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|Jun 16, 1987
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|Oct 24, 1984
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|Oct 24, 1983
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|Christopher G. Miller
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|British Telecommunications Public Limited Company
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This invention relates to a multiprocessor system in which a bus connects each processor to a common memory.
Multiprocessor systems employing common memory for the transfer of information between processors are known. For example, in British Pat. No. 2,112,146 a system is disclosed in which information is transferred in response to interrupts. In an article by R. J. Bowater, et al in the IBM technical disclosure bulletin Volumn 22, No. 11, of April, 1980, a system is disclosed in which areas of memory are scanned in order to locate information which is to be transferred.
To ensure satisfactory operation of the above systems, while making efficient use of the common bus, contention for the bus must be resolved to ensure that all processors have access to the common memory. The rate at which each transfer is performed (for a given clock frequency) is determined by the number of instructions required to perform the transfer. It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide an improved multiprocessor system which provides fast information transfer while allowing each processor to have access to the common bus.
According to a first aspect of the invention there is provided a multiprocessor system, comprising a master processor, a plurality of independently controlled slave processors, a bus for connecting the slave processor and the master processor to a common memory, said common memory including:
(a) a plurality of message buffers for storing messages in which each message includes a label which identifies a destination slave processor,
(b) an input area associated with each slave processor such that information is supplied to an input area only from its associated slave processor, and each area occupies the minimum space required to identify one of said message buffers,
(c) an output queue associated with each slave processor such that the contents of an output queue are only read by its associated processor,
the system arranged to transfer information from a source slave processor to a destination slave processor, in which:
(e) a source slave processor supplies a message to an addressed message buffer and either prior or subsequent to supplying said message said first processor loads to its associated area a message buffer indicator which indicates the position of said addressed buffer,
(f) the master processor scans all the input areas to detect a message buffer indicator, reads the label stored within an indicated message buffer, and supplies at least part of the message to the output buffer associated with the destination processor, and
(g) each slave processor scans and reads messages from its associated output queue.
In a preferred arrangement a slave processor must request use of the bus from the master processor before said slave may access the common memory. The master processor may issue a bus acknowledge signal to a highest priority slave processor after receiving a bus request signal from any of the slave processors if the master does not itself require to access the common memory. Preferably the highest priority slave processor will relay a bus acknowledge signal to the next priority slave processor if said highest priority slave does not require to access the common memory and so on until all the slaves have received a bus acknowledge signal.
Preferably, after reading a message the master processor replaces the label which identifies the destination processor before writing the whole of said message to the associated output queue of the destination processor. Each message may include a chain pointer which may identify a further message which is to be supplied to the associated output queue of the destination processor.
In a preferred arrangement the common memory also includes a plurality of data buffers into which data is supplied by a source slave processor and ownership of the data buffer is transferred to a destination slave processor. Preferably each message also includes a data pointer which may identify a data buffer to a destination processor such that on receiving said message said destination processor takes over the ownership and has sole use of said data buffer.
In a preferred arrangement messages are written into an output queue in a cyclic manner and the master processor records the position where the last write occurred to each of said queues. Preferably each slave erases information from its associated output queue thus leaving the positions blank once said data has been read by said slave. A slave may then stop reading from its associated output queue after detecting one blank. Preferably a slave may scan information in its output queue without erasing said information in an attempt to locate a specific message and on detecting said message said slave will return to the unattended information in said queue. A slave may also periodically read a predetermined location in its associated output queue out of sequence and on detecting a crash command at said predetermined location said slave processor will attempt to retain synchronization with the master processor.
Preferably the input areas consist of single consecutive memory locations and the maximum number of message buffers is determined by the word length of said locations.
The invention will now be described by way of example only with reference to the accompanying Figures of which:
FIG. 1 is a schematic representation of a multiprocessor testing apparatus for testing a packet switching network including a common memory;
FIG. 2 is a partial memory map for a common memory which forms part of the multiprocessor testing apparatus; and
FIG. 3 is a circuit for allowing each processor of the multiprocessor system to obtain access to the common memory.
A packet switching network 1 is shown schematically in FIG. 1 having four synchronous terminals 2 and three asynchronous terminals 3. Information transferred over the asynchronous terminals must be interfaced to the packet switching environment by means of packet assembler/dissemblers shown generally by 4. Each synchronous and asynchronous terminal is respectively connected to a synchronous port 5 or an asynchronous port 6 of a multiprocessor testing system 7. The testing system includes a VDU/keyboard terminal 8 and a disc drive 9 allowing test programs to be loaded which generate a plurality of calls over a wide range of speeds and record the response of the network 1 to said calls.
The multiprocessor testing system 7 consists of twelve slave processors 10 (each based on a Zilog Z80 microprocessor) and a similar master processor 11. Ports 2 and 3 are grouped into pairs and each pair is interfaced to the system 7 by one of the slave processors 10. Of the remaining four processors one controls the operation of the VDU and keyboard 8, one implements CCITT X25 level 2 protocol, a third formats information for displaying on the VDU, and a fourth provides X25 level 3 and organizes network tests. The master processor 11 controls the operation of the disc drive 9 and performs a central role with respect to the movement of information within the multiprocessor system.
The master processor 11 and each slave processor 10 may access 64K memory positions. Half of this addressable memory takes the form of local memory which is unique to each processor. The remaining 32K is used to address common memory 12 located on a common services board 13. Each processor 10, 11 has access to the common memory 12 over a common bus 14--the bus is essentially controlled by the master 11 and each slave 10 must request use of the bus 14. The common services board 13 also includes a clock 15 (which generates timing signals for all of the processors 10, 11 in the multiprocessor system 7) and may include another Z80 microprocessor for organizing the functions it is required to perform.
The local memory of each slave processor 10 and the local memory of the master processor 11 consists of 2K of ROM and 30K of RAM. Application programs are loaded into the RAM from the disc 9 while the instructions held by the ROM control the transfer of information within the system 7. The multiprocessing system 7 may therefore operate in accordance with the present invention before application programs are loaded to the processors. The software of each processor uses the common memory for transferring information by arranging said common memory into a plurality of block, however, these blocks do not determine the physical arrangement of the common memory which is 32K of standard RAM.
A partial memory map for the common memory is shown in FIG. 2. The memory has twelve one-byte input areas 20, a plurality of eight-byte message buffers 21, twelve sixty-four-byte output queues 22 and a 255 data buffers 23.
Each of the twelve output queues 22 is uniquely associated with one of the slave processors 10. Information is supplied to a slave processor 10 by loading said information to its associated output queue. However information can only be loaded into an output queue by the master processor 11. The master processor knows the location in each output queue 22 where it last loaded data. The next load therefore immediately follows on in a cyclic fashion.
The master 11 has control over the common bus 14 and slave processors 10 must request bus access. Any of the slave processors 10 may issue a bus request at any time which is ignored by the master if the master 11 is itself accessing the common memory. When the master 11 no longer requires the common memory it issues a bus acknowledge signal which is supplied to a slave processor 10 having the highest priority. This slave processor 10 will then access the memory or pass the bus acknowledge signal to the next slave processor and so on. The arrangement is known as a daisy chain and the circuit for performing this operation is described below with reference to FIG. 3.
When a slave processor 10 has control of the bus said slave will read any information waiting in its associated output queue 22. Like the master processor stores the position in each output queue where it last implemented a write so each slave processor knows the position of the last byte it read. After reading information from a memory location in its output queue a slave processor erases that information, i.e. it loads blanks. On implementing a read to its output queue a slave processor will read information until it encounters a blank. Therefore if no information is waiting in an output queue the associated slave processor will only read one byte and then pass a bus acknowledge signal to the next slave processor in the daisy chain.
The above details how information is transferred from the master 11 to a slave 10. This procedure is also followed when a slave communicates with another slave which ensures the master has control over all information transfers. If a slave 10 is required to send information to the master 11 or to another slave it does so using one of the message buffers 21. The master 11 determines which message buffers 21 are available for each slave and more message buffers 21 may be requested by a slave during operation of the system 7. If a first slave (a source) wishes to send a message to a second slave (a destination) then the source slave processor 10 requests use of the common bus 14. When the source slave receives a bus acknowledgement signal it writes an 8-byte message into a message buffer 21, and then writes a message buffer indicator to the area 20 associated with the source processor. The source processor only has one associated area which ensures that control of the bus will be passed to another processor.
Each 8-byte message is generated in accordance with a defined structure. The first byte is a chain pointer which allows message buffers to be chained thus maintaining queues of messages. The maximum number of messages which may be chained is restricted to the number of message buffers 21 which are available to a slave processor. Therefore each slave will have to pass control of the bus to the master 11 to ensure that said slave has free buffer space.
Byte 2 is a data pointer which uniquely defines one of the 255 64-byte data buffers 23. The bulk of any information which is to be sent from a source slave processor 10 is placed in data buffer 23, for example a packet to be sent or a packet has 64 bytes but essentially they may be of any suitable length. When a destination processor receives a data pointer it takes over the ownership of the data buffer indicated by the pointer and may then access the information contained within said buffer. Therefore the bulk of information transferred between processors does not have to be physically transferred from one memory location to another memory location.
Byte 3 is a message destination label which identifies the destination slave processor 10. On reading this byte the master processor knows which output queue 22 the message is to be written to, i.e. the one associated with the destination processor. However, before the message is written to an output queue 22 the destination label is replaced with a source label which identifies the source processor to the destination processor.
The fourth byte describes the message function, for example, take over the data buffer 23 identified by the data pointer (byte 2), or send out a test frame, etc. Bytes 5 to 8 are message parameters the meaning of which is determined by the message function.
Any of the slave processors 10 may also be provided with the facility of looking ahead in their output queues 22. If they are waiting for a specific message, for example the answer to a question, then they may scan and ignore several messages until the awaited message is found. This message is then acted upon, a marker left to the effect that this message must not be read again, and the slave processor returns to the start of the previously ignored message. Of course a slave 10 cannot look further than the 64 bytes of the cyclic output queue 22 and messages are not erased while they are being scanned.
In addition to organizing the transfer of information, as described above, the master processor 11 must also ensure that all the slaves are operating in synchronism. On detecting that something has gone wrong with a slave processor the master loads a one byte crash command to a predetermined position 24 in the slaves+ associated output queue. Each slave is arranged to periodically scan its respective predetermined position and on finding a crash command will set about regaining synchronization with the rest of the system while temporarily halting its external activities.
A slave processor 10 calls for memory access on (to be precise just after) the rising edge of a clock pulse and the common services board 13 provides a bus acknowledgement signal on the falling edge. By the time the bus acknowledgement signal is available all processors that require a common memory access will have asserted their requirement, thus allowing contention for use of the bus to be solved by the daisy chain arrangement.
The Bus control logic for each slave processor 10 is shown in FIG. 3 and is designed to request use of the common memory bus only when necessary (i.e. the processor is attempting to access the common memory) and to hold the processor frozen until the bus becomes available. When a slave processor sets its address line A15 high, indicating a requirement for a memory access to the common memory, the output of gate 30 will be forced low. When the memory request signal from the slaves' CPU goes active (low), half a clock cycle later, the output of gate 31 will be allowed to go high which will clock a zero into a D-type bistable 32. The output of a gate 31 being high will automatically force the output a of gate 33 high, thereby making this processor's bus grant out signal false which will inhibit any processors of lower priority from accessing the bus. When "Bus grant in" goes low (and this will depend on the common services board being ready for an access at the same time as no other processors upstream requiring access) bistable 32 is preset. This transition will clock a zero into a latch 34 (since the output from gate 31 and hence the preset input is high) which means that common bus enable becomes true. Note that during the period when bistable 32 has its Q output on the CPU is held in a wait condition. When released the processor will operate the necessary signals to achieve the required memory access and when finished the memory request signal will go high again which forces the output from gate 31 low, presetting latch 34 and re-enabling the bus-grant daisy chain via gate 33. A little later, the A15 line from the CPU will go low again and the bus is released for the next cycle.
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Numbness in right hand
I am having numbness on the right side of my right hand, which includes thumb, fore & middle finger and below this fingers , I am having this problem for the past 1 month , What should I do ? If I put a little bit stress on my wrist to hold the grip of the bike handle or while working over the mouse, it gets numb
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Hi there... Hand pain, numbness, which increases in night could be due to thoracic outlet syndrome or carpel tunnel syndrome or hypothyroidism, cervical disc prolapse... Head and neck pain is definitely due to disc dessication at c2- c3... Not the hand pain as nerves supplying hand are c5,6,7,8 and t1... Disc dessication means that in the cartilage between vertebrae I.e intervertebral disc there is loss of fluid which is early degenerative change... Cause of your hand pain can be found only by ruling out each thing... For pain relief give rest to hand as due to over use muscle inflammation occurs which could press on nerves and cause pain, dip hand in hot water so that there is more blood flow and washes out pain causing chemicals.... Consult spine surgeon once...
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Hello there.... Numbness in the right hand can be caused by a number of conditions. In most cases right hand numbness is caused by compression of the peripheral nerves or improper blood supply.... If you are suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome you may be given physical therapy along with anti-inflammatory medication to help relieve your discomfort. You may need to adjust your lifestyle to help avoid activities that are aggravating your condition.... Consult Physician for further evaluation...
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Dynamics of Immigration: Return Migration to Western Mexico
The public cost of immigration is a matter of ongoing and sometimes intense political debate in California. One of the least understood issues in the debate is whether many of those who come to the United States return home and, if so, whether they differ from those who remain. Return migration has important ramifications for a number of policy concerns, including the composition of the immigrant population, the use of social services, and the potential for assimilation. To shed light on this issue, the author analyzes data on return migration for a sample of more than 42,000 immigrants from western Mexico - an area that accounts for a large percentage of California's immigrants.
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Charley is captured in a most undignified manner
Valorie frowned. She'd been knocking on Charley's door for five minutes, and no reply.
He couldn't not be there, she reasoned. He never went out this time of day. He never went out past four without telling her.
She knocked again, and rang the doorbell for good measure.
Still no answer.
'Hello?' she yelled. 'Is anybody in there?!'
Valorie kicked the door in frustration. The drainpipes running up past the door and up to the gutter rattled, and suddenly a key dropped out.
Valorie looked at the key. Fortunately it hadn't gone down the drain. She picked it up and slowly put it to the door lock.
It fit. She twisted, and the door swung open.
Inside, there was nothing out of the ordinary. Well, if you counted unbelievably comfortable purple sofas, bugs in jars and a rug that made you dizzy just looking at it as ordinary.
There was no sound in the house. Charley was missing.
Valorie wondered what to do next. All she could think of was waiting until he got back, or sent a message or something.
Valorie ambled into the kitchen. There was a packet of mashed potato out, and a box of Quorn sausages – Charley didn't eat very much meat. Valorie put them away to stop them spoiling, and went through the cupboards. She pinched a few biscuits. After that, she couldn't think of anything else to do, so she curled up on the sofa and waited.
Meanwhile, Charley sat alone in a dank, dark room. The chair he sat on was welded to the floor, and his hands were tied behind his back. Charley shifted uncomfortably. He didn't like sitting down. It felt unnatural to him.
Charley had thought about projecting himself into his etheric body and escaping, but what was the point? Even if he got out without them catching him, he couldn't do anything. Mortals couldn't see or hear etheric bodies.
They had kept him waiting for two hours. It was beyond annoying – it was inconsiderate. He was bored, cold, and he needed the toilet.
Eventually somebody did come through. It was O'Hanlon, accompanied by a man he had never seen before.
'Mr Aether. Might I introduce Derek Williams, head of the Magical Management department.'
'How do you do,' Williams said, extending a hand for him to shake.
Charley just looked at him patronisingly, and he pulled his hand back again.
'So,' Charley said after a while. 'Are you going to apologise for being late? For that matter, are you going to tell me why you brought me here and hogtied me in the first place?'
'We're sorry, Mr Aether,' Williams said. He had a thin reedy voice, with a trace of some Scottish accent, most likely Aberdeen. 'The restraints were necessary. The reaches of your powers were unknown to us, and we couldn't let you escape as long as we had a proposition to make.'
'So this isn't just about my temporarily blinding Mr O'Hanlon here?'
He looked at O'Hanlon, whose eye was still fairly damaged. O'Hanlon squinted back at Charley.
'Obviously I'm upset,' he said. 'But all will be forgiven if you at least listen to what we have to say.'
'I see,' Charley said sarcastically. 'Do you mind if I call somebody?'
O'Hanlon laughed.
'Ha! We can't risk you calling for help. You're going to stay with us until you agree with our demands.'
'I need to talk to a friend. We have classes together, and she needs to know that I can't attend for today, or a few days, or however long you insist on holding me captive.'
'I suppose. We can call her for you. How can we reach her?'
'I'll tell you the number.'
The two men looked at each other, and then Williams dug his mobile out of his pocket. It looked expensive. Charley gave them the number, and Williams put the phone to his ear.
'Hello?… To whom am I speaking?… My name is Derek
Williams… yes, I know Charley.'
'Valorie! Send help!' Charley yelled, and O'Hanlon stuck a large clammy hand over his mouth.
'I'm afraid you won't be seeing him for a little while… He's agreed to speak to us about an important matter…'
Charley spat, and O'Hanlon drew his hand away in disgust.
'Agreed, my arse,' Charley yelled again, and O'Hanlon stuck the other hand over his mouth.
'I don't know. It could be days… We'll be sure to contact you if anything else comes up… Thank you…'
A pause, and Williams hung up. Then he pressed a single button on his phone, and waited. O'Hanlon removed his hand.
Barely two minutes later, another man entered the room. This man wore a suit that didn't fit. He was massive, with broad shoulders and powerful arms.
Charley looked at him, determined not to show emotion. The man walked calmly over to him, and delivered a powerful punch in the guts. Charley bent over in pain; his mouth opened and shut but no sound came out.
'That'll teach you not to spit,' O'Hanlon said with satisfaction.
Charley lifted his head with some difficulty.
'Some figure of authority you turned out to be,' he snarled. 'You just don't have the decency to punch me yourself.'
O'Hanlon's nostrils flared and his good eye widened.
'You're pathetic - crying for help – relying on a little girl to save you.'
Williams changed the subject.
'We haven't brought you here to hurt you. But we will not tolerate any unbecoming behaviour towards members of the Government.'
'Well, what if I won't tolerate being punched in the stomach by someone I don't even know?'
'You are a very stubborn man. All we ask is that, for the moment, you comply with our demands.'
Charley breathed out. The pain was fading slightly now. While they had been talking, the massive man in the too-small suit had retreated into the shadows.
'What is it you want to say?' he asked.
Williams and O'Hanlon looked at each other.
'We are concerned,' O'Hanlon began, 'about a young man called Adam Quinn. Perhaps you've heard of him.'
Charley nodded. 'I met him, once. I didn't take to him. Far too powerful for his own good.'
'We are asking that you help us locate him and, if necessary, to help us bring him down.'
'What?' Charley smiled. 'You're joking.'
'You're the most expert Wizard teacher we know. You have a lot of power. We think you could take him on.'
Charley realised that they weren't joking. He looked at them both in disbelief.
'That's insane! No one person on the planet could take on Adam Quinn! For Christ's Sake! He had the power to alter reality itself!'
Back in Charley's house, Valorie's mobile rang. She jolted upright. She had fallen asleep. Hurriedly, she answered the phone.
'Hello?' said a strange, unfamiliar voice on the other line. 'To whom am I speaking?'
'Hang on,' Valorie said. 'Who are you?'
'My name is Derek Williams -'
Valorie stood up. 'You're the department of magic guy. What have you done with Charley? You know where he is?'
'Yes,' Derek Williams said. 'I know Charley.'
'Valorie! Send help!'
Valorie started, hearing Charley's voice, but then he was cut off again.
'Where is he? What have you done with him?' she demanded furiously.
'I'm afraid you won't be seeing him for a little while.'
'Why not?'
'He's agreed to speak to us about an important matter.'
A yell sounded out.
'Agreed, my arse!'
'Charley!' Valorie yelled, but he was gone again.
'You can't just take him like this!' she cried down the phone to Williams. 'When is he coming back?'
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'I don't believe this…'
'We'll be sure to contact you if anything else comes up… Thank you…'
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New Braunfels Herald Zeitung (Newspaper) - January 13, 1987, New Braunfels, Texas Herald-Zettung, New Braunfels, Texas Tuesday, January 13,1987 Paoe9 Briefly Truck causes pile up HOUSTON (AP) - A pickup truck, going the wrong way on a freeway access road, slammed into a Metropolitan Transit Authority bus on Monday, injuring at least 12 bus passengers, authorities said. Most of the injured passengers complained of neck or back pains and were taken to several hospitals, Houston police Sgt. Jesse Foroi said. ''They (injuries) appeared not to be serious," he said. ''We just don't know yet." The driver of the pickup of Houston was not injured. He was charged with driving under the influence of drugs and was in the city jail, Foroi said. ''A bond has not been set at this time," the sergeant said. The pickup was going the wrong way on a service road on the Gulf Freeway when it hit a car, then slammed into the bus, officials said. The pickup turned over and hit another pickup before coming to a stop, he said. No one in the two other vehicles were injured, he said. DENTON, Texas (AP) — Denton County commissioners voted Monday to purchase a birth-control compound to feed to pigeons who roost on the county courthouse. County officials, who want to restore the building to its 19th-century grandeur, say the roosting pigeons are ruining the structure with their droppings. The county will purchase wholegrain com which will be spiked with a birth-control compound in an attempt to control the pigeon population "We got the porches and stuff up there (on the courthouse) really clean during all this work," said Commissioner Lee Walker. "I was up there a couple of weeks ago, and the pigeons are back, and it's all messed up again." "Once we get finished, we need to do what we can to keep it clean," Mrs Walker said. ''And we can't as long as the pigeons keep reproducing The birds will first be fed com without the compound, which will be added a few days later The compound is supposed to render the female birds incapable of reproducing for six months, while males will be infertile for three months, said Mrs. Walker New drivers wanted DALLAS <AP> — After holding informal discussions with union leaders, the Dallas company that is buying Greyhound Lines Inc. is advertising job openings for up to 1.200 new drivers Fred Currey. the lead partner of GU Holdings Inc., the new owners, met last week with officials of the Amalgamated Transit Workers union, which represents Greyhound's more than 5,000 bus drivers An agreement to extend the union's current contract expires Mar. 18, the day before GLI anticipates closing the purchase Currey is to discuss contract proposals with the larger union council next week in Phoenix, Aril The advertisements, which began running in newspapers in nine cities this week, said GLI will interview and train the job applicants before the $350 million acquisition is closed The ads do not guarantee jobs to the trainees, and wages are not mentioned When GLI announced last month that it had agreed to acquire Greyhound and relocate it from Phoenix to Dallas. Currey would not discuss his strategy with the union, but said the company must reduce its costs to be competitive. Larouchees gain voice GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) -Under a settlement reached with the Dallas Fort Worth Airport Board, followers of right-wing extremist Lyndon La roue he will have more freedom to voice their views in the airport. 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New Home Sales Plunge!
Well… The chill in the air isn't confined to the cold front that moved through the Midwest this week… The cold front's chilly air has moved over the economic data here in the US and to a lesser extent, the dollar.
The dollar is weaker this morning versus the usual suspects, led by the euro (EUR), which has climbed and clawed its way back to above 1.27; and the commodity currencies look a bit healthier this morning, too. It's all about the awful housing data that had printed two consecutive days this week. I'll get to that in a minute, but first some observations from the Chuck flight deck…
I saw Fed Head, Richard Fisher (of the Dallas Fed) on TV Tuesday, and he said, "We should thank Ben Bernanke for bringing us back."
My thought as I walked out the door, past the TV was "bringing us where?" I mean, so we should kick up our heels that:
1. The Cartel got involved in the markets and now is the owner of over $2 trillion worth of toxic waste bonds? And $2 trillion is their FLOOR!
2. The Cartel did over $300 billion of quantitative easing (QE) in March of 2009, and announced a week ago that they would continue to "support" Treasuries, which is Central Bank parlance for, more quantitative easing?
3. The Cartel has kept interest rates at zero for so long, and will continue to do so?
4. That Housing is circling the bowl once again?
5. That unemployment is 22%?
6. And now the Cartel is arguing among themselves as to how to stimulate the economy?
Oh trust me, folks, I could carry on, my wayward son, for a long time here… But won't… I'm being watched these days, and don't want to get my wrists slapped!
I will say, though, that I can't believe the markets haven't punished the Fed and the dollar for this second round of QE… The damage that this Cartel chairman has inflicted on the dollar will end up being the mother of all damage in the end.
Speaking of Housing… Did you strap yourself in for the New Home Sales for July report yesterday like I warned you to do? Good thing, because, following up on Tuesday's print of July Existing Home Sales falling -27%!!! Yesterday we had New Home Sales "fall" -12.4% OUCH! That's two consecutive days on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride with housing…
So… I have to ask you this… Remember a couple of weeks ago, when US Treasury Secretary Geithner wrote an Op-Ed in The New York Times that was titled, "Welcome to the Recovery"?
Did that remind you of back in 2008 when then US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, and Ben Bernanke swore before Congress that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were "sound" and "well capitalized"… And a couple of months later they collapsed?
I just shake my head in disgust, but… Have to come back to today, and the fact is this… Housing is circling the bowl, and the recovery is nowhere in sight. Period.
Whew! I'm full of you-know-what and vinegar this morning!
I heard on the radio on the way to work today that a local mortgage lender was offering 30-year Conventional or FHA loans at 3.75%!!! WOW! Now, think about this for a minute, mortgage rates are at 1960 levels, and home prices have sunk by large chunks in the past few years. Sounds like a good time to buy a house, right? Well… Yes, if you're qualified… Ahhh, that's the cheese that binds right there, isn't it? No longer are you able to get a home loan if you are not qualified, and with unemployment at 22%, and the number of people battening down the hatches right now, doesn't leave many "qualified" people… It's a vicious cycle, folks… But until people go back to work, housing is a victim…
And the housing problems are what I believe pushes the US back to negative growth… One of my fave economists, Nouriel Roubini, believes that US growth will go below 1%, and the chances of a double-dip recession are at 40%. I guess for once, I'm even more gloom and doom than Mr. Gloom and Doom, here… But he'll come around…
Well, the two days of rides on Mr. Toad's Wild Ride for housing, really got gold going again… Yesterday, gold advanced to the highest price in almost eight weeks, and the shiny metal is up a couple of bucks this morning, with silver really kicking some sand in the dollar's face, moving back above $19 this morning!
The fear factor (i.e. the fear that the economy is really faltering) is the key here… Gold and silver are seen as stores of value, and wealth… So… When the economy of the US is circling the bowl, which will take the dollar, and stocks with it, and bonds are at minuscule yields, where does the intelligent investor go? They go to gold and silver!
Remember a few years ago, when I told you that gold was becoming an investment choice by many investors because gold no longer had to compete with deposit rates at banks? (Except EverBank!) Well, the bond bubble just keeps inflating, and as it does, yields on bonds continue to fall, thus allowing gold and silver to compete with bonds now too!
Well… Another reason for dollar weakness this morning, I'm told, is that the markets are convinced that Cartel Chairman, Big Ben Bernanke, will use his Jackson Hole speech tomorrow to lay the groundwork for further easing here in the US… Yes, it's boondoggle time in Jackson Hole, WY this weekend, with central bankers, economists, and other guests getting together to talk about economies… OOOOOHHHHH sends shivers up my spine! Where do I sign up to get invited to that boondoggle? NOT!
OK… So… I see that the dollar is rallying back, moving the euro from 1.2745 to 1.2710, and the trading looks to be one-way right now… So, maybe traders thought the move against the dollar was too much…
No matter what the euro and other currencies do today, it doesn't change the overall picture for them versus the dollar… I had a few guys come up to me at the San Francisco Money Show last week, and tell me that they believed that all currencies were going to devalue along with the dollar… First, I wondered if they had all read the same story… But then I would say to them… "That may be true… But a race to the bottom is being won by the dollar, so why not take advantage of that?"
I really don't believe in all currencies devaluing together… You can't get these guys to agree on anything when G-7 or G-10, or G-20 meet, how would you get everyone together to agree to something like that? Sounds far-fetched to me!
There was no follow up to the news I brought you yesterday that the Japanese Finance Minister, Noda, had greased the trap that I believe is being set for investors flocking to Japanese yen (JPY) with the belief that Japanese officials won't do anything about the strength of the yen… And yen is basically flat on the day.
Yesterday, S&P downgraded Ireland's credit rating… This was a blow to Ireland and the Eurozone, and now is being called "not realistic" by the Irish Government. Apparently there are some economists and analysts that agree with the Government on this… But nonetheless, S&P downgraded Ireland's credit rating… And that put a dagger in the heart of those that believed bond yields spreads between Ireland and Germany would narrow…
Again with the ratings agencies! I'm not even going to rail on them this morning, I think my dear readers know where I stand with these ratings agencies!
And for those that continue to believe that China's economy is about to collapse… China's biggest automaker posted a 35% increase in profits for the 1st half of 2010! That's $118 million in profits… Sure doesn't sound like things are bad enough to stop people from buying new cars in China!
The data cupboard will yield the Weekly Initial Jobless Claims this morning, which are expected to remain near 500,000… Tomorrow is the second print of second quarter GDP. Just a refresher… The first print was 2.4%… I told you when it printed that it would be revised down, and tomorrow, I expect the revision to come in with a number less than 2%, but could very well plunge to 1.4%… OUCH! Of course, this is all water under the bridge, as it happened so long ago… In the second quarter, I had eye surgery, and that seems like a year ago to me!
Speaking of data… I forgot to mention to you that the New Home Sales report represented the slowest month of New Home Sales since 1963! OUCH! Now that's going to leave a mark!
Another economic report that points to a double dip, printed yesterday… US Durable Goods Orders for July printed weaker than expected, in spite of a surge in aircraft orders… The data was up 0.3%, but given the aircraft orders, should have been much stronger… So… When you take out the "one-time" aircraft orders, Durable Goods were down big!
Then there was this… Demand for physical gold in the second quarter rose by 36%! And when you take into account the dollar value of the ounces purchased it equates to a 77% increase! WOW! My friend, David Galland, reported yesterday that the amount of gold held by ETF's grew by 414% in the past year! DOUBLE WOW! Here's some more from my friend and one of my fave writers, David Galland… "For all the reasons that Aristotle enunciated, gold is viewed in a class of its own, and so has an unblemished history as a universally accepted store of value. And, thanks to its portability, divisibility, durability, and consistency, it has also always been looked upon as a convenient form of money."
Nicely said David…
To recap… New Home Sales plunged 12.4% in July, following up on the plunge of 27% in Existing Homes. The fear factor for the US economy has put some pressure on the dollar, albeit soft pressure, not deep tissue! Gold has gained quite a bit the past two days on these awful housing reports, and the physical demand for gold continues to be quite strong.


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Are you awaiting the report from Lord Hutton on the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly with an open mind? Or are you one of those people who has decided in advance who is most to blame for the tragedy?
What is certain is that the majority of Britain's newspapers have already marked out who should emerge as badly as possible from Hutton's inquiry. Don't expect anything like fair and balanced coverage when Lord Hutton's report is published next week.
Most national papers no longer pay even lip service to the concept of objectivity. They don't report fairly or accurately because they have political agendas which dictate exactly how they will respond to any given news story.
In the case of Hutton, they revealed their feelings well before he started his deliberations, reinforcing them throughout the hearings by ensuring that their headlines, heavily angled narratives and blatant omissions reflected the viewpoints of editors and/or owners.
We can be sure they will seek out and highlight every sentence or phrase which supports their preconceptions while downplaying, or even ignoring, those which fail to fit their agendas. In other words, they will be spinning away as normal.
Therefore, based on their previous bias, it's possible to predict with some confidence what many papers will say about Hutton's conclusions.
Let's start with the Daily Mail, the paper that rarely leaves its readers unsure what its editor, Paul Dacre, thinks about any subject. Unusually, the Kelly affair initially presented the Dacre Mail with a dilemma since two of its traditional hate figures, the BBC and the Blair government, were on opposing sides.
But, as Blair's then communications director, Alastair Campbell, observed, it didn't take long for the Mail to decide that it loathed the government (and himself) more than the public-service broadcaster it has berated for years.
A typical editorial, from early August, asserted that Hutton's inquiry "will inevitably shine light ... on the rottenness at the heart of the Blair government ... an administration so wedded to spin and manipulation that it lacks the basic decency to refrain from seeking to blacken a decent man's reputation even as his body lies unburied."
Two weeks later, despite conceding that "some of the rich seam of evidence appears contradictory, even confusing", the Mail contended that "there is no doubting the disturbing picture revealed of Tony Blair's style of 'leadership'."
The Mail's view of Campbell may be gauged from its description of him as the "Downing Street liar-in-chief" who controls "New Labour's mendacity machine".
So we can expect the Dacre Mail to name Blair, Campbell and the defence secretary Geoff Hoon as the guilty men. The Mail on Sunday - different editor, same bias, same elision of comment and fact - will, of course, deliver a similar verdict.
The Daily Telegraph, which was edited until October by Charles Moore, agreed only in part with the Mail. It, too, faced a conundrum: how could it applaud Blair for prosecuting a war it supported while, at the same time, criticising him?
It began by lashing Campbell for his "bullying and exaggeration" and followed up with a broadside against the BBC because of its supposed opposition to the war which made it "desperate" to discover "anything" to discredit the invasion.
The Telegraph had little time for the BBC reporter, Andrew Gilligan, whose controversial broadcast on Radio 4's Today programme started the affair. "In a creepy way," said the paper, "Mr Campbell and Gilligan seem to need each other" and "poor Dr Kelly fell foul of both of them".
At the end of September, just before Moore's chair passed to Martin Newland, the Telegraph summed up the evidence which, it said, had revealed the government's "unpleasant regime of bullying and toadying" and named "the most abject example" as Hoon. Campbell was "less contemptible ... but in many ways more appalling" because of "his lack of self-control ... and his brutality".
It thought Blair had emerged better than his ministers but remained responsible for his government's "hysterical culture". Kelly himself was not above reproach and the intelligence services had not emerged "with much credit".
But the Telegraph reserved its harshest criticism for the BBC as "the unambiguously guilty party" and Gilligan who had "twisted and exaggerated what he had been told by Dr Kelly, in a manner that was unprofessional and irresponsible". It accused the BBC's senior executives - including the chairman of the governors, Gavyn Davies and the director-general, Greg Dyke - of "dereliction of duty".
Then came the twist: the government was not "culpable in its treatment of Dr Kelly" but could not be blamed for his death. Moreover, the government had not gone to war because of false intelligence, a charge "repeated countless times with fatal effect on public opinion" by the BBC.
The new editor may take a different line, of course, indicated in an editorial a month ago which argued that Blair had "misrepresented to the public the intelligence that he had been given". It also hinted that the BBC might not have been in the wrong after all: Gilligan's broadcast had conveyed Kelly's concerns, shared by some members of the intelligence world, about Blair's "exaggerations and misrepresentations". It concluded: "If Lord Hutton cuts to the heart of the matter, Mr Blair will pay a heavy political price for it."
So the Telegraph, which looked likely to choose the juiciest bits from Hutton of any anti-BBC findings, may well turn its big guns on the prime minister instead.
The Times is unlikely to do the same. Its editor, Robert Thomson, bridles at any suggestion that he follows any particular line set down by his owner, Rupert Murdoch, but he will surely play up criticism of the BBC. Despite even-handed editorials, the news headlines during the Hutton inquiry reflected an obsession with the BBC's behaviour.
Murdoch's Sunday Times, edited by John Witherow, has been noticeably sharp in its attacks on the government and will surely see Hutton as a chance to heap more abuse on Blair. As for the other Wapping daily, the Sun, the die was cast months ago. Rebekah Wade's paper was an uninhibited supporter of the war and of Blair's desire to wage it.
When the Kelly affair broke, the red top was at its most raucous when criticising the BBC's role and made several personal attacks on Gilligan, calling him a liar and "a second-rate hack". Its report on Hutton will weed out every sentence on the BBC to renew its assault on the public- service broadcaster.
It is more difficult to predict how the Daily Mirror will react because its editor, Piers Morgan, specialises in changing his mind every week or so. His pre-war issues were trenchantly opposed to the invasion, and that opposition to the government informed the line the Mirror took when Kelly died. But it was kinder to Blair in subsequent weeks.
A seminal article in late September by the Mirror's political editor, James Hardy, gives a pointer to the way the paper will greet Hutton. It laid into Campbell and Hoon while arguing that Blair "looks increasingly likely to emerge with some credit from an inquiry that will blacken reputations across Whitehall and the BBC".
Hardy saw the affair as the result of Campbell's personal vendetta against Gilligan and concluded: "Mr Blair cannot escape blame-free from this sorry saga but the growing impression is of a leader let down by the shabby behaviour of his craven acolytes".
As for the Daily Express, which has also recently acquired a new editor, Peter Hill, it's impossible to tell because it gave less coverage to Hutton than any other paper except for its brash stablemate, the Daily Star. Their owner, Richard Desmond, appears to have allowed his papers to be less enthusiastic about the government in recent months. But both will probably back Blair and Campbell, though it might be hard to spot the Star's report behind a picture of Jordan, the surgically enhanced model who certainly needs all the support she can get.


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