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In a radio interview on the syndicated show Conversations on Health Care, Apple COO Jeff Williams said that the reason Apple has come under attack for the use of child labor in its supply chain is that the company actively goes out looking for it. Other companies, he said, simply keep their heads down.
No company wants to talk about child labor. They don't want to be associated with that. We shine a light on it. We go out and search for cases where an underage worker is found in a factory somewhere and then we take drastic actions with the supplier and the labor groups to try and make a change.
Then we report it publicly every year. We take a lot of heat for that. But we think the only way to make change is to go hit it head-on and talk about it.
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The WSJ is today suggesting that Apple is scaling back iPhone orders, noting that iPhone manufacturer Foxconn has been laying off workers and has received a $12.6M subsidy from the Chinese government through a program designed to minimize unemployment.
The piece notes that the subsidy is for Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant, which is mostly devoted to iPhone production, and says that Apple has also reduced order forecasts for iPhone component makers.
Chinese iPhone factories had some idle capacity in the final two months of the calendar year, when they would typically be racing to chongliang, or "rush quantity," for Apple, in factory-speak. Some workers at Foxconn's Zhengzhou factory in inland China were let go on early holiday last month, one of the people involved in the supply said, although the typical new-year holiday season doesn't start until February.
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Engadget Japan has shown a purported schematic of the iPhone 6S which it attributes to a reliable source in the Chinese supply chain. While the diagram does not appear to have originated from Apple, the design and marked dimensions are consistent with casing photos we obtained from a proven source.
We noted that any change in thickness was imperceptible, and the thickness marked on the schematic is 7.1mm – just 0.2mm thicker than the iPhone 6, and the exact same thickness as the iPhone 6 Plus. This also matches (within 0.03mm) that shown in a drawing we reported earlier … expand full story


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Aug 31, 2006 at 4:05 pm #1219462
Russell SwansonMember
@rswansonLocale: Midatlantic
Need some info on the Montbell stretch bag temp ratings. They have two temps listed, the 'comfort temp' and 'usable temp'. Wearing a lightweight base layer, just how uncomfortable is the 'usable temp'? For instance, the usable temp on the #4 is 21 degrees but if it drops below freezing, are you typically shivering your butt off or in need of donning further insulatory clothing?Aug 31, 2006 at 5:20 pm #1362123
I have the synthetic #4 and am fine to the mid-thirties F. Below that I slip on a puffy jacket.Aug 31, 2006 at 5:40 pm #1362128
Rick DreherBPL Member
@halfturboLocale: Northernish California
I've got an older model #5 and find the "comfortable" to be the minimum and imagine the "usable" would mean "no sleep."
They've since altered the design and upgraded their down, so it could be that the bags are warmer now. The stretchy feature's really nice.Aug 31, 2006 at 5:54 pm #1362131
Ben 2 WorldBPL Member
@ben2worldLocale: So Cal
I own two MB down bags, and I find their "comfy" ratings to be spot on — meaning that when temps fall to the specified level, the bags no longer feel so toasty warm, but are still warm enough for me to fall asleep. I consider myself a pretty average sleeper. I sleep in silk long underwear, and I do not use any kind of liners.
Given the very wide range between "comfy" and "usable" ratings, I seriously doubt I would feel comfortable at the lower "usable" rating — and have no intention of trying.Aug 31, 2006 at 6:22 pm #1362134
Richard NisleyBPL Member
@richard295Locale: San Francisco Bay Area
The evaluations of sleeping bag warmth would have significantly more value if the posters specified the R-value of the mat they used to make their evaluation. Up to 1/2 of the body heat is lost through the bag's compressed bottom and mat combination.
Secondarily the poster's basal metabolic rate and body surface area will impact their experience. Their age, weight, height, gender, and other factors should be input to a BMR calculator and this value should be specified. This protects the source information which is more personal in nature. You can Google BMR calculator to determine this value.Aug 31, 2006 at 6:55 pm #1362138
Good idea, Richard. I appreciate you bringing a more scientific approach to the discussion. My BMR is 1518 and the mat I mostly use has a R-value of 2.6. My evaluations were done while sleeping under a shaped tarp or tarp-tent. I sleep a lot warmer in a small double walled tent.Aug 31, 2006 at 8:45 pm #1362144
Dan SchmidtMember
All the more reason to suck it up and
carry an inflatable pad, you gain comfort and perhaps break even in weight.Aug 31, 2006 at 9:39 pm #1362155
Brian JamesMember
@bjamesdLocale: South Coast of BC
I'd like to see a dummy-based testing system devised. A dummy with the conductivity characteristics of a human should be heated to human body temperature, and then placed in the bag at the bag's rated temperature. The temperature falloff could then be graphed as a function of time.
I think that any publication that tested in this manner would be miles ahead of the pack in terms of bag testing.Aug 31, 2006 at 10:02 pm #1362157
Joseph RothsteinMember
I think that's the approach used for the EN 13537 standard that's used for sleeping bag temperature ratings in Europe.Aug 31, 2006 at 10:35 pm #1362161
Richard NisleyBPL Member
@richard295Locale: San Francisco Bay Area
The going rate for a certified lab to test just the temperatures using the EN13537 dummy ranges between $577 and $1,218.
A complete EN13537 test sequence costs approximately $1,925.Aug 31, 2006 at 11:28 pm #1362163
Brett .Member
@brett1234Locale: CA
Russell, first of all; I recommend any current super stretch (Ultra Light) down bag; they are the most comfortable and versitile bags I have used; due primarily to the patented super stretch system no one else can legally copy. The inner baffle eliminates dead space and holds the inner boundary close; and the outer baffle stretches as needed to 75.6″(long bag) at the hips. I can actually sit upright crosslegged in my bags. I will never go back to a fixed-diameter mummy bag again. The temperature ratings are spot on for me. (Richard had a great way to compare; I'm BMR 1500, with an R2.3 mat; use a double wall tent). My #7 is (as advertised) a 50'F bag wearing a poly tshirt and boxers. I can add capilene1, a goretex bivy and/or Thermawrap as needed down to 40'F. Forcasts below 40 I take my UL #3 SS which is basically a 32'F bag. I trust that rating, but never been out below freezing. A #3 and #7, clothing and bivy provide a versitile system for any situation I expect. Let us know if you like the super stretch system?Sep 1, 2006 at 8:26 am #1362185
Russell SwansonMember
@rswansonLocale: Midatlantic
"The evaluations of sleeping bag warmth would have significantly more value if the posters specified the R-value of the mat they used to make their evaluation. Up to 1/2 of the body heat is lost through the bag's compressed bottom and mat combination."
I'm looking for a general trend of MB bag owners' evaluations of the company's claims. But, to be more specific, my BMR is right about 2000 and I use a POE Max Thermo. I'm not sure of the R value but I've used it in temps below freezing coupled with a a 20 degree bag and experienced no noticeable discomfort. I will use whatever insulation is neccessary to take care of that part of the equation, I just don't want to buy a MB bag thinking I can get away with the minimum usable temperature listed and be dissapointed or worse. It seems that this 'usable' comfort rating is a bit ambiguous.Sep 1, 2006 at 8:46 am #1362186
Ben 2 WorldBPL Member
@ben2worldLocale: So Cal
The usable temp is downright seductive… but again, don't count on it being anywhere near comfortable.
IMO, rather than 'wishing it were so' — I suggest that you pick your MB bag based on the "comfortable" rating. This way, should actual temperature ever fall below expectation, the "usable" temp rating can serve as "insurance" — meaning that you likely won't be comfy, but at least you will make it through the night OK.Sep 1, 2006 at 4:48 pm #1362212
Russell, I'd go along with Ben on this one. Even the sales people in the Boulder Montbell store will tell you to go with the upper rating. Go with the 'usuable' rating and you may well freeze your tuckus off.Sep 1, 2006 at 4:58 pm #1362213
Brian, I'm a big fan of the EN13537 system used in Europe. But Richard brings up it's most serious flaw. The cost of the tests could well freeze out some of the smaller players and give a competitive advantage to the big boys. Dr. Elizabeth McCullough at Kansas State has been trying to get something similar going in the US but without much apparent success. For now, you can find EN test ratings for The North Face and Marmot and some of the European brands at their European sites.Sep 4, 2006 at 3:51 pm #1362345
Mitchell KeilMember
@mitchellkeilLocale: Deep in the OC
I wrote a lenghty review of the MB #4 a while back which you can find under the reader reveiw section. As many have pointed out MB gives you a range of temps from comfotable 8 hours sleep to just close your eyes and hope the night passes quickly "usable". So much depends on your sleep habits, weather, energy levels, pad and shelter choices that all of our comments might give you no real help. IMHO MB bags are about as accurate as any Manufacturer when you are looking at the comfortable temp of a bag. Pack sleep clothes or wear what you have if it gets colder, but always use a bag that will meet the coldest temp you are likely to encounter as a starter or make sure that the extra clothes you carry will meet that criteria. I usually carry my MB ultra light down jacket and down pants and have been able to sleep comfortably to 25 with my #4. I also have a #2 and have had it down to 15 with the same sleep outfit. I will say that the MB stretch bags are the most comfortable bags I have ever slept in. Good Luck!
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Hi, the circuit we are using is a 74LS241. We tried changing the TX_DELAY_TIME, going as low as 0 and as high as 5 and everywhere in between but to no avail. I think that the problem is somewhere in the readData function, as it keeps giving us that same timeout error no matter what sort of delay we use. Any thoughts? Thanks very much for your helpAlso, our Pi is running the latest version of Raspbian Jessie, if that is important.View Instructable »
Hello, I have been trying to use your library to run some motors, but whenever readData is called, we get a timeout error, from line 177. If we try to move a motor it will move, but then the error will be thrown. If we simply try to read any data, such as temperature, nothing will happen, and the error will be thrown. Some sample code is belowfrom ax12 import Ax12;import sys;import time;self = Ax12();self.move(1, 500);Do you have any idea what is causing the problem? We double checked all the connections and they seem good. Could we possibly have messed something up when configuring the pi that could cause this? Thanks very much for your time.View Instructable »


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In past election cycles, I have often been asked to poll for party caucuses to identify ideal or model profiles for successful legislative candidacies. Are voters looking for an earnest young family man, or someone working his way up from a school board? I recall one cycle in a Midwestern state wherein the perfect profile was that of a retired coach with grandchildren. In 2012, I think we can strike that off the list, especially in Pennsylvania. But you can be sure that Americans everywhere most always have some very definite ideas about the kinds of men or women they would prefer to see leading us.
So now we pause to ask, what sorts of leaders are Americans looking for? My stock response is that voters are nearly always seeking the opposite of what has most recently failed them. Today, most of all, I think voters wish for strength and an apolitical background. Obama and politicians in general have not demonstrated muscle in rallying us against economic calamity and government debt. We want George Patton, or Dick Butkus, or Geronimo, or Rosa Parks, and we have instead been given men and women of neverending political careers who have soft hands and weak spines, who love to talk and gesture, but who never take risks on our behalf that might muss their hair or sink their poll numbers.
Interestingly, I don't think smart is what we want, either. I know that Rick Snyder was successful in the Michigan gubernatorial race last year with the "one tough nerd" pitch. I suspect that "tough" was more persuasive than "nerd." Some people say that this cycle would have been the perfect interlude for a Ross Perot, with his poster-board charts and "looking under the hood of the car" rhetoric, but I just don't think this is the time for ethereal populism. We're looking for warriors, not thinkers. There is a reason that Donald TrumpDonald TrumpHow Trump plans to remake the lower courts Wait until working-class voters realize they've been betrayed by Trump budget White House, ethics office feud escalates MORE had a run-up in the early primary polls. He has that crazy guerrilla-soldier mentality that a lot of voters want and seldom see on the menu of our politics.
The word I have been toying with, in trying to define the ideal candidate for 2012, is "insurgent." I think a candidate has to be coming from outside the normal political process and order, and he or she has got to be frighteningly menacing to the established order, as Geronimo in the Southwest or Rosa Parks on a Montgomery bus. Most importantly, insurgents take risks that others fear taking. That's the right stuff for now. It's a formula that Arnold Schwarzenegger employed to win with his 2003 "Governator" insurgency. And Mitt Romney might benefit from showing a little of his Bain Capital bad-boy side as he promises a national turnaround.
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September is about to draw to a close and it is difficult to deny that one club, Chelsea, has looked like the class of Europe so far this season.
This is the first official installment of SBI's European Club Top 25. I know I did an initial one a while back, but with the season now in full swing, and some games to get a sense of where teams stand, this Top 25 will serve as the real starting point for the season.
While some accuse SBI of being an EPL-loving site, the Top 10 is actually dominated by La Liga, which boasts four Top 10 squads. The EPL has three, due in part to Hull's shock upset of Arsenal.
Some things to keep in mind before viewing the Top 25. The rankings are not based solely on domestic record, but a combination of domestic and European cup performances. There are some surprise teams leading their respective European leagues that you may not see here, but I took into account opponents played so far when ranking teams. This is why Lazio is first in Serie A but third among Serie A teams here, and why Valencia is only 11th here (and fifth among La Liga teams) despite being in first place in La Liga.
Now, onto this week's edition of the SBI European Club Top 25:
European Club Top 25
1. CHELSEA (4-0-2 league record). Last week– Beat Stoke, 2-0, on Saturday. This week– at CFR Cluj-Napoca (UCL) on Wednesday, vs. Aston Villa on Sunday.
2. LIVERPOOL (4-0-2). Last week– Beat Everton, 2-0, on Saturday. This week– vs. PSV Eindhoven on Wednesday (UCL), at Manchester City on Saturday.
3. VILLARREAL (4-0-1). Last week– Beat Sporting Gijon, 1-0, on Saturday. This week– vs. Celtic on Tuesday (UCL), vs. Real Betis on Saturday.
4. REAL MADRID (4-1). Last week– Beat Real Betis, 2-1, on Saturday. This week– at Zenit St. Petersburg on Tuesday (UCL), vs. Espanyol on Sunday.
5. AC MILAN (3-2). Last week– Beat Inter Milan, 1-0, on Sunday. This week– at FC Zurich on Thursday (UEFA), at Cagliari on Sunday.
6. INTER MILAN (3-1-1). Last week– Lost to AC Milan, 1-0, on Sunday. This week– vs. Werder Bremen on Wednesday (UCL), vs. Bologna on Saturday.
7. BARCELONA (3-1-1). Last week– Beat Espanyol, 2-1, on Sunday. This week– at Shakhtar Donetsk on Wednesday (UCL), vs. Atletico Madrid on Saturday.
8. MANCHESTER UNITED (2-1-2). Last week– Beat Bolton, 2-0, on Saturday. This week- at AaB on Tuesday (UCL), at Blackburn on Saturday.
9. SEVILLA (3-0-2). Last week– Beat Atletico Madrid, 1-0, on Sunday. This week– at Red Bull Salzburg on Thursday (UEFA), vs. Athletic Bilbao on Sunday.
10. LYON (6-0-1). Last week– Beat AS Nancy Lorraine, 2-1, on Saturday. This week. at Bayern Munich on Tuesday (UCL), at Rennes on Sunday.
- 11. Valencia (4-0-1)
- 12. Arsenal (4-2)
- 13. Atletico Madrid (3-2)
- 14. Hamburg (4-1-1)
- 15. Lazio (4-1)
- 16. Napoli (3-0-2)
- 17. Aston Villa (4-1-1)
- 18. Juventus (2-0-3)
- 19. Schalke 04 (3-1-2)
- 20. Standard Liege (5-0-1)
- 21. Udinese (3-1-1)
- 22. Werder Bremen (3-1-2)
- 23. Benfica (2-0-2)
- 24. FK Rubin Kazan (14-3-6)
- 25. FC Porto (2-0-2)
Others Receiving Consideration: Marseille (3-0-4), Besiktas (3-0-1), Sporting Lisbon (3-1), Bayer Leverkusen (4-2), Olympiakos (3-0-1), Bayern Munich (2-2-2), PSV Eindhoven (3-1), Borussia Dortmund (3-1-2).
Top 25 match-ups this week
TUESDAY- No. 25 FC Porto at No. 12 Arsenal
WEDNESDAY- No. 22 Werder Bremen at No. 6 Inter Milan
SATURDAY– No. 13 Atletico Madrid at No. 7 Barcelona
SUNDAY– No. 17 Aston Villa at No. 1 Chelsea
If there is a team I ranked too highly this week I will say it is probably AC Milan. I know Milan started poorly, but is rolling now and consecutive wins against Lazio and Inter Milan give the club the ranking it currently holds.
Some folks might also object to Manchester United being No. 8 but I'm not really planning on budging there. Man Utd. lost to Liverpool at Anfield and tied Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, while also tying Villarreal in Champions League play. It's been a very tough early schedule for a team that only recently got Cristiano Ronaldo back.
Russian League leaders Rubin Kazan get a nod this week, but don't expect them to stick around long without European Cup competition to keep them on pace with other teams in the neighborhood.
My team to watch this week is Napoli. The young Italian club is off to a very good start and boasts some serious firepower. Even if you're not much of a Serie A fan (and there are plenty of Serie A haters out there), you might want to see Napoli play when you get the chance.
As a reminder, these rankings are subjective and I'm not going to pretend they are perfect (in my opinion, there is no such think as a perfect ranking of all European soccer teams). Use the rankings to help you keep track of how top teams in Europe are doing, as well as to find out about quality upcoming matches.
What do you think of the rankings? What match-ups are you most looking forward to seeing this week and this weekend? Which ranking or rankings did you have a problem with. I welcome discussions about the rankings, but as I said before, there are no truly accurate rankings.
Share your thoughts on the SBI European Club Top 25 below.
Richie B
Porto also plays Arsenal this week in the Champions League.
AC Milan is WAAAAAY too high in my opinion.
I understand the last 2 wins look nice for AC Milan but they still have not shown themselves to be that good or that they deserve to be higher then napoli or lazio.
…but I'm not really planning on budging their.
A their/there error? Really?
Rankings look good by the way. I've had the opinion for the last couple of months that while the EPL might have the best top end teams, La Liga is a better league from top to bottom.
Sushant Rao
Hey Ives,
Good rankings, but it's kind of hard to judge right now without one additional criteria – notable wins or notable results (wins & ties).
Unless I look at each teams results, I wouldn't know that Liverpool is ranked so high because they beat ManU 2 weeks ago.
Also, I think it's important to note whether the result was home or away, which makes a big, big difference! I consider a win at home against a top team almost on par with a tie on the road against a top team (thus Villareal's tie on the road against ManU was a good result for them and a poor/decent showing for ManU).
EDB, you do realize that AC Milan beat Lazio 4-1 just two weeks ago, or did you miss that one?
And Kpugs, I think some people are just a tad clueless about the tone of some of their editing comments. Perhaps if they realized the volume of work I do, and asked themselves whether they would make a few mistakes if they had to write that much, then maybe some people would spend less time on sarcastic comments about mistakes and more time talking soccer.
I agree.. people who have no life, correct other people's grammatical errors.
I cannot believe people read this blog, which is great by the way, and have the nerve to correct for spelling/grammar mistakes.
Getting a bit of stick from the peanuts? Got to love it…
I'd like to see some end of season predictions as well. Here's my go at it:
EPL: Chelski, back to back for Man U will be too tough as Chelsea are just simply deeper
La Liga: Real..Schuster has created a machine, Robinho is overrated and Robben offers them more. Barca is still in turmoil, perhaps we'll see Henry move in January?
Bundesliga: Bremen…its about time
Serie A: Inter…The Special One will get it done against the geezers at AC and the Tinkerman at Juve
Champions League: Liverpool v Munich…with Landon coming on in the 70th minute to provider with the winner for Toni!! You heard it hear first!
What about dynamo kiev? they tied arsenal 1-1 and are 7-1-1 on top of their league? I think they are much better then teams like benifica, porto steua, and a few others you posted
Samsarmy, I don't think anybody has a problem with pointing out mistakes on a website. it's the smug attitude some clowns have that I could see pissing people off. I know if I wrote a ton of stuff and had some clowns nitpicking about errors in an annoying way I would curse them out. That's just me though.
Hey Sasha, Hull just beat Arsenal so I guess that means they should be in the Top 10.
Lets give them some respect:
Unbeaten in their last 9
There is some merit to their inclusion..
FK Rubin Kazan and Standard Liege are better than Aston Villa? I would venture that in heads up play they might not fair so well. I feel like it would be more informative and innovative to do a CONCACAF top 25.
Mario in SJ
Yea!!! Napoli in top 25.
Its been quite a few years in the wilderness after Maradona and then some money problems.
I hope the buble lasts a while but I fear the bench is a bit thin and may not be able to withstand a full season at or near the top of Serie A. On the other hand AC Milan looked awesome against Inter, especially in the first half. I will be surprised if they are not in the thick of the fight at the end of the season.
They belong in the spot they are ranked.
martha in miami
nice post…love the armchair editor! maybe the 1st guy was kidding though? Was upset Juve was so low, then I remembered why, lol! Serie A is still the best historically then La Liga then EPL…Course I am Italian, so dont slam me!
Justin O
huricano – There are plenty of reasons to think Rubin would beat Aston Villa.
Anyway, glad to see Rubin made it! I'm sure everyone in Kazan will be happy! Too bad they did suffer a terribly frustrating loss at the weekend, after consecutive huge wins previously. They were the better team on Sunday, but it still showed a clear let down after the previous 2 weeks' wins over Spartak and Dinamo.
If nothing else, at this point it would be a big surprise if they failed to make the 09-10 Champions League.
I love rankings talk! Besides the roster of the USMNT, nothing stirs so much interest.
I'll venture to say that Aston Villa is a bit better than their ranking but we'll see next weekend when they visit Stamford Bridge.
Villareal is really, really good and I think they are #1 or #2 in La Liga again this year. Barca, AC Milan, and Arsenal are all the same deal when trying to rank them….which team will show up and will their weaknesses prevent consistent results…I think all teams will be somewhat exposed as the season goes on.
Oh, and while you can't blame Arsenal for having a soft schedule to start, you can be a bit suspicious of their strength given the following EPL opponents so far:
West Brom
I agree with your assessment Ives. I will be curious to see how Bremen, Schalke and Villa do in the coming weeks.
If Sevilla is No. 9, then Napoli definately deserves a Top 10 spot. Forza Napoli!


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Monday 19th April
Day from hell. First day back at the dump (i.e. school) after the Easter Holidays. It's always hell first day back after a holiday. You get so used to lying in bed all morning and taking it easy, with school its up at 7.00 (urrrgghh) and then you have to drag yourself down to a place you don't want to be (double urrgghh). And to make things much better I had physics with Tight-Trousers first period. Yippee!!! Not. He really should get some baggier trousers. I really (and I speak on behalf of the whole class) do not want to see the outline of his private parts thank you very much. He skips around the classroom like he's a loony. He tries to be funny but he is seriously not. I don't get it why are teachers so strange. They must come from a different planet. I mean who in there right mind would want to work in a school after spending 12 years at school!! And that's not even including kindergarten, college and Uni! Mad people!
Eating a chocolate chip cookie. Mmmmm.....Yum.
Oh crap, now I'm gonna be fat!
I wish I was 6 years old again; baking cookies, singing songs, skipping, tamagotchi's (how cool were they?!?!), rolling down hills. All without a care in the world. No worries about spots, braces, puberty, exams, work, relationships. Bloody hell, thinking about it, being a Teenager is HARD work.
Was just nodding off to sleep when suddenly, Crap!!!!!!!! 3 pieces of homework due for tomorrow!!!! EEEEKK!
Must finish homework. I cannot have detention tomorrow! My mum will have a cow at me! (haha that expression makes me chuckle).
Woops fell asleep at my desk.
Finished. Woo!!!!! ... Woops... got a bit over excited and accidently knocked my glass of water over the desk!!! Crap! I can hear someone coming...I must run and pretend to be asleep.
I'm getting good at this! My mum didn't even notice I was actually awake!! Muhahahaha!
Note to self: Get a career in acting
Now I must get too sleep. I've got just under 3 hours 'til I have to be up (grrrrrr). The last thing I want is too fall asleep in class especially because I will already be in the teacher's bad mood after handing in a kinda soggy crumpled piece of homework.
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"But it was an incredible match. I still cannot believe I lost the first set after having five 180s and averaging over 40 a dart."
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Programme fees:
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Students who wish to transfer to another programme within the academy will have to submit a written request. For an approved transfer, the student will be deemed to have withdrawn from the programme. The original signed contract will be terminated and the student will have to re-apply for the new programme. The provision of the Refund Policy shall apply save as otherwise agreed between the Academy and the student.
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For all deferment/withdrawal/transfer, the Student Pass (if applicable) will be cancelled within seven (7) working days.
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Bank: DBS Bank Ltd
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Bank code: 7171
Branch Code: 003
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SWIFT Code: DBSSSGSG
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International and local students without SSG funding must have a 90% attendance in both the classroom and apprenticeship site. Local students with SSG funding must have a 100% attendance in both the classroom and apprenticeship site (excluding approved leave by the Academy and/or apprenticeship site).
Yes. There is a Student Services department assisting in all student matters.
• Programme counselling • Admission preparation • Student pass application • Hostel Arrangement • Medical Check-up
• Student Orientation • Day 21• Buddy System • Morning Line-up • Homecoming • Recognition Programme • Apprenticeship; Partner Visit and Audit • Apprenticeship; Student Logbook • Round Table Session • Counselling • Field Trip • Student Hotline • Lunch & Dinner Presentation • Library • Lunch gathering • Students' Activities • Hostel Visit & Audit
Graduating Students/ Alumni
• Career Services Seminar • Graduate Placement Facilitation • Graduation Ceremony • TalentMatch© • Alumni Network
All applicants are advised to submit their application online at www.at-sunrice.com. Shortlisted applicants will be invited for interview/s.
Yes. Knife sets, student uniforms, relevant books and stationery are compulsory items. The Academy will arrange these for you. Payment for these items must be made upon collection. Personal laptops are compulsory.
Class size may vary but is capped at a maximum of 25 students for laboratory class/ 40 students for theory class.
Teacher-student ratio: 1:25 (laboratory class); 1:40 (theory class)
Diploma Programmes: Yes, there is a term break after Term 1. Students may take home-leave if their apprenticeship site permits.
Study and work rotations are integral to the At-Sunrice GlobalChef Academy education. If you are terminated from your apprenticeship site, you will be expelled from the Academy.
No, the Academy arranges apprenticeships for the students.They are not allowed to change sites as they are graded on their workplace performance.
Students are not allowed to work anywhere other than their assigned apprenticeship sites.
Students are assessed through a variety of methods that may include quizzes, take home assignments, written examinations, daily lab grades and practical exams.
Students have a chance to review their assessment results at the end of each assessment. If the students have any concerns on their grades, they should file an appeal with the Academic Standing and Assessment Committee. A formal appeal must consist of a formal letter stating their request and reasons for the request. The appeal must be submitted within 7 working days after the review of the exam grades in the class. The student can expect the outcome of the Appeal within 21 working days after he has lodged an appeal.
Note to Students:
Students are required to meet the following criteria in order to obtain their relevant certifications:
SSG gives At-Sunrice the mandate to offer open access pathways. This means that new entrants or working industry professionals who obtain a WSQ certificate from At-Sunrice may qualify into higher level programmes.
Admissions into diploma programmes are still subject to entry requirements. All Singapore citizens and permanent residents are entitled to the SSG Programme Fee Funding.
Singaporean / Singapore PR Applicants:
International Applicants:
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WSQ-FHA (English):
WSQ-FHA (Mandarin):
WSQ Follow Food and Beverage Safety and Hygiene Policies and Procedure programme:
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• Ministry of Manpower
• Immigration & Checkpoints Authority
• eCitizen
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Fees to be paid*
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An annual graduation ceremony is held in June, followed by an alumni reception. For alumni queries, please email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Job placements are not guaranteed. However, we have Career Services to facilitate job opportunities for our graduates.
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The Opposition said it was not hopeful about a fair election on Wednesday since only 21 companies of central forces were sent to the state whereas the requirement was 36. It was also charged that the forces were not allotted in the critical booths, something which was also alleged in the previous phase.
Meanwhile, Deputy Election Commissioner Vinod Zutsi said in New Delhi that the poll panel will take all steps to ensure that the polling in the remaining in two phases in West Bengal is fairly held. He said strong measures will be taken if polling agents are intimidated or thrown out of the booths and added that repolling would be held if the allegations about booth rigging are proved.
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Unlike yesterday, the early starters at Royal St George's were greeted by a warm morning with no wind as they set about catching Denmark's Bjorn and 20-year-old English amateur Lewis.
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Hi Stefan, > what's the exact output of the consistencyCheck/Fix? dangling child > node entries > should be fixable. The output was : 2009-08-06 12:01:39,350 ERROR [org .apache.jackrabbit.core.persistence.bundle.BundleDbPersistenceManager] NodeState cd0adbec-b2 7d-44b3-900f-d720f705c2e6 references inexistent parent id c511b2ee-8183-43ea-ae96-fabb27badfba If I understand the message right, this is a different node that references the same inexistent parent as the node causing the problem? At least the first UUID ist not mentioned in the exception message... > do you know the path of the corrupted node? are you able to navigate > to > the node? No, but getting the node by UUID still works... > >> >> Is there anything that I could do to solve this or remove the node, >> maybe >> through Jackrabbit API or even direct manipulation of the database >> content? >> Any ideas are highly appreciated. > > if everything fails, you could try to fix that inconsistency > programmatically, > e.g. by directly reading the troublesome NodeState instance through > the > pm, fix it and write it back. but you'll have to get your hands > dirty... That's what I did now. Wrote a small program that accesses the workspace persistence manager through the JCA handle and RepositoryImpl (partially by using Java reflection to call protected methods and fields), and then deleted the broken NodeState from the repository. So far that doesn't seem to have caused any further problems. Many thanks for the hint! Regards, Jan
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The soundtrack is of the final stages of a hostage crisis in Middle Earth: low-level shrieking, punctuated by the crash of falling crockery and the roar of a nearby dragon. Around us, children are running amok, their parents staggering behind them clutching bottles of beer. A couple of the mums are wearing pirate eye patches. The fathers look ready to mutiny. Welcome to Bricks, a restaurant for families.
This place isn't just child-friendly, it's child-mandatory. Unlike any other restaurant I've reviewed, not one customer has come here specially for the food. Bricks is all about location, and if you happen to be under 12, it's located at the centre of the universe, in the new Legoland Hotel, which opened this spring at the Windsor theme park.
With two young sons, we have been living in a version of Legoland for the past year anyway, our every journey across the living room punctuated by the crunch of plastic underfoot, our pension fund invested in mini-figures. There's so much Lego in our house, we actually found ourselves looking forward to a stay at the Legoland Hotel as a welcome break.
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At 6.30 on a Saturday night, Bricks was busier than The Ivy. There is another dining option, the Skyline Bar, but why would anyone want to eat à la carte in a smart, relaxed lounge when they could plunge into a buffet-style family restaurant full of giant mini-figures?
The décor is bright, as you'd expect, and features rather a lot of Lego, including some giant tableaux of chefs made out of Lego (assume everything I mention is made out of Lego, unless you hear otherwise) seemingly inspired by Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen. There are retro-styled American diner fittings, and lots of room between tables to circulate (translation: run around shrieking). Normally, restaurants nod to child-friendliness with a bucket of crayons and a colour-in menu. Here, there's a full soft play area, complete with castle, animatronic dragon and Lego play-pit. The only thing I could see that was designed specifically to appeal to adults was the wine list.
If you've ever holidayed in an all-inclusive family hotel, you'll know how the buffet works: there's a carvery, a pasta station, a salad bar, and some other options I've blanked out. But here's the twist – at Bricks there's also a special, low-rise kids' buffet, offering a wider than usual selection of healthy, non-fried foods, including salad (untouched), veg batons (scorned) and individual Yorkshire puds filled with mashed potato and a little sausage (are you kidding?).
To be honest, I can't quite recall what anyone else in the family ate. It was every man for himself in there. After a nasty jostling incident at the wok station, I retreated to the counters with the smallest queues, which is how I ended up with a plate holding vegetable curry, piri piri chicken, a Yorkshire pudding, and chips shaped like Lego bricks. It was all pretty decent. The chicken was Nandos-worthy, the curry seemed prepared from scratch rather than snipped from a bag, and the brick-chips tasted fresh.
The great thing about the buffet system is that the kids don't have to sit patiently until the food arrives. The drawback was that ours had already finished eating while we were still waiting for our drinks. We managed to string out the meal by sending them to the ice-cream machine, then they went off to watch a puppet show while we polished off our profiteroles.
For a restaurant supposedly designed with children in mind, there is one glaring design error. The tablecloths protrude well beyond the perimeter of the tables. And the tables are fairly small and crowded. The first water glass hit the floor before we'd all even sat down. "Don't worry about it, mate," beamed our unflappable waiter Conor, as a swat team of floor swabbers materialised table-side. If they gave Michelin stars for service, these guys deserve one. Empty plates were whipped away within seconds, waiters circulated with brick-shaped cakes and sang "Happy Birthday", and everyone smiled.
Our boys couldn't have loved it more, and when a pirate with a giant yellow foam head made an unsteady tour of the room, their evening was complete. "It's Captain Brickbeard!" they squealed. Jamie Oliver couldn't have created a bigger sensation.
Our bill for four came to £60, and we splurged an extra £22 on a bottle of Pinot Noir, for medicinal purposes. "Do you want to keep the cork," mouthed Conor over the racket, as another full plate went flying. It was 7pm. The meal was over. We were slightly drunk. Upstairs, a room full of Lego awaited. And tomorrow, the promise of another day of fun.
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Iran University of Medical Sciences and Health Care Services, Tehran, Iran
IOS is a new method for the evaluation of the bronchial airway narrowing. In comparison with conventional spirometery IOS is more convenient and needs less patient's cooperation. The aim of this study is to evaluate the correlation between the IOS and spirometery parameters in patients with positive MCT.
42 patients with respiratory symptoms suggesting asthma and positive MCT were studied. All of them had performed an IOS test with MS Jeager device which measures both IOS and spirometery parameters. After administration of different concentrations of methacholin IOS and spirometery parameters were measured. After at least 20% fall in the serial FEV1s, the case considered positive for MCT. The crude and percent changes for X5, Z5, R5, R20, R central and R peripheral of IOS and FEV1, PEFR, MMEF, FEF25%, FEF50% and FEF75% were measured and compared with each other.
Percent changes of predicted MMEF and FVC were not correlated significantly with any IOS parameter mentioned above. Significant correlations between the percent changes FEF25%, FEF50%, FEF75% and PEFR and some IOS parameters was not clinically significant (r < 0.5). Changes in the percent of predicted FEV1 were correlated with percent changes of the predicted and crude values of R5 and R20, all with r < 0.5.
This study shows although there are some correlations between IOS and spirometery parameters, these are not clinically significant. It might be because of technical considerations to do a correct IOS test and standardization of that.
Results of IOS test in determining airway narrowing have a low correlation with conventional spirometery.
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He ran with his head bowed, his shoulders hunched, long strides, jumping puddles where the water pooled. The rain beat hard on his head, flattened his hair to his scalp and ran down his nose and chin, down his neck too, but it couldn't make him any wetter. He was soaked already, clothes clinging to his skin and dripping. Against his chest he held a parcel, had closed his jacket over it and his arms. If he fell he wouldn't be able to save himself, would fall right onto his face, crack his nose against the pitted tarmac: Best not fall then.
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In this light he saw the man's face, how his cheeks were pitted with the scars of a red rash, how his eyelids were folded down, swelling sores against his eyes. Bile came into Danny's throat again and he was swallowing puke, retching as shudders of disgust ran through him, as his skin crawled and he remembered the warm heaviness of the man's body against his, how a breath had raised up the little hairs on his neck.
Sick, sick man, outcast and running, a Trick, a disease, a dead-man walking.
A series of sharp cracks, echoed instantly from the walls, deafening even above the sirens and the man grew himself a third, bloody eye. It winked, leered, dribbled out gobs of red. The two brown eyes beneath it pleaded for something, for a moment more, for life. His mouth fell open, jaw hanging loose. Crack again and one of the brown eyes vanished into black.
"Run," the man groaned as he dropped onto one knee. His body was too heavy for him, a slack and dragging weight. The sound he made when he dropped was the crack of broken bone. He still stared at Danny, kept him fixed to the spot. How could he run, with someone looking at him like that? Like all the world, the rain, and flow of blood would stop."You'll run..."
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Her New Life
Lindsey Cadbury is 15 started a new school, a new life. Her parents have broken up and she feels alone.Until she meets this handsome young man called Robert, but when she finally has the courage to talk to him, hes not what he seems.
Chapter One
Her New Life
This is my new life, away from my friends, my mum and my home. Right now I'm in the car with dad, hes not saying anything, but I can tell hes annoyed. He drives down this dark, foggy road. I look around there are people same ages as me, jsut staring right into my eyes, just...staring.There was this guy, who looked dark, I turned around to check something and then he was gone...
We finally get out of the car and we look at our new house. Our new house... The so-called garden or junk yard as I call it, is filled with junk, bits of bike, cars, a sink here and there. The house outside the paint peeling off, the windows borded up and the door about to fall off. We went inside it stank of piss and there was writing everywhere, the only decent part was the toilet and there wasn't even one.
We collected our boxes. All my stuff was just some clothes, photos and CDs. Dad said he is going to buy new things ; Bed, clothes, TV but it isn't going to happen, he first needs a new job. Right now he is in the so-called living room and looking through some photos of him and mum, poor depressed dad. I went upstaires, the staires was disgusting it had sick down over it, old sick. I jumped mostly ever step and looked at the rooms, mostly ever room is clean (they probley wasn't fresh enough to get up here!) I could tell what room I was going to have, it was obvious.My dad made a sign saying "LINDSEY'S ROOM DO NOT TOUCH". I looked inside, I gasped. It was perfect. Black and pink room, black carpet, it even had little glow in the dark bats on the ceiling. It was PERFECT !! I put my box down on the bed, I wonder what's tomorroww going to be like...


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Why would I get an IgE Blood Test?
An IgE Blood Test measures the blood IgE antibody levels to things like foods and environmental allergens. People in Jeffersontown, KY order the IgE Blood Test for general screening for allergies or ongoing tracking.
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Which geographic pole of the Earth is nearest the magnetic north pole of the Earth?
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What planet is between Jupiter& Earth?
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What planet is 82 light years from Earth?
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