Fast electromagnetic transient events of short duration are often not detected by power-on reset circuitry of an integrated circuit. When application program threads require access to a PCI device, the operating system writes the high order bits of the PCI device address to two places: the extension register of the PCI host bridge to allow immediate addressing of the PCI device, and separate memory locations associated with the threads. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface. The first and second needle slots have first and second needles disposed, e. Thereby, providing an air-conditioning control system 100 for achieving appropriate energy saving with simplified calculations. Through this invention, all or selected graphical elements of a printed image can be rendered in \u201clogodots\u201d that can be verified with a magnifying device and that are difficult to copy using commercial photocopiers and scanners and result in pronounced streaking patterns in copies so made.