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Uchiyama-Parra, Kono-Solis Doubleheader on May 6th
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Negotiations have concluded between the managers for the super flyweight champion of the World Boxing Association, Kohei Kono, and interim division king Liborio Solis - and the boxers will collide on May 6 in the battle to define the absolute WBA champion at 115 pounds. Wuatanabe Promotions announced the details of the agreement, and also said that the fight will take place at Ota Ward Gym in Tokyo.
Kono won the title on December 31 in a fight against Tepparith Kokietgym, who snatched the belt with a knockout in the fourth round. Meanwhile, Solis became mandatory on December 10, 2011, when he won a split decision over Jose Salgado.
Kono has a record of 28 wins with 11 knockouts and 7 defeats, while Solis has 13 wins and three defeats, one draw and seven wins bu knockout.
On the same card, there will be the confrontation between WBA champion at 130 pounds, Takashi Uchiyama, and Venezuelan Jaider Parra, located tenth in the rankings.
Uchiyama, with a record of 19-0, won the title in November of 2010, and his last was on December 31 against interim-beltholder Bryan "Tiquito" Vasquez, which the champion won in eight rounds. Parra is unbeaten with 20 wins.
[QUOTE=any craic lad?;13116426]Uchiyama-Diaz could be made.Diaz recently won the WBC title in Japan and i think defends it there soon.Only problem is Suliaman would ruin it after by telling the winner too drop one off the belts[/QUOTE] Miura/Uchiyama rematch/unification! [QUOTE=giacomino;13119398]Parra…Comment by giacomino on 03-07-2013
Parra is a pretty poor opponent (99th ranked by boxrec, no meaningful wins and little power) for a title fight, but Uchiyama is fun to watch and I'd like to see him with somebody like Gamboa, Burgos or Martinez after…Comment by any craic lad? on 03-06-2013
Uchiyama-Diaz could be made.Diaz recently won the WBC title in Japan and i think defends it there soon.Only problem is Suliaman would ruin it after by telling the winner too drop one off the beltsComment by any craic lad? on 03-06-2013
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Workshare, a leading provider of secure enterprise collaboration applications, today announced that Dave Ewart, Workshare's Senior Director of Product Marketing, will speak at this year's Gartner Portals, Content and Collaboration Summit. The summit will be held at the London Lancaster Hotel from September 16 – 17. Dave Ewart's session, "Secure File Sharing beyond the Corporate Network," will take place in the Solutions Showcase Theater on September 17 at 9:35 a.m. and will explain how organizations can secure their documents with content and context-aware data policies.
At the event, Workshare will also be offering previews of Professional 8. The application enables accurate document comparison and review, while protecting documents with secure file transfer and metadata cleaning. Professional 8 bridges the gap between users that seek simplicity and ease of use, and IT departments that need to retain control, visibility, and auditability of documents inside and outside of the firewall. Workshare's application provides users with end-to-end encryption and advanced control functions that are significantly more secure than email and self-provisioned file sharing applications, meeting the strict compliance mandates associated with regulated markets.
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One of the most consistent features among all types of CMSs is a WYSIWYG editor. In most cases, the WYSIWYG editor forms the core of almost all CMS content-editing interfaces. This ubiquity tends to make people overlook these editors when researching a CMS, and that's a shame because they are such an important part of how teams and clients work with a CMS, they should be examined closely as part of the selection process. A WYSIWYG, or What You See is What You Get, editor allows users to add, edit, and format content without having to code HTML or CSS.
Most of the time, they look and feel very similar to a word processor, making it simple for anyone with basic word processing skills to add or edit content on a CMS. Here, for example, is the WYSIWYG editor for WordPress. Notice that it has a toolbar, and it allows me to do things like bolding my text and maybe italicizing it. I can format links. I could change the color of the text. All sorts of things. Really, all I have to do is type in my text, format it the way I want it using the toolbar, and simply publish it.
This simplicity leads people to believe that all WYSIWYG editors are the same, or at least produce the same results. That of course is simply not true. Perhaps the most obvious difference them is simply the amount of things they allow you to do. Some, like this one, are very minimal and only give you basic formatting options. Others offer a huge range of formatting options as well as advanced functionality like allowing users to print content, create tables, insert images, video, and other media directly into your content.
Looking for an editor that gives users the formatting options they need is a very important consideration when choosing a CMS. Keep in mind that you'll need to train your clients or your team members to use the editor. If you have too many options up there or a WYSIWYG toolbar populated with features that you don't need, that can prove difficult for non-technical users to grasp, or worse, result in pages that aren't formatted to your site's standards. Too few options could result in frustrated users who simply can't format content to match the rest of the site.
There's another capability that you need to examine when looking at a CMS's WYSIWYG Editor, and it's one that's really actually pretty easy to miss. Although they look and act like a word processor, they are in fact still generating code and then inserting that code into your site. Because of this, it's very important that you examine the code created by the WYSIWYG editor to make sure it generates clean code and meets the level of standards compliancy that you need for your site. Many of the editors give you the ability to switch from formatting text to writing code, and this allows you to see the code that's being generated and then tweak it if necessary.
If you are demoing or trying one of these editors out, format some text and then switch over and take a look at the code. Depending upon the editor, some of the formatting options will result in structuring the text with HTML, while others might result in the creation of inline styles. If your site has strict rules about the use of inline styles or strict guides on when and how structural tags should be used, you need to understand how the WYSIWYG editor formats your text and then train your clients or staff to use it in a way that generates clean code with the formatting that you need.
In many cases, CMSs use the same WYSIWYG editor. If you want to take a closer look at some of the more popular editors and their capabilities, go check out TinyMCE, CKEditor, Open WYSIWYG, and InnovaStudio WYSIWYG editor. These sites will give you insight into the features and functionality behind the WYSIWYG editors found in some of the more popular content management systems, and hey, if you are a developer, give you some great options for integrating a WYSIWYG editor into your own projects.
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Thomas D. "Tommy" Petitjean, Sr.
Rayne - Funeral services will be held at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Tuesday, October 11, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. for Thomas D. "Tommy" Petitjean, Sr., 81, who died Sunday, October 9, 2011 in Lafayette General Medical Center Hospital, Lafayette, LA.
Interment will be in the St. Joseph Cemetery #2, Rayne, LA.
Surviving are his wife of 58 years, Evelyn Sonnier Petitjean of Rayne, one daughter, Andree Petitjean Wingate and husband Marvin of Rayne, two sons, Mayor James J. Petitjean and wife Lyn of Rayne, Joseph S. Petitjean of Rayne, six grandchildren, Alexis Wingate, Alanna W. Hensgens and husband Karl, Elise Petitjean, Pete Petitjean, Ann Petitjean, Mariette P. Mahaffey and husband John Michael, four great grandchildren, Audrey Mahaffey, Nicholas Mahaffey, Katherine Hensgens, Caroline Hensgens, one sister, Josie P. Cook of Rayne, one brother, J. Dave Petitjean, Jr. and wife Audrey of Crowley.
He was preceded in death by son, Dr. Thomas D. Petitjean, Jr., parents, J. Dave Petitjean, Sr. and May Prejean Petitjean.
He was born Saturday, December 21, 1929 in Rayne, LA, son of the late Joseph Dave Petitjean and the late May Prejean Petitjean.
Tommy was the quarterback of the 1944 State Champion Football Team at Rayne High School. He went on to receive an athletic scholarship to LSU and finished his collegiate football career at McNeese State University.
Mr. Petitjean graduated from SLI, now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, with a Bachelor of Science in Agriculture in 1951.
Mr. Petitjean served in the U.S. Army, during the Korean War. He was elected to the Acadia Parish School Board and the Acadia Parish Police Jury. He held membership in various organizations including the Knights of Columbus, American Legion, Louisiana Agriculture Commissioner's Special Council, Acadia Parish Rice Growers Association, Rice Council, Louisiana Agriculture Industries Association, USL Alumni, McNeese Alumni, Rayne High School Booster's Club, Louisiana Fertilizer Commission Member, and Industrial Development Board for the City of Rayne, Inc.
Pall Bearers will be his grandson Pete Petitjean, son in law Marvin Wingate, nephews Louie Cook, Dave Cook, Robert Cook and J. Dave Petitjean, III.
Honorary Pall Bearers are B.I. Moody, Charles Chappuis, Douglas Moody, Buddy Gilbert, John Menard, Merrick Young and Donald Sonnier.
A rosary will be recited Monday, October 10, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at Gossen Funeral Home.
Friends will be received at Gossen Funeral Home, Inc., Rayne, LA.
Monday, October 10, 2011 from 3:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. and Tuesday, October 11, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
Friends may view the obituary and guestbook online at www.gossenfuneralhome.net.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Gossen Funeral Home, Inc. of Rayne, LA, (337) 334-3141.


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OAKLAND, Calif. — Josh Donaldson homered and doubled twice to back another solid start by Jesse Chavez, and the Athletics completed a series sweep. Chavez improved his team-best ERA to 1.38 through four starts. Jed Lowrie and Eric Sogard added two hits each for the A's, who have won 11 of 13. Oakland has the AL's best record despite a shaky defense that committed its AL-high 19th error.


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Michael Jackson's family denied new trial in negligence case over his death
A Los Angeles jury in 2013 cleared privately held AEG Live, the organizer of Jackson's ill-fated 50 "This Is It" comeback concerts in London, of negligently hiring cardiologist Conrad Murray as Jackson's personal physician. #World #NewsTracker #Michael Jackson #Propofol #Entertainment #Conrad Murray #King of Pop #AEG Live
Oct 28, 2013
Doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson released after 2 years
The doctor convicted of killing Michael Jackson was released from jail Monday after serving nearly two years of a four-year sentence #Hollywood #Music #Michael Jackson #Conrad Murray #drug overdose #Michael Jackson death
Feb 25, 2012
Judge denies Michael Jackson doctor bid for bail
Murray, 59, has been kept in solitary confinement in Los Angeles County jail as his appeal of his conviction winds its way through the courts. #NewsTracker #Michael Jackson #Conrad Murray
Nov 30, 2011
'Money for medicine madness': Michael Jackson's doctor jailed
MJ's physician is sentenced to four years' imprisonment, but he will only be in jail for a few months, thanks to overcrowding in California's prisons. #NewsTracker #Michael Jackson #Conrad Murray
Nov 08, 2011
Michael Jackson's doctor found guilty of manslaughter
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Nov 04, 2011
Jury to deliberate Jackson doctor manslaughter case on Friday
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Sep 30, 2011
Murray tried to hide medicines before calling 911: MJ's guard
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Sep 28, 2011
Jurors presented tales of Jackson's promise, pain
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As you work on assembling your movie, there are going to be a lot of times when one of the clips you have added turns out to be too long or too short. Maybe you accidentally left out some of the good action in the clip, or maybe after looking at the clip in the context of the rest of the movie, you determined that the clip goes on for too long. But that doesn't mean you have to go back down to the Event Browser, reselect the clip, and then drag it back in again. All you have to do is trim the existing version of the clip in the Project pane. So, for example, after reviewing this clip in my project where our surfer is looking out over the waves, I have decided that it goes on for too long.
So there are a couple of ways we can trim this clip. First, I am going to skim through and find the portion of the clip I want to keep. So right here he is sort of shaking his head a little bit and looking out over the waves. It actually looks okay to me, so I am just going to grab near the beginning. Drag that out. Just drag the left side in a little bit there.
So let's say that portion I have selected is the portion I want to keep. Now I can choose Clip > Trim to Selection, or I can press Command+B. Additionally, you can also right-click on your clip and choose Trim to Selection. But basically it trims away everything but what I have selected. And remember, you're never damaging your original footage when you do this. The complete uncut version of this footage where the clip came from is still sitting safely here in my Event Browser. Now, if you accidentally cut the clip too short, or if the clip was too short when you dragged it in, you are not going to be able to just drag the edges of the selection box out to make the clip longer.
Now, if we are just talking about adding a frame or two, you can go to the Clip menu and choose Trim Clip End, and then choose to add to the left or right side of the clip, meaning you can add frames to the beginning or end of your clip. It is much quicker to use the keyboard command of Option+Left Arrow or Option+Right Arrow, though. So, if I wanted to add a couple of frames to the beginning of this clip, I can hold on the Option key and press my left arrow. And if you look at the timer here, you can see that the clip is getting a little bit longer when I do that. But if you need to add or remove more, or if you want more precise control, you will have to use the Clip Trimmer.
To get to it, click the Action button in the clip and choose Clip Trimmer. That opens this view at the bottom of your window, and this shows you the entire clip as a whole with the part that's actually appearing in the movie selected. This allows you to be a little bit more precise with your trimming, and here you can drag either end of the selection box to add or remove frames from the beginning or end of your clip. So, if I wanted to make this a little bit shorter, I can drag the end in a little bit. Or if I wanted the end to go on a little but longer, I can drag the right end over. Or you can click and drag the entire selection to change both ends at the same time while keeping the overall length of the clip the same.
This is known as slip editing, and it's especially useful to be able to do this if you've already set up music or transitions to be timed with your video but you want to make a change to your clip. Dragging the ends would most likely make your clip a few fractions of a second longer or shorter, which might not seem like much, but it could throw off the timing of your music or transitions if you change a lot of clips this way. Slip editing lets you choose an entirely different section of the footage if you want, but keeps the overall clip length exactly the same, and therefore, it won't throw off your timing. I do want to grab about this portion here I think.
Now, if you want to preview the amount of footage you have selected in real time, you click the Play button. And if it looks good when you're done, you can click Done. And now we are back to looking at the Project pane and the Events Browser. So that's how you can trim your clips to clean them up a bit and how you can also perform slip edits. Next, we will look at fine-tuning your clips for more precise cuts.
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Tom Ward and Collin Harmon break down the weekend's hoops action on this edition of Inside of the Pac.
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The clinical significance of jaundice has been the same for the past twenty years or more. Jaundice should have no different meaning in the eyes of the surgeon than it has for the physician. The first question occurring to any one contemplating the jaundiced patient regardless of all else should be, Is there stoppage of the bile ducts? When this query cannot be answered in the affirmative, jaundice becomes a medical problem and the physician proceeds to make hard work of its solution. As long as the physician continues to classify his nonsurgical jaundiced patient by old fashioned and established methods, his job is not so difficult. He makes it easy by the use of convenient names such as catarrhal jaundice, infectious jaundice or icterus gravis as determined by certain more or less related symptoms.
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The Jewish community's so-called big tent when it comes to Israel is large enough to include Alpha Epsilon Pi, the college fraternity, but it may not be big enough for J Street, the dovish pro-Israel lobby group. AEPi, as far as anyone knows, isn't a powerhouse, Israel-wise, but in 2012 J Street distributed $1.8 million to 71 candidates, believed to be the most in history by a pro-Israel political action committee.
Just as right-wing Jewish groups are protesting the inclusion in the June 1 Celebrate Israel parade of organizations that support a targeted boycott of West Bank products, a move is now on to keep J Street from gaining admission to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, which counts the fraternity as one of its 51 member organizations.
"I'm setting up a website and have sent out a comprehensive report detailing the consistent and repeated anti-Israel actions J Street has taken over the last several years, such as urging the U.S. to support anti-Israel resolutions at the United Nations and targeting pro-Israel congressmen for defeat," said Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America.
"They have given podiums to groups promoting the boycotting of Israel and have never once praised Israel," he added. "Voting in favor of anti-Israel resolutions delegitimizes Israel, which violates a fundamental precept of the Presidents' Conference."
J Street's application for membership was forwarded without comment to the full organization for a vote April 30, according to Rabbi Vernon Kurtz, chairman of the membership committee.
"The committee felt this is something the conference as a whole should make a decision on without our recommendation," he said.
But that fact alone suggests J Street's application faces an uncertain future, according to one Jewish leader who asked to remain anonymous.
"I would not be surprised if they were rejected," he said. "I think the membership will interpret the lack of a recommendation as a reservation. But I think a rejection of J Street will hurt the conference more than anybody else. J Street doesn't need the conference."
A J Street official declined to comment, saying the Presidents Conference election process was confidential and that the organization is respecting that. According to its own literature, J Street in 2012 helped defeat six members of Congress who it said took particularly extreme positions on Israel and the two-state solution.
Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, a Jewish and Interfaith Critique of Politics, Culture and Society, said via email that he was "disappointed that J Street would apply for membership in a group that pretends to speak for American Jews yet consistently articulates positions which represent the views of only the most militaristic and extremist section of American Jews."
Calling the Conference's leadership a group of "unelected loudmouths who claim to speak for all American Jewry," Lerner said the organization's "militaristic policies" are alienating "younger Jews [who] rarely hear the 'Thou Shalt Love the Stranger' and 'Remember when you come into your own land, do not oppress the stranger' messages that are, in one form or another, the most frequently repeated injunctions in Torah."
The New Israel Fund, a liberal group that has never applied for admission to the Presidents' Conference, said in a statement that it supports J Street's application and would be "surprised if one of the most vibrant and successful new Jewish organizations — representing the opinions of tens of thousands of American Jews — were refused admission to a conference claiming to constitute the leadership of the community."
The ZOA's Klein pointed out that although there are liberal groups in the Presidents' Conference that oppose Israeli settlements — such as Americans for Peace Now and Ameinu — that position is "not the same as condemning Israel for war crimes that don't exist. … An umbrella group can have a large tent, but that does not mean a universal tent."
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I would not minimize the importance of AEPi, which is a breath of fresh air in support of Israel and Jewish identity on campus, where we are hemorrhaging.
In fact, J St happens to be a significant reason we are losing our youth. J St brings to campus the most anti-Israel Jewish organizations such as Breaking the Silence, who defame the IDF and B'Tzelem who support the Palestinian "right of return", call Israel an "apartheid state" and support BDS.
How can the J St be "pro-Israel" if they call Israel the "oppressor" and the Palestinians "the oppressed", liken Israel to Hamas, refuse to support Israel on Iran, promoted the discredited Goldstone report, and invite speakers who condemn the creation of Israel as "wrong" and "unjust"...? Alan Dershowitz says that J St "has made a generation of Jews ashamed to be pro-Israel".
How can J St be "pro-Israel" if they never praise Israel - rather almost always criticize her? But they almost always support the Palestinians and almost never criticize them, even for inciting terror. This is why Dershowitz calls their "pro Israel" claim (which even the government of Israel rejects) "fraud in advertising".
J St's "pro-Israel" dishonesty included their years of denial that the virulently anti-Israel George Soros was a supporter, until it was revealed that he donated $750,000.
J St – notwithstanding their repeated (false) claims to being "pro-Israel" – actually represents a significant danger to Israel and the American Jewish community from within, which a review of their record substantiates (and which shows that they are actually pro-Palestinian). Dershowitz: "J St has harmed Israel more than any American organization."
A convincing rejection of J St. by member organizations in the Conference of Presidents is an important step in support of Israel and a healthy American Jewish community.
In many communities there are people who the many say "we are glad we are not like them" because we cannot see ourselves in them but they are here among us none the less. Indeed it was God who separated Yacov and Essau both so different but as you would have it the separation and the differences were tools in Hashems' hands. The best reason for including J Street is that those who are so hated and different make the larger group
better. This IS the lesson of the blending of the five fragrances to make the incense one of which is really quite stink. Again, it is like alloying metals taking a bit of inferior metal like silver and blending with gold causes the gold not to oxidize away when in contact with air. Will we ever learn?
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COLUMBIA — Senators heard today from parent after parent who pleaded with them to approve a plan to use tax dollars to help them pay for private school tuition, arguing that public schools had failed their children. S.C. Superintendent of Education Jim Rex defended the public schools in his testimony and explained the strides made in finding innovative ways to education students.
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Melissa Melvin of Tega Cay gave tear-filled testimony about how she pulled her then-seventh-grade daughter Sarah Schaeffer out of the Fort Mill School District when they suggested she give her child medication to control her behavior. Melvin said within six months of beginning homeschooling, her daughter was scoring at post-high school levels on tests in some subjects.
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Robin Dease of Richland County gave contrary testimony. She said her son Quaylan, now 20, has cerebral palsy and is developmentally and speech delayed, and none of the area private schools she found were able to provide the services that he needed.
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CLOVIS, N.M. - Jimmie Everett, 89, died Saturday, Oct. 20, 2001.
Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in Mission Garden of Memories with Jonathan Brock officiating. Arrangements are by Muffley Funeral Home.
Mr. Everett was a farm laborer. He attended Bethlehem Baptist Church and True Victory Church of God in Christ.
Survivors include a son, James Everett Jr. of Dallas; a niece, Sue Davis of Clovis; and two grandchildren.
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The present invention is related generally to electronics and more specifically to communication links. Even more specifically, the invention is related to testing of individual repeater stations in a communication link between end terminals to successively place each repeater station in a loopback condition for testing purposes until the loopback request fails thereby providing an indication of the area in which the telecommunication problems are occurring.
The prior art method of implementing loopback of repeaters has been used by the Bell System for some time. In the prior art system, a phase modulation has been used to generate tone bursts and hardware is embedded in the data clock regeneration circuitry to detect these bursts. When using a phase modulation of the data signal, there is a resultant skewing of the output data and clock signals. At the prior art data frequency of 44 megabytes, the skewing of the output data lies within a reasonable range and the hardware design and additional analog circuitry is within a cost range that it is still somewhat cost effective. At frequencies of over 100 megabytes, the skew of the data requires special temperature compensation for the repeater circuitry and a closer tolerance on all clock generation specifications. Further, the analog circuitry needed to do the primary job of detection and to provide the clock extraction techniques becomes much more complex. Accordingly, the cost of such circuitry requires a further look at how the system can best be placed in a loopback condition for testing purposes.
Since the data being transmitted during test conditions is by definition not reliable and since loopback conditions in a repeater station between end terminals is going to disrupt some of the data anyhow, the present concept specifically interrupts all transmission of data by transmitting a null signal from one end terminal towards the other wherein each series connected repeater in succession is reinitialized to a startup condition. After sufficient time has passed for the repeaters to complete their reinitialization, a set of N+1 tone bursts are transmitted through the communication link from the end terminal. Each of the repeater stations prior to the Nth repeater station upon receiving more than two of the tone bursts of a frequency other than the data frequency signal will respond by forwarding to the next repeater in the series link one less pulse than it received. When a repeater station receives only two pulses of the test frequency tone burst, it reconfigures itself into a loopback condition and returns a null signal back to the sending end terminal. After an appropriate amount of time, a single pulse of the test frequency is sent back to the end terminal as an acknowledgement that the signal has been received and a loopback condition is in existence. The end terminal can now transmit actual data and test the returning data for identity for as long as is necessary to complete the test operation. If the test proves satisfactory, a new null signal is supplied to the communication link and one more pulse is added to the set of pulses than was previously transmitted and the next repeater station in line is set to a loopback condition. This process is repeated until a test fails thereby indicating the problem area in the communication link. Since repeater stations in present day communication links are in the neighborhood of 40 miles apart, the present testing eliminates a considerable amount of traveling that would have been involved in going to each repeater station to check operation.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an improved communication link testing apparatus.
Other objects and advantages of the present invention will be ascertained from a reading of the specification and appended claims in conjunction with the drawings wherein:
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of the communication link having a plurality of repeater stations connected in series between east and west end terminals;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the test card used, in addition to the normal circuitry in an end station, to perform the test operation;
FIG. 3 is a block diagram of a very similar card to that shown in FIG. 2 which performs the signal detection and loopback configuration capabilities in the repeater stations of FIG. 1 in addition to the normal signal repeater circuitry;
FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing the loop module firmware hierarchy used by the microcomputers in FIGS. 2 and 3 to properly react to the initialization and tone burst signals; and
FIGS. 5 through 14 are flow diagrams which show in more detail the operational decisions performed by the microcomputer of FIGS. 2 and 3 in performing the tests as outlined in FIG. 4.
A west end terminal 10 is illustrated having a transmit or T output supplying signals across a communication lead 12 to an R or receive input of a repeater #1 labeled 14. Signals are returned by repeater 14 on a lead 16 from a T output of repeater 14 to the R input of terminal 10. The next repeater in the series connection between west end terminal 10 and east end terminal 18 is a repeater 20 having similar lead connections labeled 22 and 24 between corresponding transmit and receive sections of the repeater terminals. A third repeater is labeled 26 and has lead connections 28 and 30 between repeater 20 and repeater 26. A repeater # N is labeled 32 and is connected by a final set of connections 34 and 36 to the east end terminal 18. The three dots between repeaters 26 and 32 allow for the intermediate connection of a great many additional repeaters to complete the communication link between the end terminals 10 and 18. With present day technology, the distance between repeaters in a light wave communication system can be as much as 40 miles.
As will be noted in FIG. 1, a set of four pulses is shown above the line 12 indicating the signal sent from the west terminal to repeater #1 in block 14. The three pulses above lead 22 represents the number of pulses forwarded by repeater #1 to repeater #2. Finally, the two pulses above lead 28 represent the two pulses forwarded by repeater #2 to repeater #3 in block 26. Although not shown, after repeater #3 receives two pulses, it returns a null signal to the end terminal 10 via leads 30, 24 and 16 and repeaters 2 and 1, respectively, and then returns an acknowledge pulse of similar shape as the two received to the end terminal 10.
FIG. 2 illustrates a card contained in each of the end terminals 10 and 18 of FIG. 1 and contains an interface adapter chip 40 which may be an MC 6821 as purchased from Motorola connected by a bidirectional bus 42 to an MC 6803 microprocessor chip 44 such as also may be obtained from Motorola. The bus 42 also connects these blocks 40 and 44 to a programmable timer module 46, a display and indicator device block 48 and to a west tone and select line generator 50. The programmable timer module 46 may be an MC 6840 also purchasable from Motorola. The block 44 has an output bus 52 which provides subsystem monitor and status lines and has an input of transmission alarms on a bus 54. A further output of block 44 is a bus 56 supplying signals to the display and indicator device block 48. Block 48 has an output bus 58 supplying signals to a digital display 60 and has a further set of outputs supplying signals to a plurality of LED indicators 62, 64 and 66. A switch generally indicated as 68 is connected between ground 70 and a pair of inputs to block 40. The switch 68 selects the site indication to be looped back as will be explained later. A further switch 72 is a loop enable/disable switch and is connected to a further input of the chip 40 while a switch 74 provides a loop command signal to the chip 40. A set of leads 76 supplies subsystem monitor control lines to the chip 40. A "west" high speed data signal is supplied on a set of leads 78 to a west tone detection block 80. The block 80 provides an output on a lead 82 to the programmable timer module 46 indicating when it is receiving tone pulses. The timer module 46 provides clock output signals on a lead 84 to the west tone and select line generator 50. Block 50 has a plurality of output signals on leads 86, 88 and 90 providing the signals indicated on the drawing.
In FIG. 3 a bidirectional bus 100 is connected between a microcomputer block 102, a programmable timer module 104, a west tone select line generator 106, an east tone and select line generator 108 and a display and indicator device block 110. The blocks 102 and 104 are MC 6803 and MC 6840 chips available from companies such as Motorola, as mentioned in connection with FIG. 2. The blocks 106 and 108 are 74LS174's which may be purchased from various companies such as Texas Instruments. The "west" high speed data is supplied on a set of leads 112 to a west tone detection block 114 while the "east" high speed data is supplied on a bus 116 to an east tone detection block 118. Both blocks 114 and 118 may be chips designated as NE567 which are available from various manufacturers such as EXAR Integrated Systems. Each of the blocks 114 and 118 provide leads to the timer block 104 for indicating the detection of tone pulses. These signals are provided on leads 120 and 122, respectively. Transmission alarms are supplied on a bus 124 to the block 102 while output signals indicative of subsystem monitor status lines and display indication signals are supplied on buses 126 and 128, respectively, from block 102. The set of leads 128 is connected to supply further signals to block 110. A set of leads is connected from block 110 to a plurality of light emitting diodes 130, 132 and 134 for providing indications of unit alarm, site looped west and site looped east, respectively, in a manner somewhat similar to the diode indications of FIG. 2 for the transmitter or end terminals. Each of the blocks 106 and 108 has three output buses designated as shown.
In FIG. 4 a set of blocks is used to illustrate the firmware hierarchy for the operation of the units illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3. An oval 150 indicates the startup of the unit which provides a power-on initialization in a block 152 and then proceeds to the executive loop 154. From this loop 154 an examination of the conditions dictates which of the procedures illustrated in the blocks from 156 through 164 is followed. The block 156 would never be followed in a repeater and by definition within the software the east tone burst handler 164 would never be used in the end terminal. This is because, as defined in the software flow diagrams, the initiating terminal is always the east terminal regardless of where it is located with respect to the other end terminal.
Since all of the blocks in FIGS. 5 through 14 are labeled, it is believed unnecessary to designate any of these blocks with numbers.
As indicated previously, the purpose of this invention is to test a communication link between end terminals having one or more repeaters connected in series and used to periodically upgrade the quality of the signal as it travels from one terminal to the other.
As shown in FIG. 1, there are N repeaters connected in series between end terminals 10 and 18. When a technician decides to test the system, either as part of a periqdic preventive maintenance program or in response to a complaint of not receiving data at one terminal or the other, a specific request is made to cause loopback of signal at a given repeater. The waveforms used in the example of FIG. 1, are to cause a loopback in the repeater #3 also given the designation as 26 in the drawing. The looping is accomplished by first interrupting the data signal so that each of the repeaters in succession are set to an initialize condition. In this initialize condition, the repeater looks for either a new set of data signals at a high frequency or a set of loopback test tone signals at a much lower frequency. In one embodiment of the inventive concept, the data was being transmitted at 139 megahertz while the test tone for looping of the units had a base frequency of 400 kilohertz. The "null" signal to be discussed later may either be a lack of sigal or a signal of a third frequency. A series of pulses is sent out which comprises one more pulse than the number of the station to be looped back. In other words, since the third repeater was to be placed in a loopback condition, four pulses are transmitted. The first repeater in block 14 notes that it has received more than two pulses and thus, decides that it is not the repeater to be looped back. Therefore, it transmits one less pulse than received and places itself in a condition where it can forward data as received. The repeater #2 in block 20 receives the three pulses and likewise comes to the same decision and places itself in a condition where it can forward data received. Repeater #3 in block 26 notes that it has received only two pulses and therefore reconfigures its connection so that data received on the R terminal is passed out to the T output terminal returning to block 20. First, however, a null signal is passed from block 26 back through repeaters 2 and 1 to the end terminal 10. After a prescribed period of time, a single 400 kilohertz pulse is returned to the west end terminal 10 to acknowledge that a loopback condition has been set up. The terminal 10 can now send as much data as is necessary and examine the returned data to ascertain whether or not the communication loop up to repeater number 3 is operating satisfactorily. A new repeater or the east end terminal can be selected for loopback conditions by sending out a different number of pulses and checking the data from that point. When an acknowledge pulse is not received or when data is received that indicates a problem in reliable transmission, the source of the problem in the communication link is reasonably well localized to one repeater or its connecting circuitry.
Although not a direct part of the inventive concept, the output transmitter in each repeater such as the transmitter supplying signals to output terminal T in block 26 for forwarding data towards east end terminal 18 contains detection equipment to make sure that data is being properly output. If this checking equipment detects that the output signal is non-existent, it supplies a signal internally to the microcomputer within block 26 so that when a request for loopback occurs to repeater number 3, the loopback is not accomplished and the acknowledge signal is not provided even though the loopback receiver and transmitter are properly working. This additional improvement was designed to prevent a false assumption that the problem is in the following repeater or in the communication link between repeater #3 and the following repeater.
As indicated previously, FIG. 2 represents the detection and loopback circuitry for an end terminal while FIG. 3 represents the circuitry for use in a repeater station. The LED 62 in FIG. 2, as well as LED 130 in FIG. 3, when lit indicates that there is a unit alarm. However, when the LED 64 in FIG. 2 is lit it merely refers to the fact that this site is looped to the remote end terminal and the lighting of LED 66 indicates that a loop is presently established with a remote site. In FIG. 3, the lighting of the similar diodes 132 and 134 indicate, respectively, that the site is looped to the west or site is looped to the east in the repeater containing the card.
A particular site is selected for the unit of FIG. 2 by moving switch 68 either up or down to cause the display indicator 60 to indicate a higher or lower site selection number. When the proper site has been selected, the switches 72 and 74 are both energized as a precaution against only a single switch being accidentally energized. At this time, the normal flow of data is interrupted to produce the null signal followed at a prescribed time later by the series of pulses to be used by a remote site to provide a loopback condition. If the circuitry of FIG. 2 is in the remote end terminal, the reception by that terminal of the two pulses will cause a signal to be output on lead 88 from block 50 to cause a loopback connection within the end terminal 18 of FIG. 1. Normally, however, the signal would be output on leads 88 and 90 to maintain its normal connection with other communication equipment not shown supplying information to or from the terminal 18.
FIG. 3, being the circuitry involved in the repeater stations, does not need the site select interface adapter block 40 or the site select block 60 of FIG. 2. However, since it has two sets of receivers and transmitters, it adds the blocks 118 and 108. Thus, the repeater can provide a loopback either from signals being received from terminal 10 or terminal 18. The flow diagrams provided in FIGS. 5 through 14 were written under the assumption that the looping signal is always provided from the east terminal 18 towards the west although the system is designed to operate from either terminal and the east to west terminology was merely a semantics situation for ease of definition.
As illustrated in FIG. 4, after the unit is originally started and the power on initialization has been completed, the microprocessor remains in the executive loop referenced by block 154 until it detects the pushing of a button if the unit is a terminal or it detects an east or west tone burst after the occurrence of a null. As will be noted, the checks for power on initialization of block 152 are illustrated in FIG. 5. The routines that are processed if the unit is a terminal are illustrated in FIG. 7 and the associated FIGS. 8, 9, and 11. If, on the other hand, the unit is a repeater, the procedures are provided in FIG. 6 and associated FIGS. 9 and 12. It is believed that these flow diagrams are very descriptive and self-explanatory and further reference to these Figures is not required.
In summary, the present inventive concept and the circuitry illustrated, are used to create a primary signal loopback at a repeater or remote terminal site for the purpose of creating a test environment in which an operator at a single end terminal site can determine the approximate location of a fault within a communication link of which that terminal is a part.
This process is accomplished by having a person set up a given end terminal defined as an east end terminal. This is commenced by setting in the position in the communication link of that terminal to be looped. The end terminal microcomputer's first task is to change the west transmitter select lines to force the transmitter to use a null as its output signal. Thus, the high frequency transmit signal from the terminal is removed and a null is placed on the line. After a time delay necessary to propagate the signal through the communication link, the end terminal microcomputer outputs a low frequency test tone on the communication link. After a prescribed period of time, such as 250 microseconds, the microcomputer disables the tone and returns the signal out to a null. A further 250 microsecond gap of null is used in one embodiment of the invention before another low frequency test tone burst is output. As indicated, the number of tone bursts is equal to the number of sites plus one away from the west end terminal as defined in the initial site setup. Once the last tone burst is output from the end terminal, the terminal microcomputer begins watching the west receiver in expectation of receiving an acknowledge tone burst from the looped repeater or west end terminal. The first signal to be received will be the receiver data clock regenerator phase lock loop contained internal to the terminal going out of lock. This indicates that a loss of signal from the west has occurred. After a reasonably prescribed time delay, the tone decoder chip in the terminal should detect an incoming test frequency tone burst and a low signal pulse is put out to a timer. The tone decoder pulse is timed to ensure that it falls within specified limits. In other words, it is checking to make sure that the pulse is not from a source other than the looped repeater or end terminal. When the terminal microcomputer verifies the validity of the acknowledge tone burst, the LED's such as 64 and 66 in FIG. 2, are lighted to inform the operator of the existence of a good loop.
The operation of intermediate repeaters such as 14 and 20 in FIG. 1, is naturally different from the repeater being looped. The first event that the non-looped repeater will see is the fact that the east receiver data clock regenerator goes out of lock. This indicates that a loss of signal from the east has occurred. After a delay to guarantee that the signal will stay out of lock, the microcomputer will begin preparations for the looping sequence. The microcomputer will reset all previous looping conditions at this site to normal transmission and it will set a set of select lines for the west transmitter to force output of a null signal on the communication link to the next unit to the west. This, thus, propagates the null signal further down the network. The processor will then wait for an indication of the test tone from the east.
After a time delay, the tone decoder chip should detect an incoming test tone signal and put out a signal to the timer. Again, the tone decoder pulse is timed as it is in the transmitting terminal to ensure that the receive tone burst falls within specified limits. Once the microcomputer verifies the arrival of a proper first pulse, it waits for more tone bursts. The arrival of more than two tone bursts signals the microcomputer that this is not the site to be looped. The microcomputer now enables an appropriate frequency test tone out on its west tone out signal to the transmitter. The transmitted test tones are identical with those supplied by the east end terminal or as in one embodiment of the invention, a tone of 250 microseconds and a 250 microsecond null gap following. The microprocessor will propagate one less tone burst than it received. When the processor in the intermediate repeater does not detect a tone burst from the east for a specified period of time, the end of tone burst stream will be assumed. The microcomputer now begins waiting for a loop acknowledge tone burst coming from the west. Again, the first signal to be received will be the receiver data clock regenerator phase lock loop going out of lock but this time it will be from the west receiver. This will indicate that a loss of signal from the west has occurred. The microcomputer will change the east transmitter select lines to output a null which will then be propagated to the east. After a time delay, the tone decoder chip should detect the incoming 400 kilohertz acknowledge tone burst. The microcomputer will recognize this tone burst as the acknowledge burst and send out a 400kilohertz tone on the east tone out transmitter. Once the east tone burst is complete, the microcomputer will return the select lines in both directions to normal operation.
The site which is being looped operates in a similar initial fashion to the intermediate repeaters except that after receiving the first two tone bursts, the microcomputer decides that when none are received in a specified time, that this is the site to be looped. Once this decision has been made, the microcomputer sets the select lines for the east transmitter to output a null signal. After a delay time long enough to allow the propagation of the null signal back to the looping terminal, the microcomputer enables a 400 hertz acknowledge tone burst to the east. When the tone burst is complete, the microcomputer configures the select lines for the east transmitter to a configuration that causes the east and west transmitters to use the receive data from the east as their output.
As mentioned previously, if the microcomputer in monitoring the west transmitter has determined that there is a problem in the west transmitter of the repeater to be looped, it will inhibit the acknowledge tone burst and return to a no loop status. This sequence should help isolate the problem for the operator at the east terminal attempting to determine the source of the problem for the special situation of a failure of a transmitter facing away from the loop commanding terminal.
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