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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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Source: Detroit Red Wings' Todd Bertuzzi won't face further league discipline for hit on Ryan Johnson of Chicago Blackhawks

Red Wings forward Todd Bertuzzi won't face any further league discipline after his elbowing penalty and game misconduct against Chicago Blackhawks forward Ryan Johnson, a source told ESPN.com Tuesday morning.

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Head lice trigger body lice epidemics, study finds – National <b>...</b>

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

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

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In February of 2007, 83.24 percent of users visiting TechCrunch did so from a Windows machine. One year later, in February 2008, the stranglehold remained firm at 80.44 percent. In February 2009, the number was at 74.04 percent. Last year, it was 61.59 percent. And this year? The number of people visiting our site from Windows machines dipped to 53.84 percent.

The writing is on the wall.

Look at those numbers again for a second. In four years, Windows share among TechCrunch readers has fallen 30 percentage points. That’s incredible.

The knee-jerk reaction in the comment section will likely be something like “it’s because you guys cover Apple so much”. But the fact of the matter is that Macintosh share, after rising for three of those four years, fell last year as well. It’s the mobile devices — specifically the iPhone, iPad, and Android devices — that are eating away at Windows.

In fact, if the trend over the past four years continues at about the same pace, in two years, devices made by Apple (Macs, iPhones, iPod touches, and iPads) will surpass devices that run Windows as the top visitors to TechCrunch. And depending on how popular the iPad 2, iPhone 5, and OS X Lion are, it could easily happen next year.

Here are the broken down numbers:

Feb 2007

• Windows: 83.24%


• Mac: 13.59%


• Linux: 2.51%

Feb 2008

• Windows: 80.44%


• Mac: 15.15%


• Linux: 2.97%


• iPhone: 0.77%


• iPod: 0.15%

Feb 2009

• Windows: 74.04%


• Mac: 20.48%


• Linux: 3.01%


• iPhone: 1.60%


• iPod: 0.28%


• Android: 0.09%

Feb 2010

• Windows: 61.59%


• Mac: 28.62%


• iPhone: 4.07%


• Linux: 3.49%


• Android: 0.87%


• iPod: 0.53%

Feb 2011

• Windows: 53.84%


• Mac: 27.64%


• iPhone: 6.72%


• iPad: 3.44%


• Linux: 3.28%


• Android: 3.06%


• iPod: 0.62%

While even the last batch of stats shows that Windows still has a nice cushion over number two, Mac, if you add the Apple products put together, it’s a different story.

• Feb 2007: 13.59% Apple products


• Feb 2008: 16.07% Apple products


• Feb 2009: 22.36% Apple products


• Feb 2010: 33.22% Apple products


• Feb 2011: 38.42% Apple products

In the four year span, Apple has added 25 percentage points to their share among TechCrunch readers. That nearly all of the 30 percentage points that Windows lost in that same span (Android’s growth pretty much fills in the rest).

So it currently stands at Microsoft’s 53.84 percent versus Apple’s 38.42 percent. Again, a big year for iPad, iPhone, and Mac could mean a changing of the guard as soon as next year. But unless something drastic changes, you can be sure that Apple will be dominant among TechCrunch readers in two years.

The latest rumors have Windows 8 showing up sometime in mid/late 2012. But the fact of the matter is that Windows 7, much more widely praised than the disaster that was Vista, hasn’t helped Microsoft buck this trend among our readers. Perhaps they’re only hope of gaining back share at this point is Windows Phone. So far, that hasn’t been going too well. Nokia should help that, but will it be enough to offset the Windows losses?

Humorously, Microsoft’s best hope for not falling to Apple may well be Android. If Google’s platform continues to make gains, it could prolong Apple passing Microsoft.

But again, Apple has iPhone 5, iPad 2, and OS X Lion on the immediate horizon — all within the next few months. And then there’s the very real possibility of another iPad in the fall.

The iPad 2 and iPhone 5 are likely to push the Apple share forward immediately. But don’t sleep on OS X Lion either. The early indications are that Apple has indeed made it much more iOS-like. That means millions of iPad/iPhone/iPod touch owners who have traditionally been PC users, are going to feel a lot more comfortable on a Mac than ever before.

And a new PC-to-Mac data migration system built in to Lion will only help that.

OS X Lion is going to feed off of iOS users, and vice versa. And the Mac ecosystem is going to continue to expand. Just as happened in the browser world with Chrome taking over, a transition is happening among TechCrunch readers in the ecosystem space. The numbers don’t lie. And Microsoft better pray that our readers aren’t leading indicators of overall trends in the space — which is exactly what you have been in the past.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

HP: What is Found Animals most committed to?

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

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

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

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

It looks like women have caught up with men in numbers in the workplace. For the first time in history, women in the USA now outnumber men in the workforce, and there are now more women in supervisory positions than there are males. The question is whether they will handle the downside of working any better than men.

According to an article by Ella L. J. Edmondson Bell, Ph.D., titled The 21st Century Workplace -- Are Women the New Men?, the economic downturn has hit men harder. They held nearly 80 percent of jobs that have been lost during what is now being called the "mancession." Will women now inherit the stress, pressure, exhaustion, burn out and heart attacks commonly associated with male leaders in business?

Some predict that this new female-dominated workplace will mean a softening of the corporate culture, with more benevolent leaders. Others foresee just the opposite. Ella says many women don't want to be seen as "soft" -- and others simply aren't. No one would call Carly Fiorina, the head of Hewlett Packard from 1999 to 2005, a wilting lily. According to her memoir, Tough Choices, she was sometimes referred to as Chainsaw Carly.

All of this is especially relevant on the entrepreneurial side, since statistics show that women are starting businesses at more than twice the rate of their male counterparts. Some would argue that the growing success rate of women entrepreneurs shows that they are resourceful, and better able to succeed, despite the odds.

While I'm sure we will continue to see progress on the female side, I predict that they will struggle with the same major challenges faced today by men. These include:

1. Funding your dream. Raising money is hard, whether you are counting on friends, investors, or banks. I rarely see women at angel investment groups, either asking for money, or offering to fund new ventures. Men seem more focused on this one.




2. Need for increased confidence and mindset skills. Many women and men are paralyzed by perfection, plagued by pessimism, and the need to satisfy others, rather than themselves. We need more women leaders.




3. Motivation to succeed. Every entrepreneur needs to love what they do, and believe so strongly in their product or service that they can weather the tough times. On this one, it's easy to spot the ones with passion, from either gender.




4. Manage time and priorities. Women, often more than men, try to do too much. It's hard to balance the continual demands of the business, personal relationships, and home life. Every entrepreneur needs to prioritize the important tasks ahead of urgent tasks.




5. Never stop learning. After you start your business, the learning really begins. True entrepreneurs look at failures as their best learning experiences. Networking, and using your network is the next most important element of learning.

I don't see any challenges which are so gender specific that they can't be overcome by any entrepreneur. Yet I don't think women should be convinced that the battle for equality is almost over. There is still the question of why there are so few women in high places, and why the average income for women in business is about 68% of men's income.

What I am hoping is that women will not just be the new men, and suffer from the same maladies and limitations. I'll be looking for women to create the "new business culture" that every worker wants -- better role definitions, more effective and productive leadership, and better work-life balance. That would make women entrepreneurs the new women, rather than the new men!

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Donald Trump Will Win <b>News</b> Cycles With Birtherism [UPDATED]

The big 2012 news today is, naturally, pure malarkey from Donald Trump, who has inexplicably decided to base his reality-teevee campaign solely on birtherism. Here's Politico's Andy Barr:

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The Road Out of Debt: Bankruptcy and Other Solutions to Your Financial Problems by Joan N. Feeney and Theodore W. Connolly

You've read stories of people becoming debt-free. In personal-finance blogs, the stories are always ones of debt problems overcome through hard work and frugality. Sadly, in the real world, that doesn't always work. For reasons like illness, divorce, job loss, economic downturn, business failure, natural disaster, war — some debts entered into in good faith simply cannot be paid back. (See also: CitiMortgage Told Me to Default on My Loan)

Feeney and Connolly's new book is about how to find the dividing line between these cases, and what to do once you know which side you’re on.

Money-Management Skills

The authors provide a good short course in money management much like you’d find in any personal finance book or blog — how to budget, how to cut expenses, and how to take control of your finances. Then the book starts talking about debt — mainly about the many, many ways to use debt unwisely. In particular, they’ve got a great chapter on the sort of debt that people with financial troubles turn to in a usually futile effort to stave off financial catastrophe for one more month — payday loans, car title loans, pawn shops, loan sharks, etc.

Even before that, they provide some basic advice on negotiating with your creditors. Especially in the world of finance as it is today, there are plenty of people who could actually fulfill their obligations — except that the creditors have written rules that let them lard up a debtor’s obligations with late fees and penalty interest rates. A knowledgeable debtor with good negotiating skills can often cut through those problems and get their obligations settled reasonably cheaply.

One bit in that section that I particularly like is on the psychology of debt collectors: Some will browbeat you, some will humiliate you, some will pretend to be your friend — but however they act, they’re all just trying to get as much money from you as possible. They don’t care what other debts you have or whether you can support your family. If you don’t understand this — if you allow yourself to imagine that the ones who act like friends are actually friendly — you’re going to be less successful in your negotiations. (I talk about the same psychological issues in my post Don’t Treat Businesses Like People.)

The authors provide some useful advice on seeking help (credit counselors and the like) if your financial problems are beyond what you can manage with those basic skills — and about avoiding the scams that often masquerade as help for people with debt troubles.

Sometimes, even with help, debt problems cannot be overcome. Specifically, if you can’t cover your minimum expenses plus interest on your debts and have money left over to pay down the principle on your debts, then you're over the line. Once you're in that situation, your financial situation can only get worse — your debt burden will rise every month, even if you don't borrow any more money.

When to Consider Bankruptcy

If you could support yourself — pay for your family’s shelter, food, and clothing — except that other obligations drain away more than all the rest of your money, then it’s time to consider bankruptcy.

Even if it’s time to consider bankruptcy, it may not be the best choice. Some obligations (child support, student loans) cannot be wiped out in bankruptcy. Alternatively, if you can’t even afford the necessities, then your household is not a viable economic unit and bankruptcy won’t help.

The core of the book is the information you need to figure whether bankruptcy is worth considering — and the information to consider it and make an informed decision.

DailyWorth, the personal finance daily email and community for women, has raised $850,000 in funding led by Robin Hood Ventures with Eric Schmidt’s TomorrowVentures, Howard Lindzon’s Social Leverage, 500 Startups, Venture51, Investors’ Circle, Joanne Wilson, David Cohen, Scott Becker, and Carol Chow participating in the round.

Founded in 2009 by Amanda Steinberg, DailyWorth is a daily email newsletter that includes information on financial literacy and money management skewed towards a female audience. DailyWorth’s subjects range from how to organize your finances to tax tips to saving advice. And DailyWorth has an impressive editorial staff to create content. MP Dunleavey, previously a personal finance columnist with the New York Times and currently a contributor with Money magazine, is leading DailyWorth’s editorial team.

With 55,000 subscribers, the newsletter currently makes money via advertising and already has sponsorships in place with a number of financial institutions including ING and H&R Block. And DailyWorth plans to hold sponsored educational events as an additional revenue channel. The new funding will be used to expand audience reach with customized email newsletters; develop the startup’s website; add video content and to host sponsored events.

DailyWorth is similar in many ways to LearnVest, a personal finance community for women. But DailyWorth is committed to the email newsletter model (which are making a comeback). And there’s definitely room for many personal finance sites oriented towards women.

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Small Business <b>News</b>: Creative Marketing Secrets

Marketing for your small business can be part art/part science. But however you would describe it, it is the key to both getting new customers and keeping the.

Search engine optimization Vancouver For any Better Marketing Solution

 

When you begin your personal website there are lots of ways you'll have to market it and something of the best ways is by using SEO services Vancouver if you happen to be in that area. The SEO or seo services will be the top way of getting good visitors to your website and therefore making more sales.

 

Now, you need to know that you will not use SEO service if you're not an online business - but then again, if you don't come with an online presence if you are a offline business, then you'll not make it very far.

 

It is a well known fact that if you are going to make it in the offline world you must have an online presence. This is something which all people are learning the hard way. One thing that you should also know is that it's not as easy as just setting up the web site and leaving it to do its things.

 

This can be done in all types of ways, however these companies usually make use of multiple techniques to create the perfect marketing technique online. You will be able to hire them to write articles for you personally, post on forums and blogs, create meta tags and meta descriptions, cleanup the code, add alt tags to the images plus much more.

 

It is crucial that you simply do this because otherwise the company you have worked so difficult for could wind up losing the money. If you have a website you want to produce, then you'll also employ the expertise of a search engine optimization company, which means search engine optimization company. What this company does is basically take the best areas of your website, check the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your site is placed close to the top of the list for that major search engines like google.

As a result the SEO company cannot only increase your traffic, but additionally ensure that your site is fully optimized for the search engine spiders that will be introduced to it. These spiders are used to analyze your site and put it in a few positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you wish to make use of the SEO services Vancouver then all you have to do is find the top companies. It is through these how the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. Because of so many SEO companies to select from you need to be sure that the one you are going for is reliable. You should be able to request a failure of what you want, and the company also needs to have the ability to let you know know long they've been operating for. This can limit their email list to reveal the top ones.

 

SEO Services Offered by Different Vancouver Web Companies

The Vancouver SEO company services are very good for business growth as they provide quality services. If you are planning to produce a website for your internet business, then you've arrived at right article as I is going to be explaining below how Search engine optimization Vancouver company services can improve your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you need to know what Search Engine Optimization is. It's not that complicated and I'm sure you will get a grasp of it after reading my article. The main goal of SEO is to have more traffic aimed at your website and audience. It's a good decision to choose a Vancouver SEO company that are experts in this kind of work, which means that your website can be listed in search engines like google.

There isn't any point in you having a website with no website ranking whatsoever as you won't have any business and profits to outlive. It's a very tough atmosphere out there because there are so many online business people just like you, who desire their share of pie. You must be familiar with the truth that nearly 85% of world-wide-web traffic could be got from web-sites.

Whenever a user types inside a keyword or keywords for which he/she wants to know in different sites, these use crawlers to get web-sites with 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 look within the first page from the google listing, you will have to hire professionals and experts who can do the needful to keep your website among the good books during these websites. These professionals can optimize your website content to ensure that your site gets more traffic.

Once the traffic gets high, it is a sign that you are getting a service which will get you more revenues. SEO Vancouver company do the next to make your site appear within the first page of search engine results.

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

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

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

 

What to anticipate Whenever Hiring a Roofers

When the time comes to repair or substitute your homes roof, it's really a daunting task to find someone who is competent for the job. There are many roofers available, but the ones who'll perform a congrats for any reasonable price aren't frequently easy to find. If you're in the market for the contractor, use the ideas below for meeting with and employing the correct one.

Job interview as well as Discussion

The majority of roofing companies offer totally free consultations. This is particularly essential, since it provides them an opportunity to evaluate exactly what your roof needs, also it gives you an opportunity to assess them. As with all of businesses, trust your intuition concerning the people you allow up onto your roofing. No matter exactly how good the contractor's reputation or even recommendation, he or she should start by presenting you having a business card. If the contractor occurs looking as well as talking within an less than professional method, chances are that the job he's going to perform will also be less than professional. This isn't to say that you should anticipate companies to reach in suits. They is going to be hiking in your roofing, therefore the majority of will be dressed up in jeans as well as function boots or even sneakers. If the actual service provider appears to be more interested in speaking on their cell phone while on your homes roof compared to he is in evaluating your own roof's requirements, that may be an additional indication that he is not really the one to do the job. For your legal protection, be certain that the actual service provider offers adequate liability insurance.

Roofing Evaluation

Anticipate that the service provider will be rising on your roof. Actually, any contractor who not want to increase in your roofing to judge the issue should be immediately discounted. Those who're serious about their own function may either create a sketching of your roof's surface area as well as tag trouble spots onto it because they undergo their own assessment, or even they'll consider photos or video from the surface while they're available online for. This is an extremely essential step, because it allows you to observe exactly what the problems are as well as understand how they'll be set.

Estimate

The next phase will be the created estimation. The service provider will take away their calculator and are available track of an itemized estimation. Some contractors goes to their own truck or even truck as well as write down the actual proposal, while some will crunch the amounts to do the job prior to you. Once you're because of the suggestion, ensure that you understand which products will be used, how long the job will require and if there are any additional or hidden costs that may arise during the repair from the roof. The contractor should be able to solution many of these concerns effortlessly and forewarn a person associated with a additional costs that could be incurred if the roof's ethics be damaged inside.

After you have received a few written estimates from roofers, evaluate what every company or even contractor would like to provide for the price. Do not necessarily discount the highest bid, simply because sometimes the highest bet will in reality be the contractor who the task properly. Also, be skeptical of prices for bids which are significantly less than others. They might be using inferior items or perhaps be untruthful about the possibility of concealed costs. Most importantly, trust your instincts and go with the service provider who enables you to feel most comfy about handing more than your hard earned money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Earlier cases

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

New training scheme

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

through holly upon December 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were ever in doubt, info acquired by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese language federal government worries over it's ongoing control of the location this calls Xinjiang, which is also known as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked cables through Ough.Utes. diplomats show the extent that Chinese language government bodies make an effort to convince government authorities globally to consider it's position upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The actual wires additionally display the actual United States' concerns as well as sights concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese language government pressure would be the wires pointing in order to Chinese language anger, or even the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. The December 29, 2008 cable applies exactly how Chinese Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met using the Ough.Utes. Ambassador to China to voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with launch in order to any country other than The far east, and that when the U.S. do certainly accede to this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb 2009 cable explains the way the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfavorable act towards us" and a "slap in the face". The Ough.S. government stood firm within not releasing the detainees in order to China illustrates the degree from the politicized nature from the Chinese language judicial program. Legitimate concerns more than terrorism tend to be understandable, but in the Ough.S. government's observe the detainees would probably encounter torture and delivery if they returned in order to The far east

Chinese language government pressure in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only applied to the Ough.S. federal government, but additionally in order to New Zealand and a number of Western governments which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, as well as Eu fellow member says just about all have the symptoms of paid for the brunt of Chinese language government unhappiness. In the case of Germany, which was at first prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs upon purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less preferable to additional detainees because of the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs would have on relations with The far east. A May Eight, '09 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported which Indonesia experienced knowledgeable China from the Ough.Utes. request to simply accept some Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo and had been consequently cautioned by The far east associated with ‘a heavy load upon bilateral relations' if Indonesia had been to accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables also discuss the unrest within Urumchi, the actual local capital, in July '09. A This summer 13, '09 cable television talking about bulk incidents in China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March of 08 vary substantially within source as well as nature from mass occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present severe problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Celebration leadership wouldn't hesitate to spread out fire on Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed this necessary to recover order. Mass incidents pose another type of risk, he explained, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters for fear of sparking huge open public outrage that will turn from the Party."

This can be a chilling opinion, particularly when one considers evidence presented in two reviews launched this year through the Uyghur Human Privileges Task (UHRP) and Amnesty International that detail eyewitness company accounts from the utilization of deadly live fire towards Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. Additionally, the observation which fireplace would not be deployed against Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the different approach taken by Chinese security forces within Urumchi to Han Chinese protests within September 2009. During individuals protests, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, who had demanded he let them know about government responses in order to protection issues. A similar ask for to satisfy with the Party Secretary through Uyghur protesters within July wasn't met.

The actual wider repercussions of the unrest also noticed a brief discussion on the effect it might possess upon Iran-China relationships, and on relations with Sydney after Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives President, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the Nationwide Push Membership within Canberra in August 2009. In the second option case, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian financial institution that vendors the National Press Club to make use of its influence to bar a Kadeer talk there".

The actual U . s . States' issues concerning the situation in the Uyghur area are available via within the cables. In a dialogue upon policy direction in Tibet, U.Utes. authorities explain that it will be impossible for Chinese language leaders to adopt a softer line "if they look like they are doing so below international pressure". The cable out dated 04 16, 08, one month after the episode associated with unrest in Tibetan areas, also relayed the declaration "that household balance continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, which means there will ‘almost surely' end up being no relaxation from the current hard line upon Tibet or in places such as Xinjiang." The info included in the cable television also storage sheds light on the extreme level of sensitivity that the Chinese government sights territorial ethics, and also the feasible drip more than of unrest from Tibet.

The chance associated with solutions to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of civil culture are discussed in a Feb 24, 08 cable. Whilst suggesting which China's financial achievement will increase it's potential to deal with democratic change, the actual cable television also discusses exactly how Chinese language frontrunners see the effectiveness associated with "a limited growth of civil society, such as improvements in the guideline associated with law and a more powerful part for approved religions, NGOs, non profit organizations and other stars in places which bring about sociable balance and do not challenge Communist Party rule." This is a significant change in thinking, which has observed U.S. officials promote the idea which Chinese language financial development, and financial relations along with The far east will bring in regards to a steadily democratic society; however, much more faith appears to be put into a grassroots movement than one that starts in the best levels of the Chinese language federal government. Nonetheless, the cable television concludes which "[i]n areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism leads to tight restrictions on the growth of municipal society." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the actual U.Utes. government "should continue to express...serious issues more than Beijing's individual rights report and appeal to China's growing awareness which higher respect with regard to individual privileges, religious independence and the guideline of law will serve to promote the development as well as social stability that The far east looks for in addition to to improve China's international image." Such a technique would take substantial diplomatic skills considering "China's paranoid concern that the United States secretly encourages regime alter and ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires provide understanding of the every day business of diplomacy that's hardly ever owned by the general public, which is interesting to notice the amount of function carried out behind closed doors on Uyghur problems. The significance of the actual part of the us as a monitor of Uyghur human privileges problems within personal conversations is made obvious, and contrasts using its sensible public position. Employees from the Uyghur Individual Privileges Project is well aware of pressure china federal government puts upon Uyghur activists; still, the details associated with Chinese government pressure on it's counterparts is illustrative from the degree which Chinese authorities attempt to control contradictory stories. With increased revelations in the future through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs might not get the head lines, but the wires possess get rid of brand new light about the paperwork associated with individual rights problems within the Uyghur area.

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

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

If it had been ever in doubt, information acquired by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese language government worries over it's continued charge of the location it phone calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as East Turkestan. The actual leaked wires from U.S. diplomats demonstrate the extent that Chinese language authorities attempt to convince governments worldwide to adopt its position upon issues affecting Uyghurs. The cables also display the actual U . s . States' issues and views concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

Most illuminating of Chinese language federal government stress are the wires directed to Chinese anger, or even the specter of Chinese language ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third countries. The Dec Twenty nine, 2008 cable television applies how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to China in order to voice Beijing's strong opposition of release in order to any kind of nation apart from The far east, and that when the Ough.Utes. do indeed accede for this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". In addition, the February 2009 cable television explains the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act towards us" along with a "slap in the face". That the U.S. federal government was firm in not releasing the detainees to The far east illustrates the degree of the politicized character of the Chinese language judicial system. Genuine concerns more than terrorism are understandable, but in the actual Ough.Utes. government's observe the detainees would probably encounter torture as well as delivery if they came back in order to The far east

Chinese language federal government pressure in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just applied to the Ough.S. federal government, but additionally in order to Brand new Zealand along with a number of European government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, in addition to Eu fellow member says all appear to have paid for the brunt associated with Chinese government unhappiness. Regarding Indonesia, that was initially prepared to consider 2 Uyghurs upon solely humanitarian reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been much less better than other detainees because of the negative effects accepting Uyghurs might have on relationships with China. The May Eight, 2009 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented that Indonesia had knowledgeable China of the U.S. request to accept some Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo and had been consequently cautioned through The far east associated with ‘a large burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to accept any detainees".

The diplomatic wires additionally discuss the unrest in Urumchi, the regional funds, in This summer '09. A This summer Thirteen, '09 cable discussing mass incidents in The far east says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March of 2008 vary markedly in source as well as nature from bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party leadership wouldn't wait to spread out fire on Uighurs or even Tibetans if they considered it necessary to restore purchase. Mass occurrences pose another type of threat, he explained, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters for anxiety about sparking massive open public outrage that will turn against the Party."

This is a chilling viewpoint, particularly when 1 considers the evidence presented in two reports launched this year by the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which fine detail eyewitness company accounts of the utilization of deadly reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors in July '09. In addition, the declaration that fire would not be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for the various approach taken through Chinese language protection forces within Urumchi to Han Chinese language protests in September '09. Throughout individuals direct orders, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, that experienced demanded that he let them know about government reactions in order to protection issues. An identical ask for to meet using the Celebration Secretary by Uyghur demonstrators within July wasn't fulfilled.

The actual wider consequences from the unrest additionally saw a brief dialogue about the effect it might possess on Iran-China relationships, and on relationships with Australia following World Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the National Press Membership within Canberra in August 2009. In the second option case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian financial institution which sponsors the nation's Push Membership to make use of its impact to block the Kadeer speech there".

The United States' issues concerning the situation within the Uyghur area also come via in the wires. Inside a dialogue upon policy direction within Tibet, U.Utes. authorities explain that it will end up being not possible with regard to Chinese frontrunners to consider the much softer line "if they look like doing this below international pressure". The actual cable dated 04 Sixteen, 08, one month after the outbreak of unrest in Tibetan regions, also relayed the declaration "that domestic stability remains the leadership's main concern above all else, meaning there will ‘almost surely' end up being no rest of the current difficult collection on Tibet or in places such as Xinjiang." The information included in the cable also sheds light about the extreme sensitivity with which china federal government views territorial ethics, and also the feasible spill more than of unrest from Tibet.

The chance associated with solutions to stress in Tibet as well as Xinjiang as a result of municipal culture tend to be debated inside a Feb 24, 2008 cable. While recommending which China's financial achievement will increase its resistance to democratic change, the actual cable television additionally discusses how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the usefulness of "a restricted expansion associated with municipal society, including enhancements within the guideline of law along with a stronger part for authorized religions, NGOs, charities along with other actors within places that contribute to sociable balance and don't problem Communist Celebration guideline." This is a significant change in thinking, that has observed U.Utes. officials market the notion which Chinese economic improvement, and financial relations along with The far east will bring about a steadily democratic culture; however, much more faith seems to be placed in a grassroots movement compared to one which begins in the top levels of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, the actual cable concludes which "[i]n areas such as Tibet as well as Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism leads to tighter restrictions on the growth of municipal culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive by the recognized, that shows that the actual U.S. government "should still express...serious concerns over Beijing's human privileges record as well as attract China's growing consciousness which greater regard with regard to human rights, spiritual independence and the guideline associated with law will serve to advertise the very improvement as well as sociable stability that China seeks as well as to improve China's worldwide image." This type of technique would take substantial diplomatic skills thinking about "China's paranoid concern that the United States privately promotes routine change as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The cables provide understanding of the actual every day business of diplomacy that is hardly ever owned by the general public, and it is interesting to note the amount of function carried out nowadays upon Uyghur problems. The importance of the part of the United States like a keep track of associated with Uyghur human rights problems within private conversations is made obvious, as well as contrasts using its tactful open public stance. Employees from the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese federal government exerts upon Uyghur activists; still, the details associated with Chinese language federal government pressure upon its counterparts is actually illustrative from the diploma that Chinese authorities attempt to suppress contrary narratives. With increased revelations in the future through Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs might not grab the actual head lines, but the wires have shed new light on the paperwork associated with individual rights problems in the Uyghur area.

 

Search Engine Marketing And Article Marketing Will Place Yourself The First Page

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In the following paragraphs, I will be showing the ways on what you can properly execute search engine optimization and marketing with articles for the betterment of the business web site. Additionally, I will be also discussing the different points that you must consider if you are using these two website marketing strategies to promote your website and obtain customers. Despite the fact that article promotion and Seo have been established for a long time already, you have to know that the trends and preferences regarding how they are performed are continually changing, and that's why you should keep yourself up to date with these items through the help of Seo forum sites so that you can quickly adjust and discover ways to make your strategies far better.

In the past submitting articles to different web-sites was once so simple the effects they produce for websites really was powerful. However, stuff has changed a whole lot today. Currently submitting the identical article to various websites has stopped being advisable because search engines have now changed with a huge extent in the manner they rank pages. They no longer rank contents which are identical like they used to in the past. This is the most effective types of changes that exist in online marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that web marketers are using today. Most of internet marketers now produce articles and publish them in really popular article submission sites and await targeted prospects to make their pages. This is perhaps that most reliable Search engine marketing strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, and also this provides positive benefits on a regular basis. The only problem with this particular strategy is how the caliber of traffic that you will get using this will not be that good unless you do proper keyword research beforehand and use in-links. You first need for carrying on these two things before you submit your posts so that you won't find yourself losing considerable amounts of targeted traffic. Because of this you must practice good amounts of diligence if you would like your advertising initiatives to be effective.

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There are several things to think about when looking for the roofing contractor. Cost, experience, along with referrals are a handful of the things you will probably be concerned about. Read on for even other great ideas.

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Focus your posts on your own potential readers or customers. Seo articles should address real questions that are asked by current or best buyers. Each article you are writing for you company should include detailed analysis and Search engine optimization keywords that will help associate your website using the content present in the website. Focus your posts on up to 3 keywords and don't stray from them. Consistency is essential when writing Search engine optimization articles. If you're covering Vancouver Seo be sure your continue to come up with information strongly related the keyword.

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There will be a large amount of new Vancouver SEO companies starting up, simply because the need is there. Finding a search engine firm which has the client's welfare at heart could be tedious. The amount of keywords can they optimize for? Which are the keywords along with the corresponding search volume? Do they understand how to optimize for Google places? And so on. Search engine optimisation may be the business of landing at the pinnacle and Maxim Edge you can get there.

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Little about the Uyghur People

In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the northern-western part of China, the land of Xinjiang is a least populated province while it covers near to a sixth with the nation's area. Getting resisted during centuries the chinese control, Xinjiang, or Old Turkestan, fell under the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghur People and Turkic - speaking System.

Islamic above all, the Uyghurs have a strong religious identity which usually, in particular, enabled them to maintain a strong difference in opposition to the Chinese invader. Definitely, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a brilliant civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their background, 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 starting the way to the Islamization of the complete Central Asia.

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

The coming of Islam was a great modification since it was supported by the assimilation of the Uyghur land in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Islamic Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used nowadays.

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

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only nine million population - a trifle for this kind of big area. 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.

This statute will allow them a few privileges in a country exactly where their big difference is very often repressed. Therefore, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is accepted as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in China, however, seems very illusory. The presence of all-natural sources in Xinjiang, and its proximity with locations identified as sensitive, highly encouraged the government to increase the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the more significant responsibility jobs.

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

Asserting more freedom, but primarily the recognition of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in location 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 population continues today to proudly keep their identity and their tradition , although they become a minority on their own territory.

For further information and facts about the Uyghurs, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

ation|Web optimization|Website seo|Seo optimization|Seo optimisation} Expert consultancy - Getting Ahead Using SEO

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foreclosure listings

We pointed last week to an analysis by Lynn Syzmoniak that showed that foreclosures across a number of different servicers were way down in January 2011 versus the same period in January 2010. This was admittedly a tally in only two Florida counties, but she indicated that a quick look at other counties in Florida showed a similar pattern.

So the question then becomes: is this a Florida only development, due perhaps in part the fact that all the big foreclosure mills in the state are under investigation by the state AG and are imploding (as in losing clients and shedding staff)? Or is this a broader trend due to the robo signing scandal leading judges being more receptive to arguments about chain of title and validity of transfers? Before, the assumption was “bank right, borrower trying to abuse the law to stay in house”. Now more judges, seeing that banks have run roughshod over legal requirements, are prepared to give borrower arguments a hearing. That forces banks to up their game, which in turn may be the real driver for this apparent slowdown in foreclosure actions. If that was the main driver in Florida, we’d expect to see similar patterns in other states.

We are seeing analogous developments, but the drivers appear to be state specific, as judges give adverse rulings on common practices in foreclosure land. Reader wc4d pointed to a report in the Portland Oregonian, that lenders are withdrawing cases because five court decisions have found that lenders that used MERS violated state recording laws.

This is a vivid illustration of a point made in an article on MERS yesterday by Gretchen Morgenson:

MERS was flawed at conception, those critics say. The bankers who midwifed its birth hired Covington & Burling, a prominent Washington law firm, to research their proposal. Covington produced a memo that offered assurances that MERS could operate legally nationwide. No one, however, conducted a state-by-state study of real estate laws.

“They didn’t do the deep homework,” said an official involved in those discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity because he has clients involved with MERS. “So as far as anyone can tell their real theory was: ‘If we can get everyone on board, no judge will want to upend something that is reasonable and sensible and would screw up 70 percent of loans.’ ”

As we’ve also noted, recording clerks in single counties in Massachusetts and North Carolina are looking into how to recover recording fees from MERS, but the cost of litigation means they’d need other counties in the same states to join or the state attorney general to take up the matter. By contrast, the Oregon decisions don’t hit small fry MERS; they are a big problem for the banks themselves. As the Oregonian reports:

Sales of hundreds of foreclosed homes in Oregon have been halted or withdrawn in recent weeks after federal judges repeatedly questioned their legality, according to a number of real estate attorneys in the state.

Lenders have withdrawn more than 300 foreclosure sales since February in Deschutes County alone, one of the Oregon area’s hardest hit by the housing collapse. About 130 of those notices were filed in the past week, attorneys say.

Dozens of foreclosure listings by ReconTrust Co., the foreclosure arm of Bank of America Corp., have disappeared from its website, attorneys say…

Since October, federal judges in five separate Oregon cases have halted foreclosures involving MERS, saying its participation caused lenders to violate the state’s recording law. Three of those decisions came last month, the key one in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Eugene.

Attorneys say it’s not clear whether lenders in Oregon will simply start over or head to court to foreclose, steps that could prolong the crisis for months and drive up costs, attorneys say. Some suggest lenders might not have access to the documents they need to comply with state law.

“A lot of us are questioning whether there is a solution,” said David Ambrose, a Portland attorney who represents lenders in mortgage transactions. “It’s pretty amazing. There are a lot of unanswered questions.” ….

In Oregon, lenders can foreclose without going to court. But state law also requires that the loan’s ownership history, or assignments, be recorded with local county governments before proceeding with a nonjudicial foreclosure.

In the Eugene court case, Donald E. McCoy III filed for bankruptcy protection in part to block U.S. Bank from foreclosing on his Central Point home. He then sued the bank and MERS, along with his original lender BNC Mortgage Inc., claiming they had not properly recorded BNC’s subsequent sale of the loan to investors.

Chief Bankruptcy Judge Frank R. Alley III found McCoy’s allegation persuasive and refused to grant the bank’s request for a dismissal.

“Oregon law permits foreclosure without the benefit of judicial proceeding only when the interest of the beneficiary (lender) is clearly documented in a public record,” Alley wrote. “When the public record is lacking, the foreclosing beneficiary must prove its interest in a judicial proceeding.”

This looks like an epic fail for the banks, at least in Oregon. To save maybe $50 on recording fees, they are now going to have to go to court to foreclose. And worse for them will be cases where the records don’t pass muster. Recall that servicers advance principal and interest to investors when borrowers become delinquent. They then reimburse themselves out of the foreclosure proceeds. No foreclosure and they are out a lot of dough.

As Morgenson’s source indicated, the banks brazenly assumed that the courts would simply roll over rather than block the extra-legal imposition of a new system. But there is enough of a semblance of rule of law in the US to undermine all the cost savings and corners-cutting they engaged in. Recall this recent New York decision:

This court does not accept the argument that because MERS may be involved with 50 percent of all residential mortgages in the country, that is reason enough for this court to turn a blind eye to the fact that this process does not comply with the law.

The courts are delivering the banks an unrelenting series of deserved unkind cuts. This is getting to be interesting, and for a change, in a good way.

We pointed last week to an analysis by Lynn Syzmoniak that showed that foreclosures across a number of different servicers were way down in January 2011 versus the same period in January 2010. This was admittedly a tally in only two Florida counties, but she indicated that a quick look at other counties in Florida showed a similar pattern.

So the question then becomes: is this a Florida only development, due perhaps in part the fact that all the big foreclosure mills in the state are under investigation by the state AG and are imploding (as in losing clients and shedding staff)? Or is this a broader trend due to the robo signing scandal leading judges being more receptive to arguments about chain of title and validity of transfers? Before, the assumption was “bank right, borrower trying to abuse the law to stay in house”. Now more judges, seeing that banks have run roughshod over legal requirements, are prepared to give borrower arguments a hearing. That forces banks to up their game, which in turn may be the real driver for this apparent slowdown in foreclosure actions. If that was the main driver in Florida, we’d expect to see similar patterns in other states.

We are seeing analogous developments, but the drivers appear to be state specific, as judges give adverse rulings on common practices in foreclosure land. Reader wc4d pointed to a report in the Portland Oregonian, that lenders are withdrawing cases because five court decisions have found that lenders that used MERS violated state recording laws.

This is a vivid illustration of a point made in an article on MERS yesterday by Gretchen Morgenson:

MERS was flawed at conception, those critics say. The bankers who midwifed its birth hired Covington & Burling, a prominent Washington law firm, to research their proposal. Covington produced a memo that offered assurances that MERS could operate legally nationwide. No one, however, conducted a state-by-state study of real estate laws.

“They didn’t do the deep homework,” said an official involved in those discussions who spoke on condition of anonymity because he has clients involved with MERS. “So as far as anyone can tell their real theory was: ‘If we can get everyone on board, no judge will want to upend something that is reasonable and sensible and would screw up 70 percent of loans.’ ”

As we’ve also noted, recording clerks in single counties in Massachusetts and North Carolina are looking into how to recover recording fees from MERS, but the cost of litigation means they’d need other counties in the same states to join or the state attorney general to take up the matter. By contrast, the Oregon decisions don’t hit small fry MERS; they are a big problem for the banks themselves. As the Oregonian reports:

Sales of hundreds of foreclosed homes in Oregon have been halted or withdrawn in recent weeks after federal judges repeatedly questioned their legality, according to a number of real estate attorneys in the state.

Lenders have withdrawn more than 300 foreclosure sales since February in Deschutes County alone, one of the Oregon area’s hardest hit by the housing collapse. About 130 of those notices were filed in the past week, attorneys say.

Dozens of foreclosure listings by ReconTrust Co., the foreclosure arm of Bank of America Corp., have disappeared from its website, attorneys say…

Since October, federal judges in five separate Oregon cases have halted foreclosures involving MERS, saying its participation caused lenders to violate the state’s recording law. Three of those decisions came last month, the key one in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Eugene.

Attorneys say it’s not clear whether lenders in Oregon will simply start over or head to court to foreclose, steps that could prolong the crisis for months and drive up costs, attorneys say. Some suggest lenders might not have access to the documents they need to comply with state law.

“A lot of us are questioning whether there is a solution,” said David Ambrose, a Portland attorney who represents lenders in mortgage transactions. “It’s pretty amazing. There are a lot of unanswered questions.” ….

In Oregon, lenders can foreclose without going to court. But state law also requires that the loan’s ownership history, or assignments, be recorded with local county governments before proceeding with a nonjudicial foreclosure.

In the Eugene court case, Donald E. McCoy III filed for bankruptcy protection in part to block U.S. Bank from foreclosing on his Central Point home. He then sued the bank and MERS, along with his original lender BNC Mortgage Inc., claiming they had not properly recorded BNC’s subsequent sale of the loan to investors.

Chief Bankruptcy Judge Frank R. Alley III found McCoy’s allegation persuasive and refused to grant the bank’s request for a dismissal.

“Oregon law permits foreclosure without the benefit of judicial proceeding only when the interest of the beneficiary (lender) is clearly documented in a public record,” Alley wrote. “When the public record is lacking, the foreclosing beneficiary must prove its interest in a judicial proceeding.”

This looks like an epic fail for the banks, at least in Oregon. To save maybe $50 on recording fees, they are now going to have to go to court to foreclose. And worse for them will be cases where the records don’t pass muster. Recall that servicers advance principal and interest to investors when borrowers become delinquent. They then reimburse themselves out of the foreclosure proceeds. No foreclosure and they are out a lot of dough.

As Morgenson’s source indicated, the banks brazenly assumed that the courts would simply roll over rather than block the extra-legal imposition of a new system. But there is enough of a semblance of rule of law in the US to undermine all the cost savings and corners-cutting they engaged in. Recall this recent New York decision:

This court does not accept the argument that because MERS may be involved with 50 percent of all residential mortgages in the country, that is reason enough for this court to turn a blind eye to the fact that this process does not comply with the law.

The courts are delivering the banks an unrelenting series of deserved unkind cuts. This is getting to be interesting, and for a change, in a good way.

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