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A few years ago, the Internet experienced a video revolution. As broadband access expanded and more people began uploading content, video became an expected resource for consumers. Businesses could get more mileage out of television commercials and engage users by linking to video reviews of its products.

A year ago, we saw evidence of small and medium-sized business increasing budgets for video content – to be used both on their homepages and in advertisements. In 2009, 19% of businesses polled were using video (up from 5% in 2008) and I’m willing to bet that number will be much higher in the 2010 report that should come out later this month.

Now, as technology has become more affordable and increasingly mobile, we’re able to experience virtually anything online. As such, local search engines are evolving into master content synthesizers to meet the needs of consumers and advertisers alike – offering video and photos, local advertising deals, user reviews, QR codes, maps and directions, etc.

Consumer expectations of local search engines have never been higher. Users want to see photo and video reviews of a company’s products, read what other people have to say, and even take a virtual tour of your store or restaurant before they visit.

The same is true of small- and medium-sized business owners looking to find a competitive advantage. Local search engines are offering more dynamic content than ever before to users and it’s up to search marketers to help business owners feed that content.

It’s interesting to see how video content has changed since the advent of YouTube. Instead of traditional video advertising, we’re seeing new technology that lets users look around your business from their own home. Soon, we’ll be able to find virtual creations of almost any environment online – and those virtual tours are being integrated with current deals and other advertising promotions to drive traffic to your business.

Recently, a company called EveryScape partnered with Bing and YP to offer digital advertisers a new local search solution – virtual tours. For example, YP360 will let a user step inside a restaurant in Baltimore while they’re still on the train. They can choose a place and even set a reservation, all within the same application on their phone.

Google Earth has gone indoors and local search engines are responsible for bringing this detailed and vivid content to users while keeping it simple and accessible. And the business case for offering this new content to users and advertisers alike is clear as local advertising is expected to grow to $16.1 billion this year, up from $13.7 billion in 2010.

Even more, mobile phone advertising spending is expected to be more than a billion dollars in 2011, up 48% from 2010. Local search engines like YP and Yelp! are seeing over 20 million visitors a month, many of them accessing via mobile phones.

This is a great opportunity for local search engines and advertisers to embrace this new technology and get ahead of the pack. Effective local advertising goes beyond building a social networking presence and listing in directories – you have to make sure your content is engaging. In the online world, the savviest local search marketers who use this technology well will have the most successful campaigns.

I recommend that any business owner or local search marketer read up on the latest digital advertising solutions and consider offering your customers virtual tours of your products or store. To set your business apart, you need to stay current with the best that local search has to offer.

Opinions expressed in the article are those of the guest author and not necessarily Search Engine Land.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 major legislative item on the agenda in the Senate this week will be The Small Business Reauthorization Act (S. 493).  Republicans plan to use this bill as a platform to promote critical pieces of legislation through the process of non-germane amendments to the bill.  Here are some vital amendments that will be debated and voted on throughout the week:

• Senator Mitch McConnell is offering an amendment (S. AMDT 183) to prohibit the EPA from promulgating any regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.  There is perhaps no force that is more destructive to our prosperity, consumer freedom of choice, and job creation than onerous cap and trade schemes.  There are many red state Democrats who are up for reelection in 2012 and will be hard pressed to go on record as supporting policies that are an imprecation to the interests of their states.  Make sure to call Senators Claire McCaskill, Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and Jon Tester in particular.

• Senator David Vitter is offering an amendment (S.AMDT. 178) forcing the federal government to sell off unused and underused property.  This is a serious issue.  The federal government owns over half of the land in some western states and has been using it to stifle energy development.  Selling unused federal lands would also serve as a prudent means of generating revenue without raising taxes.

• Senator Rand Paul is using the SBA bill as a platform to offer his signature budget bill (S.AMDT 199) which would slash $200 billion in spending for fiscal 2011.  Paul’s plan slashes funding by 50% to the Departments of Energy, Education, and HUD.  This amendment represents real limited government and budget austerity and will separate the men among the boys in the ranks of the Republican Conference.

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is forcing a vote (S. AMDT 197) to delay the implementation of ObamaCare until a final resolution is reached in pending lawsuits.  Unlike other bills that are designed to merely ameliorate ObamaCare, this amendment would completely halt it during the ensuing legal battles.

• Senator Tom Coburn has filed an amendment (S.AMDT.184) to force federal agencies to compile comprehensive lists of all of their programs

Make sure that all of your Republican senators are on record supporting these amendments, especially Rand Paul’s budget proposal.  Also, let’s see which faux moderate Democrats will commit to supporting anyone of these commonsense initiatives.  Needless to say, I didn’t waste time calling my senators; Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin!

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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NFC (near field communication), in case you missed the memo, is all the rage in mobile these days. It’s natively supported in Android 2.3, Samsung‘s putting it in its cheapo feature phones and patent applications suggest Apple could join the party with the iPhone 5. The thing is, contactless payment tech is all good and well, but what’s the point when no shops support it?

That’s where Verifone steps in. One of the world’s biggest payment companies, it’s just revealed that all of its new payment machines will come with NFC support built in. Can anyone say critical mass?

In an interview with NFC World, Verifone CEO Douglas Bergeron revealed that NFC support will be rolled out in “in all its new point-of-sale hardware”, meaning it no longer needs to be a question of whether shopkeepers have to opt in – the tech will be there ready and waiting for them when they’re ready. Clinton Cards, Thornton’s, Costa Coffee and the London Underground are some of the big names in UK business that currently use Verifone payment systems.

“The retail point of sale represents a point of convergence for smartphone-initiated payments, social networking and electronic couponing, but it won’t happen if retailers are expected, on faith, to absorb the costs of making it work,” he said.

High street food chains McDonalds, Pret A Manager and Eat already have NFC equipment set up in stores, while Tesco is reported to be rolling out NFC gear within six months.

Yesterday, Verifone director of marketing for EMEA Tony Saunders told Wired.co.uk however that he expected NFC to make the big time next year, rather than 2011. “There’s not enough noise in the media around NFC, not enough excitement at a consumer level. It might be nearer the end of the year, but if I was putting money on it, it’d be early 2012.”

Frankly, it can’t come soon enough, and we can’t wait to start hopping on the bus with a wave of our Nexus S – hopefully, this will help usher this bright new era in.

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Daisy is the "Skins" crew's designated therapist, confidant and peacemaker. When Michelle finds out Tony's cheating on her, it's Daisy who has to listen to her cry in a bathroom stall. When Chris works up the courage to visit his dad, she's the one who comes along and runs after him to the graveyard when he can't stand to be in that house a second longer.

Even at the Hooters-like restaurant where she's a waitress, her pals won't leave her alone. "This place is offensive to women," says Abbud as Daisy stands over the table where he and Stanley are sitting. "Awesomely offensive." But the duo of virgins aren't just there for the view. "We've come to see you so you can fix everything," Abbud tells her. They want her to run interference between each of them and the other parties affected by Tony, Michelle and Tea's blowout.

She reluctantly agrees to preside over Abbud and Tea's "couples counseling," only to be interrupted by Tony, who overhears Tea confess her feelings for him. "I screwed him, OK?" she begins. "And it was terrible. There's something in him I can't help wanting." The session, such as it is, devolves into an emotional free-for-all, with Daisy caught in the crossfire. She gives much more to her friends than she ever gets back, and how do they repay her? By making fun of her dedication to the trumpet.

Of course, Daisy has no shortage of her own problems to solve. She may be intelligent, composed and talented at the trumpet, but she's not getting any support at home. Her mother is gone, and she works hard to save money for a summer music program and help her dad pay the rent on their small, institutional apartment. When she leaves work, she comes home to a mess and cleans that up too.

That doesn't mean her father cuts her any slack. A postman who used to be a talented pianist, he banished music from his house after his wife, a successful singer, left him. "I need quiet," he insists when he comes home to hear her younger sister rapping. Daisy has to sneak out at night to play her trumpet at the jazz club where her parents were once regulars. The only person who really listens to her is Farley, a former friend of her dad's who runs the bar and serves as her de facto music teacher.

In the midst of a particularly intense lesson, Daisy's dad barges in, tells off Farley and tries to grab the trumpet out of her hands. "If you bend my horn, I swear I'll leave you and never come back," she says, clutching the instrument.

Sick of being the good, solid, dependable friend and obedient daughter, Daisy decides to do something wild. She meets up with Abbud, and they commiserate about their strict, immigrant families. "I love my culture," he says. "I just wish it ran a looser line on the main amphetamine groups." Although he might still love Tea and Daisy doesn't seem to have romantic feelings for him, she proposes that they lose their virginity to each other -- as friends -- while her dad's out of the house. She sets the ground rules for their hook-up: "No drama," they agree. "No emotions or anything else."

Their attempt at a reckless night of passion is thwarted when they open the door to Daisy's apartment and find her sister rocking the mike at the center of a nightmarish party. There are beer bottles everywhere, kids have tagged the walls and her dad's valuable piano is broken. All Daisy wants is an hour of irresponsible fun, but suddenly she's thrust back into caretaker mode. Faced with a friend and sibling who don't seem particularly worried about the destroyed apartment, Daisy demands, "What is this, an indifference convention?" Then, she calls Tony to pick up the culprit -- his silent, debauched, vomiting little sister, Eura -- and cashes in the favors the rest of her friends owe her, demanding that they stay until the whole place is clean.

The next time Daisy and Abbud try to get it on in her apartment, they're foiled again. Her dad, who's made his peace with Farley, is unexpectedly home. He's kept the piano covered since his wife left, but tonight he opened it, having decided to sell it so he can make rent. Instead of turning her sister in, Daisy tells him she's the one who threw the party and takes responsibility for the broken instrument. She'll have to give up her music camp money to pay for it.

Daisy's father leaves in a huff, and she and Abbud finally get to have sex. Although this is supposed to be a salacious show, we don't see much of the hook-up itself. Instead, we get Daisy and Abbud in bed afterward, reassuring themselves and each other that they were only having some harmless fun. But their new, awkward attachment to each other is palpable, and it says something about the way the kids on this show -- and maybe teenagers in general -- think. They want so badly to be hard and detached about sex that they don't anticipate the messy emotions that come with it.

Daisy does show up to audition for the summer program, but some combination of her nerves and guilt get the best of her. Faced with the judges, she chokes.

This week's episode ends with a mature decision, not a sexy cliffhanger. Responsible Daisy buys her father the nicest piano she can afford with the money she might have spent on her music career. They play together, she on the trumpet and he on the piano. And, for what must be the first time in months or years, he smiles.

Camille Cresencia-Mills carried the entire episode as Daisy -- an estimable feat, considering that Ron Mustafaa (Abbud) seems to be one of the show's weaker cast members, and the actors who played Farley and Daisy's dad weren't particularly strong. I, for one, am hoping we see more of her in the weeks to come.

Your weekly top five parental panic moments:

5. Teenage Daisy works at a restaurant that is basically Hooters.

4. Abbud and Daisy have not-so-meaningless sex.

3. Daisy sneaks out -- to play jazz.

2. Abbud and Daisy plan to have meaningless sex.

1. Daisy's younger sister throws a wild, destructive party.

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What to Expect Whenever Hiring a Roofing Contractors

When it comes time to repair or replace your homes roof, it can be a daunting task to locate someone who is competent for the job. There are many roofing companies available, however the types who'll perform a great job for any reasonable price aren't frequently easy to find. If you're in the marketplace for the service provider, make use of the tips beneath with regard to interviewing as well as hiring the right one.

Job interview and Consultation

Most roofing contractors provide free consultation services. This is especially essential, because it gives them a chance to evaluate what your roof requirements, also it gives you a chance to assess all of them. As with all of companies, trust your intuition concerning the individuals a person allow up on your roofing. No issue how great a contractor's status or even recommendation, he or she should begin by showing you having a business card. If a service provider arrives searching as well as speaking in an unprofessional manner, most likely the task he's going to do may also be unprofessional. This is not to say that you ought to anticipate companies to reach in suits. They will be climbing in your roof, so the majority of will be dressed up in jeans as well as work footwear or even sneakers. If the actual service provider appears to be interested in speaking on their cell phone during your homes roof than he is in analyzing your own roof's requirements, which may be another indication that he is not the one to do the job. For your legal protection, be certain that the actual service provider offers sufficient liability insurance coverage.

Roof Assessment

Expect that the service provider is going to be going up on your roofing. Actually, any service provider who not need to go up on your roofing to judge the problem ought to be immediately discounted. Those who're serious about their function may either make a sketching of the roof's surface area and tag problem areas onto it because they go through their own assessment, or even they will take pictures or even video clip from the surface area while they are available online for. This is a very important action, since it allows you to see just what the problems are and know how they will be fixed.

Estimate

The next step would be the created estimation. The service provider will take away their calculator and are available up with an itemized estimation. Some contractors goes to their vehicle or truck and write down the actual suggestion, while some may crunch the actual numbers to do the job prior to you. Once you are because of the suggestion, make sure that you comprehend which products will be utilized, how long the job will take and if you will find any extra or even concealed costs that may occur throughout the repair from the roof. The contractor should be able to solution many of these concerns with ease and forewarn a person of any additional expenses that might be incurred should the roof's ethics end up being damaged inside.

Once you have received a few written estimations from roofers, assess what every company or contractor would like to provide for that price. Do not necessarily discount the greatest bet, because occasionally the highest bid will in reality be the contractor who the job correctly. Also, be skeptical of bids that are significantly less than others. They may be using inferior items or perhaps be untruthful concerning the chance of hidden costs. Most importantly, trust your intuition and go with the contractor that makes you feel quite comfy regarding handing more than 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 People

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

If it had been actually uncertain, info obtained by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese language federal government fears more than it's continued charge of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked cables through Ough.S. diplomats show the actual extent to which Chinese government bodies attempt to convince government authorities globally to consider its position upon problems affecting Uyghurs. The cables also display the U . s . States' issues and views regarding the on going repressive measures in the area.

Most illuminating associated with Chinese language federal government stress are the cables pointing in order to Chinese frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A Dec Twenty nine, 08 cable applies how Chinese language Assistant International Reverend Liu Jieyi fulfilled using the U.Utes. Ambassador in order to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's strong competitors of launch to any country apart from The far east, which if the Ough.S. do certainly accede to this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb '09 cable television describes how the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual possible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly behave toward us" along with a "slap in the face". The U.S. federal government stood firm within not really liberating the detainees to The far east demonstrates the degree from the politicized nature from the Chinese language judicial system. Genuine concerns more than terrorism are easy to understand, but in the actual U.Utes. government's view the detainees might most likely face torture and execution when they came back in order to China

Chinese government stress regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just applied to the Ough.S. government, but additionally in order to New Zealand along with a number of European governments which were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, in addition to Eu fellow member says all appear to have borne the actual impact associated with Chinese language federal government disappointment. In the case of Germany, which was initially willing to think about two Uyghurs on purely humanitarian reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo cases were much less better than additional detainees because of the negative effects taking Uyghurs might have on relationships along with The far east. The Might 8, 2009 cable applies how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported that Indonesia had informed The far east from the U.Utes. ask for to accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had been subsequently warned through China associated with ‘a heavy load on bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia were to accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally talk about the unrest within Urumchi, the regional funds, within This summer '09. A July 13, '09 cable television discussing mass occurrences within China states:

"Ethnic riots such as those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 associated with 08 vary markedly in origin and character through mass occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe trouble for the actual Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Celebration management wouldn't hesitate to spread out fire upon Uighurs or even Tibetans if they deemed it necessary to restore order. Bulk incidents pose a different type of risk, he explained, as the leadership is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters with regard to fear of sparking huge open public outrage that will turn against the Party."

This can be a chilling viewpoint, especially when one considers evidence offered by 50 percent reports launched this year through the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which detail eyewitness accounts from the use of lethal reside fire against Uyghur protestors within July '09. In addition, the observation that fire wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for that different strategy taken through Chinese security causes within Urumchi to Han Chinese protests in September '09. During individuals direct orders, then Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, who had required that he inform them regarding government reactions to security issues. A similar request to satisfy using the Party Assistant through Uyghur protesters in July was not met.

The wider consequences of the unrest additionally noticed a brief dialogue about the effect it would possess on Iran-China relations, and on relations with Sydney following World Uyghur Congress President, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the National Push Club in Canberra in August '09. In the latter situation, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian financial institution that vendors the National Push Membership to make use of it's influence to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The actual United States' issues about the situation in the Uyghur area are available via within the wires. Inside a discussion upon plan path within Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials clarify that it will be not possible with regard to Chinese leaders to adopt the much softer line "if they look like doing so below international pressure". The cable television dated 04 16, 08, 30 days after the episode of unrest within Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual declaration "that household balance remains the leadership's main concern above all else, meaning there will ‘almost surely' be absolutely no rest of the present hard collection upon Tibet or in locations such as Xinjiang." The info included in the cable also storage sheds gentle about the extreme sensitivity with which the Chinese federal government views territorial ethics, and the possible drip over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The chance associated with solutions to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from civil society tend to be discussed in a Feb 24, 08 cable television. While recommending that China's economic achievement increases it's resistance to democratic change, the cable also talks about exactly how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted growth associated with civil culture, including improvements within the rule of regulation along with a stronger part for authorized beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations and other actors in places which contribute to social stability and don't challenge Communist Party guideline." This is a significant alternation in considering, which has observed Ough.S. officials market the idea that Chinese language financial improvement, and financial relationships with The far east brings about a progressively democratic society; however, much more faith appears to be put into the grassroots motion than one that begins in the best quantity of a Chinese government. Nevertheless, the actual cable concludes which "[i]n areas for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism leads to tight limitations on the growth of municipal society." This method is viewed as counter-productive through the recognized, who shows that the U.S. federal government "should still express...serious issues more than Beijing's human rights record and attract China's growing awareness which higher regard for human privileges, religious freedom and the rule associated with law will serve to promote the development as well as social balance that China seeks in addition to to improve China's worldwide image." Such a technique would consider substantial diplomatic abilities thinking about "China's weird concern the Usa privately promotes regime change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual cables provide insight into the daily company of diplomacy that is rarely owned by the general public, which is interesting to notice the quantity of work carried out behind closed doors upon Uyghur issues. The importance of the part of the United States like a monitor associated with Uyghur human privileges problems in personal discussions is made obvious, and contrasts with its tactful open public position. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Rights Project is actually well aware of the pressure china federal government puts on Uyghur activists; still, the details associated with Chinese federal government pressure upon it's counterparts is illustrative from the diploma which Chinese language officials make an effort to suppress contrary stories. With more facts to come from Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs may not grab the actual headlines, however the wires have get rid of new light about the documentation of human privileges conditions in the Uyghur area.

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

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

Whether it were actually uncertain, information obtained by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese language government fears over its continued charge of the region it calls Xinjiang, also is known as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked out cables through Ough.Utes. diplomats show the extent to which Chinese language government bodies make an effort to convince governments globally to consider it's stance on issues affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires also display the United States' concerns as well as views regarding the on going repressive measures in the area.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese language government stress are the cables directed in order to Chinese frustration, or even the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third nations. A December Twenty nine, 2008 cable relates how Chinese language Assistant International Reverend Liu Jieyi met using the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to The far east in order to tone of voice Beijing's powerful opposition of release to any country apart from China, which if the U.Utes. did indeed accede for this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to co-operation ‘in important areas'". In addition, the Feb '09 cable television explains how the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly behave towards us" along with a "slap within the face". That the U.Utes. federal government was company in not liberating the actual detainees to The far east illustrates the degree from the politicized character from the Chinese language judicial system. Legitimate concerns over terrorism tend to be easy to understand, but in the actual U.Utes. government's view the detainees might probably face torture and execution when they returned to The far east

Chinese government pressure in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only put on the U.Utes. government, but additionally in order to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of European government authorities that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, as well as Eu fellow member says all appear to have paid for the impact associated with Chinese language federal government unhappiness. In the case of Indonesia, which was at first willing to consider 2 Uyghurs upon solely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo cases were much less preferable to additional detainees due to the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs would have on relationships with The far east. A Might Eight, 2009 cable relates how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported that Indonesia experienced knowledgeable China from the Ough.Utes. request to simply accept some Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo coupled with been consequently cautioned through China of ‘a heavy load upon bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia were to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic wires also talk about the actual unrest within Urumchi, the actual regional funds, within July 2009. A July 13, 2009 cable television talking about bulk occurrences in China says:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in March associated with 08 differ markedly within origin and nature from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Celebration management wouldn't hesitate to spread out fireplace on Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed it necessary to recover order. Bulk occurrences pose another type of risk, he said, since the management is ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters with regard to fear of causing huge open public outrage that will turn from the Celebration."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one considers the evidence offered in two reviews launched this season through the Uyghur Individual Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International which fine detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of lethal live fire against Uyghur protestors in July '09. Additionally, the actual declaration that fire would not be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the different approach taken by Chinese security forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese language direct orders in September 2009. During individuals direct orders, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, who experienced demanded that he inform them regarding federal government reactions in order to security issues. A similar ask for to satisfy with the Celebration Assistant by Uyghur protesters in This summer wasn't fulfilled.

The actual broader consequences from the unrest additionally noticed a brief dialogue about the effect it would possess on Iran-China relationships, as well as on relations with Australia following Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives President, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke in the Nationwide Push Club in Canberra in August 2009. Within the latter situation, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian bank which sponsors the nation's Press Club to use its impact to bar the Kadeer talk there".

The United States' issues about the scenario in the Uyghur area are available through in the wires. In a discussion on plan path in Tibet, Ough.Utes. authorities explain that it will end up being impossible for Chinese language frontrunners to consider the softer line "if they appear like doing this below international pressure". The actual cable dated April Sixteen, 08, 30 days following the outbreak of unrest in Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the actual observation "that household stability continues to be leadership's top priority above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' be no rest from the present difficult collection on Tibet or perhaps in places like Xinjiang." The information included in the cable additionally sheds light about the severe level of sensitivity that the Chinese federal government views territorial ethics, and the feasible spill over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The prospect of solutions to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of civil culture tend to be debated inside a February Twenty-four, 08 cable television. While recommending that China's financial success increases it's resistance to democratic reform, the cable television also talks about how Chinese language leaders see the effectiveness associated with "a limited expansion of civil society, including improvements within the guideline associated with law along with a stronger part with regard to approved religions, NGOs, charities and other actors within areas that bring about social balance and don't challenge Communist Party rule." This can be a significant change in considering, which has observed U.S. officials market the notion that Chinese financial improvement, as well as financial relationships along with The far east brings about a steadily democratic society; however, much more belief appears to be placed in a grassroots motion compared to one which begins in the top levels of the Chinese language government. Nevertheless, the cable television concludes which "[i]n places such as 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 official, that suggests that the Ough.Utes. government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's human rights record as well as appeal to China's developing consciousness which higher regard with regard to individual rights, spiritual freedom and also the guideline of regulation assists to promote the very improvement as well as sociable balance that The far east seeks as well as to improve China's international picture." Such a strategy might take substantial diplomatic skills thinking about "China's weird fear that the United States privately promotes regime alter as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The wires provide insight into the actual daily business of diplomacy that's rarely owned by the general public, which is interesting to note the amount of work done behind closed doors on Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual part of the us like a keep track of of Uyghur human privileges conditions in personal conversations is created clear, as well as contrasts using its tactful open public stance. The staff from the Uyghur Individual Privileges Project is actually comfortable with the pressure china government puts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese federal government pressure on its counterparts is illustrative of the degree which Chinese authorities make an effort to suppress contrary stories. With increased revelations in the future through Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs might not grab the head lines, but the wires have shed new light on the paperwork associated with individual rights problems within the Uyghur area.

 

Search Engine Marketing And Article promotion Will Place Yourself The 1st Page

Seo and marketing with articles are a couple of the strongest strategies which you can use promoting your website and get the revenue and success that you need for your web business. Those two stuff has been around for a really while already however they still still be really effective. In fact, these have helped many people free themselves in the traditional ways of money-generating options of society.

In the following paragraphs, I will be showing the ways how it is possible to properly execute seo and article promotion for the betterment of the business website. In addition, I will be also discussing the different points that you must consider when you're using these two online marketing strategies to promote your website and get customers. Despite the fact that article marketing and Seo have been established for a long time already, you have to know that the trends and choices as to how they are performed are continually changing, which is why you need to stay up to date with these things through the help of Seo forum sites to be able to quickly adjust and learn to make your strategies far better.

In the past submitting articles to various websites was previously so simple yet the effects that they produce for websites really was powerful. However, everything has changed a whole lot today. Nowadays submitting exactly the same article to different websites has stopped being a good idea because engines like google have now changed to some huge extent in the manner they rank pages. They will no longer rank contents which can be identical like they used to in the past. This is among the best examples of changes that happens to online marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that online marketers are using today. The majority of web marketers now produce articles and submit them in really popular article directories and await site visitors to come to their pages. Perhaps that most reliable Seo strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, this also provides positive outcomes on a regular basis. The only issue using this strategy is that the caliber of traffic you will get out of this will not be that good unless you do proper keyword research beforehand and use in-links. You need to attend to these two things prior to deciding to submit your posts so that you won't find yourself losing large amounts of targeted prospects. Which means that you need to practice good levels of diligence if you would like your advertising initiatives to be effective.

Other than articles, you can even use writing a blog, which is another really powerful kind of online marketing strategy today because it's highly favored by search engines. In this technique, you are able to choose to develop a single blog site that specifically targets your chosen market or else you can contribute to other blogs which are called experts within your niche.

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Roofing Contractors Vancouver WA

There are lots of things to think about when looking for a roofing contractor. Cost, experience, along with referrals are a couple of the things you'll likely be concerned about. Read on for even other great ideas.

• Finding a Roofers

Before looking for a roofing contractor, ensure you have a common idea of the work that you need to do. By no means is it necessary to be a professional. If you have a new Roof Document, read it carefully to find the information regarding your present roof. If you don't have a Roofing Certificate, talk about documents authorized during shutting to locate your homes roof Inspection bed sheet. These files should provide you with everything you need to find out about your roof. Before contacting a roofing contractor, you should have a list of needs and specs to help you determine exactly who works for your covering project. Be sure you write down every potential roofing contractor's answers along with check them against the other person. If you can find any differences, be sure to note this along with take this into consideration when coming up with a final decision. There are no guaranteed ways to go with a roofing contractor, however , if you take pay attention to to the information provided, your chances of a successful roofer project are generally greatly improved.

One of the best strategies to finding a roofers is by person to person. Try inquiring a friend or relative who has had roof covering work carried out, and was satisfied with the work. Get the identify of the enterprise and his or her contact information. If you have no word of mouth area referrals, try out first hunting in the telephone book an internet-based. A large advert or elegant website is just not necessarily indication of the good quality of work, but sometimes be a very good tool for measuring how long and dedication they have used in their respective profession. In addition, try obtaining current worksites and appear at the covering work that may be done or in the process of getting finished. Should you be visually amazed, ask the exact property manager for your name in the roofing contractor and their make contact with information.

• Research

When looking for the roofing contractors, it is imperative to initial do your background research. Costly in the phone directory or on the web is a suitable spot to find a service provider, finding essential information on most of these businesses is going to be found in a number of other areas. 1st, check with locations like the Bbb, city, condition, and region public records, and local licensing agencies. Ask your roofer if they are a part of any roofing contractor associations. These types of precautions will certainly mitigate your risks. Also ask them what sorts of roofing these people specialize in. Also ask your roofing contractor with regards to any extended auto warranties they offer on their installed roofs. Find out what safety measures they choose to use avoid destruction done to the rest of the home through workers. Products such as gutters, home siding, and fireplaces are close in proximity and for that reason susceptible to accidental damages.

Make certain all of this information is included in your published contract. Determine whether you need a covering permit and/or permission from your home owners association before hand. These organizations will let you know that's responsible for acquiring these makes it possible for and authorizations. If it is the duty of the roofer, also have the idea included within your contract. If it is your obligation, get mentioned permits and also permissions collated using the estimated roofing project and have it clearly posted as well as readily available.

• Licensing and References

Roofing Contractors are not necessary to be qualified in all declares. Contact local licensing organizations that control general design contractors to get a list of specifications. Once you have received the requirements, build a list of in depth questions to ask your current potential roofing contractor. This simple checklist should right away help you to weed out the competent from the dodgy roofing installers. Qualified building contractors should be able to effortlessly answer questions as well as tell you that they have to do further research prior to giving a definitive solution.

Even if any roofing contractor offers all essential licensing, you should ask to determine pictures involving completed roof covering jobs as well as speak to fulfilled clients. Possess a list of queries handy to inquire about recent customers, such as the mother nature of the work, timeliness, and all round satisfaction. Make sure these are the latest clients as well as cross reference point if possible. In the matter of commercial roof covering, make sure that the particular roofing contractor can be bonded. Looking at these referrals is another added measure of safety to limit the list involving potential roof covering contractors.

Search engine optimization Through Content creation

Content creation could be an extremely powerful kind of Seo to your company web-site. Quality written articles are able to improve your websites SERP and add quality for your company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is important in gaining new backlinks in your business website. Articles can and should be written on topics which can be unique in your business or industry. The articles can discuss numerous issues and ideas inside your industry. Articles that supply your reader using a resource will always be just about the most popular and many likely kinds of articles that can bring about backlinks aimed at your website.

Focus your posts in your potential readers or customers. Search engine optimization articles should address real questions which can be asked by current or past customers. Each article you are writing to suit your needs company includes detailed analysis and Seo keywords that can help associate your website with all the content contained in the site. Focus your articles on up to 3 keywords and stray from their store. Consistency is vital when writing Seo articles. If you are covering Vancouver Search engine optimization ensure your always write about information relevant to the keyword.

Give all of your Seo Articles an engaging Title which will encourage people to learn and bookmark your posts. Ideally, the articles you're posting can become as links using their company websites which can be much like yours. This will help boost the power of each one link and can aid in increasing your SERP. Be sure to end each article which has a keyword anchored link (see Easy Business Search engine optimization). This link will increase your rankings in Google as well as other major engines like google for your keyword coupled to the link. Submit the articles to some submitted article directory and Voila! Before you know it, your website may be for the first page of Google.

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Vancouver Seo Company Aims For Google Places With Complete Good results

When we type in looking term hunting for a business of their local area, they'll find that Google places and Google maps is showing listings of local businesses. It's very eminent to allow them to be optimized and from this first page should they desire to generate business. Vancouver SEO companies have to be educated in this region for their clients.

There seems to be a lot of new Vancouver SEO companies establishing, simply because the importance is there. Finding a search engine firm that has the client's welfare at heart might be tedious. How many keywords would they optimize for? What are the keywords along with the corresponding search volume? Do they learn how to optimize for Google places? And so forth. Search engine optimisation is the business of landing at the very top and Maxim Edge you can get there.

"My wife and i also started our Vancouver Seo agency by accident. We've learned with the school of hard knocks and experimentation how to make use of the web to promote any business. We began with all the website, then a competition, and of course building quality back-links to push a web site up inside the rankings. It is not pushing a control button and watching what are the results type of business. It will require a lot of effort, plenty of research and many commitment. We strive for our clients and that we are very proud of a high retention rate." Randy Neale says.

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Little about the Uyghurs

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the northern-west part of China, the land of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the least populated land whereas it covers near to a sixth with the nation's territory. Having resisted while in generations the Han Chinese control, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Eastern Turkistan, fell into under the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghurs and Turkish - speaking System.

Muslim primarily, the Uyghur people have a strong religious identity which usually, in specific, permitted them to protect a solid difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Certainly, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a great civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their history, the Uyghurs successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly moving to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., thus beginning the way to the Islamization of the whole Central Asia.

Under the effect of the beliefs which they adopted, 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 graphic system.

The coming of Islam was a great modification mainly because it was accompanied by the assimilation of the Uyghur areas in the immense Turkic and Muslim Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan progressively replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used currently.

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

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only eight million population - a trifle for this particular great area. Therefore, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six ethnic minority groups having been well known in an official way by China.

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

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

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

Asserting more flexibility, but especially the recognition of their true identity, this movement was seriously repressed by the power authorities in area Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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

For much more information and facts about Uyghur people, you can visit a Uyghur website called Uyghur News at http://www.uyghurnews.com

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Travis Salisbury was an Industrial Designer who worked for various government agencies before his retirement in 1977. In the late 1950's, Salisbury received an honorary degree in Design from the Montana Institute, and later took a job as director of design for the Montana State Legislature. This was an honorary position i.e. he didn't get paid. His main goal as a designer was to "help people get along and have fun while doing it." He organized a huge number of "supper days" events where opposing politicians would cook each others favorite meal and then eat them together. This helped Montana greatly. In 1961 he designed Chair #406 (named after Helena's area code). This chair looked completely normal except for one small feature -- a V-shape under one of the legs.

The reason for this "V" was to allow a game to be played with multiple chairs. People would play by hitting a ball through the "V" with some sort of mallet. Salisbury wanted people to be able to blow off steam in-between sessions. The "V" was large enough to let a croquet ball pass. All of the #406 chairs have since been sold off or scrapped -- people got too caught up in the game and it became a distraction.

After multiple years of writing proposals to the U.S. mint, Salisbury finally hit the big time in 1965 with his Average Citizen Quarter Program (or ACQP). The idea was simple: put an average citizen on a quarter. For a year, applications were scoured over until Randy Young, a steelworker from Pittsburgh, was selected. The coins were minted in 1967. Less than two months after the coins were minted, Randy Young was arrested for armed robbery -- the coins became known as "Jailbird Quarters." The Mint immediately stopped production of the coins, and the ones that existed were given an acid treatment to hide their features and to shame both Salisbury and Young.

After the public disgrace of the Jailbird Quarters, Salisbury moved to New Jersey and began to write textbooks for elementary school students. The only one of his books that made it very far was Learn to Control Your Machine. The art on the cover was a drawing that Salisbury's uncle drew of Travis at age ten.

The text of the book was simply "Learn to control your machine" over and over again, much like in the movie The Shining. At least five times per page there was a spelling error, 500 errors in the book. Students were graded on the amount of errors that they could find. Salisbury made sure that there were at least 100 variations of the book so that the students couldn't cheat. Some students were actually helped by the book, others were scarred for much of their lives.

After finally making money with his book, Salisbury went back out west to Montana, and got his honorary Design Director position back. This was 1973. After noticing that many of the politicians were making embarrassing and even incriminating doodles in their notebooks, Salisbury made them a custom notebook that would solve the problem. They would have the usual-sized ruled paper, but there would be a bigger column left near the binding when they tore off pages. This notebook had an area for doodles and a doodle book that the politicians could keep for later once all of the pages had been ripped off. A doodle book from the Montana State Legislature recently sold on eBay for $1000.

Salisbury worked four more years in Montana and retired in 1977. Some say that he was a pioneer and others say that he severely hurt the chances of other designers with dreams of working in government. Salisbury still lives in Montana where he's working on a new book about how the Jailbird Quarter fiasco was planned called Randy Young is Innocent.

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Design Fancy is a series of short stories about fictional designers who make fictional things. The stories (and the objects) are by Matt Brown. Special thanks to Greg Burkett.

Travis Salisbury was an Industrial Designer who worked for various government agencies before his retirement in 1977. In the late 1950's, Salisbury received an honorary degree in Design from the Montana Institute, and later took a job as director of design for the Montana State Legislature. This was an honorary position i.e. he didn't get paid. His main goal as a designer was to "help people get along and have fun while doing it." He organized a huge number of "supper days" events where opposing politicians would cook each others favorite meal and then eat them together. This helped Montana greatly. In 1961 he designed Chair #406 (named after Helena's area code). This chair looked completely normal except for one small feature -- a V-shape under one of the legs.

The reason for this "V" was to allow a game to be played with multiple chairs. People would play by hitting a ball through the "V" with some sort of mallet. Salisbury wanted people to be able to blow off steam in-between sessions. The "V" was large enough to let a croquet ball pass. All of the #406 chairs have since been sold off or scrapped -- people got too caught up in the game and it became a distraction.

After multiple years of writing proposals to the U.S. mint, Salisbury finally hit the big time in 1965 with his Average Citizen Quarter Program (or ACQP). The idea was simple: put an average citizen on a quarter. For a year, applications were scoured over until Randy Young, a steelworker from Pittsburgh, was selected. The coins were minted in 1967. Less than two months after the coins were minted, Randy Young was arrested for armed robbery -- the coins became known as "Jailbird Quarters." The Mint immediately stopped production of the coins, and the ones that existed were given an acid treatment to hide their features and to shame both Salisbury and Young.

After the public disgrace of the Jailbird Quarters, Salisbury moved to New Jersey and began to write textbooks for elementary school students. The only one of his books that made it very far was Learn to Control Your Machine. The art on the cover was a drawing that Salisbury's uncle drew of Travis at age ten.

The text of the book was simply "Learn to control your machine" over and over again, much like in the movie The Shining. At least five times per page there was a spelling error, 500 errors in the book. Students were graded on the amount of errors that they could find. Salisbury made sure that there were at least 100 variations of the book so that the students couldn't cheat. Some students were actually helped by the book, others were scarred for much of their lives.

After finally making money with his book, Salisbury went back out west to Montana, and got his honorary Design Director position back. This was 1973. After noticing that many of the politicians were making embarrassing and even incriminating doodles in their notebooks, Salisbury made them a custom notebook that would solve the problem. They would have the usual-sized ruled paper, but there would be a bigger column left near the binding when they tore off pages. This notebook had an area for doodles and a doodle book that the politicians could keep for later once all of the pages had been ripped off. A doodle book from the Montana State Legislature recently sold on eBay for $1000.

Salisbury worked four more years in Montana and retired in 1977. Some say that he was a pioneer and others say that he severely hurt the chances of other designers with dreams of working in government. Salisbury still lives in Montana where he's working on a new book about how the Jailbird Quarter fiasco was planned called Randy Young is Innocent.

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Design Fancy is a series of short stories about fictional designers who make fictional things. The stories (and the objects) are by Matt Brown. Special thanks to Greg Burkett.

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