Foxconn's iPhone plant "paralyzed" as thousands strike: report

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Thousands of workers went on strike Friday at a Foxconn plant in central China that makes Apple Inc's iPhone 5, paralyzing production of the smartphone, the rights advocate group China Labor Watch reported.

The reported strike comes at a crucial time for the U.S. corporation, weeks after kicking off its largest-ever global rollout of the smartphone. Apple is already struggling with supply constraints, analysts say.

Citing workers, the labor group said 3,000 to 4,000 workers began their strike at Foxconn's Zhengzhou complex in central China in the afternoon, angered by over-exacting quality controls as well as demands they work through the week-long National Day holidays, which began on Monday.

The strike could not be immediately confirmed, and nor was it clear whether the stoppage was over or continuing. Some Chinese media carried reports of the China Labor Watch account, but did not offer any verification.

Apple declined to comment. A Foxconn spokesman said the company was "gathering facts" on the reported strike and would issue a statement when ready.

Tensions have boiled over repeatedly in factories operated by Foxconn, the Taiwanese contract manufacturing giant that employs more than a million and makes most of the world's iPads and iPhones. Last month, thousands rioted at its Taiyuan facility in northern China, disrupting production for about 24 hours and underscoring the potential for labor unrest.

"In addition to demanding that workers work during the holiday, Foxconn raised overly strict demands on product quality without providing worker training for the corresponding skills," the Watch said in a statement on its website (http://www.chinalaborwatch.org/news/new-433.html).

"Additionally, quality control inspectors fell into conflicts with workers and were beat up multiple times by workers. Factory management turned a deaf ear to complaints about these conflicts and took no corrective measures."

The group did not say in its release when work might resume.

Foxconn Technology Group of Taiwan, the trading name of Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, is the world's largest contract maker of electronics for global brands such as Hewlett Packard Co, Nokia and Dell Inc.

Apple and Foxconn have come under fire for poor working conditions and wages at plants across China. In response, they have organized an audit of factory conditions, raised wages, improved safety and reduced overtime, among other measures.

Apple's chief executive officer Tim Cook visited Foxconn's vast complex on the far outskirts of Zhengzhou in late March.

(Reporting By Edwin Chan; Additional reporting by Jonathan Standing in Taipei; Editing by Richard Chang and Sanjeev Miglani)

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Court case cites how unfair ICBC claim process can be | Achieving ...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]When negotiating a personal injury claim, though, the insurance company is wearing the hat of the negligent driver's liability insurance company, not your insurance company. When wearing that hat, insurance company does ...

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ADVERTORIAL: With smartphones? rise to dominance making multi-tasking and self-scheduling de rigueur for the modern businesswoman, gone are the days when hiring an answering service was a smart investment for your small business. However, there are still a number of effective and smart ways to outsource in today?s world.?

1. Design

This is perhaps the most obvious, as most small businesses don?t have the capacity for an in-house design team. You need high quality, professional logos, marketing and web materials to be competitive and recognizable in today?s marketplace. Free design that you do in-house? well, let?s just say you usually get what you pay for.?

2. Bookkeeping Services

In-house accounting is like in-house legal advice: valuable but equally expensive. Bookkeeping services, however, let you handle financial matters with an expert at a fraction of the cost. From handling payroll to all the ins and outs of tax codes, it?s easier and more fool proof than handling the books yourself.

3. Serviced Offices

If it?s appropriate for your business (e.g. you don?t have the need for a storefront presence), you may want to look into moving into a serviced office. Most of the responsibilities of an office manager can be handled by a serviced office, including building maintenance, receptionist hire, janitorial services, and so on. From serviced offices in Leeds and Manchester, to Glasgow and Edinburgh, and down in The Big Smoke, any major metropolitan area will have ample options to explore.

4. Internet Marketing

Naturally your business has its own website to promote it, but how can you use the web to promote your business further? An SEO firm can help harness the power search engine optimization (or SEO) to make your business grab a spot in the first page of rankings. Isn?t that worth the price?

Good delegation and outsourcing not only saves you time and effort, but provides a solid professional return for the money you?re spending. The key is to outsource tasks and responsibilities that require expertise and sustained logistical effort that would otherwise cost substantial amounts to provide in-house.

Outsourcing saves you and your company time ? and in a world where time is money, it?s one of the most valuable ideas you can take advantage of.

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UK to close stock market listing loopholes

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's financial watchdog is to close loopholes that allow companies to list shares on the London Stock Exchange without being fully vetted, in a bid to better protect investors.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) said on Tuesday it will clamp down on reverse takeovers, which enable privately owned companies to sell their shares to the public without going through the exchange's rigorous listing process.

The use of reverse takeovers - where a private company buys one already listed - by firms based in emerging markets has been criticised by shareholder and lobby groups for posing risks to investors, particularly those who automatically buy the shares through funds that track key indexes.

Critics also warn the practice could undermine the credibility of the London stock market.

The FSA's announcement comes days after Bumi , an Indonesian venture that was listed on the London Stock Exchange via a reverse takeover, launched an inquiry into $500 million of alleged irregularities at subsidiaries.

Companies that want to list their shares in London have to first publish detailed financial information and demonstrate they are well run before they are allowed to join the club. Reverse takeovers are largely exempt from this level of scrutiny and it is these exemption that the FSA wants to tighten up.

"We believe these proposals will strengthen the investor protections afforded by the Listing Regime, particularly for companies with controlling shareholders," said David Lawton, the FSA's director of markets.

The FSA will insist on having a majority of independent directors on the board of a company with a dominant shareholder to help safeguard the interests of minority investors.

Changes to the rules on reverse takeovers will take effect from the start of next year, the regulator said. The corporate governance changes are effective immediately.

The regulator also plans to remove the minimum requirement of the number of shares to be listed where there is sufficient liquidity, in an effort to encourage more companies to list their shares.

The FTSE Group, which runs the blue-chip FTSE 100 index , took similar steps to increase investor protection in December. It said then that it was tightening rules governing entry to its indexes to protect minority investors and stop companies with poor corporate governance from exploiting loopholes.

(Editing by Erica Billingham)

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The Vegan Man Cave: Double Wide Grill - Pittsburgh, PA

Pittsburgh's South Side is legendary; a seemingly endless avenue of?bars, restaurants, art galleries, coffee shops, record stores and?more stretches out for?nearly 20?blocks along E. Carson Street, just across the river from downtown. It's definitely the place to be?on a Saturday night, and if you're looking to score, there's never a shortage of hotties crawling the pubs?around 9pm.?

I?remember?drinking my first underage brewski?at a joint?called Duke's, which is sadly no longer there. *wistful tear.?

These days I?troll?Southside for?the food, and at the very end of the drag inside?a converted old gas station, you will discover something very rare in our meatless world - vegan BBQ. The Double Wide Grill does?Pittsburgh proud with a plant-based menu?of smoked, pulled and rubbed?BBQ favorites that keeps me coming back every time I visit home.

I hit up Double Wide the other night with my carnivore pops. Double Wide?caters to?everyone with a selection of?traditional meat-based meals, like beef brisket and spare ribs as well as an extensive?vegetarian/vegan menu for us weirdoes. The kitchen goes to great lengths to ensure the veganocity of the?grub?by preparing it?on separate grills and in?separate deep fryers.?

For the main event, I went with the Pulled Seitan Sandwich. Pretty self-explanatory: strips of?melt-in-your-mouth?seitan smothered in a sweet and tangy Carolina?BBQ sauce on?wheat bread with fries.?Nicely done, Double Wide! This sandwich?screamed with flavor and?had the perfect sauce to seitan ratio?so I could pick it up and eat it without my hands looking like I just left a crime scene.?

There are so many?delicious sounding items on their vegan menu, including the lentil burger, veggie chili, beefless stroganoff, coconut tofu, garlic slaw, shoestring fries and more. Vegan options are clearly marked (Ve), with (V) for?regular vegetarian. Prices are decent, there are 36 craft brewdogs on draft and the?atmosphere is kickass,?retro Texaco station?meets southern BBQ joint meets sports bar meets college?campus hangout.?

If you live near?da 'Burgh or are in town for the last couple of home Pirates games, swing over to Double Wide for?some BBQ and an adult beverage. And tell'em The Vegan Man Cave sent you!??

PS.?It's Day 1?of Vegan MoFo 2012. Looking forward to reading how ya'll will be celebrating. This year,?I'm?participating by challenging myself to visit 10 new restaurants and post my reviews.?Thanks to Double Wide Grill, I'm down to nine!

Word to your mommy. ???

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Harrowing Halloween

A group of teenagers find themselves trapped in Tim Burton's Halloweentown for an entire year.

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Here's the original idea for the storyline:

This group of teenagers finds Halloween Town, but once the clock strikes midnight, they're stuck there. No way out.
At first, they can live with it. The citizens, while scary, are kind of friendly in their own way for the most part.
However, it doesn't take long for someone to start making threats. For some reason, said antagonist doesn't like having these humans around.

Some citizens start to mysteriously disappear while others are slaughtered inside of their homes or on the streets because they're known to fraternize with the humans.

Who is this mysterious killer/kidnapper? Why does he/she dislike humans so much?
What are the humans doing that is so taboo? -Abrielle

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The secondary idea for the storyline:

The holidays goes to war against each other, they grew tired of sharing, the first holiday on the brink of destruction is Halloween, and so the citizens of halloween town recruit the only force that no holiday can over come.......teenagers.

I know it's getto, but that's the only thing that came to my mind that sounded some what, at least a little, interesting. -deathrisesagain

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This is the 'finalized' idea for the storyline:

To go along with death's idea of the Holiday Towns recruiting teenagers, we could have a really, really large group of teenagers enter the forest where all seven of the different holiday doors are opened and each teenager chooses which door they want to go through out of curiosity, then focus the story in Halloween Town.
Or, perhaps given the nature of the other Holiday Towns, it's simply Halloween Town that wants to fight for more seasonal time, and they're the one's who leave their door open to the teenagers on Halloween night, luring them there with trails of candy or something. After all, Hinterlands (the forest where the Holiday Town portals are located) are very separate from urbanized regions.

After midnight, the teens become trapped inside of the towns without proper knowledge of how to escape. (Perhaps, the only way to escape is to wait one whole year when the door will open again--- on the reverse side, their parents would be worried sick and not know there whereabouts for a whole year... That's how Tim Burton would have wanted it. Hah!)

Perhaps these teenagers are told that they can not leave until Halloween of next year, and after that, they're expected to come back a every time there is a new holiday, get in, mess things up before midnight at designated holiday town, and leave, so they can repeat the process until Halloween is the only cherished holiday left.

But, within Halloween town, there is perhaps someone who thinks this idea is completely, horribly wrong (perhaps a Sally-esque character) and will do everything in their power to put a stop to it. -Abrielle

Original interest in the topic was Verkisto.

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At the moment, I do not have plans to.

I do have one character from the original, though. Lock, one of the twerpy kids. He'll be much older now.

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Do our characters get Halloweentown-ified? Such as gaining a monsteresque appearance?

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Do you think Medusa is too freaky to be Halloweeny, or would that work?

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As far as I figured, I didn't think that the teenagers would gain moster-like appearance, however it would seem feasible that after staying in the town for a year, they would develop a scary appearance. I think that'd be a fun plot twist.

I'm not sure the plot would flow with your character of Medusa if she turned everyone she talked to to stone. However if it was just her snake-hair, etc. without the ability to kill everybody, then you could have that character for sure!

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I was thinking since everyone in the town was dead anyway, other than the teens, it might work. If she was communicating with the teens, she could wear some kind of glasses or something that would shield her eyes. Or she could just be medusa without the turning to stone part.

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Perhaps her ability is something she can turn on and off?

Either way, I'm sure you'll be able to make it work.

The fact that everyone in town is dead already would work. Although, I'm not sure that they're dead, but I don't think that they're living either. What a strange conundrum.

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Hey, kexia, would you like to start playing Medusa with Lock?

That way, we can get started, while still waiting for others to join in with their teenagers.

I'm about to go put up a roleplayers wanted board. Wish me luck.

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Sure, give me a few minutes to make myself some dinner and I'll get to work on it. We should have a good turnout; there were a lot of people that were interested in the Interest Check. I'll think we'll be good to go, once everyone gets a chance to figure out who they want to be! :)

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So without further ado, here are my 3 best reasons to start an Internet based Home business:

Its Easy - now this is already a controversial statement, let me explain. Right off the bat if you own a computer and have Internet access you have all you need to begin. There are many ways to make money online with no money needed to get started, my favorite being affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is when you sell other peoples products online for a commission. This can be done completely with free promotion methods, such as with social media i. e Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and YouTube just to name a very, very few, the social networking world online is vast and a huge global marketplace that is free to access. There are also, in a related sort of way, many free Internet real-estate out there, such as free blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress. Another aspect of affiliate marketing ?is recruiting sub-affiliates. You can find great high paying affiliate programs that are 2 tier and even 3 tier affiliate programs. This means you don't just make commissions on the products you sell, but make commission on the work of others and the products they sell. Another thing that makes it an easy transition career wise which I guess is also a bit of advice is, you can start right away without throwing your life into turmoil. Don't quite your day job until your Internet marketing is paying the bills, but work towards being your own boss responsibly.

Non Fixed Income - You are truly the master of your own destiny. In traditional business, as an employee, you know exactly what you will bring home every paycheck. You can work hard and hope for a raise, but even wage hikes are standard and predictable. With an Internet based ?home based business it is possible and probable to become an Internet Millionaire in as little as a couple years and there are even many stories of it being in months.

Nurture Passion - The world of Internet based Home business is wide and varied. There does not seem to be a limit to what field or industry you can make money online with. People have created wealth with Internet based home businesses in there passions from parenting, dogs, scrapbooking, travel, collectables and on and on, Seriously! I love the quote attributed to Confucius "Find a job you love and you never work a day in your life" This what is totally possible and maybe the most important reason, your happiness is no joke, it is a right, not an accident.

So in conclusion I just want to encourage you seize your life with both hands and take your happiness seriously by at least doing the research in how to turn a passion of yours into a Internet based home business. Take action now!

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Judge Lucy Koh To Review Galaxy Tab 10.1 Injunction

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There are never ending twist and turns going on in regards to the Apple vs Samsung court battle. It is a well know fact that after extensive hours of review and deliberation the jury came to the conclusion that Samsung not only violated numerous Apple patents, but also Apple has not infringed any of Samsung?s patents. Therefore, had ordered Samsung to pay Apple a sum of $1.05 billion. However, it looks that the battle didn?t end there and Judge Lucy Koh has set 6th December for hearing on Apple?s injunction on 8 Samsung devices.

According to recent reports, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has granted Samsung?s request to have the injunction of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 remanded in order for the trial court to re-consider Samsung?s motion to terminate the injunction. This will allow Samsung to get additional time to produce a better argument in front of the jury giving reasons as to why the injunction should be lifted, considering the jury found that the Galaxy tab 10.1 was not infringing upon any of Apple?s patents.

Keeping in mind all these matters, the Appeals court has asked Judge Lucy Koh to set aside another date to hear Samsung?s part of the story and let Samsung provide explanation against the injunction.

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