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Cover Story - Winter 2023
By David Gessner | December 1, 2022
Matthew Smith/Alamy; National Guard/Alamy
It is the summer of 2021, and I am out west for what was meant to be a short stay. But I have decided to linger. I need to see where all the smoke is coming from.
Smoke is everywhere, and people are wary. As with the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when the clouds of dust blew all the way from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C., the smoke from this summer's disasters has blown across the interior, all the way to Massachusetts. By late July, the National Interagency Fire Center's situation report will have listed a total of 37,009 wildfires across the country, burning almost 3.4 million acres.
Originally, Salt Lake City was my westernmost destination, but I decide to keep pushing it, following the smoke, the region a hazy blur as I drive. A new phrase, heat dome, is on everyone's lips. This basically describes what happens when warm oceanic air becomes trapped in Earth's atmosphere by high pressure, but perhaps it is easier to picture a lid being placed over a piece of meat cooking on a kettle grill. We, and the land, are the meat. People keep saying it has never been so hot, and that subjective impression is backed up by the facts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that over "a six-day period during the middle of June 2021, a dome of hot air languished over the western United States, causing temperatures to skyrocket. From June 15–20, all-time maximum temperature records fell at locations in seven different states (CA, AZ, NM, UT, CO, WY, MT). In Phoenix, Arizona, the high temperature was over 115 degrees for a record-setting six consecutive days, topping out at 118 degrees on June 17."
Though extreme, heat in Phoenix is to be expected. But records are also being set in Salt Lake City, where it hit 107 degrees, and in Billings, Montana, where high temperatures averaged 100 degrees for six straight days, reaching a record 108 degrees. There is no relief by the ocean either. During Canada's record-breaking heat wave, tens of thousands of dead clams, mussels, sea stars, and snails are found on a beach in Vancouver. In the Pacific Northwest, Portland breaks all records, and Seattle, which from 1894 to the present had only three days on record when the temperature reached 100, now reports three days in a row of hitting triple digits. Glaciers are melting atop Mount Rainier, where summer temperatures are normally near freezing, and where the thermostat atop the 14,411-foot peak will register 73 degrees.
Salt is one thing we should still have a surplus of in the future, and here, where the ocean used to be, it is everywhere.
The other day, before reaching Salt Lake, I took a hike along the Escalante River. I ran into no one and enjoyed the freedom of wandering by the water while staring up at the great battlements of stone. Above me swooped swallows feasting on insects. I took a break from the apocalypse to birdwatch under the giant gnarled cottonwoods. More swallows, and woodpeckers, towhees, rufus hummingbirds, and a chickadee-size bird I couldn't identify. They were all that mattered for the moment.
That was what I needed. For a couple of hours, I could believe there were Edens left on Earth, and both this knowledge and the experience itself buoyed me.
But. The inevitable but.
When I was back on the road, the feeling quickly faded. As I headed toward the town of Escalante, the reality of the burning summer reintroduced itself. I sensed it in my nose first, then my eyes. Down by the river, I had been able to ignore the smoke, but coming into Escalante was like driving into a San Francisco fog. In that famously scenic place, with buttes and mesas in the distance, I couldn't see more than 50 feet ahead. A blurry world. Ghostly, with the oranges and yellows of striated rock visible but not the rock walls themselves.
My experience during recent trips through the American West is conflicted. A deep delight in the places where I find myself and in many of the people whom I meet, an anger at the despoiling of these places, and a deeper sadness about the climatic future. The miracle is how often, despite everything, delight wins out. But this trip is different, and on the morning of July 16, I head toward a state that looks, perhaps more than any other, like the landscape many scientists imagine in our arid future. Forty-two years from today, my daughter, Hadley, will be the age I am now. If you want to know the kind of world she will inherit, you could do worse than visit Nevada.
As anyone who has ever traveled west along Route 80 from northern Utah into Nevada knows, you must first pass through a world of salt. Not just the lake that gives Utah's capital city its name, but the clumped white mountains alongside the road. I pass the Morton Salt factory, imprinted with the giant logo of the girl with her tilting umbrella, and then, as I near the border between the two states, the Bonneville Salt Flats, stretching out forever like a field of drifting snow. Salt is one thing we should still have a surplus of in the future, and here, where the ocean used to be, it is everywhere.
I have always found Nevada's beauty to be underrated, but what I see now is less than beautiful, the smoke rendering the mountains mere shadows of themselves. Shimmering, glassy blue mirages rise on the road ahead as I point my rental van toward the great smoky wall of California. After hours and hours of driving through the brown of Nevada, passing too many dust devils, too many signs that read "Do Not Pick Up Hitchhikers, Correctional Facility Ahead," I finally begin to curl upward along the Truckee River toward Reno. Two sunsets glow in front of me. An actual one and something else, farther south, the reds and purples and swirling blacks like a great bruise—the reflection of a fire. Lit up below it, the whole landscape is crisp and brown and friable, despite the green of the cottonwoods along the river.
It is getting dark by the time I climb the Sierra and come over Donner Pass and down into California, so I pull over in some national forest land. It is quiet when I arrive, but when I lay out my pad, headlights come shafting through the trees. I have a neighbor. A rapist? A murderer? A friend and fellow nature lover? I consider sleeping in the back of the van, but it is too hot, so instead I dig out a bottle of Xanax and eat half a tab. If my neighbor decides to kill me, I won't put up much of a fight. I sleep like a (drugged) baby, blanketless on the duff below the Douglas firs. It is worth it. I wake at first light below the towering firs: a morning of such stunning beauty that it almost makes up for the lack of coffee. I wave to my sweet-faced nonmurderous neighbor and his golden retriever on my way out of the forest.
Westward I go through the burnt golden fields of California until the land starts to rise again, like the ridge of a stegosaurus's back. The ridge leads to Paradise.
Paradise, California, the scene of the devastating Camp Fire of 2018 (the deadliest and most destructive in the history of the state), is again under threat of evacuation, this time from the nearby Dixie Fire. I can taste smoke on my tongue as I drive the Skyway, the same road along which families fled three years ago. On a parallel ridge, to the east of town, runs a ghost forest of blackened trees. The town looks abandoned this morning. Empty lot after empty lot. A hand-painted sign advertises "Stump Grinding," and it occurs to me that this must be a popular business here. Three years after the fire, there are few healthy trees but still plenty of stumps and brush piles on every lot.
Nothing looks open, and I am hungry. I pull into a food mart at a gas station.
When I pay for my iced tea, I ask the woman behind the counter if there is anywhere to get breakfast.
"There used to be lots of stores and lots of places to have breakfast, before the fire," she says. "Now there's just one."
I hadn't planned on asking directly about the fire, but she's the one who brings it up. She tells me matter-of-factly how she watched her house burn down and how all that remains is its black outline on the ground. She says she now lives in a motor home, on an adjacent plot of land.
She gives me directions to Debbie's Restaurant.
When I get there, I take a seat at the counter and order a plate of ham and eggs. Only one other person sits at the counter, three stools down, a man in work overalls who looks like a bespectacled version of Dusty Hill, the bassist for ZZ Top. We both keep silent at first, just sipping our coffee, waiting for our food, though it seems obvious we will soon enough start chatting.
I mention the smoke.
"Oh, this isn't bad," he says. "When it's dark in the daytime, that's when you know it's bad."
I ask about the current level of nervousness in town.
"It all depends on the wind," he says. "Right now, it's blowing northeast."
"That's good, right?"
"Good for us. Not so good for the folks up in Almanor." He takes a sip of coffee and continues without prompting. "Last year, we had a fire break out 25 miles east of Oroville. And they were watching it, saying it was under control. Then the east wind came in again and damn near burnt out Oroville. A 40-mile-per-hour wind. When it's still, like today, sure, you can get it under control. But when that wind kicks up, it suddenly moves. They say that during the Camp Fire, it was traveling four football fields a minute."
It all depends on the wind. Think of that. For so many of us these days, believing we are safe in our modern, virtual lives, it is true. We make our plans, but the elemental lurks.
I teach at the university in Wilmington, North Carolina, and am lucky enough to have my summers off. I spend most of those summers in the West. But I am smart enough to know to run home by mid-August. Why? Not just because school will start soon, but because the season is starting.
Isabel was my first.
When my wife, Nina, and I moved to Wilmington, we rented an apartment near the ocean. We had barely settled, barely unpacked really, when we heard that the Big One was heading toward us. We were the bull's-eye, and the proof of that was that the dashing Weather Channel reporter had set up shop on the pier near our house. Hadley was just four months old, and we had no idea what to do. Soon, however, we learned that the Big One would hit elsewhere. The Weather Channel reporter charged off to another pier farther north.
But we still felt Isabel's lash. On September 18, 2003, I decided, perhaps foolishly, that I wanted to see the storm from the shore. After I'd tucked Nina and Hadley safely in a Holiday Inn in town, I drove back out, ostensibly to check on our apartment. I am not a thrill seeker, or at least not an extreme one, but I like to watch big storms come in over the water. There is pleasure in all that force, at least until it crosses a certain line.
That day I learned that the surfers out at Wrightsville Beach will always keep riding the great swells to the very last minute, until that final moment when wild delight becomes real danger. The philosopher William James, who happened to be in San Francisco for the earthquake and fire of 1906, would later write of the devastation to the city, the horror, the tragedy. But he also mentioned the "wild Olympian joy" he felt right after surviving the event itself. If my joy was not yet quite Olympian, I could feel something rising. Phone lines bobbed wildly, and street signs looked like they were being slapped around. Water spilled over the causeway. Once the last of the surfers and most of the weather reporters had left, I had the beach, and the hurricane, to myself. Sand lashed my back, and water too, the rain falling almost parallel to the ground.
After a while, I walked inland, toward the houses, and noticed a human energy that almost matched nature's, the few people still outside moving with purpose, intent on their last-ditch efforts to board up, tie down, and get out. I remembered the feeling from childhood, when I spent summers next to a harbor on Cape Cod, the hurricane fear but also the hurricane excitement—the sense of a community readying, a community in danger, but a community that was never more a community than at that moment, as neighbor helped neighbor prepare for the storm.
And what is this force that can destroy your house, leave your world in a shambles, this force that is so much larger than you and all your life's concerns? It is the wind. Wind, the mere movement of Earth's air. Often irrelevant in our lives, mostly benign. But as it rises off the water and hurtles toward you, it is about to show you that it is not irrelevant, far from it. Coming into town like a great gusting bully, rattling those street signs and plucking telephone wires like they were guitar strings, the wind will show you that it is in fact very, very relevant. It is about to blow your little piggy house down, no matter how many bricks you pile up. And as it comes charging in, bursting in, blowing in, gushing in, storming in, the ocean spits forth foam as if rabid, and then builds up with a great humpbacked power. People rush this way and that, as if boarding up some windows will stop this wild thing. But they have to do something—anything—if only to reassert some small degree of control.
The same story everywhere. For some, water. For others, fire, which the wind might swirl into a tornado. Doesn't it feel like we are in the midst of an elemental comeuppance? During my travels, I keep having the strange sense that I am living in the future, the same future that was predicted by scientists when I was younger but one that has arrived much faster than many of us expected. Time is strange; then becomes now. After years of debating climate change, of considering in a theoretical way the possibility of an altered future, we find ourselves in its midst. For Hadley, who is now starting college, and for many of my students, there is nothing theoretical about facing a world where the elements—water, wind, fire—have turned against us.
Until today, most of what I know about Paradise has come from news clips and YouTube videos, one of a man and his daughter escaping town while driving on a road where fire kicked up and spat from both sides of the highway. Now, at the counter of Debbie's Restaurant, I get an education from my bearded neighbor, who introduces himself as Doug Hays.
The Skyway (the road taken by those who fled) runs right outside Debbie's along the ridge. Eighty-five people died. Doug lost his house and wasn't allowed to go see his property for three months.
Since the fire, Doug says, he has been staying with a family in nearby Chico while he rebuilds his house on the same property where it burned. The family has been incredibly generous. But, he adds, there are plenty of people up in Chico who are less so.
"Survivor's guilt is a real thing," he says.
I nod. People all deal with disaster in their own ways. Sometimes the responses are complicated.
Doug mentions that his new house, almost completed now, is being threatened by the Dixie Fire, which started just three days ago. As we sit there eating breakfast, we don't know that it will burn 963,309 acres and won't be fully contained until October, that it will be the largest single wildfire in United States history.
Another diner takes a seat nearby and soon joins our conversation. He could be Doug's fellow ZZ Top band member, sporting a look that has become increasingly popular during the pandemic. His name is Phil, and he lives close to the Dixie Fire. He evacuated two days ago.
I no longer feel bad talking about fire. I tell them the story of my friend Ken Sleight. Ken was the model for the Mormon cowboy environmentalist Seldom Seen Smith in Edward Abbey's novel The Monkey Wrench Gang. For 35 years, he has lived at the foot of the La Sal Mountains in Utah, in a place called Pack Creek above Moab. On June 9, 2021, a fire that started at a campsite came ripping down from the mountains. It paused for a day and was declared officially extinguished before the wind shifted and doubled in strength, reigniting it. Then it ripped back up the mountain, destroying several homes and taking out Ken's Quonset hut.
"I lost everything," Ken would later tell me. But of course, he had not really lost everything. He still had his life, unlike the 85 individuals who had perished in Paradise. One thing the survivors did lose, along with all the property damaged and houses destroyed, was any sense of certainty about a place that had seemed a paradise. And what Ken had lost, his neighbors told me, was the spirit to fight on. Ken had been a kind of archivist, and losing all the paper and photos that constituted his memories was like losing his past.
Doug looks up from his eggs and nods in recognition.
"That's what I was in my family, too," he says. "The archivist. I still do it, still collect everything, even though I know it means nothing and can go away. You can't control it in the end; it means nothing."
I am not sure what it is, but I don't ask.
"I lost everything," he says. "Even my guns."
He had kept his rifles in a safe, and when the fire heated up, they shot off and put holes in the metal. Then, after the fire, the rains came and rendered his guns useless.
I mention the waterproof safe that I bought for hurricanes. Doug doubts it would really work.
"Nothing is safe," he says and then laughs at the pun and revises his sentence. "Nothing is anything-proof in the end."
A couple of months before fire tore through Paradise in 2018, Hurricane Florence landed in Wilmington. By then, I had been living in North Carolina and studying climate change and sea-level rise for almost two decades, but I was about to get a less theoretical lesson. I had experienced a dozen or more storms since moving south. But this one, we were told, was going to be different.
It's coming, they said a few days before. It's coming. No, no, it's really coming this time.
My fellow residents and I were not so sure. We were old pros, and for many years, living on our spur of the southern North Carolina coast, we had been fooled by the Cantore who cried wolf. We fell for it every time. The Weather Channel's Jim Cantore stood out there on the sand below our piers, warning us of the peril to come. He and his ilk foretold our doom, though their stern warnings were slightly subverted by the sight of the surfers trotting out to the water behind them, waving to the camera. Once—and I swear this is true—just as our local Jim Cantore wannabe was telling a TV camera that No one should go out in the storm, I saw a woman behind him pushing a stroller. As you can imagine, this somewhat undermined the point the reporter was so emphatically trying to make.
What I'm saying is that in Wilmington, North Carolina, we were a different breed of skeptic. We were the bull's-eye that was never hit. The land of close calls but always misses. So we regarded all the warnings with a grain or two of sand. We would board up, we would evacuate, we would pack, we would panic, and then … pfft.
On September 11, 2018, two days before the first bands of Florence hit, I was busy bringing everything inside, boxing books and papers in plastic containers, carting more books and papers and Hadley's baby photos to my office at the university. It is a strange business, leaving your life behind. There is only so much you can carry in a car or pack in places you pray are safe. I jammed everything I could into closets and nailed them shut.
But even before the fire reached town, the winds had blown a thousand sparks, and those sparks had started a thousand spot fires.
It was midmorning the next day when I evacuated. Hadley and Nina were already at my sister's house in Durham. I expected massive traffic jams, but most of my neighbors had already left, and our yellow Lab, Missy, and I flew up I-40 with only a few delays. The journalist in me felt guilty. Wasn't it a dereliction of duty to be driving away from a storm and not toward it? There was virtually no traffic going in the other direction, east toward Wilmington, but I imagined the few cars I saw belonged to my fellow writers, journalists, filmmakers, and photographers. That should be me, I thought.
We all assumed we were coming back. But we didn't know we were. And we didn't know what we'd find when we did. More and more often, people across this country and across the world come back to find that their homes, because of water, wind, or fire, are not there.
"Firm ground is not available ground," wrote the poet A. R. Ammons.
After my breakfast at Debbie's Restaurant, I follow Doug's directions and drive up the Skyway. This is where the fire climbed the ridge, and it is hard to drive this road without thinking of the videos from that night. The woman praying out loud with her family as the flames licked and blew toward her car from the road's edge. The brave father driving through the same flames and telling his young daughter in a calm voice: "We're not going to catch fire. We're going to get out of here." And then the relief when they make it out and the girl yells, "You did it!" before her father corrects her: "We did it."
That day, in addition to the loss of 85 lives, approximately 18,000 buildings burned. The fire moved so fast that there was no way for some to evacuate. It blew up the ridge from the base of a dry hill, uphill being the fastest way for a fire to travel. But even before the fire proper reached town, the winds had blown a thousand sparks, and those sparks had started a thousand spot fires.
I drive north toward the next town, Magalia, and pull over on a dirt road. To the east of the ridge that Magalia and Paradise sit atop, the land dives steeply down to the west branch of the Feather River before climbing again to the next ridge. I hike down through a corridor of still-blackened trees. A large rabbit with reddish ears goes bounding off along the path, and a deer stands up on the burned ridge above me. It is still a beautiful world—will it ever not smell charred? I come upon two burned-out cars and a landscape of shattered glass and trash, and follow the burn scar down through the spindly trees. Blueish smoke rises from the valley. The smell of the new fire to the east mixes with the char of the old. Farther down the hazy canyon, I watch two acorn woodpeckers carrying on with their daily business despite the smoke, working together, drilling into the pale fleshy wound near the top of a pine tree.
Back in the car, I continue north into Magalia. I see an elderly couple out walking, and I roll down my window. I ask where the lake is, and the man points down the road and says it is very low. Soon we are chatting, and before long, as with the men in the restaurant, we turn to the obvious topic.
"We didn't even have a chance to fight it," the man says. "We were running for our lives. We stayed until 1:30 in the morning. We could see it coming. We went down through Paradise on Clark Road. Until we got there, I hadn't realized the whole town had burned up. I could barely get under the downed power lines in my pickup. There were burnt cars in the road and along the side of the road. Fires still burning everywhere. Our daughter and son-in-law lived in Paradise, and we had no way to communicate with them, to know if they were okay. My son lives over on the other side, in the Pines, and we couldn't communicate with him for five days. My mother, who was 90—her home burned, a neighbor helped her get out, but she lost everything."
They have lived here, or close to here, their whole lives. They say it isn't like it used to be. There is no rest from the fires.
The power stayed off in Wilmington long after the storm. When it came back on, my neighbor sent me a picture of the lake that was our back yard. Trees had come crashing down and were floating in the water, though so far none of them had hit our house. The shack where I used to write was lifted off its base and then drowned, but that was nothing, really. We breathed a sigh of relief.
Others were not so lucky. A former student of mine, David Howell, evacuated with his wife and children to Charlotte, four hours inland, on the Tuesday before the storm. A tree had cracked open the roof of their house, and the storm had come inside. After five days of sheer panic, they finally made their way back, zigging and zagging through North Carolina, avoiding the many flooded roads. They dropped their kids off with a friend and went over to walk through the house. A possum had entered with the storm and had urinated and defecated everywhere. The walls were wet and dripping.
"We just lost it," David said.
They called their friends and coworkers and, in just two and a half days, cleared out of a house they had lived in for six years. They'd lost most of their stuff, including everything their daughter owned. All of their belongings were piled up on the street along with the trash and the tree limbs.
At least they had their lives.
The story on everyone's mind was that of a woman who, holding her baby tight, was crushed when a tree fell through her roof. They both died immediately, but her husband survived. He was bawling when the ambulance, somehow making its way through a forest of downed trees, arrived. Rushed to the hospital in critical condition, he had truly lost everything—wife, daughter, home—thanks to one burst of wind, one falling tree.
The rain wouldn't stop. Some people thought they had made it safely through the storm, but then they saw the water rising toward their doorsteps. The storm dumped 10 inches of rain, then 20, but still it kept going. In some places, more than 30 inches of rain would fall, and for the first time on record, our annual total would top 100 inches. The world was drenched through. Permeated. We could not return home because Wilmington was an island and the highway had become a river. Meanwhile, the actual river, the Cape Fear, was spilling over its bank and moving as fast as a train, taking out houses as it rumbled toward the sea.
After the winds and days of rain, the humidity returned, the blazing heat. Even under normal circumstances, Wilmington in September is your town on the hottest day of the year. Food rotted in powerless fridges. People were hungry, unbathed, uninformed. Some had not had power for days, and there was no word when it would return. Primitive times. The few stores and restaurants that were open became neighborhood commons. People needed to get out of their stifling, leaking houses. People needed to see other people. People needed to tell their stories. Stories of disaster: the tree that fell right through the living room, that split the house. Stories of near misses: the man who decided at the last minute not to sleep in the room he deemed safest and woke up to find that an oak tree had bisected his bed.
The people on TV always talk about rebuilding. The flames have barely been put out, the water has barely receded, and there they go, desperately jabbering.
And of course, I understand. Every place that faces disaster has to bolster itself with pep talks of resilience. Paradise Strong. Wilmington Strong.
Back in Magalia, the man and woman I'd met on the road tell me their story.
"It's easier when you are younger," the woman says, then points to her husband. "He says, 'If I was only 40 years old, it would be no big deal. I could do this and do that and get everything back to where it was.' But when you're this old …"
Her husband nods. There is no getting that back.
"I retired, and I had a passion for fishing," he says. "I had boats and a nice setup on the Salmon River, and I was pretty happy. Now that the fire came and burned all that up, I don't even have the energy to start again. To buy new boats, re-rig everything."
"To recommit with passion," I suggest.
We have been talking through my car window, but I finally get out and introduce myself. The man's name is Richard Tarrano. His wife, Joanie, now says something that will stick with me: "Each disaster is that person's experience." That, I think, is what we often fail to understand as the camera crews rush from one disaster to the next, or when we spew statistics about lives lost and wind speeds and wave swells. We need stories from these places where disaster has struck, not statistics. So far, our literature of climate has fallen short. How will people look back on the literature of our time if it does not address our major existential issue? By literature I don't mean propaganda, nor do I mean fact-spewing book reports that read like television punditry. In most of the writing about the climate crisis, the sentences are not sloppy enough. They are too uncomplicated. And they are not big enough. The language does not rise to the challenge. Literature is not policy.
We have long written about global warming in one way: as a warning. But maybe we should stop thinking of the warning as something to heed in the traditional sense. Perhaps we should start thinking in terms of Winston Churchill's warnings about Germany before World War II. It is too late to avert war. The war has started, the bombs are dropping. Time to arm ourselves.
The road back east from Paradise is steep and winding, through the Plumas National Forest along Route 70 and along the Feather River. I pass a couple dozen green trucks belonging to the Plumas Hotshots, firefighting crews that are tackling the Dixie Fire, which is not yet the monster it will become. I can see fire burning on the ridge, the flames kicking up and leaving behind burned trees like sticks, the red of the flames reflected in the clouds above it, showers of sparks. A few hours later, I pass the site of another major blaze, the Beckwourth Complex Fire, where a sign reading "Ground Support" leads down a road to where nine helicopters rest at the foot of a denuded range of purple-black mountains.
Who will keep their homes this time? Who will lose them?
So much depends on the wind.
I head back to Salt Lake, then cut north and drive through Wyoming to Boulder, Colorado. I have always clung to a romantic vision of Boulder: it is where I got healthy again after a bout with cancer, where I met Nina, where we spent our first years together in the mountains north of town, where I wrote my first book. Nina loved it there, and so did I, and we always talked about moving back. After we'd moved to the hurricane coast of Carolina in 2003, that talk intensified. It seemed like a safe place to get back to. It was a dream we had. But when we talked recently about where we might want to move once we retire, I was surprised that Nina didn't like the idea of Boulder anymore. It was too dangerous, she said.
Coming down into the valley of my former home, I see that something is indeed different. The distinctive foothills called the Flatirons are nowhere to be seen, hiding behind a noxious veil of smoke that obscures the Rockies behind them, too.
Before we moved to North Carolina, it didn't occur to me that I should be nervous about hurricanes. Nor did I quite understand that we were moving to the coast right in the middle of hurricane season. We would soon get used to the growing anxiety as the calendar turned to July and the ocean waters heated up. It is a feeling so common down there that we barely mention it to one another. It is a feeling those west of the Mississippi know all too well. And it's a feeling that those living in the northeastern United States will soon know. As both hurricane and fire seasons expand, there are fewer parts of the year we deem "safe." Nothing feels anything-proof.
The past four years have seen tropical storms consistently forming before the start of hurricane season, three of the strongest hurricanes on record, a historic heat wave in the West, and a period of drought in the Intermountain West that, according to climatologists studying tree rings, rivaled and perhaps surpassed the Great Drought of the 1200s. The so-called natural disasters have come so fast and furious that there's barely been time to take a breath. But it is the expansion of fire season, creeping even into the winter months, that will truly open eyes. Driving down into Boulder, I don't yet know it, but no snow, and only an inch of rain, will fall on the front range of the Rockies from now until well into December—it will be the latest first snowfall on record. Thousands of buildings near Boulder will start burning two days before New Year's, making the fire the most destructive in the state's history. Two months later, it will be in the high 60s in the Arctic and a chunk of ice the size of Los Angeles will break off Antarctica. In March, another fire, below the Flatirons, will burn in the foothills above Boulder.
Back in town, depressed, I try to make sense of what I have seen on my trip. I feel changed, but more than that, I feel as if the world we lived in has changed. I know I am not alone in this sentiment. I write an email to Bill McKibben, whose 1989 book, The End of the Nature, was the first warning of the coming climate disaster written for a general audience. In the three decades since its publication, Bill has worked tirelessly to get the word out about climate change, balancing dire warnings with the hopeful message that we can change.
As it turns out, Bill has also been out West.
"We're definitely moving into something new," he writes back. "So hot, so dry. And now the smoke has reached Vermont and turned our sky an eerie ash. The world seems febrile, and so do I."
Bill has always tried to keep his message positive, upbeat. But perhaps the days of hopeful messages are over.
It is almost too much. All this occurring in front of our eyes with no one, least of all governments, seeming to listen. Studies show that if you bring up climate change at a dinner party, someone will quickly change the topic. We are all at that dinner party now.
The phrase I've heard so often in my travels—"losing everything"—just might have a new meaning. What we are losing may be something much larger than our personal possessions or our homes or even our individual lives. What we may be losing is Earth itself, the way it has long been, the way we imagine it will still be, and the way we have lived on it.
It is hard to see in your own time when a change occurs. Seismic shifts may feel like regular life just continuing on. But perhaps we really are in a new world. Perhaps we really are in the future that the old books imagined. Perhaps it is happening now.
I have always resisted the apocalyptic, resisted the grandiose. But what if we really have entered a new world? What if there is no hopeful plot twist at the end?
What if we really can lose everything?
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Notts part company with Kewell
Manager leaves with immediate effect
Notts County have parted company with first-team manager Harry Kewell.
The Australian leaves his role with immediate effect, along with assistant manager Warren Feeney and first-team analyst Paul Murphy.
Kewell, who joined the club in September, won only three of his 14 matches at the helm and Notts' owner and chairman Alan Hardy says the board felt quick action was essential.
He said: "Harry's passion and commitment as a coach is unquestionable.
"I enjoyed seeing first-hand his love for the job and it gives me absolutely no pleasure to take that away from him.
"Unfortunately, however, things quite simply were not working out for him here at Meadow Lane.
"Results have not been good enough and performance levels are a continuing concern. We see no reason to continue with something we don't think can work.
"Harry leaves with our best wishes for the future and our search for a new manager begins immediately.
"We hope to make an appointment before Saturday's Sky Bet League Two match at home to Cheltenham Town."
Steve Chettle will take charge of first-team affairs in the meantime.
The club will be making no further comment at this stage.

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We are fortunate to have contributions from an adoptive parent in which she writes about her family's personal experiences returning from their trip to Korea. Her piece reflects the difficulties in forming the bond between adoptive parent and child, and the need for parents to be patient and empathetic as they absorb the fear and uncertainty their child is feeling.
For a fresh, modern take on Romani culture, don't miss the events during the 8th Annual New York Gypsy Festival, starting September 8th and running through the 30th.
This festival celebrates the Romani diaspora, a people widely spread throughout the world, to transcend barriers of location, language, and status, for a true celebration of roots and ethnicity in music, art, and dance.


The Victorville Village Center II (VVC2) is located adjacent to the Village Center I in the city of Victorville, in the county of San Bernardino. Victorville is situated approximately 97 miles northeast of Los Angeles and 35 miles northeast of San Bernardino. VCC2 is conveniently located, within walking distance from renowned Mall of Victor Valley, and close to Southern California Logistics Airport and Ontario International Airport.
Built in 1990 and beautifully renovated in 2006, VVC2 consists of 83,512 square feet of rental space. Located parallel to the busy Interstate-15, the center enjoys excellent freeway visibility and easy freeway access from the Bear Valley off ramp. VCC2 is occupied with number of national and regional tenants such as Bed, Bath, and Beyond, Cost Plus, and Party America.


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International Medical Group (IMG) offers a wide variety of medical insurance plans with a worldwide coverage that include Individual & Family, Group as well as Student travel insurance coverage in order to make sure that you find the coverage that meets your needs at an affordable rate.
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Patriot products address the travel medical insurance needs of U.S. citizens and foreign nationals, who need temporary medical insurance while traveling for business or pleasure anywhere outside their home country. Coverage includes medical evacuation, repatriation, and your choice of deductibles and policy limits.
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How to Escape Winter 2019 and Chase the Sun on Two Wheels
The award-winning Redback MTB stage race will be back bigger than ever in Alice Springs in 2019. The race with 4-days and 6-stages of mountain biking comes with an all NEW Stage 1 course.
credit Rapid Ascent
Mountain bikers from across Australia will race kilometres of handmade single-track surrounding Alice Springs. All the action begins Thursday 22nd August with a new Stage 1 course and finishes on Sunday 25th August.
The race has become known for having the 'most simple race logistics' of any multi-stage mountain bike race in Australia. Riders can start and finish in Alice Springs without having to book multiple hotel rooms or camping sites.
The event is, "all about racing some good miles on your bike and then kicking back around the pool with new and old friends afterwards", says Sam Maffett, General Manager of Rapid Ascent.
New for 2019 is an opening stage of 35km that thunders through Alice Springs' famed single tracks in the "West Side' area. After some fast sections of double track to spread the crowd out, the route narrows to single track as riders climb up to "the aerials". With almost 'too much single track', stage 1 sets the scene for a great weekend of riding.
"The trails surrounding Alice Springs are like nothing else in Australia. Anyone who rides the Red Centre for the first time is blown away by the quality and quantity of the trails. The network of hand built single track that weaves its way through this incredible outback landscape is endless," says John Jacoby, founder of Rapid Ascent.
First held in 2008, the race celebrates its 12th anniversary in 2019. Many riders consider the race a dream mountain-bike holiday with riders travelling to the Red Centre for a mid-winter escape. The comradery with forged with fellow riders is unmatched.
"Mountain biking definitely brings people together - you could see it after every stage where people would be comparing stories from the day's adventures out on the trails. This then carried over to the pool, dinner the airport and beyond," said Event Ambassador, James Downing after Redback event.
The Redback has been designed to be fun and achievable for riders of all abilities. But riders up the front in 2018 included some of Australia's best: Jarrod Moroni and former professional road cyclists Justin Morris, Ben Henderson and Kristen Gadson, among others.
For more information about The Redback 2019 please visit www.TheRedback.com.au.
22nd-25th August 2019 - Alice Springs, Northern Territory
4 days, 6 stages:
Stage 1 – 35km Cross Country Race - Thursday (AM)
Stage 2 - 300m ANZAC Hill Climb - Thursday (PM)
Stage 3 –22km Individual Time Trial - Friday (AM)
Stage 4 –22km Night Race - Friday (PM)
Stage 5 - 43km Cross Country Race - Saturday (AM)
Stage 6 - 46km Cross Country Race - Sunday (AM)
ENTRIES:
Available online until 12:00pm Wednesday 21 August 2019, and
3pm-6pm Thursday 22 August at race registration.
Official Website: www.TheRedback.com.au


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Melbourne condemns Israeli attack on Gaza aid flotilla (June 1)
June 1 emergency protest in Melbourne against Israel's attack on the unarmed Gaza aid flotilla. Photos by Sue Bolton.
International outrage over Israel's slaughter of Gaza aid workers
UPDATED JUNE 4 - International outrage has been expressed through ongoing mass protests around the world, condemnation of Israel's actions by most governments (apart from the US), and calls for the immediate lifting of Israel's blockade of Gaza. Nicaragua has suspended diplomatic ties with Israel and Sweden, Spain, Turkey and South Africa have recalled their envoys. Cuba, Venezuela and Bolivia had already cut their diplomatic ties with Israel.
Socialist Alliance: Break ties with Israel!
Condemn Israel's attack on the Gaza flotilla Socialist Alliance statement June 3, 2010. Socialist Alliance condemns the completely unwarranted and murderous attack by Israeli armed forces on the civilian flotilla carrying aid to Gaza. Not since the French Secret Service blew up the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbour in 1985 has there been such a brazen act of international piracy by a sovereign state.
Palestine: Unarmed aid convoy attacked by Israeli commandos
* * Update: On May 31 heavily-armed Israeli commandos attacked the unarmed Freedom Flotilla. Israeli forces have fired on activists in at least one of the boats, with media reports of up to 10 people killed and many more injured.
Australian protests against Israeli massacre of Gaza aid flotilla - check here for details & pics
Adelaide: Friday June 4, 3.30pm, Victoria Square, protest organised by Action for Palestine. Bring placards, banners, your friends and your outrage! Brisbane: Friday June 4, 5pm, Brisbane Sq, Cnr Queen and George Sts. Canberra: Thursday June 3, 4pm rally at Garema Place organised by AJPP and UnionsACT. Hobart: Friday June 11, 5pm. Corner of Murray and Macquarie St. Melbourne: Saturday June 5, 2pm, outside State Library, City.
Venezuela condemns Israeli massacre
Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela Ministry of People's Power for Foreign Affairs Caracas, May 31, 2010 The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Commander Hugo Chavez, emphatically condemns the brutal massacre perpetrated by the State of Israel against the members of the Liberty Flotilla, as a result of the war action started by the Israeli Army against defenseless civilians, who tried to carry humanitarian aid supplies to the Palestine people of the Gaza Strip, who are victim of the criminal blockage imposed by the State of Israel.
Hazara refugees: Afghanistan not safe for us
Britain: BT workers threaten strike
More than 55,000 BT (formerly British Telecom) workers could walk out on strike this month unless the telecommunications giant bows to their demands and improves its "derisory" pay offer. Communication Workers Union delegates voted unanimously on May 26 to give BT until June 4 before serving formal legal notice of the union's intention to ballot for industrial action. The decision came just hours after BT's annual financial report revealed that its chief executive, Ian Livingstone, and three other directors raked in bonuses totalling £2.7 million last year.
Indonesian solidarity with Thai Red Shirts
On May 25, 70 people protested outside the Thai embassy in Jakarta in solidarity with the pro-democracy Red Shirts in Thailand. The protest was jointly called by the Working Peoples Association (PRP), the People's Democratic Party (PRD), the Confederation Congress of Indonesia Union Alliance (Konfederasi KASBI); the Indonesian Nasional Front for Labour Struggle (FNPBI); the National Student League for Democracy (LMND)
Forum discusses 'systemic crisis of capitalism'
"Facing the world economic crisis: From Greece to Australia" was the title of a public forum, sponsored by Socialist Alliance, Resistance and Green Left Weekly on May 25. Marxist academic Gary MacLennan and Socialist Alliance candidate for the federal seat of Brisbane Ewan Saunders spoke. MacLennan explained that the world economic crisis showed signs of deepening, not ending. He said right-wing explanations of the crisis blamed government mismanagement, rather than the capitalist system.
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BRIT Awards 2021 date pushed back
by Andre Paine
June 29th 2020	at 7:18AM
The BRIT Awards will move to the later date of May 11 at The O2 in 2021, Music Week can reveal.
Organisers took the decision to shift the date following consultation with the music industry and show partners Mastercard, ITV and AEG.
The 41st annual awards show was due to take place in its traditional February slot at The O2. But the ongoing coronavirus pandemic prompted the BPI to push that back by almost three months.
The change of date means that the awards eligibility period will be amended in 2021. Further announcements will follow on the eligible release period for artists.
Although ratings dipped this year, the ceremony featuring Lizzo, Dave, Lewis Capaldi, Billie Eilish and Harry Styles was well received.
The BRITs has yet to confirm a showrunner for 2021. Universal Music UK chairman and CEO David Joseph stepped down as chairman after this year's revamped awards ceremony.
We are already at work planning a spectacular event that will remind us how important music has been in getting us all through these difficult times
Geoff Taylor
In a statement, BRIT Awards organisers said: "Along with the many safety and logistical considerations of staging a huge awards ceremony in February for those putting the event on as well as the guests, The BRITs believe that this move will give a fairer opportunity to all artists as well as ensuring a mix of huge domestic and global superstars that annually attend and perform at the show."
Speaking about the decision to move the date, BPI and BRIT Awards chief executive Geoff Taylor said: "We want to make sure that The BRITs delivers the outstanding production levels, superstar performances and live excitement that make it the biggest night in music. We believe that the best way to achieve this in 2021 is to move the show back a few months to May, and we are already at work planning a spectacular event that will remind us how important music has been in getting us all through these difficult times. I would like to thank our labels, ITV, AEG and Mastercard and all our partners for their fantastic support."
The BRIT Awards with Mastercard 2021 will be broadcast live on ITV on May 11.
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Een logisch gevolg of logische consequentie is zowel in de logica als in de wiskunde de tweeplaatsige relatie tussen een verzameling zinnen en/of proposities, waarbij de laatste zin/propositie een logische implicatie is van de voorafgaande. Logische gevolgen zijn het resultaat van deductie en vormen een fundamenteel concept binnen de logica. Logische gevolgen worden samen met gevolgtrekkingen in de epistemologie gebruikt om tot hypotheses omtrent de causaliteit van risicofactoren te komen.

Een formeel beschreven logisch gevolg kan binnen de modeltheorie of de bewijstheorie of beide worden gekarakteriseerd. Een logisch gevolg kan ook worden beschreven als een wiskundige functie, waarbij de ene reeks zinnen de invoer en de andere reeks de uitvoer is.

Voorbeeld
Een voorbeeld van een logisch gevolg is de zin Willem-Alexander houdt elk jaar op Prinsjesdag de Troonrede. Deze zin is het logische gevolg van de twee zinnen Willem-Alexander is de koning van Nederland en De koning van Nederland houdt elk jaar op Prinsjesdag de Troonrede. Het zou logisch gezien niet kloppen om deze twee proposities voor waar te houden en tegelijkertijd toch de propositie Willem-Alexander houdt elk jaar op Prinsjesdag de Troonrede te ontkennen.

Logica

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use Jaxxes\VirtualInterviewBundle\Entity\VirtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidate;
use Jaxxes\VirtualInterviewBundle\Entity\VirtualInterviewQuestion;
use Jaxxes\SeleccionProcesBundle\Entity\SelectionProcessCandidate;

use Jaxxes\VirtualInterviewBundle\Form\InterviewCandidateType;
use Doctrine\Common\Collections\ArrayCollection;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request;

use Symfony\Component\Security\Core\Exception\AccessDeniedException;

class EVCandidateController extends Controller
{
    /*
    public function indexAction($name)
    {
        return $this->render('VirtualInterviewBundle:Default:index.html.twig', array('name' => $name));
    }
    */
    public function newAction ()
    {
		if (false === $this->get('security.context')->isGranted('IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY')) {
			throw new AccessDeniedException();
		}

	    $entitySPC = $this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser();
	    $idspcandidate=$entitySPC->getId();

		$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

		/* Verifica si ya se han guardado anteriormente las respuesta de la entrevista virtual */
		$entidadVISPC= $em->getRepository('VirtualInterviewBundle:VirtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidate')->findBy(
			array ('SelectionProcessCandidate'=>$entitySPC->getId()));

		if ($entidadVISPC) {
			// this->EditInterview();
			return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('interview_show', array('entity'=>$entitySPC)));
			//throw $this->createNotFoundException('Sus respuestas ya fueron guardadas anteriormente no podra modificar' );
		}

		/* Continua solo en el caso para entrevistas nuevas */

		// entidad candidato
		$entityCandidate= $entitySPC->getCandidate();

		//entidad selection process
		$entitySP= $entitySPC->getSelectionProcess();

		// preguntas
		$preguntaList = $em->getRepository('VirtualInterviewBundle:VirtualInterviewQuestion')->findAll();

		foreach ($preguntaList as $entidadPregunta ){
			$entrevista = new VirtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidate();
			$entrevista->setVirtualInterviewQuestion($entidadPregunta);
			$entrevista->setSelectionProcessCandidate($entitySPC);

		    $entitySPC->addAnswer($entrevista);

		    $entitySPC->setCandidate($entityCandidate);
		    $entitySPC->setSelectionProcess($entitySP);
		}

		$form   = $this->createForm(new InterviewCandidateType(), $entitySPC);

		// print "user:... {$user}, proceso:... {$process}" ;

		return $this->render('VirtualInterviewBundle:Default:interview.html.twig', array(
             'entity' => $entitySPC,
             'form'   => $form->createView()
        ));
	}

	public function createAction($spc)
	{
		if (false === $this->get('security.context')->isGranted('IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY')) {
			throw new AccessDeniedException();
		}

	    $entidadspc = $this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser();
	    $idspcandidate=$entidadspc->getId();

		$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();

		/* Busqueda de respuesta */

		$entidadVISPC= $em->getRepository('VirtualInterviewBundle:VirtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidate')->findBy(
			array ('SelectionProcessCandidate'=>$entidadspc->getId()));

		if ($entidadVISPC) {
			return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('interview_show', array('entity'=>$entidadspc)));
			/* throw $this->createNotFoundException(
            'Sus respuestas ya fueron guardadas anteriormente no podra modificar' );*/
		}

		$spcTemp = new SelectionProcessCandidate();

        $entidadPregunta = $em->getRepository('VirtualInterviewBundle:VirtualInterviewQuestion')->findAll();
		$i=0;
		foreach ($entidadPregunta as $Preg){
			$preg = new VirtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidate();
			$spcTemp->addAnswer($preg);
			$i = $i +1;
		}

		$request = $this->getRequest();
		$formulario = $this->createForm(new InterviewCandidateType(), $spcTemp);
		$formulario->handleRequest($request);

		$i=0;
		/*******************************/
		foreach ($entidadPregunta as $Preg){

			$objetoVspc = new VirtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidate();
			$objetoVspc->setVirtualInterviewQuestion($Preg);
			$objetoVspc->setSelectionProcessCandidate($entidadspc);
			$objetoVspc->setAnswer($spcTemp->getAnswers()[$i]->getAnswer());

			$em->persist($objetoVspc);
			$em->flush();
			$i = $i +1;
		}

		return $this->redirect($this->generateUrl('interview_show', array('entity'=>$entidadspc)));

	}

	public function showAction(){
		if (false === $this->get('security.context')->isGranted('IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY')) {
			throw new AccessDeniedException();
		}

	     $entitySPC = $this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser();
	     $idspcandidate=$entitySPC->getId();

		$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
		$entidadSPC = $em->getRepository('SeleccionProcesBundle:SelectionProcessCandidate')->find($idspcandidate);

        $virtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidateList = $em->getRepository('VirtualInterviewBundle:VirtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidate')
                                            ->findBy(array('SelectionProcessCandidate' => $idspcandidate),
                                                     array('id' => 'ASC')
                                                    );

 		return $this->render('VirtualInterviewBundle:Default:interviewShow.html.twig', array(
             'entity' => $entidadSPC,
             'virtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidateList' => $virtualInterviewSelectionProcessCandidateList
        ));

	}
	/*
	public function EditAction(){

		if (false === $this->get('security.context')->isGranted('IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY')) {
			throw new AccessDeniedException();
		}

	    $entitySPC = $this->get('security.context')->getToken()->getUser();
	    $idspcandidate=$entitySPC->getId();

		//$em = $this->getDoctrine()->getManager();
		$form   = $this->createForm(new InterviewCandidateType(), $entitySPC);

 		return $this->render('VirtualInterviewBundle:Default:interview.html.twig', array(
             'entity' => $entitySPC,
             'form'   => $form->createView()
             'delete_form' => $deleteForm->createView(),
        ));

	}
	*/
}


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CHAIRMAN – JOHN YEUDALL
Born in the UK John started his career as a Chartered Structural Engineer before moving into general management. His experience covers a variety of industries not only in the UK but in he Middle East, Asia and Australia.
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DEPUTY CHAIRMAN – KEVIN SKIPWORTH CVO JP
Kevin was appointed to the board to fill the office of Deputy Chairman. From February 2012 until July 2015, Kevin Skipworth represented Western Australia in Europe as the State's Agent General based in London. Prior to that appointment Kevin served as Official Secretary and Chief Executive Officer, Governor's Establishment, during the terms of five Governors from January 1991 until being appointed as Agent General.
Since returning to Perth from London, Kevin sits on the following NFP Boards and Committees:
Chairman, Perth Convention Bureau
Member, Finance and Membership Committee, Perth Convention Bureau
Independent Board Member, Men's Sheds of Western Australia.
Committee member, Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science Ltd, Breakthroughs and Beyond Capital Funding Campaign.
Committee member, The Royal Western Australian Historical Society (RWAHS), Community History Centre Planning Committee, Building and Finance
Committee member, Western Australian branch of the Cook Society.
Committee member, Joint Loyal Societies.
Kevin was admitted as a Freeman of the City of London in March 2012.
He has been a Justice of the Peace since 1986 and is a member of the following organisations:-
Honorary Life Member, Britain Australia Society UK
Royal Overseas League
Government House Foundation – Honorary Life Member
University of Western Australia Club
Friend of the Perth International Arts Festival
National Trust of Western Australia.
Friend of the Western Australia Opera
SPECIAL PROJECTS – DR DARRELL BAKER DipOptomSA SpecCertMNOD CertOcTher GAICD
Darrell is a consulting optometrist with a strong interest in neuro-ophthalmic disorders and has served Optometry Australia as President. He graduated in South Africa in 1986 and migrated to Australia in 1999. He is currently a director of two optometric practices in Perth.
Directorships:
President and Chair – Optometry Australia- 2018 to present
Vice President 2016-2018
Director 2009-2016
President – Optometry Western Australia 2009-2011
Credentials and Affiliations:
Certificate Ocular Therapeutics – Australian College Optometry 2017
Specialist Certificate in Management of Neuro-ophthalmic Disorders – University of Melbourne 2016
Graduate Company Directors Course – Australian Institute Company Directors (AICD) 2015
Diploma in Optometry – South Africa 1986
Executive Career:
Eyes on Oxford/Bullcreek Optometrists – Owner/director – Consulting optometrist with special interest in neuro-ophthalmic disorders
SECRETARY/TREASURER/WEBSITE – LYN SMITH
Founding Member Lyn started out working as a librarian and later became a website designer.
MEMBER LIAISON – NOLA PENSE
Nola worked more than 25 years in business administration and is currently involved in two voluntary organisations as Secretary and Treasurer.
COMMUNITY LIAISON – ANNETTE CLARKSON
Annette worked in Government and community organisations for many years.
Blepharospasm Australia Inc. was registered as a charity in 2016 and was formerly the BEB Western Australian Support Group Inc. Details can be found on the ACNC Charity Register Summary link below.
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President Joko 'Jokowi' Widodo has continued with his initiative to grant landless farmers living in areas controlled by state-owned forestry firm Perhutani in Java certificates to allow them to utilize degraded forest lands for up to 35 years. (Photo courtesy of Cabinet Secretariat)
Landless Farmers Across Java Receive Permits to Plant on Degraded Forest Land
BY :DAMES ALEXANDER SINAGA
Jakarta. President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has continued with his initiative to grant landless farmers living in areas controlled by state-owned forestry firm Perhutani in Java certificates to allow them to utilize degraded forest lands for up to 35 years.
A social forestry scheme (IPHPS) under a Ministry of Environment and Forestry decree allows landless farmers organized in associations to gain profit from the forests degraded by Perhutani.
The so-called degraded forests are lands that have been either logged or destroyed by natural disasters like fires.
On Monday (06/11), Jokowi visited East Java to issue permits, which cover around 2,890 hectares of degraded forests, to 1,662 households in Madiun, Tulungaggung and Tuban.
Last week, Jokowi issued similar permits in Bekasi, West Java, to 1,070 households to utilize 2,145 hectares of degraded land.
In total, the president has issued land permits covering 9,550.15 hectares of Perhutani degraded forests to 5,915 households in ten districts on Java.
The IPHPS implementation started in July. Until Sept. 13, the ministry issued seven permits — covering in total 4,969 hectares — to 2,518 households in Bekasi and Bandung (West Java), Pemalang (Central Java) and Probolinggo (East Java).
Jokowi has said that IPHPS permits will continue to be granted until 2019.
"Until 2019, we will issue permits, covering 4.3 million hectares to communities all over the country [...] to be useful for the sake of welfare society," Jokowi said in Madiun as quoted from a government statement.
"Please plant anything in the area and treat it well. Someday, if I find the land is not utilized, I will revoke the permits," he said.
Three state-owned companies will absorb the production from the degraded forests. Plantation firm PTPN will take tobacco and sugar cane produce, the State Logistics Agency (Bulog) will take rice and corn, while state-run fishery company Perum Perindo will absorb the production from shrimp farms, an official at environment and forestry ministry has said earlier, adding that several private companies will also be involved.
Ministry of Environment and Forestry
IPHPS


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Životopis
Washingtonová se narodila v Bronxu v New Yorku. Je dcerou Valerie, profesorky a Earla Washingtona, obchodníka. Otcova rodina má afroamerické kořeny. Rodina její matky pochází z Manhattanu, ale mají kořeny na Jamajce, v Anglii, ve Skotsku a v Karibiku. Je sestřenice bývalého ministra zahraničních věcí Colina Powella.

Jako teenager vystupovala s divadelní skupinou TADA! Youth Theater, zatímco navštěvovala Spence School na Manhattanu, kde v roce 1994 maturovala. Poté studovala divadelní herectví na Univerzitě George Washingtona. Také studovala v Michael Howard Studios v New Yorku.

Kariéra
Poprvé se objevila v televizním filmu stanice ABC s názvem Magical Make-Over v roce 1994. O dva roky později byla obsazena do komediálního vzdělávacího seriálu Standart Deviants, zahrála si v krátkometrážním snímku 3D a ve filmu Our Song (2000). Zahrála si ve filmech jako Nežádej svůj poslední tanec (2001) a Lidská skvrna (2003). V roce 2002 si zahrála po boku Chise Rocka ve špionážním snímku Česká spojka. V roce 2004 si zahrála hlavní roli ve filmu Spikea Leeho Nesnáší mne. Po roce 2004 získala role ve filmech Pan a paní Smithovi (2005), Pidihajzlík (2006), Poslední skotský král (2006) a Moje žena a jiné katastrofy (2007). Vedlejší roli Cheliny Hall získala v televizním seriálu stanice ABC Kauzy z Bostonu, zahrála si také v několika dílech seriálu 100 Centre Street. V roce 2007 spolu-režírovala a zahrála si v hudebním videoklipu hip-hopového umělce Commona k písničce "I Want You" a stala se tváří značky L'Oréal. Zahrála si také ve videoklipu Maxwella k písničce "Bad Habits".

V roce 2010 si zahrála na Broadwayi ve hře Davida Mameta Race. Zahrála si ve filmu Tylera Perryho For Colored Girls. V říjnu 2011 bylo potvrzeno, že si zahraje ve filmu Quentina Tarantina Nespoutaný Django, který měl premiéru v roce 2012 a získal velký úspěch u kritiků. Od dubna 2012 hraje hlavní roli Olivie Pope v seriálu stanice ABC Skandál. Za roli získala cenu NAACP Image Award a nominace na cenu Emmy, Cenu Sdružení filmových a televizních herců a Zlatý glóbus.

V roce 2013 jí magazín People umístil na druhé místo v žebříčku 100 nejkrásnějších žen a magazínem Glamour byla jmenovaná ženou roku. Stala se tváří značky Neutrogena. 2. listopadu 2013 moderovala show Saturday Night Live. V dubnu 2014 ji časopis Time ve své výroční TIME 100 ji označil jako jednu z nejvlivnějších osob na světě. Hlavní roli Anity Hill si zahrála ve filmu stanice HBO Svědectví. Za roli získala nominace na cenu Emmy a Critics' Choice Movie Awards. V srpnu 2016 bylo potvrzno, že bude produkovat nový seriál stanice ABC Patrol.

Osobní život
Je vdaná za hráče NFL Nnamdi Asomughou se kterým má dceru Isabelle Amarachi (* 21. dubna 2014) a syna Caleba Kelechi Asomughu (* 5. října 2016). Je známa také tím, že se vždy snaží něco si nechat z každé úlohy v které hraje, např. kus oblečení nebo část nábytku.

V březnu 2016 se ona, Ellen Pompeo, Viola Davis a Shonda Rhimes objevily v reklamě k podpoře Hillary Clintonové.

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> Managed mode (client)           ???
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};

AlbumSchema.statics.updateImage = function(id, image, callback) {
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    var update = {
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    };

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            return ;
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};

db.model('Album', AlbumSchema, "Album");
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GlaxoSmithKline (GSK)
Quality Science (Pharmaceuticals), Future Leaders Program, US, 2023
Occupation: Pharmaceuticals
Location: King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Posted Date: Sep 26 2022
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Rocket League Portal DLC Doesn't Contain Portals
Cars 'n' Cake
News by Adam Smith former Deputy Editor
A free Portal-themed set of cosmetic items and flourishes will arrive in Rocket League [official site] tomorrow. There are gel trails for your nitro boosts, cake hats and decals, and heart-breaking Companion Cube antennae. There's plenty more along those lines as well, and it's all free, but I'm perhaps unfairly disappointed by the lack of actual portals. I hadn't even considered how amazing it would be to attach a portal to the area above my own goalmouth, causing stray shots that enter to emerge right by the opponent's goal. And if the cars could dash through portals as well? Beautiful chaos.
I don't think the essential cars-on-balls purity of Rocket League should be corrupted by the addition of too many gimmicks, but I have a Vine clip running on repeat in my head. It's the greatest goal of all time, scored by a player who blocks a shot, pirouetting in mid-air to send the ball into a portal as he does so and then boosting at just the right moment so that his car dives windshield-first into that same portal.
Ball and car shoot out of a portal set in the floor at the other end of the arena and, impossibly, the machine twists at the top of its arc, catches the ball as it falls past and sends it screaming into the top corner. I don't even need to play with portals to be happy, I just need to see the ridiculous highlights that other people can create given access to new and ridiculous tools. In truth, giving me the ability to portal about the pitch would probably be the equivalent of tying my bootlaces together.
That's not going to happen though. This is:
"Obtainable by playing a full game of Rocket League, the official Portal items are potentially rewarded at the end of every match, win or lose. All you have to do is keep playing until the match ends and your chance to earn a new Aperture-themed goodie of your very own.
What kind of Aperture-themed goodies, you ask? These ones!
Cake (Topper)
Conversion Gel (Rocket Trail)
Propulsion Gel (Rocket Trail)
Repulsion Gel (Rocket Trail)
Aperture Laboratories (Antenna)
Cake Sticker (Antenna)
Companion Cube (Antenna)
Personality Core (Antenna)
PotatOS (Antenna)
Pretty awesome aren't they? You can start getting yours, FOR FREE, December 1."
This is all on top of the festive fun and post-apocalyptic DLC.
I'm not even going to pretend the game would still be playable if the gel trails actually acted on the cars and the ball. And yet...
Psyonix


This is a reconstitution of something that really happened a couple of years ago as I shared an apartment with a gorgeous jock. I noticed that every morning he jerked off in his bedroom. That day, I stood there from a distance and watched his morning routine.