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Blogger Andrew Trench recently presented a theory on the threshold of when Internet penetration starts to matter, writing:

Social networks have also been given plenty of credit for the revolution unfolding in Egypt.

So I went and had a look at the numbers over on www.internetworldstats.com to see what they could tell us about these two scenarios. Well, fascinatingly, both Egypt and Tunisia have seen a massive growth in internet users and internet penetration over the last 10 years.

Both have now got internet penetration of over 20% and in Tunisia's case it was as high as 34%.

While it is clearly simplistic to over-state this factor and there must be many more drivers contributing to such a rapid political uprising, it is obviously a factor as evidenced by the Egyptian regime pulling the plug on the country's internet access to try and block the rising tide of revolt.

My back-of-napkin theory is this: that a rapid increase in internet penetration in a repressive regime does play an important role as it provides an unfettered channel of communication allowing disaffected citizens to share views - and more importantly - to rapidly organise and mobilise.

If Egypt and Tunisia are valid case studies, it looks like internet penetration of around 20% is the mark.

Geopolitics & Macroeconomics adds:

Internet penetration: Social networking sites were critical to sustaining the momentum in the recent protests. The internet penetration in Egypt is 16%. In Libya, it is a meagre 5% [1]. The unrest in Libya has thus far remained concentrated in regions that are geographically distant from the seat of ‘real' power (see more on this below). The dependence of momentum on internet communication is far greater in Libya than in Egypt where protests began in Cairo itself.

Taking the conversation to Pakistan, Sabene Saigol writes, on BrandRepublic:

Perhaps one reason for this is that we're still not that used to communicating via the ‘net - maybe we need greater broadband and internet penetration. Personally I think it is more to do with culture - while Pakistani internet users are savvy to using social media to connect with friends, I feel they have not yet ‘crossed over' to seeing SM as a means for professional communications - or even wider social communications that go beyond their immediate circle. Yes, there are no doubt savvy people - both within marketing and tech circles, and outside - however, these people are likely a tiny proportion of the total number of ‘net and social media users.

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The NFL Players Association will reportedly begin paying players in need from its lockout fund beginning April 15.

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I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe’s Flash technology on its iOS devices within a year. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

In an open letter to users, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave several reasons why he didn’t want Flash on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. They are: Flash isn’t open; the full web; reliability, security and performance; battery life; and touch.

Adobe began shipping Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile last June, but even Laptop magazine admitted that “Steve Jobs was right,” and that “Adobe’s offering seems like it’s too little, too late.” Granted, that report was from six months ago, but it still doesn’t bode well for the technology.

There is no doubt that Adobe is making advances with Flash on mobile devices, but I don’t believe future changes will be enough to get Apple to adopt the technology.

Jobs has been very clear that Apple supports HTML5, an open technology that is controlled by a standards committee, not one company. By building support for that technology into Webkit, Apple is ensuring that mobile Web browsers will be able to access what we’ve come to know as the “full web.”

Webkit is used by Google, Palm, Nokia and RIM, so it has a pretty solid base.

One of the arguments often bantered about when the discussion of the “full Web” comes up is video. There is no doubt that Flash made huge strides over the years in having sites like YouTube encode their videos in Flash. But that’s for the desktop.

As Jobs points out, almost all of this video is also available in H.264 format (a format Flash also supports), so it’s viewable on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

“Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video,” wrote Jobs.

You may ask why other companies adopted Flash for their mobile devices when Apple won’t. That’s easy, they are looking for something they have that Apple doesn’t. Considering how hard it is for tablet makers to compete with Apple, any perceived advantage will work.

I’m not an Adobe hater—I know quite a few people that work at Adobe and I think they’ve done some amazing things over the years. Flash for mobile devices isn’t one of them.

Chris Dawson said he gives “Apple a year until they cave [and adopt Flash]. Android tablets will just be too cool and too useful for both entertainment and enterprise applications if they don’t.”

I have been using my iPhone for years and my iPad for one year. I honestly can’t remember the last time I went to a Web site that wouldn’t load because I didn’t have Flash installed. I can load videos from YouTube and a host of other sites too, no problem.

Apple has sold more than 160 million iOS devices and there are no screaming, angry hordes of users breaking down the doors at 1 Infinite Loop demanding Flash on their devices.

In order for Apple to change its mind and adopt Flash, the technology has to be proven to be indispensable and that it will benefit its users. Apple has proven just the opposite is true.

Editor’s Note: Jim Dalrymple has been writing about Apple for more than 15 years. You can follow him on Twitter @jdalrymple and on his Web site at The Loop.

I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe’s Flash technology on its iOS devices within a year. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

In an open letter to users, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave several reasons why he didn’t want Flash on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. They are: Flash isn’t open; the full web; reliability, security and performance; battery life; and touch.

Adobe began shipping Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile last June, but even Laptop magazine admitted that “Steve Jobs was right,” and that “Adobe’s offering seems like it’s too little, too late.” Granted, that report was from six months ago, but it still doesn’t bode well for the technology.

There is no doubt that Adobe is making advances with Flash on mobile devices, but I don’t believe future changes will be enough to get Apple to adopt the technology.

Jobs has been very clear that Apple supports HTML5, an open technology that is controlled by a standards committee, not one company. By building support for that technology into Webkit, Apple is ensuring that mobile Web browsers will be able to access what we’ve come to know as the “full web.”

Webkit is used by Google, Palm, Nokia and RIM, so it has a pretty solid base.

One of the arguments often bantered about when the discussion of the “full Web” comes up is video. There is no doubt that Flash made huge strides over the years in having sites like YouTube encode their videos in Flash. But that’s for the desktop.

As Jobs points out, almost all of this video is also available in H.264 format (a format Flash also supports), so it’s viewable on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

“Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video,” wrote Jobs.

You may ask why other companies adopted Flash for their mobile devices when Apple won’t. That’s easy, they are looking for something they have that Apple doesn’t. Considering how hard it is for tablet makers to compete with Apple, any perceived advantage will work.

I’m not an Adobe hater—I know quite a few people that work at Adobe and I think they’ve done some amazing things over the years. Flash for mobile devices isn’t one of them.

Chris Dawson said he gives “Apple a year until they cave [and adopt Flash]. Android tablets will just be too cool and too useful for both entertainment and enterprise applications if they don’t.”

I have been using my iPhone for years and my iPad for one year. I honestly can’t remember the last time I went to a Web site that wouldn’t load because I didn’t have Flash installed. I can load videos from YouTube and a host of other sites too, no problem.

Apple has sold more than 160 million iOS devices and there are no screaming, angry hordes of users breaking down the doors at 1 Infinite Loop demanding Flash on their devices.

In order for Apple to change its mind and adopt Flash, the technology has to be proven to be indispensable and that it will benefit its users. Apple has proven just the opposite is true.

Editor’s Note: Jim Dalrymple has been writing about Apple for more than 15 years. You can follow him on Twitter @jdalrymple and on his Web site at The Loop.

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The major legislative item on the agenda in the Senate this week will be The Small Business Reauthorization Act (S. 493).  Republicans plan to use this bill as a platform to promote critical pieces of legislation through the process of non-germane amendments to the bill.  Here are some vital amendments that will be debated and voted on throughout the week:

• Senator Mitch McConnell is offering an amendment (S. AMDT 183) to prohibit the EPA from promulgating any regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.  There is perhaps no force that is more destructive to our prosperity, consumer freedom of choice, and job creation than onerous cap and trade schemes.  There are many red state Democrats who are up for reelection in 2012 and will be hard pressed to go on record as supporting policies that are an imprecation to the interests of their states.  Make sure to call Senators Claire McCaskill, Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and Jon Tester in particular.

• Senator David Vitter is offering an amendment (S.AMDT. 178) forcing the federal government to sell off unused and underused property.  This is a serious issue.  The federal government owns over half of the land in some western states and has been using it to stifle energy development.  Selling unused federal lands would also serve as a prudent means of generating revenue without raising taxes.

• Senator Rand Paul is using the SBA bill as a platform to offer his signature budget bill (S.AMDT 199) which would slash $200 billion in spending for fiscal 2011.  Paul’s plan slashes funding by 50% to the Departments of Energy, Education, and HUD.  This amendment represents real limited government and budget austerity and will separate the men among the boys in the ranks of the Republican Conference.

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is forcing a vote (S. AMDT 197) to delay the implementation of ObamaCare until a final resolution is reached in pending lawsuits.  Unlike other bills that are designed to merely ameliorate ObamaCare, this amendment would completely halt it during the ensuing legal battles.

• Senator Tom Coburn has filed an amendment (S.AMDT.184) to force federal agencies to compile comprehensive lists of all of their programs

Make sure that all of your Republican senators are on record supporting these amendments, especially Rand Paul’s budget proposal.  Also, let’s see which faux moderate Democrats will commit to supporting anyone of these commonsense initiatives.  Needless to say, I didn’t waste time calling my senators; Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin!

Preview of Final Result

 

Resources

• PT Sans Bold – FontSquirrel


• Free App Icons for Developers – WebAppers

Step 1

Open Photoshop and create a new document that is 1200 x 1200 pixels, 72 dpi, and RGB Color. Fill the layer with white. (Ctrl+Backspace or Delete)

Step 2

Now create a rectangle for the header and fill it with a white-grey color, then use the colors on the image for the “Gradient Overlay”. Our search and logo will eventually be part of the header.

Step 3

Create a new rectangle above the previous one, with attributes as shown below. The following drop shadow effect creates a look of a 1 pixel stroke which does increase the look of that simple bar. Note: this step creates a horizontal line.

 

Step 4

Now add the “Gradient Overlay” layer style with the hex codes indicated.

Step 5

Add a white 1 pixel stroke. The following stroke of 1 pixel will divide the grey shadow effect. It’ll eventually work as a divider.

Step 6

Make one more rectangle in the middle-right zone, and fill it with white and add a 1 px stroke as indicated – it will be our search box.

Step 7

One more rectangle should be created and filled with blue. Set the inner shadow as indicated below, this will be our search button. This blue works great in combination with grey, white and light-grey. Blue will be the major contrasting color we use as we work through this template.

Step 8

Add the Gradient Overlay details to the button with the details from image.

Step 9

Add a 1 px stroke to the button with the color indicated. Take a look at the first and the final result of the button so you can see the difference all these details made.

Step 10

Now add this drop shadow effect for the text placed in the search box, using PT Sans Bold. This will be the final step in creating your search button. You may want to try other fonts, but the PT Sans Bold is really good for this small button.

Step 11

Make another fill under the header section, this will be the navigation area. Here we will place the navigation links of our template.

Step 12

Write your navigation links using a dark-grey color, then add a white “drop shadow” effect. The effect used for the navigation links is the same used for the search button.

Step 13

With 1px vertical line, make divisions between each links. The lines should be black and will really increase the beauty of the navigation area.

Step 14

Over the home section, make a fill with the blue and then add a Gradient Overlay style as indicated.

Step 15

Copy the Home link, this time color it white and add a drop shadow effect.

Step 16

Create a big, grey zone under the navigation, it should be about 30% of the layout. This will be the background for the featured area.

Step 17

Now create a big, white rectangle and add some shadow with the details shown. A big stock image, a big headline and some text with another great button will be added.

Step 18

Add a any dummy image you want to that featured area. Be sure it covers more than 80% of the area. The one I chose is from a stock website.

Step 19

Add some text to it, use the PT SANS Bold font and make the font big.

Step 20

The remaining area should be filled with grey, in it we’ll place some text. This is really a secondary area which describes the image, the services, the company itself, or whatever you’d like.

Step 21

Place some blue-colored text which will be the title of the information below. Use the details in the image for Drop Shadow style.

Step 22

Add some dummy text. This could be some important information or whatever you’d like.

Step 23

Create another grey area under the featured zone, where we will add some text and icons later. Add the details as stated on the image. Mostly, the icons will promote the services offered by the company behind the website.

Step 24

Continue by adding a Gradient Overlay style for the last rectangle we have created in the anterior steps.

Step 25

Now we are adding titles and icons, as well as some divisions. The icons can be found in the resource list at the beginning of the tutorial. Be sure to choose your icons and text thoughtfully.

Step 26

At the border of both zones, create a small circle and fill it with dark brown color. Add some inner shadow as stated on the image.

Step 27

Continue by adding a drop shadow layer style. It is another small detail, but it really makes that button zone minimalistic, nice-looking and well designed.

Step 28

To finish, add a Gradient Overlay effect.

Step 29

By using the Custom Shape Tool (U), create an arrow in both circles. Now add the details shown on the screenshot.

Step 30

Continue by adding some Color Overlay for the arrow. It should also be a blue color because otherwise, it will not fit the contrast and the colors used on the whole template.

Step 31

Add a video screenshot in the free space and place a title for it. For this template, I have used a simple screenshot of a YouTube widget.

Step 32

Add the text “Product Highlights” and “Case Studies.” Let the text under the “Product Highlights” be links so you could showcase some friends’ websites or resources you admire/promote.

Step 33

Finish it by creating another form for e-mails, place all kind of other information, and whatever you’d like.

Step 34

Don’t forget to make a relevant/small footer for our template. If you have paid attention, you should know how to create the same effect as below. 

 

All done! If you have questions or suggestions, feel free to drop a comment. I hope you enjoyed this whole tutorial!

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Making Easy Money

Last week, Novelr profiled Amanda Hocking, whom they dubbed the very rich indie writer. Hocking is a 26-year-old woman who writes “paranormal romance” novels and publishes them herself through Amazon’s Kindle store. She’s been very successful, and has made a lot of money.

Her success has led to all sorts of speculation — as success will do — and comments from folks who think they could do what she does, too. They think she’s an overnight success. She recently posted a response at her website, and I like it. Here’s an excerpt:

This is literally years of work you’re seeing. And hours and hours of work each day. The amount of time and energy I put into marketing is exhausting. I am continuously overwhelmed by the amount of work I have to do that isn’t writing a book. I hardly have time to write anymore, which sucks and terrifies me.

If you read Hocking’s post, you might understand some of my own mindset over the past few years. Imagine that instead of discussing supernatural love stories, she’s writing about an unexpectedly successful personal-finance blog. There are some close parallels. I don’t mean that in a negative, complain-y way. I just mean to stress that yes, you can make it big doing something you love, but it’ll probably take a lot of hard work. (And luck. There’s always a bit of luck involved.)

Speaking of making money: There’s been a small flurry of online info about making more money lately. (You know this is one of my pet topics, right?) For example, Inc. magazine posted an article from Jason Fried about how to get good at making money. Fried’s list is targeted at small-business owners. Trent at The Simple Dollar responded with his own list of five easy steps to make money for average folks. Both articles are interesting.

Moving on: I’ve written before about the value of a neighborhood exchange — an informal system of borrowing and lending goods and services. David at My Two Dollars has a great list of items to share with your neighbors to save money. I realize that not everyone likes to borrow or lend things, but if you live in an area with good social capital, this can be a great way for everyone involved to save space and cash.

Since returning from Africa, I’ve been struggling to get everything done that needs to be done. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. So I was interested in the latest post at Pop Economics, which asks, “How much do you value your time?” Pop says the balance between time and money is tough to find — we want more of both. He’s actually experimenting with a personal assistant, which I like. I’ve been waiting for an average joe to do this and report on how it goes. (As opposed to somebody like Tim Ferriss, who makes it sound like a way to become superhuman.)

I know that memories are short on Wall Street. But are they short on Main Street too? Reading Linda Stern’s latest paean to leverage and housing risk, it certainly seems that way. Saving for a down payment is hard, she says. It can take time!

And that doesn’t seem to pay. If you think about the cost of paying rent for five or more years, you may be better off jumping into a home with a low down payment now. That’s true even if you have to spend more money on fees and mortgage insurance to get one of those low down payment loans.

Well, yes, let’s think about the cost of paying rent for five or more years. In fact, let’s plug all our numbers into a rent-vs-buy calculator and see where we’re at after five years. The problem with Linda’s formulation here is that it helps to reinforce the common fallacy that 100% of rent payments are “wasted,” in a way that mortgage payments are not. But that’s simply not true. In both cases you’re paying money every month for your shelter; in the rental case that money goes to the landlord, while in the ownership case it goes to the bank.

Some small part of your monthly payment may or may not end up helping you build equity in your home, if house prices move up rather than down and depending on how much of your payment goes towards principal. But remember that the alternative here is saving up for a down payment — which is essentially the same thing as building up equity in a future home. If you save up $250 per month for five years and then put down $15,000 as a down payment, then you immediately start off with $15,000 of equity in your home. By contrast, if you buy today with no money down and start making mortgage payments, there’s a good chance your equity will be much less than $15,000 in five years’ time.

But Linda’s on a roll here, and manages to come out with one of the most astonishing pieces of personal-finance advice I’ve seen since the crisis hit:

Even if you have the money for a bigger down payment, there can be good reasons to save your cash. Mortgage rates continue to skirt all-time lows: Why not put your money to work for yourself and borrow as much as you can reasonably afford, on a monthly basis, at today’s rates? You can put the money you’re not paying into a down payment to work elsewhere. If home values rise, you will have done your best to leverage a small down payment into bigger equity. If they fall, you’ll have less skin in the game, and that could put more pressure on your banker to improve your loan terms lest you walk away.

This, in a nutshell, is everything that was wrong with the housing market before the crash — everything that we want to avoid going forward. Can’t Linda look around at the current devastated state of many people who bought with little or no money down, and see the dangers here? Evidently not. Instead, she seems to think it’s a bright idea to borrow more money than you need, to the point at which you’re pushing the envelope of what you can reasonably afford. And then take the cash you’re not using for a down payment, and “put your money to work for yourself.”

I barely know where to start on this. Here’s one way of thinking about it: banks are not charities, and that they expect to make money from their loans. They have a cost of funds which is lower than the mortgage rate that you’re paying; the difference between the two rates is their profit. You, however, if you follow Linda’s advice, have a cost of funds which is your mortgage rate: if you wind up getting a lower return on your savings than you’re paying on your mortgage, you would have been better off just using the money for a down payment. Needless to say, if there was an easy way of getting a higher return on capital than the mortgage rate, the banks would have done it already, rather than lending you the money. And it’s pretty delusional, frankly, to think that you can invest better than say JP Morgan. Yes, there are tax benefits to having lots of mortgage-interest payments. But they’re not sufficient to make the difference here.

Here’s another way: let’s say you own your home outright. Would you take out a mortgage against 95% of your home’s present market value, and then invest that money in the market somehow, trying to “put it to work for yourself “? Of course not: you don’t have remotely that kind of risk appetite. Borrowing money against your house to invest in the market is, always, stupid. But that’s exactly what Linda’s proposing you do.

And here’s one more: shit happens. Sometimes, you end up needing money, in an emergency. If you’re already borrowing as much as you can reasonably afford, that’s a big problem. If you have a bit of fiscal breathing room, you’re much better off. If you end up in a situation where you’re in a position to put pressure on your banker to improve your loan terms lest you walk away, that’s not a good situation to be in. It means you’re broke. It’s something you want to avoid, whereas in Linda World it seems to be something to actively court.

Linda’s also convinced that house prices are going to rise: if you buy now rather than later, she writes, that means you’re buying “while housing prices are low.” That’s debatable — they still seem quite expensive, on some measures: the price-to-rent ratio, for instance, is still well above its historical average. And more generally, buying low doesn’t help you in the slightest if prices just continue to grind lower.

Linda’s conclusion is that “the less you put down, the better off you are.” Which is true so long as you keep on making all your mortgage payments without any problem, and nothing goes very wrong either with your personal economic situation or with the US economy as a whole. That’s the way that leverage works: it makes everything sunny, so long as things go right. And then it plunges you into misery when things go wrong.

The scariest part of Linda’s post, for me, is when she talks about how it’s a good idea to “do your best to leverage a small down payment into bigger equity.” It’s not the dollar amount of the equity she’s talking about here, it’s the leverage used to get there, and the higher the leverage the better off you are. Following that advice got us into our current mess. And taking it now is a recipe for disaster.

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Search engine optimization Vancouver For any Better Marketing Solution

 

When you begin your personal website there are lots of ways you'll have to market it and something the best way is by using SEO services Vancouver if you happen to maintain that area. The SEO or seo services will be the top way of getting more visitors to your site and for that reason making more sales.

 

Now, you need to know that you won't use SEO service if you are not an online business - but then again, if you do not have an online presence if you are a offline business, then you will not allow it to be very far.

 

It is a well known fact that if you are going to really make it within the offline world you need to have an online presence. This really is something that all people are learning hard way. One thing that you should also know is the fact that it's not as easy as just setting up the website and leaving it to do its things.

 

You can do this in all sorts of ways, but these companies usually make use of multiple methods to create an ideal marketing technique online. You will be able to employ them to write articles for you, post on forums and blogs, create meta data and meta descriptions, clean up the code, add alt tags towards the images plus much more.

 

It is crucial that you simply do this because otherwise the company that you have worked so hard for could wind up losing all the money. When you have an internet site that you want to create, then you'll also employ the expertise of a search engine optimization company, which stands for search engine optimization company. What the corporation does is actually take the best areas of your site, look into the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your website is placed near the top of the list for the major search engines.

By doing this the SEO company can not only improve your traffic, but also make sure that your site is fully optimized for that internet search engine spiders that will be introduced to it. These spiders are used to analyze your website and put it in certain positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you wish to use the Search engine optimization Vancouver then all you have to do is find the top companies. It's through these that the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to select from you need to be certain the main one you're going for is reliable. You ought to be able to request a failure of what you need, and the company should also be able to tell you know long they have been operating for. This will narrow down the list to reveal the top ones.

 

SEO Services Provided by Different Vancouver Web Companies

The Vancouver SEO company services are very good for business growth as they provide quality services. If you are planning to create a website for the internet business, then you've arrived at right article when i will be explaining below how Web optimization Vancouver company services can increase your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you need to know what Seo is. It is not that complicated and i am sure you will get a grasp from it after reading my article. The primary goal of SEO is to get more traffic to your website and audience. It's a good decision to choose a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this kind of work, which means that your website could be listed in search engines.

There isn't any reason for you having a website with no website ranking whatsoever while you won't get any business and profits to outlive. It is a very tough atmosphere available as there are so many online business people exactly like you, who want their share of pie. You have to be familiar with the fact that nearly 85% of world-wide-web traffic can be got from internet websites.

When a user types inside a keyword or keywords for what he/she really wants to know in different sites, these use crawlers to get web-sites with the relevant content and index them based on algorithms. You don't have to be worried about the algorithms which these websites use as that isn't important.

To look in the first page of the google listing, you will need to hire professionals and experts who can perform the needful to maintain your site among the good books in these websites. These professionals can optimize your website content to ensure that your website gets increased traffic.

Once the traffic gets high, it's a sign that you're getting a service which will get you more revenues. SEO Vancouver company do the following to create your website appear inside the first page of search engine results.

Use keywords that are popularly utilized on search engines on your website content.
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Postings on blogs and forums with back links to your websites. This really is regarded as an effective way to get more traffic aimed at your website as many online users use blogs and forums.

SEO Vancouver company also perform site diagnostics that is an important part in online optimization as research and analysis on finding keywords is the method to begin a SEO campaign. So, be sure you choose the best SEO Vancouver company.

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What to anticipate Whenever Hiring a Roofing Contractor

When the time comes to correct or even substitute your homes roof, it can be a daunting job to find someone who is qualified to do the job. There are lots of roofers available, but the types who'll perform a congrats for a reasonable price are not often easy to find. If you are in the marketplace for a service provider, use the ideas beneath with regard to meeting with as well as hiring the correct one.

Interview and Discussion

Most roofers offer totally free consultation services. This is particularly important, since it gives them an opportunity to evaluate what your roof requirements, and it provides you with a chance to assess them. As with all businesses, believe in instincts about the individuals a person let up on your roof. No issue exactly how great the contractor's reputation or even suggestion, he or she ought to start by presenting a person with a business card. If a contractor arrives looking as well as talking within an less than professional method, most likely the job he's going to perform will also be less than professional. This is not to express that you ought to expect contractors to arrive in suits. They is going to be climbing in your roof, therefore most is going to be dressed up in denim jeans as well as work boots or athletic shoes. If the contractor seems to be more interested in speaking upon their mobile phone while on your homes roof than he is in analyzing your own roof's requirements, that may be another sign that he is not really the main one to do the job. For your lawful safety, make sure that the actual service provider offers sufficient legal responsibility insurance.

Roofing Evaluation

Expect the service provider will be rising on your roofing. In fact, any kind of service provider who not need to increase in your roofing to evaluate the issue should be instantly reduced. Those who're seriously interested in their work will either create a drawing of your roof's surface as well as mark trouble spots on it as they undergo their evaluation, or they'll take pictures or video of the surface area while they're available online for. This is a very essential action, because it enables you to observe exactly what the troubles are and know how they'll be fixed.

Estimate

The next phase will be the created estimate. The contractor will take out their loan calculator and come up with a written estimation. Some companies will go to their truck or van and write down the suggestion, while some may crisis the amounts to do the job in front of you. Once you are given the proposal, ensure that you understand which items is going to be used, how long the task will require and if there are any additional or even hidden expenses that could arise throughout the repair from the roofing. The service provider should be able to answer many of these questions effortlessly and forewarn you of any extra costs that could be sustained should the roof's integrity be damaged within.

Once you have obtained a few written estimations from roofers, evaluate what each organization or contractor is willing to offer you for that cost. Do not necessarily discount the greatest bet, simply because occasionally the highest bid will actually be the contractor who does the job properly. Additionally, be wary associated with bids that are not nearly as expensive other people. They may be utilizing substandard products or be untruthful concerning the possibility of concealed costs. Above all, believe in intuition and go with the service provider that makes you feel quite comfortable about handing more than your hard earned money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

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

 

AFP

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.

Copyright © 1998-2011 Radio Free Asia. All rights reserved.

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghur

through henry on Dec 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were ever in doubt, information obtained by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese language government worries over its ongoing control of the location this calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked out cables from U.S. diplomats demonstrate the actual extent that Chinese language authorities attempt to convince government authorities worldwide to consider it's position upon problems affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires additionally display the U . s . States' concerns as well as sights regarding the ongoing repressive measures in the area.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese language government pressure would be the wires pointing to Chinese language frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third countries. A Dec Twenty nine, 08 cable relates how Chinese language Assistant International Reverend Liu Jieyi met using the Ough.Utes. Ambassador to The far east to voice Beijing's powerful competitors of release in order to any country other than The far east, which if the Ough.S. do certainly accede for this ask for it would "avoid harm to bilateral relations and to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, a February 2009 cable television describes how the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act towards us" and a "slap in the face". That the U.S. government was firm in not really liberating the detainees to The far east demonstrates the degree of the politicized nature from the Chinese language judicial system. Legitimate concerns more than terrorism tend to be understandable, but in the Ough.Utes. government's observe the detainees would probably encounter do-it-yourself torture and execution if they came back in order to The far east

Chinese government pressure regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just applied to the actual Ough.S. federal government, but additionally in order to Brand new Zealand and a number of Western government authorities that were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, as well as Eu member says just about all have the symptoms of borne the brunt of Chinese language government disappointment. In the case of Germany, that was at first willing to consider two Uyghurs upon solely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been less better than additional detainees because of the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relationships along with China. The May Eight, 2009 cable television relates exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented that Indonesia had knowledgeable The far east from the Ough.Utes. request to accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had already been subsequently cautioned through China associated with ‘a large load on bilateral relations' if Indonesia had been to simply accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables also talk about the actual unrest within Urumchi, the local capital, in July '09. A July 13, 2009 cable discussing bulk incidents in China states:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet within March associated with 2008 differ markedly in origin and character through bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe problems for the actual Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Party management wouldn't hesitate to spread out fireplace upon Uighurs or Tibetans when they considered this necessary to restore purchase. Bulk incidents pose a different kind of risk, he explained, as the leadership is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters for anxiety about sparking massive public outrage that will turn from the Celebration."

This can be a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one considers the evidence offered in two reports launched this year through the Uyghur Individual Rights Task (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which fine detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of lethal reside fire towards Uyghur protestors in This summer '09. In addition, the actual declaration that fire wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for that various strategy used by Chinese language security causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders within Sept 2009. Throughout those protests, after that Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, who had demanded that he inform them regarding federal government reactions in order to security issues. An identical ask for to satisfy with the Celebration Secretary through Uyghur protesters within July wasn't fulfilled.

The broader consequences from the unrest also noticed a brief discussion on the effect it would possess upon Iran-China relationships, and on relationships along with Sydney after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the Nationwide Press Membership in Canberra in July 2009. Within the second option case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie bank that vendors the National Press Club to make use of its influence to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The U . s . States' concerns concerning the scenario within the Uyghur area are available through in the wires. In a discussion upon plan path within Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials clarify that it will be not possible for Chinese language frontrunners to consider the much softer collection "if they look like doing this under international pressure". The cable out dated 04 16, 08, one month following the episode associated with unrest in Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the declaration "that household stability continues to be leadership's top priority most of all, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no relaxation from the present difficult collection upon Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The information included in the cable also sheds gentle on the extreme level of sensitivity with which china federal government views territorial integrity, and the possible spill over associated with unrest through Tibet.

The prospect associated with methods to stress within Tibet and Xinjiang arising from civil culture are discussed inside a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable television. While suggesting which China's financial success increases its potential to deal with democratic change, the cable additionally discusses exactly how Chinese leaders begin to see the usefulness of "a limited expansion of civil culture, such as improvements within the guideline of regulation and a stronger part with regard to authorized beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations and other actors within areas that bring about sociable stability and don't problem Communist Party rule." This is a notable change in thinking, which has observed U.Utes. authorities market the idea that Chinese economic development, as well as financial relationships along with China will bring in regards to a steadily democratic society; nevertheless, much more faith seems to be put into the grassroots motion compared to one that starts from the best quantity of a Chinese language federal government. Nevertheless, the cable concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism leads to tighter limitations on the growth of municipal society." This method can be regarded as counter-productive by the official, who suggests that the actual U.S. federal government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's human privileges record and appeal to China's growing awareness which higher regard for individual privileges, spiritual freedom and also the guideline of regulation will serve to promote the very development and sociable balance that China looks for in addition to to improve China's international image." This type of strategy might consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird fear that the Usa privately promotes routine alter and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual wires offer insight into the every day company associated with diplomacy that is rarely afforded to everyone, which is interesting to note the amount of function carried out behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The significance of the part of the United States as a keep track of associated with Uyghur human rights problems within personal discussions is made obvious, and contrasts with its sensible public stance. The staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Task is actually comfortable with pressure china federal government puts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese language government pressure upon its alternatives is actually illustrative from the degree that Chinese language authorities attempt to control contradictory narratives. With more facts in the future through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs may not grab the head lines, however the wires possess get rid of brand new gentle on the documentation of human rights conditions within the Uyghur region.

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghur People

by holly upon December 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were ever uncertain, info obtained by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese language government worries over it's continued charge of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, also is known as East Turkestan. The leaked out cables from U.Utes. diplomats show the actual extent to which Chinese language authorities make an effort to convince government authorities worldwide to consider its stance upon problems affecting Uyghurs. The cables additionally show the U . s . States' concerns and views regarding the ongoing repressive steps in the area.

Most illuminating associated with Chinese government stress would be the cables directed in order to Chinese anger, or the specter of Chinese language ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A Dec Twenty nine, 08 cable relates exactly how Chinese language Assistant International Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the U.S. Ambassador in order to China in order to tone of voice Beijing's strong opposition of launch in order to any kind of country other than The far east, and that if the Ough.Utes. did indeed accede to this ask for it would "avoid harm to bilateral relationships and to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, a February 2009 cable television describes the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act toward us" along with a "slap in the face". That the U.Utes. federal government stood company in not really releasing the actual detainees in order to The far east demonstrates the degree of the politicized character of the Chinese judicial program. Genuine concerns more than terrorism tend to be easy to understand, but in the actual U.S. government's view the detainees would probably face torture as well as execution when they came back in order to China

Chinese language government pressure regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just applied to the U.Utes. federal government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand and a number of Western governments that were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, in addition to European Union fellow member states all appear to have paid for the brunt of Chinese government disappointment. Regarding Germany, that was at first prepared to think about two Uyghurs on purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been much less preferable to other detainees because of the negative effects accepting Uyghurs might have upon relationships with The far east. A Might Eight, '09 cable relates exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported which Indonesia had knowledgeable The far east of the U.Utes. request to accept some Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo coupled with been subsequently warned through The far east associated with ‘a large load on bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia had been to simply accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally talk about the unrest within Urumchi, the local capital, in July '09. The This summer Thirteen, '09 cable television discussing mass incidents in China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet within 03 of 2008 vary markedly in source and character through mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present serious trouble for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Celebration management would not hesitate to open fire upon Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed this necessary to restore order. Bulk occurrences pose a different kind of threat, he explained, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters for fear of causing massive public outrage that will turn against the Party."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one considers the evidence offered in two reports launched this season by the Uyghur Human Rights Task (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which fine detail eyewitness company accounts of the use of lethal live fire against Uyghur protestors within July '09. In addition, the actual declaration which fire wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the various strategy used by Chinese language protection forces within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese language direct orders within September '09. Throughout those protests, after that Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, who had demanded he let them know regarding federal government reactions to protection issues. A similar ask for to meet using the Celebration Assistant by Uyghur demonstrators in July wasn't fulfilled.

The broader consequences of the unrest additionally saw a brief dialogue about the effect it might possess upon Iran-China relations, and on relations along with Sydney after World Uyghur Congress President, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the Nationwide Press Membership in Canberra within August 2009. Within the latter situation, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian financial institution which vendors the National Push Club to use it's influence to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The U . s . States' concerns concerning the scenario within the Uyghur region also come through in the wires. In a dialogue upon plan direction within Tibet, Ough.S. officials explain that it will be impossible with regard to Chinese leaders to consider a softer line "if they look like they are doing this below international pressure". The cable out dated 04 Sixteen, 08, 30 days following the episode of unrest in Tibetan regions, also relayed the declaration "that domestic stability continues to be leadership's main concern most of all, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being no relaxation from the current difficult collection on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info included in the cable also storage sheds gentle on the extreme sensitivity that the Chinese government views territorial integrity, and also the possible drip more than associated with unrest through Tibet.

The chance of methods to tensions within Tibet as well as Xinjiang as a result of civil culture tend to be discussed inside a Feb 24, 08 cable television. While suggesting that China's economic achievement increases it's potential to deal with democratic change, the cable television additionally discusses how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness associated with "a limited growth of municipal society, including enhancements within the guideline of law and a more powerful part for approved beliefs, NGOs, charities and other stars within areas which bring about social stability and do not challenge Communist Celebration rule." This is a notable alternation in thinking, which has seen U.Utes. authorities promote the idea which Chinese financial development, as well as financial relations with China brings in regards to a progressively democratic society; however, much more belief appears to be placed in a grassroots motion than one that starts in the top quantity of a Chinese federal government. Nevertheless, the actual cable proves which "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tighter limitations on the development of municipal society." This method is viewed as counter-productive through the recognized, that shows that the actual Ough.S. federal government "should still express...serious issues over Beijing's individual privileges report as well as attract China's growing consciousness that greater respect with regard to human rights, spiritual freedom and also the rule associated with regulation will serve to promote the improvement and sociable stability which China looks for as well as to improve China's international image." Such a strategy might consider considerable diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird fear that the Usa privately encourages routine change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The cables offer understanding of the actual daily business of diplomacy that is rarely owned by the general public, which is interesting to notice the amount of work done behind closed doors upon Uyghur issues. The importance of the role of the United States as a monitor associated with Uyghur individual privileges problems within personal discussions is made clear, and contrasts using its tactful open public stance. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is well aware of pressure china government puts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese federal government stress on it's counterparts is illustrative from the degree which Chinese officials make an effort to suppress contrary narratives. With more facts in the future from Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs might not grab the actual head lines, however the wires have shed brand new gentle on the documentation associated with individual privileges problems in the Uyghur area.

 

Search Engine Optimisation And Marketing with articles Will Place You On The 1st Page

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Roofing Contractors Vancouver Washington

There are numerous things to consider when looking for a roofing contractor. Price tag, experience, and referrals are a few of the things you will likely be concerned about. Continue reading for even other great ideas.

• Finding a Roofers

Before hunting for a roofing contractor, make sure you have a standard idea of the project that you need to have done. By no means must you be a specialist. If you have the Roof Certification, read it carefully to find the details about your present roof. Unless you have a Top Certificate, reference documents authorized during concluding to locate houses roof Inspection sheet. These paperwork should give you everything you need to know about your roof. Prior to contacting a roofing contractor, you ought to have a list of demands and specs to help you make a decision exactly who is suitable for your roofer project. Make sure to write down each potential roof covering contractor's answers as well as check these against the other person. If you will find any inacucuracy, be sure to notice this and take this into consideration when coming up with a final selection. There are no straightforward ways to choose a roofing contractor, in case you take take to the data provided, your odds of a successful roofing project are usually greatly enhanced.

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• Preliminary research

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• Licensing and Referrals

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Portraits of Uyghur People

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the northern-west part of China, the province of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the very least populated province while it covers near to a sixth of the nation's territory. Having resisted while in hundreds of years the chinese domination, Xinjiang, or Old Turkestan, fell within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is primarily Uyghur People and Turkish - speaking System.

Muslim especially, the Uyghur people have a strong religious identity that, in particular, permitted them to keep a solid big difference towards the Chinese invader. Without a doubt, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a excellent civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their own background, the Uyghurs successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., thus beginning the way to the Islamization of the entire Central Asia.

Under the influence of the religions which they adopted, the Uyghurs taken successively, and sometimes in a competing way, a large number of written forms (turco-runic, brahmi, tokharien, soghdien) before developing their own graphic system.

The arrival of Islam was a great modification mainly because it was followed by the assimilation of the Uyghur land in the immense Turco-Mongolian and Muslim Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan progressively replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used today.

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

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only 9 million population - a trifle for this particular immense region. Therefore, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six ethnic minority groups having been known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This law will allow them a few rights in a land exactly where their big difference is very often repressed. Therefore, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is recognized as the second official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in China, however, looks really illusory. The presence of natural sources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its distance with locations known as 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 work 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 in particular the recognition of their true identity, this movement was seriously repressed by the power authorities in place Xinjiang.

The events 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 continue to keep their identification and their culture , despite the fact that they become a minority on their own territory.

To get more detailed information about Uyghur people, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

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While out of work, Charlie Sheen is winning. There is so much to learn from him. Here are 7 things he taught me about living frugally.

When Un-Employed, Downsize

Don't pay someone to do something you can do yourself. Sure, some people may say that his publicist quit after outrageous comments in interviews. Maybe it was the fallout from erratic behavior. Or maybe, Charlie just realized he needed to get smarter with his cash. Newly unemployed, Charlie can be his own publicist and save all that money he was using on Stan Rosenfield. If you're out of work, learn from Charlie. Who needs an electrician? You can re-wire your own lighting. Tire center to fix your brakes? Get a couple of loaner books from the library and fix them yourself. You're learning a trade, building your resume, and saving money! If Charlie doesn't go back to work as an actor, he can try his hands in a new trade as a publicist. This is what's referred to as “bi-winning.”

Have a Winning Attitude

Just because we're in a downsizing economy, facing higher food and oil prices, under-employment and crumbling local governments, it doesn't mean you won't be able to be hired at the job you're applying to. Stop reading the news for awhile if it starts getting you down. Give yourself a tiger-blood, Adonis DNA, pep-talk before hitting the interview. If you can't afford to celebrate with champagne, or even beer, drink up that milk with gusto. Think of all the delicious fortifying nutrients your body is getting. Clip coupons with panache. Serve leftovers with style. To do frugal living the Sheen way, it's all about attitude.

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Let's get this out right now: No, you cannot have your own goddesses to cheer you up. Only Charlie Sheen can do that. However, you can surround yourself with people who love you for free. In fact, invite as many free friends as you can over to your house and celebrate how lucky you are to have what really matters in life: relationships. Bonus: Make it a pot luck and you get a cheap meal as well.

All right, so we knew former Bell officials were bellying up to the public trough. But is there a difference between a pig and a hog?

I decided to check after reading about this e-mail exchange between former Bell Assistant City Administrator Angela Spaccia and Randy Adams, who was about to become the police chief:

ADAMS: "I am looking forward to seeing you and taking all of Bell's money?!"

SPACCIA: "Okay … just a share of it!! LOL … well you can take your share of the pie … just like us!!! We will all get fat together … Bob has an expression he likes to use on occasion … Pigs get Fat … Hogs get slaughtered!!!! So as long as we're not Hogs … All is well!"

Bob, of course, is Robert Rizzo, the former city administrator who made nearly $800,000 a year. Bob is looking at 53 felony counts in the alleged looting of the city of Bell, so I think you could say the slaughter has begun.

Adams was paid more than $400,000; and Spaccia, who made $376,000, is charged with misappropriating funds. They all got fat together, in other words, and whether you use the term pig, hog or wild boar, what can you say to any of this but oink, oink, oink?

The exchange between Spaccia and Adams was released in the midst of Monday's preliminary hearing, and Spaccia's attorney Russell Petti wasted no time in putting a cloven hoof into his own mouth. He told Times reporter Jeff Gottlieb we shouldn't get the wrong idea about those e-mails, because Spaccia was actually "trying to save the city of Bell money."

Thanks, counselor. I'll believe that when pigs fly, as they say.

Petti also said: "The intent of that is, 'Look, we're all very well compensated by the city and let's not be pigs about it.' "

Yeah, sure. Spaccia tells Adams they'll all get fat together, Adams ends up making more than police chiefs in Los Angeles and New York, and she's out to save Bell money?

But I digress. Is there a difference between a pig and a hog?

Apparently so.

The dictionary says a pig is "any of several mammals of the Suidae family." Or, "any person regarded as being pig-like, greedy or gross."

A hog is defined as a pig weighing over 120 pounds, and also as a "self-indulgent, gluttonous or filthy person."

So are they pigs or are they hogs?

To be safe, should we just go with swine?

-- Steve Lopez

Photos: (Left) Randy Adams in June 2010. Credit: Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times. (Right): Angela Spaccia in October 2010. Credit: Al Seib / Los Angeles Times

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