CEM Organization: March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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A few years ago, the Internet experienced a video revolution. As broadband access expanded and more people began uploading content, video became an expected resource for consumers. Businesses could get more mileage out of television commercials and engage users by linking to video reviews of its products.

A year ago, we saw evidence of small and medium-sized business increasing budgets for video content – to be used both on their homepages and in advertisements. In 2009, 19% of businesses polled were using video (up from 5% in 2008) and I’m willing to bet that number will be much higher in the 2010 report that should come out later this month.

Now, as technology has become more affordable and increasingly mobile, we’re able to experience virtually anything online. As such, local search engines are evolving into master content synthesizers to meet the needs of consumers and advertisers alike – offering video and photos, local advertising deals, user reviews, QR codes, maps and directions, etc.

Consumer expectations of local search engines have never been higher. Users want to see photo and video reviews of a company’s products, read what other people have to say, and even take a virtual tour of your store or restaurant before they visit.

The same is true of small- and medium-sized business owners looking to find a competitive advantage. Local search engines are offering more dynamic content than ever before to users and it’s up to search marketers to help business owners feed that content.

It’s interesting to see how video content has changed since the advent of YouTube. Instead of traditional video advertising, we’re seeing new technology that lets users look around your business from their own home. Soon, we’ll be able to find virtual creations of almost any environment online – and those virtual tours are being integrated with current deals and other advertising promotions to drive traffic to your business.

Recently, a company called EveryScape partnered with Bing and YP to offer digital advertisers a new local search solution – virtual tours. For example, YP360 will let a user step inside a restaurant in Baltimore while they’re still on the train. They can choose a place and even set a reservation, all within the same application on their phone.

Google Earth has gone indoors and local search engines are responsible for bringing this detailed and vivid content to users while keeping it simple and accessible. And the business case for offering this new content to users and advertisers alike is clear as local advertising is expected to grow to $16.1 billion this year, up from $13.7 billion in 2010.

Even more, mobile phone advertising spending is expected to be more than a billion dollars in 2011, up 48% from 2010. Local search engines like YP and Yelp! are seeing over 20 million visitors a month, many of them accessing via mobile phones.

This is a great opportunity for local search engines and advertisers to embrace this new technology and get ahead of the pack. Effective local advertising goes beyond building a social networking presence and listing in directories – you have to make sure your content is engaging. In the online world, the savviest local search marketers who use this technology well will have the most successful campaigns.

I recommend that any business owner or local search marketer read up on the latest digital advertising solutions and consider offering your customers virtual tours of your products or store. To set your business apart, you need to stay current with the best that local search has to offer.

Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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Ryan Gavin and Dean Hachamovitch, Marketing Guy and Engineer, respectively, for Internet Explorer, have announced that the final build and release of Internet Explorer 9 will indeed be at the party they’re throwing at South by Southwest in Texas on March 14th, 2011. They’ve decided to first announce this to their very favorite community at Channel9, a bunch of developers who are in love with the internet platform, and they’ve spoken here in a video at length what the browser will be able to do.

This browser has been in production for approximately a year, and now they’re going to release it, thanking profusely the community of developers who have stepped up to help them in making this a platform that has a chance at competing with the rest of the powerhouse browsers out in the market today. As you know, Internet Explorer

Hachamovitch will be doing a keynote at MIX 10 as well, showing off how the platform is rolling out, as a sort of “look what we did in a year” sort of thing. These two fellas sitting on the couch are super excited about this rollout and after saying what they came to say, they made sure to prompt Channel9 for what they call an “uncomfortable question.” What Channel9 decided to ask about was HTML5, to which they reply “WE’RE FOR IT!”

Of course the developer community knows this already, so the question is pressed, beyond what HTML5 can do for the everyday user, what does IE9 offer the fringe users who want features that not everyone will use? Hachamovitch replies with a sort of well, we DO do that, we’ve implemented things like Navigation Timing which “got 0% usage on the web,” he then going on to say that they’ve added items that don’t just come from developers who request things, they’ve essentially come up with elements that they and people at Yahoo, Google, and etc have spoken about behind the scenes, bringing these “fringe” features into IE9 at launch.

Essentially what they’re speaking about in this video and what will be coming with Internet Explorer 9 is depth as well as quality implementation of features. We’re hoping for the best!

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Apple advertises its products as magical. They’re at the intersection of “technology and the liberal arts,” Steve Jobs said today. Something that moves your heart, not just your lust for technology. Will consumers still buy that in 2011?

The big picture question of the day is whether Apple has done it again. With the original iPad, Apple crushed its rivals, taking more than 90 percent of the tablet market in 2010 and selling more than 15 million units. Jobs predicted today that 2011 will be the year of the iPad 2. Based on what I have seen today, I think he’s mostly, but not entirely, right.

Competitors will discover that Apple has a lot of inherent financial advantages, including being a low-cost leader. That may not sound intuitive, but I believe it has to be true. It is selling so much volume of its products that it can get discounts on parts and manufacturing services that no one else can get.

When it sells its products in stores, it also doesn’t have to give away 20 percent of the margin to a retailer. That is a huge financial advantage. Carriers are also willing to subsidize the costs of Apple products in a way that they won’t with other tablet vendors. All of these things may explain why the Motorola Xoom, a very cool product, is selling for $800 while Apple has priced its new devices at $499 to $829, (and dropped the price of the old iPad to $399). Apple has also left very little room for rivals here, since it has signed up both AT&T and Verizon. Perhaps there is room for rivals to sell $199 machines, but users probably aren’t going to like them.

Those are reasons why any cool Apple mobile product could beat other rivals. But Apple has also done some smart things with the iPad 2. It has created another rev of its microprocessor, the A5, which has two cores, or computing brains. And it has nine times faster graphics than its old A4 chip. Since Apple designs this chip itself, it doesn’t have to give away much margin to a chip design firm. It only has to give a small margin to a chip manufacturer such as Samsung to make the chips.

Apple has also custom-designed the A5 to run Apple applications on a device with a 10-hour battery life. Apple should have an edge there, as it won’t sell the A5 to rivals. But if this is an advantage, it isn’t likely to last long, as Nvidia is being very aggressive with a new quad-core chip that it could sell to any Android rivals.

The design of the iPad 2 is where Apple has more advantages. The iPad 2 will have faster web-browsing with a new version of Safari. It has two cameras that will inspire a lot of video and photo-related apps. The availability of the Mac applications — iMovie, Garage Band, and Photo Booth — on the iPad 2 will make a lot of users happy. More interesting features will come with new releases of the iOS, or Apple’s operating system in the fairly near future.

There are some users who won’t like the restrictions of Apple’s ecosystem. If they want universal serial bus (USB) and SD card ports, they are out of luck. Apple didn’t change the resolution of its screen either, leaving it at 1024 x 768. Competitors could add these options and put emphasis on them as selling points. (Critics are disappointed that Apple did not improve the display, but that’s a big cost issue others have too).

Apple has also made great improvements in the feel of the product. It’s 33 percent thinner, 2 ounces lighter, and it has a wonderful new screen cover that doubles as a stand for the device. (It wakes up the device when you peel it back and it has micro-fibers that clean the screen when the cover is on).

Now here is why Jobs is not entirely right. Apple has come up with a stunning machine at prices that the competitors will have a hard time beating. But it is almost inevitable that Android-based tablets will gain market share on Apple.

So far, I don’t see the Android machine that will beat the iPad 2. But the potential is there, given ingredients such as Android 3.0, Nvidia Tegra 2 chips and other fast microprocessors, and 4G LTE. The latter is the main weakness in Apple’s armor.

LTE is fast, with a minimum speed on Verizon at around 12 megabits a second and actual speeds running much higher than that now. Getting access to 4G LTE is as big a benefit as having access to lots of cool apps, from my point of view. Right now, the timing of the still-young LTE technology means that Apple cannot yet put it into its mass-produced, lowest-cost tablet computers.

If LTE costs come down sometime soon, then Apple can launch a new version of the iPad to incorporate the technology. But it’s not a simple upgrade, as it means that the hardware of the machine — including the radio chip — has to change. And for now, LTE chips are larger than their 3G equivalents, so the heat dissipation and product size are affected. In other words, LTE can force Apple to redesign the iPad.

Apple can do that. But Android tablet makers might be able to move faster than Apple directly into the 4G LTE tablet market. If they do that, then they will have found a scenario where they could steal a march on Apple. Apple is not likely to let that gap last for a long time, but it might be enough for Apple to lose some share this year.

Apple’s leadership position in this market will be hard to beat, but the collective weight and reach of Android rivals could erode it. And here’s a sobering thought: If Apple eventually winds up with only 30 percent of the tablet market, it could still be No. 1, and its place as the largest technology company in the world will not be at risk.

Check out Apple’s overview video on the iPad 2 and Jobs’ comments on technology and the liberal arts below.

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With the company’s future already clouded by Steve Jobs’ latest medical leave, the possibility of the iPad’s chief designer, Jonathan Ive, cashing out ups the uncertainty, Dan Lyons writes.

Is Apple losing its design guru?

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced in January that he would take a third medical leave, the biggest concern was the cloud of uncertainty that hovered over the company. Now that uncertainty has become an issue again, as rumors have started swirling that Apple might lose its chief designer, Jonathan Ive.

Apple's head designer Jonathan Ive poses for a portrait on January 27, 2010 in Cupertino, California. (Photo by Paul Harris / Newscom)

Reports in Ive’s native England suggest that the man who oversaw the design of the iPhone and iPad wants to spend more time in the U.K., putting him at odds with Apple’s board enough that he would consider leaving the company. Although Ive and Apple won’t comment, the scenario is plausible for two reasons: First, Ive is about to cash in options valued at $30 million that he was granted in 2008; and second, Ive has an especially close relationship with Jobs.

Whether Ive stays or goes, the brouhaha shows the challenges that Apple is increasingly likely to face given the questions about Jobs’ role in the coming months. One scenario being bandied about by Apple-watchers suggests Ive is making a power play to succeed Jobs; it seems just as likely, however, that he simply may not want to work at Apple if Jobs isn’t there.

Still others think the entire notion that Ive might leave is completely unfounded. But either way, the whole incident shows how the Jobs health situation is bringing more drama to a company that, until now, has been a model of tight-lipped discipline.

Apple’s products are famous for their sleek designs, and conventional wisdom holds that losing Ive would be a terrible blow to Apple—“Apple’s worst nightmare,” Britain’s Guardian called it. But the truth is, losing Ive may not be as big a deal as some Apple watchers think.

For one thing, Apple has loads of bench strength in every department, and because of its success it can attract just about anyone it wants.

“How much of this is Steve, how much is Jon, how much someone else? Steve always had an eye for design. The designer is only as good as the client,” says Jean-Louis Gassée.

For another, the real genius behind Apple’s designs might not be Ive—but rather Jobs.

That’s the educated guess of Jean-Louis Gassée, a former top executive at Apple and a longtime close watcher of the company who still has many connections there.

Gassée points out that Ive was already working at Apple when Jobs returned to the company in 1996. Ive joined the company in 1992, when Jobs was gone from the company, having been ousted by the board in 1985.

And before Jobs returned to Apple, Ive wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire. The first products that Ive designed under Jobs were the “Bondi Blue” iMac and the somewhat ugly iBook. Ive’s next products, the "desk lamp" Mac and the early metal laptops, were better looking, Gassée says.

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The Found Animals Foundation is an LA-based non-profit devoted to saving the lives of animals and solving the problem of animal overpopulation. Founded by Dr. Gary Michelson, a billionaire entrepreneur with a lifelong love of animals, Found Animals blends compassion with innovation and business sense. The organization does everything from working with local shelters to finding homes for strays to offering multi-million dollar incentives for research on animal sterilization.

The foundation will be opening its first ever "Adopt and Shop" retail space next month, so we caught up with Aimee Gilbreath, Executive Director of Found Animals, to find out a little bit more about the foundation, its goals, and LA's newest "pet shop."

HP: What is Found Animals most committed to?

AG: Our mission at Found Animals is to minimize the number of pets killed in animal shelters. We believe that our society, in the 21st century, can do far better than killing 4 million animals each year at a cost to taxpayers of over $2 billion annually. We look for innovative, entrepreneurial approaches to solving this problem. Over the past three years we have built a world class team of business and science professionals and launched programs that include sterilization, microchipping, owner support, adoption and more. Found Animals considers Los Angeles our test market for programs with plans to export successful ideas.

HP: What is the one thing you are most proud of that Found Animals has been able to accomplish?

AG: I’m most proud of our accomplishments with the Michelson Prize and Grant program. It’s our own version of the X-Prize and offers $25 million in prize money for creating a low cost non-surgical sterilant for use in cats and dogs. In addition, we are offering up to $50 million in grant funding to help researchers develop a prize winning technology. Sterilization is one of the best tools we have in our arsenal to reduce the number of unwanted pets that crowd the shelter system and overwhelm available resources. Unfortunately, current surgical spay/neuter approaches are expensive and often difficult to access for the pets and people who need them most. A “doggie Depo Provera” or “Kitty Norplant” type of product would revolutionize how we manage the pet population.

We created the program from scratch and its world class. Our Director of Scientific Research, Dr. Shirley Johnston, is world renowned in small animal reproduction and our Scientific Advisory Board is comprised of experts in many fields. Our program staff has created a fantastic grant process and we do outreach to scientists worldwide. So far we’ve received over 140 grant applications and a dozen projects have been approved for funding totaling over $5 million.

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Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

Critics of the sentences say China has politicized the robberies as acts of terrorism.

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A Uyghur man walks past armed Chinese security forces in Urumqi, July 17, 2009.

Chinese authorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang have ordered the executions of seven ethnic minority Uyghur men convicted of "violent" crimes, official media said on Wednesday.

The death sentences were handed down by the Supreme People's Court in recent days, according to state media in the regional capital, Urumqi.

The men were accused in connection with three separate attacks late last year in the Silk Road city of Kashgar, according to the news website Urumqi Online.

According to another website, the Xinjiang-based Tianshan news site, Aimaiti Tuheti, Yiming Dawuti, and unnamed "others" killed a security guard at a pedestrian mall as part of a failed Aug. 7 robbery attempt.

In a separate incident on Oct. 12, it said, Nuermaimaiti Aobulikasimu and 11 others broke into a house, bound and killed the couple living in it, and took their possessions.

It said the group also broke into the homes of two brothers, robbed them, and killed six people in a Nov. 11 attack in Kashgar.

The report gave no information about the victims or the schedule for the executions.

Three of the men were sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, a sentence that is normally commuted to life imprisonment in China's judicial system.

They were convicted of deliberate homicide and armed robbery by the Kashgar Intermediate People's Court in the first instance.

'Strike hard' campaign

A Han Chinese resident of Urumqi surnamed Yang said a reference to "terrorism" in official news reports on the case showed that it was being politicized by the authorities, who have launched a series of "strike hard" campaigns in Xinjiang following deadly ethnic violence in July 2009.

"There is an implied political meaning; that they were somehow engaged in separatist activities or ethnic divisions," said Yang.

Exile Uyghur groups said the trials had been conducted behind closed doors, with scant opportunity for public scrutiny.

"The entire process against these men, from the trial through to the judgment, was opaque," said Dilxat Raxit, spokesman for the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress.

"There was also very little reasonable evidence to convict them on a legal basis, because all the evidence came from one side of the case," he said.

"We strongly condemn the Chinese government for continuing to pursue their policies of ethnic division," said Raxit.

"We are also strongly opposed to the death penalty in this case."

Earlier cases

Last month, the Supreme Court sentenced four Uyghurs to death for alleged involvement in an Aug. 19 bomb attack in Xinjiang’s western Aksu city.

The World Uyghur Congress pointed to concerns over lack of transparency in those cases too.

The Aksu blast left eight people dead, including two of the bombers, and 15 wounded after a man riding a three-wheeled vehicle threw explosives at a group of uniformed patrolmen. Four Uyghurs were arrested shortly after the attack.

State media characterized the cases as acts of terrorism and unrelated to longstanding ethnic tensions between Uyghurs and Han Chinese in the region.

Exiled Uyghur dissident Rebiya Kadeer has warned that attacks like those in Aksu will continue to occur until Beijing addresses the underlying source of tension in the region.

Millions of Uyghurs—a distinct, Turkic minority who are predominantly Muslim—populate Central Asia and Xinjiang.

Uyghurs say they have long suffered ethnic discrimination, oppressive religious controls, and continued poverty and joblessness despite China's ambitious plans to develop its vast northwestern frontier.

Those frustrations erupted in July 2009 in deadly riots that left nearly 200 people dead, by the Chinese government's tally.

At least 26 people, mostly Uyghurs, were sentenced to death in the aftermath of the riots, many of whom have been executed, according to state media.

China is believed to execute more people each year than the rest of the world’s countries combined, although the government does not publish official figures.

Rights groups say Beijing may execute as many as several thousand prisoners annually.

Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for a series of deadly attacks in recent years and accuse one group in particular of maintaining ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.

New training scheme

China on Wednesday also announced a training scheme which places ethnic minority graduates from Xinjiang in work elsewhere in China.

Governments of the destination cities will spend 450 million yuan (U.S.$ 69 million) for the program, while Xinjiang will spend 400 million yuan (U.S.$ 61 million), the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The program targets some 60,000 jobless college graduates in Xinjiang, around 80 percent of whom are from ethnic minorities, and 60 percent of whom are women.

However, some commentators see the move as an attempt to assimilate non-Han Chinese into mainstream Chinese culture.

"From the point of view of ethnic minorities, the graduate work scheme is really taking the cream of youth from the minorities and using them to 'further cultural development,'" wrote one ethnic minority user on a popular microblogging service.

"In fact, the culture that is being advanced is Han culture, and this group of young people will have been totally brainwashed," the microblog update said.

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

"They have run senior high school schemes like this before during the past few years," he said.

"Whether it's high-schoolers or graduate training programs, these are measures that are aimed at thought control and brainwashing, and the 'Partification' of their education," he said.

Reported by Qiao Long for RFA's Mandarin service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.

Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

through henry on Dec Twenty, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it had been actually uncertain, info acquired by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese language government worries over its ongoing charge of the location it calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The leaked out wires from U.Utes. diplomats show the extent that Chinese authorities attempt to convince governments worldwide to consider its stance upon issues impacting Uyghurs. The wires also show the U . s . States' concerns and sights concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the area.

The majority of lighting associated with Chinese federal government stress are the cables pointing in order to Chinese language frustration, or the specter of Chinese language ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd countries. The December Twenty nine, 08 cable relates exactly how Chinese language Helper Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to China to tone of voice Beijing's powerful opposition of release in order to any country apart from China, and that if the Ough.Utes. did indeed accede for this request it would "avoid harm to bilateral relationships and also to cooperation ‘in important areas'". In addition, a February 2009 cable television describes how the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly act toward us" and a "slap within the face". That the U.Utes. government was company in not releasing the detainees in order to China demonstrates the degree of the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial program. Genuine concerns over terrorism are understandable, but in the actual U.Utes. government's view the detainees might probably encounter do-it-yourself torture and delivery when they returned in order to China

Chinese language government stress regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only applied to the actual Ough.Utes. government, but additionally to Brand new Zealand and a handful of Western government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, as well as European Union member states just about all have the symptoms of paid for the actual brunt of Chinese language government disappointment. Regarding Germany, that was initially prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs on purely humanitarian reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were less better than additional detainees because of the negative effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relationships along with The far east. A Might Eight, '09 cable television relates exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported which Indonesia experienced knowledgeable The far east of the Ough.Utes. ask for to accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo coupled with already been consequently warned by China of ‘a large burden on bilateral relations' if Indonesia were to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic cables also discuss the actual unrest within Urumchi, the actual local capital, in July 2009. A July Thirteen, '09 cable talking about mass incidents in The far east states:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 associated with 2008 differ markedly within origin as well as character from bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each existing serious trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Celebration leadership wouldn't hesitate to spread out fireplace upon Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed it essential to restore order. Bulk incidents present a different kind of risk, he said, as the management is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace on Han rioters with regard to fear of causing massive open public outrage that will change against the Party."

This can be a chilling opinion, particularly when 1 views evidence offered by 50 percent reports launched this year by the Uyghur Individual Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that detail eyewitness accounts of the use of lethal live fire against Uyghur protestors in July '09. Additionally, the observation that fireplace wouldn't be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the different strategy taken by Chinese language security causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese language direct orders in September '09. During individuals protests, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, who had demanded that he inform them regarding government responses to protection issues. A similar request to satisfy with the Party Secretary through Uyghur demonstrators in July was not met.

The broader repercussions from the unrest also noticed a short dialogue about the effect it might have on Iran-China relations, and on relationships with Sydney after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the Nationwide Push Club within Canberra in July '09. Within the second option case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian financial institution that sponsors the nation's Push Membership to make use of it's influence to bar the Kadeer talk there".

The United States' concerns about the scenario in the Uyghur region also come through in the wires. Inside a dialogue on plan direction in Tibet, U.Utes. officials clarify that it will end up being impossible with regard to Chinese language leaders to consider the softer line "if they look like they are doing this below worldwide pressure". The actual cable out dated 04 16, 08, 30 days following the outbreak of unrest within Tibetan areas, also relayed the actual observation "that household stability continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' be no relaxation from the present difficult line on Tibet or perhaps in locations like Xinjiang." The info included in the cable television additionally storage sheds light on the extreme level of sensitivity that the Chinese government views territorial integrity, and the possible spill over associated with unrest through Tibet.

The prospect associated with solutions to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from municipal society tend to be debated in a February Twenty-four, 2008 cable television. Whilst recommending that China's economic success will increase it's potential to deal with democratic change, the actual cable also talks about how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness of "a restricted expansion of municipal culture, such as improvements in the guideline of regulation along with a more powerful role for authorized religions, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other actors within areas that bring about sociable balance and do not problem Communist Party rule." This can be a significant alternation in thinking, that has observed U.Utes. officials market the notion which Chinese language financial improvement, as well as economic relationships with The far east brings in regards to a progressively democratic culture; however, much more faith appears to be put into a grassroots motion than one which starts from the top quantity of a Chinese federal government. Nevertheless, the actual cable television proves that "[i]n areas for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism results in tighter limitations on the growth of civil culture." This approach is viewed as counter-productive by the official, that suggests that the U.Utes. federal government "should continue to express...serious concerns over Beijing's human privileges report as well as attract China's growing consciousness that higher regard for individual privileges, religious freedom and also the guideline of law assists to advertise the very improvement and social stability which China seeks in addition to to enhance China's worldwide image." This type of strategy might take considerable diplomatic skills considering "China's paranoid concern that the United States privately promotes regime change as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The wires offer insight into the actual daily company of diplomacy that is hardly ever afforded to the general public, which is interesting to note the quantity of function done nowadays on Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual role of the us as a monitor of Uyghur human privileges conditions in private discussions is made clear, as well as contrasts with its tactful open public stance. The staff from the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is comfortable with the pressure the Chinese federal government exerts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts associated with Chinese government pressure on its counterparts is actually illustrative from the diploma which Chinese language officials make an effort to control contradictory stories. With more revelations in the future through Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs may not grab the headlines, but the wires have get rid of new light on the paperwork of individual privileges problems within the Uyghur region.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

by henry upon Dec Twenty, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it had been actually in doubt, info obtained through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese federal government fears more than its continued charge of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The leaked out cables through U.S. diplomats show the extent to which Chinese language government bodies attempt to convince governments globally to adopt its stance upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The cables also display the U . s . States' issues as well as views regarding the on going repressive measures in the region.

Most illuminating of Chinese federal government pressure would be the cables directed to Chinese language frustration, or even the specter of Chinese language ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. A Dec Twenty nine, 2008 cable relates how Chinese Assistant International Reverend Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to The far east to voice Beijing's powerful opposition associated with release to any country apart from The far east, and that if the U.Utes. did certainly accede for this ask for it would "avoid injury to bilateral relations and to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, the February '09 cable describes how the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act toward us" and a "slap in the face". That the U.S. government was company in not really liberating the detainees in order to The far east illustrates the actual degree from the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial program. Genuine concerns more than terrorism are easy to understand, however in the U.S. government's view the detainees might most likely face do-it-yourself torture and delivery if they returned to China

Chinese language government pressure regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just put on the actual U.S. government, but additionally in order to New Zealand along with a number of Western governments that were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to European Union member states all have the symptoms of paid for the actual impact of Chinese language government unhappiness. In the case of Germany, that was initially willing to consider two Uyghurs on solely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were less better than additional detainees due to the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs might have on relationships with China. The Might Eight, 2009 cable television applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Indonesia had knowledgeable China of the Ough.Utes. request to accept a few Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo coupled with been subsequently cautioned through The far east associated with ‘a heavy load upon bilateral relations' if Indonesia had been to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally talk about the actual unrest within Urumchi, the local funds, within July 2009. The July 13, '09 cable discussing mass occurrences in China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet in 03 of 2008 vary markedly in origin as well as character through bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present serious trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Celebration leadership wouldn't hesitate to spread out fireplace on Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed this necessary to restore order. Mass incidents pose a different type of risk, he explained, as the leadership is ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters for fear of sparking huge open public outrage that would turn against the Celebration."

This can be a chilling viewpoint, particularly when one views evidence offered by 50 percent reports launched this season through the Uyghur Individual Rights Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that fine detail eyewitness accounts from the use of deadly reside fire against Uyghur protestors in July '09. Additionally, the actual observation which fireplace would not be used towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the various strategy taken through Chinese language security forces in Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests within Sept 2009. Throughout individuals protests, after that Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, who experienced demanded that he let them know regarding federal government responses in order to protection concerns. A similar ask for to meet using the Celebration Secretary through Uyghur demonstrators in July was not fulfilled.

The actual wider repercussions from the unrest additionally saw a short discussion on the impact it would possess upon Iran-China relationships, as well as on relationships along with Australia after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the National Press Membership within Canberra in August 2009. In the latter case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian bank that sponsors the nation's Push Membership to use its impact to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The actual U . s . States' concerns concerning the situation within the Uyghur area also come through within the cables. In a discussion upon plan path in Tibet, U.Utes. officials explain that it'll end up being impossible with regard to Chinese frontrunners to adopt a much softer collection "if they look like doing so under international pressure". The actual cable out dated 04 Sixteen, 2008, 30 days after the episode associated with unrest in Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual observation "that domestic stability continues to be leadership's top priority most of all, which means there will ‘almost surely' end up being no relaxation of the current hard collection upon Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable also sheds gentle on the extreme sensitivity that china federal government views territorial ethics, and also the feasible drip more than of unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with solutions to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of civil culture are debated in a Feb 24, 2008 cable. While suggesting that China's economic success increases it's resistance to democratic reform, the cable also discusses how Chinese language leaders see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted growth of civil society, such as enhancements within the guideline associated with regulation and a stronger role with regard to approved religions, NGOs, charities and other actors within places that contribute to social balance and do not challenge Communist Party guideline." This can be a notable alternation in thinking, that has seen U.S. authorities promote the notion which Chinese language economic improvement, and economic relations along with The far east will bring in regards to a progressively democratic society; however, more faith appears to be put into a grassroots motion compared to one that begins from the top levels of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, the actual cable television concludes that "[i]n places such as Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism leads to tighter limitations about the development of civil culture." This method can be regarded as counter-productive by the official, who suggests that the actual Ough.S. government "should still express...serious issues over Beijing's human rights report and appeal to China's growing awareness that higher regard for individual privileges, religious independence and the guideline of law assists to promote the improvement and sociable stability that China looks for in addition to to enhance China's international picture." This type of strategy might take substantial diplomatic abilities thinking about "China's paranoid fear that the United States secretly promotes regime alter as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires provide understanding of the actual daily business of diplomacy that is rarely afforded to everyone, and it is interesting to note the amount of work carried out behind closed doors on Uyghur problems. The significance of the actual role of the us as a monitor associated with Uyghur human rights conditions within private discussions is created clear, and contrasts using its sensible open public stance. Employees from the Uyghur Human Privileges Task is actually well aware of pressure china government puts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese language federal government stress upon its alternatives is actually illustrative from the degree which Chinese officials attempt to suppress contradictory stories. With increased facts to come from Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs may not get the actual head lines, but the cables possess get rid of brand new gentle on the documentation of human rights problems within the Uyghur region.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Search Engine Optimisation And Article Marketing Will Place You On Page 1

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There are several things to think about when looking for any roofing contractor. Cost, experience, as well as referrals are a couple of the things you'll probably be concerned about. Continue reading for even other great ideas.

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Article marketing could be an extremely powerful kind of Search engine optimization to your company web site. Quality written articles manage to transform your websites SERP and add quality for your company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is important in gaining new backlinks for your business website. Articles can and should be written on topics which are unique for a business or industry. The articles can discuss a multitude of issues and ideas within your industry. Articles offering the reader having a resource will always be just about the most popular and most likely types of articles that can cause backlinks aimed at your web.

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There will be a great deal of new Vancouver SEO companies starting up, simply because the necessity is there. Finding a search engine firm which has the client's best interest at heart may be tedious. What number of keywords can they optimize for? Which are the keywords along with the corresponding search volume? Do they understand how to optimize for Google places? Etc. Search engine optimisation is the business of landing at the top and Maxim Edge you can get there.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Little about the Uyghurs

In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-western part of China, the province of Xinjiang is a very least populated land whereas it covers near to a sixth from the nation's territory. Getting resisted during centuries the chinese domination, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Turkestan, fell into within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is primarily Uyghur People and Turkish - speaking System.

Muslim mainly, the Uyghurs have a very good religious identity that, in particular, enabled them to protect a solid difference in opposition to the Chinese invader. Certainly, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a great civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their own history, the Uyghurs successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly moving to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., as a result starting the way to the Islamization of the entire Central Asia.

Under the effect of the religions which they taken, Uyghur People used successively, and at times in a competing way, a great number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own graphic system.

The coming of Islam was a great change simply because it was followed by the assimilation of the Uyghur areas in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Islamic Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used presently.

If their writing, their own language and their religion mark a real difference with the culture of Chinese Han, the Uyghurs also are different from their aspect, so characteristic of Central Asia's people. A matt skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features pointing out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek origins of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only 8 million people - a little for this kind of large area. Thus, the Uyghurs are now part of the fifty six racial minority groups having been well-known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This particular statute will allow them a few privileges in a land where their big difference is very often repressed. Therefore, Uyghur families escape the "single child policy" and their language is accepted as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in China, however, appears pretty illusory. The presence of natural sources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its proximity with nations identified as very sensitive, highly urged the government to increase the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the larger responsibility job opportunities.

In response to this true will to assimilate the Uyghur people into the Chinese culture, an independent party like East Turkistan Islamic Movement(ETIM) was born in the early 1990.

Saying more flexibility, but especially the recognition of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in place Xinjiang.

The situations of September 11, 2001, were the perfect occasion for the Chinese government to justify true reprisals: they declared the "Uyghur freedom fighters" as dangerous terrorists linked to Al Quaida because of their Muslim origins and their proximity with Pakistan and Afghanistan... However, the terrible repression which followed did not calm down the anger. The Uyghur peoples population continues today to proudly keep up their identity and their traditions , despite the fact that they become a minority on their own territory.

For further information about the Uyghurs, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

personal finance money management

This post is from staff writer Sierra Black. Sierra writes about frugality, sustainable living, and getting her kids to eat kale at Childwild.com.

It took me a long time to get through The Money Book for Freelancers, Part-Timers, and the Self-Employed. That’s not usually high praise for a book, but in this case I mean it to be. It took me a long time to read because it was so darn useful. I had to keep stopping to go do the exercises the authors suggested. Now my files are organized, my retirement funds are set up, and my favorite bookmark is free to be slotted into the next finance book I read.

Writers Joesph D’Agnese and Denise Kiernan have been freelancing a long time. Along the way, they’ve made all sorts of mistakes with their finances, but they’ve also gotten to a place where they have a stable, smooth financial system that works. As journalists, their work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and a dozen other places. Now they’ve turned their considerable writing talents to sharing their financial expertise. It’s a winning combination.

Freelancers are People Too

The basic principles of money management are the same, no matter which book or expert presents them. What changes is how the information is presented, and how likely you are to be motivated to follow the advice. The Money Book for Freelancers is special because it frames simple money management wisdom in a way that makes sense for freelancers and contractors.

Independent workers have special financial needs. It was a huge help to me to see them laid out in black-and-white. I knew abstractly that I should be saving for retirement, for example. Now I know the details of an SEP-IRA, how it differs from a Roth IRA, and why a self-employed person can benefit from having both accounts. I now have a percentage of my income set aside for retirement each month instead of a flat dollar amount.

The beauty of The Money Book for Freelancers is the organizational system it brings to sound money principles. The authors advocate a system of dedicated bank accounts very like the one I’ve been using for the past year. (J.D. uses a system similar to this, too.)

To whit:

You want one account at a local bank that you use for your deposits, spending, and daily cash flow.

You have savings accounts dedicated to particular goals that you keep in a high-interest savings account at an online bank.

The core of their system is a Holy Trinity of Savings Accounts that includes an Emergency Fund, a Tax Account and a Retirement Account.

For most people at a traditional job, the employer handles the bookkeeping related to taxes and retirement. You may want to add additional retirement funds like a Roth IRA to your retirement portfolio, but at its most basic, retirement accounts and taxes are handled by your company. Doing it yourself isn’t that complicated, but it can seem intimidating. If you’re starting out like I am, it’s nice to have someone hold your hand through getting set up.

The other great thing about The Money Book for Freelancers is the writing style. D’Agnese and Kiernan are like personal trainers for your financial life. They’re constantly cheering you on to stretch your abilities and resources, while candidly holding you accountable for your choices. Whether you freelance or not, their attitude is refreshing. If you do freelance, you’ll likely find their life lessons and anecdotes eerily familiar.

Keep It Simple

The weakness of this book is its authors’ love of complexity. They often recommend multiple accounts in places where one would do. For example, harkening back to the example above, they recommend two or three retirement accounts for each self-employed worker: an SEP-IRA that functions a lot like a 401K, a Roth IRA, and a taxable brokerage account. For most of us, that’s overkill.

I make a decent salary freelancing these days. Even so, if I succeed at saving 10 percent of my income for retirement this year, I won’t save more than the $5,000 I can put into a Roth IRA. There’s no reason for me to maintain other accounts unless my income and savings jumps to a point where I’ve capped out my contributions to the Roth. I really don’t need an SEP-IRA, and won’t until my income is double my current one. While a lot of freelancers make enough money to worry about SEP-IRAs, most people are probably served just fine by a Roth IRA, and maybe a traditional IRA to pick up additional retirement savings in a good year.

Likewise, the authors’ focus on saving for retirement before paying off debt probably means paying more interest over the long term. Yes, it’s good to establish good habits. Freelancers especially need to rely on their own savings practices. No company pension will save you if you screw it up. But saving up a big emergency fund and a retirement nest egg while you’re recovering from credit card debt can be penny wise and pound foolish. A lot of pounds of foolishness, depending on how much debt you have and what interest rates you’re paying. I’ve recently shifted some of my own debt snowball to savings, but my remaining loans are all very low interest (under 5%), and I’m willing to pay a little more interest in exchange for building up a secure emergency fund.

The Bottom Line

I’d like to see this book take a somewhat more streamlined approach to financial savvy. If you’re self-employed, especially if you’re just starting out, there’s plenty of good in here. It was well worth the read, and I got a lot out of the exercises. I’d just recommend it alongside another basic money book like J.D.’s Your Money: The Missing Manual or Dave Ramsey’s The Total Money Makeover.

Probably the ideal system for any individual will be a hybrid of what various experts offer. D’Agnese and Kiernan have some wonderful ingredients in their soup, but don’t follow the recipe blindly.

The Road Out of Debt: Bankruptcy and Other Solutions to Your Financial Problems by Joan N. Feeney and Theodore W. Connolly

You've read stories of people becoming debt-free. In personal-finance blogs, the stories are always ones of debt problems overcome through hard work and frugality. Sadly, in the real world, that doesn't always work. For reasons like illness, divorce, job loss, economic downturn, business failure, natural disaster, war — some debts entered into in good faith simply cannot be paid back. (See also: CitiMortgage Told Me to Default on My Loan)

Feeney and Connolly's new book is about how to find the dividing line between these cases, and what to do once you know which side you’re on.

Money-Management Skills

The authors provide a good short course in money management much like you’d find in any personal finance book or blog — how to budget, how to cut expenses, and how to take control of your finances. Then the book starts talking about debt — mainly about the many, many ways to use debt unwisely. In particular, they’ve got a great chapter on the sort of debt that people with financial troubles turn to in a usually futile effort to stave off financial catastrophe for one more month — payday loans, car title loans, pawn shops, loan sharks, etc.

Even before that, they provide some basic advice on negotiating with your creditors. Especially in the world of finance as it is today, there are plenty of people who could actually fulfill their obligations — except that the creditors have written rules that let them lard up a debtor’s obligations with late fees and penalty interest rates. A knowledgeable debtor with good negotiating skills can often cut through those problems and get their obligations settled reasonably cheaply.

One bit in that section that I particularly like is on the psychology of debt collectors: Some will browbeat you, some will humiliate you, some will pretend to be your friend — but however they act, they’re all just trying to get as much money from you as possible. They don’t care what other debts you have or whether you can support your family. If you don’t understand this — if you allow yourself to imagine that the ones who act like friends are actually friendly — you’re going to be less successful in your negotiations. (I talk about the same psychological issues in my post Don’t Treat Businesses Like People.)

The authors provide some useful advice on seeking help (credit counselors and the like) if your financial problems are beyond what you can manage with those basic skills — and about avoiding the scams that often masquerade as help for people with debt troubles.

Sometimes, even with help, debt problems cannot be overcome. Specifically, if you can’t cover your minimum expenses plus interest on your debts and have money left over to pay down the principle on your debts, then you're over the line. Once you're in that situation, your financial situation can only get worse — your debt burden will rise every month, even if you don't borrow any more money.

When to Consider Bankruptcy

If you could support yourself — pay for your family’s shelter, food, and clothing — except that other obligations drain away more than all the rest of your money, then it’s time to consider bankruptcy.

Even if it’s time to consider bankruptcy, it may not be the best choice. Some obligations (child support, student loans) cannot be wiped out in bankruptcy. Alternatively, if you can’t even afford the necessities, then your household is not a viable economic unit and bankruptcy won’t help.

The core of the book is the information you need to figure whether bankruptcy is worth considering — and the information to consider it and make an informed decision.

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