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Essential Architecture- Iraq
Hatra (World Heritage Site)
The city lies 290 km (180 miles) northwest of Baghdad and 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Mosul.
Greek-style temple facade at Hatra.
Parthian-style temple facade at Hatra.
Parthian-style temple entrance at Hatra.
Colonnades at Hatra.
Hatra became an important fortified frontier city and withstood repeated attacks by the Roman Empire, and played an important role in the Second Parthian War. It repulsed the sieges of both Trajan (116/117) and Septimius Severus (198/199). Hatra defeated the Iranians at the battle of Shahrazoor in 238, but fell to the Iranian Sassanid Empire of Shapur I in 241 and was destroyed. The traditional stories of the fall of Hatra tell of an-Nadira, daughter of the King of Araba, who betrayed the city into the hands of Shapur. The story tells of how Shapur killed the king and married an-Nadira, but later had her killed also.
Hatra is the best preserved and most informative example of a Parthian city. It is encircled by inner and outer walls nearly 4 miles (6.4 km) in circumference and supported by more than 160 towers. A temenos surrounds the principal sacred buildings in the city's centre. The temples cover some 1.2 hectares and are dominated by the Great Temple, an enormous structure with vaults and columns that once rose to 30 metres. The city was famed for its fusion of Greek, Mesopotamian, Syrian and Arabian pantheons, known in Aramaic as Beiṯ Ĕlāhā ("House of God"). The city had temples to Nergal (Babylonian and Akkadian), Hermes (Greek), Atargatis (Syro-Aramaean), Allat and Shamiyyah (Arabian) and Shamash (the Mesopotamian sun god). Other deities mentioned in the Hatran Aramaic inscriptions is the Aramaean Ba'al Shamayn, and the female deity known as Ashurbel, which latter is perhaps the assimilation of the two deities Ashur and Bel, despite their being individually masculine.
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Fincantieri and Naval Group sign deal to create 50-50 joint venture
Hemanth Kumar and Talal Husseini 17 June 2019	(Last Updated July 15th, 2019 11:11)
Italy's Fincantieri and France's Naval Group have signed an agreement to create a 50/50 joint venture (JV) to develop technologies and secure new export contracts.
Fincantieri and Naval Group signed a new agreement to create a 50/50 joint venture (JV) to jointly develop new technologies and secure new export contracts. Credit: Riottoso.
The companies announced plans for the JV in October 2018.
The Alliance Cooperation Agreement was signed by Fincantieri CEO Giuseppe Bono and Naval Group CEO Hervé Guillou while on board the Italian frigate Federico Martinengo in La Spezia.
In a joint statement, Bono and Guillou said: "We are very satisfied with the results achieved and, above all, we would like to thank our governments which in the last few months have worked side-by-side with us, and continue to do so, with the aim of finalising an agreement that will ensure the protection of sovereign assets while promoting cooperation between the two teams.
"This commitment will allow us to better serve our navies, provide the appropriate support for common export operations and effectively lay the foundations for the consolidation of the European defence industry."
The agreement sets the stage for a broader alliance between the companies to enhance military naval cooperation.
Under the deal, the JV entity will be headquartered in Genoa. The company will also operate a subsidiary in Ollioules, France.
Through the alliance, Fincantieri and Naval Group intend to improve the competitiveness of the naval industries of Italy and France.
The JV will allow the firms to share best practices and jointly carry out research and development work. The alliance will also target binational programmes and export markets.
Additionally, the companies will look to optimise the procurement process.
Each company will have the right to nominate three members to the JV's Board of Directors.
Subject to customary closing conditions including regulatory approvals, the incorporation of the JV is expected to be completed by the end of this year.
Naval Group and Fincantieri are already collaborating in the project to provide four logistic support ships (LSS) the French Navy. These ships are derived based on the design of the Italian Vulcano LSS.
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Johnnie Walker Explorers' Club Collection - The Royal Route is inspired by the majestic history and the sights of the royal trading route, famed for bringing the luxuries of the world to the hands of Kings. The travellers' tales of the legendary journeys that took place on this road, the precious silks, Persian ornaments, diamonds and pearls that were traded along it, inspired today's Master Blender to create the most opulent variant in the series. Full of rich, intense flavours, it is a whisky fit for kings. Blended harmoniously and carefully refined, the dark amber-hued whisky is sourced from the finest hand selected oak casks from the most exclusive reserve cellars of Johnnie Walker.
93 Points - Jim Murray's Whisky Bible 2019, 2018. "A fabulous journey, travelling first class, most of the way."
Tasting Note: The Royal Route delivers far more depth of character, with richer, multiple layers on the palate.


It's happening again. Every time I read a good book (this time it was The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen, I might even reread that book. It was one of those easy-know-what's-going-to-happen-from-the-first-page type stories that makes me grasp the pages, transport myself into another world, and read far into the night) I end up narrating my life in my head. It's annoying. Really annoying. It goes away after a couple of days.
Today I'm planning on a photo shoot with The Project's finished .. product.
"Are you finished eating?" her mother asked her. She sighed, there are certain things whose finales cannot be announced, timed, or decided upon. If you are finished eating, is one of those certain things. "Yeah," she said instead.
"Is this our row?" she asked herself as she made her way silently down the side aisle. The clipped pieces of paper on the bordo floor confirmed she was right.
Ants. By the thousands. By the millions! The tiny, horrid black things had crawled under her bed because of one, solitary little popcorn. She vacuumed them.
Making the Jackie Chan Wha..? face, she silently wondered, "I wonder why people decide to add me as a 'friend' on Facebook, and then refrain from ever acknowledging my existence in the virtual world or real world." Then she shrugged and deleted them.
The tabs on her Internet window scrambled back and forth from one site to another. It was again one of those times when she absentmindedly switched through her open tabs because her thoughts were clashing together and crashed one on top of the other like the elephants from The Jungle Book; she was giving them time to settle in the right formation.
She finished her post, gathered her things, and headed towards the library for her afternoon Reading Buddy session.
She also forgot a sweater and froze to death because librarians have super powers and never get cold. That or their cute twin set tops are very very warm.
Emma Thompson! That's another awesome narration voice! British English is swoon worthy. And they sound perfect. haha I like the idea of plot twists..
Thank you, (: It's great to write..
MM – I wish so too ..
TangledLou- I ignored it too, until Facebook had its way and forced it.
Thanks Ann, and yes the changes are bleh.
I'm with you here. My little request popped up the other day to switch and I'm just ignoring it until they force me to change.
This is fantastic writing, by the way. Such a joy to read.
I narrate EVERYTHING in my head. Usually it's an Emma Thompson type voice, but sometimes it's more like Fran Drescher. Both of my kids narrate everything – out loud. Sometimes it gets a little confusing around here with all the plot twists.
PS–I live in terror of the Facebook Timeline update. I know it's coming any minute. I realize these are free sites/platforms, but can't they PLEASE just leave well enough alone?
I have done the narration thing, too. Though I don't know that I've ever pinpointed who exactly that voice belongs to.
Very funny! What a great exercise and so well done!
I know with all the changes too!
Haha I took a risk! Glad to know I'm not alone either!
It would totally be Morgan Freeman narrating my life as well. On a side note, I'm so glad I'm not the only one out there who sometimes narrated things in her head. I would never have admitted that without knowing someone else does the same thing!!


GUATEMALA CITY, SAN JOSE, and WASHINGTON, D.C., August 19, 2016— The international organizations who have signed this statement are appalled at the illegal raid which occurred on August 15, 2016 at the residence of Guatemalan lawyer and human rights defender Ramón Cadena, Central America Director of the International Commission of Jurists.
Eight armed men, some with their faces covered, entered the residence of Ramón Cadena, which is located in Guatemala City, while he was out of town. During the time they spent inside the home, the individuals intimidated the guard, disorganized his documents and clothes, and took his laptop.
Attorney Cadena is one of the most prestigious professionals in his field, a defender of human rights in Guatemala, that accompanies Indigenous and campesino communities, who have denounced and sought justice in cases of grave human rights violations not only during the internal armed conflict that plagued Guatemala at the end of twentieth century, but also human rights violations committed by companies in the present day.
In several of these emblematic cases, Ramón Cadena has participated as an expert witness. One of the most recent, is the CREOMPAZ case, where eight high-ranking military officers face trial for enforced disappearances and crimes against humanity.
We express our great concern, because this raid takes place in a context where human rights defenders in Guatemala and their attorneys are suffering a serious increase in intimidation, assaults, public defamation, and even criminalization. This year, Mr. Cadena himself has been the subject of media attacks and even a criminal complaint filed against him by a representative of a foundation linked to retired and active duty military officials.
In light of the previously stated, the undersigned organizations call upon the Guatemalan authorities to conduct a prompt and effective investigation in order to identify the perpetrators of these acts, their motive, and the intellectual authors behind this crime. This is to ensure that those responsible are prosecuted criminally before a court of law and receive the corresponding punishment. As long as there is no evidence to the contrary, the State must analyze these actions as a case of an attack against a human rights defender.
We also expect the State to take all the necessary actions to protect the life and the physical integrity of attorney Ramón Cadena and his family, as well as all human rights defenders in the country.
We join in the expressions of solidarity with Ramón Cadena and his family; offering to remain vigilant, and to inform the international community and various human rights mechanisms on the State's responses to this case.


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Home Shraddha Murder case: Bid To Attack Van Carrying Aftab; 4-5 People Ran With Swords
Shraddha Murder case: Bid To Attack Van Carrying Aftab; 4-5 People Ran With Swords
Prakash Shrivastava Monday, November 28, 2022 National,
New Delhi: Some people tried to attack the van carrying Shraddha murder case accused Aftab. These men followed the van while he was being taken away from the forensic science lab after the polygraph test. Of these, 4-5 people had swords in their hands. The police took out revolvers to control the attackers. Although cops did not fire. The police have taken two attackers into custody.
One of the attackers said that 15 people had come from Gurugram and were sitting in ambush outside FSL since 11 am. These people had brought many swords and hammers with them in a car. He said that we had come to cut Aftab into 70 pieces. He had cut our sister and daughter into 35 pieces.
The Third Battalion is responsible for transporting the prisoners to and from the jail. At the time when Aftab's van was attacked, there were 5 policemen including a sub-inspector in the van. The police van is completely safe.
Police found the weapon used in Shraddha's murder
Delhi Police got a big success. Police recovered the weapon used in Shraddha's murder on Monday. Delhi Police sources said Shraddha's ring has also been recovered, which Aftab had gifted to another girl after the murder.
This girl also came to Aftab's flat after the murder. During that time pieces of Shraddha's body were kept in the fridge in the flat itself. Police had said that Aftab had contacted the other girlfriend through the dating app.
By Prakash Shrivastava at Monday, November 28, 2022


Among diabetics, infectious illness occurred in 93% of those receiving placebo and in 17% of those receiving multivitamin and mineral supplement.
Use of multivitamin and mineral supplements is common among U.S. adults, yet few well-designed trials have assessed the reputed benefits.
To determine the effect of a daily multivitamin and mineral supplement on infection and well-being.
Primary care clinics at two medical centers in North Carolina.
130 community-dwelling adults stratified by age (45 to 64 years or >or=65 years) and presence of type 2 diabetes mellitus.
Multivitamin and mineral supplement or placebo taken daily for 1 year.
Incidence of participant-reported symptoms of infection, incidence of infection-associated absenteeism, and scores on the physical and mental health subscales of the Medical Outcomes Study 12-Item Short Form.
More participants receiving placebo reported an infectious illness over the study year than did participants receiving multivitamin and mineral supplements (73% vs. 43%; P < 0.001). Infection-related absenteeism was also higher in the placebo group than in the treatment group (57% vs. 21%; P < 0.001). Participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus (n = 51) accounted for this finding. Among diabetic participants receiving placebo, 93% reported an infection compared with 17% of those receiving supplements (P < 0.001). Medical Outcomes Study 12-Item Short Form scores did not differ between the treatment and placebo groups.
A multivitamin and mineral supplement reduced the incidence of participant-reported infection and related absenteeism in a sample of participants with type 2 diabetes mellitus and a high prevalence of subclinical micronutrient deficiency. A larger clinical trial is needed to determine whether these findings can be replicated not only in diabetic persons but also in any population with a high rate of suboptimal nutrition or potential underlying disease impairment.
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Painted on gaming level ... some more Zomibcide Survivors and Zombies, one guy called Prison Joe. I think you can easily figure out who that guy might be. Cool Figures again from the game Zombicide, the sculpts are really enjoyable to paint.
Thank you both! Happy that you enjoy them, even they are just pretty quick gaming figures!


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Uttar Pradesh HAL recruitment 2015 Technician 80 posts : Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) Aeronautics Division, Lucknow invites application for the position of 80 Technician on tenure basis. Apply before 28th October 2015.
Age Limit:- The age of the candidates applying for the position of Technician should be 28 years as on 29th October 2015.
Qualification:- candidates applying for the position of Technician should have regular / full time ITI plus NAC / ITI plus NCTVT after 10th standard in the trades of Machinist / Turner / Grinder / Fitter / Electro-plating / electronics / instrumentation from institute recognized by the appropriate statutory authorities in the country.
Selection Procedure:- Selection of the candidates applying for the position of Technician will be on the basis of merit secured in the qualifying examination prescribed for a particular trade / discipline called for written test.
Age Relaxation:- The upper age limit of the candidates applying for the position of Technician is relaxable for the following specified categories to the extent indicated below.
Application Fee:- Interested and eligible candidates applying for the position of Technician are required to pay application fee Rs 200/- through demand draft in the favor of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Accessories division, Lucknow, Candidates belonging to SC / ST / PWD / EXSM of the division / candidates sponsored by employment exchange, Zilla Sainik, welfare board etc. are exempted from payment of application fee.
How to apply:- Interested and eligible candidates applying for the position of Technician may apply in prescribed application form along with self-attested recent passport size photograph and demand draft send by ordinary post to Post Bag No 99, GPO Kolkata:- 700001 on or before 28th October 2015.
Last date for the submission of application form is 28th October 2015.


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Find Four Consecutive Integers Whose Sum Is 114
Find Four Consecutive Integers Whose Sum Is 114. Consecutive even integers find four consecutive even integers whose sum is 340? There are no possible even integers which add to 42.
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X + 3 = third integer (x+2) + 1, thus the sum is represented by. Their scores on a recent test are three consecutive even. Find four consecutive integers whose sum is 114 by 3 ways 1.
The integers are 81, 83, 85 and 87. We have to four consecutive integers whose sum is 114.
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Consecutive odd or even numbers are separated by 2. Find the four consecutive integers whose sum is 114.
Find four consecutive integers whose sum is 114 by hypothetical method assuming that n is used to represent the first. The sum of two consecutive even integers is 226 what is the larger integer?
We know that the sum of these numbers adds up to 114 so we can make an. The integers are ______, ________, __________, and _________.
Sum of 4 consecutive integers this calculator has 1 input. Find four consecutive integers whose sum is 114 by hypothetical method assuming that n is used to represent the first.
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Sum of 4 consecutive integers this calculator has 1 input. X + (x+1) + (x+2) + (x+3) = 114.
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1 Find 3 Consecutive Even Integers Whose Sum Is 114 By 3 Ways 1.
2 ⇒ 4X = 114 − 6 ⇒ 4X = 108 ⇒ X = 108 4 = 27 So The First Integer Is 27 , The Second Integer Is 27 + 1 = 28 , The Third Integer Is 27 + 2 = 29 And The Fourth Integer Is 27 + 3 = 30.
3 Find Four Consecutive Integers Whose Sum Is 114?
4 Consecutive Numbers Consecutive Numbers Are Numbers That Occur Simultaneously On The Number Line.
5 So, The Second Integer Is 114, The Third Integer Is 115.
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⇒ 4X = 114 − 6 ⇒ 4X = 108 ⇒ X = 108 4 = 27 So The First Integer Is 27 , The Second Integer Is 27 + 1 = 28 , The Third Integer Is 27 + 2 = 29 And The Fourth Integer Is 27 + 3 = 30.
Thus, x + (x+1) + (x+2) + (x+3) =. Consecutive numbers are separated by 1. Consecutive even integers find four consecutive even integers whose sum is 340?
Find Four Consecutive Integers Whose Sum Is 114?
The numbers are 82, 84, 86 and 88. The answer came out, the sum of 3. Consecutive odd or even numbers are separated by 2.
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New 'The Walking Dead' Series Casts Annet Mahendru & Aliyah Royale
Alexis Bledel Joins New Hulu Series 'The Handmaid's Tale' As Recurring
January 5, 2017 8:45am
Coming off reprising her starring role in the Gilmore Girls movies for Netflix, Alexis Bledel has signed to recur on the upcoming Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale, from MGM Television and writer Bruce Miller.
The drama series, based on the best-selling novel by Margaret Atwood, is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what formerly was part of the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism regime that treats women as property of the state. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred (Elisabeth Moss) is a Handmaid in the Commander's household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate a devastated world.
Bledel will play Ofglen, Offred's companion and fellow Handmaid. At first, Ofglen seems like a pious rule-follower, loyal to the oppressive Gilead system, but she turns out to be daring and subversive.
Miller executive produces with Warren Littlefield, Daniel Wilson, Fran Sears, and Ilene Chaiken. Reed Morano is directing and executive produce the first three episodes of the 10-episode series, which is shooting Season 1 in Toronto for an April 26 premiere.
Bledel, who played Rory Gilmore in the cult dramedy series Gilmore Girls and its recent reboot, Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, also starred in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants feature franchise and did an arc on the AMC drama Mad Men. She is repped by CAA, Industry Entertainment and Jackoway Tyerman.
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Q: Use Javascript to parse a sub-array of a JSON I'm working with some JSON objects about homes. The JSON looks like the below. How would I use Javascript parsing to pull out the "yearBuilt" value? It's part of the building array, which is part of the parcel array.
I've explored looping based on other similar asked-questions, but can't arrive at anything that seems to work. Thanks!
{
   "home_value":298900,
   "page_url":"https://www.example.com/",
   "parcel":{
      "address":{
         "full":"123 Main Street",
         "city":"Raleigh",
         "state":"NC",
         "house":"2856",
         "houseExt":null,
         "street":"Jameson",
         "streetPre":"W",
         "streetPost":null,
         "streetSuffix":"Rd",
         "unit":null,
         "unitType":null,
         "zip":"27604",
         "zip4":"3776"
      },
      "apn":"1725.14-22-9727 0145193",
      "areas":[
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            "type":"Heated Building Area",
            "areaSquareFeet":1574
         },
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            "type":"Calculated Finished Area",
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            "classDescription":null,
            "quality":null,
            "condition":null,
            "architecturalStyle":"Conventional",
            "yearBuilt":1986,
            "effectiveYearBuilt":1986,
            "totalStories":2,
            "totalRooms":null,
            "bedrooms":null,
            "kitchens":null,
            "fullBaths":2,
            "baths":2,
            "comments":null,
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Allergy plays an important role in asthma, as one of the major factors associated with the cause and persistence of asthma. Around 80% of people with asthma have positive allergy test results.
Allergy is very common in Australia and New Zealand, affecting around 20% of people. Asthma is also common, affecting around 10% of people. Globally, the prevalence of allergy is continuing to increase, particularly in developed countries, such as Australia and New Zealand.
Allergens are mostly found in house dust mites, pollen, pets, moulds, some antibiotic medicines, insect stings or bites, latex (natural rubber) and foods.
People with asthma experience a narrowing of the airways in the lungs, which obstructs the flow of air into and out of the lungs. This narrowing can be reversed using medications and people with asthma can therefore lead normal, active lives if they take regular preventer medication.
Triggers for asthma include allergens, infections, exercise, cold air, changes in temperature and cigarette smoke.
There may, however, be other causes for these symptoms, so you should always see your doctor for advice.
How does allergy play a role in asthma?
How do you find out if allergy is playing a role in your asthma?
After taking your medical history, your doctor may perform skin prick tests or blood (RAST) tests for allergen specific IgE to demonstrate the presence of antibodies to one or several allergens. These tests are medically and scientifically proven. Your doctor may decide to refer you to a colinical immunology/allergy specialist for testing, particularly in the case of suspected severe allergies, including those to foods, medicines or insects.
There are several methods of unorthodox so-called 'tests' for allergy which have no scientific basis, are unreliable and hence have no role in the clinical assessment of allergy and asthma. These tests include cytotoxic food testing, Vega testing, kinesiology, iridology, pulse testing, Alcat testing and Rinkel's intradermal skin testing.
It is essential to determine if allergies are an important factor in your asthma. If you can reduce the amount of causative allergen/s to which you are exposed, your asthma will improve.
Once you suspect that certain substances will cause an allergic reaction, you should obviously try and avoid, remove or minimise exposure to the offending allergen(s) whenever possible.
People with asthma should have a regularly reviewed asthma action plan, developed in consultation with their doctor, including asthma medications (preventers and relievers) and how these may need to be increased or decreased.
If you have asthma and untreated allergic rhinitis (hay fever), it can be more difficult to control asthma symptoms.
Intranasal corticosteroids are the most effective long term medication for allergic rhinitis (hay fever). Like preventer medication for asthma they need to be used each day to be effective, in controlling asthma and lessening the need for asthma medication.
Non-sedating antihistamines are used to treat allergic rhinitis (hay fever) symptoms and are safe for people with asthma.
Medication which can cause problems for people with asthma include aspirin, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines and beta blockers. Some 'natural' treatments such as Echinacea and royal jelly can cause life threatening allergic reactions (anaphylaxis) in some people with asthma. It is important to advise your pharmacist and doctor of any medications or 'natural' treatments you are taking.
Allergen immunotherapy is a long term treatment which alters the immune system's response to allergens and has been shown to improve asthma control in some people. It involves the administration, usually by injection or sublingual (under the tongue), of gradually increasing amounts of allergen extracts.


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West Coast USA Fly Drive holidays - advice.
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I know he's a creepy Tory with multi coloured trousers, but you could do worse than watch Michael Portillo's Great American Railroad Journey's, especially series 3 to scope out some of the cities you'd fancy visiting.
BBC Two - Great American Railroad Journeys - Episode guide
All episodes of Great American Railroad Journeys
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gramercy said:
I've visited most of the large US cities. But the Tenderloin in SF was by far the worst inner city "skid row" I've ever seen. Rows and rows of tents and sleeping bags with people sat on the pavement shooting up, smoking stuff and s***ting in the street.
Yep, I used to walk through it daily as I lived in Pac Heights (top of the hill) and worked in the Fi-Di (bottom of the hill). I'd literally be stepping over bodies on the sidewalk to get to work, and you were always looking down to make sure you weren't standing in ****, needles etc. Having said that I never felt threatened or in danger when I walked through there, even at night.
My American mate who also lived in SF at the same time as I did, but now lives in London, went back a few months ago and said since the pandemic it's got worse. I'm off to Seattle for work in March and may spend a couple of days in SF catching up with people but I fear the worst going back.
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
I was there April last year, and people were saying a lot of it was driven by the pandemic.
What got me was the proximity of it to places frequented by tourists like Union Sq and City Hall.
There's basically an open air heroin, crack and fentanyl market a couple of minutes walk from Macy's and the Apple Store.
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It was made worse by the pandemic, but it was pretty bad when I left 2 months before the pandemic started.
SF is a strange city in that it has absolutely no middle class now, it has rich people and very poor people with very little in the middle - the inequality is breathtaking, and as you say you have these real contrasts of people spending thousands in Saks 5th Avenue or Lous Vuitton on a handbag, whilst one block away an impoverished, probably mentally ill, person is dying of an overdose.
Littlejimmy
Jesus, sounds grim. There but for the grace of God and all that. I see there's been another mass shooting in California. More than a little off-putting, although I'm sure the stats would say it's highly improbable that you'd get caught up in one as a tourist.
Colgates_shaving_foam
Sorry to interrupt a very interesting thread but can I check whether Fi-Di, stands for financial district?
Reading it sent a shudder through me like platty jubes or cossy lives (cost of living) does. Finding out what it means may help me recover .
Anyway, as you were.
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Yeah it does sound grim, but it's honestly a great city and you can avoid the TL really.
Head over the hills to the Marina, cross the bay to Sausilito or walk along the Embarcadero stopping at the Ferry Building and you're a world away from the TL.
Yeah the shooting yesterday was at Half Moon Bay which is less than 30 miles from a SF, and a tiny little place (smaller than say Great Ayton) that I would regularly cycle through. I'd actually suggest a visit there as the beach is amazing, as is the Four Seasons Hotel on the cliff top (albeit expensive).
@gramercy
I've stayed at the Gramercy Park Hotel a few times. Don't know what it's like now, but it used to be quite rock n roll
Colgates_shaving_foam said:
it does indeed stand for Financial District, and saying it makes my teeth itch a little too, although it's just what it's known as by everyone in the city.
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The Ruthsayer
Done the LA to San Fran drive a couple of times. Definitely stick to the coast road. Car hire (we had a Mustang convertible) and petrol were very cheap. Santa Monica and Monterey are must sees, worth a couple of nights each. Cambria is an excellent stopover point, we stayed at The Fogcatcher which was fine.
We booked everything ourselves, all nice and easy, though I will check out the url for the road trip guys as we are planning a major East to West trip via New Mexico.
Thsnks
Thanks, I can move on
When in Rome and all that.
Subbuteo_171
jam69 said:
Been to the West Coast a few times, but not for a good 20 years, fancy a trip back, what sort of cost excluding spending money for those trips above?
Hard to say. For 3 of us, 19 nights including flights, accommodation, food, drink, everything we did - back in 2019 just shy of £12k between us.
We had a mixture of hotels and rentals, most expensive was a fantastic house in Yosemite West about 30 mins drive from the valley. Flights were premium economy as couldn't face 10 hours plus in economy but couldn't stretch (excuse the pun) to business/first.
Loads of different priced accommodation available in most places except national parks like Death Valley and Yosemite.
So, a long way of saying - it depends!
One way to keep the cost down is to rent an apartment if you are staying anywhere for a few nights. Eating out (especially with wine and the tip) is expensive.
The Ruthsayer said:
Ooh, a Ford Mustang convertible. As Will Smith said in Independence Day, "I've GOT to get me one of these!"
Tenderloin aside for a moment. I enjoyed San Francisco. There were plenty of good things about the place.
We weren't there long enough to have a big drive but we managed to squeeze in a mini road trip down to Big Sur down past McWay Falls, then back up to SF in the one day.
It was a bit of a long day (400+ miles), but well worth it. Fantastic scenery.
We'll be back at some point armed with a bit more time to explore further, although I wouldn't be overly concerned whether we did or didn't go to SF again.
I did manage to pay about £1.70 a litre top up the car outside some roadside lodge, which stung a bit. Top tip, don't fill up in Big Sur!
Ooh, a Ford Mustang convertible. As Will Smith said in Independence Day, "I've GOT to get me one of these!
Looked fantastic. Drove like a bag of poo.
Soutra
Car hire in California is much more expensive now than it was pre-pandemic. Even small cars are $35+ per day now, and they aren't the sort of cars you could drive long distances with people and luggage. For a decent size car you are going to pay $50 - $60 per day. Gas is $4.20 per gallon.
Decent hotels are seriously expensive too. In LA or SF you need to budget at $300 per night. Of course it'll be cheaper outside of big cities. Food and drink is entirely what you want to spend - from $5 for a burger and coke in Rotten Ronnies to $500 for high end dining with wine in SF or LA.
I know the temptation to cram in as much as you can in two weeks but California is almost twice the size of Britain. If you try to do too much you just spend two weeks in the car driving. Two weeks is just enough to explore LA, drive up Route 1 and explore SF. Don't try to cram in Las Vegas or Death Valley as well. Route 1 - it's just a two lane road for most of the way. Don't try it any weekend from March to November, or public holidays, or any time at all in June or July. It just grinds to a halt at every town on the route, you can't even average 30 mph except in the middle of the night, and there's no point in going on it in the middle of the night.
I'm not trying to put anyone off a driving holiday in CA because it's one of THE great places but you have to be realistic about it. Spend more time exploring places and less time driving and you'll have a much better holiday.
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Norfolkred1
We tended to stay away from the big cities and opt for the real America. Last trip was Houston onto San Antonio, via hick Towns, to see a small building and a wall then South and then back to Houston. Just a short one in American eyes but not enough of road churning. Never bothered with a flash car really didn't see the point, there is always someone flashier than you on the road.
Soutra said:
Think I'll go to Canada then...
Thanks for the info. In all seriousness I do want to do something like this some time, maybe I'll take a longer holiday and save up some more money for it.
Brian Marwood
I very nearly did this a few years ago but chose to do Hanoi to HCMC in Vietnam instead.
This thread does make me want to do a very long road trip some day from San Diego to Seattle, maybe when I retire.


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The Air Force Materiel Command held an inaugural Spouse and Family Forum, Nov. 16, linking military and civilian family members with subject matter experts and available resources across the enterprise.
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Austin pledges to 'ease the load' for service members
In a memo titled "Taking Care of Our Service Members and Families," Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III outlined efforts to address the needs of married service members and their families, as well as single service members.
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"Follow Me" is een nummer van de Franse zangeres Amanda Lear. Het nummer verscheen op haar album Sweet Revenge uit 1978. Dat jaar werd het nummer uitgebracht als de eerste single van het album.

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De tekst van "Follow Me" is geschreven door Lear, terwijl Anthony Monn verantwoordelijk is voor de muziek en de productie. Het is een eurodisconummer met symfonische elementen, geïnspireerd door de band Kraftwerk. Het is het eerste nummer in een suite die de gehele eerste kant van het album Sweet Revenge beslaat. Deze suite vertelt het verhaal over "een vrouw die haar ziel aan de duivel verkocht en won", zoals Lear in het boekje die bij het album geleverd werd schreef. De vrouw geeft toe aan de verleidingen van de duivel, die haar alles belooft wat ze wil, maar rent uiteindelijk weg en vindt echte liefde bij een man. Het laatste nummer van deze suite is een alternatieve versie van "Follow Me" met de titel "Follow Me (Reprise)", die een andere tekst heeft.

"Follow Me" groeide uit tot de grootste internationale hit van Lear. Het bereikte de top 10 in zes Europese landen. In Duitsland kwam het tot de derde plaats en was het de op vijf na best verkochte single van 1978. In een voorloper van de Vlaamse Ultratop 50 werd eveneens de derde plaats gehaald en was het zelfs de op een na succesvolste single van het jaar, na "You're the One That I Want" van John Travolta en Olivia Newton-John. Ook bereikte het de top 10 in Italië, Oostenrijk, Zuid-Afrika en Zwitserland. In Nederland kwam de single tot de tweede plaats in de Top 40 en de derde plaats in de Nationale Hitparade. In Canada werd een versie van tien minuten als single uitgebracht, die bestond uit de originele versie en de reprise van het nummer. De videoclip van het nummer bestond uit een optreden dat Lear gaf bij het Duitse televisieprogramma Musikladen.

In de jaren '80 van de twintigste eeuw werd "Follow Me" tweemaal geremixt en opnieuw uitgebracht door respectievelijk Christian De Walden en Ian Levine. Lear heeft het nummer zelf driemaal opnieuwe opgenomen. In 1992 verscheen een versie met een ietwat andere tekst op haar album Cadavrexquis uit 1993 en op de B-kant van de single "Fantasy", eveneens afkomstig van dit album. In 1998 kwam een nieuwe opname op het album Back in Your Arms terecht; deze bestaat volledig uit nieuwe versies van oude nummers van Lear. In 2016 werd een derde nieuwe versie uitgebracht op het album Let Me Entertain You.

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Uncle of Prime Suspect Claims to Know Who Shot Tupac [VIDEO]
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Tupac Shakur's murder has remained a cold case for over two decades, but it may get reopened following a confession from former gang member Keffe D.
According to Esquire, Keffe D, whose real name is Duane Keith Davis, said he knows who the shooter is but won't reveal it because of the "street code. In the upcoming Netflix documentary, Unsolved: The Tupac and Biggie Murders, it reportedly features a confession recorded by Keffe D under immunity from prosecution.
"I was a Compton kingpin, drug dealer, I'm the only one alive who can really tell you the story about the Tupac killing," he says on the tape.
As he mentioned in another recent documentary, Death Row Chronicles, Keffe D was in the car on the Las Vegas strip on the night of Sept. 7, 1996. He was in the front passenger seat, while Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson, a prime suspect in the murder, was in the backseat.
Most of the theories suggest that Anderson was the shooter who fired several rounds into the BMW that 'Pac was riding in. It's believed that Anderson started shooting at 2Pac in retaliation for a beating he suffered at a casino hours prior by the late rapper and his entourage. Following the altercation, Keffe D said that he and his crew drove around the Vegas strip looking for 'Pac.
"People have been pursuing me for 20 years; I'm coming out now because I have cancer, and I have nothing else to lose. All I care about now is the truth," said Keffe D.
With this recent revelation, News 3 reports that Las Vegas Nevada police are considering an arrest warrant for murder. Authorities are trying to figure out how to convince prosecutors that they now have a case.
Retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police detective Phil Ramos said time is of the essence in solving this case. "You only get one shot. You can only try a person once," he said.
The .40 caliber Glock that was used in the shooting was reportedly found in Compton, Calif., but went missing after Los Angeles police sent it to Las Vegas police. ATF rep Ginger Colbrun told TMZ that ATF sent the weapon to LVPD where they did their own ballistic testing, and it came up negative.
LVPD reportedly sent the gun back to ATF where it sat in storage until 2013. As the standard operating procedure, the feds destroy old stock of weapons after a certain number of years.
Only time will tell if Tupac Shakur's murder will finally get solved.
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Let's Learn about Different Spiritual Beliefs: Eastern Orthodoxy
Posted on September 17, 2015 by Meta Center
The Eastern Orthodox Church is not a single church but rather a family of 13 self-governing bodies, denominated by the nation in which they are located (e.g., the Greek Orthodox Church, Russian Orthodox Church). They are united in their understanding of the sacraments, doctrine, liturgy, and church government, but each administers its own affairs.
The head of each Orthodox church is called a "patriarch" or "metropolitan." The patriarch of Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) is considered the ecumenical—or universal—patriarch. He is the closest thing to a counterpart to the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church. Unlike the Pope, who is known as VICARIUS FILIUS DEI (the vicar of the Son of God), the bishop of Constantinople is known as PRIMUS INTER PARES (the first amongst equals). He enjoys special honor, but he has no power to interfere with the 12 other Orthodox communions.
The Orthodox Church claims to be the one true church of Christ, and seeks to trace its origin back to the original apostles through an unbroken chain of apostolic succession. Orthodox thinkers debate the spiritual status of Roman Catholics and Protestants, and a few still consider them heretics. Like Catholics and Protestants, however, Orthodox believers affirm the Trinity, the Bible as the Word of God, Jesus as God the Son, and many other biblical doctrines. However, in doctrine, they have much more in common with Roman Catholics than they do with Protestant Christians.
Sadly, the doctrine of justification by faith is virtually absent from the history and theology of the Orthodox Church. Rather, Orthodoxy emphasizes theosis (literally, "divinization"), the gradual process by which Christians become more and more like Christ. What many in the Orthodox tradition fail to understand is that "divinization" is the progressive result of salvation, not a requirement for salvation itself. Other Orthodox distinctives that are in conflict with the Bible include:
The equal authority of church tradition and Scripture
Discouragement of individuals interpreting the Bible apart from tradition
The perpetual virginity of Mary
Prayer for the dead
Baptism of infants without reference to individual responsibility and faith
The possibility of receiving salvation after death
The possibility of losing salvation
While the Eastern Orthodox Church has claimed some of the church's great voices, and while there are many in the Orthodox tradition that have a genuine salvation relationship with Jesus Christ, the Orthodox church itself does not speak with a clear message that can be harmonized with the biblical gospel of Christ. The call of the Reformers for "Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, and Christ alone" is missing in the Eastern Orthodox Church, and that is too precious a treasure to do without.
Source: www.gotquestions.org/Eastern-Orthodox-church.html
The Eastern Orthodox Church, a branch of Christianity also known as Eastern Orthodoxy, Orthodox Christianity, or the Orthodox Church, identifies its roots in the early Church, particularly as it developed within the Greek-speaking eastern branch of the Roman Empire. The Eastern Orthodox Church accepts the first seven Ecumenical Councils (which were held between 325 and 787 C.E.), and regards itself as the True Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church is organized with an episcopal structure including the Four Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, and Jerusalem (the Patriarch of Constantinople is the first of equals) and consecrated bishops (whose lineage is believed to be traced back to Jesus' apostles). Their worship is highly liturgical and extremely iconographic, both of which are central to the Church's life, history, and practice. Their icons, which include depictions of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, biblical scenes, or saints, are believed to create a sense of the presence of God. Eastern Orthodoxy is strongly doctrinal and places great authority in the Bible, the Creeds (Apostles' and Nicene), and the seven ecumenical councils. Like all other Christians, Orthodoxy is Trinitarian, believing that God exists in three persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).
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Formed: The exact date of the beginning of the Eastern Orthodox Church is indeterminable. While the belief system recognized as Christianity is in place by the first century, institutional structures developed over time. Nor is it possible to distinguish Orthodoxy as a separate tradition until it can be differentiated from other Christian traditions (most notably, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism). Scholars recognize a variety of significant institutional, theological, and cultural markers in the development of Orthodoxy:
325—Council of Nicea. The first post-apostolic ecumenical council of the Christian community at which Church leaders formed a creedal statement of belief recognized universally.
380—Edict of Thessalonica. The Emperor Theodosius I mandates "catholic" (universal, in contrast to the heresies of the time) Christianity to be the legal religion of the Empire.
381—First Council of Constantinople. This council amended and ratified the Nicene Creed, resulting in the version used by Christian churches around the world.
451—The Council of Chalcedon. The first division within Christianity triggered by the split between those who adhered to the conclusions of the Council and those who did not (referred to as Oriental Orthodox).
787—The Second Council of Nicea, often called "The Triumph of Orthodoxy." After many decades of iconoclasm (the rejection and destruction of icons), this council ratified the veneration and use of icons in worship and in private devotion—a uniquely Orthodox practice.
1054—The Great Schism. Though the Eastern and Western branches of the Church had long been divided over theological, cultural, linguistic, and ecclesiological disputes, the separation was formalized in 1054, thus creating the first large-scale division within Christendom.
Sacred Texts: Eastern Orthodoxy uses the Septuagint version of the Old Testament, which includes the deuterocanonical books that Protestants rejected. Their New Testaments are identical to those of all Christians.
Headquarters: The nature of the Eastern Orthodox Church is conciliar rather than monarchical. That is, the patriarchs all hold equal authority in the Church and there is no centralized headquarters from which jurisdiction is maintained. Because the Ecumenical Patriarch—believed to be the first in honor among Orthodox patriarchs—is the Patriarch of Constantinople, Istanbul may be considered the spiritual center of the Orthodox communities.
Source: www.adherents.com, www.bbc.co.uk/religion, The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions (2006), The Encyclopedia of Religion (2005), the Religious Movements Page at the University of Virginia, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions (2002), and the Encyclopedia of World Religions (1999).
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Marian Czarkowski (ur. 5 lipca 1952 w Gdańsku) – polski aktor teatralny, sporadycznie filmowy i telewizyjny. Absolwent Studium Wokalno-Aktorskiego w Gdyni, artysta Teatru Muzycznego w Gdyni, Teatru Dramatycznego im. Jana Kochanowskiego w Opolu, Teatru na Targówku w Warszawie oraz Teatru im. Stefana Jaracza w Olsztynie. Pracuje także jako lektor, czytał audiobooki powieści Hobbit oraz Władca Pierścieni, wydane przez Muza SA.

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Filmografia
 2001: Kameleon jako sprzedawca
 2004: Piekło niebo
 2007: Taxi A jako pijak
 2009: Dom nad rozlewiskiem jako Stefan Karolak
 2011: Życie nad rozlewiskiem jako Stefan Karolak
 2013: Papusza jako lekarz

Inne
2014: Ogień (teledysk piosenki Grzegorza Markowskiego i grupy Harlem -hymn Warmia Mazury Senior Games   jako senior ze spadochronem

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Q: trying to use staggerTo with GSAP Trying to get my images to start from bottom: 0 and opacity 1 and stagger in using greensock animation. I am not sure what i am doing wrong as my code looks valide, maybe i have been staring at it for too long.
I assume the the find() is not working how i want it to as i am not seeing an object with all the img elements in it.
Here is what my console is outputting:
[prevObject: jQuery.fn.init[0], context: document]

Here is my Script:
  $(document).ready(function(){
    var mainText = $('ul.images li').find('img');
    console.log(mainText);
    var tween = TweenMax.staggerTo(mainText, 0.75, {
        opacity: '0',
        bottom: '300px',
        left: '50%'
    }, 0.3);
});

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Here is my css(scss):
    ul.images {
        position: relative;
        .image {
            position: relative;
            width: 100%;
            .img {
                position: absolute;
                height: 50px;
                opacity: 1;
                -webkit-transition: background-color 0.2s ease;
                -moz-transition: background-color 0.2s ease;
                -o-transition: background-color 0.2s ease;
                transition: background-color 0.2s ease;
                &.dna {
                    bottom: -40px;
                    left: -30%;
                }
                &.scientist {
                    bottom: 40px;
                    left: -40%;
                }
                &.atom {
                    bottom: -60px;
                    left: 60%;
                }
                &.cell {
                    bottom: -90px;
                    left: -96px;
                }
                &.brain {
                    bottom: -130px;
                    left: 250px;
                }
                &.dropper {
                    bottom: -120px;
                    left: -20%;
                }
                &.beaker {
                    bottom: -60px;
                    left: 15%;
                }
                &.beaker-2 {
                    bottom: -100px;
                    left: 100%;
                }
                &.mitochondria {
                    bottom: -40px;
                    left: 120%;
                }
                &.microscope {
                    bottom: 45px;
                    left: 110%;
                }
            }
        }

A: The problem was in your scss. ul.images{...} wasn't actually being closed. I've closed it and the animation appears to work as I understand your question.
Codepen here
Note: I've wrapped your js into a one second timeout so you can see elements placed onto the stage before the animation fires.
It's a bit odd that your sass compiler didn't shout at you saying there was something wrong.


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"Countless" dead birds reported in Pacific off US coast, nothing will eat the bodies — "There are no seals present" — Expert: "The fish are not there… all of them are starving" — Animals "acting weird, sick and weak, too weak to fly, too weak to run" — Resident: We want to know if it's from Fukushima (VIDEO)
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KGW, Aug 25, 2015 (emphasis added): Birds dying of starvation along coast — Hundreds of birds are washing ashore either dead or dying along the Oregon and Southwest Washington Coast. The majority of them are common murres… Researchers say that the die-off started about three weeks ago… the Wildlife Center of the North Coast [says] Almost all of them are starving. "They're totally emaciated…" said Laurel Berblinger, a volunteer at the center. According to the biologists, the fish the birds normally eat are not there… with so many dead birds along the beaches now, it's important to keep children and dogs away… Biologists say they are bracing for a lot more of this.
KBBI, Aug 4, 2015: The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge is receiving multiple reports indicating a significant increase in dead and dying birds found on beaches in the Homer area… [Biologist Leslie] Slater says… "What we're seeing more precisely is that birds seem to be starving."… These deaths don't seem to be isolated to Homer's beaches. There are reports of similar deaths down the Alaska Peninsula and the eastern edge of the Aleutians. Slater says it's possible they could be related to dead whales.
NBC News, Sep 12 2015: Toxic Algae May Threaten West Coast Marine Economy for Years… the toxic bloom could last through 2016, said Raphael Kudela, a professor of ocean ecology at the University of California Santa Cruz… "that would be pretty much unprecedented to have blooms two years in a row." The size of the bloom and the amount of time it has lasted in the ocean are already unprecedented… Scientists had previously believed that domoic acid was water soluble—meaning that it could be flushed out of the bodies of animals that ingested it, Kudela said. But researchers have since observed domoic acid building up in the tissues of fish… the toxin may be spreading to a wider array of marine life than they had previously thought was possible. "That really suggests that it is really going to work its way through the food web," Kudela told CNBC… [Dan Ayres, a coastal shellfish lead biologist with the Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife] said that if ocean waters remain warm in future years—the effects could be severe and impact the whole ocean food web.
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium – Local Environmental Observer reports:
> Aug 2, 2015: Dead birds – Sand Point, Alaska — When going on her evening walk in the boat harbor, Tiffany Jackson noticed a dead bird floating in the water. This is just one of many dead birds spotted in the boat harbor this summer… With finding all these dead birds in the harbor, we are wondering if there is some kind of virus or sickness in these birds.
> Aug 17, 2015: Bird die-offs – Port Heiden, Alaska — [Residents] noticed that there were several dead birds washing ashore in the last month with an increase in numbers in the past week… This year seems to be different than the past – several sea birds washing up, other animals are not eating the washed up carcasses and no seals are swimming along the shore or the mouth of the river. Community members do not know what is killing the sea birds – or why there are not seals present and are wondering why and if other communities are experiencing the same?
> Aug 17, 2015: Low seal numbers – Port Heiden, Alaska — Residents have noticed a decrease in the number of seals up and down the shoreline outside of Port Heiden. This year some residents have not seen one seal, and have noticed a large number of dead sea birds washing up along the shore.
> Aug 17, 2015: Murre deaths – Nanwalek, Alaska — A common murre or common guillemot (Uria aalge) was found on August 17, 2015 alone the shores of Nanwalek; this one was chewed on when we found it and the other murre was reported on 8/21/15… We want to be kept appraised of these impacts whether it is an algae bloom/PSP related event or potentially related to the Fukushima Power plant (earth quake) disaster?
> Aug 21, 2015: Dead sea birds – Goodnews Bay, Alaska — Resident had observed countless dead seagulls and other sea birds that were found dead. The amount she had seen was countless, she also said that some of the birds were acting weird, sick and weak, too weak to fly and too weak to run. The death of these birds could affect the other sea animals, and then there would be a huge die off of all the other sea animals.
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The Slightly Older Guy (Signed First Edition)
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India Partners With Israel to Develop Missile Defense System
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https://sputniknews.com/asia/201707211055771195-india-israel-missile-defense-partnership/
The Indian Army has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Defense Research and Development Organization (DRDO) to raise a regiment of advanced Medium Range Surface to Air Missiles (MRSAMs) capable of shooting down ballistic missiles and aircraft.
New Delhi (Sputnik) — The regiment will be eventually raised to five and deployed on the China and Pakistan border. Five regiments will have 60 missiles, with each regiment equipped with four launchers with three missiles each. The total cost of the project is estimated at $2.5 billion and was approved earlier this year by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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The security environment around India's borders with Pakistan is deteriorating, and a standoff with China in the tri-junction area is ongoing.
DRDO will partner with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and private sector players to deliver this air defense system, which marks a paradigm shift in the capabilities of the Indian Army. It also fits well with PM Modi's Make in India initiative and help Indian companies empower in the field of high-tech weapon technology.
An advanced, all-weather, mobile, land-based air defense system for the army, the MRSAM can shoot down enemy ballistic missiles, aircraft, helicopters, drones, surveillance aircraft and Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft. It can engage multiple aerial targets at ranges of more than 50 km.
Each MRSAM system comprises a command-and-control system, a tracking radar, missiles and mobile launchers. Its current version is already operational with the Indian Air Force and Navy.
Indian experts note the progress in co-development of missile defense system between India and Israel as positive.
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"From the weapons point of view, it is akin to upgrading the existing version of the system which is operational with the Air Force and Navy. But it is definitely positive from Indian point of view as Israel will be transferring technology to India like Russia has been doing for years. Both Russia and Israel are tremendously contributing to technological advancement of India's weapon systems. The focus on Make in India will contribute to improving local capabilities, especially in creating supply chain, fostering innovation and job creation at the private sector level," Group Captain (Retd.) Ajay Lele, Senior Fellow and Head of Centre on Strategic Technologies at the New Delhi-based Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses told Sputnik.
Last July, the IAI and DRDO conducted three flight tests of the MRSAM at the Chandipur integrated test range off the Odisha coast.
The missile successfully intercepted moving aerial targets in all three tests. The MRSAM is a land-based variant of the long-range surface-to-air missile (LRSAM) or Barak-8 naval air defence system, which is designed to operate from naval vessels.
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Kentucky Wildcats vs. Vanderbilt Commodores Football Preview: The Pendulum Swings
There was a time when this game coming around on the schedule would have been a good thing for Kentucky. Not anymore
By Brandon Larrabee Nov 16, 2013, 10:49am EST
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If there used to be something that Kentucky fans could take comfort in, it was that the Wildcats were better than Vanderbilt. From 1996-2010, the Commodores never beat Kentucky twice in a row, and only won three times. Even at the low-water mark of the Rich Brooks Era, when UK won five games total in 2004 and 2005, two of the victories came against Vanderbilt.
In James Franklin's tenure as head coach at Vanderbilt, that has ... changed. Not only do the Commodores come into this game on a two-game winning streak, those wins came by a combined score of 78-8. With a win today, Vanderbilt can move the series back to even overall (41-41-4) and punch their ticket to an unprecedented third straight bowl. Kentucky, meanwhile, has nothing to play for but pride.
It's a reversal of fortune from just a few years ago, when the Wildcats were on the rise and seemed poised to occupy the middle tier of the SEC East for a while. Between the progress that Mark Stoops has made in Lexington and all the rumors swirling about whether or not Vanderbilt can keep Franklin, the dynamics might change again -- but not today.
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ORNL-VA collaboration targets veteran suicide epidemic
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ORNL's Jeremy Cohen, Edmon Begoli, and Josh Arnold discuss their work related to the REACH VET project. Image Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL
ORNL's Joshua Arnold worked on the VA's medication possession ratio algorithm to cut its processing time down to minutes from what would have been 75 hours. Image Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL
Project bridges compute staff, resources at ORNL and VA health data to speed suicide risk screening for US veterans. Image Credit: Carlos Jones, ORNL
Project bridges compute staff, resources at ORNL and VA health data to speed suicide risk screening for US veterans
Topic: Supercomputing
More than 6,000 veterans died by suicide in 2016, and from 2005 to 2016, the rate of veteran suicides in the United States increased by more than 25 percent.
Suicide prevention is the US Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA's) highest priority—so much so that in recent years, the VA has started using predictive models and advanced informatics to identify at-risk veterans. One such model, called the medication possession ratio algorithm, creates individualized summaries of veterans' medication patterns, such as which medications a veteran is prescribed and how often those prescriptions are filled. The model helps clinicians pinpoint veterans with inconsistent medication usage patterns—these veterans are known to have a higher risk of attempting suicide in the next month.
In a collaborative project with the VA, a team at the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has taken the model and engineered the expanded version of it to run 300 times faster, gaining an unprecedented speedup that might have a profound effect on the VA's ability to reach susceptible veterans quickly.
"Veterans should be following the medication regimens prescribed by their doctors," said Edmon Begoli, principal investigator on the project and director of the Scalable Protected Data Facilities (SPDF) at the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL. "If they are attempting to increase certain medications, they could be at risk of substance dependency, and if they stop taking medications like antidepressants or opioids, it could put them at risk of withdrawal or other adverse effects that could, in the worst case, lead to suicide."
Until now, the medication possession ratio calculations have been limited in scope. The model has typically included only active psychotropic medications, such as narcotics or mental health medications, and covered a narrow class of the total veteran population in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) database. This simplified version of the algorithm took 4 hours to run on the VA's resources.
The ORNL team sped up the algorithm and also increased its coverage to all current medications, as well as recent past prescriptions and all 9 million veterans in the database. Without the speedup, the expanded version of the model would have taken 75 hours to run. With the speedup, it runs in only 15 minutes, a 300-fold improvement.
"Now we can observe and reach a much larger population that's potentially at risk—and look at even more risk factors," Begoli said. "The potential to provide far greater predictive services is there."
Saving lives one chart at a time
In 2007, the Joshua Omvig Veterans Suicide Prevention Act was passed, requiring the VA to establish a comprehensive suicide prevention program. As part of this program, the VA implemented a Veterans Crisis Line that connects veterans who call in to a hotline with a qualified crisis responder.
To provide brief and targeted overviews of veterans' medication histories, the VHA worked with the Veterans Crisis Line to establish the medication possession ratio algorithm for use in the crisis center.
"When you're on the phone with a distressed veteran, it's very difficult to do a detailed chart review with a medical record," said Jodie Trafton, the director of the VA Program Evaluation and Resource Center in the VHA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention. "We worked with the crisis line staff to build a report that would summarize all the key elements they would look for in a medical record, so they could enter a patient's information, and it would provide them the relevant items in a nice, simplified format."
Soon, the VHA began running the medication possession ratio algorithm once a day to guide clinicians working with potentially high-risk patients in providing treatments tailored to their personal risk factors. The crisis line responders at the VHA could access the results via clinical dashboards, identify the veterans who needed special assistance, and quickly determine whether they were on the phone with a veteran at risk.
"Veterans who are calling the crisis line are often very desperate," Begoli said. "Veterans may be calling because they're running out of a diabetes medication, experiencing a life crisis, or having mental health issues. The opportunity here is to find out, during calls, whether veterans are eligible for benefits they might not be aware of, so we can, in some cases, recover a person from an almost certain path to suicide."
Initially, running the model took about 4 hours, and the VHA was limited in the information it could include. One option was to run the algorithm for only 1 of the 18 geographic regions in the system, significantly reducing the number of veterans in the model. The other option was to limit the number of medications analyzed.
"The VHA was faced with the dilemma of not having the budget, the staff, or the expertise to really dig into and properly analyze the massive amount of health data in its system," said Jeremy Cohen, ORNL SPDF program manager and program manager for the VA project.
ORNL already had a small accredited environment that could house protected health information, so the VA leveraged the opportunity to partner with the lab.
The ORNL team scaled the medication possession ratio's existing algorithms and improved its performance by applying advanced computing techniques for text mining and predictive algorithms. Joshua Arnold, a data scientist working on the project with Begoli and Cohen, played a pivotal role in the project.
Arnold used a high-performance computing (HPC) platform at ORNL to understand the current algorithm and create a faster version of it that would run in 15 minutes—300 times faster than the 75 hours it would have taken the VA to run the model. Trafton believes the speedup in the model will have a wide impact.
"This work is crucial because the better our models can be, the better we'll get at calling the right people at the right time. And the better we are at calling the right people at the right time, the more lives we save," Trafton said.
Safeguarding data
Since the VA came to ORNL, the collaborative team has taken an exceedingly cautious approach to handling veteran data. This careful treatment of the data, along with the team's success with the medication possession ratio algorithm, has spawned other research activities centered around the model.
Begoli and Cohen's team is currently working with Trafton to improve operational aspects of a VA program called REACH VET, or Recovery Engagement and Coordination for Health–Veterans Enhanced Treatment. In this program, health care providers at 141 VA facilities reach out to veterans who may be at risk of suicide. One of the VA's goals is to implement the revised medication possession ratio algorithm into REACH VET, a task that will require a secure environment such as the one at ORNL.
"The medication possession ratio is one of our first examples of something that we know is a predictor of a variety of important outcomes," Trafton said. "If we can use it in our models like REACH VET, we will be able to better identify patients who might try to commit suicide."
Additionally, the VA hopes to use ORNL's algorithm for analysis of the VA's 3.5 billion clinical notes. Diagnostic codes and dates have been straightforward to input because they are structured, Begoli said, but clinical notes have proved more difficult.
"There's no diagnostic code that says, 'increased suicide risk' or 'job loss.' If a patient reports a death in the family, a transient living situation, or social disconnectedness, we need to be able to identify those factors," Begoli said. "There's a massive repository of these risk factors that hasn't been used for predictive risk models."
ORNL's current accredited environment provides the resources needed for such a task.
"All of this work is detached from the internet and requires a substantial amount of training and background checks before anyone can even look in and touch the data," Cohen said. "The security of the data and the protection of the privacy of the veterans are of the utmost importance."
It's one reason why the VA came to ORNL.
Ramping up to Summit
Today, ORNL runs the largest mega-biobank in the world for the VA. And although it currently takes months for systems such as the VA's HPC system at ORNL to mine the VHA's entire clinical repository, the IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) could cut these processing times to days or cut the medication possession ratio algorithm's runtime down to seconds. The OLCF is a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at ORNL.
In a separate but related project, Begoli and Cohen are specifically working toward gaining accreditation to run analyses of protected health information on Summit to expand the predictive modeling capabilities at ORNL. US government agencies are required to be compliant with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act, or FISMA, a law that implements and supports the IT security standards defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology's cybersecurity framework.
FISMA intrinsically requires a certain amount of security training, testing, network defenses, and data protections for every system that hosts protected health information in the United States. However, in addition to these stringent requirements, a system must also be fully accredited by a third party with an Agency Authority to Operate. Although no supercomputer of Summit's size has ever been accredited, the team is hopeful it will be able to call Summit the first, making this the most powerful protected data operation in the world.
"Our ultimate goal would be to enable our operation to be a real-time alert system so that while physicians are interacting with a veteran, they can get live predictive risk alerts and intervene," Begoli said. "We don't want veterans to walk into a clinic and get missed because someone hasn't been specifically trained to recognize these symptoms. We never want it to be too late to reach someone."
Contributors to this research include Joshua Arnold, Edmon Begoli, Michael Bowie, Kris Brown, Jeremy Cohen, Franciel Linares, Ben Mayer, and Jodie Trafton.
Related Publication:
B. Mayer, J. Arnold, E. Begoli, E. Rush, M. Drewry, K. Brown, E. Ponce, and S. Srinivas. "Evaluating Text Analytic Frameworks for Mental Health Surveillance." 2018 IEEE 34th International Conference on Data Engineering Workshops (2018), doi:10.1109/ICDEW.2018.00014.
UT Battelle LLC manages ORNL for DOE's Office of Science. The Office of Science is the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit https://energy.gov/science.
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We've been talking a lot recently about mental health, but do we always know what we mean by this? Mental health is something we all have – the same as physical health. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's less so. When it starts to deteriorate, that's when we begin to see problems arise. These problems can include emotional, psychological and social issues.
As with our physical health, it makes sense that we function better as a whole when everything is working together perfectly (or as well as it can). People with good mental (and physical) health can realise their potential, cope with the everyday pressures of life, work productively and make good choices.
It therefore makes sense that as an employer you will have a vested interest in ensuring all your staff's health needs and wellbeing is considered, and supported, where necessary, appropriate and possible. However, some employers seem to hold a number of myths around mental health that we thought it was high time were addressed.
If by rare you mean 1 in 4 of us will experience a mental health problem during the course of the next 12 months, then yes, it's rare.
In reality mental ill health is one of the leading causes of sickness absence in England, though not all staff will disclose the real reason for taking time off. Instead of saying "I am feeling stressed", they may complain of a headache, thus masking the problem.
This can lead to further complications as individuals downplay their own problems, and do not feel able to approach others and seek help or support. In fact, one in six of us within the working population are likely to be experiencing symptoms that meet the criteria for a clinical diagnosis of either depression or anxiety.
With limited time, funds and expertise it can be tempting to assume that mental health is not a priority, and something you can just ignore until a problem arises. Of course, your business is there to make money, to ensure your customers are happy and your staff have job security.
However, your staff are the most important asset within your business. If they are not working to the best of their abilities, if they are tried, unhappy, struggling, making mistakes or taking extensive time off work then this has a negative impact on your business.
It may very well be that some people who experiencing mental ill health need to take some time off from work to address issues and work on recovery. However, the vast majority of people will be able to work without any changes deemed necessary to their working hours, workload or environment.
Simply knowing that your employer is supportive, and is approachable during times of disease or distress, is often enough to relieve a vast majority of work-based anxiety during difficult periods.
If you are an employer and you want to find out more about how you can support your staff, or what your legal obligations are, please speak to the team at People Matters today.
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