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Catalogue description FAMILY WELFARE ASSOCIATION (FORMERLY CHARITY ORGANISATION SOCIETY)
This record is held by London Metropolitan Archives: City of London
The records of the Area Offices include minute books of former district committees which were amalgamated to form the areas. Minute books of some district committees were deposited by Central Office, but these have been listed with the records of the Area into which the district committee was absorbed. For many district committees no minute books survive, but copies of their annual reports can be found in the annual volumes of reports bound together by Central. Investigation on individual cases was carried out by the district offices, subsequently area offices, and their records do include casepapers. Casepapers were normally destroyed after a case was closed for twenty years. Consequently very few casepapers survive for cases closed before the 1940s, though it was not uncommon for a case to be open for thirty years or more. Area 1 Office (Hammersmith and Fulham) is the only office to have preserved many case records dating from before 1940. Examples of typical cases omitting names were published in the annual reports of the district committees.
|1843 - 1965
Records in this collection have been divided into seven main groups by area:
(1) Central Office - A/FWA/C;
(2) Area 1: Hammersmith and Fulham - A/FWA/HF;
(3) Area 2: Kensington and Westminster - A/FWA/KW;
(4) Area 4: Camden, Islington, Hackney, City and Tower Hamlets - A/FWA/TH (NB Area 3: Islington was amalgamated with Area 4 in 1965);
(5) Area 5: Wandsworth - A/FWA/WA;
(6) Area 6: Greenwich and Lewisham - A/FWA/GL;
(7) Area 7: Lambeth and Southwark - A/FWA/LS.
Each of these groups was then further subdivided into Series.
Central Office (A/FWA/C) comprises the following Series: A/FWA/C/A (Administration, further subdivided into: Council; Administrative Committee; Administrative Council; General Purposes Committee; Committees Concerned with Policy, Finance, and Administration; Committees Concerned with Special Aspects of COS and FWA Work; Committees Concerned with Work of District and Area Committees; Committees Concerned with Provincial COS and Other Charities; Committees Concerned with Publications; Trustees; Records of the Sixth International Congress on Social Work; and Other Committees); A/FWA/C/B (Annual Reports); A/FWA/C/C (Secretary/Director); A/FWA/C/D (Enquiry Department); A/FWA/C/E (Registration Department); A/FWA/C/F (Provincial Secretary); A/FWA/C/G (Organisations Associated with COS and FWA); A/FWA/C/H (Publications); A/FWA/C/J (Grants Department, further subdivided into: Grants Committee; Files Relating to the Amalgamation of Charities; Records of Charities Administered by the FWA; and Records of Charities of which the FWA is Trustee); A/FWA/C/K (Almshouses Department); and A/FWA/C/L (Finance).
The remaining groups, namely Areas 1 to 7, have been subdivided into: Administrative Records (Series A), Case Records (Series B), and Financial Records (Series D).
Finally, the Series were divided into individually-numbered Sub-series, each of which includes files relating to a single committee, organisation, or record type.
|Held by:
|London Metropolitan Archives: City of London, not available at The National Archives
|Physical description:
|Over 2000 files
|Access conditions:
All records of the F.W.A. which are less than 60 years old, with the exception of annual reports and other publications, are closed to public consultation unless written permission for access is obtained from the Director of the Family Welfare Association.
|Immediate source of acquisition:
Records of the Family Welfare Association, formerly the Charity Organisation Society, deposited in the Greater London Record Office, 40 Northampton Road, London, EC1R OHB, between 4 December 1969 and 7 November 1983 (Ac.69.97, Ac.70.28, Ac.70.35, Ac.70.38, Ac.70.45, Ac.70.53, Ac.70.54, Ac.70.55, Ac.71.10, Ac.72.58, Ac.73.44, Ac.74.24, Ac.75.8 and Acc.1898)
|Custodial history:
The main part of the records of the C.O.S. and F.W.A. were deposited in the Greater London Record Office in 1969 and 1970 by the Central Office of the F.W.A. and by the Area Offices of Areas 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7. At that time it was reported that Area 2 had destroyed its older records and that Area 3 as a new office had no records. The records of Central Office fall into three main categories - the minute books of the council and its committees, annual reports of the council and district committees bound into annual volumes, and the records of the Enquiry Department, renamed the Information Department in 1946, which were deposited separately by Central Office in 1983. These consist mainly of files of information on other charities.
A small number of files also survive from the Secretary's Office, the Registration Department and the Provincial Secretary. The archives of Central Office include records of other charities or organisations connected with the C.O.S. or F.W.A., some of which were subsequently administered by the F.W.A. The F.W.A. copies of its own publications have been deposited at the National Institute for Social Work Training, Mary Ward House, Tavistock Place, London. The F.W.A. Library has been deposited in the Goldsmiths' Library, University of London Library.
|Publication note:
For detailed accounts of the history of the Charity Organisation Society and Family Welfare Association, see the following:
The Charity Organisation Society 1869-1913 by Charles Loch Mowat 1961.
A Hundred Years of Family Welfare by Madeline Rooff 1972
The Charity Organisation Society and the Rise of the Welfare State by Calvin Woodard 1961
(unpublished Cambridge Ph.D. thesis).
Copies of the first two are available in the Greater London History Library.
|Administrative / biographical background:
The Society for Organising Charitable Relief and Repressing Mendicity was founded in 1869. It was much more commonly known by its short title of the Charity Organisation Society or simply as the C.O.S. Its objects as defined in the eighth annual report published in 1877 were:
"1 To bring into harmonious co-operation with each other and with the Poor-Law authorities the various charitable agencies and individuals in the district, and thus effectually to check the evils of 'overlapping' relief caused by simultaneous but independent action.
2 To investigate thoroughly the cases of all applicants for charitable relief, whether they are referred to the offices for inquiry and report, or whether they apply of their own accord.
3 To place gratuitously at the disposal of all charitable agencies and private persons the investigating machinery of the Committees of the Society, and to send to person having a legitimate interest in cases full reports of the results of the investigations made.
4 To obtain from the proper charities, or from charitable individuals, suitable and adequate relief for deserving cases.
5 To assist from its own funds, and as far as possible in the form of loans, all suitable cases for which adequate assistance cannot be obtained from other sources.
6 To repress mendicity by the above means, by the gratuitous distribution of Investigation Tickets, and by the prosecution of imposters.
7 To afford to the public at large information regarding the objects and mode of working of existing charities.
8 To promote, as far as possible, the general welfare of the poor by means of social and sanitary reforms, and by the inculcation of habits of providence and self-dependence".
Its formation arose out of concern over the mass of overlapping and often illorganised charities in London, manydistributing indiscriminate relief, which, it was feared, led to pauperisation and a waste of resources.
The founders of the C.O.S. sought to promote a more scientific approach to charity based on the principle that in individual cases relief should be given only after a thorough investigation of the applicant's circumstances and character and that relief should be adequate, in other words sufficient to prevent him becoming a pauper.
The society was to be a federation of district committees working on a local level in all parts of London. The first district committee was formed in St Marylebone in October 1869. By March 1871 all the poor law unions in the Metropolitan Poor Law Area had one or more C.O.S. district committees except for the City of London and Woolwich. In 1900 there were about forty district committees.
The district committees tried to put the ideas of the C.O.S. into effect at the local level by promoting co-operation between local churchmen and charities and the boards of guardians whom they hoped would be represented on the C.O.S. committees. If applicants seeking relief were directed to the district office of the C.O.S., their circumstances would be carefully investigated and enquiries would be made as to whether they were already in receipt of any form of poor relief or charitable assistance. If considered suitable, they would be directed to some other charity for the appropriate form of relief. If considered undeserving, they would be left to the mercies of the Poor Law. In practice the C.O.S. district committees became involved in giving relief themselves as well as referring cases elsewhere. In time the C.O.S. Central Office became trustee of certain pension funds which were distributed by the district committees.
The district committees sent representatives to the C.O.S. Council at Central Office. The functions of the Council were to supervise, strengthen and consolidate the work of the district committees and to take into consideration all questions of principle and matters relating to the work of the society generally. The Council tried to bring into systematic co-operation the larger Metropolitan institutions and societies. It helped to form similar societies elsewhere and entered into correspondence with them. It tried to influence government policy through its numerous publications and by the reports it produced on such subjects as the feeding of school children, the organisation of hospitals in the Metropolis, and the treatment of the feebleminded. In the 1890s it put pressure on the government to form a Central Hospital Board for London. This proposal was unsuccessful, but in 1897 the Prince of Wales founded what was to become King Edward's Hospital Fund for London which worked towards the rationalisation and greater efficiency of hospital services in London. Of the eighteen members of the 1905 Royal Commission on the Poor Law, six, including C.S. Loch, were leaders of the C.O.S. Another five were active C.O.S. sympathisers.
The Council quickly delegated many of its functions to a series of committees. The Administrative Committee was set up in 1870 to carry on all the business of the Society not specially reserved to the Council and to exercise the necessary supervision over its officers. It prepared the budget and could pass orders with regard to expenditure authorised in the budget. The Administrative Committee elected annually a number of permanent sub-committees. The more important of the sub-committees were the Districts Sub-Committee 1876-1946, the Medical Advisory Sub-Committee 1883-1945, the Emigration Sub-Committee 1886-1943, the Thrift and Savings Sub-Committee 1896-1921, the Provincial (later the Associated Societies) Sub-Committee 1892-1939 and the Registration Sub-Committee 1911-1944. It also appointed other Sub-Committees from its own members. In 1932 these were the Finance Sub-Committee, Propaganda Sub-Committee, Training Sub-Committee, and Enquiry Sub-Committee. Both the Council and the Administrative Committee set up special ad hoc sub-committees to investigate particular problems. Some of these developed into permanent committees either elected or nominated.
The administrative structure of the C.O.S. is noteworthy both for the number of its committees and their fluidity, especially in the 1870s, 1880s, and 1940s. Committees frequently changed name and changed type. Not all the minute books have survived. Copies of reports produced by special committees can frequently be found contained in the minutebooks of the Council or Administrative Committee for the period 1880-1914. For a detailed list of these, see Class H Publications. Copies of reports may also be located in the F.W.A. Library deposited in the Goldsmiths' Library, University of London Library.
In this century the C.O.S. has played a major role in pioneering the proper training of social workers and in the development of social work as a profession. The C.O.S. was responsible for the appointment of the first hospital almoner at the Royal Free Hospital in 1895. The Council appointed a Committee on Training in May 1897 and arranged a series of lectures which district secretaries on probation were expected to attend. In 1903 the School of Sociology was opened with E. J. Urwick as lecturer and tutor for the training of social workers. Though an offshoot of the C.O.S., it was an independent body, and in 1912 decided to merge with the London School of Economics. In 1915 the C.O.S. began its own twelve month course of training in social work in conjunction with Bedford College. The C.O.S. also provided practical experience for students from other courses. As a result, the work of the district offices became increasingly dominated by salaried professional social workers and the role of the volunteer decreased in importance.
The C.O.S. also played an important part in the setting up of Citizens Advice Bureaux. The idea of Citizens Advice Bureaux was developed in response to the numbers of people seeking guidance and advice during the Munich Crises in 1938. The London Council of Social Service and the C.O.S. jointly established some eighty Citizens Advice Bureaux in London by the time of the outbreak of war in 1939. Each bureau was autonomous with a local management committee with a national central committee. The C.O.S. was responsible for the Citizens Advice Bureaux in Inner London, while the London Council of Social Service took responsibility for outer London. The bureaux proved to be so useful that the service was continued after the end of the war.
In 1946 the C.O.S. was renamed the Family Welfare Association to reflect its changed role and to emphasise its principle function as a family casework agency. A financial crisis caused a major re-organisation of the district committees in 1949-50. The number of district offices, already considerably reduced by amalgamations since the 1920s, was drastically curtailed by amalgamation of the district committees to form nine Areas. Continued financial problems led to the reduction in number of the Areas to six by 1965.
The central organisation of the F.W.A. was also re-organised in 1950 to simplify administration and to make the policy making bodies more representative. The Council and Administrative Committee were replaced by the Administrative Council to which were subordinated two main committees, the General Purposes Committee and the Finance Committee. Other committees dealt with special aspects of F.W.A. work, e.g., Old Peoples Homes and Citizens Advice Bureaux, and particular functions, e.g., Information, and Press and Publicity. The central administration of the F.W.A. still left much to be desired and in the late 1950s Muriel Cunliffe of the University of British Columbia School of Social Work was commissioned to carry out a full scale review of the F.W.A. The Cunliffe report was presented in 1960 and most of its recommendations were implemented. The Secretary was replaced as principal officer by the Director who could delegate departmental responsibility. Central Office was divided into five main departments - Accountancy, Appeals and Public Relations, Casework, Citizens Advice Bureaux and Information, each with its Chief Officer and Advisory Committee.
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AlexD30 said:max bet: $55
max hole: -$275
max losing streak: 13
next bet: 20%
Grifter said:[quote=AlexD30]max bet: $55
max hole: -$275
max losing streak: 13
next bet: 20%
Ray said:Alex, when you were at the 275 level in BJ(hole), would you have, at
some point above 275, taken a loss and return to 100? Just one of the
possibilities that I'm thinking about.
PJ said:Alex, I'm going there tomorrow. Are there any decent 2D games downtown? Looking for $10 min., S17, DAS, RSA, LSR, etc. If not, I'll stick with Mandalay Bay and Bellagio.
Nickels_n_Bullets said:Alex, a legit question.... about how many hands did you split and/or double... and is the # of hands shown including the splits and/or doubles?
Nickels_n_Bullets said:non-sequitur response... I was asking if you split and or doubled during your trip and about how many times did that happen. For all the runs I see posted there is NEVER a split or DD outcome.
Here are the BJ stats:
hours: 23
hands: 1840
profit: $1080
$/hour: $46.96
action: $36800
$_edge: 2.93%
unit: $5
avrg bet: $20
max bet: $55
max hole: -$275
max losing streak: 13
next bet: 20%
AlexD30 said:If you don't post the results then I will post the final stats and the program for people to see how is done. And, if you are wrong and I'm right then I want you to appologize on this board. :twisted:
Nickels_n_Bullets said:"But how many times you split or double down is almost impossible to approximate. If I won money I suspect that I got about the normal rate of doubles and BJs per hour."
And how often is that using YOUR system? I must presume you have simulated it , and there is an answer based upon those sims. I know what text-book Basic Strategy indicates, but after reading some of the persuasive prose with your name on it, I can tell you don't play text-book Basic, and Basic Strategy expectations are NOT correct for your game.
jmpoehler said:Alex
I don't understand why you can't keep track of splits and doubles, you seem to be able to keep track of all the following:
hours played
hands played
action (total money bet)
Min. bet
Max. bet
Avg. bet
Max. Hole
Max losing streak
while the whole time figuring out what 20% of your bet is
This already seems like a pretty lengthy list to me! How in the world do you keep track of every hand played? Do you play so many hands then quit and go right it down somewhere and then sit down again? I usually just keep track of how many hours I played and then estimate about how many hands I might have played!
Also, it seems that you would have to play with a bunch of one dollar chips when betting with your method, this seems like it would bring alot of attention when you start your bet at $20, do you tell the dealer to give you a boatload of ones?
I don't think anyone on this board cares if you play your system, I think people like Grifter though are trying to protect the newbies from thinking your method is actually a good one. Good job Grif, keep em' honest for us!
AlexD30 said:Grifter,
Wow! .., I've got it :!:
That's fine Grifter, There is no point arguing with you.
Best Regards
Nickels_n_Bullets said:What are your plays for 6-6 vs. 2 or 3, and 9-9 vs. 2, I don't think those are played Basic either, since you don't double on A2 thru A5. I figure theres a time to surrender 8-8 vs. 10-value from your previous posts. I'll also guess that you don't split 4's against 5 or 6. If most or all of these are correctly presumed, there might be some creedence in what you're doing.
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SAG and AFTRA Merger News
This was sent out to both union's members this past weekend. It's just the beginning of a (likely) very long process. I'm sure we'll be posting on the blog and our facebook page throughout this process. Stay tuned!
Dear Member,
This weekend, the SAG and AFTRA National Boards took a decisive step to strengthen our future by overwhelmingly endorsing a plan to merge Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. If members approve the merger, the new union will be called SAG-AFTRA.
The vote of the unions' National Boards came after more than a year of focused effort to hear from members about their needs for stronger union representation and to develop a merger plan to meet those needs. With the enthusiastic approval of our boards, the decision now rests in the hands of AFTrA and SAG members.
Merger referendum ballots are scheduled to be mailed on or about February 27th – but all members of both unions will have access to the complete merger documents within the next couple of days on the SAG and AFTRA websites. Full printed merger documents will also be mailed to each voter with the referendum ballot, which will be due for return on March 30th. This will give each member ample time to make a thoughtful and well-informed decision.
We're also excited to announce that on Friday, February 3rd, we will launch a new joint website to provide members all the information they'll want to consider before casting their votes. The website will include complete merger details, FAQs, and a comprehensive calendar of events to alert members nationwide to informational meetings and other opportunities for learning about the plan. Watch your email later this week for details of the website launch.
After more than a year of intensive work, we are extremely proud to bring you this historic opportunity. We also want to acknowledge the ceaseless dedication of the AFTRA and SAG members and staff who came together as the Group for One Union (G1) to produce this remarkable plan. We look forward to sharing all the details and answering any questions you may have. Finally, we are confident that SAG and AFTRA members will embrace this singular chance to harness the true power of unity, and that SAG-AFTRA will protect members and shape the entertainment and media industries for decades to come.
In unity,
Ken Howard
SAG National President
Roberta Reardon
AFTRA National President
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Casey James Debuts 'The Good Life' on 'American Idol'
Fast-rising country star Casey James debuted his new single 'The Good Life' on 'American Idol' Thursday night (April 4), coming back to the place where it all began.
James competed on the ninth season of the iconic reality singing competition, placing third. He released his debut album in March, and he's off to a strong start. "This is a dream come true," says James. "To be returning to the show as an artist, to sing and play music that I wrote, co-produced and poured myself into, it doesn't get any better for me! I think 'The Good Life' is such a fitting song too."
The song is an up-tempo, electric guitar-driven track that's almost reminiscent of one of Keith Urban's pop-rock hits. It's a perfect summertime single, and James delivered it with a lot of energy, displaying his instrumental chops by bursting into a sudden guitar solo to bring the song to a close.
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MSI Launches Factory Overclocked GTX 770 With 4GB GDDR5 Memory
Subject: Graphics Cards | July 17, 2013 - 01:58 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: msi, gtx 770, GK104, gk-104, gaming, factory overclocked, 4GB
MSI recently announced the GTX 770 Gaming 4GB which combines a factory overclocked GK-104 GPU with 4GB of GDDR5 memory and the company's Twin Frozr IV cooler on a custom PCB. This card joins the existing MSI GTX 770 with 2GB of memory in the company's GPU lineup.
Specifications the new graphics card include a GK-104 based GTX 770 GPU with a base clock of 1137 MHz and a GPU Boost clockspeed of 1189 MHz. This compares to the 4GB Zotac GTX 770's base and boost clockspeeds of 1059 MHz and 1098 MHz and to the reference NVIDIA GTX 770's 1046 MHz base and 1085 MHz boost. In short, the upcoming MSI card is one of the fastest-clocked models with 4GB of memory. Unfortunately, that 4GB of GDDR5 does not come factory overclocked, and is instead left at the stock 7 GHz clockspeed.
Further, the MSI card is cooled by the company's Twin Frozr IV cooler. This HSF features two 100mm fans that cool an aluminum fin stack. In turn, that fin stack attaches to the GPU block via five heatpipes. There is no backplate, but the card does have a reinforcing plate between the PCB and cooler (which also, likely, helps dissipate a small bit of the heat generated by the VRMs and RAM).
The card is essentially the same card as the existing 2GB version, which is not necessarily a bad thing. The model number on the 4GB card is N770 TF 4GD5/OC. MSI has not released pricing or availability, but expect it to be around $430 and up for grabs later this summer.
More photos of the upcoming 4GB GTX 770 GPU can be found over at TPU.
Read more about GTX 770 graphics cards at PC Perspective!
Gigabyte Launches GTX 760 OC Edition Graphics Card
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 26, 2013 - 09:19 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: windforce 3x, triangle cooling, gtx 760, gk-104, gigabyte, gaming
Not to be left out, Gigabyte is also releasing its own take on the GTX 760 Kepler GPU. This new GTX 760 Overclock Edition uses the company's WindForce 3X cooler with "Triangle Cooling" technology. The card is model GV-N760OC-2GD and is available now from various retailers for around $260.
The GTX 760 OC Edition card has a GTX 760 GPU with a base clock of 1085 MHz and boost clock of 1150 MHz. Unfortunately, memory (2GB GDDR5) remains the same as stock cards at 6008 MHz.
The factory overclock on the GPU is among the highest options, but is not the highest clocked GTX 760 card. The reference card is clocked at 6008 MHz for the memory and a GPU base and boost clockspeed of 980 MHz and 1033 MHz respectively. The card supports the company's OC Guru II overclocking utility as well, for adventurous enthusiasts wishing to see just how far they can push their particular cards on air cooling.
Gigabyte is using its WindForce 3X cooler for this overclocked model. The cooler features three angled fans and a custom fin stack with direct contact copper heat pipes to effectively transfer heat away from the GPU. Gigabyte uses two 8mm and four 6mm heatpipes to get heat into the fin array.
The Gigabyte GV-N760OC-2GD GTX 760 Overclock Edition is available now for $259.99.
MSI Launches Factory Overclocked N760 TF 2GD5 GTX 760 Graphics Card
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 26, 2013 - 07:22 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: MSI N760 TF 2GD5/OC, msi, gtx 760, gk-104, gaming
MSI is joining the GTX 760 fray with its own version of NVIDIA's latest 700-series graphics cards called the N760 TF 2GD5/OC GTX 760. This midrange gaming card pairs an overclocked GTX 760 GPU with 2GB of GDDR5 memory and the company's Twin Frozr IV cooler.
Specifcations include a GTX 760 with base clock of 1085 MHz and a boost clock of 1150 MHz. It further has 2GB of GDDR5 memory, but it does not come factory overclocked (6008 MHz stock).
The cooler on the MSI GTX 760 is the Twin Frozr IV which features two 100mm fans, an aluminum heatsink with heapipes connecting the fin stack to the GPU base plate. The fans use MSI's "propeller blade" technology to increase airflow.
The N760 TF 2GD5/OC is not the fastest factory overclocked card, but it should be among the quietest with its two large fans that can spin at lower RPMs while still providing good cooling performance. It also opens up doors to users overclocking beyond the factory overclocked speeds, depending on the particular chip they get.
It is available now for $259.99 at various online retailers, including Newegg.
Also read: PC Perspective's full review of the $250 NVIDIA Kepler-based GTX 760 GPU.
Gainward Releases Factory Overclocked GTX 760 Phantom With Custom Cooler
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 26, 2013 - 01:04 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: phantom, gtx 760, gk-104, gaming, gainward
In addition to the monstrous GTX 780 Phantom GLH, Gainward is releasing a new Phantom graphics card based on NVIDIA's new GTX 760 GPU.
This new Gainward GTX 760 Phantom graphics card shares many of the same features as its larger GTX 780-based sibling, just with lower specifications and pricing. The GTX 760 itself features 1,152 CUDA cores and a respectable factory overclock of 1072 MHz base and 1137 MHz boost. Gainward has even overclocked the 2GB of GDDR5 memory slightly to 6.2 GHz. For comparison, the reference NVIDIA GTX 760 comes clocked at 980 MHz base and 1033 MHz boost for the GPU and 6.0 GHz for the memory.
The factory overclock is not the only aspect that sets the Gainward model apart, however. This upcoming graphics card comes with a beefy power phase with DrMOS circuitry, support for the company's EXPERTool overclocking utility, and a custom cooler. The HSF features an aluminum fin stack, two removable 80mm fans (to make dust removal easier), and four heat pipes connected to a copper base-plate that sits on top of the GPU. According to Gainward, its custom Phantom cooler is up to 6.5 dB quieter and 16-degrees Celsius cooler than the reference NVIDIA design.
Gainward has not released specifics, but expect the card to be available soon for somewhere around $270. Fortunately, reviews on this model are already starting to trickle out, and it looks promising.
Rumored NVIDIA GTX 760 Specifications Leaked: The First Mid-Range 700-Series GPU Option
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 20, 2013 - 12:28 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: nvidia, kepler, gtx 760, GK104, gk-104, gaming
There have been rumors of a new mid-range Kepler-based graphics card coming that will be next entry in the GTX 700-series. This new GPU is rumored to be called the GeForce GTX 760. If the specifications are true, the card will fit between the existing GTX 660 and GTX 660 Ti graphics cards as far as hardware specifications and pricing. While it will be under the GTX 700-series, it will not have the faster 7Gbps memory clockspeed of the other 700-series cards.
As far as specifications, Videocardz claims to have the final specifications list in a recent news post. The GTX 760 is rumored to be the latest graphics card to use NVIDIA's GK-104 "Kepler" GPU. The GTX 760 will have some units disabled for a GPU with 1,152 CUDA cores, 96 Texture Manipulation Units (TMUs), and 32 Raster Operations Processors (ROPs). The GPU supports NVIDIA's latest GPU Boost 2.0 technology which will automatically ratchet up the Boost clockspeed so long as temperature allows. It has a base clockspeed of 980 MHz and a boost clockspeed of 1,033 Mhz.
GTX 760 graphics cards will allegedly come in both 2GB and 4GB GDDR5 memory flavors. NVIDIA is clocking the memory at 6 Gbps (1502 MHz), which makes it the fist 700-series part to not take advantage of faster memory chips. However, there is a bit of saving grace as NVIDIA has moved to a 256-bit memory bus. This allows the card to still see a respectable bump in memory bandwidth of 192 GB/s on the GTX 760 versus the GTX 660/GTX 660 Ti's 144.2 GB/s bandwidth.
Compared to the existing mid-range 600-series cards, the GTX 760 has base and boost GPU clockspeeds equal to the GTX 660 (and faster than the GTX 660 TI). Memory clockspeed is also unchanged on the new card, though it has a wider memory bus. The GTX 760 has 192 more CUDA cores than the GTX 660, but 192 fewer CUDA cores versus the GTX 660 Ti. TMUs are also sit evenly between the two 600-series cards, but the GTX 760 does have 8 more ROPs enabled than both the 660 and 660 Ti.
Graphics cards with the upcoming GTX 760 GPU will be powered by two 6-pin PCI-E power connectors, and it has a 170W TDP. That power consumption puts the card between the 150W GTX 660 Ti and the higher-end 230W GTX 770. It appears that the card will not come with the high-end stock metallic cooler used in the other 700-series cards, though the various AIBs are likely to fit the GPU with their own custom aftermarket coolers. Video outputs on the cards will incluce DVI-I, DVI-D, HDMI, and DisplayPort.
The chart below compares the specifications between the GTX 660, GTX 660 Ti, GTX 770, and the rumored GTX 760.
|GTX 660 Ti
|CUDA Cores
|GPU Base
|980 MHz
|980 Mhz
|915 Mhz
|1046 Mhz
|GPU Boost
|1033 MHz
|1033 MHz
|980 Mhz
|1085 MHz
|Memory Bus
|Memory Clock
|1502 MHz
|1502 MHx
|1502 Mhz
|1752 Mhz
|192 GB/s
|144.2 GB/s
|144.2 GB/s
|224 GB/s
The card is supposedly going to be released on June 25th for around $300. It will compete with AMD's 7950 with boost graphics card. Further, the card will be an alternative to NVIDIA's own GTX 660 Ti and an upgrade for gamers still running GTX 560 cards with the company's older Fermi-based GPU.
Computex 2013: ASUS Working On GTX 770 Poseidon With Hybrid Waterblock and Air Cooler HSF
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 4, 2013 - 12:04 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: poseidon, nvidia, kepler, gtx 770, gk-104, computex 2013, computex, ASUS ROG, asus
NVIDIA took the wraps off of its latest-generation Geforce GTX 770 GPU last week, and manufacturers have begun announcing not only reference designs but custom and factory overclocked versions of this GK-104 "Kepler" GPU refresh. One card in particular that caught my attention was the ASUS GTX 770 Poseidon graphics card, which combines NVIDIA's GK-104 GPU with a hybrid heatsink and fan combo that allows the simultaneous use of water and air cooling!
According to the branding, and a hands-on report by Tech Power Up at Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, the GTX 770 Poseidon graphics card is part of the company's Republic of Gamers (ROG) line and likely sports beefy VRM hardware and factory GPU overclocks. Of course, the GTX 770 GPU uses NVIDIA's Kepler architecture and is essentially the GTX 680 with some seriously overclocked memory and refined GPU Boost technology. That means 1,536 CUDA cores, 128 texture units, and 32 ROPs (raster operation units) within 4 GPCs (Graphics Processing Clusters). This is the full GK-104 chip, desite the x70 name. For more information on the GTX 770 GPU, check out our recent review of the NVIDIA GTX 770 card.
Update: ASUS has just launched the new ROG graphics cards at a Computex press conference. According to the ASUS press release:
"ROG Poseidon graphics card with hybrid DirectCU H2O cooling
The new ROG Poseidon graphics card features an NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 700 Series GPU and a hybrid DirectCU H2O thermal design that supports both air and liquid cooling. Developed by ASUS, its CoolTech fan combines blower and axial fans in one design, forcing air in multiple directions over the heatsink to maximize heat dissipation. Liquid cooling reduces operating temperatures by up to 31 degrees Celsius for cooler running with even greater overclocking potential. ROG Poseidon also features a red pulsing ROG logo for a distinctive dash of style."
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Back on the Poseidon specifcally, the card is a short GTX 770 with a distinctive cooler that uses a full cover water block that covers the entire card and includes the GPU, memory, and VRM areas. ASUS further added a more-traditional air cooler to the area above the GPU itself to help dissapate heat. The air cooler is a circular aluminum fin array with a fan that sits in the middle. The air entire hybrid cooler is then covered by a ROG-themed shroud with a configurable LED-backlit Republic of Gamers logo on the side that can be controlled via software.
The water cooling portion acts as any other full cover water block, allowing cool water to move heat away from the metal contact (the bottom of the block) touching the various components. The inlet and outlets poke out from the side of the card, which is a bit odd but the shroud prevents them coming out at 90-degrees like typical blocks. If your case width is tight, you may need to get creative to fit a 90-degree barb extender (I apologize if that's not the technical term) on to the existing tubing connectors (heh). The cooler can be operated with the air cooler's fan running with or without being connected to a water loop. When water cooling is used, the fan can be turned off to reduce noise or left on to allow for higher overclocks and/or lower temperatures.
Unfortunately, that is all of the information that is currently available
as ASUS has not yet officially launched on the custom GTX 770 graphics card. Pricing, availability, and clockspeed details are still unknown.
For more information, stay tuned to the press.asus.com/events livestream page as it might be announced at a Computex press conference this week since the company is showing off the hardware at the show!
Galaxy's Factory Overclocked GTX 770 Graphics Card Is Now Available for $400
Subject: Graphics Cards | June 2, 2013 - 12:43 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: nvidia, gtx 770, graphics card, gk-104, galaxy
Galaxy recently made its custom factory overclocked GTX 770 graphics card available. The new card is not the fastest GTX 770, and doesn't quite embrace the supa-pipe as much (as Josh would say), but it looks to be a good deal all the same, giving you a quieter HSF and a decently-overclocked Geforce GTX 770 GPU for $399.99.
The Galaxy GeForce GTX 770 2GB (77XPH6DV6KXZ) takes NVIDIA's GTX 770 GPU with 1,536 GK-104 based CUDA cores and overclocks it to 1110 MHz base and 1163 MHz boost clockspeeds. The 2GB of GDDR5 memory is only clocked at the reference 7010 MHz, however.
The card has the same video outputs as other GTX 770 cards: two DL-DVI, one HDMI, and one DisplayPort output. The card with its dual slot, dual fan cooler is 10" in length and requires a 600W PSU at minimum (not solely for the GPU). It needs one 8-pin and one 6-pin PCI-E power connector.
Galaxy provides a two year warranty for the card. It is available now for around $400 at various retailers.
Read more about other factory overclocked GTX 770 graphics cards at PC Perspective!
Zotac Announces Factory Overclocked GTX 770 Cards, AMP! Edition Is Fastest So Far
Subject: General Tech | June 1, 2013 - 10:50 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: zotac, gtx 770, gk-104, gaming
Not to be left out, GPU partner Zotac has announced its own set of graphics cards based on NVIDIA's GK-104 GTX 770 GPU called the GTX 770 and GTX 770 AMP! Edition. Both cards come with Zotac's custom dual fan cooler and have some impressive factory overclocks. In fact, the GTX 770 AMP! Edition is the fastest factory clocked GTX 770 so far, and is the only card to feature overclocked memory.
The Zotac Geforce GTX 770 features a GPU base clock of 1059 MHz and a GPU boost clock of 1098 MHz. It will be available with either 2GB or 4GB of GDDR5 memory. In either memory configuration, Zotac is keeping the GDDR5 at the stock clockspeed of 7010 MHz.
Meanwhile, the GTX 770 AMP! Edition has GPU clockspeeds of 1150 MHz base and an impressive 1202 MHz boost. However, the GTX 770 AMP! does not only feature an overclocked GPU, but overclocked memory at 7200 MHz.
The chart below compares the two Zotac graphics cards.
|Zotac GTX 770
|Zotac GTX 770 AMP! Edition
|GPU Base
|1059 MHz
|1150 MHz
|GPU Boost
|1098 MHz
|1202 MHz
|2GB or 4GB
|Memory Clock
|7010 MHz
|7200 MHz
Both of the Zotac graphics cards also come with a Splinter Cell game bundle that includes three (digital download) games:
- Splinter Cell: Double Agent
- Splinter Cell: Conviction
- Splinter Cell: Blacklist (will be release later this summer)
As far as pricing and availability, the GTX 770 (ZT-70301-10P) is on sale now at Newegg for $400, but the 4GB GTX 770 and GTX 770 AMP! have not yet been released by the looks of it, and Zotac has not announced official pricing or ship dates yet. More information can be found here. The AMP! Edition has some impressive factory overclocks, and the benchmarks should be interesting.


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Finance chiefs of the world's leading economies are ringing alarm bells over the U.S. fiscal cliff and Europe's debt woes at a meeting in Mexico this weekend as they look to push back deficit reduction targets to help boost growth.
Unless a fractious U.S. Congress can reach a deal, about $600 billion in government spending cuts and higher taxes are set to kick in on January 1, threatening to push the American economy back into recession and hit world growth.
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But with the U.S. presidential election looming on Tuesday, dealing with the fiscal cliff has been delayed.
"The Americans themselves acknowledge that this is a problem," a G20 official said on condition of anonymity. "The U.S. administration says it doesn't want to fall off the fiscal cliff, but right now it can't tell us how exactly it will address it because that issue is on ice ahead of the election."
Tax cuts, including those enacted under President George W. Bush, are set to expire in January, when automatic spending cuts designed to put pressure on lawmakers to strike a long-term budget deal are also set to kick in.
"What remains a sort of key aspect is that the United States is not respecting the current commitments (to reduce its deficits) and does not have a credible fiscal consolidation plan," one European official said.
Germany has come to the meeting calling on the United States and Japan to shoulder with Europe responsibility for ensuring global economic stability.
"The United States and Japan bear as great a responsibility for (ensuring stability) as we Europeans," German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told Reuters ahead of the meeting.
The U.S. Congress will also soon have to raise the nation's debt limit to avoid a default.
Policy makers are scrambling to stem a new global slowdown as the economy is still limping after the 2008/9 financial crisis.
An initial consensus around the need for urgent action to prevent a new depression has given way to deep differences over issues such as spending to boost growth and the right pace of belt-tightening to tackle high debt levels.
The International Monetary Fund last month cut its forecast for global growth to 3.6 percent for 2013, citing "familiar" forces dragging on advanced economies: fiscal consolidation and a weak financial system.
Even Germany, which powered through the first two years of the euro zone debt crisis, has cut its growth forecast to just 1 percent for next year and countries such as Spain and Italy are already back in recession.
Jose Angel Gurria, head of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, said on Saturday the G20 should appeal to the United States to avoid the` fiscal cliff, but added he was optimistic that Congress would strike a deal.
"I still believe it is not going to be applied," Gurria said in an interview before the meeting of G20 finance chiefs, which formally starts on Sunday.
Officials are also concerned about Japan's own version of the fiscal cliff, a crippling funding shortfall just as it risks sliding into recession, and recognize that previous commitments made by developed countries to cut their budget deficits in half by 2013 look unfeasible.
U.S. and European officials are also likely to come under pressure from G20 peers for dragging their feet on implementing the so-called Basel III accords on financial regulations, the world's response to the 2007-09 financial crisis.
Countries who fail to introduce the rules, which are aimed at safeguarding the global banking system from another financial crisis, could face sanctions, a senior Mexican finance official said.
Despite the issue's prominence, a G20 source said Russia wants to keep financial regulation discussions at a more technical level when it takes over the presidency of the group from Mexico after this meeting, which ends on Monday, possibly pushing the issue onto the back burner.
With several heavyweights like U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner - who is expected to stand down soon after the U.S. elections on Tuesday - European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi and top Chinese officials skipping the meeting, few expect any major agreements.
Spain's reluctance to seek financial aid is stoking worries that Europe's debt crisis could further hurt world growth. The government is under pressure to seek a bailout as it struggles to cope with high public debt and the cost of recapitalizing its banks. Euro zone sources say they expect Spain to seek financial aid from the euro zone in November.
A government source told Reuters on Wednesday that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had not ruled out applying for a rescue, but Rajoy has signaled he will not rush unless market conditions deteriorate significantly.
(Reporting by Alonso Soto, Alexandra Alper, Tetsushi Kajimoto, Lesley Wroughton, Julien Toyer, Jan Strupczewski, Gernot Heller, Louise Egan, Krista Hughes, Dave Graham and Michael O'Boyle; Writing by Simon Gardner; Editing by Doina Chiacu and David Gregorio)


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What Are the Risks of Using IM? - September 14, 2005
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Farmers, ranchers and other producers now have an online source for reliable, up-to-date information about income tax and self-employment tax.
That's increasingly important, says a North Carolina State University Extension economist, because more U.S. Department of Agriculture programs are being linked in multiple ways to federal income tax returns.
According to Guido van der Hoeven, North Carolina Cooperative Extension specialist and past co-chair of the National Farm Income Tax Extension Committee, the new website is designed to convey information that is both current and easy-to-understand.
"Rural Tax Education is a project undertaken by the National Farm Income Tax Extension Committee to provide accurate, peer-reviewed materials about income tax topics for farmers, ranchers and other producers," he said. "This information is written in plain language that is accessible to farmers and ranchers. Rather than just a collection of materials, it is a website that can be continually updated to reflect changes in tax laws."
Van der Hoeven said the committee has a 50-plus year history of working with the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to edit "IRS Publication 225: The Farmer's Tax Guide." The committee consists of representatives from more than 12 land-grant universities around the country.
The recently launched http://ruraltax.org website includes 20 peer-reviewed fact sheets on such topics as the definition of a farmer, depreciation and1099 information returns. RuralTax.org also includes a sample federal income tax return with a farming example and links to other verified information.
"Information is out there, but not all of it is accurate and dependable," van der Hoeven said. "Links on the website will be to information that has been determined to be accurate and beneficial. With additional funding and commitment, the website will be expanded over time."
For further information about the project, contact Guido van der Hoeven at firstname.lastname@example.com or 919-515-9071.


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The new Slip-On Pro is a beefed up version of the good old fashion Classic Slip-On shoe from Vans that we have grown to love. It is designed with a removable PU sock liner, Duracap toe bumper reinforcements, and soft terrycloth linings. A padded collar and Vans classic waffle grip were not forgotten in the construction of this shoe either. So do not fret, you're dealing with a pro.


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Minoan Lines Wifi — Part 2
April 16, 2011
A couple of days ago, we did some presentations about DNS at a FOSS NTUA meeting.
I prepared a presentation about DNS tunneling and how to bypass Captive Portals at Wifi Hotspots, which require authentication.
(We want to do another presentation, to test ICMP/ping tunnel too ;)).
I had blogged on that topic some time ago.
It was about time for a test-drive. 😛
I set up iodine, a DNS tunneling server(and client), and I was ready to test it, since I would be travelling with Minoan Lines the next day.
I first did some tests from my home 24Mbps ADSL connection, and the results weren't very encouraging. Although the tunnel did work, and I could route all of my traffic through the DNS tunnel, and over a second OpenVPN secure tunnel, bandwidth dropped to ~30Kbps, when using the NTUA FTP Server, through the DNS tunnel.
(The tunnel also worked with the NTUA Wifi Captive Portal, although at first we had some 'technical issues', ie I hadn't set up NAT on the server to masquarade and forward the traffic coming from the tunnel :P).
The problem is that the bandwidth of the Minoan Lines(actually Forthnet 'runs' it afaik) Wifi(not inside the 'local' network of course) was ~30Kbps(terrible, I know), without using DNS tunneling. So, I wasn't very optimistic. (I think they have some satelite connection, or something like that from the Wifi to the Internet).
When I was on the ship, I tried to test it. At first, I encountered another technical issue(the local DNS had an IP inside the Wifi local network, and due to NAT the IP our server was 'seeing', was different than the IP of the DNS packets, so we had to run iodined with the -c flag). Luckily, FOSS NTUA members(who had root access on the computer running iodined) are 1337 and fixed that in no time. 😛
And at last, I had a 'working' DNS tunnel, but with extremely high ping times(2sec RTT) to the other end of the tunnel, and when I tried to route all traffic through the tunnel I had a ridiculous 22sec RTT to ntua.gr. Of course even browsing the Web was impossible, since all the HTTP requests timed out before an answer could reach my laptop. 😛
However, because I am a Forthnet customer(for my ADSL connection), I was able to use my Username/Password of my home ADSL connection, and have free access to the Internet, from their hotspot(with the amaing bandwidth of ~30Kbps :P). At least they do the authentication over SSL. 😛
Although DNS tunneling didn't really work in this case(the tunnel itself worked, but due to the bandwidth being so low, I didn't have a 'usable' connection to the Internet), I think that in other hotspots, which provide better bandwidth/connection, it can be a very effective way to bypass the authentication and use them for free. 😉
Probably, there'll be a Part 3, with results from bandwidth benchmarks inside the NTUA Wifi, and maybe some ICMP tunneling stuff.
Cheers! 🙂
[Greeks Only :P] Minoan Lines Wifi
September 12, 2010
So, only for Greeks, or people from other countries, who have travelled with Minoan Lines… 😛
If you have ever travelled from Athens to Heraklion(or vice-versa :P) with a Minoan Lines ship, mabye you'll notice that there's a Wifi Hotspot, owned by Forthnet. If you try to use it, you'll be presented with a Captive Portal.
In order to get access to the Internet, you have to pay some money(extremely overpriced, concidering the speed/bandwidth, although … you are in a ship :P).
I suppose Forthnet has many other hotspots, like this one, and I guess the prices are pretty much the same. Unless you are already a Forthnet customer(like I am). Then, you have free access.
But, even if you are a Forthnet customer, I think it's fun! to find out if/how you can bypass this captive portal.
A month ago, I was travelling to Crete, so I tried some things, but everything phailed. 😛
So, I googled a bit, and I found some interesting things.
Apparently, the best, if not the only, way to bypass the captive portal is DNS Tunneling.
However, the connection was awful, so SSHing to my server, and setting up the "customized" DNS server, was impossible.
So, I did all the preperations(DNS server modifications, etc…) while I was in Crete, and hoped I could test it when I'd travel back to Athens.
But, the Wifi Hotspot(specifically the Captive Portal "server" I think) was 'down', when I was travelling, so I couldn't test DNS tunelling.
Maybe, next time.
Anyway, if anyone has tried it, let me know.
Although I think the bandwidth/speed will be terrible, considering the DNS tunelling overhead.
Btw, tricks like MAC/IP spoofing, ARP poisoning, hacking a poor Windoze unpatched user(etc etc), and setting up a NAT, are out of the question, since I wanted to 'hack' the hotspot/portal, and not the (l)users. 😛
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Ideas should be able to stand on their own, without a lot of distracting embellishment.
The reason you use a series of fonts like I listed is because the computer you are browsing on has to have the font installed locally. So you can only use universally available fonts on any webpage. So windows, mac and linux (not to mention all the tablets) have to have that font loaded for it to work. If you did it, you might still be the only person to see it how you intend.
Simple solution is to use an image. Use whatever tool you want to create the text (google docs) , then screenshot, crop, save, upload and link.If you want to get slightly fancier, use GIMP (or photoshop if you are rich or piratical), remove the background so its transparent and safe as .jpg.That way you don't need to worry about fonts at all, apart from having them on your PC to do the original text.
Directly. Just save it somewhere easy to find, click the image button and browse to it.You can even tune it a _little_ in the raw html (size, placement) if you are of a mind to.
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The Chive posted a great "best of" gallery featuring everyone's favorite douchebag that is friggin' HILARIOUS! He even caught wind of his image being used without his consent and emailed the Chive to express the dissatisfaction he felt regarding the matter. After reading his complaints, I now realize that he is an even bigger idiot than I could have possibly imagined! Oh - and his real name is "Boston Blake AKA Wheezy B" and he is an up and coming rapper. GOOD LUCK WHEEZY!!!
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Hi, new member here.
As a favorite meditation subject of mine, I have figured out several 4-d and higher geometries. I can visualize cubes up to 5-d, and UNDERSTAND them up through 8-d (cubes are the easiest, for me). I recently managed to complete my visualization and understanding of triangles/pyramids in 4-d, and have logically progressed them through 6-d.
One shape that has eluded my grasp for a LONG time was the higher-d sphere, though. I still cannot for the life of me begin to visualize it, nor can I logically figure how to construct one. I had a recent breakthrough, when I realized (I swear, a lightbulb actually materialized over my head and blinded everyone nearby with THAT flash...) that a 2-d circle is a 1-d line curved through 2-d space to intersect all points at x distance in 2 dimensions from a given point c; a 3-d sphere is a 2-d plane curved through 3-d space to intersect all points at x distance in 3 dimensions from a given point c; thus a 4-d sphere must be a 3-d (something) curved through 4-d space to intersect all points at x distance in 4 dimensions from a given point c.
Where my new problem lies is in figuring out what the (something) is, exactly. I have a line and a plane; what is my logical procession? I am working on this exercise now. It is a tough little challenge, one I am thoroughly enjoying. Once I figure it out, I will have 3 points on my progression, and will be more easily able to extrapolate the next several.
I know that you can also view the sphere as a circle twisted a full rotation through z around the x or y bisecting axis, and a circle as a line twisted a full rotation through x around the y halfway point. But this is not the progression I am pursuing. It is not nearly as elegant. Plus it creates solid shapes, where the other model would just be the hollow skin encompassing the shape, which is far preferable for my purposes. (This was my original progression, but read on...)
In this alternate progression, the 4-d sphere would be a 3-d sphere twisted a full rotation through w around the xy, yz, or xz bisecting plane/circle. The problem is, although I can logically understand this, and probably continue the progression (5-d is 4-d twisted through v around the xyz, wxy, zwy, or wxz bisecting spheres. That would be the progression, but is it correct?) I still cannot visualize it, thus rendering myself incapable of determining of it is correct or just an example of fuzzy logic taken too far.
I wish to note, I have never looked at ANY models until I have designed my own first. I do not muddy the waters of my mind with other peoples' work; I work it out myself, then compare. It allows me to give things a fresh viewpoint, which has allowed me to come up with a few models I believe to be unique to myself. I did not have in my head already "Oh, that's what a tesseract looks like", because then any time I tried to visualize it, I'd just have seen that super-cross shape, and never been able to come up with my own versions. This methodology also allows me to more easily visualize the actual 4-d shape, rather than just the unfolded representation of each one.
Anyways, I am just excited about my progress on the hypersphere (which I have never seen a model of, yet, of course), and wished to share my thoughts.
See ya!


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Organizers for the annual Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry drive in Glendale today are tapping the star power of the most visible Armenian family in American pop culture -- the Kardashians.
The registry's online advertising for the drive, which will be held at Glendale Memorial Hospital from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, has centered on an appeal from Kourtney Kardashian on behalf of her cousin CiCi, who needs a bone marrow donor after her body stopped responding to chemotherapy.
Frieda Jordan, who has coordinated the registration drive since it started 14 year ago, said she was hoping the Kardashian cachet would help attract a new set of potential donors.
"The buzz is there, I think the Kardashians are tweeting it for the whole week," she said. "We hope there will be hundreds [of registrants]."
The need for the registry stems from the fact that bone marrow donations must come from a close genetic match – a problem for an ethnic group living in a worldwide diaspora, according to Jordan.
"Like any other minority that has lived in a closed population, where the number of intermarriages are not that many, throughout the years [Armenians] have developed this unique genetic makeup," she said.
When Armenians register, their information is entered into a global database so that they can potentially be matched with patients worldwide.
"There are hundreds of patients which are really desperate to get a bone marrow match," Jordan said.
The registration drive will be held in the auditorium of Glendale Memorial Hospital, 1420 Central Ave.
"We try to be as supportive as we can with that organization," said hospital spokeswoman Rima Mardirosian. "They're a great organization, we're just very happy to be able to be a part of that effort."
A second registration drive will be held in Las Vegas on Sunday, at the Las Vegas Armenian Apostolic Church.
For more information call the Armenian Bone Marrow Donor Registry at (323) 663-3609.
-- Daniel Siegal, Times Community News
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Arkoma defense strong, offense shaky in Friday night's scrimmage against Porum
ARKOMA — Arkoma coach Mark Weatherton figured his Mustangs' defensive unit would have a good game, and it did in Friday night's scrimmage against Porum at Mustang Field. However, the offensive unit did not perform as well as he thought it would.The Panthers scored only once on the Mustangs."Defensively, I thought we were pretty good," Weatherton said. "We were a little inconsistent at linebacker. Our defense really had a better game than our offense did."Offensive, the Mustangs scored three times, a 10-yard run by Dakota Roam and two touchdown passes from Ethann Gates to Tanner Sweeten — a 60-yarder and a 10-yard strike.However, Weatherton thought he'd see a little more scoring than three TDs.


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This site is about the history of the flying boat squadrons that were stationed at Oban in the early years of world war II. It looks at the debt of gratitude owed by us all to the airmen of Ganavan Sands who, while flying over the Atlantic Convoys, cared little for their own safety and regularly paid the ultimate price for their heroism.
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Stupid Firefox Tricks, Part I
Simple Bookmarklets: The Power of the Command Line in your Browser
Firefox ... we use it all day, for everything from managing finances to socializing to playing games. But it's a large and complicated programs. Are you getting the most out of your browser? In this series, I'll offer some tricks you can use to spend less time getting more out of the web.
I'll concentrate mostly on Firefox since that's the most popular Linux browser. But most Firefox tricks will work in other Mozilla-based browsers, and some will even work in non-Mozilla browsers like Konqueror and Opera.
I'll start the series with my favorite trick that not many people seem to know about: Bookmarklets. If you're a regular user of Firefox, I'm sure you're familiar with bookmarks, and you probably have a long list of them. But you might not have seen their most useful form.
What are bookmarklets? Think of them as active bookmarks: bookmarks that can do something more than just take you to a single static URL. Sometimes bookmarklets are bits of Javascript code. But the simplest ones are just regular bookmarks with the addition of a parameter.
For instance, the default search in Firefox uses Google. That means anything you type in the regular URLbar that isn't a URL will result in a Google search -- no need to waste space on a separate Google bar.
Google's great, but what if you want to search with Yahoo and see how it compares? Of course, you can go to yahoo.com and type some search terms; but what if you do that all the time? A Yahoo search bookmarklet is just the ticket.
First you need a URL for your bookmarklet. Go to Yahoo, type in a search term like banana and see where it goes. Yahoo will take you to a URL like this:
Go ahead and save that as a bookmark, using Firefox' regular Bookmarks->Bookmark this page menu item. Trim it down if you want to -- http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=banana works just as well as the longer version.
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