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NVIDIA Kepler Analysis: Another Masterpiece from the Architects of G80 or...?
3/22/2012 by: Theo Valich
The wait is over. For the first time since January 2010 (or November 2009, depends on how you count), NVIDIA is introducing a new GPU architecture, codenamed Kepler. The chips are identified as the GK1xx family (GK104 and GK107 are being launched today), and in this article we'll take a deep dive through the architecture which couple of legendary developers said it reminds them of G80.
No Kepler in 2011 - What Went Wrong?
First and foremost, we have to start with the reason why there was no Kepler architecture in 2011, as NVIDIA announced on the GPU Technology Conference 2010. As you can see in the picture below, the public roadmap clearly showed Kepler arriving in 2011 and Maxell following in 2013.
On this image, we do not agree with NVIDIA on 2007 timing for the Tesla architecture launch. Tesla, or G80 as it is more known was launched and made available in November 2006. It is true that NVIDIA launched the Tesla GPGPU part in 2007, so it all depends on how you count (silicon availability or public announcement). Tesla architecture was used for G80, G90 and GT200 generation of products spanning through five years (if we count mobile parts).
Then, NVIDIA presented Fermi architecture at the inaugural GPU Technology Conference with a prototype board, revealing architectural details on supercomputing conference in late fourth quarter. However, the actual availability of GeForce did not arrive until the end of first quarter of 2010, with Quadro and Tesla professional products following suit in second and third quarter 2010.
NVIDIA faced issues with the troubled birth of GF100 i.e. Fermi made a dent in the schedule, and engineers were then taken by the work on a Fermi-refresh for 2011. The refresh was known as GF11x and all of that bought time for NVIDIA to get Kepler ready for launch in the fourth quarter of 2011. Bear in mind that the company had silicon running in the office for better part of second half of 2011, but spent time optimizing the silicon to reduce the power consumption as low as possible.
The new company mantra is Performance/Watt (finally) and in this article, you'll see the amount of changes NVIDIA made in order to make that mantra stick. Unfortunately, the availability of 28nm process just wasn't there and while some of the leaked chips we saw were manufactured in 39th, 41st and 44th week of 2011 - the parts simply weren't ready for prime time.
All those delays, or we should simply say - "when it's done" approach caused numerous stories online (we don't see Apple being crucified for their delays, while AMD, Intel and NVIDIA are constantly under the looking glass). In our on and off the record conversations with company executives, engineers and PR staff, it was interesting to see the company attitude changing, especially after AMD introduced Southern Islands, their first true GPGPU architecture.
March 22, 2012 - the arrival of Kepler
There is a pretty good reason why NVIDIA delayed the launch of hard silicon for as long as possible and today's articles will explain why. There are two parts available today, the GK104 (GeForce GTX 680) and GK107 (GeForce GT 640M LE, GT 640M, GT 650M, GTX 660M). In our talks with NVIDIA insiders, we were told that there are two more ASICs coming in the next couple of months, or should we say weeks.
The interesting bit is that we were told that next generation is on track, even though we doubt we are going to see Maxwell before the end of 2013. Reasons for that have nothing to do with NVIDIA, but rather with its manufacturing partners and the process node selected for it.
Without further ado, lets dig into this:
The second name on this slide bears a lot of importance, so hit the next page
The New Architecture - Building upon G80/Tesla and GF100/Fermi Legacy
First and foremost, the Kepler architecture represents the biggest shift in company philosophy since NV40/NV47/RSX was replaced with the original G80/Tesla architecture. Given the principal architect, we're not surprised by this development.
John Danskin serves in NVIDIA as Vice President GPU Architecture but in all honesty, his influence spans much farther than Tesla and Kepler. If you are a 3D aficionado, you'll remember legendary
, where John served as the Chief GPU Architect. Sadly, 3dfx folded before Rampage /Sage GPU architecture came to life, but we believe the G80 more than compensated for that. Our sources at Intel and Qualcomm both confirmed that those companies courted John to switch boats and joins on Larrabee and Adreno projects, but now you can read why he decided to stay with the green team.
Soon after the development of G80/Tesla ended, work started on the Kepler architecture. It took several years of prep work and two years of very hard work to bring Kepler to life, with John being in charge of anywhere between 50-100 architects that serve as the Core Architectural Team and coordinate with over than 1000 engineers in the various stages of creation, resulting in multiple ASICs that are now coming out of TSMC.
World, meet Kepler in its performance shape: the GK104 chip represents the current top of what NVIDIA has to offer
Keyword for Kepler: Efficiency
When the target for the architecture was made, the main buzzword was efficiency. NVIDIA employees were quite unhappy with the compromises they had to make in latter Tesla and Fermi architectures, where the company was cramming more and more compute features - consuming more power and sacrificing performance.
At the same time, AMD went back to the drawing board after R600 debacle and released a series of smaller, compact dies that performed exceptionally given the size, catching NVIDIA's parts off-guard in terms of "three P's": Price, Performance, Power (consumption). However, with some of key AMD figures gone, time will tell what is happening in the Red Team camp with their future ASICs.
Cornerstone of Kepler architecture: Meet SMX, the base for all Kepler GPUs
As you can see in diagram above, NVIDIA went back to the drawing board and completely changed the way the chip operates. Now, the company adopted AMD's mantra about creating a performance chip first, and then releasing lower and higher-end parts based on same or different silicon.
While Fermi architecture had 32 cores in a single SM unit (Streaming Multiprocessor) in the initial GF100 silicon, and 48 cores in the refreshed Fermi (i.e. GF114), Kepler's SMX cluster (Streaming Multiprocessor eXtreme) takes 192 Fermi cores, and builds a completely new logic around them. While NVIDIA used similar diagrams between Fermi and Kepler, we've been told that "the logic is completely different".
Eight of SMXes make for reference Kepler GPU: the GK104
The GK104 chip is a clear evidence of just how different Kepler is. While Fermi (GF100/110) had 512 cores, Kepler GK104 packs eight SMX units for a grand total of 1536 cores. Those eight clusters are divided into four GPC units (Graphics Processing Cluster), but this is where similarities with Fermi end.
There is also a difference in cache memory. While Fermi had 1MB of L1 and 768KB of L2 memory, Kepler has 512KB of Shared L1 cache memory, and 512KB of L2 memory. The 512/768 KB is logical, due to ties with memory controller, while each SMX has equal amount of cache as Fermi's SM. With half of SM units, the L1 cache was cut from 1024 to 512KB. However, Kepler increased texture and instruction cache. The chip which features all of the parts above takes 3.54 billion transistors packed in just 294mm2.
Second GPU NVIDIA is launching today is known under codename GK107. Consisting out of single GPC with two SMX cores, the GK107 packs 384 cores, 128KB of L1 and 128KB of L2 cache memory. Memory controller is 128-bit wide and supports GDDR3 and GDDR5 memory.
In order to create Kepler, GPU architects took CUDA cores from Fermi architecture and completely reworked how those cores operate.
Fermi vs. Kepler in raw numbers - notice the ratios and the most important part; IPC efficiency doubled on Kepler
By looking at raw numbers, Kepler features higher efficiency that Fermi but there are some parts which remain the same, as LD/ST (Load/Store) units inside each SMX unit. This result in 64-bit operations executed much in the same way as Fermi - at least on the consumer side of things. The most important bit is the numbers of instructions per clock: while Fermi (GF100/110) executed up to 1024 instructions in a single clock, i.e. 1.58 million instructions per second, Kepler (GF104) executes 2048 instructions per clock, i.e. 2.06 million instructions per second. If there was any doubt why GeForce GTX 670 Ti became GeForce GTX 680, this is it.
GPU Computing & Double Precision: Yes, the GeForce Kepler is Castrated
Not all news are great, though. NVIDIA kept its policy of castrating double precision performance for the consumer parts, meaning the GeForce GTX 680 should not have better results than GTX 580, which was getting hammered by AMD silicon for the past few generations. As you can read in our
in-depth, 11 page review of GeForce GTX 680
, the results of
SiSoft Sandra 2012 reveals that GeForce GTX 680 gets handly beaten by Radeon HD 7970
- which is not Double Precision castrated.
However, the Quadro and Tesla professional cards will paint a different picture. Company representatives said they cannot go into GPGPU i.e. GPU computing performance until GPU Technology Conference in May and if rumors hold true, we expect to see NVIDIA debuting "three fourths" double precision rate. The chip itself reaches 3.09 TFLOPS in single precision (SP), but castrated GeForce parts should not expect more than one eight of double precision performance. Unlock Kepler should have between 1.54 and 2.32 TFLOPS of DP performance, reaching the internal target of having higher DP than Kepler SP performance. And that is something that makes GPU Computing a proposition of the future - for 1.54 DP TFLOPS, you'd have to buy no less than 23-26 Sandy Bridge-E (23x Core i7-3960X i.e. 26x Xeon E5-2687W). The difference in price is even larger - we expect to see Quadro and Tesla parts for about $2000-2500, while 23 i7-3960X processors will set you back for $24,149.77, while twentysix E5-2687W are "cheap" $49,399.74. Yes, 50,000 dollars.
How Kepler Became a Performance Monster?
One of questions on a lot of minds between game developers, and certainly between application developers was - how could Kepler be more efficient? In fact, we had couple of in-depth conversations with AAA engine developers who were confused at our reports of Kepler having 1536 units.
First and foremost, we'll give you an efficiency example. Samaritan demo by Epic Games required three GTX 580 boards in 3-Way SLI to run at 30 frames a second in Full HD resolution. Even by going Quad SLI with two GTX 590 boards were not a guarantee of smooth framerates. In terms of finances, we're talking about a $1647 investment; $1107 after the last round of GTX 580 price cuts. A single GeForce GTX 680 manages to achieve the identical framerate and we're talking about a $499.99 investment (the cost of plain vanilla GTX 680).
Given that the pixel load hasn't changed between three GTX 580 boards (3-Way GTX 580: 1536 cores, 1152-bit memory interface, 4.5GB GDDR5 memory), how did a single board with 1536 cores, 256-bit memory interface and 2GB GDDR5 memory managed to achieve just that?
As we wrote earlier, NVIDIA kept the Fermi cores but changed everything else. GPU architects explained that key battle was won with the complete change of the way how GPU works. First and foremost, NVIDIA removed a lot of functionality from hardware into software and good example is task scheduler. The number of Warp Schedulers remained the same (32 in both GF100/110 and GK104), but the way how instructions are executed was changed by removing multiple steps.
Fermi was heavily dependent on hardware checks, to make sure all instructions are properly executed. Given the amount of new instructions and functionality (native C++), it was clear why NVIDIA chose the safe route and with a lot of HW checks. Kepler removes the checks and introduces a software pre-decode, which executes in just five steps.
This enabled Kepler to get rid of a large number of transistors and change the principle from double pumped "hot clock" units (first introduced by Intel with their NetBurst architecture, followed with NVIDIA with the Tesla and Fermi architectures) to a normal pumped one. We'll address this in greater detail on the next page.
Furthermore, NVIDIA removed one limitation which was holding the architecture back, and this limitation is not something that will be mentioned by more than a sentence, or maybe a slide. Well, not the case here. The big issue was feeding the GPU with instructions and textures, which NVIDIA witnessed with AMD's mainstream parts beating the living daylights out of Fermi and Tesla parts. Kepler addresses this by increasing the number of Texture units to 128 (double the Fermi), the same amount as on AMD's Northern and Southern Islands. Meet Bindless Textures.
Now that the number of texture units doubled, NVIDIA also changed the way how Texture Units operate. In the pre-Kepler era, you could use up to 128 simultaneous textures. Bindless Textures are probably the key reason why Samaritan can run on a single card, and why the performance of GT 640M and GTX 680 is where it is. This feature increased the number of simultaneous textures from 128 to over a million. Yes, you've read this correctly. An engine developer can now run its shader code on all the textures he or she plans to use and run those textures as they come along. In ideal circumstances, Samaritan demo can address operations on 200-300…1000 textures and Kepler gives you that level.
For competitive comparison, AMD Southern Islands also has 128 Texture Units with the technology focus being on
Partially Resident Textures, i.e. MegaTexturing technology
pioneered by John Carmack and idSoftware's engine. AMD has a different approach to this problem, but in our talks with engine developers, it was Bindless Textures that got the nod over primarily OpenGL limited PRT technology. Those two are apples and pears, though (slicing a large texture vs. addressing thousands of textures at the same time).
Power Efficiency
Just like AMD hit a power wall with the R600 (HD 2900), NVIDIA had the same experience with the first Fermi, i.e. the GeForce GTX 480. AMD's answer to power inefficiencies was Radeon HD 3870 and later, HD 4870 - power efficient GPUs which took the best parts of R600 architecture and combined it with fixed function parts, getting nice, power efficient products.
With Kepler, took a similar approach - take what is good from Fermi and throw out everything else. NVIDIA had enough time to completely reorganize the way how the GPU works. When designing Kepler, the company architects decided to reduce the power as much as possible, and the decision was made to abandon the "double-pumped", "hot clocks" concept. New concept increased the needed die area for physical cores and reduced the power consumption. The cores used the same physical space, but at half the power.
With the excessive control logic thrown out, enough room opened not to just double the core count, but rather triple it. While NVIDIA was making this chip, its designation was "performance" and the target positioning was "GeForce GTX 670 Ti". However, after the company received first 28nm silicon back, the triple core count worked better than expected and enabled engineers to clock the parts higher than expected. At the same time, the new software-driven approach resulted in reduced complexity and easier performance tuning. As such, the part planned as GTX 670 Titanium became the GTX 680.
Kepler's power efficiency - On avergage 30-50% more efficient than Fermi
In real world applications, GK104 was twice as efficient as GF110 in Battlefied 3, with other applications following suit. Worst efficiency was achieved in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim and Batman: Arkham City. On average, Kepler is between 30-50% more power efficient than the Fermi architecture.
The real efficiency is seen when you take a look at the notebook part. The GK107 packs 384 cores and that was enough to
GPU Boost
When your silicon is power efficient, an interesting thing happens - you can clock it to heavens high and beat your competition on clock, should logic lack the sophistication. If you end with sophisticated logic and low power consumption, you have a brilliant chance of taking the market.
In NVIDIA, the "holy duality" effect happened with Riva TNT2, GeForce 4 Titanium, GeForce 6000, 7000 Series and now with the GeForce GTX 600 Series. In our conversations, we learned that NVIDIA always planned to launch the GPU Boost feature, but they weren't certain just how good the boost can be. GPU Boost is similar to Turbo mode on CPUs of today with several changes. Turbo mode on modern processors works that algorithm checks for current load of the cores, actual temperature and power consumption. Based on the information given, the Turbo mode will clock one or two cores to the Maximum TDP, or clock all available cores until maximum power consumption is reached.
Given that it controls the whole board, GPU Boost is far more complex system. The system works with the algorithm checking the actual GPU and RAM power consumption, utilization, GPU temperature and similar parts of the board. End result is that the GPU Boost will not just change frequency of a single core (it does not make lot of sense with the way how GPU works), but rather increase the frequency of both the GPU and on-board memory. Furthermore, GPU and memory voltage will be increased to the safe point, i.e. maximum power consumption. NVIDIA stated that the GeForce GTX 680 has two 6-pin connectors and can take a maximum of 225W, 75W less than GTX 580. We have no doubt that custom GTX 680 boards will bring 8+6-pin configuration (300W) for maximum performance.
GPU Boost doesn't stop with the set TDP, though. Overclocking is favorite past time for a lot of engineers (and users) and NVIDIA utilized GPU Boost to enable board partners to overclock their parts based on better cooling (read: parts with the most efficient cooling will have more headroom by default BIOS settings, yet alone after vendor-specific BIOS tweaks).
When overclocking the GPU, GPU Boost will continue to run in the background, and if you bin the GPU/DRAM chips, you might end up with a monster. In our testing, we've found that GPU Boost works quite impressive, with the maximum clock achieved being 1,316 MHz - over 30% from default 1008 MHz. The clock was good enough to beat a GeForce GTX 590, which is based on two Fermi GPUs.
GPU Boost also plays a very important role in notebook design
Beside the desktop part, GPU Boost is also used in the notebooks. The algorithm looks at the whole computer and tries to redirect each available Watt of power to the GPU, increasing performance by quite a bit. While 5W of power doesn't mean a lot in desktop world, we're talking about one fourth of the overall power budget for the Ultrabook/Notebook part, resulting in higher performance.
New Memory Controller: More Transistors, Higher Integration, Highest Efficiency
The battle for the most efficient memory controller is also the battle for just how fast your chip is going to be. Unlike the CPU, memory controller is without any doubt the most important part in a GPU. Without it, the units will starve and that was one of reasons why Intel Larrabee and ATI R600 were such failures - execution units were starved.
With Kepler, NVIDIA kept their policy of "1st gen memory controller is ok, 2nd gen kills the competition" and from the looks of it, the engineers scored once more. AMD has the natural advantage, since the company actually creates the GDDR memory standards.
Fermi had a fairly efficient memory controller, but you could not drive the memory as efficient as four generations of GDDR5 memory controllers on AMD GPUs (Radeon HD 4000, HD 5000, HD 6000, HD 7000). NVIDIA sticked to GDDR3 until the very end and then switched the boat with the first Fermi, the GeForce GTX 480. Unfortunately for NVIDIA, the company had multiple issues with the silicon and could not dedicate time and resources to optimize the performance on the part.
With Kepler, memory controller was in the focus and the result is expected - highest stock clock for GDDR5 memory by quite a margin: GTX 680 has memory operating at 1.50 GHz QDR (Quad Data Rate) i.e. 6000 effective MHz. By comparison, Radeon HD 7970 has memory operating at 1.375 GHz QDR, i.e. 5500 effective MHz.
Thus, GK104 has 256-bit memory interface and almost beats the GF110 Fermi (GTX 580), which utilizes 384-bit memory interface. According to company representatives, overclocking the GDDR5 memory will also be quite an interesting experience, with the first reports coming from overclockers reaching 1.8GHz QDR i.e. 7.2 "GHz". With 256-bit interface that yields 225GB/s - still short of 257GB/s achieved by AMD Radeon HD 7970, but nevertheless impressive.
New Display Engine
With Evergreen architecture, AMD surprised the world by introducing display support for up to six displays from a single graphics processor. I remember that I spoke to NVIDIA GPU architects and executives who came to USS Hornet for AMD Evergreen after party (regardless of what most people think, but a lot of people from Intel, AMD, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Google, Apple - are house friends and there are no animosities like a vocal minority and the users themselves); they were shocked at the trick that Carrell Killebrew pulled not just on NVIDIA, but on AMD themselves. Eyefinity was close guarded secret and nobody knew about it.
Three years later, NVIDIA is finally able to answer with the brand new display engine. Focus was enabling 3D Vision Surround running of a single card, with fourth display added for presence on social networks / internet / email while gaming on three displays.
We expect this feature to be of great importance when it comes to commercial use, especially in financial sector. Furthermore, video professionals will be all over the card for finally enabling the holy trinity of video production: dual display with working palettes and a calibrated TV which shows the video as it's going to be broadcasted.
Tagging onto the video production bandwagon, Kepler also supports 4K display resolutions from a single cable, just like Radeon HD 7700/7800/7900 series. DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4a "high speed" (3GHz) can now drive 3840x2160 and 4096x2160 at 60Hz.
New Video Engine: NVENC
When NVIDIA introduced 2nd generation Tesla architecture (GT200), there was a lot of talk about the GPU video encoding functionality. With the arrival of Sandy Bridge architecture, the talk died down on the consumer level. In commercial usage, NVIDIA Quadro represents de facto the standard, greatly helped by the fact that leading companies based their software on CUDA: Adobe Mercury Playback Engine, Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve, Avid utilize GPGPU functionality to the level where a thought of even using a dual-socket CPU configuration seems wasteful.
NVENC is the new generation of video encoding engine which claims 1080p encoding at 120-240 frames per second in popular H.264 for 2D and MVC (Multi-view Video Encoding) for 3D video.
Kepler now supports hardware acceleration for videoconferencing and wireless display, while transcoding and video editing should be brought to another level. Given that Adobe is coming out with Creative Suite 6 just in time for NAB 2012, the annual broadcaster conference which starts on April 14 in Las Vegas, NV.
The Kepler Lineup: High-End GK104, Low-End GK107 Split into 11 parts
As you already know, Kepler GPUs belong to GeForce 600 Series. However, not all 600 Series GPUs will be Kepler parts - some of them are still based on the Fermi architecture and will probably end up being replaced by the yet unannounced Kepler ASICs.
On the desktop side, NVIDIA is launching GeForce GTX 680 today, and that is the only desktop part being launched today. After NVIDIA builds an allocation of GK107 parts, you can expect the arrival of GT 600 series for desktop as well.Thus, there isn't much to write about the desktop part, since we have an in-depth review written by my colleague Anshel Sag. This in-depth page review reveals everything that desktop part has to offer.
In the world of mobile, there are plenty of activities; GeForce GT 640M was launched last week, after Acer started selling Aspire Timeline M3 ultrabooks earlier than agreed. There are multiple notebook design wins, but they're closely tied to the introduction of Intel Ivy Bridge series of processors. Unfortunately, the situation is not as simple as it could be. Intel has changed their mind on more than one occasion when it comes to introduction of 3000 series of Intel Core i5 and i7 processors. Intel's VP Sean Maloney said that Intel will introduce Ivy Bridge in two series; April and June. The high-end processors should be launched in April, while the lower-end dual-core parts should arrive in time for Computex Taipei. Until then, both AMD and NVIDIA will be limited to saying they have design wins, without a way to show them.
The mobile lineup is consisted out of no less than 10 models, based on three ASICs:
40nm Fermi: 610M, GT 635M, GTX 670M, GTX 675M
28nm Fermi: GT 620M, GT 630M
28nm Kepler: GT 640M LE, GT 640M, GT 650M, GTX 660M
Yes, you've read it correctly. NVIDIA taped out 28nm Fermi GPU silicon consisting out of two SM units: 96 CUDA cores are paired with a 128-bit memory controller, connecting to GDDR3 or GDDR5 memory. NVIDIA claims that both 40nm and 28nm Fermi silicon underwent extensive rearrangement of the new Performance/Watt mantra and that the new parts are significantly more efficient than the original Fermi parts.
The GK107 will serve as all of four notebook parts, but with different amount of enabled units. NVIDIA cites "up to 384"for all parts, while the memory controller is 128-bit and supports GDDR3 or GDDR5 memory. The GeForce GT 640M LE features up to 2GB GDDR3 memory, GT 640M, 650M and GTX 660M support up to 2GB of GDDR3 or GDDR5 memory.
We have a notebook based on GT 640M part and will be publishing the review shortly.
Without any doubt, Kepler represents the biggest shift in the way of thinking in the past six years. This new architecture focuses on efficiency like no other architecture from NVIDIA. In a way, Kepler represents NVIDA's "Core architecture" which shifted Intel towards more power efficient and higher performing designs.
This is the first time that a high-end part consumes significantly less power than its predecessor and actually removes the obligatory 8+6-pin power connector for a more modest 6+6 one. The "Performance per Watt" and "Instructions Per Clock" mantras are visible in every part of the design and where GTX 680 stopped, GT 640M continued. Seeing a discrete GPU inside an Ultrabook is rare enough, but seeing that GPU running Battlefield 3 in native resolution with all the details turned on is something we haven't witnessed on high-end notebooks, yet alone on a product which weighs as much as two past-gen GTX 580 cards.
According to Pat Moorhead, former Corporate VP and Corporate Fellow at AMD and a President and Principal Analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy, NVIDIA has a true winner on their hands:
"Having NVIDIA's new high performance graphics inside Ultrabooks is good for the entire ecosystem of consumers, channel partners, OEMs, ODMs, game ISVs and of course, NVIDIA:
Consumers get between 2-10X the gaming performance plus all the other Ultrabook attributes.
Channel partners, OEMs, and ODMs can now offer a much more differentiated and profitable line of Ultrabooks.
Game ISVs and their distribution partners can now participate more fully in the Ultrabook ecosystem."
Even though the products punch above expectations, we're still worried what happened to GPGPU computing and how come NVIDIA is seriously lagging behind AMD now. According to company representatives, GPGPU functionality will be only known in mid-May, in time for the GPU Technology Conference which takes place in San Jose, CA.
Overall, NVIDIA executed probably the best architecture launches to date - this is the first time the company launched not one, but two GPUs at the same time and have hardware availability from day one (ok, Acer had availability in stores eight days ahead). We look forward to see how partners will take the two launched and two upcoming GPUs and compete in the market against Intel's Ivy Bridge and AMD's Fusion on the low-end, and AMD's Southern Islands-based GPUs on mainstream, performance and high-end levels.
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Parents arrested for child abuse at Walt Disney World2007-06-26By Robert Niles: An Orlando couple is facing child abuse charges after they left their 3-year-old daughter outside in a stroller while they rode Pirates of the Caribbean at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom. The girl was taken inside and given water by park employees. From the Orlando Sentinel: A Magic Kingdom patron alerted park management about 4:45 p.m. Saturday after spotting the girl in a stroller parked in the sun, according to a report released Monday by the Orange County Sheriff's Office. Readers' OpinionsFrom Iris Hernandez on June 26, 2007 at 9:37 AM
Wow....i'm glad the little girl is ok. I just dont get how they just accidentally left her behind. I know the park gets packed to the max, and a lot of families get accidentally seperated, but any responsible parent would double check to make sure they have all their children with them. I know i check twice. But hey, it could've been an honest mistake. I'm just glad the girl is ok. From Brian Emery on June 26, 2007 at 10:41 AM
Stupid people shouldn't breed! From John Quinteros on June 26, 2007 at 11:58 AM
I agree with the comment beforehand. Stupid people (partically stupud blondes) should never breed! And about the baby, I hope its okay. From Cliff Davis on June 26, 2007 at 1:12 PM
Been there, done that. Who has'nt lost a kid or two? From Bradley Robertson on June 26, 2007 at 2:43 PM
While I am sure there are many parents that have had their child wander away from them, I did it countless times as a kid, it baffles me that you could forget to take your child out of the stroller you have been pushing around all day. I doubt that it was intentional to leave the child behind, especially for a ride like POTC. It was probably a mis-communication like the parents stated. However, neglect is neglect and I hope the child is okay. From Scott Tuttle on June 26, 2007 at 6:26 PM
I am not a parent. However, I could understand if this happening...once. I do think that other people have probably made a bigger issue of it than it needs to be. We all make mistakes. The fact that the child was very hot and dehydrated is a bit scary. I guess it beats leaving the child in a car with the windows rolled up. From Erin hartsoe on June 26, 2007 at 7:11 PM
I can NOT understand how a parent can leave their child in a stroller or anywhere else and not realize while waiting in line that neither parent has the child. I am the parent of 2 children and have been taking my kids to Disney since they were 2yrs and 6mths - I never forgot either one of them. I don't buy the "I thought her father had her or I thought her mother had her". They figured she was asleep and it would be easier to leave her. Good thing for the little girl a kind person found her not a child predator. From Brian L on June 26, 2007 at 9:04 PM
My older brother got lost in Magic kingdom in 1990 once. He was about 9 or 10 at the time and was rescued by the dynamic duo of Captain Hook and Mr. Smee. I can understand at about that age getting lost as it was a summertime visit, it was real crowded and he was distracted by shiny things, this sort of thing happens. But altogether leaving an infant in a stroller in June in Florida outside an attraction as they claimed "accidentally"? Thats weaksauce. One of em could have easily left the line and raced towards the kid. From Anthony Murphy on June 27, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Suprised it didn't happen more often! I have noticed that people tend to loose their mind in theme parks. Its really strange! I am glad the child is OK From Anthony Murphy on June 27, 2007 at 6:13 PM
Sorry for posting again, but people should click on the actual newspaper link. It makes it more clear about what happened because based on the blurb, it could be argued that they just forgot her and noticed she wasn't with them until they got into the line. That is not the case if you read the actual article because it confused me a little bit! From laurie wood on June 27, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Well, first of all, if you are all together shuffling through the line at POTC, how in the heck do you NOT notice that the baby is not with ANYONE! I mean, did they all split up and get in line separately, and then get on the ride separately? I doubt it! I can see how, for a minute you think that the other parent has the stroller or baby, but come on - not for the whole time they were in line and on the ride! I'll bet that the wait was 30 to 45 minutes - even in a fast pass line! From Adrienne McDonald on June 27, 2007 at 8:28 PM
Uhhh okay how do you lose a stroller? Sounds stupid to me. I can understand losing a child in a crowd if you're not paying attention but a STROLLER? Come on! They didn't lose the stroller, they just wanted to ride the ride & didn't wanna "bother" with the baby. They should've gotten a sitter if they were concerned about missing out on the big kid rides. They got what they deserved. From James Adams on June 28, 2007 at 7:58 AM
Having four kids is pretty hectic at times. It sounds like the mother and father were not together on the ride. Probably they got seperated and each thought the other had the child. It really looks like an honest mistake. That's happened to my wife and I at a shoe store - thankfully for just a couple of minutes. But it is very challenging to manage large families. They really should thank God that the cast member found the child - this could have been alot worse. This article has been archived and is no longer accepting comments. Theme Park Insider: Orlando 2014Get all of Theme Park Insider's reader ratings, tips, and advice for planning a trip to Walt Disney World, Universal Orlando, or SeaWorld, in our new 2014 Orlando guidebook! It's more than 200 pages of well-tested, insider information that will help you get the most from your vacation.
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Salone del Mobile limped to a close last week, with lots of shade being thrown at exhibitors by big-name critics who say it's "changed". Yep, the glitziest, most-hyped design week of the year — informally nicknamed Salone del Marketing — has definitely changed. Chalk it up to the protracted recession most of Europe is slogging through: $160,000 tables just don't interest people (even rich people!) like they used to.
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"I am proud to have him as our candidate for the U.S. Senate," Christie said of Lonegan, the barb-throwing former Bogota mayor who is running against Democratic Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who is an African-American.
The Lonegan endorsement illustrates the tricky political terrain Christie finds himself in as he casts himself as a more inclusive and electable choice for the Republican nomination for president in 2016.
Despite his highly publicized jabs at the party's right-wing ideologues this month — his swipe at them as "college professors" who would rather debate than win, or his feud with libertarian U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky — there is reason to doubt that Christie will be the Republican leader who confronts the party's right wing and says "enough is enough."
Conservatives dominate the party caucuses and primaries. He will need their support and money and energy at phone banks and rallies. And he will need their votes.
Christie has a history of steadily supporting figures on the right, including those who've revealed anti-immigration or extremist tendencies. And he turns to a favorite strategy when some of these officials make inflammatory remarks and get embroiled in controversy — he condemns the comments without cutting off his support.
Christie headlined a fundraiser last year for Iowa Rep. Steven King, who has a well-documented animus toward Latinos who are in the country illegally.
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Christie called the comments "awful" but wouldn't rule out campaigning with him in the future.
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More than 3,500 organizations from all sectors of the economy and society joined forces today to urge Congress and President Obama to put an immediate end to sequestration budget cuts which threaten to send the economy reeling back into recession and destroy more than two million American jobs. Letters from NDD United, the Aerospace Industries Association and the Task Force on American Innovation urging immediate action were sent to President Obama and congressional leadership, with copies going to every member of Congress.
"Discretionary spending programs are not the reason for our growing debt, and yet they are always the first place lawmakers look for cuts," said Emily Holubowich, Executive Director of the Coalition for Health Funding and spokesperson for NDD United. "Our goal is to speak with one voice to educate policymakers and the public about the importance of these programs. When you do the math, sacrificing these programs not only wouldn't balance the budget, it would cripple our ability to grow in the future."
The unprecedented array of groups involved represents a wide variety of Americans, from manufacturers to health professionals, academic researchers to social workers. Their goal in uniting today is to draw greater attention to the devastating impact of sequestration cuts to all Americans, regardless of industry or sector.
"The danger that sequestration poses to the economy and our national security cannot be overstated," said Aerospace Industries Association President and CEO Marion C. Blakey. "More than two million jobs are at stake from all sectors. Sequestration affects all Americans and we must pull together to set it aside."
According to a study performed by Dr. Stephen Fuller of George Mason University, sequestration budget cuts would cost 2.14 million jobs, 1.05 million from spending reductions at domestic discretionary agencies and 1.09 million from DOD spending reductions. These losses would fall across all job descriptions from manufacturing to retail, from professional business services to federal workers and from researchers to nurses. Small businesses would be hit particularly hard, losing more than 956,000 jobs.
"Our nation needs a balanced, strategic approach to its fiscal challenges. The indiscriminate budget cutting required by sequestration is not the answer," said Wes Bush, Northrop Grumman chairman, chief executive officer and president. "We urge Congress and the Administration to work to together on a solution to avoid sequestration's devastating impacts on the nation's security, economy, all aspects of the federal government, as well as research and education that drives innovation in our country."
"Sequestration is a reckless and blunt tool that would force deep spending reductions across critical investments in research and education," APLU President Peter McPherson said. "If we're not going to develop the next technology at our universities then other nations will. These short-sighted cuts would result in the loss of 200,000 research-related jobs over the next four years alone and cause the U.S. to fall far behind other nations in developing the future technology that can power economies for decades. Why would we cede such extraordinary opportunities to China and India when we have the opportunity to continue leading the world in innovation?"
Scientific research drives innovation, productivity, job creation and growth. Technological advances such as the laser, the Internet and the Web, GPS, and the large-scale integrated circuit all had their origins in federally-funded, long-term research.
"Funding science and research is a necessary investment for a country that seeks to expand its economy and maintain its global leadership," said Association of American Universities President Hunter Rawlings. "Pulling back on those investments, especially when other nations are ramping up theirs, is short-sighted and will leave our nation less able to sustain the economic growth it needs to create jobs and eliminate budget deficits in future years."
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Tom Bihn's Aeronaut: A Great Long Weekend Bag
I had dearly wanted to pack the newest bag in my house -- the Tom Bihn Aeronaut ($240 from Tom Bihn) -- for my safari trip, but I was vanquished by a sleeping bag. I was able to stuff a shocking amount of gear into what looks like not that much space. With my clothes crammed into packing cubes, I could just get everything I needed to pack into the bag, but the sleeping bag, nope, no dice. I ended up taking my Gregory rolling duffel instead.
The Bihn Bag I saved for a long weekend in bad weather to the Columbia River Gorge, and it was really nothing short of perfect for that. I packed three days of foul weather gear -- a down sweater, a rain shell, long underwear, a hat and gloves, a little black dress (because really, you never know) and a pair of chunky knee high boots. I also had two magazines, a book, and the usual socks/underwear/toiletries. Oh, and flannel pajamas. I could easily have traveled for a week on the stuff I had in there, longer, if need be.
Here's what I like about this bag. It's got stow away backpack straps and a removable waist belt, so if you're needing to carry it through town or while you run for the bus, you're set. It's got two side pockets that are the perfect size for stowing a pair of low rise hikers. It's got a net pocket in the zippered top; you could use that instead of a toiletries bag, and it's perfect for stowing the little things that get loose in your bag -- a flashlight, the moisturizer you poached from the hotel... you know. There's a grip handle on the top and the side and a removable shoulder strap so you can configure and carry the bag in whatever way works best for you. It's regulation carry on size, so you'll have no trouble fitting it in the overhead bin on your flight.
The Aeronaut is Tom Bihn's recommended round the world bag and there are lots of testimonials on their site backing this up. I have a caveat on that. I wasn't packing heavy for my Africa trip, not by a long shot. (See also, strapping lad on my tour hefts my bag and pauses. "Wow, you're traveling really light!") I just needed a little more room, just a tiny bit, the size of, oh, a sleeping bag in a compression sack, to make the bag work.
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Newest Review: ... it's a really good substitute and I think it tastes great (with a few exceptions - Quorn pepperoni is not for me!!). Up ... more
by - written on 29/03/10 (Very useful, 201 readings)
The one thing I really enjoy is chicken nuggets though staying with my best mate at the moment who is a Vegetarian means that for the most part of my diet nowadays it's Veggie too, I mean I can't be bothered to make two separate meals so I eat what she eats for the most of the time lol. However when we were out shopping the other day and looking at Quorn products, I spotted these and simply had to purchase them and at about £1.50 a bag they seemed good value for money and I couldn't wait to get them home! The Packaging: Well the nuggets come in a plastic packet and on the front of said packet there is a photograph of the nuggets and I am ... Read the complete review
by - written on 22/04/10 (Very useful, 151 readings)
As a long term vegetarian who hasn't eaten meat since I was a young child, I like to find lots of different products that I can eat for dinner or as snacks as it does get very boring eating the same products all of the time. I remember that as a child, when I wasn't a vegetarian I enjoyed eating chicken nuggets on the rare occassion so I was excited when I saw this product. The packaging states that on average you get eighteen quorn nuggets in the pack, I have found that every pack I have bought have had a few more than this. Each nugget contains: Calories: 31- 2% Saturates: 0.5g - less than 1% Fat: 1.8g - 3 ... Read the complete review
by - written on 12/01/12 (Very useful, 104 readings)
As you can guess from my reviews I pretty much live off Quorn, I simply love the stuff. Its quick and easy and you can more or less do anything you want with it. Quorn Crispy Chicken Style Nuggets: 'Coated in a light crispy batter, perfect for family teatimes' My Finding: One thing I did used to like before I turned 100% vegetarian was chicken nuggets; I never used to eat any other meat apart from chicken. So something like this is a great substitute for me and in my opinion tastes even better. You get around 18 of these per pack and I think they are a good size too being around the same size as the McNuggets from ... Read the complete review
by - written on 13/11/13 (Very useful, 64 readings)
I have been a vegetarian since I was about 12 (on-and-off but very much ON for the last few years) and so I have had my fair share of vegetarian food. I'm not a big salad person so I really enjoy the quorn products - it means you can have a meal like everyone else, but without the meat. It also makes it easy for other people (like my boyfriend's mum) to cook me meals without having to go too far out of their comfort zone - you just replace meat with a quorn product. I know quorn isn't for everyone, but if you are a vegetarian for ethical reasons, it's a really good substitute and I think it tastes great (with a few exceptions - Quorn pepperoni is not for ... Read the complete review
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I came across this product yesterday while browsing the supermarket aisles for healthy treats. The box looked appealling and the special BOGOF offer convinced me to put two boxes into my shopping basket. I was very pleased with my bargain purchase, hoping that it would increase the protein levels in my diet, assist with weight-loss and reduce my meat consumption. I had tried small quantities of Quorn before and got on with them fine so didn't even consider what was ahead... Last night I sat down with a serving as a late-night-movie-snack. I couldn't say that the Quorn tasted like chicken, but it was well flavoured and it did have a meaty texture to ... Read the complete review
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