2015 ŠVÉDA Miroslav, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, VESELÝ Vladimír, GRÉGR Matěj, PODERMAŃSKI Tomáš, HALFAR Patrik and MAREK Marcel. Design of Computer Networks Concerning Network Applications Support. In: Computer Aided Systems Theory. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria: University of Las Palmas, 2015, pp. 23-24. ISBN 978-84-606-5438-4.
2014 GREGA Wojciech, HILBURN Thomas B., KORNECKI Andrew J., MAYR Richard, PYLE Ian, ROZENBLIT Jerzy, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, ŠVÉDA Miroslav, ZHANG Le and ZHANG Le. Proceedings of the International workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems. 2013 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. Krakow: Elsevier Science, 2014, pp. 1-200. ISBN 978-1-4673-4471-5.
PACNER Jan, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. On the Evaluation of Clock Synchronization Methods for Networked Control Systems. In: 3rd Eastern European Regional Conference on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. New York: IEEE Computer Society, 2013, pp. 10-12. ISBN 978-0-7695-3759-7.
RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, RÁB Jaroslav and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Improving security in SCADA systems through firewall policy analysis. In: Proceedings of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems. Krakow: IEEE Computer Society, 2013, pp. 1435-1440. ISBN 978-1-4673-4471-5.
VESELÝ Vladimír, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. IPv6 Unicast and IPv4 Multicast Routing in OMNeT++. In: Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International ICST Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques. Cannes: International Communication Sciences and Technology Association, 2013, pp. 1-4. ISBN 978-1-936968-47-3.
2012 GRÉGR Matěj, PODERMAŃSKI Tomáš and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Deploying IPv6 - practical problems from the campus perspective. Reykjavik, 2012.
2011 GRÉGR Matěj, MATOUŠEK Petr, PODERMAŃSKI Tomáš and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Practical IPv6 Monitoring - Challenges and Techniques. In: Proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM 2011). Dublin: IEEE Computer Society, 2011, pp. 660-663. ISBN 978-1-4244-9220-6.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. A Cyber-Physical System Design Approach. In: Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Systems - ICONS 2011. St. Maarten: International Academy, Research, and Industry Association, 2011, pp. 12-18. ISBN 978-1-61208-002-4.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Design Experience with Routing SW and Related Applications. In: Proceedings of The Tenth International Conference on Networks - ICN 2011. St. Maarten: International Academy, Research, and Industry Association, 2011, pp. 133-138. ISBN 978-1-61208-002-4.
2010 DE Silva Gayan, MATOUŠEK Petr, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Formal Analysis Approach on Networks with Dynamic Behaviours. In: 2010 International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT). Moscow: IEEE Computer Society, 2010, pp. 545-551. ISBN 978-1-4244-7285-7.
KORNECKI Andrew J., GREGA Wojciech, HILBURN Thomas B., THIRIET Jean-Marc, ŠVÉDA Miroslav, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and PILAT Adam. Transatlantic Engineering Programs: An Experience in International Cooperation. Safeeullah Soomro (Editor): Engineering the Computer Science and IT. Vienna: IN-TECH Education and Publishing, 2010, pp. 65-84. ISBN 978-953-307-012-4.
2009 GREGA Wojciech, HILBURN Thomas B., KORNECKI Andrew J., RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and THIRIET Jean-Marc. Methodology for Creation of Multidisciplinary, Transatlantic Engineering Program in Information Technology. In: Proceedings of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering Council's Annual Conference 2009. Valencia: Politechnical University of Valencia, 2009, p. 5. ISBN 978-84-8363-428-8.
KORNECKI Andrew J., HILBURN Thomas B., GREGA Wojciech, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and THIRIET Jean-Marc. ILERT - International Learning Environment for Real-Time Software-Intensive Control Systems. Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems. 2009, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 66-71. ISSN 1897-8649.
OČENÁŠEK Pavel and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A Model for Measurement and Analysis of the Workflow Processes. In: Human Interface and the Management of Information. Designing Information Environments. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2009, pp. 149-153. ISBN 978-3-642-02555-6.
OČENÁŠEK Pavel and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. AVISPA: Towards Practical Verification of Communication Properties. In: Proceedings 9th IFAC International Conference on Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems. Ostrava: IFAC, 2009, pp. 153-156. ISBN 978-3-902661-41-8. ISSN 1474-6670.
OČENÁŠEK Pavel, TRCHALÍK Roman and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. On the Implementation of Metrics in Industrial Embedded Systems. In: Proceedings 9th IFAC International Conference on Programmable Devices and Embedded Systems. Ostrava: IFAC, 2009, pp. 157-160. ISBN 978-3-902661-41-8. ISSN 1474-6670.
RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, ŠVÉDA Miroslav, KORNECKI Andrew J., HILBURN Thomas B., GREGA Wojciech, PILAT Adam and THIRIET Jean-Marc. Designing and Implementing International RSIC Engineering Curriculum. In: 1st Eastern European Regional Conference on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. Novi Sad: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 71-76. ISBN 978-0-7695-3759-7.
RÁB Jaroslav, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. On the Implementation of State-space Exploration Procedure in a Relational Database Management System. In: 30th IFAC Workshop on Real-Time Programming and 4th International Workshop on Real-Time Software. Mragowo: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 151-156. ISBN 978-83-60810-22-4.
THIRIET Jean-Marc, HILBURN Thomas B., KORNECKI Andrew J., GREGA Wojciech and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Organization of a US-European Trans-national Degree in Engineering. J3eA - Journal sur l'enseignement des sciences et technologies de l'information et des systèmes. Bruxelles: EDP Sciences, 2009, vol. 2009, no. 1, pp. 1-7. ISSN 1638-1963.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Meta-Design with Safe and Secure Embedded System Networking. International Journal On Advances in Security.. 2009, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 8-15. ISSN 1942-2636.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Specifications of Secure and Safe Embedded System Networks. In: 8th International Conference on Networks Proceedings ICN 2009. New York, NY: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 220-225. ISBN 978-0-7695-3552-4.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, KORNECKI Andrew J., HILBURN Thomas B., GREGA Wojciech, THIRIET Jean-Marc and RYŠAVÝ Ondřej. Real-Time Software-Intensive Systems Engineering: An International Perspective. In: European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering Council's Annual Conference 2009. Valencia: Politechnical University of Valencia, 2009, p. 6. ISBN 978-84-8363-428-8.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, TRCHALÍK Roman and OČENÁŠEK Pavel. Design of Networked Embedded Systems: An Approach for Safety and Security. In: Preprints of IFAC Workshop on PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES and EMBEDDED SYSTEMS PDeS 2009. Ostrava: IFAC, 2009, pp. 131-136. ISSN 1474-6670.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Fault Management for Secure Embedded Systems. In: International Conference on Systems Proceedings, ICONS 2009. New York, NY: IEEE Computer Society, 2009, pp. 23-28. ISBN 978-0-7695-3551-7.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Safe and Secure Networked Embedded Applications. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Broadband Communication. Wroclaw: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009, p. 6. ISBN 978-83-7493-405-3.
2008 HILBURN Thomas B., KORNECKI Andrew J., THIRIET Jean-Marc, GREGA Wojciech and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. An RSIC-SE2004 Curriculum Framework. In: IEEE Proceedings of International Multiconference on Computer Science and Information Technology - Real-Time Software. Wisla: IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp. 633-638. ISBN 978-83-60810-14-9. ISSN 1896-7094.
HILBURN Thomas B., THIRIET Jean-Marc, KORNECKI Andrew J., GREGA Wojciech and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Credits and Accreditation in the U.S.A. and Europe: Towards a Framework for Trans-national Engineering Degrees. Innovations. Arlington, VA: iNEER, 2008, vol. 2008, no. 1, pp. 29-42. ISBN 978-0-9741252-8-2. ISSN 1553-9911.
KORNECKI Andrew J., GREGA Wojciech, THIRIET Jean-Marc, ŠVÉDA Miroslav, GONZALES Avelino and THARP Hal. Dependable Systems International Research and Educational Experience. Daytona Beach: European Comission EU, 2008.
KORNECKI Andrew J., HILBURN Thomas B., GREGA Wojciech, THIRIET Jean-Marc and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A COMMON US-EUROPE CURRICULUM: An Approach for Real-Time Software Intensive Systems. In: Proceedings of the 2008 ASEE Anual Conference & Exposition. Pittsburgh, PA: American Society for Engineering Education, 2008, pp. 1359-1371. ISBN 0-87823-196-X.
MATOUŠEK Petr, RÁB Jaroslav, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A Formal Model for Network-wide Security Analysis. In: Proceeding of the 15 IEEE International Symposium and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-based Systems. Belfast: University of Ulster, 2008, pp. 171-181. ISBN 0-7695-3141-5.
PILAT Adam, KORNECKI Andrew J., THIRIET Jean-Marc, GREGA Wojciech and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Industry Feedback on Skills and Knowledge. In: Proceedings of the 19th EAEEIE Annual Conference. Tallin: IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp. 129-133. ISBN 978-1-4244-2009-4.
THIRIET Jean-Marc, HILBURN Thomas B., KORNECKI Andrew J., GREGA Wojciech and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Implementation for a US-European Trans-national Degree in Real-Time Software Engineering. In: Proceedings of the 19th EAEEIE Annual Conference. Tallin: IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp. 134-137. ISBN 978-1-4244-2009-4.
TRCHALÍK Roman, OČENÁŠEK Pavel and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Using MSC and SDL Languages for Description of Network Communication. In: EDS '08 IMAPS CS International Conference Proceedings. Brno: Brno University of Technology, 2008, p. 5. ISBN 978-80-214-3717-3.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Meta-Design Support for Safe and Secure Networked Embedded Systems. In: IEEE Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Systems, ICONS 2008. New York: IEEE Computer Society, 2008, pp. 69-74. ISBN 978-0-7695-3105-2.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and VRBA Radimír. Pattern-driven Reuse of Behavioral Specifications in Embedded Control System Design. Frontiers in Robotics, Automation and Control. Vienna: IN-TECH Education and Publishing, 2008, pp. 151-164. ISBN 978-953-7619-17-6.
ČEJKA Rudolf, MATOUŠEK Petr, RÁB Jaroslav, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A Formal Approach to Network Security Analysis. Brno: Faculty of Information Technology BUT, 2008.
2007 GREGA Wojciech, KORNECKI Andrew J., ŠVÉDA Miroslav and THIRIET Jean-Marc. Developing an Interdisciplinary and Multinational Software Engineering Curriculum. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering Education. Coimbra: European Comission - Education and Training, 2007, p. 4. ISBN 978-972-8055-14-1.
KORNECKI Andrew J., HILBURN Thomas B., GREGA Wojciech, THIRIET Jean-Marc and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. ILERT - International Learning Environment for Real-Time Software Intensive Control Systems. Computer Science and Information Technology. Wisla: IEEE Computer Society, 2007, vol. 2007, no. 2, pp. 943-948. ISSN 1896-7094.
PAVLÍK Michal, HÁZE Jiří, VRBA Radimír and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Smart Differential Pressure Sensor. In: Proceedings ICINCO 2007: Signal Processing, Systems Modelling and Control. Angers: Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, 2007, pp. 244-248. ISBN 978-972-886584-9.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and TRCHALÍK Roman. ZigBee-to-Internet Interconnection Architectures. In: Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Mobile Communications and Learning MCL 2007. Saint Luce, Martinique: IEEE Computer Society, 2007, p. 6. ISBN 0-7695-2807-4.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Dependability-driven Embedded Systems Networking. In: Proceedings of The Sixth International Conference on Networking. New York: IEEE Computer Society, 2007, pp. 483-488. ISBN 0-7695-2805-8.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. End-User Development Framework for Embedded System Applications. In: Engineering of Computer-Based Systems, 2007. Tucson, Arizona: IEEE Computer Society, 2007, pp. 186-192. ISBN 0-7695-2772-8.
2006 FUJCIK Lukáš, VRBA Radimír and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A 16-Bit Switched-Capacitor Sigma-Delta Modulator Matlab Model Exploiting Two-Step Quantization Process. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2006). Setúbal: IEEE Computer Society, 2006, pp. 142-147. ISBN 972-8865-59-7.
RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, ŠČUGLÍK František and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Designing Algorithm-oriented Generic Library on .NET Framework. In: Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems ECBS 2006. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2006, pp. 159-163. ISBN 0-7695-2546-6.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Safe and secure networks of microelectronic systems. Brno: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication BUT, 2006.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Fault Maintenance in Embedded Systems Applications. In: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2006). Setúbal: IEEE Computer Society, 2006, pp. 183-186. ISBN 972-8865-59-7.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, VRBA Radimír and OČENÁŠEK Pavel. Local Time Specifications of Networked Embedded Systems. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Systems (ICONS 2006). Los Alamitos: IEEE Computer Society, 2006, p. 6. ISBN 0-7695-2552-0.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. REUSE OF FORMAL SPECIFICATIONS IN EMBEDDED SYSTEMS DESIGN. In: Proceedings of IFAC Workshop on PROGRAMMABLE DEVICES and EMBEDDED SYSTEMS PDeS 2006. Brno: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Communication BUT, 2006, pp. 78-83. ISBN 80-214-3130-X.
2005 BUREŠ František, RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, ŠČUGLÍK František and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A Framework for Formal Specification of Embedded Systems. In: Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society, 2005, pp. 323-330. ISBN 0-7695-2308-0.
KUCHTA Radek, ŠTEFFAN Pavel, BARTOŇ Zdeněk, VRBA Radimír and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Wireless Temperature Data Logger. In: IEEE Proceedings AsiaSens 2005. Kuala Lumpur: IEEE Computer Society, 2005, pp. 208-212. ISBN 0-7803-9371-6.
VRBA Radimír, SAJDL Ondřej and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Smart Sensors in Wireless Network System. Enabling Technologies for the New Knowledge Society. Cairo: IEEE Computer Society, 2005, pp. 343-353. ISBN 0-7803-9270-1.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. An Approach to the Design of Networked Embedded Systems. In: Proceedings of the 16th IFAC WORLD CONGRESS, 2005. Kidlington, Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2005, p. 6. ISBN 0-08-045108-X. ISSN 1474-6670.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Embedded Systems with IEEE 1451.1 on Internet. Enabling Technologies for the New Knowledge Society. Cairo: IEEE Computer Society, 2005, pp. 539-550. ISBN 0-7803-9270-1.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, BENEŠ Petr, VRBA Radimír and ZEZULKA František. Introduction to Industrial Sensor Networking. Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems. Boca Raton, Florida: CRC Press LLC, 2005, pp. 10-24. ISBN 0-8493-1968-4.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Computer Networks with Smart Sensors: the IEEE 1451 Approach. In: Proceedings IMAPS CS International Conference EDS'05. Brno: Brno University of Technology, 2005, pp. 107-110. ISBN 80-214-2990-9.
2004 DVOŘÁK Václav and ŠVÉDA Miroslav, ed. Proceedings of the International IEEE Conference and Workshop ECBS'2004. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2004. ISBN 0-7695-2125-8.
DVOŘÁK Václav, ŠVÉDA Miroslav, RATTRAY Charles and ROZENBLIT Jerzy. Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems - J.UCS Special Issue. Journal of Universal Computer Science. 2004, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1258-1260. ISSN 0948-6968.
HÁZE Jiří, KREJČÍ Jan, VRBA Radimír and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Sensor Analysis of Liquid Pollution. In: Proceedings of the 2004 ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference. New Orleans, LA: IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 155-158. ISBN 0-7803-8143-2.
RATTRAY Charles, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and ROZENBLIT Jerzy, ed. Proceedings of the IEEE TC-ECBS and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. Stirling: University of Stirling, 2004. ISBN 1-85769-1970.
RYŠAVÝ Ondřej, BUREŠ František, ŠČUGLÍK František and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Integration of Formal Methods in a Specification Framework for Embedded Systems. In: Proceedings of the IEEE TC-ECBS and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. Stirling: IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 57-63. ISBN 1-85769-1970.
VRBA Radimír, SAJDL Ondřej, KUCHTA Radek and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Wireless Smart Sensor Network System. In: Proceedings of the ICSE & INCOSE 2004 Conference. Las Vegas, NV: CRC Press LLC, 2004, pp. 466-471. ISBN 0-8576-9197-0.
VRBA Radimír, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and MAREČEK Karel. Pressure Transducer with Multiplexed Frequency Transmitter. In: Proceedings of the 2004 ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference. New Orleans, LA: IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 7-10. ISBN 0-7803-8143-2.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. A Development Environment for Internet-Based Applications of Smart Sensors. In: Proceedings of the 2004 ISA/IEEE Sensors for Industry Conference. New Orleans, LA: IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 170-176. ISBN 0-7803-8143-2.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. An Approach to Computer-Based System Synthesis. In: Proceedings of the ICSE & INCOSE 2004 Conference. Las Vegas, NV: CRC Press LLC, 2004, p. 8. ISBN 0-8576-9197-0.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Reuse of Formal Specifications in Computer-Based Systems Design. In: Proceedings of the ICSE & INCOSE 2004 Conference. Las Vegas, NV: CRC Press LLC, 2004, p. 6. ISBN 0-85760-919-X.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Sensor Networking with Publish/Subscribe and IP Multicast. WSEAS Transactions on Information Science and Applications. 2004, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 983-987. ISSN 1790-0832.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, RATTRAY Charles and ROZENBLIT Jerzy. Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems - J.UCS Special Issue. Journal of Universal Computer Science. 2004, vol. 10, no. 10, pp. 1354-1356. ISSN 0948-6968.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A Design Framework for Internet-Based Embedded Distributed Systems. In: Proceedings of the International IEEE Conference and Workshop ECBS'2004. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society, 2004, pp. 113-120. ISBN 0-7695-2125-8.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. IP Multicast with Publish/Subscribe for Sensors on Internet. In: 11th Electronic Devices and Systems Conference 2004 Proceedings. Brno: Brno University of Technology, 2004, pp. 350-353. ISBN 80-214-2701-9.
2003 CACH Petr, FIEDLER Petr, ŠVÉDA Miroslav, PROKOP Miloš and WAGNER Marek. A Sensor with Embedded Ethernet. WSEAS Transactions on Circuits. Athens: World Scientific and Engineering Academy, 2003, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 213-215. ISSN 1109-2734.
RATTRAY Charles, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and ROZENBLIT Jerzy, ed. Proceedings IEEE TC-ECBS and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. Huntsville, AL: University of Stirling, 2003. ISBN 1-85769-189X.
RYŠAVÝ Ondřej and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A Minimal Formal Language for Object-Oriented Specifications. In: Proceedings of the IEEE TC-ECBS and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems, 2003. Huntsville, AL: University of Stirling, 2003, pp. 35-40. ISBN 1-85769-189X.
SAJDL Ondřej, BRADÁČ Zdeněk, VRBA Radimír and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Data Acquisition Systém Exploiting Bluetooth Technology. WSEAS Transactions on Circuits. Athens: World Scientific and Engineering Academy, 2003, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 117-119. ISSN 1109-2734.
VEČEŘA Ivo, VRBA Radimír and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A/D Switched-Current Converter with Built-in Self Testing Features. In: Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2002, Vol. III. Orlando: The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2003, pp. 367-370. ISBN 980-07-8150-1.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and KAPOUN Vladimír. Internet-Based Smart Sensor Networking Architectures. ElectronicsLetters.com. Brno: 2003, vol. 2003, no. 6, p. 5. ISSN 1213-161X.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. An Integrated Framework for Internet-Based Applications of Smart Sensors. IEEE Sensors Journal. 2003, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 579-586. ISSN 1530-437X.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Embedded System Formal Specifications Reuse by a Case-Based Reasoning Approach. In: Proceedings of the 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2002, Vol. I. Orlando: The International Institute of Informatics and Systemics, 2003, pp. 157-162. ISBN 980-07-8150-1.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Embedded System Specification Reuse by a Case Based Reasoning Approach. WSEAS Transactions on Computers. Athens: World Scientific and Engineering Academy, 2003, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 10-14. ISSN 1109-2750.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, RATTRAY Charles and ROZENBLIT Jerzy. Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems 2003. Huntsville, AL: IEEE Computer Society, 2003, pp. 169-172. ISBN 0-7695-1917-2.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Engineering of Computer-Based Systems: Brno in 2004. In: Proceedings EDS'03. Brno: Brno University of Technology, 2003, pp. 85-88. ISBN 80-214-2452-4.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Executable Specifications with Rapid Prototyping for Embedded Distributed Systems. In: Programmable Devices and Systems 2003. Kidlington, Oxford: Elsevier Science, 2003, pp. 49-54. ISBN 0-08-044130-0.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Local Time for Formal Specification of Networked Embedded System. WSEAS Transactions on Computers. Athens: World Scientific and Engineering Academy, 2003, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 4-9. ISSN 1109-2750.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Rapid Prototyping of Networked Embedded Systems. In: Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems 2003. Huntsville, AL: IEEE Computer Society, 2003, pp. 125-132. ISBN 0-7695-1917-2.
ŠČUGLÍK František and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Automatically Generated CSP Specifications. In: Proceedings of the IEEE TC-ECBS and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems, 2003. Huntsville, AL: University of Stirling, 2003, pp. 41-47. ISBN 1-85769-189X.
ŠČUGLÍK František and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Automatically Generated CSP Specifications. Journal of Universal Computer Science. 2003, vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 1277-1295. ISSN 0948-6968.
2002 KAPOUN Vladimír and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Management systems and their organization. ElectronicsLetters.com. Brno: 2002, vol. 2002, no. 12, p. 3. ISSN 1213-161X.
KUČERA Pavel, ZEZULKA František, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Executable specifications for Process Automation and Microelectronics. In: IEEE TC-ECBS and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. Lund: University of Stirling, 2002, pp. 91-98. ISBN 1-85769-169-5.
RATTRAY Charles, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and ROZENBLIT Jerzy, ed. IEEE TC-ECBS and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. Lund: University of Stirling, 2002. ISBN 1-85769-169-5.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and RÁB Jaroslav. Designing dedicated distributed architectures for embedded systems. In: Proceedings of Electronic Devices and Systems, 2002. Brno: Brno University of Technology, 2002, pp. 301-310. ISBN 80-214-2180-0.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. An Integrated Framework for Internet-Based Applications of Smart Sensors. In: Proceedings of IEEE Sensors 2002. Piscataway, New York: IEEE Computer Society, 2002, pp. 1543-1548. ISBN 0-7803-7454-1.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. An Integrated Framework for Sensor-Based Embedded Systems. In: Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2002, pp. 195-202. ISBN 0-7695-1549-5.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, RATTRAY Charles and ROZENBLIT Jerzy. Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. In: Proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer-Based Systems. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society, 2002, pp. 224-225. ISBN 0-7695-1549-5.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Specifications of embedded systems. Učební texty pro předmět SVS, obor IT. Brno, 2002.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. A fail-stop model for design of embedded systems. In: Telecommunications and Signal Processing TSP-2002. Brno: Brno University of Technology, 2002, pp. 152-155. ISBN 80-214-2172-X.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Rapid Prototyping of Embedded Distributed Systems. In: IEEE Design and Diagnostics of Electronic Circuits and Systems. Brno: Faculty of Information Technology BUT, 2002, pp. 320-323. ISBN 80-214-2094-4.
2001 CACH Petr, FIEDLER Petr, VRBA Radimír, ZEZULKA František and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Internet based remote I/O. In: ICPR-16. Prague: unknown, 2001, pp. 1-6. ISBN 80-02-01438-3.
RATTRAY Charles and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. In: Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference and Workshop ECBS'2001. Washington D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, 2001, pp. 357-358. ISBN 0-7695-1086-8.
RATTRAY Charles, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and ROZENBLIT Jerzy, ed. Proceedings of the IEEE TC-ECBS and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. Washington D.C.: University of Stirling, 2001. ISBN 1-85-769144-X.
VRBA Radimír, ŠVÉDA Miroslav and ZEZULKA František. Interconnecting Smart Sensors through Low-Level Fieldbuses to Intranet/Internet. In: ICPR-16. Prague: unknown, 2001, pp. 1-6. ISBN 80-02-01438-3.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and STRACH Michal. A Sensor-to-Intranet Coupling Architecture. In: Proceedings of the 8th Electronic Devices and Systems Conference EDS'01. Brno: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science BUT, 2001, pp. 214-217. ISBN 80-214-1960-1.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Executable Specifications for Distributed Embedded Systems. Computer. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001, vol. 34, no. 1, pp. 138-140. ISSN 0018-9162.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Sensor Networking. In: Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference and Workshop ECBS'2001. Washington D.C.: IEEE Computer Society, 2001, pp. 262-268. ISBN 0-7695-1086-8.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, VRBA Radimír and BENEŠ Petr. A System Architecture of Networked Pressure Sensors. In: Proceedings of the 5th WSES/IEEE World Conference on Systems (CSCC2001). Rethymno: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001, pp. 3541-3546. ISBN 960-8052-33-5.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, VRBA Radimír and BENEŠ Petr. A System Architecture of Networked Pressure Sensors. Advances in Systems Science: Measurement, Circuits and Control. Herakleion, Greece: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001, pp. 64-69. ISBN 960-8052-39-4.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, VRBA Radimír and STRACH Michal. Integrated Framework and Design Pattern for Coupling a Group of Sensors with Internet. Brno: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science BUT, 2001.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, VRBA Radimír, VRBA Kamil and ZEZULKA František. Frameworks for Interconnecting Smart Sensors. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/IEE Real-Time Embedded Systems Workshop RTES'01. London: IEEE Computer Society Press, 2001, pp. 1-4.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, ZEZULKA František and VRBA Radimír. A Case-Based Reasoning Approach to Reuse of CBS Specifications. In: Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Joint Workshop on Formal Specification of Computer-Based Systems, FSCBS'2001. Washington D.C.: University of Stirling, 2001, pp. 139-144. ISBN 1-85-769144-X.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Systémy založené na počítačích. Brno: Brno University of Technology, 2001. ISBN 80-214-1937-7.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Case-Based Reasoning Driven Development of an Industrial Application. In: Proceedings of the 8th Electronic Devices and Systems Conference EDS'01. Brno: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science BUT, 2001, pp. 208-213. ISBN 80-214-1960-1.
2000 GONZALES Regina M., LAVI Jonah Z., MANNION Mike and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Engineering of Computer-Based Systems Enhancement Courses - Proposed Course Outlines. In: IEEE Computer Society TC-ECBS, Background Papers. Napier University, Edinburgh: unknown, 2000, pp. 1-9.
JANKOVSKÝ Michal and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. From TLA Specifications to Real-Time Unix Applications. In: Proceedings IEEE/IFIP Joint Workshop on Formal Specification of CBS. Napier University, Edinburgh: unknown, 2000, pp. 77-79. ISBN 1-85-769121-0.
LAVI Jonah Z., MANNION Mike, MELHART Bonnie, PYLE Ian and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Engineering of Computer-Based Systems - A Proposed Curriculum for a Degree Program at Bachelor Level. In: IEEE Computer Society TC-ECBS, Background Papers. Napier University, Edinburgh: unknown, 2000, pp. 1-8.
LAVI Jonah Z., MELHART Bonnie, PYLE Ian and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Engineering of Computer-Based Systems - A Proposed Curriculum for a Degree Program at Master Level. In: IEEE Computer Society TC-ECBS, Background Papers. Napier University, Edinburgh: unknown, 2000, pp. 1-18.
PICHLER Franz, RATTRAY Charles and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. IEEE/IFIP Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. In: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference and Workshop ECBS'2000. Napier University, Edinburgh: IEEE Computer Society, 2000, pp. 382-382. ISBN 0-7695-0604-6.
RATTRAY Charles and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Proceedings of the IEEE TC-ECBS + TF RE and IFIP WG10.1 Joint Workshop on Formal Specifications of Computer-Based Systems. Napier University, Edinburgh: IEEE Computer Society, 2000. ISBN 1-85-769121-0.
VEČEŘA Ivo, VRBA Radimír and ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Senzory s vlastním testováním. Elektrorevue - www.elektrorevue.cz. Brno: 2000, vol. 2000, no. 12, pp. 1-7. ISSN 1213-1539.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Communication Protocols. Brno: Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science BUT, 2000.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. DCB Digital Communication On-board Bus. In: Proceedings ICT 2000. Acapulco: IEEE Computer Society, 2000, pp. 1088-1092. ISBN 968-36-7762-2.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Executable Specifications for Distributed Embedded Systems. In: Proceedings IEEE/IFIP Joint Workshop on Formal Specification of CBS. Napier University, Edinburgh: University of Stirling, 2000, pp. 81-85. ISBN 1-85-769121-0.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav and VRBA Radimír. Rapid Prototyping of Embedded Communication Systems. In: Proceedings ICT 2000. Acapulco: unknown, 2000, pp. 677-681. ISBN 968-36-7762-2.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav, VRBA Radimír and ZEZULKA František. Coupling Architectures for Low-Level Fieldbusses. In: Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference and Workshop ECBS'2000. Napier University, Edinburgh: IEEE Computer Society, 2000, pp. 148-155. ISBN 0-7695-0604-6.
ŠVÉDA Miroslav. Patterns for Embedded Systems Design. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 2000, vol. 2000, no. 1798, pp. 80-89. ISSN 0302-9743.


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Q: subview animation, switching between UITabBar's viewController [Description]
in my iPad App with uitabbarcontroller, each viewcontroller will have a few subclassed UI object, and on it is a UILabel with animation(transitionwithview) applied on the UILabel (e.g flashing animation using alpha of say a UIlabel). Animation works well and nothing is wrong.
[Situation]
Now, i commence switching between tabs(ViewController), (on load) subview animation on TAB1 works, then i switch to TAB2, then switch back to TAB1, UILabel stops animating.
(hierarchy = VC > Subclassed UI Object > UILabel)
[Question]
1> How can i keep that animation going when i switch back to TAB1?
2> What is the general good practice for UITabBarControllers? Do people manually dealloc ViewControllers on Tab Selection? or just wait for memory warning to handle the situation?
thank you for helping.

A: 1: Ideally it is great that the animation stops. you dont want multiple animations running on different tabs when they are not the visible tab. The way you can handle your usecase is by restarting the animation in the
  viewWillAppear

function of the viewcontroller of TAB1
2: No you should not manually dealloc. Let memory management handle that for you.

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Ben Vaughn
by Ian Koss
You may not have heard Ben Vaughn's name, but it's highly likely you've heard his music or influence. Besides being an accomplished musician and songwriter, with a staggering discography of creative material, he has also served as a producer (including Ween's 12 Golden Country Greats, and albums with Los Straitjackets and Arthur Alexander, among others) and session musician. There is also an entire career in TV music, scoring brief sonic masterpieces for the likes of 3rd Rock from the Sun, That '70s Show, that has come and gone, searing its sounds into the subconscious of anyone who watched TV between 1995-2005. These days, you can be seduced by the decade-spanning sounds of his syndicated radio show (also available in podcast form), The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn, produced from his Relay Shack home/studio, on the edge of the Mojave desert in California. We got a chance to talk to Ben on a Tuesday morning in February, shortly after the vinyl release of his monumental Instrumental Stylings album, available from Bar/None Records.
Good morning! Am I calling the desert?
I'm in the middle of Mardi Gras. It's totally insane. Two parades are going by my window right now, I just came up from the street and it is mayhem out there.
I had no idea… is this a tradition for you?
Actually, this is only the second year I've gone. I'm going to try and do it every year for the rest of my life now.
Sounds a world apart from the Relay Shack.
I'm about as far as you can get before electricity ends for 80 miles, outside 29 Palms. I bought a house out there about 20 years ago, when I was doing TV music. I was really in the trenches in Hollywood, and everyone around me was having nervous breakdowns. I thought it might be contagious, so I had to have a weekend place I could go to. I bought what was a shack at the time, out in the middle of nowhere, and built onto it a little bit. I split my time between the Mojave and an apartment in Santa Monica, but I spend most of it in the desert.
The fringes of the desert are an interesting place. There are people who are trying not to be found trying to squeeze a living out of the thinnest of margins.
It's a magical place. You're either going to react favorably to it or not, there's no in between. I've had people come out to my place and the quiet freaks them out. They can't handle how quiet it is.
It's surprising to think that 2018 is when Instrumental Stylings gets its vinyl release.
In 1994, when it first came out, vinyl was considered completely dead, there wasn't even a boutique industry or anything. It was gone. It wasn't an option if you were putting out a record at the time.
Did you want it to be on vinyl at that time?
I've always wanted everything to be on vinyl. I never embraced CDs, never really warmed up to the idea. When I started my career my albums would only come out on vinyl or cassette, so my background is side A, side B. My original training in the business was to create an album that has two sides, and that completely fell apart when CDs came out.
In 1994, if you thought about the reissue of an album in the 21st century, it would have been in terms of a new remastered diamond cube, or some other high-tech format that is not vinyl.
It sounds great. When they sent me the test pressing, it was the first time I'd ever heard it on vinyl. I was really happy when I heard it.
Were you involved in remastering?
Just in approving the master. I made a few notes and they made a second pass, but boy, it was great, great to be working again, to be actually listening to a reference disc on a turntable. It was beautiful.
Are there any plans for releasing other material of yours on vinyl?
I have a new solo acoustic record that I'm getting ready to play out. Labels in France and Spain always put my stuff out on vinyl no matter what I do, because I have consistent fan base over there. They never stopped with vinyl in Spain, it's crazy. As far as Bar/None goes, this is the only thing we've talked about. I have another record with them that maybe we'll do next, but I don't know. Instrumental Stylings is the only project we've actually talked about going through with.
Any plans to do release your TV and film music?
It's a question that's come up a few times. I don't own it, because when you do work for hire, the production company owns the masters and the publishing as well. I'm not even sure where that stuff ends up. I did most of my TV shows for a company called Carsey Werner, 3rd Rock, '70s Show, pilots and everything. I'm assuming somewhere there is a digital library of all the music that all the composers that worked for them did, but the company went out of business about ten years ago, and you never know where anything ends up when that happens.
Do you think you'll ever go back into making that type of music?
Not really. I played it out. I did it for eleven years, and I didn't feel like I was learning anything anymore. The Instrumental Stylings record is a good example of where I was when that started. I was in the record business, and I had a record deal, and I would record an album of twelve songs and go out on tour for a year and half and then deliver another collection of twelve songs.
That went on for four albums, but I wanted to be writing every day. I wanted a reason to write music every day, because that's what really feels the most natural to me, but the record business doesn't give you that opportunity. So I decided to go to LA to see if I could do some film music. Pulp Fiction had just come out, and everybody was looking for surf guitar at that moment, and it's one of the things that I do.
I immediately got work as a session guy on a bunch of films, then 3rd Rock came along. It was great because I knew I was an artist, but I wasn't sure if I was a craftsman, if I could really work with deadlines and crank it out. In the record business, deadlines can be moved, they're very lenient with the artists in the record business. But not TV. If you're the composer, your stuff is going to be on the air Tuesday night at 8:30, whether you've finished it or not. There's no second guessing, that's a luxury. Your first idea has to be your only idea, because they're going to pull it out of your hands and put it on the air.
And also, when it's done, that's it. It's done. You move on to the next one.
Whether you like it or not, it's done. You have to really know what's going to be good, and know really fast, and have your angle on what this piece of music needs to be, and you have to work quickly. It's a very sobering job for an artist. I was curious if I could work under pressure and write every day. It cured me of any neurosis I might have about having a writer's block. You can't afford to have one. You can't freeze, you have to keep moving.
Doing that for 10-11 years, near the end, it didn't feel like a challenge to me anymore. I'd proven to myself I could do it. And I'd also proved that I could exist in that field without getting fired for being too weird. I stayed the course, but it started to become repetitive and that was when I realized it was time to step away.
Ben Vaughn Ensemble, 2015
These days, you have a radio show slash podcast.
It's a real manic thing for me, because I grew up in the Philadelphia area obsessed with radio. Philadelphia radio is unique. It's like nothing has changed. Doo-wop never died in Philly. It's such a great city to listen to the radio. When I was growing up, I wasn't sure if I was going to be a musician or work on the radio, because they both seemed equally great to me.
So when I retired from TV music, I came back to this. I didn't want to go on Sirius XM and do anything official or legitimate. I wanted to start station by station, and build a relationship. I started with WEVO in Memphis, I was on the air there for about a year. I wasn't that great yet. The records I was playing were great, but my presentation left a little somethingg to be desired. Once the show started to really sound like I wanted it to sound, then I started pitching it to other stations. Now it's syndicated to 23 stations, and it's really cool because I have relationships with every program director at every station.
Do you hear from fans?
All the time. I get a lot of emails through the website, and Facebook. It seems like the kind of records I'm playing, and the way I group them together, there isn't much of that going on because of the enthusiasm of the people I hear from. To me it's a no-brainer, this is the way a radio show should sound and I don't really give it much thought. But it seems to be an unusual show that I'm doing.
But you're just basically playing music from your personal library.
Yup. I love country music, and I love punk, and I love easy listening and bossa nova, and jazz and blues and folk… when I was in high school it was kinda rough for me because you had to take sides, about whether you liked disco, or progressive rock, or punk, or the Grateful Dead. I was listening to Waylon Jennings and Lou Reed. I just kept my mouth shut, because my friends were intent on forming social groups based on what kind of music you liked, and I was always the odd man out.
My radio show reflects how I listen to music at home. I love pretty much everything. There's no genre… [pause] smooth jazz I'm a little cool on, I will admit. Not a huge smooth jazz fan.
It has its place.
It has its place. But then again, so does dentistry.
Sometimes you need a dentist*. You're really enjoying the radio part.
I'm loving it. I have a really big record collection, and now that MP3s are available, you can find all sorts of crazy stuff without having to track down the actual album, which could take you years. I love it because my relationship with my record collection is intimate again. When I was doing TV music and I was working around the clock, my collection was there, but I wasn't laying on the floor in the living room, pulling out albums and exploring. The radio show is a great excuse to have to do it. I have to do it now.
Do you have a weekly ritual to get ready for your radio show?
I always pick three songs that are worth talking about. Something historical, or something about the recording, or the artist or style. Then I just start listening, and because I've painstakingly figured out the best sequence for a lot of albums, I have a feeling for how many uptempo tunes need to happen before a ballad, when something with a minor key should come after something in a major key. Drum breaks… every reggae song and every ska song starts with a drum break — boom, b-r-rah-pah — and then whatever the song is going to be, it's there. Those things I take into consideration when I'm putting the playlist together, so it works as one piece of music, like a suite.
I listen as a musician, and as a lyricist too, and I'm always aware when there is a theme of some sort. I don't try to overdo it, because the death of good radio is when you become too clever for your own good, and something that looks great on paper because it's thematic may sound horrible on the radio.
When a song is fading out in the headphones, I'm always incredibly happy that I'm doing this right now. Sometimes I have to drag myself to record the show, but once I start I'm in, 100%. I feel like I'm the luckiest guy in the world, turning people on to music, and nurturing myself at the same time by listening to these songs.
It sounds like this career you have going in broadcasting is fairly sustainable, too.
Yeah, it is. I'm still writing songs, and I still tour over in France and Spain. I'm going over to France in a couple months. The life that I have now, I don't have to hustle, but I love to work and I love stay busy, and creative, and curious about music. It's working out really well.
And here I am at Mardi Gras, watching marching bands go by. "Rock And Roll" by Gary Glitter is incredibly popular down here with these bands. Of all the great New Orleans music, "Li'l Liza Jane" and all those second line numbers…
You can listen to The Many Moods of Ben Vaughn on the radio in selected cities (check out www.benvaughn.com) or by subscribing to the podcast (available on most major platforms). Imitation Wood Grain and Other Folk Songs, Ben Vaughn's new solo album, has become available on CD Baby since this interview took place.
* Said the person that had a crown put in the day before.
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Ian Koss
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The first four tracks of this EP are also available on the "Contradictions Collapse" reissue.
There is a hidden track (1:45) after "Aztec Two-Step".
Recorded at Tonteknik Recordings in Umeå, Sweden.
Mastered at Cutting Room in Stockholm, Sweden.


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Antique maps by David Hugh Burr
David Hugh Burr
David Burr (1803–1875) was an American cartographer, surveyor and topographer. He served in several positions for the United States government, as the official topographer for the United States Post Office Department from 1832 until 1838, and as a draftsman for the United States House of Representatives from 1838 until 1840 and for the United States Senate from 1853 until 1855. He was also Surveyor General of Utah, from 1855 to 1857.
New York / 1836
Map of the State of New-York with parts of the adjacent Country, Embracing Plans of the Cities, and some of the larger Villages: By David H. Burr . . . 1834
Hindostan
The United States of Mexico (Republic of Texas)
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
Philadelphia / 1836
Illinois By David H. Burr
New Holland and New Zealand
Vermont and New Hampshire
Kentucky and Tennessee
Map of the Northern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with Michigan and that part to the Ouisconsin Territory Lying East of the Mississippi River . . . 1836
Washington / 1836
Map of the City of New-York, Drawn by D. H. Burr, for New York as it is in 1846. Population 371,233.
Map of the State of Alabama
Map of the State of Alabama. By David Burr
Oregon Territory
Michigan. Drawn & Published by David H. Burr.
New-York. Drawn & Published by David H. Burr.
Map of the Country Twenty Five Miles Round The City of New-York
Map of the Northern parts of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois with Michigan and that part to the Ouisconsin Territory Lying East of the Mississippi River … 1836
United States. By David H. Burr
David Hugh Burr / B. Davenport
Maine [showing disputed boundaries as claimed by US, New Brunswick and as settled by the King of the Netherlands]
Pennsylvania By David H. Burr
The United States of Mexico…
Indiana By David H. Burr
Map of the State of New York And the Surrounding Country By David H. Burr…
David Hugh Burr / Stone & Clark
Ithica, NY / 1829 (1841)
A Map Exhibiting the relative positions of Lake Erie & Michigan ... [with] A Map Exhibiting the relative positions of Lake Erie & Michigan According to Mitchell's Map . . .
U.S. Government / David Hugh Burr
Texas, By David Burr . . . 1833
Joseph Hutchins Colton / David Hugh Burr
United States. By David Burr
Map of the Territory of Wisconsin. By David Burr . . . 1836
Map of the United States Exhibiting the Several Collection Districts Drawn by David H. Burr Draftsman to U.S. Senate
[Title Page] A New Universal Atlas, Comprising Separate Maps Of all the Principal Empires, Kingdoms & States Throughout The World and Forming a Distinct Atlas of the United States. . . .
New York / 1838 circa
Map of the United States of North America, By David H. Burr, Geographer to the House of Representatives of the United States
Map of the City of New York, Drawn by D.H. Burr . . . 1846
City of New-York
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NSB El 4 was a class of electric locomotive used by the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) to transport iron ore on the Ofoten Line. NSB had a total of five triple-locomotive sets.

History

In 1923, Ofoten Line and the Swedish Iron Ore Line were electrified and NSB had to acquire electric locomotives to haul the trains. NSB chose to order five double-engine El 3 units and five triple-engine El 4 units for the purpose. The El 4 were built at NEBB, Thune and Hamar Jernstøberi.

After World War II, the production of iron ore in Kiruna and Malmberget increased dramatically and the train length was increased, with the consequence that each train needed more propulsion. NSB chose to order eight new El 12 locomotives at the same time it combined the ten El 3 locomotives to make three triple-engine sets with one reserve.

When the El 15 locomotives were delivered in 1967, the El 3 and El 4 units were taken out of service. None of the locomotives have been preserved. One engine, 4.2046, is buried under gravel and soil below the railway near Katterat, where it ended up at a derailment in 1959. Heavy rainfall had caused flooding that damaged the line in Sørddalen. 4.2046 was hauling an inspection train when the embankment that carried the track failed and the engine tipped over. Usable parts were stripped from the engine before it was buried when the embankment was rebuilt.

References

External links

 Jernbane.net page on El 4 with pictures

15 kV AC locomotives
El 04
Ofoten Line
Brown, Boveri & Cie locomotives
Electric locomotives of Norway
Railway locomotives introduced in 1925

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The Detroit Tigers have made a roster move on Monday ahead of their series in Pittsburgh, recalling outfield prospect Mike Gerber from Triple-A Toledo and designating pitcher Drew VerHagen for assignment.
Today the Tigers have recalled OF Mike Gerber from Triple A Toledo and RHP Drew VerHagen has been designated for assignment.
— Tigers PR (@DetroitTigersPR) April 23, 2018
The Tigers promoted Gerber from Toledo this past Friday as the 26th man for their doubleheader at home against the Kansas City Royals. He briefly appeared as a pinch-runner in the ninth inning of Game 2 that day, a game Detroit went on to lose 3-2. Gerber was promptly sent back down to Triple-A after the twin bill.
Gerber got off to a red-hot start with the Mud Hens to start the season, going 10 for 18 in his first four games, with four extra-base hits and five runs batted in. He's cooled off considerably since then, going just 3 for 38 over his last nine games.
"It's good motivation for getting back," Gerber said. "It's an experience I'll never forget, and hopefully I'll have many more like it."
Wow. Making my Major League Debut was a day I will remember forever. Thank you to everyone who reached out with texts and calls these past couple of days. It has made this moment even more special. @tigers
— Mike Gerber (@Gerbs13) April 21, 2018
Gerber will join the Tigers as they begin a six-game road trip, starting with three against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Being in a National League ballpark, the Tigers' No. 11 prospect will likely get his first major league at-bat sometime during this series in a pinch-hitting role, if not starting in a game.
Being designated for assignment, Drew VerHagen will have to go through and subsequently clear waivers for Detroit to assign him back to the minors; VerHagen was out of options heading into this season. The 27-year-old has allowed a total of seven runs in 10 innings of work this year (6.30 ERA). In his last three appearances alone, he's been tagged for five ER in just 2.1 IP.
VerHagen really showed a lot of promise for the Tigers back in 2015 when he returned from a major back injury. In 20 relief appearances that year, he posted an ERA barely over 2.00. Over the last three seasons, however, VerHagen has logged a 6.25 ERA in 54 appearances. He underwent season-ending thoracic outlet syndrome surgery in 2016 as well.
The former fourth-round pick of the Tigers in 2012 was an easy pick for the club to let go at this point. Reiterating to Detroit's upcoming series in a senior circuit venue and an off day on Monday, pitching was not a major need at this moment, so the Tigers opt to bring an extra bat in Gerber.
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RoboCup 2010: Could Robot versus Human Be Far Behind? [Slide Show]
Full-size biped robot strikers debut at this year's competition as human World Cup teams play on in South Africa
By Rachel Kaufman on June 22, 2010
As the World Cup races forward in South Africa a different kind of soccer tournament recently kicked off in Asia. And whereas debates in Cape Town and Johannesburg may center on the Jabulani ball's aerodynamics or the vuvuzela's "unique" sound, in Singapore coaches are more likely to worry whether their favorite player has blown a fuse, so to speak.
RoboCup 2010 marks the 14th year that hundreds of roboticists pit their mechanized creations against each other in five different soccer leagues. Some are reserved for two-legged, two-armed humanoids, whereas others are for small, wheeled robots that look like polka-dotted coffee cans. There's even a league just for virtual robots, where computer programs go head-to-head to test the limits of cooperative artificial intelligence.
The goal at RoboCup is not just to win but to push robotics in ways that apply in the real world—and to eventually build a team of robots that can beat the human World Cup champions. Humanoid robots have made great strides since their debut in the 2002 RoboCup, where they competed in four events: a penalty kick competition, a race, freestyle demonstrations, and the aptly titled "Standing Still on One Leg."
This year, some humanoids are playing soccer matches. The games are a little slower than the ones taking place in South Africa, but the bots attempt to pass, dribble and shoot, just like their human counterparts.
New this year is an "AdultSize" league. Previously, no robot could be taller than 1.2 meters. This year, however, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Va., has entered CHARLI, a 1.5-meter-tall plastic and metal creation that resembles Sonny, the sympathetic robot character from the 2004 movie I, Robot.
CHARLI will have to locate the soccer ball, dribble it up the court, and kick it through the goal to win. It is not as easy as it sounds, Dennis Hong, director of Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory, explained via e-mail. As robots get taller balancing becomes tougher, he added. CHARLI's ball-handling skills will be tested against bots from five other teams in the adult-size league.
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In the smaller humanoid league, 24 teams compete with 60-centimeter-tall, custom-built robots in games of three on three. The only two U.S. teams competing in this league are Virginia Tech's Team DARwIn and the RoboPatriots from George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
The RoboPatriots (video) are not going to take on David Beckham anytime soon: Last year, the first year they attended RoboCup, the robots suffered from a vision problem. "Our problem last year was our choice of camera," says GMU computer science professor Sean Luke. Like many RoboCup teams, they programmed their bots to track orange blobs (to represent the orange balls used in the competition). But at last year's venue, the green field was—to GMU's dismay—surrounded by the venue's orange floor. "So our robots saw the orange and thought, 'Oh, a big ball!'" Luke says. The RoboPatriots spent much of their time wandering off the field yet still managed to block more goals than many of their competitors.
Whereas some teams focus on building one über-bot, Luke and his students want to build as many robots as they can, as cheaply as possible. "We want to study how tens or hundreds of them can work together on complex tasks," such as constructing a building or performing disaster response, Luke says. "We want to make these as sophisticated as we can" for a reasonable price.
Each of the RoboPatriots costs about $2,000 to construct, Luke says. (Virginia Tech's robots in 2008 cost $18,000 each.) Luke is confident that his team's robots will fare better this year: They have more sophisticated vision, faster and sturdier parts—and a drive to win (all for the same price tag of $2,000).
"Keep The Ball Moving"
Hardware is less of an issue in the RoboCup's Standard Platform League (SPL), where all participants instead concentrate on writing software to control Nao mini-humanoid robots made by French robotics company Aldebaran Robotics.
This year, the University of Texas at Austin SPL team is focusing on strategy rather than raw power (video from last year's tournament). A main emphasis of the Texas team is to get the ball and move it before the other team can, even if that means the robot is not making a perfect kick. "If we can keep the ball moving, we may be able to beat teams with better skills than we have," says University of Texas team leader and computer science professor Peter Stone.
Virginia Tech's Hong puts it this way: "To quote Sepp Herberger, the famous German football coach, 'The ball is round, so anything can happen.'"
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Q: How to test string contains elements in list and assign the target element to another column via Pandas I have a one column list presenting some company names. Some of those names contain the country names (e.g., "China" in "China A1", 'Finland' in "C1 in Finland"). I want to extract their belonging countries based on the company name and a pre-defined list consisted of country names.
The original dataframe df shows like this
    Company name    Country
0   China A1
1   Australia-A2
2   Belgium_C1
3   C1  in  Finland
4   D1  of  Greece
5   E2  for Pakistan

For now, I can only come up with an inefficient method. Here is my code:
country_list = ['China','America','Greece','Pakistan','Finland','Belgium','Japan','British','Australia']
for t in country_list:
    df.loc[df['company name'].contains(t),'country']=t

The result shows like
    Company name    Country
0   China A1        China
1   Australia-A2    Australia
2   Belgium_C1      Belgium
3   C1  in  Finland Finland
4   D1  of  Greece  Greece
5   E2  for Pakistan Pakistan

I thought that when the country_list contains large amount of elements, i,e, countries, it would be time-consuming via loop method. Is there any simpler method to tackle with my problem?

A: Here's one way using str.extract:
df['Country'] = df['Company name'].str.extract('('+'|'.join(country_list)+')')

       Company name    Country
0          China A1      China
1      Australia-A2  Australia
2        Belgium_C1    Belgium
3   C1  in  Finland    Finland
4    D1  of  Greece     Greece
5  E2  for Pakistan   Pakistan

A: Using str.extract with Regex
Ex:
import pandas as pd
country_list = ['China','America','Greece','Pakistan','Finland','Belgium','Japan','British','Australia']

df = pd.read_csv(filename)
df["Country"] = df["Company_name"].str.extract("("+"|".join(country_list)+ ")")
print(df)

Output:
           Company_name    Country
0      China A1              China
1  Australia-A2          Australia
2      Belgium_C1          Belgium
3       C1  in  Finland    Finland
4        D1  of  Greece     Greece
5      E2  for Pakistan   Pakistan

A: You need series.str.extract() here:
pat = r'({})'.format('|'.join(country_list))
# pat-->'(China|America|Greece|Pakistan|Finland|Belgium|Japan|British|Australia)'
df['Country']=df['Company name'].str.extract(pat, expand=False)

A: Maybe using findall in case you have more than one country name in one cell
df["Company name"].str.findall('|'.join(country_list)).str[0]
Out[758]:
0        China
1    Australia
2      Belgium
3      Finland
4       Greece
5     Pakistan
Name: Company name, dtype: object


My enter key on my keyboard has been broken for about a year now. It makes it pretty impossible to use paragraphs and simple commands become much more complicated. Of course at first, I took it personally and tried to think about what it meant: am I holding myself back? Am I not "entering" my life? Am I completely off track and not able to move forward, go, press enter? It's easy to take personal responsibility for things that are out of our control; because down here in reality, in computer years, my laptop is old and showing its age. On weekends it's used at the juice station at Carthage Must Be Destroyed so it's now permanently just a bit sticky, despite how much plastic wrap I faithfully wrap around it. It also has castor oil remnants in it from when castor oil baths were a thing in my household. (Google them, I highly recommend!) I once spilled coffee on it when I was trying to make a coffee and check my horoscope at the same time (turns out multitasking doesn't work.) It's been chucked in a bag and carted back and forth on a bike and many times on a plane and in between dropped probably a few times more than I'd like to admit.
I bought this laptop after my old one was stolen while I was staying with friends in 2012. I had just decided to move out of home again and not only was my laptop taken (in broad daylight) my bike also got stolen from the same apartment building – probably by a different person, but who knows. Without a computer or a bike, not only could I not do the university assignments I had due for the Masters I had just decided to enrol in; I also couldn't enjoyably or easily get to campus, or work, or anywhere. At the time, I worried it was a message that I shouldn't have moved out. That I shouldn't have enrolled in the Masters. That I was doing the wrong thing.
When I'm unsure about something I've chosen or a decision I've made; I notice I start nervously looking for signs that either validate my choices or tell me that I'm wrong. It can get a bit obsessive. I know it happens more when I feel insecure or scared about what's going on in my life. When I feel good, the dog can eat the trash, it can rain on my parade, the lift can be out of service and none of it really bothers me or makes me think about what the deeper meaning might be. I can easily shrug it all off as interesting quirks of life.
It's the same with people too. When I feel insecure or negative about myself then I start thinking about what other people must think; believing they have these negative opinions of me and that they can see and agree with all my insecurities. But when I feel good, I either don't care what other people think or I am more aware of the fact that people are in their own heads, thinking about their own stuff and not too worried about old Heidi.
So how do we stay in the good feeling where we know everything is ok, we're ok and life is just well life. I think for me it's about learning self worth. That decisions I make are ok – whether they are right by anyone else or not. It's about learning to stand strong in your core, with your values and preferences, whatever they are. Even if they turn out to be "wrong", whatever that means. I think you can spend lifetimes looking for signs; but it can get a bit dicey when it starts looking like seeking validation. We project on to the universe this power over us; believing that some other force knows better than us. In that is created this hierarchy where we become lower or lessor; where we don't know enough and need to be taught, or schooled. I don't think that kind of thinking makes you feel better about yourself, I think it actually can leave you feeling worse. Same with people, we can put other people's values or opinions above our own and believe that they know better for us than we know for us.
To learn self worth (and I think it is something to learn), you have to start with the belief that you know yourself best. Better than your friends, your family, better than any unseen force. You know yourself best. From there, decide; do; act. Learn to trust your intuition. More than that, learn to trust your joy because that's the best indicator. Your joy, connected to your heart is divine. It's as pure as pure can get. There's no difference, no power imbalance, no separation. If you are happy doing something then in that moment you are 100% where you need to be. And when you feel unsure or uncertain or scared, be kind. Because in those moments it can be even harder to know that you can still trust yourself, your decisions and your values.
And as for signs and synchronicities and weird occurrences; I like to think of them as more gentle and magical than faulty keyboard keys. I don't think there's judgement in universal guidance. I don't think the universe tells us we are doing something wrong; or that our decisions are wrong. It's there to support us in our decisions and actions. It's there to help us learn to trust ourselves.


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In Edgar Wright's Baby Driver, Crime Doesn't Pay, but it Sure Sounds Sweet
Posted on June 10, 2017 June 10, 2017 by Katherine Brannon
Edgar Wright is the kind of virtuoso director that gives action cinema a good name. In his hands, chases nimbly streak down city streets and fights are a symphony of intertwined punches and gun shots – when characters move, you have no choice but to pay attention, due to the sheer kineticism of his storytelling. After bringing that contagious exuberance to his British Cornetto Trilogy – Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and World's End – he's turned his focus stateside with his new film Baby Driver, a crime caper set in Atlanta. Fortunately, the change in setting doesn't detract one bit from his trademark manic energy. And in fact, a special new element is added to his usual tale of a good guy trying to get out of a tough scrape – the vroom vroom of a car's engine and the call of the open freeway.
Our good guy here is Baby, played with an appealing sweetness by Ansel Elgort. He's in that arrested development place where he's not a kid anymore, but still hasn't assumed the heavy yoke of adulthood. But Baby's not a typical 20 year old – instead of dealing with nagging parents or student loans, he lives with his deaf foster father (played by real-life deaf stand-up comedian CJ Jones) and works as the getaway-car driver for a crime syndicate headed up by Kevin Spacey's Doc. And man can this kid drive. The opening heist, involving him and some bank robbers in a high-speed pursuit from what seems like every unit the Atlanta PD can deploy, involves so many break-neck turns and close calls, the audience I saw the film with broke into spontaneous applause at its conclusion. There's no CGI on the screen, so it looks amazingly real (not too fast or too furious, if you get my meaning), so you're gripping your armrest and holding your breath as they take another tight corner at over 100 mph.
Now that's telling you a lot about the scene, but I still haven't even mentioned the most important part – that the whole spectacle is set to "Bellbottoms" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion – a righteous jam that builds with the chase's intensity and sets the stage for what is probably one of the most impressive fusions of visuals and music in modern cinema. As song after song rolls through with each scene (and you will be buying the soundtrack, so just go ahead and factor it into your budget now), sounds from the movie's action are cut in to the beat – and not just the sounds you might expect like the swish of windshield wipers or the reloading of a glock – all the little noises we don't normally register, as someone makes a peanut butter sandwich or sets down a thick stack of money, are incorporated too. It takes the concept of "diegetic" sound to a whole new level.
See, Baby always has a song playing in his head, usually through his earbuds, which start to just feel like an extension of his body – like the endless sunglasses and Ipods he shuffles through. He has to in order to drown out the ringing in his ears – a bothersome symptom of the tinnitus he got in a car crash years ago – the same crash killed his parents and resulted in him ending up in a kind of indentured servitude to crime boss Doc. The funky soundtrack drowns out something else for Baby too – the cries of the victims and bystanders who actually get hurt as a rotating cast of more hardened criminals – played with some really fun scenery-chewing by Jon Hamm, Jamie Fox, Jon Bernthal and more – enact Doc's elaborate robberies. We see that Baby isn't cut out for that life from the beginning – he's the guy who goes out of his way to throw the old lady's purse back to her, even as he steals her car to get away. But however loud he turns up the volume, he can't deny that he is a part of it. And the moment he meets Lily James' Deborah, a lovely and equally wide-eyed waitress with a yearning to get out of town, it all becomes about how he can leave behind the fast lane, for a shot at a normal life with her.
And so it becomes Baby and Deborah vs. the world. Someone calls them "Bonnie and Clyde" at one point and the movie does develop that romantic, fatalistic drive. How can their young love, which feels so pure, survive in a place where everything feels a little bit…well, bananas. Luckily they have Edgar Wright's vision to keep them moving, one step ahead of the cops and robbers, and luckily we have him to keep us on the edge of our seats, toes tapping for the whole ride.
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OK, before I get to the number-crunchy goodness, I want to stress, yet again, that 1) I could easily be dead wrong about whatever number I spit out at the end of this entry (either above or below), and 2) unless the 2015 enrollment tally ends up a complete bust (say, below the current 7.1 million, for instance), there's a lot of different ways the ACA helps improve healthcare coverage in terms of both quantity (total number covered) and quality (comprehensiveness of coverage).
Now that I've gotten those two caveats out of the way (everyone's gonna promptly ignore them anyway), let's get to it.
Those who follow me know that I have a pretty good track record on this particular niche. However, this time I'm trying to call the shot for a full 3 month period instead of just 1 month (or less) at a time. So...no pressure, right?
The CBO issued their #OE2 projection of 13 million exchange QHP enrollees at the same time they did the first year estimate (this is where the "7 Million Or Bust!!" figure came from in the first place which Kathleen Sebelius set in stone with her infamous "Success looks like 7 milion people..." interview). According to the CBO at the time, they figured that around 13 million folks would enroll in the second calendar year of the ACA exchanges being operational. Of course, in February of this year, they dropped that 7M projection down to 6 million based on the severe technical problems that HC.gov and some other exchanges experienced out of the gate last fall.
However, it's worth noting that they didn't change their 2015 estimate of 13 million QHPs even in that revised report (of course, it's also worth noting that they projected a net uninsured reduction of around 13 million by the end of 2014, which happens to be right in line with where things stand at the moment. The official consensus seems to be around 11 million, but that was as of a couple of months ago; with the additional expansion of Medicaid since then, a 13 million reduction by 12/31/14 could very well be doable).
It's interesting to note that even the CBO seems to assume that around 30 million people will continue to remain uninsured in the future regardless of anything else (population increases, growing exchange enrollment, etc.), but that's a whole different discussion.
Anyway, the CBO was still sticking with 13 million as their magic number for Year Two as of February of this year. Now, whether you consider that to be an 83% increase over 7.1 million paying enrollees or a 62% increase over the 8 million total enrollees depends on how you're defining "enrolled", but 13M was still their estimate last spring. I'm using 7.1 million as my base because it seems to be both the starting and finishing point for 2014.
U.S. insurers planning to sell 2015 Obamacare health plans expect at least 20 percent growth in customers and in some states anticipate more than doubling sign-ups.
...In Florida, Jason Alford, sales director at Health First Health Plans Inc, expects to more than double customers in Affordable Care Act compliant plans from the 4,400 it signed up this year.
...In Pennsylvania, where Medicaid is being expanded, Independence Blue Cross hopes to add about 30,000 new customers to the 165,000 it signed up for 2014 plans.
...In Texas, one small insurer predicts growth of 15,000 to 40,000 more customers from the fewer than 500 it signed up last year.
Non-profit insurer Community Health Choice Inc in Houston priced premium rates too high and was mostly shut out in 2014...the insurer foresees one million new sign-ups in Texas in addition to the more than 700,000 who enrolled in 2014.
Exchange officials hope to sign up another 500,000 during the second open enrollment, scheduled Nov. 15 through Feb. 15, 2015.
Technically speaking, the number of CA residents currently enrolled as of October 16 was 1.12 million, which would mean they're looking to increase the 2015 tally by about 45% to around 1.62 million.
Today, a total of 1.12 million individuals have effectuated coverage and will be part of the renewal process. Covered Californiaexpects this number to increase as special enrollment continues and as recent enrollees effectuate their coverage, with about 1.3 million Californians participating in the renewal process through the end of the year.
In other words, the 500K increase CA is targeting appears to be on top of an assumed number of 1.3 million, or 1.8M total (a 38% increase). The wording is a bit confusing, so I'll split the difference and assume that CoveredCA is hoping to hit 1.7 million total during #OE2, or around 40% higher than their first year tally.
I'd take this one with a huge grain of salt. I've noted several times that FL's attrition rate for 2014, supposedly dropping from 983K to 762K in less than 6 weeks (a 22.5% reduction), never made any sense to me, even taking non-payments and immigration data discrepancies into account. Therefore, the base enrollment number of 762K is highly suspicious. With that caveat, the fact remains that the FLOIR seem to think that 2015 QHP enrollments will end up at 1,072,513 (an absurdly specific number).
During its first year, New York's exchange enrolled 960,762 people, but about 40,000 dropped off the rolls because they obtained jobs or for other reasons.
"Life goes on and changes continue to happen," Frescatore said.
More than half of New York's first-year enrollees — 525,283 — qualified for Medicaid based on their income.
The exchange expects to sign up 350,000 new enrollees for 2015. Individual policies will increase in price by 5.5 percent to 5.7 percent. The average increase in California, by comparison, is 4.2 percent.
Cantor stresses that this is just an off-the-cuff, back-of-the-envelope shot, but it's better than nothing.
Connecticut's current exchange QHP enrollee total is just over 76,000. Since they've pretty much maxed out their entire Medicaid-eligible population (around 107,000 last fall according to KFF.org) already, that means that practically all 33,000 of the additional people they're targeting would have to be added to the private QHP side, for a total of around 109,000 by the end of the 2nd open enrollment period, or 43% higher.
According to consultants, the exchange needs to gain 85,000 more enrollees in "qualified health plans" — the private plans offered on Healthplanfinder — in order for the exchange to become self-sustaining, as is required by law. In the first year, the exchange enrolled 148,000 people.
Marchand said the exchange thinks it can meet that goal. Focus groups indicate many of those who have held out or who purchased insurance outside the exchange will be attracted to the offerings this year, he said.
HHS's main rationale for the lowered number is that they think the CBO is overestimating the number of employers who are choosing to push their employees onto the exchanges rather than provide coverage themselves. I have no idea if this is the case or not.
Anyway, that brings us to my own prediction.
First, let's start with how many people currently enrolled will renew their coverage (either manually switching to a different policy on the exchange, manually renewing their current policy or automatically renewing their current policy). HHS says that there were 7.1 million people still enrolled as of October 15th, but they only expect around 83% (5.9 million) of us (I'm among this group) to renew our coverage through the ACA exchanges (either keeping the same policy or switching to another one...but still using the exchange to do so).
Me? I'm a bit more optimistic. I'm gonna call it around 6.1 million of this group (86%). In addition, it's important to note that these folks will want to avoid a coverage gap, so they'll likely renew by the December 15th deadline.
Next: Of the 7.1 million people who enrolled and paid their premiums through last summer, around 57% (4 million) were previously uninsured (according to the Kaiser Family Foundation). That means that about 43% (3.1 million) were already enrolled in some existing policy. Some of these (including my wife and I) had their policies cancelled for non-compliance with ACA requirements. Others made the move because of the tax credits (or perhaps they simply liked the policies on the exchanges better than whatever they already had).
This year, I'm assuming roughly another 1.5 million people see their non-ACA compliant policies discontinued at the end of this year (remember, about 6 million policies could have been cancelled last year, but only about 1-2 million actually were; the rest were given a 1, 2 or 3 year extension waiver by HHS/President Obama in response to the "You can keep it!" backlash). I further assume that about 2/3 those folks will pick a new policy off-exchange 1/3 off-exchange, so that's about 1 million more who should enroll no later than December 15th to avoid having a coverage gap. So, between renewals and cancellations, we're up to around 7.1 million...right back where we started.
Next, how many people not currently enrolled are potential additions to the rolls? Well, also according to the Kaiser Family Foundation, last year there were potentially around 22 million people who were a) uninsured and b) eligible for ACA tax credits. If around 3.1 million of the 7.1 million were already covered, that means around 4 million weren't, leaving a potential pool of around 18 million more who could conceivably enroll this year. So the question is, how many of these folks will sign up?
According to the multiple information sources listed above, there are approximately 32 million uninsured Americans – approximately one- quarter fewer than before the ACA's coverage expansion began; 17 million of them were subtracted from this total because they are likely to be eligible for Medicaid. This means that an estimated 15 million are eligible to purchase a Qualified Health Plan (QHP) through the Marketplace.
They add the off-exchange number to this, but I've already addressed this above. So, we're now talking about somewhere between 15 - 18 million to work with.
This is the trickiest number to figure. As many have noted, the "low-hanging fruit" has already been picked, so to speak. People truly desperate for insurance due to having a pre-existing condition or serious financial difficulties have, in large part, already been swept up in Year One. The 15-18 million left are gonna be harder to get ahold of, harder to convince. Many Latinos are apparently very reluctant to enroll because they're afraid their relatives will be deported, and so on.
On the other hand, the outreach efforts are being expanded and refined, and strategies are being shifted to compensate for the different landscape.
The broken ones have either been (supposedly) fixed (Maryland, Massachusetts) or moved onto the mothership at HC.gov (Nevada, Oregon).
The ones with serious-but-not-fatal problems have (supposedly) been at least somewhat improved (Vermont, Hawaii, Minnesota).
And, of course, The Big One, Healthcare.Gov, has apparently been completely overhauled, cleaned up, streamlined and is a completely different animal than it was even 6 months ago, much less a year ago.
In general, the exchanges have beefed up their customer service departments with more staff, shorter wait times, better training, multi-lingual assistance and so on.
Taking all of this into account, what do I think the final tally will be when the dust settles on #OE2 next February?
Well, I'm a realist, but I'm also an optimist.
There's tremendous uncertainty about all of this. Hell, even the announcement about the King/Halbig SCOTUS court cases could scare some people off...or, conversely, could convince more people to get off the fence and jump in before their tax credits might be taken away. The 2014 midterm results mean that Republican-run states will be even more hostile (or at best, unsupportive) of outreach/education efforts for #OE2.
At the same time, I think the CBO is pretty damned good at their job, and the fact that they didn't budge from their 13M estimate for #OE2 from May 2013 through February 2014 in spite of the technical woes last year is significant. In addition, there's a special "ace in the hole" in Massachusetts: Assuming that MA's new exchange does work properly, up to 300,000 people who got caught in "healthcare limbo" due to the states technical woes could be added this year, instantly increasing MA's tally 13-fold. I also suspect that the HHS Dept. is (wisely, in my opinion) lowballing their projection by a bit, and there's nothing wrong with that.
Anyway, here's a handy little summary chart of the above if anyone's interested.
LATE-BREAKING UPDATE 11/14/14: Just this morning--literally moments before I posted this entry--Gallup released a survey which concludes that 55% of the remaining uninsured in the country say that they do plan on getting healthcare coverage in 2015.
Nearly 35,000 New Mexicans signed up for insurance plans offered by private insurers through the state's health insurance exchange in the first enrollment period, which ended earlier this year.
J. R. Damron, chairman of the exchange's governing board, said he hopes the state will be able to enroll between 40,000 and 45,000 individuals in the next three months.
I double-checked, and New Mexico's 4/19/14 total was actually a bit lower than 35K: 32,062. That means that 40 - 45K this year would be a 25 - 40% increase, or 33% if you split the difference.
Currently, MNsure has about 50,000 enrollees in private health plans, and its budget projects the number will grow to just over 100,000 by the end of 2015.
A national expert on health exchanges called such an enrollment jump for MNsure in the near term a "tall order," and MNsure chief executive Scott Leitz last week suggested the target could be revised.
Vermont Health Connect is only anticipating 3,000 to 8,000 new customers to purchase coverage during the three-month open enrollment period that runs until Feb. 15.
The deadline is Dec. 15 for coverage that starts on Jan. 1, 2015. Vermonters who sign up by Jan. 15 will have a start date of Feb. 1, and those who sign up by the Feb. 15 close of open enrollment will have a start date of March 1.
In its first year, 32,000 people purchased commercial insurance through the exchange, or 71 percent of the estimated 45,000 eligible to do so.
UPDATE 11/21/14: Wall Street has chimed in with their take...11 million. The "higher than 9M" reference should correspond with the HHS's paid estimate, which would mean their total number would be around 12.5 million, a bit higher than mine.
A group of Wall Street analysts predicted Friday that enrollment in health law insurance plans will be higher than the 9 million projected by the Obama administration because insurers are aggressively courting new customers and more small businesses are likely to send workers to the online exchanges in 2015.
I should also include a link to my #ObamaDentata note from this morning: I may very well change my projection for 2015 QHPs in the future, but so far the 393,000 dental plan enrollment issue is not enough to make me change my 12.0M total / 10.6M paid estimate.


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Low gas supplies, growing demand drive Xcel…
Low gas supplies, growing demand drive Xcel Energy's request for new rate increase in Colorado
Utility cites hurricane damage to gas facilities, rising demand due recovery from pandemic
Xcel Energy-Colorado has requested a rate increase for natural gas, saying low supplies and high demand are driving up costs.
By Judith Kohler | jkohler@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
PUBLISHED: September 20, 2021 at 11:15 a.m. | UPDATED: September 20, 2021 at 1:58 p.m.
Xcel Energy customers in Colorado will see higher bills starting Oct. 1 if state regulators approve the utility's request for a rate increase.
Xcel said the price for natural gas is rising substantially because demand is outpacing supplies, which are 20% below historical averages. In addition, gas-processing facilities were damaged by Hurricane Ida when it slammed into the Gulf Coast in August.
Monthly bills for a typical residential natural gas customer are expected to go up an average of $11.22, a 14.38% jump. Small businesses will likely see their rates rise an average of $48.50, or up 15.83%
Typical residential electric bills for Xcel customers in Colorado are expected to increase $1.91 a month, up 2.69%, while typical bills for small businesses will rise $2.96 a month, or 2.58%, the utility said in a statement.
The cost of electricity is affected because Xcel uses natural gas to fuel some of its electric-generating plants.
With some exceptions, rate changes are passed through to customers on a dollar-to-dollar basis, Xcel said. The company said it doesn't profit from increased prices in the natural gas market.
The new rates would stay in effect for three months.
In July, the utility submitted a request to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission for rate increases totaling $343 million. Residential customers would see their monthly electric bills rise by an average of $9.46 and a typical small-business customer's monthly bill would increase by $14.46.
Xcel Energy-Colorado seeks another rate increase, this one for $343 million to pay for improvements, updates
Because of rising commodity prices, Xcel Energy customers could see bills increase
Xcel Energy, the state's largest electric utility, said the increases would pay for improvements it has made to its system and updates needed to serve the growing number of customers. If approved, the rate increases wouldn't kick in until September 2022.
The Colorado Office of the Utility Consumer Advocate, formerly the Office of Consumer Counsel, has expressed concerns about Xcel's requests for rate increases.
People having trouble paying their utility bills can contact Xcel to set up payments or learn about other assistance by calling 1-800-895-4999 or go to the utility's Energy Assistance page at xcelenergy.com.
Colorado Public Utilities Commission
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