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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

The NFLPA will not stage an alternate event head-to-head versus the NFL on the first night of the draft, instead opting for a three-day celebration that will not interfere with the televised airing of the selection process on April 28 and 29.

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Former Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen will make a surprising move to NASCAR this year, the Finn joining the series with a new team.

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Japan Nuke Accident Seen From Seattle - Science News

Clues to events at crippled plant found in traces of radiation reaching Pacific Northwest.

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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.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday introduced the iPad 2 at a special event in San Francisco, taking even more momentum away from its competitors.

I’ve had a lot of people in the last 24 hours tell me that the iPad 2 isn’t as revolutionary as the first generation device. Yes, that’s true. But not every device a company releases has to be or can be revolutionary.

Apple has released three revolutionary products in the last decade alone: iPod, iPhone and iPad. I really can’t think of any products from Apple’s competitors that fit in the revolutionary category in that same time period.

People also said that Apple wasn’t very forthcoming with the specs of the iPad 2. Again, that’s true, but there’s a good reason for that—nobody cares.

Well, some people care. Those of us who are geeks care about specs. However, have you ever noticed that when you sit with your non-geek friends and start listing off specs their eyes glaze over and they rest their chin in their hand.

That’s because they couldn’t care less.

The iPad 2 is no slouch either. It lost one-third of the thickness of the previous generation, and therefore it is one-third less than the size of the iPad competitors too. It also has new technologies like a gyro built-in that will launch another round of cool apps.

Yesterday’s iPad 2 announcement wasn’t about the geeks—it was about all the other people who will buy an iPad. What those people want to know is “what can I do with it?”

If it fits into their lifestyle, most people are good with that. Apple showed many ways how the iPad 2 can fit into your lifestyle.

From the very beginning, Apple was very smart with how it marketed the iPad. The first thing it did was get the device into businesses and promote the fact that it could be used to get work done. And it was quite successful with that.

In an analyst call in October 2010, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said the iPad was already being used in 65 percent of Fortune 100 companies. That was four months ago and the iPad has grown since then, so we can only imagine where that number is now.

This strategy allowed Apple to do two things. If it came out with the iPad and pushed the gaming capabilities of the device, the business world would have looked at it as a toy. That would have certainly meant slower adoption. It also allowed them to work on some consumer software, two of which we saw yesterday.

In addition to the iPad 2, Jobs also unveiled iMovie and GarageBand for the iPad. This is what people want to know about—what can I do with the iPad that’s exciting and new.

Obviously, creating movies and being able to edit and share them with friends and family is a very popular thing to do these days. iMovie makes that easy.

Creating music, whether a novice or pro is also a cool thing to do. GarageBand is a great app to get that done and you can move your projects to your Mac and continue working on them.

It’s not just about the hardware. Apple delivers the whole experience that nobody else can. Jobs said yesterday that there are 65,000 apps on its App Store specifically designed for the iPad. That’s a lot of things you can do.

If you think Apple’s competitors are jumping for joy because the iPad 2 isn’t revolutionary, I believe you are wrong. I think they’re scared. Yesterday, they figured out Apple’s strategy too, but a little too late.

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.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday introduced the iPad 2 at a special event in San Francisco, taking even more momentum away from its competitors.

People also said that Apple wasn’t very forthcoming with the specs of the iPad 2. Again, that’s true, but there’s a good reason for that—nobody cares.

That’s because they couldn’t care less.

Yesterday’s iPad 2 announcement wasn’t about the geeks—it was about all the other people who will buy an iPad. What those people want to know is “what can I do with it?”

If it fits into their lifestyle, most people are good with that. Apple showed many ways how the iPad 2 can fit into your lifestyle.

In addition to the iPad 2, Jobs also unveiled iMovie and GarageBand for the iPad. This is what people want to know about—what can I do with the iPad that’s exciting and new.

Obviously, creating movies and being able to edit and share them with friends and family is a very popular thing to do these days. iMovie makes that easy.

Creating music, whether a novice or pro is also a cool thing to do. GarageBand is a great app to get that done and you can move your projects to your Mac and continue working on them.

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

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

HP: What is Found Animals most committed to?

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

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

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

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

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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Monday, March 28, 2011

Making Money Marketing

Majesco Entertainment is announcing today that it is making a bigger investment in Facebook games with the coming launch of its Parking Wars 2. Like many other traditional game companies, publicly traded game publisher Majesco is pivoting into what’s hot.

It will be interesting to see if companies such as Majesco, which have been established in console and handheld video games for a long time, can make the leap into social and mobile games as new, faster-growing players emerge in those markets.

Majesco has a license to make a game based on the popular Parking Wars TV show on A&E. It hired Area/Code to make the game and will formally launch the game by May, said Jesse Sutton, chief executive of Edison, N.J.-based Majesco.

“As Facebook becomes more mature, we are making it part of our strategy,” Sutton said. “Our focus will be on brands, brands, brands” for casual audiences such as boys, girls, families and adult women.

Majesco makes popular games such as the Mama series of games for handhelds and consoles. It published Cooking Mama for Facebook in recent months and the game has spread to more than 1 million monthly active users. Sutton says the company has gotten the quality, retention and monetization figured out on that game and is applying those lessons to the new game.

The new Parking Wars 2 game is being published under unusual circumstances. Majesco commissioned New York-based Area/Code to develop the game. But Zynga agreed to acquire Area/Code in January. Area/Code will finish the game for Majesco, but the game will be published by Majesco, which has a much smaller base of users on Facebook than Zynga, the market leader on Facebook. Sutton said the Area/Code developers were committed to finishing the game and Zynga agreed that they could do so. At some point, Majesco may take over the full maintenance of the ongoing game after the formal launch.

The Area/Code deal highlights a growing problem for smaller publishers like Majesco. There are lots of Flash game developers making games for Facebook, but there aren’t many with a proven track record for making hits. Once a development firm becomes famous for its work, it is often acquired by one of the leaders in the social game or traditional game business. That’s making it tougher for Majesco and other publishers to find the talent to make good games, Sutton said.

“There are very few of these companies now,” Sutton said. “When they show a little success, they are acquired by someone.”

Sutton said his company hopes that brands will play a bigger role on Facebook in the coming years. Spending lots of money marketing original games on Facebook is how Zynga and other big players approach the market. But Majesco doesn’t have that kind of marketing firepower. So it relies on the brand deals. This year, Sutton hopes to establish a trio of titles with strong traffic on Facebook, measured in the millions of monthly active users. Majesco’s first Facebook game was Bananagrams, launched in 2009.

Sutton said Majesco will continue to invest in console and portable game devices such as the Nintendo 3DS, the Nintendo Wii and the Microsoft Xbox 360 with Kinect. One of the company’s big hits is the Zumba game for Kinect. Majesco may also expand into mobile games on the iPhone and Android platform.

Majesco has 85 employees, with internal game producers making games with teams of external developers. In the Parking Wars 2 game, you park your car on a street and feed the meter. Then you try to give your friends tickets. You can buy consumable items such as a brick to throw through the window of your friends’ cars. You can also buy virtual goods to customize your street or car.

In its last fiscal year, Majesco reported revenues of $75.6 million, down 20 percent from a year ago. The loss per share was 3 cents compared to 24 cents a year earlier. Clearly, the company needs to score big with its new initiatives.

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What do taxation, social media and self-development have in common? All three play a big part in this small business news roundup as we look at top small business stories from around the Web.

Tax Repeals & Realities

A controversial 1099 expansion will be repealed. But lawmakers are now complaining they will have a hard time paying for it. The extremely unpopular expansion of reporting requirements placed on businesses that spend money with multiple vendors would have been costly and time consuming, especially for small business. But extra revenue was supposed to cover some of the costs for an equally unpopular new health care law. The Hill

Things you’d better remember at tax time. As tax time rolls around, there are a few things you will definitely want to keep in mind to avoid costly mistakes for your business. If you’re a business owner, Miranda Marquit has some important tips you will want to keep handy. An important part of running your business is making sure that tax and other financial issues are handled correctly. This post lists at least five things you must not forget. AllBusiness

Reforms & Deductions

A tax overhaul for small businesses? How would a proposed overhaul of the U.S. tax structure affect small business and, as the often-touted engine of economic recovery, shouldn’t small business concerns be in the forefront when considering any comprehensive changes to the tax law? At least two lawmakers think the answer is yes and plan to hold bi-partisan hearings to discuss how small business concerns can be addressed. WSJ

10 small business tax deductions you won’t want to miss. Even though these deductions are often forgotten about, any tax deduction can represent an important tax savings that can help your small business’s bottom line. Certainly small business owners must be responsible citizens paying the taxes they owe, but make sure your business is also taking advantage of every break afforded you as well. Huffington Post

Facebook & Twitter

How do you “like” the changes on Facebook? That’s right, recently the social media giant announced plans to tweak some of its most popular (and perhaps overused?) functions. Many small businesses now use Facebook for marketing as well, which gives the recently publicized change added significance to those engaged in FB online marketing. How will the change affect you? E-Marketing Associates

Who are all those phony baloney tweeters out there? Rick LaPoint sorts out fact from fiction where fake twitter followers are concerned. Who are they? How do I know whether they are real? Should I follow them back and WHY are they so popular? If you’re like many business and marketing folks who have taken to the twitterverse in pursuit of real people to do business with, you’ll want to read this post about some of the phantoms that haunt the world of microblogging. Internet Marketing

LinkedIn & Blogging

And speaking of Facebook and Twitter. Guess what two social media channels did not rank highest for acquisition of new customers in a survey recently conducted by HubSpot. Want to know where your concentration should be in terms of social media channels that see the greatest results when it comes to winning new clients and customers? Then look no further. Dawn Westerberg Consulting

Is there a secret to writing great blog posts for your business? If so than this article blows the lid off with some simple intuitive and time honored techniques passed down from some of the best. It’s all distilled into a simple guide designed to make you a better blogger for your business. If you haven’t yet figured out how to translate your ideas into posts that will keep your potential customers coming back for more, here is the perfect starting point. Solo Biz Coach

Personal Finance

Financial planning for your small business. One of the strengths of your small business may also be its chief liability. It is the fact that you alone may be responsible for many of the functions of the business and that, without you, it might be hard for your family to maintain the business and the income it provides. Here are some considerations that may help when planning for the future, good and bad. Open Forum

Self-development

Taking time out. Sometimes the key to more efficiency and productivity is to take time out when needed. In a small business, things can become overwhelming. If you’re the only one who handles most things in your company, be sure you occasionally give yourself a break from the pressure. Taking time out allows you to recharge and helps you be more productive in the long run. Sian Phillips

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What to anticipate When Getting a Roofing Contractors

When the time comes to repair or even substitute your roof, it can be a challenging job to find somebody that is qualified to do the job. There are many roofing companies available, however the types who will perform a congrats for a reasonable price are not frequently simple to find. If you are in the marketplace for the contractor, use the tips beneath with regard to interviewing as well as hiring the correct one.

Job interview and Consultation

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Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Strike hard' campaign

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Earlier cases

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New training scheme

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

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

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

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

Wikileaks and the Uyghur People

by henry upon December 20, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been actually in doubt, info acquired through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese federal government worries over its ongoing control of the region it phone calls Xinjiang, also is known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked wires through Ough.S. diplomats show the actual extent to which Chinese government bodies attempt to convince government authorities globally to adopt its position on issues impacting Uyghurs. The actual cables also show the U . s . States' concerns and sights concerning the on going repressive measures in the area.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese federal government stress would be the wires directed to Chinese frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third countries. The Dec 29, 2008 cable television applies how Chinese Assistant Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.S. Ambassador in order to The far east in order to tone of voice Beijing's powerful competitors associated with release to any country apart from The far east, and that when the U.S. did certainly accede for this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to cooperation ‘in important areas'". In addition, the Feb 2009 cable television describes how the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act toward us" along with a "slap within the face". The Ough.S. federal government stood firm in not releasing the actual detainees in order to China demonstrates the actual extent of the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial system. Genuine concerns more than terrorism are understandable, however in the actual U.S. government's observe the detainees might most likely face torture as well as execution if they came back in order to China

Chinese government pressure regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just applied to the actual Ough.Utes. federal government, but also to Brand new Zealand along with a number of European governments which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, in addition to European Union fellow member says just about all have the symptoms of borne the actual impact associated with Chinese language government unhappiness. Regarding Germany, which was initially willing to consider 2 Uyghurs upon solely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been much less better than additional detainees due to the negative effects taking Uyghurs might have upon relations along with China. A May 8, '09 cable relates exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented that Indonesia had informed China of the U.Utes. request to simply accept a few Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo coupled with already been consequently warned by China associated with ‘a heavy burden upon bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables also talk about the unrest in Urumchi, the actual local capital, within This summer 2009. The July 13, '09 cable television discussing bulk incidents within The far east says:

"Ethnic riots such as those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 associated with 08 vary markedly within origin as well as character from bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe trouble for the actual Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Party management would not wait to spread out fireplace on Uighurs or even Tibetans when they considered it essential to recover order. Mass occurrences present another kind of threat, he explained, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace on Han rioters with regard to anxiety about causing massive open public outrage that will change from the Party."

This can be a chilling viewpoint, especially when one views evidence offered in two reports launched this year through the Uyghur Human Privileges Task (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which fine detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of deadly reside fire towards Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. In addition, the declaration which fire would not be used against Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the different approach taken through Chinese protection forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese language direct orders in September '09. Throughout those direct orders, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, who had required that he inform them regarding federal government reactions in order to protection concerns. A similar ask for to satisfy with the Celebration Assistant through Uyghur demonstrators in This summer was not met.

The actual broader repercussions of the unrest also saw a brief dialogue about the effect it might have upon Iran-China relationships, as well as on relations with Australia after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the National Press Club in Canberra in August 2009. In the second option case, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie financial institution which vendors the National Press Club to use its influence to block a Kadeer talk there".

The actual U . s . States' issues concerning the situation within the Uyghur area also come via in the wires. In a dialogue on plan path in Tibet, Ough.S. officials clarify that it will be not possible with regard to Chinese language frontrunners to consider the much softer line "if they look like they are doing this below international pressure". The cable television dated April Sixteen, 08, 30 days following the episode of unrest within Tibetan areas, also relayed the actual observation "that domestic balance remains the leadership's top priority above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest of the present hard line upon Tibet or perhaps in places like Xinjiang." The information included in the cable television also storage sheds gentle about the severe level of sensitivity that the Chinese federal government views territorial integrity, and also the possible spill over of unrest through Tibet.

The prospect of methods to tensions in Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from civil culture tend to be debated in a February Twenty-four, 08 cable. While recommending that China's economic achievement increases it's resistance to democratic reform, the cable television also talks about how Chinese language frontrunners see the effectiveness of "a restricted expansion associated with municipal society, such as improvements in the guideline associated with law and a stronger part for authorized religions, NGOs, charities along with other actors within places that bring about sociable stability and don't challenge Communist Celebration rule." This is a significant change in thinking, which has observed U.S. authorities promote the notion that Chinese language economic development, and financial relationships with The far east will bring about a steadily democratic culture; however, more belief seems to be placed in a grassroots movement than one which begins from the top levels of the Chinese language government. Nonetheless, the actual cable television concludes that "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism results in tight restrictions about the development of civil culture." This approach is viewed as counter-productive by the recognized, that shows that the Ough.S. federal government "should continue to express...serious concerns more than Beijing's human privileges report as well as attract China's developing awareness which higher regard with regard to human privileges, spiritual independence and the rule associated with regulation assists to advertise the improvement as well as social balance which China seeks as well as to enhance China's international image." This type of strategy might take considerable diplomatic skills considering "China's paranoid concern that the United States secretly promotes routine change as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires offer understanding of the daily company of diplomacy that is rarely owned by the general public, which is interesting to note the quantity of work done behind closed doors upon Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual role of the us like a keep track of of Uyghur individual privileges problems in personal conversations is created obvious, and contrasts with its tactful open public stance. Employees of the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is actually well aware of the pressure the Chinese federal government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese language federal government pressure upon its alternatives is actually illustrative of the degree that Chinese officials make an effort to control contradictory stories. With increased revelations in the future through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs might not get the actual headlines, however the cables possess shed new gentle about the paperwork associated with individual privileges problems within the Uyghur area.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur

through holly on Dec Twenty, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were ever uncertain, information acquired by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese government worries over its ongoing control of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked cables from U.S. diplomats demonstrate the extent to which Chinese language government bodies attempt to convince government authorities globally to adopt it's stance upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The actual wires also show the United States' concerns and sights concerning the on going repressive steps in the area.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese language federal government pressure are the cables directed to Chinese anger, or the specter associated with Chinese language ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A Dec Twenty nine, 2008 cable applies exactly how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met using the U.Utes. Ambassador to China in order to tone of voice Beijing's strong competitors of release to any kind of country apart from The far east, and that when the U.Utes. do certainly accede to this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to co-operation ‘in important areas'". In addition, a Feb '09 cable television describes the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly act towards us" along with a "slap in the face". The U.Utes. government stood firm in not really releasing the actual detainees to China demonstrates the actual extent of the politicized nature of the Chinese judicial program. Genuine issues over terrorism are understandable, however in the U.Utes. government's observe the detainees would probably face torture as well as delivery if they came back in order to The far east

Chinese federal government pressure regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just put on the actual U.Utes. federal government, but additionally in order to New Zealand and a number of Western government authorities that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to European Union fellow member states all appear to have borne the actual brunt of Chinese language federal government disappointment. Regarding Germany, that was at first willing to think about 2 Uyghurs upon purely humanitarian reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were less preferable to other detainees due to the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs might have on relations along with China. The May 8, '09 cable relates how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented that Germany experienced knowledgeable The far east of the Ough.S. request to simply accept a few Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo coupled with already been subsequently warned through The far east associated with ‘a large load on bilateral relations' if Germany had been to accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires additionally talk about the actual unrest in Urumchi, the actual regional funds, within July 2009. A This summer Thirteen, 2009 cable television discussing mass occurrences in China states:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet in March of 2008 vary markedly within source as well as nature through bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe trouble for the actual Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party management would not wait to open fireplace upon Uighurs or even Tibetans when they considered this essential to restore purchase. Mass occurrences pose a different kind of risk, he said, since the management is ‘afraid' to fireplace on Han rioters for fear of causing huge public outrage that would turn against the Celebration."

This can be a chilling opinion, especially when 1 considers the evidence presented in two reviews released this season through the Uyghur Individual Rights Task (UHRP) and Amnesty International which detail eyewitness company accounts from the use of deadly reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors within July 2009. Additionally, the actual observation that fireplace wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the various strategy taken by Chinese language protection forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese protests in Sept 2009. Throughout individuals direct orders, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, that experienced demanded he inform them regarding federal government responses to security concerns. An identical request to satisfy using the Party Assistant by Uyghur protesters in This summer was not fulfilled.

The broader consequences from the unrest additionally noticed a brief dialogue on the effect it would have upon Iran-China relationships, as well as on relations with Sydney after Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives President, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the Nationwide Push Club within Canberra within July '09. Within the latter situation, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie financial institution which sponsors the National Push Club to make use of its influence to block the Kadeer speech there".

The U . s . States' issues about the scenario in the Uyghur region also come via within the wires. In a discussion upon policy path within Tibet, Ough.S. authorities explain that it will end up being impossible with regard to Chinese language frontrunners to adopt a much softer line "if they appear like they are doing this below worldwide pressure". The actual cable out dated April 16, 2008, 30 days after the episode associated with unrest in Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the observation "that domestic stability remains the leadership's main concern above all else, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no relaxation from the current difficult collection on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The information contained in the cable also sheds gentle on the extreme level of sensitivity that the Chinese government sights territorial ethics, and also the feasible drip more than of unrest from Tibet.

The chance of methods to stress within Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from civil culture are debated in a February Twenty-four, 08 cable television. While suggesting that China's financial achievement will increase it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the cable television also talks about how Chinese language leaders begin to see the effectiveness associated with "a limited expansion of municipal culture, including improvements in the rule of regulation along with a stronger role with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other stars in places that bring about sociable balance and do not problem Communist Party rule." This can be a notable change in considering, that has observed Ough.S. officials market the notion that Chinese language financial improvement, and financial relationships along with China brings about a progressively democratic culture; however, more belief seems to be put into the grassroots motion compared to one which starts in the top quantity of a Chinese federal government. Nonetheless, the cable concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism leads to tight limitations about the development of civil culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, who shows that the Ough.Utes. federal government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's individual privileges record and appeal to China's developing awareness which higher regard with regard to individual privileges, spiritual independence and also the rule of law will serve to promote the very development and social balance that China seeks as well as to improve China's worldwide picture." This type of technique might take considerable diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid concern that the United States privately promotes regime alter and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The cables offer understanding of the actual daily business of diplomacy that is hardly ever afforded to the general public, which is fascinating to note the quantity of function done behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual role of the us like a keep track of associated with Uyghur individual privileges conditions in personal conversations is created clear, and contrasts using its sensible open public position. The staff from the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese government puts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese government stress on its counterparts is illustrative from the diploma which Chinese authorities attempt to suppress contradictory narratives. With more facts to come through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs may not get the headlines, but the cables have get rid of new light about the documentation associated with human rights problems within the Uyghur region.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Seo And Marketing with articles Will Place Yourself on The 1st Page

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Give each of your Search engine optimization Articles an engaging Title that will encourage people you just read and bookmark your posts. Ideally, the articles you are writing can be as links off their websites which are much like yours. This alone can help raise the power of each one link all of which will assist in your SERP. Make sure to end each article using a keyword anchored link (see Easy Business Search engine optimization). This link will assist you to increase your rankings in the search engines and also other major search engines like google for that keyword coupled to the link. Submit the articles with a free article directory and Voila! Before you know it, your site may be about the first page of Google.

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When people type in looking term searching for a business within their local area, they are going to find that Google places and Google maps is showing listings of local businesses. It's very eminent to allow them to be optimized and listed on this first page whenever they desire to generate business. Vancouver SEO companies have to be educated of this type for their clients.

There will be a large amount of new Vancouver SEO companies starting, simply because the importance is there. Finding a search engine optimization firm which has the client's interest at heart could be tedious. How many keywords would they optimize for? Do you know the keywords as well as the corresponding search volume? Do they learn how to optimize for Google places? And so forth. Search engine optimisation may be the business of landing towards the top and Maxim Edge can get you there.

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Portraits of Uyghurs

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the northern-west part of China, the land of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the least populated province whereas it covers near to a sixth of the nation's area. Having resisted during hundreds of years the chinese control, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old East Turkistan, fell into within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is mostly Uyghur People and Turkic - speaking System.

Islamic especially, the Uyghurs have a deep religious identification which usually, in particular, enabled them to preserve a strong difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Without a doubt, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a great civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their own history, 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 whole Central Asia.

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

The arrival of Islam was a great modification simply because it was accompanied 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 nowadays.

If their writing, their language and their religion mark a real big difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, the Uyghurs also are different from their characteristic, so aspect of Central Asia's people. A matt skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features pointing out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek 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 eight million population - a trifle for this specific immense country. So, Uyghur people are now part of the 56 ethnic minority groups having been well-known in an official way by China.

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

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in China, however, looks pretty illusory. The presence of all natural sources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its closeness with nations known as sensitive, clearly encouraged the government to accelerate the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the greater responsibility job opportunities.

In response 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.

Saying more flexibility, but specially the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was seriously repressed by the power authorities in location Xinjiang.

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

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

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Monday, March 14, 2011

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Not long ago, I saw a news item on ESPN that really drives home the perils of alumni development in college sports.

The top donor for the University of Connecticut’s football program is apparently displeased with the hiring of their new football coach and wants their $3M donation back.

The rich individual previously decided to “donate” a large sum of money to this program, and because of that, he feels he has the right to influence what decisions the program makes. Look at these quotes from the donor:

Burton called the situation “a slap in the face and embarrassment to my family,” and said he planned “to let the correct people know that you did not listen to your number one football donor.”

“We want our money and respect back.”

Although he was not seeking veto power in the hiring, he “earned my voice on this subject” as the program’s top donor.

“You are not qualified to be a Division I AD and I would have fired you a long time ago. You do not have the skills to manage and cultivate new donors.”

This person does not work for the university or the athletic program in any capacity, yet because he wrote the biggest check, he feels that he has the power to impact school decisions. In this case, he’s angry that his opinion was ignored, but I’m sure that other schools in similar situations would actually let the donor’s opinion impact their decision. The scary thing is that I don’t know which is worse.

My first experience working in sports was with a college athletics department, working under the Assistant Athletic Director for Marketing and Revenue Generation. I was very fortunate that this school had a progressive marketing department where I was able to manage a CRM system, oversee digital and email marketing efforts, and dive in to some very interesting analytical projects and decision making. To this day, I am very thankful for that experience.

However, once I had finished up my year-long fellowship, I decided that college athletics wasn’t for me, and that was for one primary reason – development (the arm of the athletic department that handles alumni donations). I had the feeling that to really succeed within a major Division I athletic program, you needed to be involved in getting those rich alumni to donate more and more money. Budgets were always tight, and getting that donor money directly into the hands of the athletics program was crucial. This aspect of the job did not appeal to me, so I focused my efforts on professional sports opportunities.

This situation doesn’t exist with professional sports teams, If a company is paying that type of money, it’s for something very specific (suites, sponsorships, media, etc.) and that purchase does not include the ability to influence team operational decisions. In this particular case, the donor ended up ultimately retracting his statements, but the threat for the school was very real.

This will always be a unique aspect of college athletics, and I know that a lot of people in alumni development enjoy the challenge. It is a complicated blend of marketing, customer service, public relations and fundraising. But when I see a story like this, it reminds me about why I decided college athletics wasn’t the right spot for me.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Leland Stanford Junior Universotu v. Roche, a case that will clarify a 1980 law that governs the ownership of patents held by universities that rely on federal research funds.

The case refers back to 1988, when Mark Holodniy, then a Stanford-employed researcher, developed technology that would ultimately lead to one of the first AIDS tests. It's used to monitor the effectiveness of AIDS treatments, using polymerase chain reaction assays to measure the level of hormones in the body. However, while Holodniy was employed by Stanford, he also signed a research contract with a private pharmaceutical company to work on a similar projects. While the patents were originally granted to Stanford, Roche has been selling the technology to hospitals since 1996.

In 2005, Stanford took Roche to a federal district court in San Francisco, arguing that Roche had infringed on the school's patents. Stanford won the case, but an appeals court reversed the decision. On Monday, the case was presented in Washington to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. argued that Roche's contract with the private company trumps any existing agreement with Stanford. In a broader view, the Supreme Court will decide which interests to protect: those of the government (in this case the university), or those of private businesses.

While Stanford has maintained that it seeks the intellectual property for the patent—and not the cash it creates—it's clear that lucrative patents can be a huge money-maker for universities. "Not all university inventions make a lot of money," University of California-Davis law professor Peter Lee told KQED Radio's The California Report, "but some do. So there's potentially millions of dollars at stake in the outcome of this case."

According to Bloomberg, the "case may pit universities and the federal government against companies." The article also notes that the Obama adminstration, MIT, and the Association of American Universities are backing Stanford.

Roche, based in Switzerland, argued that universities were making "hyperbolic" claims about the impact of the ruling. Bloomberg quotes the company as arguing that: "Stanford's desire for private monetary gain has nothing to do with clarity of title or bringing valuable scientific discoveries to the public...On the contrary, Stanford's effort to exclude Roche from practicing the patented invention would reduce opportunities for the public to benefit from the invention."

More than 25 organizations, private companies, and individuals have offered amici curiae, or legal opinions, to the court. In one, jointly filed by the Intel Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, and Johnson and Johnson, among others, the private companies asserted that if Stanford was granted patent rights, it could reduce opportunities for the public to benefit from the invention.

"Stanford's novel interpretation of the Act would discourage collaboration by allowing universities and other contractors to engage in predatory behavior," they wrote in the brief. "Under Stanford's view, for example, a university could attempt to escape its contractual obligations and terminate a commercial collaborator's rights in an invention simply by sprinkling the research project with a modest amount of federal funds."

But, the Obama administration, as well as a number of high profile academic organizations have urged the court to reverse the 2009 decision. They argue that federally funded research projects are "used to advance the public interest," as opposed to corporate projects, which are used in the pursuit of maximum profit. U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal said that siding with Roche would frustrate "the government's ability to protect the taxpayers' multibillion-dollar investments in research and development."

A decision is expected in June.

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