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一 |     The cell phones, tablets, and laptops left behind by veterans who died by suicide may offer insight that could help prevent future military suicides, according to a nonprofit dedicated to analyzing the data from the devices.Stop Soldier Suicide collects the technology as part of its initiative, "The Black Box Project," which is named after the black boxes found on planes that help determine the cause of aviation incidents."If we could gather novel data from those that have died by suicide, we might be able to recreate the last year of life," Stop Soldier Suicide CEO Chris Ford told ABC News.Veterans are 57% more at risk for suicide than non-military adults and around 6,000 veterans die by suicide each year, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs."I think we can prevent needless suffering and a ton of loss of life," Ford said.That kind of loss is something David McDaniel, whose son Connor died by suicide at the age of 26, knows all too well.Connor McDaniel joined the Army after high school, and, according to David, he appeared upbeat during his deployment to Afghanistan, where he was assigned to protect local villages from the Taliban."Some of his Army buddies told me that he was making them laugh while they were being shelled in Afghanistan," David McDaniel told ABC News.But it wasn't long after Connor came home that David McDaniel says he sensed a shift in his son's behavior to include "more anger, a lot of frustration, a lot of gloominess."On Sept. 1, 2021, David says his son entered a wooded area with a firearm."I start screaming his name as I'm walking up the field. And just then the police, the sheriff's department shows up and they tell me to come back down," McDaniel said.He followed their direction, but on the car ride home, an officer called him and said Connor was dead after he fired upon sheriff's deputies and the deputies returned fire and killed him.Connor's death was determined to be a suicide. The district attorney's office concluded that the officers' actions were justified.While grappling with his son's death, David McDaniel was immediately drawn to the Black Box Project, which uses forensic software to unlock and comb through service members' devices provided by their loved ones to review their activity in the weeks leading up to their suicides.McDaniel works in the tech field and says if the project can find repeated patterns in online searches, they may be able to help others to prevent suicides.For instance, McDaniel says his son searched for SGLI, Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance, before his death. If a veteran were to make a similar search and look up "suicide" in the future, for example, McDaniel suggests it could trigger an ad for Stop Soldier Suicide to pop up and provide resources in the search results.Ford says the nonprofit uses machine learning, a subfield of artificial intelligence, to analyze texts and notes in order to determine sentiment or emotional tone, such as anger or desperation. He says they can also track phone usage of the deceased veterans to monitor their past sleep cycles and trace their past geo-locations."Machines can go through computations a lot faster than humans, and they can find signals that we often miss," Ford said.Since launching the Black Box Project in April 2020, Stop Soldier Suicide has received over 100 devices, Ford said. So far, he says they're seeing three patterns before most of these suicides: more anger, different sleep patterns, and social isolation.Ford's team includes Ph.D.s in clinical psychology and suicide researchers. A scientific advisory committee helps steer where and what to look for on the devices.The findings are still preliminary, according to the nonprofit, but one goal is to help the organization decide where, when, and how to target their own mental health resources, like adding more hotline staff at certain hours and ensuring calls are picked up overnight.When asked about privacy concerns of collecting data, Ford said it's something they think about daily."We don't resell the data. We don't push it out to others. We use it for our own research purposes so that we can best understand risk and then give those devices back to those families intact," Ford said.Current privacy laws do not carry on past death, meaning the next of kin typically gains new authority.Petra Oxford-Jackson, whose veteran husband Anthony died by suicide, says she gave his phone to the organization with the possibility it could save even one life."I truly believe he would have been okay with it, and it's a hard thing for a survivor to give up something so personal as his cell phone," Oxford-Jackson told ABC News.The Black Box Project received $3 million in funding from the Department of Veterans Affairs earlier this year.If you are struggling with thoughts of suicide or worried about a friend or loved one, call or text the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 for free, confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, seven days a week.。    Sophie 编译 总理Christopher Luxon表示，澳大利亚是新西兰在世界上最亲密的朋友，他不介意澳大利亚将另一个国家作为最好的朋友。         新西兰的政客们感到很困惑，因为他们发现自己卷入了一场关于澳大利亚在世界上最亲密的朋友的争论。         Advertise with us          周一，澳大利亚贸易部长Don Farrell在回答塔斯马尼亚州参议员Claire Chandler的问题后，这个话题被搅得一团乱。

二 | Chandler声称，美国是澳大利亚“最值得信赖的国际伙伴”。

三 |          “我不确定美国是否是我们最信任的盟友。”Farrell参议员在参议院说。

四 |          “在整个历史上，我会说是新西兰。我认为我们最亲密的国际盟友是新西兰。”          在新西兰，人们的反应要么是对被提名感到高兴，要么是对这场辩论感到困惑。         外交部长Winston Peters在1月份与国防部长联合访问澳大利亚后，声称新西兰成为了澳大利亚政府优先考虑的国家。         “Judith Collins和我本人与我们在墨尔本的同行的会晤，对我们两国的关系产生了爆炸性的影响。”他笑着说，“这是毫无疑问的。我们正在取得一些非常快速的进展。”          Collins说，澳大利亚是新西兰最好的朋友，“当然，已经很多年了。”          当被问及新西兰最好的朋友是谁时，Luxon毫不犹豫地回答说“是澳大利亚”，并希望两国的友谊能够更加牢固。

五 |          “我们希望加强与澳大利亚的交往。我们希望看到在安全、国防和情报方面有更多的合作。”          “我们当然希望成为太平洋地区的好伙伴。

六 | ”          “重要的是，我们认为仍然有机会扩大和发展单一经济市场。”          Luxon表示，如果澳大利亚将美国视为最值得信赖的合作伙伴，他不会感到被轻视。

七 |          “这不会让我感到惊讶。

八 | 他们有着牢固的、长期的盟友关系，而我们的盟友关系，我们唯一的盟友是澳大利亚。”          澳大利亚与新西兰和美国都有国防协议，但惠灵顿只与堪培拉结盟了。         虽然这让新西兰政客们很容易就能说出谁是最好的朋友，但澳大利亚人的选择却引发了争论。         Farrell参议员的回应激怒了以其外交事务发言人Simon Birmingham为首的反对党。         “Don Farrell的行为是对美国的侮辱，他应该为此道歉。”Birmingham对Sky News说。         相关阅读：          新西兰总理宣布：这周三首访这个国家……          下周，澳大利亚总理将来访新西兰          注：本文为编译/原创，欢迎转发分享；但严禁复制等未经授权的非法使用。违反上述声明者，本网将追究其相关法律责任。使用授权请联系[email protected]。         chineseherald.co.nz All Rights Reserved 版权所有          (责编：Sophie)          相关内容                狠! 华人富商疯狂殴妻后出走 2侄子睡梦中被活活打死! 更恐怖的是...           奥克兰海域女尸案：死者身份仍不明，警方寻求公众协助           新西兰总理确认要访华！时间就定在......           王小龙大使接受TVNZ采访：新西兰不应将中国视作威胁           民调认为政府表现欠佳，但国家党仍被寄予厚望           开这款车的车主有福了！4月1日起路税打折！           王毅访问新西兰，与总理和外长会面：都谈了啥？           疫情通报：过去一周新西兰新增4666例。

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