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  1. The level of realism is something to marvel at in today's games. By combining real-world physics with improved graphics, certain scenarios like a crumbling city or exploding vehicles not only add to the scenery but capture the players' attention, making them feel as if they're actually in the game. However, companies continue to push the visual limits of a game, and Havok has come out with its latest software, Havok FX, to meet those needs. The new CPU-based software works with PC games as well as any of the major gaming consoles. It would allow developers to mani[CENSORED]te particle effects, such as debris, shrapnel, smoke, and dust so that it all reacts to changes in the environment. Devs would also be able to control how these particle effects interact when they come into contact with an in-game character. The hope is that Havok FX can be used to create a more detailed and realistic environment for the player. Along with this news, Havok also announced that the new software is currently being used by Ubisoft Montreal, the developers behind Rainbow Six: Siege, the latest in the tactical shooter series. Along with Ubisoft's Realblast procedural destruction engine, the team will incorporate Havok FX so that when you breach a room, the smoke from a flashbang or the way a window breaks looks just a little bit more realistic. With the game's release date set for October 13, players won't have to wait long to see the new software in action. However, Ubisoft should be showing more of the game during E3 in a few weeks, and we'll be there to see it firsthand.
  2. Supermicro announced an update to its X10 MicroCloud product line. The newest member is an 8-Node 3U MicroCloud capable of using Intel E5-2600 v3 processors and 256 GB DDR4 (2133 MHz) RAM. The SYS-5038MR-H8TRF MicroCloud is the first in the product line with the "MR" designation. The previous generation MicroCloud devices were the "ML" line. The ML line is still available though, and it includes 8-, 12-, and 24-node designs. In addition to the processor and RAM specifications on the new 5038MR 8-node MicroCloud, each node has two 3.5-inch hot swappable SATA3/SAS drive bays, two gigabit Ethernet ports, a dedicated LAN for IPMI remote management, and a single PCI-E 3.0 x8 low profile slot. The chassis supports four 8 cm fans and redundant 1620 W power supplies. Dimensions of the chassis are 5.21 x 17.26 x 23.2 inches (depth) (HxWxD). Some of the key differences in the hardware supported by the newest model are the processor and the RAM. In the ML models, the maximum processor supported was the Intel Xeon E3-1200 or 4th generation Intel Core family. RAM specifications in the ML series were small by comparison, supporting 32 GB of DDR3 (1600 MHz) in each node. With the increase in the RAM and CPU specifications, the 5038MR was designed to meet the needs of high performance computing and data intensive analytics applications. "Supermicro's new X10 8-node MicroCloud supporting the Intel Xeon E5-2600 v3 processor family extends our solution coverage to the performance end of the spectrum, particularly for VDI, mobile applications, HPC and data analytics environments," said Charles Liang, President and CEO of Supermicro. "Our MicroCloud product family now covers the widest range of applications from top end of performance to mid-range enterprise applications, and extreme low-power energy-efficient appliances in a compact, modular 3U foot print."
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  6. Car shoppers considering the growing list of diesel vehicles, including the 2015 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel, Porsche Cayenne Diesel and Volkswagen Golf TDI, got some encouraging news from a new University of Michigan study. The study found that while diesel vehicles may be more expensive to buy or lease than their gasoline counterparts, they can save their owners thousands of dollars within just a few years. The total cost of ownership of diesel vehicles, including depreciation, fuel costs, repairs, maintenance, insurance and fees and taxes, ranges from $2,000 to $7,000 less over three-to-five years versus gasoline vehicles. "The idea that buyers can get a return on their initial higher investment in a diesel vehicle within three years is a very positive sign," said Bruce Belzowski, managing director of the U-M Transportation Research Institute's Automotive [CENSORED]ures group, in a statement. Lower depreciation values and lower fuel costs of diesel vehicles contribute to a lower total cost of ownership, the study found. The study said diesels incur lower fuel costs of 12-27 percent for passenger cars and SUVs over three- and five-year periods. Resale values are also 30-50 percent higher for diesel passenger cars and SUVs after three years. Gas and diesel prices are edging closer, but consumers are not ready to rethink diesel vehicles entirely, Edmunds found. The retail prices of diesel fuel and gasoline are the closest they've been in six years, according to market analysis firm Price [CENSORED]ures Group. The AAA Daily Fuel Gauge Report on Friday pegged the average price of a gallon of unleaded gasoline at $2.75 versus $2.82 for diesel fuel. According to the latest Edmunds data for January-April 2015, diesel models make up 2.9 percent of U.S. retail vehicle registrations. Although that's up from 2.3 percent for the same period in 2010, it's actually a reduction from this time last year when diesels made up 3.1 percent of registrations. Said Jeremy Acevedo, supervisor of pricing and industry analysis for Edmunds: "Although there is a narrowing gap between the price of gasoline and diesel (indeed, diesel is quite a bit cheaper in some areas), it does not seem like the market is particularly receptive to diesel models right now." Edmunds says: The new U-M study gives car shoppers who are in the market for a diesel vehicle more information about the total cost of ownership. Consumers interested in learning more about diesel vehicles should visit the Edmunds Diesel Center.
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  8. Cancer can be incredibly scary, especially when you don't understand how to prevent the onset through incorporation of a healthy and holistic lifestyle that addresses all the core factors that facilitate its development. Unfortunately, avoidance of this deadly disease is difficult due to the pollution of our food, air, and water. Check out these 8 sobering stats, and then make a decision to be an exception to the rule. 1. Worldwide, about 1 in 8 deaths is caused by cancer. Yet, the media and health authorities are obsessed with "preventing" virtually non-existent diseases like polio or generally non-life threatening conditions like measles. Is because there isn't a vaccination or pharmaceutical "cure" for cancer yet? Interestingly enough, developed countries have higher incidences of cancer, where humankind has generally aborted its connection from the healing power of pure food, air, water, sun, and earth. 2. People aged 55 or older have the highest cancer risk. Approximately 77% of ALL cancers diagnosed are present in men and women in this age group. 3. On the other side of the spectrum, more than 40 children are diagnosed with cancer every day, which equals more than 14,000 each year in the United States alone. Cancer and its conventional treatments will end the lives of four children each day, more than complications from congenital birth defects, type 1 diabetes, and asthma combined. The survival rates are not improving due to the focus on conventional treatments and endorsing collateral damage (killing all cells, with toxic drugs), rather than addressing the cause and endorsing an approach that is the antithesis to cancer - namely, a connection back to nature in all its forms. 4. More than 90% of all lung cancer cases are caused by smoking, but it's not the actual tobacco that causes the cancer, it's the chemicals that are utilized in the making of tobacco products that cause cancer. Quitting and avoiding second hand smoke is the easiest course of action to avoid this diagnosis, which is the leading cancer killer of men and women in the United States. 5. Sleep deprivation is described as those who get less than 6 hours per day, and this demographic has an increased risk of colon cancer. Recent studies have indicated that there is a much higher risk of cancer for those who work night shift schedules, perhaps due to improper sleep patterns disrupting circadian rhythms and quality of sleep. Proper sleep is one of the most healing activities at your disposal due to its regeneration capabilities, so covet it like a newborn baby. 6. Skin cancer is diagnosed most often, and the number of cases is increasing every year. This has spurred the myth that the sun causes cancer, but this is not entirely true. Appropriate sun exposure increases your levels of Vitamin D, which has been shown to be responsible for prevention of 77% of ALL cancers. The sweet spot is getting enough sun exposure to get your daily dose (20-30 minutes in early morning or late afternoon, on arms and legs), then getting out of it or using a non-carcinogenic sunscreen to avoid burning. If you do burn, it can cause DNA damage and eventually cancer, so a balanced approach is important. 7. Only a very small percentage of cancers have a genetic link (less than 5%), which is not what most "cancer experts" convey. However, social heredity (habitually doing the things our family has done) is a big factor, and we can avoid this subconscious way of doing things that don't serve our health by reprogramming ourselves to adopt a healthier lifestyle. 8. Researchers worldwide agree that at least 50% of all cancers are preventable! In 2015, an estimated 1.6 million deaths will be attributed to cancer, and being able to prevent at least half those deaths through a more holistic lifestyle is very encouraging! The thing that makes cancer the most scary, is the mystery behind it for the majority of people, and the inclination that it pops out of nowhere and is indiscriminate about who it chooses to inflict. This is NOT the case, and a little education and action can go a long way to prevention and successful treatment of cancer, naturally. Start with understanding how cancer develops from our habits by reading Daily Habits That Cause Cancer. Then, incorporate cancer-killing foods, by reviewing Top 8 Foods and Herbs For Healing Cancer. Armed with this information, you can begin to wake up the healing power of the body, and start to buck some of these crazy statistics. Also check out the first few sources below for natural cancer remedies.
  9. Police officers standing at the base of the Italian Consulate in Cairo on Saturday after an explosion caused sections of its walls to collapse. CAIRO — A powerful explosion outside the Italian Consulate in downtown Cairo early Saturday killed at least one person and was the first major bombing of a foreign diplomatic mission since the start of an insurgency nearly two years ago. The explosion, around 6:15 a.m., was heard around the city and caused the collapse of several parts of the consulate’s walls. Initial reports from state television said the cause of the explosion was a car bomb, which detonated near one of the capital’s busiest intersections and under a major bridge. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. At least seven people were injured, including three passers-by who were members of the same family, according to a Health Ministry spokesman. An Italian diplomat told The Associated Press that the consulate was closed at the time of the explosion and that no staff members were wounded. The bombing was the latest sign of escalating tactics by militants who had previously confined their attacks mainly to the state’s security services, killing hundreds of police officers and soldiers over the last two years. It came less than two weeks after a car bomb in Cairo killed Egypt’s top prosecutor, the first senior government official to be killed in the insurgency. Two days after the June 29 assassination of the prosecutor, Hisham Barakat, a jihadist group affiliated with the Islamic State mounted its largest ever assault on the Egyptian military in the northern Sinai Peninsula. The attacks have challenged the leadership of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, a former general who led the military takeover of the government two years ago and rose to power vowing to impose security after years of street protests and political turmoil. Recent attacks have also targeted Egypt’s most po[CENSORED]r tourist destinations, including the Karnak Temple in Luxor, threatening a pillar of the country’s economy. Many foreign missions had tightened security measures at their embassies and consulates in response to local instability and growing threats from regional militant groups. The red-ocher Italian Consulate building did not appear to be heavily fortified from several of its approaches, including an alley on the side of the building that appeared to be the site of the explosion.
  10. How far the technology is going, how much the people getting lazy How far the technology is going, how much the people getting stupid and dumb How far the technology is going, less people know about their religion Before childrens had books now childrens have ipad, tablet, mobile, mac book etc... Technology is a big succes but not so good for the people One day their will there will be technology but there will be no people to see and use this Technology is one of the most biggest problem incthis world
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  13. Skype's Yasmin Khan said in a company blog that Skype Translator technology will begin to roll out to Skype for Windows desktop by the end of summer 2015. Currently, Skype Translator supports four spoken languages (English, Italian, Mandarin and Spanish) and 50 instant messaging languages. Skype users on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 Technical Preview not wanting to wait for the desktop client rollout can download and install the standalone Skype Translator "preview" from Windows Store here. The company removed the sign-up requirement back in May, which according to Khan led to a 300 percent increase in Skype Translator usage. "Skype Translator uses machine learning, so the more people use the technology, the better the experience for everyone!" Khan said. Skype Translator Preview was originally released back in December 2014. To use Skype Translator, customers open the program, choose a friend, toggle on "Translator" and then select the friend's native language. For a better experience, customers are encouraged to use a headset with a built-in microphone, to speak clearly, and wait for the translation to finish before speaking or typing again. Obviously, the end result should provide both translated speech (if supported) and translated text. However, if Translator doesn't hear the user correctly, he/she can correct the translation in the chat window. As Khan pointed out, the translation aspect will get better as the software learns how Skype users are talking to each other. Naturally, the more people use this feature, the better Translator will get. News of Skype Translator arrives after the beta of Skype for Web was launched in North America and the UK on Friday. To take advantage of this client, users merely head to Skype.com, click on the link and sign in with their usual login credentials. This solution is ideal for Skype users who are accessing a computer that's located in a friend's home or in an internet café, or for those who simply don't want the Skype app installed on their computer or mobile device. To see how Skype Translator works, head here.
  14. Microsoft on Monday confirmed that Windows 10 will be released July 29 as a free upgrade for PCs and tablets running Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, and on new Windows 10 devices. The OS will be available for other devices later this year. However, Microsoft hasn't indicated which of the at least seven Windows 10 builds will be released. Windows 10 includes the Start menu, which was brought back in Win 8.1 after its exclusion from Win 8 outraged many users. Consumers can reserve free upgrades now. New Features in Windows 10Windows 10 features Microsoft's Cortana personal digital assistant. Cortana is integrated into Microsoft Edge, the new browser built from the ground up for Windows 10. The new OS also includes Windows Hello, which greets users by name. It includes biometric authentication so users can log into their PCs without a password. Windows 10 runs the full Office 2016 suite, plus new, Universal Windows applications for Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook that offer a consistent, touch-first experience across a range of devices. The OS also features Windows Continuum, which transforms desktop applications for mobile device use and vice versa, and lets Windows phones be used as PCs. In addition, Windows 10 lets users play games on the Xbox Live gaming network using their PCs or tablets. Caveats, Warnings and GrumblesUsers of Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs and laptops have to register within one year to get the free upgrade. The Enterprise editions of these OSes don't qualify. Users of machines running Windows Vista or XP, or pirated versions of Windows, don't qualify either. The free upgrade is limited by the life of the device it's installed on. Cortana won't be available in all markets at launch. Windows Hello will require a specialized illuminated infrared camera for facial recognition or iris detection, or a finger print reader that supports the Windows Biometric Framework. Continuum for phones will be available only on selected models at launch. No Pain, No New Feature GainGetting users to purchase a new laptop or desktop in order to fully exploit the new features of Windows 10 is "absolutely the intent," said Wes Miller, senior analyst at Directions on Microsoft. "While an existing device is likely to work quite well with Windows 10, making the most of the new OS -- if you really want to use all the new features, Windows Hello in particular -- will likely require a new PC," he told TechNewsWorld. Still, most existing Windows applications that don't offer low-level security or management functionality will just work on Windows 10, Miller said, although full backward compatibility remains an issue. "Microsoft is uninstalling their own Media Center feature, even if you paid for it in the past," he pointed out. Kicking RT Users to the CurbDevices running Windows RT will not be able to upgrade to Windows 10, which puzzles Al Hilwa, a research program director at IDC. That leaves purchasers of Microsoft Surface RT and Surface 2 out in the cold. "Since [these devices] would only run the ARM version of Windows 10, one might imagine that they would be able to run Windows 10 Mobile," Hilwa told TechNewsWorld. "Microsoft has decided that Surface either has unique hardware requirements that makes the machines unable to run this OS, or that the experience or testing cycle has not been adequate for such larger-screen devices." Just Following Industry PracticesIt's understandable that Cortana won't be available globally when Windows 10 is launched, Miller said. "Google and Apple have done the same in the past, as localizing an intelligent assistant isn't easy," he explained. "I'd expect it to arrive in other locals over the coming months and years." Windows 10 "will work on a pretty significant swath of existing systems out there," Miller pointed out. While existing devices' hardware may not be able to exploit new features in the OS, "this is often the case when a new OS ships."
  15. The 2017 Jeep Cherokee compact SUV is set for a midcycle update next year, but will retain its polarizing — yet po[CENSORED]r — exterior look. The revised Cherokee is due to arrive at Jeep dealerships sometime in 2016. "I think the overall styling, the overall shape is spot on," Jeep CEO Mike Manley told reporters during a recent press event at the automaker's proving grounds here. "You will see an evolution" in Cherokee styling," Manley added. "Not a revolution." Although he didn't provide specific details, the 2017 Cherokee is likely to receive restyled front and rear fascias, a freshened grille and upgrades in interior appointments. Most automotive analysts and reporters questioned the Cherokee's design strategy when the redesigned Jeep debuted two years ago. The edgy, aerodynamic styling and the absence of round headlights were criticized as a risky departure from Jeep's traditional styling. But car shoppers embraced the new Cherokee. So far this year, the Cherokee has been Jeep's No. 1-selling model, with just over 105,000 sales. The Jeep Wrangler is No. 2, with 3,000 fewer sales. Last year, the Jeep Grand Cherokee was the No. 1 seller. The Cherokee landed in 2nd place. The compact Jeep model has been able to take advantage of the SUV crossover boom. The Cherokee competes with such vehicles as the Ford Escape, Honda CR-V, Hyundai Tucson and Toyota RAV4. "I think Cherokee, given the hugely competitive nature of that segment, has done incredibly well for us," Manley said. On another topic, Manley said the automaker continues to address problems that have plagued the nine-speed automatic transmission on some Cherokee models. Owners have been told to return their vehicles to the dealer so the transmission-control software can be updated. Some owners have complained about hard shifts, the transmission failing to drop into the proper gear and other problems. "We have made significant improvements in terms of Cherokee, the transmission and shifting," he said. "We are going to continue to drive improvements in quality wherever we can." Edmunds says: Shoppers making long-range plans for a purchase or lease in this competitive segment can rest easy, knowing that the Jeep Cherokee will get some upgrades, but the brand is not going to mess with success when it comes to the overall look.
  16. While lifestyle interventions alone appear to have no effect on type 2 diabetes remission, researchers found these combined with weight-loss surgery led to remission for many obese patients with the condition. A new study suggests weight-loss surgery combined with low-level lifestyle interventions may be a more effective treatment strategy for obese patients with type 2 diabetes than lifestyle interventions alone. Dr. Anita P. Courcoulas, of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, PA, and colleagues publish their findings in JAMA Surgery. Excess weight is a major risk factor for type 2 diabetes; more than 90% of people who have type 2 diabetes are overweight or obese. It is recommended that obese patients with type 2 diabetes adopt lifestyle changes, such as a healthy diet and regular exercise, to help manage or treat their condition. But recently, studies have suggested weight-loss surgery, or bariatric surgery, may be just as effective as lifestyle interventions and medical therapy for obese patients with type 2 diabetes. In April 2014, for example, Medical News Today reported on a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that found obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery were able to control their type 2 diabetes without the use of medical therapy in the 3 years following the procedure. But Dr. Courcoulas and colleagues say "questions remain" about the efficacy of such treatment. "More information is needed about the longer-term effectiveness and risks of all types of bariatric surgical procedures compared with lifestyle and medical management for those with T2DM [type 2 diabetes mellitus] and obesity," they note. As such, the team assessed the outcomes of 61 obese patients aged 25-55 with type 2 diabetes who were randomly assigned to receive either weight-loss surgery in the first year followed by a low-level lifestyle intervention for 2 years, or an intense lifestyle intervention for 1 year followed by a low-level lifestyle intervention for 2 years. Subjects who underwent weight-loss surgery received one of two procedures: roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) or laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB). RYGB involves the creation of a small stomach pouch from a portion of the stomach, which is then connected to the small intestine, bypassing the rest of the stomach and the duodenum. LAGB involves the placement of a band around the upper part of the stomach to create a smaller stomach pouch. The band can be adjusted after the procedure to make food pass more slowly or quickly through the stomach. Both of these procedures limit the amount of food a person can eat, making them feel full faster. Dr. Courcoulas and colleagues assessed the incidence of partial or complete type 2 diabetes remission among all subjects after 3 years. Weight-loss surgery led to complete type 2 diabetes remission for some obese patientsBariatric surgery was found to be most effective for weight loss among study participants. Those who underwent RYGB lost around 25% of their body weight during follow-up, LAGB subjects lost around 15% of their body weight, while lifestyle intervention-only participants lost around 5.7%. The team found that many participants who underwent weight-loss surgery followed by lifestyle interventions experienced partial or complete type 2 diabetes remission, while those who engaged in lifestyle interventions alone experienced no remission at all. Of the subjects who underwent RYGB, 40% experienced partial or complete type 2 diabetes remission, while this was the case for 29% of subjects who underwent LAGB. Three subjects treated with RYGB and one treated with LAGB had complete remission. In addition, the team found that patients who underwent weight-loss surgery were more likely to have better blood glucose control and less likely to need medication for their type 2 diabetes, compared with those who engaged in lifestyle interventions alone. "More than two thirds of those in the RYGB group and nearly half of the LAGB group did not require any medications for T2DM treatment at 3 years," say the researchers. One strength of this study, according to the team, is that around 40% of participants fell into the category of class 1 obesity - defined as having a body mass index (BMI) of between 30 and 35. The researchers note that weight-loss surgery is normally carried out on patients with a BMI of 40 or more, so data is lacking on the effects of weight-loss surgery for obese patients with a lower BMI. Commenting on their findings, the team says: In an editorial linked to the study, Dr. Michel Gagner, of Florida International University in Miami, says the findings indicate the use of weight-loss surgery should be increased for obese individuals with type 2 diabetes. "We should consider the use of bariatric (metabolic) surgery in all severely obese patients with T2DM and start a mass treatment, similar to what was done with coronary artery bypass graft more than 50 years ago," he says. In November 2014, MNT reported on a study suggesting that weight-loss surgery may also be effective for prevention of type 2 diabetes among obese patients. Published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology, the study found that obese patients who underwent bariatric surgery were 80% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes than those who received no obesity-related treatment.
  17. Carrying one child in her arm, a second on her back and holding the hand of a third, Hasinah Izhar waded waist-deep through a mangrove swamp into the Bay of Bengal, toward a fishing boat bobbing in the dusk. “Troops are coming, troops are coming,” the smuggler said. “Get on the boat quickly.” If she was going to change her mind, she would have to do it now. Ms. Izhar, 33, had reached the muddy shore after sneaking down the dirt paths and around the fish ponds of western Myanmar, where she and about one million other members of the Rohingya minority are stateless, shunned and persecuted for their Muslim faith. She had signed up for passage to Malaysia, but knew that the voyage would be treacherous, that even if she survived, the smugglers would demand ransom before letting her and her children go, and that they sometimes beat, tortured or sold into slavery those who could not pay. Her husband, who had raised shrimp and cattle, had been among tens of thousands who made the journey two years earlier, after Buddhist mobs rampaged through villages like their own, burning houses and killing at least 200 people. He had warned her not to follow, telling her that the trip was too dangerous and too expensive. But as she reached the wooden skiff that would take them on the first leg of a weekslong journey, one terrible fact weighed heaviest: She had left behind her oldest child, a 13-year-old boy named Jubair. Since 2012, tens of thousands of Rohingya have fled Myanmar, where they are officially considered intruders. The exodus exploded into a regional crisis in May after smugglers abandoned thousands of them at sea, leaving them adrift with little food or water and no country willing to take them in. Amid a global outcry, Malaysia and Indonesia eventually agreed to accept the migrants, temporarily. But lost in the diplomatic wrangling over the fate of the Rohingya are the anguished choices faced by the families who leave and the harrowing personal consequences they must endure. Ms. Izhar knew it would cost as much as $2,000 just to bring her three youngest children to Malaysia. Taking Jubair could double the smugglers’ price, and she had only $500 from selling their house, a bamboo and mud-daub hut in the village of Thayet Oak. The eighth of 10 children raised by a farming couple, she had spent her entire life in the countryside around the village. She was married there at 18, and lost her first husband to a sudden illness. She relied on help from relatives to support her two gangly boys, Jubair and Junaid. A few years later, she married again and had another boy, Sufaid, and then a girl, Parmin. It was while she was pregnant with Parmin that her husband fled to Malaysia. Buddhist militants, incensed by rumors that Muslims had raped a Buddhist woman, had attacked villages like Thayet Oak across Rakhine State, the coastal region home to most of Myanmar’s Rohingya. The police and the army stood by and did nothing. Worried that he would be arrested and beaten like some of his friends, Ms. Izhar’s husband, Dil Muhammad Rahman, went into hiding, making fleeting visits home in the dead of night. Then in late 2012, he disappeared entirely, not calling to tell her that he had gone to Malaysia until three months after he arrived. Violence against the Rohingya flared again last year. Ms. Izhar heard rumors of children being shot. She saw police officers break a man’s hand and strike another in the head with clubs, leaving him bleeding and unconscious. Women living alone were especially vulnerable, and when night fell, she kept the house dark and hushed her children. “I didn’t even light a lamp,” she said. Fear was a constant. By December, when word of ships waiting in the Bay of Bengal spread through the villages, she could not wait any longer. “How can I stay here?” she asked. “The old, the young, everyone has to keep watch on the village every night to protect the women. All the women are going to Malaysia, so I will go to Malaysia, too.” Now, as she heaved her children into the boat in the darkness, her mind was a jumble of relief, fear and regret. Malaysia is a Muslim nation, she knew, and she believed she and her children would be safe there. But she had not told her husband they were coming. She hoped he would still be happy to see them, and that he would find the money to pay the smugglers. “I had to take the boat full of sadness and fear in my heart,” she said. “My husband wouldn’t let anyone kill us. He would rescue us somehow.” Most of all, though, she was tormented by the thought of Jubair. What would become of him, alone in Thayet Oak, exposed to the very dangers she was running from? What would have become of her other children if they had stayed? When it was time to leave, Jubair was off with friends in another village, and there was no time to think. She gathered up the other children, packed a bundle with a few changes of clothes for the children and three plastic bottles of water, and fled. Now, as the shoreline receded in the distance, she wished she had had a chance to explain her decision to Jubair, and to hug him goodbye. “Some words came to my mind,” she recalled later. “If I can stay alive, I will bring him to Malaysia. I felt very sad to leave my boy behind, but it would be better for the family if we left to live or die somewhere else. We couldn’t stay.” The Journey After a few hours, the passengers were transferred to a motorboat, which bounced through the dark, choppy sea, nauseating her, and later transferred again, to a ship somewhere in the Bay of Bengal. Ms. Izhar and her children huddled with a dozen women and their children on the deck. Men and teenage boys were led to the hold. Most of the 250 or so passengers spoke Rohingya, while some sounded as if they were from Bangladesh. In the morning, the crew handed out the first meal that she and her children would have since leaving their village two days earlier: lumps of cold, precooked rice and pieces of palm sugar. Ms. Izhar, seasick, had trouble holding it down. She vomited repeatedly. “I couldn’t sleep for six days and six nights,” she said. “One son was on my right side, one son was on my left side, and the small one was on my chest. We couldn’t move around. We just sat and waited, and I tried to keep the children from wandering around. What if they fell overboard? Nobody would pull them out.” It was December, and the small Rohingya family had become so much cargo in the growing, multinational people-smuggling businesses. Smugglers took around 58,000 people, mostly from Myanmar and Bangladesh, on the journey last year through the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea, often via southern Thailand and then on to Malaysia, according to the International Organization for Migration. They took 25,000 more people in the first three months of this year. Many Rohingya ended up trading one nightmare for another. Some were confined for weeks to fetid, cramped holds reeking of vomit and excrement. Some were detained in prisonlike way stations in southern Thailand, subject to beatings and torture as the smugglers extorted payments from their families. Hundreds died during the journey each year, from starvation, dehydration and, at times, brutality. As the ship lurched southeast, Ms. Izhar began to grasp the perils at hand. The women were generally spared beatings, but men were punched, shoved and slapped if they irritated the crew, she said. Late one afternoon, the ship erupted in shouting and screaming when some of the crew members prepared to sling overboard the inert body of an older man, whose hands and legs had been bound with rope. “He looked like he was dead, or maybe very close to it,” Ms. Izhar said. “But all of a sudden he started jerking around and twisting and shouting, and then everyone was shouting, ‘He’s alive! He’s alive!’” The crew beat the man into submission and took him below deck. Ms. Izhar did not know what happened to him after that. The Transaction After about a week at sea, Ms. Izhar’s family reached a much larger ship, where they joined hundreds of other migrants. The crew included people from Thailand, as well as some other Rohingya, and they spoke as if the ship was somewhere off Thailand. She and the children were ordered down to a stinking, crowded hold three levels below the top deck. Soon after the passengers boarded, the smugglers demanded that they hand over the phone numbers of family members and relatives who were expected to pay for the journey. Ms. Izhar pulled her husband’s number from her tattered bundle of belongings, and in the morning crew members led her away to call him. One of the crew told her husband that his wife was in Thailand. That was the first he knew that she had left Myanmar. Ms. Izhar got on the phone and told him the smugglers were demanding about $2,100 in return for releasing her and the three children. “I don’t have the money to pay for you!” he shouted angrily, and demanded to know why she had left Jubair behind. It is not uncommon for Rohingya women joining their husbands abroad to do so without telling them. If a woman told her husband, “most of the time the husband would not allow her to leave,” said Chris Lewa, a Rohingya rights advocate based in Bangkok. The men fear that if their families join them, they will be saddled with more expenses for a larger apartment or an extra room. Source: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Nor is it uncommon for migrants to be separated from their spouses or children for long periods. Ms. Izhar and her children stayed in the hold for weeks while their fate was negotiated. Twice a day, they received water and food: usually a scoop of rice with lentils or dried fish so putrid that she could barely swallow it, although the famished children wolfed down their servings. The smugglers kept up the pressure. One whipped Ms. Izhar several times on the back and waist with a piece of heavy plastic tubing, and they called her husband repeatedly. “Don’t you want your family released?” one asked him. “If you don’t they will be thrown into the water.” Haggling ensued. The smugglers’ price dropped to $1,700. Mr. Rahman begged everyone he knew for help: relatives, friends, friends of friends. “I started weeping; I would crouch at their feet,” he said. He told them: “For the sake of my children, I will pay you back. If I cannot, I will be a slave for you.” Over three weeks after the bargaining began, the money arrived, most of it from an uncle. Three days later, Ms. Izhar and her three children boarded a motorboat with dozens of other migrants, and soon anchored off a beach in northern Malaysia. Most Rohingya enter Malaysia after trekking through the jungle of southern Thailand. But Ms. Izhar ended her voyage much as she had started it: trudging through the muddy edge of the sea as she waded ashore. “I felt happy,” she said. “I thought how much trouble our journey had been, and now it was nearly over.” The Boy Left Behind From the nearest city, Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State, the village of Thayet Oak is a 45-minute ferry ride, then a four-hour drive along rutted dirt roads. The first villager who appeared there was asked if he knew a 13-year-old boy named Jubair. “Yes,” he said, and pointed down a dusty dirt road. At the end of the road, a boy in a dirty orange shirt was carrying two aluminum water jugs on the ends of a bamboo pole. “That’s him.” Everyone in Thayet Oak seems to know Jubair, the boy who was left behind. In a dark room of his cousin’s bamboo house, where he sometimes sleeps, he sat on the dirt floor and patiently answered questions. Where is your home? “My mother sold the house to pay for the boat fees.” Why did your mother leave without you? “I didn’t know about it. She could not find me. She could not tell me. I was in another person’s house. I was lost.” Where is your father? “He died.” Of what? “I do not know. I was young.” Are you going to school? “I have not been enrolled this year.” What do you do? “I work at a person’s house. I fetch water for him.” Are you happy doing this work? “No.” Do you want to go to school? “Yes.” School is unlikely. The village, a collection of hamlets with about 5,700 inhabitants, has no secondary school. For most children here, an education means a few years of religious school learning to recite the Quran and the Arabic alphabet, though not enough to read. Jubair was taken into another family's home in Myanmar after his mother and siblings left. The father gave him work fetching water, which he does a dozen times in the morning and again in the evening for the equivalent of $9 a month. Six months after his mother left, he remained baffled as to why she did not take him along. “I think maybe she didn’t have enough money,” he said. “I don’t know exactly.” Thayet Oak means mango orchard in Burmese, but the reality is less idyllic. Rohingya are denied citizenship by the Myanmar government, and the residents of Thayet Oak must seek permission before leaving the village, even to collect firewood in the nearby jungle. At a guard post outside the village, police officers watch everyone who comes in and out. The village has no sanitation, postal service, electricity, computers or a single television set. “There are very few jobs here,” Dil Muhammad, a village elder, said. “People feel trapped.” Hundreds of young men have left. Villagers are inured to departures and the reality that those who leave almost never return. In early May, a shrimp farmer, Salim Ullah, noticed Jubair sitting in a bamboo shack that serves as the local grocery store. “When I asked people, they said he has no father. His mother left already,” Mr. Ullah said. “I asked where does he stay? They said he just stays on the street.” Jubair’s bed had been the sandy, orange-brown dirt road. Mr. Ullah said he had taken Jubair into his home as a servant, giving him work fetching water for the equivalent of $9 a month. Jubair brought along his only belongings: three tattered shirts and two sarongs. “He can stay for as long as he wants,” Mr. Ullah said. The bamboo and thatch house is packed with Mr. Ullah’s family, including his five children, his sister and her two children. Jubair fetches water a dozen times in the morning and again in the evening. He walks barefoot — he does not own shoes — several hundred yards down a dirt path that leads to a well, fills two dented metal jugs and walks back, balancing them on either end of a bamboo pole. When he is not working, he tries to be a normal child. He plays with friends, a mischievous smile occasionally crossing his face. He is a bright boy who quickly grasped the questions of visitors. But he cannot read or write and stared blankly when asked what job he aspired to have. “I want an education,” he said. He has spoken to his mother six or seven times since her departure. She calls a neighbor’s phone, and the neighbors summon him. What did your mother say to you the last time you spoke? “She said, ‘Son, don’t cry, don’t be sad, stay well.’” Do you miss your mother? He could not speak, and started to cry. Malaysia Two days after she landed in Malaysia, more than a month after her journey began, Ms. Izhar was driven to Penang Island, where her husband was working on a building site. Mr. Rahman beamed as he held Parmin for the first time. But there were also pained questions as he looked at his emaciated family. “How could you come to Malaysia with such small children?” he said. “Why did you leave Jubair behind?” At least 75,000 Rohingya live in Malaysia as registered refugees or unregistered migrants, according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Rohingya groups say the unregistered number is much higher. Life is safer in Malaysia, and there are more potential jobs than in rural Rakhine State. But under Malaysian law, neither refugees nor unregistered migrants can legally work. They receive no welfare, and most of the men struggle to pick up informal jobs as day laborers. Their children cannot attend government schools, and they must vie for the limited places in crowded, makeshift schools supported by charities and international aid. “We are illegal here, too,” Ms. Izhar said. “We belong to nowhere. On the ship, we thought we would have a peaceful and comfortable life in Malaysia. Now after arriving in Malaysia we face more hardships.” The crisis at sea has subsided for now. Smugglers are lying low and the monsoon season has deterred escapes by sea. But experts say both the smuggling climate and the weather will change in a few months, and the exodus will resume. Nearly six months after her voyage, Ms. Izhar and her family share a small, two-story house with 13 other people, mostly Rohingya, in Gelugor, a district of Penang that is a mosaic of middle-class homes and cheap housing, much of it occupied by migrants. She rises at 6:30 to pray; cook breakfast for her family, often rice and an omelet; prepare her son Junaid for a school for refugees; and tidy the cramped, airless bedroom where the couple and three children sleep on a tattered, full-size mattress. Mr. Rahman walks to a spot beside an expressway where he waits for building and maintenance contractors looking for workers. If he is lucky, he can earn $8 to $16 for a day’s work, carrying bricks, cutting grass, or other menial work. But most days he comes home empty-handed. He has fallen three months behind on the rent for the room, about $94 a month, and faces eviction. There is also pressure to repay more than $1,000 he still owes his friends and relatives, the money he borrowed to pay the smugglers. “People I owe money to always call and ask me to pay their money back,” he said. “If I’d known what the situation was really like here, I probably wouldn’t have left my country.” Between household chores, Ms. Izhar waits, consumed by doubt. She waits for word from her husband about whether he has found work. She waits for the family to win official status as refugees, an uncertain process that can take years. She waits for a time, seemingly out of reach, when her family can be reunited. The hours and days blur together. The clock on the bedroom wall has lost its hands, which have fallen to the bottom of the glass case. “As a mother, living without my eldest son is emotional torment for me,” she said. “I wouldn’t dare bring my son over on the same hard journey I took. But as a mother, I feel like bringing my son back to me.” Finally, Mr. Rahman returns. It was another fruitless day of waiting for work. He slumps on a couch in the garage. A smile flashes across his face when Ms. Izhar brings out the two youngest children. He hugs them and weeps quietly.
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