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La Asociación Española de Empresas de Vales de Comida y Otros Servicios, conocida por las siglas AEEVCOS, es una asociación empresarial sin ánimo de lucro que representa los intereses económicos, sociales y profesionales de las empresas que expiden vales de comida y otros servicios. En concreto, velan por el desarrollo y buen uso de los beneficios conocidos como beneficio social corporativo, entre los que se encuentran:

vale de comida en formato vale o tarjeta,
tarjeta de transporte para trabajadores,
vale de guardería,
vale de informática

Historia

La asociación representa  el 98% de las empresas que emiten de vales de servicios en España. Fue fundada en 2001 por Thierry de Jaham, en su momento Director General de Accor Services España, siendo el actual Presidente don François Gaffinel, y su Secretario General, don Juan Menéndez-Tolosa Valiente.

En sus inicios fue constituida como AEEVC (Asociación Española de Emisores de Vales de Comida), representando exclusivamente los intereses del sector de  los vales de comida.  Sin embargo, con el desarrollo de la cartera de productos de las empresas emisoras de vales, como respuesta a una demanda social acompañadas de unas políticas  legislativas favorables,  se crearon nuevos productos como los vales de guardería y tarjetas transporte. Gracias a la ampliación de los servicios la asociación adquirió el nombre de Asociación Española de Empresas de Vales de Comida y Otros servicios, AEEVCOS.

 Director General de Edenred España.

Fines

La Asociación Española de Empresas de Vales de Comida y otros Servicios, AEEVCOS, presta servicios a la comunidad empresarial, las administraciones públicas,  el sector comercial y los empleados con el objetivo de dar a conocer y promover el buen uso en España de los beneficios sociales como el vale de comida velando por el correcto cumplimiento de la legislación vigente, y el beneficio de todos los agentes que participan: empresas expendedoras de los vales, empresas cliente, trabajadores beneficiados, sector comercial y administraciones públicas, etc.

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Recursos humanos
Derecho laboral


Prepping for labour is sorta like packing for vacation.
who have already been there before.
Based on that, you make a list.
few weeks before that anticipated time.
However, just like any experienced vacationer will tell you.
Things may not go, er, exactly as you had anticipated them.
But you prep, you get ready anyway.
my packing & prepping list for labour.
So you can be ready for that adventure when it begins!
I sure am counting down the days til baby arrives!
As I do, I realize I need to start packing myself.
story of answered prayer at the end!!!
*numbers for them to contact in emergency such as babysitter, parents, etc.
constantly amazed at the mercies of the Lord.
This pregnancy has been tough.
On my body & my emotions.
expecting, can really tick me off when I'm preggers!
Small young tots that are going through normal child development.
Teens going through normal development.
My hubby's super busy work schedule!
how God cares about the desires of our hearts.
I feel inadequate. Unsure of myself.
Particularly with a new baby on the way.
a balanced break in the midst of our school week.
A long-term co-op for our children.
you attend with your children.
I need to have some breaks in my schedule.
once a week for their pre-selected classes.
get my older two homeschooled children in it.
I surrendered it and went to bed.
who told me about a BRAND NEW co-op in our area.
of learning coupled with the ever popular "socialization" aspect.
I decided to enroll our eldest (homeschooled) child into it.
but I knew he would enjoy the time out.
but the door was slammed shut 100%.
well, at least I have something for the eldest one, I thought to myself.
Not what I had been hoping for, but an answered prayer nonetheless.
"Hi Rachael! Would you still like to join the co-op this fall?
We are looking at our numbers and trying to see if we can fit your family in!"
per week, however, it has a FULL slate program for ALL of my children.
(my extravert heart craves this so).
I felt elated at this new offer!
First, I talked pricing, and how many days per term, etc.
ensure to pack for labour?
So happy for you Rachael. God is faithful.Glad that worked out!


The Upper Peninsula of Michigan is a land of dense forests and winding streams, and few areas in the United States contain wilderness so well preserved. Fishing is one of the region's prime attractions, and bluegill are among the many fish species that abound in the lakes and ponds of the Upper Peninsula. Prized as table fare, bluegill are members of the sunfish family. They are fairly easy to catch, and, although not the largest of Michigan's game fish, they put up a surprisingly hard fight on light tackle.
Bluegill typically reach an adult size of about 8 inches, but giants measuring up to 12 inches are caught every year. These fish have a rounded body shape, large eyes and small mouths. Similar in appearance to pumpkinseed sunfish, a related species with which they often share habitat, bluegill can be identified by their greenish-bronze color and the dark blue gill flaps. Bluegill typically favor relatively shallow, weedy habitat, and they are not well-adapted to current, making them much more common in lakes and ponds than in rivers and streams.
You can catch bluegill at just about any time of year in the Upper Peninsula, but the best fishing tends to be in spring and summer. Winter also offers excellent ice fishing for bluegill. Look for these fish around weeds, submerged wood, rocks and other structure. Bluegill are usually most common in shallow water, but the largest fish tend to hang around deeper weed beds and areas where the water drops swiftly from shallow to deep.
When it comes to presentation, keep it simple. A simple red worm or a piece of night crawler on a hook is usually all you need, and you can fish near the surface by attaching a bobber a few feet above the hook. Alternatively, keep your bait close to the bottom by removing the bobber and affixing a small split-shot sinker or two. If you prefer artificial lures, you can catch bluegill on small jigs and soft plastic baits; many anglers also catch bluegill by fly-fishing.
The Upper Peninsula of Michigan has thousands of lakes, and you can catch bluegill in most of them. However, many lakes in this region are not fertile enough to produce large populations of big bluegill. A clear exception is the Fortune Lakes Chain, which consists of three connected lakes known for producing 8- to 10-inch bluegill in abundance. You can access the lakes through Bewabic State Park (michigandnr.com).
Another sure bet is Thunder Lake, which has lots of good-sized bluegill along with excellent fishing for crappie and walleye. Some of the best bluegill fishing in the Upper Peninsula is in the Great Lakes, and Lake Michigan's Big Bay De Noc and Little Bay De Noc are both outstanding. Many other inland lakes, including Caribou Lake, Crooked Lake, the Shakey Lakes, Indian Lake and Hamilton Lake have good bluegill fishing.
You must have a current Michigan fishing license to fish for bluegill in the Upper Peninsula. Licenses are available at tackle shops, sporting goods stores and various other retailers across the state, and you can also purchase a license through the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (michigan.gov/dnr) website.
Bluegill fishing is allowed year-round, and you can keep up to 25 fish per day -- singly or in combination with other sunfish species -- with no size restrictions. A complete guide to Michigan fishing regulations is available on the DNR website or in print form at most locations where licenses are sold.


Eating in Washington D.C.: Rural Society and Little Serow – Eat. Drink. Smile.
I did it. This post officially gets me caught up on the tales of my summer travel eats!
Before this latest trip, it had been 3 years since my last visit to Washington D.C. Hard to believe that much time has passed because I feel like it was just yesterday that I was enjoying some amazing meals at Rasika and Zatinya. Oh, and of course that insane chocolate-laden brunch at Co Co. Sala! Certainly can't forget that one.
This time around I was traveling for work, and because I had a seminar that would keep me busy for much of it, I didn't really make a plan for my first night in town. Instead I figured if I felt like eating something when I was done working, I'd just grab a quick bite from a bar near my hotel. Well, turns out I didn't have to actually go anywhere. Instead, food came to me!
When I returned to my room from my class (that was also being held in my hotel, the Loews Madison), there was a charcuterie board, crepes, and a note waiting for me on my desk. The note? An invitation to come dine at the hotel's newly opened restaurant, Rural Society.
Now, do you think I'm going to pass up that offer? Of course not!
From the moment I walked in, I was thoroughly impressed. The decor definitely makes you forget that you are in a hotel restaurant. My favorite part of the design are the private dining nooks with vintage bars. If I was dining with a couple of friends, that's definitely where I'd want to sit. But, I wasn't, I was alone. Since I was solo, the perfect spot for me was obviously the Chef's Counter, where I was front and center for all the action happening at the expansive wood burning grill.
Why the large grill? Well, Rural Society is a contemporary Argentine steakhouse. The smells wafting from that kitchen had my stomach rumbling and before long I was devouring one plate after another. Even though grilled meats are their specialty, I absolutely loved the Carpaccio de Pulpo: braised octopus, tomatao escabeche, and malbec chips. Another favorite was the braised Wagyu beef belly empanadas. And remember those crepes that were sent up to my room earlier in the evening? They were divine. As in, the best crepes I've ever had. Dulce de Leche crepes with blackberry gastrique and wood roasted pecans. Enough said.
Where do I even begin when it comes to Little Serow? Plain and simple: I'm in love.
There are so many little things that I am enamored with about this entire concept. From the no frills basement location to the service staff's clothes to the spicy hot, tear-inducing cuisine to their playlist, I can't quit thinking about how much I want a place just like this in Nashville.
They serve a set, family-style Thai dinner on a first-come, first-served walk in basis. No advance reservations. They don't even have a phone!
They update the menu each Tuesday afternoon for that particular week. Changes or substitutions are not possible.
They can only accommodate groups of 4 or less and there are only seats for 28 people.
As I mentioned, it's in a basement and there is no signage, so look for the line. Chances are there will be one unless you arrive by say, 4 pm for the first 5:30 pm seating. You may actually claim the first spot in the line if you're willing to wait that long!
My very good friend Kandace works just a block away from Little Serow, so after my conference ended at 4 pm, I walked to her office from my hotel, grabbed her, and then we walked over to claim our place in line. Yes, I waited for 45 minutes. In the rain. And yes, it was completely worth it.
I don't want to give away too many details, because for those of you that may actually go there yourself, I want you to feel the same way I did as I soaked it all in for the first time. All I will say is that I felt like the $45 spent on this meal was a screaming value for what I experienced.
Word of warning: the cuisine is not for anyone that doesn't enjoy spicy food. Some are milder than others, but ALL bring some heat. Kandace and I were a little shocked at how combustible a couple of the dishes were, but thanks to the bowl of sticky rice and cold vegetables they provide at the beginning of the meal, we were able to calm down our tongue's reaction!
I've eaten foods before that are so hot you can't even taste the flavors, but that is definitely not the case with these dishes. They are SO flavorful and complex and delicious that even when my eyes were watering and my nose was running, I kept reaching for more.
If you are a fan of Thai cuisine and can handle some heat, you simply must visit Little Serow if you find yourself in D.C.!


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Home Business UK Government helps more than 79,000 businesses in Scotland
UK Government helps more than 79,000 businesses in Scotland
Businesses in Scotland have benefited from more than £2.9 billion of UK Government support to protect and support jobs across the country.
More than 79,000 loans have supported businesses across all sectors, protecting jobs. But the retail and construction sectors have benefitted the most, demonstrating how government support helped those businesses that were impacted hardest by the pandemic, helping to keep people in work.
Similarly, the self-employed income support scheme has benefitted business people across all sectors, with 126,000 people in Scotland benefitting from SEISS, with an average claim of £2,500.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, said:
Our support for businesses and workers has provided a lifeline to employers up and down the country, supporting people to stay in jobs and protecting livelihoods.
We will build on this as we move to the next stage of our recovery through the Winter Economy Plan, which will continue to protect jobs and help businesses through the months ahead.
The Chancellor also announced on Friday that the government's Job Support Scheme will be expanded to protect jobs and support businesses required to close their doors as a result of coronavirus restrictions.
Scottish Secretary Alistair Jack said:
The UK Government is doing all it can to stop the spread of coronavirus and to help Scotland's economy through these turbulent times. Providing more than £2.9 billion in loans to 79,000 Scottish businesses is a key part of this.
We are also supporting nearly half a million people in Scotland through our job schemes and have committed a further £9 billion to help employers keep workers on.
The unprecedented package of measures we have put in place to support all parts of the country shows the clear benefits for Scotland being part of a strong United Kingdom.
Companies across Scotland have received support through government-backed loans, including Macs Adventure, Renfrewshire Electronics and Kintore Dental Practice.
Neil Lapping, Chief Adventure Officer at Macs Adventure, said:
As an internationally focused tour operator Macs Adventure was hit early and hard by the COVID-19 outbreak and faces a long road back to business as normal. The fast turnaround and hassle-free handling of our application by Barclays was hugely helpful as we deal with the operational issues of supporting our team, customers and suppliers. The loan we have secured from Barclays will enable us to continue to trade through 2020, protect jobs and restart and rebuild our business in 2021.
As part of the Winter Economy Plan, the Chancellor announced that more than a million businesses who took out a Bounce Back Loan will now receive further protection from the Covid crisis through flexible repayments, under the new Pay as You Grow system, which gives businesses more time to repay.
The Winter Economy Plan will continue to protect jobs and help businesses through the uncertain months ahead as we adopt a new response to the virus, including through extending the Self Employment Income Support Scheme and 15% VAT cut for the hospitality and tourism sectors.
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Councilman seeks to tone down nightlife in Downtown Jersey City with 2 new ordinances
Updated Jul 16, 2019; Posted Jul 16, 2019
Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza restaurants
By Joshua Rosario | The Jersey Journal
The time may come for Jersey City's nightlife to lower the volume.
Under two ordinances sponsored by Councilman James Solomon, the city would be allowed to regulate the volume of music played at restaurants and bars, and have further oversight of entertainment venues along the Newark Avenue Pedestrian Mall.
The ordinances will be introduced at the council's 10 a.m. meeting Wednesday.
The first ordinance seeks to amend the city's nuisance code to include non-vehicular music and sound production devices that can be heard from the public street, sidewalk, park, or place.
Solomon said the noise shouldn't be heard 25 to 50 feet from the source. Noise complaints made to the police went up 78% from 2013 to 2018 in the downtown area, he added.
"The goal is to create a balance of nightlife and neighborhood," Solomon said about the ordinances. "An additional tool to help address quality of life challenges that come with nightlife."
The second ordinance will limit the number of entertainment licenses in the Historic Downtown Special Improvement District's Newark Avenue Pedestrian Mall. New entertainment licenses won't be issued to establishments within 250 feet of another business that already has an entertainment license.
Entertainment licences are for businesses that feature live music, dancers, floor-shows, recorded music played by a DJ, jukebox, stereo or sound-speaker system. Businesses with licenses that are issued before Sept. 1, 2019 would receive grandfather status under the ordinance.
When a business seeks a new entertainment license, a renewal, or a transfer of an existing license, their application will be posted on the city's website along with the contact information of a Division of Commerce representative who is responsible for collecting objections to the businesses' entertainment license.
If the business receives any objections to their license within 20 days of the posting a public hearing will be held. Anyone attending the hearing can speak about the business regarding their licensing.
Solomon said the ordinances will have little to no impact to the current existing operations of any establishment with an entertainment license.
"We are trying to set reasonable limits," Solomon said about expanding the Jersey City nightlife. "Right now there are no limits."
But Jeff Lam, owner of Six26 on Columbus Drive, told ChicpeaJC the noise ordinance would have a negative impact on his restaurant's bottom line.
"It'll affect us tremendously. It's vital to have the rooftop be part of our business. Even in NYC, the rooftop is open until 4 a.m. Right now, they scale it back to 12 a.m. and we're fine with that. If there are any more changes, it'll hurt us."


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Gran Canaria Open: Rafa to enjoy home comforts
Steven Rawlings
Tournemnet host - Rafa Cabrera Bello
The Gran Canaria Open kicks off the three-week long Canary Islands Swing and our man fancies the tournament host to enjoy what looks like an easy test...
"It's no coincidence that six of the last 14 European Tour events in Spain have been won by a high-class Spaniard and Rafa looks a very fair price at around 30.029/1."
The Gran Canaria Open is a brand new event on the European Tour and it kicks off a three-week stint in the Canary Islands dubbed the Canary Islands Swing with the Tenerife Open and the Tenerife Championship at Golf Costa Adeje to follow.
Rafa Cabrera-Bello, who was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is this week's tournament host.
The event marks the European Tour's return to the Canary Islands for the first time since 1995, when Sweden's Jarmo Sandelin defeated legendary Spaniard Seve Ballesteros and England's Paul Eales by one shot to win the Open de Canaria at Campo de Golf da Maspalomas on Gran Canaria.
Meloneras Golf, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain
Par 70, 6503 yards
Designed by Ron Kirby and only opened in 2006, Meloneras Golf is a short resort course aimed primarily at the tourist market.
The front-nine offers up some magnificent mountain views and the back-nine opens up to take in views of the ocean, including three holes on the coastline.
Fresh from his success with John Catlin last week in Austria, Matt Cooper has a bit more on the venue here with his each-way piece.
Live on Sky Sports all four days, starting at 14:00 UK time on Thursday
What Will it Take to Win the Gran Canaria Open?
Given we're off to a new venue, we're in the dark with regards to any statistical analysis so caution is most definitely advised before the off.
The venue is short and, looking at videos and photos of the track, it appears to have generous enough fairways so with the absence of any significant wind. It looks likely that the pros are going to really enjoy themselves this week and I'll be surprised if we don't see a very low winning total.
I suspect the tournament will develop into something of a putting contest and that always presents a problem as it's almost impossible to know who will putt well from one week to the next.
Here's the the top-10 for Putting Average last week in Austria but whether they will putt as well this week is debatable.
Max Kieffer
Is There an Identikit Winner?
The Spanish have a decent record in their homeland and the British contingent tend to perform well here too. Going back to the Madrid Masters in 2010, a third of the 21 tournaments staged in Spain have been won by either a UK or Irish player and six of the events have been won by a Spaniard.
In-Play Tactics
Given I fancy this will be a low scoring affair, keeping up with the pace is going to be the place to be. It's never easy making up ground when the scoring is low and keeping your powder dry until after the opening round looks like a sensible way to play.
Once again, we witnessed three players trade at odds-on last week so laying anyone who dips below even money is never a bad tactic on the European Tour.
Justin Harding, Jazz Janewattananond and Calum Hill all traded at odds-on without winning in the penultimate event on the European Tour - the Kenya Savannah Classic - and waiting until the weekend and laying the contenders is arguably a better tactic than backing a few before the off when we are, to a large extent, guessing about the course set-up and the players' wellbeing.
Antoine Rozner heads the market and that's understandable given he's won two of his last seven starts and that he performed admirably at the WGC Match Play last time out - beating Bryson DeChambeau and Si Woo Kim.
He was beaten in a play-off in the Mauritius Open in 2019 (a low scoring event that I would have looked at more closely as one that might correlate had any wind been forecast). His first victory on the European Tour was in the Golf In Dubai Championship in December, where the winning score was -25.
Sam Horsfield looks a bit on the short side after an ordinary effort in Austria last week where he putted really well but made silly mistakes. This is a considerably better field than last week and he's five or six points shorter so is readily dismissed.
Andy Sullivan relishes a low-scoring event (should have won the aforementioned Golf In Dubai Championship) and has a great record at the Portugal Masters. That's another event played in the sun at an easy resort course but he hasn't been at his best yet in 2021 and I'm happy to overlook him too.
Matthias Schwab did OK in his homeland last week but no better than that and he's still in search of his first victory on the European Tour.
The only one I like towards the head of the market is the tournament host, Rafa Cabrera Bello.
It's no coincidence that six of the last 14 European Tour events in Spain have been won by a high-class Spaniard and Rafa looks a very fair price at around 30.029/1.
Miguel Angel Jimenez, Jon Rahm (twice) and Sergio Garcia (three times) have all won in Spain in the last decade and Rafa could easily join them at a venue he should know better than anyone.
Rafa hasn't done anything of much note since finishing fourth in Abu Dhabi in January but he did at least sign off the Texas Open with a bogey-free four-under-par 68 last time out when finishing 44th.
I've got at least one outsider I like but I'll save him for the Find Me a 100 Winner column so the only selection for now is a very modest play on the tournament host.
Selection:
Rafa Cabrera Bello @ 29.028/1
I'll be back later with the Zurich Classic of New Orleans preview.
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In this quick tutorial you'll learn how to draw a Dolphin in 5 easy steps - great for kids and novice artists.
At the bottom you can read some interesting facts about the Dolphin.
Step 1: First draw the snout. It is a crooked "J" or a hook shape.
Step 2: Just above the top of the long line of the hook add a very small dot for the eye. Starting at the short curve of the "J" draw a very large curved line for the back. Think of a big backward "C".
Step 3: Just behind the eye add a short line to make the neck line. At the end of the neck line add a long, thin "V" shaped fin. The fin will angle back towards the back line.
Step 4: From the tip of the fin draw the tail line toward the back line and then curve sharply down. Make the bottom almost touch the back line.
Step 5: Below the neck line add another pointy side fin. On the top of the back add a pointy dorsal fin with two lines curving to the left side. Finish your dolphin with the big triangle-shaped tail at the bottom of the tail line.
Dolphins live in groups called pods with about 12 dolphins. The most common and well-known dolphin is the bottlenose dolphin. The largest dolphin is the orca, or killer whale.
Dolphins eat many different fish, like mackerel and cod. They also eat squid. Dolphins have one stomach for storing food, and another stomach for digesting food. Killer whales go for larger prey, like sea lions and seals.
Dolphins can dive as deep as 1,000 feet underwater. They can jump above water as high as 20 feet.
Dolphins are mammals. Their average lifespan is 12 years. Some have been known to live to be 50 years old.
Dolphins can swim as fast as 25 miles per hour. They jump in and out of water to move at a faster pace.
Dolphins find food by using echolocation. They make a clicking sound, and like an echo, the sound bounces back to them. That is how they know the size and how far away an object is.
Most dolphin species live in the ocean, while a few live in rivers. Dolphins whistle to communicate. The eyes on the sides of their heads allow them to see forward, to the side, and even behind them.


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See the gallery for quotes by Joseph Jarman. You can to use those 8 images of quotes as a desktop wallpapers.
It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.
People doing the kind of sound research that I'm interested in still have a difficult time.
The Vision Festival was packed every night, always has been for the four years it's been happening.
In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a concert that was done at the Vision Festival in May.
So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.
When Christopher and Charles passed away, I was completely depressed, I felt rejected and real down, and so Roscoe invited me because he had this spirit of compassion, and we had gone to school together, were friends and everything.


Starry Starry Night has always been one of my most popular colorways (and a personal favorite). Thanks to a customer request, I'm now offering this colorway in my plied merino worsted. I can't believe I hadn't thought to do this before!
In between checking off items on the massive to do list, I've managed to sneak in more holiday gift knitting. The mitts are Bookish Fingerless Mitts in Toil & Trouble Tweed DK, and the hat is an improvised pattern, in the original Toil & Trouble Single Ply Worsted Starry Starry Night. So far this is more holiday gift knitting than I usually manage to do, so it's quite exciting! Are you hand-making gifts this year?


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Q: not able to connect to mysql running on amazon ec2 instance I'm running mysql on ec2 instance. I can connect to this db by doing an SSH to that instance and then connecting to mysql server on command line. But when I try connecting to it via mysql JDBC I get connection timeout error. I have an RDS instance also that has mysql to which I can connect through mysql JDBC. What might be the issue?

A: go to the security settings of the ec2 instance and please open the port number 3306, you should able to connect to the mysql

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Q: String Stream & cli I have this program and I want to fill the tables array with the values passed from the command line in integer form . However It string s is only being assigned argument 6 .. what is the problem ?
#include <iostream>
#include <cctype>
#include <locale>
#include <cstdlib>
#include <sstream>
#include <string>

using namespace std;

int main(int argc,char *argv[]){
int i;
int tables[100];
stringstream str;
string s;
int result;
char value;

if(argc <=1){
 cout<<"NO ARGUMENTS PASSED"<<endl;
 exit(0);
}

/*char value = *argv[1];
cout<<value<<endl;
str << value;
str >> s;
result = stoi(s,nullptr,10);
cout<<result<<endl;*/

for (i=1;i<argc;i++){
 if(isdigit(*argv[i])){
  value = *argv[i];
  str<<value;
  str>>s;
  cout<<s<<endl;
  tables[i-1] = stoi(s,nullptr,10);

}

}

}

A: The problem is that you are using stringstream in the wrong way.
By writing str >> s you are reaching eof in the stream.
To fix this, you can avoid to use stringstream and instead directly assign value to s.
If you want to use stringstream, you can reset it back to initial state after writing to s as follows:
str.str(std::string{});
str.clear();

and use it again

A: isdigit function test if a char is a digit, so the command line
isdigit(*argv[i])

Return true is the firts character of the char* is a digit. What you want is to convert a char* to an integer, I suggest to take a look at the atoi function.
However, the string convertion for printing your result is not necessary.


A Canadian teenager who was charged with involvement in a Miami double murder that occurred in March is eligible for a county boot-camp program, which may considerably reduce his amount of time behind bars.
The 15-year-old was originally charged shortly after the incident took place on March 30, The Miami Herald reports. The teen reportedly was with his 18-year-old brother Jean, at a meeting to pick up drugs. The brother's full name is not given to protect the identity of the teen accused of murder.
The meeting went bad and ended with the shooting deaths of Jean as well as 17-year-old Joshua Wright, Canadian Press reports.
The 15-year-old was reportedly outside the residence where the shooting took place when it occurred, and was never accused of shooting or threatening others. But police report the teen stated that he and his brother sought to rob a drug dealer. This became the basis of the felony murder charge that the teen is now facing.
Miami prosecutor Marie Mato addressed a court hearing on Nov. 30 reporting that the teen had successfully passed the physical and psychological exams to be admitted into a county boot camp program, Canadian Press reports.
Prosecutors must now decide whether or not to allow the 15-year-old to enter the program. "No decision has yet been made, in any direction, on the resolution of this case," Ed Griffith, a State's Attorney spokesman, told the Miami Herald.
The military-style boot camp program that the teen would be entering has been widely praised and is even the subject of an HBO documentary, "Rock & A Hard Place," the Miami Herald reports.
The teen is originally from Ottawa, Canada, and is the son of a former Canadian diplomat working in Miami. The boy's mother had just moved into her new position weeks before the shooting occurred, and resigned from her post in August. She declined to comment on the case in light of its sensitive and ongoing nature.


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Tick bites: Every year is a bad tick year
Posted bySchmitt Trading Ltd August 19, 2021 August 19, 2021 Posted inBlog Posts
Black-legged ticks carry Lyme disease, which continues to spread widely across the United States.
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Jory Brinkerhoff, University of Richmond
It's summer, a time to hike, garden, vacation – and to be on the lookout for ticks.
From Lyme disease to lesser-known illnesses like Heartland virus disease, ehrlichiosis and Colorado tick fever, tick-borne disease cases are increasing rapidly in the United States.
In 2017, 59,349 cases were reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an all-time high. Yet, this represents just a fraction of infections because those who don't exhibit symptoms or fail to seek treatment remain uncounted. A recent report estimated nearly a half-million Lyme disease cases per year in the U.S., with numbers more than doubling from 2004 to 2016.
As a biologist who studies tick-borne disease, I am asked each spring and summer whether it will be a bad year for ticks. The answer: It is never a good year for ticks. There may be relatively few of certain species and many of other types. Different species of ticks live in different environments. Many factors influence numbers, from dwindling biodiversity and ecological change to the changing climate. But every year, the time to be most vigilant is early spring through late fall.
Michigan, Wisconsin and the Northeast are hot spots for tick-borne disease in the U.S.
Different species, different patterns
There are at least seven tick species in North America that commonly bite and infect humans and animals with numerous diseases. But there are others, too. Over the past two decades, seven new tick-borne germs have been identified in the U.S., including a newly discovered Lyme disease bacterium found in the Upper Midwest and Bourbon virus, discovered in Bourbon County, Kansas.
Some regions, like where I work in Richmond, Virginia, are home to multiple human-biting species, each with its own suite of pathogens and habitat preferences. Black-legged ticks, which spread Lyme and other diseases, are of greatest concern. They are common in forests across the Eastern U.S.. The bite of an infected American dog tick, which prefer grassy areas, can infect people and dogs with Rocky Mountain spotted fever. Aggressive Lone Star ticks, which can transmit ehrlichiosis and tularemia, thrive in many habitats across the eastern U.S., and can survive hot, dry conditions.
Complex life cycles
These parasitic arthropods are more closely related to mites, spiders and scorpions than to insects. Ticks spend most of their time on the ground in leaf litter or vegetation, undergoing a four-stage metamorphosis.
Eggs hatch into six-legged larvae and attach to a host. Then they drop off and molt into eight-legged nymphs, find a host and grow into reproductive adults. Much of their lives are spent waiting, inactive, for warmer or more humid weather to continue development, or on the hunt for their next meal.
Mortality is high. If just 10% of ticks survived each life stage, it would take 2,000 eggs to produce a pair of reproductive adults. Small changes in survival can affect populations for years.
Most of the hard-bodied, blood-feeding ticks that carry disease take only three bloodmeals during their entire two- to three-year life cycle – meals that allow them to molt into the next stage, or to lay eggs.
They feed on mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. Most ticks prefer a different host at each stage of their life, finding it by detecting an animal's breath or smell, sensing body heat, moisture or vibrations.
The life cycle of a black-legged tick is generally two years.
The numbers of available hosts may be a key factor in tick abundance, which is sometimes influenced by natural cycles. For example, during "mast" years when acorns are plentiful, white-footed mice populations grow along with black-legged ticks that feed on them, and Lyme disease cases also tend to rise.
Lyme disease experts warn that ticks are spreading.
Expanding territory
Predicting tick numbers grows harder as many species expand their ranges. Altered ecosystems play a substantial role. Lyme disease became epidemic when mice that carry the bacterium proliferated and deer were reintroduced for hunting in the 1900s after a steep decline; deer act as hosts for adult black-legged ticks that spread the disease. Migrating birds have also helped disperse ticks along the Atlantic flyway.
Changing climate, with shorter, milder winters, may increase tick survival, creating larger populations. Shorter, warmer winters have allowed some species to move northward. The two Lyme-spreading tick species now live in at least 43 states. Gulf Coast ticks have spread north to Delaware and Illinois, and the Lone Star tick may soon reach Canada.
However, warming trends may have mixed impacts. Ticks need moisture as well as blood to survive; hot, dry weather kills some species, but not others.
While researchers have identified why their numbers change over space and time, predicting risk is difficult. But we do know that tick-borne diseases will continue to be a human and veterinary health threat. Ancient ticks once fed on dinosaurs. Scientists discovered fossilized ticks, some 15 million years old, that carried the Borrelia bacteria that causes Lyme disease, showing that it existed long before humans.
From a public health perspective, the most important question about ticks is not whether a given year will be particularly bad in terms of tick numbers, but what can be done to reduce the risk of encountering these parasites to avoid illness.
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Jory Brinkerhoff, Associate Professor of Biology, University of Richmond
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The Allison Montana Institute of Art, Culture and Tradition (AMIACT) was established by Faces of Culture Inc. to document, educate, preserve, present and celebrate the unique cultural heritage and street performance traditions of people of color, native to the City of New Orleans. In preparation of the creation of A.M.I.A.C.T's physical site, as envisioned by "Faces of Culture," Small Center (then Tulane City Center) conducted research on a proposed site along North Claiborne Avenue, on its larger context - the neigborhood of Tremé, and on the street-based groups that are to become the focus of the new Institute. The report seeks to bring into focus the broad vision of the founders of the Institute.


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The artist fills his paintings with landscapes of expressive and colorful skies
By Catherine J. Thomas on	 June 14, 2020 Landscape paintings
Artist Jim musil uses his brush to capture the changing patterns of the sky in striking Impressionist-style landscape paintings. Each of her acrylic panels features a wide variety of textures, including watercolor washes, dry brushing, and geometric color blocks. In doing so, the artist's immersive expressionist skies convey a strong sense of emotion that affects the landscapes depicted below.
Although Musil studied painting in college, he did not pursue art until many years later. "In fine arts school, I never had much patience for painting. I found it too difficult and ruthless ", the artist explained on his site. It wasn't until 2016 that Musil resumed his brush, triggering a rush of inspired and creative work. Since then, the artist has favored representations of nature over urban life with scenes ranging from meadows, deserts, seascapes and wooded lakes.
"For me, painting is like a puzzle – you have to scrutinize each piece and place them in the right relationship with each other," Musil said. The majority of its square hardboard panels feature a broad, towering sky that is anchored by bucolic soil. While the artist's specialty is scanning environments, he often includes a more detailed subject that the viewer can focus on, such as flowers, trees, boats, and sometimes a human figure.
Scroll down to see more of Musil's landscape paintings. To purchase original prints and paintings, you can visit the website.
Artist Jim Musil captures the colorful mutability of the sky in his dramatic landscape paintings.
Musil depicts a variety of North American nature scenes.
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Edward Hopper-inspired paintings explore the mysterious beauty of modern urban nightlife
Vibrant bird paintings capture the beauty of feathered friends in flight
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Q: "I hate when..." vs "I hate it when..." Growing up in Australia (and with an English mother) we would say "I hate it when " It seems, based on TV and movies, that in the USA it's more common to say "I hate when "
The two phrases mean the same thing, but the word "hate" is used slightly differently; one seems directed (they hate the bad thing) where the other describes the emotion.
Is one more correct, or is it just a case of common usage?
Is it related that I find the phrase "write me" or "I'll write you" odd? We tend to say "write to me" or "I'll write to you". Though we do say "[phone|email|text] me" not  "[phone|email|text] to me"

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I hate it when he does that.
I hate when he does that.

This is very common (22.8 million Google hits for "I hate when" this morning). It is informal and maybe not completely standard English.
As you note, whether it is present or dropped does not affect the meaning.
The verb hate in this case is still transitive. The phrase when he does that serves as the direct object of hate.
This quirk isn't specific to the verb hate. There are 21.4 million hits for "I love when", and I found these too:

Like any small boy, he resents when his mother shows him too much affection in public...
While it's great to see any old horror movie projected in glorious 35mm, I really dig when it's a movie that's never been released on DVD.
I like when my scissors glide through the paper so I don't have to cut.

Is it related that I find the phrase "write me" or "I'll write you" odd?

No, this is standard, and it seems more verb-specific to me than the I hate when construction. Oxford Dictionaries Online gives this example:

Mother wrote me and told me about poor Simon's death.

There might be many other verbs that do this. The one that comes to mind right now is tell:

She told me a long story. (recipient is indirect object; story is direct object)
She told a long story. (story is direct object; recipient omitted)
She told me. (recipient is indirect object; story omitted)

Clearly many verbs that can take an indirect object don't work this way (give, get, read, hand, bake).

A: "I hate when" and "I hate it when" mean the same thing. Hate is a transitive verb in pretty much all scenarios, so in both cases the hate is directed.
The objective of the speaker is to say what he or she hates, not that he or she hates (see how when there is no object the sentence sounds unfinished?).

A: I've always worked under the assumption that, in both cases, the hate was direction towards the situation. "I hate when blah happens", or "I hate it [it being the situation being described] when blah happens".
Upon contemplation, however, "I hate when" is describing a cource of action, the same  has "I cry when" or "I laugh when", whereas "I hate it when" describes a transition in emotional state.

A: I think this is more a matter of mumbling or the 't' of 'hate' swallowing the 'it',  than leaving 'it' out explicitly. I (AmE) don't not hear 'it' ('it' may not be articulated well enough to produce a change in the airwaves reaching the ear), but it sounds like it is there.
If an AmE speaker said 'I hate when...' clearly and distinctly, it would sound really wrong to me ('hate' doesn't feel intransitive at all).

A: I think American english misses out the 'it'/'to' - British English (and probably Australian and Canadian) include it.
I suppose that since phone/email/text were more common in America first that has become the standard without us noticing.


Tim from Oddity miniature is running a project on Indiegogo in order to acquire the right and the castings of he Orcs from Fictive Miniatures. The project is a Flexible Funding campaign, it means that it will get done even if the goal will not be reached (but maybe it will takes mor time).
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Partnership drives mindfulness in schools
by The Educator 06 Nov 2020
A partnership between a diversified property company and an app-based meditation program has given twelve schools in Melbourne's east free access to an evidence-based initiative that teaches children about the benefits of mindfulness.
Research shows that cultivating skills that are grounded in mindfulness can help young people improve their mental health and help them form positive friendships, manage difficult emotions, and get unstuck from bad habits.
The three-year partnership between Frasers Property and Smiling Mind has reached a total of 72 schools around Australia, with more students set to benefit in the coming months.
"Our organisation looks at ways that Positive Education can increase the wellbeing and educational outcomes of students in Maroondah, especially through targeted wellbeing initiatives such as mindfulness," Edwina Ricci, Project Manager at the Maroondah Positive Education Network said.
"What we love about the Smiling Mind School Program is that it has the potential to reach every teacher and every child. Through the support of Frasers Property, twelve local schools have been able to access the program for free, which is a great outcome for everyone".
The 12 Maroondah schools to sign up for the Smiling Mind program to date are:
Bayswater North Primary School
Bayswater West Primary School
Bayswater South Primary School
Croydon Hills Primary School
Great Ryrie Primary School
Heathmont College
Kalinda Primary School
Marlborough Primary School
Mullum Primary School
Ringwood Heights Primary School
Tinternvale Primary School
Warranwood Primary School
As part of the program, each school was given free access to Smiling Mind's professional development training for all teachers as well as a set of its Mindfulness Curriculums; a framework and resource that equips teachers with the skills they need to practically teach social and emotional learning capabilities in the classroom.
Dr Addie Wootten, Smiling Mind CEO, said mindfulness tools are extremely important in helping people cope with challenges and are even more important when facing extremely difficult circumstances such as a global pandemic.
"Now, more than ever, teachers, students and parents are the ones who need access to tools that will support them through these challenging times and help them build awareness and resilience around mental health," Wootten said.
"We are delighted to see new schools signing on for our program during a time when it's needed most. The more people we can educate about the benefits of mindfulness and provide strategies and tools to incorporate these into the classroom, the better".
Ranna Alkadamani, general manager of people and culture at Frasers Property says it is wonderful to see the partnership with Smiling Mind have such an impact at a local level.
"This is a good example of how important community networks are and it's fantastic that our support has been able to reach so many schools in Maroondah," Alkadamani said.
"Our work is about building resilient communities from the ground up and schools are a huge part of well-connected communities, so this is one way we have been able to bring long-term benefits to children."


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written by Steve Thorp / illustrated by Ruth Thorp
ISBN: 978-0992864712 / Paperback / First published in 2014
non-fiction & poetry
Soul Manifestos and Pieces of Joy
Soul Manifestos and Pieces of Joy written by Steve Thorp and illustrated by Ruth Thorp is a collection of small, poetic essays written against the backdrop of conflict in modern culture, politics, economics, ecology and psychology.
The small manifestos are written for wonder, wisdom, joy, love, and openness - and for the common good. They describe an alternative and grounded response to the material world, a way in which we might live our lives with depth and soul.
This project stemmed from an earlier collaboration for which they produced illustrations to accompany 5 pieces of writing for a book submission. Although this version was never published they were able to use and add to these illustrations for his new book which he had written as an extension to the original pieces of writing.
ARTWORK AND COVER DESIGN / Words from the illustrator
'The original illustrations for our previous collaboration 'Under Blood light' were produced in black and red, but due to having to print the inner pages in black and white only, I had to adapt them to make them work in this format. Some are read solely as black and white, while others have the addition of grey where a tonal contrast was required. The illustrations are bold and simple, as if they have been stamped on the page, but I didn't want them to feel too 'clean' and graphical. The hand-drawn style and addition of subtle textures helps to soften the illustrations and gives it a more hand-printed feel, whilst still retaining the power and impact required.
The cover design for this project was a real challenge. We were able to print in colour for the cover, but the illustration still had to feel very much part of the rest of the illustrations within the book. I limited myself to using black and white, and one contrast colour. We wanted it to feel strong, powerful and challenging, whilst still maintaining a warmth and feeling of hope. The red used in the previous project 'Under Blood Light', although powerful, seemed too morbid, but we still wanted to retain the colour in this spectrum for the warm glow of the setting sun. After many orange colour tests we finally settled on a deep red-orange, which we were able to continue to the inner leaves of the book helping to add a real sense of quality and cohesion to the book.' Ruth Thorp
EXTRACTS FROM THE BOOK / Steve Thorp / click to zoom
'I think this book is going to stay with me forever. The kind of book that I will pick up and read sections, pick up and immerse myself in. The balance and purity make me calm and yet excite me at the same time. I picked your book up at Bath Artisan market. I read the page on Childhood and welled up - I think it is a wonderfully written, thought provoking marvel.' Dawn J
'It's been thought provoking, comforting, baffling and inspirational! Not all at the same time obviously! It's chock full of good stuff.' Phil L
"Really lovely and so inspiring - a wonderful book indeed. There is something beautiful on every page". Review on the People's Book Awards website


Fatima Erfani died on Sunday 19 January 2003 at 10.30am at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital in Western Australia. She was 28.
The true story about what happened to Fatima, and how she died, has now come to light thanks to research by refugee advocates in Western Australia.
Jack Smit of WA based Project SafeCom confirms that the facts, received from sources who wish to remain confidential, confirm that the Federal government both has tried to cover up the facts last week, when DIMIA stated that ".... an ambulance arrived immediately, when Fatima complained".
Mr Smit said: "You know, DIMIA goes to extremes to discredit the work of the thousands of refugee advocates around Australia, even to the point where we will soon be able to accuse DIMIA and the Minister not just of a complete whitewash, but of lying to Australians."
"This case shows graphically, that the government lies to the Australian public, that it has extremely good reasons to be involved in cover-ups and denials, time and again. In court cases crucial witnesses have disappeared, in inquests documents essential to the coroner vanish, and we're still waiting for a witness to "un-disappear" in relation to this month's inquest into the death of an asylum seeker from Villawood. More and more we start to understand why the government is controlling the media, and barring open access to Australia's hell holes".
Last week, in the presence of Dr Carmen Lawrence and Senator Andrew Bartlett, Mr Smit announced that amongst Project SafeCom's activities for 2003 will be extensive research into an International prosecution of the Howard government.
"We are very serious", Mr Smit said. "This event adds to our bank of data, and the government will not evade the answers of justice cases like this demand".
"Fatima came to Australia from Afghanistan on a boat from Indonesia in October 2001, during the federal election campaign and post Tampa and the September 11 terrorist attacks. By the time they arrived at Christmas Island, the Liberal Government had excised Christmas Island from Australia for the purposes of the Migration Act. This meant that Fatima and her family had little or no opportunity for making a new life in Australia. She travelled with her husband, Ali Reza and her three children aged 7, 6 and 3. The family are Hazara and had been persecuted by the Taliban."
"During 2002, possibly in June, Fatima was diagnosed with and treated for high blood pressure. According to her husband, her blood pressure worsened during the year especially after the detention centre fire in November, and after their claims for asylum had been rejected making the reality of a return to war-torn Afghanistan inevitable."
"On Saturday 11 January 2003, Fatima awoke during the night with severe headaches. She took panadol. She had headaches during Sunday and Monday and generally felt unwell. Her blood pressure was taken sometime during this time and the reading was 220 over 120. On Tuesday 14 January 2003, Fatima went to see a Doctor at the Christmas Island hospital to see about her headaches and blood pressure. She was given medication to treat her headaches and reassured that she was OK. On Wednesday 15 January, Fatima was very unwell all morning. She had difficulty getting out of bed and staying awake, and was unable to walk very small distances. At 11.30am she collapsed and was unconscious. She was taken to Christmas Island hospital."
"It took until 11pm to get a plane to Christmas Island for Fatima to be evacuated to Perth. At 3.30am on 16 January Fatima arrived at SCGH. A brain scan was conducted immediately and the Doctor told Ali Reza that unless surgery occurred, Fatima would die within 24 hours. Ali Reza consented to surgery. At 8.30am he was told that Fatima's brain was too damaged and the bleeding in her brain was too extensive, and that she had very little time to live."
"During Thursday Fatima was unconscious in the intensive care unit at SCGH with Ali Reza by her side. In the early afternoon I tried to see Ali Reza to offer some support and also to say goodbye to Fatima whom I had known for nearly 12 months. I was stopped at the doors of ICU by and ACM guard and told to phone a DIMIA official in Canberra to seek permission. I spent the next 10 minutes trying to find a public phone to make the call to Canberra, becoming more distressed and frustrated each minute. I explained that I did not want to intrude and that I would only stay for 5 minutes. My main aim was to let Ali know I was there and that he could telephone me if he wanted to. The DIMIA official was unequivocal in her refusal of allowing me to visit and assured me that Ali was getting all the support he needed. I stressed that I was the only person in Perth he knew, that I had known him, Fatima and their children for nearly a year, and that under the circumstances he may appreciate seeing my face. The DIMIA position had been set in concrete and it was clear I was not able to visit Ali and Fatima. I stumbled out of the hospital crying with rage and frustration and not being able to comprehend the indignity and inhumanity of our government's position."
"On Friday 17 January, Ali Reza was told that Fatima's brain was dead and ask whether he consented to the life support system being turned off. He said he would wait until her heart had stopped beating. Fatima's heart stopped beating on Sunday 19 January."
"Ali Reza and Fatima's children were sent to Perth from Christmas Island on Friday 17 January, pressumably to say goodbye to their mother. They were accomodated in a hotel with an ACM guard while their mother was dying in hospital. After Fatima died, Ali was told that he and the children were to return to Christmas Island the next day."
"I have been speaking with Ali Reza every night by telephone. He told me that on the Friday he was by Fatima's ICU bed, he was told by the ACM guard that I was there outside ICU, but that he was forbidden to go outside to speak to me. He said he wanted me to be with him and Fatima, and when they forbade him to see me, his heart became so swollen he felt it would burst through his mouth. He still doesn't know what has happened to Fatima's body."
Former reporter Marilyn Shepherd confirmed from South Australia: "A quick browse through the records shows that Fatima was on SIEV-6 intercepted by the Warramunga on 19th October, just about the time our friends on SIEV X were dying in the water. The boat was held for 11 days in sight of land, the passengers were stripped searched and gassed by overburdened engines for 11 days in the broiling heat of the Indian Ocean."
"Fatima would have had to attempt to control her three small kids for 11 days with little shelter or shade, temperatures in the high 30's, crowded onto a boat with a passenger load of 227 plus Indonesian fishermen, probably 4."
"The heat, the flies, the sight of shelter and land for 11 days must have driven her to the point of insanity, the thought of a bed must have been a wild fantasy."
"For the record, SIEV-6 featured in the BBC documentary 'Australia's Pacific Solution' and was the only other one intercepted at Christmas Island in October 2001."
Ms Shepherd further commented: "28 year old women do not have such massive strokes as this without great cause. Phosphate would do it.
"With a blood pressure that high she did not have an aneurysm, they left her so long that her brain blew up with a stroke of massive proportions."
Pamela Curr, spokesperson for the Victorian Greens, said: "How long do we have to keep these appalling horror stories? How much longer does this game have to go on for, while people are being tortured in our country, while complete denials are the order of the day?"


Kalki Koechlin has always been vocal about her views on various social issues, but the actor believes celebrities should not give opinions on serious subjects unless they are well-versed with them. The 33-year-old says there is always a risk associated with being a public figure as there are chances of one's views being misinterpreted. Koechlin says, "I believe when a celebrity voices an opinion, there are chances for it to be taken out of context. The celebrity should personally relate to the subject. If they just put a face to the cause, without knowing about it, it doesn't serve the purpose."
She adds, "I agree with the fact that when a public figure supports a cause, it makes a big impact. It involves a lot of people and gives confidence to others to talk about the issue. But ultimately, the change comes from the entire community. Branding by a celeb is just a seed." The actor says she is growing as an artiste and has found a novel approach to express herself. "I am doing a lot of experimental films as well as theatre. I am doing more of indie stuff as I don't get that many commercial offers, but I am busy. I don't have any complaints and I am happy about the experiences. I am constantly evolving as an actor. I keep finding newer ways of expressing myself," says Koechlin, who will next be seen doing a cameo in Shanawaz Nellikunnil's Candyflip. There is also a web-series lined up with filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, which is about a big fat wedding gone horribly wrong.


iPad Pro 9.7 & screen protectors?
Discussion in 'iPad' started by Marco123, Mar 23, 2016.
Will iPad Air 2 screen protectors fit the new 9.7 pro?
Judging by the dimensions which from Apple's site state they are the same I would say yes. The display size and shape has not changed so the same screen protectors should work.


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Developer Q & A: Monster Train - a deckbuilding roguelike with a hellish theme
Interview by Matt S.
Fans of card games have been spoiled for choice in recent years, with a real explosion of games that, in one way or another, riff on the old Magic The Gathering CCG format. You'd think that the space was approaching saturation point, but it continues to appeal to developers, who continue to find unique ways to spin on the idea.
One such example is the upcoming Monster Train, which blends strategy and card game with a cartoonish hell aesthetic. We had the chance to ask a couple of questions of the CEO of the developer Shiny Shoe, Mark Cooke, about what the team is looking to achieve from this game:
Matt S: Where did the idea for Monster Train come from? Was there anything in particular that inspired the mechanics behind it?
Mark C:The idea came from a company wide game jam we did at Shiny Shoe in September 2018 to explore new game ideas. The original prototype of Monster Train was very different - it was set in a castle, gameplay played out in real-time instead of being turn-based, and you were protecting treasure instead of the last piece of hell pyre. However, two of the key components were already there: multiple floors and the importance of positioning your units well.
The team building the prototype wanted to explore novel gameplay in card game context and was trying out a number of unique ideas. Some of those panned out, like the multiple floors, and some did not, like the real-time progression of game state.
Matt S: There are a lot of digital card games out there, and it's safe to say that it is a very mature market at this point. What do you think it is about Monster Train that will help it stand out?
Mark C: Monster Train is a deck building roguelike. Within that subgenre, we have novel core gameplay mechanics with our vertical multi-floor combat system, significantly more multiplayer features, and we have invested a lot into making the presentation elements shine.
To add some detail on the multiplayer side, in addition to leaderboard based features like daily challenges that genre fans have come to expect we also have a synchronous mode called Hell Rush with live matchmaking. Up to eight players can play in the same match to race against each other through hell to see who can make the best strategic decisions under time pressure. Finally, we are storing things like the player's run history and decks server-side. This is subtle but it enables some interesting features. One example: players can create links to their runs and share them with other people via a monstertrain:// URL. It's fun to show off cool deck combos.
Matt S: The expectation with many of these digital card games is that they will be free-to-play now. Do you think there is room for premium-priced digital CCG experience - and what does that pricing model offer a developer over free-to-play?
Mark C: Monster Train is not a CCG. You can't buy booster packs. We aren't structurally similar to a Magic or Hearthstone in terms of business model. All cards are in the game from the outset once you buy it, though in single-player you'll have to play for a while to unlock access to all of them. Multiplayer modes have all cards unlocked all the time because the game is deterministic and it's important we are fair to all players in a match.
In terms of the experience for the development team the difference is the usual - unlike building a F2P game, we don't have to be constantly thinking about the overlap of the business model and the game design. Instead we focus only on the game design, aiming to make this the best game possible for players who have purchased it.
Mark Cooke
Matt S: Where did the designs of the monsters come from? It looks like this will be a bright and colourful game - what inspired you to take that direction?
Mark C: Our process for creating monsters and enemies worked like this. First, we would add cards and units to the game based purely on play mechanics. No thought was put into the visuals at all at this point; the focus was solely to make the gameplay interesting. Then, after playtesting, if we thought the gameplay was solid we'd have our writer come up with a concept for what it should look like and what the lore should be to make it fit within the overall game world. Those designs were reviewed by a small group of department leads and once approved were distributed to a large team of artists.
In terms of the stylistic direction, that initially came from our creative and art leads who wanted to create a world that was an appealing fantasy but not overly dark or overly cute. We're somewhere in between.
Matt S: Obviously you'll want your game to sell well and be a commercial success, but putting the commercials aside - what will define success for you with Monster Train? Are there any particular responses that you're hoping for from the player base, and what kind of audience do you want this game to resonate with?
Mark C: Outside of the commercials my greatest goal is to create a game that a group of people truly love and remember for a long time. I want players to think "this is the best deck building game I've ever played." The team and I are all working very hard to try to make that happen.
As for what audience we're aiming at - card game fans and strategy game fans. Like I said, Monster Train is not a CCG, but I think it does still appeal to people who play games like Magic and Hearthstone.
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When it comes to great works of literary journalism, consensus is hard to come by. NBCC members and friends responded to our latest NBCC Reads question with dozens of favorites, but only a handful attracted multiple mentions. That may say something about the breadth of the category, and in forthcoming posts we'll drill into some of those works, including some surprises and lesser-known names.
For starters, though, we'll look at the writers who did get mentioned multiple times. No surprises here, since they represent the bedrock writers of the New Journalism movement of the 60s and 70s: Truman Capote (2 mentions), Norman Mailer (2 mentions), and Tom Wolfe (4 mentions). Rebecca West, a central influence on that generation, and Dexter Filkins, one of its inheritors, attracted a pair of mentions as well---both, as it happens, were among Geoff Dyer's favorites.
Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is the work of literary journalism that affected me most powerfully when I first read it -- at age 14 in 1969. I had never encountered nonfiction so idiosyncratic and artful and immersive and thrilling. It inspired me three years later to buy a school bus with some friends and wander 7,000 miles around America and Mexico. And more than any nonfiction I'd ever read, it made me want to become a writer.
Last year, for the first time, I read Norman Mailer's "Miami and the Siege of Chicago." Refreshingly blunt and opinionated, equally fair and unfair to all concerned, Mailer's account remains a masterpiece of literary journalism and political reporting. While focused on 1968, Mailer somehow managed to limn the political and cultural fault lines of our own time. His character sketches of the principals, from Nixon to Reagan, from Tom Hayden to Hubert Humphrey, are better than any in his later novels. And his ultimate disillusionment and disgust with the whole political process are all-too-familiar feelings in 2012. Mailer won the Pulitzer for "Armies of the Night" but "Miami and the Siege of Chicago" is its equal.
In a statement that Norman Mailer himself loved to quote, Alfred Kazin once declared that: "Mailer is as fond of his style as an Italian tenor is of his vocal cords." That style is on grand operatic display in The Armies of the Night, Mailer's 1968 account of a massive anti-war demonstration at the Pentagon on October 21, 1967. Beginning the book with an excerpt from Time Magazine's take on the same events, he offers his own pugnacious version as an antidote to corporate regimentation, which, he claims, expresses itself in "totalitarianese, which is to say, technologese, which is to say any language which succeeds in stripping itself of any moral content." Mailer's own gaudy language, as in the speech he gives at a rally two days before the storming of the Pentagon, is an amalgam of charm and insult. He notes that he is no danger of becoming a demagogue, "since if the first idea he offered could appeal to a mob, the second in compensation would be sure to enrage them." The preposterous premise of The Armies of the Night is that Mailer, a man who "had given his own head the texture of a fine Swiss cheese," places himself at the epicenter of a seismic upheaval in American culture. In a beguiling and hectoring song of himself, Mailer presents himself as: "a warrior, presumptive general, ex-political candidate, embattled aging enfant terrible of the literary world, wise father of six children, radical intellectual, existential philosopher, hard-working author, champion of obscenity, husband of four battling sweet wives, amiable bar drinker, and much exaggerated street fighter, party giver, hostess insulter." Such set pieces as Mailer's arrest, his courtroom defense, and the pre-march dinner party among liberals, as well as the cameo appearances of celebrities including Robert Lowell, Dwight Macdonald, and Paul Goodman are manifestly tours de force designed both to antagonize and court the reader. The monumental chutzpah of it all is enough to melt away "the institutional oleo of the most suffocating American ideas." Truth is Mailer's bread and butter.
In the coming days, we'll post more commentary on these writers, dig into the long tail of responses, and point to some provocative questions about what "literary journalism" is and where it's going. Thanks to all the members and friends of the NBCC who took the time to respond.
"NBCC Reads: Favorite Literary Journalism Works by Wolfe and Mailer" was posted May 09, 2012.


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The average biker on campus understands the frustration of parking bikes during peak hours. Fortunately, Associated Students Bike Committee is always working to improve the campus. Currently, the committee is working on a new project to revamp the parking lots near the University Center and the west Music Building. This project was specifically chosen because of feedback from students.
"Another problem is being late to class, having to go somewhere else to find bike racks," said Brian Depalma, a fourth-year history major. "I was at Ellison Hall, and there's really nothing close to there. You go to the bike racks, the closest ones, and they're usually full. You gotta ride around and it's kind of like parking, in a way."
Depalma is not the only one who thinks this way. Many students have sent feedback to the Bike Committee, complaining about problems ranging from protruding tree stumps on the road to the dire need of new bike racks.
"If it's like the ones that I'm thinking of, it will be quicker because the bike racks at [the De La Guerra dining commons] you just put the tire up, and it's faster. You don't have to bend down and lock it from the bottom , so it would be faster, and so that that would be more convenient for people," said Arianna Phillips, a first-year pre-biology major.
After hearing all of these types of complaints from students, AS Bike Committee has developed some project ideas to ameliorate the situation. In fact, the Bike Committee does intend to replace the older bike racks with the newer versions, the peak bike racks, that can also be found outside of the DLG dining commons. These racks seem to be preferred by students and members of the Bike Committee.
"We are trying to make the shift to peak racks on campus because they are easier to park in and create tidier layouts in the parking lots," said Janice Lee, fourth-year communication and Asian-American studies double major and Vice Chair of AS Bike Committee. "Students trying to lock their bikes and go to class won't be bogged down with the hassle of trying to jam their way through a haphazard pile of other people's locked, leaning bikes."
The committee is constantly watching the condition of the bike paths to repair them whenever necessary. In fact, they recently fixed the bike path on Ocean Road leading up north of Pardall. In addition to maintaining the bike paths, they also work on at least one large project every year. For the 2012-2013 year, they worked on the parking lot at Kerr Hall. During peak hours, the demand for the bike racks were too much for the 180 parking spots that were available at that time. Therefore, the committee worked on moving the racks to the North side of South Hall building to expand the bike racks. In the previous years before this, the committee fixed the library roundabout and the Storke Tower roundabout.
"One of the great things about the committee is that our work is easily felt and very visible, as we are constantly working to improve the bicycle system through maintenance and repairs," said Lee.
AS Bike Committee hopes that the average biker on campus will feel the impact that the committee makes on the school campus.


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The TRIBE Freedom Foundation is a registered charity established by the TRIBE community to raise funds to fight modern slavery and end human trafficking.
The TRIBE Freedom Foundation is a UK registered charity (no. 1172251) established by the three Co-Founders of TRIBE (UK registered company: Everyday Adventures Ltd, no. 09286289) on 24 March 2017 on behalf of the TRIBE community to raise funds to fight modern slavery and end human trafficking.
TRIBE Freedom Foundation was inspired by Run for Love; an epic 1,000 mile journey, completed by co-founders Tom, Rob & Guy in 2013. Over 250 runners joined them along the road from Odessa to Dubrovnik to fight human trafficking and raise funds to set up the first UK home for trafficked children.
Since Run for Love, we have continued to work towards our mission, inspiring thousands of everyday athletes and adventurers to push their own limits to help increase awareness of modern slavery and end human trafficking. We empower communities to create an impact.
Our Team: Trustees
The Trustees comprise of distinguished experts in the field of human trafficking and modern slavery as well as members from the TRIBE community.
Elise Aitchison
Doctor and TRIBE community legend
Elise is a doctor, training to be a GP in Hackney. She currently works part-time at Homerton Hospital and at a local GP practice. Through her work at Homerton and among the local community, Elise has developed a particular interest in the health issues influencing the vulnerability of communities most at risk from exploitation, modern slavery and trafficking. She took part in Run for Love II, acting as the Team Run for Love doctor.
Guy Hacking
TRIBE Co-Founder
Guy is one of the founding members of TRIBE. He helped to coordinate the original Run for Love, raising over £250,000 to help fight child trafficking. Since the first Run for Love, Guy has played a central role in growing the TRIBE community.
Rob Martineau
From his mum's kitchen table, Rob helped to build the brand and the community which inspired the TRIBE Freedom Foundation. Rob's determination to fight modern slavery and end human trafficking was fuelled by his experience of Run for Love – a 1,000 km run across some of the countries with the highest rates of child-trafficking – Moldova, Romania and Bulgaria.
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Camilla has worked in anti-human trafficking efforts globally for over a decade for Think Tanks, NGOs, the UN and Governments, including having been appointed in 2015 to help establish the office of the UK's first Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner. Camilla is currently working in the Cabinet Office and supports the Tribe Freedom Foundation on Policy & Partnerships.
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Andy started running with TRIBE in Sept 2015. He is a committed member of the TRIBE community and successfully completed the London Marathon in 2015 and 2016. He was also an invaluable member of the Run for Love II support team. Despite limited experiences in the fields of modern slavery and human trafficking, Andy is determined to help fight slavery: promoting awareness of the issues surrounding modern slavery and also raising funds for the Foundation through TRIBE events.
Tom Stancliffe
TRIBE Co-Founder & Former Policy Group Manager, Centre for Social Justice
Tom developed a particular drive for social impact during his time at The Centre for Social Justice. He helped to organise and lead the first Run for Love and worked with Rob and Guy to co-found TRIBE and grow their community of athletes.
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Rain, Thunderstorms, Flooding, Threat for Severe Weather, that's the forecast for today and tonight. The first part of the day consists of over running rain ahead of a strong frontal system. The warm from comes through first late this afternoon which will set the table for possible thunderstorms the first part of tonight. Leaves are coming down and some drains may be blocked so poor drainage areas stand the greatest risk for flooding.
Rain will develop this morning during the morning drive, first across Eastern Pennsylvania, Southern and Central New Jersey and should spread to Eastern areas of Connecticut and Long Island by mid morning. The first round of rain should produce 1/2 inch amounts on average with some spots getting a little bit more. It seems northern areas are a little more favored as they spend more time waiting for the warm front to come through. Northern New Jersey and Long Island northward to the Hudson Valley seem to well with this first over running round. In addition there should be a gusty southeast to south wind which will cause some coastal flooding issues though they should be minor in my view and will tend to favor south facing shorelines. The full moon yesterday is already causing higher than normal tides.
Part two comes between 8pm and 2am as the strong cold front approaches. At this point the warm front will have passed to our north and temperatures will rise through the 60s to even near 70 in some places between that time frame. That rise in temperatures is very significant as it setting the stage for the cold front to move through with the "triple point" of the warm front, cold front, and occluded front.
How this triple point swings to the coast will be key. Strong thunderstorms will develop south of that warm front and as they move through they should produce some very heavy downpours in the 6 hours between 8am and 2am.
Total rain amounts forecast by the National Weather Service fall into the 1.50 to 2.00 range give or take a little but I think these numbers could be conservative in some areas given the convective nature of the precipitation so local amounts could run 50 percent higher than forecast.
A couple of things. The wind and coastal flood issue should probably have one additional tide cycle before the winds shift to the west relieving any issue. The second thing is that once the front passes there could be some residual shower activity until it all clears the coast by daybreak. Plenty of warm air will be left over on Thursday morning so temperatures Thursday could top the low to mid 70s before colder air comes in. Then its back to sunshine and dry for Friday and the start of the weekend with highs Friday in the 50s.
Right now longer range the weekend is looking good. Halloween should be sunny with highs again in the 50s. Sunday may see some clouds as warmer air tries to return and a weather system goes by to our north. Im leaving rain out of the forecast for Sunday though a shower can't be completely ruled out at this point. Highs Sunday should make it back into the 60s.
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The largest U.S. banks hinted at declining quality in credit card lending and tight competition in the mortgage space, showing that consumer credit is becoming a harder business to compete in.
In third-quarter earnings, JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Citigroup (C), Wells Fargo (WFC) and Bank of America (BAC) all posted higher income on interest-bearing assets despite pressures from the Fed's rate hikes. The big banks relied on larger loan books to collect more revenue on higher interest rates.
One easy place to juice loan growth: credit cards. JPMorgan Chase, which had an impressive 6% year-over-year increase in average core loans, reported that it had expanded its credit card sales volume by 12%.
But the large banks are seeing challenging headwinds with in lending, as charge-off rates — a measure of defaulted balances — continue to rise. The Federal Reserve reported that credit cards in the second quarter of 2018 had a charge-off rate of 3.65%, 11 basis points more than the same quarter of 2017 and 62 basis points more than the same quarter of 2016.
JPMorgan Chase CFO Marianne Lake said Friday that while her company's charge-offs remain "extraordinarily low," she expects credit quality to continue its decline.
"Naturally as the cycle matures we will see [charge-off rates] rise but we aren't seeing it yet," Lake said.
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Bank of America all reported increases in their net charge-off rates while Citigroup said net credit losses on its cards increased by 5% year-over-year.
Of course, every bank has a different approach to consumer credit.
Citigroup, for example, pursues big-name retailers to develop co-branded cards. In the third quarter, revenues on Citi's branded credit cards were down 3% year-over-year, mostly due to the sale of its Hilton credit cards portfolio to American Express. On its third-quarter call, Citi executives clarified that if the struggling retailer Sears (SHLD) does resort to full liquidation, the total impact would be about $300 million.
Wells Fargo and Bank of America have been more aggressive in growing their credit card loan books. In the third quarter, Wells Fargo expanded its card business by $1.1 billion as it continues to push its no-fee "Propel" card. Bank of America boosted its credit card loans by about $3.1 billion.
The big banks also reported languid activity in residential mortgage lending, a sign that the appetite for home purchases is weakening.
Lake said she would expect the overall market to be down about 10% year-over-year. JPMorgan Chase's home lending business in the third quarter brought in 16% less revenue compared to a year ago, down to $1.3 billion.
Lenders are likely facing difficult conditions in the space because of rising rates and a wealth of competition — exacerbated by the increased presence of nonbank lenders like Rocket Mortgage.
Wells Fargo CFO John Shrewsberry said a tight market has led to high pressures on pricing margins. The company saw its mortgage banking income decline 19% year-over-year to $846 million.
"We've not seen any meaningful improvement," Shrewsberry said of pricing.
Bank of America appeared to have the most mortgage activity and expanded its residential mortgages by 5% compared to last year. The company said 20% of its total consumer mortgage applications were done digitally, showing Bank of America's willingness to take on its nonbank competitors.
The market for mortgages is steadily expanding; the Mortgage Bankers Association says that home mortgage purchase applications are higher in 2018 than they have been in the last four years. But the MBA still notes that low supply and increasing mortgage rates are holding consumers back from growing home purchases.
Brian Cheung is a reporter for Yahoo Finance.


After months of speculation, Nvidia finally revealed its next-generation graphics architecture at Gamescom, with CEO Jensen Huang hailing it as the greatest advancement in its GPU technologies since CUDA cores were introduced in the GTX 8 series in 2006. It adds new technologies that bring about lighting techniques thought to still be years away from being practically possible and overhauls Nvidia's now-classic reference cooler design. But all of it does come at a price.
The new-generation graphics cards are an order of magnitude more expensive than their predecessors, even factoring in recent pricing problems faced by graphics card buyers all over the world. Are all of the new exciting features of the RTX 2000 series worth it?
Nvidia had three cards to show off at Gamescom: The RTX 2070, RTX 2080, and RTX 2080 Ti. That was somewhat of a surprise, as with generations past, Nvidia has staggered the showcase and release of these cards over a longer period of time. Where the 10-series saw the 1080 release first, followed by the 1070 a month later, and the 1080 Ti a year after that, the 2080 and 2080 Ti were initially to go on sale go on sale on ("or around") September 20, while the 2070 has a possible release date of October.
We have a bit of bad news regarding those release dates. The RTX 2080 has been confirmed to ship on September 20. However, the 2080 Ti will be delayed until the 27. In a forum post, a Nvidia representative said that the company expects pre-orders to ship between the 20 and 27.
These cards have a couple of different prices for each, with Huang claiming that third-party reference cards (that aren't overclocked or given custom cooling solutions) would be cheaper and slightly lower-clocked than Founders Edition cards. The Nvidia FE GPUs will launch at $1,200 for the RTX 2080 Ti, $800 for the RTX 2080, and $600 for the RTX 2070. Reference designs will be noticeably cheaper at $1,000, $700, and $500 respectively, but that is still much more expensive than previous generation cards have been. Equivalent 10-series GPUs debuted at $200-$300 less.
Typically we would expect more mid-range cards at more reasonable prices to debut a couple of months after the flagship GPUs. A hypothetical RTX 2060 and RTX 2050 could show up before the end of the year, but Nvidia has yet to make any official announcement to such an effect.
Although the majority of the Nvidia Gamescom conference was taken up by the discussion of new technologies supported by the new-generation graphics cards, arguably the information gamers and hardware enthusiasts are most interested in are the numbers. Nvidia followed up the presentation a few days later with a slide, showing that in actual gameplay performance, the RTX 2080 performs at around 1.5 times the speed of the GTX 1080. Nvidia used a multitude of last-gen games as examples, including Epic Infiltrator, Wolfenstein II, and Shadow of War.
Note: Nvidia's Founders Edition models will launch with slightly higher price tags, power requirements, and clock speeds than the reference models which will, in turn, be overclocked and tweaked by third-parties.
There are a number of interesting inter-generational changes at play here. The CUDA cores have increased by similar sort of numbers — although not percentages — as between the 9oo series and the 1000 series graphics cards, which should equate to a noticeable, if not significant increase in general performance. Clock speeds have actually come down, which isn't wholly surprising, but when shown in conjunction with an increase in power draw is a little more so. It could be that those RT and Tensor cores require some juice of their own.
GDDR6 memory provides a solid bump in speed and bandwidth for the 2000-series, bringing both the 2080 and 2070 almost in line with the GTX 1080 Ti, though not quite.
The biggest takeaway from these numbers though is that for all of the talk of ray tracing advancements and clever AI processing capabilities, the RTX 2000 series looks much more like a typical graphics generational leap. We won't know for sure what that equates to until we get our hands on the hardware in a few weeks time, but it could mean that we're looking at a much more conservative overall performance increase, rather than the "10-times" numbers that Huang repeated ad nauseam during his presentation with an emphasis on ray tracing.
While the number of traditional CUDA cores in the new graphics cards have increased across the board, the more exciting achievement of this new-generation, we're told, is the addition of dedicated hardware for ray tracing and AI. The Turing architecture includes RT cores which use clever tricks to accelerate ray tracing to make it possible to produce realistic lighting and reflections within games without much of an overhead.
Those RT cores will run alongside Turing's Tensor cores, which utilize AI "trained by supercomputers" to fill in the blanks using a technique known as denoising — effectively a new form of advanced anti-aliasing. Huang also discussed the possibility of foveated rendering, which could help make virtual reality titles much less hardware-intensive by focusing the processing power where the gamer is looking and rendering everything in their peripherals at a lower detail level.
These new technologies at the heart of the 2000-series architecture mean that certain games will be able to leverage real-time reflections and advanced anti-aliasing techniques like never before. Demonstrations at Gamescom showed us explosions which would typically not be visible to the player, being rendered and reflected in materials like a car door or a character's eyeball, which are visible.
It's beautiful stuff. Ray tracing has often been considered by many as the end-goal of digital visuals, effectively rendering real light rays within a scene. Nvidia made it clear during its demonstration that its new cards are much better at handling that sort of rendering than any card that has come before it. The RTX 2070, was said to be faster than the Titan XP. At ray tracing.
But as with every generation of graphics cards that have come before it, that one metric is not the only one we measure graphics cards by.
While the hardware inside the 2000-series cards has changed, the exterior has received a major overhaul too. After decades of single fan, reference graphics cards, Nvidia has added a second to its design. It's created a much more insular blower set up, no doubt to ensure that temperatures remain consistent with the higher-power requirements of the new RTX series graphics cards.
We're assured by Huang though, that this also nets much quieter graphics cards too. Even when fully overclocked, we're told that temperatures stay consistent and noise at a comfortable level. Proving such claims will require more than showing off an unpowered card on stage, but better cooling for reference cards will be a welcome addition for those who don't want to wait for the third-party alternatives.
At the back end where you'll connect up your display, the 2000-series offers a few port options. Alongside more typical DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0b connectors, there's also a VirtualLink, a USB-C-shaped port that is designed to provide power and video to virtual reality headsets. Although none of the major ones support that feature just yet, it could mean a cut down on cables and cable size for VR in the future.
Is the performance worth the price?
As exciting as all of the above features and specification improvements are, they must be taken in the context of cost. The RTX 2000 series cards are the most expensive new Nvidia GPUs have been at launch in a long time and by quite a margin. The RTX 2080 Ti will cost $1,200 for the Founders Edition and no less than $1,000 from third parties. The 2080 is priced at $800 and $700 respectively, while the 2070 will be $600 and $500.
That's a lot of money, especially for what should be a mid-range card in the 2070. With its much closer specifications to the RTX 2080 though, Nvidia may be looking to price that card as more of a high-end offering, with more affordable GPUs, like a potential 2060 and 2050 coming later.
Ray tracing is unlikely to be adopted heavily by developers until there is a large enough number of RTX-capable cards out there and we still don't really know how capable other GPUs like the 10-series or AMD Vega and RX cards will be at handling it themselves. It may be that those cards still compete with the 2000-series in games without ray tracing, which will be the majority for years to come.
Updated on September 15, 2018: Updated with news that the RTX 2080 Ti has been delayed by one week.


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Q: Proving an identity Given $a,b\in\mathbb{R}$ with $a < b$ and defining $F(z):=\int_0^z f(s) \, ds$ with $z \in \mathbb{R}$, how can one establish that $$F(a+b)=F(a)+f(a)b+ b^2\int_0^1 (1-s)f'(a+sb) \, ds,$$ which is part of a larger proof on page 508 of PDE Evans (2nd edition)?
Should I perform a change of variable to the second term on the RHS?

A: First,
$$
F(a+b)-F(a)=\int_a^{a+b}f(t)\,dt.
$$
Then, integrate by parts,
$$
F(a+b)-F(a)=[(t-a-b)f(t)]_{a}^{a+b}-\int_a^{a+b}(t-a-b) f'(t)\,dt.
$$
Now, let $t=a+sb$,
$$
\begin{aligned}
F(a+b)-F(a)&=[(t-a-b)f(t)]_{a}^{a+b}+b^2\int_0^1 (1-s)f'(a+sb)\,ds\\
&=f(a)b+b^2\int_0^1 (1-s)f'(a+sb)\,ds.
\end{aligned}
$$

A: maybe useful to notice that if you take the author's relation:
$$
F(a+b)=F(a)+f(a)b+ b^2\int_0^1 (1-s)f'(a+sb) \, ds \
$$
and differentiate w.r.t $a$ you obtain
$$
f(a+b) = f(a)+ bf'(a) +b^2 \int_0^1 (1-s)f''(a+sb) \, ds \
$$
setting
$$
I = b^2\int_0^1 (1-s)f''(a+sb) \, ds \
$$
we integrate by parts
$$
I = [b(1-s)f'(a+sb)]_0^1 +b\int_0^1 f'(a+sb) \, ds \\
= -bf'(a) + f(a+b) -f(a)
$$
which is consistent. can you reverse the process?

Edit by @dragon:
Integration by parts establishes $$b^2 \int_0^1 (1-s) f''(a+sb) \, ds=-bf'(a)+f(a+b)-f(a).$$ So we have
\begin{align}
f(a+b)&=f(a)+bf'(a)-bf'(a) + f(a+b) -f(a)\\&=f(a)+bf'(a)+b^2\int_0^1 (1-s) f''(a+sb) \, ds
\end{align}
Integrating both sides with respect to $a$, we obtain the textbook result $$F(a+b)=F(a)+bf(a)+b^2\int_0^1 (1-s) f'(a+sb) \, ds.$$

A: Taylor's formula with integral remainder:
$$
F(a+b)=F(a) + F'(a) b + \int^{a+b}_a (a+b-t) F''(t)  \ dt
$$
Make a substitution $t=a+bs,$ and we get
$$
F(a+b)=F(a) + F'(a) b + b^2\int^{1}_0 (1-s) F''(t) \ dt.
$$
Using $F(x)=\int^x_a f(w) \ dw,$ we get exactly the required result.