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Dog is Dead @ O2 Academy2 – 19/02/12
There's nothing quite like standing at the back of a venue full of teenagers for making you feel old. You know, at the back, with the dad's, who've reluctantly come along to escort their not-quite-fourteen-yet daughters to the gig, so they can scream and giggle at their favourite Jack Wills wearing, Ed Sheeran covering, singer-songwriter. That's not to say there's anything particularly awful about Lewis Watson, the Jack Wills wearing, Ed Sheeran covering singer songwriter who's opening tonight's gig, indeed, he's pretty adept at what he does, showcasing a set of covers and originals – along with the aforementioned Sheeran, he does Paolo Nutini's 'Rewind' and a nice version of Bon Iver's 'Skinny Love'. His originals, however, fall rather flat in comparison, at times repetitive, and not quite substantial enough to hold their own next to his covers.
Main support tonight comes from Birmingham based five piece, Boat to Row, who are very much a band riding on the back of the nouveau folk movement. Firmly eschewing the 'nuclear band' format, they come equipped with an array of instruments, from banjo to violin to mandolin, and their music is suitably jaunty and uncomplicated. Singer Michael King – who, at times, looks exactly like Brian, the geeky one from The Breakfast Club – carries the songs well vocally, although when the band add in other voices to harmonise, there's something slightly awkward about how they fit together. They're a pleasant enough band, there's just nothing immediate that jumps out at you, and in a genre so oversaturated with identical bands, immediacy is everything.
By the time Dog Is Dead take to the stage (after a forty minute break – not like in my day!), the room is comfortably half full. A wave of atmospheric synth builds up into the opening lines of early single 'River Jordan' which displays the beautifully rich five part vocal harmonies so distinctive to the band. These harmonies continue into the saxophone led 'Young', with the crowd joining in at the chorus, to the apparent surprise of the band. They introduce new single 'Two Devils' – released 4th of March – as the song "we've made a creepy youtube video for", there's nothing demonstrably "creepy" about the song itself, but then what can you expect from a band as upbeat as Dog Is Dead.
It's back to two guitars and a bass for 'Hands Down', which provides a set highlight, some of the crowd even attempting a mosh pit half as the song fades into the refrain, "the greatest thing about this I'm telling you hands down". The fact that the band leave the stage without having played their featured-on-Skins big hit 'Glockenspiel Song', means an encore is inevitable, though from the elated reaction of the audience when the band return to the stage, you wouldn't have guessed. They end the set to jumping, cheering and a slightly more successful resurgence of the mosh pit; kids these days are so rowdy! With the closing chords of 'Glockenspiel Song' stuck steadfastly in my head, I guess I'll go home to my slippers and cocoa.


text: Q and I had a fun adventure! I drove by my childhood home and the streets were all dug up (new sewers and gas lines) so I parked on the side street and we walked down the side walks. The man who owns our house was outside so I introduced myself and he is the guy who bought the house from my parents in 1981! He raised his family there and now they decided to retire there (it is a small house in a fabulous neighborhood. Q was amazing. He was so good you guys. When I picked him up from school he was awful. We tried to go to SA and he was just terrible and I had to leave the store. People told him what he was doing was not right, you dont treat your mom like that etc. and it was making it worse (he got attention for it) but then he went to his counseling and did great, then speech and did great too. We went to a lake in st paul that I love since it is half way home and we had a shortish walk he was a little blurty so we left and that is when I got the urge to go see my childhood home since we were in st. Paul. Q shook hands with the man, asked him questions, asked me questions about what it was like, did our phone have one of those dials that spun around etc. He thought the stories were funny (he usually says I KNOW and shut up etc... he was sooo appropriate). It all made up for the earlier transition stuff. There were big trucks digging and he took video with his galaxy player. We went and got a dollar ice cream cone and then home. Just was nice to have some fun.

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It's not every company that can boast it built a city.
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. has won a contract to handle design and engineering, and manage construction, at a new city that will house 80,000 people in eastern Algeria.
The deal for La Ville Nouvelle de Hassi Messaoud, near Algeria's biggest oil field, is one of the biggest services contracts ever for the Montreal-based engineering giant, a spokeswoman for the company said Thursday.
The contract is expected to be signed within a few weeks, she said, adding that details on the project are being withheld until the deal closes.
Brenda McCabe, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto, said SNC-Lavalin is in a special position, getting a crack at designing every aspect of a new urban community. "It's exciting," she said. "It's not every day you get to build something like this from scratch."
There are challenges with such a project. "It's a huge project that will require a huge effort. The challenge will be to take all the technologies that are known and create something that is sustainable."
And there are risks that come with the higher margins that usually go with services contracts, such as the types of warranties that are put on designs and whether a company is willing to take a chance on innovative technologies rather than sticking with the tried and true, she said.
SNC-Lavalin beat four rivals from Europe and North Africa with a winning bid of $31.2-billion dinars ($508.3-million), according to tsa-algerie.com, a French-language news site in Algeria.
"This is something, for our homegrown expertise to be recognized in this way. Eighty-thousand people, that's a lot of people," said Michel Boisvert, an urban planning professor at the Université de Montréal.
"What is important to keep in mind here is ensuring that a new city of this size is a place where quality of life is top of mind. It must not simply turn out to be a kind of satellite to the oil fields."
There is an existing town with a similar name, Hassi Messaoud, which means "blessed well" in Arabic.
Pierre Lacroix, an analyst with Desjardins Securities, said he believes this is the largest project ever of this kind for SNC-Lavalin. He doesn't anticipate that the company faces any major challenges with something of this size and scope.
SNC-Lavalin has the resources to combine its expertise in such areas as infrastructure, water treatment, transportation and bridges, he said.
"Obviously, from the logistics point of view, this is huge."
According to tsa-algerie.com , the new city will be Algeria's first modern oil field city. It is to be built over an eight-year period. Total cost of the new city of Hassi Messaoud has been estimated at about $6-billion (U.S.).
Map: La Ville Nouvelle de Hassi Messaoud View Hassi Messaoud in a larger map
The massive urban-planning project is part of a boom in Algeria's rapidly expanding oil and gas sector. SNC-Lavalin, whose presence in the country goes back 40 years, has been a key player in the energy business there.
Last month, it was chosen by Algeria's state-owned oil and gas company - Sonatrach - to build a natural gas processing facility, a contract valued at $1.2-billion (Canadian).
SNC-Lavalin is also a significant owner of such facilities as power plants and pipelines in the country.
Foreign energy companies have benefited over the past 15 years from the opening up of the country's energy sector to outsiders.
SNC-Lavalin has also been the target of terrorism in the country.
It was the victim of a terrorist attack last August in which 12 of its employees were killed in a bus bomb blast.
The company has offices across Canada and in over 35 countries around the world and has projects in about 100 countries.
With files from ReutersReport Typo/Error
- Snc-Lavalin Group Inc$57.05+0.06(+0.11%)
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Solving the paradox of monetary profits
Bruun and Heyn-Johnsen (2009) state the paradox that economics has failed to provide a satisfactory explanation of how monetary profits are generated, even though the generation of a physical surplus is an established aspect of non-neoclassical economics. They emphasise that our ability to explain phenomena like the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) will be limited while ever we are still unable to explain this fundamental aspect of capitalism. In fact this paradox can be solved very simply, using insights from what is known as Circuit Theory. In this paper the author shows how monetary profits are generated, and introduces a multisectoral dynamic disequilibrium monetary model of production.
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Densmore Hill WMA is open to regulated hunting, trapping, fishing, hiking and wildlife viewing. Densmore Hill Wildlife Management Area (WMA) is a 252-acre parcel owned by the State of Vermont and managed by the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. It is
bordered by Morley Road on the west and by Cady Brook on the southwest in the town of Hartland.
There is no specified parking area for this WMA. Please be careful if you park along Morley Road. Try to get completely off the road surface.
During the mid-1800's, the land comprising Densmore Hill WMA was owned by Isaac Cobb and Alvin Dutton. Sullivan Cady purchased 140 acres from Alvin Dutton in 1845. In 1878, Cady's sons became owners of the land, and then went on to buy the Cobb parcel as well as the adjoining Kendall Farm. The Cady's homestead was located just south of the beaver flowage. They were subsistence farmers who cleared much of the land in order to pasture sheep. Stone walls criss-crossing the WMA are evidence of this past land use. Attempts to maintain the open fields were abandoned in the late 1940's. Since then, most of the WMA has reverted to forest.
The farm was sold to the McEwen family in 1940. Three McEwen heirs eventually sold the property to Elizabeth and William Peabody, and in 1976, The Nature Conservancy acquired 252 acres from the Peabodys. The parcel was then deeded to the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department by The Nature Conservancy in April, 1977 and became the Densmore Hill Wildlife Management Area.
The old road adjacent to Cady Brook, once called the Old County Road, was the direct stage route from Windsor to Woodstock.
Habitat Features
Ranging in elevation from 1,249 feet to 1,548 feet, the parcel's terrain is rugged, sloping steeply up to the north and east from Cady Brook to a ridgeline that runs northwest to
southeast. The land slopes more gently from the top of the ridge down to a hollow containing two drainages. From there it climbs steeply again to the highest elevation on
Scott Hill.
Densmore Hill WMA is almost completely forested. It is mostly a young northern hardwood
community made up of sugar maple, paper birch and beech, with white pine and hemlock scattered throughout. An old apple orchard has been released to provide beneficial habitat for wildlife. In the recent past, a variety of wildlife management techniques, including patch cuts, have been carried out to provide habitat for ruffed grouse. Den trees, snags, and dead and downed material are maintained as important habitat features.
Cady Brook flows along the western and southern boundaries of the WMA, and a beaver pond can be found at the southwestern corner.
Significant natural communities occurring on Densmore Hill WMA include a dry oak–hickoryhophornbeam forest and two seeps.
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Mammals: Snowshoe hare and beaver live out their entire lives on portions of the WMA. Fisher, fox, otter, coyote and deer also use the property. Because of their wide ranging habits, however, they are not confined there.
Birds: Densmore Hill WMA is home to a wide variety of birds. Ruffed grouse, turkey and woodcock are present. Herons and mallard ducks frequent the beaver flowage. Typical northern hardwood species of songbirds such as ovenbirds, black and white warblers, vireos, pheobes, chickadees, nuthatches, and downy and hairy woodpeckers can be seen and heard. Red-winged blackbirds and Baltimore orioles nest near the beaver flowage.
Reptiles and Amphibians: Painted, wood and snapping turtles may be found, as well as green and wood frogs and spring peepers. Red spotted (newts), northern two-lined, spotted and red-backed salamanders are also likely inhabitants.
Fish: Native brook trout and minnows inhabit Cady Brook and the beaver pond.
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Baku. 12 April. REPORT.AZ/ Nearly two years into an epic oil rout, U.S. shale drillers that have upended global energy markets are finally feeling a credit squeeze as banks make their biggest cuts yet to their loans.
Every six months, oil and gas producers and their banks negotiate how much credit they should be given based on the value of their reserves in the ground.
Report informs citing Russian RBK, as oil prices nosedived by two-thirds since 2014, a belief took hold in global energy markets that for prices to recover, many U.S. shale producers would first have to falter to allow markets to rebalance.
With U.S. oil prices now trading below $40 a barrel, the corporate casualties are already mounting. More than 50 North American oil and gas producers have entered bankruptcy since early 2015, according to a Reuters review of regulatory filings and other data. While those firms account for only about 1% of U.S. output, based on the analysis, that count is expected to rise. Consultant Deloitte says a third of shale producers face bankruptcy risks this year.
At that rate, $10 billion more of bank credit will disappear as a remaining $50 billion or so of credit lines come under scrutiny in talks that stretch into May.
Companies and bankers contacted by Reuters declined to comment beyond their public statements due to the sensitive nature of the talks. The squeeze puts further pressure on the shale industry to sell assets, cut jobs and drilling and shrink capital spending. It also raises the risk that more companies will tip into bankruptcy.
Banks are also under more pressure now from regulators to limit their energy-related risks as the downturn drags on.
The next credit review in the autumn could take an additional toll if oil prices, now below $40 a barrel, do not rebound.
"Any company that does not have a widely profitable base at this current price is going to find it very, very hard," said Christian Ledoux, senior portfolio manager at South Texas Money Management.
About 36 per cent of some 150 energy companies with speculative grade debt will probably default on their obligations by the end of next year if oil holds around $35 a barrel, said Tarek Hamid, senior US credit analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
More than 50 North American oil and gas producers have entered bankruptcy since early 2015, according to a Reuters review of regulatory filings and other data. Oil and gas producers rely on revolving credit to finance day-to-day operations and cuts force them to looks for cash elsewhere.
Clayton Williams Energy Inc, for example, which had its credit line slashed to $100 million from $450 million, borrowed the difference from Ares Management LP, an alternative asset investor that charged triple the rate of the banks.
Fearing that falling crude prices and reserve values could push many companies into default, companies and bankers have been also renegotiating financial performance tests and claims on assets while resetting the borrowing limits.


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This application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 07/259,793, filed Oct. 19, 1988, now abandoned.
The present invention relates to computer pipeline processors, and in particular to pipeline processor methods and apparatus for handling exceptions and instructions of differing execution cycle count latencies.
The execution of program instructions typically requires a sequential execution of various operations directly related to the instruction, such as instruction fetch, decode, execute and result read/store. Pipelined processors allocate specific hardware elements to each of these operations, and sequentially process succeeding instructions so that each of the hardware elements associated with the various instruction operations function constantly albeit for two or more separate instructions. For an instruction having four separate operation stages which may be sequentially performed in time, a pipeline processor would incorporate four separate hardware elements, each to specifically provide the operation corresponding to the four operation stages of the instruction. A first instruction would be received by the first element to provide a first operation during the first time cycle. A second element would perform the second operation of the first instruction while the first element would acquire the next instruction to provide the first operation of the second instruction. Two cycles subsequently, a fourth element is processing the fourth operation on the first instruction, the third element is providing the third operation on the second instruction, the second element is providing the second operation on the third instruction and the first element is providing the first operation on the fourth instruction. The pipeline processing continues as long as instructions are sequentially received by the processor pipeline or until an exception is generated by one of the four elements of the pipeline processor. The exceptions relate to an unacceptable condition resulting from the processing of a particular instruction, such as page fault, a register overflow, or other condition of invalid data or instructions. While exceptions may occur at any point in the execution of an instruction, the most severe exception recovery requirement occurs when the exception is indicated in the later cycles of the instruction execution.
The number of cycles necessary to execute an instruction is dependent on the particular instruction. The instruction set may comprise instructions which require the same number of execution cycles, or may include instructions requiring varying numbers of execution cycles resulting in a corresponding variability in the number of processor execution elements. When an exception occurs, the processor inhibits the subsequent execution of the instruction which provoked the exception, services the exception and restarts that instruction and any subsequent instructions. However, processors having variable length instruction execution times face a condition where an exception may be generated by a long execution cycle instruction (long instruction) which began before a subsequent, shorter execution cycle instruction (shorter instruction). When the exception occurs, the subsequent, shorter instruction may have completed its execution and modified the corresponding registers with the proper information. However, in the condition that the exception occurs after the completed execution of the shorter instruction, the known exception handling techniques would require that the instruction that provokes the exception, as well as the completed shorter instruction and any subsequent instruction be re-executed. The result would be multiple execution shorter instructions producing erroneous computation. Consequently, the implementation of pipeline processors to service variable execution length instructions has been held in disfavor, or the variability of the instruction execution cycles is strictly controlled to avoid the above-mentioned condition of completed execution of a subsequently begun, shorter instruction. Such design considerations impose unnecessary limitations in computer architecture, function and efficiency.
The method and apparatus of the present invention provides for the efficient execution of an instruction set including instructions of variable length execution cycle times. The compiling and execution of instructions is not limited by considerations of exception handling. In particular, the worst case condition of a late reported exception in a long instruction which occurs after the completion of one or more subsequently shorter instructions results in the selective re-execution of only the instruction which provoked the exception and any instructions which were unfinished or pending at the time the exception was detected and resulted in the inhibition of further execution of the exception producing instruction.
The preferred embodiment of the present invention further contemplates the control of a plurality of processors each simultaneously receiving different instructions from a common word received from a single instruction memory. An exception is generated in a first processor which provides the aforementioned exception handling wherein the completed instructions are not re-executed and the pending instructions are re-executed after servicing the exception. The second processor, in the case of multiple functional units within one CPU, does likewise. Also, according to the present invention, the multiple functional units can also comprise multiple processors synchronized at instruction dispatch. As a result, the apparatus and method according to the present invention provides increased processing flexibility while avoiding the errors resulting from out of order instruction completion following an exception.
These and other features according to the present invention will be better understood by reading the following detailed description taken together with the drawing wherein:
FIG. 1 is a flow chart illustrating the process according to the present invention;
FIG. 2 is a block diagram of one embodiment of the present invention applied to a floating point and an integer processor having concurrent instruction dispatch; and
FIG. 3 is a timing diagram showing the execution of variable length instructions by multiple processors according to the embodiment of FIG. 2.
8 The flow chart 50 of FIG. 1 illustrates one embodiment of the method of the present invention and relates to the embodiment 100 shown in FIG. 2 and to the timing diagram 150 of FIG. 3. The execution of instructions is begun at step 52 and the method of the present invention tests the appearance of an exception at 54, which results in the continued execution of the next instruction at step 56 if no exception has occurred. However, when an exception occurs a further test of exception type occurs as illustrated at step 58. In the embodiment of the present invention having only a single processor, the test at step 58 does not occur nor do the succeeding steps 60 and 62. However, in an embodiment of the present invention having a plurality of processors, the exception may differ in type according to the processor used. For instance, in the apparatus shown in the block diagram 100 in FIG. 2, there exists an integer and floating point processor, each having their own type of exception. In the present embodiment, the integer execution pipeline 107 is considerably shorter than that of the floating point execution pipeline 105. If the exception type has been determined to be an integer type at step 58 of FIG. 1, the execution of the pending instructions is inhibited, protecting the existing registers from change. The pending instructions are defined as instructions which have been received by at least one execution element in the pipeline processor but have not completed processing by the last element in the processor at the time that the exception causes the processor to stop execution. The exception is serviced by an exception handling subroutine or processor substructure, such as is known in the art, wherein the offending condition which invoked the exception is corrected. After the exception is serviced at step 62, the pending instructions of the integer processor are re-executed in step 64 and the process 50 resumes the testing of the executing program instructions, as previously discussed.
If it is determined that a floating point exception has occurred, step 58, all pending instructions are stopped at step 66 and the floating point exception is serviced at step 68 by floating point exception handlers, comprising software subroutines or hardware structures as illustrated in FIG. 2 or as otherwise known in the art. After the floating point exception is serviced and the offending condition corrected, the floating point instruction that caused the exception is re-executed at step 70 and the integer processor is held in a stalled condition or execute no-op codes. If it is determined at step 72 that there are no more floating point instructions whose execution start preceded the integer restart address point, it must be determined if the floating point instruction that caused the exception has been completed, as shown at step 76. If the floating point instruction that caused the exception has not completed execution, the integer processor is held in a stalled condition or otherwise executes no-op instructions (step 78). If the floating point instruction that caused the exception interrupt has been completed, re-execution of the pending integer instructions is restarted at step 64 and the process of testing for exceptions at step 54 and execution of subsequent instructions in the absence of an exception at step 56 continues.
If more floating point instructions exist whose execution start preceded the integer instruction sequence restart point, as determined at step 72 the next pending floating point instruction is re-executed at step 74 and the integer processor is held in a stall condition or executes no-op instructions, step 74. The determination of step 72 is continued until no instructions remain whose address precedes the restart point.
The structure 100 shown in FIG. 2 comprises one embodiment of the present invention wherein the instructions are provided from an instruction cache memory 102 through a dispatch unit 104, discussed in more detail in U.S. Pat. No. 5,051,885, entitled METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR CONCURRENT DISPATCH OF INSTRUCTIONS TO MULTIPLE FUNCTIONAL UNITS, filed Oct. 7, 1988, incorporated by reference. The floating point processor 106 and integer processor 108 receive a stream of instructions from the instruction cache according to a PCSRC Signal generated by the program counter generator (PC Gen) 148. In one embodiment of the present invention, the addresses provided to the instruction cache are also stored in sequence corresponding to the the execution cycles of the floating point and integer execution units 110 and 120, respectively. The sequential addresses are stored in floating point pipeline registers 114, 116, 118, 119, 124 ,and 126. As the present invention may comprise an instruction set having instructions of floating point variable execution length, the floating point pipeline may also include additional intermediate storage registers such as exemplary register 130 to correspond to the extended cycle count required for the execution of the particular floating point instruction. Any of the intermediate storage registers, such as register 130, which are required when the floating point pipeline 105 is processing "long instructions" are bypassed by signal path 122 when the floating point pipeline is processing "short" floating point instructions. Thus, a "short" floating point instruction which begins execution after a "long" floating point instruction may be completed and fully executed before the "long" floating point instruction is completely executed. The instruction addresses are also stored in integer processor pipeline registers 132, 134,136 and 138 of the integer program counter queue 135, and correspond to the various stages of execution of the instruction by the integer execution unit 120.
In the embodiment of the present invention illustrated in FIG. 2, an exception may occur at one of many points in the execution of the floating point instruction. The floating point execution unit 110 provides various tests of instruction data or address as may be known in the art, and provides at least one resulting valid indicator bit which is stored in the floating point program counter queue 131 at a location reserved 21 in each of the floating point registers 116-126. When this bit becomes set, the resulting stored signal is received by an exception detector 140 which provides a signal to an exception handler 142 which causes the element 144 to generate no-op signals to be executed by the floating point execution unit, or causes the floating point execution unit 110 to assume a stall condition. The exception handler causes the execution unit to correct the condition which produced the exception. The contents of the floating point program counter queue 131 and the corresponding instruction is stored in an exception recovery buffer 146, having the pending instructions contained therein to be executed upon the completion of the servicing of the exception. The program counter generator 148 is inhibited from producing new instructions while the exception is being serviced, and is permitted to resume production of further instruction addresses when the last of the pending instructions has begun re-execution. The exception service dumps the processor state, services the exception, then restores the state. The integer processor 120, inhibited when the exception handler 142 services the exception, is also permitted to re-execute the pending instructions after the exception is serviced by the exception handler 142.
Alternate embodiments of the present invention envision the storage of the instructions in a sequence of registers in place of the storage of the instruction addresswise in the registers 114-126 and 132-138, as shown.
Referring now to FIG. 3, timing diagram 150 illustrates the sequence of events arising from the parallel execution of two separate streams of instructions to the two distinct processors. In the exemplary timing diagram shown, the floating point processor has a short instruction of six execution cycles while the integer processor has a uniform instruction cycle length of four cycles. For each corresponding processor to maintain a complete account of each instruction which has not yet completed execution, the corresponding processor would include at least the same number of registers as there are instruction cycles necessary for the execution of the particular instruction executed by the processor. Accordingly, the floating point processor 106, FIG. 2 is illustrated with at least six registers while the integer processor 108, FIG. 2 includes four registers, corresponding to the execution lengths of at least six and four cycles shown at 152 and 154, FIG. 3, respectively. A long floating point instruction 156 is followed by a shorter instruction 158 which begins at least one cycle after the long instruction 156 and ends before either the correct execution of the instruction 156 or the detection of an exception at 162. According to the present invention, as instructions 158 and 160 have been completed, before the cessation of execution of the instruction 156 and due to the exception 162, those instructions will not be re-executed. Similarly, integer processor instructions 154, 164, 166, 168 and 170, also having been completed, will not be re-executed.
When the instruction is inhibited at 175 due to the exception at 162, the long instruction 156, floating point instructions 172, 174 and 176, and integer instructions 178 and 180 are inhibited from further execution at 175. The exception is serviced at 182 and results in a re-execution or restart of the long instruction 156A by re-entering the instruction in the pipeline at 184, which continues without exception until completion at 186.
As previously mentioned, completed floating point instructions 158 and 160 are not re-executed, as re-execution would likely result in an erroneous result having modified the same registers multiple times. The instructions 172, 174 and 176, having been inhibited from completion, are re-executed at 187, 188 and 190, respectively, to resume normal execution in the sequence in which the instructions originally occurred. The program counter generator 148 of FIG. 2, having been allowed to restart, provides a new instruction 193, which follows the last instruction 176A into the floating point processor 106.
Integer instructions 178 and 180, also having been inhibited at 175, are re-executed at 192 and 194, respectively, and are completed without exception.
Modifications and substitutions made by one of ordinary skill in the art are considered to be within the scope of the present invention. For instance, the number of registers and the particular implementation of the pipeline processor may be altered by one of ordinary skill to include a variety of structures and numbers of registers and still be considered within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, the present invention is not limited except by the claims which follow.
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One of the principal French writers of the New Novel, Claude-Eugène-Henri Simon (see-mohn) has combined the exploration of new modes of novelistic discourse with a trenchant view of the human condition to create a unique fictional universe. He was born in Tananarive, Madagascar (then a French possession), on October 10, 1913. He left the African island one year later when, with the onset of World War I, his father, an army officer, was called up for active military service. After his father was killed in the war, Simon spent his childhood in Perpignan, a small town in the eastern Pyrenees. Simon received his secondary education at the Collège Stanislas in Paris and later studied at both Oxford and Cambridge universities. He then began to train as a painter with André Lhote, who had been one of the early cubist painters. Paintings of various kinds appear in several of Simon's novels. Simon spent the years 1936 to 1939 traveling in Europe. His peregrinations included a brief stay in Spain, where he participated in the Civil War on the Republican side. When World War II started, Simon was drafted into a cavalry regiment. After the French defeat at the Battle of the Meuse, he was captured by the Germans but managed to escape from his prison camp. Simon's reflections on the two wars in which he took part appear in La Corde raide (the tightrope), a journal that he published in 1947. War is a major theme in many of Simon's novels, for, in addition to its specific devastation, it exposes the chaos underlying the apparent order of existence as well as emphasizing humankind's lack of progress. After the war, Simon returned to the Pyrenees region, settling in the village of Salses and becoming a vintner. He later moved to Paris, where he stayed.
Simon's first novel, Le Tricheur (the cheater), was published in 1945. The works that he produced during the 1940's and 1950's, which constitute his first phase, present many of the themes that appeared in later, better-known novels but are largely traditional in form. Yet The Wind and, to a lesser extent, The Grass already point toward the more innovative fictions of Simon's second period with respect to such matters as narrative perspective, temporality, and the nature of representation. The anonymous narrator of The Wind attempts to restore the reality of a series of incidents in a small town in southern France. The ceaselessly blowing wind is a metaphor of the destructive passage of time that blurs events and characters. The narrator succeeds in establishing a pattern of criminal activities but begins to suspect that his discovery is an invention created by his desire to give meaning to the events he is investigating, by language that has imposed its own...
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I've wondered since the storm, what would summer feel like this year? Would people come back after Sandy? Would it feel the same? Would it feel like people were missing? Well, the streets and beaches of the Jersey Shore, and the roads leading onto the barrier islands over Fourth of July weekend answered that with clarity. But very little elbow room. Even long time locals said they could never remember a holiday weekend that felt as choked with people as this one.
It was surely odd to see the old haunts lit up again, like Custard's Last Stand, above, in Ventnor Heights, a part of town pummelled by Sandy flooding, where homes are still vacant, many for sale "as is", newly elevated on cement blocks, simply abandoned to foreclosure or vanished to demolition, awaiting a new home and a new elevation.
Seeing Custard's Last Stand with its red white and blue bunting and outdoor lights outlining its roof and deck, all the shoobies on their ice cream missions again as dusk set in Wednesday on the eve of the Fourth, actually made me tear up a bit. Good work Shore lovers, you are as constant as the high tide that jammed the beaches the rest of the weekend. Seeing the unusual beach fireworks that lit up Atlantic City in four different places, giving the feeling that the entire town was filled with exploding color, as opposued to the usual over the ocean show, was a true statement of rebirth. Seeing people I know still aren't back in their homes back in their usual spots on the beach was reassuring. But I know a few good beach days is not enough to erase nine months of agony and uncertainty.
By Friday afternoon, as I broke my rule and got in my car to run errands in Margate, the town felt so overrun with cars and people, it made me feel like perhaps we had strayed over the limit. Should someone take a census and not let anyone else in? Were our streets, like the parking lots at Borgata on Fourth of July, filled to capacity? It was an uneasy truce, the pedestrians exercising their right of way, the cars jamming on the brakes, the intersections an anarchic jumble, the bicyclists weaving in and out - I wondered if we were really ready. On a bicycle ride early Friday a neighbor was knocked off his BIKE along Mays Landing-Somers Point Road by a BOAT being trailed by a pickup truck. Only at the Jersey Shore are you in danger of being hit by a boat when you go out for a bike ride. Not funny at all, really. Yes, the crowds were back, but I hope nobody thinks that a few good beach days, a robust beach crowd, some of the usual ridiculous shoobie behavior and lots of traffic means the shore still doesn't have a long way to go before the final story of Sandy is told.


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After school I initially thought my future lay within the motor industry, after all mechanical engineering and all things metal had obviously been shown to be my forté, and I had been decorating my parent's kitchen table with brake shoes and cylinder heads for the best part of a year, but my enthusiasm for adjusting tappets and changing spark plugs, accompanied by permanently skinned knuckles and oil ingrained hands, waned very quickly. A practical career that didn't involve oil filters and rocker-cover gaskets was what was required and at that point I had a brief dalliance with the building industry, commencing with a 'thick sandwich' course at the North East Surrey College of Technology, followed by a very happy time looking through theodolites and being constantly entertained by the many Irish comedians who worked on building sites. I ended with a spot of project management, building a cardboard factory in an industrial wasteland just down the road from Belmarsh Prison. Having reached this pinnacle of success in the building industry, which had resulted in me spending most of my time behind a desk or arguing with men wearing yellow hats with Wimpey stamped across the front, it was time for a change!
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What's that post all about in Hottest titled is this sick & wrong?. It seems to have been deleted.
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What's that post all about in Hottest titled is this sick & wrong?. It seems to have been deleted.
At first I thought this thread was going to be about that "re-evaluating Gill Sans" article lol.
Hmmm…that's not the only thread I've seen disappear lately.
i took it down. i realized i had approached what i wanted to get at all wrong. will repost (perhaps) when i regain a bit of steam.
> What's that post all about in Hottest titled is this sick & wrong?
I wondered about that too, and the other day tried to find it in vain. Now I know what happen...
> i took it down
Paul, with all due respect, I think that was a bad move on your part. Not just because I happen to have contributed to the discussion and now feel that it was time down the drain, but also because if everyone starts erasing their posts on whim this place will become too chaotic for my taste.
I have the most respect for this site's moderators, but please next time use the powers that were entrusted to you a little more carefully. Thanks.
The thread title is still on the Hottest list now, and still cannot be accessed. That's frustrating and confusing for readers and members alike. Please avoid these carrot and stick situations---is it too much to ask that moderators have the integrity to apologize when they make a mistake or mess something up?
No need to apologize Ray.
j a m e s
yes, it was wrong and sick of me to take it down, but i did so intending it to be a temporary measure. all apologies. the thread is back up, but i modified my original post and the thread title. (is that fair play? anyone else can always do the same. leastways, i didn't convert all my posts to periods, as has been deemed as fair in other cases.)
> is that fair play? anyone else can always do the same.
Just because we can do it doesn't mean we should. I don't think I need to remind you that Typophile's biggest assets are its users and their contributions. If those disappear this webcommunity will completely loose its meaning of existence.
> i didn't convert all my posts to periods, as has been deemed as fair in other cases.
I don't know what others think but I actually find that quite annoying. If people are not sure if they want their posts to remain available, they should abstain themselves from contributing to the discussions.
BTW, this reminds me of a claimed bug where posts that are edited move to the bottom of the thread. To me that's a feature rather than a bug, and I think it should remain that way. This will held users more accountable of their actions.
they should abstain themselves from contributing to the discussions
i'll have to remember to do this more in the future.
BTW, this reminds me of a claimed bug where posts that are edited move to the bottom of the thread. To me that's a feature rather than a bug, and I think it should remain that way. This will held users more accountable of their actions.
I beg to differ, Miguel. On the type ID board it was common practice to make the ID and then go back and insert the link. Now we find ourselves adding the link into an additional post, which is extra work for everyone (poster and reader) and falsely moves you up in "Prolific Posters". I also sometimes reread my posts and feel I could have worded something more elegantly. Or maybe I said something I wish I hadn't said. I think to then have the edited post slip to the bottom is a bad idea, since it can make the responses confusing. I'd rather see the edits be somehow visible, so that others can see what was edited, rather than messing around with the order.
that's actually a great idea -- edited posts showing up as bold, or a color or something.
If we were all on Leopard we could use "Time Machine" to see the unedted post :-)
> On the type ID board it was common practice to make the ID and then go back and insert the link.
I know, and in several occasions I didn't get first place because I always spent the time confirming the ID and looking up all the information to provide along with it :-( So, moving to the bottom upon adding the missing information is just fair ;-P
> I also sometimes reread my posts and feel I could have worded something more elegantly. Or maybe I said something I wish I hadn't said.
You can always post again clarifying everything up. I feel that's the right way to do it, as that's what happens in real life. I mean, we all have our bad moments where we say things we shouldn't, but do we go around everyone's head and edit or delete their memories?
This is just my view, of course. I guess that online I abide to the same rules as I do in real life, instead of becoming a different (virtual) persona.
This is just my view, of course. I guess that online I abide to the same rules as I do in real life, instead of becoming a different (virtual) persona.
In real life I am a 14 year old boy from Papua New Guinea, with a passion for motocross and death metal, but who yearns deep inside to be a girl, and wishes there really were unicorns.
Here at Typophile, however, I get to pretend to be a graphic designer in New York City!
The reason I converted post to periods was a protest against a barrage of personal insults which the moderators let stand.
I guess that online I abide to the same rules as I do in real life, instead of becoming a different (virtual) persona.
i'm sure you try to be the same person online that you are in life, but i don't think anyone can ever really do this. i mean, are you the person you are to your friends, to your family, to your colleagues, to strangers?
i don't think it's fair to liken a discussion board to a real discussion. In some ways they're the same but in some ways they're completely different. For one, a discussion board discussion can (hypothetically) exist forever and anyone who wants to join it can. discussions don't work this way in real life, therefore participants in an online discussion have incentive to present themselves and their ideas in the best light possible.
You feel (if i understand correctly) that once something is written, it should be forever. I don't feel that way. I don't mind that you have the original discussion opener in your mind, as you "contributed" to the original discussion. However, i think that if i can rephrase myself to make myself better understood by newcomers to the discussion, it is desirable to do so. i have edited myself several times writing this post, i don't see why i should have to stop doing so once i have pressed the "post comment" button, if i feel that i can further clarify my intentions.
i'm human. i make mistakes. i should be able to correct them if i have a chance. i've made every effort to act ethically in this instance and throughout my interactions here on typophile. if you disagree with my actions, you're entitled to your opinion.
> i mean, are you the person you are to your friends, to your family, to your colleagues, to strangers?
Yes, pretty much. Online I don't attempt to be something I'm not in real life. For me it's much harder to pretend than to be myself, and that applies to pretty much everything I do.
> For one, a discussion board discussion can (hypothetically) exist forever and anyone who wants to join it can. discussions don't work this way in real life
That's a good point.
> However, i think that if i can rephrase myself to make myself better understood by newcomers to the discussion, it is desirable to do so.
Absolutely. And you can always do that in a new post, can't you? Adding a new post not only makes the discussion richer, IMO, but also avoids the risk of making a post downstream somewhat nonsense. That's why I think that kicking an edited post to the bottom of the thread is a safer and better option.
BTW, am I right to believe that when moderators edit posts they don't get misplaced?
No moderators comments fall to the bottom just like everyone else's.
I disagree that it is good that the comments fall to the bottom. It messes with the conversation. However, I do wish edited comments were colorized so we could see editing occurred.
How did this become a discussion about real life? I'm pretty sure most of us long time Typophile's aren't much different in real life. Once a nerd ... ;^)
Online I don't attempt to be something I'm not in real life.
nor do i, but i don't share everything with everyone.
>i mean, are you the person you are to your friends, to your family, to your colleagues, to strangers?
>Yes, pretty much.
well that's the difference between you and i, i guess. i'm much more guarded in my conversations with strangers than i would be with my close friends, and that's what online discussions are: conversations. sometimes i slip and become a bit more familiar than i would like, think about what i have written, and then wish i could take a bit back. i don't think that's wrong as long as i'm honest about changing your posts, as i have always tried to be.
Once a nerd ... ;^)
What is it with this nerd crap? We're just people who like our work.
Everybody use a computer these days, you don't have to be an obsessive antisocial teenage boy to "get" it!
"but i modified my original post and the thread title. (is that fair play?"
Only if you are a politician.
"Once a nerd ... ;^)
What is it with this nerd crap? We're just people who like our work."
Hear, hear! We're not type nerds. We're type GEEKS. Let's get the terminology correct, please.
Well, I'm a nerd, too, but definitely a geek.
If you google nerd and geek you will see reference to the fact that these words have been used in opposite ways on the East and West coasts of the US, so far as whether the connotation was negative. These are recent words and how negative or positive they are seems to be somewhat fluid.
I'm with Nick: just throw them into the trash heap of stale slang, and use some more expressive and precise language.
And generally: we are not what we do, and our value is far more than our vocations and interests. Simplistic labels devalue people. Respect.
Geek: a carnival performer who performs sensationally morbid or disgusting acts, as biting off the head of a live chicken.
(from dictionary.com)
Ah. So Ozzy Osbourne was a geek back in the day.
you betcha.
"Simplistic labels devalue people. Respect."
Geek is perhaps a loaded term. Some would use it condescendingly. Some would use it as a compliment. Some use it to make millions of dollars (Geek Squad).
a carnival performer
"How does one get so low?"
--Tyrone Power as Stanton Carlisle in the 1947 film noir Nightmare Alley.
Oh c'mon! I bundled myself in there when I said it.
I guess we could just stick with "typophile", but that might give non-designers the wrong idea. I'm pretty sure my parents would think it has something to do with movies about letters starring Vanessa Del Rio.
Only if you are a politician.
I don't agree. Sometimes it helps to clarify what a thread is meant to be about to change the title or it's body text. Obviously it can be a slippery slope but I don't think it's wise to make a blanket statement. This is inevitably going to be a grey question requiring judgment - which will fail sometimes.
I do agree with Miguel that when in doubt it is probably best not to change things because of the violence it does to the clarity of ideas being exchanged. I have definitely seen some threads here where the narrative became muck as a result of edits & retractions. I wasn't happy about that. I would like to have the opportunity to make up my own mind. Also what he said about 'only makes the discussion richer' and his point that in most cases clarity can be established as part of the flow rather than by re-writing a post, struck me as particularly pertinent and insightful.
However all this talk about pretending and real life though strikes me as a little bit too much like unasked for armchair psychoanalysis. I would leave that out.
What is it with this nerd crap? geek etc.
I too knew that Tiff meant this affectionately. It's a generational and/or regional thing I expect. No biggie.
> That's why I think that kicking an edited post to the bottom of the thread is a safer and better option.
To me that sounds very illogical. Discussions get very confusing because of it, since for example a post with an answer or reply end up above the post they were an answer or reply to. It almost becomes randomized; very inconvenient for a proper discussion.
The same goes for the suggestion that edits become bold or colored. That would render the ability to set something in bold yourself useless. Also posts will look like candybars with edits in color and attract unnecessary attention to themselves, looking chaotic.
If you want to somehow show that a post was edited: add an automatic sentence in a smaller pointsize saying the post was edited plus the date and the time. :)
Correct. Edits should be seen as edits and in the hierarchy of things, fit below the original content. This creates an additional troublesome problem with long data however, when both the original and edit are long (and dissimilar from one another). I think that's why this problem is so often deliberately ignored. Some existing solutions that generally work out a little better are: to only give the author of a comment the ability to add a brief editorial correction in addition to the original (that is marked as such or so understood); Allow unlimited editing under the clearly marked disclaimer 'This content has been modified' (eBay); Or allow a brief time window for editing, after which your only option (regarding that specific comment) is 'delete' (Facebook); To run a 'diff' on the two comments, and to display the original—placing footnotes that correct it. That last one's hairy, and all of these are kind of under the assumption that the purpose of editing is to correct mistakes, rather than the full range of things one who edits may purpose to do (change mind, rewrite).
But it's a computer, and we've come to expect the tools we use to be somewhat silent and obedient. After rewriting several sentences, I don't want a computer telling me, "So you're changing your mind? You must be. This data looks nothing like what was here before you clicked edit. Maybe you're just changing your tone after reading how poorly you got your point across on the first try. Either way, that's what my rewrite comment button is for. You should have clicked that one. If that's what you meant to click, I can arrange something…"
I think having a time limit on edits (a la Facebook) is a reasonable compromise. It lets you fix grammatical or spelling errors or quickly retract something you really wish you hadn't said.
I also support a way to let the other readers know a post has been edited - either altering the look of the edited text or time stamping the edit. But slipping it down chronologically (which I believe Punchcut is planning to fix) just throws the entire thread off.
Be both wrong and sick, ceratainly..
Maybe one can argue on ethical grounds that edits on "General Discussions" threads should be limited, because a thread mimics a conversation. I don't believe that this applies to forums that are more informational in nature (like "Build" for instance) where I would even favor unlimited edits, especially if all previous versions of a post could be accessed through a history mechanism (like on Wikipedia, where it is even possible to compare two versions of an article).
A concrete way to do what I suggested above could be this: (1) under the avatar would appear all edit dates (2) posts would be ordered according to their first date so that editing would shuffle nothing (3) the last version would be the one appearing when we normally read a thread (4) to read a previous version, we would just click on the corresponding date and it would appear in some other window.
No one would be lost with the change which could even be unnoticed; posts would not be cluttered with edition notes; what is written could not be "unwritten". Implementation may be relatively easy.
Common practice on another site I frequent is to add a PS to your edited post, declaring what was edited (eg. Edit: Corrected spelling, added url.). It's a courtesy thing, right?
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Bert Vanderveen BNO
Edit: Added this PS to clarify…
I too think that would be the most logical approach, Bert.
You find something like that on most forums. I don't know why you want to invent something incredibly complicated, like some of the suggestions made here. Making a problem out of nothing, really. :)
I often edit posts for grammar, spelling, typos and phrasing.
That wouldn't be so necessary if the comment formatting interface more resembled the finished post.
> Making a problem out of nothing, really.
The time a post is made determines who is the first to identify a font. This is very important, is it not? :)
Michel: Yes, I meant that people are suggesting all kinds of weird, complicated solutions for a problem that does not exist. The bug which
kicks edited posts to the bottom should be fixed, and then everything is fine. That way the timestamp stays unedited (I guess, like it was before), and Type ID's are unaffected.
Nick: I Agree, most of the edits I do are fixes of strange sentence-breaks created by the board interface, which were not there in the comment formatting field (that happens basically all the time, so a automatically added notice saying 'edited at time/date' would be unnecessary for such edits).
> The bug which kicks edited posts to the bottom should be fixed
A bug that has been there for more than 18 weeks becomes a problem. I'd like to understand the nature of the bug. I have no idea how posts are ordered. The timestamp of an edited post must change, since it is used to determine when a font was identified. If posts are ordered according to their timestamp, then edited posts must be moved to the end. Again, if ordering is determined by a date, the date of the first post must also be kept if we want posts not to be moved to the end; as a consequence, at least two dates must be kept for each post: that of the first post, and that of the last edit. Why then not keep at least those two posts? This would allow comparing the first post with the last edit, and I would feel better after editing a post because I never tell what I changed (usually typos, sometimes I add a few words because sometimes I tend to be cryptic).
I agree that pushing the post down probably isn't what I would have chosen. But it's not a choice now. Over time people may get used to the new system and until Typophile is ready to change it again I think that is the best course.
This is a good example of the community policing itself. Paul did a no-no and the community has called him on it. I don't feel a need to reprimand Paul in a private email, since I know him well enough to know he only has the best intentions. And I hope Paul knows me well enough to take my light but public rap on his knuckles the right way. =)
So this community (and the moderators) know, the policy is that Typophile NEVER deletes posts. In rare cases we have unpublished them -- this can happen when matters fall into legal territory that puts the viability of Typophile in a compromising position. In every case those unpublished threads still exist in the content system.
So, to that point James, if you're calling out threads that seem to have gone missing now is the time for the moderator(s) to make things right or provide a compelling reason back to the community as to the reason for unpublishing something.
The good people at Punchcut have said they plan to fix the bug that pushes edited posts to the bottom.
Why it's taken so long... I don't know.
Thank you good people at Punchcut!


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