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To: average joe who wrote (94920)	9/24/2012 2:31:12 AM
From: Riskmgmt	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 219726

Hot sticky weather with lots of bugs? You must be talking about Hong Kong. LOL. I' ll give you the summers in Florida are pretty brutal but it's hard to beat in January and February which is what Maurice was talking about. Arizona gets very hot in summer all be it a "dry" heat but 120 plus desert heat is too hot for me dry or not. . The average summer high temperatures are some of the hottest of any major city in the United States, and approach those of cities such as Riyadh and Baghdad. The temperature reaches and exceeds 100°F (38°C), on average for 110 days of the year, including most days from late May through to early September. Highs top 110 °F (43 °C) an average of 18 days during the year. On June 26, 1990, the temperature reached an all-time recorded high of 122 °F (50 °C). [27] Vegas is not a place I'd ever want to live, ditto Pheonix, have you ever spent any time there? In addition to the heat there is no " cheap living" any more compared to Florida. But all that aside we were talking about Florida Real Estate being a depressed asset at present not where is the nicest place to live. That is a whole different subject. Personally, I like to spend part of the year in Europe, say Paris and the South of France, the winter months in San Diego or Florida and fit in a month or two in Aspen Colorado. Where do you live by the way Scottsdale Az?

To: average joe who wrote (94920)	9/24/2012 6:24:39 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 219726

Foxconn closes China plant after riot. suspended production at one of its largest factories in China on Monday after a mass riot among workers. The incident is the latest case of labour unrest at Apple’s main supplier despite the massive efforts Foxconn has made since 2010 to revamp the way it manages its 1m-strong Chinese workforce. ...as orders piled up for the launch of Apple’s iPhone 5 over the past few months, complaints have increased again, highlighting that many practices, such as excessive overtime and the use of students under the name of internships as line workers, are still rampant. Foxconn closes China plant after riot By Kathrin Hille in Beijing and Sarah Mishkin in Taipei Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer by shipments and revenue, suspended production at one of its largest factories in China on Monday after a mass riot among workers. The incident is the latest case of labour unrest at Apple’s main supplier despite the massive efforts Foxconn has made since 2010 to revamp the way it manages its 1m-strong Chinese workforce. Foxconn said a personal dispute between several employees at its factory in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan escalated into an incident involving some 2,000 workers at around 11pm on Sunday night. “The dispute was brought under control by local police at approximately 3am this morning. According to police, some 40 individuals were taken to the hospital for medical attention and a number of individuals were arrested,” the company said. Observers said the violence showed that the way many gadgets such as the iPhone are produced, relying on low-cost labour and massive scale, was still unsustainable despite attempts by Apple and Foxconn to make changes following a series of suicides among Foxconn workers in 2009 and 2010. In 2010, the group, which is led by its Taipei-listed flagship company Hon Hai Precision Industry, drastically hiked wages at its largest plant in Shenzhen and ramped its expansion in inland provinces where wages are lower and where most of its staff hail from. The company also moved to abandon its factory town model, under which it had not only employed but also housed and fed hundreds of thousands of workers on one campus, and said it would gradually outsource those services. It also set up psychological counselling services to support staff, mostly teenage migrant workers who struggle with loneliness and boredom. An audit of Foxconn’s operations by the Fair Labor Association, the US group, found earlier this year that Foxconn had managed to solve more than two-thirds of a long list of 360 labour problems. But as orders piled up for the launch of Apple’s iPhone 5 over the past few months, complaints have increased again, highlighting that many practices, such as excessive overtime and the use of students under the name of internships as line workers, are still rampant. “Unless the overall social environment changes, some minor changes at Foxconn are meaningless,” said Yang Lixiong, a labour issues expert at Renmin University in Beijing. “In a good social environment, workers enjoy freedom and employers are being regulated, but currently the opposite is the case, so that workers live in oppression.” A worker at the Taiyuan plant said that Sunday’s unrest erupted after Foxconn security guards bullied one worker, prompting fellow staff from his home province to turn on the guards, who were all from another province. Foxconn said the brawl broke out at a privately-managed dormitory close to its plant. But workers and local residents said the resulting incident could not be separated from the plant. Residents of an apartment complex near the Foxconn plant said the main road leading west from the factory campus was sealed off until noon on Monday. Photos circulating on Chinese websites, which internet users said were from the Foxconn campus, showed an entry gate overturned, a bus windshield crushed and a crowd of at least 1,000 young people milling around. Additional reporting by Zhao Tianqi