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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Geopolitics & Macroeconomics adds:

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

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

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

Another day, another honking big funding for another online start-up (and yet another broken embargo too!).

It’s like Groundhog Day in Silicon Valley as usual.

Today, Cambridge, Mass.-based HubSpot wins tech’s version of the lottery, grabbing $32 million from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and also Salesforce.com.

It is unclear what the valuation for HubSpot is now, although it is likely high given it has raised $65 million now.

HubSpot makes marketing software for businesses, who use it to find prospects and generate leads, along with tools to analyze the process. It claims it has “4,000 customers, over 50 percent market share, five million leads managed, and 70 million page views tracked monthly.”

The Series D financing included HubSpot’s existing venture investors–General Catalyst Partners, Matrix Partners, and Scale Venture Partners–and part of it will be used to cash out existing shareholders. In previous rounds, the start-up has raised $33 million.

Here is the official press release:

Sequoia, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com Invest $32 Million in HubSpot

Marketing Software Company Attracts New Strategic Investors

CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – March 8, 2011)–Today, for the first time ever, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Salesforce.com all invested together in one company, providing HubSpot with a Series D round of financing through a $32 million investment. HubSpot provides all-in-one marketing software used by over 4,000 businesses to get found by more prospects, convert them into leads and sales, and analyze the entire marketing process.

“The fundamental way that people shop, learn, and buy has changed radically in the last few years. HubSpot helps transform the way businesses market from outbound marketing (cold calls, email blasts, and direct mail) to inbound marketing (Google, blogs, social media, mobile, etc.),” said Brian Halligan, co-founder and CEO of HubSpot.

Sequoia Capital has a long history of partnering with founders to help them build long-term, multi-billion dollar companies, including Google, LinkedIn, AdMob, YouTube, Yahoo!, Apple, and Oracle. “We back companies that are transforming their industries,” said Jim Goetz, General Partner at Sequoia Capital. “HubSpot is the emerging category leader in the SaaS marketing sector. Their customer base exceeds that of all the other relevant marketing software companies combined, including Eloqua, Marketo, Genius, and Manticore.”

“Today, every company needs to succeed in search, social, sales, and marketing–I can’t think of a more powerful trifecta than Google, Salesforce.com, and HubSpot. With 4,000 customers, HubSpot is already a clear marketing leader–now, with this new infusion of capital and recognition by Google’s venture arm and Salesforce.com, HubSpot has a great opportunity to separate itself from the pack and become the leading marketing platform in the small and medium business space,” said Brent Leary, co-founder of CRM Essentials.

Google Ventures Partner, Rich Miner (formerly co-founder of Android) said, “We agree with HubSpot’s belief that search engines, social media, and mobile devices have fundamentally changed how businesses should market themselves. We’re thrilled to support their efforts to help thousands of small and medium businesses reach potential customers.”

Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot commented, “We founded the company based on a simple premise: Businesses want an easy-to-use, complete and integrated marketing platform that helps them get more leads and customers. We plan to use this new capital to further invest in this ambitious vision and further our existing lead in the marketing software category.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

For Apple, the mobile market is a cash cow. The company’s iPhone and iPad are proving to be the top mobile companions for people around the globe. Apple has sold over 100 million iPhones. Its iPad sales have hit 15 million. The company understands the mobile market and it knows how to capitalize on it.

But what about the living room? It has the Apple TV, sure, and the Mac mini is often times connected to an HDTV, but what else has Apple done to push the envelope in the living room? It still hasn’t launched the long-rumored television we keep hearing about, and it seems that offering a game console — a hope for many Apple fans over the past few years — won’t happen.

I fully realize that Apple can’t be everything to every customer. It delivers computers, smartphones, tablets, personal media players, two operating systems, wireless routers, and much more. But I also realize that Apple is an entertainment company. It’s about trying to give people more opportunity to enjoy their lives through technology. And it would only make sense if it doubled down on the living room.

Let’s turn our attention to the Apple TV for a minute.

Prior to its announcement in September, rumors were running rampant over what the former “hobby” would offer. Folks thought it would deliver gaming, interface with DVRs, include Apple’s App Store, and much more. They thought it would be a sizable update over its predecessor.

Instead, Apple offered a stripped-down alternative.

The second-generation Apple TV comes with the ability for users to stream Netflix content. It has Flickr and Internet radio. And it allows users to stream their music over their home network to their televisions. It offers movies and television shows, as well, but most would agree that it’s slim pickings for now.

At that event in September, Steve Jobs said that Apple’s research showed customers didn’t want everything a company could pile into a device. They simply want the ability to consume the content they enjoy without the fuss that might come along with something like Google TV-based devices.

But by delivering the bare minimum, Apple did itself no favors. The company took the easy way out and pretended like it no longer views the living room as a hobby. The only issue is, the Apple TV is still a hobby. It’s a device that lacks all the functionality we’ve come to expect from Apple — a company that typically prides itself on offering the best value for the cash. And at least so far, it leaves me wanting more.

So, what am I looking for? I want to see Apple improve the Apple TV by bringing its App Store to the platform. I’d also like to see some kind of gaming component come to the device, either through the App Store or as part of a more-capable platform.

And perhaps most importantly, I’d like to see Apple think beyond its set-top box and deliver products that try something new. I’m not sold on the possibility of Apple offering a groundbreaking television, but if it can surprise me, I’m all for it.

Simply put, I’m looking for Apple to be Apple. Right now, it’s just like every other company in the living room; it’s content to have a presence but not dominate.

That needs to end.

No single company can stake claim to the living room right now. Steve Jobs just needs to take advantage of that void and do something special.

But first, he needs to take the living room — and its revenue potential — seriously.

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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 media as a marketing, customer service, and, yes, even sales tool. But if you haven’t thought about how social media can define your brand, you are probably missing a HUGE part of what social media tools can do for your business. Here’s more…

Tools & Techniques

Creating a great brand with these blog tools. Tools that improve the look and functionality of your blog also improve your brand. A well-maintained small business blog is one of the most obvious and least expensive branding tools at the entrepreneur’s disposal even more so than social media channels like Facebook and Twitter because of how a blog can be customized to fit your needs and personality. This list of tools is a great way to start. EpicLaunch

What Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi can teach you about social media. One of the stars of the hit reality show “Jersey Shore”, “Snooki” is a perfect example of personal brand, but social media entrepreneurs could also learn much about building their own online presence from Snooki. Being yourself and using a simple, short tag to indelibly brand your identity are also great techniques in social media. One site is already trying to apply the starlets techniques in the social media space. Brand-Yourself

Tito Philips doesn’t want your comments on his blog! At least, not if they’re the wrong kind. And the wrong kind would be comments left for no other purpose than to get the blogger and his/her readers to visit your blog and perhaps comment on it in return. Why is comment trading bad? Don’t get Tito started! There are many ways to engage in social media marketing. Be sure you understand and respect some of the attitudes you may face. Blogging Bookshelf  

News & Trends

The best of the best. Want to get a look at arguably the 20 best Facebook fan pages for business on the planet? By now you should know the value of a Facebook fan page to your branding efforts. What’s also true, however, is that not all Facebook sites are created equal. If you want to take your social media marketing to the next level, have a look at this list of cream of the crop sites. Inc.com

Even churches use social media marketing! In this article on the growing market for tech services among religious organizations, we learn that many churches have also already entered into the social media space. As houses of worship, particularly huge mega-churches, expand and build congregations, it’s easy to see how social media can work as a marketing tool here as well. Is your religious organization using social media for branding? WSJ

Tips & Tricks

20 tips that will make you a Twitter star. Among the tools popular in the new digital space is Twitter. The microblogging platform can be used for business or non-business purposes and it can be the key to your small business’s success. Learn how to use Twitter like a pro and you may be surprised at the benefits your small business gains as a result. Global Copywriting

Valuable lessons in social media. Gary Vaynerchuk, author of The Thank You Economy and a successful social media entrepreneur in his own right, has many insights to share with small business leaders seeking a new way to define their brands in an age of social communications. Read some of the takeaways Vaynerchuk shares with those trying to define their businesses with social media. E-Marketing Associates

Success Stories

Doubt the power of FB to create brand for almost anyone? You won’t after you read the story of Princeton English Professor Jeff Nunokawa and “Jeffbook”, a collection of 3,221 brief literary essays on Facebook, that have created an incredible cult status for Nunokawa in the process. His motivation? Not too different from those of most marketers. Nunokawa simply started sharing where he knew his audience already spent lots of their time. The results speak for themselves. Fast Company

Increase exposure with niche social media. Blogger Mavis Nong talks about the importance of niche social media sites including social bookmarking sites as a key method of creating exposure for your online business. Mavis talks about her experience with our sister site BizSugar.com (thanks for the shout out! ) and explains how smaller more focused social sites can sometimes have a surprising impact even larger than the big guys. Attraction Marketing Online

Opportunities

Sponsors wanted for new SugarTone Sweet Business Blogging Contest. Put the power of social media to work for your brand. We’re looking for sponsors to help with a brand new blogging contest involving two of the fastest growing small business communities on the Web, BizSugar.com and Bloggertone.com. Learn more about the contest by reading the full announcement and get in touch today! BizSugar Blog

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Ask yourself, what are my company’s core capabilities? If your answer is simply, restating the product you sell, you are most likely incoherent. The coherence premium is a high level strategy used by some of the largest (and most profitable) corporations in America. Companies that are “coherent” can define 3-6 capabilities internally that differentiate them within their industry, build a deep workable strategy focused on “winning,” and develop product portfolio based around their capabilities.

What makes the coherence premium such an interesting topic? The fact that companies who are “coherent” are healthier, more profitable and better set up for long-term growth. Coca-Cola, a poster child for coherence, (almost 100 on the Coherence Capabilities Score) sees on average 20% higher earnings before interest and taxes than profiled companies with a Coherence Capabilities Score of less than 20.

Take Wal-Mart for instance, they’ve aligned all of their capabilities:

• Aggressive vendor management


• Expert point-of-sale data analytics


• Superior logistics


• Rigorous working capital management

Simple, but to the point, Wal-Mart understands their internal capabilities, which stretch from logistics all the way to IT. Capabilities should be specific enough that they exact a point of where you stop competing and start excelling your industry. A more thorough example of a capability would be, “A company’s ability to use customer-data mining to develop new products.”

Benefits

1. Strengthens a Companies Competitive Advantage


2. Companies are Better Prepared For The Future


3. Produces Efficiencies of Scale


4. Aligns Strategic Intent and Day-To-Day Decision Making

Steps

1. Ways to Play- learn how your company provides value and the way you will face the market.

• Are we investing capabilities that matter to the way we play?


• Are we clear about the way we choose to create value in the marketplace?

2. Capabilities System -determine your 3-6 core capabilities.

• Have we defined how these capabilities work with our system?


• Do all of our businesses draw upon this superior system?

3. Build a Strategy For a Balanced Portfolio – Build your future growth and product initiates to maximize your core capabilities.

• Have we found our product and service “sweet spot”


• Are new products and acquisitions determined on the way the fit within our capabilities system?

Understanding your core capabilities and becoming coherent is not necessarily the easiest thing to do. Your capabilities should be assessed with a healthy mix of both internal and external information and careful thought. All of this is worth the hassle; coherent companies consistently reap more profits, are better prepped for the future and place themselves atop their industries by innovating.

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I recently read about Matt Slauson, an NFL player, who has been pretty successful over the last few years but is now worried about his financial future. He's concerned about the NFL lock-out and what it might do to his income. Even though a player can have a decent contract, some of the money is usually an up-front bonus and the rest is performance-based.

Matt Slauson isn’t destitute by any means, but he decided to move his wife and baby into his parents’ house to lower expenses and boost savings. This seems like a drastic act in light of the fact that he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, but money can get used up quickly if you expect it will never end or if you’re not paying attention. Matt is going with a prudent solution to a situation that hopefully will only be temporary.

When you live at home with your parents what are the real savings? Normally your housing costs take up approximately one third of your monthly basic budget. If you move in with your parents, they should be willing to continue to pay for those costs that aren’t affected by you being there, like the mortgage, home insurance, and taxes, or if they’re renting, then the monthly rent.

Checking the website Rentals.com I looked at the average prices for a two bedroom rental in Syracuse, NY, Long Branch, NJ and Orlando, FL and they all were about the same: $1000 per month. So right off the bat you can save a nice chunk of change by moving in with your parents, ($12,000 per year). This assumes that you aren’t sharing the apartment with someone else who is splitting the rent but even in that case you would be saving $500 per month or $6,000 per year.

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This was supposed to be an article about monetizing your life as an amateur musician. It’s become an opinion piece on my experience of Google AdSense.

Google Adsense allows you receive revenue through placing content-specific adverts on your website. The system makes Google around $8 Billion a year.

I signed up for Adsense several years ago. I had a travel blog which was general only for family and friends. If I remember correctly, my travel blog made me about £0.05 across 2 years or so.

Fast forward to 2011 and I am trying to investigate means of being a little more business-like about my hobbies (mostly music). By the end of January I had manned up and started to promote my blogs. I had created several different blogs, which were contributed to by friends and colleagues. I promoted these activities through Facebook and Twitter.

After a few weeks, I was looking at around 2,000 hits a month across all my content sources. I was feeling pretty proud of myself. My Google Adsense balance was approaching £10, and I hoped I could make around £50-100 a year. Google then disabled my account.

When your Adsense account is disabled you receive a standard email which tells you there has been "invalid activity". It directs you to a help URL. The only response you can take is to make an appeal.

Taking the matter particularly seriously, I spent some time writing the appeal which outlined my thoughts on the invalid activity. My guess is that I have violated their "don’t click on your own ads" policy when I’ve been proudly showing off my sites to friends and family. Since my IP address is logged on Blogger etc. and my clicks are less than 1% of the total hits received from countries far and wide, I assumed that they would realise my site was genuine.

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Search engine optimization Vancouver For any Better Marketing Solution

 

When you start your personal website there are many ways you'll have to market it and something the best way is to use Search engine optimization Vancouver if you be in that area. The SEO or search engine optimization services will be the top way of getting good traffic to your website and therefore making more sales.

 

Now, you should know that you won't use SEO service if you're no internet business - but then again, if you do not have an online presence if you are a offline business, then you will not make it very far.

 

It's a well known proven fact that if you are going to really make it within the offline world you need to have an online presence. This is something which all business people are learning hard way. Something that you ought to also know is that it's not as simple as just setting up the web site and leaving it to do its things.

 

This can be done in all sorts of ways, however these companies usually take advantage of multiple methods to create the perfect marketing technique online. It is possible to employ these phones write articles for you personally, post on forums and blogs, create meta tags and meta descriptions, cleanup the code, add alt tags towards the images plus much more.

 

It is crucial that you simply do this because otherwise the organization that you have worked so difficult for could end up losing the money. If you have an internet site that you want to create, then you will also employ the expertise of an SEO company, which means search engine optimization company. What this company does is basically go ahead and take best areas of your website, look into the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure that your site is placed close to the the surface of the list for that major search engines.

By doing this the SEO company cannot only improve your traffic, but additionally ensure that your website is fully optimized for that search engine spiders that will be introduced to it. These spiders are utilized to analyze your site and place it in a few positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you want to make use of the Search engine optimization Vancouver then all you've got to do is find the top companies. It's through these how the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to select from you need to be sure that the one you are going for is reliable. You should be in a position to ask for a failure of what you need, and the company also needs to be able to tell you know long they have been operating for. This will narrow down their email list to reveal the top ones.

 

SEO Services Offered by Different Vancouver Web Companies

The Vancouver SEO company services are very good for business growth as they provide quality services. If you're planning to produce a website for the internet business, then you have come to right article as I is going to be explaining below how Web optimization Vancouver company services can increase your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you need to know what Seo is. It's not that complicated and I'm sure you're going to get a grasp from it reading my article. The main goal of SEO is to get more traffic to your website and target audience. It is a good decision to choose a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this kind of work, which means that your website could be indexed by search engines like google.

There isn't any point in you using a website with no website ranking at all while you won't get any business and profits to outlive. It's a very tough atmosphere available because there are so many online business people just like you, who desire their share of pie. You have to be aware of the fact that nearly 85% of online traffic can be got from web sites.

Whenever a user types in a keyword or keywords for which he/she really wants to know in various sites, these use crawlers to obtain web-sites using the relevant content and index them based on algorithms. It's not necessary to worry about the algorithms which these websites use as that is not important.

To appear within the first page from the search result, you will have to hire professionals and pros who can do the needful to keep your site among the good books in these websites. These professionals can optimize your site content to ensure your site gets increased traffic.

Once the traffic gets high, it is a sign that you're obtaining a service that will get you more revenues. SEO Vancouver company do the following to make your site appear within the first page of search results.

Use keywords which are popularly used on search engines like google in your website content.
Have a website design for the website which is simple because top sites are allergic to flash and weird designs.
Submit your website to directories.
Submit your website to directory websites.
Postings on blogs and forums with back-links for your websites. This really is considered as an effective way to get increased traffic to your website as many online users use blogs and forums.

SEO Vancouver company also perform site diagnostics that is an important part in online optimization as research and analysis on finding keywords is the way to begin a SEO campaign. So, make sure you select the right SEO Vancouver service company.

Are you looking for more info regarding SEO Vancouver? Visit http://www.seo4vancouver.com/seo-services.asp today!

 

What to Expect Whenever Hiring a Roofers

When the time comes to repair or even substitute your homes roof, it's really a daunting job to locate somebody that is qualified to do the job. There are many roofers available, however the types who'll perform a great job for a reasonable cost aren't often easy to find. If you are in the marketplace for a service provider, use the tips below for interviewing as well as hiring the right one.

Interview as well as Discussion

Most roofing contractors offer free consultations. This is especially important, since it gives them a chance to assess exactly what your roof needs, and it gives you an opportunity to evaluate them. As with all businesses, trust your instincts about the individuals you allow upward on your roof. No issue how great a contractor's status or even recommendation, he or she should start by presenting you with a business greeting card. If a service provider arrives searching as well as speaking in an unprofessional manner, most likely the job he is going to do will also be unprofessional. This is not to say that you ought to expect companies to reach within fits. They is going to be climbing on your roof, so most will be dressed in jeans as well as function footwear or athletic shoes. If the service provider appears to be interested in speaking upon their cell phone while on your homes roof than he's within analyzing your roof's requirements, that may be an additional sign that he's not the one to do the job. For the legal safety, make sure that the contractor offers adequate legal responsibility insurance coverage.

Roof Assessment

Expect that the service provider will be going up in your roof. Actually, any service provider who does not need to go up in your roofing to evaluate the issue should be instantly discounted. Those who are serious about their own work will either create a sketching of the roof's surface and mark trouble spots on it because they undergo their evaluation, or they will take pictures or even video of the surface area while they are available online for. This is a very essential action, because it allows you to see exactly what the troubles are and understand how they will be fixed.

Estimate

The next step would be the written estimate. The contractor will require away their loan calculator and come track of an itemized estimation. Some contractors will go out to their own truck or even van and write up the actual suggestion, while others may crunch the actual amounts for the job in front of you. Once you are because of the proposal, ensure that you understand exactly which items is going to be used, just how long the job will require and if there are any additional or even hidden expenses that may occur during the repair of the roof. The service provider will be able to solution many of these concerns effortlessly and forewarn you associated with a additional expenses that might be sustained should the roof's ethics end up being damaged within.

After you have obtained several created estimates from roofing contractors, assess what each organization or contractor is willing to provide for that cost. Do not necessarily low cost the highest bid, simply because sometimes the highest bet will in reality be the service provider who the task properly. Also, be skeptical of prices for bids that are not nearly as expensive others. They may be utilizing substandard items or be untruthful concerning the chance of concealed costs. Most importantly, trust your instincts and opt for the contractor that makes you feel most comfy regarding giving more than your money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

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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.

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

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

by holly on Dec Twenty, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it had been ever in doubt, information acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese language government worries more than it's continued control of the location it phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked out wires through U.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the extent to which Chinese authorities attempt to persuade governments worldwide to consider it's stance on problems affecting Uyghurs. The wires also display the actual United States' concerns and views concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese language federal government stress would be the cables directed to Chinese anger, or even the specter of Chinese ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A Dec Twenty nine, 08 cable applies exactly how Chinese language Assistant International Reverend Liu Jieyi met using the U.Utes. Ambassador to China to tone of voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with launch in order to any country other than The far east, and that if the Ough.Utes. did certainly accede to this ask for it might "avoid harm to bilateral relations and to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". Furthermore, a February '09 cable describes how the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly act towards us" and a "slap in the face". The U.Utes. government stood firm in not really releasing the detainees to The far east illustrates the extent of the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial system. Genuine concerns more than terrorism are understandable, however in the Ough.Utes. government's observe the detainees would most likely face do-it-yourself torture as well as execution if they came back in order to China

Chinese language government pressure in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just put on the actual U.Utes. federal government, but additionally to New Zealand along with a handful of European governments that were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, in addition to European Union member says just about all appear to have borne the brunt associated with Chinese government unhappiness. Regarding Germany, which was initially prepared to consider 2 Uyghurs upon solely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been less preferable to other detainees due to the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs would have on relationships along with The far east. A Might Eight, '09 cable applies how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported that Indonesia experienced informed The far east from the Ough.S. ask for to accept some Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo and had already been subsequently warned by The far east associated with ‘a heavy burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany were to simply accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires additionally discuss the actual unrest in Urumchi, the local funds, in This summer 2009. The July 13, '09 cable discussing bulk incidents in China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 associated with 08 vary markedly in origin as well as character through bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each existing serious problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Celebration management would not wait to spread out fireplace upon Uighurs or even Tibetans when they considered it necessary to recover purchase. Bulk incidents present a different kind of threat, he explained, since the leadership is ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters for fear of causing huge open public outrage that will change from the Party."

This can be a chilling opinion, especially when 1 considers evidence offered in two reports launched this season through the Uyghur Human Rights Task (UHRP) as well as Amnesty Worldwide that detail eyewitness accounts from the utilization of deadly live fire against Uyghur protestors within July 2009. In addition, the declaration that fireplace wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for that different strategy taken through Chinese language security forces in Urumchi in order to Han Chinese language protests in September 2009. During those protests, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, who had demanded that he inform them regarding federal government responses to security issues. A similar request to satisfy using the Celebration Assistant through Uyghur demonstrators in July was not fulfilled.

The actual wider repercussions from the unrest additionally noticed a brief discussion on the impact it might have upon Iran-China relationships, and on relations along with Sydney following World Uyghur Congress President, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the National Press Membership within Canberra in August '09. Within the second option case, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie financial institution which sponsors the National Push Club to make use of it's influence to block the Kadeer talk there".

The actual U . s . States' concerns about the scenario within the Uyghur region also come through within the wires. In a discussion upon policy path within Tibet, Ough.S. officials clarify that it will be not possible for Chinese language leaders to consider a much softer line "if they look like they are doing this under international pressure". The cable television dated 04 Sixteen, 2008, one month following the episode of unrest in Tibetan areas, also relayed the observation "that domestic stability continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being no relaxation of the present hard line upon Tibet or in locations like Xinjiang." The information contained in the cable additionally storage sheds gentle on the extreme level of sensitivity that china federal government sights territorial ethics, and the possible drip over associated with unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to tensions in Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from municipal culture tend to be discussed in a February 24, 08 cable. While suggesting that China's financial success will increase it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the actual cable additionally talks about how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the usefulness of "a limited growth associated with civil culture, including enhancements within the rule of regulation along with a more powerful part with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other stars within areas that bring about social balance and do not challenge Communist Celebration guideline." This can be a notable change in thinking, that has observed U.Utes. officials promote the notion that Chinese language financial development, and financial relationships with The far east will bring in regards to a progressively democratic culture; nevertheless, much more faith appears to be put into a grassroots movement than one which begins from the top quantity of a Chinese language government. Nonetheless, the cable television concludes which "[i]n areas for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear of separatism leads to tight restrictions about the development of municipal society." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the actual U.S. federal government "should continue to express...serious concerns over Beijing's human rights record as well as attract China's developing awareness which greater regard for individual rights, spiritual freedom and also the guideline associated with regulation assists to promote the improvement as well as sociable stability that China looks for in addition to to enhance China's worldwide image." Such a strategy might take considerable diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid concern the Usa secretly encourages regime alter and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The wires provide understanding of the actual daily company associated with diplomacy that's hardly ever owned by the general public, which is fascinating to note the quantity of function done nowadays on Uyghur issues. The importance of the actual part of the United States like a keep track of of Uyghur human privileges conditions within private conversations is made clear, and contrasts with its sensible public stance. Employees of the Uyghur Human Privileges Task is actually comfortable with pressure the Chinese federal government puts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese government pressure on its alternatives is illustrative of the diploma that Chinese language authorities attempt to control contrary narratives. With more facts to come through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs might not grab the actual headlines, however the cables have shed new gentle on the paperwork associated with human rights problems within the Uyghur region.

 

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Little about the Uyghurs

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-western part of China, the land of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is a least populated province while it covers near to a sixth of the country's territory. Having resisted during centuries the Han Chinese domination, Xinjiang, or Old Eastern Turkestan, fell into under the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is mainly Uyghurs and Turkish - speaking System.

Muslim mainly, the Uyghur people have a deep religious identity which usually, in particular, permitted them to preserve a solid difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Really, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a great civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their own background, the Uyghur People successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly moving to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., as a result beginning the way to the Islamization of the complete Central Asia.

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

The coming of Islam was a great change since it was supported by the assimilation of the Uyghur areas in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Muslim Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan progressively replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used presently.

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

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only nine million inhabitants - a trifle for this great area. Thus, the Uyghurs are now part of the 56 ethnic minority groups having been well known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This particular law will allow these people a few privileges in a land where their difference is very often repressed. Therefore, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is known as the second official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in China, however, seems very illusory. The presence of natural resources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its proximity with locations recognised as sensitive, strongly motivated the government to accelerate the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the more significant responsibility jobs.

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.

Saying more freedom, but primarily the recognition of their true identity, this movement was seriously repressed by the power authorities in location Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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

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

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Fox News contributor Dick Morris went on Fox News today to
attack an ad by the Republican National Committee supporting Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's controversial plan to strip most
public employees of just about all of their
collective bargaining rights. He called the ad "terrible" and "stupid" because
it "links [President] Obama to the unions." Obama, Morris said, is more popular than the
unions and that popularity, Morris predicted, will
transfer over to them.

Dick Morris also sent out
an "urgent message" to the Newsmax email list bashing Wisconsin Republicans who
are breaking with Walker over his union-busting plan. Morris wrote:

The
well-funded left is trying to pressure Republican lawmakers to "compromise" and
cave in to the unions demands.

Sadly,
some Republicans are beginning to crack.

One
is Republican State Senator Dale Schultz. He is breaking from Gov. Walker's
ranks and supporting a "compromise." He is apparently urging other Republicans to
follow his lead.

We must stop waffling Senators like
Dale Schultz and urge voters and legislators to stand with Scott Walker.
[bolding in the original]

Is this just an example of a conservative commentator giving
his honest opinion on the RNC ad and Wisconsin Republicans?

Since it's Dick Morris, you should be suspicious. And in
this case, your suspicions may be very well-founded. Morris is promoting
alternative ads to the one produced by the RNC. He is asking people to donate
money to fund a new radio ad on the Wisconsin situation sponsored by the League of American Voters, an
organization that employs Morris as a chief strategist.

Indeed, the letter Morris sent out bashing Wisconsin Republicans who want Walker to compromise asks people to contribute to the League of American Voters ad:

The League won't stop. You can help them - Go Here Now

But they need help.

Right now, they want to increase their efforts by rolling a TV ad campaign across the state.

They also want to target waffling Senators like Dale Schultz, by exposing their positions to their constituents.

But to do this, this League needs continued funding.

Please act today - time is critical - Donate Here Now. [bolding in the original]

How is Elop going to address this by
using Windows OS? He has to do more than just charge more, he has
to produce better product at competitive prices, which keep getting
lower. Elop will have to license the Widows OS, which is an
expense, one that he would bear to nowhere near the same extent if
he used Android. I feel he mistakenly looks at this as Google
commoditizing the Android platform, in lieu of the more reasonable
perspective of Google commoditizing the entire portable computer
space.

Well, the answer has arrived. Microsoft is buying Xx% of Nokia for paying Nokia over $1 billion to product Windows Phone 7 hardware.
Nearly all of this money is undoubtedly going into R&D and
marketing. Nokia and Microsoft (their new defacto owners) invariably see
Google as the pre-eminent trheat and are pulling out all of the stops
to nullify said threat. This also answers the question of how Elop, the
Nokia CEO will be able to deal with the reduced margins of having to
buy OS licenses while competing with vendors who get Android for free –
Microsoft is not only footing the bill, but investing in the business
as well. You see, the drop in Nokia’s share price is highly unwarranted
and their is visible synergy in this deal. Nokia gets to remove the
costs of OS R&D from its line times, sunk costs that have apparently
had negative incremental returns as they have had their asses handed to
them by Apple and most definitely Google – who knocked them off of
their number one market share perch in just over a year.

Microsoft gets the economic benefits of an existing hardware platform
that happens to have the number one marketshare metric in the world,
and gets it for just over a billion dollars. This is a win-win
situation. The question is,  will it win againt Google. Both companies
will still fail if they don’t execute on Google-time, who has compressed
development cycle years into months – literally!

From the Bloomberg article linked above:

Shrinking Margins (yeah, you’ve hear thist from me often enough)

Espoo, Finland-based Nokia needs to cut
costs to keep operating margins from narrowing further, after they
shrank to 4.9 percent last year from 19 percent a decade earlier. For
2011 and 2012, Nokia may cut its budget for research and development in
devices and services by about a third from last year’s spending of about
3 billion euros, said Sami Sarkamies, a Helsinki-based analyst with
Nordea Bank.

Microsoft spokeswoman Melissa Havel
declined to comment on the specifics of the agreement. Laurie Armstrong,
a spokeswoman for Nokia, said the final contract hasn’t been signed and
the company will share further details when they are complete.

Nokia’s royalty payments will help
Redmond, Washington- based Microsoft make a profit on the accord even
after the payments to Nokia, one person said. Some of the payment to
Nokia would be made before the company starts selling the phones,
meaning Microsoft bears some upfront cost in the partnership.

…

Microsoft shareholders want the company
to salvage its mobile-software business while also reining in costs. The
company doesn’t break out results for its mobile-software unit, and
instead groups them with the profitable Xbox video-game business, making it difficult to evaluate the financial performance of phone software.

Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer
has come under pressure from investors and his own board to improve
sales of mobile software after the company lost market share to Google
and Apple. Microsoft stock has declined 7.8 percent so far this year.

The agreement for the more than
billion-dollar payment was part of a campaign by Microsoft to keep Nokia
from choosing Google’s Android operating system, one of the people
said. Nokia also opted for Microsoft because Windows Phone software,
which is newer than Android and has a smaller number of handsets for
sale, gives Nokia a better chance to stand out, one of the people said.

The agreement also has Microsoft paying Nokia for the right to use its patent portfolio, one of the people said.

As part of the deal, Microsoft will use
Nokia’s Navteq mapping products for functions such as geolocation
services and selling local advertising and coupons tied to a user’s
position. If successful, that also could generate additional revenue for
Nokia, which will share in the sales. The two companies will also
divide revenue from services like search and advertising, Microsoft
President Andy Lees said last month.

I’ve been warning my subscribers about margin compression in this
space, and its about to get much uglier – to the extreme benefit of
consumers of personal and enterprise tech. Previous (and prescient)
posts from last year on this topic…

• Don’t Count Microsoft Out of the Ultra-Mobile Computing Wars Just Yet
• After Getting a Glimpse of the New Windows Phone 7 Functionality, RIMM is Looking More Like a Short Play
• As
  I Warned in June, DO NOT DISCOUNT Microsoft in This Mobile Computing
  War! Their Marketing Campaign is PURE GENIUS! and it Appears as if
  the Phone Ain’t Bad Either
• Apple on the Margin
• How
  Google is Looking to Cut Apple’s Margin and How the
  Sell Side of Wall Street Will Enable This Without
  Sheeple Investor’s Having a Clue

Monetizing the Mobile Computing Race

We have a pretty firm idea of who is in the pole position as of now,
but that position is both risky and volatile, not to mention medium to
long term in nature – see Navigating BoomBustBlog Subscription Material To Find The Google Valuation Drilldown.

A more risk averse strategy is to go long on the component vendors
who supply those battling for pole position. Last week we released the
document Long candidate #1 – Hardware: The Mobile Computing Wars
to subscribers that outlined who our number one pick was after an
initial scan. This is not necessarily the absolute final say on the
matter since we have yet to perform a full forensic analysis, but the
company does look good in comparison to over 120 peers. Non-subscribers
should reference The Potential Equity Investments Most Likely To Prosper From the Google/Apple/Microsoft Mobile Computing Battle.

I am releasing the draft of the full shortlist of prospective long
candidates as of now (17 pages, 5 companies) to subscribers. Please be
aware that is a draft document and work in progress, but it is quite
informative nonetheless.  See Mobile Computing Vendor Long List Note WIP. Those who wish to subscribe should click here.

Click here to read up on all of Reggie Middleton’s Mobile Computing War opinion, analysis, and research.

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