This is just terrible! 4 countries are doing better than us. Woe
is us. As these chart show, the suffering is just getting worse year
after year.
Three different charts with basically the same information:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-ppp
At this rate we'll be in Venezuela any day now.
TB
This is just terrible! 4 countries are doing better than us. Woe is us. As these chart show, the suffering is just getting worse year
after year.
Three different charts with basically the same information:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-ppp
At this rate we'll be in Venezuela any day now.
TB
Technobarbarian wrote:
This is just terrible! 4 countries are doing better than us. Woe >> is us. As these chart show, the suffering is just getting worse year
after year.
Three different charts with basically the same information:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-ppp
At this rate we'll be in Venezuela any day now.
TB
------------------------------------------------------
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group have not
only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added around
341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group have not
only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added around
341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
Red states like Florida and Texas, meanwhile, followed the science and
never went all-in on COVID restrictionism, keeping their economies and schools open as much as possible.
Red-leaning states like Texas saw a migration boom during the pandemic, helping them recover faster than Democratic-run states, according to a report.
Red states recovered faster from COVID pandemic than blue states
...
That migration is now paying off big time for the winning areas, in
terms of recouped jobs and general economic health. Florida, it should
be noted, notched a record-high budget surplus thanks in part to the
pandemic realignment. Texas, meanwhile, has been breaking records every
month since January with its increases in nonfarm payrolls.
And, no, New York and California didn’t withstand the virus notably
better than Texas and Florida; all four were near the middle of the pack among states, in terms of deaths per capita.
It’s clear the red states are driving our national job numbers back to where they were before the pandemic. Their sensible, science-based
policies attracted companies and workers, without compromising public
health. Just imagine where the nation would be if the blue states had followed suit.
---------------------------------------------------------- https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/why-red-states-are-winning-the-post-covid-economy/
On 7/10/2022 10:02 AM, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
This is just terrible! 4 countries are doing better than us.
Woe is us. As these chart show, the suffering is just getting worse
year after year.
Three different charts with basically the same information:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-ppp
At this rate we'll be in Venezuela any day now.
TB
------------------------------------------------------
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic
realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half a
percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group have
not only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added around
341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly deficit of 1.3
million jobs as of May.
...
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic
realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half a
percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group have
not only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added around
341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly deficit of 1.3
million jobs as of May.
...
Red states like Florida and Texas, meanwhile, followed the science and
never went all-in on COVID restrictionism, keeping their economies and
schools open as much as possible.
Red-leaning states like Texas saw a migration boom during the
pandemic, helping them recover faster than Democratic-run states,
according to a report.
Red states recovered faster from COVID pandemic than blue states
...
That migration is now paying off big time for the winning areas, in
terms of recouped jobs and general economic health. Florida, it should
be noted, notched a record-high budget surplus thanks in part to the
pandemic realignment. Texas, meanwhile, has been breaking records
every month since January with its increases in nonfarm payrolls.
And, no, New York and California didn’t withstand the virus notably
better than Texas and Florida; all four were near the middle of the
pack among states, in terms of deaths per capita.
It’s clear the red states are driving our national job numbers back to
where they were before the pandemic. Their sensible, science-based
policies attracted companies and workers, without compromising public
health. Just imagine where the nation would be if the blue states had
followed suit.
----------------------------------------------------------
https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/why-red-states-are-winning-the-post-covid-economy/
Yet more suffering? LOL If other states are "winning" that's good news to me. If what we're experiencing is "losing" I hate to think what terrible suffering winning looks like.
April 11, 2022
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-marks-grand-opening-3b-factory-expansion-oregon.html
"Intel Marks Grand Opening of $3B Factory Expansion in Oregon
Company celebrates heritage of innovation by renaming Ronler Acres
campus in honor of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore."
"What’s New: Intel today celebrated the grand opening of the latest expansion of D1X, its leading-edge factory in Hillsboro, Oregon. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by senior government officials and
community leaders, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger highlighted the company’s positive impact in Oregon and reiterated its commitment to U.S.
leadership in semiconductor research and development (R&D). In honor of
the site’s heritage of innovation, Intel also announced a new name for
the nearly 500-acre campus: Gordon Moore Park at Ronler Acres. The new
name recognizes the site’s unique contributions to driving Moore’s Law, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction that has guided
innovation in the semiconductor industry for more than 50 years.
“Since its founding, Intel has been devoted to relentlessly advancing Moore’s Law. This new factory space will bolster our ability to deliver
the accelerated process roadmap required to support our bold IDM 2.0 strategy. Oregon is the longtime heart of our global semiconductor R&D,
and I can think of no better way to honor Gordon Moore’s legacy than by bestowing his name on this campus, which, like him, has had such a
tremendous role in advancing our industry.”
–Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO
Why It’s Important: Gordon Moore Park is the headquarters of Intel’s global Technology Development organization, which is responsible for advancing Moore’s Law by creating new transistor architectures, wafer processes and packaging technologies that underpin the company’s product roadmap and provide the foundation for applications ranging from
personal computers to cloud infrastructure to 5G networks. The team of approximately 10,000 employees, primarily based in Hillsboro, is widely recognized as one of the world’s preeminent silicon process engineering organizations.
During the campus’s 25-year history, engineers and scientists there have continually faced – then overcome – the challenges posed by physics when the features on a chip shrink to the size of atoms. With inventions like high-k metal gate technology, tri-gate 3D transistors and strained
silicon, Intel has consistently delivered foundational process
innovations to maintain pace with Moore's Law.
“These groundbreaking process innovations all originated right here in Oregon. With the new expansion of our D1X factory, Oregon is
well-positioned to deliver the next generation of leading-edge technologies,” said Ann Kelleher, executive vice president and general manager of Technology Development. “Semiconductors are fundamental to
U.S. technology leadership, our economy, and supply chain resilience.
Intel is the only company in the world with the majority of its process
and packaging R&D and high-volume leading-edge semiconductor
manufacturing in the United States.”
Last year, Intel unveiled one of the most detailed process technology roadmaps in its history. The company has moved to an accelerated pace of innovation to enable an annual cadence of improvements, leveraging breakthrough technologies that will power new products through 2025 and beyond, including:
RibbonFET, the first new transistor architecture in more than a decade. PowerVia, an industry-first new backside power delivery method.
The industry’s first use of High NA EUV next generation lithography.
How It Works: With “Mod3” – a more than $3 billion investment to expand D1X – Intel engineers now have an additional 270,000 square feet of
clean room space to develop next-generation silicon process
technologies. At any given time, multiple logic process technologies are
in various stages of the development cycle in the D1X factory. The
Technology Development team creates the baseline manufacturing
technology required to bring innovations into the physical world. New
process technologies are then transferred identically from this central development factory in Oregon to Intel’s global network of high-volume manufacturing sites. After transfer, the network of factories and the development factory collaborate to continue driving operational
improvements. This enables fast ramp of the operation, fast learning and better quality control.
About Intel in Oregon: This latest expansion builds on Intel’s nearly 50-year history of investing in Oregon. Intel’s operations in Oregon are its largest concentration of facilities and talent in the world, with
close to 22,000 employees across four campuses in Hillsboro – 20 miles
west of Portland. The Mod3 expansion brings Intel’s total investment in Oregon to more than $52 billion. Based on 2019 data, Intel’s most significant direct economic footprint is found in Oregon. With its
employees, a vast network of local contractors and suppliers, capital investments, and other downstream impacts, Intel’s total annual impact
is more than 105,000 jobs, more than $10 billion in labor income and $19 billion in gross domestic product."
In my neighborhood they recently blasted out one of the last of
the old farm houses and put a lot of money into getting the land ready
for houses. It's sure to be big houses with small yards, just like the
last time this happened. All around me new houses and new apartment
buildings are getting filled just about as fast as they can build them.
Just a little ways from them we're getting walls. Seriously. We had
a lot of big old trees along our section of the 217. They cut them down
to make room for big cement walls, for sound barriers. I'm quite sure
Mexico isn't paying for them.
https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/532042-424183-highway-217-auxiliary-lane-construction-to-begin-soon
Highway 217 auxiliary lane construction to begin soon
Ray Pitz December 27 2021
ODOT reports it will start on two lanes designed to eliminate bottleneck
this month
COURTESY PHOTO: ODOT - Heres a look at what ODOT is planning
construction on, a $158 million project designed to make Highway 217 a
safere roadway and move traffic alone smoother.
The Oregon Department of Transportation will soon begin work on what it
hopes will significantly reduce bottlenecks along Highway 217 between Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale and Pacific highways.
The statewide road agency's plans include adding an auxiliary lane on
Highway 217, going south from Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway (Highway 10)
to Pacific Highway (Highway 99W), and a similar, shorter lane going
north from Pacific Highway to Southwest Scholls Ferry Road (Highway 210).
"The interchanges at Allen Boulevard and Denney Road are some of the
worst bottleneck locations," ODOT said in a statement explaining the
scope of work. "This project will help everyone on Oregon 217 get where
they need to go more safely and reliably."
The project also will create a frontage road for southbound drivers that
will connect Southwest Allen Boulevard and Denney Road. ODOT officials
say that decreasing the need to merge onto the highway will make it
safer for motorists.
As a whole, Highway 217 contains 10 interchanges in its 7-mile length, creating the shortest merging space for any freeway in the region,
according to ODOT.
The $158 million project also includes improvements to adjacent local
roads. However, ODOT says there are no road closures planned around the Washington Square mall area during the holiday season.
This is just the latest project for the perpetually congested 217, which isn't all that long. It runs from I-5 to the even more congested "Sunset Highway", which runs from Portland to the Silicon Forest, to the coast, if you stay on it long enough. For at least the last 10 years,
every time they finish one project they're getting ready for another.
This has been and still is to a large extent, a working class neighborhood. There were always a few beaters parked somewhere around
here. I don't know where they went, but they're no longer here. Maybe
someone drove them to one of them there red states?
TB
Technobarbarian wrote:
This is just terrible! 4 countries are doing better than us. Woe >> is us. As these chart show, the suffering is just getting worse year
after year.
Three different charts with basically the same information:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-ppp
At this rate we'll be in Venezuela any day now.
TB
------------------------------------------------------
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group have not
only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added around
341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group have not
only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added around
341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
Red states like Florida and Texas, meanwhile, followed the science and
never went all-in on COVID restrictionism, keeping their economies and schools open as much as possible.
Red-leaning states like Texas saw a migration boom during the pandemic, helping them recover faster than Democratic-run states, according to a report.
Red states recovered faster from COVID pandemic than blue states
...
That migration is now paying off big time for the winning areas, in
terms of recouped jobs and general economic health. Florida, it should
be noted, notched a record-high budget surplus thanks in part to the
pandemic realignment. Texas, meanwhile, has been breaking records every
month since January with its increases in nonfarm payrolls.
And, no, New York and California didn’t withstand the virus notably
better than Texas and Florida; all four were near the middle of the pack among states, in terms of deaths per capita.
It’s clear the red states are driving our national job numbers back to where they were before the pandemic. Their sensible, science-based
policies attracted companies and workers, without compromising public
health. Just imagine where the nation would be if the blue states had followed suit.
---------------------------------------------------------- https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/why-red-states-are-winning-the-post-covid-economy/
On 7/10/2022 10:02 AM, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
     This is just terrible! 4 countries are doing better than
us. Woe is us. As these chart show, the suffering is just getting
worse year after year.
     Three different charts with basically the same information:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-ppp
     At this rate we'll be in Venezuela any day now.
TB
------------------------------------------------------
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic
realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are
losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half
a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group
have not only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve
added around 341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly >> deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic
realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are
losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half
a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group
have not only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve
added around 341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly >> deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
Red states like Florida and Texas, meanwhile, followed the science
and never went all-in on COVID restrictionism, keeping their
economies and schools open as much as possible.
Red-leaning states like Texas saw a migration boom during the
pandemic, helping them recover faster than Democratic-run states,
according to a report.
Red states recovered faster from COVID pandemic than blue states
...
That migration is now paying off big time for the winning areas, in
terms of recouped jobs and general economic health. Florida, it
should be noted, notched a record-high budget surplus thanks in part
to the pandemic realignment. Texas, meanwhile, has been breaking
records every month since January with its increases in nonfarm
payrolls.
And, no, New York and California didn’t withstand the virus
notably better than Texas and Florida; all four were near the middle
of the pack among states, in terms of deaths per capita.
It’s clear the red states are driving our national job numbers
back to where they were before the pandemic. Their sensible,
science-based policies attracted companies and workers, without
compromising public health. Just imagine where the nation would be
if the blue states had followed suit.
----------------------------------------------------------
https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/why-red-states-are-winning-the-post-covid-economy/
Yet more suffering? LOL If other states are "winning" that's
good news to me. If what we're experiencing is "losing" I hate to
think what terrible suffering winning looks like.
April 11, 2022
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-marks-grand-opening-3b-factory-expansion-oregon.html
"Intel Marks Grand Opening of $3B Factory Expansion in Oregon
Company celebrates heritage of innovation by renaming Ronler Acres
campus in honor of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore."
"What’s New: Intel today celebrated the grand opening of the latest expansion of D1X, its leading-edge factory in Hillsboro, Oregon. In a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by senior government officials and community leaders, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger highlighted the company’s positive impact in Oregon and reiterated its commitment to U.S.
leadership in semiconductor research and development (R&D). In honor
of the site’s heritage of innovation, Intel also announced a new
name for the nearly 500-acre campus: Gordon Moore Park at Ronler
Acres. The new name recognizes the site’s unique contributions to driving Moore’s Law, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s 1965 prediction that has guided innovation in the semiconductor industry
for more than 50 years.
“Since its founding, Intel has been devoted to relentlessly
advancing Moore’s Law. This new factory space will bolster our ability to deliver the accelerated process roadmap required to support
our bold IDM 2.0 strategy. Oregon is the longtime heart of our global semiconductor R&D, and I can think of no better way to honor Gordon Moore’s legacy than by bestowing his name on this campus, which,
like him, has had such a tremendous role in advancing our industry.â€
–Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO
Why It’s Important: Gordon Moore Park is the headquarters of Intel’s global Technology Development organization, which is responsible for advancing Moore’s Law by creating new transistor architectures, wafer processes and packaging technologies that
underpin the company’s product roadmap and provide the foundation
for applications ranging from personal computers to cloud
infrastructure to 5G networks. The team of approximately 10,000
employees, primarily based in Hillsboro, is widely recognized as one
of the world’s preeminent silicon process engineering organizations.
During the campus’s 25-year history, engineers and scientists there have continually faced – then overcome – the challenges posed by
physics when the features on a chip shrink to the size of atoms. With inventions like high-k metal gate technology, tri-gate 3D transistors
and strained silicon, Intel has consistently delivered foundational
process innovations to maintain pace with Moore's Law.
“These groundbreaking process innovations all originated right here
in Oregon. With the new expansion of our D1X factory, Oregon is well-positioned to deliver the next generation of leading-edge technologies,†said Ann Kelleher, executive vice president and
general manager of Technology Development. “Semiconductors are fundamental to U.S. technology leadership, our economy, and supply
chain resilience. Intel is the only company in the world with the
majority of its process and packaging R&D and high-volume leading-edge semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.â€
Last year, Intel unveiled one of the most detailed process technology roadmaps in its history. The company has moved to an accelerated pace
of innovation to enable an annual cadence of improvements, leveraging breakthrough technologies that will power new products through 2025
and beyond, including:
RibbonFET, the first new transistor architecture in more than a decade. PowerVia, an industry-first new backside power delivery method.
The industry’s first use of High NA EUV next generation lithography. How It Works: With “Mod3†– a more than $3 billion investment to
expand D1X – Intel engineers now have an additional 270,000 square feet of clean room space to develop next-generation silicon process technologies. At any given time, multiple logic process technologies
are in various stages of the development cycle in the D1X factory. The Technology Development team creates the baseline manufacturing
technology required to bring innovations into the physical world. New process technologies are then transferred identically from this
central development factory in Oregon to Intel’s global network of high-volume manufacturing sites. After transfer, the network of
factories and the development factory collaborate to continue driving operational improvements. This enables fast ramp of the operation,
fast learning and better quality control.
About Intel in Oregon: This latest expansion builds on Intel’s
nearly 50-year history of investing in Oregon. Intel’s operations in Oregon are its largest concentration of facilities and talent in the
world, with close to 22,000 employees across four campuses in
Hillsboro – 20 miles west of Portland. The Mod3 expansion brings Intel’s total investment in Oregon to more than $52 billion. Based
on 2019 data, Intel’s most significant direct economic footprint is found in Oregon. With its employees, a vast network of local
contractors and suppliers, capital investments, and other downstream impacts, Intel’s total annual impact is more than 105,000 jobs, more than $10 billion in labor income and $19 billion in gross domestic
product."
In my neighborhood they recently blasted out one of the last of the old farm houses and put a lot of money into getting the land ready
for houses. It's sure to be big houses with small yards, just like the
last time this happened. All around me new houses and new apartment buildings are getting filled just about as fast as they can build them.
Just a little ways from them we're getting walls. Seriously. We
had a lot of big old trees along our section of the 217. They cut them
down to make room for big cement walls, for sound barriers. I'm quite
sure Mexico isn't paying for them.
https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/532042-424183-highway-217-auxiliary-lane-construction-to-begin-soon
Highway 217 auxiliary lane construction to begin soon
Ray Pitz December 27 2021
ODOT reports it will start on two lanes designed to eliminate
bottleneck this month
COURTESY PHOTO: ODOT - Heres a look at what ODOT is planning
construction on, a $158 million project designed to make Highway 217 a
safere roadway and move traffic alone smoother.
The Oregon Department of Transportation will soon begin work on what
it hopes will significantly reduce bottlenecks along Highway 217
between Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale and Pacific highways.
The statewide road agency's plans include adding an auxiliary lane on Highway 217, going south from Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway (Highway 10)
to Pacific Highway (Highway 99W), and a similar, shorter lane going
north from Pacific Highway to Southwest Scholls Ferry Road (Highway 210).
"The interchanges at Allen Boulevard and Denney Road are some of the
worst bottleneck locations," ODOT said in a statement explaining the
scope of work. "This project will help everyone on Oregon 217 get
where they need to go more safely and reliably."
The project also will create a frontage road for southbound drivers
that will connect Southwest Allen Boulevard and Denney Road. ODOT
officials say that decreasing the need to merge onto the highway will
make it safer for motorists.
As a whole, Highway 217 contains 10 interchanges in its 7-mile length, creating the shortest merging space for any freeway in the region,
according to ODOT.
The $158 million project also includes improvements to adjacent local
roads. However, ODOT says there are no road closures planned around
the Washington Square mall area during the holiday season.
This is just the latest project for the perpetually congested
217, which isn't all that long. It runs from I-5 to the even more
congested "Sunset Highway", which runs from Portland to the Silicon
Forest, to the coast, if you stay on it long enough. For at least the
last 10 years, every time they finish one project they're getting
ready for another.
This has been and still is to a large extent, a working class neighborhood. There were always a few beaters parked somewhere around
here. I don't know where they went, but they're no longer here. Maybe someone drove them to one of them there red states?
Technobarbarian wrote:
On 7/10/2022 10:02 AM, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
     This is just terrible! 4 countries are doing better than
us. Woe is us. As these chart show, the suffering is just getting
worse year after year.
     Three different charts with basically the same information:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-ppp
     At this rate we'll be in Venezuela any day now.
TB
------------------------------------------------------
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic
realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are
losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half
a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group
have not only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added >>> around 341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly
deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic
realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are
losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half
a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group
have not only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added >>> around 341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly
deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
Red states like Florida and Texas, meanwhile, followed the science
and never went all-in on COVID restrictionism, keeping their
economies and schools open as much as possible.
Red-leaning states like Texas saw a migration boom during the
pandemic, helping them recover faster than Democratic-run states,
according to a report.
Red states recovered faster from COVID pandemic than blue states
...
That migration is now paying off big time for the winning areas, in
terms of recouped jobs and general economic health. Florida, it
should be noted, notched a record-high budget surplus thanks in part
to the pandemic realignment. Texas, meanwhile, has been breaking
records every month since January with its increases in nonfarm
payrolls.
And, no, New York and California didn’t withstand the virus notably >>> better than Texas and Florida; all four were near the middle of the
pack among states, in terms of deaths per capita.
It’s clear the red states are driving our national job numbers back >>> to where they were before the pandemic. Their sensible, science-based
policies attracted companies and workers, without compromising public
health. Just imagine where the nation would be if the blue states had
followed suit.
----------------------------------------------------------
https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/why-red-states-are-winning-the-post-covid-economy/
Yet more suffering? LOL If other states are "winning" that's
good news to me. If what we're experiencing is "losing" I hate to
think what terrible suffering winning looks like.
April 11, 2022
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-marks-grand-opening-3b-factory-expansion-oregon.html
"Intel Marks Grand Opening of $3B Factory Expansion in Oregon
Company celebrates heritage of innovation by renaming Ronler Acres
campus in honor of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore."
"What’s New: Intel today celebrated the grand opening of the latest >> expansion of D1X, its leading-edge factory in Hillsboro, Oregon. In a
ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by senior government officials and
community leaders, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger highlighted the company’s >> positive impact in Oregon and reiterated its commitment to U.S.
leadership in semiconductor research and development (R&D). In honor
of the site’s heritage of innovation, Intel also announced a new
name for the nearly 500-acre campus: Gordon Moore Park at Ronler
Acres. The new name recognizes the site’s unique contributions to
driving Moore’s Law, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s 1965
prediction that has guided innovation in the semiconductor industry
for more than 50 years.
“Since its founding, Intel has been devoted to relentlessly
advancing Moore’s Law. This new factory space will bolster our
ability to deliver the accelerated process roadmap required to support
our bold IDM 2.0 strategy. Oregon is the longtime heart of our global
semiconductor R&D, and I can think of no better way to honor Gordon
Moore’s legacy than by bestowing his name on this campus, which,
like him, has had such a tremendous role in advancing our industry.†>>
–Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO
Why It’s Important: Gordon Moore Park is the headquarters of
Intel’s global Technology Development organization, which is
responsible for advancing Moore’s Law by creating new transistor
architectures, wafer processes and packaging technologies that
underpin the company’s product roadmap and provide the foundation
for applications ranging from personal computers to cloud
infrastructure to 5G networks. The team of approximately 10,000
employees, primarily based in Hillsboro, is widely recognized as one
of the world’s preeminent silicon process engineering organizations. >>
During the campus’s 25-year history, engineers and scientists there >> have continually faced – then overcome – the challenges posed by
physics when the features on a chip shrink to the size of atoms. With
inventions like high-k metal gate technology, tri-gate 3D transistors
and strained silicon, Intel has consistently delivered foundational
process innovations to maintain pace with Moore's Law.
“These groundbreaking process innovations all originated right here
in Oregon. With the new expansion of our D1X factory, Oregon is
well-positioned to deliver the next generation of leading-edge
technologies,†said Ann Kelleher, executive vice president and
general manager of Technology Development. “Semiconductors are
fundamental to U.S. technology leadership, our economy, and supply
chain resilience. Intel is the only company in the world with the
majority of its process and packaging R&D and high-volume leading-edge
semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.â€
Last year, Intel unveiled one of the most detailed process technology
roadmaps in its history. The company has moved to an accelerated pace
of innovation to enable an annual cadence of improvements, leveraging
breakthrough technologies that will power new products through 2025
and beyond, including:
RibbonFET, the first new transistor architecture in more than a decade.
PowerVia, an industry-first new backside power delivery method.
The industry’s first use of High NA EUV next generation lithography. >> How It Works: With “Mod3†– a more than $3 billion investment to
expand D1X – Intel engineers now have an additional 270,000 square
feet of clean room space to develop next-generation silicon process
technologies. At any given time, multiple logic process technologies
are in various stages of the development cycle in the D1X factory. The
Technology Development team creates the baseline manufacturing
technology required to bring innovations into the physical world. New
process technologies are then transferred identically from this
central development factory in Oregon to Intel’s global network of
high-volume manufacturing sites. After transfer, the network of
factories and the development factory collaborate to continue driving
operational improvements. This enables fast ramp of the operation,
fast learning and better quality control.
About Intel in Oregon: This latest expansion builds on Intel’s
nearly 50-year history of investing in Oregon. Intel’s operations in >> Oregon are its largest concentration of facilities and talent in the
world, with close to 22,000 employees across four campuses in
Hillsboro – 20 miles west of Portland. The Mod3 expansion brings
Intel’s total investment in Oregon to more than $52 billion. Based
on 2019 data, Intel’s most significant direct economic footprint is >> found in Oregon. With its employees, a vast network of local
contractors and suppliers, capital investments, and other downstream
impacts, Intel’s total annual impact is more than 105,000 jobs, more >> than $10 billion in labor income and $19 billion in gross domestic
product."
In my neighborhood they recently blasted out one of the last of >> the old farm houses and put a lot of money into getting the land ready
for houses. It's sure to be big houses with small yards, just like the
last time this happened. All around me new houses and new apartment
buildings are getting filled just about as fast as they can build them.
Just a little ways from them we're getting walls. Seriously. We
had a lot of big old trees along our section of the 217. They cut them
down to make room for big cement walls, for sound barriers. I'm quite
sure Mexico isn't paying for them.
https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/532042-424183-highway-217-auxiliary-lane-construction-to-begin-soon
Highway 217 auxiliary lane construction to begin soon
Ray Pitz December 27 2021
ODOT reports it will start on two lanes designed to eliminate
bottleneck this month
COURTESY PHOTO: ODOT - Heres a look at what ODOT is planning
construction on, a $158 million project designed to make Highway 217 a
safere roadway and move traffic alone smoother.
The Oregon Department of Transportation will soon begin work on what
it hopes will significantly reduce bottlenecks along Highway 217
between Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale and Pacific highways.
The statewide road agency's plans include adding an auxiliary lane on
Highway 217, going south from Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway (Highway 10)
to Pacific Highway (Highway 99W), and a similar, shorter lane going
north from Pacific Highway to Southwest Scholls Ferry Road (Highway 210).
"The interchanges at Allen Boulevard and Denney Road are some of the
worst bottleneck locations," ODOT said in a statement explaining the
scope of work. "This project will help everyone on Oregon 217 get
where they need to go more safely and reliably."
The project also will create a frontage road for southbound drivers
that will connect Southwest Allen Boulevard and Denney Road. ODOT
officials say that decreasing the need to merge onto the highway will
make it safer for motorists.
As a whole, Highway 217 contains 10 interchanges in its 7-mile length,
creating the shortest merging space for any freeway in the region,
according to ODOT.
The $158 million project also includes improvements to adjacent local
roads. However, ODOT says there are no road closures planned around
the Washington Square mall area during the holiday season.
This is just the latest project for the perpetually congested
217, which isn't all that long. It runs from I-5 to the even more
congested "Sunset Highway", which runs from Portland to the Silicon
Forest, to the coast, if you stay on it long enough. For at least the
last 10 years, every time they finish one project they're getting
ready for another.
This has been and still is to a large extent, a working class
neighborhood. There were always a few beaters parked somewhere around
here. I don't know where they went, but they're no longer here. Maybe
someone drove them to one of them there red states?
Good try..............but no cigar.
On 7/10/2022 5:45 PM, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
On 7/10/2022 10:02 AM, bfh wrote:
Technobarbarian wrote:
     This is just terrible! 4 countries are doing better than
us. Woe is us. As these chart show, the suffering is just getting
worse year after year.
     Three different charts with basically the same information:
https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?locations=US
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A939RX0Q048SBEA
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-per-capita-ppp
     At this rate we'll be in Venezuela any day now. >>>>>
TB
------------------------------------------------------
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic
realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are
losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half
a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group
have not only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added >>>> around 341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly
deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
The numbers are in: Red states are winning the post-COVID economic
realignment, reports the Wall Street Journal, and blue states are
losing.
The overall share of US jobs in red states has jumped more than half
a percentage point since February 2020. And red states as a group
have not only won back all their pandemic job losses; they’ve added >>>> around 341,000 more — even as blue states still face an ugly
deficit of 1.3 million jobs as of May.
...
Red states like Florida and Texas, meanwhile, followed the science
and never went all-in on COVID restrictionism, keeping their
economies and schools open as much as possible.
Red-leaning states like Texas saw a migration boom during the
pandemic, helping them recover faster than Democratic-run states,
according to a report.
Red states recovered faster from COVID pandemic than blue states
...
That migration is now paying off big time for the winning areas, in
terms of recouped jobs and general economic health. Florida, it
should be noted, notched a record-high budget surplus thanks in part
to the pandemic realignment. Texas, meanwhile, has been breaking
records every month since January with its increases in nonfarm
payrolls.
And, no, New York and California didn’t withstand the virus notably >>>> better than Texas and Florida; all four were near the middle of the
pack among states, in terms of deaths per capita.
It’s clear the red states are driving our national job numbers back >>>> to where they were before the pandemic. Their sensible, science-based
policies attracted companies and workers, without compromising public
health. Just imagine where the nation would be if the blue states had
followed suit.
----------------------------------------------------------
https://nypost.com/2022/07/09/why-red-states-are-winning-the-post-covid-economy/
Yet more suffering? LOL If other states are "winning" that's
good news to me. If what we're experiencing is "losing" I hate to
think what terrible suffering winning looks like.
April 11, 2022
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-marks-grand-opening-3b-factory-expansion-oregon.html
"Intel Marks Grand Opening of $3B Factory Expansion in Oregon
Company celebrates heritage of innovation by renaming Ronler Acres
campus in honor of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore."
"What’s New: Intel today celebrated the grand opening of the latest >>> expansion of D1X, its leading-edge factory in Hillsboro, Oregon. In a
ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by senior government officials and
community leaders, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger highlighted the company’s >>> positive impact in Oregon and reiterated its commitment to U.S.
leadership in semiconductor research and development (R&D). In honor
of the site’s heritage of innovation, Intel also announced a new
name for the nearly 500-acre campus: Gordon Moore Park at Ronler
Acres. The new name recognizes the site’s unique contributions to >>> driving Moore’s Law, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s 1965
prediction that has guided innovation in the semiconductor industry
for more than 50 years.
“Since its founding, Intel has been devoted to relentlessly
advancing Moore’s Law. This new factory space will bolster our
ability to deliver the accelerated process roadmap required to support
our bold IDM 2.0 strategy. Oregon is the longtime heart of our global
semiconductor R&D, and I can think of no better way to honor Gordon
Moore’s legacy than by bestowing his name on this campus, which,
like him, has had such a tremendous role in advancing our industry.†>>>
–Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO
Why It’s Important: Gordon Moore Park is the headquarters of
Intel’s global Technology Development organization, which is
responsible for advancing Moore’s Law by creating new transistor
architectures, wafer processes and packaging technologies that
underpin the company’s product roadmap and provide the foundation >>> for applications ranging from personal computers to cloud
infrastructure to 5G networks. The team of approximately 10,000
employees, primarily based in Hillsboro, is widely recognized as one
of the world’s preeminent silicon process engineering organizations. >>>
During the campus’s 25-year history, engineers and scientists there >>> have continually faced – then overcome – the challenges posed by
physics when the features on a chip shrink to the size of atoms. With
inventions like high-k metal gate technology, tri-gate 3D transistors
and strained silicon, Intel has consistently delivered foundational
process innovations to maintain pace with Moore's Law.
“These groundbreaking process innovations all originated right here >>> in Oregon. With the new expansion of our D1X factory, Oregon is
well-positioned to deliver the next generation of leading-edge
technologies,†said Ann Kelleher, executive vice president and
general manager of Technology Development. “Semiconductors are
fundamental to U.S. technology leadership, our economy, and supply
chain resilience. Intel is the only company in the world with the
majority of its process and packaging R&D and high-volume leading-edge
semiconductor manufacturing in the United States.â€
Last year, Intel unveiled one of the most detailed process technology
roadmaps in its history. The company has moved to an accelerated pace
of innovation to enable an annual cadence of improvements, leveraging
breakthrough technologies that will power new products through 2025
and beyond, including:
RibbonFET, the first new transistor architecture in more than a decade.
PowerVia, an industry-first new backside power delivery method.
The industry’s first use of High NA EUV next generation lithography. >>> How It Works: With “Mod3†– a more than $3 billion investment to
expand D1X – Intel engineers now have an additional 270,000 square >>> feet of clean room space to develop next-generation silicon process
technologies. At any given time, multiple logic process technologies
are in various stages of the development cycle in the D1X factory. The
Technology Development team creates the baseline manufacturing
technology required to bring innovations into the physical world. New
process technologies are then transferred identically from this
central development factory in Oregon to Intel’s global network of >>> high-volume manufacturing sites. After transfer, the network of
factories and the development factory collaborate to continue driving
operational improvements. This enables fast ramp of the operation,
fast learning and better quality control.
About Intel in Oregon: This latest expansion builds on Intel’s
nearly 50-year history of investing in Oregon. Intel’s operations in >>> Oregon are its largest concentration of facilities and talent in the
world, with close to 22,000 employees across four campuses in
Hillsboro – 20 miles west of Portland. The Mod3 expansion brings
Intel’s total investment in Oregon to more than $52 billion. Based >>> on 2019 data, Intel’s most significant direct economic footprint is >>> found in Oregon. With its employees, a vast network of local
contractors and suppliers, capital investments, and other downstream
impacts, Intel’s total annual impact is more than 105,000 jobs, more >>> than $10 billion in labor income and $19 billion in gross domestic
product."
In my neighborhood they recently blasted out one of the last of >>> the old farm houses and put a lot of money into getting the land ready
for houses. It's sure to be big houses with small yards, just like the
last time this happened. All around me new houses and new apartment
buildings are getting filled just about as fast as they can build them.
Just a little ways from them we're getting walls. Seriously. We >>> had a lot of big old trees along our section of the 217. They cut them
down to make room for big cement walls, for sound barriers. I'm quite
sure Mexico isn't paying for them.
https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/532042-424183-highway-217-auxiliary-lane-construction-to-begin-soon
Highway 217 auxiliary lane construction to begin soon
Ray Pitz December 27 2021
ODOT reports it will start on two lanes designed to eliminate
bottleneck this month
COURTESY PHOTO: ODOT - Heres a look at what ODOT is planning
construction on, a $158 million project designed to make Highway 217 a
safere roadway and move traffic alone smoother.
The Oregon Department of Transportation will soon begin work on what
it hopes will significantly reduce bottlenecks along Highway 217
between Southwest Beaverton-Hillsdale and Pacific highways.
The statewide road agency's plans include adding an auxiliary lane on
Highway 217, going south from Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway (Highway 10)
to Pacific Highway (Highway 99W), and a similar, shorter lane going
north from Pacific Highway to Southwest Scholls Ferry Road (Highway 210). >>>
"The interchanges at Allen Boulevard and Denney Road are some of the
worst bottleneck locations," ODOT said in a statement explaining the
scope of work. "This project will help everyone on Oregon 217 get
where they need to go more safely and reliably."
The project also will create a frontage road for southbound drivers
that will connect Southwest Allen Boulevard and Denney Road. ODOT
officials say that decreasing the need to merge onto the highway will
make it safer for motorists.
As a whole, Highway 217 contains 10 interchanges in its 7-mile length,
creating the shortest merging space for any freeway in the region,
according to ODOT.
The $158 million project also includes improvements to adjacent local
roads. However, ODOT says there are no road closures planned around
the Washington Square mall area during the holiday season.
This is just the latest project for the perpetually congested
217, which isn't all that long. It runs from I-5 to the even more
congested "Sunset Highway", which runs from Portland to the Silicon
Forest, to the coast, if you stay on it long enough. For at least the
last 10 years, every time they finish one project they're getting
ready for another.
This has been and still is to a large extent, a working class
neighborhood. There were always a few beaters parked somewhere around
here. I don't know where they went, but they're no longer here. Maybe
someone drove them to one of them there red states?
Good try..............but no cigar.
ROFLOL Get back to me when you figure out which way the economy is headed. First you're telling me it's in the dumper based on public
opinion polling. Now you're "winning". I don't think it can be both.
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