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Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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If you don't know much about Justin Bieber's rise to superstardom, James Parker provides a good primer:

How did he do it? With YouTube, that’s how. Kissed in his cradle by the witch of the Web, Justin was throwing up little promo reels by the time he was 12. Singing a Brian McKnight song into the bathroom mirror. Or sitting on some municipal steps somewhere, busking mightily about the Lord: “You’re my God and my Fa-ther!” he bellows through the legs of passersby, the wooden body of his guitar reverberating with his shouts. ...

Bieber wasn’t from the Disney factory, and he didn’t have a show on Nickelodeon, so the marketing plan was skewed toward his already established constituency in social media: lots of Facebooking and YouTubing and sugary tweets to his millions-strong Twitter army.

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Josh Pastner of Memphis Tigers gets new 5-year deal

Memphis coach Josh Pastner receive a new five-year contract Tuesday.

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4000 bodies still remain unidentified following quake | Kyodo News

The identities of around 4000 bodies collected following the March 11 mega earthquake and ensuing tsunami still remain unconfirmed in severely-damaged Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, a local police tally showed Tuesday. ...

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Each of the employees of Tokyo Electric Power Co. and other workers engaged in containing damage at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is given 30 survival food crackers and a 180 milliliter pack of vegetable juice for ...

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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.

Titles from major book publisher Random House will now appear in Apple’s iBooks store. The news was one of many talking points covered earlier today at Apple’s media event. Random House had previously been the only major publisher not represented in Apple’s popular iOS book store, as it was not willing to grant Apple the 30% cut taken on titles sold through iBooks. The addition of Random House is a major coup for Apple as it looks to compete with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle bookstore and other popular offerings. Hit the break for Apple’s full press release.

Random House, Inc. Makes Entire US Catalog of 17,000 ebooks Available on Apple’s iBookstore

iBookstore Now Features More than 2,500 Publishers, Including All Six Major Trade Publishers

SAN FRANCISCO—March 2, 2011—Apple® today announced that Random House, Inc., the largest trade book publisher in the US, has made its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available on Apple’s iBookstore℠, including bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Laura Hillenbrand, Cormac McCarthy, Lee Child and many more of the world’s preeminent authors. Starting today, customers can pre-order upcoming releases from Random House including Lisa Gardner’s “Love You More,” Suze Orman’s “The Money Class” and Jean Auel’s “The Land of Painted Caves.” With the addition of Random House, the iBookstore now offers ebooks from all six major trade publishers and thousands of independent publishers.

“We are delighted that Apple’s iBookstore now will be carrying Random House’s US ebooks for the first time,” said Markus Dohle, Random House’s Chairman and CEO. “And we look forward to bringing our 17,000 ebooks to Apple customers.”

“We’re thrilled to offer Random House on the iBookstore,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “iBookstore customers have already downloaded more than 100 million books in less than one year, and we think they’ll love being able to choose from Random House’s incredible selection of titles to enjoy on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.”

iBookstore customers can choose from a wide selection of illustrated and video-enhanced books that look incredible on iPad™, including Jay-Z’s memoir “Decoded” and Bing West’s “The Wrong War”; bestselling children’s series such as Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones; and cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, and the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten. Random House, Inc. comprises more than 80 adult and children’s US publishing imprints including Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Crown, Pantheon Books, Vintage, Ballantine and Bantam.

The iBookstore, included in Apple’s free iBooks® app, is the best way to browse, buy and read books on your iPad, iPhone® and iPod touch®. iBookstore offers ebooks from more than 2,500 publishers in more than 20 categories, including Mysteries & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Children’s & Teen, Humor, Romance, Business and Travel.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

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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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4000 bodies still remain unidentified following quake | Kyodo News

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Head lice trigger body lice epidemics, study finds – National ...

... (CNRS/IRD/Université de la Méditerranée), in collaboration with researchers from the Universities of Florida and Illinois” in the U.S., says a news statement released by the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). ...

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Monday, March 28, 2011

Ways of Making Money

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some awesome articles on 43 ways to save money, foods you don't need to buy organic, and how to keep your head after losing your job.

Job interview as well as Discussion

Most roofing contractors offer free consultation services. This is particularly essential, since it gives them a chance to evaluate exactly what your homes roof needs, and it gives you a chance to assess them. As with all companies, trust your instincts about the individuals you let up on your roof. No issue exactly how good a contractor's reputation or suggestion, he or she should begin by showing you with a company card. If the service provider occurs searching as well as speaking within an less than professional manner, most likely the task he's going to perform may also be less than professional. This isn't to express that you ought to expect contractors to arrive in suits. They is going to be hiking in your roof, so the majority of will be dressed up in jeans as well as function boots or athletic shoes. If the actual contractor appears to be interested in talking upon his mobile phone while on your homes roof than he is in analyzing your roof's requirements, which may be another sign that he's not really the one to do the job. For your legal safety, make sure that the service provider has adequate liability insurance coverage.

Roof Assessment

Expect that the contractor is going to be going up on your roofing. Actually, any service provider who not want to increase on your roof to judge the issue ought to be immediately discounted. Those who are seriously interested in their own work will possibly make a sketching of your roof's surface area as well as mark trouble spots on it because they undergo their own evaluation, or they will take pictures or even video from the surface while they're available online for. This is a very important step, since it enables you to see just what the problems are and understand how they will be fixed.

Estimation

The next phase would be the created estimation. The contractor will require away his calculator and come track of a written estimate. Some companies goes to their vehicle or even van and write down the proposal, while others may crisis the numbers to do the job in front of you. Once you're given the proposal, make sure that you comprehend exactly which products will be used, just how long the job will require and if there are any extra or even hidden costs that may occur during the restore of the roofing. The service provider should be able to answer many of these concerns effortlessly and forewarn a person associated with a additional costs that could be incurred should the roof's ethics end up being broken inside.

Once you have received a few written estimates from roofing contractors, assess what each organization or service provider would like to offer you for the price. Do not necessarily discount the greatest bid, simply because sometimes the highest bid will actually function as the service provider who does the job properly. Also, be skeptical of bids that are significantly less than other people. They may be using substandard items or be untruthful about the possibility of concealed expenses. Most importantly, trust your intuition as well as opt for the contractor who makes you feel most comfortable about giving over your hard earned money.

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

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

AFP

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Strike hard' campaign

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Earlier cases

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New training scheme

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

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

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

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

Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

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

If it had been actually in doubt, information obtained by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese language federal government worries over it's ongoing control of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked out wires through U.S. diplomats show the actual degree to which Chinese language authorities make an effort to convince governments globally to consider its stance on issues affecting Uyghurs. The actual cables additionally show the actual U . s . States' issues as well as sights regarding the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

The majority of lighting associated with Chinese language government pressure would be the cables pointing in order to Chinese frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. The December 29, 08 cable relates how Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.S. Ambassador in order to The far east in order to tone of voice Beijing's strong competitors of release to any country other than The far east, and that if the Ough.S. did certainly accede for this request it might "avoid harm to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". In addition, a February 2009 cable television describes how the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave towards us" and a "slap within the face". The Ough.Utes. federal government was company within not liberating the actual detainees to The far east demonstrates the degree of the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial program. Genuine issues more than terrorism tend to be easy to understand, but in the Ough.S. government's view the detainees would most likely encounter torture as well as execution when they returned to The far east

Chinese language government stress in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only put on the actual Ough.S. government, but additionally to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of European governments that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, as well as Eu fellow member says just about all have the symptoms of borne the impact of Chinese government unhappiness. Regarding Indonesia, which was initially willing to consider 2 Uyghurs upon solely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less preferable to other detainees due to the negative effects accepting Uyghurs might have upon relations with China. The Might Eight, 2009 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Indonesia had knowledgeable China of the Ough.Utes. request to simply accept some Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo coupled with already been consequently warned by The far east of ‘a heavy burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany were to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires additionally discuss the actual unrest in Urumchi, the actual regional funds, in July 2009. A July Thirteen, '09 cable television talking about mass occurrences within The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet within 03 associated with 08 vary substantially in origin and character from bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each existing severe problems for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Celebration management would not wait to spread out fire on Uighurs or even Tibetans when they deemed this necessary to restore purchase. Mass occurrences present another kind of threat, he explained, as the management is ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters with regard to anxiety about causing massive open public outrage that would turn from the Party."

This can be a chilling viewpoint, especially when 1 considers the evidence offered in two reviews released this season by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and Amnesty International that fine detail eyewitness accounts from the utilization of deadly reside fireplace against Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. Additionally, the observation that fireplace wouldn't be used against Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the various strategy taken by Chinese security causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese language protests within September '09. During those direct orders, then Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, that experienced demanded he let them know regarding federal government reactions to security issues. An identical ask for to meet with the Celebration Secretary through Uyghur protesters in July wasn't met.

The actual broader repercussions of the unrest additionally noticed a brief dialogue on the effect it might have on Iran-China relationships, as well as on relationships along with Australia following Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke in the Nationwide Press Club in Canberra within August '09. In the latter situation, china government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian financial institution that vendors the nation's Push Membership to make use of it's influence to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The actual United States' issues concerning the situation within the Uyghur area are available through within the cables. Inside a dialogue on plan direction in Tibet, U.S. authorities clarify that it'll be not possible for Chinese frontrunners to adopt a softer collection "if they look like doing this below international pressure". The cable television out dated April 16, 08, one month after the outbreak associated with unrest within Tibetan areas, also relayed the observation "that household balance remains the leadership's main concern above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' be no rest of the current difficult line on Tibet or in places such as Xinjiang." The information contained in the cable television also storage sheds light on the severe level of sensitivity that china federal government views territorial ethics, and also the possible drip over of unrest from Tibet.

The chance associated with solutions to stress in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from municipal culture are debated in a Feb 24, 08 cable television. While recommending which China's financial achievement increases its potential to deal with democratic reform, the actual cable also discusses how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the usefulness associated with "a restricted growth associated with municipal culture, including enhancements within the rule of regulation along with a stronger role with regard to authorized beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other actors in areas which contribute to social stability and don't challenge Communist Party guideline." This is a significant alternation in considering, which has seen U.Utes. officials market the idea that Chinese language economic improvement, as well as economic relationships with China will bring about a steadily democratic society; however, much more belief seems to be placed in the grassroots movement than one that starts from the top quantity of a Chinese federal government. Nonetheless, the cable television proves which "[i]n places such as Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tighter restrictions about the growth of municipal society." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the recognized, that suggests that the U.Utes. federal government "should still express...serious concerns more than Beijing's individual rights record as well as appeal to China's growing consciousness which higher regard with regard to human privileges, spiritual freedom and the rule associated with law assists to promote the very development as well as social balance which China seeks in addition to to enhance China's international image." This type of technique would consider substantial diplomatic abilities thinking about "China's weird concern that the Usa privately encourages routine alter as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The cables offer understanding of the daily business associated with diplomacy that's hardly ever owned by the general public, which is interesting to note the quantity of work done behind closed doors on Uyghur problems. The significance of the actual role of the United States like a monitor associated with Uyghur human rights problems in personal discussions is made obvious, as well as contrasts with its tactful open public position. The staff of the Uyghur Human Rights Task is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese government exerts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese government pressure on its counterparts is illustrative of the diploma that Chinese language authorities attempt to suppress contrary narratives. With increased facts in the future from Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs may not grab the headlines, but the wires possess shed new light on the paperwork of individual rights conditions within the Uyghur region.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Wikileaks and the Uyghur

through holly on December 20, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it had been ever uncertain, information obtained through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese language federal government worries more than it's ongoing control of the region it phone calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as East Turkestan. The actual leaked cables through Ough.Utes. diplomats show the degree to which Chinese language government bodies attempt to persuade governments globally to adopt it's position on issues impacting Uyghurs. The actual wires also display the actual United States' concerns and views regarding the on going repressive measures in the region.

Most illuminating associated with Chinese federal government pressure would be the cables directed to Chinese frustration, or even the specter of Chinese language ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third countries. A Dec Twenty nine, 2008 cable television applies how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.S. Ambassador to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's powerful competitors associated with release in order to any kind of country apart from The far east, and that when the U.S. did certainly accede for this ask for it might "avoid harm to bilateral relations and to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, the February 2009 cable describes the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave toward us" along with a "slap within the face". That the U.S. federal government stood firm in not really releasing the actual detainees to China demonstrates the actual extent from the politicized character from the Chinese judicial program. Genuine issues over terrorism tend to be easy to understand, however in the actual Ough.S. government's view the detainees might probably encounter torture as well as delivery if they returned to China

Chinese language government pressure regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only applied to the U.Utes. government, but additionally to New Zealand and a number of European governments which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, as well as Eu fellow member states all have the symptoms of paid for the actual brunt associated with Chinese federal government disappointment. Regarding Indonesia, which was at first prepared to consider two Uyghurs on solely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been much less better than additional detainees due to the negative effects taking Uyghurs might have on relationships along with The far east. The Might 8, '09 cable applies how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Indonesia had knowledgeable The far east from the U.S. request to simply accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had been consequently cautioned by China associated with ‘a heavy burden upon bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia had been to accept any detainees".

The diplomatic cables also talk about the actual unrest within Urumchi, the regional funds, within July 2009. The This summer 13, '09 cable television discussing bulk occurrences within The far east states:

"Ethnic riots such as those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet within 03 associated with 08 vary markedly within source and nature from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe problems for the actual Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Party management wouldn't hesitate to spread out fireplace on Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed this necessary to restore purchase. Mass occurrences pose a different type of risk, he said, as the management is actually ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters for fear of causing massive public outrage that would change from the Party."

This is a chilling viewpoint, particularly when one views the evidence presented by 50 percent reports launched this season by the Uyghur Human Privileges Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty Worldwide that detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of lethal reside fireplace against Uyghur protestors in This summer '09. Additionally, the actual declaration which fire wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for that different strategy taken through Chinese protection causes within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese language protests within September '09. Throughout those direct orders, after that Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, that had required that he let them know regarding government reactions to security issues. A similar ask for to meet with the Celebration Assistant by Uyghur protesters in This summer wasn't met.

The wider repercussions from the unrest additionally noticed a short dialogue about the effect it would possess upon Iran-China relations, and on relationships with Australia after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the National Press Club in Canberra within August '09. Within the second option situation, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian bank which vendors the National Press Club to make use of its influence to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The actual U . s . States' concerns concerning the situation within the Uyghur area also come via within the cables. In a discussion upon policy direction in Tibet, Ough.Utes. authorities clarify that it'll be not possible for Chinese frontrunners to consider the softer collection "if they look like doing this below international pressure". The cable television out dated April Sixteen, 2008, 30 days following the episode of unrest within Tibetan regions, also relayed the declaration "that household balance continues to be leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' be no rest from the present difficult line on Tibet or in places like Xinjiang." The info included in the cable television also storage sheds gentle on the extreme level of sensitivity with which china government sights territorial integrity, and the possible spill more than associated with unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from municipal culture are discussed in a February Twenty-four, 2008 cable. Whilst recommending that China's financial success will increase it's resistance to democratic reform, the cable additionally talks about exactly how Chinese frontrunners see the usefulness of "a limited expansion associated with municipal society, such as enhancements within the guideline of regulation along with a more powerful part for authorized religions, NGOs, charities and other stars within places which bring about sociable balance and don't problem Communist Celebration rule." This is a significant alternation in considering, which has seen U.S. officials market the notion that Chinese economic improvement, and economic relations along with The far east will bring about a progressively democratic society; nevertheless, more faith appears to be placed in a grassroots motion than one which starts from the top levels of the Chinese government. Nonetheless, the cable proves which "[i]n places for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism results in tight restrictions about the development of municipal society." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the recognized, who suggests that the U.Utes. government "should still express...serious concerns over Beijing's individual privileges report as well as attract China's developing awareness which higher regard for individual rights, religious independence and also the rule of regulation assists to advertise the development as well as social stability which The far east looks for as well as to improve China's international picture." Such a strategy might take considerable diplomatic skills considering "China's weird concern that the Usa privately promotes routine change as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual cables offer insight into the actual every day company associated with diplomacy that's hardly ever afforded to the general public, and it is fascinating to notice the quantity of work done nowadays on Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual part of the us as a keep track of of Uyghur individual privileges problems in personal discussions is made clear, as well as contrasts with its sensible open public position. Employees from the Uyghur Human Privileges Task is actually comfortable with pressure china government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts associated with Chinese government pressure upon it's counterparts is illustrative from the diploma that Chinese language authorities make an effort to suppress contradictory stories. With increased facts to come from Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs might not grab the actual headlines, however the cables have shed brand new gentle about the documentation of individual privileges conditions in the Uyghur area.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Little about the Uyghur People

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-western part of China, the province of Xinjiang is the least populated province whereas it covers close to a sixth from the country's territory. Having resisted while in hundreds of years the chinese domination, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old East Turkistan, fell into under the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghurs and Turkish - speaking System.

Islamic mainly, the Uyghurs have a very good religious identification which usually, in specific, enabled them to preserve a solid big difference in opposition to the Chinese invader. Really, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a excellent civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their historical past, the Uyghur People successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally moving to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., as a result opening the way to the Islamization of the complete Central Asia.

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

The entrance of Islam was a great change mainly because it was followed by the absorption of the Uyghur land in the enormous Turkic and Islamic Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used nowadays.

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

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only eight million people - a little for this kind of immense area. Therefore, the Uyghurs are now part of the fifty six ethnic minority groups having been known in an official way by China.

This statute allows them a few rights in a country exactly where their big difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur families escape the "single child policy" and their language is known as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in China, however, seems quite illusory. The presence of natural resources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its distance with locations recognised as sensitive, highly encouraged the government to increase the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the higher 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.

Asserting more flexibility, but specially the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in location Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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 Uyghurs population continues today to proudly keep their identification and their culture , though 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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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ways of Making Money

As Americans, we’re often taught that trusts and monopolies are the product of big business and are bad. However, if trusts and monopolies are bad when Big Business engages in monopolistic ways, why isn’t it bad when Big Labor engages in the same sort of behaviors that are condemned when committed by Big Business?

For over a week now, the nation has watched tens of thousands march in protest to Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s budget plan. Democrat lawmakers (aka Fleebaggers) have fled the state in order to avoid doing their duty, while Obama’s OFA has bussed in the astroturf from out of state. While the union meme has been that Walker’s plan is “union-busting,” perhaps a more apt description would be “trust-busting.”

One of the most vocal opponents of Scott Walker’s budget plan has been the Wisconsin Education Association Council [WEAC]. As a union affiliated with the NEA, WEAC (according to its website) represents 98,000 “educators” in the State of Wisconsin.

Like any union, WEAC has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo when it comes to forced dues from Wisconsin school teachers, as well as automatic dues deduction from teachers’ paychecks—both of which would be eliminated under Walker’s proposal.

Employers will be prohibited from collecting union dues and members of collective bargaining units will not be required to pay dues.

In essence, Walker’s proposal threatens the life blood of the WEAC which, according to its most recent financial report on file (FY 2009), raked in over $25 million from teachers in a one year period.

Another threat to WEAC, which no one in the mainstream media is talking about is the threat to the union’s insurance trust, called WEA Trust. The WEA Trust is, in essence, a union-run “multi-employer” health insurance trust (the employers, in this case, are school districts).

The way it works is that WEAC has, through collective bargaining (negotiations), convinced school districts to pay into the WEA Trust and, in turn, the WEA Trust is responsible for administering teachers’ benefits. According to PublicSchoolSpending.com, Walker’s proposal would give school boards the ability to shop freely for more competitive insurance rates and save the state millions.

Last year, the Education Action Group issued a report which stated, among other things, that:

WEA Trust, an insurance company established and closely associated with the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), siphons millions of crucial dollars from K-12 schools and their students every year.

WEA Trust has grown very fat on public school dollars, with a net worth of $316 million and a team of 12 administrators all receiving compensation packages worth six figures per year.

Sadly, this insurance swindle is endorsed by state law.

The group’s Communications Director, Steve Gunn, explains:

The pressure derives from state law, which makes the identity of a school’s health insurance carrier a topic of collective bargaining between local unions and school boards. That allows union representatives to come to the table demanding expensive WEA Trust coverage, and frequently school boards give in.

[snip]

Once school districts sign up for WEA Trust coverage, and write the carrier into collective bargaining agreements, the shackles are on. And they aren’t easily removed.

Local unions often refuse to have the provision stricken from school labor contracts in subsequent negotiations. If a school board presses the issue in an effort to save money, WEAC will frequently take the case to arbitration.

The Trust’s business practices also complicate the problem.

Districts need employee claim histories to provide to potential bidders, but WEA Trust sometimes refuses to surrender the information, making it more difficult, if not impossible, for competitors to draft an accurate insurance estimate.

WEA Trust also reportedly threatens districts with higher premiums – by removing them from regional insurance pools with lower rates – if they consider a cheaper carrier.

Some districts have managed to break WEA Trust’s shackles and the savings tell the story. Officials from 15 districts recently told EAG that they saved six figures the first year under new coverage, while still providing quality health benefits for employees. They also say the cost of their new coverage has remained steady in subsequent years.

But there is a catch. Officials at all of the breakaway districts said they had to surrender, or at least share, the insurance savings with their local unions, generally in the form of salary increases. That left them with little or no extra revenue to cover other costs.

In other words, WEAC, the union that has been most vocal during the last week’s protests has a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. If the union can defeat Scott Walker’s reform plans, not only does it keep the union dues of teachers, it also gets to keep its health insurance monopoly intact.

Of course, you’re not hearing this in the press as it doesn’t fit the convenient narrative of class warfare. So, the next time you have someone tell you how “mean” Scott Walker is for attacking the teachers’ union, you can simply reply: Follow the money.

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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776

[Photo credit: Vaxomatic]

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Employers will be prohibited from collecting union dues and members of collective bargaining units will not be required to pay dues.

Last year, the Education Action Group issued a report which stated, among other things, that:

WEA Trust, an insurance company established and closely associated with the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), siphons millions of crucial dollars from K-12 schools and their students every year.

WEA Trust has grown very fat on public school dollars, with a net worth of $316 million and a team of 12 administrators all receiving compensation packages worth six figures per year.

Sadly, this insurance swindle is endorsed by state law.

The group’s Communications Director, Steve Gunn, explains:

The pressure derives from state law, which makes the identity of a school’s health insurance carrier a topic of collective bargaining between local unions and school boards. That allows union representatives to come to the table demanding expensive WEA Trust coverage, and frequently school boards give in.

[snip]

Once school districts sign up for WEA Trust coverage, and write the carrier into collective bargaining agreements, the shackles are on. And they aren’t easily removed.

Local unions often refuse to have the provision stricken from school labor contracts in subsequent negotiations. If a school board presses the issue in an effort to save money, WEAC will frequently take the case to arbitration.

The Trust’s business practices also complicate the problem.

Districts need employee claim histories to provide to potential bidders, but WEA Trust sometimes refuses to surrender the information, making it more difficult, if not impossible, for competitors to draft an accurate insurance estimate.

WEA Trust also reportedly threatens districts with higher premiums – by removing them from regional insurance pools with lower rates – if they consider a cheaper carrier.

Some districts have managed to break WEA Trust’s shackles and the savings tell the story. Officials from 15 districts recently told EAG that they saved six figures the first year under new coverage, while still providing quality health benefits for employees. They also say the cost of their new coverage has remained steady in subsequent years.

But there is a catch. Officials at all of the breakaway districts said they had to surrender, or at least share, the insurance savings with their local unions, generally in the form of salary increases. That left them with little or no extra revenue to cover other costs.

_________________

“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.” Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776

[Photo credit: Vaxomatic]

X-posted.

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