GMA

GMA may refer to:

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DZBB-TV

DZBB-TV, channel 7, is the flagship VHF television station of GMA Network in the Philippines. Its studios are located at the GMA Network Center, at the corner of Timog Avenue and Epifanio de los Santos Avenue in Quezon City. Its transmitter station is located at GMA Compound, Tandang Sora Avenue, Barangay Culiat, in Quezon City.

History

DZBB-TV traces its history to Metro Manila radio station DZBB, owned by Loreto F. de Hemedes, Inc., later renamed Republic Broadcasting System, Inc. of Robert "Uncle Bob" Stewart. After the success of its radio station, the company ventured into television. On October 29, 1961, RBS Channel 7, the third television station in the Philippines (after ABS Channel 3 and CBN Channel 9, which were owned by ABS-CBN which now owns Channel 2 in Manila), started operations with just 25 employees (other stations had 200), a surplus transmitter, two old cameras and no lighting equipment and props.

The station was always in the red and Stewart was about to give up when the program "Dancetime with Chito" became a big hit and advertising revenues rolled in. Canned programs from the United States further sustained its success.

Intel GMA

The Intel Graphics Media Accelerator, or GMA, is a series of integrated graphics processors introduced in 2004 by Intel, replacing the earlier Intel Extreme Graphics series and being succeeded by the Intel HD and Iris Graphics series.

This series targets the market of low-cost graphics solutions. The products in this series are integrated onto the motherboard, have limited graphics processing power, and use the computer's main memory for storage instead of a dedicated video memory. They are commonly found on netbooks, low-priced laptops and desktop computers, as well as business computers which do not need high levels of graphics capability. In early 2007, about 90% of all PC motherboards sold had an integrated GPU.

History

The GMA line of GPUs replaces the earlier Intel Extreme Graphics, and the Intel740 line, the latter of which was a discrete unit in the form of AGP and PCI cards with technology that evolved from companies Real3D and Lockheed Martin. Later, Intel integrated the i740 core into the Intel 810 chipset.

ALS (disambiguation)

ALS or Als may mean:

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Medicine

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Als (island)

Als (Danish pronunciation: [alˀs], German: Alsen) is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea.

Geography

Als lies east of the Jutland peninsula of Denmark at the town of Sønderborg, and north of the German coast at Schleswig. Covering an area of 321 km² (124 sq. miles), the island has a total population of 51,322 as of 1 January 2010. It encompasses the Sønderborg Municipality as per January 1, 2007.

To the north and east of the island are the waters of the Little Belt, to the south is Flensborg Fjord, and to the west is Als Fjord and Als Strait (Alssund).

The town of Sønderborg is the capital, and originally was all on the island, but has spread onto the mainland, being split by the waters of Als Strait (Alssund), part of Als Fjord, the strait that separates the island from Jutland, the Danish mainland. It has a good harbour, considerable trade, and the two halves of the city are connected over the fjord by two bridges: the 682 metre long Als Strait Bridge (Alssundbro), built in 1978 to 1981, carries automobile traffic; and the 331 metre long King Christian X's Bridge (Kong Christian Xs Bro), built in 1925 to 1930, originally carried both automobile and railroad traffic though now is purely for road traffic.

HD 150136

HD 150136 is a triple system of massive O-type stars in the southern constellation of Ara. It consists of a double-lined spectroscopic binary with a more distant tertiary companion. The last star is orbiting the other two with a period of 8.2 years, an eccentricity of 0.73, and an inclination of 108°. The estimated masses of the stars are 7001630000000000000♠63±10, 7001400000000000000♠40±6, and 7001330000000000000♠33±12 times the mass of the Sun. This system contains the brightest stars in the NGC 6193 cluster.

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