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Another week, another awesome cover reveal!
This time, it's the very dramatic cover for Infinity Key by Chrysoula Tzavelas, the second book in the Senyaza Series (after Matchbox Girls). Once again, the painting was done by the talented Sean Dietrich of Industriacide – it really captures the novel. As in, once you read the book, you'll find yourself staring at that cover and noticing more and more little details…it really sucks you in, and takes you on a visual journey into the novel!
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While her best friend is pulled into the supernatural underworld, Branwyn isn't about to sit on the sidelines. Unfortunately, Branwyn is decidedly mortal, and in the supernatural underworld, humans are weak and helpless, no better than toys, tools and prey. But she isn't having any of that. Branwyn wants to face the world on her own terms, mortal or not.
When she strikes a bargain with an imprisoned faerie, Branwyn thinks she's found the solution. He'll teach her magic and she'll use that magic on his behalf. It's a great deal, until she discovers what the faeries really want from her: there's a door that only she can open…
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A vivid picture given of black community's state of mind in 1971
Few things still divide the Port City as much as the Wilmington Ten.
For much of the city, the 10 defendants, mostly black high school students, were victims of an appalling miscarriage of justice, railroaded by prosecutorial misconduct and coached witnesses into sentences totaling 282 years for the firebombing of a Wilmington grocery store in 1971. This is now the official view of the state, since former Gov. Beverly Perdue issued them all pardons of innocence as one of her last acts of office in 2012.
For others, however, the Ten remain urban terrorists who almost literally got away with murder, revolutionaries befriended by liberal do-gooders and the media.
Now, Wayne Moore, who has become a spokesman for the surviving members of the Ten, has published his memoirs and his side of the story. "Triumphant Warrior" is unlikely to change any minds. It does, however, provide a vivid picture of what much of Wilmington's African-American community was thinking and feeling early in 1971, when a school boycott escalated into violence.
For Moore, the whole tragedy – and one of the sorest blows delivered to black Wilmington – was the closing of historically black Williston High School as part of New Hanover County's desegregation process.
For some – such as Dr. Hubert Eaton, the lead plaintiff in New Han�over's desegregation lawsuit – any separate school was inherently unequal. For Moore and many others, though, Williston, its Tiger teams, its band and chorus, were sources of community pride and strength. The school had sent graduates on to the Ivy Leagues. As a boy, Moore couldn't wait for the day he could go to Williston. When it was his turn, however, the school doors closed.
Even in the best of circumstances, fitting these disaffected students into formerly all-white Hoggard and New Hanover high schools would have been tricky. These were not the best of circumstances.
Moore bitterly rejects the notion that trouble was stirred up by the arrival of Ben Chavis and other "outside agitators." Trouble had already been brewing, he maintains, ever since the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The kettle came to a boil on Jan. 15, 1971, when a number of Hoggard students (including Moore) staged a sit-in in the school cafeteria, protesting because their request for a memorial program for King had been turned down. Some days later, a black student was hit in the head by a bottle thrown by a white student at an off-campus hangout near New Hanover High's campus.
There were outside agitators, though. Within days, Klansmen and extremists from a local group known as "Rights of White People" were cruising black neighborhoods in cars and pickups, taking pot shots. In response, black GIs from Fort Bragg, Marines from Camp Lejeune and Black Panthers from the Piedmont packed Gregory Congregational Church, which became the student boycott's de facto headquarters.
Moore acknowledges there were firearms in Gregory Congregational, although he insists they were for self-defense. He says he was out of the church on the night Mike's Grocery was torched, babysitting his sister's children in the Hillcrest housing project. (His sister was never called as a witness.)
"Triumphant Warrior" will cause controversy. Moore makes charges against a number of public figures in Wilmington, including former Sheriff Joe McQueen. He quotes an unnamed witness who claimed to see owner Mike Poulos setting fire to his own grocery. (Poulos and his son vehemently deny this.)
Moore also salutes some peacemakers, notably the Rev. Eugene Templeton of Gregory Congregational, longtime educator Bertha Todd and former school superintendent Heyward Bellamy.
Much of "Triumphant Warrior," however, is a story of healing. After his release from prison on parole, Moore attended Shaw University. Later he moved to Michigan, where he became a career electrician and an active Prince Hall Mason. Tragedy still dogged him; his wife died of cancer at the age of 32. Yet he put together a life for himself and his family, and his daughter went on to graduate from UNCW.
As for the other side of the story, former assistant district attorney James T. "Jay" Stroud, who prosecuted the Wilmington Ten case, is reported to be working on his own memoirs.
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Alice Greenwald, a programme director at Washington's Holocaust Museum, has been named as the first director of the World Trade Centre Memorial Museum. The job will involve creating a permanent exhibition that tells the story of both the 9/11 attacks and the terrorist bombing of the north tower in 1993.
Construction begins this month on the underground museum and the accompanying memorial, with both due to open on September 11 2009.
"It's somewhat intimidating," says Greenwald. "I don't think there's a person on the earth who hasn't got a 9/11 story to tell. For people of my generation this was the first act of war on our shores. It's a defining moment for almost everyone I know. "
The museum is expected to cover over 100,000 square feet, and will be situated next to Reflecting Absence, the memorial designed by Michael Arad and Peter Walker. This consists of twin pools of water in the footprints of the original towers, set in a plaza surrounded by oak trees.The whole project is expected to cost £285m, with £92m of that allocated to the museum.
Artifacts and debris from the collapsed towers will be on display, along with crushed fire trucks and other emergency vehicles rescued from the scene. However, Greenwald is determined that the museum will be more than simply a series of exhibits. She wants to create a narrative experience that will serve both as a historical resource and as a place for those affected by the attacks to mourn.


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confront our history", and Professor Joan Villarroya, representing the Department
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history of the 20th century". He also emphasised Preston's critical thinking and
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Paul Preston (illustrated by José Pablo García), La Guerra Civil Española (Barcelona: Debate, 2016), 240 pp. (ISBN: 9788499926650)
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On 8 March 2016 the acclaimed Spanish novelist and columnist Javier Marías
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The celebrated Spanish novelist Eduardo Mendoza attended the LSE Literary
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Spanish Civil War. Together with Prof. Paul Preston and Prof. Helen Graham,
he discussed the challenges of incorporating historical events into fiction.
On the 3rd of February, Professor Paul Preston was awarded the Premi Ciutat
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great significance for the city of Barcelona" (see article). The ceremony will be
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Here is Rosalyn Stevens' sales pitch for a sleek sailboat, offered for $1,850 on Kijiji: "Buy my stupid ex-boyfriend's boat: It's cheap, like his excuses!" Her ex, whose anonymity has been maintained, bought the boat before they started dating, then offloaded it onto the 28-year-old Almonte, Ont., woman when their love went south this spring. "My stupid ex boyfriend is a commitment-phobe, so I guess it's no surprise that he wasn't up to the commitment involved in owning a boat," she wrote in the ad, adding: "Don't worry; I'm not a crazy jilted woman. I've got the legal right to sell this beauty." The Post's Sarah Boesveld caught up with Ms. Stevens on Wednesday:
This is an interesting marketing strategy. You're hoping some shoppers can sympathize with having a "stupid ex-boyfriend?"
When I wrote it, I was in a situation where he'd basically walked away from the storage fees and the moving fees and left me with a boat on my membership at the club and I couldn't afford to pay for it because I already have my own boat.
Did you have a big fight and post the ad in anger?
When we broke up, we didn't talk for a long time. But we still had to deal with the fact that he had this boat at my house. We'd been friends for 12 years beforehand and then dated for a couple of months — it was a miscommunication that ended it. He lives in Welland, Ont. and I live near Ottawa. Long distance is not easy. And when you throw in other drama and crap it makes it even harder.
You sound really ticked off in that ad.
I wish he was angrier. That's the really crappy part. He was so nonchalant, he was like 'Nope, I can't take care of it.' And I was thinking 'Where is this attitude coming from? Why are you being such an idiot?' So we were dealing with that and the next day I circulated the ad in my head, thinking 'How do I sell this boat?' I texted the headline to a couple of friends and they said 'You're an idiot, as if you're going to put that online. What's wrong with you? People are going to think you're crazy.'
The ad has been online since May.
Yes it has. I had what I thought were some seriously interested buyers and at the last minute, sort of flaked away.
There are way too many flakes in your life.
I know! They're my specialty. Some of the responses I've had have been 'You go girl! I have a stupid ex-boyfriend too, I wish I had something of his to sell.' Other people are saying 'No wonder he dumped you, you're crazy! No one's ever going to date you again!' That's my brother's take on it now, that it's a surefire way I'll never get a boyfriend. But I thought 'You know what? If you can't laugh at it, you're not for me.'
Some people might read the line "No amount of work, dedication or patience could save him" and think 'Was he really that bad?' Surely you're exaggerating.
I'm totally exaggerating. I'm having fun with a crappy situation.
Has your ex seen the ad?
Actually I talked to him last night. He says he hadn't yet read it, not in detail. He thinks the headline is hilarious.
Do you have fond memories of your time on the boat? Romantic sojourns?
We had lots of plans. The plan was to take it through the Rideau Canal and across the Great Lakes to Welland, where he lives. It was going to be this spring, in May. We talked about sailing across the Atlantic together, sailing up the North Channel and moving out to Victoria or something. You know, best friends. As best friends. But he's a really crappy boyfriend.
You'd met while sailing?
So he's a sailor too?
He's an adventurer more than a sailor. He's the kind of guy who'll say 'Hey this looks cool' and just sort of jump on board.
Was that part of the problem?
[Laughs] No comment.
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New mouth to feed for white-tailed eagles
THEY made history last year as the first couple to raise a white-tailed eagle chick to fly from a nest in Ireland for over a century and now they're caring for their latest arrival.
The nesting pair in Mountshannon, Co Clare, are among seven couples that have hatched chicks so far this year.
A total of 14 pairs of eagles are holding territories across four counties with at least half nesting and laying eggs.
But most of these will die, according to experts, usually due to cold weather and the inexperience of the parents.
Another chick had hatched in Glengarriff, Co Cork – the first to hatch this year – but it died about two weeks later, most likely due to a combination of poor weather and inexperience.
But hopes are high that the Mountshannon pair, and others around the country, will successfully raise chicks that will form the basis of a viable white-tailed eagle population in Ireland.
As part of a reintroduction programme, 100 young Norwegian eagles were released in Killarney National Park between 2007 and 2011.
Project manager of the Golden Eagle Trust, Dr Allan Mee, said experience was telling them that most nesting pairs will fail in their first attempt.
"It was very cold and wet and some of them just can't handle that, especially if the parents leave the eggs for too long and they get cold," he said.
"In 2013 we had our first chicks reared in the wild in Clare but this year we are excited to see that pairs are nesting as far away as Connemara, although Kerry remains the stronghold for the species."
Dr Mee added that the increase in the number of pairs nesting was encouraging.
Heritage Minister Jimmy Deenihan said the development was promising especially after the "dark day" earlier this year when of one of two white-tailed eagles born here last year was shot dead.
"The breeding pair at Mountshannon gives the public an opportunity to see one of the most spectacular birds in this country at close quarters. They have proven to be a benefit to the local economy."
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Father Emmanuel Asi, secretary of the Biblical Commission of Pakistan, denounced this week that Christians in that country are experiencing "social discrimination, political oppression and religious persecution."
Speaking to Aid to the Church in Need, Father Asi explained that Christians in Pakistan are considered second-class citizens who are denied the most basic of human rights.
Father Asi made his comments as the 60th anniversary of the creation of Pakistan was marked on August 14. In his opinion, the ideal of the "father of the Pakistani nation," Ali Jinnah, has faded and the openness to others without discrimination which he championed no longer exists.
He went on to note that aggression against Christians for religious reasons leads to "all kinds of problems one can imagine," and thus many believers live in fear.
"The Church encourages the faithful to celebrate the national holidays, in order to promote a greater sense of community between the members of different religions in the country," he stressed.
Christians make up 1.5% of the 167 million inhabitants of Pakistan.
The Catholic Biblical Commission, which receives assistance from Aid to the Church in Need, has published a ninth edition of the Bible in Urdu, which together with English is the official language of Pakistan. "Our Catholic faithful nourish a natural and innate love for Sacred Scripture," Father Asi said.


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Amidst tough economic times, consumers are rushing to their local stores to spend their hard-earned cash in order to get their hands on the latest gimmicky collectable freebies.
It appears as if the collector craze has set in across the country as three of South Africa's top supermarket retailers, Checkers, Pick n Pay and Spar have launched campaigns which offer customers a freebie at the tills when they spend over R150.
Checkers has taken SA's most beloved grocery brands and shrunk them into 29 little collectables with its infectious Little Shop Mini Collectables campaign.
Pick n Pay has introduced Super Animals – 108 wildlife cards to collect, play and swop – while Spar has launched its Angry Birds promotion where shoppers can collect 24 Angry Birds 3D lenticular cards and stickers.
But there's more to collecting cute mini product replicas and tradable wildlife cards – for retailers, it's about money, data and strategy, while for shoppers it's about education – well mostly for the kids anyway.
The Checkers Little Shop Mini Collectables campaign teaches young people entrepreneurship and Pick n Pay's Super Animals educates kids on nature and conservation.
R1 from every Super Animal Activity and Collector's Album sold will be added to a fund that is distributed evenly to partner wildlife organisations including the SPCA, Endangered Wildlife Trust, SANParks and more.
Smartly, all three campaigns boast a digital presence with online games, apps and downloadable content.
The current debate is that these campaigns are unethical – luring shoppers to spend and manipulatively targeting children to get their parents to pull out their wallets. However, according to comments on social media, adults and little ones alike are enjoying the campaigns.
At the end of the shopping day, it's an individual's choice as to how and where they spend their money.
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towards a country Emblems drenched in darkness Twisting their faces from me Ubiquitous market With the innocence watching To see what's on the table
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It may surprise you to learn that the average cost of a Rhode Island wedding was $42,469 in 2013 (CNN/TheKnot.com survey). If this is way out of your budget, you'll be happy to know that the average cost nationwide is [only] ~ $30K. With many beautiful mansions and venues in Newport, we can only suspect that this is what causes RI to be one of the most expensive states to have a wedding!
No matter your budget, the amount to spend for each aspect of your wedding can be determined by a percentage calculation. Below are example budgets based on the nationwide average and the RI average.
Now remember, these are just estimated costs and percentages. Perhaps you may spend more in one area and less in another area. You may be able to reduce or even eliminate some of these expenses.
For example, you may be wearing your mother's wedding dress. This will eliminate, or at least reduce, the estimated cost of your bridal gown. The wedding dress of your dreams may be more than your budget allows. If that is the case, ask yourself where your priorities are. Would you rather spend more on your wedding dress and less on your photographs?
Another way to reduce costs is to use flowers that are in season on your wedding day. Obviously if you use flowers that are not in season, it is going to cost you more. Cutting corners in one expense can save you in another. These are just a few examples. You can decide what is best for your budget. Be flexible, if you spend more in one expense, reapportion it to another expense.
Creating a budget with your fiance will probably save you a lot of headaches. Being realistic about costs and actually seeing the numbers written down on paper will help you from spending out of control. The key is to create the wedding of your dreams and stay within your budget!


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NEW YORK -- The New York Yankees are making Johan Santana quickly forget his no-hitter.
The Yankees hit three consecutive home runs in the third inning Friday night against the New York Mets ace, who was making his first start since no-hitting the St. Louis Cardinals a week ago.
Santana's bid for consecutive no-hitters ended with none out in the second inning when he gave up a two-run homer to Robinson Cano. That followed a leadoff walk to Alex Rodriguez.
The Yankees struck with the long ball again in the third inning. With two outs and Rodriguez on first after a single, Cano, Nick Swisher and Andruw Jones hit back-to-back-to-back home runs.
Santana was lifted after the fifth inning and the Mets trailing 6-0. He allowed six runs on seven hits, striking out five and walking one. Santana threw 86 pitches.
After the first no-hitter in Mets history, manager Terry Collins gave Santana two extra days rest to protect his surgically repaired left shoulder.
Johnny Vander Meer remains the only major leaguer to throw consecutive no-hitters, accomplishing the feat in 1938 with Cincinnati.
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Leda and the Swan
William Butler Yeats
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still
Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed
By his dark webs, her nape caught in his bill,
He holds her helpless breast upon his breast.
How can those terrified vague fingers push
The feathered glory from her loosening thighs?
How can anybody, laid in that white rush,
But feel the strange heart beating where it lies?
A shudder in the loins, engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
Being so caught up,
So mastered by the brute blood of the air,
Did she put on his knowledge with his power
Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
We have considered the problem of Man fundamentally alienated from Nature. Here, divinity rapes a girl, taking the guise of Nature. There is a unity, but a forced unity, and the tragic beginning brings forth a tragic ending.
The Homeric understanding of Zeus is being used here, but perhaps also rejected. Zeus is the god whose plan causes the withdrawal of all gods and the rule of heroes on this Earth throughout the course of the Iliad and Odyssey. For all his problems, Zeus puts in action a plan that brings about the possibility of justice between humans, the possibility of all too human rule.
But here, Zeus is committing an act of horrific injustice. He turns himself into a beautiful creature that is monstrous in its attempt to pursue beauty. "A sudden blow" testifies not just to the violence, but the lack of a plan on Zeus' part. And yet, there is a strange order to the whole incident. – And that order is not merely the rough arrangement of the stanzas into past, present, future. –
There are "wings" above the "staggering girl;" "dark webs" caressing the "thighs," and her "nape" is "caught" in his bill. The unity of Man and god involves a correspondence of motions. The middle image of her thighs being unable to move and the last image of her head being unable to move are motions we can understand in terms of appetites (sexual is included here) and rationality.
But what about that less metaphorical motion, the one of one creature flying and the other one walking? Why did god choose to fly?
The strangest word in that middle stanza is "vague." Why are her fingers vague? Is it that Leda's hand looks overwhelmed by the white around it, and that one cannot see it anymore? Or is something else going on, perhaps with her state of mind (i.e. the last two lines of the poem)? Whose "strange heart" are we talking about?
An answer is suggested by way of contrast with Among School Children. There, Yeats, contemplating Helen of Troy, brings forth the topic of Leda once again:
I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire. a tale that she
Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event
That changed some childish day to tragedy –
Told, and it seemed that our two natures blent
Into a sphere from youthful sympathy,
Or else, to alter Plato's parable,
Into the yolk and white of the one shell.
The issue is Plato's Symposium. Aristophanes, the comic poet, is portrayed in that work as giving the most tragic account of love. Man was originally a creature who had two faces, two sets of arms, two sets of legs. The back and sides were rounded, but other than that, this being looked like it could be split in two. This creature was able to roll around the Earth and was exceedingly powerful and almost rolled up to Olympus, before Zeus and Apollo split the creature and twisted each half around to create Man. Hence, love now is a result of a fundamental alienation from our better halves, where we would be more powerful than the gods if we were the way we were before. It can't ever be had that way, though, because of the artifice of the gods: we have a back and a front, a direction built into us now, that takes us far away from what we were, and what we experienced.
But Yeats is changing this story too, or at least his narrator in "Among School Children" is. The change is that he is saying this "globular" creature was more like an egg – eros wasn't a claim to power, so much, as a beginning.
And now we see what is happening. The question of human and divine beginnings is a competition: Who can work with Nature the best? That competition brings Man and god into a strange, deadly unity: we are loved by divinity even as we are abused by it and even as we are seeking to use it.
That last comment, "use divinity," seems out of line given the emphasis in both these poems on beauty's innocence. Someone is being raped, another watches a city be destroyed over her. And we know from Shakespeare that beauty is best preserved in writing of an immortal beauty, an intellect which is the product of all ages. It does not seem like beauty wants to put on power, especially not to beget anything.
The rape metaphor is the sticking point. One does not want to say "this rape didn't happen," especially not in a world where women are still treated awfully. But it is curious that divinity does the rape, divinity being that which we aspire to in many ways. It is even more curious when one considers the distant yet very human love in "Among School Children," where generational unity is seen as the product of a new age. The narrator of that poem is going to die, and what will be is his concern, not his own power.
That human/divine contrast is making me wonder whether the divine exists in any significant sense in this poem. The issue more like this: the age eclipsed by Christianity had a serious flaw – it put too much trust in eros. Knowledge is literally an afterthought in this poem. The question of freedom is submerged under the reality of power.
Another age requires another beginning. It might be that all beginnings are erotic, where revolution and competing wills and an attempt to conjure a divinity that masters one more than one masters it erode any possibility of self-rule. That is the question of this poem, whether all ages are the same.
My own thought is that "Among School Children" is a companion to this, that there are alternatives if one takes knowledge and freedom more seriously. But it should be noted that the ultimate Platonic teaching holds that eros is everything, and as we can see from this poem, that is a curse as well as a foundation.


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Optimizing compression in scan-based ATPG DFT implementations
Contents, March 2007
Limits of test time reduction
by Chris Allsup
June 2006
In the 1990s, Carnegie Mellon researchers created a comprehensive scan-test cost model that demonstrated how design for test (DFT) contributes to profitability (Ref. 1). With scan compression in wide use, it is time for a new economic model, consistent with the earlier framework but focused on scan compression, not just scan. To that end, I have developed an economic theory (Ref. 2) that unifies test data reduction and time reduction concepts and considers the impact of test pattern inflation.
I have written in these pages previously (Ref. 3) on test application time reduction (TATR), which along with test data volume reduction (TDVR) has diminishing returns as compression increases (Ref. 4). TATR is an asymptotic function. For a scan-compression factor of x (assuming the scan chains are well balanced with no pattern-inflation issues), TATR can be expressed as:
TATR = 100% • (1 - 1/x)
Figure 1. An optimal compression level, λ, minimizes test cost. xC is the compression level needed to fit a complete scan ATPG pattern set, PC, into the fixed amount of tester memory. TATR denotes the economic benefits of increasing compression up to λ.
Therefore, at 50X compression, you can expect at most a 98% test time reduction: 100% (1 – 1/50) = 98%. And at 100X compression, you can expect at most a 99% test time reduction: 100% • (1 – 1/100) = 99%.
An optimal compression level, λ, minimizes the total costs of test and, consequently, maximizes profits. Above this optimal compression level, the total costs of test gradually increase again. In Figure 1, the x-axis represents the ratio of the number of internal scan chains to the number of external scan chains.
In this article, I address the cost impact, in terms of dollars per good die, on digital-scan tests that employ automatic test pattern generation (ATPG), with respect to the following major cost components of test:
Cost of field escapes (CESC) is the cost of defective ICs that are incorrectly identified as good parts, so they "escape" to the field. (You can also consider the cost of escapes going from, say, wafer probe to system-level test). If your pattern set doesn't fit within tester memory, you can use compression to significantly reduce this cost.
Test execution cost (CEXEC) is the cost directly related to the test cycle count and the tester time spent running ATPG patterns. Compression can decrease this cost, although not always.
Silicon area overhead cost (CSILICON) consists of the cost of the scan-compression circuits and interconnects in your design. This cost is proportional to the amount of compression in a design.
In addition, there are two costs that are less affected by compression:
Cost of test preparation (CPREP) is the engineering, compute-resource, and tool costs related to preparing ATPG test patterns. Establishing a meaningful relationship between the scan-compression level and CPREP is difficult. For automated scan compression, there is not a large impact on CPREP in going from, say, 10X compression to 50X compression.
Cost to diagnose failed parts (CDIAG) can be significant, especially for highly compressed designs that you debug manually. But as with CPREP, CDIAG is difficult to quantify in terms of compression level. Because automated tools are getting better at diagnosing compressed designs, this cost is relatively insensitive to compression level.
Consequently, the only reason to implement scan compression is to reduce CESC and CEXEC, but you must keep in mind that any increase in compression also increases the expense of CSILICON.
TDVR and TATR revisited
TDVR can only reduce the cost of escapes, and TATR can only reduce test execution cost. To understand why, consider a complete high-fault-coverage ATPG pattern set. Call the number of patterns PC, in which "C" denotes "complete." Also assume that you can't fit the entire pattern set into the tester memory, M, allocated for ATPG stimulus and response patterns, so you must use compression.
To load a subset of these patterns into tester memory, you need to compress by exactly the amount of test data volume corresponding to the pattern level, P, divided by M. This is just the ratio of P to P0, the number of patterns you can load into memory without compression:
where F is the number of scan flops in the design. The coefficient 3 represents one scan stimulus bit, one response bit, and one mask or measure bit to determine if the response bit should be compared or not. For each unit increase in compression, you can load P0additional patterns from the complete set into memory.
Somewhere between "no compression" and a high level of compression lies xC, which represents the level needed to fit the complete scan ATPG pattern set, PC, into the fixed amount of tester memory. The "TDVR phase" is defined as the range of compression that extends up to this compression level, xC = PC/P0. Increasing compression above this level has no economic benefit in terms of reducing the cost of escapes, because there are no additional patterns being loaded to improve quality.
Above xC, however, you do have potential cost savings from TATR, because the scan-chain lengths continue to decrease with higher compression. You can define compression higher than xC as the "TATR phase."
In this phase, you can continue increasing compression up to λ, above which the area overhead cost of compression exceeds the benefit of decreasing test application time. The maximum TATR that is economically viable is the ratio of λ to xC.
In Figure 1, the TDVR phase extends to 4X compression. The TATR phase starts at 4X, and the maximum cost-effective TATR is at 20X, but this doesn't imply a 20X, or even a 16X, test time reduction. Instead, you get 5X, or an 80%, reduction in test time, which works out to be exactly the ratio of the test cycle count at 20X and at 4X compression. The graph indicates that compression decreases the total costs of test by about 95%, with all but 4% of this reduction occurring in the TDVR phase.
To understand the disparity in cost reduction between TDVR and TATR, I'll now examine the impact that compression has on the three component costs of test that are highly sensitive to compression level.
Impact of compression on cost of escapes
The following exponential approximates the convergence of fault coverage vs. pattern count using an ATPG tool, especially in the high-coverage region:
where fC represents the maximum measured fault coverage of the complete pattern set, PC, and Δ is the difference between fC and the maximum predicted fault coverage. The smaller Δ is, the larger the exponential constant, and the faster the convergence.
Figure 2. a) If λ is greater than xC, then you know there are cost savings to be gained by increasing compression to reduce tester time. b) Alternatively, if you find that λ is less than xC, you know that the most cost-effective compression strategy is to simply truncate the patterns.
Recall that compression in the TDVR phase is just the ratio of the pattern count, P, to the number of patterns you can load into tester memory without compression, P0. Therefore, if you substitute xP0 for P in the exponential formula, you can describe the fault coverage as a function of compression, and the exponential constant is simply scaled by P0.
Once you have fault coverage as a function of compression, you can describe the escape rate using the Williams and Brown formula (Ref. 5) that expresses escape rate as a function of fault coverage and yield. The cost of escapes, at the least, will be the cost to manufacture and test these escapes.
Keep in mind, however, that the cost of escapes can actually be higher. The Carnegie Mellon cost model uses a parameter αESC to account for this escape-multiplier effect at any given stage of the test process. The higher the multiplier, the greater the cost of escapes across all compression levels.
As you increase compression, the cost of escapes drops off logarithmically as the additional patterns loaded into tester memory detect more faults, until all the patterns are loaded at xC. Above xC, the TDVR phase ends, and there is no further decrease in the cost of escapes; the curve is flat, as illustrated in Figure 2a.
Impact of compression on cost of test execution
Test execution time is constant during the TDVR phase, because every unit increase in compression adds another P0 number of patterns that must be tested, which exactly offsets any potential test time reduction. This test time is approximately T0, the time it takes to execute all P0 patterns on the tester without compression:
where C is the number of scan I/O channels (or external scan chains) and fTEST is the tester scan-shift frequency. Above xC, tester time declines by a factor of xC/x, as shown in Figure 2a.
Impact of compression on the silicon area overhead cost
Independent of the compression phase, the silicon area cost will continue to increase as you increase the number of scan chains for compression. A simple linear formula that represents the circuit die size as a function of compression (Ref. 3) can model this increase. You can measure the slope, γ, of this area increase empirically or use a ratio-of-gates approach, given by:
where g is the number of compression-circuit gates added per scan chain, G0 is the total number of gates in the design without compression, and C is again the number of scan I/O channels.
It's useful to introduce a second-order area-scaling factor, ζ, to model a nonlinear area increase that can occur with higher compression. Even if the added gates per scan chain remains constant, wire-routing congestion at higher scan levels could increase the silicon area more than the linear formula predicts.
Note that higher values of γ and ζ tend to work against compression, lowering l. The silicon cost is displayed in Figure 2a. As you approach 100X compression, the cost increases by about two orders of magnitude, as expected.
Finding the optimal compression level
You can apply this methodology and these equations to find the optimal compression level. Start by running ATPG to measure the fault coverage as a function of pattern count. Next, derive the exponential constant, η, to curve-fit f(P) in equation 2 to your data using appropriate values of Δ. Finally, calculate the optimal compression level, λ, that minimizes the total cost:
Once you know the optimal compression level, λ, you have insight into implementing the most cost-effective compression strategy. If you calculate λ and it is identical to xC, then you compress all the ATPG patterns knowing you have minimized the costs of test.
If you estimate that λ is greater than xC, then you know there are cost savings to be gained by increasing compression to reduce tester time. Use the following equation to calculate λ exactly (Table 1 defines the parameters):
Say you need to apply a certain level of compression xC= 4 to fit the complete pattern set into tester memory and your calculated value of λ is 20, greater than xC. You'll want to increase compression to xC = 20 to take full advantage of more cost savings from test time reduction. λ occurs where the cost derivatives for the silicon area overhead and the test execution time are equal. Note that the fault coverage and the escape multiplier don't even factor in, because the cost of escapes is flat during the TATR phase and has no impact on λ when it is greater than xC.
Alternatively, if you estimate that λ is less than xC, you can calculate it as follows:
In this case, you truncate the pattern set. In this situation (Figure 2b), all patterns, PC, can be loaded into tester memory by compressing to 103X. But compressing more than λ = 47 just increases costs, so there is no economic benefit gained by compressing any higher.
λ occurs where the cost derivatives for silicon area overhead and escapes are equal. Although the cost of escapes is sensitive to the maximum fault coverage, fC, the cost derivative always occurs in the high-coverage region and is therefore insensitive to fC as long as fault coverage is high. In this case, λ is nearly independent of fC.
Pattern inflation
Figure 3. For any pattern level, the compression level increases relative to the baseline condition without pattern inflation.
So far, I have ignored the phenomenon of pattern inflation caused by compression. But you really can't disregard it, because the higher the compression level, the more patterns that ATPG produces. Although linearity of pattern inflation is not a strict requirement for this economic model, in-house experiments on many designs have revealed that pattern inflation behaves linearly across a wide range of compression levels. You can describe the effects of pattern inflation using a parameter, ε, that represents the fractional increase in pattern count per unit increase in compression.
First, examine the effect pattern inflation has on TDVR. Remember that in the TDVR phase, the compression level is just the ratio of the number of patterns, P, that fit in memory at this level to the number of patterns, P0, that fit in memory without compression. It follows that for any pattern level, the compression level increases relative to the baseline condition without pattern inflation in the manner displayed in Figure 3. Essentially, more compression is needed to load the same amount of patterns into tester memory than before.
This implies that xC also increases with pattern inflation. For a design with λ in the TATR phase, sufficiently high ε can increase xC above the predicted value of λ in equation 5. The result is that test time reduction is no longer cost effective, and you will find it more beneficial to compress to the level xC or less. To determine how much to compress, solve the following formula for x:
where the right-hand side represents equation 6, the formula for λ ≤ xC that assumes zero pattern inflation. The magnitude of λ in the TDVR phase will be higher when you account for pattern inflation than that predicted by equation 6. Note that it's easy to solve equation 7 by obtaining the intersection of the curves corresponding to each term.
Now, examine the effect pattern inflation has on TATR. Pattern inflation increases the TDVR phase. The effect of an increase in xC, however, is completely offset by a corresponding decrease in the rate (per unit increase in compression) of test time reduction due to the pattern-inflation term, 1 + εx. Therefore, while pattern inflation increases the execution cost, there is no net change in the magnitude of λ.
You can thus use simple criteria to decide if you even need to account for pattern inflation to determine the optimal level of compression. If λ is much larger than xC with no pattern inflation, then there is a strong likelihood that it will still be larger than xC even after pattern inflation is factored in. Equivalently,
If this condition is true, you need not measure ε. If the condition is false, then you need to extract the value of ε to find λ using equation 7. To do this, run ATPG on your design with several different compression levels. Figure 4 plots pattern count vs. compression for an industrial design implemented at five different compression levels, where each point corresponds to the same fault-coverage level.
Figure 4. This graph plots pattern count vs. compression for an industrial design implemented at five different compression levels, where each point corresponds to the same fault coverage level. Once you calculate the least-squares curve fit, ε is just the ratio of the slope of the line to its y-intercept.
Once you calculate the least-squares curve fit, ε is the ratio of the line's slope to its y-intercept. Subsequently, use the y-intercept in the formulas instead of PC.
In summary, most savings from compression arise from either TDVR or TATR. If you must compress your patterns to load them into memory, then TDVR will be the dominant factor contributing to savings and you can use even more compression to derive incremental savings from test time reduction. Conversely, if most of your patterns fit into memory without compression, then TATR savings can be significant, especially if you have few scan I/O channels.
But the silicon-area-overhead cost places a limit on the full benefits of compression. For any design, an optimal compression level, λ, maximizes profits by minimizing test costs. The optimal compression level is unique for each product and is a function of process, design, DFT and compression architecture, tester configuration, and cost infrastructure. Table 1 summarizes how these parameters influence xC and λ. You can use this table as a convenient guide on your way to discovering the most cost-effective compression strategy.
Table 1. Parameters affecting optimal compression level
|x C
|λ &xC
|λ >xC
|PC, ε
|PC, ε, γ, ζ, η, fC
|PC, γ, ζ, C
|Const infrastructure
|Truncate patterns
|Reduce test time
|(Parameters in red have a positive correlation; those in blue have a negative correlation.)
|Escape-rate multiplier
|Scan compression area-scaling factor
|Pattern inflation factor for compression
|Second-order area scaling coefficient
|Exponential constant affecting fault-coverage convergence
|Die area without compression
|Number of external scan chains or scan I/O pairs
|Silicon-area cost multiplier
|Number of scan flip flops
|Fault coverage of complete pattern set
|Tester scan-clock frequency
|Memory allocated for stimulus/response patterns
|Scan ATPG pattern count before inflation
|Cost of active tester
|Manufacturing yield
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Introduction to Google SketchUp
February 2012, ©2013
This edition is updated with the latest version of Google SketchUp software, easy-to-read, and practical, this text not only helps you learn how to use Google SketchUp at your own pace; it helps you master the core competencies and skills you need to succeed. Developed with architects, interior designers, landscapers and other design gurus in mind, Google SketchUp is the fast, easy way to build 3D models of anything you wants—buildings, furniture, landscapes, or your own unique creations.
Table of Contents
2. Establishing the Modeling Mindset: Model Basics 19
3. Building Simple Models: Step-by-Step Instructions for Creating a Model of a Doghouse 61
4. Modeling Buildings: From Drafting a Floor Plan to Adding a Roof 81
5. Keeping Your Model's Appearance: Working with Components 135
6. Creating Everyday Objects: Tools, Techniques, and Tips 175
7. Keeping Your Model Organized: Using the Outliner and Layers 229
8. Modeling with Photographs: Using Photo Match to Build Models 247
9. Changing Your Model's Appearance: Applying Styles and Shadows 285
10. Presenting Your Model Inside SketchUp: Showing Off Your Model 325
11. Working with Google Earth and the 3D Warehouse: Tying Together All of Google's 3D Software 359
12. Printing Your Work: With a Windows PC and a Mac 389
13. Exporting Images and Animations: Making Image Files and Movies 409
14. Exporting to CAD, Illustration, and Other Modeling Software: Using SketchUp Pro 433
15. Creating Presentation Documents with LayOut: Presenting 3D SketchUp Pro Models on Paper and on Screen: Working with Templates and Scrapbooks 461
16. Troubleshooting and Using Additional Resources: Fixing Problems and Enhancing Your Model 517
Glossary 537
Index 543
Bonus Chapter. Building Your Own Dynamic Components
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All techniques and features have been updated to reflect the changes made in Google SketchUp8
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The look and mood: The show started with a collage of past iconic campaign images projected onto the catwalk, telling the audience that this collection was going back to the Dolce boys' Sicilian roots.
It was as though Stefano and Domenico raided their grandmothers' trousseaus to create an utterly feminine and desirable collection of white lace, faded rose upholstery prints and the black widow cottons.
Delicate and embroidered tablecloth laces pulled out of Nonna's trousseau produced a beautiful collection of baby doll dresses, romper suits and peasant dresses, proving that Dolce and Gabbana are the ultimate lace makers.
Other iconic pieces in the collection included cone-shaped bras and corsets worn under sheer dresses, and a fitted hourglass skirt suit.
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The finale was all sweetness and light, as the familiar theme of underwear-as-outerwear produced a beautiful procession of white lace slips, dresses, French knickers, camisoles and petticoats.
The inspiration: Monica Bellucci in the movie Malena.
On the front row: Kylie Minogue in yellow strapless lace dress, sitting next to Naomi Campbell and Jada Pinkett Smith.
The must-buy: Any of the white cotton lace dresses.
Catwalk beauty: The girls had slept-in braided hair and nude faces.
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Timothy Keller, renowned pastor and New York Times bestselling author, examines Jesus' ascension into Heaven and why this act is an important resource for Christians in The Father and Son, the ninth installment in his Encounters with Jesus eBook series.
Jesus' ascension into Heaven—the end of his earthly life—is one of the most puzzling moments in the Gospels. It marks the moment when Jesus was no longer limited to a specific point in space and time. In The… (more)
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Echo weave scarf and vest
Felt 8/2 tencel was heavy for scarf. Used 8/2 cotton for weft on the vest panel. That worked well.
Made four of these, one for me, and three women's, one each in small, med, large. The women's have princess seams. Each vest has cotton lining. The pattern is one I modified from "Ginny's Coat" out of Davison's book. A very surprised look on the mannequin too!
My first attempt at a vest. The pattern is from Carol Strickler's book of 8-shaft patterns. The purple lapels and tan back (not shown) are microfiber suede. The lining is purple cotton. And I'm in my frozen mannequin pose.
Vest #2
This fabric was inspired by Bonnie Inouye's workshop called "The Big Twill", which changed the way I think about weaving and pushed me to be more creative when designing fabric! The vest pattern is the same as the one I used for Vest #1 - again, thanks to Daryl Lancaster. I added buttons made from polymer clay in colors to match the fabric and braided miles of kumihimo trim as a finishing touch.
inspired by 1970s weaving books, I experiment with formed weaves. the goal is to have holes like arm holes and neck holes woven into the fabric, so that it can be assembled quite easily after getting off the loom. since I weave with a small RH (15"), I've woven one front and the according back together in one warp and then the other side. So far, it's a partial succes, since I miscalculated the warp length. But no real harm done ;o)
Woodstock vest
I learned my lesson about beaming a stretchy yarn (merino/tencel) and an inelastic one (tencel) together. I had tension issues galore and I lost quite a bit of yardage. Originally, I had planned on this being a jacket :)
Pattern is Park Bench Pattern Co. It is called the Woodstock vest. I also made the skirt out of fabrics I dyed/overdyed with indigo.
I laid the two fronts out so the stripes went in different directions for fun.I pieced the back, added piping to distract from the fact that the stripes didn't match up where it was pieced and added embellishment where a bunch of warp threads broke. I did not line it because I wanted it to stay very soft. I did sew grosgrain ribbon in all the seams and stabilized the fabric behind the buttons and the button holes.


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Late-blooming Chicago-bred big man Anthony Davis is growing into his body and his game.
The NBA—and the whole world—better watch out.
Words: Adam Figman
Portraits: Ahmed Klink
evin Durant was receiving all sorts of text messages, one after the next after the next. Word had just leaked, and then officially announced, that he had won his first Most Valuable Player award, and kind words were being sent to him from all angles—family members, friends, peers, coaches. But the one that came in from Anthony Davis was one of the few that elicited more than a simple "thank you" response from KD.
The reply read: "You on your way to get it."
"When that type of guy tells me that," Davis says now, his head shaking from side to side, "it's like, man, it's just amazing."
Amazing? Sure.
But a reach? Not really, no.
Because just two years into the Pelicans' center's budding career, Davis' potential matches or tops that of anyone currently signed to an NBA team. That, too, is amazing. But true. Look at the evidence: There are the stats, the 20.8 points, 10.0 rebounds and 2.8 blocks per game in only his second season in the League. There's the body, that slim but athletic 6-10 frame with arms that technically measure 7-4 from fingertip to fingertip but look as though they could legitimately Stretch Armstrong from sideline to sideline of an NBA court.
Then there's the game: a force on the defensive end, patrolling the paint to ensure all floaters and lay-ins are wholeheartedly rejected, and a work-in-progress but true difference maker on the offensive end, where he has the handle to drive by slower forwards and centers and the reach to throw down over all of them.
"I want guys to say how hard I worked and what I did to help my team. I want guys to say, He wasn't just a great basketball player—he was a for-sure Hall of Famer."
, most importantly, the work ethic, that endless desire to reach the status of the aforementioned KD and his superstar ilk.
"I know he wants it," says Carlos Daniel, the New Orleans Pelicans Director of Athletic Performance, who works closely with AD. "I think he can be great. There's a difference between being elite and being great—there's quite a few elite players in this league, but you've gotta have a different sort of dedication in order to be great. He has that in him."
"I promise you I've thrown lobs to him to the top of the backboard and he's gone up and got them. You don't know how athletic he is until you see it in person." —Jrue Holiday
On a cloudy mid-June afternoon, Davis sits on the bleachers along the side of a small gymnasium tucked within Chicago's Park Manor neighborhood talking about the city he was raised in and what he hopes to accomplish over the next few months. There's not much in the St. Columbanus School's athletic center beyond a basketball court and a couple locker rooms, but it works well for what we're here for, the shooting of some digital video spots for Nike and the photos you see in our Chi Hoops issue.
About seven miles away rests the Joslin Campus of Perspectives Charter School, the high school where—in the span of barely two years, between his sophomore and senior seasons—Anthony transformed from a run-of-the-mill 6-2 guard to an absolute beast of a 6-10 center. "When I saw him his junior year after he shot up to 6-7, I didn't recognize him at first," says Cortez Hale, who had arrived at Perspectives the year before as an assistant and was the basketball squad's head coach during AD's junior and senior years. "I walked up to him and was like, Who is this kid? He was like, 'It's me, Anthony.' I was like, Wow, this kid is actually going to make it."
Davis was an overnight sensation, rocketing up the national rankings as a senior and becoming a local star in the process. Which became a problem for Perspectives—the school hadn't even existed for a decade at the time, and its basketball history was virtually nonexistent. The administration had no idea how to handle a star athlete of any sort. "They kept asking me, 'How do we handle this? How do we handle that?'" Hale says. "It was just me, the Athletic Director and some of the leaders in the school just trying to figure it all out because it happened so fast. After a while, we started getting used to it, and were telling [Davis], this is gonna keep happening forever."
Without a single gymnasium in the school, the team practiced down the street at the Illinois Institute of Technology. "We technically never had a home game," Hale says. "All our games were away games because we were getting bused everywhere."
Davis, though, handled the newfound attention just fine. Though he had options to go play ball elsewhere, he elected not to transfer, staying at Perspectives with the friends he grew close with many years prior. A perpetual Honor Roll student, Davis would willingly visit students at the campus' middle school who had gotten in trouble and lecture them about the importance of staying on the right track. "They kinda looked up to me, like, Anthony Davis is this rising star and he plays ball," he says. "I tried to tell 'em, If you want to be who you're saying you want to be, all this stuff you're doing—getting in trouble, getting detention, getting suspended, kicked out of class—all that has to stop. Dropping knowledge on them, I thought it can help them get them to where they wanna be. I did that not because I had to but because I wanted to."
"We used to say, Oh, he's doing his NBA Cares stuff now," Hale says with a laugh. "That was just him being him, honestly."
If that was the beginning of Davis' positive effect on the Chicago youth, the end has yet to be reached. An hour or so before we speak with the laid-back big man in the St. Columbanus gym, Davis walks across the street into Meyering Park to take some flicks for a Nike photographer as a handful of neighborhood kids go absolutely berserk at the sight of a Chi-Town-bred hero.
A wide-ranging group of people at a nearby barbecue are the first to notice Davis, chanting "Wassup Ant!" and "What's good, man!" as he strolls toward the park's basketball court. Once he gets there, every kid within eyesight rushes to the court's perimeter, iPhones pointed in the NBAer's direction by the dozen.
"Guys don't get paid for playing USA Basketball, but it's a real honor, going out there and playing other countries with the mindset that we're not settling for anything less than Gold."
"I wanna see him dunk!" one kid yelps.
"He probably gonna be MVP next year," another declares.
Davis, decked head-to-toe in Nike Sportswear, stays mostly stone-faced throughout, but every few minutes he cracks a quick smile, a clear sign that he realizes the importance of his ability to enamor a group of random Chicago kids with only his presence. In an area where everyone knows at least a few people who are no longer with us, victims of the inner city's catastrophic violence, the effect a positive role model like Davis can have doesn't seem to be lost on him.
"[Those kids] definitely need someone to idolize and someone that they can look up to," says Davis, who grew up a Bulls fan obsessed with Michael Jordan. "It's unreal, because most guys had the fame since they were kids. Look at Austin [Rivers]—he was Doc Rivers' son, and then he became his own person. He's used to that. I'm still new to it. So when I hear kids say, I'm about to go play 2K right now and play with Anthony Davis, it's like, Man, it's still all surreal to me. I'll never take that for granted."
Minutes after the photo session at Meyering Park, during which Davis acknowledges his past by standing tall in front of a south side Chicago basketball hoop not unlike those he practiced on as a young child, he glides back into the gym to confront his future. He immediately changes out of the Nike sweats and into a Team USA jersey, posing for pictures in front of an American flag while clad in the same red, white and blue uniform he'll be wearing when he proudly represents his home country at the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain this August.
Before he suited up for a single NBA game, Davis was a member of the 2012 Gold- winning USA Olympic team, earning the role as the token up-and-comer on a roster laden with established names like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James and Chris Paul. He says he kept his ears open during the experience, soaking in knowledge wherever he could find it. "I picked all of their brains," he says. "Kobe took me under his wing and told me, You're gonna be fine, just keep working. I was hanging out with him a lot, just trying to see who Kobe is and why he is Kobe. I learned a lot from him. I learned a lot from all of those guys. Those guys just told me to go out there and be yourself. Have fun."
"Kobe took me under his wing and told me, You're gonna be fine, just keep working."
This summer, on a team that'll likely feature Davis and 11 other stars—a few of which will likely represent Team USA at the 2016 Olympics—AD will play a bigger role, one he's preparing for. "I just wanna get better, and I think USA Basketball is gonna help me do that for the upcoming season," he says. "I'm just excited to get started. I've been looking forward to this all summer. I didn't play as much in 2012, and I feel like I'm gonna be a key contributor to the 2014 team and go out there and do my thing. Guys don't get paid for playing USA Basketball, but it's a real honor, going out there and playing other countries with the mindset that we're not settling for anything less than Gold. That's what America expects and that's what we expect."
In addition to a few weeks with USA Basketball, Davis figures to have a productive offseason amidst his journey to become one of—if not the—NBA's best. When we get up with him in Chicago, he appears to have clearly put on some weight; per FOX Sports, he's already added the perpetually coveted 15 pounds of muscle this offseason. (Word to MUSCLE WATCH.) "I want him to be able to not just get big for the sake of getting big, but gain muscle that he feels confident with and that he can use and that doesn't have an adverse effect on his game," Daniel says. "The focus is staying in the game and using the muscle.
"He has to live a little bit differently than he used to," Daniel adds. "Instead of waking up in the morning and eating whatever he wanted to eat or doing whatever he wanted to do, now he has to dial it in so we can get him the proper carbohydrates, the proper protein, the proper fat, to one, recover from the workouts, and two, be effective on the court."
To be effective on the court he'll need to stay on it—Davis missed 18 games his first season and 15 his second—but assuming he can manage that, there's little chance he shouldn't be taking the next step in 2014-15. Think about how fast he's progressed over the past four years: From barely noticed to the No. 1-ranked player in the nation his senior year of high school; to leading the Kentucky Wildcats to the National Championship as a freshman during his only year of college; to becoming the No. 1 Draft pick and subsequently finishing on the All-Rookie First Team and amassing the second most Rookie of the Year votes during his first year in the L; to upping his averages above 20 and 10 and getting voted to the All-Star team as a reserve in his second.
That 20 and 10 looks good on paper, but a deeper dive into the numbers proves they're no fluke. Davis' block percentage—a figure that measures the percentage of 2-point attempts blocked by that player while he was on the floor—was 6.7 percent in '12-13, the single highest in the NBA. Among players who use at least 25 percent of their team's possessions and were on the court for at least 600 minutes, Davis was the single most efficient center, scoring 1.19 points per possession, a figure that ranks him behind only KD, LeBron, Dirk Nowitzki, Love and James Harden among all positions. And think about where he goes from here. Davis' shooting range will expand as he becomes more comfortable spotting up—it's really not a stretch to say he could be regularly draining threes by the time his contract expires—and his ability to finish down low should improve as he spends more time working on post moves and adding muscle to his gangly frame.
"I think with strength comes confidence," Daniel says. "The things that he knows he's capable of doing, that he could do at Kentucky or at different places, now his body is allowing him to pull those moves off and make those plays in NBA games. I think that comes from him gaining more confidence, from him gaining more strength, like, They're not gonna push me around and they're not gonna push me off this spot."
"He might be a buck twenty, wet, but once he grows up he'll get some beef on him," says Jrue Holiday, the Pelicans' starting point guard. "He just turned 21—that's the craziest part about it. And he can jump. I promise you I've thrown lobs to him to the top of the backboard and he's gone up and got them. You don't know how athletic he is until you see it in person."
And though Davis talks often of working daily on the little things, he admits he keeps the big picture in the back of his mind, occasionally pondering the way in which he'll ultimately be remembered as a basketball player: "I want guys to say how hard I worked and what I did to help my team," AD says. "I want guys to say, He wasn't just a great basketball player—he was a for-sure Hall of Famer. I don't want it to be, Anthony Davis scored X amount of points, yada yada yada. I want it to be, He helped his team win. That's what I want."
He's on his way to getting it.
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CROSBY, Texas, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A Texas high school student is using the power of social media to help him with a fairly difficult problem -- getting a date with an NFL cheerleader.
Twitter user @Big_Mike_71 follows Houston Texans cheerleader Caitlyn, @HTC_Caitlyn, and he made simple request…
10,000 Retweets and I'll be taking a texans cheerleader to prom @HTC_Caitlyn . RETWEET RETWEET RETWEET pic.twitter.com/xSwNhH9D5E— Big Mike (@Big_Mike_71) February 27, 2014
"Big Mike," an offensive lineman at Crosby High School, is well on his way to reaching 10,000 retweets so it looks like he's probably got himself a prom date.
5K! Halfway there— Big Mike (@Big_Mike_71) February 28, 2014
"@Big_Mike_71: Turn up for prom? Yuhh pic.twitter.com/lQapm3CAUz" mike! go big or go home, right? — Shelby Savoy (@shelbs_savvy) February 28, 2014
Caitlyn certainly doesn't seem to mind.
@Big_Mike_71 @bustedcoverage help a sweet kid out and retweet please :)— HTC_Caitlyn (@HTC_Caitlyn) February 28, 2014
I appreciate everyone retweeting Mike to help him out. Thank you for all the positive support let's make Mikes wish come true — HTC_Caitlyn (@HTC_Caitlyn) February 28, 2014
Mike better stock up on snow cones before the prom on May 10. (Apparently they are Caitlyn's favorite.)
@HTC_Caitlyn @bustedcoverage @Big_Mike_71 ur going to make it! Someone needs to forward this to a limo company! Mike get her snow cones!— Albert Gonzales Jr (@algonzalesjr) February 28, 2014