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Tuesday, 1 March 2011

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

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

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

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




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




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




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

Let’s consider these in reverse order.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apple Should Not Require Price Matching

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Apple Should Not Require Apps to Offer In-App Subscriptions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Competition vs. Anti-Competition

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

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

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

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

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

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

I read an interesting article this morning that suggested Apple would change its mind and put Adobe’s Flash technology on its iOS devices within a year. I don’t think that’s going to happen.

In an open letter to users, Apple CEO Steve Jobs gave several reasons why he didn’t want Flash on the iPad, iPhone or iPod touch. They are: Flash isn’t open; the full web; reliability, security and performance; battery life; and touch.

Adobe began shipping Flash Player 10.1 for Mobile last June, but even Laptop magazine admitted that “Steve Jobs was right,” and that “Adobe’s offering seems like it’s too little, too late.” Granted, that report was from six months ago, but it still doesn’t bode well for the technology.

There is no doubt that Adobe is making advances with Flash on mobile devices, but I don’t believe future changes will be enough to get Apple to adopt the technology.

Jobs has been very clear that Apple supports HTML5, an open technology that is controlled by a standards committee, not one company. By building support for that technology into Webkit, Apple is ensuring that mobile Web browsers will be able to access what we’ve come to know as the “full web.”

Webkit is used by Google, Palm, Nokia and RIM, so it has a pretty solid base.

One of the arguments often bantered about when the discussion of the “full Web” comes up is video. There is no doubt that Flash made huge strides over the years in having sites like YouTube encode their videos in Flash. But that’s for the desktop.

As Jobs points out, almost all of this video is also available in H.264 format (a format Flash also supports), so it’s viewable on the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch.

“Add to this video from Vimeo, Netflix, Facebook, ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, Fox News, ESPN, NPR, Time, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Sports Illustrated, People, National Geographic, and many, many others. iPhone, iPod and iPad users aren’t missing much video,” wrote Jobs.

You may ask why other companies adopted Flash for their mobile devices when Apple won’t. That’s easy, they are looking for something they have that Apple doesn’t. Considering how hard it is for tablet makers to compete with Apple, any perceived advantage will work.

I’m not an Adobe hater—I know quite a few people that work at Adobe and I think they’ve done some amazing things over the years. Flash for mobile devices isn’t one of them.

Chris Dawson said he gives “Apple a year until they cave [and adopt Flash]. Android tablets will just be too cool and too useful for both entertainment and enterprise applications if they don’t.”

I have been using my iPhone for years and my iPad for one year. I honestly can’t remember the last time I went to a Web site that wouldn’t load because I didn’t have Flash installed. I can load videos from YouTube and a host of other sites too, no problem.

Apple has sold more than 160 million iOS devices and there are no screaming, angry hordes of users breaking down the doors at 1 Infinite Loop demanding Flash on their devices.

In order for Apple to change its mind and adopt Flash, the technology has to be proven to be indispensable and that it will benefit its users. Apple has proven just the opposite is true.

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.

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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.

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• 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.

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• 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!

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Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

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.

 

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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

through henry on December Twenty, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were actually uncertain, info acquired by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese government worries more than its continued charge of the location this calls Xinjiang, which is also known as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked out wires through Ough.Utes. diplomats show the degree to which Chinese government bodies make an effort to persuade governments worldwide to adopt its stance upon issues impacting Uyghurs. The wires additionally display the actual United States' concerns and sights concerning the on going repressive measures in the area.

Most lighting of Chinese language government stress are the cables pointing in order to Chinese language frustration, or even the specter of Chinese language ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd countries. A December 29, 2008 cable television applies exactly how Chinese language Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met using the Ough.Utes. Ambassador in order to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's strong opposition associated with launch in order to any nation apart from The far east, which when the U.Utes. did certainly accede for this ask for it might "avoid harm to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb '09 cable television explains the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act towards us" and a "slap in the face". The Ough.S. federal government stood company within not really liberating the actual detainees to The far east illustrates the actual degree from the politicized nature from the Chinese language judicial program. Genuine concerns over terrorism are understandable, however in the Ough.S. government's observe the detainees might most likely face do-it-yourself torture as well as execution if they came back to The far east

Chinese federal government stress regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only applied to the Ough.S. government, but additionally to New Zealand and a handful of Western government authorities which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, in addition to European Union fellow member says all appear to have borne the actual impact of Chinese federal government disappointment. In the case of Indonesia, which was at first willing to consider two Uyghurs on solely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been less better than other detainees because of the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs would have upon relationships with China. The Might Eight, 2009 cable television applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Germany had knowledgeable The far east of the U.Utes. ask for to accept some Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo coupled with been consequently warned by China of ‘a heavy burden on bilateral relations' if Germany had been to accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic wires additionally discuss the unrest within Urumchi, the regional capital, in This summer '09. The July Thirteen, 2009 cable talking about bulk occurrences in China states:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet within 03 of 2008 differ markedly in origin and nature from bulk incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party leadership wouldn't wait to open fire on Uighurs or Tibetans when they deemed this essential to restore purchase. Mass occurrences present a different kind of threat, he explained, as the leadership is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters with regard to fear of sparking huge public outrage that would change from the Celebration."

This is a chilling viewpoint, particularly when 1 views evidence presented in two reviews launched this year through the Uyghur Human Privileges Task (UHRP) and Amnesty International which detail eyewitness accounts from the utilization of lethal reside fireplace against Uyghur protestors within July 2009. In addition, the declaration which fire would not be used against Han Chinese language protestors offers resonances for the different approach taken by Chinese protection forces in Urumchi in order to Han Chinese direct orders in September 2009. Throughout those direct orders, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, that experienced required that he inform them regarding government responses to protection issues. A similar ask for to meet using the Party Secretary by Uyghur protesters within July was not fulfilled.

The wider repercussions from the unrest additionally saw a brief discussion on the impact it might have on Iran-China relations, as well as on relationships with Sydney following Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke in the Nationwide Push Membership within Canberra in August 2009. In the latter situation, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie financial institution that vendors the nation's Press Membership to use it's influence to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The actual United States' issues about the scenario within the Uyghur region are available via within the wires. Inside a dialogue on policy direction within Tibet, U.Utes. officials clarify that it'll end up being not possible for Chinese language leaders to adopt a much softer line "if they appear like doing this below international pressure". The actual cable dated April Sixteen, 2008, one month following the episode of unrest within Tibetan regions, also relayed the observation "that domestic stability continues to be leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' be no rest from the current difficult collection upon Tibet or in locations such as Xinjiang." The information contained in the cable additionally sheds light about the severe level of sensitivity that china government views territorial integrity, and also the feasible spill more than associated with unrest from Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to tensions within Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from civil culture are discussed in a Feb 24, 2008 cable television. While recommending which China's financial achievement increases it's potential to deal with democratic change, the cable television also discusses exactly how Chinese language leaders see the usefulness of "a restricted growth of civil culture, such as enhancements in the rule associated with regulation along with a more powerful role for approved beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other actors in places that bring about social balance and do not problem Communist Party rule." This is a significant change in thinking, that has observed U.S. officials market the notion that Chinese language financial improvement, as well as financial relations with China brings about a progressively democratic society; nevertheless, much more faith seems to be placed in a grassroots motion than one which starts in the best levels of the Chinese government. Nonetheless, the actual cable television proves which "[i]n places such as Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism leads to tighter limitations on the growth of civil culture." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the recognized, that shows that the actual Ough.S. federal government "should still express...serious concerns more than Beijing's human privileges record as well as attract China's growing awareness which greater regard for individual rights, religious freedom and the guideline associated with law will serve to advertise the very development as well as sociable stability that China seeks in addition to to improve China's international picture." Such a strategy might consider considerable diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid concern that the United States secretly encourages regime change as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The wires offer insight into the actual every day business associated with diplomacy that's rarely owned by the general public, and it is interesting to notice the quantity of work done behind closed doors upon Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual part of the United States like a keep track of associated with Uyghur individual rights conditions within personal conversations is created obvious, and contrasts using its tactful public position. Employees of the Uyghur Human Rights Task is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese government puts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details associated with Chinese language government stress on its alternatives is illustrative of the diploma that Chinese authorities attempt to control contradictory stories. With more facts in the future from Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs may not get the actual head lines, but the wires possess shed brand new light on the documentation associated with human rights conditions in the Uyghur area.

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

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

If it had been ever in doubt, information obtained by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese government fears more than its continued control of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The leaked out cables through U.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the extent that Chinese language authorities attempt to persuade governments globally to consider it's position upon issues impacting Uyghurs. The cables also display the United States' issues as well as sights regarding the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

Most lighting associated with Chinese federal government stress are the wires directed in order to Chinese language anger, or the specter of Chinese ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd countries. A December 29, 08 cable applies how Chinese Helper International Reverend Liu Jieyi fulfilled using the U.S. Ambassador in order to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with launch in order to any nation apart from The far east, and that if the Ough.S. did indeed accede to this ask for it would "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, a Feb 2009 cable explains the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfavorable behave toward us" along with a "slap in the face". The Ough.Utes. government was firm in not really releasing the actual detainees to China demonstrates the actual extent from the politicized nature of the Chinese judicial program. Legitimate issues more than terrorism tend to be understandable, however in the actual U.Utes. government's observe the detainees might probably encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as delivery when they returned in order to China

Chinese language federal government pressure in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only applied to the actual Ough.Utes. federal government, but also to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of European governments which were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, in addition to European Union fellow member states all appear to have borne the actual impact of Chinese language government disappointment. In the case of Indonesia, that was initially prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs on solely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases were less better than additional detainees because of the negative effects taking Uyghurs might have on relations along with The far east. A Might 8, 2009 cable television relates exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Indonesia experienced knowledgeable The far east from the Ough.Utes. ask for to simply accept some Uighur detainees kept at Guantánamo coupled with already been subsequently warned by The far east of ‘a heavy burden on bilateral relations' if Germany were to accept any detainees".

The diplomatic wires also talk about the actual unrest in Urumchi, the regional funds, in July 2009. The This summer 13, '09 cable talking about bulk incidents within China says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet within 03 associated with 2008 vary substantially in source and nature through bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each existing serious problems for the actual Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Celebration management would not wait to spread out fire on Uighurs or Tibetans when they considered this necessary to restore purchase. Mass occurrences present a different kind of risk, he said, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters for fear of causing massive public outrage that would turn from the Party."

This is a chilling viewpoint, particularly when one considers evidence presented by 50 percent reviews launched this season through the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International which detail eyewitness accounts from the use of deadly live fire against Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. In addition, the actual declaration that fire would not be used against Han Chinese protestors has resonances for that various strategy used through Chinese security forces in Urumchi to Han Chinese protests within Sept 2009. During individuals direct orders, after that Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, that had demanded that he let them know regarding federal government responses in order to protection issues. A similar request to meet using the Party Secretary by Uyghur protesters within This summer was not met.

The actual broader repercussions from the unrest additionally noticed a short dialogue about the impact it would possess upon Iran-China relationships, and on relationships with Sydney following World Uyghur Congress Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the National Press Club in Canberra in August '09. Within the latter situation, china government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian bank which vendors the nation's Push Membership to make use of its influence to block a Kadeer speech there".

The United States' concerns about the situation within the Uyghur area also come via in the cables. In a discussion upon plan direction within Tibet, Ough.S. authorities explain that it will end up being impossible for Chinese language frontrunners to adopt a much softer line "if they look like they are doing this under worldwide pressure". The actual cable television out dated April 16, 2008, 30 days after the outbreak associated with unrest in Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual declaration "that domestic balance continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, meaning there will ‘almost surely' be absolutely no relaxation of the current difficult line upon Tibet or perhaps in places like Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable additionally storage sheds light on the severe level of sensitivity with which the Chinese federal government views territorial integrity, and also the feasible drip more than of unrest through Tibet.

The chance of solutions to stress within Tibet as well as Xinjiang as a result of civil culture are discussed inside a Feb 24, 2008 cable television. Whilst recommending which China's financial achievement increases its potential to deal with democratic reform, the cable television additionally talks about exactly how Chinese language frontrunners see the usefulness associated with "a limited expansion of municipal society, including improvements within the rule of law along with a more powerful part with regard to authorized religions, NGOs, charities and other stars within areas which bring about sociable balance and don't challenge Communist Party guideline." This can be a significant change in considering, that has seen U.S. officials market the idea that Chinese language financial development, as well as economic relations along with The far east brings in regards to a steadily democratic culture; however, much more belief seems to be placed in a grassroots movement than one that starts in the best levels of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, the cable proves which "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism results in tight limitations on the growth of municipal culture." This approach is viewed as counter-productive through the official, that shows that the actual Ough.S. federal government "should continue to express...serious concerns over Beijing's individual privileges report as well as appeal to China's developing consciousness which greater regard with regard to human rights, religious independence and the rule of regulation assists to promote the very improvement as well as social stability which The far east seeks as well as to enhance China's international image." Such a strategy might take substantial diplomatic skills considering "China's paranoid concern that the United States secretly promotes regime change as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The cables offer insight into the actual every day company associated with diplomacy that is hardly ever afforded to everyone, and it is fascinating to notice the amount of work carried out nowadays upon Uyghur issues. The importance of the part of the us as a keep track of of Uyghur human rights conditions within personal conversations is created obvious, as well as contrasts with its tactful public stance. The staff from the Uyghur Human Rights Task is actually comfortable with the pressure the Chinese federal government exerts upon Uyghur activists; still, the details of Chinese language government stress upon it's alternatives is actually illustrative of the diploma which Chinese officials attempt to control contrary stories. With more facts in the future through Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs might not grab the actual head lines, but the cables possess get rid of brand new light on the paperwork of human privileges problems within the Uyghur region.

 

Search Engine Marketing And Article promotion Will Place You On Page One

Search engine optimization and article promotion are two of the most powerful strategies that can be used promoting your internet site and get the revenue and success that you need for your online business. Those two things have been around for a really long time already but they still remain to be really effective. Actually, these have helped lots of people free themselves in the traditional means of money-generating options of society.

In this post, I will be showing the ways on how it is possible to properly execute search engine optimization and article promotion for the betterment of the business enterprise web site. In addition, I will even be discussing the various points that you have to consider when you're using these two online marketing strategies to promote your website and get customers. Even though marketing with articles and Seo have been around for a long time already, you have to know that the trends and choices regarding how they are performed are continually changing, and that's why you have to keep yourself up to date with this stuff through the help of Search engine optimization forum sites to be able to quickly adjust and learn how to make your strategies far better.

In the past submitting articles to various web-sites used to be so simple the effects they produce for web sites was really powerful. However, everything has changed a great deal today. These days submitting the identical article to several websites is no longer advisable because engines like google have now changed to a huge extent in the way they rank pages. They will no longer rank contents which are identical like they utilized to in the past. This really is one of the best types of changes that happens to web marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that online marketers are using today. The majority of internet marketers now produce articles and distribute them in really popular article directories and watch for targeted visitors to come to their pages. Be thought of as that most reliable Search engine marketing strategy that you can use. Aside from being effective, and also this provides favorable outcomes regularly. The only issue with this particular technique is how the caliber of traffic that you will get out of this will not be that good if you do not do proper keyphrase research beforehand and rehearse in-links. You need to attend to these two things prior to deciding to submit your posts so that you won't wind up losing considerable amounts of targeted prospects. Which means that you must practice good amounts of diligence if you would like your advertising initiatives to work.

Besides articles, you may also use blogging, which is another really powerful kind of online marketing strategy today since it is highly popular with google and yahoo. Within this technique, you can choose to create a single blog site that specifically targets your selected market or you can contribute to other blogs which are labeled as experts in your niche.

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Roofing Companies Vancouver Washington

There are numerous things to consider when looking for any roofing contractor. Cost, experience, and referrals are some of the things you will likely be concerned about. Read on for even more ideas.

• Finding a Roofing Contractors

Before searching for a roofing contractor, be sure to have a general idea of the task that you need to have inked. By no means is it necessary to be an expert. If you have a new Roof Document, read it extensively to find the information regarding your existing roof. If you do not have a Roofing Certificate, make reference to documents authorized during shutting to locate houses roof Inspection bed sheet. These documents should supply you with everything you need to learn about your roof. Before contacting a new roofing contractor, you should have a list of demands and requirements to help you make a decision exactly who works for your roof covering project. Make sure you write down every single potential roofer contractor's answers as well as check all of them against one another. If you can find any discrepancies, be sure to notice this and take this into consideration when generating a final selection. There are no guaranteed ways to go with a roofing contractor, however , if you take take to the details provided, your odds of a successful roofer project are greatly enhanced.

One of the best strategies to finding a roofing contractor is by word of mouth. Try wondering a friend or relative who's had roofer work performed, and has been satisfied with the job. Get the title of the enterprise and his or her contact info. If you have no word of oral cavity referrals, try first hunting in the mobile phone book and internet based. A large advertising or fancy website is just not necessarily an indication of the high quality of work, but tend to be a good tool pertaining to measuring the amount of time and devotion they have used in their respective profession. Also, try locating current worksites and search at the roofer work that is done or perhaps the process of becoming finished. In case you are visually pleased, ask the home manager for that name of the roofing contractor as well as their contact information.

• Preliminary research

When looking for a new roofing contractors, it really is imperative to 1st do your background research. Acquire the best in the phonebook or on the web is a suitable place to find a service provider, finding important information on these kinds of businesses will likely be found in other areas. Initial, check with locations like the Better Business Bureau, city, express, and local public records, and local certification agencies. Question your roofing contractor if they are an affiliate of any roofing contractor associations. These types of precautions will certainly mitigate your own risks. Additionally ask them what types of roofing they specialize in. Furthermore ask your current roofing contractor concerning any extended warranties they offer on the installed homes. Find out what precautions they decide to use avoid harm done to other areas of the home simply by workers. Things such as gutters, exterior siding, and fireplaces are close in proximity and so susceptible to unintended damages.

Ensure all of this info is included in your created contract. Determine whether you need a roof covering permit and/or choice from your property owners association beforehand. These people will let you know who is responsible for acquiring these allows and authorizations. If it is the responsibility of the roofing contractor, also have this included within your contract. When it is your responsibility, get stated permits as well as permissions collated with the estimated covering project and still have it obviously posted or perhaps readily available.

• Licensing and References

Roofing Companies are not required to be accredited in all declares. Contact neighborhood licensing companies that oversee general design contractors for a list of requirements. Once you have attained the requirements, develop a list of in depth questions to ask your own potential roofing contractor. This simple checklist should quickly help you to discount the certified from the not qualified roofing installers. Qualified building contractors should be able to easily answer questions or even tell you that they should do more research before giving any definitive solution.

Even if the roofing contractor provides all needed licensing, you need to ask to view pictures regarding completed roof covering jobs along with speak to fulfilled clients. Possess a list of concerns handy to ask recent consumers, such as the character of the job, timeliness, and total satisfaction. Ensure these are recent clients and cross reference point if possible. When it comes to commercial roofer, make sure that the particular roofing contractor will be bonded. Checking these recommendations is another extra measure of protection to limit the list regarding potential covering contractors.

Search engine optimization Through Articles

Articles could be a very powerful type of Search engine optimization to your company web-site. Quality written articles manage to increase your websites SERP and add quality for a company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is vital in gaining new backlinks for a business website. Articles can and should be written on topics which might be unique to your business or industry. The articles can discuss a range of issues and ideas inside your industry. Articles that provide people having a resource are always the most popular and quite a few likely varieties of articles which will result in backlinks to your website.

Focus your posts on the potential readers or customers. Search engine optimization articles should address real questions which might be asked by current or past clients. Each article you are writing in your case company will include detailed analysis and Seo keywords which will help associate your web site with all the content contained in the web site. Focus your posts on up to 3 keywords and stray at their store. Consistency is important when writing Search engine optimization articles. In case you are covering Vancouver Search engine optimization ensure your carry on and reveal information strongly related the keyword.

Give each of your Search engine optimization Articles an engaging Title that can persuade folks to learn and bookmark your posts. Ideally, the articles you write find yourself as links using their company websites which can be much like yours. This one thing will help boost the power of each and every link and will assist your SERP. Make sure you end each article which has a keyword anchored link (see Easy Business Seo). This link will assist you to improve your rankings in the search engines as well as other major search engines like google for your keyword connected to the link. Submit the articles to a submitted article directory and Voila! Before long, your website might be for the first page of Google.

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Vancouver Seo Agency Aims For Google Places With Absolute Good results

When folks type in research online term searching for a business in their local area, they may find that Google places and Google maps is showing listings of local businesses. It's very eminent to enable them to be optimized and for auction on this first page should they desire to generate business. Vancouver SEO companies must be educated in this field for their clients.

There seems to be a great deal of new Vancouver SEO companies establishing, simply because the importance is there. Finding an SEO firm which has the client's welfare at heart may be tedious. The amount of keywords do they optimize for? What are keywords as well as the corresponding search volume? Do they discover how to optimize for Google places? And so on. Seo may be the business of landing at the pinnacle and Maxim Edge will get you there.

"My wife and i also started our Vancouver Seo agency by accident. We have learned from the school of hard knocks and trial and error how to use the web to advertise any business. We began using the website, then your competition, after which of course building quality back-links to push a web site up inside rankings. It isn't really pushing a button and watching what goes on type of business. It will take a lot of effort, a great deal of research and many commitment. We strive for our clients and that we are very happy with a high retention rate." Randy Neale says.

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Portraits of Uyghur People

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the northern-west part of China, the province of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is the very least populated province while it covers near to a sixth of the nation's territory. Having resisted during generations the Han Chinese control, Xinjiang, or Old Turkestan, fell under the Chinese Han domination in 1949. From then, its population is mostly Uyghur People and Turkic - speaking System.

Islamic above all, the Uyghur people have a very good religious identity which, in specific, enabled them to preserve a solid big difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Without a doubt, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a great civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their background, the Uyghur People successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally converting to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., therefore starting the way to the Islamization of the complete Central Asia.

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

The coming of Islam was a great change simply because it was supported by the assimilation of the Uyghur land in the immense Turkic and Islamic Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used presently.

If their writing, their own language and their religion mark a real difference with the culture of Chinese Han, the Uyghurs 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 going out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek origins of these men and these women.

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only 8 million people - a little for this particular huge area. So, the Uyghurs are now part of the 56 racial minority groups having been well known in an official way by China.

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

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in China, however, appears very illusory. The presence of all natural sources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its closeness with nations known as very sensitive, clearly urged the government to speed up the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the larger responsibility work 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 mainly the recognition of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in area Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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

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

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

When it comes to success, among the mot important things is planning well ahead of time. Much like in anything else, preparation is the vital thing. If you prepare with determination selecting capable of getting in front of the competition, even just in the world of business online. Web sites nowadays want to do the most beautiful to get in advance of competition because of their targeted key phrases through careful planning. Search engine optimisation is the best tool which you can use in order to achieve your goals and fortunately, the Search engine optimisation expert advice and tips that have been discussed here is likely to make things easier for you.

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

Whatever happens to Rajaratnam, it  would be simple enough to prosecute many of the high rollers on first civil, then criminal charges, fining them millions of dollars and taking them out of circulation for up to 20 years.

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

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

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At Daily Kos on this date in 2009:

It is difficult to muster any sympathy whatsoever for the goddamned banks. This is a crisis entirely of their own manufacture. Yes, the housing market went down -- which anyone with an ounce of sense could have predicted, and did. Any bank betting the entirety of its assets many-times-over on that not happening deserves to fail as spectacularly as possible, its corporate leadership condemned to no greater future responsibilities than bussing tables. ...

We are aware of Japan's "Lost Decade", a period of real estate collapse and economic stagnation. We have, though, been in our own Lost Decade since the turn of the millennium, and only now that the higher echelons of our society have found themselves in as unpalatable a situation as the rest of us have been in has anyone important deigned to notice. We have had a decade of doing nothing, and two decades of offshoring our every competence, leaving us to putter in our financial closets and declare ourselves kings of all we could see.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The notorious advertisement can be seen below.

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