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2150 S Dobson Rd # 3
Mesa, AZ, 85202-6487
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706 E Bell Rd # 106
Phoenix, AZ, 85022-6641
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Have you had esthetic enhancements to your teeth or just naturally have great looking, perfect teeth? Here are some tips to maintain your picture perfect smile.
In order to maintain a healthy smile, you have to know what types of things are damaging to the teeth. Identifying and eliminating bad oral habits is the key to retaining a great smile for many years. Sometimes we are not aware that we are harming the health of our teeth. Do you:
If you answered yes to any of these questions, you are in danger of causing a detrimental effect on your new smile.
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In restorative dentistry a dental crown, or caps for teeth, look and function just like natural teeth. Your cosmetic dentist may recommend a dental crown if your tooth has enough decay that it cannot hold a filling, or if your tooth is cracked or broken and in danger of cracking down into the root if left unattended. A dental crown covers your tooth completely. It fits snugly at the gum and protects what remains of the natural tooth.
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A dental crown can be made of all gold. Some people prefer not to use a gold crown because it stands out from the other teeth in appearance. At the same time, if the gold crown is on a back molar, some people feel the cosmetic issue is not a big one. Your cosmetic dentist will discuss the types of materials available if a gold crown is recommended.
Once your dental crown is in place, make sure the area is brushed well and that you floss below the gum line. While the dental crown protects your remaining tooth from further decay, you must protect the base of the dental crown from bacterial growth and gum disease. Regular brushing and flossing as you would your natural teeth will ensure that your crown will be in place for years to come!
Your Gold Crown is not just royal jewelry for your mouth!
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- DescriptionEnjoy movies, television shows, music, digital photos and more on the Vizio 32-inch HDTV. In order to produce superior clarity and vibrancy to 32-inch screen, the HD LCD television features a 100,000:1 dynamic contrast ratio that will make white colors brighter and black colors darker. The Vizio E320AR also contains a light sensing technology to automatically adjust the picture depending on the lighting quality of the room at any given time. Adhering to strict energy efficiency guidelines, the Vizio 32-inch HDTV was awarded the ENERGY STAR 5.3, which enables device to consume less power in both standby and active modes. In fact, the HD LCD television only consumes 97 watts of power when in use and less than one watt of power when in standby. The Vizio E320AR features SRS StudioSound HD to produce excellent surround sound from its two speakers, which easily enhances viewing pleasure for all. The television has a resolution of 720 pixels and a refresh rate of 60Hz. With the stand, the Vizio 32-inch HDTV measures 30.4 inches (width) by 20.3 inches (height) by 7.8 inches (depth) and weighs 18.1 lbs. Without the stand the TV measures 30.4 inches (width) by 18.9 inches (height) by 3.9 inches (depth) and weighs 17.2 lbs.
Product Highlights
- About The BrandVIZIO is an American privately held electronics manufacturer established in 2002. Among its products are television sets, tablets and mobile phones, as VIZIO quickly became one of the most recognizable TV brands in North America. Nowadays, the company primarily produces television sets, as the first TV bearing the brand's name, the P4 46" Plasma EDTV, was released in 2003. VIZIO became the largest LCD TV seller in North America for 2007 and since then focused on the LED-backlit LCD displays. The brand offers a diversity of TV models in a wide range of screen sizes, innovative designs and high-definition resolutions.
Product Identifiers
- BrandVizio
- SeriesE Series
- ModelE320AR
Key Features
- TV TypeFlat-Panel
- Display TechnologyLCD
- Screen Size32"
- DefinitionHDTV
- Aspect Ratio14:9 Enhanced,16:9
- Resolution720p
- Display Resolution1366 x 768 pixels
- 3D Technology3D Not Supported
- Smart TV FeaturesNot Supported
Technical Features
- Refresh Rate60 Hz
- Viewing Angle178°
- Built-in TunerATSC
- Supported Resolutions720p (HDTV)
- On Mode Power50.26 W
- Sleep Mode Power0.34 W
- Energy StarEnergy Star Compliant
- Rear Input ConnectorsComponent x 1,Composite x 1,HDMI x 3,RF x 1
Audio Features
- Number Of Speakers2
- Speaker Power2 x 10 Watt
- Audio TypeSurround
- Height18.9 in.
- Width30.4 in.
- Depth3.9 in.
- Weight17.2 lbs
- Room TypeCommercial Space,Living Room
- Remote Control Type (originally supplied by manufacturer)Standard
- Exterior ColorBlack
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- 1attillaJan 07, 2013by
Makes a great Computer monitor And looks great doing it, 24/7!
I love it. I use it as a monitor for the computer and it is in use 20 hours a day. looks great, works well. Slight resolution issue that is way easy to dial in. I would indeed buy this again & I am very glad to have bought the offered warranty to go with it.(best $30 I ever spent!) Update- 4/27/14- Still got the Vizio goin' 20+ hrs a day and it looks great, sounds great, performs great!! Should I come to need another TV/Monitor, I'm gonna get another Vizio!!
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Reburbished Vizio HDTV E320AR looking brand new
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It's a WINNER ! Fits my Budget, Space & Performs like a Champion ! ^_^
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A lot of tv for the money!!!
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The feature-length film A Century of Coal, produced by Peter Williams Television, looks back to the days when mining was an industry and way of life.
In 1925, miners flocked to Kent from all over the UK and 18 coal mines were to be dug in the Garden of England.
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Kent's miners were militant, going on strike during the Second World War and in 1984, fighting Margaret Thatcher – but ultimately losing, with the last pit in the county, at Betteshanger, closing in 1989.
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Tools of the Craft
Recently I have received quite a few questions about the use of different types of papers for spell-crafting. One of the most interesting questions is about making your own paper. There are many sites that are dedicated to making of your own paper from used newspapers, cardboard or even plant matter such as reeds or onion skin. What is lacking is that most of these sites suggest that you purchase a (high priced) commerical "mold and deckle". This can easily stop a paper making project. To that end, I have created the following page if you would like a mold and deckle for your own paper projects:
The Basic Tools of the Craft
Sacred to the God. Element of Fire. Double-edged with a black or
dark handle. Used to direct the energy raised during rites and
spells. Used to call upon the four quarters. The dark handle stores
residual energy. Used to open and close the magick circle. A light
handled Athame may not be used.
Sacred to the God. Element of Air. A tool of communication and
invitation. The God-Goddess may be called to watch the ritual with
words and an uplifted wand. Used to direct energy, draw magical
symbols or a circle on the ground. A slender wooden rod fashioned
from the branch of a tree with a cystal on the tip. The Modern Witch
may used a solid crystal Wand without any problems.
Sacred to the Goddess and the God. Element of Water. The broom is
a purificatory and protective instrument.
The best style, in my opinion is the "quaker style" long bristle brooms.
Sacred to the God. Element of Air. The censer is an incense
burner. Placed upon the altar during rituals and spells. Also may be
used during meditations. Each scent is used for a certain purpose.
Sacred to the Goddess. Element of Water. The cauldron is often a
focal point of ritual. During spring rites it is sometimes filled
with fresh water and flowers. The cauldron should be of iron,
resting on three legs, with its opening smaller than its widest
Many occult shopes, E-bay and online resources sell 5 inch cauldrons of cast iron. Though these will due for most rituals, I am more interested in a larger version. We here at Ancient Pathway are searching for a distributor of Gallon sized cast iron Cauldrons.
White-Handled Knife
Simply a practical, working knife with a white handle. Used to
cut wands or sacred herbs, inscribe symbols onto candles or wood,
clay, or wax, and in cutting cords for use in magick. Can also be
used to gather flowers for rites.
Crystal Sphere
Sacred to the Goddess. Sometimes placed on the altar to represent
the Goddess. May be used to receive messages from the Gods, or to
store energy raised in ritual. Periodic exposure to moonlight will
increase its ability to spark our psychic powers.
Chalice Cup
Sacred to the Goddess. Element of Water. It is used to hold the
wine for blessings.
The can be hand made of oven fireable pottery, purchased, or found. If you try to fire you own, please make sure that you glaze the inside of the cup. This will prevent any toxins that may be in the clay from passing to your liquid.
Sacred to the Goddess and God. Element of Earth. The pentacle is
usually a flat piece of brass or wood inscribed with the pentagram.
An instrument of protection, or a tool used to evoke spirits.
Pentacles are also hung over doors and windows to act as protective
devices. It is the centerpiece of the altar.
The Book of Shadows
A Wiccan workbook containing invocations, ritual patterns,
spells, and so on. This is the famed "Grimore" of the witch. It is a
personal tome of your life as a Witch. It should be passed family
member to family memeber so that each generation can learn from the
past. If you are solitary, you should try to find someone within the
craft to give it to on your passing. On a personal note, my Book of
shadows is a collection of 8 generations of my family and the
donation of over 100 witches that have honored me with their
secrets. It is about 3000 pages long (until I remove the duplicate
information). That is where most of my information for this site
comes from.
Sacred to the Goddess. A consecrated brass or crystal bell is
often used by Witches to signal the beginning and/or close of a
ritual or Sabbat, to summon a particular spirit.
Other Altar Tools
Some other tools that can be placed on the altar are items to represent the directions/elements.
For North- element of Earth- you might want to place a stone,
dirt, salt, etc...
For East- element of Air- you might want to place a feather, fresh flowers, incense, etc...
For South- element of Fire- you might want to place a small oil lamp, candle, lava rock, etc...
For West- element of Water- you might want to place a seashell, bowl of water, etc...
You might also want to had a Goddess and God candle to your altar. Or symbols that represent the Gods


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Today's top gainers include the company PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG) which is in the industry Electric Utilities, gaining 0.25% today. In the last week its performance is -1.15%, and -5.91% for the past quarter. Currently, PG&E Corporation, PCG has a target price of 67.07, so today's gain of 0.25% is a significant step towards its target price. The GAP today is therefore 0.15%.
PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), has a market cap of 29817.07, and is based in USA. Insider ownership is at 0.10%, and institutional ownership is 82.30%.
At the current price of 59.47, it has a dividend yield of 3.30%, and its target price is 67.07. This is with a profit margin of 4.50%, and total debt/equity of 1.09. PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG) has a P/E of 38.92, as well as a forward P/E of 16.25.
With a current EPS of 1.53, and a forecasted EPS growth for next year at -1.64%,PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG) has had a EPS growth for the past five years at -8.70%. For the next five years EPS growth is projected to be 5.66%.
Performance for the year is 16.95%. Since its IPO date on 6/1/1972, the total performance to date is 14.46%.
Volume today for PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is 2413800, while its average volume is 2731.77. Whilst the total gain today was 0.25%, it did have a day high of -8.34%.
Volatility for this week has been at 1.74%, and 1.62% for the month. The 52-week low for PG&E Corporation, PCG has been 20.27%, while the 52-week-high has reached -8.39%.
Looking at its return of investments, which is 4.50%, and its return on assets is 1.20%. PG&E Corporation (NYSE:PCG) has an operating margin of 7.40%. With a sales growth of -1.10% quarter over quarter. Bearing in mind that PG&E Corporation, PCG is in the sector Utilities, its long-term debt/equity is 0.99, and has a current ratio of 0.9 and 0.9 for quick ratio.
So what is the value of PG&E Corporation? Well its PEG is 6.88, and the P/S is 1.77, along with a P/B of 1.77. Meanwhile it has a p/cash of 157.76.


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It is a source of fascination to me that golf's marketing machines have become such well-tuned machines that athletes' apparel is literally scripted for tournaments. Nike reports it has done this for ten years, and I assume other apparel companies do the same.
I wonder what the fashion consultants would have thought of Jimmy Demaret.
And I am having fun imagining what Ben Hogan would have thought of someone whose job title is "fashion consultant."
All that said, here's what Tiger will wear next weekend:
Woods will be wearing a new innovation from Nike Golf's Tiger Woods Collection. Woods' passion and competitive spirit fuel the continuous drive to create the most innovative and athletic products in the sport and his apparel pieces exemplify this dedication to innovation. He will be wearing the TW Jacquard Polo in Dark Grey ($80), the TW Modern Color Block Polo in White/Dandelion ($95), the TW Ultra Polo 2.0 in Squadron Blue ($95), and the TW Emboss Polo in Hyper Red ($85). These polos are extremely lightweight and utilize the laser-perforated collar for increased ventilation to keep the athlete cool while also reducing overall weight. Three of the four polos Woods will wear utilize the posture performance chassis which has a kimono style back design to allow Woods an increased range of motion throughout his swing.
And Rory McIlroy:
McIlroy will sport looks from the Nike Tour Performance collection, featuring the latest innovations in lightweight, breathable performance fabrications. He will wear the Fashion Body Map Polo in Violet Force ($70), the Embossed Polo in Stadium Grey ($65), the Iconic Polo in Pink Force ($65), and the Light Weight Heather Polo in Squadron Blue ($60). He will be sporting bold colors each day with color pops in either his polo, trousers or his Nike Lunar Control footwear.
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India to study impact of mobile towers on birds, bees
India will study the harmful impact of mobile phone towers on birds and bees, with the environment ministry constituting a committee that is also tasked with formulating guidelines on their installation.
"The expert group will access the level of possible impact of growth of mobile towers in urban, sub-urban and forest areas on the population of birds and bees," a statement from the ministry said.
The expert group will review all studies in India and abroad on the ill effects of mobile towers in animal, birds and insects. "The team will also formulate guidelines for regulating the large scale installation of mobile towers in the country," the statement said.
A recent study by scientists from Punjab University revealed that radiation from mobile towers affect the population and breeding of bees.


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|Brian G. Reise, Paul J. Smith
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|Lsi Logic Corporation
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1. Technical Field
The present invention relates generally to peripheral component interface device and in particular to devices providing an interface between a peripheral component interface local bus and backend channels. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to testing devices which provide an interface between a peripheral component interface local bus and backend input/output channels.
2. Description of the Related Art
Multifunction peripheral component interface (PCI) input/output (I/O) devices transfer data between a PCI local bus and backend I/O channels. Multifunction PCI devices may connect the PCI local bus to a number of backend channels, which may conform to any one of a variety of I/O standards such as small computer serial interface (SCSI), Ethernet, EIDE, etc. Each backend I/O channel may conform to the same standard, or different backend channels may employ different protocols.
Normal operation of multifunction PCI devices allows data to be transferred between the PCI interface and one channel at a time. However, achieving fault grade goals on multifunction PCI devices which have identical multiple backend I/O channels requires large numbers of test vectors. Even though each backend I/O channel will be tested with the same data pattern, there is considerable overhead required to switch between each backend function. Since only one backend function can have access to the PCI bus at any given time, arbitration logic built into the PCI interface determines which backend has this control. This arbitration sequence adds additional clock cycle delays each time a backend function requests control of the PCI bus to complete a bus transaction. The test time required to test multifunction PCI devices is directly proportional to the number of test vectors which must be run, and product cost is increased with increased testing cost.
It would be desirable, therefore, to reduce the number of test vectors required for testing a multifunction PCI device. It would further be advantageous if the reduction in test vectors could be achieved with a minimal addition of test circuitry to the device.
In a multifunction PCI device containing identical backend functions or other large, redundant functional blocks, a single backend function is selected as a primary function while in test mode. All backend I/O channels are then simultaneously tested in parallel, with the same data and control signals from a PCI local bus being driven to all backend channels during the same test clock cycle. A single backend channel is designated as the primary for providing requisite handshaking signals during output to the backend I/O channels. Input data from each backend channel is received in parallel and compared, with miscompares being flagged to allow testing of the input data path from the respective backend I/O channel. Only signals from the primary backend I/O channel are designated for transmission to the PCI local bus. Signals from the remaining backend channels are received in parallel with and compared to the signals from the primary channel, and miscompare flags are generated for any discrepancies identified. The resulting parallel testing of all backend I/O channels within the multifunction device reduces the number of test vectors needed to achieve fault grade goals.
The novel features believed characteristic of the invention are set forth in the appended claims. The invention itself, however, as well as a preferred mode of use, further objectives and advantages thereof, will best be understood by reference to the following detailed description of an illustrative embodiment when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, wherein:
FIG. 1 depicts a data processing system in which a preferred embodiment of the present invention may be implemented;
FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of a multifunction PCI device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention; and
FIGS. 3A-3B depict diagrams of the data flow within a multiplexer/comparator for a multifunction PCI device in accordance with a preferred embodiment.
With reference now to the figures, and in particular with reference to FIG. 1, a data processing system in which a preferred embodiment of the present invention may be implemented is depicted. Data processing system 100 includes a processor 102 connected to a level two (L2) cache 104, which is connected in turn to a PCI local bus 106. Memory 108 in the depicted example is also connected to PCI local bus 106, as is memory-mapped graphics adapter 110, which is further connected to display device 112.
Also connected to PCI local bus 106 is a bridge or multifunction PCI device 114 providing a connection between PCI local bus 106 and backend I/O channels (also referred to herein as "function I/O buses") 116-120. Backend I/O channel 1 116, backend I/O channel 2 118, and backend I/O channel n 120 in the depicted example may be SCSI, Ethernet, or EIDE buses or the like. Backend functions 116-120 may provide connections for a keyboard and mouse adapter (not shown), a local area network (LAN) adapter (not shown), or other peripheral components for data processing system 100. The embodiment depicted is presented merely for the purposes of explaining the invention and is not intended to imply architectural limitations. Those skilled in the art will recognize that many variants of the embodiment depicted may be utilized in connection with the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 2, a functional block diagram of a multifunction PCI device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention is illustrated. Only so much of the logic within a multifunction PCI device which is necessary to practice the present invention is depicted, and those skilled in the art will recognize that additional logic may be incorporated into a multifunction PCI device in conjunction with the logic shown.
Multifunction PCI device 114 may be formed within a single integrated circuit or "chip" in accordance with the known art and includes PCI interface 202 connected by data/control signals 204 from PCI local bus 106. PCI interface 202 is connected by data/control signals 206 to PCI test data multiplexer/comparator 208, which is connected via data/control signals 210 to backend function 1 212, via data/control signals 214 to backend function 2 216, and via data/control signals 218 to backend function n 220. Backend function 1 212 is connected by data/control signals 222 to backend I/O interface 1 224, which is connected to function I/O bus 1 116. Similarly, backend function 2 216 is connected by data/control signals 226 to backend I/O interface 2 228, which is also connected to function I/O bus 2 118, while backend function n 220 is connected by data/control signals 230 to backend I/O interface n 232, connected in turn to function I/O bus n 120. PCI interface 202, backend functions 212, 216, and 220, and backend I/O interfaces 224, 228, and 232 may all be configured in accordance with the known art to operate in the same or similar manner as equivalent functional portions of existing multifunction PCI devices.
Multiplexer/comparator 208 also receives signals from test control block 234, including backend select signal 236, test mode signal 238, and send/receive signal 240. Multiplexer/comparator 208 provides a miscompare detected signals 242 to miscompare flag decision block 244, which may transmit signals corresponding to the miscompare flags via signal line 246 to a register or an external pin for multifunction PCI device 114.
Test control block 234 contains controllable registers and logic asserting the multifunction test mode and determining data flow direction between PCI interface 202 and backend functions 212, 216, and 220. The register bits and logic within test control block 234 also allows backend function data and control signals to be routed to the appropriate backend function.
When multifunction PCI device 114 is in test mode, multiplexer/comparator 208 performs at least two functions: (1) multiplexer/comparator 208 routes data and control signals to the appropriate backend function(s) within backend functions 212, 216, and 220 based on the direction of data flow through multifunction PCI device 114 (from PCI interface 202 to backend functions 212, 216 and 220 or vice versa); and (2) multiplexer/comparator 208 performs a data comparison between backend functions 212, 216, and 220 when data is received from functions I/O buses 116-120 for transfer to PCI local bus 106.
In the exemplary embodiment, function I/O buses 116-120 are similar buses (i.e., all conforming to the same standard and/or protocol, such as SCSI). Therefore backend functions 212, 216, and 220 may be duplicative, comprising large blocks of redundant functionality. One of the backend functions--for example, backend function 1 212--is selected as the "primary" function when multifunction PCI device 114 is in a test mode. Regardless of data direction during testing (either from PCI interface 202 to backend function 212, 216, and 220 or from backend functions 212, 216, and 220 to PCI interface 202), primary backend function 1 212 control and data signals are received from and transmitted to PCI interface 202. The remaining backend functions, backend function 2 216 through backend function n 220, receive the same signals from PCI interface 202 as does backend function 1 212, and receive these same signals during the same test clock cycles so that data from all backend functions is synchronized for the same clock cycle. During test vector generation, only control signals from backend function 1 212 are designated to respond to transmissions from PCI interface 202. Signals from all remaining functions, backend function 2 216 through backend function n 220, are received in parallel with the signals from backend function 1 212, but are merely compared to the signals from backend function 1 212. If differences are detected between the signals received from backend function 1 212 and any signals received from backend function 2 216 through backend function n 220, miscompare detected signal 242 is generated by multiplexer/comparator 208.
Miscompare detected signal 242 is routed to miscompare flag decision block 244 to be either registered or driven out to an external pin on the device. Miscompare detected signal 242 may be a single signal indicating a data error, or may be multiple signals identifying different possible data errors relating to each backend function other than primary function 212 (i.e., backend function 2 216 through backend function n 220). Miscompare flag decision block 244 may be minimal logic determining how the miscompare flag or flags are handled, whether registered or driven to an external pin.
With reference now to FIGS. 3A and 3B, diagrams of the data flow within a multiplexer/comparator for a multifunction PCI device in accordance with a preferred embodiment of the present invention are depicted. FIG. 3A depicts data flow within multiplexer/comparator 208 for data transfers from PCI interface 202 to backend functions 212, 216, and 220 depicted in FIG. 2. Identical data 302 and control signals 304 are presented to each backend function 212, 216, and 220 when the direction of data flows from the PCI bus 106 to the function I/O buses 116-120 (also depicted in FIG. 2) during testing. Backend function 1 212 acts as the only interface to PCI interface 202, controlling all of the backend handshaking. The remaining backend functions, backend function 2 216 through backend function n 220, merely act as a receiver of data and control signals. No data comparisons need be made in this mode of operation since each backend function receives the identical signals.
FIG. 3B depicts data flow within multiplexer/comparator 208 as data is presented at each function I/O bus 116-120 for transfer to PCI bus 106 depicted in FIG. 2. Backend function 1 212 continues to act as the primary interface to PCI interface 202 in this mode of operation, with the data 306 from backend function 1 212 being transferred through to PCI interface 202. Data 308 and 310 for all remaining backend functions, backend function 2 216 through backend function n 220, is tapped by comparator 312 within multiplexer/comparator 208 and compared to the data 306 from backend function 1 212. Any miscompare to the primary data is flagged as an error and a flag or flags are accordingly generated.
The test time required to test any design with high gate counts is proportional to the number of test vectors which must be run. Multifunction PCI I/O devices with large redundant functional blocks, such as those including identical backend functions, may reduce the number of test vectors with minimal additional test circuitry by testing the redundant functional blocks in parallel. Incoming data from the PCI local bus is sent to each backend function in parallel, with only one (primary) backend channel providing the requisite handshaking. The reverse direction for the data path is tested by permitting each I/O channel to read the data from their respective buses for comparison. Internal comparators flag any miscompared data before data from the primary backend function is sent out over the PCI local bus. The data miscompare flag(s) may be either registered or sent out on an external test pin.
The parallel testing of multiple identical backend functions in the present invention reduces the total number of test patterns (or "test vectors") required to test all backend functions in a multifunction PCI device, thus reducing total testing time. The reduction in testing time leads to a corresponding reduction of total unit cost per device. This testing scheme is easy to implement and has a production value which increases in proportion to the size of internal data buffers utilized within a multifunction PCI device and the number of backend channels supported by the device.
The present invention also provides a number of additional benefits to the overall testing of a multifunction PCI device. First, data from multiple backends may be tested simultaneously before reaching the PCI bus. Since only one (primary) backend function may be a PCI bus master during testing, the parallel testing technique of the present invention reduces the arbitration overhead required to select between individual backends. Second, by placing each function I/O bus in the same data direction state (configuring all of the buses as either an input or an output) in the same test clock cycle, the number of possible combinations of I/O are reduced and waveform control memory (WCM) is also significantly reduced. A common problem with multiple data buses of large sizes (16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit, etc.) is the generation of WCM. WCM defines the I/O direction and waveform type for each individual pin in a test vector during each test cycle. The I/O direction of a bidirectional data pin can be defined as one of three states (input, output, or tristate). The waveform type of that pin defines the actual physical characteristic or behavior of the type of signal the tester drives onto the pin when configured as an input.
The description of the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description, but is not intended to be exhaustive or limit the invention in the form disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art. The embodiment was chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.
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Sharing the Short Story Here
I never believed my father followed his true calling in life, for his was a nature artistic in temperament. In looking at John Tallinghast Wakefield, you wouldn't have thought he was a farmer. Were you to have passed him on the street, a poet or painter would have been your first guess. He had the look of a spring fawn in his sable eyes, and wore his long hair renaissance style. There's no way to describe the man everyone called J.T., other than to say he was a beautiful man. He should have been born a Knight of the Order, or a bard to a Tudor king, instead of being born in 1950's Como, Mississippi, into the empire of his father, Big John.
Big John was a man used to giving orders, and equally as used to people falling in line. He ran the Wakefield Plantation through fear: his domineering manner uncompromising, his robust stature intimidating. That my father was Big John's only child sealed his destiny. He'd inherited a life, instead of forging his own. My father looked like an artist because he was one. He spoke like a poet because he was in love with language. The built-in shelves in his library housed leather bound volumes by Shakespeare and Rilke, Pushkin and Goethe. It was a gentleman's den, a scholar's library, and I knew my father wrote poetry at his leather top desk, though he rarely shared it. It's understandable why my father was prone to depression: he had an artistic edge he couldn't reconcile with the world. His were abysmal, grey-clouded days, strung in voids my mother called low tides. Though he was harmless during these episodes, it was during one of his dark nights of the soul that Thelonious, our groundskeeper, saved his life.
There was an outbuilding on the plantation's grounds, which was not much more than a glorified shed, near the edge of the pond. In back was deep shelving, where my father kept turpentine, easels, and paints. He'd be struck with inspiration at the oddest of times, and on this particular night, he'd been drinking. None of us knew where he was that night, or at least I thought this was the case, when I woke to mayhem at two in the morning. Three fire engines roared onto our property, tearing up the terrain on their way to the shed. Through my north facing window, I saw winter grass violently aflame and heard a series of explosions like rounds of staccato gunfire. Terrified, I ran straight to my parents' bedroom, waking my mother as I screamed, "Fire, looks like it's down by the pond." She rushed to the window then threw a coat over her nightgown. Flying down the front stairs, she rounded to my father's den, with me at her frantic heels. Finding his door open, she let out a panicked, "Oh God, no," then we made for the front door. It was an evil, erratic torrent when we got there; a shrieking, demonic inferno that up-lit the woods. I couldn't hear what my mother was shouting over the deafening fire engines as she angled between two medics, one strapping an oxygen mask to my father's face. I was wet to the bone in a matter of seconds as water surged skyward through hoses the length of a football field. Bad as it was, it was worse to consider what it might yet become, should the February wind turn against us. After Thelonious found him unconscious on the shed's floor, my father was taken to the hospital in Senatobia and kept two days for observation. As Thelonious explained later, it was the result of a combined list of variables that would have been innocuous on their own: Single Malt Scotch; a blustery evening; a Cuban cigar; and no forethought of risk.
It wasn't often that my grandfather made an appearance at the plantation. He was in his eighties now and fully ensconced in his life in Memphis, forty-five miles away. After relinquishing operations of the farm to my father, he'd taken to wearing a bow tie to lunch at the Memphis Country Club, while my father tended to the farm's logistics, which is what Big John was really mad about, when my mother called to report there'd been a fire. In Big John's mind, there was no more egregious error than shirking responsibility, and he didn't have to be told my father had been on a bender. I was at the pond looking over the wreckage, when Big John's driver came whisking him up the gravel in his silver Bentley. He intended to inspect the grounds for himself, but needed a drink to do it. By the time I made it to the house, Big John was seated in the living room, holding a tumbler of Dewar's straight up. My mother sat across from him with her spine rigid, as if braced for certain admonishment. She seemed relieved when I entered the room. Whatever words Big John might have said in my absence, he withheld in my presence, though the look on his thunderous face spoke volumes.
"Tell me again what time this was," Big John demanded, stretching his arm out for me to sit near.
"It was early morning," my mother answered, in a tone suggesting she'd said so before.
"No, no, Shirley," Big John interrupted. "You said it was night. Nothing good ever comes of night wandering. A man has to be of a certain mind to think it does, which is why I need the facts. Let me hear a little something about his fool thinking. And before you lie for him, I know he was drinking. That boy never could hold his liquor."
"I don't know, Big John," my mother said. "He didn't tell me what he was thinking. I only talked to him at the hospital and didn't think it was the time to ask. Poor thing's ashamed as it is. You can ask him yourself when we go later, but please, do try to be gentle with him."
"Gentle?" Big John boomed. "Boy all but burns down my farm, and you want me to be gentle? I don't think so. Gonna give him a good what for is what I'll do. Where's Thelonious? I can depend on him."
"I just saw Thelonious at his house," I said. "I'll run get him, if you want."
"Be easier to call him and tell him to meet me out there in twenty. Give me a minute to finish my drink."
When I called from the hall phone, Thelonious answered on the first ring. "How bad is it?" he asked, his tone more a conclusion than a question.
"Bad, with the promise of getting worse," I said.
"Don't worry, I got it all worked out. I'll say your father was hit on the head with something, make it seem more of an accident than what it really was."
"Get your story together, Thelonious," I said. "Big John's going to be out there in twenty."
Thelonious had played it much as I predicted. Hearing him recap the events made my father's actions seem reasonable. "You know how it is that J.T.'s a painter," he said. "He don't like taking time away from his family, nor the work he do round here, so he likely got it in his head to paint at night, when folks is asleep. And that shed ain't been seen to in ages. Ain't no light in there either. Must have been why he took that cigar."
"Well, for God's sake, don't tell J.T.'s mother that," Big John warned. "Her father died of throat cancer from smoking those things. I told her no point in coming out here today, said it was nothing more than a little brush fire, so let's keep it that way." Big John pushed his wispy white hair from his creased forehead. The shed had burned to the ground, and he walked over the charred remains like a detective looking over a crime scene. Presently, he put his hands in his coat pockets and turned towards the woods behind Thelonious' cabin, his appraising eyes surveying the long stretch of land. "Y'all might not have considered the real danger in all this. Had that fire spread and gone into the woods, there'd have been no putting it out. I'm not looking at what happened, I'm looking at the jeopardy he put us in."
"But nothing bad happened, Big John," I said. "What's important is nothing terrible happened to Daddy."
"That's where you're wrong, Celia, and you need to learn something here. It's not what a man does with his full potential, it's how he handles his worst."
My father came home from the hospital the next day, shamefaced and bandaged and sullen. He went straight to his den and closed the door, and didn't come out for a week.
Book Review: Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate
I'll begin with the cover of this riveting, beautiful book: two blonde, young girls dressed in white cotton sit on a suitcase—one with a long braid, the other holding a teddy-bear, her arm behind her back as the pair face a body of water from a dock. Already there is a sense of longing before the reader gets to page one. We know from the title that there is a backstory waiting to be revealed, something the reader of this present tense, first-person story set in two timeframes and told through two points of view doesn't know, but should.
Before We Were Yours is based on a true atrocity: In the 1930's, until 1950, an orphanage in Memphis was run by deplorable means for profit, its despicable matron, Georgia Tann, acquiring newborns and young children through any means necessary, posing as the soul of compassion, yet tied in with a corrupt network that condoned illegal, heartbreaking practices of snatching the young from impoverished circumstances under the guise of placing them in better homes. Many confused souls suffered: destitute mothers in post-partum twilight sleep, unaware of the paper they'd signed relinquished their offspring to the Memphis Tennessee Children's Home Society. Names were changed, histories were expunged, case files were sealed, and many were fated as victims set on a life-course of Georgia Tann's self-serving making.
This is a tale of far-reaching history told personally. Author Lisa Wingate gifts us with the voice of young Rill Foss, the eldest of five children raised on a Mississippi river-boat shanty by parents who can provide love, but little else. When her mother is rushed to a Memphis hospital in peril from the coming birth of twins, it is Rill left to hold down the docked fort for her siblings, unaware that they are all sitting ducks, unguarded in the face of Georgia Tann's profiteering scheme.
The reader learns the Foss children's' story in hindsight. It is present day, and thirty-year-old lawyer, Avery Stafford, in the name of her family's politically high-profile status, stumbles upon an old woman in a nursing home, while making a public appearance. When the old woman's story is launched, past and present are woven seamlessly in a coincidental, unravelling of mysteries that pull at the heartstrings all the way through.
It takes a seasoned and gifted writer to emblematically take the harrowing premise of one family torn asunder by the institution of a real life, black-market network and leave us with resounding outrage by crafting the story as a tale of personal injustice. In pitch-perfect language, Before We Were Yours is a search for identity told at its most beautiful. It entices with a sense of urgency through immediate emotional investment and miraculously manages to satisfy the reader through the disturbing arc of a truth laid bare.
Southern Fiction: Gradle Bird by J.C. Sasser
Just when I thought I had a handle on the meaning of southern fiction, on its deep-rooted history, its significance of family and sense of community, J.C. Sasser comes blazing in with both barrels to turn all notions of southern fiction on its ear. The characters in Gradle Bird conduct themselves with similar surprise—they don't walk through a door, they bust through it; they don't take a drag on a cigarette, they rip it.
Sixteen-year-old Gradle Bird doesn't know her backstory. She lives in a truck-stop motel with her grandfather, Leonard, until they move to a dilapidated, haunted house in small town Georgia. All she wants is for Leonard to look her in the eye and tell her about her mother. Leonard won't, and Gradle doesn't know why. But Leonard is haunted by his own backstory, which unfurls in the attic in the arms of a half-dead dancing ghost. Caught in his own history, Leonard doesn't pay attention, when two local ruffians named Sonny Joe and Creif ride up in a truck and whisk Gradle to a junkyard, where the wheels of the story are set in motion at the house of a sixty-year-old King-Fu kicking, guitar playing, country music singing, dumpster-diving orphan named Delvis, who is one of the more endearing eccentrics to ever grace a novel. Sonny Joe and Creif intend to impress Gradle by making mischief at Delvis's expense, but things go wrong and result in Gradle and Delvis's enduring friendship, which, the reader discovers, has its own uncanny ties that bind. This is a southern story that hallucinates; a rollicking, free-association, stream of consciousness joy ride defying description for all its air-tight perfect sense.
I absolutely loved this story. I won't cheapen Sasser's one of a kind voice by saying it's quirky, rather, it is refreshingly and unapologetically right on. This is an author who won't insult the reader by bowing to the temptation of explaining anything that could be interpreted as the oddities of the South. A main character sits at a table in a wife beater. There's nothing campy happening here, it is simply the story's state of affairs, best described by Delvis, who ain't bragging, he's just giving the reader the facts.
Read Gradle Bird and expand your horizons. Start at page one and strap yourself in. Do what I did and savor each uniquely spun line. Finish the book, and if you get your head back, run tell all your friends.
Claire Fullerton is the author of A Portal in Time, and Dancing to an Irish Reel. http://www.clairefullerton.com
The Editing Process (Photo Courtesy of my Editor, who posted this on Facebook.)
I knew it was coming, yet I didn't know when. Last February, after I signed the contract with Firefly Southern Fiction for my third novel, a sins-of-the-father, southern family saga set in 1970's and 1980's Memphis, titled Mourning Dove, I was so ecstatic with the realization that it had found the perfect home, that I didn't think to ask my literary agent when to expect the edits. The reason I didn't think about the edits is because Mourning Dove's release date is a long way off. It is set to release on June 15, 2018, and, because both of my other books were edited close to each publication, I put the editing consideration in the back of my mind.
Three weeks ago, I received an e-mail, and the good news is it had a southern voice. I know the south well, having grown up in Memphis, and will report that one of its charming peculiarities is that its language is delivered underhandedly. No abrupt, cold-splashing directives; southerners tend to cushion their own blows. I have to say it warmed my heart, when the e-mail I received from a complete stranger asked in that inimitable southern way if I was "about ready."
Of course I was ready. I'd spent close to three years in the writing and fine tuning of Mourning Dove. It was an endeavor I held fast to with steel ambition through the publication of my two other books, and because the contract had been signed, I'd moved on to writing my fourth book, thinking I'd press pause down the line, whenever I head from Mourning Dove's editor.
My editor, Eva Marie Everson, issued no further lead time. When I responded with a resounding yes, the first one hundred and twenty three pages arrived in my inbox within the half hour. I know now that this was a move of sheer brilliance on her part. Had I received the entire manuscript at once, it might have been overwhelming. As it was, the appearance of the first part of Mourning Dove was just too tempting not to look at immediately. Once I'd set up my end of the tracking changes, I couldn't help but stop my life and jump right in. And I did stop my life, and by all appearances, so did Eva Marie Everson. While I worked into the night and through the following nine days, so, undoubtedly, did she. Eva worked on the second half of the book while I worked on the first.
It was nine days of joy-riding fun, and I look back now that it's over and know it's my editor who deserves the credit. Because she is not only an acclaimed editor, but an award-winning author of over thirty fiction and non-fiction books, Eva knows her way around bringing out the best of a manuscript in what could potentially be a grueling process. Because she is a writer, she knows how sensitive a writer can be with their labor of love, and had the wisdom to employ the fine art of encouragement in the margins.
She began by sending me a general paragraph of what to expect. She'd addressed my overuse of commas and adjusted my lapses into passive tense. But beyond these, she kept astoundingly respectful of all I'd written. She took no issue with the story line nor first person voice, and because she is a southerner, there was no awkwardness when she came across dialogue that included half-phrases such as, "Well, I have never!"
There was a continuous flow to the editing process that felt like a running dialogue between my editor and me. With both of us knowing the other was at her desk and instantaneously available, we shot e-mails back and forth when the moment required it, and therefore sped through the process in what I experienced as a highly personal manner. What made it feel personal to me was Eva's intuitive grasp of who my characters were from the very beginning. Mourning Dove is a coming of age, family saga wherein the two main characters grow from adolescence to maturity in the opulent south. And because it is a glittering, opulent southern setting, and there is little homespun about it, my editor was keenly aware of the matriarch's character in the story, which is heavily invested in manner and form in the interest of appearances. At one point in the novel, a sixteen year old Finley is taken out of public school and dropped into an elite boy's private school, where he arrives wearing the wrong clothes. "Wait a minute," my editor commented. "How could his mother, Posey, let this happen?" My editor was right. I went into the scene, added a few adjectives in the right place, and the matter was immediately clarified.
It's the small things that can go over a writer's head. A writer can become too close to their novel. But if an editor comes to the task from the vantage point of both editor and reader, continuity gaps are found then filled and essentially the entire manuscript is lifted up to its highest expression. But it doesn't happen overnight. Though in Mourning Dove's case, overnight was also a factor. During the nine days it took to complete the edits of Mourning Dove, I went to my desk first thing one morning and discovered my editor had sent an e-mail at 3:30 AM. Baffled, I disregarded the e-mail's contents in favor of the more salient question, which is to say I wrote back and asked what she was doing up at that hour of the morning. "Your characters are keeping me up," she returned, "I figured I might as well get up and keep working."
Once I received the second half of the novel, the edits seemed to pick up steam. By this juncture, the story's foundation had been laid, the characters introduced, and what transpired from here was essentially a deepening of this cause and effect story, all the way to its climax, followed by an epilogue.
"I'm a mess," my editor wrote at the end, in the side bar. "I have to go fix my mascara."
If comments such as these don't endear you to an editor, then let me suggest that nothing will.
All told, the editing of Mourning Dove happened in three layers: first, the punctuation and grammar, then a handful of places that either needed slight filling out or a sentence of clarification. Last was the run through of breaking the manuscript into balanced chapters, which my editor did to absolute perfection, without my involvement.
What I took away from the experience of Mourning Dove is this: If an author is graced with the attention of an editor of the caliber that I was, they'd be doing very well to keep and study the initial mark up. It is there an author will learn of their weaknesses and short-comings, and in so doing, the author is left with a road map of how to improve their craft and continue to grow as a writer.
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Girl on the Leeside by Kathleen Anne Kenney.
Because I once lived in a small town in Connemara, at the gateway of the Irish-speaking area called the Gaeltacht, I look for those novels that depict the region as it is, for once one has spent significant time there, its ways and means register in the soul with perpetual resonance, leaving one forever nostalgic for what can only be described as the west of Ireland's consciousness. It isn't easy to capture, for all its subtle nuances, yet author Kathleen Anne Kenney has done just that in writing Girl on the Leeside in the manner the region deserves, which is to say this beautiful story is gifted to the reader with a sensitive, light touch.
Girl on the Leeside is deep in character study. Most of what happens concerns the human predicament, no matter where it is set. More than a coming of age story centered on twenty seven year old Siobhan Doyle, it is a story of the path to emotional maturity, out of a circumstantial comfort zone, (which, in this case, is perfectly plausible, due to its isolated and insular Irish setting) into all that it takes to overcome one's self-imposed limitations to brave the risk of furthering one's life.
In utter fearlessness, Kathleen Anne Kenney invites the reader to suspend disbelief in giving us an otherworldly character that speaks to the inner fairy in those who dare to dream. Small and ethereal Siobhan is orphaned at the age of two by her unconventional mother, and father of unknown origin. She is taken in and raised by her mother's brother, Keenan Doyle, the publican of his family's generational, rural establishment called the Leeside, near the shores of a lough tucked away in remote Connemara. Introverted, with little outside influence, she is keenly possessed by her culture's ancient poetry and folklore. She is a natural born artist, gifted with an intuitive grasp on words and story, a passion shared by her Uncle Keenan, yet so pronounced in her that she walks the line between fantasy and reality. It isn't easy to redirect one's invested frame of reference in the world, if it isn't completely necessary, yet necessity arrives at the Leeside, when American professor of ancient Irish poetry and folklore, Tim Ferris, comes to compare literary notes with Siobhan and Keenan. It is this catalyst that sets the wheels in motion of a heartfelt, insightful story that involves the willingness to grow. All throughout, author Kathleen Anne Kenney explores the myriad fears that get in the way, and shows us the way to triumph.
Girl on the Leeside is a deceptively soft read. It is so laden with beautiful imagery, so seamlessly woven with radiant poetry that it lulls you into its poignancy and holds you captive, all the way to its satisfying end.