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Studying at The Koya University is likely to be different from your previous experiences, especially if you have not studied independently on your own. We educate individuals to become critical/independent thinker and pushing the limit when needed. You will be expected to organize your own time and manage your own work. You will experience different styles of teaching and be expected to spend significant amounts of time studying independently. Also, the University schedule of terms and semesters might be different to what you are familiar with. It is important to remember that there is always help available if you have questions.
Our main stream policy based on knowledge transferring for a brighter future. Our academic community encourage students to learn how they can mobiles for Studying Effectively.
Academic year
The academic year in Kurdistan Region runs from September to June and is split into two semesters:
- Autumn Semester (Semester 1) September – January
- Spring Semester (Semester 2) January – June
All exams for taught courses (excluding research) are at the end of each semester. Dates are available from the faculties' Exams Office.
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New simulations from Imperial College London have revealed the asteroid that doomed the dinosaurs struck Earth at the 'deadliest possible' angle.
The simulations show that the asteroid hit Earth at an angle of about 60 degrees, which maximised the amount of climate-changing gases thrust into the upper atmosphere.
Such a strike likely unleashed billions of tonnes of sulphur, blocking the sun and triggering the nuclear winter that killed the dinosaurs and 75 per cent of life on Earth 66 million years ago.
Drawn from a combination of 3-D numerical impact simulations and geophysical data from the site of the impact, the new models are the first ever fully 3-D simulations to reproduce the whole event—from the initial impact to the moment the final crater, now known as Chicxulub, was formed.
The simulations were performed on the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) DiRAC High Performance Computing Facility.
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Lead researcher Professor Gareth Collins, of Imperial's Department of Earth Science and Engineering, said: "For the dinosaurs, the worst-case scenario is exactly what happened. The asteroid strike unleashed an incredible amount of climate-changing gases into the atmosphere, triggering a chain of events that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs. This was likely worsened by the fact that it struck at one of the deadliest possible angles.
"Our simulations provide compelling evidence that the asteroid struck at a steep angle, perhaps 60 degrees above the horizon, and approached its target from the north-east. We know that this was among the worst-case scenarios for the lethality on impact, because it put more hazardous debris into the upper atmosphere and scattered it everywhere—the very thing that led to a nuclear winter."
The results are published today in Nature Communications.
Crater creation
The upper layers of earth around the Chicxulub crater in present-day Mexico contain high amounts of water as well as porous carbonate and evaporite rocks. When heated and disturbed by the impact, these rocks would have decomposed, flinging vast amounts of carbon dioxide, sulphur and water vapour into the atmosphere.
The sulphur would have been particularly hazardous as it rapidly forms aerosols—tiny particles that would have blocked the sun's rays, halting photosynthesis in plants and rapidly cooling the climate. This eventually contributed to the mass extinction event that killed 75 per cent of life on Earth.
The team of researchers from Imperial, the University of Freiburg, and The University of Texas at Austin, examined the shape and subsurface structure of the crater using geophysical data to feed into the simulations that helped diagnose the impact angle and direction. Their analysis was also informed by recent results from drilling into the 200 km-wide crater, which brought up rocks containing evidence of the extreme forces generated by the impact.
Peak performance
Pivotal to diagnosing the angle and direction of impact was the relationship between the centre of the crater, the centre of the peak ring—a ring of mountains made of heavily fractured rock inside the crater rim—and the centre of dense uplifted mantle rocks, some 30 km beneath the crater.
At Chicxulub, these centres are aligned in a southwest-northeast direction, with the crater centre in between the peak-ring and mantle-uplift centres. The team's 3-D Chicxulub crater simulations at an angle of 60 degrees reproduced these observations almost exactly.
The simulations reconstructed the crater formation in unprecedented detail and give us more clues as to how the largest craters on Earth are formed. Previous fully 3-D simulations of the Chicxulub impact have covered only the early stages of impact, which include the production of a deep bowl-shaped hole in the crust known as the transient crater and the expulsion of rocks, water and sediment into the atmosphere.
These simulations are the first to continue beyond this intermediate point in the formation of the crater and reproduce the final stage of the crater's formation, in which the transient crater collapses to form the final structure (see video). This allowed the researchers to make the first comparison between 3-D Chicxulub crater simulations and the present-day structure of the crater revealed by geophysical data.
Co-author Dr. Auriol Rae of the University of Freiburg said: "Despite being buried beneath nearly a kilometre of sedimentary rocks, it is remarkable that geophysical data reveals so much about the crater structure—enough to describe the direction and angle of the impact."
The researchers say that while the study has given us important insights into the dinosaur-dooming impact, it also helps us understand how large craters on other planets form.
Co-author Dr. Thomas Davison, also of Imperial's Department of Earth Science and Engineering, said: "Large craters like Chicxulub are formed in a matter of minutes, and involve a spectacular rebound of rock beneath the crater. Our findings could help advance our understanding of how this rebound can be used to diagnose details of the impacting asteroid."
Provided by: Imperial College London
More information: Collins, G.S., Patel, N., Davison, T.M. et al. A steeply-inclined trajectory for the Chicxulub impact. Nat Commun (2020). doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15269-x
Image: Original artwork depicting the moment the asteroid struck in present-day Mexico.
Credit: Chase Stone

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More than 1 in 4 U.S. shoppers with intent to buy have abandoned their cart in the past quarter because the checkout process was too long or too complicated.
That's a lot of money being left on the table.
Earlier this year, we launched Shop Pay to accelerate checkout for your customers, reducing cart abandonment and improving sales.
With Shop Pay (formerly Shopify Pay), customers can save their personal information and payment details to Shopify Checkout in just 1 step on hundreds of thousands of stores powered by Shopify. Even on stores they're visiting for the first time!
The result? During Black Friday Cyber Monday weekend alone, over 400,000 people spent over $30 million 3x faster using Shopify Pay.
Over 400,000 people spent over $30 million 3x faster using Shopify Pay.
Let's dive into just a couple of those BFCM success stories.
Victoria Emerson: 4x the conversion rate.
Like all ecommerce stores, Victoria Emerson battles with cart abandonment:
"It's always interesting to us why the 'add to cart' number is so high. Why do 30% of people on Black Friday add to cart and only half actually checkout? We know that's something people do, so it becomes a matter of pushing them along each stage of the process. If we can improve the drop-off rate at each stage along the way, we can increase our conversion rate."
Shopify Pay is one way Jamie and the Victoria Emerson team are moving customers through each stage of the purchase process faster and more efficiently:
"In the age of mobile, competition for time is so high. You need to be able to push the customer through the process as quickly as possible because every second, you risk losing them to a new notification. Speed is very important."
Over BFCM, Victoria Emerson's conversion rate was 4x higher than usual.
"Shopify Pay improves the checkout process because customers are able to checkout faster with less friction. So, they're more likely to actually make their purchase."
Peel: 2x the conversion rate.
For Alan Cassinelli and the Peel marketing team, accelerated checkout with Shopify Pay is a modern solution to an old "necessary evil":
"It feels like a major improvement over the regular checkout experience we've been using on the web for however many years. Accelerated checkouts really take advantage of the new technologies we have to purchase. It doesn't make sense to have to re-enter the same information over and over again across all of the Internet."
This BFCM, mobile sales surpassed desktop sales throughout the entire weekend. Actually, mobile sales accounted for 64% of orders overall, an increase of 10% year-over-year.
With Shopify Pay, checkout is quicker and easier than ever before, especially on mobile:
"The speed of the entire website, especially the checkout experience, is definitely critical. It's normally a pain point or, at the very least, just a really slow process, especially on mobile. To have an accelerated checkout that expedites the process is a huge bonus to our business."
Over BFCM, Peel's conversion rate was more than 2x higher than usual.
"It's kind of like going into your favorite coffee shop, and they all already know what your order is going to be. It's a more personal experience. You're not just some random person on the web. It's just more convenient and, as everyone knows, convenience is the number one driving factor of ecommerce."
Over to You
A faster checkout experience means fewer abandoned carts, which means more money in your pocket.
This BFCM, Shopify Pay allowed 400,000+ people to take advantage of the hottest deals 3x faster. The result? $32 million in the hands of Shopify merchants instead of in old, abandoned carts.
You can see the impact Shopify Pay had on your BFCM in your payments report:
Shopify Pay is free to those using Shopify Payments. Not using Shopify Payments yet? Learn more about instantly reducing the friction of your checkout experience.


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Raw milk and milk products from cows, goats, and sheep can transmit life-threatening bacterial infections, yet sales are still legal in at least 30 states. In a new policy statement, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) advises pregnant women, infants and children to consume only pasteurized milk, cheese and other milk products, and supports a ban on the sale of raw milk in the U.S.
The policy statement, "Consumption of Raw or Unpasteurized Milk and Milk Products by Pregnant Women and Children," published in the January 2014 Pediatrics (released online Dec. 16), reviews evidence of the risks of consuming unpasteurized milk and milk products in the U.S., especially among pregnant women, infants, and children.
"Given the progress we have made in prevention, there is no reason to risk consuming raw milk in this day and age," said Jatinder Bhatia, MD, FAAP, a co-author of the policy statement. "Consumption of raw milk products is especially risky for pregnant women, infants, immunocompromised individuals, and the elderly, and the evidence overwhelmingly establishes the benefits of pasteurization on food safety."
Efforts to limit the sale of raw milk products have been opposed by people who claim there are health benefits from natural factors in milk that are inactivated by pasteurization. However, the benefits of these natural elements have not been clearly demonstrated in scientific research. Numerous data show pasteurized milk provides the same nutritional benefits as raw milk, without the risk of deadly infections including Listeria, Campylobacter, Salmonella, Brucella and E. coli.
"Consumption of raw milk or milk products can result in severe and life-threatening illnesses such as miscarriage and stillbirths in pregnant women, and meningitis and blood-borne infections in both young infants and pregnant women," said Yvonne Maldonado, MD, FAAP, the lead author of the policy statement. "Before pasteurization of milk began in the United States in the 1920s, consumption of raw dairy products accounted for a significant proportion of foodborne illnesses among Americans, and resulted in hundreds of outbreaks of tuberculosis and other serious infections."
Today, an estimated 1 percent to 3 percent of all dairy products consumed in the U.S. are not pasteurized. From 1998 to 2009, consumption of raw milk products in the U.S. resulted in 1,837 illnesses, 195 hospitalizations, 93 illness outbreaks, and two deaths. The risks involved with infections due to consuming raw milk are particularly high for pregnant women and their fetuses, as well as for young children.
"Raw milk poses a significant health risk, since the process of obtaining fresh milk from cows and goats can be fraught with risks of contamination both while milking the animals and during storage," said Mary Glodé, MD, FAAP, a co-author of the policy statement. "Pasteurized milk and milk products are extraordinarily healthy, nutritious and safe for children. We are fortunate to have pasteurized products easily available for our entire population."
The AAP supports the position of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other national and international associations in endorsing the consumption of only pasteurized milk and milk products for pregnant women, infants, and children. The AAP also endorses a ban on the sale of raw or unpasteurized milk or milk products in the U.S., including certain raw milk cheeses. Pediatricians are encouraged to advocate for more restrictive laws regarding the sale and distribution of raw milk and raw dairy products.
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 primary care pediatricians, pediatric medical subspecialists and pediatric surgical specialists dedicated to the health, safety and well-being of infants, children, adolescents and young adults. For more information, visit www.aap.org.


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APY Application Form PDF
Atal Pension Yojana (APY) – Details of the Scheme
Atal Pension Yojana (APY) – Details of the Scheme
1. Introduction
1.1 The Government of India is extremely concerned about the old age income security of the working poor and is focused on encouraging and enabling them to join the National Pension System (NPS). To address the longevity risks among the workers in unorganised sector and to encourage the workers in unorganised sector to voluntarily save for their retirement, who constitute 88% of the total labour force of 47.29 crore as per the 66th Round of NSSO Survey of 2011-12, but do not have any formal pension provision, the Government had started the Swavalamban Scheme in 2010-11. However, coverage under Swavalamban Scheme is inadequate mainly due to lack of guaranteed pension benefits at the age of 60.
1.2 The Government announced the introduction of universal social security schemes in the Insurance and Pension sectors for all Indians, specially the poor and the under-privileged, in the Budget for the year 2015-16. Therefore, it has been announced that the Government will launch the Atal Pension Yojana (APY), which will provide a defined pension, depending on the contribution, and its period. The APY will be focussed on all citizens in the unorganised sector, who join the National Pension System (NPS) administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority (PFRDA). Under the APY, the subscribers would receive the fixed minimum pension of Rs. 1000 per month, Rs. 2000 per month, Rs. 3000 per month, Rs. 4000 per month, Rs. 5000 per month, at the age of 60 years, depending on their contributions, which itself would be based on the age of joining the APY. The minimum age of joining APY is 18 years and maximum age is 40 years. Therefore, minimum period of contribution by any subscriber under APY
would be 20 years or more. The benefit of fixed minimum pension would be guaranteed by the Government. The APY would be introduced from 1st June, 2015.
2. Benefit of APY
2.1 Fixed pension for the subscribers ranging between Rs. 1000 to Rs. 5000, if he joins and contributes between the age of 18 years and 40 years. The contribution levels would vary and would be low if subscriber joins early and increase if he joins late.
3. Eligibility for APY
3.1 Atal Pension Yojana (APY) is open to all bank account holders. The Central Government would also co-contribute 50% of the total contribution or Rs. 1000 per annum, whichever is lower, to each eligible subscriber account, for a period of 5 years, i.e., from Financial Year 2015-16 to 2019-20, who join the NPS between the period 1st June, 2015 and 31st December, 2015 and who are not members of any statutory social security scheme and who are not income tax payers. However the scheme will continue after this date but Government Co-contribution will not be available.
3.2 The Government co-contribution is payable to eligible PRANs by PFRDA after receiving the confirmation from Central Record Keeping Agency at such periodicity as may be decided by PFRDA.
4. Age of joining and contribution period
4.1 The minimum age of joining APY is 18 years and maximum age is 40 years. The age of exit and start of pension would be 60 years. Therefore, minimum period of contribution by the subscriber under APY would be 20 years or more.
Focus of APY
5.1 Mainly targeted at unorganised sector workers.
6. Enrolment and Subscriber Payment
6.1 All bank account holders under the eligible category may join APY with auto¬debit facility to accounts, leading to reduction in contribution collection charges. The subscribers should keep the required balance in their savings bank accounts on the stipulated due dates to avoid any late payment penalty. Due dates for monthly contribution payment is arrived based on the deposit of first contribution amount. In case of repeated defaults for specified period, the account is liable for foreclosure and the GoI co-contributions, if any shall be forfeited. Also any false declaration about his/her eligibility for benefits under this scheme for whatsoever reason, the entire government contribution shall be forfeited along with the penal interest. For enrolment, Aadhaar would be the primary KYC document for identification of beneficiaries, spouse and nominees to avoid pension rights and entitlement related disputes in the long-term. The subscribers are required to opt for a monthly pension from Rs. 1000 – Rs. 5000 and ensure payment of stipulated monthly contribution regularly. The subscribers can opt to decrease or increase pension amount during the course of accumulation phase, as per the available monthly pension amounts. However, the switching option shall be provided once in year during the month of April. Each subscriber will be provided with an acknowledgement slip after joining APY which would invariably record the guaranteed pension amount, due date of contribution payment, PRAN etc.
7. Enrolment agencies
7.1 All Points of Presence (Service Providers) and Aggregators under Swavalamban Scheme would enrol subscribers through architecture of National Pension System. The banks, as POP or aggregators, may employ BCs/Existing non – banking aggregators, micro insurance agents, and mutual fund agents as enablers for operational activities. The banks may share the incentives received by them from PFRDA/Government, as deemed appropriate.
8. Operational Framework of APY
8.1 It is Government of India Scheme, which is administered by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority. The Institutional Architecture of NPS would be utilised to enrol subscribers under APY. The offer document of APY including the account opening form would be formulated by PFRDA.
9. Funding of APY
9.1 Government would provide (i) fixed pension guarantee for the subscribers; (ii) would co-contribute 50% of the total contribution or Rs. 1000 per annum, whichever is lower, to eligible subscribers; and (iii) would also reimburse the promotional and development activities including incentive to the contribution collection agencies to encourage people to join the APY.
10. Migration of existing subscribers of Swavalamban Scheme to APY
10.1 The existing Swavalamban subscriber, if eligible, may be automatically migrated to APY with an option to opt out. However, the benefit of five years of government Co-contribution under APY would not exceed 5 years for all subscribers. This would imply that if, as a Swavalamban beneficiary, he has received the benefit of government Co-Contribution of 1 year, then the Government co-contribution under APY would be available only 4 years and so on. Existing Swavalamban beneficiaries opting out from the proposed APY will be given Government co-contribution till 2016¬17, if eligible, and the NPS Swavalamban continued till such people attained the age of exit under that scheme.
10.2 The existing Swavalamban subscribers between 18-40 years will be automatically migrated to APY. For seamless migration to the new scheme, the associated aggregator will facilitate those subscribers for completing the process of migration. Those subscribers may also approach the nearest authorised bank branch for shifting their Swavalamban account into APY with PRAN details.
10.3 The Swavalamban subscribers who are beyond the age of 40 and do not wish to continue may opt out the Swavalamban scheme by complete withdrawal of entire amount in lump sum, or may prefer to continue till 60 years to be eligible for annuities there under.
11. Penalty for default
11.1 Under APY, the individual subscribers shall have an option to make the contribution on a monthly basis. Banks are required to collect additional amount for delayed payments, such amount will vary from minimum Rs. 1 per month to Rs 10/- per month as shown below:
- Rs. 1 per month for contribution upto Rs. 100 per month.
- Rs. 2 per month for contribution upto Rs. 101 to 500/- per month.
- Rs. 5 per month for contribution between Rs 501/- to 1000/- per month.
- Rs. 10 per month for contribution beyond Rs 1001/- per month.
The fixed amount of interest/penalty will remain as part of the pension corpus of the subscriber.
11.2 Discontinuation of payments of contribution amount shall lead to following:
- After 6 months account will be frozen.
- After 12 months account will be deactivated.
- After 24 months account will be closed.
12. Operation of additional amount for delayed payments
12.1 APY module will raise demand on the due date and continue to raise demand till the amount is recovered from the subscriber's account.
12.2 The due date for recovery of monthly contribution may be treated as the first day /or any other day during the calendar month for each subscriber. Bank can recover amount any day till the last day of the month. It will imply that contribution are recovered as and when funds are available any point during the month.
12.3 Monthly contribution will be recovered on FIFO basis- earliest due instalment will recovered first along with the fixed amount of charges as mentioned above.
12.4 More than one monthly contribution can be recovered in month subject to availability of the funds. Monthly contribution will be recovered along with the monthly fixed due amount, if any. In all cases, the contribution is to be recovered along with the fixed charges. This will be banks' internal process. The due amount will be recovered as and when funds are available in the account.
13. Investment of the contributions under APY
13.1 The amount collected under APY are managed by Pension Funds appointed by PFRDA as per the investment pattern specified by the Government. The subscriber has no option to choose either the investment pattern or Pension Fund.
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How we use your personal information
JAXJOX is part of JAXJOX Inc. This privacy notice lets you know how the company promises to look after your personal information. This includes what you tell us about yourself, what we learn by having you as a customer, and the choices you give us about what marketing you would like us to send you. This notice explains how we do this and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
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- To keep your data safe and private
- To always take steps to protect your information
- To always use your personal data in line with data protection laws
- To give you ways to manage, review and cancel your marketing choices at any time
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Where can you find more information about us? https://jaxjox.com/ If you have any questions, or want more details about how we use your personal information, contact us at [email protected]
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As well as our Privacy Promise, your privacy is protected by law. This section explains how that works. Data Protection law says that we are allowed to use personal information only if we have a proper reason to do so. This includes sharing it outside JAXJOX Inc. The law says we must have one or more of these reasons:
- To fulfill a contract we have with you, or
- To establish, exercise or defend legal claims, or
- When it is our legal duty, or
- When it is in our legitimate interest, or
- When we have a vital interest, or
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A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. But even then, it must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you. If we rely on our legitimate interest, we will tell you what that is.
Where we collect personal information from
We may collect personal information about you (or your business) from other brands within Zinctex Inc. from these sources: Data you give to us:
- When you buy our products
- When you ask us for a replacement part or replacement product
- When you talk to us on the phone
- When you use our websites
- In emails
- In newsletters
- In customer surveys
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- If you take part in our competitions or giveaways
When you purchase a product from JAXJOX Inc, we will keep your data for 2 years as we have an interest in that data should you contact us regarding the product being faulty or any other customer service inquiries. Data we collect when you use our services. This includes the amount, frequency, type, location, origin and recipients:
- Payment and transaction data.
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- Companies that introduce you to us
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We may share some of your personal data with:
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We may also share your personal information if the make-up of JAXJOX Inc changes in the future:
- We may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business, or our assets. Or we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them
- During any such process, we may share your data with other parties We'll only do this if they agree to keep your data safe and private
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We may use your personal information to tell you about relevant products and offers. This is what we mean when we talk about 'marketing'. The personal information we have for you is made up of what you tell us and data we collect when you use our services, or from third parties we work with. We study this to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you. We can only use your personal information to send you marketing messages if we have either your consent or a 'legitimate interest'. That is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information. It must not unfairly go against what is right and best for you. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages by contacting us at any time. Whatever you choose, you'll still receive statements, and other important information such as changes to your existing products and services. We may ask you to confirm or update your choices, if you take out any new products or services with us in future. We will also ask you to do this if there are changes in the law, regulation, or the structure of our business. If you change your mind you can update your choices at any time by contacting us.
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We will keep your personal information for as long as we have your consent and a legitimate need to keep the information. After you stop being a customer, we may keep your data for up to 24 months for one of these reasons:
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We may keep your data for longer than 24 months if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons.
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You can access your personal information we hold by:
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You have the right to object to our use of your personal information, or to ask us to delete, remove, or stop using your personal information if there is no need for us to keep it. This is known as the 'right to object' and 'right to erasure', or the 'right to be forgotten'. There may be legal or other official reasons why we need to keep or use your data. But please tell us if you think that we should not be using it. You can ask us to restrict the use of your personal information if:
- It is not accurate
- It has been used unlawfully but you don't want us to delete it.
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If you want to object to how we use your data, or ask us to delete it or restrict how we use it or, please contact us.
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You can withdraw your consent at any time. Please contact us if you want to do so. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. If this is so, we will tell you.


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One in Five Deaths in Bangladesh Linked to Arsenic
Increased Mortality is Linked to Chronic Diseases with a 70 percent increased mortality risk among those with the highest level of exposure
Between 33 and 77 million people in Bangladesh have been exposed to arsenic in the drinking water—a catastrophe that the World Health Organization has called "the largest mass poisoning in history."
A new study published in the current issue of the medical journal The Lancet provides the most complete and detailed picture to date of the high mortality rates associated with this exposure, which began with the widespread installation of tube wells throughout the country 30 years ago—a measure intended to control water-bourne diseases.
Among the surprising findings of the study, conducted by a team of researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and the University of Chicago, and led by the Mailman School's Dr. Joseph Graziano are these:
- One in five deaths in Bangladesh (population: 125 million) is associated with exposure to water from wells with arsenic concentrations greater than 10 micrograms per liter.
- Arsenic exposure was associated with increased mortality due to heart disease and other chronic diseases in addition to the more familiar medical consequences of arsenic exposure: skin lesions, cancers of the skin, bladder and lung.
- An increase of nearly 70 percent in all-cause mortality was found among those exposed to the highest concentration of arsenic in water (150 to 864 micrograms/liter). But researchers found a dose-related effect that included increased mortaility even at relatively low levels of exposure, including the Bangladesh safety standard (50 micrograms/liter) and the WHO recommended standard (10 micrograms/liter).
- The study draws its results from a carefully designed, prospective, longitudinal study involving 12,000 people in Bangladesh who were tracked for over a decade.
To gather data for the Health Effects of Arsenic Longtudinal Study (HEALS), researchers traversed the tropical landscape over wooden bridges to interview each of the 12,000 participants and take urine samples every two years. Lifestyle and health data were tracked, allowing researchers to control for factors such as smoking, blood pressure and body-mass index. In addition, nearly 6,000 wells were tested to establish the arsenic concentration of the water source for each participant.
In an accompanying commentary in the same issue of The Lancet, Margaret P. Karagas of Dartmouth Medical School, describes the study design as "a substantial advance over previous ecological studies."
How Did This Happen?
The mass poisoning in Bangladesh was a result of well-intentioned efforts on the part of aid and development agencies in the 1970s, which built 10 million tube wells in an attempt to reduce water-bourne diseases such as cholera and dysentery, according to Dr. Graziano, professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School.
While the new wells reduced exposure to the microbes causing such diseases, they yielded water contamined with arsenic, which occurs naturally in the region. Arsenic can be avoided, however, by digging deeper wells—an approach that is already yielding safer drinking water for roughly 100,000 people. The Columbia Mailman School team has been at the forefront of this effort.
"The need for a global response is apparent because the situation goes far beyond the Bangladesh borders," says Dr. Graziano. "Arsenic in ground water is affecting 140 million people across many countries and especially in South Asia. "There needs to be a concerted effort to bring safe to millions of people. Investment has not been commensurate with the magnitude of the problem."
The research is supported by the National Institutes of Health. In addition to senior author Dr. Joseph Graziano, Dr. Habibul Ahsan, of the University of Chicago and professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School, was first author.
About the Mailman School of Public Health
The only accredited school of public health in New York City and among the first in the nation, Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health pursues an agenda of research, education, and service to address the critical and complex public health issues affecting millions of people locally and globally. The Mailman School is the recipient of some of the largest government and private grants in Columbia University's history. Its more than 1000 graduate students pursue master's and doctoral degrees, and the School's 300 multi-disciplinary faculty members work in more than 100 countries around the world, addressing such issues as infectious and chronic diseases, health promotion and disease prevention, environmental health, maternal and child health, health over the life course, health policy, and public health preparedness.


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Danish Minister Ole Sohn |
"I would like to start by looking at one of the issues which I would imagine is of interest and that is the question of the patent court. Adopting the European patent reform will be a major step forward to strengthen the competitiveness of European companies. A clear signal that we are taking concrete measures to boost growth and employment in Europe. Just to give you an example, today, it costs about €36,000 to obtain a patent in Europe whereas it only costs €2,000 in the US and €600 in China and that just goes to show the extent of the challenge we are facing and how important it is that we find a solution on the patent issue so in this way we can contribute to reinvigorating growth in Europe. The Council has done a lot of the ground work. There is one remaining issue - the location of the Central Division of the first instance court. We in the Danish Presidency have worked intensively on this since we started our Presidency to try and find a solution. Unfortunately, by today we have not found a solution that everyone can support. Unfortunately, obviously we very much regret that fact but I am an optimist. There are 31 days remaining of the Danish Presidency and the Heads of State of Government have committed themselves to finding a solution by the end of June. We still believe that even if we cannot solve it today, we will manage to solve it during the Danish Presidency."
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"There is also the very important and symbolic project that hundreds of thousands of companies have been waiting for - this unified patent that European business is eagerly awaiting so that it can stand on same footing as their US and Chinese coutnerparts. The number of patents that are submitted to the Chinese court increased to the tune of 30% per year so we really have no time to waste on this. Its an on-going process of course. Hopefully it will come to an end at the European Council. I submitted this proposal more than a year ago now and we hope that we will reach a result that is in line with the European economy."
"The Danish Presidency has been negotiating on this since day 1. I don't know how many days but until the very last day of the Presidency and we have been discussing this in the Council and also bi-laterally with some of the key players and its still our view that we will be able to find a solution. We have come to the point that the only outstanding point is the location of the Central Division of the first instance court and as I said at the Council meeting."Minister Sohn conintued by summarizing what the AmeriKat feels characterizes the long slow march to mediocrity in European legislative efforts:
"I appreciate the good arguments put forward by the countries who are putting forward their pitch, but obviously you try to get the person you love in life but sometimes you realize you got to live with the one you get. So people have to demonstrate that sort of flexibility here too. We are going to work really hard to achieve success by end of 2012."A further question was posed by a member of the press asking whether the Council could explain to companies why the negotiations were taking so long. In reply, Minister Sohn stated:
"Could I start by stressing the fact that I hope and believe that we will arrive to a solution by the end of June, but there aren't any good arguments for not coming up with solution, if you are trying to explain this to European industry because for every day that goes by we are piling on additional costs for European industry to obtain EU patents compared to, as I said in my introduction, the costs in US and China. So there are not any good arguments, but solutions some time take time when there is more than one person involved in negotiations. It has taken a little longer than I would have liked. But as long as our target, and its been our target since Day 1, to get this sorted before July 2012 than I think we can still meet this target. But there are no good arguments for not arriving at a solution."A question from Bloomberg asked the panel to identify the countries who were in the running for the seat of the Central Division. Reinforcing the lack of transparency regarding the entire process (see earlier post this morning), Minister Sohn stated:
"I think it would be wisest to continue the negotiations and discussions between the players within the Council and not so much in public debate because the more public it becomes the harder it is to arrive at a solution. It is well known that Germany, the UK, France and other countries are keen to obtain the court of first instance, but on the specific of the details I will tell you about at the end of June when we will hopefully have a final result."
Having been through this before, its now time for the AmierKat's head to slam against the table.... |
Further, comments that there is only there being "one last outstanding issue" obviously does not accord with the previous understanding by practitioners and indeed, Baroness Wilcox and her team (see previous AmeriKat posts here), but of course who knows what happens behind the closed doors of the unitary patent negotiations. Unless an agreement can be reached in just over 2 weeks, it is unlikely that the European Parliament's scheduled reading and vote on 13 and 14 June will proceed.
The question is, of course, are the events of December's Competitiveness Council repeating itself? Is the "outstanding issue" on the location of the Central Division another delay tactic? Given the lack of transparency in this process, we will have to await Baroness Wilcox's report of the session to the House of Commons Scrutiny Committee and hopefully, their robust reply to clarify the truth in there being only one "last outstanding issue".


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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) have agreed to collaborate on the development of a powerful tool built upon IBM Watson in order to provide medical professionals with improved access to current and comprehensive cancer data and practices. The resulting decision support tool will help doctors everywhere create individualized cancer diagnostic and treatment and recommendations for their patients based on current evidence.
The initiative will combine the computational power of IBM Watson and its natural language processing ability with MSKCC's clinical knowledge, existing molecular and genomic data and vast repository of cancer case histories, in order to create an outcome and evidence-based decision support system. The goal is to give oncologists located anywhere the ability to obtain detailed diagnostic and treatment options based on updated research that will help them decide how best to care for an individual patient.
The IBM Watson system gained fame by beating human contestants on the television quiz show Jeopardy! It can interpret queries in natural language and uses statistical analysis, advanced analytics and a powerful array of processors to search millions of pages in seconds and deliver evidence-based statistically-ranked responses.
MSKCC's world-renowned oncologists will assist in developing IBM Watson to use a patient's medical information and synthesize a vast array of continuously updated and vetted treatment guidelines, published research and insights gleaned from the deep experience of MSKCC clinicians to provide an individualized recommendation to physicians. The tool will also provide users with a detailed record of the data and evidence used to reach the recommendations.
The need for such an advanced technology arises from the steadily increasing complexity of oncology treatment. Cancers are the second most common cause of death in the U.S., second only to heart disease, and the American Cancer Society projects that 1.6 million new cancer cases will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year* with outcomes varying widely across the country. Cancer is not one disease but some hundreds of sub-types, each with a different genetic fingerprint. Significant discoveries in molecular biology and genetics in the past two decades have delivered new insights into cancer biology and strategies for targeting specific molecular alterations in tumors, but these advances have also ratcheted up the complexity of diagnosing and treating each case. Oncologists and physicians who do not specialize in specific sub-types of cancer face a significant challenge in keeping up with the magnitude of rapidly changing information.
"The combination of transformational technologies found in Watson with our cancer analytics and decision-making process has the potential to revolutionize the accessibility of information for the treatment of cancer in communities across the country and around the world," said MSKCC President and CEO Craig B. Thompson. "Consistent with our mission, the vision is to help better identify and personalize cancer therapies for each individual patient, no matter where that patient may be receiving care. We also expect tremendous new research opportunities to emerge from this collaboration."
"Memorial Sloan Kettering's evidence-based clinical approach, scientific acumen, and vast database make it the ideal partner in this ambitious project," said Dr. Martin Kohn, chief medical scientist, IBM. "Cancer care is profoundly complex with continuous clinical and scientific advancements to consider. This field of clinical information, given its importance on both a human and economic level, is exactly the type of grand challenge IBM Watson can help address."
"This comprehensive, evidence-based approach will profoundly enhance cancer care by accelerating the dissemination of practice-changing research at an unprecedented pace," said Dr. Mark G. Kris, Chief, Thoracic Oncology Service at MSKCC and one of the clinicians leading the development effort. He noted that 85% of patients with cancer are not treated at specialized medical centers and it can take years for the latest developments in oncology to reach all practice settings.
Development work is already underway for the first applications, which include lung, breast and prostate cancers. The objective is to begin piloting the solutions to a select group of oncologists in late 2012, with wider distribution planned for late 2013. This collaboration complements an earlier announcement by IBM and WellPoint that the parties will focus on putting Watson to work on oncology solutions.


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Egalitarianism: Theological position held by many Christians (contra complementarianism) believing the Bible does not teach that women are in any sense, functionally or ontologically, subservient to men. Women and men hold positions in society, ministry, and the family according to their gifts, not their gender. The principle of mutual submission teaches that husbands and wives are to submit to each other equally. Prominent egalitarians include Doug Groothuis, Ruth Tucker, William Webb, Gorden Fee, and Linda Belleville.Imagine that! Terrible, isn't it to think that some Christians do not think of women as subservient to men. Shocking.
But men who write things like this are still treated as great buddies by many egalitarian men.


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Brussels, Belgium - December 22, 2011
Hyperion Entertainment is pleased to announce the immediate availability for download of Update 4 by registered users of AmigaOS 4.1 for all supported platforms.
Hyperion continues its tradition to provide regular free updates of AmigaOS 4.1 and with the festive season just days away, this is a particularly appropriate time for a free update.
Update 4 requires AmigaOS 4.1 Update 3 prior to installation.
The following new functionality and bug fixes are included in Update 4:
- Introducing the new Emulation drawer with official AmigaOS 3.x ROMs and Workbench files. AmigaOS ROMs are provided for all classic Amiga models and the CD32 platform.
- Added RunInUAE contribution to utilize the new Emulation drawer.
- New scsi.device patch for Classic installations which enables internal IDE drives to be used for memory paging (SWAP).
- Added NoDriveClick utility for Classic users.
- Added DefIcons support for RunInUAE.
- Updated TCP/IP stack with much improved DHCP support.
- Updated MUI with various fixes.
- Various Workbench fixes.
- Fixed several USB issues.
- Fixed elf.library that could cause programs using shared objects to misbehave when unloading (e.g. Timberwolf).
Hyperion Entertainment wishes to thanks its customers for their continued support in these exciting times for the Amiga platform.
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See it online at Quoted-printable encoder sample page.
This article contains a short function for quoted printable encoding, using CDO.Message object.
You can use this function in ASP or .VBS files (wsh - windows scripting host files), or
directly in VBA (visual basic 5, 6, Word, Excel, Access and Outlook scripting).
A source data of this function is a String variable and charset parameter of destination data.
The source string (16bit VBScript BSTR variable) is first converted to a destination charset,
using ADODB.Stream (GetDecodedContentStream).
If the destination charset is not specified, the ADODB.Stream uses "iso-8859-1" by default.
The EncodedContentStream then converts the binary data to a Quoted-Printable output string.
Quoted-printableFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.Quoted-printable is an encoding using printable characters, alphanumeric and the equals sign "=", to transmit 8bit data over a 7bit data path. It is defined as a MIME content transfer encoding for use in Internet e-mail. [edit]
IntroductionThe basic Internet e-mail transmission protocol, SMTP, supports only ASCII characters (see also 8BITMIME). MIME defines mechanisms for sending other kinds of information in e-mail, including text in languages other than English using character encodings other than ASCII. However these encodings often use byte values outside the ASCII range so they need to be encoded further before they are suitable for use in e-mail. Quoted-printable encoding is one method used for mapping arbitary bytes into sequences of ASCII characters. This encoding is reversible, meaning the original bytes and hence the non-ASCII characters they represent can be recovered. Quoted-printable and Base64 are the two basic MIME content transfer encodings. If the input text is mostly ASCII, quoted-printable results in a fairly readable and compact encoded result. On the other hand if the input is not mostly ASCII then quoted printable becomes both unreadable and extremely inefficient. Base64 is not readable but has a predictable overhead for all data and is the more sensible choice for binary formats or text in non latin based languages. [edit]
Quoted Printable EncodingAny 8-bit byte value may be encoded with 3 characters, an "=" followed by two hexadecimal digits (0-9 or A-F) representing the byte's numeric value. For example, a US-ASCII form feed character (decimal value 12) can be represented by "=0C", and a US-ASCII equal sign (decimal value 61) is represented by "=3D". All characters except printable ASCII characters or end of line characters must be encoded in this fashion. Printable ASCII characters except "=", i.e. those with decimal values between 33 and 126 excepting decimal value 61 (=), may be represented by themselves. ASCII tab and space characters, decimal values 9 and 32, may be represented by themselves except if these characters appear at the end of a line. If one of these characters appears at the end of a line it must be encoded as "=09" (tab) or "=20" (space). If the data being encoded contains meaningful line breaks, they must be encoded as an ASCII CR LF sequence, not as their original byte values. Conversely if byte values 10 and 13 have meanings other than end of line then they must be encoded as =0A and =0D. Lines of quoted-printable encoded data must not be longer than 76 characters. To satisfy this requirement without altering the encoded text soft line breaks may be added as desired. A soft line break consists of an "=" at the end of an encoded line and does not cause a line break in the decoded text. See alsofor 'Quoted-printable encode VBScript function.' article Quoted-printable decode VBScript function.This article contains a short function for quoted printable decoding, using CDO.Message object.Base64 encode VBS function (vb encoder algorithm), source codeSource of VBS (ASP) function that lets you encode source data (binary or string) to a base64 encoded string. Base64 decode VBS function (vb decoder algorithm), source codeSource of VBS (ASP) function that enables decode base64 encoded strings. Copyright and use this code
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Khloe Kardashian Odom Rocks Red Lips
Khloe Kardashian Odom knows how to show off her lips. Whether it's with bright colors or more subdued tones, the member of the Kardashian clan has always done her best to embrace the hottest makeup trends. The television personality and reality star has previously made waves for her nude lipstick choices, but she recently rocked a bold red shade at a launch of one of her family's business ventures. Her red lipstick was perfectly applied to show off her plump pout.
To accent her bold lip choice, Kardashian Odom created a smokey eye with the help of brown eyeliner and just the right amount of brown eyeshadow. The effect set off her big brown eyes without mixing too much contrasting color into her makeup, and she was sure to maintain a natural look throughout the rest of her face, balancing out her makeup and emulating a classic, old-Hollywood elegance.
This vintage style was carried through to Kardashian Odom's hairstyle, which featured soft waves swept to one side of her face. To incorporate a modern edge into the look, she wore it all with the popular ombre coloring.


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Translated by Lily Sykes
Directed by Guy Ben-Aharon
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(Cambridge, MA) Dog Paddle (Or, Struggling Inelegantly Against Drowing) is a brisk 55 minutes long. It is brief, packs a wallop, and, to be blunt, is just short enough that one can still run errands or what have you before the day's exhaustion catches up. Dog Paddle is an opportunity to enjoy cranial, abstract theatre without wearing one out for the rest of life. It's perfect. Continue reading


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If you are still not accepting Visa cards but are interested in accepting them in your merchant locations, contact your banking institution for assistance.
What you should take into account to become part of the largest payment card acceptance network in the world:
The financial institution that is part of the Visa system will sign an agreement with you and manage your relationship with Visa. During the process to implement Visa card acceptance at your merchant locations, various topics will be discussed, including:
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Estimated annual transaction volume with Visa payment cards and average transaction amount.
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Once you start accepting Visa cards, you will see for yourself the excellent competitive advantage cards provide as a means of payment, due to their convenience, superior customer service and cost effectiveness.
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Displaying the correct Visa signage to identify your establishment as a Visa merchant is the most effective way of attracting customers who have and use Visa cards. Display Visa signage materials prominently where customers can easily see them.
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In the case of children and teenagers, impressions and imagination play an immensely important part in the study process and the importance of these should not be underestimated. On the contrary – we should learn the use of imagination from our students, at least in humanities and social science subjects, including history. The teacher needs twice the amount of imagination and a creative approach – in presenting the subject, as well as when interacting with the students. If we ignore this need, we might find ourselves listening to students' complaints over a subject that they find boring, without us realizing that we have stifled their curiosity.
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This website obviously is all about speed on the water, but even more so about fun. With the help of modern day handhelds we can store a sailing day in a GPS and extract the speeds we sailed all day. This website is focussing on maximum speeds over different distances.
We've got more and more members from all over the world and in 2008 we started a cooperation with the ISWC and PKRA, the professional speedsurfers and kitesurfers association. On a daily base many riders from all over the world are posting windsurf and kitesurf sessions. We've got a minimum number of rules to ensure fair races and we're proud to say up till now we didn't have a single rider that willingly posted falsified speeds. Timekeepers are installed to ensure fair races.
All over the world people are looking for the best venue. Sandy Point-Australia, Walvis Bay-Namibia, Southend-England, Les Saintes Marie de la Mer-France, the Brace-Holland, are just a few examples of fast spots now in use. But apart from going extremely fast at super flat venues this website is also and even mainly about fighting it out on the water with a sailing friend, or yourself.
GPS is a help to improve your sailing skills. You will notice immediately that you will go faster or slower when changing something about your gear or sailingstyle. GPS will also help you to get in contact with many people from all over the world sharing the same interest. If you like to go fast be welcome and join the fun.
We publish new website functions as soon as we have the core scenarios nailed and ship the bug fixes to web gradually after that. We rely on user feedback, the faster we get your feedback the better. The basic principle behind this approach is that ideas can sound great on paper but in practice turn out to be suboptimal. The sooner we publish new features, the sooner we will find out about fundamental issues that are wrong with an idea we had before.
Marketing, communications and PR.
Jan Hendrik joined the team in 2015 to support GP3S with his brought experience in PR and organisation skills.
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Web development and support.
Since 2004 involved with GPS-Speedsurfing. He is the tech guy who develops and maintains the website.
Martin is the founder of the GPS-Speedsurfing concept and has proved himself as a real visionary. He was the first rider ever on gps-speedsurfing to break the magic 50knots barrier with a max-speed of 50.37 knots (2 seconds). He is currently involved as an strategic advisor for the GP3S team.
Tech group advisor
Andrew was one of the first speed surfers from Australia who joined GPS-Speedsurfing. His great knowledge form GPS devices and measurements helped GPS-Speedsurfing to evolve to an accurate measurement system. He is currently the chairman of the GP3S tech group.
Manfred has been a great contributor for GP3S with his outstanding knowledge. He is one of the persons who are making the whole gps speed revolution so much easier, by providing gps-results. This gps analysing software and the PRO version is used to organizing almost all gps speed competitions.
Wessel has been an active speed surfer since the age of 14. His physics background and experience with large windsurfing events brought him to the GPS-Speedsurfing timing team.
Ruben was an active speedsurfer from 2008 till 2012, aside from his affection for speed surfing he also helped organizing several local surf events. From 2012 onwards, he focused on his study Artificial Intelligence. With his knowledge of software and his experience in speed surfing he is now helping GP3S with timing of big events.
Admin and race leader
Roger was involved from the start till 2014. Together with Martin he defined the GPS race format, so one of the true founders of the concept. He was a great race leader for the USM series from 2004 till 2012.
Web development
In 2008 Walther helped us to develop a new web site for GPS-Speedsurfing. With his passion for windsurfing combined with his great coding skills Walther spent many evenings and nights in the project.
Onno created the first version of GPS-Speedsurfing website and set the standard. He was involved form 2004 till 2008.
Peter was involved from the start till 2008. He was responsible for communications.
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For a president fixated on portraying politics in apocalyptic terms, the immigration issue is the perfect weapon.
In the week before the midterm elections, Donald Trump returned to his bread-and-butter issue: immigration. He knows that the only thing that will turn out his base, and possibly swing some independents over to his side, is fear. Economic indicators are in reasonably good shape (for now). Hillary Clinton is nowhere near power (for now). He can't use the threat of North Korea's nuclear weapons because he's already told Americans after the Singapore summit that they can sleep soundly (for now).
Ah, but a caravan of poor migrants, many of them women and children, fleeing violence and poverty — now that's a threat.
It's such a threat, in fact, that Trump announced that he will send as many as 15,000 US troops to the border beginning this week. That's about the same number of US soldiers currently in Afghanistan. And the new deployment doesn't count the border patrol and ICE personnel already positioned across from Mexico. The estimated cost of Trump's plan is $200-$300 million, on top of the nearly $200 million in costs for dispatching the National Guard in May.
The caravan poses such a threat that Trump initially told the military that it should fire at anyone who throws a rock. "Consider it a rifle," the president said. "When they throw rocks like they did at the Mexico military police, consider it a rifle." Now, that might be how things are done in Israel, where the military has killed a number of people at the border with Gaza (with or without stones). But the US military has responded that it operates according to the principle of proportional response. Rocks don't equal bullets.
The caravan is such a threat that Trump's political team put together a campaign ad that spuriously linked the murderer of a cop to the migrants fleeing violence. It ended with the message "Stop the caravan. Vote Republican." The ad was so offensive that even Fox News refused to run it. NBC initially aired the ad, then had a change of heart and said it wouldn't do so again. Trump personally pushed for this ad over the objections of aides who thought that a more upbeat message about the economy would be a better note on which to end the midterm election campaign.
Extravagant Lies
The caravan is such a threat that Trump made up ever more extravagant lies about it. At one point, he asserted that it contained mysterious Middle Easterners (it doesn't). He claimed that Salvadoran gang members were part of the group (they aren't). He accused the Democrats of wanting the caravan (they don't). Then he said that the Democrats were inviting caravan after caravan to the United States (they aren't).
Trump's deliberate fabrications obscured the sad reality of the caravan. As Adam Serwer writes in The Atlantic: "In reality, the caravan was thousands of miles and weeks away from the U.S. border, shrinking in size, and unlikely to reach the U.S. before the election. If the migrants reach the U.S., they have the right under U.S. law to apply for asylum at a port of entry. If their claims are not accepted, they will be turned away. There is no national emergency; there is no ominous threat. There is only a group of desperate people looking for a better life, who have a right to request asylum in the United States and have no right to stay if their claims are rejected."
Trump's attacks on the caravan are part of a larger effort to use immigration as the defining issue of his presidency. It's his version of the communist threat, which was not just about Soviet nukes but also the presumed infiltration of American society.
Immigrants serve that same dual purpose of mobilizing Americans against alleged threats both inside and outside America's borders. In Trump's distorted worldview, immigrants are not just massing on the other side of the Rio Grande, but they're already on the inside killing innocent civilians, taking jobs away from American workers, and creating dangerous gangs to destroy the fabric of society. For a president fixated on portraying politics in apocalyptic terms, the immigration issue is the perfect weapon.
So, for instance, the immigration issue produced the most provocative image of the 2016 campaign: the wall. It generated the most incendiary issue of the first months of Trump's presidency: the travel ban. The second year of his presidency was marked by the controversy over the separation of families at the border. And Trump has once again returned to the topic by attacking the caravan and broaching the possibility of ending birthright citizenship. It is a deliberately polarizing strategy — to unify Trump's base against the rest of the country.
According to Gallup polling in October, immigration ranked as the second most important issue for Republicans, just a hair behind the economy and second highest for all eligible voters. It's a strategy deliberately crafted to drive a wedge right into the immigrant community itself — with some older immigrants standing with the president against undocumented workers, and some Asian Americans siding with the Republican Party on its anti-affirmative action stance.
On the eve of the elections, it didn't appear to be a winning strategy. According to pollsters Peter Enns and Jonathon Schuldt, Trump's attacks on the caravan had no statistical impact on voting preferences by the end of October. Nor did it seem to motivate his Republican base to turn out. It didn't even seem to make likely voters more anti-immigrant. Democrats, at least in House races, were having more luck persuading voters with their emphasis on health care.
But even if immigration didn't prove effective nationwide as an electoral strategy, it does seem to have impact on a local level. In Arizona, for instance, immigration is a top issue. If Republican Martha McSally preserves her narrow lead over Democrat Kyrsten Sinema in the Arizona Senate race, the Republican's hardline immigration position may have been the deciding factor. On the other hand, Republican David Brat used immigration as a key issue to win an upset victory four years ago against House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. In this year's election, he lost a nail biter to Democrat Abigail Spanberger. In the Virginia suburbs at least, health care proved to be more of a motivating issue than immigration.
Chaos and Panic
But Trump isn't thinking just about the midterm elections. He wants to create an atmosphere of chaos and panic that allows him to act more forcefully (sending troops), speak more rashly (terrorists are coming!), and present himself as the country's savior (apres moi, le deluge). He's a grandstanding nationalist who has finally found his calling: to preserve white dominance in the United States and prevent the country from becoming part of a multicultural world.
It's also a patently racist strategy, though Trump himself doesn't care what color you are as long as you show absolute loyalty to him. It's racist not only because of the anti-immigrant animus that it generates. It's racist because the only way Trump and the GOP can win is through racial gerrymandering and voter suppression in non-white communities.
The midterms are over. The Democrats have regained the House and lost ground in the Senate. It's going to be messy here in Washington as the partisan battles intensify. But the administration's game plan is clear for the next two years. Trump has found the one issue that can unify his domestic and foreign policies. The caravan is only the latest example of the president's efforts to use fear and racism to galvanize his base. By 2020, voters will be deciding not just who occupies the White House. They'll be voting on what it means to be an American.
*[This article was originally published by Foreign Policy in Focus.]
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This is a powerful video on Trans inequality, I'd recommend passing it along as we are always in the business of changing hearts and minds within the community and beyond.
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Transgender Inequality Video
9 comments:
- shrink on the couch said...
Thanks for posting an excellent video. I knew the suicide rate was elevated, had no idea it was one in three!
I'm also surprised Texas has ANY blue, but will push for darker blue here. - July 2, 2008 at 11:31 AM
- Queers United said...
i agree the suicide rates are so alarming its horrible. im glad you thought the video was a good resource =)
- July 2, 2008 at 1:16 PM
ZOMG YAY. It uses a Dixie Chicks song!
Seriously, an important and powerful video. Thanks for sharing. - July 2, 2008 at 6:54 PM
- planet trans said...
Thank you for caring. Our youth are expecially vunerable. I was at YouthFirst last night when one young person was emotionaly chastised for admitting he had some womans clothes in his closet. This happened at a LGBT group!! I stood up in my best liza gay point n told him so everyone could hear, gender expression is somthing wonderfull babe. This got alot of laughs but you know, that person will hesitate before mentioning it again even to LGB friends.
- July 3, 2008 at 12:42 AM
- Diane J Standiford said...
I worked with a woman who was so manly looking, and made fun of horribly, finally she hung herself. Those were the days of many poorly done operations...now I can't stop crying.
- July 3, 2008 at 2:18 AM
- Queers United said...
kelli and diane what horrible stories. i wish society was more understanding and accepting of diversity. its gonna take a lot of work but it must be done!
- July 3, 2008 at 8:30 AM
I knew the suicide rate was high, I have contemplated suicide myself, but battle on. I am 44 year old transsexual from the North East of England and due to a lack of feminisation from hormones I face daily prejudice and discrimination, indeed my home was targetted last week for the 5th time.
A country which was once a friendly place to be, England is now a very violent place, where anyone that stands out will become a target for the hate mob.
Thanks for sharing the video, please visit my web site anytime.
Stephanie Butterfield - July 7, 2008 at 6:56 AM
- Queers United said...
Stephanie my heart breaks to hear that! Please stay strong, you are who you are and that is beautiful. Your website is great and very informative. Thanks for stopping by.
- July 7, 2008 at 11:59 AM
I am writing a paper on Gender Identity Disorder, and I stopped by to get some resources. I do not understand what it is like to identify with a different sex, nor do I know what it is like to have feelings for someone of the same sex, but I know what it is like to feel like the world is against you. Nobody deserves to feel like that. I definitely will be more sensitive to people who are homosexual, bisexual, and transgender.
I am a Christian, and I must say that I do not entirely agree with the lifestyle choices of a lot of people (not just gays). But I also know that I am not God, and it is not my place to judge, ridicule, or name-call. Jesus would not do that, and Jesus loves EVERYBODY no matter what. I can not stand it when Christians use the Bible as an excuse to spread ignorance and hate.
Everybody out there keep your head up. This video might've changed my life - November 25, 2008 at 1:45 AM


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Scattered throughout Northern Japan are two dozen mummified Japanese monks known as Sokushinbutsu. Followers of Shugendô, an ancient form of Buddhism, the monks died in the ultimate act of self-denial.
For three years, the priests would eat a special diet consisting only of nuts and seeds, while taking part in a regimen of rigorous physical activity that stripped them of their body fat. They then ate only bark and roots for another three years and began drinking a poisonous tea made from the sap of the Urushi tree, normally used to lacquer bowls. This caused vomiting and a rapid loss of bodily fluids, and most importantly, it killed off any maggots that might cause the body to decay after death. Finally, a self-mummifying monk would lock himself in a stone tomb barely larger than his body, where he would not move from the lotus position. His only connection to the outside world was an air tube and a bell. Each day he rang a bell to let those outside know that he was still alive. When the bell stopped ringing, the tube was removed and the tomb sealed.
Not all monks who attempted self-mummification were successful. When the tombs were finally opened, some bodies were found to have rotted. These monks were resealed in their tombs. They were respected for their endurance, but they were not worshiped. Those monks who had succeeded in mummifying themselves were raised to the status of Buddha, put on display, and tended to by their followers. The Japanese government outlawed Sokushunbutsu in the late 19th century, though the practice apparently continued into the 20th.


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Technology lover John Pozadzides isn't just a whiz at hacking your weak passwords. When his MacBook Pro's sharp edge dug into his wrists one too many times, he made quick work of that annoyance. Here's how:
God only knows how many times I've whined on Twitter about the sharp edge on my MacBook Pro right where your wrists rest while working on it. I swear to Buddha that after 15 minutes of working on this thing I have lines deep enough imprinted in my forearms to make people think I'm trying to slash my wrists! Furthermore, this laptop nearly makes me want to!!!
I'd had enough. After a marathon session of pain, I finally got off my lazy butt and did something about it. So, here is a video of me taking a file to my MacBook Pro and doing what Apple should have done long, long ago!
If you want to do it yourself, it's actually quite easy. Just get a couple of clamps and gently attach your MacBook to a strong, stable surface. Then take a fine file to the edge and slowly begin removing material. After 10-20 strokes you'll feel a world of difference in the edge of the device. Just make sure you don't get the aluminum shavings in your finger. You do not want aluminum splinters!
Have fun, and feel free to ask questions.
Taking the (Sharp) Edge off the MacBook Pro [One Man's Blog]