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With few surprises, techies were underwhelmed with Apple’s iPad 2 announcement, but I’m confident that consumers will be thrilled with the product. Apple already had a massive lead in the consumer tablet market it created, and these “underwhelming” upgrades should keep the company comfortably ahead. Apple has given competitors an opening by sticking to 3G, and it did not further pressure them with a lower entry price point or higher-resolution display. However, Apple has three critical advantages.

1. Brand: When consumers are thinking about tablets, they say they are buying an “iPad,” not a “tablet.” The iPad was already the category and volume leader, and the iPad 2 builds on that. In this respect, Apple actually benefits from the crowd of new tablets hitting the market. If there were only one or two strong competitors, consumers would be able to weigh the pros and cons of each offering, but with dozens and dozens of options hitting the market over the next few months, decision paralysis can set in and many consumers will throw up their hands and make the “safe” choice: the iPad.

2. iTunes: The iPad is still the only tablet on the market with a huge digital marketplace for movies, TV shows, and music. Some competitors are taking steps in this direction (e.g., Samsung’s Hub), but iTunes remains a significant competitive advantage.

3. App Store: If all you want to do is browse the Web and check e-mail, any tablet will probably suffice. However, Apple has an enormous lead in purpose-built apps. The Android ecosystem is strong and app availability should improve significantly over time, but the iPad 2 is considerably more versatile than any of its competitors right now, and it appears unlikely to lose its lead any time in the near future.

So if you are competing with Apple, what should you do? Rather than copying Apple’s products, copy its old advertising tag line and Think Different.

Apple’s brand is focused on creative types (or those who aspire to be), which is why it spends so much effort creating things like GarageBand. Competitors should target IT managers, knowledge workers, outdoorsy people, or some other group and build software and hardware combinations better suited to those use cases. Of course, this will take imagination and the ability to tie hardware, software, and services together to build unique experiences. There are some companies thinking outside the box (HTC and RIM have clearly differentiated products on their roadmaps), but for the vendors who are trying to out-Apple Apple… good luck. Here are some pointers, you’re going to need them:

• Based on Apple’s financials, it is clear that the iPad with WiFi is Apple’s volume product and 3G versions are merely gravy. Why is the competition only targeting the gravy?

• iTunes remains a significant competitive advantage for Apple – I cannot easily explain to novices how to get a movie onto the XOOM. Rivals need an “iTunes” of their own, but having one just achieves parity with Apple, so partnering is an acceptable approach. However, half measures are not enough; digital media stores must include movies (including rentals) and TV shows and music. If multiple partners are used, the tablet vendor still needs to provide a common interface and single account/billing relationship.

• Nintendo has a significant base of game developers targeting the 3DS; if you cannot muster equivalent resources (for gaming, media playback, or some other use), adding 3D to your tablet is just a gimmick.

• Apple’s rivals can compete on 4G, higher-resolution displays, or a lower price. Even speed is a potential differentiator from a technical perspective; NVIDIA has quad-core processors sampling this month, so rivals could build even faster tablets for this holiday season. However, I must still caution vendors that all of these factors are irrelevant if consumers do not want your product.

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.

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

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

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

Money-Management Skills

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

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

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

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

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

When to Consider Bankruptcy

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

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

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

Your will should cover the disposition of your assets, name a guardian for your kids, name someone to manage property you leave to your kids, and name the executor of your estate. The executor is the person with the authority to see that your will is enforced.

In addition to a will, you may want to create a living will or advance medical directive. These are documents that let your doctors and caregivers know your wishes regarding medical care in the event of a major medical event where you may be unable to make your wishes known. To give your living will more power, you may also wish to assign medical power of attorney to your spouse or another loved one. Having someone acting on your behalf can help ensure that your wishes are followed.

You should consider creating a power of attorney for someone who can take over your financial affairs if you are alive but unable to manage them. You can assign someone either “durable power of attorney” or “springing power of attorney”. The former is automatically in place. The latter requires a court hearing to prove that you are not competent to handle your own affairs. A lawyer can help you decide which is right for you.

Finally, consider writing a “digital will“. This is a document that identifies all your online accounts at sites like Facebook, Flickr, and Myspace, and gives your family instructions about what you want done with them. It should include all relevant usernames and passwords. While not a legally binding document, this can be an invaluable tool for your loved ones to gain access to your social media accounts and manage them in the way you desire.

Organization

Once you’ve created these documents, you want to keep them organized in a simple, clear place where your family can easily access them should they need to. That could be in your file cabinet, with your attorney, in a safe deposit box. Wherever you do it, you should also make sure your heirs will have simple, organized access to your financial records and accounts, and any other important papers.

For most of us, these records aren’t just on paper anymore. Not only do I need to be sure my estate executor has access to my bank account numbers and 401K accounts; I probably want that person to be able to access those accounts online, too. They’ll need to get into my computer, and be able to access my Google documents and Mint account if they’re going to really make sense of my finances. You’ll want to include any necessary banking usernames and passwords with your important papers, along with your digital will.

Communication

When you’ve created your estate plan, tell your family about it. Be certain the person you picked to be guardian for your kids is willing to do it. Make sure your executor knows where you keep your will and other important papers. Let your heirs know what to expect from your will. All this will cut down on confusion and conflict after your death.

As you can see, doing all this requires having your financial and personal affairs in order. That effort will serve you well in your lifetime, as well as being a boon to your heirs when you’re gone.

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Search engine optimization Vancouver For A Better Marketing Solution

 

When you begin your own website there are lots of ways you'll have to market it and something of the best ways is by using Search engine optimization Vancouver if you happen to maintain that area. The SEO or search engine optimization services will be the top method of getting good traffic to your website and therefore making more sales.

 

Now, you need to know that you will not use SEO service if you're not an online business - however, if you do not come with an online presence if you are a offline business, then you'll not allow it to be very far.

 

It is a popular proven fact that if you are going to make it in the offline world you need to have an online presence. This is something that all business people are learning the hard way. One thing that you ought to also know is that it's not as easy as just setting up the website and leaving it to complete its things.

 

This can be done in all types of ways, however these companies usually take advantage of multiple techniques to create an ideal marketing technique online. You will be able to employ them to write articles for you personally, post on forums and blogs, create meta tags and meta descriptions, clean up the code, add alt tags to the images and much more.

 

It is very important that you do this because otherwise the organization you have worked so hard for could wind up losing all the money. If you have a website you want to create, then you will also employ the expertise of a search engine optimization company, which stands for seo company. What the corporation does is basically take the best areas of your website, look into the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your site is placed near the top of the list for the major search engines.

As a result the SEO company can not only increase your traffic, but additionally ensure that your website is fully optimized for that search engine spiders that will be brought to it. These spiders are utilized to analyze your website and place it in certain positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you want to use the SEO services Vancouver then all you've got to complete is discover the top companies. It is through these that the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. With so many SEO companies to select from you have to be certain the one you are going for is reliable. You should be in a position to ask for a failure of what you want, and also the company also needs to be able to tell you know long they have been operating for. This can limit the list to reveal the top ones.

 

Search engine optimization Provided by Different Vancouver Web Companies

The Vancouver SEO company services are extremely beneficial for business growth as they provide quality services. If you are planning to produce a website for your online business, then you have come to right article when i will be explaining below how Search engine optimization Vancouver company services can increase your website ranking and make it popular.

Before that, you should know what Search Engine Optimization is. It's not that complicated and i am sure you will get a grasp of it after reading my article. The primary goal of SEO is to get increased traffic to your website and audience. It is a good decision to select a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this kind of work, so that your website can be listed in search engines.

There isn't any point in you having a website with no website ranking whatsoever as you won't get any business and profits to survive. It's a very tough atmosphere out there because there are a lot of online business people exactly like you, who want their share of pie. You have to be familiar with the truth that nearly 85% of world wide web traffic can be got from internet websites.

When a user types inside a keyword or keywords for what he/she wants to know in different sites, these use crawlers to obtain web-sites using the relevant content and index them according to algorithms. It's not necessary to worry about the algorithms which these sites use as that isn't important.

To appear within the first page from the search result, you will need to hire professionals and experts who can perform the needful to keep your website one of the good books in these websites. These professionals can optimize your site content to ensure your site gets more traffic.

Once the traffic gets high, it is a sign that you're getting a service which will get you more revenues. SEO Vancouver company do the following to make your website appear inside the first page of search results.

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

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

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

 

What to Expect Whenever Hiring a Roofing Contractor

When the time comes to repair or replace your homes roof, it can be a challenging task to find someone who is actually qualified for the job. There are lots of roofing contractors out there, but the ones who'll do a great job for any sensible price aren't frequently simple to find. If you are in the marketplace for a service provider, make use of the tips beneath with regard to meeting with and hiring the correct one.

Interview and Consultation

Most roofing companies provide totally free consultations. This is especially essential, since it gives them a chance to evaluate exactly what your homes roof needs, also it gives you a chance to evaluate them. As with all companies, believe in intuition concerning the individuals you allow up on your roofing. No issue exactly how great a contractor's status or suggestion, he or she should start by showing you with a business greeting card. If a service provider arrives looking and talking within an unprofessional method, most likely the task he's going to do may also be less than professional. This isn't to say that you should anticipate companies to arrive in suits. They is going to be climbing in your roof, therefore most is going to be dressed up in jeans as well as function boots or athletic shoes. If the actual service provider seems to be interested in speaking upon his mobile phone while on your roof compared to he is within evaluating your own roof's requirements, which may be another sign that he's not the one for the job. For your legal safety, be certain that the actual contractor has adequate liability insurance coverage.

Roofing Evaluation

Expect that the service provider will be rising in your roof. Actually, any contractor who not want to increase in your roofing to judge the problem should be immediately reduced. Those who are seriously interested in their own function will either create a sketching of the roof's surface area and mark problem areas onto it as they go through their evaluation, or even they will take photos or video of the surface while they are available online for. This is a very essential step, since it allows you to see just what the troubles are and understand how they'll be fixed.

Estimate

The next phase would be the created estimation. The contractor will take out their loan calculator and come track of an itemized estimation. Some companies goes to their own truck or even truck as well as write up the actual proposal, while others may crunch the numbers for the job in front of you. Once you're because of the proposal, ensure that you comprehend which items is going to be utilized, how long the task will take and when you will find any extra or even concealed expenses that may arise during the restore from the roof. The contractor should be able to answer all of these concerns effortlessly as well as forewarn you associated with a extra expenses that could be sustained should the roof's integrity be broken within.

Once you have obtained a few written estimates from roofing contractors, assess what each organization or contractor would like to offer you for that price. Do not necessarily discount the highest bet, simply because occasionally the highest bet will actually function as the service provider who the task properly. Also, be skeptical associated with bids which are not nearly as expensive others. They may be utilizing substandard products or be untruthful about the chance of hidden expenses. Most importantly, trust your intuition as well as opt for the actual contractor who makes you feel quite comfy about handing more than your hard earned money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Earlier cases

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

New training scheme

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

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

 

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

 

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

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Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

by holly on Dec 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were actually in doubt, information acquired by the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has verified Chinese government worries more than its ongoing control of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked out cables from Ough.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the degree that Chinese government bodies make an effort to convince governments globally to adopt its position on issues affecting Uyghurs. The actual wires additionally display the U . s . States' issues and sights concerning the ongoing repressive steps in the region.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese federal government stress are the cables directed in order to Chinese frustration, or even the specter of Chinese ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A Dec Twenty nine, 2008 cable applies exactly how Chinese Assistant International Minister Liu Jieyi met using the U.S. Ambassador in order to China to voice Beijing's strong competitors associated with launch in order to any nation other than The far east, and that when the U.S. do certainly accede to this request it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and also to co-operation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, the February 2009 cable television describes the way the Chinese language Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act toward us" and a "slap in the face". The Ough.Utes. government stood firm within not liberating the detainees to China demonstrates the actual degree of the politicized nature from the Chinese language judicial system. Genuine issues more than terrorism tend to be understandable, but in the actual U.S. government's observe the detainees might probably encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as execution if they came back to China

Chinese language federal government pressure regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just put on the actual Ough.Utes. government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand and a number of European government authorities which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany and Finland, in addition to Eu member says just about all appear to have borne the impact associated with Chinese government disappointment. In the case of Germany, that was at first prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs upon solely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances were less better than additional detainees because of the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs might have on relations with The far east. The May Eight, 2009 cable applies how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented which Germany experienced informed The far east from the Ough.Utes. ask for to simply accept a few Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo coupled with been consequently cautioned by China of ‘a large burden upon bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia were to simply accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally discuss the unrest within Urumchi, the local capital, in This summer 2009. A This summer Thirteen, 2009 cable talking about mass incidents in China states:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet in 03 associated with 2008 vary substantially within source as well as character through mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present severe trouble for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Celebration leadership would not wait to spread out fire on Uighurs or Tibetans when they considered this necessary to restore purchase. Bulk occurrences pose another type of threat, he said, as the leadership is actually ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters for fear of sparking massive open public outrage that will change from the Celebration."

This is a chilling opinion, particularly when one considers evidence offered in two reviews launched this season through the Uyghur Individual Privileges Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that fine detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of lethal reside fire towards Uyghur protestors in July 2009. Additionally, the actual declaration that fireplace would not be used against Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for the different strategy taken by Chinese security causes within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests in September 2009. Throughout those direct orders, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, addressed demonstrators, that experienced demanded that he inform them about federal government responses to protection issues. An identical ask for to meet with the Party Assistant through Uyghur protesters in July was not fulfilled.

The wider consequences of the unrest additionally saw a brief discussion on the impact it would possess upon Iran-China relations, and on relations along with Australia after Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the Nationwide Press Club in Canberra within August '09. Within the latter case, china government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian financial institution that sponsors the nation's Press Membership to use it's impact to block the Kadeer talk there".

The United States' issues concerning the scenario within the Uyghur area also come via within the wires. In a dialogue on plan direction in Tibet, Ough.S. officials explain that it'll be impossible for Chinese frontrunners to consider the softer line "if they appear like they are doing so under international pressure". The cable out dated April 16, 2008, one month after the outbreak of unrest within Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the actual declaration "that household balance remains the leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there will ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest from the present difficult line on Tibet or in places like Xinjiang." The info included in the cable also storage sheds light on the severe sensitivity that the Chinese federal government views territorial integrity, and also the possible drip over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The chance of solutions to stress within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of civil culture are discussed inside a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable television. Whilst suggesting which China's economic success will increase it's potential to deal with democratic change, the cable additionally discusses how Chinese language leaders see the effectiveness of "a restricted growth associated with municipal society, such as improvements in the guideline associated with regulation along with a stronger part for authorized religions, NGOs, non profit organizations and other actors within places which contribute to sociable stability and do not problem Communist Party guideline." This can be a significant change in thinking, that has seen Ough.Utes. authorities market the notion that Chinese language economic development, and economic relationships along with The far east brings in regards to a progressively democratic culture; nevertheless, much more faith seems to be placed in a grassroots movement than one which begins in the top quantity of a Chinese federal government. Nevertheless, the actual cable concludes that "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear associated with separatism leads to tighter limitations on the growth of civil society." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive through the official, who shows that the actual Ough.Utes. federal government "should still express...serious concerns over Beijing's human privileges report and attract China's developing awareness that higher respect with regard to individual rights, spiritual freedom and also the rule of law will serve to advertise the development and sociable stability which The far east seeks as well as to enhance China's international image." Such a strategy would consider substantial diplomatic skills thinking about "China's paranoid fear that the Usa privately promotes routine alter as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires provide insight into the every day company associated with diplomacy that's rarely afforded to everyone, and it is fascinating to notice the quantity of function carried out nowadays on Uyghur problems. The significance of the role of the United States like a keep track of associated with Uyghur human privileges problems in personal discussions is created obvious, and contrasts with its sensible public position. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Privileges Project is comfortable with the pressure the Chinese government exerts on Uyghur activists; still, the details of Chinese government stress on its alternatives is actually illustrative from the degree which Chinese officials attempt to control contrary stories. With increased revelations in the future through Wikileaks, issues over Uyghurs might not get the actual head lines, however the wires have get rid of brand new gentle on the paperwork of human privileges conditions within the Uyghur area.

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

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Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it had been ever uncertain, info acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese language federal government worries more than its continued control of the location it calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as Eastern Turkestan. The actual leaked out wires from Ough.S. diplomats show the degree to which Chinese language authorities make an effort to persuade governments globally to consider it's position on issues affecting Uyghurs. The wires also display the U . s . States' concerns and views concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the area.

The majority of illuminating of Chinese language government stress would be the wires directed to Chinese language frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. A December 29, 2008 cable relates how Chinese language Helper Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the U.Utes. Ambassador to The far east to voice Beijing's powerful opposition associated with release in order to any kind of nation other than China, and that when the Ough.S. do certainly accede to this ask for it might "avoid harm to bilateral relations and also to cooperation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb 2009 cable television describes the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly behave toward us" and a "slap in the face". The U.Utes. government stood company in not really liberating the detainees to China illustrates the extent of the politicized nature from the Chinese judicial system. Genuine concerns more than terrorism tend to be easy to understand, however in the actual U.S. government's view the detainees would probably face torture as well as execution when they came back in order to The far east

Chinese language government pressure regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only put on the U.Utes. government, but also in order to New Zealand along with a number of European government authorities which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia and Finland, as well as European Union member says all have the symptoms of paid for the brunt associated with Chinese federal government disappointment. Regarding Indonesia, that was initially prepared to think about 2 Uyghurs on solely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases were much less preferable to other detainees because of the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have upon relationships along with China. The Might Eight, '09 cable relates exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer documented that Germany experienced knowledgeable The far east from the U.Utes. ask for to simply accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had already been subsequently cautioned by China associated with ‘a heavy load upon bilateral relations' in the event that Indonesia had been to simply accept any detainees".

The diplomatic cables additionally discuss the actual unrest in Urumchi, the actual regional funds, within July 2009. A July Thirteen, '09 cable discussing mass occurrences within China says:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March associated with 2008 differ markedly in source and nature through mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present serious problems for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party leadership wouldn't hesitate to open fire upon Uighurs or Tibetans when they deemed it necessary to recover purchase. Mass incidents pose another kind of risk, he explained, since the management is actually ‘afraid' to fireplace on Han rioters for anxiety about sparking huge open public outrage that will change against the Celebration."

This is a chilling viewpoint, especially when one considers evidence presented by 50 percent reviews released this season by the Uyghur Individual Rights Task (UHRP) and Amnesty International that detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of lethal live fire against Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. In addition, the declaration which fireplace wouldn't be deployed towards Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the different approach used by Chinese language security causes within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests within September '09. Throughout those protests, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, who experienced required he inform them about federal government reactions to protection issues. An identical request to meet using the Party Secretary by Uyghur demonstrators within July was not met.

The broader consequences of the unrest also saw a brief dialogue about the impact it would possess on Iran-China relationships, as well as on relations with Australia following Globe Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the National Push Membership in Canberra within August 2009. Within the latter situation, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie bank which vendors the National Press Membership to use it's impact to block a Kadeer talk there".

The actual United States' concerns about the scenario in the Uyghur area are available through within the cables. Inside a dialogue upon policy path in Tibet, U.S. authorities explain that it will end up being not possible for Chinese language frontrunners to adopt a softer line "if they appear like doing so below worldwide pressure". The actual cable television out dated 04 16, 2008, 30 days after the episode of unrest within Tibetan regions, also relayed the actual declaration "that domestic balance remains the leadership's top priority above all else, which means there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest from the current hard line on Tibet or in places such as Xinjiang." The information contained in the cable additionally sheds gentle about the severe level of sensitivity that the Chinese federal government views territorial ethics, and also the feasible drip over associated with unrest through Tibet.

The chance of solutions to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang arising from civil culture tend to be debated inside a February 24, 08 cable television. Whilst recommending which China's financial achievement increases its resistance to democratic change, the actual cable television also talks about exactly how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the usefulness associated with "a restricted expansion associated with municipal society, including improvements in the guideline associated with law along with a stronger role for authorized religions, NGOs, charities and other stars in places that contribute to sociable balance and don't problem Communist Celebration guideline." This is a significant alternation in thinking, that has seen U.S. officials promote the notion which Chinese financial improvement, and financial relations along with The far east brings in regards to a progressively democratic culture; nevertheless, more belief seems to be put into the grassroots motion compared to one which begins in the best levels of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, the cable proves which "[i]n areas such as Tibet as well as Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tighter limitations on the development of municipal society." This method is viewed as counter-productive through the recognized, who suggests that the Ough.S. government "should continue to express...serious concerns more than Beijing's individual rights record as well as appeal to China's developing awareness which higher respect for individual privileges, spiritual independence and also the guideline associated with regulation assists to advertise the very improvement as well as social stability which The far east seeks as well as to enhance China's international picture." This type of technique might take substantial diplomatic skills thinking about "China's weird fear the Usa privately promotes routine change as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual cables provide understanding of the actual every day business associated with diplomacy that is rarely afforded to everyone, which is interesting to notice the amount of work done nowadays upon Uyghur issues. The significance of the actual role of the us as a keep track of of Uyghur human privileges conditions within private discussions is made clear, and contrasts using its sensible public stance. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is actually comfortable with the pressure the Chinese federal government exerts on Uyghur activists; still, the details associated with Chinese language federal government pressure upon it's alternatives is actually illustrative of the diploma which Chinese officials make an effort to suppress contrary stories. With more facts in the future from Wikileaks, issues more than Uyghurs might not get the actual head lines, but the cables possess shed new light about the paperwork of human rights conditions within the Uyghur region.

 

Search Engine Marketing And Marketing with articles Will Place Yourself Page 1

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In the past marketing with articles to different web sites used to be so simple yet the effects that they produce for websites really was powerful. However, stuff has changed a lot today. Nowadays submitting the identical article to different websites is not a good suggestion because engines like google have now changed to a huge extent in the way they rank pages. They no longer rank contents which are identical like they utilized to in the past. This really is the most effective types of changes that happens to internet 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 submit them in really popular article submission sites and wait for targeted visitors to make their pages. Perhaps that most reliable Search engine optimization strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, and also this provides favorable outcomes regularly. A small problem with this strategy is that the caliber of traffic you will get out of this won't be that good if you don't do proper keyphrase research beforehand and rehearse in-links. You first need for carrying on these two things prior to deciding to submit your articles so that you won't wind up losing large amounts of targeted visitors. Because of this you need to practice good levels of diligence if you want your advertising initiatives to work.

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There are numerous things to take into consideration when looking for a new roofing contractor. Cost, experience, and also referrals are a couple of the things you'll probably be concerned about. Read on for even more ideas.

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One of the best ways of finding a roofing contractor is by recommendations. Try inquiring a friend or relative who's had roofing work done, and had been satisfied with the job. Get the identify of the organization and his or her contact info. If you have not sure of mouth area referrals, attempt first looking in the telephone book and internet based. A large advertisement or expensive website is just not necessarily an illustration of the top quality of work, but tend to be a very good tool regarding measuring just how long and commitment they have used in their particular profession. Also, try finding current worksites and appear at the roof covering work which is done or perhaps the process of being finished. If you're visually pleased, ask the house manager to the name of the roofing contractor and their speak to information.

• Preliminary research

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Ensure all of this facts are included in your composed contract. Determine whether you need a roofer permit and/or permission from your property owners association before hand. These entities will let you know that is responsible for obtaining these permits and authorizations. If it is the responsibility of the roofing contractor, also have the idea included in your contract. If it's your accountability, get stated permits along with permissions collated while using estimated roofing project and possess it evidently posted as well as readily available.

• Licensing and References

Roofing Contractors are not necessary to be accredited in all states. Contact nearby licensing companies that rule general building contractors to get a list of needs. Once you have received the requirements, build a list of detailed questions to ask your own potential roofing contractor. This simple record should quickly help you to discount the qualified from the not qualified roofing companies. Qualified companies should be able to effortlessly answer questions or perhaps tell you that they have to do additional research before giving the definitive solution.

Even if a new roofing contractor offers all necessary licensing, you must ask to view pictures regarding completed roof covering jobs and also speak to pleased clients. Use a list of queries handy to ask recent consumers, such as the nature of the career, timeliness, and general satisfaction. Make sure these are current clients along with cross guide if possible. When it comes to commercial roof covering, make sure that your roofing contractor is actually bonded. Checking out these recommendations is another additional measure of protection to narrow down the list associated with potential roof covering contractors.

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Articles could be a very powerful type of Seo for the company websites. Quality written articles have the ability to increase your websites SERP and add quality for your company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is vital in gaining new backlinks for your business website. Articles can and will be written on topics which can be unique for your business or industry. The articles can discuss numerous issues and ideas within your industry. Articles that provide the various readers with a resource will almost always be probably the most popular and most likely kinds of articles that may bring about backlinks aimed at your website.

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Give each one of your Seo Articles an engaging Title which will persuade folks to read and bookmark your posts. Ideally, the articles you're posting can be as links using their company websites which can be similar to yours. This might help improve the power of each one link all of which will assist in your SERP. Ensure that you end each article with a keyword anchored link (see Easy Small company Search engine optimization). This link will assist you to increase your rankings in Google along with other major search engines like google for the keyword attached to the link. Submit the articles with a free article directory and Voila! Before very long, your site might be for the first page of Google.

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When individuals type in research online term trying to find a business in their local area, they'll find that Google places and Google maps is showing listings of local businesses. It's very eminent for them to be optimized and from this first page when they desire to generate business. Vancouver SEO companies need to be educated of this type for their clients.

There appears to be a great deal of new Vancouver SEO companies establishing, simply because the importance is there. Finding a search engine optimization firm which includes the client's interest at heart could be tedious. How many keywords can they optimize for? Do you know the keywords along with the corresponding amount of searches? Do they understand how to optimize for Google places? And so forth. Seo may be the business of landing at the pinnacle and Maxim Edge you can get there.

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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 the very least populated land while it covers near to a sixth with the nation's territory. Having resisted during generations the Han Chinese control, Xinjiang, or Old Eastern Turkistan, fell under the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghurs and Turkic - speaking System.

Muslim especially, the Uyghur people have a deep religious identity which, in specific, enabled them to preserve a solid big difference towards the Chinese invader. Of course, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a brilliant civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their own background, the Uyghurs successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., therefore beginning the way to the Islamization of the whole Central Asia.

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

The coming of Islam was a great modification because it was accompanied by the absorption of the Uyghur land in the enormous Turkic and Islamic Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used at present.

If their own writing, their language and their religion mark a real difference with the tradition of Chinese Han, Uyghur People also differ from their aspect, so characteristic of Central Asia's people. A matt skin, eyes representing a whole pallet of colors, from black to deep blue, features directing out to the Mongolian, Turkish or Uzbek 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 inhabitants - a trifle for this specific great area. Thus, Uyghur people are now part of the 56 ethnic minority groups having been well known in an official way by China.

This particular law will allow these people a few privileges in a country 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.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in China, however, appears pretty illusory. The presence of all natural sources in Xinjiang, and its area with locations acknowledged as sensitive, strongly motivated the government to accelerate the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the more significant responsibility job opportunities.

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

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

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

For further information about Uyghur people, 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

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Whos Making Money

One of the prime topics of conversation during NBA All Star Weekend is the league’s labor agreement or lack thereof.

The league is enjoying an unprecedented level of popularity and its future is bright. Midway through the 2010-11 season, the league's talent level is deeper than ever and many of the those talented players are just beginning their careers. The NBA’s marketing machine is world class and interest in the league is at an all-time high.

However its road to success is approaching a giant pothole – otherwise known as its next labor agreement — and to me we’re entering a fascinating point in league history.

Forbes Magazine has reported that 12 of the 30 NBA teams lost money last season. And NBA Commissioner David Stern, several weeks back, claimed that league owners were projecting a cumulative loss this season of approximately 350 million dollars.

Stern has declared that the current labor situation is untenable because the players are being paid too much guaranteed money. The players for their part are digging in and this labor dispute shows few if any signs of getting resolved anytime soon.

There is also one glaring problem that I personally feel the NBA needs to fix because, if you ask me, it’s the one negative the league has faced for as long as Stern has been commissioner. Each season, too many teams have zero chance of making the playoffs.

Let’s face it, if you’re a fan of the Timberwolves, Wizards, Nets and a bunch of other teams, you’re basically watching games to see the opposing team because your team’s best chance to improve is to lose as many games as possible, get a high lottery draft pick and then have the ping pong balls fall the right way on lottery night. Luck plays too big a role in who’s good and who’s not.

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I think the whole rhythm of the filmmaking and the dialogue is different than what it would have been. It flows in a more emotional and staccato way. It’s interwoven and interlaced with a level of humor and emotional intensity that are based on the realism of the characters. Also the movie within a movie, the HBO documentary about Dicky, the Christian Bale character, is real and I seized upon that as a filmmaker and wanted to use that as a device in the film. Not only dramatically as a defining moment, which Scott Silver had focused on, but I wanted to also use it as a framing device throughout the film, that there was this documentary crew around and you could do interviews with the characters. So we did interviews with Mark and Christian as the characters on the fly and we did interviews with the sisters. We did interviews with local people who used to be mayor and town manager and real people about Dicky and Micky and their impact on the city, and that all got used in the movie as part of the story.

Music was also something that I really focused on, the style of music that these guys would listen to and the kind of soundtrack that would really propel through their story and that resulted in some of the great music that’s in the movie that I think is married well to the dramatic turns.

We actually had the opportunity to ask some of our listeners what questions they might have for you and Ben here asks, “I’d like to hear about the choice to use the song ‘Here Again I Go On My Own’. Was the scene where the two brothers sing along while walking to the ring based on reality or was it just the most incredible filmmaking choice of 2010? And if it was invented, who invented it? The power of that moment where these two guys find solidarity in this song before the big moment, combined with the fact that it is a song more associated with hair metal silliness more than emotion, made it probably my favorite scene of the year and I’d like to hear David O. Russell talk about it. Any thoughts about that particular choice?

That song, the Whitesnake song, was one Micky actually used as his entrance song for many of his fights. I always want to look for the most emotional and poignant thing, such as the moment when Alice sings in the car with Dicky and they sing that Bee Gees song, which to me that was a very powerful way to show their special bond. In this case, to show the bond between the two brothers, I thought it was very affecting to see them in the tunnel, to see their emotional bond before they went out to this big event and for Dicky to be singing the song with Micky and for them to be singing it together, so that was an idea I brought to the film.

You mention that song with Christian Bale and Melissa Leo. “Jag” asks about incest relationships in your films, [one being] Spanking the Monkey obviously. But also according to “Jag”, I don’t know if this is correct, that you have said before that Melissa Leo and Christian Bale’s relationship feels in some ways incestuous, especially in the scene where Bale is singing to her in the car. Can you comment on that or is that way off base?

No, that’s absolutely true. When I was first looking at the story, I immediately said there’s an incestuous relationship thing going on here and when I was selling myself as a director, I said I want to make more of the emotion of the relationship. This movie’s in my wheelhouse because I totally get those kind of family relationships having done Spanking the Monkey and Flirting With Disaster and I really think that sort of odd bond between Alice and Dicky should really be felt emotionally and almost romantically. When you look at their family albums, Alice, god bless her after having had nine kids, is still a beautiful woman who could look like she was as much her son’s girlfriend as much as she was his mom so that is true.

I promise this will be the last time I mention Darren Aronofsky’s name during this interview –

You can mention him as many times as you want because I was happy that Darren’s credit showed up on the film right before we went to final print. I said, “What that all about?” and they said he had the right to put his name on the film contractually and he saw the film and loved it and he wants his name on it so I take it as a compliment.

Right, because you mentioned in the EW interview that you were taken aback when he called to tell you about wanting to getting executive producer credit and I kind of wanted you to elaborate on that if you could.

Oh no he didn’t call me, I saw the credit on the final cut of the film and I said “What?” And yeah, I was taken aback. But then he was very sweet about it when I did see him. He embraced me and told me how much he loved the film and I’d heard he wanted his name on there because he loved the film and I think that’s a great compliment coming from a great filmmaker.

It’s been a number of years since your last film and we’ve heard about a bunch of projects that you’ve been attached to, for example Grackle with Matthew McConaughey and Nailed as well. For some reason these projects haven’t gone very smoothly. I’m wondering if you could talk a little about these projects and are there any sort of common factors that you can identify that cause problems, do you feel like you choose tricky projects or tricky ways of financing them?

Well, we need to be specific about what’s what because people, especially in the age of the Internet, just start chucking ideas around which are not based in fact and they pretty much just get picked up as fact. They’re all different. I wrote a couple of things after Huckabees that didn’t get made and that was my own responsibility because I decided not to make them. I was going through a period where I wasn’t feeling the material and a harder period for me as a filmmaker. It also resulted in me becoming a better filmmaker and a better writer and a more instinctive one. But there was a period there where I was questioning everything and Huckabees wasn’t entirely what I wanted it to be and I was going through a divorce so I can take responsibility for that.

Nailed was a project that any of the troubles with that had nothing to do with me. Those was about the company was financing it, and this was during the Madoff era, was inconsistent. I had never seen anything like it. Our financing got turned on and off like a faucet and we were shut down nine times during the production, having nothing to do with me, just having to do with the nature of the financing company. After that went on enough times I had to move on with my life, I have a family to support and I had to move on and write other things and make other films, you know? I spent almost two years trying to get that finished and I just said ok, I got to move on.

The Grackle was a picture that was written by the guys who wrote Bad Santa, [John] Requa and [Glenn] Ficarra, really funny, smart writers. They were the guys who also made I Love You Phillip Morris, great directors too. I thought that could be really funny. I was talking about making that and getting them to do a draft when my dear friend Mark Wahlberg came to me with The Fighter. So as much as I thought that was really a funny project, if I have to pick between someone who’s a little like a brother to me and that other project I’m going to have to go with The Fighter.

Those guys wrote me, Requa and Ficarra, and they said, “Gee, now you’re really sorry you didn’t make The Grackle aren’t you?” They meant it as a joke. [laughs]

[laughs] I think you made the right choice, actually.

[laughs]

Well that’s interesting and I apologize, I did not mean to perpetuate –

Oh no need to apologize man, I’m happy to answer any of those questions, I just want to set them straight.

Right, right. Now last question about projects. This is from Rodrigo from The Playlist who’s asking these questions about Old St. Louis with Vince Vaughn.

Let’s talk about that. That was a really good project that I re-wrote for Vince kind of in the vein of Paper Moon. I thought I’d be making that this autumn but it’s really not up to me a lot of times. In that case a lot of it was up to Vince who decided to make the Ron Howard project instead, because we were supposed to making that, and he went off to make The Dilemma with Kevin James and that’s what happened with that. So, you know –

Yeah, sometimes things just don’t work out or don’t happen, I understand.

Well there’s still talk about making that project and we may still make it when the timing’s right. That happens all the time in this business.

I gotta ask you about Uncharted. Can you talk about your relationship with the property to begin with, had you played the games before you were approached with the project in the first place and just talk a little about that because it’s certainly one of my favorite games on the Playstation.

Ah, big game player!

I wouldn’t describe it that way, but sure.

My good friend Chuck Roven who produced the Batman movies like The Dark Knight, and produced Three Kings with me, came to me with Avi Arad who used to run Marvel Comics and who does the Spider-Man movies, with Amy Pascal, the head of Sony, and said, “What do you think? Would you like to try to create a really smart, interesting, intense franchise based on this game?” And I said yeah, let me check it out.

My son plays most of the games in our house, and I will play them with him but I’m not hardcore. I’m not going to present myself as hardcore. But I played the game a bunch of times and I also read as much as I could about the game and I met the game’s creator, Amy Hennig, who’s really cool. I started to brew together what I thought could be a really cool idea that I’d never seen in a film before…Really intense action and really intense family dynamics on a global stage. To grow a game into a movie is an interesting proposition because a game is a very different experience than a movie. You guys are playing the game, and it’s about playing the game. It’s not about a narrative embracing you emotionally. You know what I’m saying? So, I want to create a world that is worthy of a really great film that people want to watch and rewatch, so that’s what I’m working on right now.

My last question is, I don’t know if you’ve read on the interwebs but a lot of people have made a number of suggestions as to how one should go about making an Uncharted game. I wonder if you have any reaction to that, or do you even know what I’m talking about to begin with?

Well I’ve had people come up to me after screenings and pitch people they think should play the roles and I think we’ve seen that before with movies like Interview with the Vampire where there was a lot of fans of Anne Rice’s book and there were a lot of strong opinions about how to make it.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m very respectful as far as the core content and sprit of the game, but beyond that it’s my job as a filmmaker to make what I think is going to be an amazing movie. People have to trust that and let that go, I think. There’s not a bunch of movies you can point to that are made from games that are amazing movies, that stand up to time as a franchise or as [individual films]. I personally think it’s really cool when you see that someone like Darren Aronofsky is going to make an X-Men movie or to get someone such as myself to make this picture. You can be guaranteed that it’s going to be real, it’s going to be raw, it’s going to be intense, it’s going to be original, and it’s going to be propulsive. And those are all the things that I want when I go to watch a movie like that.

Well David O. Russell it’s been an honor to speak with you today. Thanks so much for joining us on the Slashfilmcast and thank you for taking time to answer our questions and those of our readers and listeners.

Thank you David for having me. Rock on and I’ll be talking to you soon I hope.

Good luck at the Oscars this year.

Thank you. We’ll need it!

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