About Me 0016: March 2011

Tuesday 29 March 2011

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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.

Apple advertises its products as magical. They’re at the intersection of “technology and the liberal arts,” Steve Jobs said today. Something that moves your heart, not just your lust for technology. Will consumers still buy that in 2011?

The big picture question of the day is whether Apple has done it again. With the original iPad, Apple crushed its rivals, taking more than 90 percent of the tablet market in 2010 and selling more than 15 million units. Jobs predicted today that 2011 will be the year of the iPad 2. Based on what I have seen today, I think he’s mostly, but not entirely, right.

Competitors will discover that Apple has a lot of inherent financial advantages, including being a low-cost leader. That may not sound intuitive, but I believe it has to be true. It is selling so much volume of its products that it can get discounts on parts and manufacturing services that no one else can get.

When it sells its products in stores, it also doesn’t have to give away 20 percent of the margin to a retailer. That is a huge financial advantage. Carriers are also willing to subsidize the costs of Apple products in a way that they won’t with other tablet vendors. All of these things may explain why the Motorola Xoom, a very cool product, is selling for $800 while Apple has priced its new devices at $499 to $829, (and dropped the price of the old iPad to $399). Apple has also left very little room for rivals here, since it has signed up both AT&T and Verizon. Perhaps there is room for rivals to sell $199 machines, but users probably aren’t going to like them.

Those are reasons why any cool Apple mobile product could beat other rivals. But Apple has also done some smart things with the iPad 2. It has created another rev of its microprocessor, the A5, which has two cores, or computing brains. And it has nine times faster graphics than its old A4 chip. Since Apple designs this chip itself, it doesn’t have to give away much margin to a chip design firm. It only has to give a small margin to a chip manufacturer such as Samsung to make the chips.

Apple has also custom-designed the A5 to run Apple applications on a device with a 10-hour battery life. Apple should have an edge there, as it won’t sell the A5 to rivals. But if this is an advantage, it isn’t likely to last long, as Nvidia is being very aggressive with a new quad-core chip that it could sell to any Android rivals.

The design of the iPad 2 is where Apple has more advantages. The iPad 2 will have faster web-browsing with a new version of Safari. It has two cameras that will inspire a lot of video and photo-related apps. The availability of the Mac applications — iMovie, Garage Band, and Photo Booth — on the iPad 2 will make a lot of users happy. More interesting features will come with new releases of the iOS, or Apple’s operating system in the fairly near future.

There are some users who won’t like the restrictions of Apple’s ecosystem. If they want universal serial bus (USB) and SD card ports, they are out of luck. Apple didn’t change the resolution of its screen either, leaving it at 1024 x 768. Competitors could add these options and put emphasis on them as selling points. (Critics are disappointed that Apple did not improve the display, but that’s a big cost issue others have too).

Apple has also made great improvements in the feel of the product. It’s 33 percent thinner, 2 ounces lighter, and it has a wonderful new screen cover that doubles as a stand for the device. (It wakes up the device when you peel it back and it has micro-fibers that clean the screen when the cover is on).

Now here is why Jobs is not entirely right. Apple has come up with a stunning machine at prices that the competitors will have a hard time beating. But it is almost inevitable that Android-based tablets will gain market share on Apple.

So far, I don’t see the Android machine that will beat the iPad 2. But the potential is there, given ingredients such as Android 3.0, Nvidia Tegra 2 chips and other fast microprocessors, and 4G LTE. The latter is the main weakness in Apple’s armor.

LTE is fast, with a minimum speed on Verizon at around 12 megabits a second and actual speeds running much higher than that now. Getting access to 4G LTE is as big a benefit as having access to lots of cool apps, from my point of view. Right now, the timing of the still-young LTE technology means that Apple cannot yet put it into its mass-produced, lowest-cost tablet computers.

If LTE costs come down sometime soon, then Apple can launch a new version of the iPad to incorporate the technology. But it’s not a simple upgrade, as it means that the hardware of the machine — including the radio chip — has to change. And for now, LTE chips are larger than their 3G equivalents, so the heat dissipation and product size are affected. In other words, LTE can force Apple to redesign the iPad.

Apple can do that. But Android tablet makers might be able to move faster than Apple directly into the 4G LTE tablet market. If they do that, then they will have found a scenario where they could steal a march on Apple. Apple is not likely to let that gap last for a long time, but it might be enough for Apple to lose some share this year.

Apple’s leadership position in this market will be hard to beat, but the collective weight and reach of Android rivals could erode it. And here’s a sobering thought: If Apple eventually winds up with only 30 percent of the tablet market, it could still be No. 1, and its place as the largest technology company in the world will not be at risk.

Check out Apple’s overview video on the iPad 2 and Jobs’ comments on technology and the liberal arts below.

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Preview of Final Result

Resources

PT Sans Bold – FontSquirrel

Free App Icons for Developers – WebAppers

Step 1

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

Step 2

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

Step 3

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

Step 4

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

Step 5

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

Step 6

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

Step 7

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

Step 8

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

Step 9

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

Step 10

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

Step 11

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

Step 12

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

Step 13

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

Step 14

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

Step 15

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

Step 16

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

Step 17

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

Step 18

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

Step 19

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

Step 20

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

Step 21

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

Step 22

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

Step 23

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

Step 24

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

Step 25

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

Step 26

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

Step 27

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

Step 28

To finish, add a Gradient Overlay effect.

Step 29

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

Step 30

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

Step 31

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

Step 32

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

Step 33

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

Step 34

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

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

Preview of Final Result

Resources

PT Sans Bold – FontSquirrel

Free App Icons for Developers – WebAppers

Step 1

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

Step 2

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

Step 3

Step 4

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

Step 5

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

Step 6

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

Step 7

Step 8

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

Step 9

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

Step 10

Step 11

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

Step 12

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

Step 13

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

Step 14

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

Step 15

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

Step 16

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

Step 17

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

Step 18

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

Step 19

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

Step 20

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

Step 21

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

Step 22

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

Step 23

Step 24

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

Step 25

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

Step 26

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

Step 27

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

Step 28

To finish, add a Gradient Overlay effect.

Step 29

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

Step 30

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

Step 31

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

Step 32

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

Step 33

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

Step 34

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

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

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Making Money on the Internet

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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In a week when Egypt went into a clinch over the new government’s intensions regarding human rights, freedom and higher pay, Libya erupted into what is, to all intents and purposes, a civil war and in Tunisia the body count continued to increase web trends everywhere laser focused on the same thing: Charlie Sheen.

The Oscars themselves became a footnote to the network TV star’s blitz on the media scene. Suddenly it has become impossible to not trip over his name. On daytime TV and endless chat shows reporters and celebrities pour over his every word, offer opinions, views and advice. Popular Radio shows like Howard Stern’s have held phone-in interviews, CNN’s Piers Morgan gave Sheen a full hour and ABC’s Andrea Canning interviewed him at his home and fuelled speculation over his lifestyle and domestic arrangements.

Sheen who had managed, through a public rant on Alex Jone’s Radio Show, to go from TV’s highest paid actor to unemployed has suddenly become the hottest property in the social media stakes. He topped Google trends on March 1st with millions of people across the United States and Europe looking for information on him and just two days later he clocked the fastest time ever to reach a million followers on Twitter. The Guinness Book of Records handed him the award after Sheen’s Twitter verified account (billed by him as ‘unemployed winner’) became the focus of the blogosphere and the real-time web topping the 1 million mark in 25 hours and 17 minutes. At the time of writing it has topped the 1.3 million mark.

With all these crazy numbers being thrown around the sane voice inside us just has to ask, why? Why are we suddenly so fascinated by a man who is not the greatest talent of his generation, whose inner demons, whatever they may be, are not unique, whose lifestyle, however questionable, is not exceptional in his line of work and whose willingness to participate in the media circus which usually surrounds celebrities is not that far removed from Madonna’s or Lady Gaga’s.

We are living in the era of ‘firsts’. It is the first global credit crunch we have ever experienced. Facebook and Twitter are real-time web ‘firsts’. For the first time we can find out news before the accredited news channels give them to us. For the first time institutions we help inviolable seem to have been built on clay. Charlie Sheen is the first celebrity to allow us unpackaged, raw access to his own personal view of the world. Add to it the fact that he gives us a voyeur’s view into the state of mind and lifestyle of a celebrity who’s unconventional even by celebrity standards and you suddenly have a novelty that’s as addictive as the drugs Charlie Sheen admits he used to take.

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Search engine optimization Vancouver For A Better Marketing Solution

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It is a well known fact that if you are planning to make it within the offline world you need to have an online business. This is something that all business people are learning hard way. One thing that you ought to also know is that it's not as easy as just establishing the website and leaving it to complete its things.

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What to Expect Whenever Hiring a Roofing Contractor

When the time comes to repair or even substitute your roof, it's really a daunting job to locate somebody that is actually qualified to do the job. There are lots of roofers out there, but the ones who'll do a congrats for any sensible price aren't frequently simple to find. If you are in the market for a service provider, use the tips below for interviewing as well as hiring the right one.

Job interview as well as Consultation

Most roofing contractors provide free consultation services. This is particularly essential, since it provides them an opportunity to evaluate exactly what your homes roof needs, also it provides you with a chance to assess all of them. As with all businesses, believe in instincts about the individuals a person let upward onto your roof. No issue how great a contractor's status or recommendation, he or she ought to start by presenting you having a business greeting card. If the service provider arrives searching as well as speaking in an unprofessional manner, chances are that the job he's going to perform will also be less than professional. This is not to express that you should anticipate contractors to reach in suits. They is going to be climbing on your roof, so most will be dressed in denim jeans as well as function boots or athletic shoes. If the contractor appears to be interested in talking upon his mobile phone while on your roof compared to he's in analyzing your own roof's needs, that may be an additional indication that he's not really the main one to do the job. For the legal protection, make sure that the contractor has adequate liability insurance.

Roofing Assessment

Anticipate that the service provider is going to be rising on your roof. Actually, any service provider who not need to increase on your roof to evaluate the problem ought to be immediately reduced. Those who are seriously interested in their own function will possibly create a sketching of your roof's surface area and mark trouble spots on it as they go through their evaluation, or they will consider photos or even video clip from the surface area while they're up there. This is an extremely important step, because it enables you to observe just what the troubles are and know how they'll be fixed.

Estimation

The next phase would be the written estimation. The service provider will require out his calculator and are available up with a written estimate. Some contractors goes out to their own truck or truck and write down the actual proposal, while some may crisis the actual amounts to do the job in front of you. Once you're given the suggestion, ensure that you understand which items is going to be utilized, how long the job will take and if there are any extra or even concealed expenses that may occur throughout the restore of the roof. The service provider should be able to answer all of these concerns effortlessly as well as forewarn you of any extra expenses that could be sustained should the roof's integrity end up being broken within.

After you have obtained a few created estimates from roofing contractors, assess what every company or even contractor would like to offer you for the price. Do not necessarily discount the highest bid, because occasionally the highest bid will in reality be the contractor who does the job properly. Also, be wary associated with prices for bids that are not nearly as expensive other people. They might be using substandard items or perhaps be untruthful concerning the chance of hidden expenses. Most importantly, believe in instincts and opt for the service provider that enables you to feel quite comfortable about handing 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.

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

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

Whether it had been ever uncertain, info acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese government fears over it's ongoing control of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked cables through U.Utes. diplomats show the extent to which Chinese language authorities attempt to persuade government authorities worldwide to adopt it's position upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The wires also display the U . s . States' issues as well as sights concerning the ongoing repressive steps in the area.

Most lighting of Chinese government pressure would be the cables pointing in order to Chinese language anger, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd countries. The Dec 29, 08 cable relates exactly how Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met using the U.Utes. Ambassador in order to The far east in order to voice Beijing's strong competitors of launch in order to any country other than China, which when the Ough.S. did indeed accede for this ask for it might "avoid harm to bilateral relations and to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb 2009 cable explains how the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfavorable behave toward us" and a "slap within the face". That the Ough.Utes. federal government stood company in not really releasing the detainees in order to China demonstrates the actual extent of the politicized nature from the Chinese language judicial system. Legitimate concerns over terrorism are understandable, but in the actual U.Utes. government's view the detainees might probably face torture as well as execution if they returned to China

Chinese government stress in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just applied to the actual U.S. government, but additionally in order to New Zealand along with a handful of Western government authorities that were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, in addition to Eu fellow member states just about all have the symptoms of borne the actual brunt associated with Chinese language federal government disappointment. In the case of Germany, that was initially prepared to consider two Uyghurs on purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were less preferable to additional detainees because of the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relations with The far east. A May Eight, '09 cable relates exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported that Germany had informed The far east from the Ough.Utes. request to accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had been subsequently warned through China of ‘a heavy burden upon bilateral relations' if Germany were to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires also talk about the unrest within Urumchi, the actual local capital, in This summer 2009. The This summer Thirteen, '09 cable television talking about bulk occurrences in The far east states:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet in 03 associated with 08 vary substantially in source and nature from bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Party leadership would not hesitate to open fire upon Uighurs or Tibetans when they considered this necessary to recover purchase. Bulk occurrences present another kind of threat, he explained, since the management is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters with regard to fear of causing massive public outrage that would turn from the Celebration."

This is a relaxing opinion, particularly when 1 views the evidence offered by 50 percent reviews launched this season through the Uyghur Human Privileges Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty Worldwide that detail eyewitness company accounts of the use of deadly live fireplace against Uyghur protestors within July 2009. In addition, the declaration that fireplace would not be used against Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for that various strategy used by Chinese language protection forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders in September '09. During individuals direct orders, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, that had demanded that he inform them regarding federal government reactions in order to protection issues. An identical request to meet using the Celebration Assistant by Uyghur protesters within This summer wasn't fulfilled.

The broader repercussions of the unrest also noticed a short discussion about the impact it might have upon Iran-China relations, as well as on relations along with Sydney after World Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the National Press Membership within Canberra in August '09. In the latter situation, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian bank that sponsors the nation's Push Membership to make use of it's impact to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The actual United States' concerns concerning the situation in the Uyghur area also come via in the cables. In a dialogue on policy direction in Tibet, Ough.S. officials explain that it'll end up being not possible for Chinese frontrunners to consider the much softer line "if they look like doing this below international pressure". The actual cable out dated April Sixteen, 2008, one month after the outbreak of unrest in Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the observation "that domestic balance remains the leadership's main concern most of all, which means there'll ‘almost surely' be absolutely no relaxation of the current difficult line upon Tibet or perhaps in locations such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable also sheds light about the severe sensitivity with which the Chinese government views territorial ethics, and the feasible spill over of unrest from Tibet.

The prospect associated with methods to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from municipal culture are debated inside a February 24, 2008 cable television. While suggesting that China's financial success will increase its resistance to democratic reform, the actual cable television additionally discusses how Chinese language frontrunners see the usefulness of "a limited expansion of municipal society, such as improvements within the guideline of law and a stronger role for authorized religions, NGOs, non profit organizations and other stars within areas that bring about sociable balance and do not problem Communist Celebration rule." This can be a notable alternation in considering, that has seen U.S. officials promote the notion that Chinese language economic development, as well as financial relationships along with The far east will bring about a steadily democratic society; however, much more belief appears to be placed in the grassroots motion compared to one which starts in the best levels of the Chinese language government. Nonetheless, the actual cable proves that "[i]n places for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear of separatism results in tight restrictions on the development of municipal culture." This method is viewed as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the actual Ough.S. federal government "should still express...serious concerns more than Beijing's individual privileges report and appeal to China's developing awareness that higher regard with regard to individual privileges, religious independence and also the rule of law assists to advertise the improvement and sociable balance that The far east looks for in addition to to improve China's worldwide image." Such a strategy would consider considerable diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird fear that the United States privately encourages routine change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual cables provide insight into the actual every day company associated with diplomacy that is rarely owned by everyone, and it is fascinating to note the quantity of function done nowadays on Uyghur problems. The significance of the actual part of the United States as a monitor of Uyghur human privileges problems in personal conversations is created obvious, and contrasts using its sensible open public stance. Employees of the Uyghur Human Privileges Task is comfortable with pressure the Chinese federal government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details associated with Chinese government stress upon it's counterparts is illustrative from the diploma that Chinese language officials attempt to control contradictory narratives. With more facts to come through Wikileaks, issues over Uyghurs may not get the headlines, but the wires have get rid of new light about the paperwork of individual rights conditions in the Uyghur region.

Sunday 27 March 2011

Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

through holly upon December Twenty, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were ever uncertain, info acquired through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese government worries more than its continued charge of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked wires from U.Utes. diplomats show the degree that Chinese language government bodies make an effort to persuade government authorities globally to consider it's position on issues impacting Uyghurs. The actual cables also show the United States' concerns and sights concerning the on going repressive measures in the area.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese language government stress are the cables pointing to Chinese language frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese language ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A December Twenty nine, 08 cable applies exactly how Chinese language Assistant Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi fulfilled using the U.S. Ambassador in order to The far east in order to voice Beijing's strong opposition of launch in order to any country other than The far east, and that when the Ough.S. did certainly accede to this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, the Feb '09 cable television describes the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable behave towards us" along with a "slap within the face". That the Ough.S. federal government was firm within not liberating the detainees to The far east demonstrates the actual degree of the politicized character of the Chinese judicial program. Legitimate issues over terrorism are easy to understand, but in the actual U.S. government's view the detainees would probably encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as delivery if they returned in order to The far east

Chinese language federal government stress in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just put on the Ough.S. federal government, but additionally in order to New Zealand and a number of Western government authorities which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to Eu member says all have the symptoms of paid for the brunt associated with Chinese language government unhappiness. In the case of Germany, that was initially prepared to think about two Uyghurs upon purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been much less better than additional detainees due to the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs might have on relationships along with China. The May Eight, '09 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported which Indonesia had knowledgeable China from the U.S. request to simply accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo coupled with been consequently warned by China associated with ‘a heavy load on bilateral relations' if Indonesia were to accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic cables also discuss the actual unrest within Urumchi, the actual local capital, within July '09. The This summer 13, '09 cable television discussing bulk occurrences within China states:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet within 03 of 08 vary substantially within source as well as character through bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious problems for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party leadership wouldn't wait to spread out fireplace on Uighurs or Tibetans if they considered this essential to restore order. Bulk incidents pose another kind of threat, he said, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters for fear of sparking massive public outrage that will change against the Party."

This can be a chilling viewpoint, especially when 1 views evidence presented by 50 percent reports released this season through the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty Worldwide that detail eyewitness company accounts from the utilization of deadly live fireplace against Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. Additionally, the actual declaration which fireplace would not be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the different approach used by Chinese language protection causes in Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests within September '09. Throughout individuals protests, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, that experienced demanded that he let them know regarding federal government responses to protection issues. A similar ask for to satisfy using the Party Assistant through Uyghur protesters within This summer was not met.

The broader consequences of the unrest also saw a brief dialogue on the impact it would possess on Iran-China relations, as well as on relations along with Sydney after Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the National Push Club in Canberra within August 2009. In the second option case, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian bank that vendors the nation's Push Membership to make use of its impact to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The actual United States' issues about the situation in the Uyghur area also come via in the cables. In a discussion on policy path in Tibet, U.Utes. officials explain that it will be not possible with regard to Chinese frontrunners to consider the much softer line "if they appear like doing so under international pressure". The cable out dated April 16, 08, one month following the episode associated with unrest in Tibetan regions, also relayed the declaration "that household balance continues to be leadership's top priority most of all, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no relaxation of the present difficult line on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable television also sheds gentle about the extreme level of sensitivity that china government views territorial ethics, and the possible spill over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The prospect of methods to stress in Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from municipal culture are discussed inside a February 24, 2008 cable. Whilst suggesting which China's economic success will increase it's potential to deal with democratic change, the actual cable additionally talks about how Chinese language leaders begin to see the usefulness associated with "a limited growth associated with municipal society, including improvements in the rule associated with law and a stronger part with regard to authorized religions, NGOs, charities and other actors within areas that contribute to social stability and do not challenge Communist Celebration rule." This is a notable change in thinking, that has seen U.Utes. authorities promote the notion that Chinese language economic improvement, and economic relationships with The far east will bring in regards to a steadily democratic culture; however, much more faith appears to be put into the grassroots movement than one that starts from the best quantity of a Chinese federal government. Nevertheless, the actual cable television proves that "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tight limitations on the growth of municipal society." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive by the official, who suggests that the U.Utes. federal government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's individual privileges record and appeal to China's developing awareness that greater respect for individual privileges, religious independence and also the guideline associated with law assists to promote the very development as well as social stability which The far east seeks as well as to enhance China's worldwide image." Such a technique would consider considerable diplomatic abilities thinking about "China's weird fear that the United States secretly encourages regime change and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual wires provide understanding of the actual every day company associated with diplomacy that's rarely owned by the general public, and it is interesting to notice the amount of function done behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The significance of the part of the us like a keep track of associated with Uyghur human privileges problems within personal discussions is made clear, and contrasts with its sensible open public stance. The staff from the Uyghur Individual Privileges Project is comfortable with pressure the Chinese government puts upon Uyghur activists; still, the facts of Chinese language federal government stress upon it's alternatives is illustrative from the degree which Chinese authorities attempt to suppress contrary stories. With more revelations in the future from Wikileaks, issues over Uyghurs might not grab the headlines, however the wires possess shed brand new light on the paperwork associated with individual rights problems within the Uyghur region.

Wednesday 23 March 2011

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Tuesday 22 March 2011

Portraits of Uyghur People

In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-west part of China, the land of Xinjiang is a least populated land while it covers near to a sixth of the country's area. Getting resisted during generations the chinese control, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Turkistan, fell within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is mostly Uyghur People and Turkish - speaking System.

Islamic mainly, the Uyghurs have a strong religious identity which, in specific, enabled them to maintain a strong difference towards the Chinese invader. Definitely, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a brilliant civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their history, the Uyghur People successively taken on 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 entire Central Asia.

Under the influence of the religions which they taken on, Uyghur People used 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 because it was supported by the assimilation of the Uyghur land in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Islamic Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan progressively replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used today.

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

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only eight million population - a little for this immense region. Thus, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six racial 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 rights in a country exactly where their difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is recognized as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, seems pretty illusory. The presence of all-natural resources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its area with nations well-known as very sensitive, clearly encouraged the government to accelerate the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the more significant responsibility jobs.

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

Asserting more freedom, but in particular the acceptance 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 peoples population continues today to proudly continue to keep their identity and their culture , though they become a minority on their own land.

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Google has bought BeatThatQuote.com, a United Kingdom price comparison website, for 37.7 million pounds, or about $61 million.

BeatThatQuote.com announced the purchase Monday morning on the newly taken over company's home page, with the site's managing director, John Paleomylites, writing:

BeatThatQuote.com today was sold to Google for GBP37.7 million. We think this deal is a tremendous opportunity for our company to develop new and innovative options for personal finance in the UK.

Our team is excited about becoming a part of Google. We look forward to working with their engineers to create new tools making it easier for consumers to choose the right financial products. We think we can offer more transparency and better pricing information than existing online offerings.

Google officials were not available to comment on the acquisition on Monday afternoon. BeatThatQuote.com allows users to search for and compare prices for products in the financial, insurance and legal industries, as well as for gas and electric utilities, TV and Internet service and other shopping matters.

In 2009, BeatThatQuote.com did stir up a bit of controversy with a TV commercial depicting a manager in its workplace pulling waxing strips from shirtless male employee's bodies when he thought they could find better prices to offer online.

The TV commercial was cleared to air after more than 100 complaints were issued against it to the United Kingdom's Advertising Standards Authority, alleging that the spot glorified workplace bullying and depicted too much violence and condoned physical abuse, according to a report from The Guardian.

The notorious advertisement can be seen below.

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In New York, Tuesday marked the beginning of the long awaited trial of hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam, who ran the $7 billion Galleon Group and whose personal wealth is estimated at $1.3 billion. He is being prosecuted by the SEC for insider trade deals. Rajaratnam is said to have made $45 million in illegal profits. He has denied the charges and is free on $100 million bond. If he is convicted he could go to prison for as long as 20 years. The SEC historically has been such a handmaiden of the finance business that it's hard to imagine anything serious coming out of its prosecutions, but one never knows.
Whatever happens to Rajaratnam, it would be simple enough to prosecute many of the high rollers on first civil, then criminal charges, fining them millions of dollars and taking them out of circulation for up to 20 years.

"Contrary to prevailing propaganda, there is a fairly straightforward case that could be launched against the CEOs and CFOs of pretty much every US bank with major trading operation," writes Yves Smith in her popular Naked Capitalism blog. "I'll call them 'dealer banks' or 'Wall Street firms' to distinguish them from very big but largely traditional commercial banks.’’ She proceeds to lay out the case, the key points of which I have excerpted below:

Since Sarbanes Oxley became law in 2002, Sections 302, 404, and 906 of that act have required these executives to establish and maintain adequate systems of internal control within their companies. In addition, they must regularly test such controls to see that they are adequate and report their findings to shareholders (through SEC reports on Form 10-Q and 10-K) and their independent accountants. “Knowingly” making false section 906 certifications is subject to fines of up to $1 million and imprisonment of up to ten years; “willful” violators face fines of up to $5 million and jail time of up to 20 years.

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At Daily Kos on this date in 2009:

It is difficult to muster any sympathy whatsoever for the goddamned banks. This is a crisis entirely of their own manufacture. Yes, the housing market went down -- which anyone with an ounce of sense could have predicted, and did. Any bank betting the entirety of its assets many-times-over on that not happening deserves to fail as spectacularly as possible, its corporate leadership condemned to no greater future responsibilities than bussing tables. ...
We are aware of Japan's "Lost Decade", a period of real estate collapse and economic stagnation. We have, though, been in our own Lost Decade since the turn of the millennium, and only now that the higher echelons of our society have found themselves in as unpalatable a situation as the rest of us have been in has anyone important deigned to notice. We have had a decade of doing nothing, and two decades of offshoring our every competence, leaving us to putter in our financial closets and declare ourselves kings of all we could see.

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