Last year I visited the Mamee Jonker House in Malacca. Cannot believe it's been a year now.
Mr Pierre Pang (CEO of MDD Beverage) presenting the journey of Mamee Double-Decker (M) Sdn Bhd and the collaboration with DyDo DRINCO, Inc.
MAMEE diversified into producing beverages when MDD Beverage Sdn Bhd a wholly owned subsidary of MAMEE started bottling international brands and also produced Cheers, a line of fruity flavoured carbonated drinks before venturing into producing cultured milk and yogurts under brands such as Nutrigen and Lite Yo. With the introduction of the cultured milk products, MAMEE further strengthened its position as a complete brand producing snacks, noodles and beverage.
Mr Pierre Pang (CEO of MDD Beverage Sdn Bhd) and Mr Takeshi Suma (CEO of DyDo Mamee Distribution) explaining to guests about the vending machine.
The collaboration between MAMEE and Dydo marks another milestone for the beverage business of MAMEE. Both the companies share similar aim of being in the forefront of the food and beverage manufacturing industry. Both companies are also committed towards delivery quality products and consistently at an affordable rate.
MAMEE's reputable brand name and resilient market position in Malaysia as well as internationally make an attractive business partnership for DyDo besides gaining the market influence and local distribution network strength MAMEE has. Halal compliance forms another pull factor as Dydo will be able to increases its market penetration to other Islamic countries in the world through its collaboration.
I like to drink MAMEE DyDo Cool Tea, this is a herbal drink that helps keep my body naturally cool from hot weather and spicy food. We live in a beautiful tropical country and it is usually very hot and humid. Malaysian food is mostly hot, spicy, fried or barbecued. Everything in Malaysia revolves around great food. Pleasant social get-together are always with having a nice meal.
MAMEE DyDo Cool Tea has combining 8 natural herbal extracts derived from Mesona Chinesis, Liquorice Root, Lotus Leaf, Honeysuckle Flower, Chrysanthemum Flower, Mulberry Leaf, Selfheal and Grosvenor Momordica that are traditionally known to help release body heat.
Herbal tea has been known for their remarkable benefits due to the natural ingredients since ancient days. Many commonly use herbs in drinks and food to speed up circulation and drive heat out of the body. Herbs also help release heat from body by warming the body so that the pores open up and the body cools down through perspiration. Now you no longer need to worry of making own herbal tea through the complex processes of boiling for hours, sweetening and filtering because you have MAMEE DyDo Cool Tea.
Don't forget to look forward to game changing beverage categories with the introduction of more innovative beverages as well as functional beverages from MAMEE DyDo as early as next year.
DyDo Group is made up of three business segments; DyDo DRINCO, the beverage sales division; DAIDO PHARMACEUTICAL CORPORATION, the OEM beverage production division, and Tarami, the food production and sales division. They have a slogan "Offering delicious products for the sound mind and body", DyDo business activities extend from soft drinks to desserts, energy drinks, health foods and other fields.
MAMEE DyDo Cool Tea like our Chinese "Loh Hon Guo". Simply love the refreshing taste.
I love mamee's snack. First time know that it has beverage as well. Would love to try it.
Oh! I dont even know this cool tea is from MAMEE! It is my boyfriend's favourite! Thanks for sharing!
I tried this cool tea before and its awesome la. I need this during the hot weather now.
I found the cool tea very helpful for keeping away heatiness and so on... great product..
Yeay. Now can get herbal tea anytime. Thanks Mamee.
The convenience of herbal teas in a can. Can just have it anytime anywhere!
I dunno mamee pun ada cool tea.. :) How's taste like?
Been having it at least once a month now :p Its really nice when you need to cool off.
Ah a cooling tea! I am a little curious on how it tastes like but as for herbal tea, I am all for :) Will check it out.


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Grace O'Malley Irish Whiskey Brand Enters The Market
Published on May 14 2019 2:02 PM in Drinks tagged: Grace O'Malley Irish Whiskey
Mayo businessman Stephen Cope has teamed up with Irish marketing executive Jeff Burns and Berlin-based brand building entrepreneurs Stefan Hansen and Hendrick Melle to launch a new whiskey brand called Grace O'Malley Irish Whiskey.
Named after 16th century pirate Grace O'Malley, the brand's initial range is called the "captain's range".
There are plans to introduce a "crew range" in June and a "navigator range" later down the line.
The "crew range" will include the brand's core Grace O'Malley Irish Whiskey product.
Brand Plans
The Sunday Business Post quotes Cope as saying, "We have already begun to look at exporting in Germany, France and Spain. Future plans for the brand also include developing a distillery and visitor destination in Mayo."
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David Hockney Painting to Go on Block at Sotheby's in May, With $20 M.–$30 M. Estimate
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David Hockney, Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica oil on canvas.
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Sotheby's added a landmark David Hockney painting, a colorful California landscape titled Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica (1990), to its upcoming contemporary art evening sale on May 16, with a $20 million–$30 million estimate that would mark a record for the artist at auction. Hockney's previous auction record was $11.7 million, for his six-part paneled painting, WOLDGATE WOODS, 24, 25, AND 26 OCTOBER 2006, sold at Sotheby's in the fall of 2016.
Interest in the British painter's work has been on the rise in the wake of a survey show organized by Tate Britain, the Centre Pompidou, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as a show now on view at Pace Gallery in New York. If Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica sells for its lowest estimate, Hockney's auction record will double within a span of two years. The painting is being offered by an unnamed private collection.
In a statement, David Galperin, head of the Sotheby's contemporary art evening auction, called Pacific Coast Highway and Santa Monica "a true triumph of his singular vision: a panoramic and kaleidoscopic paean to his adopted hometown."
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Travis is living the trailerpark dream in the rural South when Badman comes knocking to avenge his daughter, Bad Girl. It looks like Game Over for Travis when both of them are sucked into the legendary Death Drive Mk II games console. This time, the games are taking the fight to you! The characters of the Death Drive Mk II's diverse game library aren't going to go down without a fight! Slice your way through them with all the beam charging, pro-wrestling-finisher action you know and love – turned up to 11. Burn through your skill gauge and link special and regular attacks for some kick-ass combos! Mix-up your approach and own your playstyle. Play as Travis, Badman and – if you're a bad enough dude – maybe Shinobu and Bad Girl, too! KEY FEATURES Exhilarating Action Spanning Multiple Game Worlds The legendary games console, the Death Drive Mk. II has a diverse games library that you can play! But each of those games has its own hero who might not be happy to see Travis, and each game's world is drastically different from the others.
God I hate the CEO of EA so much
A 37 year old weaboo man has to find the death balls to summon back a drunk dad's daughter while in a video game
I own over 600 video games. My life is miserable. Every day since the age of 5 I have sincerely wished to die. A week ago I woke up from a near-death coma with no money, no family and no memory.
I just beat the first boss of this game for the first time. I had to take a break to sit on the toilet and write this review because I'm 90% sure it's the best game I've ever played.
I have a real dream now, for the first time ever. I'm going to make games again or die trying. I don't care if I live or die. I don't care what anyone else thinks of my dream. In this world it's kill or be killed. So I'm a killer, so what? Time to start the game!
Thank you SUDA 51, GRASSHOPPER, Marvelous and everyone else who helped make this game. I hope to learn more from you all in the future.
PS: Make Bad Girl the heroine of NMH4 please!
I think the gameplay is fine. I know people who've been turned off the game because it's different or too slow, and I can see and understand these complaints.
However, this game is fantastic. It is, in my opinion, the peak of the No More Heroes franchise in it's storytelling, dialogue, and world. I would say soundtrack, but this and No More Heroes 3 are equal there for me. Seeing as it's pretty much a mainline game anyway I wouldn't recommend skipping this game. Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes is a game that is a must-play especially if you're a No More Heroes fan.
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Heldentod: The Nazi Culture of Death
Author(s): Paul Garson
Nazi Germany's apocalyptic infatuation with the 'Hero's Death' is captured by 533 stunning photographs.
Operation Mallory Major from Below: Women and Men Under a Hailstorm of Bombs
Rodolfo Graziani: Story of an Italian General
The Italian Army in North Africa: A Poor Fighting Force or Doomed by Circumstance
Among the Italian Partisans: The Allied Contribution to the Resistance
Monte Cassino January-May 1944: The Legend of the Green Devils
Decima Flottiglia MAS: The Best Commandos of the Second World War
Bersaglieri: The Devil's Griffins (A Visual History of Italy's Elite Plumed Warriors)
SAS in Italy 1943-1945: Raiders in Enemy Territory
The Road to Civitella 1944: The Captain, the Chaplain and the Massacre
Aircraft Carrier Impero: The Axis Powers' V-1 Carrying Capital Ship
Umberto Nobile And the Arctic Search for the Airship Italia
The War Diaries of Count Galeazzo Ciano 1939-1943
Macchi C.202 Folgore: Italy's Best Fighter of the Second World War
Previously unpublished images dramatically illustrate the Third Reich's love affair with death
From cradle to the grave, the seductive indoctrination of a 'civilised' nation
The significant aid to Holocaust research and curriculum studies
Shedding new light on the darkest of times
Heldentod: The Nazi Culture of Death graphically focuses on the Third Reich's conception and promotion of the 'Hero's Death' as it fostered and then fuelled a cataclysm of apocalyptic carnage and destruction.
This underlying driving force, ultimately self-destructive, is shown infusing both state-sponsored propaganda and echoed by the personal battlefield images captured by its soldiers' personal cameras. In so doing, it confronts the matter of subject vs observer and their intimate connection.
The original and often one-of-a-kind and never seen before photos also serve as a searing documentation of man's inhumanity to man and a stark warning to future generations.
ILLUSTRATIONS 533 photographs
Paul Garson with some 30 years as a journalist, author and photographer lives in Los Angeles. In addition to serving as editor of several national publications and as a university instructor, travels have taken him to over twenty countries including Germany, Russia and Japan. Previous books have focused on the world wars, his features also appearing in the leading military magazines. His personal archives include over 3,000 original photos, documents, illustrations and artefacts. Also, an avid motorcyclist, he has travelled coast to coast.
The full story of Operation Mallory Major based on unpublished photographs, archive documents and interviews with veterans.
The remarkable and controversial life of Rodolfo Graziani, Mussolini's favourite military general who sparked fear and respect in his enemies.
Although the Italian Army earned Allied admiration at Tobruk, Gazala and El Alamein, it was dogged by a lack of resources and leadership.
A comprehensive account of the men who chose to continue their personal war against the Germans and Fascists.
A gripping day-to-day account of the Allied plan to capture Rome that led to a four-month bloodbath.
The story of Decima Flottiglia MAS is one of bravery and determination under the waters of the Mediterranean during the Second World War.
Through more than a century of service, Italy's elite 'Plumed Warriors' have rightly earned the accolade 'The Devil's Griffins'.
The story of Britain's elite special force in Italy during the Second World War from invasion to liberation.
The little known story of the Civitella Massacre, 29 June 1944, and the help two British officers brought to survivors.
The unprecedented story of the Axis' Impero battleship conversion to a fleet aircraft carrier.
Tirpitz: The Life and Death of Germany's Last Great Battleship
Bismarck and Hood The Battle of the Denmark Strait: A Technical Analysis for a New Perspective (paperback edition)
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Bismarck: The Pride of the German Navy
Swastikas in the Arctic: U-boat Alley Through the Frozen Hell
USS Cassin Young: Fletcher Class Destroyer DD793
Voices from the Arctic Convoys
Through Ice and Fire: A Russian Arctic Convoy Diary 1942
Hitler's Naval Bases: Kriegsmarine Bases During the Second World War
HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy
The Battle of the Denmark Strait: An Analysis of the Battle and the Loss of HMS Hood
Yamato: Flagship of the Japanese Imperial Navy
Adventure and politics during the search for an airship lost in the Arctic in the late 1920s.
The first illustrated edition of these remarkable first-hand diaries from Italy's foreign minister during the Second World War.
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Preheat oven to 500 degrees. Cut prepared polenta into squares or triangles and sprinkle with Parmesan. Place on a lightly buttered baking sheet and roast in the oven until cheese is lightly browned, 6 to 8 minutes. Remove and keep warm.
Heat the balsamic sauce in a saucepan over medium heat until hot and whisk in butter by the tablespoonful. Season to taste with pepper. Keep warm.
Heat olive oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat until almost smoking. Add mushrooms and do not move them until lightly brown on one side, about 1 minute. Add garlic and sauté until mushrooms are brown, about 5 minutes. (It is very important that the mushrooms are not crowded; otherwise they will boil in their own juices rather than brown.) Add thyme and parsley and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
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Barnes: Why Liverpool Must Avoid Signing Amrabat
Liverpool legend John Barnes has advised the Reds not sign Moroccan Sofyan Amrabat due to his impressive 2022 World Cup performance.
The Reds are reportedly in talks to sign Amrabat but the player's agent has revealed that the 26-year-old has a few offers on the table after massively impressing for Morocco in Qatar as they made a run to the semi-finals.
Barnes, though, has warned Liverpool about Amrabat as he told BonusCodeBets:I thought he had a great World Cup but what clubs shouldn't do is look at the World Cup and say they're going to sign players based on those performances," Barnes told Bonuscodebets.co.uk.
"If they've been tracking him for the last six months to a year then great. Im sure Arabat is a good player but that's not a move I've heard about for Liverpool."
Amrabat played seven times for Morocco at Qatar 2022. He has appeared in 13 Serie A games this season so far
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Durbin (Again) Denies Social Security's Red Ink
By Eugene Kiely
Sen. Richard Durbin says that "Social Security does not add one penny to our debt." That's false. It was wrong 21 months ago, when Durbin said it once before, and it's even more off the mark now.
The federal government for the first time in its history had to borrow money in 2010 to cover Social Security benefits to retired and disabled workers — a trend that worsened in 2011 and will not change at any point in the future unless changes are made.
Durbin made his remarks about Social Security on ABC's "This Week." The Illinois Democrat argued that Social Security should not be part of the year-end negotiations between Congress and President Obama to raise revenues and cut spending in order to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff.
Durbin, Nov. 25: Social Security does not add one penny to our debt — not a penny. It's a separate funded operation, and we can do things that I believe we should now, smaller things, played out over the long term that gives it solvency.
It's true that Social Security is "a separate funded operation," primarily through payroll taxes and income taxes on benefits. But tax revenues no longer cover the cost of Social Security benefits. As a result, Social Security is adding to the debt.
The combined shortfall for Old-Aged and Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) trust funds was $36.8 billion (page 453, Table 28-4) in 2010. It rose to $48 billion (page 465 Table 28-4) in 2011. Those figures are from the White House's Office of Management and Budget.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office in a January 2012 report estimated that the 2012 shortfall will be $59 billion — rising to $76 billion in 2013, $86 billion in 2014 and $86 billion again in 2015. The CBO does not project beyond 2015 because "CBO projects the DI trust fund will be exhausted during fiscal year 2016."
CBO projected a total shortfall of $355 billion over five years, from January 2011 through 2015. That's more than double what CBO estimated just a year ago, when the budget office projected the cumulative shortfall from 2011 through 2015 would be $164 billion.
The OMB and CBO figures represent the difference between annual revenues and expenses, and do not include interest payments. Prior to 2010, when Social Security was running a surplus, excess Social Security revenues were turned over to the Treasury Department, which spent the money on other government operations.
Technically, the Social Security trust funds have about $2.7 trillion in "special issues" of the U.S. Treasury, and the funds earn interest. Social Security can redeem these "special issues" to finance its operations, as it has done since 2010. But when it does, the government needs to borrow the money.
In the summary of its 2012 annual report, the Social Security board of trustees said: "Social Security's expenditures exceeded non-interest income in 2010 and 2011, the first such occurrences since 1983, and the Trustees estimate that these expenditures will remain greater than non-interest income throughout the 75-year projection period."
It's true that the federal government has had to borrow a relatively small amount to fund Social Security's operations. The $36.8 billion shortfall in 2010 was a fraction of the government's total $1.37 trillion deficit that year. But that amount is rising each year, and will continue to rise — until the money in the trust funds, principal and interest, is exhausted.
When will that be? The CBO explains in its most recent report, "The Long-Term Projections for Social Security":
CBO, October 2012: CBO projects that under current law, the DI trust fund will be exhausted in fiscal year 2016 and the OASI trust fund will be exhausted in 2038.
That's unlikely to happen. The Social Security Administration says it expects changes to Social Security "to restore long-term solvency, making it unlikely that the trust funds' securities will need to be redeemed on a large scale prior to maturity."
— Eugene Kiely
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Exhibition honours Russian painter Tuman Zhumabaev - a friend of Vietnam
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The artist at work, as posted on Facebook by Tuman Art Gallery.
Born in 1962, Zhumabaev was one of the most prominent painters in Russia. Photo posted on Facebook by Tuman Art Gallery.
The exhibition is featuriing his works kept in Vietnam, including unfinished pieces from his last days in the country. Source: Facebook/Tuman Art Gallery
Tuman Zhumabaev, a prominent Russian painter with a lifetime enthusiast of Vietnam's people and its landscapes, passed away on August 7 at the age of 58. Source: Facebook/Tuman Art Gallery
Widely regarded a leading figure of contemporary Russian impressionism, Zhumabaev was best known for his portraits and landscape paintings. Photo: Lilac Gallery
Born in 1962, Zhumabaev was one of the most prominent painters in Russia. Source: VNA
He frequently visited to Vietnam in search for the most picturesque locations for his paintings. Source: Facebook/Tuman Art Gallery
He created various artworks featuring Vietnam and late President Ho Chi Minh. Source: VNA
Russian artist Tuman Zhumabaev (R) and Politburo member Vo Van Thuong stand in front of one of Zhumabaev's paintings depicting late President Ho Chi Minh, which was presented as a gift to the delegation of Vietnamese leaders during their visit to Russia in this photo captured on February 20, 2019. Photo: Lilac Gallery
Tuman Zhumabaev was born in the village of Kyzyl-Tuu, Kirghiz SSR but moved to Russia's St. Petersburg, back then known as Leningrad, and graduated from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1991.
He was the member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists, the Association of the US Portrait Painters, author of more than 50 personal exhibitions and has his own gallery. Source: worldvirtualmuseum. com
Vietnam in the paintings of Tuman Zhumabaev. Source: worldvirtualmuseum. com
The exhibition is being held at Lilac Gallery, 83B Trinh Cong Son Street in Tay Ho district. Photo: Lilac Gallery
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Pakistan Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS, ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES OF THYMUS VULGARIS L.
Moaiza Iftikhar
Salma Batool
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Phytochemical analysis, antimicrobial assay, antioxidant activity, Thymus vulgaris l.
Medicinal activities of Thymus vulgaris L. were studied in the underlying research which was conducted in University of Central Punjab, Lahore. The powdered plant sample was collected and subjected to extraction and filtration by dissolving it in seven different solvents and thus the fractions obtained, were used for further analysis. The qualitative and quantitative analysis was carried out which revealed that this plant contained many biologically active compounds like saponin, alkaloids etc. These compounds have enormous bioactive roles. Antimicrobial activity was also determined in which four bacterial strains were used and the susceptibility of all the fractions of plant extract was determined by their inhibition zones which were calculated in mm. The results showed that water and chloroform extracts of plant has highest activity. The antioxidant activity was also determined by DPPH scavenging assay for which different concentrations of all plant extracts were made and their absorbance was noted to measure the percentage inhibition of each concentration, which revealed that this plant has significant antioxidant activity. The results have been represented using statistical approach that revealed that T. vulgaris plant has significant antibacterial and anti-oxidant activities and phytochemical analysis also proved that it has many useful compounds which have voluminous biological activity and these could be used in the formation of novel drugs.
Iftikhar, M. ., & Batool, S. (2020). PHYTOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS, ANTIMICROBIAL AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITIES OF THYMUS VULGARIS L. Pakistan Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, 1(2). https://doi.org/10.52700/pjbb.v1i2.20
Vol. 1 No. 2 (2020): Pakistan Journal of Biochemistry and Biotechnology
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I wanted to do something a bit more unique though. Everyone is using QR codes these days. I bet I could make an application for filling handling the RSVPs and give people a fancy unique link and QR code. Unfortunately, I'm very busy these days and it seemed like far-fetched dream. Fortunately, someone else already had the idea and did the work!
I've been very pleased with this project and only had to make some minor changes for my environment because I want to run it as a sub-application. For someone else, this would be the perfect standalone package!
I was about to fire up GIMP, but then realized that perhaps someone else may have thought about this too… I tried my luck on a StackExchange site and it was super-helpful by closing my question as "off topic".
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The library was a bit hard to wrap my head around, but thankfully the official GUI NIP2 makes it much easier. Once you understand how it works, and get past some Windows batch script nonsense, it's a breeze.
You basically set up your workspace as a list of actions. I made a workspace that starts with my source file, crops and scales up the QR code generated by PHP RSVP, and embeds the hyperlink using the same font as my invite.
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Susan Custer is a first time candidate and Chuck Lowery is Deputy Mayor. Esther Sanchez and Michael Qdegaard did not schedule an interview. The purpose of these interviews is to help you get to know the person who wants to lead the city for the next four years.


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Q: R - Skip columns in pmax command if they do not exist I'd like to use the pmax command to create a new column. My code Looks like this:
Master <- Master %>%
  mutate(RAM = pmax(RAM1, RAM2, RAM3, RAM4, RAM5, RAM6, RAM7, RAM8, RAM9,   RAM10,
                    RAM11,  RAM12,  RAM13,  RAM14,  RAM15,  RAM16,  RAM17,  RAM18,
                    RAM19,  RAM20,  RAM21,  RAM22,  RAM23,  RAM24,  RAM25,  RAM26,
                    RAM27,  RAM28,  RAM29,  RAM30,  RAM31,  RAM32,  RAM33,  RAM34,
                    RAM35,  RAM36,  RAM37,  RAM38,  RAM39,  RAM40,  RAM41,  RAM42,
                    RAM43,  RAM44,  RAM45,  RAM46,  RAM47,  RAM48,  RAM49,  RAM50,
                    RAM51,  RAM52,  RAM53,  RAM54,  RAM55,  RAM56,  RAM57,  RAM58,
                    RAM59,  RAM60,  RAM61,  RAM62,  RAM63,  RAM64,  RAM65,  RAM66,
                    RAM67,  RAM68,  RAM69,  RAM70,  RAM71,  RAM72,  RAM73,  RAM74,
                    RAM75,  RAM76,  RAM77,  RAM78,  RAM79,  RAM80,  RAM81,  RAM82,
                    RAM83,  RAM84,  RAM85,  RAM86,  RAM87,  RAM88,  RAM89,  RAM90,
                    RAM91,  RAM92, na.rm =T))

In my current data base, however, only the columns RAM1 to RAM8 exist. In this case, I want R to skip all the other columns mentioned in the Statement and to only use column RAM1 to RAM8 (it is okay if R displays an error message, but I don't want the program to interrupt running the code).
Any ideas how to do so?
Thanks!

A: One way to do this would be as follows:
Set up some data to make a reproducible example
set.seed(0)
Master <- data.frame(Other=100,RAM1=1:10, RAM2=1:10, RAM3=1:10, RAM4=1:10,
                     RAM5=1:10, RAM6=1:10, RAM7=1:10, RAM8=rnorm(10)+5)
Master[5,5] <- NA

Select required columns of the dataframe:
Master[colnames(Master) %in% paste0("RAM",1:92)]

Use do.call to run pmax using the selected columns as arguments, and adding the argument na.rm=TRUE
Master$RAM <- do.call(pmax, c(Master[colnames(Master) %in% paste0("RAM",1:92)], na.rm=TRUE))

Sample output:
Master
#   Other RAM1 RAM2 RAM3 RAM4 RAM5 RAM6 RAM7     RAM8       RAM
#1    100    1    1    1    1    1    1    1 6.262954  6.262954
#2    100    2    2    2    2    2    2    2 4.673767  4.673767
#3    100    3    3    3    3    3    3    3 6.329799  6.329799
#4    100    4    4    4    4    4    4    4 6.272429  6.272429
#5    100    5    5    5   NA    5    5    5 5.414641  5.414641
#6    100    6    6    6    6    6    6    6 3.460050  6.000000
#7    100    7    7    7    7    7    7    7 4.071433  7.000000
#8    100    8    8    8    8    8    8    8 4.705280  8.000000
#9    100    9    9    9    9    9    9    9 4.994233  9.000000
#10   100   10   10   10   10   10   10   10 7.404653 10.000000

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The Calenberg is a hill in central Germany in the Leine depression near Pattensen in the municipality of Schulenburg. It lies 13 km west of the city of Hildesheim in south Lower Saxony on the edge of the Central Uplands. It is made from a chalk marl slab (Kalkmergelbank), has a height of  and was formed almost 100 million years ago at the beginning of the Upper Cretaceous series in Cenomanian stage. The Calenberg became historically important as a result of the fort, stronghold and castle built as the main residence of the House of Hanover.

Etymology
The syllables Kal, Kalen-, Calen- in the word Calenberg are derived from the word kal in the Middle High German and Middle Low German languages and mean kahl i.e. "bare", "stripped", "unwooded". Name formations using Kal, Kalen or Calen could refer to its geological base (rock, stone). The syllable -berg goes back to the Old High German word berg, to the Middle High German berc(g), to the Middle Low German berch and the colloquial word barch. It can mean  "mountain", "hill" or "knoll". So the word Calenberg means something like kahler Berg or "bare hill".

The syllable Klei in the word Klei-Kamp comes from the word klei in Old High German and Middle Low German and to the dialectic word klaibodden and means: heavy loam soil, heavy soil, thick clay. The syllable -Kamp goes back to the Old High German word champf  as well as the Middle Low German and dialectic word kamp and means an "enclosed piece of land". From the middle of the 17th century onwards it was also used for large plots of private land even if they were unenclosed.

The syllable Kälber in the word Kälber-Kamp comes from the word kalver in Middle Low German and the colloquial word kälwer and means "calves". Fields known as Kälber were used to graze calves.

Geography
The Calenberg lies in the protected landscape of the Calenberg Leine Valley (Calenberger Leinetal). It is bordered to the north by the Leine, to the west and south by the state road, Landesstraße 460, and to the east by gravel ponds. Its northern slopes are used for agriculture by the Calenberg Estate (Hausgut Calenberg) belonging to the House of Hanover, in the south are the ditches, ramparts and ruins of Calenburg Castle (Burg Calenberg) and several old workers' cottages belonging to the Calenberg Estate. The area of Calenberg Castle and the northern workers' cottages are protected as a monument and is referred to on maps as Old Calenberg (Alt Calenberg). In 2008 Hanover Region surveyed Alt Calenberg and its trees, each tree was numbered and marked after the estate had felled trees here in 2007-08.

South of Alt Calenberg, on the state road, L 460, are the houses of Lauenstadt. This settlement was founded in 1327 as a town, but never developed into a town. In 1613 it was ranked last in the list of towns in the Principality of Calenberg. By about 1900 markets were held north of Lauenstadt at which everyday items were sold in open stalls.

Geology
North of the moat of Calenberg Castle, in addition to the former workers' cottages, was an old quarry, which supplied stone for the foundation walls and fortifications of Calenberg Castle. The quarry exposed four metres of the Cenomanian rock of which the Calenberg is made. The strata consist of plate-like, gray-white limestone, the upper layers being quite rich in fossils. Otto Seitz identified several varieties of ammonite (Mantelliceras Mantelli Sow., Turrilites costatus, Lam., Schloenbachia varians) and inoceramid (Inoceramus Cripsi Ment., Inoceramus tenuis Ment.) here. The quarry was used in the second half of the twentieth century as a landfill site and then covered with topsoil.

Archaeology
There are at least two tumuli dating to the Bronze Age on the Calenberg. In 1840 two skulls were handed into the Hanover Provincial Museum (now Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover), which had been discovered in a tumulus "near the ruins of  Calenberg"; the exact location of the tumulus was not given.

History

Calenberg Castle (Burg Calenberg) (later described as Schloss Calenberg and Feste Calenberg; ruins now called Alt Calenberg) was a medieval lowland castle (Niederungsburg). It was built in 1292 by the Welf duke, Otto the Strict in the Leine water meadows as a water castle on the southern part of the Calenberg.

Before the castle was built, the Calenberg hill rose some 10 metres above the water meadows between the river arms of the Leine that existed at that time It covered not just the site of Calenberg Castle, but extended a further 500 metres farther north to the River Leine. As a result the castle moats had to be cut over 10 metres deep into the layer of chalk marl. During high water the Calenberg still rises like an island in the surrounding floodwater.

The name Calenberg clearly indicates that the chalk marl stratum was not tree-covered, but stood proud of the Leine meadows as a "bare hill". The river terrace of the Leine had, in former times, laid down gravel to the north and south of the chalk marl step, that was later covered with loess and river loam (Auelehm). The builders of the water castle used this gravel, loess and loam to build the ramparts. At the start of the 16th century the water castle was converted into a manor house (Schloss) and then a fort (Feste). After the Thirty Years War Fort Calenberg lost its military significance and was slighted. Today it is a ruin with underground vaults, surrounded by high ramparts.

Quarry, firing range and tip
East of the former labourer's houses, above the moat, was once a large quarry which was established during the construction of Calenberg Castle in order to provide building material. The small bore shooting club, K.K.S.V Schulenburg/Calenberg, founded on 12 June 1928 built a firing range there in 1930 with a low-level target trap in a chalk pipe, and then a shooting lodge in 1932. Because the low-level trap was often under water, it was replaced in 1935/36 by a high-level trap.

On 26 April 1949 the British occupation forces blew up the range and all its facilities. The then municipality of Schulenburg/Leine continued to use the quarry as a rubbish tip and eventually covered it with earth. Today, arable land covers the tip. Apart from the castle ruins and several old worker's houses belonging to the Calenberg estate, the Calenberg is used for agricultural purposes.

The State Office for Mining, Energy and Geology (Landesamt für Bergbau, Energie und Geologie) manages the current landfill site under the name Nordrand Alt Calenberg and under location number 2530124004. According to the department, the tip has an area of 7,570 m² and a volume of 21,990 m³ and is used for building rubble, spoil, household rubbish and bulk rubbish.

References

Maps
 Geologische Karte von Preußen und benachbarten deutschen Ländern Lieferung 265: Blatt Elze Nr. 2089. Berlin 1927. Mit einem Begleitheft Erläuterungen zur Geologischen Karte von Preußen und benachbarten deutschen Ländern…Blatt Elze von Adolf Hoffmann, Berlin 1927.
 Flurnamenkarte 1:10.000 Blatt 5/3 Gestorf des Landkreises Hannover, Abt. Kartographie, o. J. (1986).
 Flurnamenlexikon zur Flurnamenkarte, Hrsg. vom Landkreis Hannover. Bearb. Heinz Weber Teil 5,3: Gestorf. Schriftenreihe: Flurnamensammlung des Landkreises Hannover. o. J. (1986).
 Flurnamenkarte 1:10.000 Blatt 6/3 Alt-Calenberg des Landkreises Hannover, Abt. Kartographie, o. J. (1981).
 Flurnamenlexikon zur Flurnamenkarte, Hrsg. vom Landkreis Hannover. Bearb. Heinz Weber Teil 6,3: Alt-Calenberg. Schriftenreihe: Flurnamensammlung des Landkreises Hannover. o. J. (1987).

External links
 Landschaftsschutzgebiet "Calenberger Leinetal" (PDF-Datei; 55 kB)

Hanover (region)
Hills of Lower Saxony

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This year began better than expected for the Argentine economy but the release of January's inflation figure in mid-February, which was higher than expected (2.9% m/m, while the market was expecting 2.5%), meant a turning point.
The primaries will take place on August 13th, and the big news is that Cristina Kirchner will run for senator in the province of Buenos Aires.
The new administration is moving very quickly to establish a new policy regime that addresses the main obstacles that have been affecting investing and growth.
The IMF staff and local authorities reached an agreement on the 3rd review of the program. Still subject to the approval of the Executive Board, Argentina will access to US$10.87 billion in the coming weeks.


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In fashion and glamour photography, these colors work well as a background, as they do not have any sharp features. Even in food photography, they can work in background but be careful for the insipid appearance of these colors. If given importance, then they can spoil the punch of the photograph.
These colors are rarely used on product, however some times, we see them on machinery. Though they appear feminine because of their low profile, actually they are masculine colors.
Over all impression of these colors are diffused and blurry. Yet, these colors reduce the strain within the components of a photograph. That is the reason why they play so important part in a photograph.
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With agents of United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement raiding 7-Elevens across the country intent on deporting illegal immigrants and punishing the companies that employ them, immigration reform is taking center stage this week in Washington, D.C.
Democrats have long hoped to provide a path to citizenship for immigrants temporarily allowed in the country under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals policy, which allows children brought to America by family members illegally to remain in the country temporarily and acquire work visas. As of this writing, a federal injunction has blocked the Trump Administration from rescinding the work permits of these undocumented immigrants. But that's not a permanent solution.
A bipartisan group of Senators has come to an agreement on an immigration deal, but Donald Trump has not offered his support of the bill. The bill reportedly includes a path for DACA recipients to become citizens and changes to the State Department's diversity visa lottery program and family-based immigration policies while also providing a border security funding package.
Whatever the bipartisan deal looks like now, it's going change drastically as negotiations take place to please the President become passable in the Senate and the House of Representatives. So what can we expect from the immigration negotiations?
Trump was asked if he would support a DACA bill that did not include money for the border wall he has proposed in a news conference, Wednesday at the White House. "No, no, no," was his answer.
Trump won't approve immigration legislation if it doesn't approve funding for a border wall. It was his biggest campaign promise -- and that Mexico would pay for it. Mexico isn't paying for it, and Senate Democrats won't likely allow tax dollars to be spent on a border wall. But there's still Ted Cruz's bill to make El Chapo (Joaquín El Chapo Guzmán Loera) and profits secured from other drug lords to pay for the wall.
The Department of Homeland Security estimated in February 2017 that Trump's border wall would cost roughly $21.6 billion. U.S. authorities are seeking the forfeiture of roughly $14 billion in profits from illicit drug trafficking by El Chapo.
U.S. attorney general Jeff Sessions gave Republicans leverage in negotiations by ending protections for states with legal marijuana, so Republicans could very well demand funding for a border wall in exchange for protections of medical and recreational marijuana providers and users.
That doesn't mean Trump will be able to fund his border wall exclusively with taxpayer dollars, though. Congressional Democrats are already frustrated by a tax plan that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says will add $1.4 trillion to the federal deficit over the next decade. Even if Trump's tax plan will raise America's gross-domestic product by .5 percent annually, it still increases the federal deficit by $1.252 trillion. And now Congressional Republicans have their sights set on cutting Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits.
Congressional Democrats will have to find some solace in fulfilling the dreams of Dreamers currently residing in America under DACA, because immigrants residing in the country under the State Department's diversity visa lottery program and family-based immigration policies will be deported en masse.
The ICE raids of 7-Elevens throughout the country are just the beginning. Refugees residing in America with Temporary Protected Status will likely have their statuses terminated and be forced to return to their home countries, which aren't likely ready to receive them. Most of these refugees escaped natural disasters or war. It was announced Monday that nearly 200,000 TPS migrants from El Salvador must leave the country, and there are another 125,000 TPS migrants residing in American who could be next.
To give you a sense of who these TPS migrants are, 81 to 88 percent of them are employed, which is a considerably higher rate than the 63 percent of American-born citizens who are employed. They do work many Americans wouldn't do if the jobs were available to them -- 51,700 work construction, 32,400 in food service, 15,800 are landscapers, 10,000 more take care of your kids in daycares and 9,200 work in grocery stores. Almost a third of all TPS migrants are paying mortgages, too.
Trump will chalk these deportations up as jobs created for Americans, but it won't necessarily result in a strengthened U.S. economy. The Center for American Progress estimates "a policy of mass deportation would immediately reduce the nation's GDP by 1.4 percent, and ultimately by 2.6 percent, and reduce cumulative GDP over 10 years by $4.7 trillion."
Agriculture and construction industries are expected to be the industries hardest hit by mass deportations, so housing shortages will worsen as will agriculture exports due to a lack of a sufficient labor force. Americans aren't suddenly going to flock to farms and ranches in search of jobs vacated by immigrants.
It's also estimated that illegal immigrants and their employers pay between $7 and $12 billion into Social Security, which would further devastate the program if Congressional Republicans indeed cut funding for it.
So what we can expect from the immigration reform negotiations is: 1) some sort of border wall being built on the U.S.-Mexico border, 2) possible marijuana protections for states with legal and medical marijuana legislation in effect, 3) more deportations, and 4) a worse U.S. economy.
While United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded Obama-era, federal protections for recreational marijuana businesses and users in states that have adopted legal cannabis legislation, that won't affect states' medical marijuana providers and users -- at least until Jan. 19.
Indications are that medical marijuana will be off the table when it comes to the Justice Department's crackdown on cannabis. President Donald Trump went on the record in support of medical marijuana prior to the election, so it's unlikely Sessions would act in a manner that could jeopardize his President's reelection chances any further. But if Congress can't come to an agreement to fund the government before Jan. 19, the Rohrabacher–Farr amendment prohibiting the Justice Department from spending federal funds to interfere with states' implementation and enforcement of medical cannabis laws will expire.
The Rohrabacher-Farr amendment must be renewed each fiscal year to remain in effect, and is usually done so through omnibus spending bills. It was most recently renewed in a stopgap spending bill on Dec. 22, which expires Jan. 19. So if Congress fails to pass a budget for the fiscal year or at least another stopgap spending bill to fund the government temporarily, medical marijuana providers and patients will no longer be protected by Rohrabacher-Farr and subject to federal prosecution.
Sessions is making sure the Justice Department is prepared for the opportunity to enforce federal cannabis law. He appointed 17 interim U.S. attorneys general just days prior to rescinding the protections for recreational cannabis providers and users. The 17 temporary appointees can serve for 120 days before Trump must nominate permanent U.S. attorneys and seek to have them confirmed by the Senate. Sessions has empowered all 94 U.S. attorneys to enforce cannabis law as they see fit.
Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado said he would block Trump's Justice Department judicial nominees until the decision is reversed. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, a state where cannabis is legal to use by adults, insists that protecting states with legal cannabis legislation should be part of budget negotiations to avoid a government shutdown. If the government shuts down, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) would continue to be funded, so raids of both recreational and medical marijuana providers would be a possibility. Even if Sessions doesn't crackdown on cannabis, he's given Republicans some leverage in negotiating a new budget to fund the government. Perhaps in exchange for continued protection for medical and recreational marijuana states, Trump will get his border wall funded.
Regardless, medical and recreational marijuana providers and users haven't been this vulnerable since before Rohrabacher-Farr went into effect in December of 2014. If the bipartisan condemnation of Sessions' decision is any indication of what's to come, protecting cannabis markets, both medical and recreational, will be a top priority over the next week.
As of January 2017, recreational cannabis markets had created 123,000 full-time jobs in America, and a recent report by New Frontier Data forecasts that tax revenues from legal marijuana sales were $559 million in 2017.


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Maximum Security's Preakness status unclear
After all the drama at the Kentucky Derby drama, the two horses that crossed the finish line first might not run the Preakness.
Author: Associated Press
Published: 6:10 PM EDT May 5, 2019
Updated: 6:10 PM EDT May 5, 2019
The next stop in the chase for the Triple Crown is the Preakness, though both Maximum Security and Country House remain noncommittal for the May 18 race following Maximum Security's disqualification from the Kentucky Derby.
Owner Gary West said Sunday he is unsure whether to enter Maximum Security in the Preakness as he ponders appealing the historic decision.
West also said he realizes the appeals process could extend well beyond the upcoming race at Pimlico in Baltimore. And with Kentucky racing stewards' ruling that Maximum Security interfered with other horses that led to his disqualification, there might not be a point to racing the colt in the Triple Crown series' middle jewel.
"When you're not going for the Triple Crown, sometimes it doesn't make sense to wheel the horse back in two weeks," West said in a phone interview with The Associated Press.
"If there's going to be an appeal it will almost certainly be before the Preakness, but appeals historically take some time to sort out. Win, lose or draw, we're not going to know the outcome of that until probably months, if not years, down the road."
Maximum Security was first to finish Saturday's muddy Derby before becoming the marquee race's first winner to be disqualified for interference . Stewards elevated runner-up Country House, a 65-1 long shot, to the winner's circle after determining that Maximum Security impeded his path and two others' exiting the final turn. Maximum Security was ultimately placed 17th of 19 horses after starting as the 9-2 second betting choice, ending his four-race winning streak.
Stewards cited a section of the rule that calls for disqualification if "a leading horse or any other horse in a race swerves or is ridden to either side so as to interfere with, intimidate, or impede any other horse or jockey."
Maximum Security is walked off the track after being disqualified for the 145th running of the Kentucky Derby horse race at Churchill Downs Saturday, May 4, 2019, in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Chief steward Barbara Borden said in a news conference that she and two other stewards interviewed riders and studied video replays of the incident during a 22-minute review after the finish. The stewards did not take questions from reporters.
West said the earliest he could see the stewards' video evidence would be Thursday, which could determine if he files an appeal in a process he was still trying to understand.
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"We wanted to have the stewards explain to us what they saw and show us on their video the pictures of exactly what they saw, and they refused to allow us to do that," he said.
"That was really pretty bush league, because there is no rule that they can't show the film to the owner and trainer that got disqualified for the first time in the history of the Kentucky Derby other than they aren't working today, or Monday, or Tuesday or Wednesday."
The only other disqualification in the Derby occurred long after the race in 1968. First-place finisher Dancer's Image tested positive for a prohibited medication, and Kentucky state racing officials ordered the purse money to be redistributed. Forward Pass got the winner's share. A subsequent court challenge upheld the stewards' decision.
President Donald Trump blasted Maximum Security's disqualification, blaming the Derby outcome on "political correctness."
"The Kentucky Derby decision was not a good one," Trump tweeted Sunday. "It was a rough and tumble race on a wet and sloppy track, actually, a beautiful thing to watch.
"Only in these days of political correctness could such an overturn occur. The best horse did NOT win the Kentucky Derby — not even close!"
The Derby finish will be debated for some time, and that's not good for the beleaguered sport.
The lead-up to Triple Crown season and the week at Churchill Downs was not what horse racing officials had hoped for. And now, the focus during the run-up to the Preakness will be on what's happening off the track.
A scary spill for a filly and jockey opened Friday's Kentucky Oaks for fillies, and winner Serengeti Empress won her first start since pulling up in her previous race because of external bleeding. That followed medication and safety reforms by the industry after the deaths of 23 horses over three months at Santa Anita.
Now racing moves to the Preakness and Pimlico, where nearly 6,700 seats at the dilapidated track have been deemed unsafe and will be unavailable. The Canada-based Stronach Group that owns Pimlico and Santa Anita has also clashed with Baltimore officials over concerns that ownership may move the Preakness to Laurel Race Course.
And the best story on the track may not materialize: a Maximum Security-Country House rematch.
Country House trainer Bill Mott said the colt was in good shape after the Derby but remained noncommittal about the 1 1/8-mile Preakness, which is shorter than the Derby. It would mark his fourth race in eight weeks if he runs.
"It may compromise his chances a bit and it's not a normal situation to run so often," Mott said. "But the Triple Crown is not a normal situation."
West also declared Maximum Security fine but will monitor him the next few days.
"The revenge motive doesn't even enter into my mind," West said. "The horse proved he was the best horse (Saturday) by far. If he's not 100%, we would not even think about taking this horse to the Preakness and then we won't know that for a few days."


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9845C Computer Graphics Innovations
The Color Principle
Pointer Types and Human Interaction
Graphics Firmware
The 9845C
The 9845C, first mentioned in the sales brochure from January 1980, introduced in the December 1980 issue of the HP Journal and with first appearance in the HP Catalog from 1981, was the top-of-the-line model of the 9845 series, and it was the very first HP computer supporting color. Simply said, the 9845C brought color into the 9845 series.
Like with the whole 9845 design, HP's engineers did a rather complete job. They not only added a precise color display, but also soft-keys and a light pen for ergonomic software design. And it utilized a full size color frame buffer with hardware accelerated line drawing and fill operations. Maybe the design was a bit too complete, because the overall complexity reached a degree which was not only expensive, but also minimizes the probability to diskover a fully operating 9845C today.
But never mind, despite of - or better just because - of its complexity, the 9845C really had everything a workstation needs. It provided a high-power 16-bit dual-processor system with at least 128 KBytes firmware in ROM, up to 1.5 MByte RAM, integrated tape mass storage, full-size keyboard with numeric keypad and function keys, full-width fast and quiet thermo printer, a wide range of peripherals, connectivity to mainframes as well as to other workstations, and a clear, hardware accelerated graphics display with up to 4,913 colors.
The 9845C was designed for best-possible compatibility to the 9845B, in fact, the 9845C was basically a 9845T with revised graphics firmware, color coded special function keys and a color display. And it was the 98770A color display which made the difference. It included a separate power supply, a vector generator based on the AMD2900 bit-slice architecture, graphics memory with three planes of 32 KBytes each, a connection interface to the mainframe, and a light-pen logic. The display front showed eight soft keys on the lower end of the screen, and 39 (!) alignment controllers behind a door which could be used to fine-tune the color convergence of the display.
Without doubt, the color display was the faster computer than the 9845 mainframe itself. And it drew even more power from the line, the combined input power consumption of mainframe and power display could reach almost 1,000 Watts.
Obviously, the bit-slice processor design of the color display inspired the 9845 system designers to perform later another step and replace the old hybrid language processor completely by a AMD2900 bit slice system, known as the 9845 model 200. For certain calculations, this accelerated computation by a factor of 7, which made the 9845 even more performant.
9845C, Courtesy of Troy Paiva
Have a look at this 9845C model, a photograph by Troy Paiva from his 'Lost America' series within a cool environment.
Troy found the HP 9845 when he was shooting the aircraft boneyard called Aviation Warehouse at El Mirage Dry Lake. One section of the yard is used for storage. The owner takes the upper halfes of airliner fuselages and uses them as shelters for all kinds of equipment and parts. See this link for a flicker diskussion on this item, or this site for more from the Lost America series of photographs.
Ivan Sutherland and
Dave Evans 1969 with LDS-1
At the time the 9845C had been introduced, computer graphics were at the beginning of a new age. It was the time, when commercial graphics visualization techniques started to move from capable vector based graphics hardware concepts (as commercially introduced by Evans & Sutherlands LDS-1 in 1969) towards frame buffer based implementations.
Vector (or analog) displays had been available for a quite long time and represented state of the art for computer graphics for (almost) any purpose. Line generation was more or less the task of the CRT in combination with some digital circuit which worked display lists containing only the end points for each line plus - depending on the system - intensity, feature (like blinking) or depth (Z-value) information. In fact vector displays had been quite similar to CRT plotters. Most digital processor work focused on calculating the endpoints including matrix transformations for coordinate scaling & 3D transformations. Normally a vector display was combined with such a coordinate processor and a minicomputer controlling the overall action (like usage within CAD programs).
Checkerboard on LDS-1
So vector displays had been quite well established (HP offered its own 1310A vector display system in 1971 and added the 1350A graphics processor in 1977) and could already do several operations like zoom or changing view points in real time. However they also head some serious limitations. Character "plotting" could consume lots of the vector capacity of the display (unless produced by a separate character generator - every display did have a limitation with respect to the maximum number of vectors on the display), and so did area fill (which was in general achieved by hatching). Color in general had been a problem for vector displays, and depending on the total number of vectors, display flicker could become annoying (even with the long glowing phosphor used with vector displays).
However, frame buffer displays as - again - commercially introduced by Evans & Sutherland in 1973/74 required lots of RAM, and memory had been extremely expensive at the time. The Evans & Sutherland Picture System in 1974 already offerend 512 x 512 pixels with 8 bit grayscale for $15,000.
In 1976, Cromemco released a "low-cost" frame buffer based video add-on for the MITS Altair "personal" computer. Called "Dazzler", this device consisted of two boards, which plugged into the S-100 bus of the Altair, producing a composite video output with 64 x 64 "pixels" with 16 fixed colors in color mode or 16 intensities in black and white mode, or 128 x 128 pixels with two selectable colors. The 2 kByte frame buffer actually was located in the main memory and accessed via direct memory access (DMA). The later Super Dazzler Interface (SDI) was even superior to the 9845C in that in 1979 it implemented a resolution of 756 x 484 with dual-ported frame buffer RAM and 16 colors out of 4096 via look-up table.
Two years before, Hewlett Packard already offered a high resolution frame buffer monochrome graphics option for the HP 9845A. In 1980, HP implemented color in the 9845C simply by combining three frame buffer planes to a frame buffer with three bits per pixel, thus providing eight different colors. Although today 24 bit frame buffers are common, the frame buffer principle still is the same.
In a frame buffer, all graphics information is produced by writing into the frame buffer memory. For the HP 9845A this was done by the PPU processor, however compared to common vector displays, line drawing suffered from a serious degrade in drawing speed - each pixel had to be calculated by the CPU and transferred via a 16-bit I/O operation into frame buffer memory.
In contrast to the 9845A, the 9845C was intended (among other purposes) for CAD applications, and engineers who used to work with vector displays before would not have been happy with a slow frame buffer system. So HP's engineers added acceleration for vector drawing & area fill in hardware, resulting in a speed of up to 5,000 vectors per second. This had been another great innovation at the time, and HP chose a quite unusual way how to do it - they used a bit slice processor design for this, so the specialized graphics primitives could be 'microcoded' for achieving highest performance results. Probably the first GPU available for frame buffer graphics.
The only drawback was that refreshing the video display from the frame buffer and vector generation could not be performed simultaneously, since frame buffer memory access had to be done exclusively (dual port memory or double buffering had been out of budget scope). Hence, vector generation - although running at full memory speed with up to 2 million pixels per second (!) - was restricted to the CRT horizontal & vertical retrace cycles (about 23-45% of the display timing).
Another great innovation with respect to computer graphics had been the high level graphics programming system, which not only provided a high level of abstraction, but also included capabable 3D libraries with fast matrix operations and a unified model for user interaction (including light pen control and menu techniques) and graphics output for a large number of graphics devices.
In fact, it seems that the HP 9845C had been the very first system, which implemented both high-resolution color frame buffer and hardware accelerated line generation & area fill into one system. Starting with the HP 9845C, high resolution frame buffer graphics became one of the primary characteristics of workstations in general.
The 9845C used three planes of one bit per pixel each. Each graphics pixel was composed by three bits, one from each plane, which then were converted into eight primary colors (black, red, green, blue, magenta, cyan, yellow and white).
The mapping between memory planes and colors could be changed through the so-called "musical memory", a 9-bit wide register (3 bits for each plane), which assigned one of the 8 colors to each plane. The values were switched by the bits in the memory planes and or'ed together for the final color. The register could be programmed in BASIC with the MEMORY instruction. By default the assignment was RED for the first plane, GREEN for the second and BLUE for the third plane, so that all 8 colors could be produced according to the following scheme:
Color Red Plane Green Plane Blue Plane
BLACK 0 0 0
MAGENTA 1 0 1
RED 1 0 0
YELLOW 1 1 0
GREEN 0 1 0
BLUE 0 0 1
WHITE 1 1 1
For changing the color mapping, just the musical memory register had to be changed (the memory planes did not have to be rewritten). Unfortunately, the HP engineers missed the final step creating a real 8-entry look-up table with intermediate colors, so whatever mapping you define, no other than the 8 primary colors can be produced. With a real palette table, even image processing would have been possible.
All line drawing and fill operations were specified with color information either as a HSL triple (hue, saturation, luminosity), or as a RGB triple (red, green, blue intensity). Actually, lines could only produced with one of the 8 primary colors, but for fill operations the color shades were generated by a simple cell dithering algorithm with a dominant and a non-dominant color in a 4x4 pixel cell. Since in a 16 dot cell there are 17 dithering patterns with different average intensity, up to 17² = 4,913 eye-averaged color shades were possible. This technique saved expensive graphics memory and was perfect for technical applications like CAD, however somewhat impractical for image processing (there was no scanner peripheral device anyway, although it was good practice to modify a plotter into a scanning device).
RGB Color Cube and HSL Color Cylinder
Both line drawing and polygon fill operations were hardware accelerated, there was a special vector generator for that purpose, which worked independent of the mainframe's processing units.
As a result of the engineering efforts, definition, sharpness and saturation of color were of outstanding quality. The 9845C system had been the favorite source for scientific imaging at the time. Looking to the IBM PC, a comparable system was available with the EGA graphics in 1984, which was four years later.
Sample Screen Shots (Jupiter Red Spot and Die Production Yield)
The colors could be directly accessed in BASIC via the special function keys k8 to k15, which were color coded. The desired color could be activated by pressing the CONTROL key simultaneously with the appropriate special function key. Apart from the logo, the color coded keys are the only visible difference between the 9845B and the 9845C mainframe.
Color Coded Special Function Keys on the 9845C
The same effect can be achieved by using the character codes (decimal) 136 to 143 within PRINT statements (e.g. PRINT CHR$(137);"HELLO" prints the word "HELLO" in red), or alternatively by using the escape sequence ESC+"&d" with one of the characters 'H' to 'O':
Color Character Code Escape Code
WHITE 136 ESC+"&dH"
RED 137 ESC+"&dI"
YELLOW 138 ESC+"&dJ"
GREEN 139 ESC+"&dK"
CYAN 140 ESC+"&dL"
BLUE 141 ESC+"&dM"
MAGENTA 142 ESC+"&dN"
BLACK 143 ESC+"&dO"
It is not possible to mix different colors for foreground and background of characters.
There was a special unit avaliable, which could be used to mount a camera in front of the CRT in order to produce high-quality screen shots. As already mentioned above, in the early 80's, the 9845C was a quite popular source for technical and scientific illustrations. You can identify those illustrations either through the dithering scheme or through the unique HP screen character font. And if you ever saw the 1983 "War Games" movie, all those large-scale NORAD monitors were fed with computer graphics generated by a 9845C.
Some Screenshots from the original War Games movie, produced with a 9845C
See the Screen Art section for more details (especially the 9845C demo is a 'must-see').
One of the success factors was that HP asked their customers before they moved to the drawing board. The 9845C is an early example, how human interaction and ergonomy was implemented in that time. Graphical user interfaces with eye-hand coordination were still in the research phase, however the 9845C already implemented principles like softkeys for screen menues, screen pointing with light-pen and hand-move control with graphics tablets.
Standard Pointer Devices (Light-Pen, Digitizer, Graphics Tablet)
See the Mouse Project Section for learning how to add mouse support for any 9845 system on your own.
Soft-Key Menu
In several aspects, the computer mouse was and still is a simpler device. A grapics tablet is much better suited for precision input and aspect ratio, the soft-keys were more intuitive and the light-pen perfectly implemented the pointing principle (just like modern touch screens, but without all those greasy fingerprints).
The HPGL subsystem was independent of the actual graphics hardware. So any pointing device could be connected and used in a very similar way. And graphics output could be directed to any HPGL device, including CRT screen, plotter and printer. If mouse or joystick control for the 9845 would be desired, only a suitable driver has to be developed. This unified approach was light-years ahead of the later IBM PC solutions.
In addition to the pointer devices, the 9845C introduced a user-friendly menu system, based on eight soft-keys built into the monitor and software controlled soft-key labels on the bottom lines of the screen. For this purpose, the original 25 lines were extended to 28 lines (the original 25 lines plus one separating line and two label lines).
The 9845C requires a pair of special PPU system ROMs and a color or enhanced graphics option ROM. The system ROMs which are 9845C specific are the ROMs which cover the address range of octal 000000-017777 (position CE1-LB and CE1-UB on the PPU RAM/ROM assembly). They have the Part No. 1818-1208 and 1818-1209 for the standard configuration and 1818-1591 and 1818-1592 for the use with 512 KByte RAM expansion boards.
The required option ROM is either a 98770-65501 Color Graphics ROM or a 98780-65501 Enhanced Graphics ROM (the latter works also with a fast monochrome display). Both option ROMs extend the basic graphics instruction set of the 09845-66517 standard Graphics ROM by 35 additional graphics commands.
Some new commands are:
ALPHA, AREA COLOR, AREA INTENSITY, CONVERGE, DEGAUSS, EXIT ALPHA, GRAPHICS INPUT IS, GRAPHICS INPUT ... IS ON, GRAPHICS INPUT ... IS OFF, GSTAT, KEY LABELS, LABEL KEY #, LABEL KEYS, LAXES, LGRID, MAT AIPLOT, MAT APLOT, MAT ARPLOT, MAT IPLOT, MAT PLOT, MAT RPLOT, MAT SYMBOL, MEMORY, ON GKEY, OFF GKEY, POLYGON, RECTANGLE, TRACK ... IS ON, TRACK ... IS OFF
Completely new are
all commands for specifiying color,
for graphics input,
for using softkeys, and
for drawing polygons and rectangles.
And the new ROM provides support for the fast BASIC processing of object lists via matrix operations (useful for the fast vector generator).
The 98780-65501 Enhanced Graphics ROM adds support for the fast monochrome CRT display plus rubber banding, fast tracking and fast alpha. If used in a 9845C, fast erasing, arcs and circles and rubber banding with no background loss won't work. However rubber banding on a 9845C may be emulated in software with the RUBBND binary program which is included with the System 45C Utilities package. Programs STORE'd with one ROM can be run with the other with some minor exceptions.
All firmware changes are documented in the HP 9845 BASIC Programming Manual of September 1981 (see the reference tables in the appendix).
from: hpmuseum.net
CPU Type: Opt. 1xx:
Opt. 2xx:
System Dimensions: HWD 546 x 482,5 x 762 mm (21.5 x 19 x 30 in.)
Standard CRT: 29.5 kg (65 lb.)
Cube: 0.2 m³ (7.09 ft³)
Screen Size: 330 mm (13 in.) in diagonal
Dot Size: 0.343 mm (0.0135 in.)
Screen Capacity: 30 lines x 80 chracters (only 28 lines used = 2,240 characters total)
Alpha Buffer Size: 2 kWords / 4 kBytes
Alpha Raster Scan Size: 247 x 154 mm (9.72 in x 6.06 in.)
Graphics Buffer Size: 3 x 16 kWords = 48 kWords / 96 kBytes
Graphics Raster Size: 192 x 156 mm (7.5 in x 6.1 in.)
Matrix Plot: ~200 / ~240
Absolute Plot: ~5,000 / ~5,000
Circles/s not clipped: ~2 / ~5
Graphics Linearity: <2 % full screen
Graphics Memory: 48 kWords / 96 kBytes (3 planes of 16 kWords each)
Number of Colors: 8 (black, red, green, blue, cyan, magenta, yellow, white)
Number of Fill Colors: 4,913 (with 4x4 cell dithering)
Number of Line Styles: 10
Light Pen Dimensions: 20.2 mm (0.8 in) diameter by 157 mm (6.18 in) long
Light Pen Weight: 125 g (4.4 oz.)
Light Pen Tracking Sampling Rate: 60 Hz
Light Pen Cursor Positioning Accuracy: 1 pixel
Light Pen Minimum Intensity for Pick of Single Pixel: 10 foot-lamberts (white, blue or green)
Base Price U.S.A.: $39.500
Appearance of the 9845C is quite similar to a 9845B Model 200. Mainframe and display all look the same, and in fact most of the mainframe is the same as for a 9845B.
The difference is inside the display, which has nothing in common with the 9845B but just the shell and the dimensions.
View from the left hand side. See here the light pen attached.
In the side view the proportions get evident, the display takes much of the space and weight of the complete system. Due to its 30 kg, it was strongly recommended by HP not to lift and carry the display by just one person.
The display with its 13 inch diameter appears significantly larger than that of the standard 9845B. On the right side of the CRT a panel hides the controls for convergence calibration.
The back of the system again looks very much like the 9845B Model 200. On the left there is the connector for the light pen. The 9845C displayhas its own power supply and therefore needs its own power cord.
Due to the power consumption, the 9845C display also needs its own fans.
Just as all other 9845 models, the 9845C has four I/O ports for plugging in peripheral interfaces.
The light pen was part of the 9845C concept. Here it can be seen in its parked position. A special bracket could be installed on any of the display legs (suitable for left and right-handed users).
Also part of the concept were eight soft keys which were positioned just below the CRT, so that some information on the display could be associated with those keys.
This was in general used for menu techniques, where labels at the bottom of the screen matched with each of the keys. On later systems, this menu technique was maintained, however the keys then moved from the display to the keyboard. With its Series 150 PCs, HP introduced a touch screen with light beam technology, which still used the menu concept introduced with the 9845C.
The 9845C keyboard layout is exactly the same as that of the other 9845 models. Just the model logo differs.
Apart from the logo, you can identify a 9845C by the colored function keys, which can be used to easily switch colors while typing.
Another difference between the 9845B and 9845C are firmware modules. There is a special 9845C graphics option ROM which has to be installed in the left (PPU) ROM drawer. Later this option ROM was superseded by another graphics ROM, which covered both 9845B Model 200 and 9845C graphics.
There is nothing special in the right (LPU) ROM drawer for the 9845C.
The 9845C had its own set of pull-out cards for quick command system configuration and command reference. The pull-out cards are mounted below the display.
Internally the 9845C mainframe in fact was almost identical to a 9845B mainframe. Internal differences were only by firmware. Almost all 9845C features were in the 98770A display.
Both the 9845B and the 9845C could be ordered as standard (Model 100) or enhanced (Model 200) configuration. The Modell 200 included a fast LPU (bitslice processor), a more capable power supply unit and more powerful fans. Here the 9845C Model 200 is shown.
From right to left: Fast LPU assembly, PPU ROM/RAM-board, printer controller and printer driver board, and display interconnect board (IO bus for graphics data).
Close up on the fast LPU. As you cam see, the fast LPU consists of a three board assembly interconnected by a fourth board (called "father board").
The fast LPU was implemented as a large word processor, which again was built up by four 4-bit AMD slice processors (can be seen on the PCB in the front), with one sequencer. The speed gain was achieved not by a higher CPU clock or more efficient architecture (the bit slice processor in fact 'emulated' the original hybrid CPU), but by implementing time critical parts of the BASIC language interpreter in microcode.
The Model 200 PSU differs from the Model 100 PSU in that it was higher rated, lacked any external test points, but provided a power-good check circuit with LED indicators.
The left board cage includes (from up to down): The display interconnect assembly (alpha data interface), the LPU RAM/ROM board, the PPU with its heat sink and a single 512k RAM board (the 9845 could hold up to three of those for max. 1.5 MB RAM).
Basic sales information about the 9845C can be found in the 9845C brochure from January 1980. The 9845C was introduced in the December 1980 issue of the HP Journal. Most internal information about the 9845C mainframe is identical to that of the 9845B and can be derived from the installation and operation manuals, the 9845B/C service manual and the CE handbook. The most important source for technical backgrounds are the December 1980 HP Journal, the 98770A service manual, the 98770A CE handbook and the US patent no. 4367465 for the light-pen. See the Documents section for further details.


Srinagar, March 27: Aspirants for various posts on Wednesday staged protest against Jammu and Kashmir Public Service Commission (JKPSC), questioning their credibility as the question paper was allegedly already leaked and even before the exams was conducted.
According to a candidate, the exams for the posts in Sericulture department were to be conducted and the question paper was already viral on social media networks that were provided to aspirants today.
"We had already told the authorities that the question paper has been leaked but they did not listen. When we entered the examination hall it was all the same questions," Masood Ahmad, an aspirant told KNO.
He said that how come the same questions which were doing rounds on social media sites was part of the actual exams and alleged that there are some officials who are leaking the questions.
The aspirants for various posts protested at the PSC office, asking officials to come clear on the issue. They said it was not the first instance, but previously when they appeared for the written test for Range officer posts and in Judiciary question papers were exchanged.
"On 23, we had to appear for English paper. It was written on the question paper that it's meant for Range Officer post however same question paper was given to Judiciary posts as well," aspirants alleged.
They also claimed that afterwards when they went to appear for the general knowledge paper, question sheets meant for RO posts were given to judiciary.
"Later in five minutes they got papers for judiciary posts. How can that happen? If they did not have the question papers they cannot create them in five minutes," they claimed.
Aspirants accused the PSC for playing with careers of aspirants and demanded a fair inquiry be launched over the misdoings.
"It will be naive to say that nothing fishy is happening and everything is just a coincidence," they said, complaining that the credibility of the department has been dented.
"How can we believe that fair selection will take place in such an environment," they rued.


The City of Missoula has adopted the following codes effective January 20, 2015.
Please note the changes to the 2012 IRC concerning Carbon Monoxide Alarms Section R315.3. Where required in existing dwellings. Where work requiring a permit occurs in existing dwellings that have attached garages or existing dwellings within which fuel-fired appliances exist, carbon monoxide alarms shall be provided in accordance with section R315.1.
It is advised that all contractors review the adopted codes pertaining to their specialty and become familiar with other possible changes not listed.
The snow load for the City of Missoula is 30 pounds per square foot and the wind load is roughly 90 miles per hour. See IBC 1609 or IRC 301.2 for exact number.
To purchase code books, visit the International Code Council.
R401.3 Drainage - Surface drainage shall be diverted to a storm sewer conveyance or other approved point of collection so as to not create a hazard. Lots shall be graded so as to drain surface water away from foundation walls. The grade away from foundation walls shall fall a minimum of 6" (152 mm) within the first 10' (3,048 mm). One exception is where lot lines, walls, slopes, or other physical barriers prohibit 6" (152 mm) of fall within 10' (3,048 mm), drains or swales shall be provided to ensure drainage away from the structure.
2006 IRC Basement Foundation Alternative Engineered Plans (PDF) - These are only applicable in certain situations. Please notice the maximum wall lengths, required minimum wall returns, and the soil types.


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We are pleased to announce that OCHRS has been awarded the 2018 SHRM Learning System Champion Status! This award comes with various forms of recognition. SHRM Certification has strong momentum as we continue to see growth in the number of people who are SHRM certified, employer awareness, and job postings citing SHRM certified as preferred or required qualifications. And growth across the country in the number of chapters promoting SHRM certification to their members remains strong.
"We know that your chapter's support of SHRM's Certification is an integral part of our success and we thank you for all that you have done to elevate the HR Profession! The SHRM Learning System Champion Recognition is our way of publicly thanking your chapter for promoting and supporting SHRM's Certification to your members. The attached SHRM Certification Recognition and Promotion brochure was shared at VLS, and it is another way we publicly promote and thank your chapter for the continued support. Please know that we appreciate all that you do to support SHRM, the HR Profession and our Education Partners offering SHRM Certification Preparation programs."
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 "White Hole" (Red Dwarf), an episode of the television series Red Dwarf
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