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Question: Should I have a rhinoplasty?
Answer: That question is a bit open ended. Obviously, rhinoplasty is not something you just dive into. You should base your decision upon long-term thinking and desire rather than a short-term whimsical idea. If you have functional breathing problems or other issues, you might get part of the procedure covered by insurance. The best thing to do is to discuss this desire with a board-certified facial plastic surgeon who is skilled at helping you achieve your cosmetic desires but also by either improving or maintaining your nasal airway. Since facial plastic surgeons have as much knowledge inside as outside the nose, they are well skilled to help you achieve all of your nasal goals.

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Scotland Yard Interactive: Rare board game on CD-i
>> Saturday, November 6, 2010
UK based AVM AG/HQ delivered Scotland Yard Interactive on CD-i in 1993 before they went on developing Master Labyrinth on CD-i, both licensed Ravensburger projects which, just like MB, made a deal with Philips to support the new CD-i format. Scotland Yard however was only published in the United Kingdom so in the end it is a very rare CD-i game to get hold of. Very few people have played it on CD-i (Don't confuse it with the multiplatform Scotland Yard game made by Cryo in 1998).
it is based on the popular board game. You can play two modes, either ''classic'' or ''London Special''. You also have a multiplayer option. If playing by yourself, the aim of the game is to catch Robi X by using various modes of transport around London. You can play as various characters, for example Miss Marple, Sherlock Holmes and the game features plenty of still images from London. From the box: "Mr. X, London's most wanted baddie, is still on the loose! Was that him, fitting up Farringdon? Or sipping into the Zoo? Or bounding up Bond Street? Scotland Yard detectives are at their wits end and are desperate for your help. This is your big chance! Can you track down Mr. X? If you haven't 'nailed' him by the time your quota of taxi, tube and bus tickets runs out, he's free to continue his evil career of crime! Scotland Yard is the fascinating CD-i version of the classic board game. You cover London in the chase, learning about one of the world's greatest cities, through photographs and animated graphics. You can zero in on your chosen disctrict, pursuing Mr. X from Maida Vale to the Oval, from Kensington Gardens to Clerkenwell Green. You can play with friends, with or without Robi the game computer, or play on your own with Robi as your opponent. So get on the case now. The meter's running and the heat is on!"
In Scotland Yard Interactive by AVM AG HQ GmbH and Philips Interactive Entertainment, One player takes the part of Mr. X and slinks around the city, leaving clues for the others who are the Scotland Yard detective team. Was the elusive Mr. X last seen at Buckingham Palace or Madame Tussaud's? Did he travel by bus or taxi? Strategy skills and teamwork will help Scotland Yard players trap Mr. X and win the game. If, on the other hand, Mr. X manages to escape capture, he wins!
The game makes use of the same kind of animations you see in the cutscenes of Mutant Rampage, Hotel Mario and Link: Faces of Evil. It's the same technique as Philips Sidewalk Studios relied heavily on in its CD-i games, and it is a clever choice for a base case CD-i game (so you don't need a Digital Video cartridge)
The main map is in 2D and is very much like the board game. It shows more than 100 stations in the city that can be reached by taxi, bus or underground. Each type of transportation costs you a ticket. One player takes the part of Mr. X and goes around the city, leaving clues for the others, who are the Scotland Yard detective team. If Mr. X manages to escape, he wins. The detectives have to plan different routes to surround Mr. X and try to cut off his lines to escape. To make things difficult for the detectives, they only have a limited number of tickets, and when they run out of a ticket type, they cannot use that mode of transport anymore.
The CD-i version is a nice recreation of the board game and requires strategic planning. It is one of the few (perhaps the only) CD-i games that you can play with 6 (!) players. You can play either as Mr. X or detective, solo against the computer or with friends. It has to be said the CD-i game is a bit slow in places and will require a few seconds loading time between every turn. When you play against the computer you'll quickly find the same routes and hints all over again, and it's definitily more fun to play with 5 other friends.


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For the fourth consecutive week the Flying Dutchmen on Saturday, Sept. 22, will be playing an undefeated opponent. Hope hosts Illinois Wesleyan University at Holland Municipal Stadium. Kickoff will be 1 p.m.
The game will broadcast on 92.7THEVAN and streamed on the internet.
The nationally ranked Illinois Wesleyan Titans bring a 2-0 record to Holland while the Flying Dutchmen will be seeking to snap a two-game losing streak. The series started in 1992 with Illinois Wesleyan owning a 7-1 advantage, including a 35-0 victory a year ago. With an enrollment of 2,050 students, Illinois Wesleyan is a member of the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW). The Titans this week are ranked 15th in the Division III poll of the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA). Hope is coming off a record-setting 63-47 loss to Concordia-Chicago. Illinois Wesleyan did not play last Saturday. Two weeks ago the Titans defeated MIAA member Alma 53-7.
Quarterback Michael Atwell is the MIAA Offensive Player of the Week. A junior from Geneseo, Ill. (Geneseo HS), Mike completed 27-of-53 passes for a career-high 445 yards and five touchdowns in Hope's game against Concordia, Ill. last Saturday. He also had a rushing touchdown in the game.
Junior tailback Shawn Jackson Comstock Park (Comstock Park HS) is closing in on a career milestone. Last Saturday he rushed for 159 yards to raise his career total to 1,637 yards. His career total ranks 11th on Hope's alltime rushing list. The tenth best career total is 1,715 yards by Bill Blacquiere from 1974-77. The alltime career leader is Brandon Graham who rushed for 4,362 yards from 1995-97. Over his career Shawn has rushed for over 100 yards in nine games, including twice this season.
Beyond The Game: Hope athletic teams at their home contests this week are observing Cancer Awareness Week. All proceeds from fund raising initiatives are going to the Hope Cancer Research Fund in support of student researchers. … The pre-game Saturda will include a celebration of the improvements made to Holland Municipal Stadium and the anticipated transfer of ownership of the stadium from the City of Holland to Hope College. President Jim Bultman and Holland Mayor Kurt Dykstra will offer remarks. Hope's first game at Holland Municipal Stadium was a 20-2 victory over Wabash on September 15, 1979… The Commisisoner's Cup of the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association (MIAA) will be formally presented to Hope at halftime by MIAA Commissioner David Neilson. The Commissioner's Cup is presented annually to the MIAA-member college that has the best cumulative performance in all the league's sports for men and women. Hope has won the Cup 12 consecutive years. The dedication of Hope's new Vande Poel-Heeringa Stadium Tennis Courts will follow the football game


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Sentara expert responds to use of e-cigarettes
Smoking remains the single biggest cause of preventable death in the United States. With more than 480,000 deaths attributed to tobacco use, there are ever-increasing efforts to get people to quit smoking. One method commonly used by smokers to help them quit is the use of e-cigarettes, devices that allow users to ingest nicotine at varying levels without the use of tobacco.
Recent news coverage highlights the significant increase – threefold in one year – of teens using e-cigarettes and vaping devices. The Oxford English Dictionary even made 'vaping' its 'Word of the Year' for 2014. But there remain some troubling aspects to the growing use of an as-yet unregulated product that is becoming more accessible across America.
Smoking cessation specialists at Sentara are concerned about the increasing use of these smoking alternatives among teens and young adults.


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I turned to Melanie Phillips's Diary for her note on the comments on Israel by former Prime Minister Aznar. (Thanks to reader Joel Goldberg.) At the top of Phillips's diary, however, I found her account of the interview of Kennedy School Professor Stephen Walt by Robert Fisk in today's Independent: "The stars and spites." The heading of Fisk's column on Walt is "The United States of Israel." The column is behind the Independent's subscription wall.
Why is Walt avoiding interviews with American commentators while continuing his attacks on the "Israel Lobby" with friendly journalists in foreign newspapers? In addition to other unlovely attributes on display in the "Israel Lobby" paper that Walt co-authored with John Mearsheimer, I'm beginning to think that Walt is a coward as well.


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Happy New Year to all of our readers! Are you ready to say goodbye to the '00 decade? We're gearing up for an exciting year here at Product Girl, but first we need to talk about the best and greatest beauty that 2009 had to offer… and a few products we brought with us into the new year from 2008. We're starting it all off with our favorite lip and eye products.
Remember when we first talked about Obsessive Compulsive Lip Tars? If you haven't tried them yet, you're really missing out. With these liquid lip colors, you can play makeup artist and create a custom shade just for you.
CoverGirl Outlast Lip Stains stole our heart this year. With their great range of shades and their wallet friendly price, they are so hard to resist! Plus the felt tip point to these stains do double duty as lip color and lip liner. Did you pick some up this year?
Continuing on with the liquid lip color, Chanel Rouge Allure Laque was a big hit with us this year. This one delivers on all fronts; long lasting, richly pigmented and feels weightless on the lips. Plus it looks oh so glamorous in your makeup up.
Laura Mercier Lip Velvet is the last liquid lip color we'll badger you with. Laura Mercier's is a little different from the Chanel Rouge Allure Lacque, it goes on a bit thicker but feels so cushy on and gives the same long lasting, richly pigmented color that we love.
We have gotten well acquainted with Lipstick Queen Chinatown Glossy Pencils this year. They have been my go-to lip color when I don't feel like wearing a lot of color and/or dealing with a lip gloss. As I mentioned, it does a great job of giving me sheer color and keeping my lips moist.
Shu Uemura's Rouge Unlimited Supreme Shine is a major fave around here. I know, we keep telling you. But this formula stands out in a big way with it's moisturizing properties and dewy shine. Once you try it, we think you'll be in love with it just like we are.
We think Stila really shined with its Smudge Pots this year, especially the Stila Kitten Smudge Pot. It's shimmery champagne goodness is the perfect eye base and brightener. It might be our favorite of the whole "kitten" family.
NARS Brumes Eyeshadow duo is meant for blue-eyed girls! It consists of the most smooth matte charcoal and shimmery blue slate colors, and makes for an amazing smokey eye that really pops.
The Style Black collection was a highlight for us this year – the Greasepaint Stick especially. It's a great base, a great liner and it performs! No smudging – unless you want it to! – and it even has a built-in sharpener, which is perfect when you want to get a finer tip to line.
For as many mascaras as we try, Cover Girl Lash Blast seems to always have a home in our makeup bag. It delivers consistent results and plumps up our lashes effortlessly.
Now you tell us, what are your favorite eye and lip products of 2009?


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Premier League: Hull City 1 Newcastle United 4
Pardew's men produced a fine performance to secure their first league win over Hull since 1990, a result that keeps the Yorkshire club in the relegation mix.
But it is Pardew's antics that will grab the headlines after he clashed with Hull midfielder Meyler in a sideline confrontation between the pair.
The Newcastle boss is likely to face disciplinary action in the aftermath of the result, having avoided a charge for a touchline row with Manuel Pellegrini in January.
Moussa Sissoko converted from Mathieu Debuchy's cross to give Newcastle the lead, which was doubled by in-form striker Loic Remy in the closing stages of the first half.
Hull pulled one back through Curtis Davies, only for Sissoko and Vurnon Anita to make sure of the points, though Pardew grabbed the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Mapou Yanga-Mbiwa was named in the Newcastle defence in the absence of captain Fabricio Coloccini, and it was the visitors who made the better start to proceedings, Yoan Gouffran firing narrowly wide early on with a drive from the edge of the area.
Hull would have taken the lead inside nine minutes if not for the reflexes of Newcastle goalkeeper Tim Krul, who produced a fine double save to deny Alex Bruce 's header and Shane Long's close-range follow-up.
The Dutchman's heroics were rewarded less than 30 seconds later when Sissoko turned Debuchy's low right-wing cross into the top corner with an emphatic finish.
The hosts almost responded immediately as Long headed just over the crossbar from Liam Rosenior's delivery and Nikica Jelavic wasted a similar opportunity.
Hull continued to create the better chances but were denied by the woodwork after 35 minutes when Jelavic's curling free-kick was deflected against the bar, before Ahmed Elmohamady nodded Long's magnificent cross wide of the mark.
And Hull were made to pay for their profligacy three minutes prior to the interval, Remy capitalising on a horrendous backpass from Figueroa by rounding goalkeeper Allan McGregor and slotting into the empty net.
Steve Bruce's side were quick out of the blocks in the second half and instantly pulled one back following the restart as Davies headed home Huddlestone's inswinging free-kick.
But Hull's defensive struggles undermined their attacking ambition, with Newcastle's two-goal advantage restored on 55 minutes when Sissoko tapped home a rebound from Gouffran's shot, finishing off a counter-attack that he had started.
Newcastle then looked to push for a fourth, Luuk de Jong going close to his first the club before Remy was brilliantly denied by a flying save from McGregor.
However, the game took an ugly turn in the 72nd minute when former Sunderland midfielder Meyler clashed with Pardew, whose inexplicable headbutt saw him sent to the stands by referee Kevin Friend.
Hull were lucky to see Curtis Davies avoid a red card for pulling down Remy, but Newcastle did add the gloss to a fine win as Anita tapped in with almost the final kick following good work from Dan Gosling and Paul Dummett.


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HowTo: Configure WordPress To Use A Content Delivery Network (CDN)last updated in Categories Apache, lighttpd, Networking
Research shows that if your web pages take longer than 5 seconds to load, you lose 50% of your viewers and sales. You can speed up your wordpress blog by using a CDN to display content to users faster and more efficiently. You can distributes common files or content such as css, javascript, uploaded images, videos and much more through a CDN, which serves the content from the closest cdn edge server to the end-user. In this tutorial, I will explains how to configure Wordpress, Apache/Lighttpd webserver, Bind dns server to use a CDN to distribute your common files such as css, js, user uploaded files and lighten load on your web server.


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Hi guys, a demo is being released today on all platforms. Please do your best to share this around as much as you can - truth is, sales haven't been what we hoped for or needed so far, but we hope that people being able to try the game for free, and see how awesome it is (!), will help move things forward in this regard. So tell your friends!


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IIC Board Meetings—Agendas and Minutes
Agendas for meetings of the Board of Executive Directors are drawn up and distributed at least 48 hours prior to each such meeting and contain all items scheduled to be reviewed, discussed, or approved by the Board.
Any Executive Director may propose adding a new discussion item to the agenda or postponing the discussion of an agenda item. With the possibility of new agenda items being added or discussions postponed at any time up until the beginning of a Board meeting, the agendas posted on the IIC website are not necessarily final.
The Office of the Secretary of the Board of Executive Directors of the IIC will prepare minutes reflecting the decisions taken on the various agenda items.


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We were walking by the Zhongyou Department Store tonight when we saw the familiar lights and crowds that indicated excellent street food was near. That area, near the 77th Street Underground Mall and an underground arcade, was full of kids and 20-somethings lining up for delicious, cheap eats. Or rather, crowding in and pushing forward for delicious, cheap eats. Forming orderly lines for anything here is not exactly ingrained into the national psyche.
Of course, big crowds are usually helpful in judging which stand has the best food. At Tiānxià Tèsè Miàn 天下特色面, about 10 or 15 people were vying for who would be next for an order of kebabs or spicy noodles. We pushed in as well, and were pushed aside by the next couple. In this type of situation the best thing to do is be patient and hold your ground. Waving money, particularly exact change, helps the vendor notice you.
We glanced at the menu but ordered what everyone else was ordering, which was suànlàfěn 酸辣粉, or spicy and sour noodles. Almost everyone in front of us added an ice-cream-scoop size dollop of chilli sauce on their noodles. We added just a large spoonful. As for the taste? Hot, hot, hot, but well-balanced by the sour kick of vinegar and the crunchiness of roasted peanuts.
We ate like most people who couldn't get a seat in the 5-table dining area: standing. Others found seats on concrete blocks on the sidewalk. The street was filled with bright lights, the thumping sounds of Numa Numa sung in Mandarin, and hip kids slurping noodles amidst construction debris. What an iconic scene of modern Beijing.


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Because no one reads the newspaper, and SportsCenter's anchors are too perky for this early in the morning, Deadspin combs the best of the broadsheets and internets to bring you everything you need to know to start your day.
•Georgia's A.J. Green is just the latest player to be linked to this mysterious Memorial Day weekend party in Miami that's gotten so many others in trouble already. UGA would be the fourth school to get caught up in the mini-scandal. So say what you will about this agent and his lack of tact; he's one hell of a party planner.
•This report has Chris Paul demanding a trade to Los Angeles, Orlando or New York by the start of the season. No Miami? They could really use a PG. Instead of their current plan, which is to have three players wrestling for the ball on the inbounds pass.
•Clayton Kershaw, Joe Torre, and bench coach Bob Schaefer (not the one from CBS) were suspended last night for their roles in Tuesday's beanball war. Don Mattingly once again served as manager for last night's game, in which Chad Billingsley threw a complete game. That's unfortunate, because we really wanted to see if Mattingly thinks the double mound visit is the normal way to remove a pitcher.
•Ed Reed wants more money, saying "There are six, seven players in front of me at my position [in terms of money] that I honestly wouldn't let hold my jock, and I don't even wear one." I'm confused. Does he think he should be paid more because he's the best safety, or because he can't afford a jockstrap?
•Lance Armstrong has hired a high-powered criminal defense attorney, in the face of a federal investigation of doping allegations made by Floyd Landis. Can't he just have his lead-out man take the brunt of the charges, while he slips past at the end?
•Puck Daddy has a hilarious eulogy of the Twitter account of Coyotes goon Paul Bissonnette, which was deleted after some politically incorrect Tweets about Ilya Kovalchuk and communist Russia.
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Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) is a retronym term for the 16-bit internal bus of IBM PC/AT and similar computers based on the Intel 80286 and its immediate successors during the 1980s. The bus was (largely) backward compatible with the 8-bit bus of the 8088-based IBM PC, including the IBM PC/XT as well as IBM PC compatibles.
Originally referred to as the PC/AT-bus it was also termed I/O Channel by IBM. The ISA concept was coined by competing PC-clone manufacturers in the late 1980s or early 1990s as a reaction to IBM attempts to replace the AT-bus with its new and incompatible Micro Channel architecture.
The 16-bit ISA bus was used also with 32-bit processors for several years. An attempt to extend it to 32 bits, called Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA), was not very successful, however. Later buses such as VESA Local Bus and PCI were used instead, often along with ISA slots on the same mainboard. A derivative of the AT bus structure is still used in the PCMCIA standard, Compact Flash, the PC/104 bus, and internally within Super I/O chips.
The ISA bus was developed by a team led by Mark Dean at IBM as part of the IBM PC project in 1981. It originated as an 8-bit system. The newer 16-bit standard, the IBM AT bus, was introduced in 1984. In 1988, the Gang of Nine IBM PC compatible manufacturers put forth the 32-bit EISA standard and in the process retroactively renamed the AT bus to "ISA" to avoid infringing IBM's trademark on its PC/AT computer. IBM designed the 8 bit version as a buffered interface to the external bus of the Intel 8088 (16/8 bit) CPU used in the original IBM PC and PC/XT, and the 16-bit version as an upgrade for the external bus of the Intel 80286 CPU used in the IBM AT. Therefore, the ISA bus was synchronous with the CPU clock, until sophisticated buffering methods were developed and implemented by chipsets to interface ISA to much faster CPUs.
Designed to connect peripheral cards to the motherboard, ISA allows for bus mastering although only the first 16 MB of main memory are available for direct access. The 8-bit bus ran at 4.77 MHz (the clock speed of the IBM PC and IBM PC/XT's 8088 CPU), while the 16-bit bus operated at 6 or 8 MHz (because the 80286 CPUs in IBM PC/AT computers ran at 6 MHz in early models and 8 MHz in later models.) IBM RT/PC also used the 16-bit bus. It was also available on some non-IBM compatible machines such as Motorola 68k-based Apollo (68020) and Amiga 3000 (68030) workstations, the short-lived AT&T Hobbit and later PowerPC based BeBox.
In 1987, IBM moved to replace the AT bus with their proprietary Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) in an effort to regain control of the PC architecture and the PC market. (Note the relationship between the IBM term "I/O Channel" for the AT-bus and the name "Micro Channel" for IBM's intended replacement.) MCA had many features that would later appear in PCI, the successor of ISA, but MCA was a closed standard, unlike ISA (PC-bus and AT-bus) for which IBM had released full specifications and even circuit schematics. The system was far more advanced than the AT bus, and computer manufacturers responded with the Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) and later, the VESA Local Bus (VLB). In fact, VLB used some electronic parts originally intended for MCA because component manufacturers already were equipped to manufacture them. Both EISA and VLB were backwards-compatible expansions of the AT (ISA) bus.
Users of ISA-based machines had to know special information about the hardware they were adding to the system. While a handful of devices were essentially "plug-n-play", this was rare. Users frequently had to configure several parameters when adding a new device, such as the IRQ line, I/O address, or DMA channel. MCA had done away with this complication, and PCI actually incorporated many of the ideas first explored with MCA (though it was more directly descended from EISA).
This trouble with configuration eventually led to the creation of ISA PnP, a plug-n-play system that used a combination of modifications to hardware, the system BIOS, and operating system software to automatically manage resource allocations. In reality, ISA PnP can be troublesome, and did not become well-supported until the architecture was in its final days.
PCI slots were the first physically incompatible expansion ports to directly squeeze ISA off the motherboard. At first, motherboards were largely ISA, including a few PCI slots. By the mid-1990s, the two slot types were roughly balanced, and ISA slots soon were in the minority of consumer systems. Microsoft's PC 99 specification recommended that ISA slots be removed entirely, though the system architecture still required ISA to be present in some vestigial way internally to handle the floppy drive, serial ports, etc., which was why the software compatible LPC bus was created. ISA slots remained for a few more years, and towards the turn of the century it was common to see systems with an Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) sitting near the central processing unit, an array of PCI slots, and one or two ISA slots near the end. In late 2008, even floppy disk drives and serial ports were disappearing, and the extinction of vestigial ISA (by then the LPC bus) from chipsets was on the horizon.
It is also notable that PCI slots are "rotated" compared to their ISA counterparts—PCI cards were essentially inserted "upside-down," allowing ISA and PCI connectors to squeeze together on the motherboard. Only one of the two connectors can be used in each slot at a time, but this allowed for greater flexibility.
The AT Attachment (ATA) hard disk interface is directly descended from ISA (the AT bus). ATA has its origins in hardcards that integrated a hard disk controller (HDC) — usually with an ST-506/ST-412 interface — and a hard disk drive on the same ISA adapter. This was at best awkward from a mechanical structural standpoint, as ISA slots were not designed to support such heavy devices as hard disks (and the 3.5" form-factor hard disks of the time were about twice as tall and heavy as modern drives), so the next generation of Integrated Drive Electronics drives moved both the drive and controller to a drive bay and used a ribbon cable and a very simple interface board to connect it to an ISA slot. ATA, at its essence, is basically a standardization of this arrangement, combined with a uniform command structure for software to interface with the controller on a drive. ATA has since been separated from the ISA bus, and connected directly to the local bus (usually by integration into the chipset), to be clocked much much faster than ISA could support and with much higher throughput. (Notably when ISA was introduced as the AT bus, there was no distinction between a local and extension bus, and there were no chipsets.) Still, ATA retains details which reveal its relationship to ISA. The 16-bit transfer size is the most obvious example; the signal timing, particularly in the PIO modes, is also highly correlated, and the interrupt and DMA mechanisms are clearly from ISA. (The article about ATA has more detail about this history.)
The PC/XT-bus is an eight-bit ISA bus used by Intel 8086 and Intel 8088 systems in the IBM PC and IBM PC XT in the 1980s. Among its 62 pins were demultiplexed and electrically buffered versions of the eight data and 20 address lines of the 8088 processor, along with power lines, clocks, read/write strobes, interrupt lines, etc. Power lines included -5V and +/-12 V in order to directly support pMOS and enhancement mode nMOS circuits such as dynamic RAMs among other things. The XT bus architecture uses a single Intel 8259 PIC, giving eight vectorized and prioritized interrupt lines. It has four DMA channels originally provided by the Intel 8237, three of the DMA channels are brought out to the XT bus expansion slots; of these, two are normally already allocated to machine functions (diskette drive and hard disk controller):
The PC/AT-bus, a 16-bit (or 80286-) version of the PC/XT bus, was introduced with the IBM PC/AT. This bus was officially termed I/O Channel by IBM. It extends the XT-bus by adding a second shorter edge connector in-line with the eight-bit XT-bus connector, which is unchanged, retaining compatibility with most 8-bit cards. The second connector adds four additional address lines for a total of 24, and eight additional data lines for a total of 16. It also adds new interrupt lines connected to a second 8259 PIC (connected to one of the lines of the first) and four 16-bit DMA channels, as well as control lines to select 8 or 16 bit transfers.
The 16-bit AT bus slot originally used two standard edge connector sockets in early IBM PC/AT machines. However, with the popularity of the AT-architecture and the 16-bit ISA bus, manufacturers introduced specialized 98-pin connectors that integrated the two sockets into one unit. These can be found in almost every AT-class PC manufactured after the mid-1980s. The ISA slot connector is typically black (distinguishing it from the brown EISA connectors and white PCI connectors).
Motherboard devices have dedicated IRQs (not present in the slots). 16-bit devices can use either PC-bus or PC/AT-bus IRQs. It is therefore possible to connect up to 6 devices that use one 8-bit IRQ each, or up to 5 devices that use one 16-bit IRQ each. At the same time, up to four devices may use one 8-bit DMA channel each, while up to three devices can use one 16-bit DMA channel each.
Originally, the bus clock was synchronous with the CPU clock, resulting in varying bus clock frequencies among the many different IBM "clones" on the market (sometimes as high as 16 or 20 MHz), leading to software or electrical timing problems for certain ISA cards at bus speeds they were not designed for. Later motherboards or integrated chipsets used a separate clock generator, or a clock divider which either fixed the ISA bus frequency at 4, 6 or 8 MHz or allowed the user to adjust the frequency via the BIOS setup. When used at a higher bus frequency, some ISA cards (certain Hercules-compatible video cards, for instance), could show significant performance improvements.
Memory address decoding for the selection of 8 or 16-bit transfer mode was limited to 128 kB sections - A0000..BFFFF, C0000..DFFFF, E0000..FFFFF leading to problems when mixing 8 and 16-bit cards, as they could not co-exist in the same 128 kB area.
ISA is still used today for specialized industrial purposes. In 2008 IEI Technologies released a modern motherboard for Intel Core 2 Duo processors which, in addition to other special I/O features, is equipped with two ISA slots. It is marketed to industrial and military users who have invested in expensive specialized ISA bus adaptors, which are not available in PCI bus versions.[1]
Similarly, ADEK Industrial Computers is releasing a motherboard in early 2013 for Intel Core i3/i5/i7 processors, which contains one (non-DMA) ISA slot.[2]
The PC/104 bus, used in industrial and embedded applications, is a derivative of the ISA bus, utilizing the same signal lines with different connectors. The LPC bus has replaced the ISA bus as the connection to the legacy I/O devices on recent motherboards; while physically quite different, LPC looks just like ISA to software, so that the peculiarities of ISA such as the 16 MiB DMA limit (which corresponds to the full address space of the Intel 80286 CPU used in the original IBM AT) are likely to stick around for a while.
As explained in the History section, ISA was the basis for development of the ATA interface, used for ATA (a.k.a. IDE) and more recently Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks. Physically, ATA is essentially a simple subset of ISA, with 16 data bits, support for exactly one IRQ and one DMA channel, and 3 address bits plus two IDE address select ("chip select") lines, plus a few unique signal lines specific to ATA/IDE hard disks (such as the Cable Select/Spindle Sync. line.) ATA goes beyond and far outside the scope of ISA by also specifying a set of physical device registers to be implemented on every ATA (IDE) drive and accessed using the address bits and address select signals in the ATA physical interface channel; ATA also specifies a full set of protocols and device commands for controlling fixed disk drives using these registers, through which all operations of ATA hard disks are performed. A further deviation between ISA and ATA is that while the ISA bus remained locked into a single standard clock rate (for backward compatibility), the ATA interface offered many different speed modes, could select among them to match the maximum speed supported by the attached drives, and kept adding faster speeds with later versions of the ATA standard (up to 133 MB/s for ATA-6, the latest.) In most forms, ATA ran much faster than ISA.
Before the 16-bit ATA/IDE interface, there was an 8-bit XT-IDE (also known as XTA) interface for hard disks. It was not nearly as popular as ATA has become, and XT-IDE hardware is now fairly hard to find. Some XT-IDE adapters were available as 8-bit ISA cards, and XTA sockets were also present on the motherboards of Amstrad's later XT clones. The XTA pinout was very similar to ATA, but only eight data lines and two address lines were used, and the physical device registers had completely different meanings. A few hard drives (such as the Seagate ST351A/X) could support either type of interface, selected with a jumper.
The PCMCIA specification can be seen as a superset of ATA. The standard for PCMCIA hard disk interfaces, which included PCMCIA flash drives, allows for the mutual configuration of the port and the drive in an ATA mode. As a de facto extension, most PCMCIA flash drives additionally allow for a simple ATA mode that is enabled by pulling a single pin low, so that PCMCIA hardware and firmware are unnecessary to use them as an ATA drive connected to an ATA port. PCMCIA flash drive to ATA adapters are thus simple and inexpensive, but are not guaranteed to work with any and every standard PCMCIA flash drive. Further, such adapters cannot be used as generic PCMCIA ports, as the PCMCIA interface is much more complex than ATA.
Although most computers do not have physical ISA buses all IBM compatible computers — x86, and x86-64 (most non-mainframe, non-embedded) — have ISA buses allocated in virtual address space. Embedded controller chips (southbridge) and CPUs themselves provide services such as temperature monitoring and voltage readings through these buses as ISA devices.
IEEE started a standardization of the ISA bus in 1985, called the P996 specification. However, despite there even having been books published on the P996 specification, it never officially progressed past draft status.
This article is based on material taken from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Slow Cooker Tips for Dummies
23 comments:
Chicken cutting method = epic fail
- October 4, 2011 at 12:19 AM
- Chef John said...
yes, that was brutal.
- October 4, 2011 at 12:21 AM
It's like watching an alien in a human suit
- October 4, 2011 at 12:25 AM
She sure likes opening that slow cooker...
- October 4, 2011 at 12:46 AM
I love how their "browned" chicken took on a noticeably "different look and flavor."
- October 4, 2011 at 12:48 AM
This video makes me want to heat unpasteurised cheese from cold in my slow cooker. Fondue anyone?
- October 4, 2011 at 1:23 AM
- I was waiting for the chicken cutting to turn into the video of Saturday Night Live: The French Chef (look it up)
- I love how she tried to turn the cooking chicken in the pan with a huge plastic spatula but ended up just pushing things around.
- Cooking milk for 60 minutes? I thought it was 20 minutes and less I usually put it in, get it hot and serve immediately so it doesn't break down.
- I did smile with the huge measuring cup for a little bit of liquid.
- "Use processed cheese, like American, instead of aged cheese like Sharp Cheddar. Slow cooking... makes aged cheese oily." That's what they call aged cheese!?!?
- October 4, 2011 at 1:24 AM
- He Took MY Last Name said...
uhm ... i thought the whole point of using a slow cooker was for quick and easy prep... didnt realize you couldnt use frozen veggies.
thank god i havent died from any bacterial growth or anything >:)
maybe its just me... but american cheese isn't really.... cheese.
- October 4, 2011 at 2:34 AM
Dont use chicken thighs or any other cut of meat with attributes remotely suited for slow cooking. Dont noticeably brown those chunks of chicken breast fillets you wisely settled on. Dont overpoke or underpoke fun at this vid-aw hell, that's Jenga!
- October 4, 2011 at 4:27 AM
- Douglas Gaxiola said...
"For best results, brown the meat in a non-stick pan."
Yeah, that would be my first choice. I noticed that the "browned" chicken was actually just sort of an off white.
Overall, the technique was a little iffy, but she had some mad knife skillz. That knife between the thumb and forefinger method is the reason why the tip of my left finger has a big scar and no nerve endings. I never should have watched that "Knife Skills For Dummies" video.
- October 4, 2011 at 4:34 AM
- Chef John said...
LOL @ "It's like watching an alien in a human suit"
- October 4, 2011 at 4:45 AM
I don't want to be mean but I just lost mt appetite...
- October 4, 2011 at 8:21 AM
Cut into bite-size pieces? Don't use frozen vegetables? Bah. I throw whole, frozen roasts or chicken pieces and frozen veg in the slow cooker all the time. Works fine for me.
This was literally painful to watch. I kept cringing. So much wrong and so .... awkward.
- October 4, 2011 at 8:57 AM
Where did that spoon end up....after it got stuck in her mouth?
How many things did her hands touch after she picked up the raw chicken and put it in the pan for 'browning'.
What was in that 'liquid'?
- October 4, 2011 at 9:21 AM
- Monica said...
Another non chef or actor hired to make a video and worse they also write books. never buy that slow cooker. Looking forwards to your video Chef John as hunting season starts in a month and I have a freezer full of axis deer cut for stewing/casserole etc.
- October 4, 2011 at 11:07 AM
- James Messick said...
I don't think it's very cool to post this video just so that you and others can ridicule it. It's really a dick move. Though some of the comments about using frozen vegetables and the cheese were questionable I didn't think it was bad otherwise. The chicken cutting looked awkward, but I think that was just because they wanted to show it on camera. It was a video about slow cookers, not knife skills after all.
- October 4, 2011 at 11:45 AM
- Chef John said...
No body said it was cool. It's not cool, but it is kind of funny, and we are picking on the big boys who can certainly handle it (and in this case deserve it since they are suppose to be showing top how-to skills).
I WISH the For Dummies people would post and ridicule a video of mine someday...they'd have lots to chose from!
- October 4, 2011 at 11:54 AM
- joseph said...
chef john,
after seeing that video i now understand why hearing the word slow-cooker makes you cringe!
the video almost implies that culinary ignorance goes hand-in-hand with using a slow cooker.
- October 4, 2011 at 9:46 PM
I want so bad to be a better chef and learn more. Guess I'm still too green to comment but sure enjoyed all your comments!
- October 4, 2011 at 9:49 PM
It's probably kind of hard for a chef not to be a d!@K after watching a demo video shows horrible technique and gets almost everything wrong.
- October 4, 2011 at 10:35 PM
2:22: "For food safety, a slow cooker must reach 140 degrees F in at least 4 hours."
At *most* 4 hours, maybe...?
Unless by "food safety" we really mean...food that's safe for bacteria.
- October 4, 2011 at 10:36 PM
- Kevin said...
I am disappointed. I was looking forward to a video showing actual tips on using a slow cooker.
- October 4, 2011 at 11:13 PM
- ButterYum said...
Oh my - get a load of the anemic "browned" chicken and horrific knife skills.
I have no idea what that liquid was, but it's chunky gelatinous texture in combination with the 'processed cheese' comment lead me to believe it was some kind of canned "cream of whatever" soup.... and did you see how much was left behind in that swimming pool sized measuring cup?
- October 4, 2011 at 11:57 PM


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Collaborating with Cisco WebEx Cloud
Over the last six months, I've talked with numerous customers and partners. One thing is clear: People get it. Connecting employees, vendors, partners, and customers — so they can work together with no barriers — makes sense. It saves money and time, and builds relationships.
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Alice Vetter
Looking forward to the evolution of WebexSocial in the cloud as it (hopefully) surpasses the on premise solution.
David Chao
It looks like SSAE-16 replaces the SAS-70. WebEx use to have ISO17799 attestation. Does the ISO27001 replace that as well?
Is WebEx certified for FISMA at the Federal level and DIACAP at the DoD level? I thought it once was or was working towards those certifications.
Jeff, thanks.
Steven Reese
I understand that to be true with Webex Meetings, but what about Webex Social and Webex TelePresence? Do you meet the same SSAE and ISO compliance?
Does WebEx still have SAS-70 certification or has this been replaced with SSAE?
Jeff Wicks
Webex is SSAE-16 certified. In fact we just completed our most recent auditing processes recently. In addition, we are now ISO27001 certified.
Thanks for asking the question.
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|Release: February 26, 2013
|Players: 1-4 + Asymetrical GamePad Player 5
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by Becky Cunningham
Third-party platform exclusives are becoming increasingly rare these days, and it's almost unheard of for a series to go from multiplatform to exclusive. The lure of the Wii U's GamePad controller, though, was enough for Ubisoft to take Rayman (previously available on everything short of your pocket calculator) on an exclusive outing for the Wii U in Rayman Legends.
After many years of relying on the Rabbids, Ubisoft finally brought back its platforming hero, Rayman, in the beautifully designed and critically acclaimed Rayman Origins. When that game's multiplayer mode proved popular with gamers, the company decided to put an even greater emphasis on the multiplayer experience in the sequel, Rayman Legends. With the Wii U allowing for an asynchronous multiplayer experience, Ubisoft decided to integrate the tablet-controlled character so deeply into the gameplay that Legends simply wouldn't work on other consoles.
The result of that tablet focus can be seen in the various available trailers and the playable demo for Rayman Legends. In single-player mode, the player will need to switch between using a regular platforming character and the tablet-controlled Murfy the fly, who directly manipulates enemies and objects using the stylus and touchscreen. In multiplayer mode, the GamePad player can choose to be Murfy full-time (or swap back and forth with a press of the B button), while up to four others select from an array of characters like Rayman, Globox, and a delightfully homicidal axe-wielding Viking named Barbara.
Ironically, it appears to be Ubisoft rather than Nintendo that has first mastered asynchronous multiplayer platforming on the Wii U, as a stylus player in New Super Mario Bros. U tends to either be bored or looked upon as a menace by other players. Murfy players, on the other hand, are integral to the success of the Rayman team, and there's always something interesting to do with the stylus. Murfy can cut ropes, tickle enemies, pick up goodies and drag them to the other players, manipulate the environment to lead the other players to hidden areas, or poke hazards in order to neutralize them—and that's just when he's not required to do things like move or tilt platforms.
Tilting platforms is accomplished by tilting the GamePad itself, and is the one Murfy responsibility that I found to be a drag when playing through the Rayman Legends demo. The control feels fidgety, it's too easy to accidentally kill the other player during tilt puzzles, and the exact same thing could have been accomplished by simply allowing the player to grab and object and rotate it using the stylus. Otherwise, though, playing as Murfy is quite fun, and works equally well with a skilled player looking out for less-skilled friends or as a less-skilled player being useful without having to perform tricky platforming moves.


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A Long but Happy Day on the Narragansett Trail
After trudging more than 18 miles up and down steep ledges, across streams, amid thick forests and through brambles, we four hikers at last emerged from the blazed trail onto a dirt road and approached a large stone post.
"That's the border!" Jenna exclaimed, and we rushed forward to peer at this wonderful vision much as Lewis and Clark must have in 1805 upon first observing the mouth of Oregon's Columbia River.
Jenna is Jenna Cho, The Day's night news editor and a devoted contributor to the newspaper's interactive hiking guide. She and Peter Huoppi, The Day's videographer and likewise a dedicated hiker, planned this outing – a daylong trek the length of the Narragansett Trail, from Lantern Hill on the Ledyard/North Stonington border in southeastern Connecticut, to Ashville Pond in Hopkinton, R.I.
Bob Andrews, a volunteer trail manager with the Connecticut Forest & Park Association, the organization that oversees some 850 miles of trails in the state, was the third member of the expedition. I tagged along as writer of The Great Outdoors blog on The Day's website.
Our day began at 5:30 a.m., when we clicked on headlamps and scrambled up a rocky trail off Wintechog Hill Road to the nearly 500-foot summit of Lantern Hill. By the time we reached the top 15 minutes later a pink smudge appeared in the eastern sky and we gazed at a landscape of rolling hills penetrated by two communications towers.
Had we shifted our view to the west, we could have peered at Foxwoods Resort Casino, which from this elevation bears an uncanny resemblance to The Emerald City in the Land of Oz, but we elected to press onward and downward. We were, after all, on a mission, and at this early stage full of energy and eager determination.
Having accompanied Jenna and Peter on several outings, and bumping into them frequently through my connection to The Day, I spent much of the beginning of our hike getting to know Bob, whom I had first met at the trailhead.
It's always a good practice to learn something about someone you're going to spend time with on the trail, and I thought back to one such situation a few years ago when I accompanied a group of friends, acquaintances and strangers on a winter climb up Maine's Mount Katahdin.
During that excursion, we would be hiking for days together in treacherous conditions, and so I dutifully introduced myself to an unfamiliar member of the party, a friend of one of the casual acquaintances.
After we chatted for a while, he mentioned he had served in the Navy, and I asked if he were still on active duty.
"No, I was discharged," he replied.
Had I possessed a modicum of intelligence I would have left it at that, but curiosity got the better of me.
"What for?" I asked.
"I shot a guy."
Oh-kaaaay, I thought. I kind of edged away, smiling, and made a mental note not to inadvertently step on his pack while wearing my crampons. For the rest of the trip I slept with one eye open.
Happily, Bob apparently never shot anyone and turned out to be a wonderful hiking companion, a font of knowledge of flora, fauna, geology, natural history and folklore. As a trail volunteer he is responsible for blazing, clearing and otherwise ensuring safe passage for all of us who enjoy hiking in Connecticut, and for that we owe him and others in the CFPA a huge debt of gratitude.
We meandered along happily, stopping to snack on sandwiches at Wyassup Lake in North Stonington before proceeding up High Ledge and Bullet Ledge in Pachaug State Forest.
I had saved up a surprise for this landmark near mile 9.
"Hold it," I called, as they approached a barely hidden opening in the rock. I unstrapped my daypack, clicked on my headlamp and prepared to lower myself through a narrow crack.
This was Bear Cave, a roomy cavern that according to legend got its name when a Maj. Israel Hewitt shot a pesky bruin there in 1750. If I were in charge of naming landmarks I might have called it Stupid Hewitt Cave.
My old friend Johnny Kelley, the celebrated marathon runner who died last year, had showed me that cave years ago and I think about him whenever I revisit it.
Kell had also introduced me to other parts of the Narragansett Trail, where I often hike. It's wonderful to be able to duck into the woods so close to home, instead of driving for hours to New Hampshire, Vermont or Maine.
While Connecticut may lack towering peaks, it possesses a magnificently varied blend of rocky escarpments, lush meadows, stone walls, tumbling brooks, clear lakes and thick woodlands – ample rewards for even the most discriminating hiker.
We observed all of these features and more on the Narragansett Trail.
Among the highlights was in Voluntown, where the trail follows and crosses the Green Fall River through a pine and hemlock ravine en route to a dam and glorious pond. I find it particularly gratifying that though mills thrived there in the 19th century today only a few stone vestiges remain. Nature has prevailed and reclaimed the land.
After passing Green Fall Pond the Narragansett Trail merges with a path connected to Rhode Island's Lake Yawgoog, and yellow swatches of paint accompany Connecticut's blue blazes.
Following our elation at the state border marker, we marched giddily along what we thought was a dirt road leading to Long and Ell ponds. None of us had been on this section.
Some 15 minutes later, Peter cried, "Hold up!" and pulled out a map and compass.
"We're heading too far west," he said.
Peter was right: We had strayed half a mile in the wrong direction.
"Well, we can add a mile to the day's total distance," I groaned, since we would have to retrace our errant steps before resuming our hike correctly.
By this time we had been out more than 11 hours, allowing for snack breaks and a couple of short side excursions to shelters built for overnight backpackers.
None of us had to utter the obvious: We were tired and eager to finish.
The four-plus miles from the border to Ashville Pond proved the most arduous, mostly because we were pretty knackered, but also because the trail near Long and Ell ponds rose and fell so precipitously.
I almost wished we had hiked in the opposite direction so we could have enjoyed this magnificent section early in the morning while fresh instead of late in the afternoon, when all we could think about was a hot shower and a cold beer.
Finally, shortly after 6 p.m. Ashville Pond appeared through the trees and we yipped for joy.
The hero of the day proved to be Jeff Johnson, a reporter who agreed to pick us up and in fact was waiting in his car in the parking lot. We greeted him like Dr. Livingstone must have welcomed Stanley.
"Well," I said, "In the immortal words of Edmund Hillary, when he finally scaled Everest, 'We knocked the bastard off.'"
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|TIA-485-A (Revision of EIA-485)
Approved: March 3, 1998
Reaffirmed: March 28, 2003
|Physical media
|Balanced Interconnecting Cable
|Network topology
|Point-to-point, Multi-dropped, Multi-point
|Maximum devices
|At least 32 unit loads
|Maximum distance
|Not specified
|Mode of operation
| Different Receiver levels:
Binary 1 (OFF)
(Voa-Vob < -200 mV)
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|Available signals
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TIA-485-A, also known as ANSI/TIA/EIA-485, TIA/EIA-485, EIA-485 or RS-485, is a standard defining the electrical characteristics of drivers and receivers for use in balanced digital multipoint systems. The standard is published by the Telecommunications Industry Association/Electronic Industries Alliance (TIA/EIA). Digital communications networks implementing the EIA-485 standard can be used effectively over long distances and in electrically noisy environments. Multiple receivers may be connected to such a network in a linear, multi-drop configuration. These characteristics make such networks useful in industrial environments and similar applications.
The EIA once labeled all its standards with the prefix "RS" (Recommended Standard), but the EIA-TIA officially replaced "RS" with "EIA/TIA" to help identify the origin of its standards.[1] The EIA has officially disbanded and the standard is now maintained by the TIA. The RS-485 standard is superseded by TIA-485, but often engineers and applications guides continue to use the RS designation.
RS-485 enables the configuration of inexpensive local networks and multidrop communications links. It offers data transmission speeds of 35 Mbit/s up to 10 m and 100 kbit/s at 1200 m. Since it uses a differential balanced line over twisted pair (like RS-422), it can span relatively large distances (up to Script error: No such module "convert".). A rule of thumb is that the speed in bit/s multiplied by the length in meters should not exceed 108. Thus a 50 meter cable should not signal faster than 20 Mbit/s.[2]
In contrast to RS-422, which has a single driver circuit which cannot be switched off, RS-485 drivers need to be put in transmit mode explicitly by asserting a signal to the driver. This allows RS-485 to implement linear bus topologies using only two wires. The equipment located along a set of RS-485 wires are interchangeably called nodes, stations or devices.[3]
The recommended arrangement of the wires is as a connected series of point-to-point (multidropped) nodes, i.e. a line or bus, not a star, ring, or multiply connected network. Ideally, the two ends of the cable will have a termination resistor connected across the two wires. Without termination resistors, reflections of fast driver edges can cause multiple data edges that can cause data corruption. Termination resistors also reduce electrical noise sensitivity due to the lower impedance, and bias resistors (see below) are required. The value of each termination resistor should be equal to the cable characteristic impedance (typically, 120 ohms for twisted pairs).
Star and ring topologies are not recommended because of signal reflections or excessively low or high termination impedance. If a star configuration is unavoidable, special RS-485 star/hub repeaters are available which bidirectionally listen for data on each span and then retransmit the data onto all other spans.
Somewhere along the set of wires, pull up or pull down resistors are established to fail-safe bias each data wire when the lines are not being driven by any device. This way, the lines will be biased to known voltages and nodes will not interpret the noise from undriven lines as actual data; without biasing resistors, the data lines float in such a way that electrical noise sensitivity is greatest when all device stations are silent or unpowered.[4]
Standard scope and definition
RS-485 only specifies electrical characteristics of the generator and the receiver. It does not specify or recommend any communications protocol, only the physical layer. Other standards define the protocols for communication over an RS-485 link. The foreword to the standard recommends The Telecommunications Systems Bulletin TSB-89 which contains application guidelines, including data signaling rate vs. cable length, stub length, and configurations.
Section 4 defines the electrical characteristics of the generator (transmitter or driver), receiver, transceiver, and system. These characteristics include: definition of a unit load, voltage ranges, open circuit voltages, thresholds, and transient tolerance. It also defines three generator interface points (signal lines); "A", "B" and "C". The data is transmitted on "A" and "B". "C" is a ground reference. This section also defines the logic states 1 (off) and 0 (on), by the polarity between A and B terminals. If A is negative with respect to B, the state is binary 1. The reversed polarity (A +, B-) is binary 0. The standard does not assign any logic function to the two states.
Master-slave arrangement
Often in a master-slave arrangement when one device dubbed "the master" initiates all communication activity, the master device itself provides the bias and not the slave devices. In this configuration, the master device is typically centrally located along the set of RS-485 wires, so it would be two slave devices located at the physical end of the wires that would provide the termination. The master device itself would provide termination if it were located at a physical end of the wires, but that is often a bad design[5] as the master would be better located at a halfway point between the slave devices, to maximize signal strength and therefore line distance and speed. Applying the bias at multiple node locations could possibly cause a violation of the RS-485 specification and cause communications to malfunction.
Three-wire connection
Connection of a third wire between the source and receiver may be done to limit the common mode voltage that can be impressed on the receiver inputs.
Full duplex operation
RS-485, like RS-422, can be made full-duplex by using four wires. Since RS-485 is a multi-point specification, however, this is not necessary in many cases. RS-485 and RS-422 can interoperate with certain restrictions.
Converters between RS-485 and other formats are available to allow a personal computer to communicate with remote devices. By using "Repeaters" and "Multi-Repeaters" very large RS-485 networks can be formed. TSB-89A, The Application Guidelines for TIA/EIA-485-A has one diagram called "Star Configuration. Not recommended." Using an RS-485 "Multi-Repeater" can allow for "Star Configurations" with "Home Runs" (or multi-drop) connections similar to Ethernet Hub/Star implementations (with greater distances). Hub/Star systems (with "Multi-Repeaters") allow for very maintainable systems, without violating any of the RS-485 specifications. Repeaters can also be used to extend the distance or number of nodes on a network.
RS-485 signals are used in a wide range of computer and automation systems. In a computer system, SCSI-2 and SCSI-3 may use this specification to implement the physical layer for data transmission between a controller and a disk drive. RS-485 is used for low-speed data communications in commercial aircraft cabins vehicle bus. It requires minimal wiring, and can share the wiring among several seats, reducing weight.
RS-485 is used as the physical layer underlying many standard and proprietary automation protocols used to implement Industrial Control Systems, including the most common versions of Modbus and Profibus. These are used in programmable logic controllers and on factory floors. Since it is differential, it resists electromagnetic interference from motors and welding equipment.
In theatre and performance venues RS-485 networks are used to control lighting and other systems using the DMX512 protocol.
RS-485 is also used in building automation as the simple bus wiring and long cable length is ideal for joining remote devices. It may be used to control video surveillance systems or to interconnect security control panels and devices such as access control card readers.
It's also used in model railway: controlling the layout in a network/PC environment, connectors in this case are 8P8C / RJ45.
Although many applications use RS-485 signal levels; the speed, format, and protocol of the data transmission is not specified by RS-485. Interoperability of even similar devices from different manufacturers is not assured by compliance with the signal levels alone.
RS-485 does not specify any connector or pinout. Circuits may be terminated on screw terminals, D-subminiature connectors, or other types of connectors.
Pin labeling
The RS-485 differential line consists of two pins:
- A aka '-' aka TxD-/RxD- aka inverting pin
- B aka '+' aka TxD+/RxD+ aka non-inverting pin
- SC aka G aka reference pin.
The SC line is the optional voltage reference connection. This is the reference potential used by the transceiver to measure the A and B voltages.
The B line is positive (compared to A) when the line is idle (i.e., data is 1).
In addition to the A and B connections, the EIA standard also specifies a third interconnection point called C, which is the common signal reference ground.
These names are all in use on various equipment, but the actual standard released by EIA only uses the names A and B. However, despite the unambiguous standard, there is much confusion about which is which:
The RS-485 signaling specification states that signal A is the inverting or '-' pin and signal B is the non-inverting or '+' pin.[6]
This is in conflict with the A/B naming used by a number of differential transceiver manufacturers, including, among others:
- Texas Instruments, as seen in their application handbook on EIA-422/485 communications (A=non-inverting, B=inverting)
- Intersil, as seen in their data sheet for the ISL4489 transceiver[7]
- Maxim, as seen in their data sheet for the MAX483 transceiver[8]
- Linear Technology, as seen in their datasheet for the LTC2850, LTC2851, LTC2852[9]
- Analog Devices, as seen in their datasheet for the ADM3483, ADM3485, ADM3488, ADM3490, ADM3491[10]
- FTDI, as seen in their datasheet for the USB-RS485-WE-1800-BT[11]
These manufacturers are incorrect, but their practice is in widespread use. Therefore, care must be taken when using A/B naming.
To avoid these confusions, some equipment manufacturers have created a third D+ and D- naming convention.
The standard does not discuss cable shielding, but makes some recommendations on preferred methods of interconnecting the signal reference common and equipment case grounds.
Waveform example
The diagram below shows potentials of the '+' and '−' pins of an RS-485 line during transmission of one byte (0xD3, least significant bit first) of data using an asynchronous start-stop method.
See also
- ^ "Trim-the-fat-off-RS-485-designs". EE Times. 2000.
- ^ Soltero, Manny; Zhang, Jing; Cockril, Chris; Zhang, Kevin; Kinnaird, Clark; Kugelstadt, Thomas (May 2010) [2002]. RS-422 and RS-485 Standards Overview and System Configurations, Application Report (PDF). Texas Instruments (Technical report). SLLA070D.
- ^ Electronic Industries Association (1983). Electrical Characteristics of Generators and Receivers for Use in Balanced Multipoint Systems. EIA Standard RS-485. OCLC 10728525.[page needed]
- ^ DS3695,DS3695A,DS3695AT,DS3695T,DS96172, DS96174,DS96F172MQML,DS96F174MQML: Application Note 847 FAILSAFE Biasing of Differential Buses (Literature Number: SNLA031) (PDF), Texas Instruments, 1998
- ^ Thomas, George (March–April 2008). "Examining the BACnet MS/TP Physical Layer" (PDF). the Extension (Contemporary Control Systems, Inc.) 9 (2).
- ^ "Polarities for Differential Pair Signals (RS-422 and RS-485)". B&B Electronics. 2011.
- ^ Data Sheet FN6074.3: ±15kV ESD Protected, 1/8 Unit Load, 5V, Low Power, High Speed and Slew Rate Limited, Full Duplex, RS-485/RS-422 Transceivers (PDF), Intersil Corporation, 28 April 2006
- ^ Data Sheet 19-0122 – MAX481/MAX483/MAX485/MAX487–MAX491/MAX1487: Low-Power, Slew-Rate-Limited RS-485/RS-422 Transceivers (PDF), Maxim Integrated, September 2009
- ^ LTC2850/LTC2851/LTC2852 3.3V 20Mbps RS485/RS422 Transceivers (PDF), Linear Technology Corporation, 2007
- ^ ADM3483/ADM3485/ADM3488/ADM3490/ADM3491 (Rev. E) (PDF), Analog Devices, Inc., 22 November 2011
- ^ USB to RS485 Serial Converter Cable Datasheet (PDF), Future Technology Devices International Ltd, 27 May 2010
External links
|Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: Serial Programming:RS-485 Technical Manual
- TUTORIAL 763: Guidelines for Proper Wiring of an RS-485 (TIA/EIA-485-A) Network, Maxim Integrated, 19 November 2001
- "RS232 to RS485 cable pinout". Pinouts.ru. 7 October 2012.
- "RS485 serial information". Lammert Bies. August 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012. – Practical information about implementing RS485
- Scordino, Claudio (22 November 2011). "Linux RS485 support". Retrieved 12 November 2012. – Implementation of RS485 standard in the Linux OS
- Marais, Hein (2008), APPLICATION NOTE AN-960: RS-485/RS-422 Circuit Implementation Guide (PDF), Analog Devices


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Rye used to be implied
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Overholt's a perfectly-good-enough rye
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Unless, that is, you happen upon Whistlepig
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Was worried I wasn't writer enough
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And turns out I'm not, 'cuz here I am ripping off
Wallace Stevens. (And also myself 7 years ago.)
To come up with the recipe for World's Greatest,
All I did was a) tinker with amount of Angostura,
b) Use up my Whistlepig. But again, Jim Beam's cool.
If ever there was a cocktail
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It's this one.
What you'll learn when you taste-test
Manhattans vs. rye perfect Manhattans
Is that you never realized just how syrupy-sweet a Manhattan truly is
And that rye perfects toe the line between sweetness and... let's call it earthy/woodsy/sour graininess
Like a ladybug tiptoeing up a dewy blade of grass (huh?)
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1/2 ounce sweet vermouth
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Religion can be used to mobilize people to protect the environment because spirituality is closely linked to nature, members of a panel on faith-based conservation said last week.
BANGKOK, Thailand − Religion can be used to mobilize people to protect the environment because spirituality is closely linked to nature, members of a panel on faith-based conservation said last week.
Some "earth-keeping churches" in Africa hold services outdoors and baptize their members in running rivers, which strengthens their dependence on and respect for the environment, said Solomon Zvanaka, director of the Zimbabwean Institute of Religious Research and Ecological Conservation.
Zvanaka spoke at a press conference at the meeting in Bangkok of the World Conservation Union in Bangkok, attended by more than 6,000 government officials, scientists, executives and environmentalists.
He said his organization has found that faith can be used to "mobilize people to take care of nature through their belief system."
"If people have to be baptized in running rivers, it will cause members not to pollute their waters so they can be baptized in running water which is clean. If people have to have their services under trees, it will cause members not to deforest their areas," Zvanaka said.
Other speakers, who included Buddhists from Cambodia and Thailand, noted the strength that religious institutions have in many communities.
"Some of our surveys in poor communities show that poor people often do not have very much faith in their governments and leaders, but they do have faith in their religious leaders, so it's clear to me this is an area we can be doing more in," said Tony Whitten, the World Bank's senior biodiversity specialist for the East Asia and Pacific Region.
The bank gives major financial support to environmental projects.
A Rocha International, a Christian conservation group, is trying to encourage faith-based environmentalism in Europe and the United States, said Peter Harris, the group's director general.
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"There's this feeling -- particularly in the U.S. Christian community -- that environmentalism is somehow hostile to Christian belief," he said. Some conservative Christians associate the environmental movement with progressive political activism to which they are unsympathetic.
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Japan Is A 'Tier 2' Territory, Xbox One Launch In 2014
In a press-attended Microsoft Japan corporate strategy meeting, new information about the launch of the Xbox One in that territory. President and CEO Yasuyuki Higuchi addressed inquiries about when the Xbox One will be available to Japanese gamers.
In an interview with 4Gamer, Higuchi confirmed what we already suspected. Japan will not be included in the first wave of territories to receive the Xbox One, pushing the console's arrival there into next year.
[Source: 4Gamer via DualShockers]
Our Take
This should come as no surprise to anyone who has followed the adoption trajectory of the Xbox and Xbox 360 in Japan. As of early 2011, Microsoft had only sold 1.5 million Xbox 360s.
Worldwide, 76 million consoles have been shipped. With Japan only accounting for approximately two percent of the lifetime units, the decision seems straightforward. It's unlikely that Microsoft will make in-roads in Japan this generation, instead opting to merely have a presence while focusing its efforts in the US and Europe.
The downside for the West is that Microsoft will, once again, be at a severe disadvantage in terms of exclusive titles from Japanese developers. We're already seeing how that will play out, as Square Enix isn't even willing to confirm that Xbox One versions of Final Fantasy XV and Kingdom Hearts III will be released at the same time as they will be on PlayStation 4.