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#JustLittleCaliforniaThings

sometimes the mountains are a little bit on fire

(but not to worry, there aren't many houses up there and so far it's burning away from us)

Thank you to New South Wales for loaning us a 737 fire tanker, since ours are already helping with another fire up north! (We have water bomber helis flying tonight, but I expect our Chinook was dispatched to Riverside as well.)

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Solstice sunset

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John Snowling biography: 13 things about former Ventura, California police sergeant

John Patrick Snowling was a police sergeant in Ventura, Ventura County, California, United States. After retiring, he established Snowling Investigations and worked for Norman A. Traub Associates as a private investigator. Snowling is one of U.S. Navy veteran George Louis Snowling and Melba Ruth Newman‘s eight children. John’s siblings are Melba Diane Larsen, Gail Montagna, William George…

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Nine People Shot at Cook's Corner in Trabuco Canyon

August 23, 2023 TRABUCO CANYON, Calif. (KABC) — Nine or more people were shot at a bar in Orange County and the suspect is wounded or possibly dead at the scene, sheriff’s officials tell Eyewitness News. Images from the scene indicated at least three bodies on the ground covered by sheets. A massive law enforcement presence was responding to Cook’s Corner, a well-known biker bar and grill on…

[scottsbifh]

The 'airport' fire broke out here in Orange county, California on Monday afternoon in Trabuco Canyon. I live about 8-9 miles from where it started. On Monday the winds were blowing to the west and it was over 100°. Then yesterday the winds shifted to the east south east. I could see this from my area. It looked like a huge volcano was erupting. It's still burning....

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more …

August 26

1904 – Christopher Isherwood (born Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood) (d.1986) was an Anglo-American novelist. The son of landed gentry, he was born in the ancestral seat of his family, Wybersley Hall, High Lane, near Stockport in the north-west of England. His army officer father was killed in the First World War.

At school he met W. H. Auden, who became his lifelong friend. He later studied at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, where In 1925 he was reintroduced to Auden and became his literary mentor and partner in an intermittent, casual liaison. Auden sent his poems to Isherwood for comment and approval. Through Auden, Isherwood met Stephen Spender, with whom he later spent much time in Germany..

Rejecting his upper-class background and attracted to men, he moved to Berlin, the capital of the young Weimar Republic, drawn by its deserved reputation for sexual freedom. There, he "fully indulged his taste for pretty youths. He went to Berlin in search of boys and found one ... who became his first great love."

In 1931 he met Jean Ross, the inspiration for his fictional character, Sally Bowles. He also met Gerald Hamilton, the inspiration for the fictional Mr Norris. In September 1931 the poet William Plomer introduced him to E. M. Forster. They became close and Forster served as his mentor. He worked as a private tutor in Berlin and elsewhere while writing the novel Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and a short novel called Goodbye to Berlin (1939) (often published together in a collection called The Berlin Stories). These works provided the inspiration for the play I Am a Camera (1951), the 1955 film I Am a Camera (both starring Julie Harris), the Broadway musical Cabaret (1966) and the film (1972) of the same name.

Liza Minnelli & Joel Grey - 'Cabaret'

In 1932 he met and fell in love with a young German man named Heinz Neddermeyer. After leaving Berlin in 1933, he and Heinz moved around Europe, and lived in Copenhagen, Sintra and elsewhere. Heinz was arrested as a draft-evader in 1937 following his brief return to Germany after he was ejected from Luxembourg as an "undesirable alien". Convicted of "reciprocal onanism", he was sentenced to six months in prison, a year of state labour and two years of compulsory military service.

Auden and Isherwood travelled to China in 1938 and then emigrated to the United States in 1939. (The convenient timing of this move, coming just as Britain was about to be engulfed in the Second World War, placed them under a cloud and their reputations suffered for a time.)

Isherwood settled in California, where he embraced Hinduism. Together with Swami Prabhavananda he produced several Hindu scriptural translations, Vedanta essays, the biography Ramakrishna and his Followers, novels, plays and screenplays, all imbued with themes and characters of Vedanta, karma, reincarnation and the Upanishadic quest.

Arriving in Hollywood in 1939, he first met Gerald Heard, the mystic-historian who founded his own monastery at Trabuco Canyon that was eventually gifted to the Vedanta Society. Through Heard, Isherwood joined an extraordinary band of mystic explorers that included Aldous Huxley, Bertrand Russell, Chris Wood, John Yale and J. Krishnamurti. Through Huxley, Isherwood befriended the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky.

Isherwood became a naturalised citizen of the United States in 1946. He began living with the photographer William "Bill" Caskey. In 1947 the two travelled to South America. Isherwood wrote the prose and Caskey took the photographs for a 1949 book about their journey, The Condor and the Cows.

On Valentine's Day 1953, at the age of 48, he met teenaged Don Bachardy among a group of friends on the beach at Santa Monica. Reports of Bachardy's age at the time vary, but Bachardy later said "at the time I was, probably, 16." In fact, Bachardy was 18. Despite the age difference, this meeting began a partnership that, though interrupted by affairs and separations, continued until the end of Isherwood's life.

During the early months of their affair, Isherwood finished—and Bachardy typed—the novel on which he had worked for some years, The World in the Evening (1954). Isherwood also taught a course on modern English literature at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles) for several years during the 1950s and early 1960

Christopher Isherwood & Don Bachardy

The 30-year age difference between Isherwood and Bachardy raised eyebrows at the time, with Bachardy, in his own words, "regarded as a sort of child prostitute", but the two became a well-known and well-established couple in Southern Californian society with many Hollywood friends.

Isherwood and Bachardy lived together in Santa Monica for the rest of Isherwood's life. Bachardy became a successful draughtsman with an independent reputation, and his portraits of the dying Isherwood became well known after Isherwood's death.

Isherwood died at age 81 in 1986 in Santa Monica, California from prostate cancer. The house in the Schöneberg district of Berlin where Isherwood lived bears a memorial plaque to mark his stay there between 1929 and 1933. The 2008 film Chris & Don: A Love Story chronicled Isherwood and Bachardy's lifelong relationship.

1923 – Mel Roberts (d.2007) was best known for his male nudes photographed in the 1960's and 1970's. Roberts' photographs captured much more than physiques - his images helped define the social and cultural landscape of a generation. His works have been celebrated in several fine-art books, gallery and museum exhibitions and are collected all over the world.

Roberts was a visionary person as much as a photographer. He lived proudly as an openly gay man his whole life. He participated in numerous civil rights struggles. He identified most strongly with the life and love affirming spirit that became a cultural revolution in the 1960s.

Mel Roberts was born Mel Kells in Toledo, Ohio, on August 26, 1923. He served in the United States Air Force during WWII (Pacific Theatre).

Roberts was among the founding members of the Mattachine society, the first gay rights organization.

Mel Roberts enjoyed a life-long interest in photography and film. He graduated with a Masters Degree in cinema from the University of Southern California in 1950 and began a career as a cameraman and editor in Hollywood. He later helped found the first film cameramen's union. His work in Hollywood culminated with his work as a music editor on Herbert Bibermans landmark blacklisted film, "Salt of the Earth" (1953).

From 1960 until 1980 Roberts enjoyed a very successful career as a photographer of male nudes. Like other photographers from his era, Roberts often used friends and former lovers as his models. He was among the most notable pioneers of the medium and often processed his own film and made his own prints. While his work was always very popular, it wasn't until 2000 that his work began to enjoy serious critical appreciation.Roberts was diagnosed with ALS (Aalso known as Lou Gehrig's disease) and after increasing health problems succumbed to pneumonia in 2007. His long -time partner and friend was Peter Gonzalez.

1929 – Chuck Renslow (d.2017) was an openly gay American businessperson, known for pioneering homoerotic photography in the mid-20th-century US, and establishing many landmarks of late-20th-century gay male culture, especially in the Chicago area. His accomplishments included the founding of the Gold Coast bar, Man's Country Baths, the International Mr. Leather competition, Chicago's August White Party, and the magazines Triumph, Rawhide, and Mars. He was the partner and lover of erotica artist Dom Orejudos (better known by his pen names Etienne and Stephen).

In 1952, Renslow the photographer met Dom Orejudos on Chicago's Oak Street Beach, asking him to model for him. They founded Kris Studios as a male physique photography studio, named in part to honor transgender pioneer Christine Jorgensen. In 1958, they bought a gym which they renamed Triumph Gymnasium and Health Studio. That same year he and Orejudos bought Gold Coast Show Lounge, and transformed it into one of the world's first leather bars, with a uniform/western/leather dress code, a backroom, and homoerotic art (by Orejudos) on the walls. The venue was the site of the leather contests which grew into the International Mr. Leather competition. In 1965, he helped found the Second City Motorcycle Club.

In June 2019, Renslow was one of the inaugural fifty American "pioneers, trailblazers, and heroes" inducted on the National LGBTQ Wall of Honor within the Stonewall National Monument (SNM) in New York City’s Stonewall Inn. The SNM is the first U.S. national monument dedicated to LGBTQ rights and history, and the wall’s unveiling was timed to take place during the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots.

1952 – Tony-Award-winning American character actor Michael Jeter was born on this date (d.2003). He was born in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee and studied acting at Memphis State University. He performed in several plays and musicals in Memphis and then moved to Baltimore and New York City to further pursue a stage career.

Jeter's woebegone look, extreme flexibility and high energy led Tommy Tune to cast him in the Off-Broadway Cloud 9 and, on Broadway, in a memorable role in the musical Grand Hotel, for which he won a Tony Award in 1990. Much of his film and television work specialized in playing eccentric, pretentious or wimpy characters, as in The Fisher King, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Drop Zone. Occasionally, Jeter was able to stay away from these kinds of roles for more appealing characters as in Jurassic Park III, Air Bud, The Green Mile and Open Range.

Michael Jeter in "The Green Mile"

He won an Emmy award in 1992 for his role in the television sitcom Evening Shade. He was also a favorite with younger audiences in his role as "Mr. Noodle's brother Mr. Noodle" on Sesame Street from 2000 to 2003.

The movies The Polar Express and Open Range are dedicated to his memory. Jeter was open about being Gay and his troubles with drug and alcohol addiction, and for a short time retired from entertainment. He returned to voice Smokey and Steamer in The Polar Express for which he received praise. It was his final film role and the movie was dedicated to him with a statement at the very end of the credits reading, "Dedicated to the memory of Michael Jeter" with his photo next to it. He was diagnosed HIV-positive in 1997, but died from an epileptic seizure.

1988 – Kenny Brain is a Canadian television personality, currently cohost with Kortney Wilson of the HGTV Canada home renovation series Making it Home with Kortney and Kenny.

Originally from Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrador, Brain worked as a model before competing in the second season of Big Brother Canada in 2014. Although openly gay in real life and honest about his sexuality in viewer confessionals, he initially pursued a strategy of remaining closeted among his housemates; although he did come out to housemate Sarah Miller a few weeks into the season, his strategy sparked some viewer and media debate about whether his choice was sending a message to viewers that being gay could be seen as a shameful secret. He and Miller were both voted out of the Big Brother house on Day 43.

After appearing on Big Brother Canada, Brain quit modelling and trained as a construction contractor, later launching his own contracting business in Vancouver, British Columbia. Following Wilson's divorce from her former husband and business partner Dave Wilson, Brain debuted as the new cohost of Making it Home in the show's second season in 2021. He has stated that one of his goals as an HGTV host is to provide a positive role model for LGBTQ representation and inclusion in construction trades.

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[americansocialist]

a local biker bar was shot up tonight and the cops are still interviewing people:

some witness are reporting that the single gunman was shooting his estranged wife and was also a career cop:

we'll see how this goes

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A Long Beach man accused of building and planting a bomb at an Orange County spa, killing his ex-girlfriend and seriously injuring two people, has been found guilty in federal court.

Stephen William Beal, 64, was convicted of four felony counts related to the explosion at the Aliso Viejo day spa in May 2018.

Beal, an amateur rocketry and explosives hobbyist, built and planted the bomb inside Magyar Kozmetika spa, located inside a two-story commercial office building located at 11 Mareblu.

The explosion caused major damage to the building and killed the spa’s owner, 48-year-old Ildiko Krajnyak of Trabuco Canyon. Two of her clients, a mother and her daughter, were also seriously and “permanently” injured in the blast, according to the United States Department of Justice.

Prosecutors say Beal and Krajnyak had a previous 18-month romantic relationship and business partnership in which he acted both “controlling” and “possessive.” After she decided to end the relationship, Beal became obsessed with his ex, prosecutors said, keeping tabs on her whereabouts, monitoring her social media pages and tracking her schedule.

Cellular data and security footage from the business showed that Beal, who had a key to the business, entered the spa on multiple occasions while his ex was out of the country. He planted the explosive device for her to open upon her return, court documents state.

One of the surviving victims testified that she saw Krajnyak opening a cardboard box moments before the explosion ripped a hole through the building. She was forced to pull her mother from the rubble and flee through an opening in the wall, she said.

The severity of Krajnyak’s injuries and the size of the blast led investigators to rule her death a homicide as it indicated a deliberate act, investigators said at the time. Body parts were apparently found in an adjacent parking lot, authorities said.

A search of the blast site led to the discovery and recovery of a 9-volt battery and several wires that were embedded in the ceiling. The ensuing investigation revealed that Beal had purchased several items required for completing the bomb just days before the explosion.

Store security footage showed him using cash to buy a single 9-volt battery six days before the bombing, as well as three cardboard boxes that matched the description provided by the surviving witness.

Beal had “years of experience” building high-powered rockets and homemade pyrotechnics, the DOJ said. In a search of his home, investigators found more than 130 pounds of explosive chemicals and completed explosive mixtures, as well as electric matches and wires. Testing of both the bomb residue and the chemicals in his home confirmed that the same chemicals were used.

He was arrested shortly after the explosion, but was released as detectives debated whether or not there was enough evidence to officially charge him. In March 2019, he was arrested following a federal grand jury indictment.

United States Attorney Martin Estrada described Krajnyak’s death as a “cowardly” murder that forever changed the lives of the victims and needlessly endangered many lives, including children who were at a daycare located across the street.

“Thanks to the thorough investigation … I am pleased the jury saw through Mr. Beal’s efforts to avoid responsibility for his deplorable actions,” Estrada said.

Beal is due to appear in court for his sentencing on Nov. 17, and could face a maximum sentence of life in prison.

He also faces federal charges for fraud in an unrelated case that is set to go to trial days before his sentencing hearing in the deadly explosion. Prosecutors allege Beal failed to report $350,000 that he receive from his late wife’s estate and also fraudulently obtained insurance benefits and Social Security payments. That trial is slated to being on Nov. 14.

The case was investigated by several law enforcement bodies, including the FBI, the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, IRS Criminal Investigations and other Orange County law enforcement agencies.

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Friday, August 25, 2023

Heat records are being smashed in multiple parts of the globe (Washington Post) As the relentless central U.S. heat wave peaks, intense heat waves are also blasting other regions that have faced unusually hot weather off and on much of the year, particularly in Europe and Asia. Monthly and all-time records are regularly falling in both hemispheres. Southern Europe, focused from Portugal to Italy, is again broiling. France just notched its hottest day on record this late in the year. Numerous other locations saw records for the month of August and all time. It’s supposed to be winter in the Southern Hemisphere, yet in many places in South America and southern Africa it’s feeling like anything but. South America logged its hottest winter temperature on the books Wednesday. East Asia also continues to swelter under unceasing conditions defined by high heat, humidity and stifling nights. Japan in particular has faced unending records lately. More of the same in the United States. The most expansive heat dome of summer is still near its peak over the country’s center, although it should wane this weekend into next week.

Retail theft (CNN) Retailers across the country have lamented an uptick in theft, and it’s starting to hit their profits harder than usual. On Tuesday, Dick’s Sporting Goods reported a 23% drop in profit, despite sales that rose 3.6% in the period. The company is not the first to report poor earnings this year, but it is one of the first to point the finger primarily at theft. Target said earlier this year that it anticipated a loss of half a billion dollars due to theft, and just last week, about 50 people swarmed a Nordstrom in L.A. and stole about $300K worth of merchandise. Experts say ongoing inflation coupled with job losses are likely contributing to the increase in theft.

At Least 4 Killed, Including Gunman, in Biker Bar Shooting in Southern California (NYT) At least four people were dead, including a gunman, and six others were injured after a man believed to have been a retired law enforcement officer opened fire at a popular biker bar in Southern California on Wednesday evening as a crowd gathered for a rock music show and spaghetti night, the authorities said. The shooting occurred at about 7 p.m. at Cook’s Corner, a bar in Trabuco Canyon, a rural community in eastern Orange County. A law enforcement official said the suspected gunman, who had retired several years ago from an agency elsewhere in Southern California, had been targeting his estranged wife, who was among the dead. Including this incident, there have been an estimated 457 mass shootings in the U.S. in 2023 so far.

Nicaraguan government bans Jesuit order and says all its property will be confiscated (AP) Nicaragua’s government on Wednesday declared the Jesuit religious order illegal and ordered the confiscation of all its property. The move comes one week after the government of President Daniel Ortega confiscated the Jesuit-run University of Central America in Nicaragua, arguing it was a “center of terrorism.” It was the latest in a series of increasingly authoritarian actions by the Nicaraguan government against the Catholic Church and opposition figures. The Jesuit order, known as the Society of Jesus, has condemned the measures.

Traffic jam at Panama Canal as water level plummets (Washington Post) Scores of ships are backing up at the Panama Canal, where low water levels linked to El Niño and climate change have led authorities to restrict travel through one of the world’s most important trade arteries. The traffic jam is a grim sign for a global economy that has been whipsawed by supply-chain challenges—and for American businesses in particular. Around 40 percent of U.S. container traffic moves through the canal that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The congestion is driving up shipping prices and causing delays in transporting merchandise just as importers are starting to gear up for the Christmas season. To conserve water, canal authorities are limiting the number of ships allowed to make the crossing to 32 per day, down from an average of 36 in normal times. They’ve also imposed weight restrictions on the vessels. Around 50 million gallons of water is required to move each ship through the locks. Only some of it is recycled. Normally, there are up to 90 ships waiting to enter the canal; this week, there were more than 120. Earlier this month, as many as 160 ships sat idling.

At least 1 person is dead and 2 are missing as Tropical Storm Franklin batters Dominican Republic (AP) Tropical Storm Franklin unleashed heavy floods and landslides in the Dominican Republic on Wednesday after making landfall in the country’s southern region, killing at least one person and leaving two others missing. The storm began to slowly spin away late Wednesday afternoon from the island of Hispaniola that the Dominican Republic shares with Haiti after dumping heavy rain for several hours. Forecasters warned the storm could drop up to 12 inches (30 centimeters) of rain in the Dominican Republic, with a maximum of 16 inches (41 centimeters) for the country’s western and central regions. Meanwhile, up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain are forecast for Haiti, with nearly 8 inches (20 centimeters) for the country’s eastern regions.

Argentina arrests dozens in looting attempts amid fear of growing violence ahead of October election (AP) Argentine authorities have reported a large number of arrests for lootings and attempted lootings in recent days, raising concerns about violence ahead of October presidential elections and prompting the president to appeal for calm. The arrests have prompted some business owners to prepare for the possibility that their stores could get ransacked. Buenos Aires provincial authorities said Wednesday that 94 people had been detained in what were more than 150 looting attempts since Monday following days of isolated incidents of looting in the central Córdoba, western Mendoza and southern Neuquén provinces over the weekend. Looting holds a special significance in Argentina because it was widespread in 2001, when the country suffered a spectacular economic collapse.

Greece Battles Its Most Widespread Wildfires on Record (NYT) Wildfires ravaged northern Greece for a fifth consecutive day on Wednesday and forced the evacuation of settlements on the outskirts of the capital, Athens. The authorities said they were battling scores of blazes around the country after weeks of searing heat turned many areas into tinderboxes. “It is the worst summer for fires since records began,” said Vassilis Kikilias, the civil protection minister. In villages in the northeastern Evros region, desperate residents on foot or riding scooters rushed to beat back fires only to watch bigger ones rise up around them. Exhausted firefighters used trucks and water-scooping helicopters to tackle the rapid advance of a blaze in one spot while flames grew out of control in another. By Wednesday evening, it was clear that on both major fronts for the wildfires, in the north and near Athens, they remained largely uncontrolled.

Ukraine Just Blew Up Russia’s Main Missile Base In Occupied Crimea (Forbes) After capturing Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in February 2014, the Russian armed forces established a major missile base on Cape Tarkhankut in western Crimea. There, the Russians deployed an S-400 surface-to-air missile battery, a battery armed with Bastion anti-ship cruise missiles and a suite of radars. Assisted by the radar, the S-400 battery could threaten aerial targets as far away as 250 miles—covering the entire western Black Sea—while the Bastion could hit ships at a distance of 190 miles or so. It’s not unfair to call the Cape Tarkhankut site the linchpin of Russian air and naval defenses across the Black Sea and Crimea. Which is why, on Wednesday, the Ukrainian armed forces blew it up. We don’t know exactly what happened, but we do know this: around 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, local time, a series of explosions rocked the cape. The Bastion battery was hit, the S-400 battery and its crew was wiped out, and it’s hard to imagine the radars escaped attention too.

Their Seoul Just Wasn’t In The Drills (Reuters) On Wednesday, South Korea held its first nationwide air raid drills in six years. While the country’s air raid sirens worked perfectly, it appears that the people they were designed to protect didn’t care. At 2 p.m. local time, citizens across South Korea were ordered to stop what they were doing and seek shelter at nearby air raid shelters. According to multiple sources on the ground (and in underground shelters), most people simply continued about their days, refusing to take the time to follow orders. The drills are an extension of civil defense exercises launched in 1969. South Korea is home to over 17,000 “shelters” nationwide, most of which are just apartment basements or subway stations that might provide citizens a bit of shelter against a theoretical air attack.

China bans seafood from Japan after the Fukushima nuclear plant begins its wastewater release (AP) The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant ‘s operator says it began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday—a controversial step that prompted China to ban seafood from Japan. In response to the release, Chinese customs authorities banned seafood from Japan, customs authorities announced Thursday. The ban started immediately and will affect all imports of “aquatic products” including seafood, according to the notice.

China’s property crisis leaves Country Garden with unpaid workers, silent sites (Reuters) At an unfinished Country Garden residential complex on the outskirts of the northern Chinese metropolis of Tianjin, construction has slowed to a dull whirr and a few idle workers roam a near-empty site. “They haven’t paid us since Chinese New Year (in January). We are all worried,” said a laborer surnamed Wang, 50, who said he had stopped work at the Yunhe Shangyuan site last week. The sprawling complex is one of two projects Reuters visited last week in Tianjin, a port city of 14 million people about 135 km (84 miles) southeast of Beijing. Both sites are run by Country Garden, China’s largest developer by sales volume before this year, now mired in a debt crisis threatening to spill over to the wider economy. Construction had partially or fully stopped at both sites—the larger one with a few rows of unfinished five-storey apartment blocks and the other with lifeless cranes and thick green scaffolding hanging over skeletal high-rises. Workers at dorms on the sites complained of months without pay.

Myopia (Wired) In 2010, Taiwan launched a strategy called Tian-Tian 120 to address rising rates of myopia among youth, pushing kids to spend 120 minutes outside, given that spending time outdoors is pretty much the only thing linked to reducing rising rates of nearsightedness. It’s worked: Nearsightedness peaked in 2011 at 50 percent among Taiwanese primary school children, and has declined to 46.1 percent. That could be a framework for the rest of the world; in 2012, 96.5 percent of 19-year-old men in Seoul were nearsighted, in the U.S. and Europe myopia rates have risen sharply, and by 2050 half the world is expected to need glasses.

Many Americans report interacting with dead relatives in dreams or other ways (Pew Research Center) Many Americans report that their relationships with loved ones continue past death in some way, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. Around half of U.S. adults (53%) say they’ve ever been visited by a dead family member in a dream or some other form. And substantial shares say they’ve had interactions with dead relatives in the past 12 months: 34% have “felt the presence” of a dead relative. 28% have told a dead relative about their life. 15% have had a dead family member communicate with them. In total, 44% of Americans report having at least one of these three experiences in the past year.

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Trabuco Canyon, California

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Orange County Airport Fire: Key Facts and Updates

The Airport Fire in Orange County, which ignited on September 9, 2024, has rapidly grown into a major wildfire, burning more than 22,000 acres. It started near Trabuco Canyon and has since spread into Riverside County, driven by Santa Ana winds and extremely dry conditions. Firefighters are facing significant challenges due to the weather, with 0% containment reported early on. The fire is expanding quickly due to the strong winds and high temperatures, which have made it difficult for firefighting crews to make progress. Ground and aerial units, including support from CAL FIRE, are actively working to control the blaze.

Impact on Communities

Evacuation orders have been issued for numerous communities, including Rancho Santa Margarita, Trabuco Highlands, and the surrounding Trabuco Canyon areas. Shelters have been set up at locations such as the Lake Forest Sports Complex and the Orange County Fairgrounds, providing refuge for those displaced by the fire. The fire has also posed a threat to homes, wildlife, and infrastructure, forcing thousands of people to evacuate.

Climatic Factors Contributing to the Fire

The intensity of this fire is closely linked to California's worsening climate conditions. Prolonged droughts, higher-than-average temperatures, and strong winds are increasingly common, making large wildfires like the Airport Fire more frequent. Experts attribute the worsening fire seasons to climate change, which has left the state's forests and vegetation more prone to ignition.

Safety and Preparedness

Residents in high-risk areas are urged to follow evacuation orders and stay updated on the latest developments. The authorities have opened emergency hotlines and shelters for displaced people and animals. Firefighters are advising caution as the fire remains active, with further evacuation orders possible as conditions evolve.

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