Pegatron, which puts together products in mainland China for Apple, was forcing employees to work in poor conditions, depriving them of overtime pay and polluting the environment, China Labor Watch claimed in a report released on Monday.
?[Pegatron] benefitted from and relied upon labor violations to increase their competitive edge,? the rights group said.
The group said its findings were based on a five-month undercover investigation at three Pegatron factories in China where more than 70,000 workers assemble Apple products.
This happening after they got some good press after deciding to try and have products manufactured in the states is interesting http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...8GU03920120530
I wonder if they decided that having some of their products made in the states was a good idea out of fear that they might get bad press from news of worker abuse by a supplier being reported again.
Would anyone here be willing to pay $10-$50 dollars more on electronics to reduce the instances of alleged worker abuse?
Adrienne Bailon, who split from Rob Kardashian in 2009, had her break-up played out on the reality show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians”. Adrienne has revealed she pretended to have a boyfriend to get Rob to stop calling her. Bailon talked about the split on “The Real”, which she now co-hosts, revealing that Rob Kardashian ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Accused of the nation's biggest-ever security leak, U.S. soldier Bradley Manning was vilified by the government for causing irreparable damage to American national interests. In retrospect, the harm he caused seems to have been overplayed.
A U.S. military judge cleared Manning on Tuesday of the most serious charge against him - aiding the enemy - in a verdict that indicated the soldier's secrecy violations, while criminal, were not as dire as prosecutors had alleged.
Manning's revelations to WikiLeaks, including hundreds of thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables and raw intelligence reports from the Iraqi and Afghan battlefields, violated his military oath and "put real lives and real careers at risk," said former State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.
But the strategic damage to the United States - to its reputation and its ability to work with allies and conduct diplomacy - "was transitory," said Crowley, who resigned in 2011 after publicly criticizing the Pentagon's treatment of Manning in a military prison.
As reams of classified State Department cables - some containing unflattering portraits of foreign leaders or detailing U.S. envoys' contacts with human rights groups - leaked to the public, some saw catastrophe for U.S. diplomacy.
Yet, despite what Crowley called a few "isolated cases" in which foreign counterparts were less candid than in the past, fearing their words might leak, the State Department was able to mitigate the damage.
In just one of dozens of examples, U.S. ties with Indonesia wobbled after the release of cables showing the U.S. Embassy suspected collusion between Jakarta's security forces and the extremist Islamic Defenders Front, accused of attacks on religious minorities.
The leaks "were quite unpleasant," said Teuku Faizasyah, Indonesia's presidential spokesman for foreign affairs. But he said, "Our relations with the U.S. have continued normally since. The lesson is that we have to be more careful with the flow of such intelligence."
The military judge, Colonel Denise Lind, found Manning guilty on 19 counts, including five espionage charges. Manning could face a sentence of 136 years in prison. Military prosecutors had pushed for a harsher judgment. They called him a "traitor" and said his actions had helped the al Qaeda network.
'SUBTLE RATHER THAN CATASTROPHIC'
"The official damage assessments concerning Manning/WikiLeaks have not been publicly released, but my sense is that the bulk of the damage is subtle rather than catastrophic," said Steven Aftergood, an expert on government secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, a private group.
"But it is nonetheless real," Aftergood said. "Because of the broad scope and overwhelming volume of the WikiLeaks cables, their disclosure cast doubt on the ability of the U.S. government to guarantee confidentiality of any kind - whether in diplomacy, military operations or intelligence. That's not a small thing."
In Australia, a crucial U.S. ally in the Asia-Pacific region, the revelations have affected the way Western diplomats operate and report on political developments, and have curtailed events such as social dinner party chats where diplomats often gain insights on what is happening in a country.
"The diplomats have told me this has affected their reporting of events in Australia, or events anywhere in the world," said government lawmaker Michael Danby, who until June was head of Australia's powerful joint intelligence committee which oversees intelligence matters.
"It has restricted political reporting and mingling for open Western societies (among diplomats and politicians)."
In late 2010, Wikileaks cables outed then Australian sports minister Mark Arbib as a regular source of information for U.S. diplomats. Danby's name was also mentioned. One cable also described current Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, then the foreign minister, as a "mistake-prone control freak".
It remains to be seen whether the Manning verdict - rendered in a military rather than civilian court - will impact future prosecutions, most notably against former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who leaked documents exposing previously secret U.S. telephone and internet surveillance programs. Snowden, who faces U.S. criminal charges, has taken refuge in a Moscow airport.
Aftergood, while cautioning that military courts are quite different from civilian leak trials, said, "Every Espionage Act case can alter the legal landscape for cases that come after it."
President Barack Obama has been more aggressive than any of his predecessors in searching out and punishing those responsible for national security leaks.
"There could also be some 'psychological' effect on how the government deals with leak cases as a result of the Manning trial, but this is harder to predict," Aftergood said.
"Prosecutors might say, 'Aha, we won - now let's go do it again.' Or they might say, 'OK, we made our point - now we can step back a little bit.'"
In the wake of the WikiLeaks disclosure, Obama ordered new steps to protect classified material stored on government computers and, in November 2012, issued a "National Insider Threat Policy" aimed at stopping future leaks like those by Manning.
Among the new steps were automated monitoring of classified government networks, aimed at detecting unusually large downloads of data. But that did not deter Snowden from allegedly making away with numerous highly classified NSA documents.
(Additional reporting by Kanupriya Kapoor in Jakarta and James Grubel in Canberra; Editing by Will Dunham, Stuart Grudgings and Neil Fullick)
Cash-strapped consumers, take note: buying a laptop with an AMD processor instead of an Intel one could save you up to 38 percent off of a new laptop. AMD systems tend to be outperformed by Intel, however, so take your needs into consideration when you're buying.
By Louis Ramirez,?Contributor / July 29, 2013
Visitors look at motherboards being displayed at the Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) booth exhibition in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2012. Although Intel dominates the laptop market, AMD processors can save consumers looking for a new laptop significant amounts of money.
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However, for the truly cash-strapped who are in need of a laptop that can get online and smoothly stream some of those HD Netflix movies, there's one more laptop buying tip that we've left for last ? a tip that can slash up to 38% off your final price.
Intel Dominates the Market, But AMD Is Up to 38% Cheaper
There's no denying that when it comes to laptops, Intel owns the market. While AMD's processors have generally trumped Intel's CPUs in terms of graphics performance, Intel's Core series processors have outperformed AMD in every other test. In addition, with each CPU refresh Intel's integrated graphics have managed to ever so slightly close the gap between the two. As a result, Intel has dominated the laptop industry not just this year, but since the days of the Core 2 Duo.
However, AMD is far from doomed. Its APUs have boasted excellent graphics, power efficiency, and most importantly price. While Intel has concentrated on performance, AMD has dominated the budget market. Over the past year, our listings of 15" AMD dual-core systems have been, on average, 31% cheaper than 15" Intel dual-core systems, with prices at $251 versus $383, respectively. (Oddly, Intel's Core i3 systems have at times been pricier or equal to Intel's Core i5 deals, so for our purposes we compared AMD E- and A-series notebooks to the cheapest Core i3 or Core i5 laptops we could find for each month.) And some months the savings on AMD laptops reached as much as 58% over its Intel cousins.
That said, AMD's systems don't always stand toe-to-toe with Intel's laptops. For instance, prior to the release of Windows 8, most of the AMD systems we listed included a mere 2GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive, whereas dual-core Intel systems we listed included 4GB of RAM and a minimum 500GB hard drive. It wasn't until after the release of Windows 8 that the majority of AMD systems jumped to the standard 4GB of RAM, while Intel systems slowly crept up to 6GB.
The same can be said of quad-core systems. For the past year, AMD's quad-core laptop deals have been 38% cheaper than Intel's quad-core deals, with an average price of $359 against Intel's $590. Again, AMD's systems typically came with just 4GB of RAM, whereas Intel's quad-core systems generally included 6GB, and on a few occasions up to 8GB. Regardless, the savings are substantial, and to date, deals on Intel quad-core machines haven't come close to matching the low prices of AMD's best quad laptops.
Cheap AMD Laptops Deals
Scoring a deal on a budget AMD system isn't hard, as we list many of them in any given month. This summer, the average price for an AMD dual-core system has been $262, whereas the average price of a quad-core system has been $350. If shopping for the former, look for specs that include 4GB of RAM and a 320GB hard drive. On the quad-core front, 6GB of RAM seems to be the max; a 4GB, 320GB hard drive setup is the norm.
Of course, these deals don't always last long, so the best plan of action is to set up an email alert for the AMD configuration you want; we'll notify you as soon as a deal is posted to the site.
Louis Ramirez is a senior features writer at dealnews.com, where this article first appeared. Original article:?http://dealnews.com/features/Opt-for-AMD-Instead-of-Intel-and-Save-Up-to-38-on-Your-Next-Laptop/793878.html
GOOSE CREEK, S.C. (WCIV) -- Rashard Alston now more than ever has a true grip on reality.?
"I'm so excited about starting my career at Newberry College. I get to go to school for free and do the thing I love most, which is play football," said Alston.?
It's never been easy for Alston. He backed up Goose Creek great Virgil Smalls before breaking into the starting lineup and breaking out his senior season.
But his season ended with his team being booted from the playoffs rather than at Williams-Brice Stadium.
He'll bring strength, toughness and a nose for the end zone to his next chapter at Newberry.?
"Anyone wants to go and start but even if I don't start, I just want to help the team," said Alston.?
Things and perspective changed for Alston earlier this month. After leaving IHOP in North Charleston with a group of friends and heading towards his grandmother's home off of Dorchester Road on a rainy night, his life changed.?
"Two or three miles down the road, it was raining and I felt the car hydroplane a bit. I slowed down to 35 miles an hour; the right back tire blew on me. I tried to brake but the back axle broke. The car twisted facing the other direction; I saw the wall in the middle of the interstate and I couldn't do anything," said Alston.?
It was a moment, an instant, where football was the furthest thing from his mind. ?
"The car flipped, hit the side, the top, the other side. The glass shattered and it landed on the wheels. I was sitting and feeling myself. I had a white shirt on but it was covered with blood. I didn't know where it was coming from," he said.?
Alston says his faith got him through the crash. His strength on the field was nothing compared to the strength that helped him on I-26 that night.?
"I sat there for 5 or 10 minutes crying before I called my Mom, Dad or the police. I'm thankful that I'm still alive," he said.
Aside from scrapes and bruises, Alston walked away unscathed.?
"You feel relief that you are still alive, not dead. Usually, you hear about someone and their car flipping, you hear about them dying or seriously injured."?
That was two weeks from his first college football camp. Rashard Alston truly understands the saying "live to play."?
Rwanda doesn't do many things better than the US, but in some ways it protects its teenage girls better. It is more than twice as successful as the US at vaccinating girls against human papillomavirus (HPV), which can lead to cervical cancer.
"Our vaccination rate is stuck at one-third of our teen girls, yet Rwanda has vaccinated more than 80 per cent of its target population," says Tom Frieden, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which has released new figures on the US vaccination rate.
In 2012, only 33 per cent of eligible girls had all three doses needed for maximum protection, well short of the 80 per cent target. The CDC warns that unless uptake improves, there will be 1400 unnecessary deaths from cervical cancer each year.
Frieden said that a continuing worry among parents is that the jab will tempt their daughters to engage in risky sex. "HPV vaccine does not open the door to sex," he said. "It closes the door to cancer."
Questionnaires to parents and doctors as part of a survey of 19,000 girls showed that parents often misunderstand that to be fully effective, the jab is necessary in girls aged only 11 or 12, before they're sexually active.
And doctors are not proactively offering the jab, even though they have opportunities to do so when girls visit for other routine vaccinations.
Despite this, Frieden said the vaccine is already working. In June, the CDC released results of another study showing that rates of infection with the virus had halved from 11 to 5 per cent since introduction of the vaccine.
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BARRON, Wis. ? Chuck Kirkwood thought he was in trouble when he was called into the Barron High School office about 70 years ago.
Instead, he was asked to play taps for a military funeral. He accepted, and calculations are that he's performed at about 3,500 funerals and counting, the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram reported.
"I was never in the service, but I feel so indebted to those who serve," Kirkwood, 84, said. "I feel I don't deserve a lot of credit for what I do. Those who have served and are serving should always be getting the honor ? not me."
It was 1943 when he was sent to the principal's office, recalling high school band director Francis White recommended Kirkwood play taps at military ceremonies when the person who normally performed was not available.
"I've been playing at military funerals ever since," Kirkwood said. "I've played for Veterans Day, Memorial Day, flag-raising ceremonies and a number of other events in Barron and many other communities around here. I enjoy it, but I have to say, I remember being a bit nervous that first time in high school."
Kirkwood in recent years has kept a log of military services in which he's performed. Based on an average of slightly more than 50 a year, he estimated he's played in more than 3,500 such services.
Kirkwood started playing the trumpet in an effort to help his breathing.
"I had asthma real bad as a kid, and my dad (Charles) was a pharmacist in Barron. A doctor friend suggested that I play a horn to help my breathing," Kirkwood said. "I started playing and haven't quit."
Kirkwood managed to play at military funerals even while doing mechanical work for 44 years for the Barron County Highway Department.
"When I first started doing it, I would take a couple hours of vacation, but then one of the other fellas I worked with talked to the Highway Committee and said Legionnaires weren't getting docked when they went, so then I didn't either," Kirkwood said. "I would take my suit to my mother's house, change clothes, play, change back and go back to work. I made up the time missed by working longer those days."
It was his mother, Harriet, who persuaded Kirkwood to start keeping track of his military service performances.
Kirkwood also has played in several groups, beginning with the 720 Blues Orchestra while he was in high school. Other groups included the Barron VFW band, Bob Post Orchestra and 37 years with the 4-Aces. In 1993, he started performing at area nursing homes and became a regular fixture under the title Chuck Kirkwood and Friends.
One recent day, Kirkwood performed at the start of the Barron County Fair and was joined in the afternoon at Monroe Manor in Barron by pianist Lenore Berg of Barron, tuba player Ed Thompson and coronet player John Kirk. Berg has been playing for more than 60 years, while Kirk and Thompson are retired music instructors.
"We just have fun doing this," Thompson said.
Kirkwood estimates he and others routinely play at about 25 area nursing homes.
"We're supposed to be lifting their spirits, but they lift ours," Kirkwood said, recalling when a woman at a Rice Lake nursing home hadn't spoken for about three months but then started naming the songs the group was playing.
"It's so nice to hear things like that."
Shauna Otto, who handles activities at Monroe Manor, said Kirkwood and others who perform "are very important to the residents here. They enjoy their kind of music and look forward to it. They do such a good job too."
Former Barron Mayor and Barron County Supervisor Bard Kittleson expressed his thoughts of Kirkwood, saying: "I know of no one who has given as much of his time and talent to the benefit of mankind than Chuck Kirkwood."
Kirkwood isn't sure how long he'll continue to perform.
"I said I will keep going until I miss more notes than I hit," he said. "I feel good, and I enjoy doing it."
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Contact: Megan Watzke mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu 617-496-7998 Chandra X-ray Center
For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.
An advantageous alignment of a planet and its parent star in the system HD 189733, which is 63 light-years from Earth, enabled NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM Newton Observatory to observe a dip in X-ray intensity as the planet transited the star.
"Thousands of planet candidates have been seen to transit in only optical light," said Katja Poppenhaeger of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., who led a new study to be published in the Aug. 10 edition of the Astrophysical Journal. "Finally being able to study one in X-rays is important because it reveals new information about the properties of an exoplanet."
The team used Chandra to observe six transits and data from XMM Newton observations of one.
The planet, known as HD 189733b, is a hot Jupiter, meaning it is similar in size to Jupiter in our solar system but in very close orbit around its star. HD 189733b is more than 30 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. It orbits the star once every 2.2 days.
HD 189733b is the closest hot Jupiter to Earth, which makes it a prime target for astronomers who want to learn more about this type of exoplanet and the atmosphere around it. They have used NASA's Kepler space telescope to study it at optical wavelengths, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to confirm it is blue in color as a result of the preferential scattering of blue light by silicate particles in its atmosphere.
The study with Chandra and XMM Newton has revealed clues to the size of the planet's atmosphere. The spacecraft saw light decreasing during the transits. The decrease in X-ray light was three times greater than the corresponding decrease in optical light.
"The X-ray data suggest there are extended layers of the planet's atmosphere that are transparent to optical light but opaque to X-rays," said co-author Jurgen Schmitt of Hamburger Sternwarte in Hamburg, Germany. "However, we need more data to confirm this idea."
The researchers also are learning about how the planet and the star can affect one another.
Astronomers have known for about a decade ultraviolet and X-ray radiation from the main star in HD 189733 are evaporating the atmosphere of HD 189733b over time. The authors estimate it is losing 100 million to 600 million kilograms of mass per second. HD 189733b's atmosphere appears to be thinning 25 percent to 65 percent faster than it would be if the planet's atmosphere were smaller.
"The extended atmosphere of this planet makes it a bigger target for high-energy radiation from its star, so more evaporation occurs," said co-author Scott Wolk, also of CfA.
The main star in HD 189733 also has a faint red companion, detected for the first time in X-rays with Chandra. The stars likely formed at the same time, but the main star appears to be 3 billion to 3 1/2 billion years younger than its companion star because it rotates faster, displays higher levels of magnetic activity and is about 30 times brighter in X-rays than its companion.
"This star is not acting its age, and having a big planet as a companion may be the explanation," said Poppenhaeger. "It's possible this hot Jupiter is keeping the star's rotation and magnetic activity high because of tidal forces, making it behave in some ways like a much younger star."
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Contact: Megan Watzke mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu 617-496-7998 Chandra X-ray Center
For the first time since exoplanets, or planets around stars other than the sun, were discovered almost 20 years ago, X-ray observations have detected an exoplanet passing in front of its parent star.
An advantageous alignment of a planet and its parent star in the system HD 189733, which is 63 light-years from Earth, enabled NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the European Space Agency's XMM Newton Observatory to observe a dip in X-ray intensity as the planet transited the star.
"Thousands of planet candidates have been seen to transit in only optical light," said Katja Poppenhaeger of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Mass., who led a new study to be published in the Aug. 10 edition of the Astrophysical Journal. "Finally being able to study one in X-rays is important because it reveals new information about the properties of an exoplanet."
The team used Chandra to observe six transits and data from XMM Newton observations of one.
The planet, known as HD 189733b, is a hot Jupiter, meaning it is similar in size to Jupiter in our solar system but in very close orbit around its star. HD 189733b is more than 30 times closer to its star than Earth is to the sun. It orbits the star once every 2.2 days.
HD 189733b is the closest hot Jupiter to Earth, which makes it a prime target for astronomers who want to learn more about this type of exoplanet and the atmosphere around it. They have used NASA's Kepler space telescope to study it at optical wavelengths, and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to confirm it is blue in color as a result of the preferential scattering of blue light by silicate particles in its atmosphere.
The study with Chandra and XMM Newton has revealed clues to the size of the planet's atmosphere. The spacecraft saw light decreasing during the transits. The decrease in X-ray light was three times greater than the corresponding decrease in optical light.
"The X-ray data suggest there are extended layers of the planet's atmosphere that are transparent to optical light but opaque to X-rays," said co-author Jurgen Schmitt of Hamburger Sternwarte in Hamburg, Germany. "However, we need more data to confirm this idea."
The researchers also are learning about how the planet and the star can affect one another.
Astronomers have known for about a decade ultraviolet and X-ray radiation from the main star in HD 189733 are evaporating the atmosphere of HD 189733b over time. The authors estimate it is losing 100 million to 600 million kilograms of mass per second. HD 189733b's atmosphere appears to be thinning 25 percent to 65 percent faster than it would be if the planet's atmosphere were smaller.
"The extended atmosphere of this planet makes it a bigger target for high-energy radiation from its star, so more evaporation occurs," said co-author Scott Wolk, also of CfA.
The main star in HD 189733 also has a faint red companion, detected for the first time in X-rays with Chandra. The stars likely formed at the same time, but the main star appears to be 3 billion to 3 1/2 billion years younger than its companion star because it rotates faster, displays higher levels of magnetic activity and is about 30 times brighter in X-rays than its companion.
"This star is not acting its age, and having a big planet as a companion may be the explanation," said Poppenhaeger. "It's possible this hot Jupiter is keeping the star's rotation and magnetic activity high because of tidal forces, making it behave in some ways like a much younger star."
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - After 13 years in the NFL, the time has come to say goodbye for S-U alum and former Philadelphia Eagles QB Donovan McNabb, who officially retired from the NFL Monday.
Some college basketball players score lots of points, but they have to take a ton of shots to accomplish that.
There are other players who get things done on a minimal amount of shots.
They shoot a good percentage from the field. They also might knock down their fair share from beyond the arc. Or, they get to the line and convert foul shots into easy points.?
In this list, we will look at the 10 most efficient college basketball players in 2013-14 using last season?s stats as our benchmark.
Basic shooting percentages are a good place to start, but we?ll have to dig deeper.?Another stat that we will consider is free-throw rate (free-throw attempts/field-goal attempts)
Midwestsportsfans.com?s Andy Bottoms says this about?free-throw rate:
It [free-throw rate] sheds light on where players tend to take their shots.? Low ratios are indicative of spot-up shooters who are less apt to attack the basket, while high ratios are typically associated with inside players or those who aggressively drive the lane.
One more stat that addresses efficiency is points per shot (total points/field-goal attempts). The more points that a player scores compared to his number of FG attempts, the more productive he is.
Some of these players are well known All-American candidates. Others are unfamiliar gamers who may become breakout stars in the coming season.
All of these players deserve props for their economy on the court.
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