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Patent application title: MODIFYING SYSTEM ROUTING INFORMATION IN LINK BASED SYSTEMS
Xiaohua Cai (Shanghai, CN)
Yufu Li (Shanghai, CN)
IPC8 Class: AG06F1314FI
USPC Class:
Class name: Electrical computers and digital data processing systems: input/output intrasystem connection (e.g., bus and bus transaction processing) bus access regulation
Publication date: 2012-06-14
Patent application number: 20120151107
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Methods and apparatus to improve modification of system routing
information in link based systems are described. In one embodiment,
entries in a first table (storing data corresponding to routing paths
between a plurality of components prior to a hot-plug event) and a second
table (storing data corresponding to routing paths between the plurality
of components after a hot-plug event) may be compared to determine which
corresponding routing registers are to be modified in response to the
hot-plug event. Other embodiments are also disclosed.
1. An apparatus to modify system routing information comprising: a
plurality of components coupled via one or more communication links; a
storage unit to store a first table corresponding to routing paths
between the plurality of components prior to a hot-plug event and a
second table corresponding to routing paths between the plurality of
components after the hot-plug event; and logic to compare entries in the
first table and the second table to determine which corresponding routing
table array (RTA) registers are to be modified in response to the
hot-plug event.
2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the logic is to cause modification of data stored in the determined RTA registers in accordance with entries of the second table.
3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein entries of the second table that are read to modify the determined RTA registers store data that is different from data stored in corresponding entries of the first table.
4. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a processor that comprises the logic.
5. The apparatus of claim 4, wherein the processor comprises one or more processor cores.
6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein one or more of the plurality of components, the storage unit, or the logic are on a same integrated circuit die.
7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the plurality of components comprise one or more of: one or more processors, one or more interface devices, or one or more memory devices.
8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more communication links comprise one or more point-to-point links.
9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the hot-plug event corresponds to one or more of: adding a component, removing a component, or modifying a component of a linked based computing system.
10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the storage unit comprises a first storage device to store the first table and a second storage device to store the second table.
11. A method to modify system routing information comprising: determining routing paths between a plurality of components in a link based computing system in response to occurrence of a hot-plug event; storing data corresponding to routing paths between the plurality of components after occurrence of the hot-plug event in a first table; comparing the first table to a second table that stores data corresponding to routing paths between the plurality of components prior to occurrence of the hot-plug event; and updating one or more routing table array (RTA) registers based on results of the comparing.
12. The method of claim 11, further comprising detecting an occurrence of the hot-plug event.
13. The method of claim 11, wherein updating the one or more RTA registers is based on entries of the first table.
14. The method of claim 11, further comprising replacing data stored in the second table with data stored in the first table.
15. The method of claim 11, wherein the hot-plug event corresponds to one or more of: adding a component, removing a component, or modifying a component of a linked based computing system.
16. A system to modify system routing information comprising: a plurality of point-to-point links to couple a plurality of components; a plurality of routing table array (RTA) registers, wherein each of the plurality of RTA registers is to store routing data associated with a respective one of the plurality of components to indicate packet routing information to the plurality of the components; a storage unit to store a first table corresponding to routing paths between the plurality of components prior to a hot-plug event and a second table corresponding to routing paths between the plurality of components after the hot-plug event; and a processor to compute data to be stored in the second table in response to occurrence of the hot-plug event and compare entries in the first table and the second table to determine which corresponding RTA registers are to be modified in response to the hot-plug event.
17. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor is to cause modification of data stored in the determined RTA registers in accordance with entries of the second table.
18. The system of claim 16, wherein the processor comprises one or more processor cores.
19. The system of claim 16, wherein one or more of the plurality of components, the storage unit, or the processor are on a same integrated circuit die.
20. The system of claim 1, wherein the plurality of components comprise one or more of: one or more processors, one or more interface devices, or one or more memory devices.
[0001] This application is related to and claims priority from International Application No. PCT/CN2007/003367 filed on Nov. 29, 2007 and entitled, "MODIFYING SYSTEM ROUTING INFORMATION IN LINK BASED SYSTEMS"; which is entirely incorporated herein by reference for all purposes.
[0002] The present disclosure generally relates to the field of electronics. More particularly, an embodiment of the invention relates to techniques for modifying system routing information in link based systems.
[0003] RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) has become a critical feature for modern computer system, especially in the server platforms. In a link based system, such as CSI (Common System Interface), the successful implementation of RAS features such as socket (or link) hot-plug depends on reconfiguration of routing data during runtime. Generally, routing data regarding immediate neighbors of a member of a link based system may be stored in storage devices local to each member of the linked based system. Routing data reconfiguration operations may be handled transparently to the OS (Operation System) by utilizing processing time that would otherwise be used by the OS. Since the OS has its own latency requirement, minimizing the routing table reconfiguration time becomes a key criterion in RAS implementations.
[0004] The detailed description is provided with reference to the accompanying figures. In the figures, the left-most digit(s) of a reference number identifies the figure in which the reference number first appears. The use of the same reference numbers in different figures indicates similar or identical items.
[0005] FIGS. 1-2 and 5-8 illustrate block diagrams of embodiments of computing systems, which may be utilized to implement various embodiments discussed herein.
[0006] FIGS. 3-4 illustrate flow diagrams of methods according to some embodiments.
[0007] In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of various embodiments. However, some embodiments may be practiced without the specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures, components, and circuits have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the particular embodiments. Various aspects of embodiments of the invention may be performed using various means, such as integrated semiconductor circuits ("hardware"), computer-readable instructions organized into one or more programs ("software") or some combination of hardware and software. For the purposes of this disclosure reference to "logic" shall mean either hardware, software, or some combination thereof.
[0008] Some of the embodiments discussed herein may allow for more efficient and/or faster change of system routing configuration in a link based system (such as a CSI system), e.g., to improve RAS. More particularly, some techniques enable relatively large computing systems (such as blade servers having many routes between various nodes which may also be referred to herein as agents such as discussed with reference to FIG. 1) to more efficiently and/or quickly change system routing configuration, e.g., by reducing the amount of RTA (Routing Table Array) registers that need to be computed and updated, for example, during hot-plug events such as during limited time windows available for SMI (System Management Interrupt), PMI (Platform Management Interrupt) or other interrupt servicing. Also, in an embodiment, system routing configuration may be modified without changing system topology. Additionally, some of the techniques discussed herein may be utilized in various types of computing environments, such as those discussed with reference to FIGS. 1-8.
[0009] More particularly, FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of a computing system 100, according to an embodiment of the invention. The system 100 may include one or more agents 102-1 through 102-M (collectively referred to herein as "agents 102" or more generally "agent 102"). In an embodiment, the agents 102 may be components of a computing system, such as the computing systems discussed with reference to FIGS. 2-8.
[0010] As illustrated in FIG. 1, the agents 102 may communicate via a network fabric 104. In one embodiment, the network fabric 104 may include a computer network that allows various agents (such as computing devices) to communicate data. In an embodiment, the network fabric 104 may include one or more interconnects (or interconnection networks) that communicate via a serial (e.g., point-to-point) link and/or a shared communication network. For example, some embodiments may facilitate component debug or validation on links that allow communication with fully buffered dual in-line memory modules (FBD), e.g., where the FBD link is a serial link for coupling memory modules to a host controller device (such as a processor or memory hub). Debug information may be transmitted from the FBD channel host such that the debug information may be observed along the channel by channel traffic trace capture tools (such as one or more logic analyzers).
[0011] In one embodiment, the system 100 may support a layered protocol scheme, which may include a physical layer, a link layer, a routing layer, a transport layer, and/or a protocol layer. The fabric 104 may further facilitate transmission of data (e.g., in form of packets) from one protocol (e.g., caching processor or caching aware memory controller) to another protocol for a point-to-point or shared network. Also, in some embodiments, the network fabric 104 may provide communication that adheres to one or more cache coherent protocols.
[0012] Furthermore, as shown by the direction of arrows in FIG. 1, the agents 102 may transmit and/or receive data via the network fabric 104. Hence, some agents may utilize a unidirectional link while others may utilize a bidirectional link for communication. For instance, one or more agents (such as agent 102-M) may transmit data (e.g., via a unidirectional link 106), other agent(s) (such as agent 102-2) may receive data (e.g., via a unidirectional link 108), while some agent(s) (such as agent 102-1) may both transmit and receive data (e.g., via a bidirectional link 110).
[0013] FIG. 2 illustrates a block diagram of a point-to-point (PtP) computing system 200, according to one embodiment of the invention. FIG. 2 shows an example of a CSI link based system with four processors or central processing units (CPUs) (CPU0 through CPU3) and two interface devices 202 and 204, which may be implemented as Input/Output Hubs (IOHs) in some embodiments.
[0014] In FIG. 2, the illustrated CPUs and interface devices may be CSI components communicating with each other through CSI links (illustrated as bidirectional arrows). Furthermore, the numbers inside each of the boxes or circles that are coupled to the links illustrate sample port numbers for a given device. As shown in FIG. 2, each of the CPUs may be coupled to a memory subsystem that it is accessible by the respective CPU. Alternatively, one or more of the CPUs may share a memory unit (not shown), in addition to or in place of a dedicated memory subsystem. In some embodiments, the interface devices 202-204 may provide connectivity to I/O devices such as a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) (e.g., complying with PCIe Specification, Revision 2.0, October 2006) and/or an I/O Controller Hub (ICH) such as discussed further with reference to FIG. 7. In one embodiment, the processor-to-processor communication and/or between the processor and the interface device(s) may be performed using CSI packets. Furthermore, each of the CSI components (e.g., including one or more of the CPUs and/or interface devices) may contain a RTA and a Source Address Decoder (SAD). The RTA may provide the CSI packet routing information to other sockets. The SAD may provide a mechanism to represent routing of the resources such as memory, I/O, etc.
[0015] For the purpose of explaining one embodiment, assume that CPU3 in FIG. 2 needs to be removed while the OS is running. In some embodiments, the CSI components support a Quiesce mode by which normal traffic could be paused during the RTA/SAD change operations. Generally, such events which involve adding, removing, and/or modifying components of a computing system may be referred to herein as "hot-plug" events. To handle the event associated with removing CPU3, the platform may generate an SMI to inform the Basic Input Output System (BIOS) that a component needs to be removed. In some implementations, the removal operation after the SMI may involve the following:
[0016] 1. Select one CPU as the Monarch CPU, which is responsible for executing most of SMI events handling code. (Below, CPU0 is taken as Monarch CPU for example);
[0017] 2. Monarch CPU quiesces the whole system to pause all the traffic going through the CSI links;
[0018] 3. Monarch CPU computes the new values for the system configuration RTA registers and updates them;
[0019] 4. Monarch CPU performs other system configuration operations, e.g., computing the new values for SAD registers and updating them, disabling links to the hot-removed socket, etc.; and
[0020] 5. Monarch CPU de-quiesces the system and releases the non-monarch processors and returns from the SMI. The system continues to run.
[0021] In step 3 above, to change system routings, the re-computing routing is performed by first obtaining the new topology of the routing fabric of the socket (or link) being removed. Second, the new values for all RTA registers may be computed. Finally, all RTA registers are updated. This approach is rather inefficient because it will have to go through all the RTA registers, computing their values and updating them, even though they preserve the old value after the hot-plug event, e.g., those RTA registers for routings between CPU0 and CPU1 in the example of FIG. 2. Even worse, for a real system, the RTAs could be a big amount. For example, some CPUs may have 12 ports with 80 RTA entries on each port respectively. So, the process of changing system routings can introduce significant latency, which in turn increases the system pause time during a hot-plug event, even exceeding the OS tolerable deadline in a larger system.
[0022] FIGS. 3-4 illustrate flow diagrams of methods 300 and 400, respectively, that may be utilized to more efficiently and/or quickly update routing information in a computing system, according to an embodiment. In one embodiment, various components discussed herein, e.g., with reference to FIGS. 1-2 and 5-8 may be utilized to perform one or more of the operations discussed with reference to FIG. 3 or 4.
[0023] Referring to FIGS. 1-3, at an operation 302, after initiation of a hot-plug event (e.g., as indicated by an interrupt such as an SMI or PMI), new topology of the routing fabric of the socket (or link) being removed, added, and/or modified may be obtained, e.g., by reference to a system level routing table. In one embodiment, an intermediate data table (which may be referred to herein as a "Routing-Data-Table") may be used to compute register values for the new routing fabric as well as filter the changed RTA registers. The cells of the Routing-Data-Table may contain the information to route the transactions from a source to a destination.
[0024] For example, Table 1 below illustrates an example table corresponding to FIG. 2 before CPU3 is removed. The routing information is computed through the routing algorithm, which could be specific or based on the system requirement. The example of the Table 1 is computed by the minimal distance algorithm; namely, each cell in the table indicates the minimal routing path from a given source (row) to a give destination (column). However, embodiments of the invention are not limited to the minimal distance algorithm and any routing algorithm may be used with its output adapted to be compliant with the format of the Routing-Data-Table.
TABLE-US-00001 TABLE 1 Example of (Current) Routing-Data-Table for Full Connection To From CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 IOH0 IOH1 CPU0 n/a 3 1 2 4 1.2 CPU1 1 n/a 2 3 4 2.3 CPU2 3 2 n/a 1 2.3 4 CPU3 2 1 3 n/a 1.2 4 IOH0 0 1 0.1 0.1 n/a 0.1 IOH1 0.1 0.1 0 1 0.1 n/a
[0025] Moreover, such routing information may be the intermediate result to compute the final RTA register value. For a link based system, the routing fabric on each component may be implemented with ports, entries, and virtual channels, etc. So, a number of successive computations may be performed. Also, depending on the implementation, some or all of the routing table information may be computed at system startup or otherwise before you before-hand. Other implementations may compute at least some of the routing table information during a hot-plug event. Furthermore, in some embodiments, the new topology may be obtained by various means at operation 302, such as based on information provided by a third-part system management/assistant agent, being discovered dynamically, etc.
[0026] At an operation 304, any necessary modifications may be determined. For example, since each cell in the Routing-Data-Table contains the routing information from the source to the destination, if a cell value does not change before and after the hot-plug event, the corresponding RTA register values will not need to change either; otherwise, RTA register values are changed to route the transitions to new ports or paths.
[0027] For example, Table 2 below illustrates an example of (New) Routing-Data-Table for CPU3 to be removed from FIG. 2. In an embodiment, at operation 304, by comparing the cell values in the Routing-Data-Tables of the topology before (Table 1) and after the hot-plug event (Table 2), the RTA registers, which need to be computed further and updated finally, could be filtered out to increase speed and/or reduce latency associated with a hot-plug event.
TABLE-US-00002 TABLE 2 Example of (New) Routing-Data-Table for CPU3 to be Removed To From CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 IOH0 IOH1 CPU0 n/a 3 1 n/a 4 1 CPU1 1 n/a 2 n/a 4 2 CPU2 3 2 n/a n/a 2.3 4 CPU3 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a IOH0 0 1 .sup. 0.1 n/a n/a 0.1 IOH1 0 0 0 n/a 0 n/a
[0028] For example, by comparing Table 2 with Table 1, it becomes apparent that removal of CPU3 results in changes to 6 cells, while 15 cells preserve their previous values. In some embodiments, the current table may be stored in a different memory device than the new table (e.g., the tables may be stored in different memory subsystems or caches discussed with reference to FIG. 2). Alternatively, the tables may be stored in the same memory device (such a shared memory device or a private memory device).
[0029] For example, assuming that for each cell time T is needed for the successive computation and hardware updating, then the time spent is reduced from (15+6)T=21T to 6T and it is 3.5 times faster. If one considers the hot-add case (e.g., adding CPU3), then the Table 1 corresponds to the Routing-Data-Table after the topology changes, while the Table 2 is the original configurations. This is because the cells from and to CPU3 should be counted, so the time spent is reduced from (21+10)T=31T to (6+10)T=16T, which is about 2 times faster. Accordingly, based on the determination made at operation 304, an operation 306 computes the new values for the filtered RTA registers. At an operation 308, the routing information may be updated based on the computed values of operation 306 (e.g., only filtered RTA registers of operation 304 are updated).
[0030] FIG. 4 illustrates a flow diagram of a method 400 that may be used to perform operation 304 of FIG. 3, according to an embodiment. At an operation 402, new Routing-Data-Table for the new topology may be computed. In one embodiment, operation 402 may be performed for neighboring components of the component being removed, added, and/or modified. At an operation 404, the new table may be compared against the current table as discussed with reference to FIG. 3. Based on the comparison of operation 404, the registers (e.g., RTA registers) that are to be modified (or filtered) can be determined at operation 406. At an operation 408, the current routing table may be updated with data from the new routing table computed at operation 402.
[0031] Because some embodiments may filter only changed RTA registers, as systems increase the number of their components, it becomes apparent that such embodiments will also result in better returns. For example, in FIG. 5, a relatively large system 500 with 12 processors is shown, where CPU7 (which is in the center of the system) is to be added. Table 3 below corresponds to system 500. As can be seen, the number of cells changed and unchanged are 62 and 70 respectively, so it improves the performance for (62+70)T to 62T, which is more than 2 times faster.
TABLE-US-00003 TABLE 3 Example of CPU7 to be Added Routing Routing To Routing To From (Changed) Count (Unchanged) Count 1 {7, 8} 2 {2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 10, 9 11, 12} 2 {7, 8, 11} 3 {1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 8 10, 12} 3 {5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 8 {1, 2, 4} 3 12} 4 {5, 6, 7, 11} 4 {1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 10, 7 12} 5 {7, 8} 2 {1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 9 11, 12} 6 {3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 12} 6 {1, 2, 5, 9, 10} 5 7 {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 11 { } 0 10, 11, 12} 8 {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 9 {4, 12} 2 11} 9 {7, 8} 2 {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 9 11, 12} 10 {3, 7, 8} 3 {1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11, 8 12} 11 {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 {9, 10, 12} 3 8} 12 {3, 5, 6, 7} 4 {1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 10, 7 11} Sum -- 62 -- 70
[0032] Further, in system 600 of FIG. 6, a corner CPU (CPU4) is to be removed. Table 4 below corresponds to system 600. For this example, only 3 cells are change, so the time spent on routing reconfiguration is reduced from (3+107)T to 3T, which is more than 35 times faster.
TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 4 Example of CPU4 to be Removed Routing Routing To Routing To from (Changed) Count (Unchanged) Count 1 { } 0 {2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12} 10 2 { } 0 {1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12} 10 3 {8, 12} 2 {1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11} 8 4 Needn't -- Needn't care -- care 5 { } 0 {1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12} 10 6 { } 0 {1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12} 10 7 { } 0 {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12} 10 8 {3} 1 {1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12} 9 9 { } 0 {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12} 10 10 { } 0 {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12} 10 11 { } 0 {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12} 10 12 { } 0 {1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11} 10 Sum -- 3 -- 107
[0033] Accordingly, in some embodiments, an intermediate routing data table which contains routing information from a source to a destination may be used. By comparing data tables of before and after a hot-plug event, a minimal set of RTA registers need be computed and update to increase performance. Furthermore, even though socket hot-plug events are discussed herein as examples, embodiments discussed herein also work well with link hot-plug. The above example uses the SMI to describe the invention; similar techniques may be used in systems with the PMI.
[0034] FIG. 7 illustrates a block diagram of an embodiment of a computing system 700. One or more of the components of FIG. 1 and/or FIG. 2 may comprise one or more components discussed with reference to the computing system 700. The computing system 700 may include one or more central processing unit(s) (CPUs) 702 (which may be collectively referred to herein as "processors 702" or more generically "processor 702") coupled to an interconnection network (or bus) 704. The processors 702 may be any type of processor such as a general purpose processor, a network processor (which may process data communicated over a computer network 104), etc. (including a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) processor or a complex instruction set computer (CISC)). Moreover, the processors 702 may have a single or multiple core design. The processors 702 with a multiple core design may integrate different types of processor cores on the same integrated circuit (IC) die. Also, the processors 702 with a multiple core design may be implemented as symmetrical or asymmetrical multiprocessors.
[0035] The processor 702 may include one or more caches (not shown), which may be private and/or shared in various embodiments. Generally, a cache stores data corresponding to original data stored elsewhere or computed earlier. To reduce memory access latency, once data is stored in a cache, future use may be made by accessing a cached copy rather than refetching or recomputing the original data. The cache(s) may be any type of cache, such a level 1 (L1) cache, a level 2 (L2) cache, a level 3 (L-3), a mid-level cache, a last level cache (LLC), etc. to store electronic data (e.g., including instructions) that is utilized by one or more components of the system 700.
[0036] A chipset 706 may additionally be coupled to the interconnection network 704. Further, the chipset 706 may include a memory control hub (MCH) 708. The MCH 708 may include a memory controller 710 that is coupled to a memory 712. In an embodiment, the MCH may also include graphics logic and as a result may be referred to as a graphics MCH (GMCH). The memory 712 may store data, e.g., including sequences of instructions that are executed by the processor 702, or any other device in communication with components of the computing system 700. In an embodiment, the memory 712 may be the same or similar to the memory subsystems shown in FIG. 2. Also, in one embodiment of the invention, the memory 712 may include one or more volatile storage (or memory) devices such as random access memory (RAM), dynamic RAM (DRAM), synchronous DRAM (SDRAM), static RAM (SRAM), etc. Nonvolatile memory may also be utilized such as a hard disk. Additional devices may be coupled to the interconnection network 704, such as multiple processors and/or multiple system memories.
[0037] The MCH 708 may further include a graphics interface 714 coupled to a display device 716 (e.g., via a graphics accelerator in an embodiment). In one embodiment, the graphics interface 714 may be coupled to the display device 716 via an accelerated graphics port (AGP). In an embodiment of the invention, the display device 716 (such as a flat panel display) may be coupled to the graphics interface 714 through, for example, a signal converter that translates a digital representation of an image stored in a storage device such as video memory or system memory (e.g., memory 712) into display signals that are interpreted and displayed by the display 716.
[0038] As shown in FIG. 7, a hub interface 718 may couple the MCH 708 to an input/output control hub (ICH) 720. The ICH 720 may provide an interface to input/output (I/O) devices coupled to the computing system 700. The ICH 720 may be coupled to a bus 722 through a peripheral bridge (or controller) 724, such as a peripheral component interconnect (PCI) bridge that may be compliant with the PCIe specification, a universal serial bus (USB) controller, etc. The bridge 724 may provide a data path between the processor 702 and peripheral devices. Other types of topologies may be utilized. Also, multiple buses may be coupled to the ICH 720, e.g., through multiple bridges or controllers. For example, the bus 722 may comply with the PCI Local Bus Specification, Revision 7.0, Mar. 9, 7004, available from the PCI Special Interest Group, Portland, Oreg., U.S.A. (hereinafter referred to as a "PCI bus"). Alternatively, the bus 722 may comprise a bus that complies with the PCI-X Specification Rev. 7.0a, Apr. 73, 7003, (hereinafter referred to as a "PCI-X bus") and/or PCIe specification, available from the aforesaid PCI Special Interest Group, Portland, Oreg., U.S.A. Further, the bus 722 may comprise other types and configurations of bus systems. Moreover, other peripherals coupled to the ICH 720 may include, in various embodiments of the invention, integrated drive electronics (IDE) or small computer system interface (SCSI) hard drive(s), USB port(s), a keyboard, a mouse, parallel port(s), serial port(s), floppy disk drive(s), digital output support (e.g., digital video interface (DVI)), etc.
[0039] The bus 722 may be coupled to an audio device 726, one or more disk drive(s) 728, and a network adapter 730 (which may be a NIC in an embodiment). In one embodiment, the network adapter 730 or other devices coupled to the bus 722 may communicate with the chipset 706. Other devices may be coupled to the bus 722. Also, various components (such as the network adapter 730) may be coupled to the MCH 708 in some embodiments of the invention. In addition, the processor 702 and the MCH 708 may be combined to form a single chip.
[0040] Additionally, the computing system 700 may include volatile and/or nonvolatile memory (or storage). For example, nonvolatile memory may include one or more of the following: read-only memory (ROM), programmable ROM (PROM), erasable PROM (EPROM), electrically EPROM (EEPROM), a disk drive (e.g., 728), a floppy disk, a compact disk ROM (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD), flash memory, a magneto-optical disk, or other types of nonvolatile machine-readable media capable of storing electronic data (e.g., including instructions).
[0041] FIG. 8 illustrates a computing system 800 that is arranged in a point-to-point (PtP) configuration, according to an embodiment of the invention. In particular, FIG. 8 shows a system where processors, memory, and input/output devices are interconnected by a number of point-to-point interfaces. The operations discussed with reference to FIGS. 1-7 may be performed by one or more components of the system 800.
[0042] As illustrated in FIG. 8, the system 800 may include several processors, of which only two, processors 802 and 804 are shown for clarity. The processors 802 and 804 may each include a local memory controller hub (MCH) 806 and 808 to enable communication with memories 810 and 812. The memories 810 and/or 812 may store various data such as those discussed with reference to the memory 712 of FIG. 7. As shown in FIG. 8, the processors 802 and 804 may also include one or more cache(s) discussed with reference to FIG. 7.
[0043] In an embodiment, the processors 802 and 804 may be one of the processors 702 discussed with reference to FIG. 7. The processors 802 and 804 may exchange data via a point-to-point (PtP) interface 814 using PtP interface circuits 816 and 818, respectively. Also, the processors 802 and 804 may each exchange data with a chipset 820 via individual PtP interfaces 822 and 824 using point-to-point interface circuits 826, 828, 830, and 832. The chipset 820 may further exchange data with a high-performance graphics circuit 834 via a high-performance graphics interface 836, e.g., using a PtP interface circuit 837.
[0044] In at least one embodiment, one or more operations discussed with reference to FIGS. 1-7 may be performed by the processors 802 or 804 and/or other components of the system 800 such as those communicating via a bus 840. Other embodiments of the invention, however, may exist in other circuits, logic units, or devices within the system 800 of FIG. 8. Furthermore, other embodiments of the invention may be distributed throughout several circuits, logic units, or devices illustrated in FIG. 8.
[0045] Chipset 820 may communicate with the bus 840 using a PtP interface circuit 841. The bus 840 may have one or more devices that communicate with it, such as a bus bridge 842 and I/O devices 843. Via a bus 844, the bus bridge 842 may communicate with other devices such as a keyboard/mouse 845, communication devices 846 (such as modems, network interface devices, or other communication devices that may communicate with the computer network 104), audio I/O device, and/or a data storage device 848. The data storage device 848 may store code 849 that may be executed by the processors 802 and/or 804.
[0046] In various embodiments of the invention, the operations discussed herein, e.g., with reference to FIGS. 1-8, may be implemented as hardware (e.g., circuitry), software, firmware, microcode, or combinations thereof, which may be provided as a computer program product, e.g., including a machine-readable or computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions (or software procedures) used to program a computer to perform a process discussed herein. Also, the term "logic" may include, by way of example, software, hardware, or combinations of software and hardware. The machine-readable medium may include a storage device such as those discussed herein. Additionally, such computer-readable media may be downloaded as a computer program product, wherein the program may be transferred from a remote computer (e.g., a server) to a requesting computer (e.g., a client) by way of data signals embodied in a carrier wave or other propagation medium via a communication link (e.g., a bus, a modem, or a network connection).
[0047] Reference in the specification to "one embodiment" or "an embodiment" means that a particular feature, structure, or characteristic described in connection with the embodiment may be included in at least an implementation. The appearances of the phrase "in one embodiment" in various places in the specification may or may not be all referring to the same embodiment.
[0048] Also, in the description and claims, the terms "coupled" and "connected," along with their derivatives, may be used. In some embodiments of the invention, "connected" may be used to indicate that two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contact with each other. "Coupled" may mean that two or more elements are in direct physical or electrical contact. However, "coupled" may also mean that two or more elements may not be in direct contact with each other, but may still cooperate or interact with each other.
[0049] Thus, although embodiments of the invention have been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that claimed subject matter may not be limited to the specific features or acts described. Rather, the specific features and acts are disclosed as sample forms of implementing the claimed subject matter.
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January/February 2007
Lucid Dream
Patrick Cornelius
Twice winner of ASCAP's Young Jazz Composers Award, Patrick Cornelius has devoted the bulk of his second recording to original works. The seven examples given here show a dusky elegance that owes much to Wayne Shorter while retaining a unique identity. But Cornelius also has a wild side. His insistent solos on alto and soprano saxophones occasionally break loose, as on an inspired deconstruction of "Billie's Bounce." An agile quintet provides solid support throughout the set.
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A kingdom of peace, kindness and justice
I have read most of what Harvey Cox has written over the decades. One sign of Cox's longevity is the relative price of his books: my dog-eared paperback copy of Secular City bears a printed price of $1.45. The Future of Faith, published last fall, which I just finished reading, cost $24.99.
The Future of Faith confirms a development I have witnessed as a pastor over the course of Cox's writing career. Today people come to church or join a church not because the church is Presbyterian, Methodist or Lutheran, and not because of the theological nuances that those names represent, but because they want to be identified with a particular community of people who are trying, individually and together, to follow Jesus.
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Quiet hearing at Belpre on natural gas aggregation
BELPRE – No members of the community spoke up during the final public hearing concerning the city's upcoming natural gas aggregation program prior to the regular Belpre City Council meeting Monday evening.
Although council president Will Neff gave the small number of audience members several minutes to ask questions of councilmembers and Volunteer Energy Services' representative Chris Munn, the hearing was silent.
"There were a couple of people here who wanted to ask questions and chose not to because they did not understand how the public hearing worked," said city safety-service director Dave Ferguson. "(Munn) and I ended up speaking with them in the hall after the hearing, but they really should have asked questions while in the open forum."
This was the second of two public hearings required by the state to discuss city residents' comments and concerns about the program, Ferguson added.
Last August the city's electric aggregation program, provided by DPL Energy Resources and organized by Volunteer Energy, which is the city's chosen partner for the two energy-savings programs, began.
During a May council meeting, Fred Holmes with Volunteer Energy said they separated the natural gas and electric programs to keep confusion of the public to a minimum. By doing the natural gas aggregation program now, there will be plenty of time to start the lower cost service before cold weather begins, he said.
Although DPL Energy Resources offers the electric program to the city through Volunteer Energy, there will be no third party with the natural gas, as Volunteer Energy is the supplier of that resource.
Now that the public hearings have occurred, council can begin to pass all three readings of the legislation.
Following the final reading, the project will go before the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio for approval. Ferguson added the final reading of the legislation will likely take place in six weeks.
The rate for the natural gas will be the New York Mercantile Exchange price plus 60 cents per 1,000 cubic foot.
In November 2011, Belpre voters passed the opt-out programs, which have the potential to save residents money if they choose to go with the city for these bills.
Also at Monday's meeting, Belpre residents and property owners Ronald and Carole Will, of 120 Locust St., told council of city water main issues that are wreaking havoc on their rental property at 117 Locust St.
"We just had the waterline (running from the house to the water main) repaired for the seventh time in a year and a half and it continues to leak," said Carole Will. "The tenants are complaining about mosquitoes and the mold and mildew associated with the water has us worried about illnesses."
Ferguson, who has looked at the property, said the water main leak is the city's problem and it will be repaired when electric company AEP is available to secure the utility pole that could be affected by the work.
"It is an older line put in years and years and years ago," Ferguson said. "The issue in fixing it right away is getting AEP to be here for that to hold up the utility pole because the city cannot do that."
Neff thanked the Wills for bringing the issue up to the city.
"This clearly is an administrative issue," he added.
Council passed the second of three readings of an ordinance that amends the city's current landscape ordinance. The changes provide for minimal landscaping standards of certain areas in connection with new construction, change in use or reconstruction, renovations or remodeling that requires a building permit to be obtained.
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The University of Kansas Medical Center participates in the State of Kansas Business Procurement Card Program. Credit Cards may be issued to staff at the discretion of the Department Head and Supervisor. These cards may be used to make small purchases (under $5000), without having to complete a requisition in Peoplesoft and issue a purchase order. Using the card eliminates the need for multiple requisitions, purchase orders and payment vouchers to be issued, and allows these small purchases to be paid for in a single check to the issuing bank.
Card owners MUST be a State of Kansas employee.
When the card is used, the cardholder makes entries into a Transaction Log in Peoplesoft, maintains all receipts, invoices, statements, etc. and once a month sends these to the Purchasing Department.
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Eddington Files for Regional Superintendent
LaHarpe, IL – The Assistant Regional Superintendent of Education for Hancock and McDonough Counties will run for the top post. Gary Eddington filed his petitions to run on the Republican primary ballot next spring. He would replace Bob Baumann, who has indicated he will not run again. Eddingon says the major issues during the coming term will be continuing funding from grants that provide teacher training, homeless education and other programs. He says the office handles more than $2 million in grants each year. Eddington taught 31 years in Hancock and McDonough Counties before becoming Assistant Superintendent a little more than six years ago.


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As the NFL combine media circus has come to a close, teams are gearing up for the next part of the offseason: free agency. Free agency will begin March 12th, and for the San Diego Chargers, it will be much quieter than most Chargers fans want. Don't expect San Diego to chase any big names. New general manager Tom Telesco has already stated that he hopes to build this team through the draft and not through free agency.
It is no secret that the Chargers are entering a new era under the new Telesco regime, and this free agency period will go a long way in telling how that regime will operate. It will be key for Telesco to have a great first offseason, and it all starts with free agency.
Here are some of the pitfalls that the Chargers must avoid in free agency as they continue to claw their way back into playoff contention in the AFC West.


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Whether you use a buyer broker or a seller broker, the first objective of that broker or agent is to assist you in finding a property that's suitable and affordable.
A broker or agent is doing a good job if he or she listens closely to your wants and needs and asks you thoughtful follow-up questions that prompt further explanation. Whether or not the agent is doing a good job becomes more apparent once you start seeing some homes. Do the homes you're being shown match up with what you've told the broker you want and need? Do they match up with the priorities on your wish and reality lists? If your broker is totally off the mark, then he or she might not have been paying attention. Or perhaps you didn't communicate effectively and honestly with your broker.
Here are some clues to help you know if your broker is competent.
Do you feel the broker is paying attention to you? Or does his or her attention wane when you are speaking? Does the agent ask you a lot of questions? Has the real estate agent ever asked you why you're looking for a four-bedroom home or one that has an exercise studio? By asking, the agent may be able to better understand your motivations. If you've worked with the agent several times and all the properties you've been shown were not even close matches to what you had hoped to find, you might have a problem. If you're working with a buyer broker and the seller suddenly seems to know your every move during the negotiation, your agent might be spilling the beans and breaking his or her fiduciary duty to you, the buyer. If your broker never returns your phone calls, that's a clear signal that he or she is not being conscientious.
If you decide that your agent hasn't done a good job, or has mistreated you in any way, don't hesitate to file a complaint with the agent's managing broker. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the managing broker, feel free to file a complaint with the state agency that regulates real estate professionals. In any case, unless you have signed a buyer brokerage exclusivity agreement, you can always find another broker. And if you can't break your exclusivity agreement, it is for a limited duration, and no one can make you work with someone you don't like. Simply wait out the expiration of the contract.


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Location: Central House, UCL
UCL ISR, in partnership with the Alliance for Sustainable Building Products (ASBP), hosts this seminar for policymakers on carbon sequestration in the UK.
The UK Government is committed through the Climate Change Act to reduce green house gas emissions by 34% by 2020 and 80% by 2050. The targets for reductions in emissions by 2022 are 12MtCO2/year from homes and communities and 1MtCO2/year from work places and jobs.
At present UK policy does not consider carbon sequestration as one of the means of achieving these targets. However, the amount of CO2 sequestered within our buildings is significant.
Based on extrapolations of current trends in timber frame construction, the total annual carbon sequestered within harvested wood products (HWP) in construction
is expected to increase fromabout 8MtCO2 in 2005 to 10MtCO2 in 2020 and 14MtCO2 in 2050.
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The True Meaning of Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas was first broadcast in 1965 on CBS. I was 8 years old and I was stunned at the time by the passage of Linus quoting the Gospel of Luke in explaining the true meaning of Christmas. Apparently CBS executives wanted to cut this passage out, but Charles Schulz, normally a fairly non-confrontational man, was adamant that it remain in.
That was the most important battle Schulz waged and won over this first of the Charlie Brown specials, but there were many others. The CBS executives wanted a laugh track, they didn't like using kid voice actors instead of adult voice actors and they thought that the jazz music throughout the show was too unusual for what they perceived as a show for kids. When the show was finished the executives were horrified and thought they had a major flop on their hands.
The show was a critical and popular success, with 50% of all televisions in America tuned in to it when it was first broadcast. The show won a Peabody and an Emmy and became a Christmas fixture for many American families. It is still broadcast each year, ABC acquiring the rights from CBS in 2000. The ending of the show underlines Schulz' s desire to focus on Christ, something sadly lacking too often at Christmas time.
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I was four years old when the televised versions came out.
Luke's passage and Linus proclaiming it brought tears to my eyes….still does.
Thanks for the reminder.
"thought they had a major flop on their hands"
How many times the 'experts" have misunderstood and underestimated the people!
I too am a child of the 1960's and I love this Christmas TV Special! Sadly, we will probably never see another "new" Christmas special for kids mention the nativity or Jesus. On a side note, I also love "The Little Drummer Boy". Has anyone noticed they don't run this anymore? And it's the only Rankin Bass Christmas special that touches on Jesus and his birth. I haven't seen it in years. I even wrote ABC earlier this week, and asked them why they are not running it during their 25 Days of Christmas, and they have not written me back yet.
Hooray for Charles Schultz!
Bob: "I even wrote ABC earlier this week, and asked them why they are not running it during their 25 Days of Christmas, and they have not written me back yet."
Let us all write.
That was a really nice post Donald. I always loved the innocence of Charlie Brown.
It's a shame they don't run any Christ-centred Christmas specials this time of year. I remember 20 years back they would at least give us the token The Ten Commandments (ticking the biblical box). But today….nothing.
This reminds me on abit of a side note- My 6 year old was sitting with me in the shopping centre today and remarked "Why did they cross out Christ" in reference to a Xmas Sale sign. "Don't they know Christmas is about Christ?"
She was disgusted.
I was very proud.
This is the same girl that stated bluntly, whilst watching the televised Mandela Memorial where a Sheikh gave a prayer tribute, "he's going to be shocked when he meets Jesus in Heaven and finds out He IS the Son of God". I nearly burst out laughing. I love the innocent truth from a child.
You rightly should be proud of your lul' girl. The poor Christ….still being abandoned scorned and scourged.
We can make reparations with our prayers and fasts. Jesus born in poverty make our hearts like unto Thine.


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OpenSSO Early Access Review Launched
By dr156914 on Aug 08, 2008
The OpenSSO Project is soliciting feedback on their Early Access Build -- OpenSSO Express Build 5. With the release of this build, community members now have the opportunity to participate in the Early Access (EA) program for Sun's next commercial offering. Review the Early Access documentation and hammer away at Express Build 5! Send your EA feedback to email@example.com so we can make the product perfect. Thanks in advance!


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New: The Balkans
I'm excited to be re-releasing this kit! I love the bright colors and the glitter, 2 of my most favorite things! The weather was hot when we were traveling through the Balkans, so this kit I think has a bit of summer flair to it, but is pretty flexible assuming you like bright! As I was checking back, it seems that most of the assets weren't uploaded, so I'll be adding them over the next two weeks, as well as trying to keep up with the paper templates I've been working on. Enjoy!
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Love these bright colors. I'm sure the kit will be used a lot in my future pages. Thanks.
A very beautiful kit, wonderful colors and nice designs!
Love the colours of this kit and I really enjoyed the slideshow. Your layouts are always so inspiring! Thanks for sharing!
Nice Kit!
It's 19 degrees outside this morning with promise of reaching a high of 21 -- thanks for bringing a burst of warm sunshine to my morning!
i really like the colors! so excited!
Love the beautiful jeweltone colors!! Off to check it out, thank you!!
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I loved the slideshow of your scrapping. You have such an artistic style. And what a wonderful opportunity that you were able to see these locations prior to the frustrating changes in the world global environment. The kit colors are really a colorful tribute to the Balkins.
This is a gorgeous kit!
I'm a huge sucker for vivid colors and glitter as well. This kit will definitely be on my wish list!
Awesome! I love it!
I too love glitter! Thanks Marisa!
The papers in this kit are expecially pretty.
Awesome! So excited.
Love these colors!
Cool kit, thanks!
I'm excited for this one! Thanks!
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This is one of my larger kits I started before the site reopen, so it will be fun to see what pieces I need. Thanks so much!!
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Jonathan Yardley's Second Readings
Source: Second Readings, from the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/19/LI2005041903474.html
In early 2003, Jonathan Yardley, dean of the Washington Post's book critics began what was modestly called, "An occasional series in which The Post's book critic reconsiders notable and/or neglected books from the past."
Ever month or so, Yardley would set aside his stack of review copies of new books to take up one that had been in or out of print for a decade or more–"books I remember with affection and admiration but have not read in many years, books I would like to encourage others to discover."
His first piece dealt with John P. Marquand's H.M. Pulham, Esquire, also featured on this site about a year ago. His choice of Marquand, as Yardley put it, was motivated not because, "His are not the best books I've ever read, but they are among the books I love most, and the neglect into which they have fallen is a literary outrage."
When he concluded the series almost seven years later, with a fond revisit to The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor, he wrote,
With that, this series of Second Readings comes to an end. It began in February 2003 and has covered nearly 100 books. Probably it could go on a while longer, but it's best to quit before you start repeating yourself. Let me say by way of wrapping things up that except for a couple of the books I've written, nothing in my career has given me so much pleasure as these reconsiderations, not least because they have elicited such warm, generous responses from you, my treasured readers. I hope that I've steered you to a few good books you might otherwise have missed, and that those books gave you as much pleasure as reading and writing about them gave me.
Not all of the books Yardley covered can be considered neglected–certainly not such fixtures of the literary canon as Pride And Prejudice or The Catcher in the Rye. But he did often reach beyond the limits of the well-known and well-remembered to bring back to light titles such as Edwin O'Connor's novel of a veteran vaudevillean, I Was Dancing ("I'd be hard-pressed to say that any book discussed therein is more undeservedly neglected than this one"), and The Second Happiest Day by John Phillips (pen name of Marquand's son John Phillips Marquand, Jr.). He even took time to consider a book such as Philip Wylie's rather dated critique of American society of the mid-20th century, Generation of Vipers to demonstrate that sometimes the test of time is a fair judgment of a book's merit.
- • About Three Bricks Shy of a Load, by Roy Blount Jr.
- "Not merely is "Three Bricks" funny, smart, perceptive and winning, there's also a lovely quality about it that, for all the ferocity of the gridiron and the profanity of some of its language, I'd call gentleness. It's a book about men in groups, this particular group being one that plays a very rough game, and it's actually far less about football than about people."
- • Act One, by Moss Hart
- "Whatever got me to "Act One", it knocked me out when I first read it, and it knocks me out now. Many people knowledgeable about such matters regard it as the finest of all 20th-century theatrical memoirs; I'd say its only competition is "Present Indicative," by Noel Coward. A thoroughgoing showbiz veteran by the time he wrote it in the 1950s, Hart knew how to play the emotions of readers just as he knew how to play those of an audience, and he plays mine to a fare-thee-well. I admit without the slightest embarrassment that in its closing pages 'my eyes were blurred,' as Hart's were when, at the opening night of "Once in a Lifetime," his celebrated collaborator went onstage to say, 'I would like this audience to know that eighty per cent of this play is Moss Hart.'"
- • And Then We Heard the Thunder, by John Oliver Killens
- • Appointment in Samarra, by John O'Hara
- • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- • The Autumn of the Patriarch, by Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
- • Beat to Quarters, by C.S. Forester
- • Black Boy, by Richard Wright
- • Black Like Me, by John Howard Griffin
- • Bleak House, by Charles Dickens
- • The Boys on the Bus, by Timothy Crouse
- "A mere three years out of college, [Crouse] managed to talk Rolling Stone magazine into letting him write about the men (and the very few women) who were covering both campaigns "on the bus," though the bus was usually an airplane, and in Richard Nixon's case it rarely left the White House grounds. The pieces got a lot of attention, and when Crouse expanded them into a book, people almost immediately understood that the landscape had changed: The press itself was now a story, and it has remained one — for better, but mostly for worse — ever since."
- • The Bridge of San Luis Rey, by Thornton Wilder
- "There's nothing to kill off a book like being force-fed it, especially if the book is a moral fable that poses questions rather too advanced and complex for the teenage mind. I filed it away and forgot it, until a few months ago when a friend told me he'd reread it and been pleasantly surprised. I decided to follow suit, in part out of curiosity, in part because in recent years I have become a part-time resident of Peru and thus was curious about Wilder's depiction of a place I have come to love. It is no exaggeration to say that on second reading I was completely blown away, not so much by Wilder's sensitive treatment of his central theme as by the richness and power of his prose."
- • Cannery Row, by John Steinbeck
- • The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
- • Cheaper by the Dozen, by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
- • The Clock Winder, by Anne Tyler
- • Cockfighter, by Charles Willeford
- "Published as a paperback original in 1962, reissued in a revised hardcover edition in 1972, adapted a couple of years later for the movies, the novel has had a cult following for four decades, not just among aficionados of cockfighting but among the lamentably small number of readers who know and appreciate the work of one of our most skilled, interesting, accomplished and productive writers of what the literary establishment insists on pigeonholing as "genre" fiction."
- • The Collected Stories of Peter Taylor
- • A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, by Mark Twain
- • The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas
- • Crazy Salad, by Nora Ephron
- • Cyrano, by Edmund Rostand, translated by Brian Hooker
- • Dale Loves Sophie to Death, by Robb Forman Dew
- " It was one of the last books I reviewed in my capacity as book editor of the Washington Star before it ceased publication three months later. I knew absolutely nothing about the author, and thus came to the novel not merely without preconceptions but also without unduly high expectations. What I found surprised and pleased me, and on second reading it pleases me even more. Its subject is domestic life, which always interests me strongly, but the skill, subtlety and sensitivity with which Dew treats it are what really matter."
- • The Damnation of Theron Ware, by Harold Frederic
- • The Daughter of Time, by Josephine Tey
- • The Death of the Heart, by Elizabeth Bowen
- • The Dreadful Lemon Sky, by John D. MacDonald
- • The Earl of Louisiana, by A.J. Liebling
- • The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E.B. White
- • Fanny Hill, by John Cleland
- • The Fathers, by Allen Tate
- "My own first encounter with 'The Fathers' came, unsurprisingly, in an academic setting. In 1968-69, during a nine-month sabbatical from the newspaper where I was then working, I undertook a fairly systematic study of Southern literature. This included a rereading of 'Gone With the Wind' and then 'The Fathers,', which a professor suggested as an antidote to it. As one who has always found things to admire as well as dislike about "GWTW," I was unsure that an antidote was needed, but I quickly realized that 'The Fathers' was fiction of a different, and far higher, order. I was especially struck by its muscular prose and its exceptionally believable characters. A second reading leaves me even more strongly convinced of this."
- • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream, by Hunter S. Thompson
- • Generation of Vipers, by Philip Wylie
- "Picking it up again after four decades, I remembered little about it except (of course) mom and a general atmosphere of splenetic outrage. As it turned out, Generation of Vipers did not come through a second reading in very good shape. The spectacle of someone making an absolute fool of himself is always enjoyable, so watching Wylie put himself through these ridiculous paces was amusing, but Generation of Vipers is warmed-over H.L. Mencken with only occasional hints of Mencken's wit or perspicacity. Along the way Wylie says a few smart things, but give a chimpanzee 100,000 words and one or two of them are likely, against all odds, to make a bit of sense. Mostly the book is high-octane twaddle, fun to read but incapable of withstanding close scrutiny."
- • Giant, by Edna Ferber
- "Maybe then, but not now. Reading "Giant" for a second time was a painful, if not outright excruciating, experience. What was received half a century ago as a withering satire of Texas nouveau riche now has all the subtlety of a bludgeon. Aspiring to irony, Ferber rarely rises above sarcasm. Her prose is almost entirely lacking in grace or rhythm."
- • The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- • H.M. Pulham, Esq., by John P. Marquand
- "It is ludicrous that the Library of America, which smugly proclaims itself guardian "of America's best and most significant writing," finds room on its shelves for ever less significant work yet turns up its nose at Marquand. It is equally ludicrous that the publishing firm of Little, Brown, for which Marquand earned millions upon millions of dollars over the years, declines to keep a single one of his major novels in print. So the next time you hear or read about some publisher or editor claiming to "serve the best interests of literature," pause a moment to reflect upon how shabbily Marquand is now served, not to mention all those readers who might discover his work to their joy and reward if only they could find it."
- • The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor, edited by Sally Fitzgerald
- • Happy All the Time, by Laurie Colwin
- • The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, by Carson McCullers
- • The House on Coliseum Street, by Shirley Ann Grau
- "No, there's nothing "Southern" about [it] at all, except that it happens in the South and is told by a writer who happens to be Southern. It is a tiny human drama that in one form or another could be visited upon anyone, anywhere, and in Grau's telling it achieves genuine universality. Reading 'The House on Coliseum Street' for the second time, I am struck far more than I was the first time by its maturity, wisdom and psychological acuity. It, like its outspoken author, has aged very well indeed."
- • The Housebreaker of Shady Hill, by John Cheever
- • I Was Dancing, by Edwin O'Connor
- "It's a lovely little book: funny, sad, absolutely true. Rereading it again after all these years I am reminded of what a fine writer O'Connor was, and how keenly he understood the lives of Irish Americans. Much good fiction and nonfiction has been written about them, but no one has done it better than he."
- • Instant Replay, by Jerry Kramer with Dick Schaap
- "Astonishingly, considering the great success and high reputation it enjoyed, 'Instant Replay' is now out of print. This seems even more astonishing after a second (or third, or fourth) reading, because the book has lost absolutely nothing over the past three and a half decades. It is funny, smart, evocative, honest and unpretentious. Its prose is Kramer's, dictated into a tape recorder and regularly mailed to Schaap as the season progressed. Schaap's role was "to organize, to condense, to clarify, and to punctuate," but he "did not have to polish Jerry Kramer's phrases or prompt his thoughts." All in all it's as good a job of collaboration between unprofessional writer and professional journalist as I can recall reading, and it is as vivid and engaging now as it was in 1968."
- • Lie Down in Darkness, by William Styron
- "By the 1970s, when he was writing "Sophie's Choice," Styron had come to understand that catastrophe and/or tragedy must be alleviated (and thus in a way illuminated) by humor, but in his mid-20s he had yet to learn that lesson. The passage quoted above about the Tidewater gossips is the exception rather than the rule in 'Lie Down in Darkness.' Setting out to write the story of a family doomed by its inability to love, he became so bogged down in the agony of it all — as Peyton ruminates, "everywhere I turn I seem to walk deeper and deeper into some terrible despair" — that he ended up writing a 400-page dirge that ultimately is far more stifling than enriching."
- • Little House in the Big Woods, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- • The Long Season, by Jim Brosnan
- • Look at Me, by Anita Brookner
- • Lucky Jim, by Kingsley Amis
- • Morte d'Urban, by J.F. Powers
- • The Mountain Lion, by Jean Stafford
- • A Moveable Feast, by Ernest Hemingway
- • Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House, by Eric Hodgins
- • My Life and Hard Times, by James Thurber
- • My Young Years, by Arthur Rubenstein
- "Whatever the explanation for its disappearance from the bookstores, 'My Young Years' remains a classic autobiography in the grand manner. Unlike the memoirs that now crowd the bookshelves, exercises in self-administered therapy in which narcissistic narrators of no apparent accomplishment whine ad nauseam about real or imagined angst, this is an exuberant account of what Rubinstein calls, in his brief foreword, "the struggles, the mistakes, the adventures, and . . . the miraculous beauty and happiness of my young years." His was a life lived to the full, with triumphs and disappointments galore, and by the time he reached his 80s and began to write this book, Rubinstein had such great stature that his story virtually commanded readers' attention."
- • Never Love a Stranger, by Harold Robbins
- "Still, a rereading of "Never Love a Stranger" convinces me that he should be granted a bit more respect than is now commonly accorded him. There's not much art to it, but neither is there much artifice. Something can be said of it that cannot be said of Robbins's later work: It's an honest book"
- • A New Life, by Bernard Malamud
- • Newspaper Days, by H.L. Mencken
- • No Left Turns, by Joseph L. Schott
- "Published in 1975, it was enthusiastically reviewed as exactly what it is — a deadpan but hilarious inside view of what the same unhappy agent called the "sort of nutty vaudeville show" that was Hoover's FBI — and enjoyed moderately good sales before going into paperback and then falling out of print."
- • Notes of a Native Son, by James Baldwin
- • Office Politics, by Wilfrid Sheed
- "So here it is 2005, Sheed is in his mid-seventies and, just as he predicted, 'Office Politics' is out of print. It went through various paperback editions, the most recent of which was issued in 1989, but you'll find it now only in used-book stores and libraries. As Sheed well understood when he wrote "The Minor Novelist," the literary marketplace is a hard, unforgiving and often unjust place that is far more likely to reward the shoddy (viz., the bestseller lists) than the accomplished. Yet sometimes books find ways to outlive the neglect of publishers, booksellers and readers, and take on quiet lives of their own. One can only hope that in time this will happen to 'Office Politics,' the best of Sheed's novels and one that remains uncommonly fresh after all these years."
- • Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920's, by Frederick Lewis Allen
- • The Ox-Bow Incident, by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
- • Paper Tiger, by Stanley Woodward
- • Penrod and Sam, by Booth Tarkington
- "The combination of Tarkington's recollections of his own boyhood and his observations of his nephews, as well as an eye that was piercingly observant, makes 'Penrod' and 'Penrod and Sam' nothing less than primers on boyness."
- • Poets in Their Youth, by Eileen Simpson
- • Pogo, by Walt Kelly
- • Pomp and Circumstance, by Noël Coward
- "'Pomp and Circumstance' reminds us, as if any reminder were necessary, that Coward was a master entertainer in the very best sense: an immensely intelligent, witty, resourceful man who took endless delight in the human comedy and managed to make it even funnier than it already is. He brought a great deal of light to what was in many respects a dark century, and that light shines on."
- • Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
- "Being neither a joiner nor a cultist, I have resisted all temptations to wave the Janeite banner, preferring to enjoy her books — like those of the many other writers whose work I treasure — in private. This seems to me especially appropriate in her case, for despite all the chatting and blogging they inspire, they are intensely private books…."
- • The Proud Tower, by Barbara Tuchman
- • The Rector of Justin, by Louis Auchincloss
- • The Reivers, by William Faulkner
- • Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech
- "The best "Washington novel" isn't a novel at all. Published six decades ago, Margaret Leech's 'Reveille in Washington' is what academic historians condescendingly call "popular history," written with the novelist's eye for character and telling detail as well as the novelist's command of narrative. The story of the District of Columbia during the Civil War, 'Reveille in Washington' is still authoritative as history and is something of a masterpiece of storytelling."
- • The Revolt of Mamie Stover, by William Bradford Huie
- "If a half-century ago I read 'The Revolt of Mamie Stover' in hopes of titillation, a second time through I find it smart, provocative and funny. The N-word pops up with a frequency that will unnerve today's reader, but that's the way people talked back then. It's not a great book, but it's not pulp fiction either. How nice it would be to have it back in print, and to find a new generation of readers for an American writer who scarcely deserves the neglect into which he has fallen."
- • The Robber Bridegroom, by Eudora Welty
- • Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans, by Louis Armstrong
- Gary Giddins wrote, "Of Armstrong's many accomplishments, the least recognized is his prolificacy as a writer of autobiographical prose. He was by far the most expansive musician-writer jazz has ever known. . . . He was unschooled in spelling and grammar, but he had an ear for language and could express himself with enviable clarity in trim, speechlike cadences. Tallulah Bankhead wrote in 1952, 'He uses words like he strings notes together, artistically and vividly.' She was referring to his conversation, which was peppered with an inventive brand of slang, but the observation holds for his prose as well. Usually, he typed single-space and fast. Sometimes he would write dozens of pages at a clip in an always legible and authoritative hand. He favored yellow typing paper and pens with green ink."
- • Scott Fitzgerald, by Andrew Turnbull
- • The Second Happiest Day, by John Phillips
- "Millicent Bell, the author of the first-rate "Marquand: An American Life" (1979), quotes a letter he wrote to his son after reading the first draft: "As the book stands it is a balanced and impressive novel, with authority and feeling. In fact it has all the elements a good novel ought to have, and this is remarkable for a first book." That is a judgment with which I agreed upon reading "The Second Happiest Day" for the first time about half a century ago, and it is one that has not changed after a second reading. John Jr. was a remarkably gifted writer, and it is a pity that his attempt at a second novel, made over several years with innumerable fits and starts, never produced anything publishable."
- • The Shooting Party, by Isabel Colegate
- • The Sketch Book, by Washington Irving
- • Slouching Towards Bethlehem, by Joan Didion
- • Someone Like You, by Roald Dahl
- • The Spawning Run and My Moby Dick, by William Humphrey
- • St. Urbain's Horseman, by Mordecai Richler
- "'St. Urbain's Horseman' is about these matters and many others: mixed marriages that produce kids who "have a stake in Jehovah and a claim on Christ," the complexities and ambiguities of being Canadian, the indignity of aging, the thirst for experience. It's a flawed novel — a bit too long, a bit repetitious, a bit self-absorbed — but it's also a real grown-up's novel, by a genuinely grown-up writer. Such novels are all too rare these days, so when you find one, hold tight to it."
- • The Stardust Road, by Hoagy Carmichael
- "The book at hand is less a memoir than a riff. Carmichael was drifting away from his jazz roots at the time he wrote 'The Stardust Road' — his later songs were less jazz than high pop, though he never lost his deep connection to the American heartland — but he wrote this book as if he were improvising. It's exuberant, yet it begins and ends with the deaths in 1931 of his two most treasured friends: Bill "Monk" Moenkhaus ("the surrealist of the campus. Wise and foolish, sane and crazy, lovable and laughable") and Leon "Bix" Beiderbecke, the immortal cornetist who "showed me that jazz could be musical and beautiful as well as hot" and who drank himself to death at the age of 28. Carmichael doesn't say as much, but it's not hard to conclude that these deaths were turning points for him, directing him away from youthful frivolity and toward adult purposefulness."
- • Sula, by Toni Morrison
- • Tom Jones, by Henry Fielding
- • Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson
- • The Twelve Caesars, by Suetonius, translated by Robert Graves
- • Veeck — As in Wreck, by Bill Veeck with Ed Linn
- "He was the greatest showman baseball has known, and he taught baseball how to put on a show. Unfortunately, no one else has had his combination of ingenuity, intelligence, humor and deep love of the game, so the promotions that now greet fans — over-amped rock music, Jumbotron scoreboards, wildly overpriced concessions — detract from the game rather than enhance it. But his lessons are still there to be learned, so <'Veeck -- As in Wreck' is herewith assigned as summer reading for everyone in the Nationals' front office, for duty, and everyone in the grandstand, for pleasure."
- • Victory, by Joseph Conrad
- • W.C. Fields: His Follies and Fortunes, by Robert Lewis Taylor
- • The Woman Warrior, by Maxine Hong Kingston
- • The Woman Within, by Ellen Glasgow
- • The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, by Douglass Wallop
- "The records of major league baseball tell us that the New York Yankees won the American League pennant in 1958, but those of us who defer to the Higher Truth know that it actually was won that year by the Senators. We know because we have read 'The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant', by Douglass Wallop, and/or seen the play and/or movie, "Damn Yankees," adapted from it. We know because Wallop's story is by now as deeply embedded in American legend as is Goethe's "Faust" in German legend."
- • The Young Lions, by Irwin Shaw


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Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao is facing what could be his toughest fight yet that goes beyond 12 rounds, as he declared war on sex slavery in the Philippines.
Pacquiao, who is a congressman in the southern Philippine province of Sarangani, promoted on Friday the encore airing of 'The Fighters', a CNN full-length documentary featuring a woman's fight against sex trafficking in Manila.
He is also featured in the documentary, a result of two years of undercover work in Manila's red light district, as among the lawmakers who sought a stronger measure against sex slavery.
First shown over CNN International Channel on May 17 and 18, the 80-minute documentary has been made available in full online and will air again on CNN on June 1 and 2.
"Please watch," Pacquiao said, as quoted by 'The Philippine Star', referring to the film that tackles the country's 'white slavery' that, according to government, involves 800,000 people, 100,000 of whom are children and minors. "It is important."
Leif Coorlim, executive director of CNN Freedom Project that produced the documentary, described as "scary" and "sickening" the crimes involving white slavery and cyber sex in the Philippines. He also said these crimes are difficult for the "law enforcement to stop".
He stressed, "In a country like the Philippines, nothing ever is as it seems," Coorlim said in the documentary, referring to an area in Metro Manila's commercial business district of Makati where many victims of white slavery end up.
It was Cecilia Flores-Oebanda, executive director of Visayan Forum Foundation (VFF), who sought Pacquiao's help in bringing more attention to the fight against sex trafficking in the Philippines.
The CNN documentary follows Manila's sex-traffic industry through the life and advocacy of Flores-Oebanda, who is considered a warrior against sex slavery and a heroine to the girls and women she rescues from forced prostitution.
Stressing that the war against sex trade, especially involving minors, could last "beyond 12 rounds", she said this could be Pacquiao's "toughest fight that he will wage in his entire life".
Lawmaker Manny Pacquiao declares war on 'white slavery'
Filipino boxing superstar Manny Pacquiao is facing what could be his toughest fight yet that goes beyond 12 rounds, as he declared war on sex slavery in the Philippines.


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10 February 2015
I totally agree with the other reviewers. I had previously bought the pink long line gloves and was really pleased with the total fit and wear of them, I saw the new ones on line and decided to give them a try.They were on my shopping list when I visited my nearest store, I found that they were on offer so I bought several pairs. What a disappointment. They are very loose fitting at the top allowing them to roll down during use and they split very quickly. Sorry, the only thing to recommend them is the pretty color. Bring back the previous style please
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For with God all things are possible. (Luke 1:37)
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Through this site, you can learn about EMBC's ministry, staff members, and people by selecting the links on the left of your screen. EMBC is a warm friendly church full of incredible people. We are waiting to welcome you as we worship and serve our risen Savior through the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Join us for Bible study at 9:00 a.m. each Sunday morning and worship services at 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.
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never seen a man with shaven legs, so probably too used to hairy legs on a guy haha
i'm sure if more guys did it, it wouldn't be a big deal
Ladies, do you prefer men with shaved legs or smooth legs or hairy legs? xoxo
never seen a man with shaven legs, so probably too used to hairy legs on a guy haha
i'm sure if more guys did it, it wouldn't be a big deal
I shaved mine once and my wife was not thrilled... i did it for her so guess I went and took a wrong turn there. she asked me not to do it again.
I'll get there or Die trying...
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I like a cleanshaven man. no chest hair, little or no leg hair and for sure................ he shaves his armpits! Its just so much nicer to feel skin on skin............IMO
Don't shave my legs but do my chest. Legs would take some real getting used to.
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The only thing I shave is my face
I shave my face and my junk! I shaved my chest once and wife hated it.
i shave face, chest and abs. i trim the bush and clip my underarms. i keep some hair but its short.
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I'll get there or Die trying...
Trim the pubes, shave the face occasionally growing a mustache or beard depending on my mood lately. Men are supposed to be hairy. Little boys are hairless.
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Everything goes, accept underarm hair
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I don't mind hair.....but keep it clean. Maintain that shit
If it grows, it meets thine old bic. Cept for the forearms tho, I don't get enough hair to justify porcupine status lol
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Tried shavin the pits once, big mistake! Pits felt slimey with deodorant on..not a great feeling. I am lucky enough not to be a hairy guy, my girl loves it!
I have a beard, so that gets trimmed. Everything else would require a lawn mower. None of the gals who have been in my life or my wife seemed to mind.
i also like looking a clean shaven man yet if they are not then it's OK .. as this is no big issue to me
I shave everything, it's a must for me, using an electric shaver is much easier. And if you want smoothness use a razor after you have the hairs cut down really small. Doesn't take that much time when using electric (the kind a hair stylist or barber would use)
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im to much of a mans man to shave everything. I trim my body to keep it clean to show off definition. Completely gone done stairs, trim the underarms but keep the legs where they are. I am not disgustingly hairy but no way am i going to spend all the time shaving. I use to and all it turns out to be is annoying razor burn and stubble that pisses of my girl. Plus my wife thinks of men as being manly and dominate. So she likes a lil hair. She made fun of me when I was shaving my legs for my contest...
Shaving off your fur to be silky smooth? What a bunch of metrosexuals.
I'm a hairy guy and my woman loves it. I really think that you should embrace the hair on a man it's a great thing. I have it on my chest and legs and haven't had any complaints yet. I love it and she does too. Manscaping is for wimps.


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Diggy Simmons Collaborating With Rihanna & Arctic Monkeys? (Video)
After the release of his debut album "Unexpected Arrival" earlier this year, Diggy Simmons is setting his sights on collaborations with two insane artists on two completlely different spectrums.
Diggy's worked on singles with both Jeremih and Jadakiss and now tells us exclusively he would love to work with the Arctic Monkeys and Rihanna. Mini Run DMC collab with an English, indie-rock-band while Rihana does the hook? We can see it!
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We've got a pretty quiet Thanksgiving planned this year. But in the past I've been so busy planning for a house full of friends and kids that I haven't even had time to post about Thanksgiving goodies.
The world is a happier place when guests (especially the kids) have little somethings to munch on so they don't have any problem making it to the main event.
Here are some suggestions for Thanksgiving snacks. All of them can be made a day or two beforehand. And all of them are kid-approved.
I hope you all have a day full of laughter and yumminess.
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1:34 pm on November 19th, 2012
I have to say I love this site. My favorite is your taste test posts. Lots of crazy things out there!