Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super review
Nvidia's budget GPUs just got a bit faster, or a bit more affordable.
by Jarred WaltonToday marks the official launch of Nvidia's latest graphics card, the GeForce GTX 1650 Super. Like the other Super branded GPUs launched this year—the RTX 2080 Super, RTX 2070 Super, RTX 2060 Super, and GTX 1660 Super—the 1650 Super represents modest improvements to an existing part. In this case, the specific part that's being used is the TU116. If you're up to snuff on Nvidia's GPUs, that's actually the step up from the bottom Turing TU117 GPU used in the GTX 1650.
Why the change? Simple: the TU117 lacks a few of the extra features found in its big brother. Specifically, it uses the older Pascal-era NVENC block. It may also lack GDDR6 support, though Nvidia hasn't made any clear comments in that regard. Either way, TU116 has both the new and improved Turing NVENC that promises better quality than x264 Fast encoding via the CPU with a minimal hit to framerates, as well as GDDR6 support. That should be useful for any budding streamers. It's also possible that Nvidia is getting enough TU116 chips that aren't fully functional that it just makes good sense to come out with the 1650 Super using TU116.
In terms of core specs, the GTX 1650 Super is a healthy jump in performance from the existing GTX 1650. It has 42 percent more GPU cores, and while it sticks with a 128-bit memory interface, the move to 12Gbps GDDR6 means it has 50 percent more bandwidth than the 1650. Perhaps even more interesting, it ends up with the same bandwidth as the vanilla 1660, though with fewer cores and lower clocks.
There is one potential concern with the 1650 Super: VRAM, more specifically, the 4GB of GDDR6. It may have the same total bandwidth as the 1660, but with 2GB less memory there are definitely going to be situations where performance will be lower. How much lower depends on the game and settings, and I've seen quite a few new games during the past year where only having a 4GB GPU is going to be limiting. Things won't get any better going forward, either, with the next generation of consoles arriving in 2020.
Nvidia hasn't officially dropped prices on the non-Super 1650 and 1660 cards, but my understanding is that they'll both continue to coexist alongside their Super siblings. With an official launch price starting at $159 for the 1650 Super, the regular GTX 1650 is likely to drop in price—and it sort of already has, with at least one EVGA GTX 1650 card available for $135 (after rebate). The thing is, with Black Friday deals effectively having started, it's not clear what the official pricing is. But if you were previously thinking about a budget GPU like the 1650, spending $10 more for the 1650 Super should be a no-brainer.
What's the real-world gaming performance look like for the GTX 1650 Super? With a launch day driver now in hand, I've run my usual benchmark suite. It's the same 441.20 drivers that Nvidia released for Jedi Fallen Order, but with the appropriate configuration files to allow the drivers to work on the 1650 Super. I've got MSI's GeForce GTX 1650 Super Gaming X, so let's see how it performs.
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Meet the MSI GTX 1650 Super, plus overclocking
Visually, MSI's new GTX 1650 Super card looks nearly identical to the GTX 1650 Gaming X, but there are a few minor tweaks. Both cards require a 6-pin PCIe power connector, but while the PCB is the same size, the 1650 Super layout is slightly different—it's using the same board as the 1660 cards, which makes sense as both use the same TU116 GPU. The 1650 Super also has an extra DisplayPort output, compared to MSI's vanilla 1650 card.
Like many custom cards, MSI's 1650 Super Gaming X comes with a factory overclock. In this case, it's not much to speak of: the Boost clock is 1755MHz, compared to the reference 1725MHz. That's a relatively negligible overclock, and just about any other 1650 Super should be able to match it. That doesn't mean the card couldn't go further, however.
The VRAM in particular is capable of hitting at least 15Gbps, which is the default maximum in MSI Afterburner. Like most Turing GPUs, the real-world clockspeed of the GPU is typically much higher than the listed Boost clock. I saw clockspeeds of 1850-1900MHz at 'stock' and was able to add another 100MHz via overclocking. With the memory and core overclock, that's good for an additional 10-15 percent performance, depending on the game and settings you run. That's assuming everything stays stable, of course.
Something else to note is that the GTX 1650 Super is a 100W TDP card, which means it absolutely requires a 6-pin power connector. If you have a PC that doesn't have any PCIe power cables available (which is the case for some budget pre-built PCs), you'll need to stick with the vanilla 1650.
GeForce GTX 1650 Super gaming performance
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Let's hit the benchmarks, with my usual test PC running an overclocked i7-8700K. That's nominally to eliminate any other bottlenecks, though in this case the 1650 Super is definitely the limiting factor.
I've got my usual collection of games, 11 right now, including a few newer titles. I've tested at 1080p medium and 1080p ultra settings (except where noted), as well as 1440p ultra. That's not because 1440p is really the point of a card like the 1650 Super, but more to see what happens as resolution and VRAM requirements increase.
I'm including other GPUs priced at around $300 down to the budget cards, as well as a couple of representatives of the old guard. The GTX 970 and R9 390 were both great cards several years back. That level of performance is now generally available in a budget card like the 1650 Super.
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Performance is pretty much what you'd expect. Across all three test settings and resolutions, the 1650 Super is consistently around 30 percent faster than the regular GTX 1650. It's also about 30 percent faster than the old GTX 970, and similarly 30 percent faster than the RX 570 4GB, though the lead drops to 20 percent at 1440p. At 1080p medium, it's nearly as fast as the 1660, but it falls off by 10 percent at 1080p ultra, and 17 percent at 1440p ultra.
The choice of game is of course a factor. Forza Horizon 4, Hitman 2, The Outer Worlds, and Total War: Warhammer 2 tend to favor Nvidia's Turing GPUs more than games like Borderlands 3 and Metro Exodus, while Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Strange Brigade have the 570 and 1650 Super basically tied.
Something else to consider is that the 1650 Super nearly manages to break 60 fps in every game I tested at 1080p medium (Metro Exodus being the sole exception), but at 1080p ultra it's far less of a certain thing. The overall average at 1080p ultra is 61 fps, but only about half of the game break 60 while the other half range from around 40 fps up to 55 fps.
If you're interested in lighter fare like Fortnite, Overwatch, CS:GO, or Rainbow Six: Siege, the 1650 Super will do just fine at 1080p and max quality (or close to it). Games like Assassin's Creed, Metro Exodus, and Borderlands 3 on the other hand will benefit from turning down a few settings.
GeForce GTX 1650 Super: a better budget card
Considering the GTX 1650 Super only costs $10 more than the regular GTX 1650, this is a super easy recommendation. (Sorry.) Budget GPUs aren't the most exciting graphics cards, but for people trying to games without spending a ton of cash, this is a great entry level card that can easily run any current game.
Just don't expect max settings and higher resolutions in every game, and beware of future games that could push beyond the capabilities of the 4GB VRAM. If you can spend the extra $50 to $75, upgrading to a GTX 1660 Super is a better long-term decision.
As for AMD, the RX 5500 retail launch is still a bit of a mystery. I've been expecting cards to arrive this month, but that hasn't happened yet. Prebuilt PCs from OEMs have started shipping with the card, but I have to think AMD is trying to determine where it should price the retail product.
Against the GTX 1650, the RX 5500 specs look pretty good. AMD's own numbers suggest it should be about as fast as an RX 480, which is only a bit slower than an RX 580. Except now Nvidia has the 1650 Super that consistently beats the RX 580 and comes close to the 590 (unless you play at settings where the 4GB VRAM is a problem), priced at $159.
Will AMD low ball the RX 5500 to deliver a better overall value? Or will it shoot for a similar price and end up with potentially lower performance for just a few dollars less? A new budget Navi card could give Nvidia some competition, but right now, the GTX 1650 Super claims the crown for best budget graphics card.
The Verdict
GeForce GTX 1650 Super
Arguably the best budget GPU right now, though the 4GB VRAM could prove limiting in upcoming games.


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by FRANK JORDANSBERLIN (AP) - A room full of grey suits, strict instructions only to photograph the audience from behind and - of course - a medley of James Bond tunes to lighten the mood.
Germany’s intelligence agencies on Tuesday inaugurated a joint training center in the heart of Berlin, a city that was dubbed the ‘capital of spies’ during the Cold War and that to this day remains a hotspot of espionage.
The heads of the foreign and domestic spy agencies officially opened the Center for Intelligence Service Training close to where the Berlin Wall once sliced the city in two, fulfilling German lawmakers’ demands that they cut costs by merging their long-separate training facilities.
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One of the things we learn early on in our backgammon education is not to put checkers out of play. Not only does this mean you are fighting a war with fewer soldiers than the opposing army but dead checkers reduce overall flexibility and lead to forced moves which is something you want to avoid if at all possible.
The other situation that creates forced moves is in the ending when you are hit after bearing off some of your checkers. Normally there is nothing you can do about this and you end up making a series of forced moves and you just have to hope for the best, as the dice will very likely dictate the outcome.
Such a scenario was recently reported by Michihito Kageyama (Michy), one of the world’s top players. Leading 2-0 to 9 in match he had a couple of checkers hit but thought he had escaped the worst when this position was reached with Michy as black. That was before he threw 43 - definitely a contender for the worst roll of the year! The move is forced, 7/3*, 4/1*. This results in White having four checkers on the bar.
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I think most players know that a triple shot is not normally sufficient reason to redouble in a back game when the opponent has already taken off nine checkers. However, here Black also has a checker stuck on White’s 2-pt. That could be useful for Black to make an anchor but it could also add to the number of checkers eventually closed out.
For money with a fully active cube a redouble by White would be grossly premature. He does better to hold the cube for now and hope to use the cube efficiently later. The match score changes things considerably. When trailing you can be much more aggressive with the cube and note also that Black can’t use all eight points that he would win if he won a gammon with the cube on 4.
A long rollout from XG shows this as no redouble but it is very close. That is the theoretical answer. In practice, this is a mandatory redouble as I think you will get a fair percentage of passes. In the match Michy’s opponent redouble in a nanosecond after Michys’s 43.
Michy is too good a player to pass and he took. Unfortunately, I don’t know the outcome of the game so perhaps you would like to roll it out a few times to get a feel for the position?
The other situation that creates forced moves is in the ending when you are hit after bearing off some of your checkers. Normally there is nothing you can do about this and you end up making a series of forced moves and you just have to hope for the best, as the dice will very likely dictate the outcome.
Such a scenario was recently reported by Michihito Kageyama (Michy), one of the world’s top players. Leading 2-0 to 9 in match he had a couple of checkers hit but thought he had escaped the worst when this position was reached with Michy as black. That was before he threw 43 - definitely a contender for the worst roll of the year! The move is forced, 7/3*, 4/1*. This results in White having four checkers on the bar.
This is where we leave the luck of the dice and skill takes centre stage. Could it possibly be right for White to redouble with four checkers on the bar? That would certainly be remarkable. Such positions are very rare and neither player will have many such positions in their reference library to aid them with the analysis.
I think most players know that a triple shot is not normally sufficient reason to redouble in a back game when the opponent has already taken off nine checkers. However, here Black also has a checker stuck on White’s 2-pt. That could be useful for Black to make an anchor but it could also add to the number of checkers eventually closed out.
For money with a fully active cube a redouble by White would be grossly premature. He does better to hold the cube for now and hope to use the cube efficiently later. The match score changes things considerably. When trailing you can be much more aggressive with the cube and note also that Black can’t use all eight points that he would win if he won a gammon with the cube on 4.
A long rollout from XG shows this as no redouble but it is very close. That is the theoretical answer. In practice, this is a mandatory redouble as I think you will get a fair percentage of passes. In the match Michy’s opponent redouble in a nanosecond after Michys’s 43.
Michy is too good a player to pass and he took. Unfortunately, I don’t know the outcome of the game so perhaps you would like to roll it out a few times to get a feel for the position?
1. Cubeful 0-ply 7/3* 4/1* Eq.: -0.666 0.238 0.090 0.028 - 0.762 0.000 0.000


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This article is Part 4 in a 4-Part series about business plans.
- Part 1 - Company Purpose
- Part 2 - Market Size
- Part 3 - The Problem You Solve
- Part 4 - This Article
One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.
- Victor Hugo
Your investor presentation should contain the historical events explaining how and why your category has changed. These changes should signal why now is the right time for your product or service. Your idea and Cthulhu can't devour the world, unless the stars are right.
The History of Your Category
Your category has changed over time. Companies have added products and services to the market. With each change the market has new demands. People are always looking for products that solve the problems they have. Your job as a founder is to explain why your product solves one problem now being faced.
A founder needs to explain their solution to three different people:
- Potential investors.
- Potential customers.
- Potential business partners.
When pitching potential investors, talk about your category. Explain what historical events have happened, which make now the right time for your product or service. Customers adopt products whose category timing is right.
Recent Trends
Not only does the category have to be right, but recent trends should also point to why now is the perfect time for your idea.
Marc Andreesen wrote about why software - a broader category that your idea probably fits in - is eating the world:
Six decades into the computer revolution, four decades since the invention of the microprocessor, and two decades into the rise of the modern Internet, all of the technology required to transform industries through software finally works and can be widely delivered at global scale.
Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded. In the next 10 years, I expect at least five billion people worldwide to own smartphones, giving every individual with such a phone instant access to the full power of the Internet, every moment of every day.
On the back end, software programming tools and Internet-based services make it easy to launch new global software-powered start-ups in many industries - without the need to invest in new infrastructure and train new employees. In 2000, when my partner Ben Horowitz was CEO of the first cloud computing company, Loudcloud, the cost of a customer running a basic Internet application was approximately $150,000 a month. Running that same application today in Amazon's cloud costs about $1,500 a month.
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired - the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.
In this piece, Marc explains why software is trending. You need to explain the trends which positively affect the success of your idea. Recent trends should point to why now - and not before - people are ready for your product.
If previously other's have attempted your product, there will be specific reasons why they failed. Did the product previously fail because the back-end technology wasn't where it needed to be or consumers didn't have access to broadband?
The trends should point to why the market is ready for your idea.
Previous Investors and Founders
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Your idea is not new, but, every idea has a right time. Recent trends and the history of the category should align for your product's adoption.
Even if you explain why it wasn't the right time before, potential investors may hesitate. They may have financed a previous iteration of your idea. Burned investors and their investment intuition will be sensitive to your idea. But, you can leverage the investor's sensitivity to your advantage.
Find the other founders who have previously attempted your idea. Seek them out. You want to learn from them.
Tell them what you are doing and explain you know they've attempted it before. Ask them if about their idea and product. People love talking about themselves.
Understand the reasons why they failed. What would the unsuccessful founder have done differently? This doesn't necessarily mean the same plan they used won't work this time. When they tried the idea the market may have not been ready. If the failed person has a good reputation, persuade them to join as an advisor.
Talking to people who've failed at your idea will prepare you to answer investors questions. If an investor asks about a previous problem encountered, respond with your solution. Then explain that you've discussed this problem with your advisors. You will impress the investor by doing your homework and by potentially having a person - who has previously attempted your idea - as an advisor.
The Victor Hugo quote I opened with is often paraphrased as:
Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Is now the right time for your idea?


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3 October.--The time seemed terribly long whilst we were waiting for the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker. The poor fellow is overwhelmed in a misery that is appalling to see. Last night he was a frank, happy-looking man, with strong, youthful face, full of energy, and with dark brown hair.  His energy is still intact. In fact, he is like a living flame. This may yet be his salvation, for if all go well, it will tide him over the despairing period. He will then, in a kind of way, wake again to the realities of life. Poor fellow, I thought my own trouble was bad enough, but his… !
The Professor knows this well enough, and is doing his best to keep his mind active. What he has been saying was, under the circumstances, of absorbing interest. So well as I can remember, here it is:
"I have studied, over and over again since they came into my hands, all the papers relating to this monster, and the more I have studied, the greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out. All through there are signs of his advance. Not only of his power, but of his knowledge of it. As I learned from the researches of my friend Arminius of Buda-Pesth, he was in life a most wonderful man. Soldier, statesman, and alchemist--which latter was the highest development of the science knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse. He dared even to attend the Scholomance, and there was no branch of knowledge of his time that he did not essay.
"Well, in him the brain powers survived the physical death. Though it would seem that memory was not all complete. In some faculties of mind he has been, and is, only a child. But he is growing, and some things that were childish at the first are now of man's stature. He is experimenting, and doing it well. And if it had not been that we have crossed his path he would be yet, he may be yet if we fail, the father or furtherer of a new order of beings, whose road must lead through Death, not Life."
Harker groaned and said, "And this is all arrayed against my darling! But how is he experimenting? The knowledge may help us to defeat him!"
"He has all along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but surely. That big child-brain of his is working. Well for us, it is as yet a child-brain. For had he dared, at the first, to attempt certain things he would long ago have been beyond our power. However, he means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow. Festina lente may well be his motto."
"I fail to understand," said Harker wearily. "Oh, do be more plain to me! Perhaps grief and trouble are dulling my brain."
The Professor laid his hand tenderly on his shoulder as he spoke, "Ah, my child, I will be plain. Do you not see how, of late, this monster has been creeping into knowledge experimentally. How he has been making use of the zoophagous patient to effect his entry into friend John's home. For your Vampire, though in all afterwards he can come when and how he will, must at the first make entry only when asked thereto by an inmate. But these are not his most important experiments. Do we not see how at the first all these so great boxes were moved by others. He knew not then but that must be so. But all the time that so great child-brain of his was growing, and he began to consider whether he might not himself move the box. So he began to help. And then, when he found that this be all right, he try to move them all alone. And so he progress, and he scatter these graves of him. And none but he know where they are hidden.
"He may have intend to bury them deep in the ground. So that only he use them in the night, or at such time as he can change his form, they do him equal well, and none may know these are his hiding place! But, my child, do not despair, this knowledge came to him just too late! Already all of his lairs but one be sterilize as for him. And before the sunset this shall be so. Then he have no place where he can move and hide. I delayed this morning that so we might be sure. Is there not more at stake for us than for him? Then why not be more careful than him? By my clock it is one hour and already, if all be well, friend Arthur and Quincey are on their way to us. Today is our day, and we must go sure, if slow, and lose no chance. See! There are five of us when those absent ones return."
Whilst we were speaking we were startled by a knock at the hall door, the double postman's knock of the telegraph boy. We all moved out to the hall with one impulse, and Van Helsing, holding up his hand to us to keep silence, stepped to the door and opened it. The boy handed in a dispatch. The Professor closed the door again, and after looking at the direction, opened it and read aloud.
"Look out for D. He has just now, 12:45, come from Carfax hurriedly and hastened towards the South. He seems to be going the round and may want to see you: Mina."
There was a pause, broken by Jonathan Harker's voice, "Now, God be thanked, we shall soon meet!"
Van Helsing turned to him quickly and said, "God will act in His own way and time. Do not fear, and do not rejoice as yet. For what we wish for at the moment may be our own undoings."
"I care for nothing now," he answered hotly, "except to wipe out this brute from the face of creation. I would sell my soul to do it!"
"Oh, hush, hush, my child!" said Van Helsing. "God does not purchase souls in this wise, and the Devil, though he may purchase, does not keep faith. But God is merciful and just, and knows your pain and your devotion to that dear Madam Mina. Think you, how her pain would be doubled, did she but hear your wild words. Do not fear any of us, we are all devoted to this cause, and today shall see the end. The time is coming for action. Today this Vampire is limit to the powers of man, and till sunset he may not change. It will take him time to arrive here, see it is twenty minutes past one, and there are yet some times before he can hither come, be he never so quick. What we must hope for is that my Lord Arthur and Quincey arrive first."
About half an hour after we had received Mrs. Harker's telegram, there came a quiet, resolute knock at the hall door. It was just an ordinary knock, such as is given hourly by thousands of gentlemen, but it made the Professor's heart and mine beat loudly. We looked at each other, and together moved out into the hall. We each held ready to use our various armaments, the spiritual in the left hand, the mortal in the right. Van Helsing pulled back the latch, and holding the door half open, stood back, having both hands ready for action. The gladness of our hearts must have shown upon our faces when on the step, close to the door, we saw Lord Godalming and Quincey Morris. They came quickly in and closed the door behind them, the former saying, as they moved along the hall:
"It is all right. We found both places. Six boxes in each and we destroyed them all."
"Destroyed?" asked the Professor.
"For him!" We were silent for a minute, and then Quincey said, "There's nothing to do but to wait here. If, however, he doesn't turn up by five o'clock, we must start off. For it won't do to leave Mrs. Harker alone after sunset."
"He will be here before long now," said Van Helsing, who had been consulting his pocketbook. "Nota bene, in Madam's telegram he went south from Carfax. That means he went to cross the river, and he could only do so at slack of tide, which should be something before one o'clock. That he went south has a meaning for us. He is as yet only suspicious, and he went from Carfax first to the place where he would suspect interference least. You must have been at Bermondsey only a short time before him. That he is not here already shows that he went to Mile End next. This took him some time, for he would then have to be carried over the river in some way. Believe me, my friends, we shall not have long to wait now. We should have ready some plan of attack, so that we may throw away no chance. Hush, there is no time now. Have all your arms! Be ready!" He held up a warning hand as he spoke, for we all could hear a key softly inserted in the lock of the hall door.
I could not but admire, even at such a moment, the way in which a dominant spirit asserted itself. In all our hunting parties and adventures in different parts of the world, Quincey Morris had always been the one to arrange the plan of action, and Arthur and I had been accustomed to obey him implicitly. Now, the old habit seemed to be renewed instinctively. With a swift glance around the room, he at once laid out our plan of attack, and without speaking a word, with a gesture, placed us each in position. Van Helsing, Harker, and I were just behind the door, so that when it was opened the Professor could guard it whilst we two stepped between the incomer and the door.  We waited in a suspense that made the seconds pass with nightmare slowness. The slow, careful steps came along the hall. The Count was evidently prepared for some surprise, at least he feared it.
Suddenly with a single bound he leaped into the room. Winning a way past us before any of us could raise a hand to stay him. There was something so pantherlike in the movement, something so unhuman, that it seemed to sober us all from the shock of his coming. The first to act was Harker, who with a quick movement, threw himself before the door leading into the room in the front of the house. As the Count saw us, a horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the eyeteeth long and pointed. But the evil smile as quickly passed into a cold stare of lion-like disdain. His expression again changed as, with a single impulse, we all advanced upon him. It was a pity that we had not some better organized plan of attack, for even at the moment I wondered what we were to do. I did not myself know whether our lethal weapons would avail us anything.
Harker evidently meant to try the matter, for he had ready his great Kukri knife and made a fierce and sudden cut at him. The blow was a powerful one; only the diabolical quickness of the Count's leap back saved him. A second less and the trenchant blade had shorn through his heart. As it was, the point just cut the cloth of his coat, making a wide gap whence a bundle of bank notes and a stream of gold fell out. The expression of the Count's face was so hellish, that for a moment I feared for Harker, though I saw him throw the terrible knife aloft again for another stroke. Instinctively I moved forward with a protective impulse, holding the Crucifix and Wafer in my left hand. I felt a mighty power fly along my arm, and it was without surprise that I saw the monster cower back before a similar movement made spontaneously by each one of us. It would be impossible to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity, of anger and hellish rage, which came over the Count's face. His waxen hue became greenish-yellow by the contrast of his burning eyes, and the red scar on the forehead showed on the pallid skin like a palpitating wound. The next instant, with a sinuous dive he swept under Harker's arm, ere his blow could fall, and grasping a handful of the money from the floor, dashed across the room, threw himself at the window. Amid the crash and glitter of the falling glass, he tumbled into the flagged area below. Through the sound of the shivering glass I could hear the "ting" of the gold, as some of the sovereigns fell on the flagging.
We ran over and saw him spring unhurt from the ground. He, rushing up the steps, crossed the flagged yard, and pushed open the stable door. There he turned and spoke to us.
 You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest, but I have more. My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already. And through them you and others shall yet be mine, my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed. Bah!"
With a contemptuous sneer, he passed quickly through the door, and we heard the rusty bolt creak as he fastened it behind him. A door beyond opened and shut. The first of us to speak was the Professor. Realizing the difficulty of following him through the stable, we moved toward the hall.
"We have learnt something… much! Notwithstanding his brave words, he fears us. He fears time, he fears want! For if not, why he hurry so? His very tone betray him, or my ears deceive. Why take that money? You follow quick. You are hunters of the wild beast, and understand it so. For me, I make sure that nothing here may be of use to him, if so that he returns."
As he spoke he put the money remaining in his pocket, took the title deeds in the bundle as Harker had left them, and swept the remaining things into the open fireplace, where he set fire to them with a match.
Godalming and Morris had rushed out into the yard, and Harker had lowered himself from the window to follow the Count. He had, however, bolted the stable door, and by the time they had forced it open there was no sign of him. Van Helsing and I tried to make inquiry at the back of the house. But the mews was deserted and no one had seen him depart.
It was now late in the afternoon, and sunset was not far off. We had to recognize that our game was up. With heavy hearts we agreed with the Professor when he said, "Let us go back to Madam Mina. Poor, poor dear Madam Mina. All we can do just now is done, and we can there, at least, protect her. But we need not despair. There is but one more earth box, and we must try to find it. When that is done all may yet be well."
I could see that he spoke as bravely as he could to comfort Harker. The poor fellow was quite broken down, now and again he gave a low groan which he could not suppress. He was thinking of his wife.
With sad hearts we came back to my house, where we found Mrs. Harker waiting us, with an appearance of cheerfulness which did honour to her bravery and unselfishness. When she saw our faces, her own became as pale as death. For a second or two her eyes were closed as if she were in secret prayer.
And then she said cheerfully, "I can never thank you all enough. Oh, my poor darling!"
As she spoke, she took her husband's grey head in her hands and kissed it.
 All will yet be well, dear! God will protect us if He so will it in His good intent." The poor fellow groaned. There was no place for words in his sublime misery.
We had a sort of perfunctory supper together, and I think it cheered us all up somewhat. It was, perhaps, the mere animal heat of food to hungry people, for none of us had eaten anything since breakfast, or the sense of companionship may have helped us, but anyhow we were all less miserable, and saw the morrow as not altogether without hope.
True to our promise, we told Mrs. Harker everything which had passed. And although she grew snowy white at times when danger had seemed to threaten her husband, and red at others when his devotion to her was manifested, she listened bravely and with calmness. When we came to the part where Harker had rushed at the Count so recklessly, she clung to her husband's arm, and held it tight as though her clinging could protect him from any harm that might come. She said nothing, however, till the narration was all done, and matters had been brought up to the present time.
Then without letting go her husband's hand she stood up amongst us and spoke. Oh, that I could give any idea of the scene. Of that sweet, sweet, good, good woman in all the radiant beauty of her youth and animation, with the red scar on her forehead, of which she was conscious, and which we saw with grinding of our teeth, remembering whence and how it came. Her loving kindness against our grim hate. Her tender faith against all our fears and doubting. And we, knowing that so far as symbols went, she with all her goodness and purity and faith, was outcast from God.
 I know that you must fight.  But it is not a work of hate. That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all. Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality. You must be pitiful to him, too, though it may not hold your hands from his destruction."
As she spoke I could see her husband's face darken and draw together, as though the passion in him were shriveling his being to its core. Instinctively the clasp on his wife's hand grew closer, till his knuckles looked white. She did not flinch from the pain which I knew she must have suffered, but looked at him with eyes that were more appealing than ever.
As she stopped speaking he leaped to his feet, almost tearing his hand from hers as he spoke.
"May God give him into my hand just for long enough to destroy that earthly life of him which we are aiming at. If beyond it I could send his soul forever and ever to burning hell I would do it!"
"Oh, hush! Oh, hush in the name of the good God. Don't say such things, Jonathan, my husband, or you will crush me with fear and horror. Just think, my dear… I have been thinking all this long, long day of it… that… perhaps… some day… I, too, may need such pity, and that some other like you, and with equal cause for anger, may deny it to me! Oh, my husband! My husband, indeed I would have spared you such a thought had there been another way. But I pray that God may not have treasured your wild words, except as the heart-broken wail of a very loving and sorely stricken man. Oh, God, let these poor white hairs go in evidence of what he has suffered, who all his life has done no wrong, and on whom so many sorrows have come."
We men were all in tears now. There was no resisting them, and we wept openly. She wept, too, to see that her sweeter counsels had prevailed. Her husband flung himself on his knees beside her, and putting his arms round her, hid his face in the folds of her dress. Van Helsing beckoned to us and we stole out of the room, leaving the two loving hearts alone with their God.
Before they retired the Professor fixed up the room against any coming of the Vampire, and assured Mrs. Harker that she might rest in peace. She tried to school herself to the belief, and manifestly for her husband's sake, tried to seem content. It was a brave struggle, and was, I think and believe, not without its reward. Van Helsing had placed at hand a bell which either of them was to sound in case of any emergency. When they had retired, Quincey, Godalming, and I arranged that we should sit up, dividing the night between us, and watch over the safety of the poor stricken lady. The first watch falls to Quincey, so the rest of us shall be off to bed as soon as we can.
Godalming has already turned in, for his is the second watch. Now that my work is done I, too, shall go to bed.
JONATHAN HARKER'S JOURNAL
3-4 October, close to midnight.--I thought yesterday would never end. There was over me a yearning for sleep, in some sort of blind belief that to wake would be to find things changed, and that any change must now be for the better. Before we parted, we discussed what our next step was to be, but we could arrive at no result. All we knew was that one earth box remained, and that the Count alone knew where it was. If he chooses to lie hidden, he may baffle us for years. And in the meantime, the thought is too horrible, I dare not think of it even now. This I know, that if ever there was a woman who was all perfection, that one is my poor wronged darling.  Surely God will not permit the world to be the poorer by the loss of such a creature. This is hope to me. We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. Thank God! Mina is sleeping, and sleeping without dreams. I fear what her dreams might be like, with such terrible memories to ground them in. She has not been so calm, within my seeing, since the sunset. Then, for a while, there came over her face a repose which was like spring after the blasts of March. I thought at the time that it was the softness of the red sunset on her face, but somehow now I think it has a deeper meaning. I am not sleepy myself, though I am weary… weary to death. However, I must try to sleep. For there is tomorrow to think of, and there is no rest for me until…
 I could see easily, for we did not leave the room in darkness. She had placed a warning hand over my mouth, and now she whispered in my ear, "Hush! There is someone in the corridor!" I got up softly, and crossing the room, gently opened the door.
Just outside, stretched on a mattress, lay Mr. Morris, wide awake. He raised a warning hand for silence as he whispered to me, "Hush! Go back to bed. It is all right. One of us will be here all night. We don't mean to take any chances!"
His look and gesture forbade discussion, so I came back and told Mina. She sighed and positively a shadow of a smile stole over her poor, pale face as she put her arms round me and said softly, "Oh, thank God for good brave men!" With a sigh she sank back again to sleep. I write this now as I am not sleepy, though I must try again.
4 October, morning.--Once again during the night I was wakened by Mina. This time we had all had a good sleep, for the grey of the coming dawn was making the windows into sharp oblongs, and the gas flame was like a speck rather than a disc of light.
She said to me hurriedly, "Go, call the Professor. I want to see him at once."
"Why?" I asked.
"I have an idea. I suppose it must have come in the night, and matured without my knowing it. He must hypnotize me before the dawn, and then I shall be able to speak. Go quick, dearest, the time is getting close."
I went to the door. Dr. Seward was resting on the mattress, and seeing me, he sprang to his feet.
"Is anything wrong?" he asked, in alarm.
"No," I replied. "But Mina wants to see Dr. Van Helsing at once."
"I will go," he said, and hurried into the Professor's room.
Two or three minutes later Van Helsing was in the room in his dressing gown, and Mr. Morris and Lord Godalming were with Dr. Seward at the door asking questions. When the Professor saw Mina a smile, a positive smile ousted the anxiety of his face.
He rubbed his hands as he said, "Oh, my dear Madam Mina, this is indeed a change. See! Friend Jonathan, we have got our dear Madam Mina, as of old, back to us today!" Then turning to her, he said cheerfully, "And what am I to do for you? For at this hour you do not want me for nothing."
"I want you to hypnotize me!" she said. "Do it before the dawn, for I feel that then I can speak, and speak freely. Be quick, for the time is short!" Without a word he motioned her to sit up in bed.
 Mina gazed at him fixedly for a few minutes, during which my own heart beat like a trip hammer, for I felt that some crisis was at hand. Gradually her eyes closed, and she sat, stock still. Only by the gentle heaving of her bosom could one know that she was alive. The Professor made a few more passes and then stopped, and I could see that his forehead was covered with great beads of perspiration. Mina opened her eyes, but she did not seem the same woman. There was a far-away look in her eyes, and her voice had a sad dreaminess which was new to me. Raising his hand to impose silence, the Professor motioned to me to bring the others in. They came on tiptoe, closing the door behind them, and stood at the foot of the bed, looking on. Mina appeared not to see them. The stillness was broken by Van Helsing's voice speaking in a low level tone which would not break the current of her thoughts.
"Where are you?" The answer came in a neutral way.
"I do not know. Sleep has no place it can call its own." For several minutes there was silence. Mina sat rigid, and the Professor stood staring at her fixedly.
The rest of us hardly dared to breathe. The room was growing lighter. Without taking his eyes from Mina's face, Dr. Van Helsing motioned me to pull up the blind. I did so, and the day seemed just upon us. A red streak shot up, and a rosy light seemed to diffuse itself through the room. On the instant the Professor spoke again.
"Where are you now?"
The answer came dreamily, but with intention. It were as though she were interpreting something. I have heard her use the same tone when reading her shorthand notes.
"I do not know. It is all strange to me!"
"What do you see?"
"I can see nothing. It is all dark."
"What do you hear?" I could detect the strain in the Professor's patient voice.
"The lapping of water. It is gurgling by, and little waves leap. I can hear them on the outside."
"Then you are on a ship?'"
We all looked at each other, trying to glean something each from the other. We were afraid to think.
The answer came quick, "Oh, yes!"
"What else do you hear?"
"The sound of men stamping overhead as they run about. There is the creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan falls into the ratchet."
"What are you doing?"
"I am still, oh so still. It is like death!" The voice faded away into a deep breath as of one sleeping, and the open eyes closed again.
By this time the sun had risen, and we were all in the full light of day. Dr. Van Helsing placed his hands on Mina's shoulders, and laid her head down softly on her pillow. She lay like a sleeping child for a few moments, and then, with a long sigh, awoke and stared in wonder to see us all around her.
"Have I been talking in my sleep?" was all she said. She seemed, however, to know the situation without telling, though she was eager to know what she had told. The Professor repeated the conversation, and she said, "Then there is not a moment to lose. It may not be yet too late!"
Mr. Morris and Lord Godalming started for the door but the Professor's calm voice called them back.
"Stay, my friends. That ship, wherever it was, was weighing anchor at the moment in your so great Port of London. Which of them is it that you seek? God be thanked that we have once again a clue, though whither it may lead us we know not. We have been blind somewhat. Blind after the manner of men, since we can look back we see what we might have seen looking forward if we had been able to see what we might have seen! Alas, but that sentence is a puddle, is it not? We can know now what was in the Count's mind, when he seize that money, though Jonathan's so fierce knife put him in the danger that even he dread. He meant escape. Hear me, ESCAPE! He saw that with but one earth box left, and a pack of men following like dogs after a fox, this London was no place for him. He have take his last earth box on board a ship, and he leave the land. He think to escape, but no! We follow him. Tally Ho! As friend Arthur would say when he put on his red frock! Our old fox is wily. Oh! So wily, and we must follow with wile. I, too, am wily and I think his mind in a little while. In meantime we may rest and in peace, for there are between us which he do not want to pass, and which he could not if he would. Unless the ship were to touch the land, and then only at full or slack tide. See, and the sun is just rose, and all day to sunset is us. Let us take bath, and dress, and have breakfast which we all need, and which we can eat comfortably since he be not in the same land with us."
Mina looked at him appealingly as she asked, "But why need we seek him further, when he is gone away from us?"
He took her hand and patted it as he replied, "Ask me nothing as yet. When we have breakfast, then I answer all questions." He would say no more, and we separated to dress.
After breakfast Mina repeated her question. He looked at her gravely for a minute and then said sorrowfully, "Because my dear, dear Madam Mina, now more than ever must we find him even if we have to follow him to the jaws of Hell!"
She grew paler as she asked faintly, "Why?"
"Because," he answered solemnly, "he can live for centuries, and you are but mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded, since once he put that mark upon your throat."
I was just in time to catch her as she fell forward in a faint.


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While the Cubs roster is riddled with Iowa players, 1/3 of a starting roster of Cubs players was with Iowa, rehabbing their injuries. Jeff Baker, Reed Johnson and Alfonso Soriano all made appearances in Des Moines in the last few days.
Jeff Baker
Baker looks to return with the Cubs today, coming off a groin injury. He had played very well up to his injury and hopefully he can pick up where he left off. In 31 games with the Cubs, he's batting .362, which is 90 points above his career average. Baker got in three games with Iowa, going 3-10, with a double and a triple. The triple is a good sign that his groin is back to normal. Expect DJ LeMahieu to be sent back to Iowa when Baker returns to the Cubs. LeMahieu went 1-9 at the plate, with a start at 3rd base and some pinch-hitting opportunities. If that's how they planned to use him, I'm surprised they didn't bring up Bobby Scales instead, who is batting .417 in pinch-hitting opportunities with the Cubs.
Reed Johnson
Reed Johnson went to the DL with a back injury and was in Des Moines for his rehab for the same games as Jeff Baker. Johnson's rehab didn't go as well, though. After going a combined 0-5 with 3 strikeouts in Thursday's and Friday's games, Johnson was hit in the head by a pitch in the fifth inning of Saturday's game. He was taken to the hospital, but it sounds like he just had some cuts and his helmet absorbed most of the impact. The last reports were that Johnson will return to the Cubs today, but don't expect to see him playing right away.
Alfonso Soriano
Soriano went to the DL with a pulled muscle in his left leg. He started his rehab stint with Iowa on Sunday and played five innings. He got three at-bats and went 0-3. I was able to watch his first at-bat via MiLB.tv. He grounded out to the 2nd baseman, but actually appeared to hustle down the line and made the play close when the 2nd baseman fumbled with the routine ground-ball. After the game, Soriano said that his leg feels good and is about 90%, but that he's now at the "mental" part of the process and admitted that the injury is in his head. It seems like Soriano struggles with this aspect of injuries more than other players.
The Iowa Cubs travel to Omaha for a series with the Stormchasers, so that club will benefit from the revenue of a MLB star playing in the games. From an organizational standpoint, I think it would have benefitted the Peoria Chiefs quite a bit to host Soriano. The Chiefs would have been home during the entire Soriano rehab stint. Why not keep the added ticket sales and hype within the organization? Soriano will play seven innings tonight and nine innings tomorrow night. Tyler Colvin was brought back up to the Cubs when Soriano went to the DL and it'll be interesting to see who gets sent back to Iowa. Tony Campana's speed has been useful and Colvin is batting .091 (3-33), with a double since coming back up to the Cubs.


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Ikea releases its first-ever Christmas ad and people prefer it to John Lewis's excitable dragon
It's a rap – literally!
by Nancy BrownIkea has released its first-ever Christmas ad, entitled Silence The Critics, and fans are calling it "iconic".
The advert aims to encourage people to defy "home shame" when hosting guests this Christmas.
And it's backed by an original rap – sung by grime star D Double E – that's performed in the ad by a singing rabbit teapot who comes to life.
And, in a surprise piece of news, Ikea seems to have beaten John Lewis to become the nation's favourite Christmas ad.
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Many people have said they prefer it to the John Lewis Christmas ad, which was released today and features Excitable Edgar the dragon.
The Ikea advert sets the scene with a family of three living in a small flat.
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The woman’s phone pings and it's a message from her friend, confirming that they're still on for dinner at her home tonight. Racked with home shame, she hesitates before replying, looking around at the state of the flat.
Suddenly, a whole host of inanimate ornaments and objects come to life as the house is ridiculed by the rapping rabbit and his pals.
The couple and their little girl then decide to take action to silence the critics once and for all by sprucing up their humble abode with some Ikea furnishings.
One fan said: "I love Edgar the Dragon but Ikea is definitely my favourite Christmas ad so far!"
Others heaped praise on the original rap – Fresh N Clean (Silence The Critics) – that backs the song.
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MPI provides operations that may be hidden from the user code and run concurrently with it, accessing the same memory as user code. Examples include the data transfer for an MPI_IRECV. The optimizer of a compiler will assume that it can recognize periods when a copy of a variable can be kept in a register without reloading from or storing to memory. When the user code is working with a register copy of some variable while the hidden operation reads or writes the memory copy, problems occur. These problems are independent of the Fortran support method; i.e., they occur with the mpi_f08 module, the mpi module, and the mpif.h include file.
This section shows four problematic usage areas (the abbrevations in parentheses are used in the table below):
| Optimization ... | ... may cause a problem in | ||||
| following usage areas | |||||
| Nonbl. | 1-sided | Split | Bottom | ||
| Code movement | yes | yes | no | yes | |
| and register optimization | |||||
| Temporary data movement | yes | yes | yes | no | |
| Permanent data movement | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
The solutions in the following sections are based on compromises: