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MLB creates new seven-day DL for concussions

Major League Baseball and its players union have announced a new set of protocols for dealing with concussions, including the creation of a new seven-day disabled list for players with the injury.

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With the company’s future already clouded by Steve Jobs’ latest medical leave, the possibility of the iPad’s chief designer, Jonathan Ive, cashing out ups the uncertainty, Dan Lyons writes.

Is Apple losing its design guru?

When Apple CEO Steve Jobs announced in January that he would take a third medical leave, the biggest concern was the cloud of uncertainty that hovered over the company. Now that uncertainty has become an issue again, as rumors have started swirling that Apple might lose its chief designer, Jonathan Ive. 

Apple's head designer Jonathan Ive poses for a portrait on January 27, 2010 in Cupertino, California. (Photo by Paul Harris / Newscom)

Reports in Ive’s native England suggest that the man who oversaw the design of the iPhone and iPad wants to spend more time in the U.K., putting him at odds with Apple’s board enough that he would consider leaving the company. Although Ive and Apple won’t comment, the scenario is plausible for two reasons: First, Ive is about to cash in options valued at $30 million that he was granted in 2008; and second, Ive has an especially close relationship with Jobs. 

Whether Ive stays or goes, the brouhaha shows the challenges that Apple is increasingly likely to face given the questions about Jobs’ role in the coming months. One scenario being bandied about by Apple-watchers suggests Ive is making a power play to succeed Jobs; it seems just as likely, however, that he simply may not want to work at Apple if Jobs isn’t there. 

Still others think the entire notion that Ive might leave is completely unfounded. But either way, the whole incident shows how the Jobs health situation is bringing more drama to a company that, until now, has been a model of tight-lipped discipline.

Apple’s products are famous for their sleek designs, and conventional wisdom holds that losing Ive would be a terrible blow to Apple—“Apple’s worst nightmare,” Britain’s Guardian called it. But the truth is, losing Ive may not be as big a deal as some Apple watchers think.

For one thing, Apple has loads of bench strength in every department, and because of its success it can attract just about anyone it wants.

“How much of this is Steve, how much is Jon, how much someone else? Steve always had an eye for design. The designer is only as good as the client,” says Jean-Louis Gassée.

For another, the real genius behind Apple’s designs might not be Ive—but rather Jobs.

That’s the educated guess of Jean-Louis Gassée, a former top executive at Apple and a longtime close watcher of the company who still has many connections there.

Gassée points out that Ive was already working at Apple when Jobs returned to the company in 1996. Ive joined the company in 1992, when Jobs was gone from the company, having been ousted by the board in 1985.

And before Jobs returned to Apple, Ive wasn’t exactly setting the world on fire. The first products that Ive designed under Jobs were the “Bondi Blue” iMac and the somewhat ugly iBook. Ive’s next products, the "desk lamp" Mac and the early metal laptops, were better looking, Gassée says.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Recognizing Women's History Month, New Deal 2.0 tells the surprising story of how women became citizens -- and how their economic lives have evolved along with their rights. Allida Black urges action on UN Resolution 1325, which ensures equal citizenship for women across the globe.

The monumental elections of Presidents Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (Liberia), Roza Otunbayeva (Krygyzstan), Dilma Rousseff (Brazil), and Prime Minister Julia Gillard (Australia) and the game-changing appointments of Dr. Michelle Bachelet as Under-Secretary General of the United Nations and Executive Director of UNWomen and Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State proved that women can govern, run preeminent human rights organizations, set international policy, and place women at the center of diplomacy, development, and peace.

But the question remains -- if women can be president, why can't they be citizens? Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights declares, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and in rights." Yet it took another twenty years after its signing to get the international conventions on political and civil rights and on economic, social and cultural rights -- and, in the United States, another twenty plus years for Congress to adopt legislation ensuring women's political and economic rights. It took another thirteen years for the United Nations to ratify (without the support of the United States) the Convention to End All Forms of Discrimination against Women. And in 2011, the US House of Representatives and other foreign governing bodies still toy with legislation essential to women's identities, ranging from limiting access to reproductive health services and marriage to crafting sentencing guidelines that treat girls and women as felons and charges those that have abducted and abused them with misdemeanors.

In a 1946 column, written before she joined the UN Commission on Human Rights, Eleanor Roosevelt urged women to "call on the Governments of the world to encourage women everywhere to take a more conscious part in national and international affairs, and on women to come forward and share in the work of peace and reconstruction as they did in the war and resistance." More than fifty years later, at the dawn of a new century, the UN Security Council -- pressured by a well-organized international women's lobby, Hillary Clinton, and other stateswomen and embarrassed by the rampant use of rape and genital dismemberment as tools of war -- adopted Resolution 1325. It urged "Member States to ensure increased representation of women at all decision-making levels in national, regional and international institutions and mechanisms for the prevention, management, and resolution of conflict."

Now ten years later, the campaign -- indeed the struggle -- to enforce this resolution rages across the United States as much as it does across Egypt or the Congo or Afghanistan.

It is tempting to construct this resolution narrowly -- to see it as a tool of armistice rather than reconstruction, as a vehicle to protect women rather than empower them. To do so, to paraphrase Albus Dumbledore, would be to do what is easy rather than what is right.

UN1325 is on the front line in the campaign for women's citizenship. It is a battle to ensure that economic, social and cultural rights cannot be divorced from, or considered separately from, political and civil rights. It is the struggle to reclaim democracy promotion away from post-Cold War politics, self-interested development and the campaign against terror and place it at the heart of citizen participation.

Just as important, it is a campaign to ensure women's rights as citizens as much as it is a campaign to force governments to act responsibly to all its citizens. While equality and human dignity have no sex, policy designed without taking stock of gender differences often perpetuates discrimination.

As Eleanor Roosevelt would say, both citizens and governments must "recognize that the goal of full participation in the life and responsibilities of their countries and of the world community is a common objective" and one "which the women of the world should assist one another" in achieving.



This post originally appeared on New Deal 2.0.

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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A bit of eye candy coming our way from across the pond! This time for director Sion (Strange Circus, Love Exposure, Suicide Club) Sono's strange little slasher flick Cold Fish. Break out your bento box!

For more information (that is, if you can read Japanese), dig on the official Cold Fish website here.

Synopsis

HE’LL MAKE YOU PICK UP THE PIECES

Shamoto runs a small tropical fish shop and leads a boring, but stable life. His second wife, Taeko, does not get along with his daughter, Mitsuko, and this worries him. He also feels somehow unfulfilled and dissatisfied with what his life has become.

One day Mitsuko is caught shoplifting at a department store. There they meet a friendly man named Murata, who helps to settle things between Mitsuko and the store manager. Since Murata also runs a tropical fish shop, Shamoto establishes a bond with him and they become friends; Mitsuko even begins working for Murata and living at his house, to avoid conflicts with her stepmother.

What Shamoto doesn’t know, however, is that Murata hides many dark secrets behind his friendly face. He sells cheap fish to his customers for high prices with his artful lies. If anyone detects his fraud or refuses to go along with his money-making schemes, they’re murdered and their bodies disposed of by Murata and his wife in grisly ways. Shamoto is slowly taken in by Murata’s tactics, and by the time he realizes that Murata is insane, and a serial killer who has made over fifty people disappear, he is powerless to do anything about it. But now Mitsuko is a hostage at Murata’s home, and Shamoto himself has become the killer’s unwilling accomplice!

Meanwhile, the murders, without any trace of the bodies, continue unabated. The police have long suspected Murata and try to get information about him from Shamoto; Murata quickly senses the danger and threatens Shamoto not to report anything to the police.

In the end, the conflict between Shamoto and Murata will result in murder, insanity, and an ordinary man being driven to the edge of the abyss.

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I have a 15 year old cousin with autism, whose parents are trying to plan for the future when they're not around to take care of him anymore. My uncle is in his mid 60's, and my aunt is somewhere in her 40's. I'm 24. My cousin will be classified as a disabled adult upon turning 18, and will probably have to be institutionalized at some point.



I received a call from my semi-estranged uncle asking if I'd be willing to administer the cousin's inheritance. I haven't seen these relatives for a few years. Semi-estranged due to family drama (which I'm not directly involved in) over the uncle's treatment of his other child. This mess also means that my uncle's other child is probably out of the running to look after my cousin with autism. I'm willing to consider acting as trustee, but I need a lot more information.



So .... if you have any experience with this sort of thing, I'd love to hear from you. I'm wondering about:



1) What kind of support does the US give to disabled adults? If it matters, cousin lives in TX. I'm still in graduate school, with no idea where I'll settle. Will my cousin be provided with somewhere safe to live, or is he out on the street as soon as my uncle's money runs out? Or does it make sense for the money to run out sooner, so government help kicks in (as seems to be the case for some instances of elder care)?



2) Is there any way for me to wind up on the hook for my cousin's care? I have no intention of agreeing to this if I will wind up legally responsible for supporting my cousin out of my own earnings. I also have no intention of ever being a physical caretaker.



3) My uncle pitched this as my only job being to control the investments and cut checks when necessary. What other duties am I likely to wind up with? What types of decisions will I have to be making, and what degree of involvement with my cousin's day-to-day life will be required?



4) Do professionals exist who do this for a fee, or does it always just fall onto family?



5) What about the other cousin? What are the legal ramifications of leaving an unequal inheritance?



6) What other questions do I need to be asking my uncle? I will have no problem asking awkward questions, or saying no to this request.



Before I sign onto anything, I'll definitely be consulting a lawyer, but that's a way into the future. I have on the order of a year to make this decision.



Anonymous because these really aren't my secrets to spill all over the internet, and it's easy to figure out my identity from my posting history.



I will be following this thread, and can answer questions through one of the admins. If you want to contact me directly, I can be reached at autistic_cousin@hotmail.com.
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Interview as well as Discussion

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Estimate

The next phase would be the created estimation. The contractor will take out their loan calculator and come track of an itemized estimate. Some companies will go to their own vehicle or truck and write down the actual proposal, while some may crunch the numbers to do the job in front of you. Once you are because of the suggestion, make sure that you understand which items will be utilized, just how long the task will require and when there are any extra or even hidden costs that could arise throughout the repair of the roof. The service provider should be able to answer all of these concerns effortlessly and forewarn a person of any additional expenses that might be incurred if the roof's ethics end up being broken inside.

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Seven Uyghurs Sentenced to Death

2011-03-23

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

 

AFP

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

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

'Strike hard' campaign

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Earlier cases

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

New training scheme

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

An Urumqi resident surnamed Li agreed.

 

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

 

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

 

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

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Wikileaks and also the Uyghurs

through holly upon Dec Twenty, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

If it were ever uncertain, information obtained by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese government worries over its ongoing control of the location this calls Xinjiang, which is also referred to as East Turkestan. The actual leaked wires through Ough.Utes. diplomats demonstrate the actual extent that Chinese language government bodies attempt to convince governments worldwide to adopt it's position upon issues impacting Uyghurs. The wires additionally show the U . s . States' issues as well as views concerning the ongoing repressive measures in the area.

Most lighting of Chinese language government pressure would be the cables pointing to Chinese language anger, or the specter of Chinese ire, within the release of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to 3rd nations. A December 29, 08 cable applies exactly how Chinese Helper International Minister Liu Jieyi fulfilled with the U.S. Ambassador to China to tone of voice Beijing's strong competitors of release to any nation apart from The far east, which if the Ough.S. do certainly accede for this ask for it would "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and also to cooperation ‘in essential areas'". Furthermore, a Feb '09 cable explains the way the Chinese language Ambassador in order to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees as "an unfriendly act towards us" along with a "slap in the face". That the U.Utes. federal government stood company in not liberating the actual detainees to China demonstrates the extent of the politicized nature from the Chinese judicial system. Genuine concerns more than terrorism are easy to understand, however in the Ough.S. government's observe the detainees might probably encounter torture as well as execution if they returned to China

Chinese language government pressure regarding the Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only applied to the actual U.S. federal government, but additionally in order to Brand new Zealand and a handful of Western government authorities which were considering resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, in addition to European Union member says just about all have the symptoms of paid for the actual impact of Chinese government unhappiness. Regarding Indonesia, which was at first willing to consider two Uyghurs upon solely humanitarian grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been much less preferable to other detainees due to the unwanted effects accepting Uyghurs would have upon relations with The far east. The May Eight, '09 cable relates exactly how "German Ambassador Erina Schaefer documented which Germany had informed The far east from the U.S. ask for to simply accept a few Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo coupled with been consequently cautioned through The far east of ‘a large load on bilateral relations' if Indonesia were to accept any detainees".

The actual diplomatic wires also talk about the actual unrest in Urumchi, the actual regional capital, within July '09. The July 13, '09 cable television discussing bulk incidents within China states:

"Ethnic riots such as those who work in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 and in Tibet in 03 associated with 08 differ markedly within source and nature from mass incidents, XXXXXXXXXXXX emphasized in order to PolOff [Political Officer] on XXXXXXXXXXXX. Each present severe trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX said, however the Party management wouldn't wait to spread out fire on Uighurs or even Tibetans when they deemed this essential to restore purchase. Bulk incidents pose a different kind of threat, he explained, since the leadership is actually ‘afraid' to fire upon Han rioters for anxiety about causing huge public outrage that will turn against the Celebration."

This can be a chilling opinion, particularly when 1 considers evidence offered in two reports launched this season through the Uyghur Individual Privileges Project (UHRP) as well as Amnesty International that detail eyewitness company accounts of the use of deadly reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors in This summer 2009. Additionally, the actual observation which fireplace would not be used towards Han Chinese protestors offers resonances for the various approach used by Chinese security forces within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese protests within Sept 2009. Throughout those protests, then Celebration Assistant, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, who experienced demanded he inform them about government responses to protection concerns. An identical request to meet using the Party Secretary by Uyghur demonstrators within July was not met.

The actual broader consequences of the unrest also saw a brief dialogue about the effect it might have upon Iran-China relationships, as well as on relationships with Sydney following Globe Uyghur Our elected representatives Leader, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, spoke at the Nationwide Press Club within Canberra in July 2009. Within the second option situation, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a major Australian financial institution that vendors the National Press Membership to make use of its influence to block a Kadeer speech there".

The United States' issues concerning the situation within the Uyghur region also come via within the wires. In a dialogue on plan path within Tibet, Ough.Utes. authorities clarify that it'll end up being impossible for Chinese leaders to consider a much softer collection "if they appear like they are doing this below worldwide pressure". The actual cable television dated 04 16, 08, one month after the episode of unrest in Tibetan regions, additionally relayed the actual declaration "that domestic balance remains the leadership's top priority above all else, which means there will ‘almost surely' be absolutely no rest of the present difficult collection upon Tibet or perhaps in locations such as Xinjiang." The info included in the cable additionally storage sheds gentle on the severe level of sensitivity that china government views territorial integrity, and also the possible drip over associated with unrest through Tibet.

The chance associated with methods to tensions within Tibet and Xinjiang arising from municipal culture are discussed in a February 24, 08 cable. Whilst suggesting that China's financial achievement increases it's resistance to democratic change, the actual cable television also talks about how Chinese leaders see the usefulness of "a limited growth associated with municipal society, such as improvements within the guideline of regulation and a stronger part with regard to authorized religions, NGOs, non profit organizations along with other actors in areas which bring about social balance and don't challenge Communist Party rule." This can be a significant change in thinking, which has observed Ough.S. officials market the notion which Chinese economic development, and financial relations with The far east brings in regards to a progressively democratic culture; nevertheless, much more belief appears to be put into the grassroots motion compared to one which starts from the best levels of the Chinese government. Nevertheless, the cable television proves that "[i]n areas such as Tibet and Xinjiang, driving a car of separatism results in tighter restrictions on the growth of municipal society." This method can be regarded as counter-productive through the recognized, that suggests that the U.S. government "should continue to express...serious concerns more than Beijing's human rights report as well as appeal to China's developing awareness that higher regard with regard to individual privileges, religious independence and the rule of regulation assists to promote the very development and sociable balance which China seeks in addition to to enhance China's worldwide picture." Such a technique would take substantial diplomatic skills considering "China's weird fear the United States secretly encourages routine alter as well as ‘separatists' within Taiwan, Tibet as well as Xinjiang".

The actual cables offer insight into the every day business of diplomacy that's rarely afforded to everyone, which is fascinating to notice the quantity of function carried out nowadays upon Uyghur problems. The significance of the role of the United States as a keep track of associated with Uyghur individual privileges conditions in private conversations is created clear, and contrasts using its tactful public stance. The staff from the Uyghur Individual Privileges Task is well aware of pressure the Chinese government puts on Uyghur activists; nevertheless, the details of Chinese government pressure upon it's counterparts is illustrative of the diploma which Chinese authorities attempt to control contrary narratives. With more revelations to come from Wikileaks, concerns more than Uyghurs may not get the headlines, however the cables possess shed new gentle on the paperwork of individual privileges problems within the Uyghur region.

 

Wikileaks and also the Uyghur People

through henry on December 20, This year
Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project

Whether it had been actually uncertain, information acquired through the whistleblower web site, Wikileaks, offers verified Chinese government fears over its continued control of the region it phone calls Xinjiang, also is referred to as East Turkestan. The leaked out cables through Ough.S. diplomats show the extent that Chinese language authorities make an effort to convince governments worldwide to consider it's position on problems impacting Uyghurs. The actual wires additionally show the United States' issues and views regarding the on going repressive measures in the area.

Most lighting of Chinese language government stress would be the cables directed in order to Chinese anger, or even the specter associated with Chinese ire, over the discharge of Uyghur detainees in Guantánamo to third nations. The Dec Twenty nine, 2008 cable television relates how Chinese Assistant Foreign Minister Liu Jieyi met using the U.Utes. Ambassador to The far east to tone of voice Beijing's powerful opposition associated with release in order to any kind of nation other than The far east, and that if the Ough.S. did indeed accede for this ask for it would "avoid injury to bilateral relationships and to cooperation ‘in important areas'". In addition, the February 2009 cable television explains the way the Chinese Ambassador to Kyrgyzstan, Zhang Yannian, regarded as the actual feasible release of Uyghur Guantánamo detainees because "an unfriendly act towards us" and a "slap within the face". The U.S. government was firm within not really liberating the actual detainees in order to The far east illustrates the degree from the politicized nature from the Chinese judicial program. Legitimate concerns more than terrorism tend to be understandable, however in the U.Utes. government's view the detainees would probably face do-it-yourself torture as well as execution if they came back in order to China

Chinese language government stress in regard to the actual Uyghur Guantánamo detainees was not only put on the U.Utes. federal government, but also to Brand new Zealand along with a number of Western governments that were thinking about resettlement. Albania, Indonesia as well as Finland, as well as European Union fellow member states all appear to have paid for the actual impact of Chinese language government unhappiness. Regarding Indonesia, that was at first prepared to consider two Uyghurs on purely relief grounds, Uyghur Guantánamo cases had been less preferable to additional detainees because of the unwanted effects taking Uyghurs might have on relations along with The far east. The May 8, 2009 cable television applies exactly how "German Ambassador Michael Schaefer reported which Indonesia had knowledgeable The far east of the Ough.S. ask for to accept some Uighur detainees kept from Guantánamo and had been subsequently warned through The far east of ‘a large load on bilateral relations' in the event that Germany were to simply accept any kind of detainees".

The actual diplomatic cables additionally discuss the unrest within Urumchi, the actual regional funds, within July '09. The This summer 13, '09 cable talking about mass occurrences within China states:

"Ethnic riots like those in Xinjiang This summer 5-7 as well as in Tibet within March associated with 2008 differ substantially within origin as well as nature from bulk occurrences, XXXXXXXXXXXX stressed to PolOff [Political Officer] upon XXXXXXXXXXXX. Both present severe trouble for the Celebration, XXXXXXXXXXXX stated, but the Party leadership would not wait to spread out fire upon Uighurs or even Tibetans when they considered this essential to restore purchase. Mass incidents present another type of threat, he explained, as the leadership is ‘afraid' to fire on Han rioters for fear of sparking massive open public outrage that will change against the Celebration."

This can be a relaxing viewpoint, particularly when one considers the evidence presented by 50 percent reports released this season through the Uyghur Human Privileges Project (UHRP) and Amnesty Worldwide which detail eyewitness accounts of the utilization of deadly reside fireplace towards Uyghur protestors within This summer '09. Additionally, the actual declaration that fireplace would not be deployed towards Han Chinese language protestors has resonances for the various approach taken through Chinese protection causes within Urumchi in order to Han Chinese direct orders in Sept '09. Throughout individuals direct orders, after that Party Secretary, Wang Lequan, tackled protesters, who experienced required he let them know about government responses in order to protection concerns. A similar ask for to satisfy with the Party Secretary through Uyghur demonstrators in This summer wasn't met.

The broader consequences from the unrest additionally saw a brief discussion on the effect it might possess on Iran-China relations, as well as on relations along with Sydney after World Uyghur Congress President, Microsoft. Rebiya Kadeer, talked in the Nationwide Press Membership within Canberra within July 2009. Within the latter situation, china federal government "privately warn[ed] a significant Australian financial institution which vendors the National Press Club to make use of it's influence to bar the Kadeer speech there".

The actual United States' concerns about the scenario in the Uyghur area also come via within the cables. Inside a discussion on policy direction in Tibet, Ough.S. officials explain that it will end up being impossible with regard to Chinese language leaders to adopt the much softer line "if they appear like doing this below worldwide pressure". The cable out dated 04 16, 2008, one month after the outbreak of unrest within Tibetan areas, also relayed the actual observation "that household stability remains the leadership's main concern most of all, meaning there'll ‘almost surely' end up being absolutely no rest from the present difficult collection on Tibet or perhaps in places such as Xinjiang." The info contained in the cable also storage sheds light on the severe sensitivity that china government views territorial ethics, and the possible drip more than of unrest from Tibet.

The chance of methods to tensions in Tibet and Xinjiang arising from municipal society tend to be debated in a February Twenty-four, 2008 cable. Whilst recommending that China's financial success will increase it's potential to deal with democratic reform, the cable also discusses exactly how Chinese frontrunners begin to see the usefulness associated with "a limited expansion of municipal society, such as improvements within the rule associated with law along with a stronger role with regard to authorized religions, NGOs, charities and other stars within areas which bring about social balance and do not problem Communist Party rule." This can be a notable change in thinking, that has observed Ough.S. officials market the idea that Chinese economic improvement, as well as financial relations along with China brings about a progressively democratic society; nevertheless, much more faith appears to be put into the grassroots motion than one that begins from the best levels of the Chinese language federal government. Nonetheless, the cable television concludes which "[i]n places for example Tibet as well as Xinjiang, the fear of separatism results in tighter limitations on the development of civil culture." This approach can be regarded as counter-productive by the official, that suggests that the U.Utes. government "should continue to express...serious issues over Beijing's individual rights record and attract China's developing consciousness that higher regard for individual rights, spiritual independence and the guideline associated with law assists to advertise the improvement as well as social balance that China looks for in addition to to improve China's international image." Such a technique would consider substantial diplomatic skills thinking about "China's paranoid concern that the Usa secretly encourages routine change and ‘separatists' in Taiwan, Tibet and Xinjiang".

The actual cables provide insight into the actual every day business associated with diplomacy that's rarely owned by the general public, which is interesting to note the quantity of function carried out behind closed doors on Uyghur problems. The importance of the actual role of the us as a monitor of Uyghur human rights problems in private discussions is made obvious, and contrasts using its tactful open public stance. Employees of the Uyghur Individual Rights Project is comfortable with pressure the Chinese federal government exerts on Uyghur activists; still, the details associated with Chinese language federal government pressure upon it's counterparts is actually illustrative from the diploma that Chinese officials make an effort to suppress contrary narratives. With more facts to come from Wikileaks, issues over Uyghurs might not grab the headlines, but the wires have get rid of brand new gentle about the documentation associated with human rights problems in the Uyghur area.

 

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In the center of the desert landscapes of Taklamakan, in the northern-western part of China, the land of Xinjiang is the very least populated province whereas it covers near to a sixth from the nation's area. Having resisted during hundreds of years the chinese domination, Xinjiang, or Old Turkistan, fell within the Chinese Han control in 1949. From then, its population is generally Uyghur People and Turkic - speaking System.

Islamic especially, the Uyghur people have a strong religious identity which, in particular, allowed them to maintain a solid difference towards the Chinese enemy. Without a doubt, the Uyghur Empire of Mongolia knew a excellent civilization, until its absorption by the Mongolian Empire in the XIIIth century.

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

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

The coming of Islam was a great change mainly because it was followed by the absorption of the Uyghur land in the enormous Turkic and Muslim Empire. Thus, the descendants of Genghis Khan slowly replaced their writing by a Arabo-Persan alphabet, still used today.

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

For a few years, China has included the proper identity of these remote people, though they represent only nine million inhabitants - a trifle for this particular immense country. Thus, the Uyghurs are now part of the 56 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 big 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.

The integration of the Uyghur people and their culture in China, however, seems pretty illusory. The presence of natural resources in Xinjiang, and its distance with locations identified as sensitive, highly motivated the government to increase the sinicization of this area. Million of Han thus came to settle in this new Chinese eldorado, monopolizing the greater responsibility work opportunities.

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

Asserting more flexibility, but primarily the acceptance of their true identity, this movement was seriously repressed by the power authorities in place Xinjiang.

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

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Cute kittens and toddlers may be YouTube’s bread and butter, but Google’s video portal needs more than that to encroach on the goliath that is cable TV. But instead of shelling out for the rights to premium content from cable networks, YouTube is hoping it can nudge its existing community toward making high quality videos.

Today the company has confirmed that it has acquired Next New Networks, a firm founded in 2007 that focuses on producing high quality original video content for the web. Alongside the news, YouTube is announcing ‘YouTube Next’, a team of experts (made up by many of the NNN team, no doubt) who are setting out to “supercharge creator development and accelerate partner growth and success”. In other words, YouTube is going to give certain partners access to a team of experts that can hopefully help them produce better content. YouTube’s pending acquisition of Next New Networks was first reported by the New York Times in December.

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In fact, the number of partners making over $1,000 a month is up 300% since the beginning of 2010 and we now have hundreds of partners making six figures a year. But frankly, “hundreds” making a living on YouTube isn’t enough and in 2011 we know we can and should do more to help our partners grow.

The YouTube Next initiative sounds good on paper, but it’s not really clear how YouTube is going to be able to scale the program to make it useful to more than “hundreds” of partners.

Last year YouTube launched a Partner Grants Program that allows promising content creators to receive an advance on their future ad revenue so that they can invest in making videos with higher production values. And it gave a $1,000 credit to 500 partners late last year to buy new video equipment.

But both of those programs revolved around money, which scales. This YouTube Next team is about expertise — YouTube will be contacting partners that it believes could use some help, and will send in its team of experts who can offer tips on YouTube’s platform and the kind of content that tends to do well online. This training will be free, but, again, only select content partners will get access to it.

YouTube says that Next team will be global, but it isn’t saying how many people will be involved. Beyond this partner training, it sounds like YouTube will be launching further grant programs under its Next brand.

Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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