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Mets outfielder Jason Bay may land on the disabled list with a strained muscle.

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Small Business News: Social Media Brand

What is your social media brand? Do you have one? Sure, many small business owners and entrepreneurs are coming around to the enormous importance of social.

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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.

Dirty Percent

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

It’s not hard to make the case that Apple’s new in-app subscription system offers numerous benefits to users, developers, and publishers. But whatever those benefits, they stem from the mere existence of these new subscription APIs. What’s controversial is the size of Apple’s cut: 30 percent.

No one is arguing that Apple shouldn’t get some cut of in-app purchases that go through iTunes. And, if Apple were taking a substantially smaller cut, there would be substantially fewer people objecting to Apple’s rules (that subscription-based publishing apps must use the system; that they can’t link to their external sign-up web page from within the app; and that they must offer in-app subscribers the same prices available outside the app).

The reasonable arguments against Apple’s policies seem to be:

Apple should be taking less, perhaps far less, than 30 percent.

Apple should not require subscription-based apps to use the in-app subscription APIs. If it’s a good deal for publishers, they’ll choose to use the system on their own.

Apple should not require price-matching from subscription offers outside the app. Publishers should be allowed to charge iOS users more money to cover Apple’s cut.

Apple should consider business models that simply can’t afford a 70/30 revenue split.

Let’s consider these in reverse order.

Apple Should Consider Business Models That Can’t Afford a 70/30 Revenue Split

Apple doesn’t give a damn about companies with business models that can’t afford a 70/30 split. Apple’s running a competitive business; competition is cold and hard. And who exactly can’t afford a 70/30 split? Middlemen. It’s not that Apple is opposed to middlemen — it’s that Apple wants to be the middleman. It’s difficult to expect them to be sympathetic to the plights of other middlemen.

Some of these apps and services that are left out might be ones that iOS users enjoy, though. This is the leading argument for how this new policy will in fact hurt users, and, as a result, Apple itself: it’ll drive good apps off the platform. Frequently mentioned examples: Netflix and Kindle. For all we know, though, Netflix may well be fine with this policy. Apple would only get a 30 percent cut of new subscriptions that go through the Netflix iOS app, and that might be a bounty Netflix can live with in exchange for more subscribers. Keep in mind, too, that Netflix and Apple seemingly get along well enough that Netflix is built into the Apple TV system software.

Kindle, and e-book platforms in general, are a different case. For one thing, Kindle doesn’t use subscriptions. Kindle offers purchases. Presumably, given Apple’s rejection of Sony’s e-book platform app last month, Apple is going to insist on the same rules for in-app purchases through apps like Kindle as they do for in-app subscriptions. If so, something’s got to give. The “agency model” through which e-books are sold requires the bookseller to give the publisher 70 percent of the sale price. So if the publisher gets 70 and Apple gets 30, that leaves a big fat nothing for Amazon, or Barnes & Noble, or Kobo, or anyone else selling books through native iOS apps — other than iBooks, of course.

But leaving aside the revenue split, there are technical limitations as well. The existing in-app purchasing system in iOS has a technical limit of 3,500 catalog items. I.e. any single app can offer no more than 3,500 items for in-app purchase. Amazon has hundreds of thousands of Kindle titles.

Something’s got to give here. I don’t know what, but there must be more news on this front coming soon. I don’t believe Apple wants to chase competing e-book platforms off the App Store.

Apple Should Not Require Price Matching

Why not allow developers and publishers to set their own prices for in-app subscriptions? One reason: Apple wants its customers to get the best price — and, to know that they’re getting the best price whenever they buy a subscription through an app. It’s a confidence in the brand thing: with Apple’s rules, users know they’re getting the best price, they know they’ll be able to unsubscribe easily, and they know their privacy is protected.

Credit card companies insist on similar rules: retailers pay a processing fee for every credit card transaction, but the credit card companies insist that these fees not be passed on to the customer. Customers pay the same price as they would if they used cash — which encourages them to use their credit card liberally. (Going further, many charge cards offer cash back on each purchase — they can do this because the cash-back percentage refunded to the customer is less than the transaction processing fee paid by the retailer.)

So the same-price rule is good for the user, and good for Apple. But Matt Drance argues that Apple could dissipate much of this subscription controversy by waiving this rule:

The requirement that IAP content be offered “at the same price
or less than it is offered outside the app,” combined with the
70/30 split, means developers must make less money off of iOS by
definition. They can’t price their IAP content higher to offset
the commission, nor can they price their own retail content lower.

If I am interpreting this correctly, I can’t bring myself to see
it as reasonable. […] I think a great deal of this drama could
go away if Apple dropped section 11.13 while keeping section
11.14: Your prices on your store are your business; just don’t
be a jerk and advertise the difference all over ours.

And I agree with him. Yes, the same-price rule is good for users and for Apple, but waiving this rule wouldn’t be particularly bad for users or for Apple, either — and it would give publishers some freedom to experiment.

I suspect one reason Apple won’t budge is that their competitors — like Amazon — insist on best-price matching.

Apple Should Not Require Apps to Offer In-App Subscriptions

I’m sympathetic to this argument, too. “If you don’t like our terms, don’t use our subscription system.” But it has occurred to me that this entire in-app subscription debate mirrors the debate surrounding the App Store itself back in 2008 — that 30 percent was too large a cut for Apple to take, that it shouldn’t be mandatory, etc. The same way many developers wanted (and still want) a way to sell native iOS apps on their own, outside the App Store, many publishers now want a way to sell subscriptions on their own, outside the App Store.

The fact is, the App Store is an all-or-nothing affair. You play by Apple’s rules or you stick to web apps through Mobile Safari. This alternative is no different for periodical publishers than it was (and remains) for app developers in general. A lot of these demands boil down to a desire for more autonomy for native iOS app developers. Apple has never shown any interest in that.

There’s one striking difference between the subscription controversy today and the App Store controversy in 2008: with subscriptions, Apple is taking away the ability to do something that they previously allowed. There was never a supported way to install native apps for iOS before the App Store. Subscriptions sold outside the App Store, on the other hand, were allowed until last month.

Apple Should Be Taking Less, Possibly Far Less, Than 30 Percent

Another difference between the App Store itself and in-app subscriptions is that with apps, Apple hosts and serves the downloads. Apple covers the bandwidth, even for gargantuan gigabyte-or-larger 99-cent games. The OS handles installation.

With in-app subscriptions (and purchases), however, the app developer is responsible for hosting the content, and for writing the code to download, store, and manage it. So — one reasonable argument goes — given that Apple is doing less for subscription content than it does for apps (or for music and movies purchased through iTunes), Apple should take less of the money.

Taken further, the argument boils down to this: that for in-app subscriptions and purchases, Apple is serving only as a payment processer — and thus, a reasonable fee for transactions would be in the small single digits — 3, 4, maybe 5 percent, say. More or less something along the lines of what PayPal charges.

Apple, I think it’s clear, doesn’t see it this way. Apple sees the entire App Store, along with all native iOS apps, as an upscale, premium software store: owned, controlled, and managed like a physical shopping mall. Brick and mortar retailers don’t settle for a single-digit cut of retail prices; neither does the App Store.

Seth Godin argues that Apple’s 30 percent cut is too big to allow publishers to profit:

Except Apple has announced that they want to tax each subscription
made via the iPad at 30%. Yes, it’s a tax, because what it does is
dramatically decrease the incremental revenue from each
subscriber. An intelligent publisher only has two choices: raise
the price (punishing the reader and further cutting down
readership) or make it free and hope for mass (see my point above
about the infinite newsstand). When you make it free, it’s all
about the ads, and if you don’t reach tens or hundreds of
thousands of subscribers, you’ll fail.

Godin’s logic strikes me as questionable. For one thing, he freely switches between a newsstand metaphor (arguing, perhaps accurately, that the App Store is too large for publishers to gain attention from potential readers in the first place — you won’t read what you never notice) and the economics of subscriptions. But subscribers are the opposite of newsstand readers. Newsstand readers are buying a single copy, often on impulse. Subscribers are readers who are already hooked, and who know what they want. Put another way, the size of Apple’s cut of subscription revenue — whether it were higher or lower — has no bearing on the “attention at the newsstand” problem.

Second, the problem facing traditional publishers today is that circulation is falling. Newsstand sales and subscriptions are falling, under pressure from free-of-charge websites and other forms of digital content. The idea with Apple’s 70-30 revenue split is that developers and publishers can make it up in volume — that people aren’t just somewhat more willing to pay for content through iTunes than other online content stores, they are far more willing. The idea is that Apple has cracked a nut no one else1 has — they’ve created an ecosystem where hundreds of millions of people are willing to pay for digital content. Thus, potentially, publishers won’t just make more money keeping only 70 percent of subscription fees generated through iOS apps than they are now with 96 percent (or whatever they’re left with after payment processing fees) of subscription fees they’re selling on their own — they stand to make a lot more money.

I’m not guaranteeing or even predicting that it’s going to work out that way. I’m just saying that’s Apple’s proposition.

Godin’s assumption is that iOS in-app subscriptions won’t significantly increase the number of subscribers. If he’s right about that, then he’s right that Apple’s 30 percent cut will prove too expensive for publishers. But Apple’s bet is that in-app subscriptions can dramatically increase the number of subscribers. Consider the app landscape. Apple’s 30 percent cut didn’t drive the price of paid apps up — the nature of the App Store drove prices down. It’s a volume game.

The App Store itself proves that Apple might be right. Like with app sales, in-app subscriptions won’t work for every publication. But it could work for many. It really is possible to make it up in volume.

And if a 70-30 split for in-app subscription revenue doesn’t work, the price will come down. That’s how capitalism works. You choose a price and see how it goes. I’ll admit — when the App Store launched in 2008, I thought Apple’s 70-30 split was skewed too heavily in Apple’s favor. Not that it was wrong in any moral sense, but that it was wrong in a purely economic sense: that it might be more than developers would be willing to bear. Apple, clearly, has a better sense about what prices the market will bear than I (and, likely, you) do.

Competition vs. Anti-Competition

One last argument I’ve seen regarding these in-app subscription rules is that it’s further evidence of anti-competitive behavior from Apple. That makes sense only if you consider iOS to be the entire field of play. Apple, though, is competing at a higher level. They’re competing between platforms: iOS vs. Kindle/Amazon vs. Android/Google vs. Microsoft, and in some ways, vs. the free web. Why should publishers make an app rather than just a mobile web site? For happier customers and more money.

Sony has a platform for e-books. Amazon has a platform for e-books. Barnes & Noble has a platform for e-books. Apple has a platform for e-books. But Apple is the only one which allows its competitors to have apps on its devices. And Apple is the anti-competitive one? I’m no lawyer, but if the iTunes Music store hasn’t yet been deemed a monopoly with Apple selling 70+ percent of digital music players, then I doubt the App Store will be deemed a monopoly for a market where Apple has never been — and, according to market share trends, may never be — the top-selling smartphone maker, let alone own a majority of the market, let alone own more than a single-digit sliver of the phone market as a whole. As for ruthless profiteering, consider that Amazon, with their e-book publishing, originally took the fat end of a 70-30 revenue split with authors.

One question I’ve been asked by several DF readers who object to Apple’s new in-app subscription and purchasing policies goes like this: What if Microsoft did this with Windows, and, say, tried to require Apple to pay them 30 percent for every purchase made through iTunes on Windows? To that, I say: good luck with that. Microsoft couldn’t make such a change by fiat. The whole premise of Windows (and other personal computer systems) is that it is open to third-party software. Apple couldn’t just flip a switch and make Mac OS X a controlled app console system like iOS — they had to introduce the Mac App Store as an alternative to traditional software installation. If Microsoft introduced something similar to the Mac App Store for Windows, Apple would simply eschew it. If Microsoft were to mandate an iOS App Store-like total control policy for all Windows software, they’d have a revolt in their user base that would make Vista look like a success.

iOS isn’t and never was an open computer system. It’s a closed, controlled console system — more akin to Playstation or Wii or Xbox than to Mac OS X or Windows. It is, in Apple’s view, a privilege to have a native iOS app.

This is what galls some: Apple is doing this because they can, and no other company is in a position to do it. This is not a fear that in-app subscriptions will fail because Apple’s 30 percent slice is too high, but rather that in-app subscriptions will succeed despite Apple’s (in their minds) egregious profiteering. I.e. that charging what the market will bear is somehow unscrupulous. To the charge that Apple Inc. is a for-profit corporation run by staunch capitalists, I say, “Duh”.

If it works, Apple’s 30-percent take of in-app subscriptions will prove as objectionable in the long run as the App Store itself: not very.

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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 Money Off Youtube

What's up with buying tickets to Next instead of just making a reservation? That's creativity as well. Nick, my business partner, said, "you know, Chef, this doesn't make any sense to me. Everybody that opens a restaurant does it exactly the same way. Why don't we identify the elements of operating a restaurant that clearly don't work, rip the whole thing apart and put it back together in a way that makes sense as a business, then maybe we'll have something."

So having five reservationists—a grand total of $175,000 a year—to answer the phone from 9AM to 6PM, and tell people they cannot come to our place to spend money, because we're full, that makes absolutely no sense.

For Next you will have four menus a year, and each one is a different time and place. How much poetic license are you going take with those menus? We're starting out with Paris 1912 Escoffier. Anyone who has read any of Escoffier's cookbooks knows they are incredibly vague. Back in the early 1900s, they didn't have a VitaPrep blender. He pushed everything through a fine screen. Do we use a screen to uphold the authenticity of Escoffier? Or, do we use a blender to uphold Escoffier's philosophy about using the technology we have? Of course you'll use the blender.

When we go into the future, Bangkok 2060, obviously nobody knows what it's going to be like in 2060. So, sure, we're going to take some poetic license. But you can bet we'll do our homework and look at where Thai food has been the last couple of hundred years, identify the way it's swung, and try to extrapolate what WE think it might be like in 2060.

It looks like the Modernist Cuisine cookbook is going to have some adapted Alinea recipes. Do you align yourself with the Modernist movement? I will by no means parallel myself with the Beatles, but they went through their career, starting off in Liverpool playing one kind of music, then came to the States. By the time they did the White Album, stylistically, they were executing from a far different place. Alinea is aligned with the Modernist Cuisine movement but me, personally, I have the opportunity, to be at one time a modernist chef, then over at Next, I can be something entirely different.

Who do you consider to be the target audience for cookbooks like Modernist Cuisine or Alinea's? Do you see the future American kitchen incorporating dishes like these? We understood when we published the Alinea book in 2008 that a small handful of people would cook out of it. But we also know, because that book was published, it lends a little more credibility to the movement. Ten years from now, it might be more popular for people to cook like this at home, for the very reason that we printed those books.

What's the best thing you've recently eaten for under $20? We were in Tokyo about six months ago and had the most amazing bowl of ramen. It was bigger than my head. It would be like four meals for under $20, if you don't count the flight.

Over $150? It was in Sapporo, Japan. When the chef came out at the end of the meal, I felt like I already knew him. I had never met him before, nor could we communicate, but I felt like there was this connection after eating his food. And to me that's magical.

Pizza pizza!

At Slice we profile pizza obsessives with the following question: The Pizza Cognition Theory states that "the first slice of pizza a child sees and tastes ... becomes, for him, pizza." Do you remember your first slice? Where was it from, and is the place still around? Not my very first slice, but I could probably tell you where it was from. It was literally Little Caeser's pizza in my tiny hometown. Every Friday night that was like the go-to in my house.

Are you into deep dish? I am, but I prefer thin. I had the best pizza experience in my life about 3 weeks ago. It was at Great Lake, here in Chicago. It's a tiny little place, husband and wife team, BYOB. They have one pizza they make a night. You walk in, you get your salad, you get your pizza—whatever they're making that night. It's freaking awesome, man.

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Monday, March 28, 2011

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What to anticipate When Hiring a Roofing Contractor

When it comes time to repair or even substitute your homes roof, it can be a challenging task to find somebody that is qualified to do the job. There are lots of roofing contractors out there, but the types who'll do a great job for any sensible cost aren't frequently easy to find. If you're in the marketplace for the contractor, use the tips beneath with regard to interviewing and hiring the correct one.

Interview and Consultation

The majority of roofing contractors offer free consultations. This is particularly essential, because it gives them an opportunity to evaluate what your roof requirements, and it provides you with an opportunity to assess all of them. As with all of companies, trust your instincts concerning the people a person allow up onto your roof. No issue exactly how good a contractor's reputation or suggestion, he or she ought to start by showing you with a business card. If a service provider occurs looking and talking in an less than professional method, chances are that the job he's going to do will also be unprofessional. This isn't to say that you ought to anticipate companies to reach in suits. They will be climbing on your roof, so most is going to be dressed up in jeans as well as function boots or sneakers. If the actual service provider appears to be more interested in talking upon their cell phone while on your roof than he's within analyzing your roof's requirements, that may be another sign that he is not really the one to do the job. For the lawful safety, make sure that the contractor offers sufficient liability insurance.

Roofing Assessment

Expect the contractor will be rising on your roofing. Actually, any contractor who not need to go up on your roof to judge the issue should be immediately discounted. Those who are seriously interested in their function will either create a sketching of the roof's surface and mark trouble spots on it because they undergo their own assessment, or even they will consider pictures or even video of the surface area while they are up there. This is an extremely important action, since it allows you to observe exactly what the troubles are as well as know how they'll be set.

Estimate

The next step would be the written estimation. The service provider will take out his calculator and are available up with an itemized estimation. Some contractors goes to their truck or even van and write down the suggestion, while some will crisis the actual numbers for the job in front of you. Once you are given the proposal, make sure that you comprehend exactly which products is going to be used, how long the task will take and when you will find any additional or concealed expenses that could occur during the repair from the roof. The service provider should be able to answer many of these concerns with ease and forewarn a person of any additional expenses that could be sustained should the roof's integrity be broken within.

After you have obtained a few created estimates from roofers, evaluate exactly what every company or even contractor is willing to provide for the cost. Do not necessarily discount the highest bet, because occasionally the greatest bet will actually be the contractor who the task correctly. Additionally, be skeptical of prices for bids that are not nearly as expensive other people. They may be utilizing substandard products or be unethical about the possibility of hidden costs. Most importantly, trust your intuition as well as go with the actual service provider who enables you to feel quite comfortable about giving more than your 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.

Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

through henry on December 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been actually uncertain, information obtained through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese language government fears more than its continued control of the region this calls Xinjiang, also is known as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked cables from U.S. diplomats show the extent that Chinese authorities attempt to persuade governments globally to consider its position upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The actual cables additionally display the actual United States' issues and sights concerning the on going repressive steps in the area.

Most lighting of Chinese federal government pressure are the wires directed in order to Chinese frustration, or the specter of Chinese ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third nations. The Dec Twenty nine, 08 cable applies exactly how Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to China in order to voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with launch in order to any country other than The far east, which if the U.S. did indeed accede for this ask for it would "avoid harm to bilateral relations and to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, a Feb '09 cable explains how the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly behave toward us" and a "slap within the face". The U.Utes. federal government was firm in not liberating the actual detainees to The far east illustrates the actual degree of the politicized character of the Chinese language judicial program. Genuine issues more than terrorism are understandable, but in the actual U.S. government's view the detainees would most likely encounter torture as well as execution when they came back to China

Chinese language federal government stress regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just put on the actual U.S. government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand along with a number of European government authorities that were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, in addition to Eu member says all appear to have borne the actual impact of Chinese government unhappiness. Regarding Germany, that was at first willing to consider two Uyghurs on purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less better than other detainees because of the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs would have upon relationships along with China. The May Eight, 2009 cable television applies how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Indonesia had knowledgeable The far east from the U.S. ask for to simply accept a few Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo and had been consequently warned through China associated with ‘a large load on bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia had been to accept any kind of detainees".

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

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet in March of 08 vary markedly in origin as well as nature through mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious trouble for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party management wouldn't hesitate to spread out fireplace upon Uighurs or Tibetans if they considered it necessary to restore purchase. Bulk occurrences present a different kind of threat, he explained, since the leadership is ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters for anxiety about causing massive open public outrage that would turn from the Party."

This can be a chilling viewpoint, particularly when one considers the evidence offered in two reviews released this year through the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which detail eyewitness company accounts from the use of lethal reside fireplace against Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. In addition, the actual observation which fire would not be deployed towards Han Chinese protestors has resonances for that various approach taken through Chinese protection forces within Urumchi to Han Chinese language direct orders within September 2009. During those protests, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, that experienced demanded that he let them know about government reactions to protection concerns. An identical request to satisfy with the Party Assistant by Uyghur demonstrators in July was not fulfilled.

The wider consequences of the unrest additionally noticed a short dialogue about the impact it would possess on Iran-China relationships, and on relationships along with Australia following World Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the National Push Membership in Canberra in July '09. Within the latter situation, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian financial institution which sponsors the nation's Push Membership to make use of it's influence to block a Kadeer speech there".

The United States' concerns concerning the situation in the Uyghur area also come via in the cables. In a discussion upon plan direction within Tibet, U.Utes. authorities clarify that it will end up being impossible for Chinese language leaders to consider the much softer collection "if they look like they are doing so under worldwide pressure". The actual cable television out dated April 16, 2008, one month after the outbreak associated with unrest in Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the observation "that household stability remains the leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there will ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest from the present hard line upon Tibet or in locations such as Xinjiang." The info included in the cable also storage sheds gentle on the severe sensitivity that the Chinese government views territorial integrity, and also the possible drip more than associated with unrest through Tibet.

The prospect of methods to stress within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of civil culture are debated in a February 24, 2008 cable. Whilst recommending that China's financial achievement increases it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the actual cable also talks about how Chinese frontrunners see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted growth associated with municipal society, such as improvements within the guideline of regulation along with a more powerful part for approved beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations and other actors in areas that bring about sociable stability and do not problem Communist Party rule." This is a significant alternation in considering, that has seen Ough.Utes. officials promote the idea that Chinese language economic improvement, as well as economic relationships with The far east brings about a steadily democratic culture; however, much more belief appears to be put into the grassroots movement compared to one which begins from the best levels of the Chinese language federal government. Nonetheless, the actual cable television concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tight limitations about the growth of municipal culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive by the recognized, that shows that the actual U.Utes. government "should continue to express...serious concerns over Beijing's human privileges record as well as appeal to China's developing consciousness which higher respect with regard to individual privileges, spiritual independence and also the guideline of regulation assists to promote the very development and social balance that The far east seeks in addition to to enhance China's worldwide image." Such a technique would consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid concern that the Usa privately promotes routine change as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual cables offer understanding of the daily business associated with diplomacy that's rarely afforded to everyone, which is fascinating to note the quantity of function done nowadays on Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual part of the us as a keep track of of Uyghur individual privileges problems within personal conversations is made obvious, as well as contrasts with its sensible open public stance. Employees from the Uyghur Human Rights Project is well aware of pressure the Chinese federal government exerts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details associated with Chinese government pressure upon it's counterparts is illustrative from the diploma that Chinese language officials make an effort to control contrary stories. With increased facts in the future from Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs might not get the actual head lines, however the wires have shed brand new light on the documentation associated with individual privileges problems in the Uyghur area.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

by holly on Dec 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it had been ever uncertain, information obtained through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese language government fears more than its ongoing charge of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as East Turkestan. The leaked wires from U.S. diplomats demonstrate the degree that Chinese language government bodies make an effort to convince government authorities worldwide to adopt it's stance upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The cables also display the U . s . States' issues as well as views concerning the on going repressive steps in the region.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese federal government stress are the wires pointing in order to Chinese frustration, or even the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. A December Twenty nine, 08 cable relates exactly how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to China to voice Beijing's powerful opposition of launch in order to any kind of country other than The far east, which when the U.Utes. did indeed accede for this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the February 2009 cable describes the way the Chinese language Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act toward us" and a "slap in the face". That the U.Utes. federal government stood firm in not really liberating the actual detainees to China illustrates the degree from the politicized character of the Chinese judicial program. Genuine issues more than terrorism tend to be easy to understand, but in the U.Utes. government's view the detainees would most likely encounter torture and execution if they came back in order to China

Chinese federal government pressure in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only applied to the U.Utes. government, but additionally to Brand new Zealand along with a number of European governments which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to Eu member states all have the symptoms of borne the brunt of Chinese federal government disappointment. In the case of Indonesia, which was at first willing to consider 2 Uyghurs on solely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less better than other detainees due to the negative effects accepting Uyghurs might have upon relationships with The far east. A May Eight, 2009 cable applies how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented which Indonesia experienced knowledgeable The far east from the Ough.S. ask for to simply accept a few Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo and had already been subsequently cautioned 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 unrest within Urumchi, the regional capital, within This summer '09. A This summer Thirteen, 2009 cable talking about mass incidents within The far east states:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 of 2008 differ markedly in source as well as nature through bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Celebration management would not wait to spread out fireplace on Uighurs or even Tibetans when they deemed it necessary to recover order. Bulk incidents present another type of risk, he explained, since the leadership is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters for fear of sparking massive open public outrage that will change against the Party."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one views evidence offered in two reviews launched this season through the Uyghur Human Privileges Task (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which fine detail eyewitness company accounts from the use of deadly reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors within July 2009. In addition, the observation that fireplace would not be deployed against Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for the different approach taken through Chinese protection forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese language direct orders within Sept 2009. During individuals protests, then Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, who experienced required he let them know regarding government reactions to security issues. A similar ask for to satisfy with the Party Secretary through Uyghur protesters in This summer wasn't met.

The wider consequences of the unrest additionally saw a short discussion on the effect it might possess upon Iran-China relations, as well as on relationships along with Australia after World Uyghur Our elected representatives President, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the Nationwide Push Membership in Canberra in July 2009. Within the second option case, china government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie bank which sponsors the National Press Membership to make use of its impact to bar a Kadeer talk there".

The actual United States' issues about the situation within the Uyghur region are available via within the wires. In a discussion upon plan path within Tibet, Ough.Utes. authorities clarify that it will end up being impossible with regard to Chinese frontrunners to consider a much softer line "if they look like they are doing this under worldwide pressure". The cable television dated April Sixteen, 2008, one month after the episode of unrest within Tibetan areas, also 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 absolutely no relaxation of the present difficult line on Tibet or in places like Xinjiang." The information included in the cable television additionally storage sheds gentle about the extreme sensitivity with which the Chinese federal government sights territorial ethics, and also the feasible drip over of unrest from Tibet.

The chance of solutions to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of municipal society are discussed inside a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable television. Whilst suggesting that China's financial success increases its resistance to democratic change, the cable additionally talks about exactly how Chinese language frontrunners see the effectiveness of "a limited growth associated with civil culture, such as enhancements within the guideline associated with regulation and a stronger part for approved religions, NGOs, charities along with other stars in areas which bring about social stability and don't challenge Communist Celebration rule." This can be a notable alternation in considering, that has observed U.S. authorities market the notion that Chinese language financial improvement, as well as economic relationships with The far east brings in regards to a progressively democratic culture; nevertheless, more faith seems to be put into a grassroots movement than one that starts from the best quantity of a Chinese language federal government. Nonetheless, the actual cable television proves which "[i]n areas for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism leads to tight restrictions on the development of municipal culture." This method is viewed as counter-productive through the recognized, that shows that the U.Utes. government "should still express...serious issues over Beijing's individual privileges report and attract China's developing awareness that greater respect with regard to individual privileges, spiritual independence and the guideline of regulation will serve to advertise the very development and sociable stability that China seeks in addition to to improve China's worldwide picture." Such a technique would consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid fear the Usa secretly promotes regime change as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The cables provide understanding of the actual every day company associated with diplomacy that is hardly ever afforded to the general public, which is fascinating to notice the quantity of work done behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The importance of the actual role of the United States as a monitor of Uyghur human privileges problems within personal discussions is made clear, and contrasts using its tactful public position. Employees from the Uyghur Individual Rights Task is comfortable with the pressure china federal government puts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese language government stress upon its alternatives is illustrative of the degree that Chinese language officials attempt to suppress contrary stories. With increased revelations in the future through Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs may not get the actual headlines, however the cables have shed new gentle about the documentation of individual privileges conditions in the Uyghur region.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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

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There are lots of things to consider when looking for a roofing contractor. Price, experience, and referrals are a few of the things you will likely be concerned about. Keep reading for even more ideas.

Finding a Roofers

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Little about the Uyghurs

In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-west part of China, the province of Xinjiang is the least populated land while it covers near to a sixth from the country's territory. Getting resisted during generations the Han Chinese domination, Xinjiang, or Old Turkistan, fell under the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is primarily Uyghurs and Turkish - speaking System.

Islamic above all, the Uyghurs have a strong religious identification which usually, in particular, allowed them to protect a strong difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Of course, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a amazing civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their background, the Uyghurs successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly moving to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., thus opening the way to the Islamization of the entire Central Asia.

Under the influence of the religions which they adopted, the Uyghurs used successively, and at times 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 change mainly because it was supported by the absorption of the Uyghur areas in the immense Turkic and Muslim Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used today.

If their own writing, their own language and their religion mark a real difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, the Uyghurs also are different from their characteristic, so characteristic 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 integrated the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only 8 million population - a little for this kind of huge country. So, the Uyghurs 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 particular statute will allow these people a few privileges in a country exactly where their big difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is recognized as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, looks very illusory. The presence of all natural sources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its area with locations identified as very sensitive, highly motivated the government to speed up the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the more significant responsibility work opportunities.

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

Asserting more flexibility, but in particular the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in location 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 Uyghurs population continues today to proudly continue to keep their identity and their tradition , though they become a minority on their own land.

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

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