Carpentry among industries which are not bounce after the recession (Washington Post)

To LAS VEGAS - every day in this city in the desert, the rise of carpenters in their pickup trucks and vans, resume stacked on the passenger seats, driving at Union Hall, and then circles construction one bound to the string to another, seeking work.

For one year or more, it was the same.

Nothing.

If they keep continuing work as carpenters, in fact, many of them can never find a job.

Beyond the recession, there has been an article of faith, as the economy revives, will return to work. But after the deep recession that began in December 2007, jobs in some industries are not returned.

This creates what economists call "structural unemployment," the result of a mismatch between the skills of the workforce and those required by employers. There is a concern because it causes longer periods of unemployment as workers are trying to transition from one business to another.

In some occupations is lighter than among the carpenters brand. In May 2006, approximately one million people have been used as carpenters, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In the last year, this number decreased to less than 750 000. Predict economists, it is unlikely to climb these 1990s levels.

To obtain narrower on the phenomena, The insight Washington Post hunted 31 carpenters who had worked on one of the largest projects in Las Vegas, a city which has swept in the frenzy of speculative construction and now has one of the rates of unemployment highest in the country.

Today, at least 22 of 31 are unemployed, many of them for a year.

Five have lost their homes due to foreclosure or because they were unable to pay the rent. Three other live with their parents or their in-laws. Many people the rest still slipping financially, fear that they have their head in the same direction.

Workers keep seeking woodworking jobs because it's what they know. They have been learning, training and experience in the field. They were built with skyscrapers, bridges and power plants. And the Union wage is $ 37 now, so when additional flows, they can make good income.

Construction workers are used to ups and downs, but this time is different, and carpenters, often bluff and secular, speak in flagging voices were asked about their prospects.

Status: an Android phone which declares that "Google" (New York Times)

But look at the bright side: it has never been a better selection of cell phones really great. In fact, worldwide operating system Google Android phone, new phones seem to fall stack once a week, each hop the last opportunity.

Who put this week is particularly surprising, because Google designed. Not only the software again - the phone itself. Yes, "Google" is painted right on the back with "Samsung" which has been manufacturing. This phone, Nexus S bears little resemblance with for Google's first effort to a phone, a year earlier, the relationship between had failed them. (S. has more in common with Galaxy S of Samsung models).

It is important for a lot of reasons that Google is once again. First of all, it represents the towel on the radical model of selling Google official throwing. He intended to create an online store where you purchased the phone and service, independently. No more "you want an iPhone?" "Then you get AT & T."

Who has never taken. This time, you'll buy S Nexus of Best Buy ($530 no contract, or $200 with a T-Mobile two-year contract).

In General, the new link is essentially the same as his rivals: is a (bigger than the iPhone in each dimension) black rectangle with a multitouch screen, a screen keyboard and a superfast chip makes sense sensitive.

Camera rear panel has a flash LED, but the quality is the only way and can't make hi-def videos. The front facing low resolution camera is intended for video calls or checks for spinach in your teeth. (Video call software comes with the phone, although you can download a couple of little quiches apps at this end of Android app. online store)

4-Inch screen is bright, strong and vibrant. The case is all the plastic, which makes it a magnet for zero and fingerprints as iPhone glass and metal. It is elegant but fairly generic - looking; eccentricity of unique design is a bulge on the bottom of the back, you could argue, will help you to orient the phone when retrieving your pocket.

Samsung also claims that the screen is slightly inclined inwards - curved - to fit your face better. Really? You need a microscope to measure. the curve is almost undetectable. If this minute degree of curvature fits your head, well, you have a skull size of a hot air balloon.

S misses some features the original link, as the dual microphones cancellation (regardless - S great sounds), the trackball has doubled in a light message and the memory card slot. This time, your storage is capped at 16 gigabytes - only 1 gig which is available for storing standard apps downloaded.

Technically, the phone is sold "unlocked", which means that you do not have to use T-Mobile; If you want, you can insert the card account AT & T phone or, when you travel overseas cell carrier. Even then, however, technical limitations prevent you from obtaining on 3 G Internet network AT & T, or T-Mobile 4 G (faster) Internet network.

The most exciting new hardware is S Nexus can read N.F.C. labels. In case you're not an engineer, who is an acronym for near field communication. Supposedly, a day earlier, you can switch your phone on a special tag to pay for something. You can on your phone waves to someone else to share maps of e-business. You can retrieve information, Web links or videos special stickers on billboards and bus shelters, just by scanning your phone.

Ensure. And then you can hop in your hovercraft and fly home.

Unfortunately, it does the tags N.F.C. in America (except in Portland, a test program run by Google), so for the moment, the feature is worthless. Of course, you could argue that if ever the N.F.C., S Nexus will be ready. Unfortunately, at this time, he will examine such as steam powered by kerosene pump.

The most attractive aspect of Nexus perhaps not all hardware - be it is software. Here is pure Android, Google intended way. No cell phone manufacturer has modified, diluted or complicated with its own editorial. It come with preinstalled applications Verizon junkware or what. And this is the first phone with Android 2.3.

This is a big deal. Google updates its software frequently. But if you buy your phone Android cell phone carrier, you will get not updated for months, if ever, because the carrier is the goalkeeper. 2.2 Android, for example, introduces the ability to watch videos Flash on the Web – but so far, many phones Android cannot exploit this functionality because their carriers were not offered the 2.2 update. You won't have this problem if you buy a phone from Google.