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Steve Jobs
?It?s all about Jobs. Steve Jobs. Although he was brilliant, creative and a successful CEO, he had one flaw: He outsourced Apple.?
So writes Joel D. Joseph, chairman of the Made in the USA Foundation, a Los Angeles-based group that promotes U.S. products here and abroad. Here?s the rest of Joseph?s provocative essay about Jobs, the brilliant technology pioneer who died in October, and Apple Inc.? (NASDAQ:AAPL), the $108 billion company he created:
?Mr. Jobs could have created a hundred thousand jobs in the United States, but instead he created them in China and Korea. Apple can still move many of those jobs back to the United States.
Foxconn is one of the primary subcontractors for Apple. It is the world?s largest maker of electronic products, including the iPhone, iPod and iPad. Foxconn employs from 300,000 to 450,000 workers in Shenzhen, China at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a cramped, walled campus sometimes known as ?Foxconn City? or ?iPod City.? Covering more than one square mile, its enclave includes 15 factories, worker dormitories and a shopping area complete with a grocery store, bank, restaurants, bookstore, and a hospital. Workers never have to leave the campus, and rarely do.
Apple?s iPods are made by mainly female workers who earn as little as $40 per month, according to a report in Britain?s Daily Mail. The report claims Foxconn?s workers live in dormitories that house 100 people, and that visitors from the outside world are not permitted. Workers toil for 15 hours a day to make the iPod music player, the report claims. They earn $40 per month. The report revealed that the iPod Nano is made in a five-story factory that is secured by police officers.
Steve Symanovich is editor of the San Francisco Business Times.
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What Transform did not know was that at the time of Mrs Arthur?s surgery in 2004, the company?s main supplier of silicone breast implants, the French firm Poly Implants Protheses (PIP), was illegally using cheap, industrial grade ? rather than medical grade ? silicone.
Mrs Arthur, who now lives in south Wales, was happy with the results. A dance instructor and former model, she cared about her appearance and the operation had given her, as it had many women, a renewed confidence. Then, last year, it started to go horribly wrong.
?I started to get a lot of pain under my right arm, down my right arm and in the side of my chest down by the rib area. I was also getting a crushing pain around the implants? she explained. ?I went back to see the surgeon who told me I was fine and there was nothing wrong with the implants and everything was fine.
?But the week after that the pain was getting worse. It was stopping me sleeping at night. I went back again and they told me to wear non-underwire bras to sleep in.
?A fortnight later in May 2010, I found a lump on my right-hand side under my arm pit. It was quite a big lump about the size of a marble. I didn?t think it was anything to do with the implants. I thought I had breast cancer.?
A scan found a tear in the implants and that the silicone had ?leaked? into her lymph nodes in her armpit.
?The doctors found another three lumps as recently as September,? said Mrs Arthur. ?It is terrifying. It has caused me awful stress. I am still in a lot of pain and at night I still find it difficult to sleep because I can feel the lumps digging into my arm ? It is a poison running through my body.?
Mrs Arthur is now in dispute with Transform which she claims wants to charge her a further ?3,000 to have the faulty implants removed and replaced. She is planning to take legal action.
Transform, which largely stopped using PIP products in 2005, refuses to comment on specific cases because of patient confidentiality.
Catherine Kydd, a mother-of-two, received PIP implants after paying Transform ?4,000 in 2004. She too was shown how the silicone couldn?t leak, again with the gel sliced in half to demonstrate its solidity. ?That was how they sold it to me,? she recalled.
Within six months, Mrs Kydd, a beauty therapist from Dartford in Kent, was suffering sufficient pain that she could not lie down without a bra on. ?It felt like the silicone was slipping around my back,? she said.
Then in 2009, she discovered a lump on her left breast and ? with a history of breast cancer in her family ? feared the worst. ?It was absolute hell,? she recalled.
A scan found the implant had ruptured and that silicone had leaked into her lymph nodes caused swelling. A year later, after some wrangling, she persuaded Transform to replace her faulty implants, paid for by the clinic.
She has started a Facebook page ?to bring together all victims? of the PIP implants. The page contains postings from women in severe distress.
Despite being one of the few lucky ones to have her implants replaced at no cost, Mrs Kydd remains anxious.
?I now have industrial silicone in my body and I have no idea what the long-term effects are. I have to now live with this for the rest of my life,? she said.
Nigel Robertson, Transform?s chief executive, said: ?We are encouraging patients to come in and see their surgeon and see what the situation is with the implants.
?We have taken 3,000 calls in the week before Christmas about this.?
He said it was not practical for his company to remove and replace implants free of charge. ?The cost of this is significant,? said Mr Robertson.
Clinics, he warned, would be forced out of business if they had to shoulder the costs for replacing an implant which had Government approval and was used in good faith.
It is not just women whose PIP implants have failed who are expressing concern. Donna Breeden, 31, a hairdresser from Southampton, had PIP implants as recently as February 2010, just a month before regulators banned their use.
She paid ?4,250 to the Harley Medical Group, one of the largest cosmetic surgery chains in Britain.
?I did a lot of research and went for the most expensive company,? she said. ?I didn?t want to take any chances.? Mrs Breeden was horrified to discover six weeks later that the new implants in her body had been banned.
?I just want them out,? she said, ?I don?t want to get to the stage of having a rupture.?
Despite a series of discussions, the Harley Medical Group has refused her demands that the implants be taken out and replaced at no extra cost. Mrs Breeden is now planning legal action.
?I am worried sick. My stress levels are through the roof. It?s horrible being in this situation and I feel incredibly let down,? she said.
Harley Medical Group did not comment last week but a posting on its website stated: ?We understand that the recent media coverage regarding PIP implants has been a concern for our patients and we would like to take this opportunity to offer reassurance and information.?
The company has advised patients to get in touch if they are experiencing symptoms such as ?pain, heat around the breast area, redness, inflammation or rippling?.
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1. The Death of Al Davis
When Davis died Oct. 8, at age 82, it left obituary writers scrambling for ways to sum up a man who not only was the face of the Raiders franchise but also its heart, its brains and its combative personality.
The Raiders themselves took their best crack on the day Davis died, describing their patriarch as "unique -- a maverick, a giant among giants, a true legend among legends, the brightest star among stars, a hero, a mentor, a friend."
Davis spent 48 years defining the franchise, as a coach, as general manager and, most famously, as an owner. He controlled everything, right down to the team colors. (Davis picked silver and black because he thought it would look intimidating.)
Stocked with misfits that only Davis and his fans would love, the Raiders went 372-219-11 and won three Super Bowls from 1963 through 2002.
By the time Davis died, his team hadn't finished with a winning record in its past eight seasons. But this year's Raiders are within reach of a playoff spot, buoyed by the audacious trade for quarterback Carson Palmer, a deal that coach Hue Jackson said his old boss would have loved.
As Raiders safety Michael Huff said when the Raiders beat Houston less than 24 hours after Davis' death: "He's never gone in our eyes. We'll never let him go. He's with us."
2. Harbaugh leads 49ers resurgence
A division title. An invigorating new
coach. A new stadium on the way. This was the year in which a long-dormant dynasty came roaring back to life.The 49ers are 12-3 behind a top-ranked defense that could have them playing deep into January.
Team president Jed York hired Jim Harbaugh as his coach and Trent Baalke as his general manager in January, and the 49ers have done nothing but press the right buttons since.
The list of transformative feats includes a sensational first-round draft pick (sack-machine Aldon Smith), a wave of bargain free agents (kicker David Akers, defensive back Carlos Rogers, safety Donte Whitner) and a surprisingly solid season from quarterback Alex Smith.
Summing up Harbaugh's impact, 49ers Hall of Famer Ronnie Lott told Sirius XM radio that "this might be the greatest coaching that I've ever seen in the history of the game of professional football."
3. Buster Posey busted at home plate
Scott Cousins didn't slide, but the Giants sure did. They were 2?1/2 games up in the National League West on May 25 when Cousins, the nicest villain you will ever meet, blasted into Buster Posey in a home-plate collision.
A broken bone in his lower left leg and three torn ligaments in his ankle cost the star catcher the remainder of the season.
The defending World Series champs never recovered, finishing last in the National League with a .303 on-base percentage.
"If I never hear from Cousins again, or he doesn't play another day in the big leagues, I think we'll all be happy," general manager Brian Sabean told KNBR in June. (Sabean has since reached out to apologize.)
Major League Baseball officials deemed it a clean play and have resisted the Giants' pleas for a rule change to protect catchers from being targeted in home-plate collisions.
4. Andrew Luck stays in school
Andrew Luck had an opportunity to take the money and run. Instead, he passed.
The quarterback delayed entry into the NFL so that he could keep Stanford humming as a national power. And Luck delivered as hoped, leading the Cardinal (11-1) to a No. 4 national ranking and a Fiesta Bowl showdown against No. 3 Oklahoma State (11-1)
For the picky, there was a whiff of disappointment: He threw two interceptions in a loss to Oregon that dashed Stanford's hope of a national title and sank Luck's chances of a Heisman Trophy (he was the runner-up again).
But he mostly flourished, securing Stanford career records for passing touchdowns (80) and passing efficiency (161.7), among legions of other records.
The NFL won't have to wait much longer. Luck is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the April draft.
5. Giants oust owner Bill Neukom
In the span of less than a year, Bill Neukom went from waving in a victory parade to waving goodbye.
The Giants' managing general partner and chief executive officer was ousted after an apparent series of disagreements with the 10-member executive committee.
This newspaper broke the news of the shake-up in September, less than 11 months after Neukom hoisted the first World Series trophy in the Giants' 53 years in San Francisco.
In the wake of the report, the Giants announced that Neukom would "retire from his position effective Dec. 31," with Larry Baer taking over CEO duties.
Baseball sources said Neukom's falling out with the executive committee stemmed from how to divvy up the additional millions of dollars that flowed into team coffers after the World Series championship.
6. The Warriors rebuild with splashy names
Though NBA action was disrupted by a labor dispute, Warriors ownership still managed to treat 2011 like one long fast break. New managing partners Joe Lacob and Peter Guber restructured the basketball operations staff, replaced an entire coaching staff and made several changes at the executive level on the business side.
Needing help, ownership also added two men with a combined 16,000 assists. They hired Jerry West, the Hall of Famer and respected front-office architect, in May and added former All-Star guard Mark Jackson as their coach weeks later.
"I fully expect, put it in bold letters, the Golden State Warriors to be a playoff team next year," Jackson said. "If I did not expect that, I would not have taken the job. ... We are looking to turn the Bay Area upside down."
7. The saga of Bryan Stow
In a horrific chapter to a storied sports rivalry, Giants fan Bryan Stow was punched in the head, kicked and slammed to the ground outside Dodger Stadium in March.
"It brings tears to my eyes," longtime Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda said, reacting to the news. "This is not what baseball is all about."
Stow, a paramedic and father of two young children, spent months in a medically induced coma and only recently became able to hold a simple conversation. He is fed by a tube and needs round-the-clock care. Stow, 43, is expected to be permanently disabled.
The Stow family chronicles Bryan's recovery on their blog (support4bryanstow.com).
8. Cal sports make a comeback
Giving new meaning to the term elimination games, the Cal baseball team rallied back from an incredible deficit -- as in $10 million.
The Bears athletic department had announced in the fall of 2010 that it was cutting four sports and reclassifying men's ruby as a varsity club sport as a drastic move to bridge a budget shortfall.
But the endangered Bears rallied. Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau announced in February that enough money had been raised to keep rugby, women's lacrosse, women's gymnastics and men's gymnastics.
The comeback was complete April 8, when Cal announced that baseball would be saved thanks to the former players and alumni who generated $9 million in financial commitments.
Instead of going extinct, the Bears rolled all the way to the College World Series. "A wild ride," coach David Esquer called it.
9. Sharks bounced short of the Cup
Even for fans accustomed to coming up short, this one was tough to take. A freakish bounce off a stanchion finished the Sharks' title hopes May 24, when Vancouver's Kevin Bieksa scored a strange and fortuitous goal during the second overtime of Game 5 of the Western Conference finals.
As Bieksa screamed in delight, almost everybody else was still looking for the puck.
"It came right to Bieksa. One more bounce he probably whiffs on it, we're still playing. Nothing we can do about it," Sharks coach Todd McLellan said after the game.
10. Stanford women win first soccer title
With one last spectacular goal, the seniors on the Stanford women's team secured the status as one of the greatest classes in college soccer history.
The Cardinal beat Duke 1-0 in the College Cup final Dec. 4, capping a 95-4-4 record for a senior class and easing the pain from losses in the previous two national title games.
Camille Levin delivered a cross to Teresa Noyola for a point-blank header in the 53rd minute.
"I've never seen a team work so hard for each other and want to win for each other," Levin said. "I've never played on a team like that in my life."
Also receiving consideration: "Moneyball" movie fares better than current A's; Kelly Slater wins 11th surf title at Ocean Beach; Barry Bonds sentenced to 30 days' house arrest, pending appeal; Chris Mullin and Tara VanDerveer inducted into Basketball Hall of Fame; Stanford women's basketball team makes fourth consecutive Final Four; Tiger Woods helps lure record crowds to Frys.com Open; America's Cup awarded to San Francisco for 2013.
Contact Daniel Brown at dbrown@mercurynews.com
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/other-sports/ci_19647902?source=rss
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