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A look into AMD's future
Subject: General Tech | November 3, 2011 - 12:38 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, vector computing, exascale, APU
Chuck Moore, CTO of AMD's Technology Group, gave a talk this week about AMD's plans for the future of their architecture. As you might conjecture the focus was on the further integration of the CPU and GPU, with an eye on power consumption. The hurdle he feels will be the tallest is the bandwidth for passing data back and forth between the two processors and he sees 3D stacks of memory sitting between the main system memory, the GPU and the CPU. Once developed he feels that the stacks of memory should be able to increase the amount of available communication bandwidth to the point where tasks can be handed smoothly back and forth between the two processors depending on which is more effective at certain tasks. Performance is not everything however, when The Register quotes Moore when he discusses the power requirements of a mid-range exascale class machine costing $200 million just to power and cool over a year, you begin to see the importance of bringing down power consumption and heat production.
"Because Advanced Micro Devices has not yet announced its 16-core "Interlagos" Opteron 6200 processors, it has to talk about something, and in situations like that, it is best to talk about the far-off future. And so AMD rounded up a bunch of its partners on Wednesday in San Francisco for a shindig to talk about the challenges of exascale computing."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- JPR Reports Q3 Graphics Numbers @ SemiAccurate
- Western Digital and Samsung will not supply hard drives to Taiwan channels in November @ DigiTimes
- Facebook's "Open Compute" Server tested @ AnandTech
- HIS Desperate Upgrade GPU Competition @ XSReviews
- HiTechLegion Founder's Birthday Contest
Video Perspective: AMD A8-3850 vs Core i3-2105 on Battlefield 3
Subject: Graphics Cards, Processors | October 31, 2011 - 02:22 PM | Matt Baynum
Tagged: video, sandy bridge, Intel, bf3, battlefield 3, APU, amd
Everyone is playing Battlefield 3 these days; we even had a virtual LAN party this weekend where forum members and PC Perspective team members played from about 10am until well after 1am ET. We have done more than our fair share of Battlefield 3 articles as well including hardware performance on high end graphics cards, multi-GPU scaling and more.
We had some requests and questions about what was the lowest priced hardware you could play the game on and while we had run some tests on the GeForce 9800 GT, I decided to take a stab at running BF3 at its lowest settings with integrated graphics on Intel's Sandy Bridge processor and AMD's A-series APU. Here were our test settings:
We ran at a fairly low resolution of 1366x768 (both indicative of mobile resolutions as well as low-end hardware restrictions) and the Low in-game preset. As it turns out this was the level at which the A8-3850 Llano APU was able to maintain an average around 30 FPS while the Intel Core i3-2105 (both priced around $140) was able to reach only a third of that.
With both systems coming in at the ~$450 mark, this could qualify as the lowest priced PC that is capable of getting you into the BF3 action!
You can see our full comparison right here in this short video!
A look at the 65W AMD A8-3800
Subject: General Tech | October 6, 2011 - 12:57 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: amd, A8-3800, llano, APU, Turbo Core
When the A8-3850 hit the streets we were so accustomed to high powered CPUs that we barely blinked at the 100W power envelope it and the A6-3650 required. That is a big change from just a few years ago when hitting or passing 100W tended to bring a lot of negative comments from reviewers. AMD since released the lower powered A8-3800 and A6-3600, both of which have slightly lower CPU frequencies but the exact same graphics specifications. The Tech Report took the A8-3800 out for a spin to examine not only the power draw but to see how well the Turbo Core feature works. See how it turned out for AMD's newest Llano chips in the full review.
"We weren't terribly impressed with AMD's A8-3850 APU when we first reviewed it, in part because its 100W power envelope seemed rather large for a chip whose integrated graphics are a major selling point. Happily, the new A8-3800 slides into a cool 65W power envelope and adds Turbo Core clock frequency scaling. Can it win our approval? Keep reading to find out."
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- All Phenom Models @ Hardware Secrets
- CPU Performance Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Mobile CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Desktop CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- Intel Core i3 2120 Review @ OCC
Oh Llano, wherefore art thou?
Subject: General Tech | October 3, 2011 - 12:14 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: llano, APU, GLOBALFOUNDRIES, 28nm, 32nm, trinity, amd
Woe is AMD, as it becomes ever more obvious that Llano is not giving good yields at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Back in July the market noticed that while the new Llano chips were great at providing good enough graphics for a great price, they were very hard to find. As a consumer you might be able to find a notebook to purchase for yourself but as a reseller who needs to buy processors in the thousands before considering that chip as a part of the new product line up you have been out of luck. According to DigiTimes this will change in 2012 with the arrival of Trinity which will still use GLOBALFOUNDRIES 32nm process, turning to TSMC for the 28nm graphical portion. The previous hope that the supply problems would be solved in September were obviously a little too optimistic.
"Supply of AMD's Llano APUs, affected by Globalfoundries's lower-than-expected 32nm yield rates, has been significantly limited and is unlikely to recover until the company's upcoming Trinity arrives in 2012, according to sources from motherboard players. When asked about the company's upcoming Trinity schedule, AMD Taiwan declined to comment on unannounced products.
AMD started suffering from Llano APU supply shortages in July due to the yield issues and the company originally expected the supply status to return to normal in September. However, judging from the current situation, the sources believe the company's supply volume is unlikely to meet client demand through the end of 2011.
The sources estimated that the yield rate issue should be resolved in 2012, when Trinity launches."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- Fanless PCs with 95W CPUs shown off @ SemiAccurate
- Vulnerability in HTC smartphones exposes user data @ The Inquirer
- Mozilla releases Rescuefox prototype @ The Inquirer
- Pandemonium as Microsoft AV nukes Chrome browser @ The Register
- Btrfs File-System For Old Computers? @ Phoronix
- Virtual showdown: Parallels Desktop 7 and VMware Fusion 4 @ Ars Technica
- A Beginner's Guide to Video Encoding @ t-break
- Real World Labs And Enermax Joint Contest
Introduction and Specifications
Courtesy of ECS
ECS developed the HDC-I motherboard to take advantage of AMD's new Brazos platform that's based on the Hudson M1 chipset and their latest E-350 dual-core processor and integrated DDR3 800/1066 memory controller. The dual-core E-350 APU, which combines the CPU and GPU, brings a host of features to mini ITX enthusiasts like USB 3.0 compability, SATA 6Gb/s support, bluetooth and Radeon HD 6310 graphics and UVD 3 to play 3D Blu-ray and HD-1080P movies.
Courtesy of ECS
Another huge advantage of going with a mini ITX motherboard for your next home theater PC is the balance of computing power and power consumption that the AMD Brazos platform adds to the ECS HDC-I. The HDC-I is an energy-efficient motherboard that has integrated computing power and graphics firepower for users looking for an "all-in-one" solution for their next small form factor build.
Continue reading our review of the ECS HDC-I Fusion Mini ITX Motherboard!!
Bulldozer Infused Trinity APU Specifications Confirmed
Subject: Processors | September 3, 2011 - 12:07 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: trinity, llano, bulldozer, APU, amd
AMD has not only started announcing quite a few future processors, but has also gone a bit crazy with all of the code names for said products. Admittedly, when the news broke that Trinity APU specifications were revealed, I had to do a bit of digging to figure out just what the Trinity APU was (exactly). In the end, the APU (accelerated processing unit) is similar in composition to Llano except with a bulldozer based CPU core and upgraded GPU. The bulldozer core aspect is what threw me for a bit of a loop in that I had a difficult time figuring out how the CPU core could be based on bulldozer when bulldozer hasn't even been released ;). Hopefully that long introduction helps somewhat in clearing up what Trinity is.
Specifically, the new Trinity APU will debut with AMD's new "Piledriver" (more code names!) architecture, and include a Radeon HD 7000 series GPU and Bulldozer based CPU core. Futher, the Trinity APU will come in both notebook and desktop flavors titled "Comal" and "Virgo" respectively. AMD notes that the improvements in the CPU and GPU cores will result in up to a 50% performance increase over the current Llano A Series APUs. While the 50% number is measuring pure gigaflop performance, even if the real world speed increase is not as noticeable in everyday usage, it is still a nice bump in performance.
On the availability front, AMD has slated the processor for release in 2012; however, Semi Accurate believes that the APU may well debut much sooner than expected. The site further quoted sources who stated that "CES is a distinct possibility for a soft launch, and maybe more." More tidbits of information can be had here.
Zotac Releases New ZBOX Nano AD10 Series Mini PCs
Subject: General Tech | September 1, 2011 - 05:12 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: zotac, htpc, brazos, APU
Zotac has made a name for itself in the small form factor sector of the computer market. Their ZBOX computers are designed to use little power but have enough horsepower to drive smooth HD video playback. The new ZBOX nano AD10 series is a new line in the Zotac family that shares the media-centric traits of its predecessors. The Nano AD10 series PCs are some of the smallest the company has released, and shrinks the ZBOX form factor while packing in new home theater PC features.
Inside the tiny frame measuring 127mm x 127mm x 45mm, is a 1.8 GHz dual core AMD Brazos E-350 APU, DDR3 SO-DIMM slot, and space for a 2.5" SATA 3 (6Gbps) hard drive. Connectivity options include Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth 3.0, HDMI, DisplayPort, two USB 2.0, and two USB 3.0 ports. Further, the ZBOX computer features a built in IR (infra-red) receiver and media center remote in addition to an eSATA port and a 6-in-1 media card reader. On the audio front, the media center PC supports on-board analog stereo and 7.1 channel digital audio (LPCM and Bitstream via HDMI).
There are currently two models in the AD10 series, the AD10 and the AD10 Plus. The AD10 model allows for a bit more user customization by leaving it up to the user to add their own RAM and hard drive of choice to the mini PC. The AD10 Plus on the other hand, is the same as the AD10 except for the fact that it includes a 2 GB DDR3 SO-DIMM and a 320 GB 5400 RPM hard drive. Both models come with the media center remote, USB IR receiver (in addition to the built in receiver), and VESA mount.
Media center PCs are getting smaller every day, and the new Nano AD10 series from Zotac is no different. Thanks to the APU (especially the GPU), and hardware accelerated video decoding, it will deliver plenty of horsepower for all your home theater PC needs. Unfortunately, there was no word on MSRP or availability at the time of publication. Stay tuned for an update.
Checking A8-3850 overclocking capability 7 times
Subject: Processors | August 30, 2011 - 12:50 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: a8-3850, amd, llano, overclocking, APU
Legit Reviews decide that they really wanted to be able to show the overclocking results you can expect from the AMD A8-3850, so they picked up eight of the chips to test each for overclocking ability. There have been examples in the past of chips with a wide variety of overclocking limits which was often decided by the chip revision but not in all cases. The test results show that all but two of the chips hit a stability issue when being pushed beyond 3679.5MHz, so you can take that as the most likely result that your chip will provide. The two outlying chips will be exceptional, in one case in a bad way which you can see in the full review.
"When AMD released the 'Lynx' desktop platform back in June 2011, our motherboard reviewer ran into some bad luck when overclocking the processor. When you get a new platform setup for the very first time you really don't know what to expect and it does take some time to learn all the quirks and nuances of a new processor and motherboard. We recently ordered in six more processors and then overclocked all seven of them to see what the best one would be for our test system!"
Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:
- AMD A6-3650, A8-3850 APUs @ iXBT Labs
- Desktop CPU Comparison Guide @ TechARP
- AMD A8 3850 A-series ALU @ Metku.net
- Energy-Efficient Processors from Intel Reviewed: Core i5-2500T, Core i5-2390T, Core i3-2100T and Pentium G620T @ X-bit Labs
- All Core i7 Models @ Hardware Secrets
- The Sandy Bridge Pentium Review: G850, G840, G620 & G620T Tested @ AnandTech
- All Core i5 Models @ Hardware Secrets
AMD Adds Three New Fusion APUs to Mobile Lineup
Subject: Processors | August 22, 2011 - 10:53 AM | Tim Verry
Tagged: mobile, fusion, E-Series, APU, amd
AMD today announced three new Accelerated Processing Units (APU) to bolster up the mobile lineup. Specifically, two new E-Series and one new C-Series APU are inserting themselves into the lineup. The new chips bring enhanced graphic capabilities, HDMI 1.4a, and DDR3 1333 support. "Today's PC users want stunning HD graphics and accelerated performance with all-day battery life and that's what AMD Fusion APUs deliver," said Chris Cloran, vice president and general manager, Client Division, AMD.
According to MaximumPC, the new E-450 APU takes the top slot, bringing two CPU cores clocked at 1.65GHz, a Radeon HD 6320 GPU clocked at a base of 508MHz and maximum of 600MHz, and a power sipping TDP of 18 watts. The second new E-Series APU carries the same 18 watt TDP and dual CPU cores as the E-450; however, it is clocked at a lower 1.3GHz. Further, the chip's Radeon HD 6310 GPU is clocked at 488MHz. The new E-Series APUs feature battery life increases to the tune of up to 10.5 hours of Windows idle time.
The new C-Series APU is the C-60, and is a 1GHz dual core chip with a Radeon HD 6290 GPU. The APU is able to turbo its CPU cores to a maximum of 1.33GHz, while the GPU has a base clock of 276MHz and a maximum clock speed of 400MHz. Further, the chip has a 9 watt TDP, and boasts 12.25 hours of "resting battery life," which AMD benchmarked using Windows Idle on a C-60 based netbook.
Currently, AMD has shipped more than 12 million APUs, and more than five million of the C-Series and E-Series processors in Q2 2011. More information on the specific benchmarking metrics AMD used can be found here.
AMD Announces New Sub-$100 Triple Core A6-3500 APU
Subject: Processors | August 17, 2011 - 12:03 PM | Tim Verry
Tagged: APU, amd radeon, amd, A6-3500
AMD announced today a new desktop APU (Accelerated Processing Unit). The A6-3500 processor combines three x86 CPU cores with 320 Radeon GPU cores. The new A6-3500 APU comes with a full sweep of AMD technology, including Turbo Core, Steady Video image stabilization technology, DDR3 1333 support, HDCP compatibility, and AMD VISION Engine software. Following its predecessors, the new three core APU is able to pair with select AMD Radeon HD 6000 series discrete graphics cards.
This FM1 socket awaits an A Series APU like the new A6-3500
The three core APU operates at 2.1GHz (2.4GHz with Turbo Boost active) on the CPU side and 444MHz on the GPU side of things. Further, the APU features 3MB of L2 cache, a TDP of 65 watts, and is designed for use with FM1 motherboards.
The APU is now available for purchase at various online retailers and system builders with an MSRP of $95 USD. AMD states that the processor "delivers a compelling, affordable desktop experience for consumers and gamers."
At under a $100, the new APU is an attractive option for HTPC usage and starter gaming systems on a tight budget. For more information on AMD's APU architecture, can check out PC Perspective's AMD A8-3850 APU review here.
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Hard Labor
"I know Clinton's created 14 million jobs. My brother's got four of them."
--Al Franken
It's quarter to 6 on a dark winter morning along University Avenue. A crowd is gathering at a sparse storefront office. Smokers huddle outside, blowing and stamping in the cold. Inside, two dozen people bunch up on five bare benches in a waiting room that faces a 7-foot plaster wall.
The 16A stops at the corner. A half dozen people get off, nod to the smokers, and head inside the storefront. They take a clipboard from the top of the wall, sign in on a tally sheet, and put the clipboard back on the wall; then they either find a place on the benches, stand along the side walls, or join the smokers outside.
The clipboard disappears behind the wall. Mary peers over the wall into the room and spots some of the newcomers.
"Where were you yesterday, Willie?"
"I had business."
"Don't we all."
Mary puts the clipboard down and sinks out of sight at her desk on a platform behind the wall. Conversation and catnaps resume on the benches among men and women in four or five colors, three or so languages, and all ages between 18 and 63. Some are skilled workers, some could be, others never will be. Some have habits or attitudes that don't wear well. Some are poverty veterans, others novices. All have come for work this morning. This is a day-labor hiring hall.
You won't read people's real names in this story and race is pretty much a side issue; being from Louisiana or Detroit carries as much, sometimes more weight, as the color of your skin. And it doesn't make much difference who you think you are. You walked into the same door as everybody else, and it wasn't because you just won the lottery.
All the same, nobody takes disrespect lightly. If you know somebody you make contact, otherwise you keep to yourself. Men who do rough work on the barges or scrap yards tend to cluster. So do women who share some history, or anybody who shares a language. Chicago people always seem to find some mutual link.
Behind the wall, Mary juggles the day's job list and her knowledge of who's made an appearance today. The phone rings. "What's the matter with you, for chrissake. You're late. Don't bother coming in." Bang goes the phone.
Mary looms again like a demon preacher. "Okay, listen up." She calls out five names. "You're riding with Charlie to Ajax Manufacturing. Now get going." The pit shuffles and sorts itself out. That crew leaves. Another crew is named. Then another. The good job tickets are leaving. Everybody knows it.
All the jobs so far are for light manual labor. Now comes manhandling 100-pound bags of granulated sugar that coat you until you become a sweaty bonbon. Or making pallets in noise that turns you into a stunned robot that smells like a soggy basswood log. Or tearing gas tanks off cars to be crushed and coming home a toxic mud ball.
Mary holds off the worst jobs until the end, when those remaining shout their need and willingness. That's when jobs call for cleaning out acid-coated barrels with work gloves already full of holes.
Then it's over. Those left in the pit are simply unlucky. Either that or newcomers who haven't served enough time on the benches, or old-timers who have earned too many DNRs--notations on job tickets that stand for "Do Not Return." Some of the losers rage and storm out into the streets. Others remain on the benches hoping for a last-minute call. A few stare empty-eyed at the wall.
Today I'm working second shift, 4:30 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. I will drive five people 38 miles north to an aluminum-sided warehouse that shares a freeway exit with a trailer park, a gas station, and a grocery. We've been working here all week, standing at conveyor belts packing Barbie dolls, Beanie Baby knockoffs, or Mr. Potato Heads made in China to send to Americans who mailed box tops to General Mills.
As a packager, wherever you are sent or whatever you handle, you can count on three things. You will be fully trained in two minutes, tops. The job will usually involve taking items from big boxes and putting combinations of them into little boxes. And nearly all the items will have been made in China, elsewhere in Asia, or in Mexico.
Four people will have handled each item during its global journey. The first assembled the item. The second packed it into cartons that went into containers to be transported around the globe by sea and rail. At the destination warehouse I open a carton, grab the item, and pack it into a mailing box. Finally, you or somebody else who spotted the item on, say, a cereal box, closes the cycle.
Today our packing line begins with Alonzo and two others who grab pieces of die-cut cardboard from a pallet. They bend the folds into a box, tape the bottom, and place the result on a conveyor belt. Alice and Leo stand on either side of the conveyor with piles of stuffed honeybees and put one in each empty box. Then come Ivor and Willie who cram stuffed baker dolls into the boxes.
Willie says, "Man, you got to fucking move faster." Ivor is affronted and replies, "Vot, may I ask, do you suggest?" James and I grab stuffed owls and jam them in the boxes. James's T-shirt reads: "BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS. Oatmeal. Fry Bread. Bacon Grease."
Next along the conveyor are Sarah and a regular employee, who add stuffed parrots to the mix. Another regular checks the boxes, closes and tapes them. Charlene sticks on a mailing label and Gilbert stacks the boxes on a pallet. Two temps race up and down the line replenishing everybody's supply of stuffed creatures.
Just simple global-economy stuff. Except you have to go like hell at your one simple task because the supervisor has a target of 35 pallets with 100 boxes apiece. And she's got specific ideas about how you're supposed to pick up the items and place them in the boxes. If there is a paper insert to go along with your item, you should pick up the item and the insert with one hand and sweep them into the box in one motion. Even here there is professional technique.
So you have maybe two dozen people who've never met and wouldn't be standing next to each other under any other circumstances, but are now being asked to work smoothly and cooperatively, repeating a series of mindless motions from midafternoon until well into the next day. Amazingly, some days it actually works. Everybody fits together, a sustainable pace is created, and we reach a transcendental state of equipoise.
Mostly, though, temps will do something like start a conversation across a conveyor belt. A regular worker hisses, "No talking on the line." A temp says, "I'm not talking to you." Regular: "Don't talk, just work." Temp: "Fuck you." And then there's sand in the works all night.
There are two 15-minute breaks and one half-hour dinner break. Smokers gather outside in clusters. Supervisors here, other regulars there. Social temps in this group. Silent temps wandering about bleakly. Some in cars out in the parking lot. Others in the break room with the Formica tables and wobbly chairs, staring into a battered vending machine half-filled with colorful bags containing two ounces each of salty fodder.
Then it's back to the conveyor for another chance at the elusive perfect tempo, with the knowledge that if you don't work like a piston for your $5.40 an hour, you will be awarded a DNR and not be asked back. And you don't want that to happen, because what's left if you can't even do this job?
The U.S. Department of Labor calls us "handpackers and packagers." According to its figures, half a million Minnesotans in a labor force of 2.5 million worked part-time in 1996. One in 20 of them worked as a handpacker. The category is projected to grow 137.9 percent by 2005, way ahead of any other job that is available to average workers. Packaging is also classified as a low-wage job, with pay between $117 and $367 a week; that earnings group makes up half the new jobs created in Minnesota from 1990 to 1996. And finally, packers are in the group of low- and semi-skilled jobs whose wages have not risen--except for boosts in the minimum wage--for the past 15 years.
So why does the pool of people doing this kind of work seem bottomless? Because the flow of domestic and offshore migrants, downsized workers, and average families inundated by rising expenses, along with an incoming tide from the welfare rolls, are all keeping the low-end labor pool well-stocked.
How does all that jibe with Minnesota's phenomenal 2.7 percent unemployment rate? It's a number. But calculating it is like evaluating a bushel of apples using peculiar rules and ignoring the rotten ones.
Until recently, if you worked for one day during the one week of a given month when the rate is calculated, you were counted as employed. If you worked two jobs for separate companies or temp agencies, you were employed times two. If your spouse did the same and your two teenagers worked a part-time shift each, your family had six jobs.
On the underside of the boom economy is a workforce willing--so far--to take on six jobs that may provide only two adequate incomes, all with no benefits and even the projected default of Social Security. Surely an achievement right up there with the Pentium chip, the Web, and the new health-care system.
Who are day-work people, anyway? Alice. Came up from Chicago with her two boys to escape from a drug habit and a bad marriage. Got clean and off welfare. Making it. Then here comes her ex-husband. He's not making it, but he hangs around. On one temp job a supervisor starts hitting on her as well.
Yet now and then her spirits lift. "Yesterday my boys come to me while I'm making dinner and say they've been hearing about how when they're men they supposed to be of a certain size. The oldest, he worries a lot 'cause he's afraid he might not measure up. So I said, 'Come over here and look in this pot and tell me what you see.'"
"Green beans, mama."
"And what do they look like?"
"Long and skinny."
"How come you think I get after you to eat your green beans?" Alice cuts loose a long laugh that doesn't happen often enough.
Leo. Was a machinist making good money. Then his wife threw him out, got the state on his case to enforce child-support collection, and made sure he wasn't allowed to come around and see his kids. He says he was left with $100 a week. So he quit his $17-an-hour job. He works for cash, and he does day work. Figures he's making a point. But then Leo also believes F.I.C.A. deductions on his paycheck go to seven wealthy families in England who have special powers over America.
Betty. When she figured her kids were old enough she went to work for a major corporation, stayed 18 years, and was laid off. The union said she'd be called back. That was three years ago. Still has a few years to go before she can draw her own Social Security. Gets by on her late husband's survivor benefit. Day work helps pay the bills and provides travel money to visit her three kids. She's got this whooping kind of laugh that bounces around the warehouse. "You know what gets me?" she says one day. "The whiners."
Roberto. "What got me was standing guard at night. You're alone. It's so quiet. Everybody's sleeping but you. It's scary." A mild-looking guy with a thin, well-trimmed moustache--you wouldn't figure him for a guerrilla fighter. He works two jobs because he's the main financial support for his family back in El Salvador. He pays taxes like a citizen but gets nothing from the system. And he's concerned that when he goes home to visit, he might not be allowed back into the U.S.
Roberto plays soccer for the El Salvador club in the local league at Fort Snelling. This year against Mexico, El Salvador tied the game on a penalty kick with a minute to go. "You should have seen it. When it looked like we were going to win in a shootout, Mexico attacked us. Right away about nine police cars showed up. Fights going on all over. The police wouldn't get out of their cars. They kept saying over a speaker, 'The game is over. Would everybody please get in their cars and go home.' Everybody went home when they were too tired to fight anymore."
Caroline. Spent every day of her Christmas vacation except the actual holidays quietly filling carts with cosmetics for a megastore chain. Then she returned to Iowa State, where she majors in construction engineering.
Sam. Finally got it together after years of troubles. Got himself set up for training as a tool-and-die man. I'm next to him one night when a supervisor tells him to pack a box in a specific sequence. He tenses and says, "That's bullshit," then looks at me and shakes his head and we talk for a while. The next day we are both DNRed.
One morning as Sam is signing in, a guy comes in right behind him and says, "Well, look who's here? The redneck showed up this morning."
"Don't talk to me, man. I already told you I don't like you."
"A little ornery this morning, aren't we?"
Sam gives the man a level stare. "I said don't talk to me." Everybody in the room watches with interest. Nobody intercedes. The moment dissolves.
Grace and Walter. On the benches every morning. Somebody makes sure their six kids get to school. She sleeps on his shoulder while they wait. Sometimes they both go out on jobs together, sometimes not, sometimes only one goes. Why? Because it's better here than in Alabama.
Leonard. One morning he doesn't make any job ticket. Says he will find himself a corner. His homey says Leonard draws people. Says that when a kid pulls up to the corner, Leonard takes the kid's money and says, "This is your lucky day, man. I am going to save your life. You don't get no drugs. Now get your ass back out to the suburbs and don't come back here anymore, or you're gonna get seriously hurt."
Charlene. Lives with her two kids in a trailer park near the warehouse outside of town. Thirty and built. On probation for knocking the crap out of her ex-husband's girlfriend. Good at fixing cars and running machines. Has no time for temps, but gets into Chicago banter like she was born to it. Leonard says: "You know what, man? That woman has nothing in her life out here. Got these men, all they need is their pickups and rifles, snowmobiles and boats. They don't want a woman around telling them anything. There's some mad-as-hell, lonesome women out here, man."
One night, when about 20 of us are packing, the power goes out. Inside the warehouse you cannot see your hand. The supervisor says, "Everybody stand right where they are and nobody gets hurt." Somebody else says, "Stand still and nobody gets nothing." A flashlight disappears back into the loading area and after about five minutes a forklift with lights on appears and projects eerie shadows of machinery and people around the walls. We are told to follow the lights to the exit door. Work is over for the night.
On the way home several encounters in the dark are detailed. Leonard's yarn is the most colorful, but all accounts get ridiculed. Probably because every story involves the storyteller with the same woman. Thirty and built.
Tran. I don't know her. Somebody says she goes out on her first job at 5:30 a.m. Returns and goes out on her second at 2:30 p.m. Back at 7 and done for the day, except for study time or her classes at Hamline Law School.
Ray. Lived in St. Paul all his life. Went to Vietnam. Doesn't want to talk about it. When he came back he worked in a warehouse for 17 years. One day there was a note on the door. Business had folded. Owner was indicted. No severance, no pension, no paid retraining. Ray's idea about his role in a packing-line conversation is to not look up from his work, but mutter to himself. If you lean over you can hear him say, "Yeah, these bastards think they know everything," or, "Let's keep the line going. What the hell's the matter with you people?"
Michael. Moved out on his stepfamily in the suburbs, works hard. One day a couple looking like Eddie Bauer and wife shows up with Michael. They manage to wind up on the same packing line. She's got a short, tailored jacket on, a blouse with frills at the wrist, lots of gold showing. He wears roughing-it catalog clothes in muted earth tones. Achingly nice people, they say they are doing this to show support for Michael. About the work, she says, "It's interesting, but I wouldn't want to do it every day." He says he's talking to Michael about keeping a budget. Michael's not talking.
Louis is a man I don't get to know, but Larry's told me the story. It happened Louis's third day on the benches. He hadn't been in town long, worked a 12-hour night shift and was awaiting his check. Mary wasn't in that morning, and a young guy was trying to hold the fort. Louis had asked for his check several times.
The back-and-forth went something like this: "How long do I have to wait for my money? I've got things to do."
"I told you, not until 10."
"Nothing going on now. Why can't you write me my check?"
"If you don't like the rules you can get out of here."
"I am being respectful. You have no right to speak to me like that."
"Tough shit."
Louis rises and pulls himself smoothly up and over the 7-foot wall. His fists are raised as he clears the top, and they rise and fall amid shouting and the screams of a woman. Police arrive within minutes. Louis is cuffed and hauled off and the manager goes to the emergency room.
Larry shakes his head as he relates the story. "Bound to happen. Some of these people are so stupid. Just ask for it. Then they wonder why they get bricks through the window sometimes."
Larry says in another day-work office "they installed a TV camera so people behind the wall could keep watch. Then one day they screwed around with paychecks and told people if they had a problem they could go to court and try to get their money. In answer, somebody went up the wall, tore the camera down, and sold it. And he still came back for his check the next day."
Anger is no surprise to Larry. He did 27 months. "A long time ago," he says. "Something I had to go through." Now he works a regular job. Sometimes he does a double--a regular shift followed by a day-work shift. His wife works part-time as well. And their family still qualifies for food stamps.
So do one third of the working poor in Minnesota.
If you're an employer, contracting for daily manual labor means a steady supply of workers without any of the annoyances associated with regular employees--payroll, benefits, unemployment insurance, lawsuits. The agency sends out however many workers you need to work under whatever conditions you provide.
But there's a chaotic side to the system. Nobody knows the number or kind of jobs available on a given day, or how many workers will show up each 6 a.m. And so with each dawn a curious bazaar springs to life across the city. Employers bark at the agencies and the agencies badger and cajole the rabble gathered to jockey for the day's job tickets. It is the labor market at its crudest level of supply and demand, a rough exchange between the poorest workers and the most penurious employers.
If a job seems unacceptable, you don't take it. But then, someone will always need the money. On the other hand, employers constantly carp that the people willing to do the worst jobs for the worst pay are often not model workers.
In 1990, a handful of entrepreneurs in Tacoma, Washington, took a long look at the temporary-help market. Others were already serving established markets for clerical, white-collar, high-tech, and specialized blue-collar temps. Daily manual labor, however, seemed to be a disorganized mess.
The Tacoma people decided they could organize that mess with software like the kind they'd used to run a string of Hardee's franchises under a corporate shell called Dick's Hamburgers, Inc. As they saw it, there was no micromanagement distinction between a unit of human labor and a cheeseburger. They set out to become, in their words, "the McDonald's of temporary staffing for the manual-labor market."
When Labor Ready opened its first "store" in Tacoma, it offered the usual arm's-length employment advantages of daily manual-labor agencies along with several twists. For the worker they had safety equipment from steel-toed boots to goggles. You could also purchase soft equipment such as gloves. Good ideas, especially if you know manual labor is sometimes dangerous and lots of money can be lost in workers' compensation claims.
Labor Ready does safety training, has a workers' comp claims expert on board, and is self-insured. Every applicant agrees to preliminary drug and alcohol testing for certain jobs, and further testing in any or every instance of injury on any job.
In the matter of quality control, Labor Ready offers a blanket warranty covering not just performance, but attitude or any other characteristic the employer might consider objectionable. Race? Gender? Age? Nobody need say. If an employer finds any worker unsatisfactory for any reason within the first two hours on the job, the worker will be replaced at no charge.
Before being considered for a Labor Ready job ticket, you must complete a five-page application form requiring six signatures and 17 sets of initials. Among other things, you will agree that at the end of every day, "I will be deemed to have quit unless and until I request and receive a work assignment at a later date." It's another way to tighten any window of mutual obligation or liability. Got a problem with that? You'll also agree that "any disputes arising out of my employment, including any claims of discrimination, harassment, or wrongful termination" will be "resolved by arbitration as my sole remedy." No lawsuits.
And finally, the confidentiality agreement. "Employees and former employees are prohibited from releasing to any other party any information whatsoever about Labor Ready, Inc., which is of a confidential nature or which could be deemed to constitute a 'trade secret.' Employees or former employees are further prohibited from using, in any manner whatsoever, information which is confidential, proprietary, or privileged, whether for their personal benefit or gain, or for that of any other person." Had I completed the application you would never read this.
Surely all of these stipulations are the result of entrepreneurial overkill, a zealous geek gone mad, or excessive legalese. It would never work in day labor, that last bastion of individualism and a hard day's work for a half day's pay.
Not so. Labor Ready has five dispatch halls in Minnesota, three of them in the metro area. This year the company plans to open 160 new "stores" overall which will bring their total to 476 in the United States and Canada. In 1997, revenues were $335 million, a 106 percent gain over the prior year.
Fed by an abundant supply of workers caught in a wage depression, Labor Ready is one of the nation's bright new companies. It calls its LabPro software a "formidable barrier of entry to potential competitors." In 1996, with "an active customer base of 35,000," Labor Ready processed with this software more than 1.4 million work orders, 2.1 million paychecks, and 190,000 W-2s. Its CEO's salary last year was about $375,000, and the wage levels among its 863 regular employees ranged upward from about $14,000. All because some 180,000 day laborers--when they got a job ticket--pulled in between $6 and $10 an hour, with Labor Ready collecting an hourly premium on every one of them.
What's wrong with that? Nothing. It's another new triumph for computerized micromanagement. Check out Labor Ready with your broker, or at least look up yesterday's close on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
Then puzzle over what happens to people who fall through the Labor Ready strainer. Who can't make it into the high-tech workplace, and who are now going to be screened out of low-skill jobs as well.
Not that Labor Ready is the only creative new day-work agency in town. Employers can also call a number and request "50 of your people" to begin work Monday morning. The workers will be Asian, and if an employer wants the lowest possible price, the mix will include a fair portion of high-school students exempt from the minimum wage.
What's wrong with that? Nothing. It's part of the evolving ethos that when applied creatively, discrimination serves us all.
Another national day-work agency that recently opened has even a simpler way to discourage nagging workers' compensation claims. When you endorse the back of your paycheck, you sign under a statement warning that if you have any work-related problem, return the check to the agency. If you don't, and you endorse the check, you have forfeited claims of any kind. And there you stand with bills to pay and no food in the house.
What's wrong with that? Nothing. After all, don't you have similar conditions attached to your paycheck?
Iam heading south on 35W around 2:30 a.m. My rusty Grand Prix sails like a ghost ship through patches of fog, flurries, and clouds hovering in the soft glow of freeway lights. In the back seat, Sarah hums to herself. Alice and Alonzo sleep. In the front seat, Ivor, certain we will hit a deer, stares grimly through the smeared windshield. Gilbert, wedged next to me, dozes.
"Here comes fog," Ivor says. A new pickup whistles past us and disappears into the wall of mist. Somebody in the backseat mutters, "Stupid mothafucka."
As I near St. Paul, a squad car lights up on my tail. I pull over, stop, and crack the door. As he walks toward my car the officer shouts, "Stay in the car. Stay in the car." A state trooper with lights flashing has pulled in behind the county squad.
I roll down my window. The deputy eyes my passengers. His breath comes in cloudy bursts. Two black women, a black man, a Latino, and two white guys. "You know why I pulled you over?" he says.
The usual procedures ensue. License, proof of insurance, warrant check. We wait in the glare of spotlights. "He come off that ramp back there," Alonzo says. "Looks in here and thinks he hit the jackpot." Gilbert says, "Called for backup before he hit his own lights."
By the time the deputy lets us go it's nearly 3 a.m. No public transportation runs at this hour, so I drive everybody home. On University Avenue a Dodge sedan pulls alongside and some guys look us over. A few blocks later I turn left into Frogtown to drop off one of the women. The Dodge whips around me and stops in the middle of the street. I gun it, cut around him, turn right, left, and right, and let the woman out. Alonzo, my last rider, moves up to the front seat. At University, the Dodge comes up behind and Alonzo gives the driver a level stare.
A few blocks later I turn again and drop Alonzo. The Dodge is gone. I pull in among three squad cars at the SuperAmerica for a cup of coffee. Inside, the police swap deer stories. They don't give me a second look.
I am home at 3:43 a.m., nearly 14 hours after taking my place on the benches waiting for a second-shift job ticket. I made $5.40 an hour plus $3 per rider and a $2.50 gas allowance for the 70-mile drive, a net of $60.16 for the day. My passengers will each clear around $45.
In less than an hour, on the day's first buses, in battered cars and on foot, the first shift will head toward storefront benches. In about 10 hours the second shift will follow, arranging ourselves on the benches at the 7-foot wall.
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I am sure many of you have now spotted the new Tide with Pods sitting on your local grocery store shelves. Have any of you tried them yet?? Well, I am going to take a few minutes to give my thoughts on these little packs..I know there are a ton of reviews on these already but I figured I would add my opinion on these too!
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So here they are.. These were at my local Walmart.
14 Loads, $4.47
They had 3 different scents..
Spring Meadow
Mystic Forest
and Ocean Mist.
There were lots of different sizes to choose from too.
40-, 57-, and 77-count
The Tide Pods are a single use pod with three chambers:
The large one contains detergent and the smaller two have stain remover and brightener.
The pod is made of a film, which magically disintegrates when it comes in contact with water of any temperature, including cold. Exactly like those little dishwasher pods.
So these are great because they work in all temperatures. So if you do your laundry in cold water they will work for you too!
The Pods are also environmentally friendly. Heating the water for the laundry is the number one use of energy when it comes to doing laundry, so it's important to know you can use these in cold water. (I'll confess, I usually do my laundry on the warm setting.)
It is recommended that you place the pod at the bottom of the drum of the washing machine before you put in any clothes, regardless of if you're using a front-loading machine or top-loading machine.
You don't have to measure, so there are no drips or spills.
Because the pods contains stain remover, there's no need to pre-treat clothes...but I still pre treat clothes anyway.
This side has the detergent and the other side
has the stain fighter and brightener in it.
The formula inside the Tide Pods is only 10 percent water, which helps keep them small. There are three chambers so the detergent, remover and brightener stay separate until you're ready to wash. Pretty handy huh?
Tide recommends that you just toss this into the bottom of the drum of the washing machine before you put in any clothes, regardless of if you're using a front-loading machine or top-loading machine.
I have to admit, I was sceptical that 1 of these little pods would really clean our clothes. We have a big washer and I just didn't see 1 pod getting my clothes clean. But to my shock, one pod worked. There were times when I had a big load when I added 2 pods to make sure. I think these just shows that we all use more product than what we need to a lot of times. I just don't see this little bubble being enough soap. But it is.
I still love my Tide Powder.. I really do. I find more coupons in the boxed powder than I do on any other product.. But these are great for people who have to haul their laundry like an apartment, town house, or to the laundry mat. These are so light. I would have LOVED these when I lived in apartments. All that laundry stuff is heavy to carry. These would make it so much easier.
The price of the pods is a bit higher than for liquid detergent, but according to Tide an impressive 97 percent of consumers reported being satisfied with the time, effort and excellent results with the Tide Pods as compared to only 68 percent of other consumers. Thats pretty good!
Is there a down side to these??
I have seen complaints about a blue goo being on some of their freshly washed clothes.. and I think I know why.. I think yes, you put the little pac in the bottom of the washer, then turn on the water and and let it fill up. If you stack your clothes on top of it and then start the water, it might not dissolve well, especially if you over load the washer.
When I used these, I could smell the detergent. I like that.. but if you are sensitive to smells and scents, you might want to go with another kind of laundry soap.. at least until they have a non scented one out. ( which will probably be sooner than later! )
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I think for me personally, I will probably stick to the powder for most days and also using my homemade laundry soap for rugs and towels. But I will continue to keep a small bag of these around just in case, and also to travel with. Another good thing about these is that they are heat resistant, so if you leave it in the trunk of your car, you won't come back to a gooey mess. Great for college kids too!
It is also nice that they are estimated that using the Tide Pods will save you an hour over the course of the year. That may not sound like a huge amount, but think of all those days when you long for an extra 30 seconds. It adds up!
And to top it off.. they are ECO friendly..
I think these are great. I just love the coupons from the box powder Tides but my laundry room has these in it, I will use them at times, and I think they are a hit! They really are no fus, easy to use, seem to really work well and get the clothes clean, and are super light weight. The formula inside the Tide Pods is only 10 percent water, which helps keep them small.
Over all I am giving these an
Just as I would with any Tide products!! I love Tide.. I think its the best laundry soap on the market.. I use it all time on our clothes. I do love the laundry soap I make ( link above ) but I love Tide more! We really put our clothes to the test in this house and Tide works well for us!
I would love to hear your thoughts if you have tried these! Just shoot me an email and I will be sure to add your comments to this post!
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- The Saddle Bag has a big front pocket to hold anything you need close by.
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- Two heavy duty straps let you hang the saddle bag from a frame bar and a longer strap secures the bottom through drain holes or around a tube.
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Openned and closed this cooler(zipper closure)at least 24 times a day for three weeks. It took lots of abuse in the cockpit and on the beach. Easier on the legs than a hard day cooler. Insulated quite well. Instead of drag bag just fill with river water. No beverage lose!!! Even upside down for a mile and a half!
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Views of managed care--a survey of students, residents, faculty, and deans at medical schools in the United States.
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Mass 02215, USA.
Views of managed care among academic physicians and medical students in the United States are not well known. In 1997, we conducted a telephone survey of a national sample of medical students (506 respondents), residents (494), faculty members (728), department chairs (186), directors of residency training in internal medicine and pediatrics (143), and deans (105) at U.S. medical schools to determine their experiences in and perspectives on managed care. The overall rate of response was 80.1 percent.
Respondents rated their attitudes toward managed care on a 0-to-10 scale, with 0 defined as "as negative as possible" and 10 as "as positive as possible." The expressed attitudes toward managed care were negative, ranging from a low mean (+/-SD) score of 3.9+/-1.7 for residents to a high of 5.0+/-1.3 for deans. When asked about specific aspects of care, fee-for-service medicine was rated better than managed care in terms of access (by 80.2 percent of respondents), minimizing ethical conflicts (74.8 percent), and the quality of the doctor-patient relationship (70.6 percent). With respect to the continuity of care, 52.0 percent of respondents preferred fee-for-service medicine, and 29.3 percent preferred managed care. For care at the end of life, 49.1 percent preferred fee-for-service medicine, and 20.5 percent preferred managed care. With respect to care for patients with chronic illness, 41.8 percent preferred fee-for-service care, and 30.8 percent preferred managed care. Faculty members, residency-training directors, and department chairs responded that managed care had reduced the time they had available for research (63.1 percent agreed) and teaching (58.9 percent) and had reduced their income (55.8 percent). Overall, 46.6 percent of faculty members, 26.7 percent of residency-training directors, and 42.7 percent of department chairs reported that the message they delivered to students about managed care was negative.
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18 August 2015 1:17 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Plans are afoot for a sequel to Tim Burton's Beetlejuice. But what made the original so special, and where might the sequel go?
Last week, an extremely cautious Winona Ryder confirmed on Late Night With Seth Myers that a sequel to Tim Burton's beloved 1988 haunted house comedy Beetlejuice was finally in the works. Ryder will be reprising her role as Lydia Deetz, with Burton back behind the megaphone and Michael Keaton, fresh from a career-resurrecting turn in Birdman (2014), again starring as 'the ghost with the most'.
Ryder's announcement was met with the inevitable woops and cheers from Myers' studio audience, but fans of Burton's breakthrough feature will be seeking reassurances that the forthcoming follow-up will remain true to the spirit of its predecessor.
For those who've never seen it, Beetlejuice tells the story of Adam and Barbara Maitland (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis), a happily married couple living »
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27 February 2015 1:39 PM, PST | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Welcome to another horror round-up! This time around, we have the first trailer for the short horror comedy film, The Body, starring Alfie Allen (Game of Thrones, John Wick), an excerpt from Valancourt Books' special re-release of Michael McDowell's souther horror novel, Cold Moon Over Babylon (which is now being adapted for the big screen), and details on who will play the titular role for Fox and Warner Bros. TV's Lucifer pilot (based on the character from Neil Gaiman's The Sandman comic book series and its spin-off series, Lucifer).
The Body: "The Body is the story of a contract killer using the cover of Halloween to dispose of his latest victim. As he attempts to drag the dead man's body across London, his gear and body bag get mistaken for a costume, and he is talked into a attending a local Halloween party with a group of revellers. »
- Derek Anderson
11 February 2015 8:48 AM, PST | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
Welcome to another horror round-up! This time around we focus on Scream Factory's upcoming Ghoulies/Ghoulies 2 double feature Blu-ray and the growing casts for Sharknado 3 and Cold Moon.
Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2: Scream Factory revealed the bonus features for their upcoming Ghoulies / Ghoulies 2 Blu-ray, which hits shelves on April 21st (and is available two weeks prior by ordering from Shout! Factory):
Audio Commentary With Director/Co-writer Luca Bercovici New Interviews With Executive Producer Charles Band, Composer Richard Band, Actor Michael Des Barres and Special Effects Makeup Artist John Vulich Original Theatrical Trailer
Ghoulies 2:
New Interviews With Executive Producer Charles Band, Actors Kerry Remsen and Donnie Jeffcoat, And Special Effects Artist Gino Crognale Rare Deleted Scenes Original Theatrical Trailer
Ghoulies: "Take a creepy old Hollywood mansion, a naive young man and a pretty girl. Add an over-the-top orgy and some slimy, winged goblins who crawl out of toilets, »
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Josh Stewart and Christopher Lloyd are starring in the supernatural revenge drama "Cold Moon" with shooting starting later this month in Louisiana, Variety has learned exclusively.
Griff Furst directs from a script he wrote with Jack Snyder, based on the 1980 novel "Cold Moon Over Babylon" by Michael McDowell ("Beetlejuice" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas").
Furst produces under his Curmudgeon Films banner. Pixel Magic is handling special effects.
"Cold Moon" also stars Robbie Kay, Candy Clark, Frank Whaley, Rachele Brooke Smith, Laura Cayouette and Sarah Catherine.
"Cold Moon" takes place in tiny Babylon, Fla., where the granddaughter of Clark's character is murdered by a mysterious assailant, her body sunk into the black waters of the Styx River — the river where her parents disappeared from their boat a decade earlier. Suspicion falls on a duplicitous banker and his wealthy father, played by Stewart and Lloyd.
Stewart recently provided the voice of »
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And So It Warms
Scott K. Johnson, an Hydrologist and freelance writer for Ars Technica attended the Tenth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC-10) held on June 11-12.
For a science writer, however, the event was fundamentally a tedious experience. On the first night of the conference, one of the presenters actually invaded my dreams. In the dream, I was in some sort of friendly geology group, gathering to discuss some interesting research. When this fellow announced his topic, I interrupted him. "Wait—is this more of that retired medical doctor's weird theory about volcanoes that you talked about for two hours last time?" I asked. The presenter blinked, puzzled by my tone, and said, "Well, yeah. Of course." The rest of the group shot me pained glances and sank down in their chairs.That's kind of what the conference was like.
The Moral Question Of Our Time: Can We Share The Planet?
UN Climate Report: We Must Focus On 'Decarbonization', and It Won't Wreck the Economy - "The basic message is simple: We share a planet. Let's start acting like it." [more inside]
IPCC posts fifth update on climate change
Sixteen Concerned Scientists
"Speaking for many scientists and engineers who have looked carefully and independently at the science of climate, we have a message to any candidate for public office: There is no compelling scientific argument for drastic action to "decarbonize" the world's economy. Even if one accepts the inflated climate forecasts of the IPCC, aggressive greenhouse-gas control policies are not justified economically." Link. [more inside]
renewable is doable if governments are think-it-throughable?
As you may know, Japan's prime minister Naoto Kan announced two days ago that plans for new nuclear power plants in Japan are to be scrapped (NYT). Meanwhile, a landmark study from the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says renewable energy can power the world (Guardian - article includes many related links). Here's a summary of the IPCC Special Report.
A surprising idea for "solving" climate change
The historically significant* "4th IPCC report on global warming" was published in full last weekend to wide publicity. Part 1 "The Science". Part 2 "The Impacts" and Part 3 "The Solutions" - each about a 1000 page 6 pound brick, but summaries make it accessible. Beyond its gloomy dire warnings and calls for immediate action, observed global measurements of CO2 levels are already worse than the worse case scenarios and some say the report is overly conservative and already outdated. However there is a surprising idea for "solving" climate change (TED) that may be inevitable.
Gore wins Nobel prize
Albert A. Gore Jr. shares the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. "He is probably the single individual who has done most to create greater worldwide understanding of the measures that need to be adopted." Still not running for president.
Fasting in response to climate change
As the global climate changes, agriculture is sure to be affected. The Stern Review explains that "developing countries - in particular the poorest - are heavily dependent on agriculture, the most climate-sensitive of all economic sectors." Working Group II of the IPCC says that: "Smallholder and subsistence farmers, pastoralists and artisanal fisherfolk will suffer complex, localised impacts of climate change (high confidence)." Meanwhile, some important staple crops are especially threatened by rising temperatures (though genetic engineering may help). You can experience a taste of it yourself, with a climate change awareness fast, taking place on Tuesday, September 4th.
White House reverses stance on existence of global warming
Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman has endorsed the recent IPCC report, reversing the White House stance on the existence of global warming. Bodman claims that the Bush administration has always accepted scientific studies pointing to man-made climate change, even as Henry Waxman, House oversight committee chair, has been holding hearings on the White House's misleading the public on global warming for the last six years; hearing documents. Bodman also rejects caps on CO2 emissions, claiming that the US is "a small contributor when you look at the rest of the world," when in fact it's the largest contributor worldwide (and has an even greater share of cumulative CO2 emissions). Previously: IPCC, Waxman.
IPCC 4th AR Summary now avaiable
IPCC's 4th Assesment Report Summary for Policymakers [PDF] is now avaiable online, offering a necessarily simplified view of the scientific finding supporting the idea that global warming isn't just the theory of some lone scientist. Certain think-thanks are now allegedly attempting to finance disconfirming opinion. Previously on Meta.
Anticipations on IPCC 4th assessment report
The Independent has some anticipations on the soon to be released first volume of IPCC's 4Th Assesment Report , concerning matters such as climate change and global warming. Quoting the article : It is virtually certain (there is more than a 99 per cent probability) that carbon dioxide levels and global warming is far above the range of natural variability over the past 650,000 years. It is virtually certain that human activity has played the dominant role in causing the increase of greenhouse gases over the past 250 years.
Scientific backlash for warming theorists
Scientific backlash for warming theorists -- High clouds over the western tropical Pacific Ocean could significantly reduce the estimates of future global warming now being put forward by IPCC's computer models of the Earth's climate. And, in a newly published interview, MIT's Dr. Richard S. Lindzen describes the Kyoto Treaty on climate change as "absurd". Backlash begun?
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