5760x1080 (triple 1080p screen) setup results in 6.22 million pixels. So, to maintain a steady frame rate of 60 FPS the gamer's PC must be able to handle 69% more pixel per second. Single GPU configurations (with the exception of maybe NVIDIA's GeForce GTX TITAN) are unable to really meet this demand while setting games to higher quality settings and thus many users that invest in multiple panels for Eyefinity/Surround are also investing in multiple GPUs for CrossFire or SLI.
And thus our problem is stated. AMD has said that the 13.8 Catalyst beta driver (and the fix found in it) was only good for 2560x1600 resolutions and below. There was some confusion if this meant Eyefinity was included or not as some people speculated that because each screen was only 1920x1080, it would work. As it turns out, that isn't the case.
Another problem AMD may have coming up is the move to 4K. Current 60 Hz 4K gaming panels like the ASUS PQ321Q use a dual-head configuration. That means that although only a single cable connects to the monitor via DisplayPort, multiple streams are being sent back and forth, reporting to the PC as a multi-monitor connection. Essentially, gaming at 4K 60Hz on current screens is a result of setting up a two screen Eyefinity or Surround configuration with each "head" running at 1920x2160. The combined resolution is 3840x2160 for a total pixel count of 8.29 million pixels, or 2.25x the pixels of 2560x1440.
Obviously multi-GPU setups are going to be demanded for 4K.
The ASUS PQ321Q
In order to test AMD Eyefinity and NVIDIA Surround with our Frame Rating configuration, we had to be a bit more creative. Previous testing was done simply by using a dual-link DVI splitter sitting between the panel and the graphics card, with the secondary output going into our external system and capture card. That card records the raw data and then scripts analyze the video (with overlay) to get performance data.
With Eyefinity and Surround there are three screens so which one do we capture? The answer turns out to be any of them. Thanks to an updated overlay that can present as many sets of overlay bars on the screen as we request, we can capture the left, center or right hand screen to see performance data. We are simply intercepting ONE of the screens rather than the ONLY screen.
Our Datapath DVI-DL Capture Card
As it turns out, performance measurements are the same regardless of which screen you capture from, as you would expect. For my testing then we decided to capture the center monitor which allows to create some side-by-side animation comparison videos as well.
|Test System Setup
|Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge-E
|ASUS P9X79 Deluxe
|Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600 16GB
|Hard Drive
|OCZ Agility 4 256GB SSD
|Sound Card
|Graphics Card
AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB CrossFire
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 2GB SLI
|Graphics Drivers
AMD: 13.8 (beta)
|Power Supply
|Corsair AX1200i
|Operating System
|Windows 8 Pro x64
For my testing I wanted to use the highest end graphics offerings while maintaining price parity. The Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition has come down in price steeply and currently sells for as low as $370 with a 3GB frame buffer. So while NVIDIA does have faster single GPU offerings, the best comparison for our purposes is the GeForce GTX 770 2GB cards that sell for about $390. I do realize that the GTX 780 and GTX TITAN would offer better single GPU and SLI results for NVIDIA but keeping the prices within range is key for any PC component discussion.
PcPer.com, I am one of those "that are invested in the HD 7000-series of graphics cards and have already purchased their Eyefinity configurations on the promise of a great experience".
I thank you for your hard work PcPer! I am truly grateful!
Because of it so far, I have seen a dramatic improvement in single screen Xfire game play with my 2 HD 7870s.
I did however invest in triple 1920 x 1080p screens, 2 HD 7870s and I wish I could be rewarded with the performance expectations I paid for. The experience would be awesome.
I only hope AMD will strive to keep me as a loyal customer by listening to your findings and offer a solution shortly to this Eyefinity-CrossFire problem.
You and AMD will have my undying loyalty and gratitude for it.
If AMD does, it will surely make them the king of the hill in value, for dollar per dollar performance...
Are you listening AMD? Is this make or break time for your company? My next GPU purchase depends on how you react. I wish AMD great success!
p.s. Ryan and PcPer.com Team. Please be confident that you are doing a great service to AMD in the long run and their customers.
Marc Senecal
Fort Myers, FL
Marc, thank you very much for your comments and feedback. We greatly appreciate the support!
I'm sorry but I have to correct you: gaming equipment is not an INVESTMENT. Unless you're a pro gamer is a consumer spending.
Anyway, I wish you all the best fun with your new hardware :)
This is no place for a grammar Nazi, and you aren't even correct in the first place.
Yes, the word "investment" is often associated with money spent expecting a monetary return. However, that is not the only usage of the word.
The poster clearly is "invested" considering the amount of money he spent, which he spent anticipating a return - in this case, a return in performance.
Honestly, contribute something useful to the topic or stay quiet. This thread is about obtaining a correction to a product flaw, not "How to parse nomenclature".
Dear Marc, yes we are definitely listening. Drop me a line direct.
best regards
hi Marc, I can assure you that myself and several other senior executives and engineers at AMD are deeply committed to making sure you get the experience you deserve.
We believe that Ryan treats this subject fairly, reports accurately and he works closely with us. We are grateful of his recognition of our leadership where we have it, even if I dont personally agree about our competitors 'sexyness'!
We will back with more on this shortly,
there is 13.10 beta did u test it?
Nope, we were using 13.8 beta. But 13.10 did not add any changes for Eyefinity / Frame Pacing.
i got 7950 X2
I had a chance to buy another one at $ 100
Now I'm all out of it and save the next generation of NVIDIA ...
I'm very disappointed that AMD are selling a defective product ..
Thanks for the information.
AMD is always all about selling defective and inferior products. They did it before with their "Tri core" CPUs. Those were just Quad cores that had a 4th core that they couldn't get to work. AMD GPUs and drivers are shit. You get what you pay for.
You do realize that binning is a key part in the silicon-industry? By your logic, the Titan is crap because it only has 14 of the GK110's 15 SMX units activated.
When a produc-line is announced, there are actually few different dies being produced. 3820, 3930, 60 and 70 are all 8-core "xeons" with cores disabled due yield issues.
EVERYONE do this.
And please, stop spreading the false claim that the drivers are bad. Maybe they were back in good ol' '04, but that is long gone. AMD has actually had better drivers than Nvidia this generation...
In your dreams retard! NVIDIA PWNS YOUR AMD, NUB!
Are you sure http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalyst13-10WINBetaDriver...
I'm still wondering about this little gem... "PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in CrossFire configurations"
"But 13.10 did not add any changes for Eyefinity / Frame Pacing." - I am curious about this too, as the press release clearly states that it updated something regarding Eyefinity.
I'm fairly technical, but I am getting a little outside my level of knowledge here
1. http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2010/11/27/pci-express-3-0-explained/
Each lane of PCIe 3.0 only has 1 GB/sec
2. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pci-express-scaling-analysis,1572-8....
This is a very old article, but THG did testing graphics cards by limiting the PCIe lanes available to graphics cards, and you can see a very large performance degradation.
3. Back to the "PCI-E bus speed is no longer set to x1 on the secondary GPU when running in CrossFire configurations" Note in the press release.
Would one of the cards in the setup being starved for bandwidth be able to account for these anomalies?
By AMD's admission, no. This problem listed in the Catalyst 13.10 notes only affects Crossfire configurations that do not use a bridge adapter across the graphics cards. This coming from AMD's own Andrew Dodd.
If this were a fix for our problems AMD would surely be crowing about it.
You guys rock pcper. Been here for years. Love amd, but they need to get their act together. Emphasis on the good faith part ya know. Don't become the crappy option. Amd has so much great iP if they could only get their software side together they would be SIGNIFCANTLY more competitive.
I hope this fix AMD says they are working on will help with my 6970's too. I know they aren't worth that now, but I paid $700 for the pair, a couple years ago, to power my 3 screens. I'm about to sell them on craigslist and get an nvidia card, if it doesn't.
I honestly don't know if they will fix it, but the 13.8 beta did fix single screen for 6000-series parts so you might get lucky here too.
Keep hitting them until they fix this. I bought 2x 7970's in January 2012 and I noticed immediately the problem. Its not like AMD has only known about this since the beginning of this year, thousands of users were reporting this problem a year before that. It really put me off dual cards until I got a pair of 680's and found that the grass was much greener on the Nvidia side with SLI.
We need this fixed so we have some competition in the high end of GPUs.
Ryan...let us see your Tiger-Bus !
How about this? http://screencast.com/t/uTeQAykAYhJF
with any luck a fix will be out from AMD a few after the release of the 9000 series, they are so slow with driver updates that I'd see it taking that long ... if they dont just give up ...
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So you can't run 3 PQ321's on AMD in a 6x1 eyefinity configuration?
I'm glad to see AMD is putting focus on 4K and hope they have a 4K eyefinity solution soon.
The only way NVIDIA will ever support anything other than 3x1 surround is if AMD turns up the heat. NVIDIA if you are listening, you need 2x1 and 2x2 surround support at any resolution to stay competitive on the consumer side. No one is dropping thousands of dollars on Quadro's just to get that one feature.
I think technically YES you can support 3 4K monitors like the ASUS PQ321Q with AMD today...but the main issue is going to be PERFORMANCE. Even without frame pacing and interleaving problems how much horsepower would you need for that?
More than they have available today.
Just wanted to make sure it was a performance issue not a driver issue. I agree you wouldn't be able to run anything more than simple 3D demos in such a setup.
Agreed, I really hope we will see large GPU performance increases with the next round of silicon so that multi 4K gaming becomes a reality.
Keep up the good work, you guys are really pushing the boundaries of what is possible with 4K!
I can't help but wonder, if the issues seen really are due to lack of proper synchronization, then would there be a FPS impact when AMD makes their changes?
Or in other words: Is AMD cheating on performance (knowingly or not)?
I don't think they were doing it knowingly, no. That doesn't excuse them though; they should have been able to see these problems before and been trying to fix them before this all started to happen this year.
Hi Ryan, I hope 4K connectivity is scheduled to be included in all future reviews of hardware, like laptop reviews. Back in June I needed to buy something quick when my system crashed and it would have been great to know if any low to mid range laptops could at least drive a 4K display. I am not expecting benchmarks of a Chromebook running Metro Last Light at 4K but it would be nice to know if I could display Sheets on a Seiki display with an A10 based laptop.
The SEIKI's should be supported with just about any modern GPU (single head, 30 Hz) but it's the 60 Hz models that require some more testing. I'll try my best to include them going forward!
Thanks Ryan & PcPer for doing this & the previous investigative work; it is much appreciated & good to see AMD taking the findings onboard to make fixes!
If you used a monitor that was capable of 600fps would the problem persist?
Yes, the supported refresh rate is irrelevant here.
@ Ryan Shrout,
1. You need to state if your using AMD Beta Driver 13.8A (8-1-2013), or AMD Beta Driver 13.8B(8-19-2013). If you're using 13.8A on purpose during a discussion/benchmark on Surround and 1600p, multiple viewers could come to the conclusion you did this on purpose to make AMD look bad. AMD Beta Driver 13.8A doesn't have 1600p support. It only addresses the issues for DX11 API. 13.8B addresses 1600p and surround, if I am not mistaken. A possible upcoming 13.8C may address DX9 API, or it could have already been done in the new 13.9 WHQL update.
2. Personally, I can't take your discussions on a more serious manner. In your conclusions, you state things that give me the impression that you don't fully understand graphs, or have poor views of AMD Graphic Cards. At the very least, it is leading me to believe that you are bias towards Nvidia. Having favoritism, or a bias point of view to one company over the other, isn't a good way to approach a discussion or benchmark on any product. It doesn't help you seem serious, experienced, or reasonable to both bases (AMD and Nvidia users). It only tells readers that you pander to one side, and talk crap about the other brand's short-comings. AnAndtech doesn't do it, Guru3D doesn't do it, techpowerup.com doesn't do it either, and they all come out with really good benchmarks about computer-based products. Both bases read their benchmarks because they aren't bias. Mr Shrout, you are bias either because you are letting people know of your hatred towards AMD, or you want to cater discussions and benchmarks that make AMD look bad to the Nvidia Base. Those are reasonable conclusions. If I don't see a benchmark on here discussing why the GTX 600, 700 and Titan series doesn't fully support DX11.1(support only software, but not hardware-wise), you are only going to prove me right.
3. Looking at the Frametime Variance Graphs that you posted, AMD 7970 will have a lower minimum band because the cards push lower latency to produce batches of frames. Problem with it, and it's true, is somewhere along the way, they will produce "runt frames." Frames that aren't one whole frame. It could be like 0.8 frames, or 0.9, or 0.7. On the other hand, it takes less time for AMD video cards to produce those batches of frames. Nvidia takes longer to produce the batch because, hardware wise, the system probably calculates whether it needs to spend more time producing an extra "whole" frame. That's why their minimum frame time band is higher than AMD. The hardware is always trying to push 1.0 frames times x amount of frames to a batch.
1. You are incorrect in this assumption. No beta or full release of driver from AMD addresses Eyefinity.
2. I don't understand the relevance to DX11.1 reference here honestly. This story isn't about API support but rather multi-display + multi-GPU gaming. As to the bias question, this is something that gets targeted at people all the time when their results clearly show an advantage to one side or another. Throughout our Frame Rating series of stories I have continued to tell the truth - that AMD cards are fantastic for single GPU configurations but need work on the multi-GPU side. You can have your opinion obviously, but obviously we disagree. As do many of the readers commenting here.
3. Sorry, I'm going to need more explanation on what you are saying here. Frames are not produced in "batches" at all. I think you are trying to describe the runt frame problem maybe?
2. Personally, I can't take your comment on a more serious manner. In your post, you state things that give me the impression that you don't fully understand reviews, or have poor views of NVidia graphics cards. At the very least, it is leading me to believe that you are bias towards AMD. Having favoritism, or a bias point of view to one company over the other, isn't a good way to approach a discussion or benchmark on any product.
Sucks how that works, doesn't it? Oh, for your point 3, it doesn't matter how fast a card can batch process *anything*, so long as what's presented to the user is inferior to the competition. The result is all that matters. Rolling back to point 1, your statements are moot as they are made without the far greater level of knowledge Ryan has - as he speaks with AMD about these various beta versions on an almost daily basis.
As AMD have just stated that their Hawaii gpu's are smaller and more efficient but not intended to compete with the "ultra extreme" gpu's of Nvidia (aka 780/titan)as this is something that will be addressed by AMD's multi gpu cards....then it is all the more essential that AMD sorts these problems out properly and completely otherwise their product/business model is flawed as badly as their multi gpu performance.
On a slightly different note but still regarding multi gpu I'd be interested in the views of you pcper guru's on the present state of multi gpu systems.
It's always seemed like such a waste to me using alternate frame rendering on multi gpu cards where each gpu has to have access to its own complete frame buffer size of memory.
Surely it would be better to use a tiled render approach where each gpu is working on individual tiles of the same frame and sharing one frame buffer sized chunk of memory?
someone always brings this up, & both ati & nv have said for years that AFR brings the most performance in the least complex way (unless a game engine has inter frame dependancies)
in the past, ati had tiled CF as an option, also scissor mode
but think about this, let's say you're doing 2 tiles at a horizontal split, you may end up with one card rendering an empty sky, the second rendering a ton of detail, basically resulting in a useless solution that doesnt scale
on top of that, you have to synchronize the tiles to display a final image at the same time, but the cards cant physically render at the exact same time, so you'll introduce lag or artifacts (which eyefinity does see)
i would say AFR is good enough & the way to go for multiple cards, but i would want to see a new paradigm... do you remember the first core2quad? it was 2 duals stitched together, imagine if 2 gpus were stitched together (no more mirroring the vram, just adjust the socket connections)
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I replied to this here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1427828/bsn-nvidia-launches-amd-has-issues-marketing-offensive-ahead-of-hawaii-launch/30#post_20827758
I don't even understand the point of this article.
Even before that article it was known Amd was going to fix it phases.
The point to showcase the very specific Eyefinity problems compared to Surround as they had not been discussed or shown in any form before today.
Will you be taking a look at the Phanteks Enthoo Primo case? According to Hardware Canucks it might be the "Case of the year", not bad for such a small company entering the case market. I would be interested in what you think about it.
Here's the link to the HwC video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg_DzdHGgN4
How are your displays connected? I was having this issue until I connected all of my displays via DisplayPort. I know this is not ideal but it has eliminated the issue for me. I have 2 HD 7970s in crossfire and 3 Dell U2410 displays.
If the Asus PQ321 supports DisplayPort 1.2 and the HD 7970 supports DP 1.2 as well, and DP 1.2 can do 4k at 60Hz, then why is 4K necessarily a "dual head" affair? Is that simply due to the way the Asus was designed?
Ok. Nevermind. The whole tiled display thing. Is there a particular reason why 4k displays have to be tiled (or multi-headed)?
Ok. Nevermind. The whole tiled display thing. Is there a particular reason why 4k displays have to be tiled (or multi-headed)?
Ok. Nevermind. The whole tiled display thing.
From another comment on this site by NLPsajeeth:
"Currently there are no timing controllers that support 4K@60p. In order to drive the asus/sharp at 4K@60p, two separate TCONs are used. This is why this monitor has the unique capability of supporting dual HDMI. Each HDMI port feeds into its own TCON.
There is no 4K display that can do 60Hz without tiling. 4K@60p TCONs are supposed to start shipping in small amounts this year and in mass quantities in 2014."
Keep the faith, Ryan and co. Just continue to call it like you see it and let the chips fall where they may.
Hopefully AMD will get its stuff together otherwise they are going to lose a few folks.
I sincerely admire your journalistic integrity Ryan... as well everyone else at the PCper team!
-Stewart Graham
what a difference in AMD graft, they improved on there driver.
Is this so with an APU + Graphic card. Good job Ryan.
Well currently rolling with 2x7970's on a 1920x1200 triple display setup. Can't say I ever really been personally bothered the various issues raised in the article in regards to the frame interlieaving and stepped tearing enough to stop playing, though I trust the guys over at PCPer to give it to me straight. I noticed the stuttering with crossfire more than anything else you guys brought up with your new testing methodology. I think most of us gamers at least gained a better understanding about the various issues involved. Sometimes my benchmarking applcation(be it FRAPS or Dxtory) would say I was getting a certain frame amount but the game just felt too jittery, whereas if I disabled crossfire the game felt more smooth even with a lower framerate.
That is not to say I haven't thoroughly enjoyed my 7970's/Eyefinity setup. When I've been been able to play at Eyefinity resolutions I've done so, when I haven't I've just adjusted my quality or resolution settings until I could get a smooth enough playing experience.
Do I hope that AMD is able to smooth out those circumstances where I can't play at a give resolution/quality due to micro-stuttering with crossfire, yeah that would be awesome. I think a lot of us out here still don't have a full appreciation for the phenomena due to not having been able to test multi-GPU solutions side by side, so it just comes down to "the game doesn't feel fluid enough at my current settings so I'll dial them down until it does", which I'm sure people have different sensitivities to. Keep up the good work PCPer crew.
what about this ryan?
why use 2 hdmi cables when you can use a single displayport cable and the problem does not exist with displayport ?
At first I thought this article may have been over egging the problem with eyefinity + crossfire. Having now disconnected my second HD 7970 and played a few games in eyefinity I have seen that I is not. Radeon Pro may tell me that I'm getting half the FPS that I was but my eyes see the same low FPS experience.
Not impressed AMD, I feel like a chump for spending £300 on a card whose only additional effect to my system has been extra heat and noise.
Still at least I can go back and play Farcry 3 now with out the giant oversized HUD problem.
Thanks For the good article and thanks for bending AMD's ear.
A damned good read thanks Ryan. AMD owners should be pleased that these issues are highlighted and making sure AMD keep on their toes. Like the FCAT article, it was good to see AMD address the issue and get it fixed and again, it was PCper who made AMD aware of the issues (like they didn't already know!)and forced them into sorting that out for their users.
I think a lot of hardware maker define CPU differently then Microsoft.you can ask I wrote a bug report to and today 13.10 beta.if I recall message signal interrupt and its extended variant were implemented in vista for consumer?ROFL we know how vista was received so this might be one overlooked good thing.my case?in regedit MSI was enabled (sad was not for some reason ,can't enable it)but no amount of MSI set!(if it isn't set isn't it defaulting to one msi / socket?but I have 4 CPU in my i5 2500k(ya only physical CPU ms say)so imagine amd 8 core fx lol stuck with 1 MSI / msix.I think this is the cause.sadly on my system none were set . I normally tweak but from what I saw on ms it isn't a case of 0 or 1.and ms recommend hex value.Rolf a bit too complex for my knowledge.but you guys know a lot of hardcore tweaker . if I'm right ? I would be like what the eck am I the only one that used vista ?
PS:what I wrote is for w8 64 bit!But I suspect a lot of hardware maker default to 1 (probably easier to implement)since socket come fro 2 to 12) detecting might be entertaining.
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It was an absolute beating to try and choose the songs but it really boiled down to collective wisdom. Obviously there were certain songs that I really loved, and it came down to about 20 maybe that I really felt like were the songs I couldn't take one away. And luckily everyone surrounding me that I depend on to go to for advice — and that's including people at the label and friends and family — those 20 were pretty much the same choices throughout. And then it was just a matter of getting the most consistent feel for the album without being too much down one path, but also not being too all over the place.
Really I was just trying to make the best possible album and maybe sometimes — I know it sounds crazy — maybe the best song might not be on the album because you gotta think of the album as a whole. And that's the hard part is picking and cutting. It was an excruciating process.
Are there any songs on the album that are ripped from the pages of your life?
Absolutely. Yeah, most of them. Matter of fact all of them, and even the ones that I didn't write I felt like could have came right out of my brain, that's why I chose them.
(James begins talking about 'Love the Way You Miss Me')
That song in particular is close to my heart because I left for 'American Idol' two years ago really without saying bye to anybody and that song kinda represents my friends … and family because if it weren't for them, I don't know what I would have done. I wouldn't have been able to get through.
When things change drastically around you it's good to have people that can kinda keep you in check and kinda make you feel like at least something hasn't changed.
(James talks about 'Miss Your Fire.')
It's a super deep song to me. It's about somebody in particular, an ex-girlfriend and that song was written specifically off of a text that I had received. So it always takes me to that place when I hear that song or I sing it.
Is that a relationship that ended badly?
No … (pauses to think) It was a weird deal because it was at the time of the show kind of, and things get difficult. I wouldn't say badly, but sometimes things end and you don't know why and it's tough to move on.
In the the video for the single 'Let's Don't Call It a Night,' did you get to sit in for the steamier scenes?
[Laughs] Yeah a couple, just to see what was going on and to see the ideas. The producer … wanted me to because we had talked about the scenes and how the thing was going to play out but then I actually got to see some of it in the making and it was cool and I was really happy with the way the whole thing turned out.
Based on how you describe the album, I would think that maybe future videos might have a script that requires some level of physical intimacy with you and a beautiful actress. Is that something you'd be comfortable with?
Well I guess it would depend on the situation, but you know, I don't know that I wouldn't but I don't know that I will so that will be bridge I have to cross when I get to it. I hadn't even thought about that to be honest with you.
There is a long history of stars dating their video co-stars.
Yeah, then I'll make sure to get the most smokin' hot girls that I can find.
Who do you keep in touch with from your season on 'American Idol'?
Quite a few people actually. Anytime I'm in New York I go see Big Mike (Michael Lynche). Any time I'm in L.A. I go see Andrew Garcia. Here in Nashville I from time to time hang out with Little Aaron (Aaron Kelly). And there is a bunch of people from the Top 24 that I still talk to that they didn't make it Top 10 so they didn't go on tour or anything. Even people from Hollywood week, I still talk to.
I heard Miranda Lambert say once that she was glad she didn't win 'Nashville Star' when she was on it. Is there an upside to placing second or third?
Without a doubt … I feel like the place where I landed was exactly where I needed to be. But with all respect to the people that got first and second I'm sure they're very happy with what they did, but I wouldn't trade third for first or second any day of the week, just because it allowed me the freedom to do what I needed to do with my album and it gave me the freedom to do the music I wanted.
And the pressure is so great immediately after the show finishes. Scotty McCreery has done a nice job handling that, but some other artists who've won have faded and I wonder if that's not a reason why.
Well there are so many things that go into it. There's managing, and what are the goals, and what is your timeline and what are you trying to do and are you trying to promote being an 'American Idol' winner or are you trying to promote yourself as being an artist for the next 50 years? So everybody's got different agendas and everybody has a different process but I feel really lucky that mine turned out to be exactly what I wanted and needed it to be.


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This was Page's favorite word at 12 months. It meant "waddling, quacking bird," of course, but also "cow," "dog," "cat," "horse," or any creature not a baby (Dada) or a fish (Shhhh). Duck meant "book," too. When you only speak five words, they tend to work overtime.
On the other hand, when Page's older sister, Eleanor, was the same age, she had an impressive 22-word vocabulary, including the phrases "what's that?" "thank you," and "my teddy." But their middle sister, Margaret, didn't utter anything recognizable until exactly on her first birthday. (And it was a doozy: "Art!")
I know all this because I obsessively wrote down the earliest words of all four of my children and continued recording their funny phrases through their preschool years. I did so as a keepsake, but in the process I wound up learning a lot about the fascinating ways babies and toddlers learn to talk.
Indeed, researchers confirm, when it comes to how language develops, there are many surprises in store.
Baby's first words aren't always what we think
Ask most parents what their baby's first word was, and the answer is usually "Dada" or "Mama." Whether these sounds actually mean "Dad" or "Mom," however, is like asking which came first, the chicken or the egg. Babies tend to babble first certain easy-to-make sounds, including p, b, t, d, m, n, and w, says Julie Masterson, Ph.D., a communication sciences and disorders professor at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield and coauthor of Beyond Baby Talk: A Parent's Complete Guide to Language Development. In most languages, in fact, the words for parents feature these early sounds. "When your baby says 'Ma Ma,' you respond to that," she says. "Whether it was meaningful or not, your reaction encourages your baby to keep going and say it more."
In babbling, which begins at 6 to 8 months with vowel sounds, babies practice making different sound combinations and tones. Within months they often start experimenting with the sounds they hear you making when you speak, and the results can seem excitingly like real words. Tamara Jeffries of Philadelphia swears she heard her daughter, Mali, 10 months, say "hat." "I just can't get her to repeat it," she says.
Your role: Go ahead and get excited about your baby's first "Mama," "Dada," and other possible early words, even if you're not sure they mean anything. You'll encourage more language-building babbles. First words can spring forth anytime between 9 months and 18 months, with 12 months about average.
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Conversation comes before wordsIn talking to my babies, I sometimes felt like I was a tour guide to a visitor from another planet. "Okay, bunny! Now we eat. Here's your spoon. Here's your sippy cup. Cuppy, cuppy! Mmmm! Do you like your cuppy?" (For full effect, reread in a high-pitched, singsong, peppy way.) Speech experts call this way of talking "child-directed speech," or "parentese."
Most parents of young children can't help it -- a higher tone and shorter utterances, with an emphasis on key words, just comes out instinctively. Turns out it's not only engaging, but it helps your little one learn new words faster.
Another key feature of parentese is pauses, as if we're waiting for the baby to take his turn in the dialogue. You say, "Hey, boo boo! How are you?" And then your baby goes, "Goo goo goo!" back.
Your role: Talk to your baby long before you think he can understand you. Leave pauses for your baby to "reply." These are the first steps in the amazing dance of conversation. Don't worry that you sound silly or are "talking down" to your baby. In fact, you're talking in a way that's age-appropriate.
Newbie talkers have different stylesTwo of my children's playlists of first words were heavy on the nouns: They caught on quickly to words like "ball," "dog," "cat," "book." The other two mixed in more active words, like "hi," "bye-bye," "no," "more," "gone-gone." In fact, speech-development researchers say there are two types of toddlers: noun lovers and noun leavers.
Those who use a lot of nouns have a "referential" style, using language to label their world. Often girls and firstborns, these noun lovers tend to have a more cautious verbal style and acquire speech earlier, says Masterson. They love games that involve naming, such as What's This? or Name the Body Part.
Noun leavers (who have an "expressive" style) use words to engage with people and things. They tend to jump into sentences sooner and are less cautious in their speech -- they try new words without caring much about getting the pronunciation right. They enjoy games where they get to contribute, like saying "peekaboo!" or "wee wee wee" in "This Little Piggy."
Your role: Don't get too hung up on comparing your new talker's vocabulary with that of other babies you meet. Different first words simply indicate different routes to the same fluency. Will a social speaker grow up to be a social butterfly? No studies have correlated early speaking style to later personality. When a child's vocabulary hits 100 to 200 words (around 24 to 30 months), the style difference disappears.
So much is said with so few words
Even once a child seems to clearly call her father "Dada" or "Daddy," she may also call the mailman, the meter reader, and the guy next door "Daddy," too. The multi-purpose word is simply an ordinary stage of language development (called overextension) and usually shows up when toddlers are between 12 and 24 months. Your child does understand the difference between Daddy and Mailman Pete but doesn't yet possess all the words to verbalize those distinctions.
Toddlers work their limited vocabulary hard. Basically, your child's early words describe things and events in their immediate world, says Diane Paul, Ph.D., director of clinical issues in speech-language pathology for the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. The same few words refer to existence (this), disappearance (gone), recurrence (more), action (go), location (here), possession (mine), and attribution (big). Take the words "Mommy go." Said when Mom's away, they can mean, "She's gone." When she's close by, "Mommy go" may mean "Go away" or "Let's go outside, Mom."
Your role: Pay attention to inflection and gestures to help decipher what your child wants. Offer up more words ("You want to go outside with Mommy"), but don't insist your toddler repeat them. Gradually he'll fill in more precise words. In fact, around 18 months, a toddler starts to learn as many as ten words a day.
Mispronunciations are often physicalIt started with "be-nember." This was my son Henry's word for "remember" when he was 2. By 3½, he was also saying "be-tend," "be-stroy," "be-scape," "be-splore," and "be-scuse me." Since r sounds are harder to make than b's, Henry shifted into the pronunciation that was easier for him. Then he fell into using this form for random other words that started with d, p, es, and ex as well, before eventually outgrowing the habit.
Children often learn new words before they have the motor dexterity to say them. That's why "elephant," for example, often gets truncated to "ef-ant," which are easier sounds for the mouth to make. In San Rafael, California, Mary VanClay's son, Andrew, 3½, likes his vitamins -- or as he calls them, "vitawimps."
Your role: Have patience -- and keep a notebook handy, if you're so inclined. How else would I have remembered "wangy-tangys" (orangutans), "squish-squash" (washcloth), "la goat" (yogurt), and "destructions" (instructions)? Not only is this a mighty cute phase, but some tongue twisters might become household favorites.
They have sponges for ears
"How are you today, class?" Ryan Minniear's teacher asked her 18- to 36-month-old charges at daycare in Mason, Ohio. "Water in the pool!" Ryan replied cheerfully. "It wasn't long before the whole class was saying it, too," says mom Laura. "After days of trying to interpret, we figured it must be what he heard when someone said, 'Wonderful!'"
Blame kids' explosive vocabulary growth, especially around ages 3 and 4. Try to learn a language as an adult, and you'll find it takes many exposures before you can call up a new word and use it comfortably in your speech. Not so with preschoolers. You only need to label an object once and they've absorbed it. What's more, they can use it correctly later. "Grandma will protect you," Diane Paul told her grandson, Gabriel. Later in the day, he told his dad, "Ma-mom will protect me from monsters."
Of course, your child won't always hear the new word exactly the right way, and sometimes the source doesn't enunciate well. "It's like the game of telephone, where the words change with each new listener," says Paul. One evening my kids were having Chef Boyardee for dinner. "Uh-oh, geh-geh-o," said Margaret, then 15 months. "Did you hear that? She heard us say, 'Uh-oh, pisghettios!'" exclaimed Eleanor, 3½. Sometimes kids pick up the sounds without the context, leading to funny mistakes -- as we've all heard the alphabet song sung: "H, I, J, K, ella-mennow P."
Your role: Know that occasional misses are to be expected. If misunderstandings are frequent, or your child only echoes everything that is said to him, however, have him checked out by a speech-language pathologist. These can be signs of a problem.
"Wrong" words are kind of rightEnglish is a notoriously tough language to learn. "Children sometimes use the incorrect form of a word even after they've used it correctly," Paul says. "For example, they may say 'goed' and 'wented,' rather than 'went.' This shows they have internalized the rule for past tense, so it's actually a good sign."
Mary VanClay's preschool daughter, Emily, had learned that five comes after four. So when counting by tens she'd go from forty to, naturally, "fivety." "I'm still not sure how she managed to get twenty and thirty correct most of the time!" VanClay says.
Your role: Be properly impressed that they're trying. After all, many adults still flub the fine points of grammar. Repeat the correct word but don't make a big deal out of it.
Two languages is easy
Parents sometimes worry about their little one spending time with a caregiver or family member who either doesn't speak English or is bilingual: Will it slow the child's own English? In fact, young brains are remarkably flexible and most receptive during early childhood to learning more than one language.
If you acquire a second language before age 3, it's not even considered "second"; it's simultaneous, says Masterson, who asked her own Spanish-speaking nanny not to use English around her two children.
But don't bother with Japanese tapes and Italian Made Easy computer games. Infants pick up another language more easily from human beings than from audiovisual exposure to the same material.
Your role: To avoid confusing your child, stick to certain boundaries about when each language is used. Masterson's kids spoke Spanish to the nanny but English to her. Another family she knows uses French upstairs but English downstairs.
Funny sayings belie serious thinking
Olivia Saber of Orinda, California, proudly told her first joke recently: "Knock, knock." Her surprised mom, Janine, dutifully answered, "Who's there?" "Me!" grinned Olivia, 22 months. As toddlers and preschoolers advance from first nouns to strings of sentences, you gain a picture window into their growing brains -- and you see that the wheels are indeed turning -- fast!
Eventually your child will use language to draw connections between what he knows already and his new insights. While my youngest, Page, was just figuring out the ABCs, her older siblings were wrestling with arithmetic. So she asked, "What is P plus P?"
Preschoolers, who have more words at their disposal (up to 800 by age 4), can make amazing -- even perfectly logical -- associations. When Henry, at 4, was given half a cracker, he told me, "I want one that's full grown." And Eleanor, at 3, asked, "If I eat all these carrots, will my eyes be sharp as pencils?"
And then there's this favorite, which happened when we were driving in the country. It's also an accurate description of how I feel about parenting sometimes -- that is, that there are two ways to look at it:
Henry, almost 5: "Are we in the middle of nowhere?"
Eleanor, almost 3: "We are in the middle of yes-where."
Your role: Write it down! Who'd want to forget these?


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The feel-rotten Girls Night Out movie of 2012.
Becky (Rebel Wilson) is getting married. Her three best friends -- Regan (Kirsten Dunst), Katie (Isla Fisher) and Gena (Lizzy Caplan) -- resent her for this and, during a cocaine binge, accidentally destroy her wedding dress. See, they decide to play a cruel prank on Becky (the second of two, starting with the hiring of a male stripper who gives her a lap dance and calls her "Pigface" while performing) that involves fitting two people into the gown, photographing it and tagging her name on Facebook. You know, the way your good friends will do when your back is turned on the eve of the happiest day of your life. The resulting garment disaster sets the ticking clock/one-crazy-night in motion. Will they get the dress fixed? Will they all overdose on drugs and die? Will they come to a mutual realization that they are resolutely awful human beings who hate Becky for no good reason?
I know this kind of mind-wrecking Mean Girls stuff goes on all the time. It happened to a female friend of mine, a woman who recently lost about 90 pounds but who, before that, committed the crime of being a bride while fat and who paid the penalty for it thanks to an out of control maid of honor. They're not friends anymore. Now, can that be turned into comedy? Absolutely. Does this film pull off that trick? Absolutely not. But then again, maybe it's not meant to be a comedy.
The laughs are few and far between and mostly involve Caplan's deadpan dialogue delivery and her fractured relationship with an ex-boyfriend (Adam Scott). Most everything else flying around in this tornado of ugly behavior and uglier relationships feels like standard-issue Hangover-style stunts meant to be shocking because women are the perps instead of the victims. Not counting Becky, of course. She's the designated dumpee who truly believes her friends care for her well-being even as they sneer at her and roll their eyes. Think Bridesmaids, if Melissa McCarthy were the bride and everyone else treated her like garbage to prove the point that people suck.
Point taken. But the question still remains: is it a crispy black laugh-downer or is it a comically accented drama about a specific set of women who've spent their lives brainwashing themselves into believing they're actually close friends while simultaneously acting out the weird untruth that women are meant to be locked in endless battle with one another? I don't know if I have an answer. Possibly because I'm male. Possibly because the movie doesn't feel like it knows itself enough to follow through with a clear agenda.
The latter seems most plausible, though, especially when Kirsten Dunst moves into clean-up mode in the movie's second half, forcing her fingers down Fisher's throat to make her vomit up a bellyful of pills. It's a moment of bitter, acidic, hilarious truth, made even more real and harsh by Dunst's explanation of how she got so good at inducing puke for her friends. It's like a clear beam of blinding light, one that exposes everything around it as sloppy and unfocused. But in the end it's just one shot in the dark, nowhere near high-powered enough to make for an easy path out of the muck.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will nominate Jim Comey to be the next FBI director on Friday, picking a former Justice Department official who has deep experience in the U.S. battle against terrorism, a White House official said on Thursday.
If confirmed by the Senate, Comey, a Republican, would replace FBI Director Robert Mueller, who has led the agency since just before the September 11, 2001, attacks. Mueller is expected to step down this fall.
A White House official said Obama would make the announcement about Comey on Friday afternoon.
"In more than two decades as a prosecutor and national security professional, Jim has demonstrated unwavering toughness, integrity, and principle in defending both our security and our values," the official said.
Comey, 52, served as deputy U.S. attorney general for President George W. Bush. He had previously been the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.
As assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, Comey had handled the Khobar Towers bombing case that arose out of an attack on a U.S. military facility in Saudi Arabia in 1996. Seventeen U.S. military members died in the attack.
Comey gained notoriety for refusing in 2004 to certify the legal aspects of National Security Agency domestic surveillance during a stint as acting attorney general while John Ashcroft was hospitalized with pancreatitis.
That refusal prompted two senior White House officials - counsel Alberto Gonzales and chief of staff Andrew Card - to try to persuade Ashcroft to sign the certification. Comey, who was in the room, said Ashcroft refused.
Comey later told the Senate Judiciary Committee at a 2007 hearing that the situation was "probably the most difficult night of my professional life." His actions endeared him to many Democrats opposed to Bush's domestic surveillance program.
The surveillance program resurfaced as a major bone of contention this month when it was revealed that the U.S. government maintained an expansive surveillance program targeting internet and phone communications. Obama has staunchly defended the program.
Comey, after leaving the Justice Department in 2005, became general counsel to aerospace giant Lockheed Martin Corp until 2010. He most recently joined Columbia University's law school as a senior research scholar after working for Bridgewater Associates, an investment fund, from 2010 to 2013.
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Argument: Azerbaijan's Election Is a Farce Azerbaijan's Election Is a Farce...
In the past few weeks, first in Russia and then in Egypt, leaders have used so-called elections to provide a patina of legitimacy for their grip on power. Russian President Vladimir Putin secured yet another term with nearly 77 percent of the vote; Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi did even better, nailing down 97 percent of the vote in Egypt. Neither of them deserved congratulations from Western leaders.
In both cases, the outcome of the election was known well before voters went to the polls, as any serious opponents were prevented from running and the cards were solidly stacked in favor of the incumbents. These were not real elections in any sense of the term.
The same is about to happen in Azerbaijan onApril 11, in an election moved up from the original date ofOct. 17. There, too, we already know that President Ilham Aliyev, who has been in power since 2003 after succeeding his father, is guaranteed another term. Azerbaijan's election is so rigged that key opposition parties refused to take part and instead organized a mass protest on March 31. Among other demands, demonstrators called for the release of the more than 100 political prisoners in the country.
Aliyev's Azerbaijan tends to be forgotten due to the West's obsession with Putin's Russia, but his regime is one of the most corrupt and authoritarian in the region.
That's because Baku benefits from being a significant oil producer and part of the northern supply route for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Azerbaijan portrays itself as a moderate Muslim-majority country in a challenging region, bordered by Russia and Iran and engaged in conflict with Armenia regarding the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Given the threats posed by Putin and the United States' need for secure resupply routes to Afghanistan, some argue, America cannot afford to alienate Azerbaijan by pressing Aliyev on human rights.
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U.S. and European financial regulators, working to break a deadlock over the cross-border reach of derivatives rules, are poised to announce an agreement on how they'll jointly oversee the $633 trillion global swaps market, according to three people familiar with the deal.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler and Michel Barnier, the European Union's financial services chief, are expected to announce as early as today how they'll apply their rules to the global market, according to the people, who asked for anonymity because the talks are private.
The statement will describe how the U.S. and Europe will use mutual recognition of their rules to oversee banks including Barclays Plc, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc., the people said.
Steve Adamske, a CFTC spokesman, declined to comment.
Global regulators began increasing oversight of the swaps market after largely unregulated trades helped fuel the 2008 credit crisis and led to the rescue of American International Group Inc., a U.S.-based insurer who booked large amounts of swaps trades in Europe.
The CFTC has been putting in place new rules required by the Dodd-Frank Act designed to have most swaps guaranteed at clearinghouses that accept collateral from buyers and sellers to reduce risk. Gensler has proposed that the rules apply to many trades that currently are booked outside the United States. The agreement is expected to allow for some U.S. recognition of European regulation.
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The international reach of CFTC swap-trading requirements has been one of the most controversial elements of the agency's Dodd-Frank Act rules, prompting opposition from financial companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Barclays. The CFTC has faced criticism from European and Asian regulators for overreaching their authority.
The CFTC is facing a July 12 deadline to decide on guidelines for when its rules apply to overseas companies and offices of firms based in the U.S.
The guidelines, which are scheduled for a July 12 vote at the Washington-based agency, would be set to take effect in the market by the end of the year, two people with knowledge of the matter said earlier this week.
Mark Carney, chairman of the Financial Stability Board, has said that the FSB will report to the Group of 20 nations in September on efforts by regulators to resolve "outstanding cross-border issues" for swaps regulation, "including gaps, overlaps and inconsistencies."
The FSB brings together regulators, central bankers and finance ministry officials from the G-20.
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Math world stunned by UNH lecturer's findBy GRETYL MACALASTER
Sunday News Correspondent
December 14. 2013 11:04PM
DURHAM - Since 1999, Yitang "Tom" Zhang, 57, has been unassumingly teaching calculus classes at the University of New Hampshire as a well-liked lecturer.
He is not a tenure-tracked professor, and therefore is not required to publish or produce any research, but earlier this year, he made one of the greatest discoveries regarding a math problem that has been discussed since the time of Euclid.
Zhang helped the field get closer to proving or disproving the "Twin Prime Conjecture," which says there are an infinite number of prime numbers that are only two numbers apart.
Zhang's discovery demonstrated that the number of prime pairs that are less than 70 million units apart is infinite. He picked the number 70 million arbitrarily, and that difference has now been reduced to 600.
"Nobody had known before his work that there was any number that occurred as the difference of primes infinitely often. That is because primes simply occur with such irregularity," said Edward Hinson, chairman of the UNH Mathematics Department and an associate professor in mathematics.
The discovery was so big that the Annals of Mathematics notified Zhang within three weeks of receiving his report that they would be publishing it, an exceptionally quick turnaround time for such a journal. Within three days of that notification, Zhang was already speaking at Harvard University about his discovery.
Zhang said he was surprised at how rapidly refinements of his discovery have been made.
"I couldn't expect something could be done much better like this (this quickly)," Zhang said.
It has been just six short months since news of the discovery broke, and since then Zhang has been busy traveling, speaking and working with scholars around the world.
He said he has not enjoyed the busy schedule and traveling so much and does miss teaching, in part because of the challenges teaching undergraduate students presents.
"I have to explain the information very clearly, very organized - this is the way I like," said Zhang, who grew up in China and has a strong accent.
Hinson said it was clear all along that alongside teaching, Zhang had been doing serious mathematical research, and the discovery, and the accolades Zhang is receiving as a result, are the fruit of all that.
On Jan. 16, Zhang will be awarded the 2014 Frank Nelson Cole Prize in Number Theory at the American Mathematical Society's Joint Mathematics Meetings in Baltimore for his paper "Bounded Gaps between Primes." The prize is presented every three years and recognizes an outstanding research paper in number theory that has appeared in the preceding six years.
"That is the highest honor in the American mathematics community and in particular my major, number theory, this is very high. I am very happy," Zhang said.
Zhang is also a 2013 recipient of the Ostrowski Prize, which is awarded every other year by the Ostrowski Foundation in Switzerland for outstanding achievements in pure mathematics.
Zhang's discovery was certainly a surprise, not least of all because he was heretofore an unknown, 58-year-old researcher in New Hampshire who had published only twice before.
Zhang was born in China and earned his master's degree there at Peking University. He came to the United States in 1985 to earn his Ph.D. at Purdue University and came to New Hampshire in 1999 after earning a job as a lecturer at UNH.
Zhang said his interest in mathematics began when he was a child under the age of 10.
"I read some books. These books were for high school students, but when I was in elementary school, I read them," Zhang said during a recent phone interview.
He did not want to go into detail, but according to a story in the fall edition of UNH Magazine, Zhang lived through a difficult period in China. His family was "exiled to the countryside during Mao's Cultural Revolution and forced to perform hard labor,'' the magazine said. He couldn't attend school then, but studied on his own with "any book he could get his hands on.''
According to the magazine, as the revolution ended, Zhang enrolled in Peking University in 1978 and earned bachelor's and master's degrees. He then enrolled at Purdue, according to the magazine, and afterward worked as an accountant in Kentucky before being offered a position at UNH.He first started thinking about the Twin Prime Conjecture about four years ago.
"That was a very difficult problem at the very beginning. I tried lots of things but I couldn't find success," Zhang said. "Last summer, I found a certain way."
He said finding the one thing that opened the door came through trial and error of many, many methods, and was a culmination of knowledge and experience with the problem.
Hinson said prime numbers are one of the more relatively easy concepts of math to understand.
"It is simply a question of which numbers have whole number factors and which don't," Hinson said.
It was known for a very long time, since Euclid himself almost 2,500 years ago, that there were an infinite number of prime numbers, Hinson said, and the Greeks studied this, as well. The question has been where the primes are located among the numbers.
"It is a very difficult problem about a very simple concept, so everyone could understand the problem, but nobody could get at it," Hinson said. "What Tom had done then was to give yet another refinement of, in some ways, several thousand years' worth of work on this problem, but enough to give it a significant push - enough to put it in the realm of where people now see the possibilities for solution of the Twin Prime Conjecture itself."
He said that is by no means imminent, and some people believe the potency of the methods used by Zhang may run out before the final goal is reached, even Zhang himself.
Zhang said solving the Twin Prime Conjecture should prove to be a very tough problem, and he is not sure if it will be solved within his lifetime.
"And it will be the next Tom Zhang that will eventually arrive at it, but who knows for sure," Hinson said. "This was such a surprise to the mathematical community, you have to be open to other surprises."
Hinson said it is hard to make the case for the discovery having an immediate impact or technological consequence in terms of the average person's daily life, but the problem has been so fundamental that the impact and attention have been monumental and broad.
"This is a story of an unknown researcher doing these things which really gives it all the more resonance," Hinson said.
Hinson said UNH has had its share of mathematical successes and luminaries in the past, including former department Chairman Ken Appel, who was a co-solver of the famous four-color map theorem, and other prolific researchers, including Kevin Short, who has been involved in a variety of successful start-up companies.
Although Zhang's paper is currently available through the Annals of Mathematics online to those who have access, it will not appear in print until early next year.
In the spring, Zhang will spend a couple of months at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University continuing mathematical research on something else entirely, which he said he was not yet ready to discuss.
Ultimately, he said, he does plan to return to New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife.


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A week in your own shop will produce a boat that's fun to sail or row.
By John Wilson
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From the February 2005 issue #146
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When I was a Boy Scout 50 years ago, I remember reading an article titled "Building an Orange Crate Canoe." At the time I read it, however, oranges were no longer crated in anything suitable for canoes.
The concept, however, of making a boat from readily accessible materials stuck with me. Here is a boat, called Sailor Girl, that uses my design and construction methods. It's made from wood you can easily find at the local lumberyard.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Von Miller might have a new pass-rushing partner by week's end.
Free agents Dwight Freeney and John Abraham are set to visit Denver on Thursday, 48 hours after the Broncos submitted a new contract proposal to Elvis Dumervil.
Freeney, 33, and Abraham, 34, are both older and less productive than Dumervil, 29, but might make better financial sense for the Broncos, who had to cut Dumervil last week to avoid paying him $12 million in 2013.
Dumervil's then-agent Marty Magid and the Broncos renegotiated a three-year, $30 million deal Friday afternoon that included an $8 million salary for next season, but the paperwork didn't get submitted on time. Without a signed contract in hand, the Broncos cut Dumervil and took a nearly $5 million salary cap hit for 2013. That factored into the new offer that front office chief John Elway said the Broncos submitted this week to Dumervil and his new agent, Tom Condon, who also represents Freeney.
Coach John Fox said at the NFL owners meetings in Phoenix this week that the Broncos were still hoping to re-sign Dumervil but also had alternates in mind.
"He's a guy we obviously like," Fox said. "He's played good football for us. He's a defensive captain and we like him as a player. It's just unfortunate and we've been through the timeline. It's just unfortunate things happen. But we kind of regrouped and we've got different options now and we've looked at those options and he's one of them."
Although Dumervil was often replaced on early downs last season, the Broncos weren't eager to jettison him. But they thought his $12 million salary for next season was out of whack, so they asked him to take a cut in pay. Dumervil earned $14 million in each of the last two seasons, part of a six-year, $61.5 million deal he signed in 2010.
Dumervil is a popular teammate would be sorely missed if he doesn't return to Denver.
"I concern myself with everything and the locker room's a huge one because you're dealing with players," Fox said. "But I think our guys understand there's two sides of football. ... I don't know if business is my favorite part or anybody else's favorite part. But it's a part of football and it usually occurs in the offseason. So, they understand that and I think guys separate that."
Dumervil had 20½ sacks the last two seasons, making two trips to the Pro Bowl alongside Miller, the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2011 who had 18½ sacks last year, breaking the franchise record of 17 set by Dumervil in 2009.
Together they were dubbed "Doom & Gloom," and were the most prolific pair of pass-rushers in the league over the last two years.
Freeney, who played a decade with Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning in Indianapolis, has 107½ career sacks in 11 seasons, all with the Colts.
Abraham has 122 sacks in 13 NFL season, six with the New York Jets and the last seven years with the Atlanta Falcons.
Abraham has 19½ sacks over his last two seasons, Freeney 13½.
The Broncos have been one of the busiest teams in free agency, committing $65.5 million in upgrades so far. They signed two of their own free agents and five others — all of whom could start — and also placed their franchise tag, worth $9.828 million, on left tackle Ryan Clady.
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Who needs homecourt advantage?
Apparently the Stevenson boys basketball team doesn't.
The Patriots are 15 games into the season and, because of some scheduling glitches, have had only one home game so far. Yet they're hardly complaining, because the bus rides and the hostile gyms seem to be bringing out the best in them.
In a crowded Mundelein gym on Friday night, where a gigantic and feisty student section for the home team did its best to serve as a constant distraction, Stevenson kept its wits and its cool.
The Patriots turned a 1-point deficit at halftime into an 11-point advantage by the end of the third quarter, thanks in large part to the hot shooting and swift decision-making of sophomore point guard Jalen Brunson.
Brunson, and a string of made free throws in the fourth quarter by teammate Connor Cashaw, kept Mundelein at arm's length for the rest of the game as Stevenson notched a 71-61 North Suburban Conference Lake Division victory.
The win moves Stevenson to 11-4 overall and 4-2 in the Lake Division. Mundelein drops to 8-7 and 4-2.
"The road doesn't bother us at all," said Brunson, who poured in a game-high 29 points, just 6 points off his career-high of 35 points, which was set against Lake Forest earlier this season. "We make it like a home game. Our guys on the bench help us (stay focused) during the game, and we also have a lot of our own fans come to the games."
The Stevenson contingent saw Brunson become virtually un-guardable in the game-changing third quarter. He scored 12 points and was a perfect 5-for-5 on his field goals, most of which were pretty, nothing-but-net jumpers.
"He's got skills, smarts, athletic ability," Stevenson coach Pat Ambrose said of Brunson. "If there was just one thing he was good at, defenses could probably take him out (of the game). But since he can do a whole lot of things, he's just unflappable, solid and smart. He's strong, he can go left hand, right hand. I mean, what can you say?"
The Mustangs might have been muttering some choice words in frustration. Not only could they not stop Brunson, but Cashaw also had his way most of the game. The sophomore guard finished with 21 points and iced the game by knocking down 7-of-9 free throws in the final minutes.
"Brunson did a really good job and so did Cashaw, but I don't think we did a very good job of playing team defense," said Mundelein senior forward Sean O'Brien, who poured in a team-high 24 points. "We need to step in and keep those guys out of the lane better.
"We were trying to get the ball out of their hands by face-guarding them and putting different guys on them but tonight, we didn't do a very good job of that."
There were other problems for the Mustangs. According to head coach Dick Knar, they had a hard time matching Stevenson's intensity level.
"I was just disappointed with our effort. We didn't play with any effort," Knar said. "They beat us to every loose ball, they beat us on the boards. They executed on offense and we were chasing them.
"They 100 percent out-played us and brought more energy and that's the disappointment for me because we don't do that. That's the first time we've played like that all season."
Mundelein tried to kick up its intensity in crunch time but got no closer than eight points in the fourth quarter.
"Our defensive intensity came out in us," Brunson said. "It continued on the offensive end to help us get scores and then we just brought it home."
Besides Brunson and Cashaw, no one else scored in double-figures for Stevenson. But senior guard Andrew Stempel did finish with 9 points.
For Mundelein, Chino Ebube and Cliff Dunigan joined O'Brien in scoring double-figures. They each had 11 points apiece.


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The scent of turkey and stuffing wafted through�Devos Fieldhouse on Wednesday evening, as�Holland Rescue Mission's Great Thanksgiving Banquet kicked off.
Every year, hundreds of volunteers serve�1,400 meals to people without family or resources to observe the all-American traditional meal. Martha Wing, who coordinates the 362 table hosts, 175 food servers and 48 box handlers � nearly 600 volunteers in all�� worried on Tuesday about having not enough pumpkin pie or too few�beverage cups.
Surveying the hundreds of happy�diners�Wednesday evening, she said, "By Tuesday night, I realize it's out of my hands. And today we have enough pie and enough cups."
Each table included a volunteer host or two, sharing a meal and companionship. For Jan Eding, recovering from a�rollercoaster of years that put her in the Rescue Mission's women's shelter twice, the annual dinner is a time of gratitude and a chance to see old friends and make new ones. Seated next to her, first-time diner�Sylvia Galindo offered a shy smile while explaining she saw a flyer for the dinner at work and invited a friend. Both women hugged many of the people they met before leaving.
"It's like the song says, 'Red�and yellow, black, brown�and white,�we're all precious in Jesus' sight,'" Eding said. "We all came from the same place."
Although diners might be alone and eating a much simpler repast on Thanksgiving itself, they will have more than a warm memory. Holland Rescue Mission pulls together donations of soap and other necessities that aren't covered by Bridge or SNAP benefits, sending care boxes to each household as the evening ends.
That's how first-time volunteers Al and Kerri Nykamp�got involved, helping fellow members�at Pillar Church fill some of the 500 care boxes last month.
"That inspired us, and we wanted to keep moving forward," said Al Nykamp.
Learn how to support Holland Rescue Mission serve others in the days ahead by visiting hollandrescue.org.
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The scent of turkey and stuffing wafted through�Devos Fieldhouse on Wednesday evening, as�Holland Rescue Mission's Great Thanksgiving Banquet kicked off.


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usually experience the worst symptoms in the morning upon waking. These people wake unrefreshed and are highly irritable. They feel some relief from warmth, warm applications, and warm drinks. Bryonia (wild hops) is a remedy that is known to be effective in treating nausea that is aggravated by motion (the simple act of just getting up or stooping can lead the person to vomit). These people are are also aggravated in a warm room and by heat. Even though their stomach may be sensitive to touch, people who need this remedy are at least partially relieved by lying on
their stomach. They may also experience some relief in cool or open air and by resting. These people also have a significant thirst, typically for cold drinks though they may experience some relief from drinking warm fluids. Concurrent with their digest iive symptoms, they may experience a headache in the front part of the head.
Podophyllum (may apple) is a valuable remedy when the person experiences diarrhea with nausea and vomiting. The diarrhea is painless, profuse, offensive, and expelled with gushing force. Typically, much gurgling in the abdomen is felt, and prior to having a stool, much gas released with the diarrhea.
Pulsatilla (windflower) is helpful for people who suffer from indigestion after eating rich foods or pork. They have bloating, abdominal distension, and sometimes a headache. They tend to be thirstless. This remedy is more often given to chil dren and women than to men.
Carbo veg (vegetable charcoal) provides relief for people who suffer from great distension and offensive gas from almost any kind of food. They experience some relief from the release of gas and desire carbonated drinks because they seem to help in releasing it, but these people seem to be gas manufacturers, and any relief that they experience is only temporary...until they take Carbo veg.
A leading remedy for acid indigestion is Natrum phos (sodium phosphate), which is both a homeopathic medicine and a cell salt. This remedy is indicated in the typical symptoms of acid indiges tion with sour belching, sour tasting vomit, and yellow discolor ation of the tongue. It is also a remedy useful in people who
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Dose and Potency: It is generally recommended to use the 6th, 12th, or 30th potencies. Use the 30th potency when you are confident with the selection of the remedy; use the 6th potency when you are less certain. In terms of the dosage, take a dose every two to three hours during intense symptoms and every four to six hours during less intense symptoms.
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Over 120 Suffolk alumni, faculty and students gathered at the Annual STEM (Science - Technology - Engineering - Mathematics) Reception on Sunday, April 22.
Guests – including President James McCarthy and Dean Kenneth Greenberg – perused posters and projects from all of Suffolk's scientific disciplines. Among the intriguing topics on display were an Alternative Energy Interactive Panorama from Environmental Engineering, a poster on the Co-Evolution of Friendship and Publishing in Blogging Social Networks from Computer Science, and the Micromouse maze from Electrical Engineering.
Attendees were also treated to talks from CAS faculty and the keynote speaker, alumna Georgia Beyersdorfer, BSE '02, Marketing Manager at Phoenix Electric.
Engineering department chair Lisa Shatz summed up this successful event:
"It was wonderful to catch up with our alumni – seeing what incredible work they're doing in their fields is inspirational for our current students, and it's great for our alums to see the exciting progress our undergrads are making"


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Approximately 600 Gone With the Wind fans, hailing from over 44 states and 13 countries, have rallied together to raise the $30,000 needed to repair five costumes from the Oscar-winning 1939 cinema blockbuster.
The Harry Ransom Center in Texas acquired the costumes in the mid-1980s as part of the collection of Gone With the Wind producer David Selznick. The outfits were all worn by British-born actress Vivien Leigh in her famous role as Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara and include Scarlett's burgundy ball gown and wedding dress. In August, museum chiefs launched an appeal to raise funds to restore the dresses. The iconic costumes were beginning to show their age after years of traveling displays in theaters and had a brief loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
"The costumes are in fragile condition and cannot currently be exhibited," Jill Morena, the Center's Collection Assistant for Costumes and Personal Effects, explained in a statement issued last month.
"There are areas where the fabric has been worn through, fragile seams and other problems. These dresses have been under a lot of stress. Film costumes weren't meant to last, they are only meant to last through the duration of filming."
The Ransom Center will use the donations to restore the threads and purchased custom fitted mannequins and proper housing for their display during a 12-month Gone With the Wind 75th anniversary celebration set for 2013.
Steve Wilson, museum curator, has praised film fans for rallying to the rescue to save a small piece of film history.
"These generous donations confirm that the film's legions of fans care."
The Ransom Center also hopes to loan the dresses out to museums around the globe for display.


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Wide receiver is becoming an integral part of the Tar Heels' offense.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Quinshad Davis is figuring things out on the field for North Carolina, a promising sign for the freshman receiver's future in the Tar Heels' fast-paced offense.
The Gaffney product has 13 catches in the past two games for the Tar Heels (6-4, 3-3 Atlantic Coast Conference) heading into Thursday night's trip to Virginia, offering the team a big target at an injury-depleted position.
"It's like a new experience for him every time being a true freshman out there," UNC coach Larry Fedora said. "At this time last year, he was in high school, and right now, he's doing well against good football teams and good corners — and he's just going to get better and better."
The 6-foot-4 wideout moved into the starting lineup after two games and is fourth on the team with 36 catches for 463 yards and three touchdowns.
He had six catches for 67 yards in the win against rival North Carolina State that snapped the Tar Heels' five-year losing streak in the long rivalry on Oct. 27. Last weekend, the 18-year-old had seven catches for 104 yards with an 11-yard touchdown grab in the 68-50 loss to Georgia Tech.
"He's a tall, slender, athletic guy," Virginia coach Mike London said. "Looks like he's got good speed. He's another one of those targets that when you throw the ball up in the air, he can go up and get it so you've got to a do a great job of playing to his arms, getting the safeties over the top to help with double coverage. That's kind of the M.O. of their receivers when you look at them as a whole."
Davis ran a similar offense at Gaffney that made it easier to adjust to the Tar Heels' no-huddle spread offense.
"At the beginning it was kind of hard getting the concept of the plays and reading defenses," Davis said. "But now a couple of weeks down the line, I'm doing that pretty well now. ... So yeah, I'm more comfortable with my abilities."
Davis has started eight games in the Tar Heels' three-receiver formations and has been the team's fourth passing option behind top wideout Erik Highsmith, tailback Gio Bernard and tight end Eric Ebron — who has set UNC single-season records for catches and receiving yards by a tight end.
Davis has just two more games this season because the Tar Heels are banned from a bowl for NCAA sanctions. He'll enter next season as the top returning wideout.
"You see the production," quarterback Bryn Renner said. "We're looking to get him the ball. He's really stepped up and become a big-time threat for us. He's mature beyond his years as far as football-wise."