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I'm not sure about "nothing but trouble". They also have pistachios and flying carpets.Trump calls Iran 'nothing but trouble' after tankers seized
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard seizes one UK-operated tanker in Strait of Hormuz, briefly detains another
Greg Norman
By Greg Norman | Fox News
Trump calls Iran 'nothing but trouble' after tankers seized
Trump warns Iran to change its behavior; chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports.
Iran seized a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Friday and briefly detained a second, marking a fresh escalation of tensions between Tehran and the West.
The U.K.-flagged Stena Impero, which has 23 crew members of Indian, Russian, Latvian and Filipino nationalities aboard, was approached by unidentified small crafts and a helicopter during transit of the Strait of Hormuz while the vessel was in international waters, Stena Bulk, the shipping company that owns the vessel, said in a statement. "We are presently unable to contact the vessel which is now heading north towards Iran."
Iran's Revolutionary Guard forces, in a statement on their website, say the ship was seized for "non-compliance with international maritime laws and regulations" and is being brought to an unnamed Iranian port, according to the Associated Press. Websites tracking the ship's path showed it turn sharply in the direction of Iran's Qeshm Island, instead of its intended destination of Saudi Arabia.
We are urgently seeking further information and assessing the situation following reports of an incident in the Gulf," a U.K. government spokesperson told Fox News.
Stena Bulk says "there have been no reported injuries and their safety is of primary concern to both owners and managers."
Iran intercepts another UK oil tanker in the Strait of HormuzVideo
Approximately an hour later, a Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar was also seized by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and was seen on maritime tracking services making a turn toward Iran. However, the tanker's owner later said the ship was briefly boarded by armed guards before being allowed to go. Iran's semi-official Fars news agency tweeted that the Mesdar had left Iran's territorial waters.
"These seizures are unacceptable," British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said as he prepared to enter an emergency government meeting Friday night. "It is essential that freedom of navigation is maintained and that all ships can move safely and freely in the region."
"We're not looking at military options, we're looking at a diplomatic way to resolve the situation, but we are very clear that it must be resolved," Hunt later told Sky News, warning that if the situation is not resolved quickly "there will be serious consequences."
President Trump said Friday that Iran is "nothing but trouble" and that "we heard one, we heard two," tankers were seized.
"Iran is showing their colors," the president told reporters before departing the White House to spend the weekend at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. "Iran is in big trouble right now. Their economy is crashing, it's coming to a crash ... It's very easy to straighten out or it's very easy for us to make it worse."
"This is the second time in just over a week the UK has been the target of escalatory violence by the Iranian regime," National Security Council Spokesman Garrett Marquis said. "The U.S. will continue to work with our allies and partners to defend our security and interests against Iran's malign behavior."
The Pentagon had no official statement on the situation, but Fox News has learned that there are no current plans for U.S. naval vessels to escort commercial ships through the strait.
Late Friday, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said the U.S. had intensified air patrols over the Strait of Hormuz. CENTCOM spokesman Lt. Col. Earl Brown said that U.S. Naval Forces Central Command had been "in contact with U.S. ships operating in the area to ensure their safety."
Iran's Revolutionary Guard claims to have seized British oil tankerVideo
Late Friday, CENTCOM announced Operation Sentinel, what it described as "a multinational maritime effort ... to increase surveillance of and security in key waterways in the Middle East to ensure freedom of navigation in light of recent events in the Arabian Gulf region.
"The goal of Operation Sentinel is to promote maritime stability, ensure safe passage, and de-escalate tensions in international waters throughout the Arabian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait (BAM) and the Gulf of Oman," the CENTCOM statement went on. "This maritime security framework will enable nations to provide escort to their flagged vessels while taking advantage of the cooperation of participating nations for coordination and enhanced maritime domain awareness and surveillance. While the United States has committed to supporting this initiative, contributions and leadership from regional and international partners will be required to succeed."
The seizures come two weeks after British Royal Marines seized a tanker off the island of Gibraltar that authorities said carried oil bound for Syria in violation of European Union sanctions. Iran warned Britain that it would face "repercussions" over that seizure, which Tehran called mean and wrong." Last week, a British warship blocked three Iranian vessels from seizing another U.K.-flagged tanker.
UK Chamber of Shipping CEO Bob Sanguinetti said in a statement that the seizure was "in violation of international regulations which protect ships and their crews as they go about their legitimate business in international waters" and called on the British government to do "whatever is necessary" to ensure the safe and swift return of the ship's crew.
Earlier Friday, Iran and the United States emphatically disagreed over Washington's claim that a U.S. warship downed an Iranian drone near the Persian Gulf. American officials said they used electronic jamming to bring down the unmanned aircraft, while Iran said it simply didn't happen.
Neither side provided evidence to prove its claim.
Iran insinuates US warship took down own drone by mistakeVideo
At the White House on Friday, President Trump said flatly of the Iranian drone: "We shot it down." But Pentagon and other officials have said repeatedly that the amphibious assault ship USS Boxer actually jammed the drone's signal, causing it to crash, and did not fire a missile. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive technology.
"There is no question this was an Iranian drone, and the USS Boxer took it out as the president announced yesterday because it posed a threat to the ship and its crew," National Security Adviser John Bolton said. "It's entirely the right thing to do."
In Tehran, the Iranian military said all its drones had returned safely to their bases and denied there was any confrontation with the USS Boxer.
Maritime security in the Strait of Hormuz has deteriorated in recent weeks after six attacks on oil tankers that the U.S. has blamed on Iran -- an allegation the Tehran government denies. The incidents have jolted the shipping industry, with some of the 2,000 companies operating ships in the region on high alert and many ordering their vessels to transit the Strait of Hormuz only during the daylight hours and at high speed.
Of the roughly 2,000 companies that operate ships in the Persian Gulf, only a handful of companies have halted bookings outright.
Fox News' Rich Edson, Jennifer Griffin, Lucas Tomlinson, Vandana Rambaran and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway
I'm not sure about "nothing but trouble". They also have pistachios and flying carpets.Trump calls Iran 'nothing but trouble' after tankers seized
Ignore me, I've had a few.
"Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."
I guess this was retaliation for the seizure of the Iranian tanker Grace-1 in Gibraltar by the Brits. The Iranians had threatened to seize a British ship after that. They didn't take the threat seriously I suppose.
They don't have the fleet anymore
To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway
Whelp they are looking for allies to escort ships going forward.
Iran is punking the west left and right, these sanctions need to be tightened further and backed with a little muscle.
Britain to seek European maritime mission to counter Iran's 'piracy'
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will seek to put together a European-led maritime protection mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz after Iran seized a British-flagged vessel in what London said was an act of "state piracy".
Iran's Revolutionary Guards seized the Stena Impero in the Strait on Friday. British Royal Marines seized an Iranian tanker off the coast of Gibraltar two weeks ago.
"Under international law Iran had no right to obstruct the ship's passage - let alone board her. It was therefore an act of state piracy," Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt told parliament.
"We will now seek to put together a European-led maritime protection mission to support safe passage of both crew and cargo in this vital region," Hunt said.
He said Britain has had constructive discussions with a number of countries in the last 48 hours over the mission.
He also said he would discuss how this would complement U.S. proposals in the area but that Britain would not join the U.S. plan as it wanted to preserve the nuclear deal.
"It will not be part of the US maximum pressure policy on Iran because we remain committed to preserving the Iran nuclear agreement," Hunt said.
Britain will now ask all British-flagged ships to give the government notice of intentions to pass through the Strait of Hormuz, Hunt said.
"We will then advise them as to the safest way to transit, which may involve travelling in convoy," Hunt said, adding that Britain would also strengthen measures to protect ships flying the flags of other countries but which had British crew.
"It is of course not possible for the Royal Navy to provide escorts for every single ship or indeed eliminate all risks of piracy," Hunt said.
"But the risks can be substantially reduced if commercial shipping companies cooperate fully with instructions from the Department of Transport, which we strongly encourage them to do."
Reporting by Kylie MacLellan and Guy Faulconbridge, Editing by Alistair
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To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway
Can we call 'em the "British Tanker Wars" ?
heh, there is this habit of kidnapping each others sailors for time to time : D
Iran has taken more ships and has the stronger navy /s
Can we call 'em the "British Tanker Wars" ?
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To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway
Currently under construction;
the final three of seven Astute-class submarines,
the first of four Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarines,
the second of the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers,
the first of eight Type 26 frigates and
the ninth of eleven ocean-going patrol vessels.
Early design and preparation work has begun on a fleet of at least five of the upcoming Type 31 frigates.
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary will receive the final Tide-class tanker, which is presently being fitted out, in spring 2019.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-49225916
Iran 'seizes Iraqi tanker in Gulf for smuggling fuel'
Iran has seized another foreign tanker in the Gulf, state media reports claim.
Iranian forces seized the Iraqi ship for "smuggling fuel for some Arab countries" and detained seven sailors, according to the reports.
Iraq's oil ministry has said it has no connection to the seized vessel and that it is working to gather information about it.
The incident comes amid heightened tensions after the US tightened sanctions on Iran's oil sector.
The sanctions were reimposed after Washington's unilateral withdrawal from a landmark 2015 nuclear deal.
If confirmed, the Iraqi tanker would be the third foreign vessel to have been seized by Iran in recent weeks.
"Every man has his weakness. Mine was always just cigarettes."
US requests detention of Iran tanker in Gibraltar
The US Department of Justice has put in a request to detain supertanker Grace 1, which will be considered by Gibraltar's attorney general.
The vessel, carrying Iranian oil, was seized by Royal Marines on 4 July - triggering a standoff with Tehran.
It was set to be released within hours, after the attorney general indicated he would make no further order for its detention.
But after the US application the matter has been adjourned until 15:00 BST.
Gibraltar said the US application is based on a "number of allegations which are now being considered".
Earlier, the legal team for the captain, chief officer and a third crew member of the Grace 1 told the BBC formal police proceedings against them had ended.
They said police told them this was due to undertakings given by the Iranian government and that it was no longer in the public interest to proceed.
The legal team added their clients all want to go home subject to the formal handover of the vessel's captaincy.
The tanker was first seized due to evidence the tanker was heading for Syria, in breach of EU sanctions.
About 30 marines were flown from the UK to Gibraltar to help police detain the tanker and its cargo, at the request of the Gibraltar government.
The initial seizure of the tanker sparked a diplomatic crisis between the UK and Iran, which has escalated over recent weeks.
On 19 July, British-flagged and Swedish-owned oil tanker Stena Impero was seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guard in the Gulf.
Last week, the UK announced it would join a US-led taskforce to protect merchant ships travelling through the key shipping route in the Strait of Hormuz.
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Update: Court went well today and even seemed a bit amicable. I am ready to move on with my life. I appreciate everyone's prayers and support during the past several years. God bless all of you for following my work. I hope it helps people. It certainly has been cathartic for me.
For people with PTSD, we must avoid "triggers."
Triggers are people, places or things that can take us back to the traumatic events, or series of events, that led to our post-traumatic stress to begin with.
It's why combat soldiers with PTSD don't much care for fireworks, for example. For people who have been sexually assaulted, it may be the home of their assailant, or a hotel where they were assaulted that serve as a trigger. Simply driving past can immediately "trigger" symptoms of anxiety, fear, and rage.
For me, the Rock Island County Courthouse, pictured here, is the "mother of all triggers." And I have avoided it entirely for the past 20 months or so, but today I am there, defending my right to what my father has left me in his estate.
I always say that I have "Caregiver PTSD," and indeed that may be the title of the book I hope to write this year. My PTSD came as the result of several things related to caring for and advocating for my father, including:
A horrifying assault in the basement of my home the last time I ever took a drink, three years ago, this coming Memorial Day weekend. The assault was brought on after I began to post on Facebook that certain people were "murderers" for taking my dad off insulin when he still was eating five meals per day. That not only is inhumane, but it's an offense a doctor could in theory lose their license over.
I was alerted to dad being taken off his insulin – in fact, I was told that all his meds were DC'd — by the former wellness director of the memory care facility where he lived. This did not jive with what my brother had told me earlier in the day, that the doctor had "doped dad up some more" (prescribed more medications) at the office visit that day.
So, when the memory care facility called to report dad collapsed during lunch and could not immediately be revived, I was suspicious, asked questions, and got answers. Then I downed some booze, massive amounts of booze, and the "murderer" posts began. Not to mention a phone call made to the doctor's office. Dad was back on insulin the next day.
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Someone who I had every reason to trust showed up at my door when I began making the "murderer" posts on Facebook. He then took me to the basement, where the assault took place. This all has been reported to police, is on the books, and there's a paper trail (or at least there should be) of this entire story.
Read more: Raped in 2007 and assaulted in 2014, I finally put down the bottle
Next, on the one-year anniversary of the above-described assault, when, while visiting my dad at the memory care facility (which had changed ownership since the insulin incident, and now was managed by what I can only describe as a vile and heartless woman), I thought I saw a "bad guy." I had gone to police just a couple of days prior regarding some "bad guys" when a friend of mine's body was pulled from the Mississippi River. I was on edge to begin with and thought people were following me on my walk to the facility that day. I even dialed 911 and also called the facility for help on my way there.
It's not uncommon for people to exhibit paranoia, anxiety and fear around the time of PTSD anniversary dates. Did I "imagine" this guy was a bad guy, when in fact he simply might have been a maintenance man (as he was dressed as such)? I still don't know the answer to that, and I may never know.
What I do know is that when I reported this "intruder," the staff laughed at me, discredited me, and I started giving them a very loud piece of my mind. The next thing I knew, I was being stripped naked and thrown into a cell at the Rock Island County jail, a straightjacket thrown in behind me. The jail, staffed by thugs (including employees fired by a local bar for being lazy and/or drunk), mentally tortured me for two whole days while I was held there on no charges at all. That included one of the former bartenders from the tavern I frequented. The other one pretty much kept her mouth shut and answered questions honestly when asked by someone else who, in my opinion, had no business being inside that jail. I don't care who she is. And I know what I heard.
Read more: Why Amber Ridge Memory Care kept me away from my dad, and how the state of Illinois reunited us
And all of this is very, very, very suspicious and not at all "conspiracy" to those who know the whole story, and by now, that includes many people. Will it all someday just go away? Just blow out to sea?
Returning to the courthouse with a sense of serenity
When I finally was "sprung" from jail by an officer associated with the agency I had relayed the initial "bad guy" information to, I was taken to the hospital (again, a place that forever will be a trigger, and I never will do business with again, even though they "forgave" the portion of my bill which insurance didn't pay, and even apologized for how I was treated there, which is curious); and two days later, I had to go to the Rock Island County Courthouse and defend myself, pro se, against an order of protection filed by the wellness director of the memory care facility.
Read more: What really happened to me in the Rock Island County Jail? My tell all
Read more: What was the motive for what happened in the jail? My tell all, Part II
Mind you, my dad had nearly bled to death in his room from an unexplained injury two weeks prior to all of this (he told the hospice social worker, the ER doc and myself that he was struck by someone…'He got me!' he said, and then started crying. Dad had gender dysphasia about three years prior to death (and total dysphasia the final months of his life) so a "he" often meant a "she," but he frequently told me two workers in particular, one a man and one a woman, were rough with him).
The memory care facility nurse who called me at 5 a.m. was the one who said it appeared he had lie all night on the floor, given the size of the pool of blood, and reported that she herself had just come on duty. Rest assured I know who was on duty before her. Employees past and present have chirped like birdies.
I was hypervigilant every time I set foot in there, like any astute caregiver should be. But especially after that most recent incident, probably the third trip to the ER since he had gone in there 18 months prior. If you don't police most elder care facilities, your resident gets substandard care. And that's the truth. Period. Particularly in Rock Island County, where the incredibly incompetent Alternatives for the Older Adult is failing miserably in their assignment to protect our elderly.
So today I find myself at the Rock Island County Courthouse again, this time for a status hearing as it pertains to my father's estate. By chance, it's the exact same judge that I stood before for the order of protection, which was dismissed.
I have not seen my brother since a few weeks after my dad died. But my lawyer says it is imperative I attend the hearing or the estate could just drag on for months. It already has been 16 months as it is. And for the record, my brother and I did not end up in court (at least not initially) over a dispute between ourselves, but over a dispute with a third heir. My understanding is that my brother tried to resolve this at the last hearing, but apparently was given some poor advice that foiled this resolution, which I assume would have been amicable to all parties.
So, it will be good to see for my own eyes today what's really going on, and to tell my side of the story, if asked.
I'm going to walk into that courthouse as if I own it, and with my head held high. As if were on assignment for the Quad-City Times, like the old days. I am going to remain calm and answer any questions the judge may have. And by the grace of God, my father's estate will be closed, and this horrifying chapter of my life closed with it. (Although life has been bountiful with blessings during this hardship, too – my sobriety, career success, and more self-respect then I ever had had in my life. Nothing worthwhile in life comes easy!)
I have changed banks, grocery stores, restaurants – I rarely do business in Rock Island, where I live, because the odds of running into someone who is a "trigger" is just far too high. This entire county is stocked with extremely dishonest people, many of whom are community leaders and who I have known my entire life, but who I now know to be — well, frauds — to use Mitt Romney's famed word to describe Donald Trump.
How dad and I reclaimed the family home
I already have reclaimed my family home.
When I bought out my brother's half of the home when we inherited it when dad died, he asked, "Why would you even want 'The House of Hell?'"
He called it that with good reason. As kids, the police frequently were at our house. Mom and dad used to beat the crap out of each other. Mom once pinned dad to the floor in the living room and held a steak knife to his carotid artery. I went downstairs screaming and a friend of my brother's ran upstairs and pulled mom off dad. I often wonder what happened to that guy. I liked him.
My dad did abuse my mother. Mentally, especially. We didn't know then that he was a very sick man with a rare brain disease that caused him to behave the way he did. What a horrid death he experienced. Pick's, which you can read more about by clicking here, is a terrible disease.
Dad lost the house to mom in their second divorce in 1984, when mom was given six months to live. She died in 1995. My brother and I inherited the house and sold it; dad bought it again almost 20 years later, five years ago this June.
Shortly after mom had dad evicted from the home via an order of protection, shortly before the divorce, she moved in a man she met at Sweetwater Tap. I didn't like it. I caused lots of problems.
And then she threw me out.
I was working at least 25 hours per week at the Quad-City Times then, as a junior in high school, and being paid a freelance rate on top of my hourly rate to cover the cities of Milan and Silvis for them. So, for a teenager, I was making good money. I paid my cousin room and board and lived with her my senior year.
Despite everything that happened in this house, it's mine now. Mine and my dad's, even though he no longer is with us. I even feel healed about all that happened with mom, even sleeping in the same room where she perished.
So today I reclaim my trauma, I own it, and hopefully, we all move on. Tragic as parts of my life story has been, I lead a very blessed, very privileged life. I cannot forget that. Not today, not ever.


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- Appian Way
- The road to Rome from Puteoli where Paul disembarked (Acts 28:13); 70 km. (40 miles) south of Rome on the road was the Forum of Appius, where a party of Roman Christians welcomed Paul.
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Appian Way — [ap′ē ən] [after the Roman censor Appius Claudius Caecus, by whom it was begun in 312 B.C.] ancient Roman paved highway from Rome to Capua to Brundisium (Brindisi): c. 350 mi (563 km) … English World dictionary
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As the world continues to urbanize, it has become increasingly important to move away from some well-established patterns of city growth. Sustainable urban real estate development is becoming more widely adopted, as communities seek to grow while balancing environmental, social and economic responsibility. The key principles of these developments are aimed at creating energy-efficient, zero-waste neighborhoods with inner-city gardens and public spaces. This includes finding alternative, sustainable methods for wastewater management as well. The extreme forms of urban climate together with the agglomeration of people and values lead to a very high vulnerability of cities in terms of water quantity (heavy rainfall, flooding, drought) but also water quality. A reliable urban water cycle requires the assurance that both supply and disposal infrastructures keep pace with urban growth.
As part of an urban green initiative, a developer brought together area contractors and suppliers using sustainable and reusable products to build a "green" development in California for 4,000 residents at affordable prices. However, not only were the impact fees proposed by the city for connecting the site to the public sewer network estimated to cost the developer US$6.9 million, but the wastewater pumping would add pressure to the existing local treatment facility and result in a significant long-term increase in energy consumption. Additionally, bringing sewers to homes does not facilitate water reuse, an essential component for ensuring water supply security and a true sustainable urban development.
The developer considered constructing an on-site treatment solution instead of connecting to the existing sewer network. By treating wastewater at the source, the developer would be able to potentially reduce costs and provide access to reclaimed water to the community. However, utilizing a conventional wastewater system in an urban setting raised significant concerns around its impacts on the neighborhood.
Conventional systems possess a large "psychological footprint" resulting from poor aesthetics and odour issues, contributing to a large land requirement (including a sizeable buffer zone around the facility to combat the above issues). Both the physical and psychological footprint are major factors that are undesirable in the development concept, and would also negatively impact the project economics by decreasing both the value and area of developable land.
For these reasons, the developer evaluated other on-site options and eventually determined that the Organica solution would be best suited for the project.
In contrast to connecting to the public sewer network, an Organica facility offers on-site wastewater treatment, with numerous benefits:
Compared to the US$6.9 million impact fee the developer is facing for sewer connection access, installing the Organica solution requires just US$3.4 million in capital expenditures, reducing the project's capital expenditures in half.
Due to its energy efficiency, sophisticated operation and a highly automated control system, the Organica facility only costs US$49 per household (US$77,000 total) annually to operate, significantly less than the national average sewer charge of US$435 per household (US$680,000 total) per year if connecting to the public sewer network. This low operational cost is more attractive to homeowners and generates additional long-term revenue for the facility operator. As a result of these factors, coupled with the potential for water reuse, Organica managed to compare favourably relative to the option to connect by over US$2.6 million in a net present value analysis over 20 years. The projected cash flows more than offset the cost of owning and operating the Organica facility, providing a full return on investment within 6 years.
In sync with the green urban development project, Organica offered a sustainable wastewater treatment solution housed in an odourless, aesthetically-pleasing enclosure integrated into its surroundings. Essentially, the facility looks and smells like a botanical garden, efficiently treating wastewater onsite within the same community where people live and work. The Organica facility succeeded in transforming an enlightened philosophy into actual, everyday benefits within the urban environment, demonstrating that a wastewater treatment plant can in fact be a good neighbour to the surrounding community.
Reclaimed water produced by the Organica facility is suitable for non-potable purposes, commonly used in cooling towers or irrigation. Utilizing reclaimed water for these purposes, the community can save almost US$630,000 on potable water in the first year alone. As water supply rates in the city follow the general trend across the country and continue to increase, these savings will only continue to grow in following years. This reuse also reduces burden on local water supply from aquifers or surface supplies, providing independence from droughts and other local weather impacts.
Assumptions: Wastewater discharge and water supply costs are assumed to increase by 5% per annum. Organica OPEX is assumed to increase at an annual rate of 3%. NPV is calculated over a 20-year time frame using a 10% discount rate.
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Bill Bruford
Bill Bruford has never attained the widespread fame of Carl Palmer or Billy Cobham. But whenever Bruford's name is mentioned, it is almost invariably prefaced by the term "drummer extraordinaire" or "precise percussionist."
Max Roach: Back On The Bandstand
Max Roach remains the essential modern drummer. The quality of his work has been proclaimed world-wide as melodic, subtle and intensely musical. Over the last thirty years, jazz percussionists have studied and imitated Roach's unique style.
Les DeMerle Up Front
Les DeMerle enjoys spending his free time improving his art. Lately, he has found less spare time for such a venture. With a recently completed itinerary of clinics and his new book Jazz/Rock Fusion ready for release, DeMerle is busier than ever.
From The Past – Profile Of A Legend: Dave Tough
Almost without exception, every drummer that has left a mark in the jazz world, will tell you that to some degree, they were influenced by Dave Tough. Who was Dave Tough?


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LOS ANGELES - Jennifer Aniston turned into a brunette for her latest role in Horrible Bosses in which she portrays Dr. Julia Harris, D.D.S. and she definitely shot some great big holes in the old adage that 'blondes have more fun.'
Aniston, who is 42, portrayed probably one of the sexiest, horniest, most sensuous nymphomaniacal females in the history of the 14-lettered "N" word.
A reporter for Bedroom Pillow Talk, Gazebo Serengeti reported that filming actually had to be stopped a total of 62 times during Jennifer Aniston's dental office scenes due to the fact that the cameraman got way too excited and the camera started giggling and moving all over the place.
After that happened about two dozen times, the director brought in a second cameraman, but he ran into the same problem. Someone suggested that maybe they should use a lesbian cameraperson but that idea was shot down fast for the obvious reason.
The movies hair stylist FuFi Fondue suggested that maybe they could use a gay cameraman to shoot the sexy-as-hell scenes with Jennifer.
The call went out but the only two gay cameramen who were not already working on a film were both vacationing down in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and their calls went directly to voice mail.
Finally, the director decided to call up a cameraman that he had worked with on many of the Elvis Presley films and who had retired 35 years ago.
The man identified as Clem Piddleflicker who recently turned 93 agreed to come in and shoot all of the scenes involving Jennifer Aniston.
The scenes were shot and everyone was happy. Piddleflicker was paid his normal cameraman's fee plus he was given a years supply of Geritol, Metamucil, and pitless prunes.
FuFi Fondue confided to Gazebo Serengeti that he heard through the beauty salon grapevine that after Brad Pitt saw Jennifer in her movie role that he remarked to a close friend that he thinks he may want to get back together with her.
Pitt reportedly said that he has never seen Jennifer look better and that just like he allowed Angelina Jolie to steal him away from Aniston he says he would certainly allow Jennifer to steal him away from Jolie.
In other news. Sarah Palin told USA DAYBREAK that Michele Bachmann may know the names of all of the state capitals but that she (SP) can shoot a caribou's belly button off at 100 yards.


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The Department of Chemistry grants transfer credit for chemistry courses taken during the summer or during study abroad programs according to the rules and procedures established in the Rice University General Announcements and as administered by the Office of the Registrar.
In order to satisfy the Department's ruling on transfer credit, the course must typically be taken at a four-year college or university that offers a degree in chemistry certified by the American Chemical Society (information regarding certified programs is available on the ACS website). The course should be one that counts toward the chemistry degree at that school. Prior to registration, students should obtain pre-approval using the Undergraduate Request for Transfer Credit, which is available from the Office of the Registrar.
Courses for transfer credit after matriculation for General Chemistry (CHEM 121 and/or CHEM 122) and the laboratory (CHEM 123 and/or CHEM 124) must contain a laboratory component or must involve co-enrollment in associated lecture and laboratory courses. Any student who has taken CHEM 121 and/or CHEM 122 at an alternate institution must receive instructor approval to take the lab credit on the Rice campus.
NOTE: We are not accepting transfer credit for laboratories that are conducted remotely or virtually regardless of where the course is taken.
Students should follow these steps to obtain transfer credit approval:
You may elect either to pick-up the processed form or to have it returned via campus mail so that you may submit the form to the Registrar. Please allow one week for processing of the transfer credit request.


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3 months ago I started to use much more salt (were on a low salt diet before) as I have read that our body needs it for digestion to build stomach acid. My rosacea got a lot better!
After some time I began to use too much salt. But my blood was always good and my blood pressure even too low and my rosacea was so much better. Therefore I didn't worry about if it was too much. Also I have drunken enough water everyday (3-4 litres)
Today my face looks really puffy for the first time. Think it's water retention.
So my question is: if the salt has caused this water retention, does it go away on its own if I lower my salt intake? Or won't I get rid of the salt and will always have these water retentions because I gave my body too much salt in the past?
Thanks for answers!


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I've been a Royal Bank customer for many years - they were the ones I turned to when I first moved to Montreal for school in 1989. I had all my "start-up" funds in a certified cheque that I deposited with a local credit union, where they promptly held the cheque to verify the funds, leaving me broke while trying to set myself up in a new apartment in a new city. (Note to Caisse Populaire: "It was a freaking certified cheque. The whole point was that it shouldn't need to clear! It was CERTIFIED!!!" And yes, I'm still bitter about this 20 years later...) So I marched down to the Royal Bank, and they were very nice to me, and facilitated getting a lump of money sent from home very quickly, and I've been an RBC person ever since.
But when it comes to international travel, RBC leaves a lot to be desired. If I were to use my Royal Bank ATM card while overseas, I'd be shelling out $5.00 every time I used it to withdraw cash from an ATM, not including any fees charged by the bank associated with the machine itself. This seemed perfectly usurious, so I was looking for another option.
Thanks to a recommendation from Jason and Gillian at One Giant Step... Is All It Takes, I've signed up with Citizens Bank. (In a very 21st-century, URL-friendly way, they've omitted the possessive apostrophe. Or maybe the name means "bank of many citizens", as opposed to "bank owned by a citizen", in which case there would never have been an apostrophe to begin with.) (And maybe you didn't even notice, and don't care at all about this grammatical side-trip.)
Citizens Bank is based British Columbia, and was founded in 1997, but doesn't have bricks-and-mortar branches; it's all internet-based. They apparently have "boutiques" in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto, but those aren't really branches, they're just store-fronts for people who want to find out more because they aren't comfy banking on the web without having dealt with someone in person first.
For us globe-trotting types, the great advantage of Citizens Bank is their Global Chequing Account:
No Citizens Bank ATM fees worldwide!
With a Global Chequing Account, simply use your Access Card to withdraw cash in the US or internationally in the local currency as you need it. You pay the current exchange rate with no additional fees.
- no fees for Canadian, US or international ATM withdrawals*
- no monthly fees or minimum balances
- no fees for debit card purchases in Canada or US
- free bill payments, transfers, cheques and balance inquiries
All the benefits of a regular chequing account, none of the extra charges. This truly is a no-fee Global Chequing Account
Signing up was very easy - it's all done on the Citizens Bank website (of course). Once the application is received, you call in and get an account number and access code to sign in online. You also have to mail them a personalized cheque from an existing bank account, so they can verify something or another**, and then the amount from that cheque is deposited into your account and you're ready to go. I'm still waiting to receive my ATM card, but I'm sure it will be here soon.
One of the things I found interesting was the security process involved when you first set up the account online. My RBC account simply requires me to enter my bank card number and my password. My Citizens Bank account has an account number and a password, but there's another layer of security involved too. I also had to pick a "security picture" and a "security phrase" that are displayed every time I log in to my account. The set-up page shows a grid of 6 icon-like pictures in a number of different categories, and you get to cycle through page after page of these until you see one that you like.
Then you also enter a phrase that will be displayed along with your picture of cavorting kittens (or whatever), so you know that you've signed in securely. It all seems to be a step beyond what I'm used to, which is reassuring.
As a company, Citizens Bank also claims to have some pretty impressive corporate ethics. Of course they offer (even encourage) paperless statements, but that's nothing revolutionary. What's a little more interesting is their no-fee Visa card that donates $0.10 to Oxfam Canada every time you spend $20.00, and one that donates the same amount to Amnesty International. They're apparently the first North-American-based bank to be carbon-neutral, and Citizens Bank employees have helped with Habitat for Humanity builds in B.C., and they donate blood to the Red Cross and help clean up urban green spaces. They probably also spend their coffee breaks rescuing kittens stuck in trees and helping old ladies cross the street. Ok, I'm kidding about that last bit, but check out this Youtube video and you'll see I'm not far off. These folks really seem to be doing some good.
We'll see how things go when I'm actually out on the road, but for now I give Citizens Bank two thumbs up.
* You still have to pay the fees charged by the bank that owns the machine, but that's true locally too.
** The email I got actually says: "Your signed, personal cheque is used for identification and signature verification, as required by federal law"


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New committee to determine caste beneficiaries2 min read . Updated: 28 Dec 2012, 11:56 PM IST
Panel to analyse data from socio-economic, caste census and determine beneficiaries of various rural schemes
Panel to analyse data from socio-economic, caste census and determine beneficiaries of various rural schemes
New Delhi: Faced with the challenge of deciding which class of the poor should receive which state benefits, the government has formed a committee under Planning Commission member Abhijit Sen to analyse data from the socio-economic and caste census (SECC) and determine the beneficiaries of various rural development programmes.
Once in place, the new system is expected to help the government better target the huge sums of money it spends on social welfare schemes. Subsidies and benefits under various welfare programmes add up to almost ₹ 3 trillion, roughly 3.5% of India's gross domestic product.
The committee will include Kirit Parikh, a former Planning Commission member; Mahendra Dev, director of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research; Nikhil Dey of Suchna Evam Rozgar Adhikar Abhiyan; Himanshu, an assistant professor at the Jawaharlal Nehru University; and P.P. Mitra, chief economic adviser in the rural development ministry.
SECC has surveyed all rural households in the country to collect a number of socio-economic indicators such as literacy, housing, assets and caste.
The adoption of the new methodology to determine the recipients of government benefits means all welfare programmes will be delinked from the Planning Commission's below poverty line (BPL) criterion. It is aimed at ensuring that no poor or deprived household will be excluded from coverage under different welfare programmes.
The committee will also ensure that the system is consistent with the provisions of the Food Security Bill that are still being worked out. It has been asked to consult state governments, experts and civil society organizations and submit its report by 31 March 2013, on how best to target spending on social schemes.
Sen said 90% of the SECC data is now available although it will take longer before the complete data is in place. "The committee will start working with the data already available," he said.
N.C. Saxena, a member of the National Advisory Council, said it will take at least another six-eight months to complete the data collection exercise.
"The bigger challenge is that Planning Commission thinks the methodology applied in collecting the data is flawed, which may throw up unreliable numbers. The states also have their own schemes. There are a large number of complicated issues to be handled," he said.
In a joint press statement, Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia and rural development minister Jairam Ramesh said in October 2011 that the government will take into account multiple dimensions of deprivation based on the indicators that are being collected through SECC for arriving at the specific entitlements that rural households will receive under various central government programmes and schemes.
"The present Planning Commission methodology will not be used to impose any ceilings on the number of households to be included in different government programmes and schemes," the statement said.
Pronab Sen, former principal adviser in the Planning Commission, said what needs to be seen is whether the committee will or will not use the same criterion for all states and what will be the revised cut-off for classifying households as BPL.
"But the basic issue is that any exercise being done today is confined to the SECC data and the NSSO (National Sample Survey Organisation) questionnaire. So I would not expect major surprises," he said.
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Raleigh, NC -- (SBWIRE) -- 05/02/2017 -- Island Watch Co. was started due to the founder's love of the islands and ocean. Island Watch Co. has created a collection of island style wood watches for like-minded island enthusiasts that allow people to live the island lifestyle and to provide them with a brand that has deep island roots, style and craftsmanship.
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Just recently Island Watch Co. partnered with Mango Media in St. Thomas, USVI to do several photo shoots of their island style wooden watches. Mango Media is a multi-faceted company that offers photography services, web design, printing, and boat graphics and lettering in the USVI and BVI.
Island Watch Co. founder Dallas Alford was asked why he selected Mango Media to work with on their recent photo shoot. His response "We spent a significant amount of time looking for a professional photographer that we felt could meet our needs and that understood our lifestyle and our wood watch product line. We came across Mango Media's photography portfolio at http://www.photo.vi/ and we immediately knew William was our man. His work is absolutely stunning and the level of detail and presentation of each picture is exactly what we were looking for. We soon found out he is the most sought out photographer in the entire Caribbean.
Alford continued by saying "We reached out to William with Mango Media about doing a photo shoot in the Caribbean and he immediately agreed as he loved our island style wooden watches. Working with William was a pleasure as he is a true professional, gentleman and his uncanny ability as a photographer is simply amazing. He provided us with some great shots from close ups of our island style watches posed on the beach to shots of models wearing them in a Caribbean setting. We were totally blown away by his attention to detail and 100% satisfied with the end result."
When William Torrillo was asked what he liked about working with Island Watch Co., he commented "I think they've got a great series of island style men's wooden watches and women's wooden watches that are designed well to depict the island lifestyle. Another thing I like about Island Watch Co. is that they are 100% committed to the natural environment that island enthusiasts love so much. To show their commitment, they donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of each wooden watch to Oceana, a non-profit organization that is focused on preserving the world's oceans and marine environment. That is really important to me as I live in the Caribbean and the ocean and beaches are literally right here in my back yard."
When Island Watch Co. was asked if they would ever consider working with the folks at Mango Media again, Alford's eyes immediately lit up and he said "Absolutely. We are already collaborating with William to see how else we can engage Mango Media's services to help spread the word about Island Watch Co. Any business that wants a presence in the Caribbean should be working with Mango Media."
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By: Danielle Cuccio – celebrity yoga instructor, CEO of Cuccio Somatology (www.CuccioSomatology.com)
Blog: www.TheBeautyBlender.com.
Photos: Kathryn Page (http://www.kathryn-page.com/)
Yoga can be seen as somewhat spiritual, "guru-y", but in actuality, it doesn't have to be that at all. Yoga can be whatever you want it to be. It can be slow, it can be fast. It can be spiritual, it can be purely physical. It really is what you make it.
That is why I love yoga. And the great thing is, it feels good no matter what. Even if a stretch feels intense at the moment, you can feel so much better after.
I used to hate yoga. Being a hip-hop dancer growing up, I liked to move and not hold any pose for longer than five seconds. I then found Vinyasa Yoga which was similar to dance. It was slow, but not too slow. It felt good to move just like dancing did.
YOGA IS FOR EVERYONE. I love that a beginner can walk into my class and be totally fine. Take it at their pace, even if someone is doing a headstand in the middle of the room, that doesn't mean that YOU have to too. Yoga is about being okay with where you are at, the level you practice at, and however you are feeling that given day and time. It doesn't matter if you are 4 or 84 – you can practice yoga.
YOGA HELPS YOU LOSE WEIGHT. As most of us are used to being at a desk job or on our computers, phones, iPads all day long, it's important to get up and move. You don't have to go to the gym, you don't even have to leave your house, but just roll out a yoga mat and start stretching. Most people are intimidated by the thought of weight loss. "Oh no, I have to make it to my 6:30pm Cross Fit class – that I don't even like – otherwise I can't eat that piece of cake this weekend at my birthday." Guys! Let me tell you, you don't have to dread your workout! Yoga is enjoyable! Okay, maybe not after your first class but after your second or third time doing it, your muscles create something called muscle memory and it becomes easier and easier; it actually starts to feel good! You use your core a lot as you transition from pose to pose so your abs naturally start to become more defined. Your muscles are also being stretched and worked – making you sweat and have a leaner, longer body. Have you ever seen a yogi's body? They are lean, long and gorgeous!
Here is an easy YOGA SEQUENCE for all levels to practice from home, a local park or while on vacation.
DOWNWARD DOG: Bring feet hip distance apart, with your tailbone high and arms pressed into the mat, spreading through all 10 fingers. Shoulders relax away from the ears, and chest comes towards your thighs.
THREE LEGGED DOG: On an inhale, raise your right leg high.
KNEE TO NOSE: On an exhale, bring your right knee to your nose.
CRESCENT POSE: Step your right knee in between your hands and using your abdominal muscles, while inhaling pull the body up to Crescent Pose (Right knee lines up with right ankle, left heel is lifted off the mat, tailbone comes down, shoulders relax away from the ears as you shoot energy out through your fingertips, up towards the sky).
PLANK POSITION: On your exhale, release your hands down on both sides of your foot (right towards the right of the right foot, left towards the left) from Crescent Pose. Slide your right leg back to come into Plank.
UPWARD FACING DOG: Inhale in Plank, exhale lower down (Chaturanga), bending your elbows so they squeeze the sides of your waist. On your inhale, push into your palms to lift the chest up, opening up through the heart. Think about reaching your spine forward towards your heart.
DOWNWARD FACING DOG: Come back to start. Do the same sequence on the other side starting with the left leg.
Wake up early with more yoga sequences with Danielle's At-Home Yoga DVD! http://www.cucciosomatology.com/#!dvd-details/cq73 or follow Danielle's health blog here: www.TheBeautyBlender.com


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Actor Jason Lee is set to become a father for the third time.
The star's wife Ceren is pregnant and due to give birth to a baby boy in June, according to People.com.
The couple wed in 2008 and is parents to three-year-old daughter Casper.
Lee also has an eight-year-old son, named Pilot Inspektor, from his previous relationship with former fiancee and My Name is Earl co-star Beth Riesgraf.


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URBANA-CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – After experiencing lengthy weather delays, University of Notre Dame men's tennis junior Greg Andrews was eliminated by Southern California's Ray Sarmiento Thursday during the second round of the NCAA Singles Championship at the Atkins Tennis Center. Andrews was unable to pull the upset on a top-20 opponent in the Intercollegiate Tennis Association rankings for the second consecutive day, falling 7-5, 1-6, 6-4.
Andrews surrendered the first two games during the first set before earning a mark for himself on the scoreboard. Sarmiento controlled the pace of the frame, gaining a one game advantage numerous times in the set, only for Andrews to return a serve or volley and tie the set.
After thirty minutes of play, the score stood at 5-5. Sarmiento gained the upper hand by winning the final two games to claim the set.
Andrews took the court by storm in the second set and only allowed Sarmiento one game early on. With the score at 2-1 in the Notre Dame junior's favor, Andrews won four consecutive games for a 6-1 victory that tied the match at one set apiece.
In the third and final set of the match, Andrews again scored the first game triumph, but Sarmiento responded and tied the frame at one-all. Andrews replied with a blistering serve and earned his second game in the only remaining singles match still on the court at the Atkins Tennis Center. Sarmiento tied it again, 2-2, and from there the set went back and forth until Sarmiento emerged victorious, 6-4.
Andrews finished the season 26-13 (18-7 in dual play) after beginning the campaign ranked No. 24 in the ITA polls. He won BIG EAST Conference Player of the Year honors for the second consecutive season, and was named the BIG EAST Championship Most Outstanding Player at the 2013 conference tournament.


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Discussion in 'THE AIGBURTH ARMS' started by Seb, May 4, 2017.
Working with the Code Monkey to get the new forum working.
Currently loving the new forum.
Currently welcoming you all back, and extending thanks to @Andy Neale and @Chris D for getting this thing up and running as quickly and smoothly as we could have hoped for!
Currently the first person to ask where Tex Rimmer is....
Who cares about Tex Rimmer? What do you think about the new forum?
currently frightened but will perservere .. pervser .. pser ... persevere .... i want to be yoserian again. i feel so naked. currently.
Ah very nice. I can now "like" your posts Blueychops. I expect a "like" from you immediately.
Good work Sebastian. Really nice. This is my current favourite of the smileys...
As you wish, I've just given you your first ever like on the new forum.
What's with the Professor Calculus avatar?
Currently making use of the new ignore feature
Currently witnessing the first attempts at antagonising... so I will have to use this
Really liking this forum. It's like an intergalactic Facebook. Top work Seb. Allow me to doff my hat. :toppa:
currently wondering what happens if i report someone. can i report my self? must explore. why is everyone else not a first technician. currently, i'd rather be a third tech. can i request that???
Currently making my first post on the new forums. Liking what I see so far.
Seb, did you have to think up an individual "crew position" for EVERYONE?!?! Or does it work on post count/time on the forum?
Here, have another doff :toppa:
I think that's linked to how many times you've posted on the forum.
Oh wow look at all this. this is really fancy. It works really fast as well.
Oh I am just noticing we all have in ship jobs. How were they assigned. Randomly? I am Deck Sergeant. Like Sam Murray right?
Currently proud to have received the first ignore on the forum. Although I can still read his posts (sadly).
Surely the block feature just makes it easier to gossip about people without them seeing? hahaha
I jest, of course!!!
These smileys are BRILLIANT!!!! Although Sim won't come back, the rolling eyes are no more
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Welcome to the new forum, both.
No rolling eyes, you say?
I will admit to having got the smileys off another forum (especially the "doffing the hat" and "Picard facepalm" ones), but will happily take requests for emotions that are not adequately covered by the current range.
And yes, with a couple of specific exceptions (I did consider appointing Ant E "Morale Officer"), the crew ranks are dependent on post count. So if you want to become a First Tech, get posting!
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On Friday, The Sensex falls and where the nifty loses below the 10,000 mark in the early session and Banking, healthcare and FMCG stocks high on the market.
It shows that the Asian shares were a mixed bag.
The 30-share Sensex falls 76.20 points or 0.23 per cent to 32,161.68. In the last two previous sessions, it had lost the total of 337 points.
It down up to 1.67 percent in the healthcare, FMCG, session backing, power and auto indices.Nifty tops the table with 10,000 points in all the straight sessions, and it slipped below the psychological level, where it down to 22.55 points at 9,991.10.
Sun Pharma, Lupin, Dr. Reddy's, Cipla, ONGC and Reliance Industries were pulled down in the indices.
Coal India, Maruti Suzuki, and Hero MotoCorp, were up on selective buying support, chiefly on strong fundamentals.
Japanese NICC 0.36 percent, Hong Kong Hong Kong 0.01 percent and Shanghai hybrid 0.11 percent.
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A company in Santa Fe, N.M., is using a Twitter bot and satellite imaging to monitor wildfire activity.
(TNS) — From 22,000 miles above the Earth, the last day of May seemed relatively normal in Colfax County, N.M.
Fluffy white clouds, like oddly shaped polka-dots, migrated across the Mora County line, but the arid brown desert and swaths of darker-colored forests were easily visible through what must have been a big, blue sky down below.
As the afternoon progressed, though, a thin line of white smoke started to climb skyward, just north of N.M. 64. Satellite video shows the plume growing wider and wider, eventually blanketing the northeastern corner of the county and crossing well into Colorado by the early morning of June 1.
So went the start of the Ute Park Fire, which burned more than 36,000 acres near the town of Cimarron earlier this year.
Santa Fe based Descartes Labs last week unveiled satellite videos and infrared footage of Ute Park and dozens of other fires around the country, demonstrating its new Wildfire Watch system — a Twitter bot called @WildfireSignal.
"This tool could help folks who are dealing with wildfire in their community," explained Caitlin Kontgis, technical lead for Descartes' applied science team.
Employees at Descartes, a satellite imaging firm, were inspired to do something that could help during natural disasters after watching the destruction left by Hurricane Harvey last fall, Kontgis said. They decided to focus their efforts on mapping wildfires since many of them had personal experience with fire disasters in California, or at Los Alamos.
The bot will publish new video and infrared images of ongoing wildfires every six hours. Already the Twitter feed has thousands of posts up, showing snippets of burns from Washington state to New Mexico.
Kontgis' team hopes these visualizations can help the public track wildfires and their smoke — an advantage when trying to determine where and when to flee, or to help people keep an eye on whether a fire is approaching.
"Just visually, data like this we realized is incredibly powerful," Kontgis said.
For example, Kontgis said, another employee at Descartes Lab described how the app could have been useful when his family was evacuated from a fire zone in California. They have a young child, Kontgis said, and wanted to flee from the smoke, but the smoke caught up to the town where they evacuated only a day later.
A map like this could show the public the general direction smoke is traveling, so people can better avoid it. The infrared technology also can spot and map fires overnight when visual tools aren't as effective, she said.
Kontgis said it's not the place of Descartes programmers to give people advice related to fires, but they're hoping the tool can simply provide people objective information so they can be better informed.
"Being able to see [fire and smoke] movement provides more information when there really isn't a lot of information coming," Kontgis said. "We want to provide information to people and help them make their own decisions."
The bot — software that is coded to run assigned tasks automatically — essentially finds information on new fires from InciWeb, the incident information system for wildfires published through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. It then identifies satellite imagery of the area where a fire has started. The bot then publishes infrared and video footage using hashtags like #UteParkFire that make the posts easy to search on the internet.
A new satellite called GOES-16 is a critical component of the nearly live feed, Kontgis said. Instead of orbiting like other satellites, GOES-16 stays in place over the Western Hemisphere and takes constant images of the United States. Descartes can compile nearly live images from that satellite and provide that feed to first responders.
However, they're only tweeting the six-hour videos because of Twitter parameters, and because that makes the data easier to manage, Kontgis said.
The group's ultimate goal is to program a computer to keep an eye on the infrared data, and create an alert system when a fire starts. The idea is to innovate a system that could help first responders get to the scene of a fire faster in hopes of preventing small fires from spreading.
That alert system probably would be exclusively for public safety agencies, Kontgis said, because Descartes wouldn't want to start a panic over a fire that could just be a prescribed burn.
"We're cognizant of the implications of releasing a tool like that," Kontgis said.
In a post on the website Medium.com, Descartes announced it had shared the technology with the Santa Fe National Forest in the hopes that it could help track and monitor fires.
However, Forest Service spokesman Bruce Hill said the agency doesn't have use for the technology at the moment. Forest Geographic Information System coordinator Julie Luetzelschwab said the Forest Service already uses the GOES satellite system to keep an eye on fires in Northern New Mexico.
"We appreciate their offers; they do amazing work, I know," Luetzelschwab said of the new Descartes product. "There's so much new tech it's hard to keep track of it all, but I know that the fire world here is using quite a bit of it."
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For thousands of patients, a stay at a state asylum in Mississippi ended in unmarked graves.
One man was a former soldier who had "acute mania." Another was an impoverished farmer who developed dementia from malnutrition because he made sure his children ate before he did. And then there was the woman who was forced into the asylum by her husband, just so he could remarry.
Not much is known about the more than 11,000 patients who died at the state asylum in Mississippi from 1855 until it closed in 1935. But a group of researchers at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson is trying to change that.
This month, the researchers announced their plans to dig up remains from unmarked graves on the former asylum site and preserve them in a memorial and study center. The news has renewed the hopes of descendants that they can find out more about what befell their distant relatives who went into the asylum and never came out. And with those hopes, came the stories.
Families have been contacting the experts at the Asylum Hill Research Consortium to share their history, pieced together from old records, DNA profiles, ancestry searches and stories passed down through generations.
"I get emails from descendants to see if I can confirm their ancestors are buried there," said Dr. Molly Zuckerman, an associate professor at Mississippi State University, one of the seven universities involved in the project. "They relate the stories of their lost loved ones. Some are detailed and others tragic. They represent the unspoken, untold history of this phenomenon, specifically in the postwar South."
Once known as the Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum, the facility underwent changes that reflected the history of the region, such as its slavery, civil war and segregation. Diagnosis records include syphilis, poverty, pellagra (a nutritional disease endemic to the early 20th century South) and hysteria, which was related to "excessive emotions, anxiety and sexual forwardness in women," said Michelle Davenport, who researched some of the remains as a graduate student.
University administrators have long known of the existence — but not the number — of the bodies buried at the 20-acre site on the eastern edge of the campus. Sixty-six sets of remains were exhumed in 2013, and surveys detected about 2,000 coffins by 2014. Now, archaeologists say there could be up to 7,000 sets of remains, mostly of former patients from the asylum.
The team is considering preserving the bodies in a memorial center and for study. The $3.2 million project, for which funds have not been procured, could take eight years, the consortium said.
Dr. Zuckerman said the research could contribute to understanding a time when mental illnesses were stigmatized or misdiagnosed. Admissions records and analysis from bones and teeth could yield information about patients' lives to an extent that she said did not exist elsewhere.
For some families, their reasons for uncovering the mysteries of their ancestors include tracing inherited medical history, but more compelling are the emotional reasons — to answer questions about an adoption, to place a skeleton in a family plot or to simply embed a marker where none now exists.
Was my ancestor, a woman with many children, treated with dignity? wondered one woman.
"There is a little pain involved as well as lack of closure," said Elaine Perryman, 56, whose search for her distant relative Ethel reflects how African-Americans in particular struggle to trace their ancestors through a period of slavery. Ethel, Ms. Perryman said, had been told she had a white father. "Who we are, and everything about us, is the contribution of our ancestors," she said.
Like others, Ms. Perryman's search has been going on for years, but it recently tapped a new vein of hope when the consortium announced its plans. A report in The Clarion-Ledger that highlighted the estimates of up to 7,000 skeletons also set off widespread media attention.
"One can rightly make the claim that it is the most respectful thing to do to leave them alone," said Dr. Ralph Didlake, the consortium's head. "On the other hand, we have mission-critical obligations for health care, research and education."
"And we have the opportunity to honor these people in a way that they have not been in the past," he said. "They lived marginally in life as patients in an asylum. They were marginalized in death in an almost forgotten, unmarked cemetery."
Like John B. Whitfill. In a story told by his grandson, James T. Lee, 71, Mr. Whitfill and his family loaded their belongings on a truck in the early 1900s and left Kentucky for the cotton fields of Mississippi, which he thought held more economic promise.
Mr. Whitfill found life hard as a tenant farmer. With little to eat — cornbread, milk, syrup — Mr. Whitfill made sure his five children ate first, said Mr. Lee, recounting his mother's memories. Eventually, Mr. Whitfill developed dementia from a vitamin B deficiency and was sent to the asylum, where he died in 1932.
"They never did see him after the sheriff took him over there," Mr. Lee said. "My granddad was starving. His teeth were falling out. He was delirious."
Mr. Lee said he and his mother have traveled to Mississippi to try to locate Mr. Whitfill's remains to bury him in a family plot in Big Clifty, Ky., but there were no records of his burial location.
Jesse Casas, 47, from Maine, said his family spent years researching his great-great-grandfather, Ellison Benton Bishop, who was born in 1842 in Attala County, Miss., served in the Confederate Army and raised eight children.
On Aug. 2, 1905, Mr. Bishop entered the asylum for "acute mania," Mr. Casas said. He was dead by the end of the same year.
"Everybody deserves at the very bare minimum just a stone," he said.