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Blogger Andrew Trench recently presented a theory on the threshold of when Internet penetration starts to matter, writing:

Social networks have also been given plenty of credit for the revolution unfolding in Egypt.

So I went and had a look at the numbers over on www.internetworldstats.com to see what they could tell us about these two scenarios. Well, fascinatingly, both Egypt and Tunisia have seen a massive growth in internet users and internet penetration over the last 10 years.

Both have now got internet penetration of over 20% and in Tunisia's case it was as high as 34%.

While it is clearly simplistic to over-state this factor and there must be many more drivers contributing to such a rapid political uprising, it is obviously a factor as evidenced by the Egyptian regime pulling the plug on the country's internet access to try and block the rising tide of revolt.

My back-of-napkin theory is this: that a rapid increase in internet penetration in a repressive regime does play an important role as it provides an unfettered channel of communication allowing disaffected citizens to share views - and more importantly - to rapidly organise and mobilise.

If Egypt and Tunisia are valid case studies, it looks like internet penetration of around 20% is the mark.

Geopolitics & Macroeconomics adds:

Internet penetration: Social networking sites were critical to sustaining the momentum in the recent protests. The internet penetration in Egypt is 16%. In Libya, it is a meagre 5% [1]. The unrest in Libya has thus far remained concentrated in regions that are geographically distant from the seat of ‘real' power (see more on this below). The dependence of momentum on internet communication is far greater in Libya than in Egypt where protests began in Cairo itself.

Taking the conversation to Pakistan, Sabene Saigol writes, on BrandRepublic:

Perhaps one reason for this is that we're still not that used to communicating via the ‘net - maybe we need greater broadband and internet penetration. Personally I think it is more to do with culture - while Pakistani internet users are savvy to using social media to connect with friends, I feel they have not yet ‘crossed over' to seeing SM as a means for professional communications - or even wider social communications that go beyond their immediate circle. Yes, there are no doubt savvy people - both within marketing and tech circles, and outside - however, these people are likely a tiny proportion of the total number of ‘net and social media users.

Blogger Andrew Trench recently presented a theory on the threshold of when Internet penetration starts to matter, writing:

Social networks have also been given plenty of credit for the revolution unfolding in Egypt.

So I went and had a look at the numbers over on www.internetworldstats.com to see what they could tell us about these two scenarios. Well, fascinatingly, both Egypt and Tunisia have seen a massive growth in internet users and internet penetration over the last 10 years.

Both have now got internet penetration of over 20% and in Tunisia's case it was as high as 34%.

While it is clearly simplistic to over-state this factor and there must be many more drivers contributing to such a rapid political uprising, it is obviously a factor as evidenced by the Egyptian regime pulling the plug on the country's internet access to try and block the rising tide of revolt.

My back-of-napkin theory is this: that a rapid increase in internet penetration in a repressive regime does play an important role as it provides an unfettered channel of communication allowing disaffected citizens to share views - and more importantly - to rapidly organise and mobilise.

If Egypt and Tunisia are valid case studies, it looks like internet penetration of around 20% is the mark.

Geopolitics & Macroeconomics adds:

Internet penetration: Social networking sites were critical to sustaining the momentum in the recent protests. The internet penetration in Egypt is 16%. In Libya, it is a meagre 5% [1]. The unrest in Libya has thus far remained concentrated in regions that are geographically distant from the seat of ‘real' power (see more on this below). The dependence of momentum on internet communication is far greater in Libya than in Egypt where protests began in Cairo itself.

Taking the conversation to Pakistan, Sabene Saigol writes, on BrandRepublic:

Perhaps one reason for this is that we're still not that used to communicating via the ‘net - maybe we need greater broadband and internet penetration. Personally I think it is more to do with culture - while Pakistani internet users are savvy to using social media to connect with friends, I feel they have not yet ‘crossed over' to seeing SM as a means for professional communications - or even wider social communications that go beyond their immediate circle. Yes, there are no doubt savvy people - both within marketing and tech circles, and outside - however, these people are likely a tiny proportion of the total number of ‘net and social media users.

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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.

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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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.

Preview of Final Result

 

Resources

• PT Sans Bold – FontSquirrel


• Free App Icons for Developers – WebAppers

Step 1

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

Step 2

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

Step 3

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

 

Step 4

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

Step 5

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

Step 6

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

Step 7

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

Step 8

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

Step 9

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

Step 10

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

Step 11

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

Step 12

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

Step 13

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

Step 14

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

Step 15

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

Step 16

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

Step 17

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

Step 18

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

Step 19

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

Step 20

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

Step 21

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

Step 22

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

Step 23

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

Step 24

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

Step 25

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

Step 26

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

Step 27

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

Step 28

To finish, add a Gradient Overlay effect.

Step 29

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

Step 30

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

Step 31

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

Step 32

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

Step 33

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

Step 34

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

 

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

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Making Easy Money

Last week, Novelr profiled Amanda Hocking, whom they dubbed the very rich indie writer. Hocking is a 26-year-old woman who writes “paranormal romance” novels and publishes them herself through Amazon’s Kindle store. She’s been very successful, and has made a lot of money.

Her success has led to all sorts of speculation — as success will do — and comments from folks who think they could do what she does, too. They think she’s an overnight success. She recently posted a response at her website, and I like it. Here’s an excerpt:

This is literally years of work you’re seeing. And hours and hours of work each day. The amount of time and energy I put into marketing is exhausting. I am continuously overwhelmed by the amount of work I have to do that isn’t writing a book. I hardly have time to write anymore, which sucks and terrifies me.

If you read Hocking’s post, you might understand some of my own mindset over the past few years. Imagine that instead of discussing supernatural love stories, she’s writing about an unexpectedly successful personal-finance blog. There are some close parallels. I don’t mean that in a negative, complain-y way. I just mean to stress that yes, you can make it big doing something you love, but it’ll probably take a lot of hard work. (And luck. There’s always a bit of luck involved.)

Speaking of making money: There’s been a small flurry of online info about making more money lately. (You know this is one of my pet topics, right?) For example, Inc. magazine posted an article from Jason Fried about how to get good at making money. Fried’s list is targeted at small-business owners. Trent at The Simple Dollar responded with his own list of five easy steps to make money for average folks. Both articles are interesting.

Moving on: I’ve written before about the value of a neighborhood exchange — an informal system of borrowing and lending goods and services. David at My Two Dollars has a great list of items to share with your neighbors to save money. I realize that not everyone likes to borrow or lend things, but if you live in an area with good social capital, this can be a great way for everyone involved to save space and cash.

Since returning from Africa, I’ve been struggling to get everything done that needs to be done. There just aren’t enough hours in the day. So I was interested in the latest post at Pop Economics, which asks, “How much do you value your time?” Pop says the balance between time and money is tough to find — we want more of both. He’s actually experimenting with a personal assistant, which I like. I’ve been waiting for an average joe to do this and report on how it goes. (As opposed to somebody like Tim Ferriss, who makes it sound like a way to become superhuman.)

As a possible deal with Newser falls apart, the online news pioneer ramps up its cultural coverage. The result: an ailing stock price, but traffic’s on the rise.

Kerry Lauerman remembers the time, a decade ago, when he was Salon’s Washington bureau chief and the website had a budget three times larger than it subsists on today.   

Now the Washington bureau is toast. “We’re leaner and meaner and we work a lot smarter,” says Lauerman, who took over in November as editor in chief.   

Salon made its name as a politically aggressive, staunchly liberal online operation. But in recent months I’ve noticed a very different kind of story often leading the site. There was “Men: The New Romantics,” and “Literature’s Gender Gap.” There was “My Husband, the Convicted Murderer” and “My Son, The Pink Boy.” Not to mention “Grammys’ Most Memorable Red-Carpet Outfits” and “The Hardest Part About Quitting Drinking? Dating.”   

So is there a personality transplant going on?    

“The identity of Salon is as a political site,” Lauerman says, “but our entertainment coverage has always done pretty well.” Beyond politics, he says, “we are emphasizing everything else more. We’ve staffed up in entertainment. We listen to our readers.”   

And are these stories about movies and marriages and sex designed to attract more advertising?   

“I’d be lying if I said that wasn’t a consideration.”   

Given Salon’s precarious financial state, it’s obviously a major consideration. The struggling site quietly put itself up for sale in recent months, and talks with Newser.com, an aggregation site founded by Michael Wolff, collapsed Monday. The New York Times Dealbook blog reported that Salon board members grew concerned that they might be selling for too low a price after AOL paid $315 million to buy The Huffington Post.  

The publicly traded company reported a loss of $4.8 million in fiscal 2010, with two investors making up the gap through loans. Salon’s stock is trading for a dime, down from $1.30 in the summer of 2008.   

“It’s not an easy space to make money in if you’re trying to do quality content,” says CEO Richard Gingras, who provided the original seed money for Salon’s launch. “We have beefed up the investment in culture and lifestyle… It is about growing the audience.”   

The first duty of any website is survival, and most of the news business—from old-line newspapers and magazines to newer operations such as The Daily Beast—is grappling with how to turn a profit online. The overhauling of Salon’s editorial mix comes as its center of gravity has shifted from San Francisco, where it was born 15 years ago, to Midtown Manhattan. Founding editor David Talbot and Joan Walsh, who stepped down last year, ran the place from the Bay Area; Lauerman, 41, is the first editor to be based, with most of the staff, in New York.

“It’s not an easy space to make money in if you’re trying to do quality content,” says CEO Richard Gingras, who provided the original seed money for Salon’s launch. “We have beefed up the investment in culture and lifestyle… It is about growing the audience.”

Walsh, who had tapped Lauerman as her deputy, was part of the new direction before returning to reporting and a book project. “Our news team is as good as it’s ever been,” she says. “But the political cycle ebbs and flows, and people get more or less interested depending on whether it’s election season and what the crazy story of the week is… We’ve probably gotten deeper into the cultural realm.”   

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SEO Services Vancouver For A Better Marketing Solution

 

When you begin your own website there are many ways you'll have to market it and one the best way is to use SEO services Vancouver if you happen to maintain that area. The SEO or seo services would be the top way of getting good visitors to your website and for that reason making more sales.

 

Now, you should know that you won't use SEO service if you are not an internet business - but then again, if you do not have an online presence if you are a offline business, then you'll not allow it to be very far.

 

It is a well known fact that if you are going to make it in the offline world you must have an online business. This is something that all business people are learning the hard way. Something 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 complete its things.

 

This can be done in most types of ways, but these companies usually take advantage of multiple methods to create an ideal marketing technique online. It is possible to employ these phones write articles for you, post on forums and blogs, create meta data and meta descriptions, clean up the code, add alt tags to the images plus much more.

 

It is very important that you do this because otherwise the organization you have worked so difficult for could end up losing all the money. If you have an internet site you want to create, then you will also use the expertise of an SEO company, which means seo company. What this company does is actually go ahead and take best areas of your website, check the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your website is placed close to the top of the list for the major search engines like google.

By doing this the Search engine optimization company can not only improve your traffic, but additionally ensure that your site is fully optimized for that internet search engine spiders that'll be brought to it. These spiders are used to analyze your site and put it in certain positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you want to use the SEO services Vancouver then all you have to complete is find the top companies. It's through these how the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. Because of so many SEO companies to choose from you have to be sure that the main one you're going for is reliable. You ought to be in a position to ask for a breakdown of what you need, and also the company should also be able to tell you know long they have been operating for. This will limit the list to reveal the very best ones.

 

What to anticipate When Hiring a Roofer

When it comes time to correct or even substitute your homes roof, it can be a challenging task to find somebody that is actually qualified for the job. There are lots of roofing companies available, but the types who'll do a congrats for a sensible price aren't often simple to find. If you're in the marketplace for the service provider, make use of the ideas below for meeting with as well as employing the right one.

Interview and Discussion

The majority of roofing contractors provide totally free consultations. This is particularly essential, since it provides them a chance to assess what your homes roof requirements, and it provides you with a chance to assess all of them. As with all of businesses, trust your intuition concerning the people you let upward onto your roof. No matter exactly how good the contractor's reputation or recommendation, he should begin by showing a person with a company card. If the service provider arrives searching and speaking in an less than professional method, most likely the task he's going to do may also be less than professional. This isn't to say that you should expect contractors to reach in fits. They will be hiking in your roofing, therefore most is going to be dressed up in denim jeans and function footwear or even athletic shoes. If the contractor appears to be more interested in speaking on their cell phone during your roof than he is within evaluating your roof's needs, that may be an additional indication that he is not the one for the job. For your lawful protection, be certain that the actual contractor offers sufficient legal responsibility insurance.

Roofing Assessment

Expect that the service provider will be rising on your roof. In fact, any kind of contractor who not need to go up in your roof to judge the issue should be instantly reduced. Those who are serious about their function will possibly create a drawing of your roof's surface area and mark problem areas on it because they go through their own assessment, or they will consider photos or video clip of the surface area while they are available online for. This is an extremely important step, because it allows you to observe just what the problems are as well as know how they'll be fixed.

Estimation

The next phase would be the created estimate. The service provider will take away his calculator and come track of a written estimate. Some contractors will go out to their own truck or van as well as write up the actual proposal, while some will crisis the actual numbers for the job in front of you. Once you're because of the proposal, make sure that you understand which products will be utilized, how long the task will take and when there are any additional or hidden costs that may occur during the restore from the roofing. The service provider should be able to solution many of these questions with ease as well as forewarn you associated with a additional expenses that might be incurred if the roof's ethics be broken inside.

After you have received several created estimations from roofing contractors, assess exactly what every company or service provider would like to offer you for the cost. Do not necessarily low cost the highest bid, because occasionally the highest bid will actually function as the service provider who does the job correctly. Additionally, be wary of prices for bids that are not nearly as expensive others. They might be utilizing substandard items or perhaps be unethical concerning the possibility of concealed expenses. Most importantly, believe in intuition and opt for the service provider who makes you feel most comfy about giving over your money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

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

 

AFP

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Earlier cases

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

New training scheme

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

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

 

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

 

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

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Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

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

If it had been ever in doubt, information obtained by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese government worries over it's ongoing charge of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked cables through U.Utes. diplomats show the extent to which Chinese authorities attempt to persuade governments globally to adopt it's position on problems affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires additionally display the actual United States' concerns and views regarding the ongoing repressive measures in the region.

Most lighting associated with Chinese language government pressure are the cables pointing to Chinese language frustration, or even the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd nations. The Dec Twenty nine, 08 cable television relates how Chinese language Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the U.Utes. Ambassador in order to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's powerful competitors of launch in order to any kind of nation other than The far east, and that if the Ough.S. did indeed accede to this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to cooperation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, a February 2009 cable explains the way the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave towards us" and a "slap within the face". That the U.Utes. federal government stood firm within not really liberating the actual detainees in order to China demonstrates the extent from the politicized nature from the Chinese language judicial system. Genuine issues over terrorism tend to be easy to understand, however in the U.S. government's observe the detainees would most likely face do-it-yourself torture as well as execution if they returned in order to The far east

Chinese federal government pressure regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just put on the actual Ough.S. government, but additionally in order to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of Western government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, as well as European Union member states all appear to have borne the brunt associated with Chinese government disappointment. Regarding Indonesia, which was initially prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs on purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been less preferable to additional detainees because of the negative effects accepting Uyghurs would have upon relations with The far east. A Might Eight, 2009 cable television applies exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported which Indonesia had informed The far east from the Ough.S. request to simply accept some Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo coupled with been consequently cautioned through China of ‘a large load on bilateral relations' if Indonesia were to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables also talk about the unrest within Urumchi, the actual regional funds, in This summer 2009. The July Thirteen, 2009 cable television discussing mass incidents in The far east says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet within March of 2008 differ substantially within source and character from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present serious trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, however the Celebration management would not hesitate to spread out fire on Uighurs or Tibetans when they deemed it essential to recover order. Bulk incidents pose a different kind of threat, he explained, as the management is actually ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters for fear of sparking huge open public outrage that would turn against the Party."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, particularly when one views evidence presented by 50 percent reviews released this year through the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International which detail eyewitness company accounts of the utilization of deadly live fireplace towards Uyghur protestors within July '09. In addition, the observation that fireplace wouldn't be deployed against Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the various strategy taken through Chinese language protection forces within Urumchi to Han Chinese protests in September '09. Throughout those direct orders, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, that had demanded that he let them know about federal government responses to security issues. A similar request to satisfy using the Celebration Secretary through Uyghur protesters within This summer was not met.

The broader repercussions of the unrest also saw a brief discussion on the effect it might possess upon Iran-China relations, and on relations along with Australia after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the National Press Club in Canberra within July '09. Within the second option situation, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie bank that sponsors the nation's Press Membership to make use of its impact to bar a Kadeer talk there".

The United States' issues about the scenario within the Uyghur region also come via within the cables. Inside a dialogue on plan direction in Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials explain that it will be impossible for Chinese language frontrunners to adopt the softer collection "if they look like they are doing this under worldwide pressure". The actual cable television out dated April 16, 2008, one month following the episode of unrest in Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the actual observation "that household stability continues to be leadership's main concern above all else, meaning there will ‘almost surely' be absolutely no rest of the current hard collection upon Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable television also sheds light about the severe sensitivity that the Chinese federal government sights territorial ethics, and the possible drip over of unrest through Tibet.

The prospect of methods to tensions in Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from civil society tend to be discussed inside a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable television. Whilst suggesting that China's financial success will increase its potential to deal with democratic change, the cable also discusses exactly how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the usefulness associated with "a limited expansion of municipal culture, including enhancements in the guideline of law and a stronger part with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other stars within areas which contribute to sociable balance and don't problem Communist Celebration rule." This can be a significant alternation in thinking, that has observed Ough.Utes. officials promote the notion which Chinese financial development, as well as economic relationships along with China will bring about a steadily democratic culture; nevertheless, more faith seems to be placed in a grassroots motion compared to one which starts from the top quantity of a Chinese government. Nonetheless, the cable proves that "[i]n areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear of separatism leads to tight limitations about the development of municipal society." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the U.S. government "should still express...serious issues more than Beijing's individual privileges report as well as attract China's developing awareness that greater respect for human privileges, religious independence and the rule of regulation assists to advertise the improvement as well as sociable balance which The far east seeks as well as to enhance China's worldwide picture." Such a strategy would consider considerable diplomatic skills considering "China's paranoid concern the United States privately encourages regime change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The wires provide understanding of the actual every day business of diplomacy that is rarely afforded to everyone, which is interesting to notice the quantity of function carried out nowadays upon Uyghur problems. The importance of the part of the United States as a monitor associated with Uyghur human privileges conditions within private conversations is made obvious, as well as contrasts with its tactful open public position. Employees from the Uyghur Individual Rights Project is actually comfortable with the pressure china government puts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese language federal government pressure on its alternatives is illustrative from the diploma that Chinese officials attempt to control contradictory stories. With more revelations in the future from Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs might not grab the actual head lines, but the cables possess shed brand new light on the documentation of human privileges problems within the Uyghur region.

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghur

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

If it were actually uncertain, info acquired through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese language government fears over its ongoing control of the location this calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as East Turkestan. The leaked cables through U.S. diplomats show the actual extent that Chinese authorities make an effort to persuade government authorities globally to consider it's position on issues impacting Uyghurs. The actual wires additionally display the U . s . States' issues and views concerning the on going repressive steps in the area.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese federal government pressure would be the wires pointing in order to Chinese anger, or even the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A Dec 29, 2008 cable television relates how Chinese Assistant Foreign Reverend Liu Jieyi met with the U.S. Ambassador in order to China to tone of voice Beijing's strong competitors of launch to any country other than The far east, and that if the Ough.Utes. did certainly accede for this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, a Feb '09 cable television describes the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave toward us" and a "slap within the face". That the Ough.Utes. federal government stood firm within not really liberating the detainees to The far east demonstrates the actual extent of the politicized nature from the Chinese judicial program. Genuine concerns over terrorism tend to be understandable, but in the actual Ough.Utes. government's observe the detainees might probably face do-it-yourself torture as well as execution when they came back to China

Chinese government stress regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just applied to the actual Ough.S. federal government, but also to Brand new Zealand and a number of European government authorities that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, as well as European Union fellow member says all have the symptoms of paid for the actual brunt of Chinese language federal government disappointment. In the case of Germany, which was initially willing to consider two Uyghurs upon purely humanitarian reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were much less better than other detainees due to the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs might have on relationships with China. The May 8, '09 cable television applies how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported that Indonesia had knowledgeable China of the U.Utes. request to accept some Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo coupled with been consequently cautioned by China associated with ‘a large burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables also talk about the actual unrest within Urumchi, the actual local capital, in July 2009. The This summer 13, 2009 cable television talking about mass occurrences in The far east states:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet in March of 2008 differ substantially within source as well as character through mass occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each existing serious trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Celebration leadership would not wait to open fireplace on Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed this essential to restore order. Mass incidents pose another type of risk, he explained, since the management is ‘afraid' to fireplace upon Han rioters with regard to anxiety about sparking massive public outrage that will turn from the Celebration."

This is a chilling viewpoint, particularly when one considers evidence presented in two reports launched this season by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide that fine detail eyewitness accounts from the use of deadly reside fireplace against Uyghur protestors within July '09. In addition, the actual declaration that fireplace wouldn't be used against Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the different approach used by Chinese security causes in Urumchi to Han Chinese language protests in September '09. During those protests, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, who had required he let them know regarding government reactions in order to protection issues. An identical request to satisfy with the Party Assistant through Uyghur protesters within This summer wasn't fulfilled.

The actual broader consequences from the unrest additionally saw a short discussion on the impact it would possess on Iran-China relationships, and on relationships with Australia following World Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the Nationwide Press Club in Canberra in August 2009. Within the latter situation, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie bank that sponsors the National Push Membership to use it's impact to bar a Kadeer speech there".

The United States' concerns concerning the situation in the Uyghur region also come via in the wires. In a dialogue on policy direction within Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials clarify that it'll end up being impossible for Chinese language frontrunners to adopt the much softer collection "if they appear like they are doing so under worldwide pressure". The actual cable dated 04 Sixteen, 08, one month after the episode associated with unrest within Tibetan regions, also relayed the actual declaration "that domestic balance continues to be leadership's top priority above all else, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' be no rest from the current hard collection on Tibet or in locations like Xinjiang." The info included in the cable television additionally storage sheds gentle about the extreme level of sensitivity that the Chinese federal government views territorial ethics, and the possible spill over of unrest from Tibet.

The prospect associated with solutions to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of municipal culture are debated inside a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable television. While suggesting that China's economic success increases it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the cable also discusses exactly how Chinese leaders see the usefulness of "a restricted expansion of civil culture, including enhancements in the rule associated with law and a stronger role with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations and other stars in areas that bring about sociable stability and do not challenge Communist Celebration rule." This is a notable change in thinking, which has observed U.S. authorities promote the notion which Chinese economic development, and financial relations along with China brings in regards to a progressively democratic culture; nevertheless, much more belief seems to be placed in the grassroots movement than one that starts in the top levels of the Chinese federal government. Nonetheless, the actual cable proves which "[i]n areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear of separatism results in tight limitations about the development of municipal culture." This approach is viewed as counter-productive by the official, that shows that the actual Ough.S. government "should still express...serious issues more than Beijing's individual privileges report as well as appeal to China's growing consciousness which greater regard with regard to individual privileges, spiritual freedom and the guideline of law will serve to advertise the development and social balance which The far east looks for as well as to improve China's international image." Such a technique might consider considerable diplomatic skills thinking about "China's weird fear that the Usa privately encourages regime alter and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires provide understanding of the every day company of diplomacy that is hardly ever owned by everyone, which is interesting to notice the quantity of work done behind closed doors on Uyghur problems. The significance of the actual role of the United States as a monitor associated with Uyghur individual privileges conditions in personal conversations is created obvious, as well as contrasts with its sensible public position. The staff from the Uyghur Human Privileges Task is actually comfortable with pressure china government puts upon Uyghur activists; still, the details associated with Chinese federal government stress upon its alternatives is actually illustrative from the degree that Chinese authorities make an effort to control contradictory narratives. With more revelations to come from Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs might not grab the headlines, but the cables have shed brand new light on the documentation of human privileges problems within the Uyghur area.

 

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Portraits of Uyghur People

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

Muslim most importantly, the Uyghur people have a strong religious identification which usually, in particular, permitted them to maintain a strong big difference towards the Chinese invader. In fact, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a excellent civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their own historical past, the Uyghur People successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., as a result opening the way to the Islamization of the entire Central Asia.

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

The arrival of Islam was a great change simply because it was followed by the assimilation of the Uyghur areas in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Islamic Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used at present.

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

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only nine million population - a trifle for this large country. Thus, the Uyghurs are now part of the fifty six racial minority groups having been known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This particular law allows them a few privileges in a country exactly where their big difference is very often repressed. Thus, Uyghur families escape the "single child policy" and their language is known as the second official language in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

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Of all the interesting new tech that seems poised to garner a lot of buzz in 2011, near field communication (NFC), is probably the most exciting. If it takes off, it will transform the ways we communicate, share, and make payments with digital devices. This will likely take years to happen, but the groundwork is being laid right now. And RFinity is one of those companies at the forefront.

While Google and Apple are responsible for generating much of the buzz about NFC at the moment, the technology goes far beyond simply having the right type of chip in your mobile device. For example, how do you handle different types of data transfers being made from one device to another? And how to you ensure that they happen as quickly as possible? And most importantly, how do you ensure that they happen securely? Those are the things that RFinity is thinking about.

The company has just raised $4 million from Horizons Ventures in Hong Kong. And the space has gotten so red hot, in fact, that we hear they’re already out raising another round.

And it’s an easy bet for investors to make not only because of the space, but because of where the project originated: The U.S. Department of Energy. Specifically, RFinity was born when a bunch of infrastructure security experts working for the government were assigned to find all the vulnerabilities in cell phones. Through software they came up with, they were able to quite easily eavesdrop, manipulate SMS messages, and even compromise LAN security. Then they set out to figure out a way to stop people from doing those very things. That work led directly to RFinity.

Work originally began in the person-to-person and person-to-vendor sales space by way of mobile applications that route transactions through RFinity’s own secure servers. But now that NFC appears ready, RFinity is making sure they’re ready for it. The idea is that their technology could cut out the middle man here: themselves.

Obviously, the company isn’t going to share all the details on how they secure NFC transfers. But the basic overview is that they verify an incoming NFC signal and ask for a user’s permission before taking any action. Further, if the action is a transaction, it requires a PIN, just as you might do an ATM withdrawal. That’s all pretty standard. But the key is one-time-use transaction codes that RFinity creates on the fly along with complex cryptographic signatures. These ensure that an transaction is secure since it means that every transaction can only happen once. Even if those numbers were intercepted by a hacker, they would be useless beyond the one-time payment.

And even if your phone is lost or stolen, a thief couldn’t do anything without your PIN. And you can remotely shut down your NFC capabilities via RFinity. It’s enough to make me wish I could throw out all my credit cards right now. “Today’s identification and transaction systems are based on what? A magnetic strip on the back of a card, based on a 1950’s technology that relies on a base station to read the information embedded as a series of simple magnetic markers in plastic tape,” writes Josh Jones-Dilworth, who is working with the company to bring them to market.

Again, NFC as a technology is great and potentially game-changing. But the software is still needed to make it actually work. And some of the big guys began realizing that early on as companies like PayPal, Bank of America, and even Subway have been testing out different things with RFinity for some time. In fact, RFinity has actually been doing field tests of the software end of their technology since 2009 in places like Idaho, well before most people in the U.S. had ever thought about NFC.

But now people are starting to care. And soon, they could be caring a lot more. NFC is already built-in to Google’s new Nexus S device — and the company has put out a call for developers to start using the tech. Rumors have the next iteration of the iPhone gaining the technology as well. In other words, I suspect we may be seeing acquisition rumors starting to fly around RFinity in about six months or so. Provided their technology proves up to the NFC challenge, of course.

Conservative Conference Warns Of Hidden Islamic Danger In ‘Race To The Top’ Funding

A new memo that has been making the rounds in conservative circles is a dire warning about an onslaught of Islamic “Gulen schools,” a growing international network of charter schools begun in Turkey that offer “a blend of religious faith and largely Western curriculum.”

At the Educational Policy Conference, a large gathering of social conservatives in St. Louis in January, prominent neoconservative and anti-Muslim conspiracy theorist Frank Gaffney, and former Colorado State Board of Education member Peggy Littleton sounded the alarm on the “creeping threat” of Gulen schools hidden in President Obama’s landmark education initiative, the Race to the Top program, which encourages innovation in education, including charter schools. Littleton, who currently serves as an El Paso County Commissioner, told conference-goers that “the only reason [Obama is] pushing more charter schools” through Race to the Top is “because of these Gulen schools.”

ThinkProgress caught up with Littleton after her speech. She told us that the Obama administration “intentionally had already thought through how they could have a proliferation and a sneaking creep, if you will, of Gulen schools by embedding their acceptance and even promotion of charter schools under this new wonderful thing of Race to the Top.” She warned that these schools were teaching our children to “hate Americans.” Watch it:

Not to be outdone, Gaffney told the audience that, along with the federal government and CPAC, Gulen schools were “another example of this Muslim Brotherhood kind of operation, stealth jihad.” Completing Fox News host Glenn Beck’s “worldwide Muslim caliphate theory,” Gaffney also declared that Fethullah Gulen, the namesake of Gulen schools, “is a fellow who I think envisions himself being the next Caliph.” He finished by calling Gulen schools “an insidious, seditious program” and called on conference-goers to spread the word to friends and elected officials. Watch it:

Full transcript, after the jump

First video:

LITTLETON: If you’ve done any research on Gulen schools, you need to get on the Internet and do some. Because I believe – and this is just my own personal opinion without any factual data to back it up – one of the only reasons the Obama administration is willing to stand in the face of teacher’s unions, who supported his campaign with large numbers by the way. The only reason he’s pushing more charter schools, even in the face of teachers unions, is by making states adopt charter school rules that are open and who are applying for Race to the Top funds, I think that he’s doing that because of these Gulen schools. The Gulen schools are the Muslim schools in our country. I’m showing you how many of them are already operating, you can see there’s 107 of them. Twelve of them are opening in 2010, nine are pending, 22 were declined. There are over 150 schools in the United States that are already out there that are telling the kids of the United States of America, “hate Americans and the whole rest of the…” and you’ll hear more about that tomorrow, I’m excited you’re going to get to see that.

KEYES: Do you think the administration anticipated the rise in Gulen schools as a result of Race to the Top education money?

LITTLETON: I don’t think they tied it to the money in any way, shape or form. But I do think they intentionally – and again, this is my own opinion – but I think they probably intentionally had already thought through how they could have a proliferation and a sneaking creep, if you will, of Gulen schools by embedding their acceptance and even promotion of charter schools under this new wonderful thing of Race to the Top and “let’s fund the schools this way.” Even though there’s not really the direct funding source, I think it was the intention to promote charter schools.

KEYES: Couched in very flowery language.

LITTLETON: Absolutely.

KEYES: Why do you suppose they want to do that?

LITTLETON: Well, there’s going to be speculation, by everyone that’s out there. You yourself I’m sure have done the research, you’ve seen and heard some of the things our own president has said about the Muslims. You’ve heard that he thinks we ought to be friendly to some of their causes, that we should be tolerant in promoting some of the Muslims that are scientists and technology people. I think we need to go back and research what our president has said and by his own words and admissions, I think you can probably make the connection.

Second video:

GAFFNEY: As to this question about a Turk by the name of Gulen, this is one of those little-known stories that I’m thrilled that you’ve mentioned because it is another example of this Muslim Brotherhood kind of operation, stealth jihad. This is a fellow who I think envisions himself being the next Caliph. He is enormously influential in his native Turkey, where he has helped instigate, essentially, an Islamist takeover of the country with a wholesale repudiation and replacement of Ataturk’s secular form of government with one that is through-and-through Islamist. And that’s now increasingly making common cause with Iran, with Syria, with Hezbollah, with Hamas, which is very clearly hostile to Israel, which Turkey was until recently strategic partners with. In short, it is headed in a very dangerous direction indeed, Turkey is. This guy, Gulen, has been extending his influence by building large numbers of these schools all over the world. And the really extraordinary thing is he’s doing so from a safe haven in Rick Santorum’s great state of Pennsylvania. For a time his operation was considered a terrorist group, until inexplicably the Clinton administration decided it wasn’t anymore. And so he is churning out an insidious, seditious program from within the territory of the United States. And I would venture there isn’t one member of Congress today who has ever heard of his name, let alone understands what he is up to. We’re anxious to try to spread this word, and to those of you who are in contact with one of your five folks you are reaching out to happens to be your elected representative at the federal level or for that matter the state level, we can help educate and equip with this kind of information, we’re anxious to do it.

When it comes to hatching conspiracy theories, conservatives and Islamophobia are a match made in heaven. In the wake of Egypt’s peaceful democratic revolution, Fox News host Glenn Beck warned his viewers that former President Mubarak’s ouster portended an impending worldwide Muslim caliphate, a prediction that earned Beck the ire of even the likes of Bill Kristol. Leading neoconservative Frank Gaffney is also a regular propagator of fanciful theories of Islam, from Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the Conservative Political Action Conference to Muslim Brotherhood infiltration of the United States government.

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