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Bieber wasn’t from the Disney factory, and he didn’t have a show on Nickelodeon, so the marketing plan was skewed toward his already established constituency in social media: lots of Facebooking and YouTubing and sugary tweets to his millions-strong Twitter army.

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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Titles from major book publisher Random House will now appear in Apple’s iBooks store. The news was one of many talking points covered earlier today at Apple’s media event. Random House had previously been the only major publisher not represented in Apple’s popular iOS book store, as it was not willing to grant Apple the 30% cut taken on titles sold through iBooks. The addition of Random House is a major coup for Apple as it looks to compete with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle bookstore and other popular offerings. Hit the break for Apple’s full press release.

Random House, Inc. Makes Entire US Catalog of 17,000 ebooks Available on Apple’s iBookstore

iBookstore Now Features More than 2,500 Publishers, Including All Six Major Trade Publishers

SAN FRANCISCO—March 2, 2011—Apple® today announced that Random House, Inc., the largest trade book publisher in the US, has made its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available on Apple’s iBookstore℠, including bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Laura Hillenbrand, Cormac McCarthy, Lee Child and many more of the world’s preeminent authors. Starting today, customers can pre-order upcoming releases from Random House including Lisa Gardner’s “Love You More,” Suze Orman’s “The Money Class” and Jean Auel’s “The Land of Painted Caves.” With the addition of Random House, the iBookstore now offers ebooks from all six major trade publishers and thousands of independent publishers.

“We are delighted that Apple’s iBookstore now will be carrying Random House’s US ebooks for the first time,” said Markus Dohle, Random House’s Chairman and CEO. “And we look forward to bringing our 17,000 ebooks to Apple customers.”

“We’re thrilled to offer Random House on the iBookstore,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “iBookstore customers have already downloaded more than 100 million books in less than one year, and we think they’ll love being able to choose from Random House’s incredible selection of titles to enjoy on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.”

iBookstore customers can choose from a wide selection of illustrated and video-enhanced books that look incredible on iPad™, including Jay-Z’s memoir “Decoded” and Bing West’s “The Wrong War”; bestselling children’s series such as Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones; and cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, and the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten. Random House, Inc. comprises more than 80 adult and children’s US publishing imprints including Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Crown, Pantheon Books, Vintage, Ballantine and Bantam.

The iBookstore, included in Apple’s free iBooks® app, is the best way to browse, buy and read books on your iPad, iPhone® and iPod touch®. iBookstore offers ebooks from more than 2,500 publishers in more than 20 categories, including Mysteries & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Children’s & Teen, Humor, Romance, Business and Travel.

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Titles from major book publisher Random House will now appear in Apple’s iBooks store. The news was one of many talking points covered earlier today at Apple’s media event. Random House had previously been the only major publisher not represented in Apple’s popular iOS book store, as it was not willing to grant Apple the 30% cut taken on titles sold through iBooks. The addition of Random House is a major coup for Apple as it looks to compete with the likes of Amazon’s Kindle bookstore and other popular offerings. Hit the break for Apple’s full press release.

Random House, Inc. Makes Entire US Catalog of 17,000 ebooks Available on Apple’s iBookstore

iBookstore Now Features More than 2,500 Publishers, Including All Six Major Trade Publishers

SAN FRANCISCO—March 2, 2011—Apple® today announced that Random House, Inc., the largest trade book publisher in the US, has made its full catalog of 17,000 ebooks available on Apple’s iBookstore℠, including bestsellers by Stieg Larsson, John Grisham, Dan Brown, Danielle Steel, Laura Hillenbrand, Cormac McCarthy, Lee Child and many more of the world’s preeminent authors. Starting today, customers can pre-order upcoming releases from Random House including Lisa Gardner’s “Love You More,” Suze Orman’s “The Money Class” and Jean Auel’s “The Land of Painted Caves.” With the addition of Random House, the iBookstore now offers ebooks from all six major trade publishers and thousands of independent publishers.

“We are delighted that Apple’s iBookstore now will be carrying Random House’s US ebooks for the first time,” said Markus Dohle, Random House’s Chairman and CEO. “And we look forward to bringing our 17,000 ebooks to Apple customers.”

“We’re thrilled to offer Random House on the iBookstore,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “iBookstore customers have already downloaded more than 100 million books in less than one year, and we think they’ll love being able to choose from Random House’s incredible selection of titles to enjoy on their iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.”

iBookstore customers can choose from a wide selection of illustrated and video-enhanced books that look incredible on iPad™, including Jay-Z’s memoir “Decoded” and Bing West’s “The Wrong War”; bestselling children’s series such as Magic Tree House and Junie B. Jones; and cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Rachael Ray, and the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten. Random House, Inc. comprises more than 80 adult and children’s US publishing imprints including Alfred A. Knopf, Doubleday, Crown, Pantheon Books, Vintage, Ballantine and Bantam.

The iBookstore, included in Apple’s free iBooks® app, is the best way to browse, buy and read books on your iPad, iPhone® and iPod touch®. iBookstore offers ebooks from more than 2,500 publishers in more than 20 categories, including Mysteries & Thrillers, Biographies & Memoirs, Cookbooks, Children’s & Teen, Humor, Romance, Business and Travel.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork, and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple is reinventing the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

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The major legislative item on the agenda in the Senate this week will be The Small Business Reauthorization Act (S. 493).  Republicans plan to use this bill as a platform to promote critical pieces of legislation through the process of non-germane amendments to the bill.  Here are some vital amendments that will be debated and voted on throughout the week:

• Senator Mitch McConnell is offering an amendment (S. AMDT 183) to prohibit the EPA from promulgating any regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.  There is perhaps no force that is more destructive to our prosperity, consumer freedom of choice, and job creation than onerous cap and trade schemes.  There are many red state Democrats who are up for reelection in 2012 and will be hard pressed to go on record as supporting policies that are an imprecation to the interests of their states.  Make sure to call Senators Claire McCaskill, Joe Manchin, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, and Jon Tester in particular.

• Senator David Vitter is offering an amendment (S.AMDT. 178) forcing the federal government to sell off unused and underused property.  This is a serious issue.  The federal government owns over half of the land in some western states and has been using it to stifle energy development.  Selling unused federal lands would also serve as a prudent means of generating revenue without raising taxes.

• Senator Rand Paul is using the SBA bill as a platform to offer his signature budget bill (S.AMDT 199) which would slash $200 billion in spending for fiscal 2011.  Paul’s plan slashes funding by 50% to the Departments of Energy, Education, and HUD.  This amendment represents real limited government and budget austerity and will separate the men among the boys in the ranks of the Republican Conference.

• Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison is forcing a vote (S. AMDT 197) to delay the implementation of ObamaCare until a final resolution is reached in pending lawsuits.  Unlike other bills that are designed to merely ameliorate ObamaCare, this amendment would completely halt it during the ensuing legal battles.

• Senator Tom Coburn has filed an amendment (S.AMDT.184) to force federal agencies to compile comprehensive lists of all of their programs

Make sure that all of your Republican senators are on record supporting these amendments, especially Rand Paul’s budget proposal.  Also, let’s see which faux moderate Democrats will commit to supporting anyone of these commonsense initiatives.  Needless to say, I didn’t waste time calling my senators; Barbara Mikulski and Ben Cardin!

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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Comcast Chief Executive Brian Roberts let investors in on a little secret Wednesday during his keynote speech at the Morgan Stanley Technology, Media and Telecom conference in San Francisco.

The 51-year-old executive's biggest concern over the last  year was nothow best to fold NBC Universal into Comcast.  No, Roberts said, it was the transition to replace his No. 2 executive, Steve Burke, who had been in charge of the day-to-day operations of the company's lucrative cable business.

Last month, when Comcast took control of NBC Universal, Burke became chief executive of the television and movie company.  Burke surrendered his role and title of chief operating officer of Comcast.  Neil Smit -- who joined Comcast 13 months ago from cable company Charter Communications -- is now executive vice president in charge of all of Comcast's cable operations.

Roberts called the executive changes Comcast's "most important transition."

After all, Comcast's core business of cable TV, Internet and telephone service brings in $36 billion in annual revenue.  Comcast's programming business, which now includes NBC Universal, generates a little more than half that amount.

Despite dramatic changes underway in the media business, Roberts remains bullish on the company's prospects. Comcast raised its dividend last month and plans to buy back $2 billion in stock. The Philadelphia-based company, Roberts said, took control of NBC Universal at a particularly advantageous time. The NBC Universal businesses are now doing better than when the deal was first announced in late 2009, and Comcast needed less money than it had anticipated -- $6.2 billion in cash versus $6.5 billion at the time of the announcement -- to pay General Electric Co., which now has a minority stake in NBC Universal. 

The television advertising market has rebounded in the last year, and there's a new stream of revenue as cable companies begin to pay the broadcast networks for their programming.

Roberts said he expects NBC to help bolster Comcast's Golf Channel and Versus, a cable sports network. On the movie side, Comcast can use its clout to shorten the traditional period of time before movies become available on DVD and video-on-demand services, a benefit to Comcast customers.  And soon, NBC Universal programming will be available, joining Turner channels, HBO, Starz and Showtime, on Comcast's anytime, everywhere TV service, Xfinity TV, which now has an application available for the iPad.   

On Wednesday, Roberts suggested that the company's jewel is its broadband Internet service, which now has 17 million customers. That makes Comcast the largest Internet provider in the nation at a time when consumers are increasingly watching news and entertainment online.

"In the next 10 years, people will want more bits in their house than ever before," Roberts said, referring to Internet network capacity. And Comcast's investment in its high-speed networks should help it battle rivals that have cut into Comcast's customer base:  satellite TV providers and telephone companies AT&T and Verizon, which now offer Internet and TV channels.

"We are focused on broadband,"  Roberts said.  "The bet we are making is to be the best pipe. It's as simple as that."

-- Meg James

Photo:  Brian Roberts. Credit: George Widman / Associated Press

I recently read about Matt Slauson, an NFL player, who has been pretty successful over the last few years but is now worried about his financial future. He's concerned about the NFL lock-out and what it might do to his income. Even though a player can have a decent contract, some of the money is usually an up-front bonus and the rest is performance-based.

Matt Slauson isn’t destitute by any means, but he decided to move his wife and baby into his parents’ house to lower expenses and boost savings. This seems like a drastic act in light of the fact that he was making hundreds of thousands of dollars per year, but money can get used up quickly if you expect it will never end or if you’re not paying attention. Matt is going with a prudent solution to a situation that hopefully will only be temporary.

When you live at home with your parents what are the real savings? Normally your housing costs take up approximately one third of your monthly basic budget. If you move in with your parents, they should be willing to continue to pay for those costs that aren’t affected by you being there, like the mortgage, home insurance, and taxes, or if they’re renting, then the monthly rent.

Checking the website Rentals.com I looked at the average prices for a two bedroom rental in Syracuse, NY, Long Branch, NJ and Orlando, FL and they all were about the same: $1000 per month. So right off the bat you can save a nice chunk of change by moving in with your parents, ($12,000 per year). This assumes that you aren’t sharing the apartment with someone else who is splitting the rent but even in that case you would be saving $500 per month or $6,000 per year.

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When it comes time to repair or substitute your roof, it's really a challenging job to find somebody that is actually qualified to do the job. There are lots of roofers out there, but the types who'll do a congrats for a sensible cost aren't frequently easy to find. If you are in the market for a service provider, use the tips beneath for meeting with and employing the right one.

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The majority of roofers provide totally free consultation services. This is especially important, because it provides them a chance to assess exactly what your homes roof needs, also it provides you with a chance to evaluate all of them. As with all companies, believe in instincts concerning the individuals a person allow up on your roof. No issue exactly how good the contractor's reputation or recommendation, he or she ought to begin by showing you with a company card. If a service provider occurs searching and talking in an unprofessional method, chances are that the task he is going to perform will also be less than professional. This isn't to express that you should expect companies to arrive in fits. They is going to be hiking on your roof, therefore the majority of will be dressed up in denim jeans and work boots or even sneakers. If the service provider seems to be more interested in talking upon his mobile phone during your homes roof compared to he is within analyzing your roof's requirements, that may be another indication that he is not really the one to do the job. For your lawful safety, be certain that the contractor offers adequate liability insurance coverage.

Roof Evaluation

Expect the service provider will be rising on your roof. In fact, any kind of service provider who not want to increase on your roofing to judge the problem ought to be immediately reduced. Those who're serious about their own function will either create a sketching of the roof's surface area and tag trouble spots on it because they go through their own assessment, or even they'll consider photos or video clip from the surface while they're up there. This is a very essential step, since it allows you to see just what the problems are as well as know how they'll be fixed.

Estimate

The next step will be the written estimation. The contractor will take away his loan calculator and are available track of an itemized estimate. Some contractors goes out to their truck or even truck as well as write down the proposal, while some may crisis the actual amounts for the job in front of you. Once you are because of the suggestion, make sure that you understand exactly which items will be used, how long the task will require and if there are any additional or even hidden expenses that could occur throughout the restore of the roof. The service provider should be able to answer all of these questions with ease and forewarn a person of any additional costs that could be incurred if the roof's ethics be broken inside.

After you have received several written estimations from roofers, evaluate what each organization or even contractor is willing to offer you for the cost. Do not necessarily discount the greatest bid, because occasionally the highest bet will in reality be the service provider who the job correctly. Also, be skeptical of bids which are not nearly as expensive others. They may be utilizing substandard items or be untruthful about the chance of hidden costs. Most importantly, believe in instincts as well as opt for the actual contractor who makes you feel most comfy regarding handing over your money.

 

Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

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

 

AFP

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Earlier cases

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

New training scheme

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

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

 

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

 

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

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

 

Wikileaks and the Uyghurs

by holly upon December 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been ever in doubt, information acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese language government worries over it's ongoing control of the region this phone calls Xinjiang, also is known as East Turkestan. The actual leaked cables from Ough.S. diplomats show the extent to which Chinese language government bodies make an effort to convince governments worldwide to adopt its stance on problems impacting Uyghurs. The actual cables also show the actual U . s . States' issues and sights concerning the ongoing repressive steps in the region.

Most illuminating associated with Chinese government pressure are the wires pointing in order to Chinese frustration, or the specter associated with Chinese language ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd countries. The Dec Twenty nine, 08 cable television relates how Chinese Helper International Reverend Liu Jieyi met with the Ough.S. Ambassador to China to voice Beijing's strong opposition associated with launch in order to any kind of nation other than The far east, and that when the Ough.S. did certainly accede for this ask for it would "avoid harm to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". Furthermore, the Feb '09 cable explains how the Chinese Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded the possible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfavorable behave toward us" and a "slap in the face". That the U.Utes. federal government stood company in not really releasing the actual detainees to The far east illustrates the actual extent from the politicized character of the Chinese judicial program. Legitimate issues more than terrorism are easy to understand, but in the U.Utes. government's observe the detainees might most likely encounter do-it-yourself torture as well as execution when they returned in order to The far east

Chinese federal government pressure in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not just applied to the U.Utes. government, but additionally to Brand new Zealand along with a handful of European governments which were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, in addition to European Union fellow member states all appear to have borne the brunt of Chinese federal government disappointment. In the case of Indonesia, that was initially willing to consider two Uyghurs upon purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo instances had been less preferable to other detainees because of the negative effects accepting Uyghurs would have on relations along with The far east. The Might Eight, '09 cable television relates how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer reported which Germany experienced knowledgeable China from the Ough.S. request to simply accept a few Uighur detainees held from Guantánamo and had been subsequently warned by The far east of ‘a large load upon bilateral relations' if Germany had been to accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires also discuss the actual unrest within Urumchi, the regional funds, in July 2009. A July 13, '09 cable television discussing bulk incidents within The far east states:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet within March of 2008 vary substantially within source and character through mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present serious trouble for the Party, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Celebration management would not hesitate to spread out fire upon Uighurs or even Tibetans if they deemed it essential to restore purchase. Mass incidents pose another type of risk, he explained, as the leadership is ‘afraid' to fireplace on Han rioters with regard to fear of causing massive public outrage that would turn from the Celebration."

This is a chilling opinion, particularly when 1 considers the evidence presented by 50 percent reports released this season by the Uyghur Human Privileges Project (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide that fine detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of deadly reside fireplace against Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. In addition, the actual observation which fireplace would not be used towards Han Chinese protestors has resonances for that different strategy used by Chinese security causes in Urumchi to Han Chinese language direct orders within September 2009. Throughout individuals direct orders, then Celebration Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, who had required he let them know regarding government responses to security concerns. A similar request to satisfy with the Party Assistant by Uyghur demonstrators in This summer was not met.

The wider repercussions from the unrest also saw a brief dialogue on the impact it would possess upon Iran-China relationships, and on relationships along with Sydney following World Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Ms. Rebiya Kadeer, talked at the National Press Membership in Canberra in July 2009. Within the second option situation, the Chinese government "privately warn[ed] a major Aussie bank which sponsors the National Push Club to use it's influence to bar the Kadeer talk there".

The actual United States' concerns concerning the scenario in the Uyghur area are available via in the wires. Inside a discussion on plan path in Tibet, U.Utes. authorities explain that it will end up being impossible for Chinese language leaders to adopt a much softer collection "if they look like doing so below international pressure". The cable dated April Sixteen, 08, 30 days following the outbreak associated with unrest within Tibetan areas, also relayed the actual declaration "that household balance remains the leadership's main concern above all else, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest from the current hard line on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info included in the cable also sheds light on the extreme sensitivity with which china federal government sights territorial integrity, and the feasible drip over associated with unrest from Tibet.

The chance of methods to stress in Tibet and Xinjiang as a result of civil culture tend to be discussed in a Feb Twenty-four, 2008 cable. While suggesting which China's economic achievement increases it's resistance to democratic change, the cable also talks about how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the effectiveness associated with "a restricted growth associated with civil culture, such as enhancements in the rule associated with regulation and a more powerful role with regard to approved beliefs, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other stars in places that bring about social balance and don't challenge Communist Party rule." This can be a notable alternation in considering, that has seen U.Utes. officials promote the idea that Chinese language financial development, as well as financial relationships with China will bring about a steadily democratic society; nevertheless, more belief appears to be put into the grassroots movement compared to one which starts in the best levels of the Chinese language government. Nonetheless, the cable concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet and Xinjiang, the fear of separatism results in tighter restrictions on the growth of civil culture." This method can be regarded as counter-productive through the official, who suggests that the actual Ough.S. federal government "should still express...serious issues over Beijing's human privileges report and attract China's growing consciousness that greater respect for human rights, religious freedom and the guideline of regulation will serve to advertise the very improvement and social stability that The far east looks for in addition to to improve China's international picture." Such a technique would take substantial diplomatic abilities considering "China's weird concern that the United States privately promotes routine change as well as ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual cables provide understanding of the daily business associated with diplomacy that's rarely afforded to the general public, and it is fascinating to note the quantity of function done behind closed doors on Uyghur problems. The importance of the actual part of the us as a keep track of associated with Uyghur individual rights problems in personal discussions is created clear, and contrasts using its sensible public position. The staff of the Uyghur Human Privileges Task is actually comfortable with pressure the Chinese federal government exerts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese language federal government pressure on it's counterparts is actually illustrative from the diploma that Chinese language officials attempt to suppress contrary narratives. With more facts in the future through Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs might not grab the headlines, but the cables have get rid of new light on the paperwork associated with individual rights conditions within the Uyghur area.

 

Search Engine Marketing And Article promotion Will Place Yourself on Page One

Search engine optimization and article marketing are two of the strongest strategies which you can use promoting your website and get the revenue and success that you need for your web business. Both of these everything has been around to get a really long time already however they still still be really effective. Actually, these have helped a lot of people free themselves in the traditional means of money-generating options of society.

In the following paragraphs, I will be showing the ways how you are able to properly execute seo and article marketing for the betterment of the business enterprise website. In addition, I will also be discussing the different points that you must look out for when you are using these two website marketing strategies to market your website and obtain customers. Despite the fact that article marketing and Seo have been around for a long time already, you have to know that the trends and preferences concerning how they are performed are continually changing, which is why you should remain up to date with these things through the help of Search engine marketing forum sites to be able to quickly adjust and learn how to make your strategies more efficient.

In the past marketing with articles to various websites was once so simple the effects that they produce for web sites really was powerful. However, stuff has changed a great deal today. Nowadays submitting the identical article to various websites has stopped being a good suggestion because search engines have now changed with a huge extent in the manner they rank pages. They will no longer rank contents that are identical like they utilized to in the past. This really is one of the best examples of changes that exist in online marketing trends. This change has given birth to wide plethora of methods that internet marketers are using today. Nearly all of web marketers now produce articles and submit them in really popular article directories and wait for targeted prospects to come to their pages. Be thought of as that most reliable Seo strategy that can be used. Aside from being effective, this also provides positive outcomes frequently. The only problem with this particular strategy is the caliber of traffic that you will get using this won't be that good if you do not do proper keyphrase research beforehand and rehearse in-links. You first need to attend to these two things before you submit your articles so that you won't wind up losing huge amounts of targeted prospects. This means that you must practice good levels of diligence if you want your advertising initiatives to be effective.

Besides articles, you can also use blogging, which can be another really powerful type of online marketing strategy today because it's highly well-liked by google and yahoo. In this technique, it is possible to choose to produce a single web log that specifically targets your chosen market or else you can give rise to other weblogs which can be called experts in your niche.

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Roofing Contractors Vancouver Washington

There are many things to take into consideration when looking for a roofing contractor. Value, experience, along with referrals are some of the things you will likely be concerned about. Continue reading for even other great ideas.

• Finding a Roofers

Before buying roofing contractor, ensure you have a general idea of the work that you need to did. By no means do you have to be a specialist. If you have a new Roof Document, read it carefully to find the specifics of your existing roof. If you don't have a Roofing Certificate, refer to documents closed during concluding to locate your Roof Inspection sheet. These documents should provide everything you need to learn about your roof. Ahead of contacting a new roofing contractor, you ought to have a list of requirements and requirements to help you decide exactly who is suitable for your roofing project. Make sure you write down each potential roof covering contractor's answers as well as check all of them against each other. If there are any mistakes, be sure to be aware this and take this into consideration when making a final choice. There are no guaranteed ways to choose a roofing contractor, however , if you take take to the data provided, your odds of a successful covering project tend to be greatly superior.

One of the best strategies to finding a roofers is by word of mouth marketing. Try requesting a friend or relative who's had roofing work carried out, and had been satisfied with the work. Get the brand of the company and their own contact data. If you have no word of jaws referrals, attempt first searching in the mobile phone book an internet-based. A large advertisement or extravagant website isn't necessarily an illustration of the top quality of work, but can be a excellent tool regarding measuring how long and commitment they have placed in their respective profession. Additionally, try finding current worksites and appear at the covering work that's done maybe in the process of staying finished. If you're visually amazed, ask the exact property manager for that name of the roofing contractor as well as their contact information.

• Preliminary research

When looking for a roofing contractors, it's imperative to first do your own background research. Purchasing in the phone book or on the web is a suitable place to find a contractor, finding essential information on these types of businesses will likely be found in many areas. Very first, check with areas like the Better Business Bureau, city, state, and local public records, as well as local certification agencies. Inquire your roofer if they are an affiliate of any roofing contractor associations. These kinds of precautions can mitigate your current risks. Additionally ask them what kinds of roofing they specialize in. Additionally ask the roofing contractor concerning any extended auto warranties they offer on the installed roofs. Find out what safety measures they choose to use avoid damage done to the rest of the home through workers. Things such as gutters, siding, and chimneys are near the coast proximity and so susceptible to unintentional damages.

Ensure all of this facts are included in your written contract. Check if you need a covering permit and/or choice from your homeowners association ahead of time. These entities will let you know that's responsible for acquiring these makes it possible for and permissions. If it is the responsibility of the roofing contractor, also have this included as part of your contract. If it is your accountability, get stated permits and permissions collated with the estimated roofing project and still have it evidently posted or readily available.

• Accreditation and Professional references

Roofing Contractors are not required to be accredited in all states. Contact nearby licensing organizations that control general building contractors for the list of needs. Once you have obtained the requirements, build a list of thorough questions to ask your current potential roofer. This simple list should right away help you to weed out the qualified from the not qualified roofing building contractors. Qualified installers should be able to quickly answer questions or tell you that they have to do more research prior to giving a new definitive response.

Even if any roofing contractor features all required licensing, you must ask to see pictures associated with completed roofer jobs and speak to pleased clients. Have a very list of inquiries handy to ask recent clientele, such as the character of the job, timeliness, and total satisfaction. Make sure these are recent clients and also cross reference if possible. When it comes to commercial roof covering, make sure that the actual roofing contractor is actually bonded. Examining these recommendations is another included measure of protection to narrow down the list regarding potential covering contractors.

Seo Through Articles

Article writing may be an extremely powerful type of Search engine optimization on your company website. Quality written articles have the ability to transform your websites SERP and add quality for your company website. Writing informative keyword rich articles is essential in gaining new backlinks in your business website. Articles can and should be written on topics which can be unique for your business or industry. The articles can discuss a multitude of issues and ideas within your industry. Articles that supply people having a resource are invariably the most popular and many likely forms of articles that can cause backlinks to your website.

Focus your posts on your potential readers or customers. Seo articles should address real questions which can be asked by current or past clients. Each article you are writing to suit your needs company includes detailed analysis and Search engine optimization keywords that will help associate your website with all the content seen in your website. Focus your articles on around 3 keywords and stray from their website. Consistency is vital when writing Seo articles. In case you are writing about Vancouver Search engine optimization make sure your carry on and reveal information relevant to the keyword.

Give each of your Search engine optimization Articles an engaging Title that will encourage people to read and bookmark your articles. Ideally, the articles you write find yourself as links using their company websites which might be just like yours. This may help raise the power of each one link and definately will assist in your SERP. Ensure that you end each article which has a keyword anchored link (see Easy Small enterprise Seo). This link will assist you to enhance your rankings in Google as well as other major engines like google for the keyword coupled to the link. Submit the articles to your submitted article directory and Voila! Before long, your internet site could possibly be for the first page of Google.

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Vancouver Seo Agency Aims For Google Places With Complete Success

When folks type in looking term hunting for a business inside their local area, they will find that Google places and Google maps is showing listings of local businesses. It is rather eminent to enable them to be optimized and from this first page if they desire to generate business. Vancouver SEO companies should be educated in this area for their clients.

There seems to be a large amount of new Vancouver SEO companies establishing, simply because the necessity is there. Finding a search engine firm that has the client's interest at heart can be tedious. How many keywords would they optimize for? Do you know the keywords and also the corresponding amount of searches? Do they discover how to optimize for Google places? And so forth. Seo could be the business of landing at the pinnacle and Maxim Edge provide there.

"My wife i started our Vancouver Seo agency by accident. We now have learned with the school of hard knocks and trial and error how to use the web to promote any business. We began with the website, then this competition, and then of course building quality back-links to push a website up inside rankings. It isn't pushing a control button and watching what are the results type of business. It requires a lot of effort, a great deal of research and lots of commitment. We work hard for our clients and now we are very proud of a high retention rate." Randy Neale says.

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The Uyghurs from Eastern Turkistan

In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the north-western part of China, the land of Xinjiang is a very least populated land while it covers close to a sixth of the nation's area. Getting resisted while in generations the Han Chinese domination, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, or Old Eastern Turkistan, fell into under the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is primarily Uyghurs and Turkish - speaking System.

Islamic above all, the Uyghur people have a strong religious identity which usually, in specific, permitted them to preserve a solid difference in opposition to the Chinese enemy. Definitely, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a great civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

While in their own background, the Uyghurs successively adopted Shamanism, Manicheism, Buddhism and the Nestorianism before finally changing to Islam when the Arab conquerors beat the Chinese in year 751 BC., therefore beginning the way to the Islamization of the entire Central Asia.

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

The arrival of Islam was a great modification mainly because it was followed by the assimilation of the Uyghur areas in the immense Turkic and Islamic Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used today.

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

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only 9 million population - a trifle for this immense area. Therefore, Uyghur people are now part of the fifty six ethnic minority groups having been well-known in an official way by China.

This particular statute allows them a few privileges in a land where their big difference is very often repressed. Therefore, Uyghur people escape the "single child policy" and their language is known as the second official language in Xinjiang.

The integration of the Uyghurs and their culture in China, however, appears pretty illusory. The presence of all natural sources in Xinjiang, and its area with locations acknowledged as very sensitive, highly encouraged the government to accelerate the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the higher 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.

Saying more freedom, but especially the recognition of their true identity, this movement was severely repressed by the power authorities in location 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 keep their identification and their culture , though they become a minority on their own territory.

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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Making Money Opportunities

Businesses would be more interested in saving trees if money grew on them.Cross-posted from TriplePundit.

In 2009, I cofounded a company called CO2 IMPACT to develop high quality carbon offset projects in the Americas. While I have a Ph.D. in business, I have frequently been too focused on my values to justify the business case for a lower carbon footprint. I guess I care too much about what we are doing to the planet and what we are leaving behind for my son, Mateo.

Along the way, I have learned a painful lesson that hopefully can help other aspiring climate capitalists: Most people and most industries don't really care about the planet or climate change. They care about things that matter to their pocketbook or to their bottom line. I am of course exaggerating a bit as, for example, most of the Triple Pundit readers care about the environmental and social impacts of their activities, not just the financial.

Most of us noticed that Obama's recent rhetoric about energy efficiency and renewables avoided the topic of climate change altogether. This is not because Obama suddenly doesn't care about climate change. It is that he has learned what messaging works with the American people. Jobs, economy, jobs, oh yes, and did I mention jobs?

How we frame the issues and opportunities related to the low-carbon economy is incredibly important. Too many of us, myself included, wear our passion on our sleeves and focus on the wrong issues in trying to help engage a skeptical public to make the transition.

This is of course why Peter Byck developed a documentary, Carbon Nation, (which I blogged about recently), a climate change solutions movie "that doesn't even care if you believe in climate change." This is also the reason why I cowrote the forthcoming book, Climate Capitalism with Hunter Lovins. We hope that by removing the "debate" about climate change from the conversation and focusing on the profits, jobs, and economic growth that can be achieved by making the switch to a low-carbon economy, we might have more of an impact on public discourse and private action.

When CO2 IMPACT first started promoting our services to the market, our messaging focused on our ability to help companies reduce their emissions and generate extra revenue by selling the carbon offsets into the market. My opinion now is that was definitely the wrong message. We now focus on showing how companies can save money, or make more money, by engaging in energy efficiency, fuel switching, or methane capture projects. Oh yeah, and by the way, you can make some additional revenue from offsets to improve the project return on investment and grow your "green" brand at the same time.

Take our coal mine methane projects in Colombia. There have been two explosions from excessive gas in underground coal mines in Colombia this year killing 26 people. Last year, more than 200 miners were killed in similar explosions. While there are socially responsible mining companies who are absolutely concerned about the health and safety of their employees, the best arguments to get clients to embrace coal mine methane capture projects are financial. Mitigate operational risks of explosions, gain access to the methane as a cheap, green energy source, reduce their operating costs from ventilation systems (if you drain much of the gas, there is less ventilation requirements), and, oh yes, reduce their climate impact and gain additional carbon offset revenue.

Think Latin American coal mines are the only companies who care more about their bottom line than their impact on climate change? North American companies, except for a few notable exceptions, are the same way. Many recent articles in Triple Pundit have rightly recognized Walmart for its recent transition to being a climate leader. Does anyone really think that Walmart is doing this because they have suddenly become treehugging liberals? I don't think so. They are doing it because they are saving money. And lots of it. And Walmart, yes Walmart, won the Aspen Institute's 2009 Corporate Energy Efficiency Award [PDF] because of this commitment.

GE has made major efforts to promote their low-carbon green solutions. Sure they use their campaign to build their green credentials, but mostly they are doing it to generate more green bills. The Ecoimagination program is generating more than $18 billion per year in revenues for GE.

In conclusion, my point is for all of us who care about the planet and want to be part of the transition to the low-carbon economy, we need to focus more on the economy part, and slightly less on the low-carbon part. That is the fastest way to get to 350 parts per million.

Earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Leland Stanford Junior Universotu v. Roche,  a case that will clarify a 1980 law that governs the ownership of patents held by universities that rely on federal research funds.

The case refers back to 1988, when Mark Holodniy, then a Stanford-employed researcher, developed technology that would ultimately lead to one of the first AIDS tests. It's used to monitor the effectiveness of AIDS treatments, using polymerase chain reaction assays to measure the level of hormones in the body. However, while Holodniy was employed by Stanford, he also signed a research contract with a private pharmaceutical company to work on a similar projects. While the patents were originally granted to Stanford, Roche has been selling the technology to hospitals since 1996.

In 2005, Stanford took Roche to a federal district court in San Francisco, arguing that Roche had infringed on the school's patents. Stanford won the case, but an appeals court reversed the decision. On Monday, the case was presented in Washington to the Supreme Court. Lawyers for Roche Molecular Systems, Inc. argued that Roche's contract with the private company trumps any existing agreement with Stanford. In a broader view, the Supreme Court will decide which interests to protect: those of the government (in this case the university), or those of private businesses.

While Stanford has maintained that it seeks the intellectual property for the patent—and not the cash it creates—it's clear that lucrative patents can be a huge money-maker for universities. "Not all university inventions make a lot of money," University of California-Davis law professor Peter Lee told KQED Radio's The California Report, "but some do. So there's potentially millions of dollars at stake in the outcome of this case."

According to Bloomberg, the "case may pit universities and the federal government against companies." The article also notes that the Obama adminstration, MIT, and the Association of American Universities are backing Stanford.

Roche, based in Switzerland, argued that universities were making "hyperbolic" claims about the impact of the ruling. Bloomberg quotes the company as arguing that: "Stanford's desire for private monetary gain has nothing to do with clarity of title or bringing valuable scientific discoveries to the public...On the contrary, Stanford's effort to exclude Roche from practicing the patented invention would reduce opportunities for the public to benefit from the invention."

More than 25 organizations, private companies, and individuals have offered amici curiae, or legal opinions, to the court. In one, jointly filed by the Intel Corporation, Eli Lilly and Company, and Johnson and Johnson, among others, the private companies asserted that if Stanford was granted patent rights, it could reduce opportunities for the public to benefit from the invention.

"Stanford's novel interpretation of the Act would discourage collaboration by allowing universities and other contractors to engage in predatory behavior," they wrote in the brief. "Under Stanford's view, for example, a university could attempt to escape its contractual obligations and terminate a commercial collaborator's rights in an invention simply by sprinkling the research project with a modest amount of federal funds."

But, the Obama administration, as well as a number of high profile academic organizations have urged the court to reverse the 2009 decision. They argue that federally funded research projects are "used to advance the public interest," as opposed to corporate projects, which are used in the pursuit of maximum profit. U.S. Solicitor General Neal Katyal said that siding with Roche would frustrate "the government's ability to protect the taxpayers' multibillion-dollar investments in research and development."

A decision is expected in June.

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