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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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Provided by LowCards.com New Rules Promote Smarter Use of Credit Cards The new consumer watchdog agency wants to help consumers understand the credit card offer they will receive before they apply for a credit card.

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With the company’s future already clouded by Steve Jobs’ latest medical leave, the possibility of the iPad’s chief designer, Jonathan Ive, cashing out ups the uncertainty, Dan Lyons writes.

Is Apple losing its design guru?

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced in January that he would take a third medical leave, the biggest concern was the cloud of uncertainty that hovered over the company. Now that uncertainty has become an issue again, as rumors have started swirling that Apple might lose its chief designer, Jonathan Ive. 

Apple's head designer Jonathan Ive poses for a portrait on January 27, 2010 in Cupertino, California. (Photo by Paul Harris / Newscom)

Reports in Ive’s native England suggest that the man who oversaw the design of the iPhone and iPad wants to spend more time in the U.K., putting him at odds with Apple’s board enough that he would consider leaving the company. Although Ive and Apple won’t comment, the scenario is plausible for two reasons: First, Ive is about to cash in options valued at $30 million that he was granted in 2008; and second, Ive has an especially close relationship with Jobs. 

Whether Ive stays or goes, the brouhaha shows the challenges that Apple is increasingly likely to face given the questions about Jobs’ role in the coming months. One scenario being bandied about by Apple-watchers suggests Ive is making a power play to succeed Jobs; it seems just as likely, however, that he simply may not want to work at Apple if Jobs isn’t there. 

Still others think the entire notion that Ive might leave is completely unfounded. But either way, the whole incident shows how the Jobs health situation is bringing more drama to a company that, until now, has been a model of tight-lipped discipline.

Apple’s products are famous for their sleek designs, and conventional wisdom holds that losing Ive would be a terrible blow to Apple—“Apple’s worst nightmare,” Britain’s Guardian called it. But the truth is, losing Ive may not be as big a deal as some Apple watchers think.

For one thing, Apple has loads of bench strength in every department, and because of its success it can attract just about anyone it wants.

“How much of this is Steve, how much is Jon, how much someone else? Steve always had an eye for design. The designer is only as good as the client,” says Jean-Louis Gassée.

For another, the real genius behind Apple’s designs might not be Ive—but rather Jobs.

That’s the educated guess of Jean-Louis Gassée, a former top executive at Apple and a longtime close watcher of the company who still has many connections there.

Gassée points out that Ive was already working at Apple when Jobs returned to the company in 1996. Ive joined the company in 1992, when Jobs was gone from the company, having been ousted by the board in 1985.

And before Jobs returned to Apple, Ive wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire. The first products that Ive designed under Jobs were the “Bondi Blue” iMac and the somewhat ugly iBook. Ive’s next products, the "desk lamp" Mac and the early metal laptops, were better looking, Gassée says.

Dirty Percent

Tuesday, 1 March 2011

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

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

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

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




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




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




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

Let’s consider these in reverse order.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apple Should Not Require Price Matching

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apple Should Not Require Apps to Offer In-App Subscriptions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Competition vs. Anti-Competition

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Preview of Final Result

 

Resources

• PT Sans Bold – FontSquirrel


• Free App Icons for Developers – WebAppers

Step 1

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

Step 2

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

Step 3

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

 

Step 4

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

Step 5

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

Step 6

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

Step 7

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

Step 8

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

Step 9

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

Step 10

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

Step 11

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

Step 12

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

Step 13

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

Step 14

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

Step 15

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

Step 16

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

Step 17

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

Step 18

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

Step 19

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

Step 20

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

Step 21

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

Step 22

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

Step 23

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

Step 24

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

Step 25

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

Step 26

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

Step 27

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

Step 28

To finish, add a Gradient Overlay effect.

Step 29

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

Step 30

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

Step 31

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

Step 32

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

Step 33

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

Step 34

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

 

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

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Moms Making Money

Not everybody thinks that Hollywood moral and lifestyle standards are healthy or advisable.  Mike Huckabee would have to be counted in that number. 

 

On the Michael Medved Show this week Huckabee had the following to say:

“People see a Natalie Portman who boasts, ‘We’re not married but we’re having these children and they’re doing just fine.’ I think it gives a distorted image.  It’s unfortunate that we glorify and glamorize the idea of out-of- wedlock children.  Most single moms are very poor, uneducated, can’t get a job, and if it weren’t for government assistance, their kids would be starving to death and never have health care,” he said.  “And that’s the story that we’re not seeing.”

Of course – its a no brainer – the economic argument for normal people to be married or at least be part of a very committed couple BEFORE having kids is obvious.  But Hollywood stars have enough money to afford all that it takes to rear children even if they wind up single.  Besides, Mike is conservative and religious and so he is not likely to be thrilled about an unmarried pregnant woman up on the stage winning a major academy award.  Of course Natalie is engaged to Benjamin Millepied who attended the academy awards with her and they intend to marry so it seems Huckabee is making more of this story than it merits.  Lots of couples who intend to marry wind up with the woman getting pregnant a ‘little early.”

 

The idea that people will not have pre-martial sex is now, and always has been, a myth.

Back in 2007 Huckabee had the following to say about Jamie Lynn Spears who was pregnant: 

“Apparently, she’s going to have the child, and I think that is the right decision, a good decision, and I respect that and appreciate it.  I hope it is not an encouragement to other 16-year-olds who think that is the best course of action.  But at the same time I’m not going to condemn her.  It’s a tragedy when a 16-year-old who is not really prepared for all the responsibilities of adult life is going to be now faced with all the responsibilities of honest-to-goodness adult life.” 

So Huckabee shows that he is consistent in his beliefs – he is pro-life, pro-marriage, and wants America to realize that what is financially inconsequential for Hollywood millionaires can be, and is, often tragic for ordinary people.

Image credit to WENN.com

It can be very tough to manage a household as a single mother, especially if you have more than one child, and your ex is behind on child support payments. The main categories that should be included in the household budget are housing, food, bills, loans, insurance, school and childcare. Medical and dental costs, transport, clothes, and entertainment are part of the budget as well. It is important to know where the money is going at all times. This way, you can set boundaries within the budget and details surrounding each category. If you aren’t usually able to do this, you need to get organized. Start by examining three months of household finances and costs. You can do this by using credit card and banking statements. Make sure you always keep these. If you can establish how much money is going toward each category, then you can find out if and where overspending is occurring.

If you follow up on your spending month by month, you will be able to determine the average amount that is being spent on each category. This way, you can establish if you exceed the average in certain categories and whether you should adjust your budget in any way. Many single mothers tend to overlook savings options within the budget. Somehow the notion of saving is lost. This should be corrected - creating a savings category within the budget can serve as an emergency fund for the family, providing an alternative to credit cards and other ways of dealing with emergency or unplanned expenses that may arise.

When you establish a budget, there is no harm in making adjustments from month to month to ensure that you are not exceeding your limits or, for example, spending more on entertainment than medical care. Comprehensive medical insurance is very expensive; this is why single moms often cover the minimum required payments. This is not a wise thing to do. God forbid, of course, but anything could happen. If you only have minimum coverage, you are likely to be refused health care if your child becomes victim to some sort of illness you weren’t prepared for. If you don’t have the money to pay for medical care, you will put it on a credit card and then have to return the money at over twenty percent interest.

Continued on the next page


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

To appear in the first page of the search result, you will need to hire professionals and experts who can do the needful to maintain your website one of the good books during these websites. These professionals can optimize your site content to ensure that your site gets more traffic.

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What to anticipate Whenever Getting a Roofing Contractor

When the time comes to correct or substitute your roof, it can be a challenging task to find somebody that is actually qualified for the job. There are lots of roofing companies available, but the ones who will do a congrats for any sensible cost aren't often simple to find. If you are in the marketplace for the service provider, use the ideas below with regard to meeting with and hiring the right one.

Interview as well as Discussion

The majority of roofing companies offer free consultation services. This is especially essential, since it gives them a chance to evaluate what your roof needs, also it gives you a chance to evaluate them. As with all companies, believe in instincts about the people a person let up onto your roofing. No issue exactly how great the contractor's status or even recommendation, he or she ought to begin by showing you with a business greeting card. If the contractor arrives looking as well as speaking within an unprofessional manner, most likely the job he is going to perform will also be unprofessional. This is not to say that you should anticipate contractors to arrive within fits. They will be hiking on your roofing, so most will be dressed up in jeans as well as function boots or even athletic shoes. If the service provider appears to be interested in talking on their cell phone while on your homes roof compared to he is within analyzing your roof's requirements, that may be an additional sign that he is not the main one to do the job. For your lawful safety, make sure that the service provider has adequate liability insurance.

Roof Assessment

Anticipate that the service provider is going to be going up on your roof. In fact, any kind of service provider who does not need to go up on your roofing to evaluate the problem should be instantly discounted. Those who're serious about their work may either make a drawing of the roof's surface area as well as tag trouble spots on it as they go through their assessment, or even they will take photos or video from the surface area while they're available online for. This is a very important action, since it enables you to see exactly what the problems are and understand how they will be set.

Estimation

The next step would be the created estimation. The contractor will require out their loan calculator and come track of an itemized estimation. Some companies will go out to their vehicle or even truck and write down the actual suggestion, while some will crunch the actual amounts for the job in front of you. Once you are because of the suggestion, make sure that you understand exactly which products will be utilized, how long the task will require and when you will find any additional or even hidden costs that may arise throughout the repair of the roof. The service provider should be able to answer all of these questions with ease and forewarn you associated with a additional costs that might be incurred if the roof's ethics end up being damaged within.

Once you have obtained several created estimations from roofing contractors, assess exactly what each company or service provider would like to offer you for that price. Do not always discount the highest bid, because occasionally the greatest bid will actually function as the service provider who does the job correctly. Additionally, be wary associated with prices for bids that are not nearly as expensive others. They might be utilizing substandard items or perhaps be unethical concerning the chance of hidden costs. Above all, trust your intuition and opt for the actual service provider that enables you to feel most comfy regarding handing 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.

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

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur

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

Whether it had been ever uncertain, information obtained by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese federal government worries more than it's ongoing charge of the location it phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked out cables through U.Utes. diplomats show the extent that Chinese language authorities attempt to convince government authorities worldwide to adopt its position upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The actual cables also show the U . s . States' issues and sights concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese government pressure would be the cables pointing to Chinese language frustration, or the specter of Chinese language ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd nations. The December 29, 08 cable relates exactly how Chinese Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met using the U.Utes. Ambassador in order to The far east in order to voice Beijing's strong competitors of release to any nation other than China, and that when the Ough.S. did indeed accede to this request it might "avoid harm to bilateral relationships and also to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb 2009 cable television describes the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave towards us" along with a "slap within the face". The Ough.S. government stood firm in not liberating the actual detainees in order to China demonstrates the extent from the politicized nature of the Chinese judicial system. Genuine issues more than terrorism are understandable, however in the U.S. government's view the detainees might most likely encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as execution when they returned to The far east

Chinese federal government stress regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only put on the actual U.Utes. federal government, but additionally in order to New Zealand and a handful of European governments which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, as well as European Union fellow member says just about all have the symptoms of borne the impact of Chinese federal government disappointment. In the case of Indonesia, that was at first prepared to consider 2 Uyghurs upon purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases were less preferable to additional detainees because of the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relationships along with China. A May Eight, 2009 cable television relates exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented which Germany experienced knowledgeable China of the U.Utes. request to accept a few Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo and had already been subsequently warned through The far east associated with ‘a heavy burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia had been to simply accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables also discuss the actual unrest in Urumchi, the regional capital, in July 2009. The July 13, 2009 cable talking about bulk incidents in China says:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March associated with 08 vary markedly in origin and character through bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe problems for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Party leadership would not wait to spread out fire upon Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed it necessary to recover purchase. Bulk occurrences present another type of threat, he said, since the leadership is ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters with regard to fear of sparking massive public outrage that would change from the Party."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one considers the evidence presented in two reviews launched this year by the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task (UHRP) and Amnesty International that fine detail eyewitness company accounts from the utilization of deadly live fire towards Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. In addition, the observation that fireplace wouldn't be deployed towards Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for the various approach used by Chinese security forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese protests in September '09. Throughout individuals protests, then Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, that experienced required he let them know about government reactions in order to protection concerns. A similar ask for to satisfy with the Party Assistant through Uyghur protesters in July wasn't fulfilled.

The broader repercussions of the unrest additionally saw a short discussion about the impact it might possess upon Iran-China relations, and on relationships along with Australia following World Uyghur Our elected representatives President, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke in the National Press Membership in Canberra within August '09. In the latter case, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie bank which vendors the nation's Press Club to make use of its influence to block the Kadeer talk there".

The U . s . States' issues about the scenario within the Uyghur region also come via within the cables. Inside a dialogue upon plan path within Tibet, Ough.Utes. authorities clarify that it will end up being not possible with regard to Chinese frontrunners to adopt the much softer collection "if they appear like doing so under worldwide pressure". The actual cable television out dated 04 16, 08, one month after the outbreak of unrest in Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual declaration "that domestic stability continues to be leadership's top priority most of all, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being no rest from the current difficult line upon Tibet or perhaps in places like Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable television also storage sheds gentle on the extreme sensitivity with which the Chinese government sights territorial integrity, and the possible spill over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The prospect of methods to stress within Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from municipal culture tend to be discussed inside a Feb Twenty-four, 08 cable television. Whilst recommending which China's economic achievement will increase it's resistance to democratic reform, the cable additionally talks about how Chinese leaders begin to see the usefulness of "a restricted growth of municipal society, including enhancements in the rule associated with regulation and a stronger part for approved beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations and other stars in places that bring about sociable balance and don't challenge Communist Party guideline." This is a significant change in considering, which has seen U.Utes. authorities market the notion that Chinese language economic development, and economic relationships with China will bring about a steadily democratic society; however, much more faith seems to be placed in a grassroots motion compared to one that begins in the best quantity of a Chinese language federal government. Nonetheless, the cable proves which "[i]n areas for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism results in tight limitations on the growth of municipal culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the Ough.Utes. federal government "should continue to express...serious issues more than Beijing's human rights report and appeal to China's growing awareness that higher regard with regard to human privileges, spiritual independence and also the rule of law will serve to promote the improvement and sociable balance that The far east looks for as well as to enhance China's international image." This type of strategy might take considerable diplomatic skills considering "China's weird concern that the Usa privately promotes routine alter as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The cables provide insight into the every day business of diplomacy that is hardly ever owned by the general public, and it is interesting to note the quantity of function done nowadays on Uyghur issues. The importance of the part of the us like a keep track of of Uyghur human rights conditions in private discussions is made clear, as well as contrasts with its tactful open public position. The staff from the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is actually comfortable with pressure china government puts upon Uyghur activists; still, the facts of Chinese government stress upon it's alternatives is actually illustrative of the diploma which Chinese officials make an effort to suppress contradictory stories. With increased facts in the future through Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs may not get the actual head lines, but the cables have shed brand new light on the documentation of human privileges problems within the Uyghur area.

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghur People

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

If it had been ever uncertain, information acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese federal government worries over it's continued control of the location it phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked wires through Ough.S. diplomats show the degree that Chinese authorities attempt to convince governments worldwide to adopt its position upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires also show the U . s . States' issues and sights concerning the on going repressive measures in the area.

Most illuminating associated with Chinese federal government pressure would be the wires pointing to Chinese frustration, or even the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third countries. A Dec 29, 2008 cable relates how Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the U.S. Ambassador to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's strong opposition associated with launch to any kind of country apart from China, and that when the U.S. do indeed accede to this ask for it might "avoid harm to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, a Feb 2009 cable describes how the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfavorable behave toward us" and a "slap in the face". That the Ough.S. federal government stood firm in not really liberating the detainees to China illustrates the actual extent from the politicized character from the Chinese judicial program. Genuine concerns over terrorism are understandable, however in the actual U.S. government's view the detainees might most likely face do-it-yourself torture as well as delivery when they came back to China

Chinese language federal government stress regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only applied to the actual Ough.Utes. federal government, but additionally to New Zealand along with a handful of European governments that were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, as well as Eu member says all appear to have paid for the actual impact of Chinese federal government unhappiness. In the case of Germany, that was initially prepared to consider 2 Uyghurs on purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less preferable to additional detainees because of the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relations with The far east. The Might 8, 2009 cable applies exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented which Indonesia had informed China of the Ough.S. request to simply accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo coupled with been consequently cautioned by The far east associated with ‘a large burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia were to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic wires also talk about the actual unrest in Urumchi, the actual local funds, in July 2009. The July 13, '09 cable television discussing bulk occurrences in The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet in March of 2008 vary markedly in origin as well as character from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe trouble for the actual Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Party leadership would not wait to open fire on Uighurs or even Tibetans if they deemed it necessary to restore purchase. Bulk occurrences pose another kind of threat, he explained, as the leadership is ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters for anxiety about sparking massive open public outrage that will change from the Celebration."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one views evidence offered by 50 percent reports launched this season through the Uyghur Human Privileges Task (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which fine detail eyewitness accounts from the use of deadly reside fireplace against Uyghur protestors within July 2009. Additionally, the actual observation which fireplace would not be used against Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for the various approach used by Chinese language protection forces within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests within Sept 2009. Throughout individuals direct orders, after that Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, that had demanded he let them know about federal government reactions in order to security issues. A similar ask for to satisfy with the Party Assistant by Uyghur protesters in This summer wasn't met.

The broader consequences of the unrest also noticed a short discussion on the impact it would possess on Iran-China relationships, and on relationships along with Australia following Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the Nationwide Push Membership in Canberra within July '09. In the latter case, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie financial institution that vendors the National Push Membership to make use of its impact to block a Kadeer talk there".

The actual United States' concerns concerning the scenario within the Uyghur area also come through in the cables. Inside a discussion upon plan direction in Tibet, Ough.S. officials clarify that it will end up being impossible with regard to Chinese frontrunners to consider the much softer line "if they look like they are doing so under worldwide pressure". The cable television dated April 16, 2008, one month following the episode of unrest within Tibetan regions, also relayed the observation "that household stability continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest of the present difficult collection on Tibet or perhaps in locations such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable additionally sheds gentle about the extreme sensitivity that the Chinese federal government sights territorial integrity, and the possible spill more than associated with unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to stress in Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of municipal culture are debated in a February 24, 2008 cable television. Whilst suggesting which China's economic success will increase it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the actual cable television also discusses exactly how Chinese frontrunners see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted growth associated with municipal culture, such as enhancements in the rule of regulation along with a stronger role with regard to approved religions, NGOs, charities and other actors in places which contribute to social stability and do not problem Communist Party guideline." This is a significant alternation in thinking, which has seen Ough.S. officials market the idea which Chinese language financial improvement, and economic relations with China will bring about a steadily democratic culture; however, more belief seems to be placed in a grassroots motion than one that begins from the top quantity of a Chinese language government. Nevertheless, the actual cable concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism leads to tighter restrictions about the development of civil culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, who suggests that the Ough.Utes. federal government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's human privileges record as well as attract China's growing consciousness which higher regard for human privileges, religious independence and also the rule associated with regulation will serve to advertise the very development as well as social stability that China looks for as well as to enhance China's worldwide picture." This type of strategy might consider substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird concern that the United States privately promotes regime alter and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual cables provide insight into the every day business associated with diplomacy that is hardly ever owned by everyone, which is fascinating to note the quantity of function done behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual part of the United States like a monitor of Uyghur human rights conditions in personal conversations is created obvious, as well as contrasts with its sensible public stance. Employees from the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is well aware of pressure the Chinese government puts upon Uyghur activists; still, the facts of Chinese language government pressure on it's counterparts is actually illustrative of the diploma which Chinese authorities attempt to suppress contrary narratives. With increased facts to come through Wikileaks, issues over Uyghurs may not grab the actual headlines, however the wires have shed brand new light about the paperwork of human rights problems in the Uyghur area.

 

Seo And Marketing with articles Will Place Yourself on The First Page

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Roofing Companies Vancouver BC

There are lots of things to take into consideration when looking for a roofing contractor. Price tag, experience, along with referrals are a handful of the things you will likely be concerned about. Read on for even other great ideas.

• Finding a Roofers

Before buying roofing contractor, make sure you have a standard idea of the task that you need to do. By no means is it necessary to be a specialist. If you have a Roof Qualification, read it thoroughly to find the information about your present roof. If you don't have a Roofing Certificate, talk about documents agreed upon during concluding to locate your homes roof Inspection sheet. These paperwork should supply you with everything you need to be familiar with your roof. Just before contacting the roofing contractor, you have to have a list of requirements and specs to help you choose exactly who works for your roof covering project. Make sure to write down each and every potential roof covering contractor's answers and check all of them against the other person. If you'll find any discrepancies, be sure to be aware this and also take this into consideration when creating a final choice. There are no straightforward ways to pick a roofing contractor, however , if you take attention to the details provided, your odds of a successful roof covering project are greatly increased.

One of the best ways of finding a roofers is by recommendations. Try inquiring a friend or relative who may have had roofing work done, and ended up being satisfied with the job. Get the brand of the company and their particular contact information. If you have not sure of oral cavity referrals, test first looking in the mobile phone book and online. A large ad or expensive website is just not necessarily an illustration of the high quality of work, but can be a good tool for measuring the amount of time and devotion they have put into their respective profession. Additionally, try finding current worksites and appear at the roof covering work which is done maybe in the process of staying finished. In case you are visually amazed, ask the property manager to the name in the roofing contractor along with their get in touch with information.

• Preliminary research

When looking for the roofing contractors, it can be imperative to 1st do the background research. Acquire the best in the phone directory or on the web is a suitable destination to find a company, finding important information on most of these businesses will probably be found in many areas. First, check with locations like the Bbb, city, state, and local public records, along with local licensing agencies. Inquire your roofing contractor if they are a part of any roofing contractor associations. These types of precautions can mitigate your own risks. Furthermore ask them what forms of roofing that they specialize in. Additionally ask the roofing contractor with regards to any extended auto warranties they offer on their installed roofs. Find out what precautions they take to avoid destruction done to the rest of the home through workers. Products such as gutters, house siding, and fireplaces are near the coast proximity and thus susceptible to random damages.

Ensure all of this info is included in your composed contract. Check if you need a roofing permit and/or permission from your home owners association beforehand. These agencies will let you know that is responsible for obtaining these makes it possible for and permissions. If it is the obligation of the roofer, also have that included within your contract. When it is your responsibility, get stated permits along with permissions collated with all the estimated roofing project and possess it obviously posted or perhaps readily available.

• Accreditation and Recommendations

Roofing Companies are not forced to be certified in all states. Contact community licensing businesses that control general construction contractors for any list of specifications. Once you have obtained the requirements, build a list of in depth questions to ask the potential roofer. This simple record should quickly help you to discount the skilled from the untrained roofing contractors. Qualified installers should be able to very easily answer questions as well as tell you that they must do more research before giving the definitive response.

Even if any roofing contractor has all required licensing, you need to ask to see pictures regarding completed covering jobs and speak to fulfilled clients. Have a list of queries handy must recent clientele, such as the character of the career, timeliness, and general satisfaction. Be sure these are the latest clients and also cross reference if possible. When it comes to commercial roofer, make sure that the roofing contractor can be bonded. Checking out these personal references is another additional measure of stability to restrict the list regarding potential roof covering contractors.

Search engine optimization Through Article marketing

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Portraits of Uyghurs

In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-west part of China, the province of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is a very least populated province whereas it covers close to a sixth of the country's territory. Getting resisted during generations the Han Chinese control, Xinjiang, or Old Turkestan, fell into within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is mostly Uyghurs and Turkic - speaking System.

Islamic especially, the Uyghurs have a deep religious identification that, in particular, allowed them to protect a strong big difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Certainly, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a excellent civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their historical past, the Uyghurs successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally moving to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., therefore opening the way to the Islamization of the complete Central Asia.

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

The coming of Islam was a great change mainly because it was supported by the absorption of the Uyghur land in the immense Turco-Mongolian and Muslim Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used currently.

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

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only 8 million people - a little for this huge country. Therefore, Uyghur people are now part of the 56 ethnic minority groups having been well-known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

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The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, seems quite illusory. The presence of all-natural resources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its closeness with locations recognised as sensitive, strongly 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 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 specially the recognition of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in place Xinjiang.

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

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

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Who's Making Money

One of the prime topics of conversation during NBA All Star Weekend is the league’s labor agreement or lack thereof.

The league is enjoying an unprecedented level of popularity and its future is bright. Midway through the 2010-11 season, the league's talent level is deeper than ever and many of the those talented players are just beginning their careers. The NBA’s marketing machine is world class and interest in the league is at an all-time high.

However its road to success is approaching a giant pothole – otherwise known as its next labor agreement — and to me we’re entering a fascinating point in league history.

Forbes Magazine has reported that 12 of the 30 NBA teams lost money last season. And NBA Commissioner David Stern, several weeks back, claimed that league owners were projecting a cumulative loss this season of approximately 350 million dollars.

Stern has declared that the current labor situation is untenable because the players are being paid too much guaranteed money. The players for their part are digging in and this labor dispute shows few if any signs of getting resolved anytime soon.

There is also one glaring problem that I personally feel the NBA needs to fix because, if you ask me, it’s the one negative the league has faced for as long as Stern has been commissioner. Each season, too many teams have zero chance of making the playoffs.

Let’s face it, if you’re a fan of the Timberwolves, Wizards, Nets and a bunch of other teams, you’re basically watching games to see the opposing team because your team’s best chance to improve is to lose as many games as possible, get a high lottery draft pick and then have the ping pong balls fall the right way on lottery night. Luck plays too big a role in who’s good and who’s not.

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“With just one impressive speech, Chris Christie put three full days of CPAC speakers to shame.

“That’s the bottom line from a bipartisan panel of experts, who watched the New Jersey governor’s address on Wednesday at the American Enterprise Institute for POLITICO – and drew a sharp contrast between Christie and the cattle call of potential GOP hopefuls at the just-concluded conservative gathering…

“‘He hit precisely the right notes people are looking for,’ Democratic strategist Jamal Simmons said of the Republican, citing the governor’s focus on getting the states and nation’s fiscal house in order…

“‘He looked presidential in the kind of Hollywood sense,’ Simmons said. ‘The Bulworth, straight-talking politician. John Goodman on The West Wing. Republican guy from the heartland. He looked that part but it’s a long way to go from there to the White House.’”

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“The way to understand Christie, says Ben Dworkin, director of the Institute for New Jersey politics at Rider University, ‘is he has the leadership skills of a powerful prosecutor who happens to be governor. He argues his case in the press, and he stays on the attack constantly.’ As a federal prosecutor in New Jersey, Christie never lost a corruption case, and there were plenty in a state best known for The Sopranos. His favorite phrase: ‘Heads I win, tails you lose.’ Yet he’s declined to join other Republican governors and attorneys general in challenging Obama’s health care reform. He says he doesn’t have the money to fool around with that stuff right now, and if the law is found unconstitutional, New Jersey will benefit without having to kick in legal fees.

“His refusal to join in suggests a degree of pragmatism that is attractive to non-true believers. This is a guy who has focused his message of change, and is clear about what he stands for. This is distinct from Obama’s message of change, which meant different things to different people in 2008 and left almost everybody disappointed…

“Christie’s tough-guy approach is working, making him a national figure after just 13 months in office. ‘He commands the bully pulpit more effectively than any other governor we have seen in modern history,’ says Dworkin, who predicts Christie will deliver the keynote address at the GOP convention in 2012.”

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DYLAN RATIGAN, HOST: Go ahead, Jonathan. Set all of that aside, just your evaluation of [New Jersey Governor Chris] Christie, period, as a politician and his rhetoric.

JONATHAN CAPEHART, WASHINGTON POST: I think Chris Christie is terrific. Here’s a guy whose tough talk is matched up by tough action. All those things he’s talking about, he talked about at AEI today, those are all things he’s done with the exception of dealing with entitlements and things like that which he doesn’t really have to deal with because he’s a governor. But because he’s a governor in a state with deep financial problems and is forced every day, day in and day out, to make decisions, you know, he’s, he’s making them and he’s not sugar-coating them. He’s not trying to be anybody’s friend. He, you know, President Obama talks about adult conversations. Speaker Boehner talks about adult conversations surrounding the big, tough issues that face the country. Chris Christie is the one who’s actually having the adult conversation and making the tough decisions. And when people get in his face and try to yell back at him, he yells back. He actually yells back, which is why I think is driving his popularity.

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