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Examples of such embedded devices are the ATMs or displays in casinos.
This works well if the real-time requirements are not real strict (it doesn't matter much if a job takes eight seconds instead of five, for example).
ASIC and FPGA solutions
If the device needs to be very small or will be sold in very big numbers ("high-volume"), it makes sense to make a custom or specialized chip that does exactly what is needed.
This is a system on a chip (SoC) which holds a complete system - processor, floating point unit, memory cache and interfaces on a single integrated circuit.
SoCs can be made as a special-order application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) or by using a field-programmable gate array (FPGA) which is programmed by the people building the embedded system.
Serial Ports: RS-232, RS-422, RS-485.
This used to be quite common, with the 9-pin (or larger) connectors.
Synchronous Serial Communication Interface: I²C Inter-Integrated Circuit, I²S Inter-Integrated Sound, SPI, MIcrowire, ...
Universal Serial Bus (USB).
Networks: Ethernet, Controller Area Network, LonWorks, ...
Discrete Input/Output: General Purpose Input/Output (GPIO).
This can be a single wire with an on/off signal.
It can be used for a small keypad, or to light an LED.
Analog to Digital/Digital to Analog converters (ADC/DAC).
This measures something that changes in strength, like a light sensor or a motor control.
Debugging: JTAG, ICSP port, for software engineers.
Embedded systems often do not need a full operating system.
Some use specially-built small and simple operating systems that start very quickly, others do not need one at all.
Embedded systems are not adapted as easily, but they are built to perform their tasks much more reliably.
Because the hardware is simpler, it is also often cheaper to build and runs faster.
In contrast to this, a general-purpose computer needs to be ready for new device drivers and software to run hardware it doesn't know about yet, like new printers or hard drives.
It needs to run different application programs.
As embedded systems get bigger, things that used to be only on general-purpose computers or even mainframes are now becoming common on embedded systems.
This includes protected memory space, and open programming environment including Linux, NetBSD, etc.
Simple control loop - A timer and a loop is used to call different subroutines repeatedly.
This is often made by one person for smaller systems.
interrupt controlled - The tasks are started by different kinds of events.
The event could be something timed (every ten seconds, for example) or by a button press or data received.
nonpreemptive multitasking - Each task gets its turn to run, and when it finishes it calls a scheduler in the OS to run the next task.
preemptive multitasking or multi-threading - A task can be stopped after some amount of time to let another task run for a while.
No task can hog the system.
At this level the system is considered to have an "operating system" kernel and can run tasks in parallel.
This type of OS is usually bought from a company that only works on embedded operating systems.
Real-time operating systems include products like MicroC/OS-II, Green Hills INTEGRITY, QNX or VxWorks.
Unlike MacOS or Windows 7, these operating systems are not known very well by most people.
But they are used in many places where time and safety is very important.
People use them every day and do not realize it.
Common examples of larger kernels are Embedded Linux and Windows CE.
Although these do not have the tight time limits needed for a strict real-time system, they are becoming more common, especially for more powerful devices such as Wireless Routers and GPSs.
They allow re-use of code in the public domain for Device Drivers, Web Servers, Firewalls, and other code.
Software developers that are more comfortable writing applications for PCs will find this more familiar as well.
If needed, an FPGA or other special hardware can be used for things that do need tight time limits.
Like other software, embedded system designers use compilers, assemblers, and debuggers to develop embedded system software.
However, they may also use some more specific tools:
For systems using digital signal processing, developers may use a math tools such as MATLAB, MathCad, or Mathematica.
Custom compilers and linkers may be used to improve optimisation for the particular hardware.
An embedded system may have its own special language or design tool, or add enhancements to an existing language like the one used by Basic Stamp.
An in-circuit debugger (ICD), a hardware device that connects to the microprocessor via a JTAG interface.
This starts and stops the microprocessor from outside as it runs  the software.
It also allows memory and registers to be read, and to store the software program in memory.
External debugging using logging or serial port output to trace operation using either a flashing monitor (printfs).
Interactive resident debugging - if the OS supports it, this is a shell on the embedded processor that runs commands typed by the developer (Linux, for example).
An in-circuit emulator replaces the microprocessor on the board, providing full control over everything the microprocessor could do.
A complete emulator simulates all the features of the hardware, allowing all of it to be controlled and modified.
The hardware doesn't really exist, but a pretend version of it (a "virtual" machine) is on a normal PC.
Checking external lines with a logic analyzer or multimeter.
Unless restricted to external debugging, the programmer can typically load and run software through the tools, view the code running in the processor, and start or stop its operation.
The view of the code may be as assembly code or source-code.
Some integrated systems (like VxWorks or Green Hills) have special features, like keeping track of how much space the software takes as it runs, what tasks are running, and when things happen.
Depending on what kind of embedded system is being made will affect how it can be debugged.
For instance, debugging a single microprocessor system is different from debugging a system where processing is also done on a peripheral (DSP, FPGA, co-processor).
Safety and Reliability
Embedded systems are often in machines that are expected to run for years without errors, and in some cases recover by themselves if an error occurs.
This means the software is usually developed and tested more carefully than that for personal computers, and unreliable mechanical moving parts such as disk drives and fans are avoided.
Some systems cannot safely be shut down for repair, or it is too difficult to repair.
Examples include space systems (satellites, rovers), under-sea cables, and nuclear power plant controls.
The system could kill people if it fails, such as aircraft controls, chemical factory controls, train signals, and heart defibrillators.
The system will lose large amounts of money if it is shut down or if a mistake is made: Telephone switches, factory controls, cash registers, automated teller machines.
Watchdog timer that restarts the embedded system if something stops working.
Duplicate parts, where one system can take over if another one stops working.
Software "limp modes" that provide partial function.
John Catsoulis, Designing Embedded Hardware, O'Reilly, May 2005, .
Anoop MS, Security needs in embedded systems, Tata Elxsi, India, May 2008.
The Embedded Systems Institute
How a real time operating system works
Embedded in Electronic Design
Home of the Embedded Systems Programming magazine
Embedded System News
WrestleMania VI was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
It was held on April 1, 1990 at SkyDome in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
It was the sixth WrestleMania event held by the WWF.
It was the first WrestleMania to be held outside of the United States.
It was up from the last WrestleMania's attendance which was 18,946.
Official WrestleMania VI website
WrestleMania 06
1990 in professional wrestling
1990s in Canada
History of Toronto
Real-time computing is a field of Computer science.
The idea is to design systems that have a real-time constraint.
Real time systems will guarantee to give a result within a specified time.
There are two kinds of real-time systems:
Hard real-time systems: After the delay has passed the result is totally useless (and considered to be an error).
No matter what happens, hard-real time systems deliver the result in the specified time.
Real world examples are the controller for the airbag in a car.
The reaction time of an airbag system is around 1 ms.
Another example for a hard real-time system is the Anti-lock braking system in a car.
If it does not react fast enough, an accident will occur.
People might die because the result was not there fast enough.
Soft real-time systems: On average, these systems work fast enough to make it feel like real-time.
A videoconferencing system has microseconds to record sound and video, to send them to the other party, and to process the incoming data.
If at one time, this cannot be done, the video will be blurred, and the sound may be out of sync for a few moments.
This is however not a catastrophe, and the system can continue to work.
The AVN Awards are movie awards sponsored by and presented by the adult video industry magazine AVN.
They began in January 1984.
Mount Fuji, a mountain in Japan
Fuji River, a river in Japan
Fuji, Shizuoka, a city in Japan
Fuji Heavy Industries, a Japanese manufacturing company. (
Now known as Subaru Corporation)
Fuji Speedway, a racetrack near Mount Fuji
Fuji (apple), a variety of apple
The Rockers (Shawn Michaels & Marty Jannetty) Def.
Haku & The Barbarian w/ Bobby “The Brain” Heenan
The Texas Tornado Def.
The British Bulldog Def.
Warlord w/ Slick
WWF Tag Team Championship Match:The Nasty Boys (Jerry Sags and Brian Knobbs) (w/Jimmy Hart) Def.
The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart) to win the WWF Tag Team Champions
Jake Roberts Def.
Rick Martel in a Blindfold Match
The Undertaker (with Paul Bearer) Def.
The Ultimate Warrior Def.
Randy Savage (with Sensational Queen Sherri)
Genichiro Tenryu and Kōji Kitao Def.
Demolition (Crush and Smash) (with Mr. Fuji)
WWF Intercontinental Title Match: The Big Boss Man (with André the Giant) Def.
Mr. Perfect (c) (with Bobby Heenan) by DQ
Earthquake (with Jimmy Hart) Def.
Greg Valentine
The Legion of Doom (Hawk and Animal) Def.
Power and Glory (Paul Roma and Hercules) (with Slick)
Virgil (with Roddy Piper) Def.
Ted DiBiase by countout
The Mountie (with Jimmy Hart) Def.
Tito Santana
WWF Title Match:Hulk Hogan Def.
Slaughter (c) (w/General Adnan) to win the WWF Championship
WrestleMania 07
1991 in professional wrestling
1991 in California
Dark Match: The Bushwhackers (Luke Williams and Butch Miller) defeated The Beverly Brothers (Blake and Beau)
Shawn Michaels (with Sensational Sherri) defeated El Matador
The Undertaker (with Paul Bearer) defeated Jake Roberts
WWF Intercontinental Championship Match: Bret Hart defeated Roddy Piper to win the WWF Intercontinental Championship
Big Boss Man, Virgil, Sgt.
Slaughter, and Jim Duggan defeated The Nasty Boys (Brian Knobbs and Jerry Sags), Repo Man, and The Mountie (with Jimmy Hart)
WWF Championship Match: Randy Savage (with Miss Elizabeth) defeated Ric Flair (c) (with Mr. Perfect) to win the WWF Championship
Tatanka defeated Rick Martel
WWF Tag Team Championship Match: The Natural Disasters (Earthquake and Typhoon) defeated Money Inc. (Ted DiBiase and Irwin R. Schyster) (c) (with Jimmy Hart) by countout
Owen Hart defeated Skinner.
Hulk Hogan defeated Sid Justice (with Harvey Wippleman) by disqualification
WrestleMania 08
1992 in professional wrestling
20th century in Indiana
WrestleMania IX was a professional wrestling pay-per-view show made by World Wrestling Federation (WWF).
It was held on April 4, 1993 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
It was the ninth WrestleMania event held by the WWF.
The main event saw Yokozuna defeat Bret Hart to win the WWF Championship.
Yokozuna won the match by pinfall after Yokozuna's manager Mr. Fuji threw salt in Hart's eyes.
After the match, Hulk Hogan came down to the ring to check on Hart.
Mr. Fuji challenged Hogan to face Yokozuna in a impromptu match and Hogan accepted.
Hogan won the match and the championship in 22 seconds after he hit Yokozuna with the leg drop and pinned him.
WrestleMania IX received negative criticism and was called a poorly booked event.
John Powell of SLAM!
Wrestling said that other than the Intercontinental and Tag Team Championship matches and the women that accompanied Lex Luger to the ring, the rest of the pay-per-view was not good.
He also did not like some of the outfits that were worn at the event, most notably Jim Ross's toga and Giant Gonzalez's spray-painted suit.
Official WrestleMania IX website
WrestleMania 09
1993 in the United States
20th century in Nevada
1993 in professional wrestling
An airbag is a part of the safety restraint system in cars.
Airbags are bags that rapidly fill with air when an accident happens.
That way they can prevent injuries that occur when the driver hits a hard object.
An airbag is a useful vehicle safety device.
Airbags are used in the world increasingly because in accidents, it can help passengers reduce shock.
When the sensor feels a strong shock, the gas device explodes.
This gas fills the bag immediately.
History of airbags
An American inventor, Dr. Allen S. Breed, invented and developed a key component for automotive use.
Breed Corporation then marketed this innovation first in 1967 to Chrysler.
A similar "Auto-Ceptor" crash-restraint, brandon, developed by Eaton, Yale & Towne Inc. for Ford was soon offered as an automatic safety system in the USA.
The Italian Eaton-Livia company offered a variant with localized air cushions.
The first patent on an inflatable crash-landing device for airplanes was filed during World War II.
In 1973, the first commercial airbags appeared in a run of 1,000 Chevrolet Impalas.
Since model year 1998, all new cars sold in the United States have been required to have airbags on both driver and passenger sides.
To date, statistics show that airbags reduce the risk of dying in a direct frontal crash by about 30 percent.
Today, some cars have six or even eight airbags.
How airbags work
First, moving objects have momentum (the product of the mass and the velocity of an object).
If no outside force acts on an object, the object will continue to move at its present speed and direction (because of inertia).
Cars consist of several objects, including the vehicle itself, loose objects in the car and, of course, passengers.
If these objects are not restrained, they will continue moving at whatever speed the car is travelling at, even if the car is stopped by a collision.
Stopping an object's momentum requires force acting over a period of time.
When a car crashes, the force required to stop an object is very great because the car's momentum has changed instantly while the passengers' has not (there is not much time to work with).
The goal of any supplemental restraint system is to help stop the passenger while doing as little damage to them as possible.
What an airbag wants to do is to slow the passenger's speed to zero with little or no damage.
The constraints that it has to work within are huge.
The airbag has the space between the passenger and the steering wheel or dashboard and a fraction of a second to work with.
Even that tiny amount of space and time is valuable, however, if the system can slow the passenger evenly rather than forcing an abrupt halt to their motion.
Motorcycle airbag
In 2006 the airbag was set up for a motorcycle.
This was in the Gold Wing by Honda.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter is a 2004 book written by Jeff Lindsay.
It won the 2005 Dilys Award.
The television show Dexter was based on the book.
Dearly Devoted Dexter is a 2005 book written by Jeff Lindsay.
It is a sequel to the 2004 book Darkly Dreaming Dexter which the television show Dexter is based on.
Dexter in the Dark is a 2007 book written by Jeff Lindsay.
It is the third book in Lindsay's Dexter series.
History and name
Fugging (which was Fucking at the time) has existed since at least 1070 and is named after a man from the 6th century called "Fuko".
In old Germanic, "-ing" is used to describe people as belonging to their leader; so "Fucking" means "(place of) Fuko’s people."
Fucking's most famous feature is a traffic sign with its name on it, which tourists often photograph.
This street sign is often stolen.
Significant public funds have been spent on replacing the stolen signs.
In 2004, because many signs had been stolen, a vote was held to change the village name, but the villagers voted not to change.
In August 2005, the road signs were welded to a very strong pole.
This made it more difficult to steal them.
Fucking changed its name to Fugging, the name change came to affect on 1 January 2021.
Susan Featherly (February 5, 1963) is an American actress.
She is best known for her appearances in Cinemax television programs and adult movies such as Kama Sutra and Corporate Fantasy.
Featherly was born in Syracuse, New York.
Ravenscraig is an area of land in North Lanarkshire, Scotland.
It used to be the site for steelworks.
Ravenscraig used to have the largest steel mill in Western Europe.
Ravenscraig was closed in 1992, and is now almost completely gone.
Ravenscraig is very easy to get to.
More than two—thirds of Scotland’s population live within 90 minutes drive.
Another steel maker, Colvilles, decided to expand their business in July 1954.
They were the largest steel manufacturer before World War II.
In 1954, Colvilles began the first stages of development in Ravenscraig, that turned Ravenscraig from an empty field into a site for steelworks.
By 1957 most of the machinery was built and by 1959 the full building work was complete.
When Ravenscraig closed in 1993, that was the end of most steel making in Scotland.
770 jobs were lost, along with another 10,000 jobs, both directly and indirectly linked.
In its current state, Ravenscraig is one of the largest derelict sites in Europe measuring over 1125 acres in size.
Ravenscraig is the same size as an area of 700 football pitches and double the size of Monaco.
Part of the development will be to make new habitats for the wildlife that live in the area, such as deer, foxes, hares, otters, badgers, watervoles, butterflies and many birds.
An "Ecological Clerk of Works" has been appointed to make sure the building works do not harm the wildlife.
There are many people who disagree with the building work.
Many local residents and small businesses think that it will take jobs and customers from other towns.
As part of the changes, the transport to Ravenscraig will get better.
There will be new transport within walking distance of the new town centre, with buses going to Glasgow, Lanark and many other towns.
There will be easy access to public transport throughout Ravenscraig that will include business routes, that will link to the public transport network with roads to the Motherwell and Carfin rail stations.
Local press have said that the Scottish Premier League football team, Motherwell Football Club could buy some land in Ravenscraig to build a new football stadium, leaving behind their home of 113 years, Fir Park.
Motherwell Chairman, John Boyle has said "No decisions have been taken and we are simply exploring realistic options at this stage."
North Lanarkshire Council
Ronald Lawrence Wilson (born May 28, 1955) is a former ice hockey player.
He was the head coach of the Toronto Maple Leafs from 2008 to 2012.
He also was the coach for the San Jose Sharks, Washington Capitals, Vancouver Canucks, and Anaheim Mighty Ducks of the NHL.
Wilson was born in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
He is a citizen of both Canada and the United States.
The inner core is the very center of the Earth, and the hottest part of the planet.
It is a mainly a solid ball with a radius of about , according to seismological studies.
It is believed to consist mostly of an iron–nickel alloy and to be about the same temperature as the surface of the Sun: about 5700 K (5400 °C).
The inner core was discovered by Inge Lehmann in 1929, using seismology.
Lehmann was studying a large New Zealand earthquake.
An earthquake makes vibrations which move through the inside of the Earth.
The vibrations Lehmann studied seemed to be moving across something solid in the center of the planet.
She called this the inner core.
She wrote about it for many years, but it was not proved to exist until 1970.
The inner core is more than 5,000 kilometers below the earth's surface.
The pressure in Earth's inner core is about 3,500,000  atmospheres.
Iron can only be solid at such high temperatures because its melting temperature increases dramatically at such pressures.
| name = Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?
| type = Album
| artist = Megadeth
| released = September 19, 1986
| recorded = February 15 – March 20, 1986 in Los Angeles, California
| genre = Thrash metal
| length = 36:12
| label = Capitol Records
| producer = Dave Mustaine, Randy Burns
| prev_title = Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!(1985)
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| next_title = So Far, So Good... So What!(1988)
}}Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?'''
is the second studio album by thrash metal band Megadeth.
It was released on September 19, 1986.
Dave Mustaine wrote all of the songs except for "I Ain't Superstitious".
"Wake Up Dead" – 3:40
"The Conjuring" – 5:04
"Peace Sells" – 4:04
"Devil's Island" – 5:06
"Good Mourning/Black Friday" – 6:42
"Bad Omen" – 4:05
"I Ain't Superstitious" (Willie Dixon) – 2:46
"My Last Words" – 4:49
id:Andy Summers
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld" is a mix of a song by the ambient house group The Orb.
The song is about being in love with a beautiful person.
The song was at first a Minnie Riperton song called Lovin' You.
The Orbs version was first sold in October 1989 and was in the UK Singles Chart in 1990, at number 78.
In April 1991, it was sold as part of the album The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld.
The name is taken from a sound effects track from Blake's 7 on BBC Sound Effects No.
26 - Sci-Fi Sound Effects called "The Core, A Huge Evergrowing Pulsating Brain which Rules from the Centre of Ultraworld".
In 1989, The Orb, with Martin "Youth" Glover, developed the musical style of ambient house using samples.
The best of their musical work came when The Orb recorded music for John Peel on BBC Radio 1.
The song, then known as "Loving You", was made quickly with many sound effects and samples from science fiction radio plays, nature sounds, and Minnie Riperton's "Lovin' You".
Before the song was sold by record company Big Life, The Orb changed the name to "A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules From the Centre of the Ultraworld".
After the first week of sale Minnie Ripertons record company forced Big Life to remove her voice from the song.
After the first week another singer sang the song.
12": WAU!
Mr.Modo / MWS 17T (UK)
"Loving You [orbital mix]" (19:07)
"Loving You [bucket and spade mix]" (5:50)
"Loving You [why is six scared of seven?]" (
5:30)
Mr.Modo / MWS 017R (UK)
"A Huge Ever Growing Remix (orbital dance mix)" (7:05)
"A Huge Ever Growing Remix (orbital radio mix)" (3:34)
"A Huge Ever Growing Remix (aubry mix mk 2)" (8:38)
First sold January 1990
CD: Big Life / BLR 27 OCD (UK)
Called "compactdisc"
First sold June 1990, re-issued March 1994 [BLRDB 27]
CD: Big Life / BLR 27CD (UK)
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain... (orbital dance mix)" (8:20)
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain... (orbital 9am radio mix)" (3:15)
"A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain... (aubrey mix mk1)" (6:06)
Labeled as "Jimmy Cauty Remixes"
"aubrey mix mk1" is an edit of "aubrey mix mk11"
Called "Compactdisco"
First sold June 1990, re-issued March 1994 [BLRDA 27]
1989 songs
Hermann Carl Vogel (born April 3 1841, died August 13 1907) was a German astronomer.
He was born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony.
Vogel was one of the first astronomers to use a spectroscope in astronomy.
He used it to read the chemicals on planets far away and to measure the time it takes the Sun to spin.
He could read it by measuring the Doppler effect.
In 1882, Vogel became the Director at the Astrophysical Observatory Potsdam and he is best known for some work there in 1890.
Vogel found that the colour of some stars changed over time, becoming red and then later becoming blue.
His idea was that the star was moving toward and then away from the Earth, and that the colour changes were the because of that movement.
These stars seemed to be orbiting around a hidden star as if they were double-stars but the second star could never be seen, only known by the colour changing Doppler effect.
Medals of Hermann Carl Vogel
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1893)
Henry Draper Medal (1893)
Landskroener Medal of Achievement (1898)
Richard C. White Purple Honors Medal (1899)
Bruce Medal (1906)
Places in space named after Hermann Carl Vogel
Vogel crater on the Moon
Crater on Mars
Algol, also known as the Demon Star, is a bright star in the Perseus constellation.
It is one of the best known double stars that can only be seen in spectroscopes, the first star of its type discovered, and one of the first variable stars  to be discovered before it explodes.
Algol is made of three stars (Beta Persei A, B and C) and the brightest is Persei A. These stars partly eclipse each other every 2 days, 20 hours and 49 minutes for 10 hours.
| name = So Far, So Good... So What!
| released = January 19, 1988
| recorded = 1987
| length = 34:26
| producer = Dave Mustaine, Paul Lani
| prev_title = Peace Sells... but Who's Buying?(1986)
, So Good... So What!(1988)
| next_title = Rust in Peace(1990)
}}So Far, So Good... So What!'''
is the third studio album by thrash metal band Megadeth.
It was released on January 19, 1988.
"Into the Lungs of Hell" [Instrumental] (Dave Mustaine) – 3:22
"Set the World Afire" (Mustaine) – 5:48
"Anarchy in the UK" (song first made by the Sex Pistols) (Johnny Rotten, Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, Paul Cook)  – 3:01
"Mary Jane" (Mustaine, David Ellefson) – 4:25
"502" (Mustaine) – 3:29
"In My Darkest Hour" (Mustaine, Ellefson) – 6:26
"Liar" (Mustaine, Ellefson) – 3:20
"Hook in Mouth" (Mustaine, Ellefson) – 4:39
The subclass Lissamphibia includes all living amphibians.
They are classified in three orders:
the Anura: frogs, including toads
the Caudata or Urodela: salamanders, including newts
the Gymnophiona or Apoda: the limbless caecilians.
Although the ancestry of each group is controversial, all share certain common characteristics.
This indicates they evolved from a common ancestor and so form a clade.
NRG Stadium is a football stadium in Houston, Texas.
The NFL's Houston Texans play their home games here.
It was called Reliant Stadium from 2002 until 2013.
The stadium hosted WWE's WrestleMania 25 on April 5, 2009.
On March 19, 2014, the stadium's name was changed to NRG Stadium, after NRG Energy, the parent company of Reliant Energy.
Buildings and structures in Houston, Texas
Sports buildings in Texas
Bop It is a series of battery-powered games made by Hasbro.
The aim of the game is to respond quickly to the directions that come out of the game's speakers.
These directions are given in a way that requires the player do use different devices on the machine, such as pull handles, twist cranks, spin wheels, or toggle switches.
A beat is played during the game and the beat will get faster as the player scores more points, making it harder for the player to respond.
Bop It can be played by one to four people at a time and has been very popular as a children's game.
It was designed by Dan Klistner  and developed by other Hasbro designers, including Bob Welch.
The original version was released in 1996, and there have been several versions made since then.
The current classic version was released in 2016 to mark the 20th anniversary of the original game.
It was demonstrated at the New York Toy Fair in 2016 before the game was released in June 2016.
It is called Bop It!
New Moves.
Since 2008, the voice in the games has been Buddy Rubino.
He has recorded the voice for Bop It!,
Bop It!
XT, Bop It!
Smash!,
Tetris and Bop It!
Re-Release Series (Featuring Buddy Rubino as the Main Voice for Bop It, Twist It Pull It Games) (2008+)
Shout ( made in 2008 - released in 2009)
Bounce (made in 2009 - released in 2010)
XT (Made in 2010 - released in 2011)
Smash (2012)
Tetris (2013)
Beats (2014)
Micro (2014)
R2D2 (2015)
with 10 New Moves (Made in 2015 - released in (2016)
BB8 (2016)
Bop It Maker (2017)
Bop It Classic (2019)
Baby Yoda (2020)
Original Series (1996-2006)
Bop It (1996)
Bop It (2000)
Bop It Extreme (1998)
Bop It Extreme 2 (2002)
Bratz Bop It (2004), a Bratz version
Bop It Blast (2005)
Bop It Download (2006)
Zing It
Zing It is a yo-yo version of Bop It.
It tells commands that the player must follow along with.
Like the original Bop It, there are three commands that may be said: "Bop it!" (
requiring the player to press the purple button), "Zing it!" (
requiring the player to drop the yo-yo downward and send it back up again), and "Loop it!" (
requiring the player to do the "'round the world" yo-yo trick).
Zing It has 3 modes: "Vox Bop" (as with Bop It), "Beat Bop" (again, as with Bop It), and "Vox Bop Challenge" (where the game will tell a series of commands which must be done in correctly).
As with Bop It and Bop It Extreme, Zing It announces the score musically by sound effects.
Different tones represent different point values.
There is a maximum score of 250.
In 2009, EA Games made a video game called Hasbro Family Games Night 2.
It had Bop It as one of the games that could be played.
It is available for the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo Wii.
In 2011, EA Games made an iPhone application which played exactly like the handheld game.
It has the same commands from the handheld games and added extra commands which were never invented on the handheld game.
Bop It instructions
Zing It Instructions
Shamanism is a practice where a practitioner reaches altered states of consciousness.
Supposedly,  the shaman  perceives and interacts with a spirit world, and channels these  energies into this world.
A shaman is a person regarded as having access to, and influence in, the world of good and bad spirits.
They usually enter into a trance state during a ritual, and do divination and healing.
To become a shaman, a person has to have had a near death experience (a "shamanic illness").
Spirits are real and can do things in the real world.
There are good and evil spirits.
Healing can be done in the spirit and real world.
A person's spirit can leave their body and go into the world of the spirits.
Animal shapes are used to interact with the spirits.
Quantum Men (Carlos Serrano Azcona) Spain 2011
Other Worlds (Jan Kounen) France 2004
Bells From the Deep (Werner Herzog) Germany 1993
The Mad Masters (Jean Rouch) France 1955
Au pays des mages noirs (Jean Rouch) France 1947
John 'Jocky' Alexander Scott (born January 14, 1948 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish football manager and former player.
He is currently the manager of Dundee F.C.
A real-time operating system (RTOS; commonly pronounced as "are-toss") is a multitasking operating system designed for real-time applications.
Such applications include embedded systems, industrial robots, scientific research equipment and others.
Real-time operating systems use specialized scheduling algorithms in order to provide the real-time applications.
An RTOS can respond more quickly and/or predictably to an event than other operating systems.
Event-driven (priority scheduling) designs: switch tasks only when an event of higher priority needs service, called pre-emptive priority.
Time-sharing designs: switch tasks on a clock interrupt, and on events, called round robin.
These are the best known, most widely used real-time operating systems.
See List of real-time operating systems for a full list.
Also, see List of operating systems for all types of operating systems.
Rate-monotonic scheduling
Adaptive Partition Scheduler
Earliest deadline first scheduling
Rage is a heavy metal band from Germany.
They have been playing since 1984.
Today, only Peavy Wagner is the only member in the band who has been playing since the beginning.
At first they were called Avenger.
Under the name Avenger
Prayers of Steel (1985)
Depraved to Black (EP, 1985)
Reign of Fear (1986)
Execution Guaranteed (1987)
Perfect Man (1988)
Secrets in a Weird World (1989)
Reflections of a Shadow (1990)
Trapped (1992)
The Missing Link (1993)
10 Years in Rage (1994)
Black In Mind (1995)
Lingua Mortis (1996)
End of All Days (1996)
XIII (1998)
Ghosts (1999)
Welcome to the Other Side (2001)
Unity (2002)
Soundchaser (2003)
Speak of the Dead (2006)
Carved in Stone (2008)
Strings to a Web (2010)
21 (2012)
The Devil Strikes Again (2016)
Extended Power (1991)
Beyond the Wall (1992)
Refuge (Japan) (1993)
Higher than the Sky (Japan) (1996)
Live from the Vault (Japan) (1997)
Power of Metal (Live, 1994)
From the Cradle to the Stage (Live, 2004)
Full Moon in St. Petersburg (Live, 2007)
Egon Schiele (12 June 1890 – 31 October 1918) (, or SHEE-luh) was a painter from Austria.
Some people see his work as expressionist, but also in the art nouveau movement.
With Gustav Klimt and Oskar Kokoschka, he was among the most important artists of Wiener Moderne.
The most important collection of Schiele's work is in the Leopold Museum in Vienna.
A reduced instruction set computing (acronym RISC pronounced risk), represents a CPU design method to simplify instructions which "do less" but provide higher performance by making instructions execute very fast.
RISC was developed as an alternative to what is now known as CISC.
However, there are CPU designs other than RISC and CISC.
Some examples are VLIW, MISC, OISC, massive parallel processing, systolic array, reconfigurable computing, and dataflow architecture.
Instruction level parallelism (ILP) which increases the rate at which instructions are executed within a CPU
Thread level parallelism (TLP)  which increases the number of threads the CPU can execute "in-parallel".
Uniform instruction format, using a single word with the opcode in the same bit positions in every instruction, requiring less decoding.
Similar general purpose registers, allowing any register to be used by any method, simplifying compiler design.
However most RISC CPUs have separate floating point registers.
Simple addressing modes.
Complex addressing performed via sequences of arithmetic and/or load-store operations.
Few data types in hardware.
Some CISCs have byte string instructions, or support complex numbers, which are almost never found on a RISC.
Instruction set architecture
What is RISC
RISC vs. CISC from historical perspective
A complex instruction set computer (acronym CISC pronounced sisk), represents a CPU design method in which each instruction can execute several low-level operations, such as a load from memory, an arithmetic operation, and a memory store, all in a single instruction.
The term is used in contrast to reduced instruction set computer (RISC).
The terms RISC and CISC have become less meaningful with the continued improvements of both CISC and RISC designs and implementations.
The first highly pipelined "CISC" implementations, such as Intel 80486 series, supports every instruction that their predecessors did, but achieved high efficiency only on a few simple x86 subset (similar to a RISC instruction set, but without the load-store limitations of RISC).
Modern x86 processors also decode and split more complex instructions into a series of smaller internal "Micro-operations" which can thereby be executed in a pipelined (parallel) fashion, thus achieving high performance on a much larger subset of instructions.
ZISC
VLIW
microprocessor
CPU design
Running a program step by step (single-stepping),
Stopping (breaking) (pausing the program to examine the current state) at some kind of event by means of breakpoint (a place for stopping or pausing in a program),
Tracking; which means following the values of some variables,
Some debuggers can change a program while it is running; some only watch it.
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra is a digital radio station from the BBC.
It is broadcast on digital radio services and digital TV in the UK and Republic of Ireland.
It is not available on normal analogue radio.
It is also streamed online, however, some events are not available online, or outside the UK.
Each year during Wimbledon Sports Extra provides extra court commentary for the first week of the tournament.
The station also provides live coverage of the non-final rounds of the other Grand Slam tournaments.
The station first broadcast at 2.30pm on 2 February 2002.
Juliette Ferrington introduced the first programme - commentary of a Manchester United against Sunderland football match.
5 Live Sports Extra
In computing, firmware is a computer program that is "embedded" in a hardware device and is an essential part of the hardware.
It is sometimes called embedded software.
An example is a microcontroller, a part of the microprocessor that tells the microprocessor what actions to take.
It can also be a larger program stored on flash memory, or uploaded onto existing hardware by a user.
As its name suggests, firmware is somewhere between hardware and software, connecting the two worlds.
It can mean slightly different things to different people, especially as stand-alone electronic devices become more like computers.
Like software, it is a computer program which is run by a microprocessor.
But it is also linked to a piece of hardware and has no meaning without it.
On a Computer
A computer can have both firmware and software.
The firmware is permanently stored in the computer, such as the BIOS, and cannot be easily changed or added to.
Software, even the OS, can be replaced by reformatting the hard drive.
Software includes the applications that a person operating a computer sees, like a web browser or a word processor.
Sometimes a device driver is called firmware, since it is needed to run that piece of hardware, like a printer or a video card.
The device driver is on the main part of the computer and can be easily updated (if an update exists).
On an Electronic Device
Other electronic devices may not look like a computer, but they still have an embedded system such as a microcontroller inside, with a program telling them what to do.
This is also firmware.
A TV cable box, an elevator controller and a card reader in a hotel door lock all run firmware.
In this case, the firmware is the only software on the device and it runs everything, from handling button presses to turning motors on or off.
In the past, firmware was stored in ROMs but now it is often stored in media that can be written to such as EEPROMs and Flash.
Firmware in many machines such as routers can now be updated without any special hardware, other than a computer and a USB cable.
This is done by downloading a new version from the World Wide Web to update the device, using instructions from the device manufacturer.
An electronic device is said to be "bricked" if it cannot be started because of firmware issues.
It is then as useful as a brick.
Loading the wrong firmware into a device might cause this.
Firmware is stored as a binary image file.
The BIOS found in IBM-compatible Personal Computers
Code inside a printer (in addition to the printer driver that is on the computer)
Software controlling a heart defibrillator
Software controlling the lights in an office building
Software controlling electronics in a car — the radio, the ABS (anti-lock braking system), engine controls, etc.
Software controlling newer household appliances (microwave ovens, dishwashers, etc.)
Tropical Storm Edouard was a tropical storm that formed in the Gulf of Mexico.
A weather system became still in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico in early August.
An area of low pressure formed along the shear line early on August 2, which slowly became stronger during the next day.
It strengthened into Tropical Depression Five, and was named Tropical Storm Edouard on August 3.
The tropical storm moved towards the west on August 4.
It moved onto land on August 5 on the upper Texas coast, about 40 miles southwest of Port Arthur and moved west-northwest into inland Texas.
Edouard died out over land and became a tropical depression late on August 5.
The depression turned to the northwest, causing heavy rain in central Texas on August 6.
In preparations for the storm, emergency teams along the Louisiana and Texas coasts became active.
The Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, started a disaster declaration for 17 counties in Texas that were in the possible path of the storm.
He also activated around 1,200 National Guard troops, a 70 member rescue team, six helicopters, and a team that brings food and water to affected areas.
About 200 buses became ready for use in San Antonio and Houston to help in evacuations.
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal declared a statewide emergency.
In Cameron Parish, Louisiana, the Office of Emergency Preparedness started a mandatory evacuation, and Sheriff's deputies put up roadblocks.
In the Gulf of Mexico, the Shell Oil company removed about 40 workers from drilling locations.
Storm surge from the storm reached  at Freshwater Locks in Louisiana, and also reached  at Rollover Pass in Texas.
Heavy rain fell along the upper Texas coast.
The highest rainfall in Jefferson county from Edouard was  from a site along the East Bay Bayou at Jones and Allen.
In the Houston, Texas area,  of rain faell at the Baytown Emergency Management Center.
In central Texas, a cluster of thunderstorms near the center of the storm on August 6 caused  of rain near Hamilton, Texas.
The strongest winds of  at the caused loss of electric power and a few fallen trees.
Immunity aware programming is a set of programming techniques used while writing firmware for an embedded system.
It is used mainly to overcome random errors that can occur in the CPU program counter or register set, RAM or any other that can cause failure of the "victim" device.
Such random errors may be caused by single event upsets, not enough power, or by strong electromagnetic signals transmitted by some other "source" device.
Most of these techniques apply to the software in the "victim" device to make it more reliable while few of these techniques apply to software in the "source" device to make it send out less unwanted noise.
For these reasons Immunity aware programming is one kind of:
EMC Aware Programming.
In algebra, the discriminant, sometimes represented by the symbol , is an algebraic expression used to determine the number of roots a polynomial have.
is       .
A single event upset (SEU) is a change of state caused by a low-energy ions or electro-magnetic or nuclear radiation or any other kind of interferences that can reach (called "strike") a sensitive node in a micro-electronic device, such as in a microprocessor, semiconductor memory, or power transistors.
The error in the device output or operation caused as a result of the strike is called a SEU or a soft error.
The SEU itself is not considered permanent damage to the transistor's, circuits' or devices'.
Chris Gbandi is a football player.
He plays for Haugesund and Liberia national team.
|2002||rowspan="3"|Dallas Burn||rowspan="3"|Major League Soccer||0||0
|2003||22||1
|2004||23||0
|2005||rowspan="3"|Dallas||rowspan="3"|Major League Soccer||17||1
|2006||28||0
|2007||21||1
|2008||Haugesund||First Division||||
Liberian footballers
Matthew Wolfenden is a football player.
He plays for F.C. United of Manchester.
He has also played for Oldham Athletic and Wrexham.
Ghanaian footballers
Hristo Stoichkov (born 8 February 1966) is a former Bulgarian football player.
He has played for Bulgaria national team.
|1982/83||rowspan="2"|Hebros Harmanli||||11||4||||||||||||||11||4
|1983/84||||21||10||||||||||||||21||10
|1984/85||rowspan="6"|CSKA Sofia||rowspan="6"|A PFG||11||0||||||||||||||11||0
|1985/86||0||0||||||||||||||0||0
|1986/87||25||6||||||||||||||25||6
|1987/88||27||14||||||||||||||27||14
|1988/89||26||23||||||||||||||26||23
|1989/90||30||38||||||||||||||30||38
|1990/91||rowspan="5"|Barcelona||rowspan="5"|La Liga||24||14||6||2||colspan="2"|-||8||5||38||21
|1991/92||32||17||2||1||colspan="2"|-||9||4||43||22
|1992/93||34||20||6||2||colspan="2"|-||6||2||46||24
|1993/94||34||16||6||1||colspan="2"|-||8||7||48||24
|1994/95||27||9||4||5||colspan="2"|-||8||3||39||17
|1995/96||Parma||Serie A||23||5||2||0||colspan="2"|-||5||2||30||7
|1996/97||rowspan="2"|Barcelona||rowspan="2"|La Liga||22||7||6||1||colspan="2"|-||6||0||34||8
|1997/98||4||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||3||1||8||1
|1997/98||CSKA Sofia||A PFG||4||1||||||||||||||4||1
|1997/98||Al-Nasr||||5||1||||||||||||||5||1
|1998||rowspan="2"|Kashiwa Reysol||rowspan="2"|J. League 1||16||8||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||17||8
|1999||11||4||0||0||1||1||colspan="2"|-||12||5
|2000||rowspan="3"|Chicago Fire||rowspan="3"|Major League Soccer||18||9||3||1||||||||||21||10
|2001||17||6||3||2||||||||||20||8
|2002||16||2||0||0||||||||||16||2
|2003||DC United||Major League Soccer||21||5||3||1||||||||||24||6
|1986||1||1
|1989||8||1
|1991||3||2
|1992||5||2
|1994||11||9
|1995||7||7
|1996||5||5
Total||83||37
Bulgarian footballers
Bulgarian football managers
Sandy Martens is a football player.
|1993-94||Olsa Brakel||||30||18
|1994-95||rowspan="5"|Gent||rowspan="5"|First Division||31||10
|1995-96||32||9
|1996-97||30||6
|1997-98||22||6
|1998-99||28||8
|1999-00||rowspan="5"|Brugge||rowspan="5"|First Division||29||4
|2000-01||31||8
|2001-02||26||5
|2002-03||30||14
|2003-04||15||2
|2003-04||rowspan="4"|Gent||rowspan="4"|First Division||11||0
|2004-05||3||1
|2005-06||28||2
|2006-07||7||1
|2007-08||Beveren||Second Division||26||5
|2008-09||Oudenaarde||Third Division||||
C. B. Fry is a former sportsman.
He played Cricket and football for England.
He played in an FA Cup Final.
Fry held a world record for long jump for many years.
He also played Rugby union.
Later in his life, he was a writer and diplomat.
He was asked to become king of Albania, but refused it.
|1901||1||0
Egil Olsen is a former football player.
Total||16||0
Franck Queudrue (born 27 August 1978) is a football player.
He plays for Birmingham City.
|1999-00||rowspan="3"|Lens||rowspan="3"|Division 1||16||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||7||0||23||1
|2000-01||22||1||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||22||1
|2001-02||2||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||2||0
|2001-02||rowspan="5"|Middlesbrough||rowspan="5"|Premier League||28||2||6||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||34||2
|2002-03||31||1||1||0||1||1||colspan="2"|-||33||2
|2003-04||31||0||2||0||7||0||colspan="2"|-||40||0
|2004-05||31||5||2||0||1||0||9||0||43||5
|2005-06||29||3||3||0||3||0||14||0||49||3
|2006-07||Fulham||Premier League||29||1||3||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||32||1
|2007-08||rowspan="2"|Birmingham City||Premier League||16||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||17||0
|2008-09||League Championship||||||||||||||||||||
Sportspeople from Paris
Craig Bellamy (born 13 July 1979) is a Welsh football player.
He plays for Manchester City and Wales national team.
He was part of the Great Britain squad at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
|1996/97||rowspan="5"|Norwich City||rowspan="5"|First Division||3||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||3||0
|1997/98||36||13||1||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||38||13
|1998/99||40||17||0||0||5||2||colspan="2"|-||45||19
|1999/00||4||2||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||4||2
|2000/01||1||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0
|2000/01||Coventry City||Premier League||34||6||2||1||3||1||colspan="2"|-||39||8
|2001/02||rowspan="4"|Newcastle United||rowspan="4"|Premier League||27||9||3||0||3||4||6||1||39||14
|2002/03||29||7||1||0||0||0||6||2||36||9
|2003/04||16||5||0||0||0||0||8||5||24||10
|2004/05||21||7||1||0||2||0||5||3||29||10
|2004/05||Celtic||Premier League||12||7||3||2||0||0||colspan="2"|-||15||9
|2005/06||Blackburn Rovers||Premier League||27||13||1||2||4||2||colspan="2"|-||32||17
|2006/07||Liverpool||Premier League||27||7||0||0||2||0||12||2||41||9
|2007/08||rowspan="2"|West Ham United||rowspan="2"|Premier League||8||2||0||0||1||2||colspan="2"|-||9||4
|2008/09||16||5||1||0||0||0||colspan="2"|-||17||5
|2008/09||rowspan="2"|Manchester City||rowspan="2"|Premier League||8||3||0||0||0||0||3||2||11||5
|1998||4||2
|2002||3||2
Total||58||17
Derlei is a football player.
He plays for Sporting Portugal.
|1999-00||rowspan="3"|Leiria||rowspan="3"|Portuguese League||26||8
|2000-01||32||13
|2001-02||33||21
|2002-03||rowspan="3"|Porto||rowspan="3"|Portuguese League||26||7
|2003-04||18||12
|2004-05||13||10
|2005||rowspan="2"|Dynamo Moscow||rowspan="2"|Russian League||23||13
|2006||18||7