Cloud infrastructure delivers a multitude of benefits, as compared to dedicated servers. Better computing resources usage, scalability and high-availability for services, granular access control, better security, more cost-efficient expenditure, etc. Thus said, many companies perform their migration to the cloud from dedicated data centers or in-house servers.
However, the cloud transition can pose another danger — vendor lock-in, when the company workflows and IT operations are tied to the peculiar features and services of a single cloud service provider (CSP). For example, if a company builds its operations around using AWS RDS, replacing it with Google Cloud or MS Azure analogs is quite a complicated feat.
We take AWS as an example because it is the most dynamically growing, populated and popular CSP. However, there is a variety of reasons why a business might need to migrate to AWS or from it. We describe the tools best used for this purpose.
The common guilt of all solution architects is the manual configuration of experimental environments. For example, a customer wants a couple of servers provisioned to test the compatibility of their product or the process of integration with another cloud platform. These environments are manually delivered, they work as intended, other tasks are performed — and in a couple of months, none of the support engineers can reproduce the deployment and configuration of these machines.
This is why Terraform should be the cornerstone of modern software development. When all the infrastructure configuration parameters are stored in declarative code within easily adjustable Terraform manifests, each and every state of your systems can be easily reproduced. What is even better, these manifests work across multiple cloud platforms, and minimal changes allow moving from Amazon Web Services to Google Cloud platform — the same manifests work well with both of these providers.
Terraform handles everything, from integration to load balancing and creating network resources. For example, one can easily create a DNS record stored in GCP, which will manage web services at AWS. While every cloud platform has its own configuration manager (AWS Cloud Formation, Google Cloud Deployment Manager or Heat ORchestration Templates for OpenStack), Terraform surpasses them all in efficiency and convenience, as a cloud-agnostic configuration orchestration tool able to work across multiple cloud ecosystems.
Ansible is our tool of choice for performing cloud migration due to its simplicity and efficiency. It can be run from literally any Unix machine and can connect to literally any service through SSH. When following Ansible best practices, your DevOps team can organize your configuration base to a performant, lean, mean, efficient machine. This enables your ecosystem to be able to run any time, as long as all the packages are up-to-date, and using the correct handlers ensures zero downtime for all updates.
For example, Ansible code base can be used without adjustments on both AWS and GCP. The only things that must be updated are dynamic inventory scripts, written in Python. The rest of the configuration, governed by Ansible playbooks, remains the same, allowing to use Ansible across multiple cloud environments with ease. However, Ansible is not perfect, as it is a push-based system (unlike pull-based Salt or Puppet or Chef). Thus said, it is not perfect for autoscaling, but this can be rectified through additional scripting.
Virtual Machine Image is the basic building block of the modern cloud infrastructure. Starting it with Docker or Packer allows quickly providing preconfigured infrastructure for running your apps and services. AWS Marketplace provides a huge library of ready AMI images for literally any purpose. However, business use cases are still more diverse than this assortment, so creating a library of images of your testing, staging and production environments is crucial to ensure productivity and stability of your IT operations. Thus said, every business should be able to build and launch images across any cloud platform and region.
Docker and Packer are the tools of choice for creating and operating your image registry. The main benefit of using them in concoction with Terraform and Ansible is the capability to operate smoothly regardless of the underlying cloud infrastructure. Changing only a couple of lines of code allows spinning up your images on AWS or GCP or Azure or DigitalOcean — this way AWS migration becomes much easier and much more manageable.
The next step of managing your apps in the cloud after creating the images is running the containers built from them. This is best done using Docker, as this tool was the first and remains the best approach to app containerization. The apps are packed in neat code containers that include the operating system, all the needed runtime and libraries that allow running the code. The main benefit of this approach is the 100% reliability — Docker containers run anywhere just the same, be it AWS, GCP, Azure, OpenStack or any other infrastructure. Docker containers can be launched on any OS with Docker on it, greatly increasing portability and decreasing operational overhead.
Kubernetes was first developed by Google Cloud Platform but is now released as an open-source tool. Its incredible flexibility and ability to manage containers is unparalleled. All of the major cloud service providers offer Kubernetes-as-a-Service, so having your infrastructure using Kubernetes is a wise choice, as it will definitely fit anywhere, whatever the destination of your cloud migration. Kubernetes allows launching, operating, monitoring, shutting down and restarting clusters, nodes and pods of containers, ensuring stable uptime and ease of scalability for your cloud operations. Google Kubernetes Engine is a great way to start your acquaintance with container configuration tools, and migration from it or to it is described in details in AWS migration service documentation, as well as for other cloud vendors.
One of the problems of cloud management at scale is the complexity of user management, as each user account must be provided with SSH access to the app, so you must store and manage a plethora of SSH keys. JumpCloud solves this through providing a hosted LDAP/Active Directory service, allowing to spawn users in any database and on any container with ease. Google Compute Engine provides another convenient feature, as the users can use the gcloud command to upload their ssh keys/user pairs from their Google CLI, and these users will be created on the intended machines from the start. This can also be done through a JumpCLoud endpoint, just the same as for AWS, Azure and any other cloud.
The other thing to consider during AWS migration is porting your library of images to another platform. RexRay is a convenient interface for storing and mounting images into containers. It provides a neat Docker plugin, which makes API calls to AWS, GCP, Azure and other platforms, so changing a pair of lines of code allows migration from AWS EBS volumes to GCP Compute Engine with little manual effort.
Due to using these and other popular DevOps tools IT Svit team is able to perform swift AWS migration from and to any other cloud service provider. All of these tools are designed to work in an ensemble and provide a consistent management layer across any cloud platforms. These instruments help provide smooth and nearly effortless migration between AWS and Google Compute Engine, and our DevOps team is able to perform this task well.
Of course, there are many more user stories, and while some IT Svit customers want to move to AWS, some order migration from AWS to a private cloud or multi-cloud environments. The main thing is that DevOps tools listed above help perform any type of migration. This toolkit can be used for a variety of purposes and IT Svit can engage in a wide range of projects, thanks to investment into correct tooling.
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THE WAY AHEAD FOR CELTIC
The Umpteenth Avoidable Failure
Fear Of Going Forward
Posted by Harry Brady | Sep 7, 2015 | Articles, Multimedia | 0 |
Sideways Passes
I'm not a big fan of international football for a variety of reasons. I don't feel passionately about any country and for a lot of the time from mid 80's onward I found the pace of play too pedestrian. Despite this I still like Scotland to do well, it enhances perception of our game and of course Celtic players will be representing their country and that reflects well on our club and so I watched the Scotland v Georgia game with disappointment but (fortunately for me) without the great frustration a fan would feel.
For me it was a typical performance from a Scottish side (club & country) over the last 20 years, not unlike ours in Sweden. Players filled with fear of playing that killer pass. Players with fear to get beyond their colleague and take procession in a forward position. In short, players who like playing the ball sideways because it's safe.
As alluded to in yesterday's piece, Scottish club sides (outside Celtic & Rangers) have been abysmal in Europe for 20+ years and the national side have also been poor relative to the preceding 30 years. For me, this in part down to expectation – the more we fail, the more we expect to fail but also down to the type of player we produce.
Around 15 years ago, under Bertie Vogts, the Scottish side was dreadful. The teams of 1996 & 98 had grown old and the youth following through was of no great standard. The club sides bought in foreign and the downward spiral began. In the last few years however we have seen a better quality coming through for the national team. Darren Fletcher, Scott Brown, James Morrison etc., tidy players who can pick up the ball in the middle of the park and pass. Players who could play the ball on the deck. The media and football commentators started to praise these new players coming through as Scotland started to pass short again….but pass sideways.
When Ronny Deila came to Celtic, I recall his comments around November that the midfield was "Still making too many sideways passes" and one of the things that really struck me when Scott Allan come on last week was every pass he made was forwards.
For the past 5 or 6 years the best Scotland players have been in the middle of the park. The defence has been average and with the exception of Maloney there has been no creativity in the final third. Players taking sideways passes in the middle of the pitch are under far less pressure than those in the final third. Taking and making passes in the final third requires more skill under pressure, provides less time to take under control and greater bravery from the player making the forward pass. Sideways is the easy out. Completed pass…job done?
Good tidy technical players in the middle of the park is certainly an improvement on where Scotland appeared to be going 10-15 years ago, but to be successful more is needed. I don't know if it is lack of confidence in yourself or it's down to coaching. More bravery, more confidence and reduced criticism is the key. Sideways is nice, but Scottish football needs to end the fear of going forward.
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Joni Mitchell, Napanee Rotary Park, Nine Inch Nails, Thelonious Monk
Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners (1957)
What an opening 3 seconds
[Album 571/1001]
There's a park in Napanee, new in 2017, named Rotary Park.
Though I am not being compensated in any way by the Greater Napanee region for saying this, the park is fantastic.
There's a swing on a roller coaster track, a splash pad, a couple of huge slides…we've made the 30 minute drive a few times and the kids really enjoy it.
In one corner of the park, in a particularly brilliant design feature, there's a pair of xylophone/vibraphone-esque percussion instruments.
But instead of being noisy, the sound is somehow always somewhat muted, regardless of how aggressively the bars are struck by mallet-wielding youth.
And cleverly, they've designed this particular idiophone to always sound pleasing to the ear; semi-tones have been removed, regardless of the combination of notes, they inevitably sound nice together.
Which, for a public park, where the young musicians haven't necessarily enrolled at the Juilliard yet, is a design feature the rest of the park patrons appreciate 99.99% of the time.
Except of course, on the rare occasion when an aspiring park musician tries to recreate that delicious dissonance from the opening notes of Brilliant Corners.
It's just not the same without the dissonance
I love a good cringe-worthy note.
The chorus of Joni Mitchell's My Old Man.
The third note in the original Nine Inch Nails version of Hurt.
The opening few seconds of Brilliant Corners.
Talk about immediately getting my undivided attention!
Now, of course, I still had to dutifully listen to the full album a couple of times.
But it was more just to confirm what I already knew that I liked about Thelonious Monk.
He had me at the opening dissonance.
Fantastic playground!*
Verbalize the Positive
One of my friends (and weekly quiz participant) Brian helped design the aforementioned Napanne park. Well designed Brian!
*And I'd be doing a disservice to my students if I didn't acknowledge the "highlight reel" nature of this video. I chose to document & share the playground fun, rather than documenting & sharing the tantrums & fussing from earlier that afternoon. So the clips are unrepresentative of the full day, absolutely, but the swing was just too fantastic to go un-shared 😀
From → 1950s
I still haven't heard this one. High on the list, but sometimes it's difficult to find records like this in the wild in Glasgow. Sake.
And yeah, love some dissonance in a tune too. Probably what I love most about piano.
I tracked this one down at the public library – I've yet to see it available for purchase, but was pleasantly surprised to find it available for borrowing!
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What a swing! And what an album! I want to play both, but only one is accessible at present.
Enjoy Brilliant Corners, Geoff. It's all there in the title.
Should you find yourself in Napanee, Ontario, Bruce I can't recommend the swing highly enough!
In the meantime, yes, Brilliant Corners will have to suffice, and fortunately, it's equally recommendable!
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I'm excited about this one. My jazz knowledge is limited but I'm led to believe that he is one of the innovative and inspirational of them all.
I quite liked this one – I'm definitely not a jazz aficionado either, but there was something about Brilliant Corners that was right up my street!
I've never heard this, although I love me some TM dearly. I'm saving my cash for 'Geoff: No Sleep 'Til Napanee'
Haha, I may have to borrow that album title Joe!
Our big park in our town has a steel drum that kids hit with sticks (because the mallets are long gone after all these years), and a series of varying-sized metal tubes in chains that kids can pull on like harp strings. It makes a helluva racket but it mostly just sounds like chains. That swing is cool, though.
As for Brilliant Corners, I don't own it. Clearly, that's an oversight.
I'd enjoy trying to play the 'Jane Says' steel drum part at that park, even if it just sounds like chains!
Well, the steel drums and the chains are beside each other, so two people could play it, one on each instrument!
a duet, perfect!
That's what Jane says, anyway… 😉
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August 13, 2015 by beWARM.
Haven't you asked someone that question before going to a party, a wedding, or just an ordinary get-together?
Thankfully, one of the gifts of aging is that the priorities of the past hold much less importance now.
What prompted these thoughts was an upcoming family wedding, and the excitement surrounding it – and fond memories of rehearsal dinners, always such intimate, poignant family times.
To rehearse: to drill or train (an actor, musician, etc.) by rehearsal, as for some performance or part.
How does one prepare for their role in a marriage?
And when, if ever, do the rehearsals begin?
All hopes on the wedding day is that this is the start of a life marathon – two kindred souls stepping into the future with joyful expectancy.
To be sure, along with the glorious moments and remarkable achievements of any union come the obstacles, challenges and conflicts.
You can't truly appreciate the summits if you haven't spent time in the valleys.
If the perfect ensemble is paramount for a lifetime of a thriving relationship, what would the best combination be?
For starters, grace, mercy, and compassion go well together.
Designed with love, of course, and the perfect accessories of faith and hope.
All available in the ready-to-wear department.
God's fashions are always affordable – and they never go out of style.
Truth be told, over the long haul, wear and tear is inevitable.
My "daily dress" has more than a few stitches here and there, and even some areas of major patching.
But its softness and imperfections wrap me in the comfort and warmth of decades of living and loving, repairs and all.
So…what are you planning to wear these days, wherever you are in your life travels?
I hope that you will add a few God-designed elements to your wardrobe.
You will be well-dressed this weekend, I know!
I couldn't agree more! And congratulations to Emily, Doug and Vera.
We are all thrilled for them!!!!
Congratulations to you. Appreciate your humor doused in reality!
on August 15, 2015 at 8:24 am | Reply beWARM.
You've been a "well-dressed" friend – and wife and mom – since the first day I met you, Toni! You'll bring your beautiful "clothing" to your new in-law's-to-be, I know!
on August 15, 2015 at 8:25 am | Reply beWARM.
You have a beautiful wardrobe yourself, Betty!!!
So poignant! I just ordered rehearsal dinner invites the day I rec'd this.
I'm thrilled for all of you!
Thanks, Ingrid… And we look forward to celebrating with you very soon!!!
on August 22, 2015 at 9:48 pm | Reply beWARM.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful thoughts, Frannie!


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It will do so at an event in New York.
The new model of PlayStation 4, provisionally known for PlayStation 4 Neo, will be unveiled before the Tokyo Game Show, according to the French half Gameblog, who says by own sources that the announcement will be held on September 7 in New York.
Sony and bet on an own event similar to the PlayStation Meeting 2013 also held in New York, where PlayStation was presented 4. Gameblog not disclose any further details about the games could be shown running on this version of the console, and does not talk about rumors power that have leaked in Sony documents alleged.
Filed but not confirmed
Sony has officially confirmed this review, after many rumors, but has not been presented at the E3 or Gamescom will, where Sony does not hold conference.
The games released this fall should already be compatible with Neo, that is, take advantage of new features, although the departure of the console is still uncertain. It will improve when it detects screen resolution 4K, and the frame rate is equal or greater than the original model. It could also improve other aspects of visual quality.
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Katy Perry weight gain was not so obvious for people on big screen. Yes, she seemed to have put on a couple of pounds on her, but that did not bother anyone except her boyfriend. And he decided to leave her that left Katy Perry devastated and sad about the way that her body has changed. So she decided to do something about it and fix the situation that she was in.
Katy Perry weight gain did not stay with her for a long time. She began to keep to a strict diet and now shares her experience with everyone how to get your body lines perfect. She states that it is the most important thing to keep to a strict diet plan and to work out in order to achieve your goals. Her diet consists of small portions and eating 5-6 times a day. But the products that she chooses to eat have to be organic, like vegetables, fruit and also mushrooms. In order to have more energy she drinks soy milk or organic juice and has an early dinner in order for Katy Perry weight gain not to happen again in her life.
Although Katy hates to work out as most of the people do, she understands that it is crucial in order to have your health and to maintain your body shapes. Even though she feels like preparing for the Olympics, she does not stop and do her workout by heart. Thus, she can always choose to do what she likes best, like jumping through the rope or doing active moving by music for 25 minutes in order to burn more calories. After these she also does weight lifting in order to strengthen her upper and lower body parts. Katy Perry weight gain does not seem to be happening soon enough if she keeps up the good work.
Katy Perry states herself that being a celebrity costs so much work in order to keep your body beautiful and she shares her ideas what people should do if they really want to lose weight. She suggest to change their unhealthy meals in organic food and to have snacks that are healthy, she states that you can always find something good to eat. Katy Perry weight gain encouraged her to do drastic changes in her life and to keep up to her expectations and it seems that she will not gain anything if she continues to live like this.
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Q: Get elements of a query-set with a jquery get function. Django In my django app I would like to display a text when a user clicks on a button, without refreshing the page. When the user clicks again, I would like an other text to be displayed, still without refreshing the page.
The informations (texts) I wan't to display are in a query set, named "information".
So I would like to know how to accomplish that.
Here is the way I try to do it:
I create a view where I store my query set:
    def get_information (request):
         information= Information.objects.filter(object1__id= X)

Then I  create a jquery get function (in the template of the page where the user clicks) in order to get informations on this list:
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And then I render it in my template with a submit button and a onclick="get_info".
But I don't know how to make the request get a different information at each request, in order that the user does not get the same information twice.
Thank you a lot for your help.

A: Take a look in to Django Pagination. You could create the Paginator object in your view and then you can display message from the queryset based on the request from the client side. Let me know in case of any issues.

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In 1952 the Pioneer Board began discussions on ways to honour dedicated members of the Pioneers on an annual basis. In 1953, the first "Pioneer of the Year" dinner was hosted. Each year since a selection committee of past recipients selects not only a new "Pioneer of the Year" but also has authority to present others with Pioneer awards when it seems appropriate.
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This week on the podcast, Michael, Red, Mike and Scott meet in the Nostromo lounge and discuss Jim Jarmusch's poetic new film PATERSON starring Adam Driver as a bus driver named Paterson in the city of Paterson, the disappointing THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS does very little to advance the extremely well-worn zombie genre for us, the excellent FRAGGLE ROCK is being remastered in HD for HBO and a whole new generation will experience the joy of meeting the Fraggles, Gorgs, and Doozers, Rockstar Games offers up a tease to a possible RED DEAD REDEMPTION sequel and the internet erupts into a dusty western tizzy, Mike slowly walks towards IT FOLLOWS only to discover an overrated and pretty forgettable horror flick, and much, much more before our featured review of THE ACCOUNTANT from director Gavin O'Connor.
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The Body Specific Program is a high intensity workout program where customers will work with a personal trainer towards their fitness goals. During the first session an individual program will be set up and the progress will be measured throughout the course. Customers will also get nutritional advice.
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TEHRAN: Iran's judiciary said Thursday a senior official has ordered an inquiry into allegations denied by the authorities of rape and sexual assault of inmates in the country's jails.
International media reports last month alleged widespread sexual assaults of Iranians arrested during nationwide protests sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini.
"Vice president of the judicial authority for international affairs and secretary of the High Council for Human Rights, Kazem Gharibabdi, has asked the country's prosecutor general to carry out a thorough investigation into the allegations of sexual assault and rape of some inmates", the judiciary's Mizan Online news website reported.
On Wednesday, judiciary spokesman Massoud Setayeshi denounced the "false libellous assertion" of "sexual harassment against female detainees", which he said has been amplified by "some media outlets hostile" to the republic.
On December 8, Iran's prison service denied women were sexually assaulted inside its jails and threatened to file charges against those making such allegations.
"Given the very negative effect of these claims, please carefully study and address these accusations, whether raised inside the country or outside of it," Gharibabdi wrote in a letter to prosecutor general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri quoted by Mizan.
"Before anything else, proof must be sought from the people expressing these claims," he said, calling on Montazeri to bring to justice "the perpetrators or those making such allegations, depending on the result of the investigation".
Iran has been gripped by unrest since the September 16 death of Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, following her arrest for allegedly violating the country's strict dress code for women.
Iranian officials generally describe the protests as "riots" and say hundreds of people have been killed in, including members of the security forces, and thousands arrested. (Int'l Monitoring Desk)
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'Columbo' star Peter Falk once owned this Malibu estate
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By Lauren Beale
A Malibu compound owned by the late actor Peter Falk and his second wife, actress Shera Danese, has sold for $3.18 million.
Built in 1992, the Mediterranean-style house sits on an acre of property with ocean views. The nearly 4,300 square feet of living space includes a dining room with a fireplace, an eat-in kitchen, four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Sliding doors off the living room, which also has a fireplace, open to a terrace.
The courtyard features a waterfall and a barbecue. There's a detached garage with a bonus room and a large motor court.
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Peter Falk, who died in 2011 at 83, was known for his Emmy Award-winning role as a homicide detective in the series "Columbo." The show aired on NBC from 1968-78 and was revived by ABC from 1989-2003. His scores of other acting credits include the films "Murder by Death" (1976), "The Princess Bride" (1987) and "Wings of Desire" (1987).
The couple bought the property through a trust in 2000 for $1.587 million. They met on the set of the film "Mikey and Nicky" and she appeared in six "Columbo" episodes.
Jade Mills and Tiffany Mills of Coldwell Banker were the listing agents. Stacey Boucher of Keller Williams Realty represented the buyer.
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For those seeking the most value out of a laptop, the ThinkPad Edge 15 by Lenovo is definitely worth checking out. It is affordable and user friendly, suitable as a small business laptop. Right out the box, the ThinkPad Edge 15 gives of the impression of a rather conservative build. It is very thick and boxy. However, its black matte surface is pretty fingerprint resistant. With 5.5 pounds (2.49 kg), the Edge 15 is not the heaviest laptop in the market, but it is probably more suitable for use at the office desk than on the go.
The Lenovo Edge 15 is a laptop with an identity crisis—it's sold as the Flex 2 Pro 15-Inch in non-U.S. markets—but it still has plenty of the same features we love in the Flex line, like a touch screen, now with 1080p resolution and a sizable 1TB hard drive. The Lenovo Flex 2 (15-inch) is still the stronger choice, with better overall performance and battery life, but if you want something with the same 300-degree hinge, the Edge 15 is a decent alternative, and definitely a smart choice if found at a discount.
Lenovo's new Edge 15 is an extremely thin and lightweight 15-inch laptop with a 300-degree flexible display hinge. This "dual-mode" laptop lets you turn the laptop into a kiosk-like stand. Overall the laptop has excellent performance and a great design.
The original price that Lenovo lists on its website is absurdly high but the hardware is sublime.
The look and feel of the ThinkPad Edge 15 inch is superb, and the performance of the Core i5 hardware delivers the goods. The only weak part of the specification is the Intel graphics core, which will be a downer for gamers but the rest of us won't care. And using Intel graphics helps to extend the battery life to a credible 114 minutes of continuous use. Our single biggest problem with the ThinkPad Edge is that it is rather expensive, despite its claim to be a budget laptop.
We've put only two competing notebook CPUs head-to-head, but the simple comparison tells us an obvious truth; in the mobile space, AMD continues to play second fiddle to Intel. The 2010 Danube platform has its merits - performance is more than decent across the board - but Intel's Arrandale is a step ahead on all accounts.
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We were a little disappointed by the ThinkPad Edge's smallish hard disk and poor-quality screen and it's missing some of the features many have come to expect from a ThinkPad. However, it does have good battery life, fast performance and a comfortable keyboard all at a surprisingly low price. It's not without its flaws, but it is a good value laptop.
The Core i5 processor upgrade for the ThinkPad Edge 15 reaps rewards in general performance as well as graphics capability. Visually and in its overall design, the Edge is a stand-out business laptop.
The ThinkPad range is long established as being among the best laptops for be-suited business types in need of reliable mobile computing. Naturally, this has also solidified its status as being among the dullest. The ThinkPad Edge 15 is designed for serious business folks that want to appear trendy. We're not convinced though. Call us cynical, but its fancy lid (available in red or a choice of matte or glossy black) give it an air of mutton dressed as lamb.
With the Edge, it seems Lenovo has attempted to find a gap between the popular IdeaPad and ThinkPad product lines. Unfortunately, it seems that gap doesn't exist - and if it does, the ThinkPad Edge hasn't quite managed to find it. If you're in the market for a thin-and-light, you're likely to head for an IdeaPad, whilst business users wanting no-frills stability will opt for the ThinkPad.
The Edge series has brought a lot of changes to the ThinkPad name. Most prominently, the glossy painted lid and Chiclet keyboard. With the smaller Edge 13 and Edge 14, build quality wasn't a huge problem; we only had a few minor concerns like screen protection and hinge quality. The Edge 15, with its larger size, seemed to hit the breaking point where the lack of an internal framework created considerable chassis flex around the palmrest and keyboard areas. The Edge 13 had panels that felt as hard as rock with absolutely no keyboard flex, which obviously didn't carry over as the size was increased past a certain point. In the end, our only recommendation would be to steer toward the smaller Edge 13 or 14 if you like the design or look at higher ThinkPad models if you need a 15-inch screen.
The ThinkPad Edge is definitely another great offering from Lenovo, especially for people looking for a great mix of business and consumer features. As far as the business aspect goes you do get the ThinkVantage software suite that has a lot of very cool business features many people will like, especially the Active Protection System, which makes sure your hard drive does not get damaged if you happen to drop your laptop. For normal consumers the new red color on the ThinkPad Edge will definitely catch their attention. I don't know that many other laptops that come in red!
The 15-inch Edge is similar to other business oriented, affordable computers available on the market, but it is a solid brand that is available at a reasonable price. Coupled with Windows 7, the 15-inch Edge will meet the needs of not only business professionals, but people seeking a reliable notebook. The ThinkPad series is a respected, powerful line of notebooks with a strong reputation of being quality products. Below are a few pros and cons I discovered while using the 15-inch Edge.
The Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 15 offers a good choice of features and arguably the best keyboard and pointing device you can get in a sub-$1,000 business notebook. It's a good blend of style and substance in a reasonably priced package.
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Lulu's clean lines and crisp finish complement virtually every style of decor. Whether their new favorite color is pink, purple or blue, this bedroom furniture will be a mainstay. Enjoy the flexibility of this set as the two beds can be assembled either as a bunk bed or as two twin beds. Includes mattresses and pillows.
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Bor Airport (Serbian Аеродром Бор, Serbian Latin alphabet: Aerodrom Bor) is an airport near the town of Bor, Serbia and 13 KM far from town Zaječar, Serbia.
The Airport was built during 1984/1986. Basically it is a civil airport for sports, and it is planned to be used for tourists. This airport can handle light and light commercial (business) planes. Initially it was built with 800 m of runway, but it was subsequently extended and now has over 1.000 m of concrete runway, 30 meters wide. It remains the best small civil airport in Serbia. There is a hangar, a control tower, a saloon and accommodation for crew. The airport was operated by Aero klub Bor (Bor Aero Club) and Bor Sports Center. Sections of the Aero club include skydiving, parachuting, and training for pilots. The club used to have one airplane Utva 75and a few parachutists. The airplane crashed at Paracin airport in 1988. and was repaired, but it had another accident Bor airport in 1990. Later it was sent for maintenance to the factory in Pancevo, and later based in Batajnica.
In 1992. in short period of time the airport was base for eskadrila of J-21 from Skopje airport. Two An-26s were stationed in 1999. during NATO intervention on Serbia from Niš airport. In 2011. new Aero klub Bor was founded, and there is now an effort for to build a general aviation maintenance center and obtain light airplane for training and parachuting.
Belgrade Nikola Tesla Airport is creating a regional airport network in Serbia. Bor airport has been reconstructed and is now able to accept passenger aircraft. Bor Airport has a good runway, modern control tower and hangars. Belgrade Airport would transport some equipment from Terminal 1 from Belgrade.
The Airport is near the mountain resort Crni Vrh (Black Peak, 1043 meters high) with an unfinished large complex Ski resort Crni Vrhon the peak of the mountain. Bor seeks for investors to continue with the construction. The Hotel at the Lake of Bor is in restoration.
Since 2012 Bor Airport is permitted for movements of light/medium aircraft, recreational and training flights. On 19 March 2012 the first aeroplane, a Cessna 172 landed at the airport. This is the first aeroplane after a 15 year hiatus. Bor plans to improve their facilities, especially on approach lights for night operation.


Published by Adam Williams on 31 August 2017.
Fraudsters are doing their best to separate you from your money. Here, we look at the best ways to protect yourself and ask whether banks should be working harder to keep customers safe.
It is something we hope we will never fall victim to. Yet the number of fraud cases in the UK is rising.
Data published by independent fraud prevention service Cifas (formerly known as the Credit Industry Fraud Avoidance System) shows there were around 325,000 cases of fraud reported in 2016 – 90,000 more cases than it received in 2011.
From identity fraud to card cloning, these frauds can take many forms and are becoming increasingly complex.
Anyone can become a victim of fraud, and sometimes the perpetrators are not easy to spot. This was demonstrated in the recent BBC One drama Trust Me, in which a nurse commits identity fraud to get a job as a doctor.
In the programme, Cath Hardacre, played by Jodie Whittaker (pictured above), uses a friend's legitimate CV to steal her identity and get work at a struggling hospital. While the story in Trust Me is fictional, the risk of identity fraud is very real.
It is often assumed that older or vulnerable people are the only people who become fraud victims. Yet younger people are also showing great naivety by openly publishing their personal data online.
The firm says in some cases people have shared their full name, phone number and home address on social media. These people have left themselves particularly vulnerable.
Most cases of fraud involve a bank in some way. Scammers may pretend to be from a financial provider or they may simply use a bank account to house their ill-gotten gains. But do banks take customer tip-offs seriously enough?
Moneywise has been contacted by many fraud victims who felt let down with the response given to them by financial institutions.
Marcus Richardson* became a victim of fraud when he used an online auction website to buy a car for his son. He was told the car was in good order and ready to be shipped from its current location.
Mr Richardson even confirmed his order over the phone with 'a member of staff'. However, a few hours after he transferred £5,000 to the company's bank account he realised he had been the victim of fraud and the car did not exist.
He contacted his own bank, the Co-operative Bank, the following day and it was able to recover the £5,000 after six weeks. He also phoned HSBC – the bank that held the fraudsters' account – but was angry with the response he received.
Other Moneywise readers have been critical of the ways banks have handled their reports of fraud.
Lloyd Jones, 75, is retired and lives in Bala, North Wales. He realised he was a victim of fraud when he checked his HSBC bank statement and saw payments for travel bookings, which he had not made.
He tried to phone his bank immediately, but it was the weekend and he was told the fraud investigation department was closed until the following Monday. This caused him considerable stress and he believes the bank should have acted sooner.
When he finally spoke to the fraud department, he was disappointed that HSBC would not confirm how the fraud had taken place. So he was unable to take steps to protect himself from future attempts.
"I was told it was in the hands of the fraud department and I could not get any confirmation about what happened," he says.
report the attempted fraud to Halifax but was left frustrated by its response.
"When I received the messages, I rang Halifax on its customer service number," he says. "What annoyed me was that as soon as I admitted that I was not a Halifax account holder, the person I spoke to lost interest and advised me to ring the Halifax fraud number.
Dr O'Neill was unable to get through to a real person in the fraud team, meaning this fraudulent activity went unreported.
Are these cases one-off incidents or are they symptomatic of the banking industry's lax attitude to fraud?
In many instances, customers have attempted to highlight cases of fraud, yet the response from banks has been inadequate.
Julian Dixon, chief executive of transaction monitoring and anti-money laundering specialist Fortytwo Data, says banks must do more to investigate these first-hand customer complaints.
"It is vital that every bank takes complaints of fraud seriously because even relatively small offences can be the work of organised crime gangs whose agents then need to launder the proceeds," he says.
Specialist fraud investigator Richard Emery of 4Keys International believes that banks need to devote more resources to fraud prevention.
UK Finance – the trade body representing banks – says the industry is working hard to reduce fraud and points to the recent Take Five anti-fraud initiative as an example of cross-industry collaboration.
However, Mr Emery thinks banks simply do not have enough checks in place to protect their customers.
He wants the introduction of a 24-hour cooling-off period when a customer tries to make a large transfer to a new payee. This would give the bank enough time to properly check the recipient is legitimate.
"Today the speed of a payment is instant, and fraudsters can simply transfer the cash across multiple banks and accounts," he says.
Using data published by Action Fraud, Moneywise has compiled three of the most common scams in the UK and explains how to stay safe.
This occurs when a fraudster acquires information about an individual – including name, date of birth and address – often so they can make financial transactions on their behalf.
Cifas says it recorded 172,919 identity frauds in 2016, representing more than half of all fraud cases.
Moneywise reader Linda Libetta, 57, (left) became the victim of identity fraud when her house in north London was burgled.
As well as stealing some valuables, the criminals also stole her passport and bank statements.
But it wasn't until two years later that Linda, a commercial manager, realised they'd stolen her identity, when she received a call from the police informing her that criminals had attempted to commit fraud and buy a house under her name.
HOW TO STAY SAFE: Shred any letters and documents that contain personal information. When online, make sure you use strong passwords, avoid using unsecured wi-fi networks and install antivirus software on your devices.
This fraud occurs when a replica of your credit or debit card is created without your knowledge. Criminals can do this by tampering with a cash machine so that they can record your details and clone your card.
HOW TO STAY SAFE: Take a moment to double-check the machine. If the card slot looks loose, then it may have been tampered with.
Consider using a cash machine inside a bank branch as it is more difficult for scammers to access, and always cover the keypad when inputting your PIN.
Here, fraudsters try to get their hands on your cash by asking for an upfront fee to facilitate a payment or bank transfer. This could be a fake letter, email or text message and often looks as if it has come from your bank.
Other criminals claim to be from HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and offer the recipient a tax rebate if they pay a fee.
But it is not only names of financial institutions and government bodies that are used by fraudsters. With the World Cup 2018 on the horizon, Moneywise has been contacted by readers who received letters claiming they have won the 'International FIFA World Cup Online Lottery'. These letters claim the recipient has won a £500,000 prize in a lottery designed to promote the football tournament. The fraudsters then ask for an upfront fee to process the prize payment.
Readers Malcolm Baron, Wayne Hindle and Nick Wilby all alerted Moneywise to this advance fee fraud. Mr Wilby says: "An elderly lady, aged 93, whom I take shopping received one of these. Fortunately, she asked me to check it out. She is very angry about being a target of a scam." FIFA says recipients of the letter should contact their local trading standards.
A spokesperson for FIFA says: "FIFA confirms that the lottery has no connection whatsoever with, or authorisation from, FIFA and should be considered a scam.".
HOW TO STAY SAFE: Remember that HMRC will never use a text or email to inform you of a tax rebate or penalty. FIFA advises fans not to respond or provide any personal information to the contacts listed in emails or letters.
If you get a message and you're unsure if it's from your bank, always look up the bank's contact details separately – never ring a number or reply to an email if you're not certain it's legitimate.
• Report any stolen or copied documents – including bank statements, credit and debit cards, driving licences, invoices and passports – to the relevant organisation. Banks will be able to put a hold on your accounts to make sure no further money is taken and should use this information to prevent other people from being scammed.
• In most cases, the bank will report the fraud to the police, but you can also do this yourself by contacting the non-emergency department of your local police force.
• If you believe you have been a victim of cash machine fraud, alert your bank or card provider immediately. Your bank is then responsible for reporting the fraud to the police.
Banks have taken steps to stop fraud, and in some cases Moneywise heard – such as the Co-operative Bank and Mr Richardson case detailed on pages 30 and 31 – they have acted speedily to help victims.
But while cross-industry collaboration should be welcomed, there is always more banks can do to take the threat seriously, and the regulator must act if they fail to do so.
For consumers, it is important to remain vigilant in the fight against fraud. Keep a watchful eye for any suspicious payments and always report these to your bank.
Surely the bank has the prime responsibility for redress (after the fraudster themselves) as it is they that have opened up a bank account without undertaking the necessary identity checks ?
I would sue them personally if this happened to me?
On July 5th, I received a secure message in response to a complaint I had made to Nationwide through online banking. I was alarmed to see that it was addressed to a Mr Molnar. I immediately sent back a message commenting on this and asking who Mr Molnar was; I was concerned that he might have my name and account details. To my astonishment, I received an apology addressed to ... Mr Molnar! By this time I was seriously concerned and although I'd logged off, I decided to login again. This time my current account had completely disappeared from the screen even though my credit card account was entirely visible. By now I was distressed and suspicious; I had over £10000 in the account. I immediately phoned the bank to transfer the money out only to find out that it couldn't be done over the phone, only through a branch but I was at my holiday home in Spain.
Shortly after my phone call, my account miraculously re-appeared but the bank is unable to give any explanation except to say that it's 'coincidence'. I suspect that my account was tampered with by someone within the bank but Nationwide denies this. However, they really don't know and don't seem very interested in finding out.
Your way or the highway.
Fraud may not be confined to outside agencies. Many years ago £25000 disappeared from an offshore account of mine on a Friday and mysteriously reappeared on the following Monday.
Isn't it. about time companies took more care with peoples personal details especially as we are all being forced to move online. Ordering an item or making enquiries doesn't give them a right to hold onto your information or if they are they should be as liable for all fraud make against you.
I found your article of fraud very interesting. I currently do my online banking with "First Direct" . They supplied a key pad, which I have to use every time I logon. It generates a new code every time. If I accidentally enter a wrong digit, I am asked to start again.
Personally, I find this method very reassuring, but non of the other banks seem to have followed suit.
I got fraudulent copy of a bank remittance that never occurred, issued by the Texas Trust Bank. My attempt to report it was ignored al the way. The fraud used their bank logo, even falsified a clerk's signature to betray me. I sent the file to the FBI 5 weeks ago, no response! Either banks don't care at all (its not their money after all), or there are too many internet fraud cases.


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Younis relieved with victory by CricketArchive Staff Reporter
Player: Younis Khan, Umar Akmal, Iftikhar Anjum
Event: Pakistan in Sri Lanka 2009
DateLine: 8th August 2009
Pakistan skipper Younis Khan said he was pleased his side finally played to potential and ended up with a solid performance in the one-day victory over Sri Lanka in Colombo.
Though the series is already lost, Younis was still looking to his batsmen to come good after a series of collapses in both the Test and one-dayers.
Though not many in the team did well but he himself (89) alongside brothers Umar (102 not out) and Kamran Akmal (57) made sure the side reaches 321 for five in their 50 overs, a total that proved way beyond the Sri Lankans.
"It's quite a relief," he said. "We've always been talking about building partnerships and accumulating runs and today we clicked.
"We did lose a couple of quick wickets, but Umar and I hung in there and got the runs. It wasn't easy because it was hot and humid.
"Umar was fantastic today and its always pleasing to see a young player moving up the ranks.
"In maybe two or three years several players in this team are not going to be around and it's always pleasing to know when you move on that you've left Pakistan cricket in good hands."
Younis also praised the the standard of his side's bowling and fielding saying it was much better than in previous matches.
"Iftikhar was fantastic today. He bowled the right line and the right length," he added. "At one stage they were going along nicely, but our bowlers responded very well.
"Naved's catch in the deep to dismiss Chamara Kapugedera was brilliant.
"The batting was good up front and I'm particularly pleased with the standard of our fielding.
"Overall, it was a fantastic team effort and great commitment."


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Car Manufacturer News
Flat year forecast as sales bust 2m mark
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A positive December new car market finished off the 2012 sales drive which saw an extra 103,356 registrations of new cars over the 2011 total.
The 2,044,609 total industry volume for 2012, the strongest result in four years, and the 5.3% increase year-on-year, the fastest growth since 2001, were due to strong consumer demand, reported the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Private registrations were up 12.9%, and accounted for 45.5% of the market.
In contrast with the private market, fleet demand remained flat and orders from SME businesses declined.
SMMT chief executive Paul Everitt said the industry had produced its best result since the recession struck.
However, his organisation warned that the UK market is still almost 15% below the pre-recession years, and it sees more challenges ahead in 2013.
Everitt added: "Boosted by strong consumer demand, the market grew at its fastest rate for 11 years with innovative, fuel-efficient cars keeping buyers in showrooms.
"Looking ahead to 2013, we anticipate the market will hold firm, with manufacturers and dealers working hard to deliver quality and value to motorists."
Regular replacement cycles, including customers on personal contract plans or leases, and strong offers and incentives are thought to have contributed to 2012's upturn.
The SMMT also suggests some buyers may have shifted from being used car customers to buying new thanks to the competitive deals available. Demand was strongest for city cars and superminis, although SUVs also grew strongly.
Sue Robinson, director of the RMI National Franchised Dealers Association, said the overall market for 2012 showed "encouraging progress" although consumer confidence is still fragile.
"It indicated that competitive offers by manufacturers will persuade retail buyers into the showrooms.
Looking into 2013, consumers will still need
strong encouragement to commit to big ticket purchases such as cars," she added.
Her view was echoed by Richard Lowe, head of retail and wholesale at Barclays, who said: "The real question is whether this demand will hold. Consumer pockets will con-tinue to be squeezed, and with pre-
registration figures increasingly accounting for a larger percentage of the market, both manufacturers and dealers will have to be careful that supply does not outstrip demand."
Examining individual brands' performance through 2012 suggests a product push has helped many during the year.
The highest percentage growth was recorded by the market share minnows of SsangYong (up 351%), Chrysler (up 182%), MG (up 117.2%) and Infiniti (up 38.7%).
However, key new cars such as Evoque, 911 and Cee'd helped to ensure a skywards trajectory for the established brands Land Rover (up 29.2%), Porsche (up 25.3%) and Kia (up 24.3%).
All three moved up a position or two in the chart of the 44 individual brands which report their registrations to the SMMT.
Several other car brands reported best ever registration volumes.
Hyundai's 18.1% growth to 74,285 units put it into the top 10 carmakers by volume, the first time any Korean brand has done so. Its climb knocked down Citroën, which had nevertheless outperformed the overall market with a 7.58% increase to 73,656 units.
Hyundai UK president and chief executive Tony Whitehorn said 2012 was an exceptional year, but 2013 will see the brand stabilise.
"Since 2008, Hyundai has more than 250,000 more cars on the road and has seen sales nearly triple in just four years.
We have risen from 21st in the UK car market to breaking through at number 10 – that is a tremendous achievement and a testament to the hard work of our employees and the dealer network."
Nissan's 105,835 new car registrations was also its highest ever.
Nissan's managing director Jim Wright said the success was due to a combination of the hard work of Nissan GB's dealer and head office teams, the desirability of Nissan's core Qashqai and Juke crossovers, strong finance offers and improved consumer perception of the
Nissan brand.
Skoda continued to break its own records as its range expanded, achieving a 19% uplift to 53,602 registrations and its highest ever UK market share. Its new Citigo, which has put Skoda into the A-segment for the first time, contributed more than 4,000 units to the total.
However the C-segment Octavia and B-segment Fabia continue to be its best-sellers.
Skoda UK director Alasdair Stewart said: "With the arrival of the new third-generation Skoda Octavia just around the corner, we're confident that 2013 will bring even greater success."
The competitiveness of the 2012 market meant there were some brands that suffered, particularly those which lacked the financial clout to fight Europe's big spenders.
Renault effected its business reorganisation, with a rationalisation of product range and retail network, and saw volumes drop 40%.
Managing director Thierry Sybord said that phase has gone to plan, and now Renault UK will begin rebuilding in 2013 with the arrival of new Clio and introduction of its Dacia value brand.
Alfa Romeo and Maserati also declined, leading Fiat Group to prepare a repositioning of its sporty and prestige brands as it desperately wants to be regarded as competition to the German establishment.
Mazda, Mitsubishi and Subaru couldn't keep up, being focused on their small marketplaces.
And questions were asked about the viability of UK operations for Proton and Lotus – both went backwards fast, and worryingly were outsold even by Saab, despite the Swedish carmaker's demise in late 2011.
The 12th month
December's monthly market continued the unbroken trend of registration growth which started in March, resulting in a 3.7% uplift, or 4,369 more cars than December 2011.
Ford, having excelled at running out the Fiesta ahead of its facelift, turned off the tap a little and let Vauxhall take the lead by 616 units.
BMW shifted the third highest volume of the month, its 10,175 units a 35% rise year-on-year and in contrast to its premium segment rival Audi, whose volume shrank by 24.2% to 4,786 registrations.
Mercedes-Benz also finished a record year with a 9.3% rise in December registrations, and Jaguar rose by 29.6%.
The month's stragglers included Proton, with only one registration, and Alfa Romeo, Jeep, Lexus, Mazda and Chevrolet.
Author: Tim Rose Tim Rose
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Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super review: The Radeon RX 580 is finally dead
The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super is the best budget graphics card you can buy for 1080p gaming, and the custom Asus ROG Strix model is loaded with extras for a mere $10 premium.
PCWorld Nov 26, 2019 3:45 am PST
Great 1080p performance at a great price
Vastly cooler, quiet, and more power-efficient than Radeon GPUs
Loaded with extra features
Terrific ROG Strix model for just $10 price premium
Includes latest Turing NVENC encoder
Fast GDDR6 VRAM
Doesn't move performance much past aging Radeon RX 580
2.4-slot Strix design is slightly thick
Nvidia's GeForce GTX 1650 Super is the best budget graphics card you can buy for 1080p gaming, and the custom Asus ROG Strix model is loaded with extras for a mere $10 premium.
Nvidia's $160 GeForce GTX 1650 Super had a super bizarre launch.
Its still-available predecessor, the $150 GTX 1650, skipped the vastly improved Turing NVENC video encoder and got pummeled in performance by AMD's Radeon RX 570, a much cheaper GPU, all to let the card fit into the motherboards with no extra power cabling required. With AMD's next-gen Radeon RX 5500 series looming, Nvidia revealed the drastically turbocharged GTX 1650 Super—but then failed to inform press of pricing or provide drivers for launch day reviews. Those are both extremely unusual moves, ones mirrored in recent history only by Nvidia's attempt to bury reviews of the original lackluster GTX 1650. Because of that, we went so far as to recommend avoiding the new card until reviews surfaced.
Even weirder? The GeForce GTX 1650 Super kicks ass. Nvidia's latest graphics card doesn't drastically redefine the sub-$200 market, but for the first time in years, AMD's aging Polaris-based GPUs are no longer the budget gaming champions. The Radeon RX 580 is finally dead.
Let's dig into the $170 Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super.
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Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super specs, features, and price
Nvidia completely overhauled the Super-fied version of the GTX 1650. It's got a new GPU, a new video encoder, and even blazing-fast new GDDR6 memory. Rather than reinvent the wheel, here's what we said when Nvidia first revealed the GTX 1650 Super alongside the GeForce GTX 1660 Super about a month ago:
"While the original GTX 1650 uses Nvidia's smallest TU117 GPU, the new GTX 1650 Super uses a cut-down version of the larger TU116 GPU found in the GTX 1660 series. It should be significantly more powerful, with 1,280 CUDA cores (compared to the original's 896), higher clock speeds, the aforementioned 4GB of upgraded GDDR6 memory over a 192-bit connection, and well, just more everything.
It also includes Nvidia's newer and much more efficient "Turing" Encoder, after the company received criticism over saddling the original GTX 1650 with its last-gen encoder. "Turing NVENC is up to 15 percent more efficient—requiring 15 percent less bitrate at the same quality level—than previous-generation Pascal NVENC when encoding with H.264, and 25 percent for HEVC," Nvidia's reviewer's guide says. "In other words, you get an instant upgrade in image quality without having to bump up your streaming rate." EposVox, an excellent source for streaming reviews and information, tested Turing NVENC in RTX GPUs and called it "beyond impressive."
The GeForce GTX 1650 Super's reference specs.
This is a substantial overhaul, in other words. Merely swapping out the original GeForce GTX 1660's slower GDDR5 memory for cutting-edge GDDR6 was enough to give it a solid performance boost, so pairing that with a significant GPU upgrade should help propel the GTX 1650 Super far beyond the vanilla GTX 1650—and it does, as you'll see in our benchmark testing later.
Packing so much more potency into the new-look Super also negates the biggest selling point for the vanilla GTX 1650: The ability to run without any extra power cables. While baseline models of the original 75-watt GeForce GTX 1650 can draw their power from your PC's motherboard alone, making them ideal for turning office machines into easy-peasy gaming rigs, the 100W GTX 1650 Super demands a supplemental six-pin power connector. Most existing gaming rigs and standalone power supplies should easily meet that need, however, and the $150 non-Super GTX 1650 is still sticking around for people who can't manage the extra power connection. (Given how much more powerful the GTX 1650 Super is for just $10 more, we're hoping the original gets a price cut soon.)
As with the GTX 16-series graphics cards, Nvidia isn't releasing a Founders Edition model, leaving the market to add-in board partners like Asus, EVGA, Gigabyte, and so forth. We're reviewing the $170 Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super. Even with a mere $10 premium, it's the crown jewel of Asus's GTX 1650 Super lineup, which also includes the $165 GeForce GTX 1650 Super Phoenix Fan Edition and $160 Asus TUF GTX 1650 Super.
The Asus ROG Strix GTX 1650 Super's specifications.
Asus cranked up the ROG Strix's clock speeds. While the reference GTX 1650 Super specifications top out at a 1,725MHz boost clock, the ROG Strix's default Gaming BIOS hits 1,785MHz. If you install the company's GPU Tweak II software, activating OC Mode bumps that all the way up to 1,815MHz. Alternatively, a secondary Quiet BIOS accessible via a physical switch on the card reduces clock speeds by a small amount to decrease fan noise. The faster Gaming profile is damned quiet already, though, so we only recommend the Quiet BIOS option if you're interested in silent desktop usage.
The Asus ROG Strix GTX 1650 Super's dual-BIOS switch.
A visual breakdown of the Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super's physical design.
The card's outfitted with the premium design common to the Strix series despite its budget price. Asus built the card with its "Super Alloy Power II" premium components, its superb Direct CU II heatsink with copper heatpipes that come into direct contact with the GPU, and long-bladed dual axial fans. Those fans include 0db technology that keeps them idle until you fire up a strenuous graphics workload and temperatures exceed 55 degrees Celsius, though you'll need to flip over to the Quiet BIOS to activate 0db. It's utterly silent during normal desktop usage and incredibly quiet even under load. An attractive metal backplate, a six-pin power connector, and two each of HDMI and DisplayPorts complete the physical package.
The affordable $170 graphics card even includes several fancy extras. The ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super includes a Fan Connect II header that lets the GPU's temperature control one of your case fans for more responsive cooling, while RGB lighting accents can be managed via the company's Aura Sync software. If you're rocking an Asus motherboard, too, you can synchronize their RGB elements. Finally, the company's optional GPU Tweak II software provides real-time performance monitoring, thermal controls, and overclocking capabilities, including the one-button OC Mode activation mentioned previously.
It's a hell of a package for just $170. But how does the Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super game? Let's take it to the test bench.
Our dedicated graphics card test system is packed with some of the fastest complementary components available to put any potential performance bottlenecks squarely on the GPU. Most of the hardware was provided by the manufacturers, but we purchased the cooler and storage ourselves.
Intel Core i7-8700K processor ($350 on Amazon)
EVGA CLC 240 closed-loop liquid cooler ($120 on Amazon)
Asus Maximus X Hero motherboard ($395 on Amazon)
64GB HyperX Predator RGB DDR4/2933 ($420 on Amazon)
EVGA 1200W SuperNova P2 power supply ($230 on Amazon)
Corsair Crystal 570X RGB case, with front and top panels removed and an extra rear fan installed for improved airflow ($130 on Amazon)
2x 500GB Samsung 860 EVO SSDs ($78 each on Amazon)
We're comparing the $170 Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super against its step-up sibling, the GTX 1660, which can be found for around $200 on the street after an unofficial price cut in the wake of the GTX 1660 Super's launch. We never received an original GTX 1650 for review, so you won't find it included here. It's more interesting to see how the GTX 1650 Super handles versus AMD's aging, but value-packed "Polaris" GPU lineup, which can be found at great prices on the street: The $130ish 4GB Radeon RX 570, $180ish Radeon RX 580, and $200ish Radeon RX 590.
Each game is tested using its in-game benchmark at the highest possible graphics presets, with VSync, frame rate caps, and all GPU vendor-specific technologies—like AMD TressFX, Nvidia GameWorks options, and FreeSync/G-Sync—disabled, and temporal anti-aliasing (TAA) enabled to push these cards to their limits. If anything differs from that, we'll mention it. We run each benchmark at least three times and list the average result for each test. We're including 1440p results as well, but really, the GTX 1650 Super is built for 1080p gaming.
We tested the Asus ROG Strix GTX 1650 Super using its default Gaming BIOS, clocked at 1,785MHz, rather than its secondary Quiet BIOS or the optional OC Mode that requires installing the company's GPU Tweak II software.
The Division 2 is one of the best looter-shooters ever created. The luscious visuals generated by Ubisoft's Snowdrop engine make it even easier to get lost in post-apocalyptic Washington, D.C. The built-in benchmark cycles through four "zones" to test an array of environments, and we test with the DirectX 12 renderer enabled. It provides better performance across-the-board than the DX11 renderer, but requires Windows 10.
Interesting tidbit: The Radeon RX 570 could barely run the Division 2 benchmark, constantly crashing at 1440p resolution. We suspect it's because of the increased memory demands of DirectX 12, paired with the GPU's slower 4GB of GDDR5 memory. The GTX 1650 Super's GDDR6 memory, on the other hand, blew through the benchmark.
Nvidia's new $160 card performs more on a par with the $180 Radeon RX 580 than the $130 RX 570, and slightly slower than the $200 Radeon RX 590, a result you'll see throughout these tests, except with Strange Brigade. That game tends to heavily favor Radeon GPUs, however.
Far Cry: New Dawn
Another Ubisoft title, Far Cry: New Dawn drags Far Cry 5's wonderful gameplay into a post-apocalyptic future of its own, though this vision is a lot more bombastic—and pink—than The Division 2's bleak setting. The game runs on the latest version of the long-running Dunia engine, and it's slightly more strenuous than Far Cry 5's built-in benchmark.
Strange Brigade ($50 on Humble) is a cooperative third-person shooter where a team of adventurers blasts through hordes of mythological enemies. It's a technological showcase, built around the next-gen Vulkan and DirectX 12 technologies and infused with features like HDR support and the ability to toggle asynchronous compute on and off. It uses Rebellion's custom Azure engine. We test the DX12 renderer with async compute off.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider ($60 on Humble) concludes the reboot trilogy, and it's utterly gorgeous. Square Enix optimized this game for DX12, and recommends DX11 only if you're using older hardware or Windows 7, so we test with DX12. Shadow of the Tomb Raider uses an enhanced version of the Foundation engine that also powered Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Move over, Crysis. If you crank all the graphics options up to 11, like we do for these tests, Ghost Recon Wildlands ($50 on Humble) and its AnvilNext 2.0 engine absolutely melt GPUs. It's by far the most strenuous game in our suite, even with newer stunners like Division 2 in the mix. Sequel Ghost Recon Breakpoint recently launched but has been receiving frequent tweaks, so we haven't swapped over to it for our testing yet.
The latest in a long line of successful games, F1 2018 ($60 on Humble) is a gem to test, supplying a wide array of both graphical and benchmarking options—making it a much more reliable (and fun) option that the Forza series. It's built on the fourth version of Codemasters' buttery-smooth Ego game engine. We test two laps on the Australia course, with clear skies.
We're going to wrap things up with a game that isn't really a visual barn-burner, but still tops the Steam charts day in and day out. We test Grand Theft Auto V ($30 on Humble) with all options turned to Very High, all Advanced Graphics options except extended shadows enabled, and FXAA. GTA V runs on the RAGE engine and has received substantial updates since its initial launch.
We test power draw by looping the F1 2018 benchmark for about 20 minutes after we've benchmarked everything else and noting the highest reading on our Watts Up Pro meter. The initial part of the race, where all competing cars are onscreen simultaneously, tends to be the most demanding portion.
It's no contest here. Nvidia's power-sipping Turing architecture blows away AMD's ancient Polaris GPUs, delivering performance on a par with the Radeon RX 580 for over 100 watts less. The GeForce GTX 1650 Super even stays well below the Radeon RX 570's energy draw, despite firmly outpunching it.
We test thermals by leaving either AMD's Wattman (for Radeon GPUs) or EVGA's Precision X1 (for GeForce GPUs) open during the F1 2018 five-lap power draw test, noting the highest maximum temperature at the end.
Here's where that vastly superior power efficiency comes into play. Both the GTX 1650 and the Radeon RX 580 we tested performed similarly, and both versions were killer ROG Strix variants—but the bulky triple-fan cooler on the RX 580 is much, much larger. Nonetheless, the tinier dual-fan ROG Strix GTX 1650 Super manages to stay cooler by a full 8 degrees Celsius, while running next to silent. This is a great GPU in a great graphics card.
Should you buy the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super?
Definitely. The $160 Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super is the best budget graphics card you can buy—at least for now. It's a killer option for 1080p gaming.
While its still-available non-Super predecessor failed to make a dent versus AMD's ancient, yet value-packed Radeon RX 500-series, the GeForce GTX 1650 Super equals or surpasses the Radeon RX 580's performance in every game but Strange Brigade, while proving far superior in power efficiency. That helps it run much cooler and quieter than AMD's options.
Nvidia's graphics card can hit a comfortable 60 frames per second with most if not all graphics settings maxed out, even in modern games. You might need to drop some especially strenuous games down to High, but that's still great for a $160 GPU. It's got Nvidia's latest and greatest Turing NVENC encoder, too, a boon for streamers and video editors.
Given how much more efficient the GeForce GTX 1650 is, we'd opt for it over the Radeon RX 580 every time. AMD's game bundles and deals might sway you to Team Red, though. At the moment, Radeon cards offer three free months of Microsoft's superb Xbox Game Pass for PC, as well as your choice of either Borderlands 3 or Ghost Recon Breakpoint. We found both those games ho-hum, but it's a compelling offer if you planned on picking up either title anyway. With Game Pass you won't need to splurge on any games for a while. Still, Microsoft's subscription gaming service is cheap enough—$1 for the first month, and $9 per month thereafter—that we'd still generally recommend the GTX 1650 Super.
If the slightly faster Radeon RX 590 drops down to the GTX 1650 Super's price range, though, it's worth considering if you don't mind its awful power efficiency. And if you don't mind dialing down graphics options a bit, the Radeon RX 570 with all those free games are still worth considering at just $120 to $130 on sale—and we've even seen it as low as $100 in the lead-up to Black Friday. That's ludicrous. In general though, you're getting a lot more performance out of the GTX 1650 Super for just $30 or so more.
That's a nice backside for a $170 GPU!
Moving onto the $170 Asus ROG Strix GeForce GTX 1650 Super specifically, we can't recommend it highly enough. It's a well-built, attractive, and borderline silent version of a great graphics card, loaded with premium features like a metal backplate, customizable RGB lighting, idle fan stop, dual BIOSes, a significant factory overclock, ports galore, and a fan header that ties control of one of your case fans to your GPU temperature. For a mere $10 premium? It's a no-brainer.
Unfortunately, the ROG Strix isn't available at retail at the time of publication. Two other Asus GPUS— the $165 GeForce GTX 1650 Super Phoenix Fan Edition and $160 Asus TUF GTX 1650 Super—are, and you should expect similar bottom-line gaming performance out of them, though these alternatives don't pack all the same extras as the Strix.
Wrapping it up, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super is the best budget graphics card you can buy for 1080p gaming, and the Asus ROG Strix is a sterling custom version of it with a barely-there price premium. Both come highly recommended. It remains to be seen how long they hold onto the crown, though, as AMD's Radeon RX 5500-series graphics cards are scheduled to launch sometime this quarter, built using the next-gen Navi architecture with support for GDDR6 and PCIe 4.0. We know they're targeting 1080p gaming for the masses, but pricing and performance still remain a mystery.
For now, Nvidia can take a much-deserved victory lap. Hail to the new budget gaming champion.


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Glamorous, Modern Wedding in Purchase, New York
Photography by Ira Lippke Studios
Samantha Miller & Kevin Lawi
"We were set up on a blind date and I thought he blew me off the first time we were supposed to meet!" jokes Samantha Miller. Kevin Lawi had gotten her phone number from a mutual friend and suggested they meet at a small bar in Tribeca–except it was Halloween, Samantha had no idea what he looked like, and everyone in NYC was dressed up. Unfortunately, although Kevin waited for her by the door, they didn't end up meeting that night.
Kevin felt so badly about missing each other that he made sure to follow up promptly. "Even though it was Hurricane Sandy and I was living on my cousin's couch, I took Sam on our first date," he says. The couple dated and were engaged in November of 2013. Not only did Kevin surprise Samantha by popping the question, but he organized an engagement celebration with both their families and best friends.
During the wedding planning process, the couple considered getting married in Manhattan and Palm Beach, but ultimately decided on hosting their wedding at Old Oaks Country Club in Purchase, New York. "We wanted to get married somewhere that was near both our families, but removed from New York City," Samantha explains. "Plus, Old Oaks is where I grew up and it felt like the perfect place to bring friends and family together."
Samantha and Kevin put a great deal of thought into the ceremony, which took place on a beautiful, sprawling green lawn–an ideal setting for their vision of having a traditional affair, surrounded by the people they love. "We had a Jewish ceremony; however, we spent a lot of time beforehand trying to understand the different components and only chose the ones that really meant something to us," says Samantha. "Kevin's father passed away in 2006, so it was very important to us that we incorporate and acknowledge him in our ceremony." On the wedding day, Kevin wore his father's tallit and the couple honored their parents by having them stand under the chuppah with them. The ceremony also included vows that the bride and groom wrote for each other.
During the cocktail hour, Kevin surprised his bride and guests with a fireworks show, while everyone watched on the club's patio. Samantha was speechless at the wonderful display, which was a fantastic complement to such a personalized event. "It was really important to us that not only every part of our special day feel like 'us,' but that our guests had a ton of fun," she says. "We wanted each part of the evening to have its own feeling in a different space–that way, guests never got bored or were in the same space twice."
The reception tent was draped in navy blue fabric and covered in white orchids with mirrored tables. After the live band stopped playing at around 1am, music started blasting from another room inside the club, keeping everyone dancing until 4:30am. "It was a night we will never forget," says Samantha.
Location: Old Oaks Country Club Purchase, NY; Caterer and Planner: Marcia Selden Catering & Event Planning New York, NY; Event Design: SBK Event Design New York, NY; Cake: Ron Ben-Israel Cakes New York, NY; Entertainment: Hank Lane Music and Productions New York, NY; Entertainment: DJ Nick Cohen;
The reception tent was draped in navy blue fabric and covered in white orchids with mirrored tables.
Ceremony Dress and Veil: Rubin Singer; Reception Dress: Marchesa ; Groom's Attire: Emporio Armani; Wedding Bands: Cartier;
During the cocktail hour, Kevin surprised his bride and guests with a fireworks show.


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yes, it was the end of the world.
or more accurately…it was the end of my world as i knew it.
but it was not the end of all worlds.
the universe didn't come crashing down. the sun is still up there in the sky.
i just have to build and newer, better, stronger world now.
a world to replace the one you shattered.
why is this the only thing that can keep me calm?
and i can't even be mad because i know you didnt mean to. i know you'd never hurt me intentionally. and that's more than i deserve. you've always been more than i've ever deserved. i guess my luck just ran out.
I really want to be ok….I'm just not.
And I haven't figured out how to change that yet…so I say I am….because it's easier that way.
I lie because I simply don't know what else I can say.


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