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For Apple, the mobile market is a cash cow. The company’s iPhone and iPad are proving to be the top mobile companions for people around the globe. Apple has sold over 100 million iPhones. Its iPad sales have hit 15 million. The company understands the mobile market and it knows how to capitalize on it.

But what about the living room? It has the Apple TV, sure, and the Mac mini is often times connected to an HDTV, but what else has Apple done to push the envelope in the living room? It still hasn’t launched the long-rumored television we keep hearing about, and it seems that offering a game console — a hope for many Apple fans over the past few years — won’t happen.

I fully realize that Apple can’t be everything to every customer. It delivers computers, smartphones, tablets, personal media players, two operating systems, wireless routers, and much more. But I also realize that Apple is an entertainment company. It’s about trying to give people more opportunity to enjoy their lives through technology. And it would only make sense if it doubled down on the living room.

Let’s turn our attention to the Apple TV for a minute.

Prior to its announcement in September, rumors were running rampant over what the former “hobby” would offer. Folks thought it would deliver gaming, interface with DVRs, include Apple’s App Store, and much more. They thought it would be a sizable update over its predecessor.

Instead, Apple offered a stripped-down alternative.

The second-generation Apple TV comes with the ability for users to stream Netflix content. It has Flickr and Internet radio. And it allows users to stream their music over their home network to their televisions. It offers movies and television shows, as well, but most would agree that it’s slim pickings for now.

At that event in September, Steve Jobs said that Apple’s research showed customers didn’t want everything a company could pile into a device. They simply want the ability to consume the content they enjoy without the fuss that might come along with something like Google TV-based devices.

But by delivering the bare minimum, Apple did itself no favors. The company took the easy way out and pretended like it no longer views the living room as a hobby. The only issue is, the Apple TV is still a hobby. It’s a device that lacks all the functionality we’ve come to expect from Apple — a company that typically prides itself on offering the best value for the cash. And at least so far, it leaves me wanting more.

So, what am I looking for? I want to see Apple improve the Apple TV by bringing its App Store to the platform. I’d also like to see some kind of gaming component come to the device, either through the App Store or as part of a more-capable platform.

And perhaps most importantly, I’d like to see Apple think beyond its set-top box and deliver products that try something new. I’m not sold on the possibility of Apple offering a groundbreaking television, but if it can surprise me, I’m all for it.

Simply put, I’m looking for Apple to be Apple. Right now, it’s just like every other company in the living room; it’s content to have a presence but not dominate.

That needs to end.

No single company can stake claim to the living room right now. Steve Jobs just needs to take advantage of that void and do something special.

But first, he needs to take the living room — and its revenue potential — seriously.

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Ask yourself, what are my company’s core capabilities? If your answer is simply, restating the product you sell, you are most likely incoherent. The coherence premium is a high level strategy used by some of the largest (and most profitable) corporations in America. Companies that are “coherent” can define 3-6 capabilities internally that differentiate them within their industry, build a deep workable strategy focused on “winning,” and develop product portfolio based around their capabilities.

What makes the coherence premium such an interesting topic? The fact that companies who are “coherent” are healthier, more profitable and better set up for long-term growth. Coca-Cola, a poster child for coherence, (almost 100 on the Coherence Capabilities Score) sees on average 20% higher earnings before interest and taxes than profiled companies with a Coherence Capabilities Score of less than 20.

Take Wal-Mart for instance, they’ve aligned all of their capabilities:

• Aggressive vendor management


• Expert point-of-sale data analytics


• Superior logistics


• Rigorous working capital management

Simple, but to the point, Wal-Mart understands their internal capabilities, which stretch from logistics all the way to IT. Capabilities should be specific enough that they exact a point of where you stop competing and start excelling your industry. A more thorough example of a capability would be, “A company’s ability to use customer-data mining to develop new products.”

Benefits

1. Strengthens a Companies Competitive Advantage


2. Companies are Better Prepared For The Future


3. Produces Efficiencies of Scale


4. Aligns Strategic Intent and Day-To-Day Decision Making

Steps

1. Ways to Play- learn how your company provides value and the way you will face the market.

• Are we investing capabilities that matter to the way we play?


• Are we clear about the way we choose to create value in the marketplace?

2. Capabilities System -determine your 3-6 core capabilities.

• Have we defined how these capabilities work with our system?


• Do all of our businesses draw upon this superior system?

3. Build a Strategy For a Balanced Portfolio – Build your future growth and product initiates to maximize your core capabilities.

• Have we found our product and service “sweet spot”


• Are new products and acquisitions determined on the way the fit within our capabilities system?

Understanding your core capabilities and becoming coherent is not necessarily the easiest thing to do. Your capabilities should be assessed with a healthy mix of both internal and external information and careful thought. All of this is worth the hassle; coherent companies consistently reap more profits, are better prepped for the future and place themselves atop their industries by innovating.

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

Tools & Techniques

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

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

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

News & Trends

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

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

Tips & Tricks

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

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

Success Stories

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

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

Opportunities

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

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I’m getting some worried e-mails from Hill staffers who think Senate Democrats might rubberstamp a policy House Republicans passed to undermine the Affordable Care Act. It’s the sort of policy decision that won’t get much attention but could have some very big, and very bad, effects, so let’s take a moment and go through it.

If you’ve been paying attention to the debate over the Affordable Care Act, you’ve probably heard about the 1099 provision. Essentially, small businesses manage to avoid paying taxes on a lot of small transactions. The 1099 provision would’ve forced them to report those transactions, raising about $20 billion over 10 years. But it would’ve require a lot of paperwork. So much paperwork, in fact, that Democrats agreed to repeal it.

When the Senate repealed the provision, they paid for it by canceling other spending that Congress had authorized, but that hadn’t yet been put to a particular purpose. House Republicans took a different approach. They’re trying to sharply increase the amount of subsidies that families will have to pay back if their income increases during the course of a year. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has a longer explanation of how this would work, but here’s the short version:

Under their proposed policy, a family with income at 225 percent of the poverty line who needed subsidies for the first half of the year but canceled them mid-year when the husband got a better job could get a bill for more than $4,500 at the end of the year.

A more worrying example goes the other way: Imagine a family where the breadwinner makes much more than 400 percent of poverty, but loses his job late in the year. He tries to apply for subsidies so the family can keep getting health insurance but is told that he shouldn’t bother — because his total income that year will still be above 400 percent of poverty, he’ll get a bill at the end of the year forcing him to pay back the money.

The Affordable Care Act, unfortunately, already includes a “payback” policy along these lines — the House Republicans are just proposing to make it much, much worse. This will do two things: make people hate the Affordable Care Act for bait-and-switching them, and keep people from entering the exchanges because they’ve heard horror stories of huge bills. It’s clear why the GOP wouldn’t mind that outcome, but there’s no reason for Democrats to accept it. The Senate should stick with the 1099 repeal that the Senate has passed.

How is Elop going to address this by
using Windows OS? He has to do more than just charge more, he has
to produce better product at competitive prices, which keep getting
lower. Elop will have to license the Widows OS, which is an
expense, one that he would bear to nowhere near the same extent if
he used Android. I feel he mistakenly looks at this as Google
commoditizing the Android platform, in lieu of the more reasonable
perspective of Google commoditizing the entire portable computer
space.

Well, the answer has arrived. Microsoft is buying Xx% of Nokia for paying Nokia over $1 billion to product Windows Phone 7 hardware.
Nearly all of this money is undoubtedly going into R&D and
marketing. Nokia and Microsoft (their new defacto owners) invariably see
Google as the pre-eminent trheat and are pulling out all of the stops
to nullify said threat. This also answers the question of how Elop, the
Nokia CEO will be able to deal with the reduced margins of having to
buy OS licenses while competing with vendors who get Android for free –
Microsoft is not only footing the bill, but investing in the business
as well. You see, the drop in Nokia’s share price is highly unwarranted
and their is visible synergy in this deal. Nokia gets to remove the
costs of OS R&D from its line times, sunk costs that have apparently
had negative incremental returns as they have had their asses handed to
them by Apple and most definitely Google – who knocked them off of
their number one market share perch in just over a year.

Microsoft gets the economic benefits of an existing hardware platform
that happens to have the number one marketshare metric in the world,
and gets it for just over a billion dollars. This is a win-win
situation. The question is,  will it win againt Google. Both companies
will still fail if they don’t execute on Google-time, who has compressed
development cycle years into months – literally!

From the Bloomberg article linked above:

Shrinking Margins (yeah, you’ve hear thist from me often enough)

Espoo, Finland-based Nokia needs to cut
costs to keep operating margins from narrowing further, after they
shrank to 4.9 percent last year from 19 percent a decade earlier. For
2011 and 2012, Nokia may cut its budget for research and development in
devices and services by about a third from last year’s spending of about
3 billion euros, said Sami Sarkamies, a Helsinki-based analyst with
Nordea Bank.

Microsoft spokeswoman Melissa Havel
declined to comment on the specifics of the agreement. Laurie Armstrong,
a spokeswoman for Nokia, said the final contract hasn’t been signed and
the company will share further details when they are complete.

Nokia’s royalty payments will help
Redmond, Washington- based Microsoft make a profit on the accord even
after the payments to Nokia, one person said. Some of the payment to
Nokia would be made before the company starts selling the phones,
meaning Microsoft bears some upfront cost in the partnership.

…

Microsoft shareholders want the company
to salvage its mobile-software business while also reining in costs. The
company doesn’t break out results for its mobile-software unit, and
instead groups them with the profitable Xbox video-game business, making it difficult to evaluate the financial performance of phone software.

Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer
has come under pressure from investors and his own board to improve
sales of mobile software after the company lost market share to Google
and Apple. Microsoft stock has declined 7.8 percent so far this year.

The agreement for the more than
billion-dollar payment was part of a campaign by Microsoft to keep Nokia
from choosing Google’s Android operating system, one of the people
said. Nokia also opted for Microsoft because Windows Phone software,
which is newer than Android and has a smaller number of handsets for
sale, gives Nokia a better chance to stand out, one of the people said.

The agreement also has Microsoft paying Nokia for the right to use its patent portfolio, one of the people said.

As part of the deal, Microsoft will use
Nokia’s Navteq mapping products for functions such as geolocation
services and selling local advertising and coupons tied to a user’s
position. If successful, that also could generate additional revenue for
Nokia, which will share in the sales. The two companies will also
divide revenue from services like search and advertising, Microsoft
President Andy Lees said last month.

I’ve been warning my subscribers about margin compression in this
space, and its about to get much uglier – to the extreme benefit of
consumers of personal and enterprise tech. Previous (and prescient)
posts from last year on this topic…

• Don’t Count Microsoft Out of the Ultra-Mobile Computing Wars Just Yet
• After Getting a Glimpse of the New Windows Phone 7 Functionality, RIMM is Looking More Like a Short Play
• As
  I Warned in June, DO NOT DISCOUNT Microsoft in This Mobile Computing
  War! Their Marketing Campaign is PURE GENIUS! and it Appears as if
  the Phone Ain’t Bad Either
• Apple on the Margin
• How
  Google is Looking to Cut Apple’s Margin and How the
  Sell Side of Wall Street Will Enable This Without
  Sheeple Investor’s Having a Clue

Monetizing the Mobile Computing Race

We have a pretty firm idea of who is in the pole position as of now,
but that position is both risky and volatile, not to mention medium to
long term in nature – see Navigating BoomBustBlog Subscription Material To Find The Google Valuation Drilldown.

A more risk averse strategy is to go long on the component vendors
who supply those battling for pole position. Last week we released the
document Long candidate #1 – Hardware: The Mobile Computing Wars
to subscribers that outlined who our number one pick was after an
initial scan. This is not necessarily the absolute final say on the
matter since we have yet to perform a full forensic analysis, but the
company does look good in comparison to over 120 peers. Non-subscribers
should reference The Potential Equity Investments Most Likely To Prosper From the Google/Apple/Microsoft Mobile Computing Battle.

I am releasing the draft of the full shortlist of prospective long
candidates as of now (17 pages, 5 companies) to subscribers. Please be
aware that is a draft document and work in progress, but it is quite
informative nonetheless.  See Mobile Computing Vendor Long List Note WIP. Those who wish to subscribe should click here.

Click here to read up on all of Reggie Middleton’s Mobile Computing War opinion, analysis, and research.

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SEO Services Vancouver For A Better Marketing Solution

 

When you start your personal website there are many ways you'll have to market it and something of the best ways is to use SEO services Vancouver if you happen to be in that area. The SEO or seo services would be the top way of getting more traffic to your site and therefore making more sales.

 

Now, you need to know that you won't use SEO service if you are no internet business - but then again, if you don't have an online presence if you are an offline business, then you will not allow it to be very far.

 

It is a well known proven fact that if you are planning to really make it in the offline world you need to have an online business. This is something that all people are learning hard way. Something that you should also know is that it is not as easy as just establishing the website and leaving it to complete its things.

 

You can do this in most sorts of ways, but these companies usually take advantage of multiple techniques to create an ideal marketing technique online. It is possible to employ these phones write articles for you personally, post on forums and blogs, create meta data and meta descriptions, cleanup the code, add alt tags towards the images plus much more.

 

It is very important that you simply do this because otherwise the company you have worked so difficult for could end up losing all the money. When you have an internet site you want to produce, then you will also use the services of an SEO company, which stands for seo company. What this company does is actually take the best parts of your site, look into the code, create keywords and write various articles and documents to ensure your site is placed near the the surface of the list for the major search engines like google.

By doing this the Search engine optimization company can not only increase your traffic, but also make sure that your website is fully optimized for that search engine spiders that will be brought to it. These spiders are utilized to analyze your site and place it in a few positions determined on certain keywords.

 

If you want to make use of the SEO services Vancouver then all you have to do is discover the top companies. It is through these how the SEO gets done effectively and efficiently. Because of so many SEO companies to choose from you need to be certain the one you are 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 have the ability to let you know know long they've been operating for. This can narrow down the list to reveal the very best ones.

 

Search engine optimization Provided by Different Vancouver Web Companies

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

Before that, you should know what Search Engine Optimization is. It is not that complicated and i am sure you will get a grasp of it after reading my article. The main goal of SEO is to have increased traffic aimed at your website and audience. It is a good decision to choose a Vancouver SEO company that specializes in this sort of work, which means that your website can be listed in search engines like google.

There is no point in you having a website without any website ranking whatsoever while you won't get any business and profits to survive. It's a very tough atmosphere out there because there are a lot of internet business people just 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 websites.

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

To look within the first page from the google listing, you will have to hire professionals and pros who can do the needful to maintain your website one of the good books in these websites. These professionals can optimize your site content to ensure that your site gets more traffic.

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

Use keywords which are popularly used on search engines like google in 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 method of getting increased traffic to your website as many internet users use blogs and forums.

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

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

 

What to Expect When Getting a Roofing Contractors

When it comes time to repair or substitute your roof, it's really a daunting job to find somebody that is competent to do the job. There are many roofing contractors out there, however the types who'll do a congrats for any reasonable price aren't often simple to find. If you are in the marketplace for the service provider, make use of the ideas below for interviewing as well as employing the correct one.

Interview as well as Consultation

Most roofing contractors provide free consultation services. This is particularly important, because it gives them a chance to assess what your homes roof requirements, also it provides you with an opportunity to assess all of them. As with all businesses, trust your intuition concerning the people a person let upward onto your roofing. No issue how great the contractor's reputation or even recommendation, he ought to start by showing a person having a company card. If a contractor occurs searching and talking in an unprofessional manner, most likely the job he's going to perform will also be unprofessional. This isn't to say that you should expect companies to reach within suits. They is going to be hiking on your roof, therefore most is going to be dressed in denim jeans and function boots or athletic shoes. If the service provider seems to be more interested in speaking upon his mobile phone while on your homes roof than he is in analyzing your roof's needs, that may be another sign that he's not the one to do the job. For the lawful protection, be certain that the contractor has adequate legal responsibility insurance.

Roof Assessment

Expect that the service provider will be rising on your roofing. In fact, any contractor who not want to go up in your roofing to judge the issue should be immediately reduced. Those who're serious about their function will either make a drawing of your roof's surface and tag trouble spots onto it because they undergo their own evaluation, or even they will take photos or video of the surface area while they are up there. This is an extremely important action, because it enables you to see exactly what the problems are and understand how they will be set.

Estimation

The next phase would be the created estimation. The contractor will require away his loan calculator and come track of a written estimation. Some companies goes to their own truck or even van as well as write down the proposal, while others may crunch the amounts for the job in front of you. Once you're because of the proposal, ensure that you understand which items will be utilized, how long the job will take and if you will find any additional or even hidden costs that could occur throughout the restore from the roof. The contractor should be able to solution all of these questions effortlessly as well as forewarn you associated with a extra costs that could be incurred should the roof's integrity be broken within.

After you have obtained several created estimations from roofing contractors, assess exactly what every organization or contractor is willing to provide for that price. Do not necessarily low cost the highest bet, because occasionally the highest bid will in reality 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 using substandard products or perhaps be unethical about the chance of concealed costs. Above all, trust your intuition and opt for the actual contractor that enables you to feel quite comfy regarding giving 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.

Copyright © 1998-2011 Radio Free Asia. All rights reserved.

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur

through holly on December 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were actually in doubt, information acquired by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese federal government worries more than it's ongoing charge of the location this phone calls Xinjiang, also is known as East Turkestan. The leaked out wires from Ough.S. diplomats show the degree to which Chinese government bodies make an effort to convince governments worldwide to adopt it's position upon issues impacting Uyghurs. The cables also show the United States' issues and sights concerning the on going repressive steps in the area.

The majority of illuminating associated with Chinese language government pressure are the wires pointing in order to Chinese anger, or even the specter associated with Chinese language ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to 3rd countries. The December 29, 08 cable relates how Chinese Helper Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled using the U.S. Ambassador to The far east to voice Beijing's powerful opposition associated with launch to any kind of country apart from China, which if the U.Utes. did certainly accede for this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". In addition, the February 2009 cable television describes how the Chinese language Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act toward us" along with a "slap within the face". That the Ough.S. government was company in not liberating the actual detainees to China demonstrates the extent from the politicized character of the Chinese language judicial program. Legitimate concerns over terrorism are understandable, however in the actual Ough.Utes. government's observe the detainees might probably encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as delivery when they returned to China

Chinese language federal government pressure in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only applied to the Ough.S. federal government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand along with a number of European government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, as well as Eu member states all have the symptoms of borne the impact associated with Chinese language government unhappiness. In the case of Indonesia, which was at first prepared to consider 2 Uyghurs on solely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been much less preferable to other detainees due to the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have upon relations along with China. The Might 8, '09 cable applies exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented that Germany had informed China of the Ough.S. request to accept a few Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo coupled with already been consequently warned through The far east associated with ‘a large load on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany were to simply accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally talk about the unrest within Urumchi, the actual regional funds, within This summer 2009. The July 13, 2009 cable television talking about bulk incidents within The far east says:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in March associated with 08 vary markedly within source and character from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing severe problems for the actual Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Celebration management would not hesitate to open fireplace upon Uighurs or Tibetans if they deemed it essential to recover order. Mass incidents pose another kind of risk, he explained, since the management is ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters with regard to fear of causing massive public outrage that would change against the Celebration."

This can be a relaxing opinion, especially when 1 considers the evidence offered by 50 percent reports launched this year through the Uyghur Human Rights Task (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which detail eyewitness accounts from the use of lethal live fireplace against Uyghur protestors within July '09. In addition, the observation which fire would not be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for the various approach taken through Chinese language security forces within Urumchi to Han Chinese direct orders in September 2009. Throughout those direct orders, then Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, who had required he let them know regarding federal government reactions to security issues. An identical ask for to satisfy with the Party Secretary through Uyghur demonstrators within July wasn't fulfilled.

The wider repercussions from the unrest additionally saw a brief dialogue on the effect it would possess on Iran-China relations, and on relationships along with Sydney following World Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the Nationwide Press Membership in Canberra within July 2009. In the second option case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian financial institution that vendors the National Press Membership to use it's influence to block the Kadeer talk there".

The United States' issues concerning the scenario within the Uyghur region also come via within the wires. In a dialogue on policy path in Tibet, Ough.Utes. officials explain that it will be impossible for Chinese frontrunners to consider the much softer collection "if they appear like doing this below international pressure". The cable television out dated 04 16, 2008, one month after the outbreak of unrest within Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual observation "that household stability continues to be leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' be absolutely no rest from the current hard line on Tibet or in places like Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable also sheds light on the severe sensitivity with which china government views territorial ethics, and also the possible drip over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The prospect of methods to tensions in Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from civil culture tend to be debated inside a February 24, 08 cable television. Whilst suggesting that China's financial achievement will increase its resistance to democratic change, the actual cable additionally discusses how Chinese frontrunners see the usefulness associated with "a limited growth associated with civil society, such as improvements within the guideline of law along with a stronger role for approved religions, NGOs, non profit organizations and other actors within places which contribute to sociable balance and do not problem Communist Celebration rule." This can be a significant change in considering, that has seen U.S. authorities promote the notion that Chinese economic development, as well as economic relations along with China will bring about a progressively democratic society; nevertheless, much more faith seems to be placed in the grassroots movement than one which begins from the top levels of the Chinese language government. Nevertheless, the cable proves that "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism leads to tight restrictions about the development of civil society." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the official, who suggests that the Ough.S. government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's human rights record and attract China's growing awareness which greater respect with regard to human privileges, spiritual independence and also the guideline of law will serve to promote the very development and sociable balance which China seeks in addition to to enhance China's worldwide image." Such a technique would consider considerable diplomatic skills thinking about "China's paranoid concern that the United States privately encourages regime alter as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The wires provide insight into the actual every day company associated with diplomacy that is hardly ever owned by the general public, which is fascinating to notice the amount of work carried out nowadays upon Uyghur problems. The importance of the actual part of the us as a keep track of of Uyghur human rights problems within private conversations is created clear, and contrasts using its tactful open public position. The staff of the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is comfortable with pressure the Chinese government puts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details associated with Chinese government pressure upon its alternatives is actually illustrative from the degree which Chinese language authorities make an effort to suppress contradictory stories. With increased facts to come from Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs may not get the actual headlines, but the cables have shed brand new light on the documentation of individual rights conditions in the Uyghur area.

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghur

through holly upon December Twenty, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Supervisor, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were actually in doubt, info acquired through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese federal government worries over it's ongoing control of the location it calls Xinjiang, also is known as Eastern Turkestan. The leaked wires from Ough.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the actual degree to which Chinese authorities attempt to persuade government authorities globally to consider its stance upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The wires also show the actual United States' concerns and views regarding the on going repressive steps in the area.

The majority of lighting associated with Chinese government stress would be the wires pointing to Chinese anger, or even the specter of Chinese language ire, over the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. A December 29, 2008 cable television relates exactly how Chinese Assistant International Minister Liu Jieyi met using the Ough.S. Ambassador to China in order to voice Beijing's powerful opposition of release in order to any kind of country apart from China, which if the U.Utes. did indeed accede for this ask for it might "avoid injury to bilateral relations and to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". Furthermore, a February '09 cable television describes how the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act towards us" and a "slap within the face". That the Ough.S. government stood company within not releasing the detainees to China illustrates the actual degree from the politicized character from the Chinese judicial system. Genuine concerns over terrorism tend to be understandable, however in the actual Ough.S. government's observe the detainees would probably face torture as well as delivery if they came back in order to China

Chinese government stress in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only applied to the Ough.S. government, but also in order to New Zealand and a handful of European government authorities that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, as well as European Union fellow member says all appear to have borne the impact of Chinese government unhappiness. Regarding Indonesia, which was initially willing to think about two Uyghurs upon purely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been less preferable to other detainees because of the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relationships along with The far east. A Might 8, 2009 cable applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported which Germany had knowledgeable China of the Ough.Utes. request to accept some Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo coupled with been subsequently warned through The far east associated with ‘a heavy load on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The diplomatic cables additionally discuss the unrest within Urumchi, the regional capital, in July '09. A July Thirteen, 2009 cable television talking about mass occurrences within The far east says:

"Ethnic riots such as those in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet within March of 2008 vary markedly in origin and character from bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present serious trouble for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Party management wouldn't wait to open fire on Uighurs or even Tibetans if they deemed it essential to recover order. Mass occurrences pose another kind of risk, he said, as the leadership is ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters with regard to fear of causing huge open public outrage that will change from the Party."

This is a relaxing viewpoint, especially when one views the evidence offered by 50 percent reviews released this year by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and Amnesty International which fine detail eyewitness company accounts of the use of lethal reside fire towards Uyghur protestors within This summer 2009. Additionally, the actual declaration that fireplace would not be deployed against Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for the various approach taken through Chinese language security forces in Urumchi in order to Han Chinese language direct orders within September '09. During individuals protests, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, addressed protesters, who had required he inform them regarding federal government reactions in order to protection issues. A similar ask for to meet with the Party Assistant by Uyghur demonstrators within This summer was not met.

The actual wider repercussions of the unrest also noticed a short discussion about the effect it might possess on Iran-China relations, and on relations along with Australia after World Uyghur Congress Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the National Press Membership in Canberra within July 2009. In the latter case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie financial institution that vendors the National Push Club to make use of it's impact to block a Kadeer talk there".

The United States' issues about the scenario within the Uyghur area are available via in the cables. In a dialogue upon policy direction within Tibet, U.S. officials clarify that it will end up being not possible for Chinese language frontrunners to adopt a much softer line "if they look like they are doing so under worldwide pressure". The actual cable out dated April Sixteen, 08, one month following the episode of unrest within Tibetan regions, also relayed the actual observation "that domestic balance remains the leadership's top priority most of all, meaning there will ‘almost surely' end up being no relaxation from the present hard collection on Tibet or perhaps in locations like Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable additionally sheds light about the extreme level of sensitivity with which the Chinese federal government sights territorial integrity, and the feasible drip over associated with unrest through Tibet.

The chance of solutions to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from municipal culture tend to be debated in a February Twenty-four, 2008 cable. Whilst recommending which China's economic achievement will increase it's potential to deal with democratic change, the cable television also talks about exactly how Chinese language leaders see the usefulness of "a limited expansion of civil culture, such as improvements in the guideline associated with law and a more powerful role for authorized beliefs, NGOs, charities along with other actors in places which bring about social stability and don't problem Communist Party rule." This can be a significant change in thinking, that has observed Ough.Utes. officials market the notion that Chinese economic development, and economic relationships along with The far east will bring in regards to a progressively democratic culture; however, more faith appears to be placed in a grassroots motion compared to one that begins in the best quantity of a Chinese government. Nonetheless, the cable television proves that "[i]n areas such as Tibet as well as Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism leads to tight limitations about the development of civil culture." This approach is viewed as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the Ough.S. government "should still express...serious issues more than Beijing's human rights report and appeal to China's developing awareness that greater regard with regard to individual privileges, religious independence and the rule associated with law will serve to promote the improvement and sociable stability that The far east seeks in addition to to enhance China's international picture." Such a strategy would consider considerable diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid fear the Usa privately encourages regime change as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The cables offer understanding of the actual daily company associated with diplomacy that's hardly ever owned by everyone, and it is fascinating to note the quantity of work done nowadays upon Uyghur problems. The importance of the part of the United States like a monitor of Uyghur human privileges conditions within private conversations is made obvious, and contrasts using its sensible public stance. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Rights Task is actually well aware of pressure china government puts upon Uyghur activists; still, the details associated with Chinese government stress on it's alternatives is illustrative from the diploma that Chinese authorities attempt to control contrary stories. With increased facts to come from Wikileaks, concerns over Uyghurs may not grab the head lines, but the cables possess get rid of new light about the documentation of individual privileges problems in the Uyghur region.

 

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Article marketing may be an extremely powerful type of Search engine optimization for your company web-site. Quality written articles manage to transform your websites SERP and add quality in your company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is important in gaining new backlinks to your business website. Articles can and should be written on topics which are unique to your business or industry. The articles can discuss numerous issues and ideas within your industry. Articles offering the various readers which has a resource are always probably the most popular and quite a few likely varieties of articles which will lead to backlinks to your site.

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There will be a lot of new Vancouver SEO companies establishing, simply because the importance is there. Finding a search engine firm containing the client's interest at heart may be tedious. The number of keywords would they optimize for? Do you know the keywords and the corresponding search volume? Do they discover how to optimize for Google places? Etc. Seo will be the business of landing towards the top and Maxim Edge will get you there.

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Little about the Uyghurs

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-west part of China, the province of Xinjiang is the least populated province whereas it covers close to a sixth from the nation's territory. Getting resisted during centuries the chinese domination, Xinjiang, or Old Turkestan, fell within the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghur People and Turkish - speaking System.

Islamic mainly, the Uyghur people have a solid religious identification which usually, in specific, permitted them to maintain a solid difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Definitely, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a amazing civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

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

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

The entrance of Islam was a great modification mainly because it was followed by the assimilation of the Uyghur land in the enormous Turco-Mongolian and Islamic Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan progressively replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used presently.

If their own writing, their language and their religion mark a real big difference with the culture of Chinese Han, the Uyghurs also are different 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 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 eight million inhabitants - a trifle for this specific immense region. Therefore, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six racial minority groups having been well-known in an official way by the People's Republic of China.

This law allows these people a few rights in a country where their big difference is very often repressed. Therefore, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is accepted as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, looks really illusory. The presence of all-natural resources in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, and its closeness with nations well-known as very sensitive, clearly urged the government to increase the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the larger responsibility work opportunities.

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

Saying more flexibility, but specially the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in place Xinjiang.

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

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

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

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One of my many frustrations of working in Washington is dealing with perpetual-motion-machine assertions. The classic example is Keynesian economics, which is based on the notion that you magically create additional economic activity by having the government spend money instead of allowing the private sector to decide how it gets spent (in an especially bizarre display of this thinking, Nancy Pelosi actually said that subsidizing unemployment was the best way to create jobs).

Another example of this backwards analysis can be found in the debate over the IRS budget. The President is resisting a GOP proposal to modestly trim the IRS’s gargantuan $12.5 billion budget and his argument is that we should actually boost funding for the tax collection bureaucracy since that will mean more IRS agents squeezing more money out of more taxpayers.

Here are some excerpts from an Associated Press report about the controversy.

Every dollar the Internal Revenue Service spends for audits, liens and seizing property from tax cheats brings in more than $10, a rate of return so good the Obama administration wants to boost the agency’s budget.House Republicans, seeing the heavy hand of a too-big government, beg to differ. They’ve already voted to cut the IRS budget by $600 million this year and want bigger cuts in 2012. …IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman told the committee Tuesday that the $600 million cut in this year’s budget would result in the IRS collecting $4 billion less through tax enforcement programs. The Democrat-controlled Senate is unlikely to pass a budget cut that big. But given the political climate on Capitol Hill, Obama’s plan to increase IRS spending is unlikely to pass, either. Obama has already increased the IRS budget by 10 percent since he took office, to nearly $12.5 billion. The president’s budget proposal for 2012 would increase IRS spending by an additional 9 percent — adding 5,100 employees. …Obama’s 2012 budget proposal for the IRS includes $473 million and 1,269 new positions to start implementing the health care law.

Unlike Keynesian economics, there actually is some truth to Obama’s position. The fantasy estimate of $10 of new revenue for every $1 spent on additional bureaucrats is clearly ludicrous, but it is equally obvious that many Americans would send less money to Washington if they didn’t have to worry about a coercive and powerful tax-collection bureaucracy that had the power to throw them in jail.

This is an empirical question, at least with regards to the narrow issue of whether more IRS agents “pay for themselves” by shaking down sufficient numbers of taxpayers. Reducing the number of IRS bureaucrats by 90 percent, from about 100,000 to 10,000, for instance, surely would be a net loss to the government since the money saved on IRS compensation would be trivial compared to the loss of tax revenue.

But that doesn’t mean that a reduction of 10,000 or 20,000 also would lead to a net loss. And it certainly does not mean that adding 10,000 or 20,000 more IRS agents will result in enough new revenue to compensate for the salaries and benefits of a bigger bureaucracy. Even left-wing economists presumably understand the concept of diminishing returns.

But let’s assume that the White House is correct and that more IRS agents would be a net plus from the government’s perspective. The Administration would like us to reflexively endorse a bigger and more aggressive IRS, but public policy should not be based on what is a “net plus” for the government.

There are two ways to promote better tax compliance. The Obama approach, as we’ve read above, is to expand the size and power of the IRS. Up to a point, this policy can be “successful” in extracting additional money from the productive sector of the economy.

The alternative approach, by contrast, seeks better compliance by lowering tax rates and reforming/simplifying tax systems. This course of action boosts compliance by making evasion and avoidance less attractive. People are much less likely to cheat if the government isn’t being too greedy, and they’re also more likely to comply if they think there is less waste, fraud, corruption, and favoritism in the tax code.

Let’s now put this discussion in context. Obama wants more IRS agents in large part to enforce his new scheme for government-run healthcare. Yet that’s a perfect example of what I modestly call Mitchell’s Law – politicians doing one bad thing (expanding the IRS) only because they did another bad thing (enacting a health care bill that made the tax code even more convoluted and punitive).

So instead of making the IRS bigger in response to a bad healthcare law, why not repeal that bad law and shrink the size of the IRS? Even better, why not junk the entire tax code so we can replace the IRS with a system that is honest and fair?

And if these big steps are not immediately feasible, at least cut the IRS budget so that awful laws are enforced in a less destructive manner.

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video has additional details about the national nightmare we call the IRS.

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Selling your home in a down market is tough. It took us 7 months from the time we listed our house until the time we finalize the sale, and we lost just over $50,000 on the transaction. I have conflicting thoughts about losing this much money. Obviously, no one sets out to lose money when they buy a home, and no one feels good about it. But at the same time, I realize it’s probably not as bad as it seems.

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We knew we would lose money on the transaction, so we were prepared for it. Being mentally and emotionally prepared to lose money is important. In the grand scheme of things, we just considered losing money on our home a sunk cost and decided to move on. Here are some factors which made the loss easier to swallow:

We had enough equity to cover our losses. Losing money isn’t fun. Writing someone a check when you’ve already lost a lot of money is even worse. Thankfully, we had enough equity to cover our losses, so we didn’t have to write a check at closing. We put down 20% of the purchase price when we bought the home, and we paid extra on our mortgage payments. This combination ensured we would receive a small check when we sold our home instead of being upside down on our mortgage.

If we didn’t buy, we would have paid rent. Some people say renting is throwing away money, but I disagree. Many people who rented during the real estate bubble avoided taking substantial losses when they had to move. And in our case, we may have actually come out slightly ahead, depending on how you slice the numbers. We lived in our home for just over 5 years. If we would have “thrown away money” on rent for 5 years, we probably would have lost the same amount of money, give or take a little. ($1,000/mo rent * 5 years = $60,000). Again, this doesn’t take into account other factors such as the time value of money as the down payment could have been invested, home repairs, or other expenses. Either way, we would have spent a lot of money on housing.

We could have lost more money. The real estate market in our area of the US was hit pretty hard. We just left the Dayton, OH area, which lost tens of thousands of jobs, and for a period of time, it was in the top 10 for foreclosures. As you can imagine, that created an excess of inventory and decimated housing prices. Thankfully, our neighborhood was relatively insulated from the price drops compared to some of the other neighborhoods.

Some people can’t afford to sell, even if they want to. The real estate markets in some locations are so bad that the majority of people are upside down on their homes and selling would mean having to fork over tens of thousands of dollars they don’t have. Many people are so far under in their mortgages that they decided the best course of action was to walk away from their mortgage.

We can make it up on the back end. We want to buy another home, and the saving grace for us is that real estate prices are lower in most places, hopefully making this a good buying opportunity for us. Our hope is that we can get more house for our money when we buy our next home. Our goal is to stay in our next home for the next 5-10 years, so hopefully things will turn out better the next time around.

All of these things may sound like rationalizations, and to some degree they are. But it also serves as a reminder to myself and others that real estate isn’t a guaranteed investment.

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