Понемногу, и не совсем близко, неподалеку от побережья штата, но, — трясет.
PORTLAND — A magnitude-4.7 earthquake struck Friday off the Oregon coast, about 120 miles west-northwest of Bandon.
The quake was reported at 2:18 p.m. at a depth of about 22 miles, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
No tsunami threat was expected on the coast.
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…среди солдат Армии США, принимавших участие в боевых действиях.
Rates of suicide in the military were slightly worse during the war years than what the Pentagon previously reported, according to new calculations released by Defense Department officials Friday.
The new arithmetic shows that from 2006 forward — during the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan — the true suicide rate across the U.S. military was actually several tenths of a percent to 1% or more higher than what was being reported.
“It took us time and effort to sit down and really just kind of figure out a better way to do the math,” says Jacqueline Garrick, director of the Defense Suicide Prevention Office. She said the delay was a need to standardize how suicides are counted across the military.
The problem with the old, now-abandoned calculation, is that it relied partly on an estimated figure in determining a suicide rate rather than precise numbers, says Army Lt. Gen. Michael Linnington, the military deputy to the under secretary of Defense for personnel and readiness.
The old rates were calculated by the Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, according to the Pentagon,
“It’s jaw-dropping that the Pentagon would use this kind of crass calculation to measure the impact of the suicide epidemic within their ranks,” says Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a senior member of the Veterans Affairs Committee. “If that recalculation in any way indicates a need for additional funding or new services, the Pentagon and Congress must respond to address a problem which is clearly worse than we had been led to believe.”
Beginning in 2005, suicide within the military — particularly for the Army — steadily began increasing to record levels every year, and may have peaked in 2012.
Among full-time soldiers, the suicide rate soared to 29.7 deaths per 100,000 in 2012, well above a 25.1-per-100,000 rate for civilians of a similar age group during 2010, the latest year available, according to a Pentagon report. Among male soldiers, the rate was 31.8-per-100,000. There were a record 164 soldier-suicides that year.
The overall national civilian suicide rate was 12.1-per-100,000 in 2010 and 19.9-per-100,000 for men in 2010, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
The Army National Guard rate for 2012 reached 30.8 deaths per 100,000 with 110 suicides. The suicide rate for men in the Army National Guard was 34.2-per-100,000,Pentagon data shows.
For full-time troops across the U.S. military, the suicide rate peaked at 22.7-per-100,000 in 2012 and fell to 19.1-per-100,000 last year, according to the Pentagon.
Defense officials said that their old rates for suicide were flawed because officials did the math using only a percentage of National Guard and reservists — and not the true number — who were serving on active-duty status.
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Это уже давно не новость, но я наткнулся на это только пару минут назад.
Оказывается, новый Папа Римский собирается канонизировать бывшего “польского” Папу.
И не только его..
The Vatican on Friday defended the fast-track canonization process of two former popes, agreeing that the procedure is unusual but saying that saint-making is “not exactly a democratic process.”
The Catholic Church will elevate two popes this Sunday to sainthood in a historic dual ceremony. Pope John XXIII served from 1958 to 1963; the 27-year papacy of Pope John Paul II ended upon his death in 2005. Some have questioned why the Vatican sped the canonization process for John Paul, allowing the procedure to begin immediately upon his death instead of observing a typical five-year waiting period.
Vatican spokesman Greg Burke said the enormous outpouring of support for John Paul II helped speed up the canonization effort.
“That’s part of the saint-making process. It’s not exactly a democratic process but people do vote with their feet,” he said Friday on TODAY.
Burke said that that while the process for John Paul II may have proceeded faster than others, “rush is an opinionated word there, because there are things that have actually happened faster.” He also pointed out that Pope Emeritus Benedict, whom he described as “one of the most conservative popes in the world,” was the person who waived the five-year waiting period for his predecessor.
“I think that’s one sign that we’re pretty safe,” he said.
Both former popes will be declared saints in a ceremony led by the current pontiff. Pope Francis also waived another Vatican rule, in this case the need for proof that Pope John had performed two miracles instead of one.
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