Samandigrow: March 2011

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

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Ryan Gavin and Dean Hachamovitch, Marketing Guy and Engineer, respectively, for Internet Explorer, have announced that the final build and release of Internet Explorer 9 will indeed be at the party they’re throwing at South by Southwest in Texas on March 14th, 2011. They’ve decided to first announce this to their very favorite community at Channel9, a bunch of developers who are in love with the internet platform, and they’ve spoken here in a video at length what the browser will be able to do.

This browser has been in production for approximately a year, and now they’re going to release it, thanking profusely the community of developers who have stepped up to help them in making this a platform that has a chance at competing with the rest of the powerhouse browsers out in the market today. As you know, Internet Explorer

Hachamovitch will be doing a keynote at MIX 10 as well, showing off how the platform is rolling out, as a sort of “look what we did in a year” sort of thing. These two fellas sitting on the couch are super excited about this rollout and after saying what they came to say, they made sure to prompt Channel9 for what they call an “uncomfortable question.” What Channel9 decided to ask about was HTML5, to which they reply “WE’RE FOR IT!”

Of course the developer community knows this already, so the question is pressed, beyond what HTML5 can do for the everyday user, what does IE9 offer the fringe users who want features that not everyone will use? Hachamovitch replies with a sort of well, we DO do that, we’ve implemented things like Navigation Timing which “got 0% usage on the web,” he then going on to say that they’ve added items that don’t just come from developers who request things, they’ve essentially come up with elements that they and people at Yahoo, Google, and etc have spoken about behind the scenes, bringing these “fringe” features into IE9 at launch.

Essentially what they’re speaking about in this video and what will be coming with Internet Explorer 9 is depth as well as quality implementation of features. We’re hoping for the best!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Here is the official press release:

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

Marketing Software Company Attracts New Strategic Investors

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

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

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

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

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

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

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NFL draft 2011: No NFLPA event on first or second night of draft

The NFLPA will not stage an alternate event head-to-head versus the NFL on the first night of the draft, instead opting for a three-day celebration that will not interfere with the televised airing of the selection process on April 28 and 29.

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The identities of around 4000 bodies collected following the March 11 mega earthquake and ensuing tsunami still remain unconfirmed in severely-damaged Iwate, Miyagi and Fukushima prefectures, a local police tally showed Tuesday. ...

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The Truth About Twitter: It's The Evening News

Twitter is a media platform, not a social network.

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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.

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

Instead, Apple offered a stripped-down alternative.

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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Preview of Final Result

Resources

PT Sans Bold – FontSquirrel

Free App Icons for Developers – WebAppers

Step 1

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

Step 2

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

Step 3

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

Step 4

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

Step 5

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

Step 6

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

Step 7

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

Step 8

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

Step 9

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

Step 10

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

Step 11

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

Step 12

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

Step 13

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

Step 14

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

Step 15

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

Step 16

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

Step 17

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

Step 18

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

Step 19

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

Step 20

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

Step 21

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

Step 22

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

Step 23

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

Step 24

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

Step 25

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

Step 26

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

Step 27

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

Step 28

To finish, add a Gradient Overlay effect.

Step 29

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

Step 30

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

Step 31

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

Step 32

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

Step 33

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

Step 34

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

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

What’s affecting me, my clients and other small-business owners this week.

THE QUAKE IN JAPAN, A GOOFBALL IN VENEZUELA Japanese earthquake damage is estimated at $310 billion and could be the costliest natural disaster ever. Japanese exports suffer. Kate Rogers of Fox revisits how to protect your business from catastrophe. “Small-business owners can determine if they should be seeking disaster coverage by weighing their investment in the business itself, among other factors. If the business is the sole form of income, the risk is much greater than if it is a hobby or part-time project.” Elsewhere around the world, the war industry gets a boost in Libya. And Hugo Chávez of Venezuela says capitalism may have destroyed life on Mars.

REAL ESTATE FALLS, JOBS RISE Mark Thoma says commodity prices are increasing because of world demand. A small-business owner in Georgia is trying not to pass on the cost of high gas prices. Detroit’s population declines 25 percent. Existing-home sales fall to the lowest on record. Meredith Whitney, an investment adviser, says, “Unless the government comes out with a 50-year mortgage, this market is in trouble longer term.” Gallup’s job-creation index is the highest since September 2008. Durable goods orders fall.

ANNE HATHAWAY AND WARREN BUFFETT The Fed earns $79 billion and predicts that the recovery is taking hold. Nonetheless, one of its officials warns that the United States is approaching insolvency. Meanwhile, Warren E. Buffett predicts growth but some think his company’s stock is buoyed by Anne Hathaway. Household balances sheets continue to improve. Scott Grannis says “the Philadelphia Fed Business Outlook Survey came in very strong. It hasn’t been this strong since the economic boom times of the early 1980s. It’s very difficult to ignore the mounting evidence of a strong economic recovery.” Architect billings increased slightly in February.

DEFICIT THRILLS The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget is thrilled to see 64 senators calling for comprehensive deficit reduction. But Stan Collender, a budget expert, isn’t thrilled at all: “Does a letter that is so vanilla that it could have been written at any time over the past 40 years really indicate any movement on the current budget debate?” James Pethokoukis of Reuters says he thinks President Obama’s budget is wildly dangerous.

A NEW DEFINITION OF SMALL BUSINESS Timothy F. Geithner says that American small businesses need greater access to capital to spur innovation. The Small Business Administration, facing even more cuts, is for the first time in more than 25 years proposing to change the way it defines small businesses. JPMorgan Chase says it will cease its debit card rewards program because of new legislation that would restrict fees. Missouri gets $27 million in incentives for small-business growth. The Small Business Savings Account Act makes its way through Congress.

TAKING CREDIT The health care legislation celebrates its first anniversary and Ezra Klein defends it by saying, “Is it a perfect piece of legislation? Not even close. Will everything work as expected? Almost certainly not. But for all its flaws, it’s a good law. And it’s worth trying.” Many small businesses are still not taking advantage of the health care tax credit.

TECHNOLOGY UPGRADES A Google project manager pitches cloud computing: “Web-based software is much less costly for buyers than traditional software, and programmers can be so much more innovative, that it’s worthwhile for an entrepreneur to say, O.K., let’s start from scratch.” Paul Mah, an information technology expert, gives us eight reasons to upgrade to Internet Explorer 9. Firefox 4 is released. Microsoft jumps to second in video search and introduces a new PC tool for small business. Netflix suffers an outage. BlackBerry’s tablet is scheduled to arrive in April. AT&T buys T-Mobile but not for the reason you think. And boy. has computer technology come a long way in 10 years.

THE GROWING APPS MARKET Information Week reports that 38 percent of small- and medium-size businesses depend on mobile apps. Amazon introduces an Android app store, and Apple is not pleased. Minda Zetlin of Inc. asks if you should make a tablet app for your business: “The answer is likely a yes if one, your product or service is one where having tablet access could benefit customers; and two, your customers are the type who use tablets.” Just in time: a flood of royal wedding apps.

SPEAKING OF THE BIG WEDDING General Electric releases a much-needed William and Kate refrigerator. Jack Daniels introduces a new product — perhaps to help us forget the royal wedding. Danny Wong gives us three winning ideas to consider. A dating site features a new single man every day. Score plans an e-business learning Web site for small business. Small Business Television is rebranding itself and has introduced a new Web site. Small Business Opportunities magazine is doing the same. A small business introduces its first electric car. Sales of e-books have doubled. The group buying industry is projected to grow to $2.7 billion this year.

TWITTER’S TAX BREAKS Casey Hibbard explains how one company used social media to make $300,000 in a weekend. Robert Scoble discovers the future of work: “Just when we thought we figured out the new ’social enterprise’ market along comes Convofy.” Twitter shows San Francisco’s businesses how to save a bundle on taxes. A one-legged wrestler shows us how to become a national champ.

IT’S GOOD TO BE GREEN A woman in Canada gets a standing ovation for being green. The Manhattan Chamber of Commerce holds its green marketing event on Wednesday. The Clinton Global Initiative holds its university conference this week with a focus on entrepreneurship and a live webcast.

ADVICE FOR SXSW: HAND OUT PILLOWS The Global Entrepreneurship Congress meets in Shanghai this week. April 2 is International Pillow Fight Day. The South By Southwest conference: as seen from a bunch of social media video bloggers — which is yet another reason I won’t attend next year. American Airlines offers a big promo for California business travelers. John Jantsch wants to know the worst business advice you ever received. A third-base coach gives life advice.

SEARCHING FOR HELP WITH SEARCH An American Express survey finds that more than half of small-business owners say they need help with search-engine marketing. A video about why it’s not important to go viral goes viral. Dharmesh Shah shares a few low-cost advertising ideas for start-ups and cautions readers to “think of advertising not as a long-term traffic strategy but as a testing tool to improve your Web site and find out more about your ideal visitor.” An advertising blog discusses how to develop a relationship with the media. Lucy Thornton comes up with a few good marketing themes for April.

A 100-MILLION-MEMBER NETWORK LinkedIn officially reaches 100 million members. Seems like a good time to read the co-founder’s 10 rules for entrepreneurial success.

TRIED TALKING? Whitson Gordon of Lifehacker gives us his top 10 tricks for working while on the go. Example: “Whether it’s that old, dead iPod or the smartphone you’re already carrying with you, you probably have gigs of unused storage lying around waiting to be filled with portable apps, files and other digital travel necessities.” Melanie Brooks of Workawesome.com explains why she uses a leather day planner instead of a smartphone. Greg Schinkel warns against hiding behind our keyboards: “Before you hit ‘reply to all’ and send back a zinger to someone who maligned you, stop and go talk to the person.”

THIS WEEK’S AWARDS

BEST WAY TO GET YOUR CUSTOMERS TO LOVE YOU Ben Yoskovitz talks about the benefits of delighting your customers: “The rewards are immense. Loyal, rabid fans tweet shamelessly about how incredible you are, how valuable your Web application is and how successful your start-up will be.”

BEST WAY TO MARKET WITHOUT A BUDGET Shisha Dublin-Green explains how to market without a marketing budget: “Form an alliance: if you have a hair salon that’s mostly frequented by women with young children and elderly women, you can offer a service whereby you arrange to do their grocery shopping whilst they’re in the salon. You may decide to form an alliance with a local reputable grocer or delivery service to provide this for your customers. This could also be a way to reach out to new customers via your local grocer.”

BEST ADVICE FOR BOOTSTRAPPERS The Smart Bear says that the things money cannot buy are still the most valuable things: “Show proof of your ability to master the things money cannot buy — your ability to learn, change and improve.”

THIS WEEK’S QUESTION: How do you bring in customers without spending a lot? We do free webinars every month.

Gene Marks owns the Marks Group PC, a Bala Cynwyd, Pa., consulting firm that helps clients with customer relationship management. You can follow him on Twitter.

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Small Business News: Social Media Brand

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.

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New evidence has emerged that the Iranian government sees the current unrest in the Middle East as a signal that the Mahdi--or Islamic messiah--is about to appear.

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Search engine optimization Vancouver For A Better Marketing Solution

When you start your personal website there are many ways you'll have to sell it off and something of the best ways is to use SEO services Vancouver if you happen to maintain that area. The SEO or search engine optimization services would be the top way of getting good visitors to your site and therefore making more sales.

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What to Expect When Hiring a Roofers

When it comes time to correct or even substitute your homes roof, it's really a challenging task to locate somebody that is competent to do the job. There are lots of roofing contractors out there, however the ones who'll perform a congrats for any reasonable cost aren't frequently easy to find. If you are in the market for a contractor, use the tips below with regard to interviewing as well as employing the correct one.

Job interview as well as Consultation

The majority of roofing companies provide totally free consultations. This is particularly essential, since it gives them an opportunity to assess what your homes roof needs, also it provides you with an opportunity to evaluate all of them. As with all companies, believe in instincts concerning the people a person let up on your roofing. No issue how good a contractor's status or even suggestion, he ought to begin by presenting you with a business card. If the service provider occurs looking as well as speaking within an less than professional method, chances are that the job he's going to do will also be less than professional. This is not to express that you should expect contractors to arrive within fits. They is going to be climbing on your roof, so most is going to be dressed in denim jeans as well as function boots or athletic shoes. If the service provider appears to be interested in speaking on their cell phone during your homes roof than he is in evaluating your own roof's needs, that may be an additional sign that he is not really the one for the job. For the legal protection, make sure that the actual service provider offers sufficient liability insurance coverage.

Roof Evaluation

Expect that the service provider is going to be going up in your roofing. In fact, any kind of contractor who not need to go up in your roofing to evaluate the issue ought to be instantly reduced. Those who are serious about their own function may either create a sketching of the roof's surface and mark trouble spots on it as they go through their evaluation, or even they'll take photos or even video of the surface while they are up there. This is an extremely essential action, because it allows you to observe just what the troubles are as well as understand how they will be set.

Estimation

The next step would be the written estimate. The contractor will require out their loan calculator and are available track of a written estimation. Some contractors will go to their truck or van and write up the actual proposal, while others will crunch the actual numbers for the job prior to you. Once you're given the suggestion, ensure that you understand which products will be used, just how long the task will take and when there are any additional or even hidden expenses that could occur during the repair of the roof. The service provider should be able to answer all of these concerns effortlessly and forewarn you associated with a extra costs that could be incurred should the roof's integrity be broken within.

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Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'Strike hard' campaign

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Earlier cases

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

New training scheme

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

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

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

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

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

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

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

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

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

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

Wikileaks and the Uyghurs

by holly upon Dec Twenty, 2010
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it were actually uncertain, info acquired by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese language federal government fears over it's continued charge of the location it calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked cables from U.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the degree that Chinese authorities make an effort to persuade governments worldwide to adopt its stance upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The wires also display the actual U . s . States' issues as well as sights concerning the on going repressive measures in the area.

Most lighting of Chinese federal government stress are the wires directed to Chinese language frustration, or even the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees within Guantánamo to third countries. The December Twenty nine, 2008 cable television applies exactly how Chinese language Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi met with the U.S. Ambassador to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's powerful opposition of release to any kind of nation other than China, and that when the Ough.Utes. did certainly accede to this ask for it would "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to co-operation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb '09 cable television explains the way the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act towards us" along with a "slap in the face". That the Ough.S. government was firm within not releasing the detainees to The far east illustrates the actual degree from the politicized nature of the Chinese language judicial system. Legitimate concerns more than terrorism tend to be easy to understand, however in the actual Ough.Utes. government's observe the detainees would most likely face torture and delivery when they came back to China

Chinese federal government stress regarding the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't just applied to the actual Ough.S. government, but also in order to New Zealand and a handful of Western governments that were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, in addition to European Union member states just about all have the symptoms of paid for the actual impact of Chinese language federal government unhappiness. Regarding Germany, that was initially prepared to think about two Uyghurs on purely relief reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been much less preferable to other detainees due to the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relations with China. The Might Eight, 2009 cable applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported that Germany experienced knowledgeable China from the U.Utes. ask for to accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo and had already been consequently warned through The far east of ‘a heavy burden on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to simply accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires additionally discuss the actual unrest in Urumchi, the actual regional capital, within July '09. The July Thirteen, '09 cable television discussing bulk occurrences in The far east states:

"Ethnic riots such as those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 as well as in Tibet within 03 of 08 differ substantially in origin and character from mass occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both existing serious problems for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, but the Celebration management wouldn't wait to open fireplace on Uighurs or Tibetans when they considered it essential to restore purchase. Mass incidents present another kind of threat, he explained, as the management is ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters with regard to fear of sparking massive open public outrage that will change against the Celebration."

This can be a relaxing viewpoint, particularly when one considers evidence offered in two reports launched this season by the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International which fine detail eyewitness accounts from the use of deadly reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors in July 2009. In addition, the actual declaration which fireplace would not be used against Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for the different strategy taken through Chinese protection forces within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests within September '09. During individuals direct orders, after that Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, who experienced required that he let them know about federal government responses to protection issues. An identical ask for to satisfy using the Party Assistant by Uyghur demonstrators within July wasn't met.

The wider repercussions of the unrest also saw a short dialogue on the effect it might possess upon Iran-China relationships, as well as on relations with Sydney following Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the National Push Club in Canberra within July '09. Within the latter case, the Chinese federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Aussie financial institution that vendors the National Press Membership to make use of it's impact to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The actual U . s . States' concerns concerning the situation within the Uyghur area are available through in the wires. Inside a discussion on policy path within Tibet, Ough.S. authorities clarify that it will end up being not possible for Chinese leaders to consider a much softer line "if they look like doing this below worldwide pressure". The cable dated 04 Sixteen, 2008, 30 days following the outbreak associated with unrest in Tibetan areas, additionally relayed the actual observation "that domestic stability remains the leadership's top priority above all else, meaning there will ‘almost surely' end up being no relaxation of the present difficult collection on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable also sheds gentle about the severe level of sensitivity that the Chinese government sights territorial integrity, and the possible drip more than of unrest from Tibet.

The prospect associated with methods to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of municipal society are discussed inside a February 24, 08 cable television. While suggesting which China's economic success will increase it's potential to deal with democratic change, the cable television additionally discusses exactly how Chinese language frontrunners see the usefulness associated with "a limited growth of municipal culture, including improvements within the guideline of law and a more powerful role with regard to approved religions, NGOs, charities along with other stars within areas which bring about sociable balance and don't problem Communist Party guideline." This can be a significant change in thinking, that has observed U.S. authorities promote the notion that Chinese language financial improvement, as well as economic relations along with China will bring in regards to a progressively democratic society; however, more belief appears to be put into the grassroots movement compared to one which begins from the top levels of the Chinese language federal government. Nevertheless, the actual cable television proves which "[i]n places for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear of separatism results in tighter restrictions on the development of civil culture." This approach is viewed as counter-productive by the official, that suggests that the Ough.Utes. federal government "should still express...serious concerns more than Beijing's individual privileges report and appeal to China's growing consciousness that greater respect with regard to human rights, spiritual freedom and also the guideline associated with law will serve to promote the very improvement and social stability that The far east seeks in addition to to enhance China's worldwide image." Such a technique might take substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's paranoid concern that the Usa secretly encourages routine change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual cables offer understanding of the actual daily company associated with diplomacy that is rarely owned by everyone, which is fascinating to note the amount of function carried out behind closed doors upon Uyghur problems. The importance of the actual part of the United States like a monitor of Uyghur human rights conditions in private conversations is created clear, and contrasts with its tactful public position. The staff from the Uyghur Human Privileges Project is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese government exerts upon Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the facts of Chinese language government stress upon it's counterparts is actually illustrative of the diploma which Chinese language authorities attempt to suppress contradictory narratives. With more revelations to come through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs might not grab the actual head lines, however the wires have get rid of new gentle on the documentation associated with individual rights conditions in the Uyghur region.

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Wikileaks and the Uyghurs

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

If it were ever in doubt, info obtained through the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, offers confirmed Chinese government fears over it's continued control of the region this calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as East Turkestan. The leaked wires from U.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the extent to which Chinese authorities attempt to convince government authorities worldwide to consider its position upon problems impacting Uyghurs. The wires additionally display the actual United States' concerns as well as views regarding the ongoing repressive steps in the area.

Most lighting of Chinese language government stress are the wires directed in order to Chinese language anger, or the specter associated with Chinese ire, within the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. The December Twenty nine, 2008 cable applies how Chinese language Helper Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met using the Ough.S. Ambassador in order to The far east to voice Beijing's strong opposition of launch to any kind of country other than The far east, and that when the U.S. did certainly accede to this request it might "avoid harm to bilateral relationships and also to cooperation ‘in important areas'". In addition, a Feb 2009 cable television explains the way the Chinese language Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the actual feasible discharge of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfavorable act toward us" and a "slap in the face". That the U.S. federal government was company in not really releasing the detainees to The far east illustrates the extent of the politicized character from the Chinese judicial system. Legitimate issues over terrorism tend to be easy to understand, however in the actual Ough.Utes. government's view the detainees might probably face torture as well as execution if they came back to The far east

Chinese government stress in regard to the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees wasn't only applied to the Ough.Utes. federal government, but also in order to Brand new Zealand along with a number of Western governments which were considering resettlement. Albania, Germany as well as Finland, as well as Eu member says all have the symptoms of borne the impact of Chinese federal government unhappiness. Regarding Indonesia, which was at first prepared to consider 2 Uyghurs upon solely humanitarian reasons, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been much less better than additional detainees due to the negative effects accepting Uyghurs might have on relations along with China. A Might 8, '09 cable relates exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported that Indonesia experienced knowledgeable The far east of the U.Utes. request to accept a few Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo coupled with already been subsequently warned through The far east of ‘a large burden upon bilateral relations' in the event that Germany had been to accept any detainees".

The diplomatic wires additionally talk about the unrest within Urumchi, the actual local capital, in This summer '09. The July 13, '09 cable discussing bulk occurrences in The far east states:

"Ethnic riots like those who work in Xinjiang July 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 of 08 vary markedly within source as well as nature through mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed in order to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present serious problems for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Celebration leadership wouldn't wait to open fire on Uighurs or even Tibetans if they considered it essential to recover purchase. Bulk occurrences pose another kind of threat, he said, since the leadership is ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters with regard to fear of sparking huge public outrage that will change against the Party."

This can be a chilling viewpoint, especially when 1 views evidence presented in two reports released this year by the Uyghur Human Privileges Project (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide that fine detail eyewitness accounts from the utilization of lethal reside fire against Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. Additionally, the actual observation which fire wouldn't be used against Han Chinese protestors has resonances for the different strategy used through Chinese language security forces within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese language protests within Sept 2009. Throughout those direct orders, after that Party Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled demonstrators, who had required he inform them regarding government reactions to security issues. An identical ask for to meet using the Party Secretary through Uyghur protesters in July wasn't met.

The wider repercussions from the unrest additionally saw a short dialogue about the effect it would have upon Iran-China relations, and on relationships with Australia following World Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the National Push Membership within Canberra in July '09. Within the second option case, china government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian bank which vendors the National Push Club to make use of its influence to block the Kadeer talk there".

The United States' concerns about the situation within the Uyghur area also come through within the cables. Inside a discussion on policy path within Tibet, Ough.S. officials explain that it will end up being impossible for Chinese language leaders to consider the softer line "if they look like doing so below international pressure". The cable out dated April Sixteen, 08, 30 days following the outbreak associated with unrest in Tibetan regions, also relayed the observation "that household stability remains the leadership's top priority above all else, meaning there will ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest of the current hard collection on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info included in the cable television also sheds light about the extreme sensitivity that china government views territorial ethics, and also the possible spill over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The prospect associated with solutions to stress in Tibet as well as Xinjiang arising from municipal culture are debated in a Feb 24, 2008 cable. While suggesting which China's economic achievement will increase its potential to deal with democratic reform, the cable additionally talks about how Chinese language frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted expansion associated with municipal culture, including improvements within the rule associated with law along with a stronger part with regard to authorized religions, NGOs, non profit organizations and other actors within places which bring about sociable stability and do not problem Communist Celebration guideline." This is a notable alternation in thinking, which has seen U.Utes. officials market the idea which Chinese language economic development, and financial relationships along with China will bring about a steadily democratic culture; nevertheless, more faith seems to be placed in a grassroots movement than one which starts from the best quantity of a Chinese language federal government. Nonetheless, the actual cable television proves which "[i]n places such as Tibet as well as Xinjiang, driving a car associated with separatism results in tight limitations about the growth of civil society." This method is viewed as counter-productive by the recognized, who suggests that the U.Utes. government "should still express...serious concerns over Beijing's human rights report as well as attract China's growing consciousness which higher regard with regard to individual rights, spiritual independence and the guideline associated with regulation assists to advertise the improvement and sociable stability that The far east looks for in addition to to enhance China's international picture." This type of technique would consider considerable diplomatic skills thinking about "China's weird fear that the United States privately promotes routine alter and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual wires provide understanding of the daily company of diplomacy that is rarely owned by the general public, which is interesting to note the quantity of work carried out behind closed doors upon Uyghur problems. The significance of the role of the United States as a keep track of associated with Uyghur human privileges conditions within private conversations is created obvious, and contrasts using its sensible open public stance. Employees from the Uyghur Individual Rights Task is actually well aware of pressure the Chinese government puts upon Uyghur activists; still, the details associated with Chinese language government pressure upon its counterparts is illustrative from the degree that Chinese language officials make an effort to control contradictory stories. With more facts in the future through Wikileaks, issues over Uyghurs might not get the actual head lines, but the wires possess shed brand new gentle on the paperwork of human rights problems in the Uyghur region.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Search Engine Marketing And Article Marketing Will Place Yourself Page One

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Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Portraits of Uyghurs

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

Islamic primarily, the Uyghur people have a solid religious identity which, in particular, allowed them to maintain a solid big difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Indeed, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a brilliant civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

During their historical past, the Uyghurs successively taken on Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before lastly converting to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., therefore starting the way to the Islamization of the complete Central Asia.

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

The coming of Islam was a great change because it was followed by the absorption of the Uyghur areas in the immense Turco-Mongolian and Muslim Kingdom. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan progressively replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used these days.

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

For a few years, China has integrated the proper identity of these remote people, although they represent only eight million inhabitants - a trifle for this great land. Thus, the Uyghurs 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 will allow them a few privileges in a country where their difference is very often repressed. Therefore, 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 Uyghurs and their culture in the People's Republic of China, however, looks very illusory. The presence of natural sources in Xinjiang, and its distance with nations identified as very sensitive, highly urged the government to speed up the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the greater responsibility job opportunities.

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

Asserting more freedom, but primarily the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in location Xinjiang.

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

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

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Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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Drought denial's tougher to pull off than climate denial.Photo: Luke RobinsonWhere and how will climate change first affect large numbers of American voters? Answering that question may be crucial to the global efforts to protect the Earth's climate. The tsunami of stupidity and science denial that has washed over Washington, D.C., won't be held back by earnest calculations of long-run risks, or by the potential inundation of remote island
nations, or by the news that polar bears and other iconic species are endangered.

While climate change may seem remote, the water crisis in the Southwest is all too immediate. Recent years of drought have reached critical levels, threatening to curtail agriculture and even the normal patterns of urban life throughout the region. Even if today's climate remained
unchanged, water use in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah would more than double over the next century, just from population and income growth.

In a recent study, Elizabeth Stanton and I show that the changing climate will make a bad situation worse, increasing the Southwest's water consumption by an additional one-third of today's level of use. There is simply no way to get that much water; the region's rivers and rainfall aren't going to grow. Ocean desalination is expensive, energy-intensive, and environmentally controversial. Groundwater, which makes up the water deficit today, is bound to run out at some point; it is being used far beyond its recharge rates in California and Arizona, and probably elsewhere as well. There are two different estimates of California's current groundwater reserves; the state would need three times the more optimistic estimate in order to make it through the next century.

Solving the water crisis will require reductions in water use. Nevada and Utah are the top two states in per capita residential water use today. Extensive conservation and efficiency measures will be needed, reshaping urban water use, improving irrigation methods, and cutting back on the region's lowest-value crops, which are worth less than the water used to grow them.

It gets much harder to solve the water crisis when it gets hotter: We found that climate change could add as much as $1 trillion to the costs of water scarcity for the five Southwestern states over the next century. As Americans start to experience mounting costs of climate change in this and other areas, spending money to reduce carbon emissions will look like a bargain
by comparison.

So here's a message from planet Earth to our newly elected congressional "leaders." You've made it clear that you're not planning to protect the climate because of what's happening to polar bears, or the islands that are sinking beneath the waves, or even because you care about the lives of your great-grandchildren. But you've got to take action anyway; controlling climate
change is crucial if you want people to have reliable water supplies in the Southwest. This isn't the only way that you'll feel the impacts of climate change in years to come -- but it could be the first big one.

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.

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