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Another day, another honking big funding for another online start-up (and yet another broken embargo too!).

It’s like Groundhog Day in Silicon Valley as usual.

Today, Cambridge, Mass.-based HubSpot wins tech’s version of the lottery, grabbing $32 million from Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and also Salesforce.com.

It is unclear what the valuation for HubSpot is now, although it is likely high given it has raised $65 million now.

HubSpot makes marketing software for businesses, who use it to find prospects and generate leads, along with tools to analyze the process. It claims it has “4,000 customers, over 50 percent market share, five million leads managed, and 70 million page views tracked monthly.”

The Series D financing included HubSpot’s existing venture investors–General Catalyst Partners, Matrix Partners, and Scale Venture Partners–and part of it will be used to cash out existing shareholders. In previous rounds, the start-up has raised $33 million.

Here is the official press release:

Sequoia, Google Ventures, and Salesforce.com Invest $32 Million in HubSpot

Marketing Software Company Attracts New Strategic Investors

CAMBRIDGE, MA–(Marketwire – March 8, 2011)–Today, for the first time ever, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures and Salesforce.com all invested together in one company, providing HubSpot with a Series D round of financing through a $32 million investment. HubSpot provides all-in-one marketing software used by over 4,000 businesses to get found by more prospects, convert them into leads and sales, and analyze the entire marketing process.

“The fundamental way that people shop, learn, and buy has changed radically in the last few years. HubSpot helps transform the way businesses market from outbound marketing (cold calls, email blasts, and direct mail) to inbound marketing (Google, blogs, social media, mobile, etc.),” said Brian Halligan, co-founder and CEO of HubSpot.

Sequoia Capital has a long history of partnering with founders to help them build long-term, multi-billion dollar companies, including Google, LinkedIn, AdMob, YouTube, Yahoo!, Apple, and Oracle. “We back companies that are transforming their industries,” said Jim Goetz, General Partner at Sequoia Capital. “HubSpot is the emerging category leader in the SaaS marketing sector. Their customer base exceeds that of all the other relevant marketing software companies combined, including Eloqua, Marketo, Genius, and Manticore.”

“Today, every company needs to succeed in search, social, sales, and marketing–I can’t think of a more powerful trifecta than Google, Salesforce.com, and HubSpot. With 4,000 customers, HubSpot is already a clear marketing leader–now, with this new infusion of capital and recognition by Google’s venture arm and Salesforce.com, HubSpot has a great opportunity to separate itself from the pack and become the leading marketing platform in the small and medium business space,” said Brent Leary, co-founder of CRM Essentials.

Google Ventures Partner, Rich Miner (formerly co-founder of Android) said, “We agree with HubSpot’s belief that search engines, social media, and mobile devices have fundamentally changed how businesses should market themselves. We’re thrilled to support their efforts to help thousands of small and medium businesses reach potential customers.”

Dharmesh Shah, co-founder and CTO of HubSpot commented, “We founded the company based on a simple premise: Businesses want an easy-to-use, complete and integrated marketing platform that helps them get more leads and customers. We plan to use this new capital to further invest in this ambitious vision and further our existing lead in the marketing software category.”

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

Is Apple losing its design guru?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Editor’s Note: Jim Dalrymple has been writing about Apple for more than 15 years. You can follow him on Twitter @jdalrymple and on his Web site at The Loop.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs on Wednesday introduced the iPad 2 at a special event in San Francisco, taking even more momentum away from its competitors.

I’ve had a lot of people in the last 24 hours tell me that the iPad 2 isn’t as revolutionary as the first generation device. Yes, that’s true. But not every device a company releases has to be or can be revolutionary.

Apple has released three revolutionary products in the last decade alone: iPod, iPhone and iPad. I really can’t think of any products from Apple’s competitors that fit in the revolutionary category in that same time period.

People also said that Apple wasn’t very forthcoming with the specs of the iPad 2. Again, that’s true, but there’s a good reason for that—nobody cares.

Well, some people care. Those of us who are geeks care about specs. However, have you ever noticed that when you sit with your non-geek friends and start listing off specs their eyes glaze over and they rest their chin in their hand.

That’s because they couldn’t care less.

The iPad 2 is no slouch either. It lost one-third of the thickness of the previous generation, and therefore it is one-third less than the size of the iPad competitors too. It also has new technologies like a gyro built-in that will launch another round of cool apps.

Yesterday’s iPad 2 announcement wasn’t about the geeks—it was about all the other people who will buy an iPad. What those people want to know is “what can I do with it?”

If it fits into their lifestyle, most people are good with that. Apple showed many ways how the iPad 2 can fit into your lifestyle.

From the very beginning, Apple was very smart with how it marketed the iPad. The first thing it did was get the device into businesses and promote the fact that it could be used to get work done. And it was quite successful with that.

In an analyst call in October 2010, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer said the iPad was already being used in 65 percent of Fortune 100 companies. That was four months ago and the iPad has grown since then, so we can only imagine where that number is now.

This strategy allowed Apple to do two things. If it came out with the iPad and pushed the gaming capabilities of the device, the business world would have looked at it as a toy. That would have certainly meant slower adoption. It also allowed them to work on some consumer software, two of which we saw yesterday.

In addition to the iPad 2, Jobs also unveiled iMovie and GarageBand for the iPad. This is what people want to know about—what can I do with the iPad that’s exciting and new.

Obviously, creating movies and being able to edit and share them with friends and family is a very popular thing to do these days. iMovie makes that easy.

Creating music, whether a novice or pro is also a cool thing to do. GarageBand is a great app to get that done and you can move your projects to your Mac and continue working on them.

It’s not just about the hardware. Apple delivers the whole experience that nobody else can. Jobs said yesterday that there are 65,000 apps on its App Store specifically designed for the iPad. That’s a lot of things you can do.

If you think Apple’s competitors are jumping for joy because the iPad 2 isn’t revolutionary, I believe you are wrong. I think they’re scared. Yesterday, they figured out Apple’s strategy too, but a little too late.

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What is your social media brand? Do you have one? Sure, many small business owners and entrepreneurs are coming around to the enormous importance of social media as a marketing, customer service, and, yes, even sales tool. But if you haven’t thought about how social media can define your brand, you are probably missing a HUGE part of what social media tools can do for your business. Here’s more…

Tools & Techniques

Creating a great brand with these blog tools. Tools that improve the look and functionality of your blog also improve your brand. A well-maintained small business blog is one of the most obvious and least expensive branding tools at the entrepreneur’s disposal even more so than social media channels like Facebook and Twitter because of how a blog can be customized to fit your needs and personality. This list of tools is a great way to start. EpicLaunch

What Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi can teach you about social media. One of the stars of the hit reality show “Jersey Shore”, “Snooki” is a perfect example of personal brand, but social media entrepreneurs could also learn much about building their own online presence from Snooki. Being yourself and using a simple, short tag to indelibly brand your identity are also great techniques in social media. One site is already trying to apply the starlets techniques in the social media space. Brand-Yourself

Tito Philips doesn’t want your comments on his blog! At least, not if they’re the wrong kind. And the wrong kind would be comments left for no other purpose than to get the blogger and his/her readers to visit your blog and perhaps comment on it in return. Why is comment trading bad? Don’t get Tito started! There are many ways to engage in social media marketing. Be sure you understand and respect some of the attitudes you may face. Blogging Bookshelf  

News & Trends

The best of the best. Want to get a look at arguably the 20 best Facebook fan pages for business on the planet? By now you should know the value of a Facebook fan page to your branding efforts. What’s also true, however, is that not all Facebook sites are created equal. If you want to take your social media marketing to the next level, have a look at this list of cream of the crop sites. Inc.com

Even churches use social media marketing! In this article on the growing market for tech services among religious organizations, we learn that many churches have also already entered into the social media space. As houses of worship, particularly huge mega-churches, expand and build congregations, it’s easy to see how social media can work as a marketing tool here as well. Is your religious organization using social media for branding? WSJ

Tips & Tricks

20 tips that will make you a Twitter star. Among the tools popular in the new digital space is Twitter. The microblogging platform can be used for business or non-business purposes and it can be the key to your small business’s success. Learn how to use Twitter like a pro and you may be surprised at the benefits your small business gains as a result. Global Copywriting

Valuable lessons in social media. Gary Vaynerchuk, author of The Thank You Economy and a successful social media entrepreneur in his own right, has many insights to share with small business leaders seeking a new way to define their brands in an age of social communications. Read some of the takeaways Vaynerchuk shares with those trying to define their businesses with social media. E-Marketing Associates

Success Stories

Doubt the power of FB to create brand for almost anyone? You won’t after you read the story of Princeton English Professor Jeff Nunokawa and “Jeffbook”, a collection of 3,221 brief literary essays on Facebook, that have created an incredible cult status for Nunokawa in the process. His motivation? Not too different from those of most marketers. Nunokawa simply started sharing where he knew his audience already spent lots of their time. The results speak for themselves. Fast Company

Increase exposure with niche social media. Blogger Mavis Nong talks about the importance of niche social media sites including social bookmarking sites as a key method of creating exposure for your online business. Mavis talks about her experience with our sister site BizSugar.com (thanks for the shout out! ) and explains how smaller more focused social sites can sometimes have a surprising impact even larger than the big guys. Attraction Marketing Online

Opportunities

Sponsors wanted for new SugarTone Sweet Business Blogging Contest. Put the power of social media to work for your brand. We’re looking for sponsors to help with a brand new blogging contest involving two of the fastest growing small business communities on the Web, BizSugar.com and Bloggertone.com. Learn more about the contest by reading the full announcement and get in touch today! BizSugar Blog

Recognizing Women's History Month, New Deal 2.0 tells the surprising story of how women became citizens -- and how their economic lives have evolved along with their rights. Allida Black urges action on UN Resolution 1325, which ensures equal citizenship for women across the globe.

The monumental elections of Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), Roza Otunbayeva (Krygyzstan), Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), and Prime Minister Julia Gillard (Australia) and the game-changing appointments of Dr. Michelle Bachelet as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNWomen and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State proved that women can govern, run preeminent human rights organizations, set international policy, and place women at the center of diplomacy, development, and peace.

But the question remains -- if women can be president, why can't they be citizens? Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and in rights." Yet it took another twenty years after its signing to get the international conventions on political and civil rights and on economic, social and cultural rights -- and, in the United States, another twenty plus years for Congress to adopt legislation ensuring women's political and economic rights. It took another thirteen years for the United Nations to ratify (without the support of the United States) the Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination against Women. And in 2011, the US House of Representatives and other foreign governing bodies still toy with legislation essential to women's identities, ranging from limiting access to reproductive health services and marriage to crafting sentencing guidelines that treat girls and women as felons and charges those that have abducted and abused them with misdemeanors.

In a 1946 column, written before she joined the UN Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt urged women to "call on the Governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more conscious part in national and international affairs, and on women to come forward and share in the work of peace and reconstruction as they did in the war and resistance." More than fifty years later, at the dawn of a new century, the UN Security Council -- pressured by a well-organized international women's lobby, Hillary Clinton, and other stateswomen and embarrassed by the rampant use of rape and genital dismemberment as tools of war -- adopted Resolution 1325. It urged "Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict."

Now ten years later, the campaign -- indeed the struggle -- to enforce this resolution rages across the United States as much as it does across Egypt or the Congo or Afghanistan.

It is tempting to construct this resolution narrowly -- to see it as a tool of armistice rather than reconstruction, as a vehicle to protect women rather than empower them. To do so, to paraphrase Albus Dumbledore, would be to do what is easy rather than what is right.

UN1325 is on the front line in the campaign for women's citizenship. It is a battle to ensure that economic, social and cultural rights cannot be divorced from, or considered separately from, political and civil rights. It is the struggle to reclaim democracy promotion away from post-Cold War politics, self-interested development and the campaign against terror and place it at the heart of citizen participation.

Just as important, it is a campaign to ensure women's rights as citizens as much as it is a campaign to force governments to act responsibly to all its citizens. While equality and human dignity have no sex, policy designed without taking stock of gender differences often perpetuates discrimination.

As Eleanor Roosevelt would say, both citizens and governments must "recognize that the goal of full participation in the life and responsibilities of their countries and of the world community is a common objective" and one "which the women of the world should assist one another" in achieving.



This post originally appeared on New Deal 2.0.

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Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup!  Today we found some awesome articles on tax tips for your 2010 return, personal finance tips to teach your kids, and ways to stay positive during your job hunt.

Top 5 Articles

7 Tax Tips for Your 2010 Return — This tax season, don't forget to deduct job search expenses. [SmartMoney]

20 Top Personal Finance Tips to Teach Your Kids (and Yourself!) — Be sure to teach your kids to spend less than they earn. [Money Ning]

Ways to Stay Positive During Your Job Hunt — Stay positive during your job hunt by finding time to do things you enjoy. [U.S News & World Report]

5 Reasons You Should Never Buy a New Car — Don't buy a new car. It will depreciate as soon as you get it home. [Personal Dividends]

The 5 Step Process to Complete TV Elimination — It is possible to live without TV! The first step is to weed out the shows you are watching. [PickTheBrain]

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Potty Training Tips That Work — Are you trying to potty train your child? If so, try implementing a target practice training method. [Parenting Squad]

7 Tips for Productively Working From Home — Be productive when working from home by making it a point to try to leave the house at some point during the day. [Stepcase Lifehack]

Alternative Flooring: Strange Ways to Save Money — Consider Saving money on flooring by using freecycled materials. [Personal Finance Advice]

5 of the Most Unused Employee Benefits — Be sure to utilize the flexible spending accounts offered to you by your employer. [Trees Full of Money]

Budgeting 101: What Is A Budget And How Do I Get Started? — Are you making a budget for the first time? Your first step is to look at your debit card statements and bills. [Girls Just Wanna Have Funds

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Search engine optimization Vancouver For A Better Marketing Solution

 

When you begin your personal website there are many ways you'll have to sell it off and something of the best ways is by using Search engine optimization Vancouver if you happen to maintain that area. The SEO or search engine optimization services would be the top way of getting more traffic to your website and for that reason making more sales.

 

Now, you should know that you won't use SEO service if you are no internet business - however, if you don't come with an online presence if you are an offline business, then you'll not allow it to be very far.

 

It's a popular proven fact that if you are going to make it within the offline world you must have an online business. This is something which all business people are learning the hard way. One thing that you ought to also know is the fact that it is not as simple as just setting up the web site and leaving it to do its things.

 

You can do this in all sorts of ways, but these companies usually make use of multiple methods to create an ideal marketing technique online. It is possible to employ them to write articles for you, post on forums and blogs, create meta data 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 organization you have worked so hard for could end up losing the money. If you have an internet site you want to produce, then you will also employ the expertise of an SEO company, which stands for seo company. What this company does is basically take the best parts of your website, look into the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure that your website is placed near the top of the list for that major search engines like google.

As a result the SEO company can not only improve your traffic, but also make sure that your site is fully optimized for that internet search engine spiders that will be brought to it. These spiders are utilized to analyze your website and put it in certain positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you want to make use of the Search engine optimization Vancouver then all you've got to complete is discover the top companies. It's through these that the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to select from you need to be certain the one you are going for is reliable. You should be in a position to request a breakdown of what you need, and the company should also have the ability to tell you know long they've been operating for. This will narrow down the list to reveal the very best ones.

 

SEO Services Offered by Different Vancouver Web Companies

The Vancouver SEO company services are very good for business growth because they provide quality services. If you're planning to produce a website for the online business, then you have come to right article when i will be explaining below how SEO 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 am sure you're going to get a grasp from it after reading my article. The main goal of SEO is to have more traffic to your website and audience. It is a good decision to choose a Vancouver SEO company that are experts in this sort of work, which means that your website could be indexed by search engines like google.

There isn't any point in you having a website without any website ranking whatsoever as you won't have any business and profits to outlive. It's a very tough atmosphere out there as there are so many online business people exactly like you, who want 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.

When a user types inside a keyword or keywords for what he/she wants to know in various sites, these use crawlers to obtain web sites using the relevant content and index them based on algorithms. You don't have to worry about the algorithms which these sites use as that isn't important.

To look in the first page from the search result, you will need to hire professionals and pros who can perform the needful to maintain your website among the good books in these websites. These professionals can optimize your site content to ensure that your website gets more traffic.

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

Use keywords which are popularly used on search engines on your website content.
Have a web design for your website that is simple because top sites are allergic to flash and weird designs.
Submit your site to directories.
Submit your site to directory websites.
Postings on blogs and forums with back-links to your websites. This is regarded as an effective method of getting more traffic to your website as numerous internet users use blogs and forums.

SEO Vancouver company also perform site diagnostics that is a significant part in online optimization as research and analysis on finding keywords may be the method to begin a SEO campaign. So, be sure you select the right 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 When Hiring a Roofer

When it comes time to correct or even substitute your roof, it can be a daunting job to locate someone who is actually qualified to do the job. There are many roofers available, however the ones who will do a congrats for a sensible cost are not often simple to find. If you're in the market for a contractor, use the tips beneath with regard to interviewing and hiring the right one.

Job interview and Consultation

The majority of roofing contractors provide free consultation services. This is especially important, since it provides them an opportunity to evaluate exactly what your homes roof needs, also it gives you a chance to assess them. As with all companies, trust your intuition concerning the people you allow upward onto your roofing. No issue exactly how great a contractor's status or even suggestion, he ought to begin by showing a person having a company card. If a service provider occurs looking as well as speaking within an unprofessional manner, most likely the job he's going to perform may also be unprofessional. This is not to express that you ought to expect contractors to reach in fits. They will be climbing in your roofing, so most is going to be dressed in jeans as well as work footwear or even sneakers. If the actual contractor seems to be interested in talking on their cell phone while on your roof than he's within evaluating your own roof's needs, which may be another indication that he is not really the main one for the job. For the legal protection, be certain that the actual service provider has adequate legal responsibility insurance.

Roofing Evaluation

Anticipate that the service provider will be going up on your roofing. In fact, any contractor who not need to go up in your roofing to evaluate the issue should be instantly reduced. Those who are serious about their own function may either make a sketching of the roof's surface area as well as mark problem areas onto it as they undergo their own assessment, or they will consider photos or even video clip from the surface while they are up there. This is a very essential step, because it allows you to see just what the problems are and understand how they'll be set.

Estimate

The next phase would be the created estimate. The contractor will require out his calculator and come up with a written estimate. Some companies goes out to their own truck or truck and write up the actual suggestion, while some will crunch the actual amounts for the job in front of you. Once you're given the proposal, make sure that you understand which items is going to be utilized, just how long the job will require and if there are any additional or even hidden costs that could occur during the restore from the roof. The contractor should be able to solution many of these concerns with ease and forewarn a person of any extra expenses that might be sustained should the roof's ethics end up being damaged inside.

After you have received several written estimations from roofing companies, assess exactly what each company or even contractor would like to provide for that price. Do not always discount the highest bid, because sometimes the greatest bet will actually be the service provider who does the job correctly. Also, be wary associated with prices for bids that are not nearly as expensive other people. They may be using substandard products or be untruthful concerning the possibility of hidden expenses. Above all, believe in intuition and opt for the actual service provider who enables you to feel most comfortable regarding giving more than your hard earned money.

 

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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.

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Wikileaks and the Uyghur People

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Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been ever in doubt, info obtained by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese language federal government fears over it's ongoing control of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, also is known as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked cables from Ough.Utes. diplomats show the degree to which Chinese authorities attempt to convince government authorities globally to adopt it's stance on issues impacting Uyghurs. The actual wires also display the U . s . States' issues and views regarding the on going repressive steps in the region.

Most lighting of Chinese government pressure are the wires directed to Chinese frustration, or even the specter of Chinese language ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd countries. A Dec Twenty nine, 2008 cable television relates exactly how Chinese language Helper Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met using the U.S. Ambassador in order to China to voice Beijing's powerful opposition associated with release in order to any nation apart from The far east, and that when the Ough.S. did certainly accede to this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, a February 2009 cable describes the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave towards us" along with a "slap in the face". That the U.S. government stood company within not really releasing the actual detainees to The far east illustrates the degree of the politicized character of the Chinese judicial system. Genuine concerns more than terrorism are understandable, but in the actual Ough.S. government's view the detainees might most likely encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as delivery if they came back in order to The far east

Chinese federal government stress in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just put on the actual U.S. federal government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand and a handful of European governments that were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, in addition to Eu fellow member states just about all have the symptoms of borne the brunt of Chinese government disappointment. In the case of Germany, that was at first prepared to think about two Uyghurs upon purely humanitarian reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been less better than other detainees due to the negative effects taking Uyghurs would have on relations along with China. A May Eight, '09 cable applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported which Indonesia experienced informed The far east from the U.Utes. request to simply accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had already been consequently cautioned by China of ‘a large burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia had been to accept any detainees".

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

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet within March of 2008 differ markedly in origin and character through mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious problems for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Party management would not wait to open fire upon Uighurs or Tibetans if they considered it necessary to recover order. Bulk occurrences pose another kind of threat, he said, as the management is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters for fear of sparking massive open public outrage that will turn against the Party."

This is a chilling viewpoint, especially when 1 considers the evidence offered in two reviews released this year through the Uyghur Individual Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty Worldwide that fine detail eyewitness company accounts of the utilization of deadly live fire towards Uyghur protestors within July 2009. In addition, the observation which fireplace wouldn't be used towards Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for the various approach taken through Chinese language security causes in Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders within September 2009. During individuals direct orders, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, that had required he inform them about federal government reactions to security concerns. A similar request to satisfy with the Party Assistant by Uyghur demonstrators in This summer was not met.

The broader consequences of the unrest also saw a short discussion on the effect it might possess upon Iran-China relationships, as well as on relations along with Sydney after Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the Nationwide Push Club in Canberra within July 2009. Within the second option situation, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie financial institution which sponsors the nation's Press Club to make use of it's impact to bar the Kadeer talk there".

The United States' issues about the situation in the Uyghur area are available via within the wires. Inside a discussion on plan direction within Tibet, U.S. officials explain that it'll end up being not possible with regard to Chinese language leaders to consider the much softer collection "if they appear like doing this under international pressure". The cable television out dated April 16, 2008, 30 days following the episode of unrest in Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual observation "that domestic balance remains the leadership's top priority most of all, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest from the present difficult collection upon Tibet or perhaps in locations such as Xinjiang." The info included in the cable additionally storage sheds gentle about the extreme level of sensitivity that china federal government sights territorial ethics, and also the possible drip more than associated with unrest through Tibet.

The prospect associated with methods to stress in Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of municipal culture are discussed inside a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable television. Whilst recommending which China's economic achievement will increase it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the cable additionally discusses exactly how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the usefulness associated with "a restricted growth associated with civil society, including enhancements in the guideline associated with regulation along with a stronger part with regard to authorized beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other stars in places that contribute to sociable balance and don't problem Communist Party guideline." This can be a significant alternation in thinking, that has observed Ough.S. officials promote the notion which Chinese economic development, and economic relations along with China brings about a steadily democratic society; however, much more faith seems to be placed in the grassroots movement than one which begins in the best quantity of a Chinese language federal government. Nevertheless, the actual cable television concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tight restrictions on the growth of municipal society." This method can be regarded as counter-productive by the recognized, that suggests that the actual U.Utes. federal government "should still express...serious issues over Beijing's human privileges record and appeal to China's growing awareness that higher respect for human privileges, religious independence and the guideline of regulation will serve to promote the development as well as social balance that The far east seeks as well as to improve China's worldwide image." Such a technique might take substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird concern that the Usa privately encourages routine change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The wires offer insight into the actual daily business associated with diplomacy that's hardly ever afforded to the general public, which is fascinating to note the quantity of work carried out behind closed doors on Uyghur problems. The importance of the part of the us as a monitor associated with Uyghur individual privileges problems in personal conversations is created obvious, and contrasts using its tactful open public position. Employees from the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is actually comfortable with pressure china government exerts on Uyghur activists; still, the facts of Chinese language federal government pressure upon it's alternatives is actually illustrative from the diploma which Chinese authorities make an effort to suppress contradictory narratives. With increased facts in the future through Wikileaks, issues over Uyghurs might not grab the actual head lines, however the wires have get rid of new gentle about the paperwork of human privileges problems in the Uyghur area.

 

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Uyghur People from East Turkestan

In the middle of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-west part of China, the province of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the least populated province while it covers close to a sixth of the nation's area. Having resisted during hundreds of years the chinese domination, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Turkestan, fell within the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is mainly Uyghurs and Turkic - speaking System.

Islamic especially, the Uyghurs have a deep religious identity which usually, in particular, permitted them to protect a solid difference towards the Chinese invader. Indeed, the Uyghur Kingdom of Mongolia knew a great civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their historical past, the Uyghur People successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., thus beginning the way to the Islamization of the entire Central Asia.

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

The coming of Islam was a great change mainly because it was accompanied by the assimilation of the Uyghur land in the immense Turco-Mongolian and Islamic Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan progressively replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used nowadays.

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

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only 8 million inhabitants - a trifle for this kind of great region. Thus, Uyghur people are now part of the 56 racial minority groups having been well known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

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

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, looks very illusory. The presence of all-natural sources in Xinjiang, and its area with locations well-known as sensitive, highly motivated 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 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 freedom, but especially the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in place Xinjiang.

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 Uyghur peoples population continues today to proudly continue to keep their identity and their ethnic heritage , though they become a minority on their own land.

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

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managing personal finances

There are many ways to manage your finances online, but many of them handle only the paying of run-of-the-mill bills. A site starting in beta-test mode on Monday, called Manilla, is aiming for something broader.

Manilla, which is owned by the publishing company Hearst, wants to help people organize four categories of accounts: household bills, like phone and cable; magazine subscriptions; air travel rewards programs; and financial bills like mortgages and credit cards. Once users sign up for Manilla they can link their personal accounts to the service and are supplied with a simple and clean interface to manage them.

Jessica Insalaco, an executive vice president at Manilla, said people the company surveyed said they were constantly baffled by the bills, subscriptions and other programs they have to manage. People also feel overwhelmed by the piles of paper bills they face on a daily basis, she said.

I tested Manilla ahead of its introduction and found that the process of linking and managing a bill was simple. I linked my AT&T phone bill to the service and it took only a few seconds to hook up the two sites and begin managing my account from Manilla.

Manilla isn’t only trying to help people organize their household finances. The company is teaming with businesses, too, hoping to offer a less expensive alternative to paper bills.

According to the United States Postal Service’s 2010 Annual Report, businesses in the United States send 48 billion account notices, statements and bills to customers each year. That’s a lot of paper that ultimately ends up in garbage dumps and paper shredders.

“Right now, some companies can spend up to 75 cents on a single paper bill,” Ms. Insalaco said. “We want to work with these major companies to send us the bill, reducing the cost of the paper version, and we will act as the middleman to the consumer.”

To make this process even more seamless, Manilla plans to create “premier partnerships” with some companies. Manilla said in a company blog post that it was opening with Comcast as its first premier partner, where cable customers who sign up for Manilla will no longer receive a paper bill, but will instead be billed directly through Manilla.

The company plans to add several premier partners when it has its full introduction in coming months.

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personal finance

Welcome to Wise Bread's Best Money Tips Roundup! Today we found some great articles on personal finance tips for recent college grads, haggling like a pro to get what you want, and tips to build your savings account.

Top 5

7 Most Important Personal Finance Tips for Recent College Grads — If you are a recent grad, don't forget to start building an emergency fund. [Money Crashers]

Haggle Like a Pro to Get What You Want — To haggle successfully, consider talking to someone higher up. [Savvy Sugar]

5 Tips to Build Your Savings Account — Build your savings account by setting up an auto transfer. [Not Made of Money]

Handling Your Finances - How to Create Wealth — Create wealth by cutting expenses in your budget. [Green Panda Treehouse]

7 Steps to Raise Your Credit Score — Raise your credit score by automizing paying your bills. [Moola Days]

Other Essential Reading

Dinners Your Kindergarten Cook Can Help Prepare — Get your kindergartener involved with dinner by making pizza! [Parenting Squad]

Health Insurance and Downgrading Your Job — If you are thinking about downgrading your job, be sure to plan ahead for your health care needs. [The Simple Dollar]

Ways to Use up Eggs — Do you have eggs in your fridge that are going to go bad soon? Separate the egg yolks and whites and freeze them to use in baking recipes later. [Ultimate Money Blog]

Keep Glass from Fogging Up with Shaving Cream — To get rid of fog on glass, use shaving cream to clean it off! [Lifehacker]

4 Reasons to Avoid Payday Loans — Stay away from payday loans. They could negatively affect your credit score. [Financial Highway]

The SEC took a step forward today to bring its rule book in compliance with the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. Some financial sectors got off easier than others. Instead of relying on the credit-rating agencies who played a role in that little sub-prime kerfuffle you may remember, money-market funds will now rely on the "judgment" of the funds and the funds' board of directors to assess risk. Freewheeling finance, wheeeee! Large brokers and investment advisers, including hedge funds, didn't fare quite as well. On a 3-to-2 vote, The Wall Street Journal reports that SEC, like the FDIC, approved restrictions on bonuses for that sector from executives down on to lower-level employees.

Wednesday's proposal would require brokers and advisers with more than $1 billion in assets to disclose the bonus arrangements of their executives, directors and lower-level employees to the SEC annually. Bonus arrangements deemed by regulators to encourage inappropriate risks or that could cause financial loss would be banned. As with the FDIC plan, the SEC proposal would require firms with at least $50 billion in assets to hold half of the bonuses of top executives and others for three years or longer.

Transparency and considering about the consequences of high-risk investments? It's like they don't even understand Wall Street at all.

SEC Votes for Bonus-Restriction Rules [WSJ]

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