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Help! I Just Got Fired, Now What?

Help! I Just Got Fired, Now What?

27 Mar 11:00 by Deana Zafir

Sometimes life gives you lemons. Other times life hands you your final notice when you’re least expecting it. But when the inevitable happens, how do you recover from it?

Before you start the healing process, first you have to understand the reasons that led to your termination. Bad personality traits such as frequent absenteeism, refusing to follow instructions, and complaining about your workplace on social media are some common reasons that lead to termination. So grab a pen and paper, and jot down the reasons you’ve been fired over.

Chill out! We’ve listed the steps you should take (just in case) if you want to land a job after getting fired:

1. Go on Linkedin!

The first thing to do after getting fired is to go on Linkedin and update your online CV. You want to inform your connections that you’re now on the lookout for a job on the market. Don’t be afraid to hit some of your Linkedin connections up and ask them about any job openings you’re potentially interested in. It goes without saying that you should avoid sharing about getting fired on social media. You want your connections to put in a good word about you if you want to get hired fast.

If you’re worried about your resume, we recommend leaving the job and/or position you’ve been fired from on your resume. Recruiters find any gaps within a resume as a big red flag, compared to someone hunting for a job as soon as they leave one.

Pro-tip: Unless you’ve been fired due to poor performance, remember to get a reference from your old employment that highlights your ideal work habits.

2. Find trustworthy recruiters (like BGC Group)!

If your main priority right now is to find an income as fast as you can, you should hit up recruiters to find positions within your old field, or any other industries you’re interested in. For those whose finances are tight, we recommend taking up temp or part-time jobs in Malaysia.

Recruitment agencies like BGC Group Malaysia, are also a great place to start when looking for a new job to jump into.

3. Volunteer

For those who are not ready to jump back into the workforce, volunteering is a good way to fill in gaps in your resume, and pick up new skills (both soft and hard). There are a number of benefits to volunteering, some of them include;

A. Great way to network: New connections translate to better opportunities for more job leads.

B. Foster a budding interest: Volunteering is a good way to find new passions and foster any budding interests. This allows you to reassess your career goals.

C. It gives you purpose: Let’s be honest. Getting fired is a way of life. It is something that a large number of people will encounter at least once in their lifetime. But that doesn’t mean that being let go isn’t a depressing moment in life. Volunteering is a good way to fill your life with meaning by giving back to the community. Not to mention, it is also a great way to build your own self-confidence.

Pro-tip: If you’re still on the lookout for a viable income stream, we recommend taking up internships instead. Just like volunteering, internships are a great way to hone your skills or pursue a passion in an entirely new field. Alternatively, consider taking up short courses to brush up on your skills.

4. Don’t ask, don’t tell

Unless you’ve been asked about the unfortunate circumstances that led to your termination, the best thing to do is to not mention that you’ve been fired. Unless you were retrenched, it’s best to not openly share the circumstances that led to your termination.

“Never tell your interviewers things you wouldn’t tell your Tinder date,” is a good rule of thumb to follow. Keep in mind that the, "don’t ask, don’t tell policy," extends beyond the topic of getting fired. Other topics that do not belong in a job interview situation include your salary history, plans to switch careers.

Remember, there are no legal obligations for you to disclose whether or not you were fired from your previous job.

5. Relax, take it easy

Getting fired will put you in a lot of shock, anger, and pain. The first thing you should do is to focus completely on yourself. Grieve, if you need to. It’s difficult to job hunt when you’re still filled with anger or shame from being fired. Soon, you’ll be ready to pick yourself back up and start the process of job hunting once again.

Besides wallowing in your emotions (just for a few days though), a viable option to get your headspace back into working order is by working out. Studies show that exercising can help perk your mood and mental health. Working out could be the boon you need to get you back on your feet and begin the daunting process of job hunting.

Do you have some cash saved up? Consider travelling somewhere exotic to take your mind off things for a bit. Just do whatever it takes to help you get through - but stay away from alcohol and other unfriendly substances though! You want to heal in a positive way.

Pro-tip: Avoid panicking, overthinking, and isolating yourself to prevent negativity from consuming your mind, body, and soul. Find out more about taking care of your mental health during this daunting period, in this Psychology Today article.

The thought of getting fired scares most, but despite the stigma associated with being fired, studies show that 91% of people who have gotten fired managed to bounce back on their feet.

To experience success, we must first experience the perils and difficulties associated with failure. Getting fired could be potentially useful for your career - more than 70% of executives fired managed to climb the corporate ladder to make it in the business as a CEO. You’ll be ok.

Been there, done that? What are some useful self-care methods that you did to bounce back after getting fired? Let us know in the comments section below!

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3 Reasons Why Email Marketing is Important For Small Businesses

Email Marketing is just one of the many ways that you can connect with your customers. Whether you are just starting out or have a substantial database, it’s important to engage with your customers at the right place and time. You can quickly build trust and credibility through email marketing, by sending relevant content to the right people. Begin by making it super easy for your customers to subscribe to your mailing list, the less they need to fill out the better.

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Wild Life

A Gathering of Giants

A photographer slips into the ocean to swim among hundreds of sperm whales—witnessing a rarely seen social spectacle.
Indian Ocean

It was late afternoon and the sun was low in the sky. I’d spent the entire day, and many days prior, scanning the horizon for signs of life. My small boat bobbed up and down in the swell. Every now and then, a wave crest slapped its fiberglass hull, creating a resounding clap and shooting a curtain of spray skyward.

The shimmering glare of reflected tropical light was overwhelming. I squinted and rubbed my eyes as a haze of brine and dissolved SPF 50 blurred my vision.

When a faint puff of condensation shot into the air on the horizon, I thought it was a mirage, an artifact of fatigue and my compromised senses. But when I saw a second, I knew there was only one thing it could be—the exhalation of a surfacing whale. Excitedly, I counted a third, then a fourth, a dozen… no, hundreds!

That’s how I came to witness a phenomenon few have ever seen before.

Skimming over the waves, I stopped the boat a short distance from where I had seen the whales’ last blow and slipped quietly into the sea. I could scarcely believe my eyes.

A large cluster of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus), part of an enormous “superpod” gathering of hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals. As is typical of sperm whale social activity, the gathering consisted of a lot of physical contact accompanied by biosonar clicking, sloughing of skin, and defecation. The water turned milky white and oily from the activity.

An inquisitive sperm whale calf (Physeter macrocephalus) approaches, buzzing the photographer with biosonar. This calf was part of a family group made up of several adult females and three juveniles.

Hundreds of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) swam to and fro, their huge bodies elegantly twirling and twisting through the water as they socialized. Bumping, jostling, and rubbing themselves against one another, they were exuberantly tactile, their behavior appeared almost euphoric. I felt like a gatecrasher at a wedding, so obvious was their delight in each other’s company.

As my eyes took in this secret spectacle, my ears were assaulted by a cacophony of excited whale chatter. Creaking and crackling, clicks, buzzes, and pops permeated the water as the whales pinged one another with sound. Pulsating rhythms pregnant with meaning penetrated my body. I “felt” the connection between the congregated cetaceans as powerfully as I heard it.

Moving together in groups several dozen strong, the whales occasionally descended to deeper water, but largely stayed near the surface, giving me a privileged view.

Watching carefully, I noticed that two other activities added to the commotion: sloughing of skin and defecation. Like other whales, sperm whales shed skin on a regular basis. This may be a mechanism to reduce the risk of infection and to rid the animals of external parasites. As the whales rubbed against one another, the physical contact dislodged flakes, sometimes entire sheets, of skin, which floated in the water like a blizzard of translucent dandruff.

Group defecation also seemed to play a prominent role. When a dozen or more whales defecated simultaneously, it created a cloud of poop that engulfed the ensemble, obscuring them from view and turning the seawater into an oily soup.

Although the reason for such behavior is not entirely understood, recent research suggests that defecation by large marine mammals plays a vital role in the ocean’s nutrient cycle. Sperm whales, for instance, consume deep-dwelling squids. They then defecate near the ocean surface, releasing iron and other nutrients. This, in turn, supports plankton blooms that help to mediate the accumulation of carbon in the atmosphere.

To understand the factors that contribute to such spectacular aggregations of sperm whales, we need first to consider some basics of the species’ biology and social structure.

Sperm whales are mammals and live in almost every major ocean, including both tropical and temperate waters. They breathe air and are warm-blooded. Yet they spend the majority of their lives in deep, dark, cold water foraging for food, often diving to depths of 800 meters or more in the process. It helps to think of them not as air-breathing animals that dive, but as creatures of the deep that occasionally visit the surface to breathe. In other words, the opposite of how humans relate to the ocean.

Unlike other whales, such as humpbacks, whose existence as it relates to food is best described as feast or famine, sperm whales forage constantly. But the ocean is a big place, and much of it is a nutritional desert, so they are most often found where there is abundant prey. They dine primarily on squid, though they’ve been known to eat fish and octopuses. They also occasionally mistake plastic for prey.

An adult female sperm whale—the dominant member of this group—carrying a large piece of a giant squid brought up from the deep trench below. Members of the family played with leftover bits of squid, shredding their meal, perhaps part of the process of weaning the calf pictured swimming alongside the female.

Sperm whale society is structured along matrilineal lines, with adult females and their offspring forming the basis of a social unit. Such units typically comprise a dozen or more individuals, though average numbers and unit structures vary across ocean basins.

Female offspring generally stay with their social units, while males leave as they mature, striking out to form loose groups with other young males. Together, they seek out prey in the nutrient-rich waters of higher latitudes.

Recent research suggests that sperm whales organize their societies and keep tabs on one another using sound. Each individual uses its own “voice,” or acoustic signature, to identify itself, and each social unit uses a set of unique sounds, called codas, that are distinct from those used by other units.

Going even further, multiple sperm whale social units that have similar codas, or “vocal dialects,” and socialize from time to time are known as clans. These larger groupings, which can comprise thousands of individuals scattered across vast regions of ocean, maintain a sense of extended group identity and long-term association through the use and recognition of similar codas.

In other words, sperm whales appear to use acoustical hierarchy to establish identity on at least three levels: self, family, and extended group.

In light of these insights, the factors that likely contributed to the incredible congregation of sperm whales I encountered are easier to understand.

Sperm whales tend to be found wherever the hunting is good—and so, predictably, I spotted the aggregation in a location with abundant squid prey. They are also highly social—and so an encounter involving multiple social units in a given clan produces a riot of sound and energy. It was, in a sense, a vast reunion with plenty to eat and communicate about. But why was a cetacean convention of this magnitude being held?

The short answer is, we don’t know. Other social animals also engage in occasional, large, communal gatherings. Elephants, for example, have matrilineal social units and extended clans similar to those of sperm whales. During the dry season, large numbers of elephants aggregate around sources of water and families may take the opportunity to socialize.

But while there are many potential parallels between sperm whale gatherings and those of elephants, there isn’t enough data or even anecdotal observation at this stage for scientists to draw meaningful conclusions about sperm whale get-togethers. Their exact purpose remains a mystery.

It’s tempting to speculate that sperm whale gatherings like this may have been more common in the days before industrialized whaling decimated their numbers. W.D. Boyer reported coming across an enormous gathering of sperm whales in Peru in 1945, just before the escalation of large-scale whaling. He wrote: “…the entire ocean, to all visible limits of the horizon, seemed spotted with them. The sum total was a school of gigantic proportions… It took the vessel nearly an hour to travel through the main body of the school…”

Although commercial hunting of sperm whales began in the 18th century, the majority of reported kills took place between 1950 and 1980 when harpoon guns became more widely used. Whaling records show that more than 638,000 sperm whales were killed during this period.

Today, population estimates for sperm whales fall in the range of 300,000 to 400,000, down from more than a million whales worldwide before large-scale hunting began. They are currently classified on the IUCN’s Red List as Vulnerable.

Sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) seen surfacing to breathe in close proximity to a large commercial container vessel traveling at speed through a commercial shipping lane. Despite important gains in whale conservation efforts, lethal ship strikes continue to take a heavy toll on many whale populations.

Large-scale industrialized whaling ended relatively recently. Because sperm whales reach sexual maturity at a late age—around 10 years for females and up to 20 years for males—and because they produce few young, their recovery has been slow. But perhaps with time and increasing populations, these large aggregations will occur and be documented more often.

Although widespread hunting is no longer an issue, sperm whales still face a litany of threats. Ship strikes cause terminal injuries, fishing gear strangles and entangles them, and ingested plastics block their guts, causing them to starve with full stomachs.

Earlier this year, when 13 sperm whales beached themselves in Germany, researchers found plastic garbage in the stomachs of four of the dead whales. Trash ingested by the dead sperm whales included a nearly 13-meter-long (43-foot-long) shrimp fishing net, a plastic engine cover, and the remains of a plastic bucket. Though most people may have never seen a sperm whale, the byproducts of our modern societies can sometimes reach these marine mammals without our knowledge, and can have devastating effects.

Humans have a long and checkered history with sperm whales. In the past, we feared them. We hunted and killed them. It’s only relatively recently that we’ve taken the time to try to get to know them. What we’ve learned is that far from being fearsome monsters intent on destroying ships, sperm whales are intelligent creatures with complex social and cultural bonds mediated by behavioral nuances that rival our own. And yet so much about them remains a mystery, including their spectacular but secret gatherings.

The fact that we understand so little about such large and magnificent animals, despite our shared history, leads one to wonder what else we don’t know about life in the ocean.

Capturing the Spectacle

Photographing sperm whales—intelligent, social animals with wide-ranging territories—in an alien, potentially dangerous, environment demands two things: intimate knowledge of your subjects’ natural history and a level of physical fitness, swimming proficiency, and comfort in the open ocean.

Because whales are so much faster and more agile than a human swimmer, patience and a keen understanding of the animals’ behavior is key to being in the right place at the right time. Wu says that his best photographic opportunities have occurred when photography was not his main priority—when his goal was to observe and learn, and to understand the animals’ behavior.

Entering the water with hundreds of socializing whales can be an intimidating experience. However, after more than 16 years of experience observing, photographing, and interacting with sperm whales and other cetaceans, Wu trusted them not to be aggressive, especially since they were preoccupied with socializing. Still, with bodies bumping and flukes flying, being able to read the whales’ movements and anticipate their actions was crucial to his safety.

Ethics of Whale Watching

Whale watching has become a major source of tourism revenue around the world. A report commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare found that, in 2008, 13 million people participated in whale watching excursions in 119 countries and territories, generating a total expenditure of US$2.1 billion. At that time, an estimated 3,300 operators offered whale-watching trips worldwide, employing an estimated 13,200 people. Those numbers have no doubt risen since then.

The growth in popularity of whale watching has also led to an increase in whale harassment by operators. Many whale-watching tours claim to be environmentally aware and prioritize the cetaceans’ welfare, but this is not always the case. In recent years, Wu says he’s seen far too many operators in speedboats chasing surfacing whales, driving into their paths, and encouraging tourists to jump into the water on top of them.

After long dives, sperm whales spend long periods at the surface re-oxygenating their systems. Wu has observed a whale take as many as 54 breaths between foraging dives. It stands to reason that interfering with a whale’s breathing cycle causes the animal distress. But, faced with an armada of speedboats, he has seen whales dive after taking only 10 breaths. Short of air, the whales then had to resurface again nearby, where swarming speedboats once again forced them to dive prematurely.

Should you decide to watch whales from a boat, or try to get into the water where permitted, Wu recommends doing your homework. Find out if permits are required and have been secured, and try to assess how much the tour operator actually knows about whales, he says.

Learn more about responsible whale-watching practices here.

by Sophie Stafford

Tony Wu

Tony Wu combines his love of visual art with his interest in the marine world through underwater photography. Since 1995, Wu has used his photographs and writing to encourage others to appreciate and protect the beauty of the oceans. Most recently, he’s devoted his attention to photographing whales and other cetaceans, as well as mass spawning aggregations of fish. His images have received international awards in Japan, Europe, and the US, including Grand Prize in Japan’s largest marine photo contest and first place in the underwater category of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition.

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How to Feed Africa Sustainably

Renowned sustainability expert shares ideas for addressing food shortages in Africa without compromising ecological health.

Conversation with Dr. Cheikh Mbow

As Executive Director of the non-profit START, Dr. Cheikh Mbow works to strengthen the capacities of developing nations to advance sustainability through scientific research and education. Born and raised in Senegal, Dr. Mbow holds a Master’s degree in physical geography and a PhD in remote sensing focused on savanna conservation. Dr. Mbow has contributed research on ecological modeling, risk, and sustainability to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the World Agroforestry Center. bioGraphic  recently spoke with him about how to transform the future of food production in Africa without compromising the ecological resiliency of the continent.

Q: Across Africa, hunger currently affects 25 percent of the population. What are the most significant issues contributing to this problem?

A: There are four main factors driving hunger and food insecurity in Africa. The first is land degradation. Before colonial times, a traditional landscape approach to farming in Africa considered trees, crops, and animals all together. After colonial times, monoculture approaches—raising one crop across a landscape—became the dominant farming practice, and soil quality was destroyed as a result. The second factor is climate and weather patterns. Alternating periods of flooding and drought, both of which have become more frequent and intense with climate change, have made it very difficult to ensure stable food production. The third factor is market forces, which set higher prices for cash crops like cacao and coffee and provide few economic incentives for African farmers to grow staple foods. The fourth factor is pre-consumer food waste. Large amounts of food are wasted in the supply chain before the final product even reaches the consumer. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations predicts that solving the food waste problem would resolve the deficit of food production in Africa entirely.

Q: How is climate change projected to impact Africa’s food production?

A: We have already seen dramatic changes in seasonal rainfall patterns and extreme water events. Over the past 30 years, the onset of the rainy season has been delayed, leading to variable productivity at the end of the dry season. Dry spells have also become more frequent, sometimes even occurring when rain is expected most, at the peak of the rainy season. In addition, extreme precipitation events, and the floods and crop destruction they often cause, have become more common. All of these factors have made crop productivity less and less predictable across Africa.

In the long-term, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has projected large, geographic changes in rainfall patterns. Unfortunately, the rate of long-term climate change is far outpacing the ability of crops to adapt. To ensure that food production doesn’t collapse, we will have to introduce different varieties of plants that are better suited to future climate conditions—which in many cases will mean crops that require less water.

Q: Many efforts to increase agricultural yields have encouraged focusing on a single crop, and utilizing synthetic fertilizers and pesticides. What are the risks of this approach?

A: Mono-cropping, or focusing on a single crop, has inherent financial risks because of external market forces that can change without notice. It’s also ecologically risky. When you raise just one crop, each plant is competing for the same resources: They all have the exact same demands for water and nutrients. Monocrops are also more susceptible to pests and plant diseases, due to the ease with which these threats can spread through fields of a single crop. Synthetic fertilizers also come with risks—and applying massive amounts of synthetic fertilizers, especially when that’s the only strategy employed, is simply not effective. Without organic matter like compost and leaves, fertilizers won’t be retained in the soil.

Now imagine a landscape with grasses, trees, and some deep-rooted shrubs: These plants have varying root depths and varying demands for water. They coexist more harmoniously on the land, doing such things as enabling pollinators to move more readily from one species of plant to another. We need a more holistic approach like this to achieve ecological resiliency across the African landscapes.

Q: What aspects of this “monoculture” approach are particularly challenging for small-scale farmers?

A: Cacao, coffee, and several of the other major cash crops that Africa’s farmers end up producing on a massive scale don’t help them feed their families. What these families really need is food, firewood, farm animals, and more nutritional variety in their diet. By forcing farmers into mono-cropping practices, we are compromising their ability to sustainably support their own existence through a variety of land uses and ecosystem services.

We also need to ensure that the farmers who rely on a few hectares of farmland don’t bankrupt themselves by depending exclusively on synthetic fertilizers. Typically, fertilizers like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium are combined into one product that is sprayed openly onto fields. The industry supplies these fertilizer products, knowing well that much of what they contain is unnecessary. And they provide no instructions for how to target specific crops with certain fertilizers. This blanket approach does nothing to address specific mineral deficits or to provide optimization for soil fertility. We’ve also found that soils without a minimum amount of organic matter produce less than expected even under intense applications of synthetic fertilizers.

Q: You advocate for maintaining biodiversity. Why is this an important component of a sustainable agriculture plan?

A: Biodiversity in and around agricultural land provides a number of ecosystem services that support higher crop yields. Imagine a plot of land surrounded by trees. It’s likely that the trees protect that land from erosion by wind and water. The shade they provide also ensures that crops don’t dry out as quickly.

Many farmers also know that trees are natural pumps for fertilizers. They take nutrients deep from within the soil, convert it to biomass in the form of leaves, and when those leaves fall to the ground they decompose into natural fertilizers for the soil. The higher the diversity of these fallen leaves, the better the soil quality. The trees can also fix nitrogen into the soil for various crops to use. Trees have root systems that reach to different depths than those of crops, so the more diverse a plot of land, the more balanced the share of resources. This leads to greater ecological balance and higher crop yields.

In addition to boosting crop yields, biodiversity and balanced ecosystems also support the health and wellbeing of small-scale farmers in many other ways, including delivering clean water, mitigating disease, and providing fuel, fiber, and building materials.

Q: You have discussed the importance of biodiversity in providing access to fresh water, a resource in increasingly short supply. How should these services be factored in to sustainable agriculture and development plans?

A: Access to clean water is a growing concern in Africa, particularly in urban centers, since not all sewage is processed. Substances including nitrogen and heavy metals reach the water table, and in many growing urban centers well water is now unusable due to risk of contamination. Restoring wetlands and mangroves—and ensuring that dam construction doesn’t cause downstream wetlands to dry up—can help buffer these contamination effects. For example, wetlands can help filter the harmful fertilizers that run off from agricultural fields and into nearby rivers.

Protecting and restoring wetlands, an ecosystem that is being destroyed at an unprecedented rate in Africa, would help keep our fresh water clean.

Q: What are some of the most effective approaches to rehabilitating degraded agricultural land?

A: There is no easy answer to this question, as the approach depends largely on the preferences of the local communities, the type of soil, the topography, and the region’s climate patterns. Essentially, creating a multifunctioning landscape instead of a mono-functioning landscape is key. The recommendation is to design approaches to land management and agroforestry practices that increase soil fertility in a variety of ways.

Q: Which sustainable agriculture practices have you found to be most effective in Africa?

A: One agricultural practice I’ve seen work well is managing the natural regeneration of land in my home country of Senegal. Farmers there are bringing back trees—including a deciduous tree, Faidherbia albida—to rehabilitate the land, and many of these tree species fix nitrogen in the soil. When their leaves drop, they introduce organic fertilizers into the soil just when the crops need fertilization most. We’ve seen farmers use these traditional methods, and the results have improved food quality and a balance between food production and cash crop production without departing from tradition and land health.

I’m not saying we should never use synthetic fertilizers, but we should avoid relying too heavily on them. We must work to strike a balance between traditional and modern applications.

Q: What are the main impediments to implementing these context-dependent systems?

A: We need a cultural shift to happen in three phases. First, we need to establish a dialogue with decision-makers and stakeholders involved in food, water, and energy to define common goals and begin a solutions-based dialogue. Second, we need to ensure that we understand the systems of food, energy, and water appropriately by examining their interconnectivity. Last, we have to use this knowledge to disseminate a wider solution to the community at scale. Combining food, energy, and water policies under one department at a national or federal government level would be a great start.

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Old-Growth Logging’s Last Stand?

Clearcutting ancient trees in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest makes little sense—ecologically, climatically, perhaps even economically. So why is it so hard to stop?

On a drizzly September morning on Prince of Wales Island, off the coast of southeastern Alaska, Josh Kohn walked through a small forest’s worth of unevenly piled logs. Stacks of fragrant red cedar (Thuja plicata) surrounded a rust-edged log shovel, its claw-arm slumped in rest. Past the cedar, Kohn crossed the bark-scattered track to a jumble of Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) and western hemlock logs (Tsuga heterophylla) along the woodlot’s edge. “This stuff has been nice. I like cutting it,” he said, resting a thick hand on a 15-inch-diameter spruce log. It’s straight and strong, he explained, saws fast, comes out with character.

The spruce and hemlock logs differed in a key way from the cedar ones behind him—and that difference may reshape the future of both the timber industry and the vast forests that still line this part of the world. “This tree here is 65 years old,” Kohn said, touching another spruce. “And that one there is maybe 35 to 40.” The cedars? Tapered like giant carrots, they’re likely more than 200 years old, their tightly packed rings cradling the memory of decades when the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian were the primary people living in this place and harvesting its trees.

If you’ve paid attention to the conservation battles fought in the Lower 48 over the past couple of decades, you might have thought nobody in the United States was still cutting down old-growth forests—at least not on public lands. But like all of Southeast Alaska’s sawmills, the small one where Kohn works, called Good Faith Lumber—tucked amid a scrappy handful of mom-and-pop shops on a dirt-road spur—survives on a diet of ancient trees from the 16.7-million-acre Tongass National Forest. It’s the last national forest in the country with an industrial old-growth clearcutting program.

Old-growth trees are more likely to have high-priced buttery-smooth, knot-free grain, called “clear,” that’s in demand for interiors; their wood is also prized for musical instruments and carving. Exclusive access to ancient trees keeps mills alive in this remote area, which is dominated by the Alexander Archipelago, more than 1,000 islands jutting down from Alaska like a fractured thumb along the Inside Passage. Here, logs and lumber must be transported long distances by barge, which helps push business costs far past those in the Lower 48.

Staying afloat financially is not getting easier. Market forces, past overcutting, environmental battles, policy changes and other factors have coalesced to make the Tongass timber model nearly impossible to sustain. So starting in 2010, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and top U.S. Forest Service officials pushed what seemed like a sensible solution: transition the timber industry toward harvesting younger trees, like those piled in Good Faith’s lot and growing back on more than 450,000 clearcut acres. In theory, that would help timber businesses maintain local jobs and avoid lawsuits, while better supporting tourism and fishing, and protecting what remains of the secretive vegetated chambers, fat trunks, and multilayered canopies of one of the world’s few massive, and still largely intact, old-growth temperate rainforests.

Kohn and Catherine Mater, a wood-products engineer from Oregon, stepped under an open-air structure that shields fresh cut lumber from the elements, and took a seat on stacked boards to chat with mill owners Greg Boyd and Hans Kohn, Josh’s father. Since buying Good Faith in 2012, Boyd has been one of the few mill operators interested in experimenting with younger trees. Good Faith bought part of one of the Forest Service’s first sales of exclusively younger trees last year, and the mill hopes to work with Mater on a study to assess the economics of harvesting them—and the products they might produce.

“For me, the jury is completely out on young growth,” Boyd explained. The mill and loggers would both need new equipment to process the smaller trees efficiently. Still, Boyd wanted to know his options. “There’s knowledge we’ll be gaining here,” he said. “Are we going to be reactive when the time comes? Or proactive now and start easing into it so we can have a jump on the marketplace—and experience, which is the greatest teacher there is—when we don’t have any choice?”

The timber sale and Mater’s study, though, have been plagued with hiccups, as has much of the Forest Service’s promised transition from old-growth logging. Lingering questions about young growth’s readiness and viability, Forest Service budget issues, the squabbles of entrenched political interests, and inertia have all dragged the effort out. This month, six years down what looked from the outside like a path to detente in Alaska’s bitter logging war, the Tongass National Forest has only just finalized a formal plan to mostly phase out old-growth logging. But even that plan allows 16 more years of heavy old-growth clearcutting, and it’s unclear whether it can—or will, under a Donald Trump presidency—ultimately be enforced.

How much of the Tongass’s last large swaths of truly big old-growth trees will be cut in the meantime? “That is one thing that’s irreplaceable,” said forest ecologist Brian Buma of the University of Alaska, Southeast. “One thing you just can’t manipulate into existence is big trees.”

Generalized Land Cover of the
Tongass National Forest

     National Forest Boundary
     Old-Growth Forest
     Logged Forest

Adapted from Albert and Schoen, Conservation Biology 2013

If you fly into Prince of Wales on a rare clear day, the island and its neighbors will appear to be floating in sky instead of sea. The giveaway is an occasional boat, or sea lion, or tails of kelp slicing reflected clouds. Clearcuts scrape across the island’s mountains: brown where fresh, uniformly green where grown over with new shrubs and trees. In between, untouched ancient forest looks ragged, stitched by silvered dead trees, flocked with lichens.

The ocean presses inland through this vegetative riot via a seasonal heartbeat of salmon runs, pumping through a vasculature of streams. I was late to the flood of fish, so only a few still hopped in the tannin-stained waters, and white-edged corpses scattered the banks. You could smell creeks before you saw them, even from inside a car, and passengers strained to see which creatures might appear at the water’s edge.

Bears, eagles, and other animals all disperse salmon across the forest floor, first as carcasses, then as scat. So it is that Tongass salmon become trees, their delta of nutrients fanning outward and upward in elevation, fertilizing soil and traveling into the canopy as Sitka spruce, cedar, and hemlock that in turn help sustain species like Queen Charlotte goshawks (Accipiter gentilis laingi), marbled murrelets (Brachyramphus marmoratus), and northern flying squirrels (Glaucomys sabrinus).

But over the past century, this ocean wealth has sluiced back out of the forest along a separate vasculature of roads—as logs, feeding instead the growth of communities like Craig and Thorne Bay. It wasn’t necessarily the timber’s quality that made this possible—despite ancient trees’ desirable characteristics, they’re also much more likely to have defects like rot, and access to them was difficult. When Bernard Fernow, the father of North American forestry, observed these woods on an 1899 expedition, he famously concluded that the rugged terrain and distance from markets meant that “this reserve will, for an indefinite time, be left untouched except for local use.”

It took a U.S. government eager to promote settlement for national security reasons several tries and a surge in Japanese demand for post-war reconstruction to seed something large-scale here. The transformation began in the 1950s, with two 50-year contracts guaranteeing cheap, large, consistent supplies from the Tongass National Forest to two giant pulp mills. Those operations began pulverizing ancient trees for products like rayon and diapers. Then in the ‘70s, a new law incentivized forest liquidation on hundreds of thousands of acres of newly private tribal lands. And in the ‘80s, another law set astronomical timber subsidies and harvest levels on the Tongass National Forest, partly in trade for conservation elsewhere.

Times were fat, former logger Robert Rowland told me over a pint, recounting his stint on Long Island, just south of Prince of Wales, where some of the Tongass’s largest trees once stood. “It was like logging the redwoods. Like going into Jurassic Park. I wouldn’t have been surprised if a dinosaur came running out.”

But the boom’s spoils didn’t last. In the 1990s, pollution crackdowns, environmental backlash, and global pulp market troubles shut down both pulp mills. At the same time, major legislative and policy reforms led to protections like designated old-growth reserves and no-cut buffers around waterways, which reined in the most destructive logging practices—some of which had so devastated certain watersheds with landslides and fish-choking sedimentation that one stream was nicknamed FUBAR, after the military slang acronym (f#@%ed up beyond all recognition).

Still, new loggers and millers filtered in, some of them seeking old-growth access they’d lost in the Northwest’s spotted owl wars of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Viking Lumber, the largest Southeast Alaska mill still in business, retooled a bankrupt sawmill on Prince of Wales, in the town of Klawock, and began buying timber sales in parts of the forest where cutting was still allowed. But if the newcomers didn’t realize it at first, it quickly became obvious that Alaska was changing, too. In 2001, for example, President Clinton’s Roadless Rule set aside nearly 60 million acres of undeveloped national forest around the country, including 9.5 million in the Tongass.

Tongass National Forest harvests dropped from an annual average of 220 million board feet during the pulp mills’ last gasps in the 1990s—equivalent to the lumber it would take to build 13,400 average American single-family homes—to about 33 million board feet annually over the past decade. Between 1998 and 2012, the region lost nearly 1,000 timber jobs—leveling off around 250, while the number of active mills has been cut in half, to just 10, devastating some communities. Meanwhile, other private-sector jobs, including tourism and commercial fishing, which today account for one in five positions, surged by 1,400.

It’s here that the Tongass tale diverges into two competing narratives. One, from industry, holds that old-growth forest is plentiful but has been locked up by activists and an inept federal government. Indeed, just 12 percent of productive ancient forest—the stuff that grows more quickly—has been logged across public, state and private land.

The second narrative, espoused by environmentalists, highlights the wildly variable quality of Tongass trees, and the fact that most of the best and biggest have already been cut—hammering the region’s most important wildlife habitat. When Josh Kohn first arrived on Prince of Wales from the Olympic Peninsula, he was surprised by the relatively small size of most local old growth: “I’ve seen limbs that size in the Washington rainforest,” he told me. Today, the landscape contains far fewer trees larger than three feet in diameter — let alone the rare Sitka spruce giants surpassing 10 feet across – than it once did. What remains of the richest forests is highly fragmented, with large, contiguous swaths of big-tree old growth reduced by 66 percent in the region, according to a 2013 analysis. On highly productive northern Prince of Wales Island, it’s starker, with 94 percent gone.

The impacts aren’t just local. Deforestation today accounts for about 12 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions, and the Tongass’s old forests store much more carbon than its young ones. By one widely cited estimate, its ancient trees, soils and bogs contain a whopping eight percent of all carbon stored in U.S. forests. As logging chewed through them during industry’s peak decades, the national forest’s net emissions—from slash, roots, and soil, and eventually from wood products themselves, which do a much poorer job sequestering carbon than live trees—quintupled.

For these and other reasons, environmental groups have fiercely defended the remaining public-land old growth. Timber sales take years to move; management plans levitate in legal limbo. Even past efforts at compromise have deadlocked and disintegrated, deepening some rifts even as new relationships between warring factions were born. With some of the same people squaring off for decades, the fights sometimes seem venomously personal—including among those with similar objectives. “I don’t think I’ve ever covered a more toxic issue,” one public-lands expert told me.

The Viking mill’s co-owner Kirk Dahlstrom is gruff about the situation: “Our company has spent close to $1 million on attorneys fighting environmental lawsuits. I hate it.” Asked why he keeps on, he growled, “We’re Swedes, we’re too stupid to give up.” Then, more soberly: “I’m fighting for the next generation.”

A long way up a logging road “rougher than a cob,” Catherine Mater and Michael Kampnich, a commercial fisherman and former logger who works for The Nature Conservancy, climbed out of Mater’s rented SUV into a sun-dappled afternoon. This was Dargon Point, the nine-acre parcel of younger trees that Good Faith purchased the right to cut. Roughly 70 years old, they’re taller and thicker than I expected. Mater pointed out a spruce with ascending rings of narrow branches, which would show up as knots in boards.

“These limbs are kind of more tightly spaced than I like to see, but you’ll see a lot of wood like this going into ceiling and paneling product, and it’s gorgeous,” she observed. Although knottier wood doesn’t fetch the same price as the old-growth “clear,” younger trees also have less rot and lack cracks that ancient trees can develop over time in their heartwood as they flex in wind, or are penetrated by frost. More than 50 percent of old-growth trees cut from some timber sales might be useless for these reasons, meaning that whole stands are cut down for the smaller fraction of wood that loggers make money on.

Kampnich added a caveat, though: “See all the dead stobs sticking out?” he asked, pointing at branch spurs protruding from another trunk. In cases, those can become “loose knots,” meaning that when thinner boards cut from the outer edges of the tree are dried in a kiln, the knots fall out, pocking the wood with holes. It’s one of the reasons Mater and Good Faith want support to test what products these trees might be most suitable for—whether boards and paneling, or thicker beams and cabin logs.

Despite how crucial this kind of information is for phasing the industry into young growth, Mater’s efforts have hardly been smooth. “These are projects I enjoy doing because they’re tough,” she told me. “If they move forward, they’re a point of inflection that allows a sea change.”

Mater began studying the Tongass young-growth conundrum in 2011, and ramped up after a 2013 USDA order setting a 10- to 15-year deadline for a transition out of old growth. The Geos Institute, a climate-adaptation nonprofit, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, had tasked her with figuring out how quickly the switch could move, and she did so by surveying how much young growth might be available from environmentally compromised areas along roads. Mater’s GIS and field surveys of scattered stands ultimately suggested the new trees were not only larger than expected, but that they could produce enough wood to shift local industry mostly out of old growth as soon as 2020—provided the Good Faith study and others yield promising results when, and if, they move forward. “At the end of the day, if we’re even half correct on what we think the volume is,” Mater told me, “it’s going to reinvent the industry.”

Geos, NRDC, and a coalition of other green groups hoped the Forest Service would take the survey results as a cue to move much more quickly away from old growth, a prospect for which there was considerable outside support, including a 2015 letter from seven scientific societies. “I am sensitive to the fact that these are rural communities where every job matters,” said Dominick DellaSala, president of Geos. “That’s why we said, ‘If you go this way, you get a wall of wood. If you go this way, you get a wall of litigation.’ We were trying to help.”

In the end, the Forest Service disregarded Mater’s data, noting among other things that it was inconsistent with its own labs’ previous findings, and that her five-year timeline was too short for the industry to adapt. The agency’s calculus is likely political, too. Mater’s association with hardline environmental groups made her surveys tricky to rely on, especially since several industry representatives dismissed them as wildly optimistic. And Dahlstrom and his son have warned publicly that Viking—which employs 38 people and dozens of contractors in a place where unemployment rates are high—is already near closure, arguing that the Forest Service already supplies the mill with barely enough old growth to operate. “When we are in a second-growth supply situation,” Dahlstrom told me flatly, “Viking will no longer be here.”

Southeast Alaska’s timber industry might be small, but it enjoys tremendous clout with the state, and with Alaska’s congressional delegation, which have both argued for a 20- to 30-year transition into young growth and a higher continued old-growth harvest. They’ve also put considerable pressure on the Forest Service. Alaska’s Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, leads a powerful committee that controls the purse strings on the agency’s national budget.

Vilsack’s 2013 order tried to stake out some middle ground, though: It called on the Forest Service to convene a collaborative group composed of representatives from tribes, the state, industry, environmental groups, and others. Many of that advisory committee’s consensus recommendations have been adopted in a new plan finalized this month. It sets a 16-year timeline that maintains an old-growth harvest roughly equivalent to the current total for the first decade, topped off with a smaller young-growth harvest, before ramping the former down and the latter up until, in the end, loggers have access each year to 41 million board feet of young growth and climbing, and only 5 million board feet of old growth. That would still cover many of the smaller mills and artisans—Good Faith, for example, processes about 800,000 board feet per year, although it has capacity for 5.5 million.

The plan also places important watersheds and ecological areas off limits to old-growth logging, and for the first time recognizes long-contested Roadless Rule protections. Still, it left out key committee recommendations that environmentalists felt would make the transition enforceable, including a five-year deadline for planning the big old-growth timber sales meant to tide the industry over until younger trees are ready. “I think without that, we’re feeling like any future administration can log old growth forever, and policy will be dictated by the whims of the mills,” said committee member Andrew Thoms of the Sitka Conservation Society.

In addition, the plan adopted a controversial provision that allows limited thinning and clearcutting of young stands growing inside pre-existing protected areas, including designated old-growth reserves. The provision is meant to ensure that enough young growth is available to support the industry. However, despite a habitat restoration component, it has drawn vigorous objections from nearly the entire Alaska environmental community, as well as critical comments from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Loggers and their allies aren’t pleased either, given the uncertainties that remain around how much young forest will be ready to cut and when. The Forest Service and Alaska launched a sweeping three-year survey to help clear that up this summer, but already, the state’s U.S. lawmakers have vowed to block the transition plan under the next administration. “We were not given the choice to decide if the tongass [sic] should transition to Young Growth,” Eric Nichols, a committee member and partner in a large log-exporting business called Alcan Forest Products, fumed by email in October: “This was a political decision made in DC with NO public involvement.”

For a glimpse of Prince of Wales’ former grandeur, Bob Claus, who‘s done time as a state trooper and as interim executive director of the Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, took me to a protected area called the Honker Divide. Pressing through a wall of roadside conifers, we found ourselves in a hushed green chamber, luminous despite the gray pall of clouds. Overhead, the dinner-plate sized leaves from tall thickets of devil’s club (Oplopanax horridus)—whose spines penetrate rain gear and cause weeping sores—cast a buttery light. Berry bushes and other shrubs arched over a spongy carpet of moss that glowed with near-nuclear intensity. Somewhere beyond the tangle loomed giant Sitka spruces with satisfyingly fat waists and towering crowns.

“This first step (into old-growth) is the coolest thing ever,” Claus said. “In wintertime it looks just like this. There’s tons of stuff for all of the deer and critters to eat. It’s a Tolkien thing. Like this is the magic forest.” The interlocked canopy, notched with gaps from falling trees and other disturbances, allows in enough light to nourish a nutritious understory but also provides protection from deep snow, making this a valuable place for shelter and forage. Young forests don’t offer the same.

That’s why conservationists are leery of an ever-creeping transition timeline: It means chiseling away at swatches of wildlife-sustaining old growth in the parts of the forest where timber harvest is still allowed, and where cutting has already exacted a toll.

Indeed, a big old-growth timber sale called Big Thorne—which the Forest Service views as the first pillar in the bridge that will carry industry to its young-growth future—is moving forward, despite concerns about the local Alexander Archipelago wolf (Canis lupus ligoni) population.

In 2013, outgoing Alaska Department of Fish and Game wolf expert Dave Person stopped the sale that would impact more than 6,000 acres with a brief suggesting that the harvest and its new roads could irreparably disrupt Prince of Wales’ precarious balance among people, wolves, and Sitka blacktailed deer (Odocoileus hemionus sitkensis), a vitally important food resource for rural residents. Wolf populations were already falling because logging roads allowed hunters and poachers easy access into their habitats. And deer faced deepening risks with continued cover loss. If their population crashed, as it had in other heavily logged parts of the Tongass during heavy snow years, pressure on wolves would increase further as people sought to protect their own share of meat, Person warned.

Ultimately, the Forest Service worked with the state to limit wolf hunting to address the problem, rather than significantly altering the timber sale, and Viking, which landed the contract, started logging in 2015, despite ongoing litigation. That’s decreased any likelihood of a wolf rebound, Person said this October. “When I started work there beginning in the 1990s, our estimate was 300 to 350.” This year, the estimate was 69 to 167. “It’s a Greek tragedy in my mind—the whole chronology is already written, everybody plays their role, and nothing ever changes.”

Meanwhile, the forest’s rare, slow-growing, ancient red and yellow cedar (Cupressus nootkatensis) trees may be in danger of vanishing from unprotected lands under an extended timeline for old growth logging, says Juneau-based naturalist Richard Carstensen, who’s done wide-ranging surveys of the region. That’s because their especially high-value wood is one of the few things that still make timber sales here financially feasible. “Why does it count that these are the last really ancient cedar forests in the world? Well, why not just protect them because of that,” he said. “If instead of measuring loss in the volume of wood cut per year, we asked how many years it took to grow the cut trees, we might discover that current logging on public and private land now matches or exceeds the ‘hemorrhage decades’ of the 1960s and ‘70s. I think our heads are in the sand.”

But the latest hemorrhage may mean the large-scale old-growth timber industry is already on its way out, because of basic economics. The industry has always required public subsidy to be competitive here: According to a 2016 Government Accountability Office report, while the Tongass spent an average of $12.5 million annually on its timber program from 2005 to 2014, it drew in just $1.1 million in average annual revenue.

And yet even with continued federal spending and the Forest Service increasingly loosening restrictions on sales of raw logs to more lucrative export markets, the industry has struggled. The number of old trees valuable enough, concentrated in great enough numbers, and accessible enough to pay their way out of these rugged woods is simply running out, conservationists argue, driving loggers into slower-growing and more marginal stands to clean out what’s left. The Forest Service had to scour the landscape for scraps to even assemble the acreage necessary to make up the Big Thorne sale. Some, like Nichols and Dahlstrom, blame the Roadless Rule; the Forest Service agrees that it makes timber sales difficult. But others say removing it wouldn’t help: The swaths of forest it protects are roadless largely because they weren’t economic to develop in the first place.

At current old-growth cutting rates, said David Albert, director of conservation science for the Alaska chapter of The Nature Conservancy, “I don’t think we have 15 years.”

Coffman Cove, on northern Prince of Wales, is a tidy collection of buildings along a clear, boat-lined bay. Past a school and new wood-fired greenhouse where students will learn hydroponic vegetable growing, beyond some plastic flamingos I’d been instructed to watch for, I found Misty Fitzpatrick’s house backed up to the sea. Inside, Fitzpatrick, 35, with a dark bun and a no-bullshit demeanor, fussed with a colander‘s worth of fresh oysters. She grew up in the floating logging camps that once roved island beaches. Her dad sawed trees for a pulp mill, marking their numbers on his hard-hat brim with wax pencil as invoice for good wages that kept his kids comfortable when they weren’t running wild in the woods. Fitzpatrick is happy to give her 5-year-old daughter the same free-range childhood. “She loves to go out and hunt and fish. You can raise your kids to be really capable,” she told me. ”You just have to work harder to get ’em socialized.” As if on cue, a tiny girl sprinted into the house, pants-less—fresh from chasing salmon up a creek.

But Fitzpatrick isn’t providing for her daughter with logging wages. Though Coffman Cove started as a logging camp, today its jobs are mostly in tourism, fishing, local government, construction, and the school. In essence, it’s already transitioned, for better or for worse—as have most Southeast communities, many of which now depend heavily on cruise ship traffic. Fitzpatrick’s oysters were for a road-paving crew staying in her five rental cabins. There are more than 125 guest beds in this town of 180 permanent residents, Fitzpatrick said. “I love the community. I just worry about not being able to attract families. It’s becoming more and more dominantly retirees.”

That can make it difficult to keep rural schools open: State funding rules require at least 10 students. When Fitzpatrick was a kid, she remembers 30 or 40 in Coffman Cove. Today, despite the beautiful facilities, there are just 13. Meanwhile, Prince of Wales’ unemployment rate hovers over 12 percent, twice the state average.

When I met her, Fitzpatrick and a group of other community leaders were gearing up to try to help address some of those issues through a natural resource lens. Their goal is to provide the Forest Service with a list of projects that are important to locals, as the agency gathers data that will move the transition forward on the ground. She hopes it will build a more sustainable foundation for the island’s communities between the timber boom of the past and the building tourism boom.

It’s still unclear whether future young-growth logging will help with that any better than present old-growth logging has. If local mills simply churn out boards, it will be difficult to compete with the massive, automated mills that process young growth elsewhere in the world. And since most mills here don’t have the right equipment anyway, young trees will mostly be exported to Asian markets at first. That will help support contracting jobs—loggers, truckers, dock workers, and others—and in turn support forest-thinning projects to restore wildlife habitat in the dense second growth. But many more people could be employed if companies figured out how to locally process younger trees into value-added materials. That remains the highest aspiration for those hoping to reconcile conservation with timber jobs here. And for now, at least, it seems just beyond reach.

On my last day on Prince of Wales, as I waited for my plane to depart, I thought of the people I’d met in local bars and coffee shops. Commercial fishermen. Guides. Lodge owners. The former logger Robert Rowland, who said his crane-operator job nets him five times what he earned in the woods. And a young woman named Stacy Skan, who left the island for school and returned with a master’s in organizational management, only to find little opportunity. She and her boyfriend planned to move back to the mainland within a year. “It breaks my heart to have to leave,” she had told me. “We don’t have much other alternative.”

It makes sense to have some kind of timber industry here: Alaskans need wood and the forests are vast. But the changing global economy seems to be pushing these remote communities and most of their residents down other roads. Whatever future they arrive in will look even less like the heyday of the pulp mill years than the present does. The only certainty is that this future, too, will be shaped by the Tongass—its past wounds, its enduring beauties, and most of all, the rugged isolation that has always defined its brooding and rainy reaches.

Map by James Davidson

Sarah Gilman

Sarah Gilman is a freelance writer and editor who covers the environment, science, and the arts from Portland, Oregon. She's also a contributing editor at High Country News. In addition to HCN, Gilman's work has appeared in National Geographic, Audubon, Smithsonian, The Guardian, and The Last Word on Nothing, among others.

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Robert Aldrich (August 9, 1918 - December 5, 1983) was a United States film director, writer and producer notable for a number of films including What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, and The Dirty Dozen.

Robert Burgess Aldrich was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, the son of Lora Lawson and newspaper publisher Edward B. Aldrich, and grandson of US Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. Robert was educated at Moses Brown School in Providence, Rhode Island and went to the University of Virginia to study economics. He dropped out in 1941 to begin his film industry career with a minor job at RKO.

He quickly worked his way up the production ladder, as an assistant director he worked with men including Jean Renoir, Abraham Polonsky, Joseph Losey and Charlie Chaplin. He moved into television direction in the 1950s and directed his first feature film, Big Leaguer, in 1954. In the 1950s Aldrich was a rare American example of the auteur, enforcing his own vision across a wide thematic range, with films like the noir classsic Kiss Me Deadly, The Big Knife (both 1955) and Attack! (1956).

In the 1960s he went on to direct a number of major commercial successes, such as the gothic What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962), the controversial The Killing of Sister George (1969) and the exemplar for many later war films, The Dirty Dozen (1967). The success of Dozen allowed him to set up his own studio and finance his own films for a few years, but a series of flops returned him to Hollywood and a series of more commercial films, such as Ulzana's Raid (1972).

He had four children with his first wife Harriet Foster, all of whom became involved in the movie business: Adell Aldrich, William Aldrich, Alida Aldrich, and Kelly Aldrich. Robert and Harriet later divorced, and he married model Sybille Siegfried in 1965.
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ICD-10 A41.9
ICD-9 785.52

Septic shock is a serious medical condition caused by decreased tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery as a result of infection and sepsis. It can cause multiple organ failure and death. Its most common victims are children, immunocompromised individuals, and the elderly, as their immune systems cannot cope with the infection as well as healthy adults are able. The mortality rate from septic shock is approximately 50%.

Definition of septic shock

To diagnose septic shock[1] the following two criteria must be met:

  1. Refractory hypotension - hypotension despite adequate fluid resuscitation.
    • In adults it is defined as a systolic blood pressure < 90 mmHg, or a MAP < 60 mmHg, without the requirement for inotropic support, or a reduction of 40 mmHg in the systolic blood pressure from baseline.
    • In children it is BP < 2 SD of the normal blood pressure.

In addition to the two criteria above, two or more of the following must be present:

  • Hyperventilation (high respiratory rate) > 20 breaths per minute or, on blood gas, a PaCO2 less than 32 mmHg.
  • White blood cell count < 4000 cells/mm³ or > 12000 cells/mm³ (< 4 x 109 or > 12 x 109 cells/L).

A subclass of distributive shock, shock refers specifically to decreased tissue perfusion resulting in end-organ dysfunction. Cytokines TNFα, IL-1β, IL-6 released in a large scale inflammatory response results in massive vasodilation, increased capillary permeability, decreased systemic vascular resistance, and hypotension. Hypotension reduces tissue perfusion pressure and thus tissue hypoxia ensues. Finally, in an attempt to offset decreased blood pressure, ventricular dilatation and myocardial dysfunction will occur.

The process of infection by bacteria or fungi can result in systemic signs and symptoms that are variously described. In rough order of severity, these are bacteremia or fungemia; septicemia; sepsis, severe sepsis or sepsis syndrome; septic shock; refractory septic shock; multiple organ dysfunction syndrome, and death.

The condition develops as a response to certain microbial molecules which trigger the production and release of cellular mediators, such as tumor necrosis factors (TNF); these act to stimulate immune response. Besides TNFα, other cytokines involved in the development of septic shock include interleukin-1β, and interferon γ.

Treatment primarily consists of 1) Volume resuscitation 2) Early antibiotic administration 3) Rapid source identification and control and 4) Support of major organ dysfunction.

Among the choices for pressors, a randomized controlled trial concluded that there was no difference between norepinephrine (plus dobutamine as needed for cardiac output) versus epinephrine.[2]

Antimediator agents may be of some limited use in severe clinical situations:

  1. ^ Tslotou AG, Sakorafas GH, Anagnostopoulos G, Bramis J. Septic shock; current pathogenetic concepts from a clinical perspective. Med Sci Monit. 2005 Mar;11(3):RA76-85. PMID 15735579 Full Text.
  2. ^ Annane D, Vignon P, Renault A, et al (2007). "Norepinephrine plus dobutamine versus epinephrine alone for management of septic shock: a randomised trial". Lancet 370 (9588): 676-84. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61344-0. PMID 17720019.
  3. ^ Annane D, Sebille V, Charpentier C, Bollaert PE, Francois B, Korach JM, Capellier G, Cohen Y, Azoulay E, Troche G, Chaumet-Riffaut P, Bellissant E. Effect of treatment with low doses of hydrocortisone and fludrocortisone on mortality in patients with septic shock. JAMA. 2002 Aug 21;288(7):862-71. PMID 12186604
  4. ^ Bernard GR, Vincent JL, Laterre PF, LaRosa SP, Dhainaut JF, Lopez-Rodriguez A, Steingrub JS, Garber GE, Helterbrand JD, Ely EW, Fisher CJ Jr; Recombinant human protein C Worldwide Evaluation in Severe Sepsis (PROWESS) study group. Efficacy and safety of recombinant human activated protein C for severe sepsis. N Engl J Med. 2001 Mar 8;344(10):699-709. PMID 11236773
  5. ^ Levi M, Levy M, Williams MD, et al (2007). "Prophylactic heparin in patients with severe sepsis treated with drotrecogin alfa (activated)". Am. J. Respir. Crit. Care Med. 176 (5): 483–90. doi:10.1164/rccm.200612-1803OC. PMID 17556722.

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“This was supposed to be a lot bigger when we announced this, but this pandemic thing… but you’re being inducted into the Hall of Fame, my friend,” UFC President Dana White told GSP on a video call.

“Oh, really?” GSP responded with a huge grin. “What an honor. Thank you so much.”

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Council poised for action on halibut catch share plan
Oct 4, 2012 - 07:05 PM
The North Pacific Fishery Management Council heard several hours of public testimony on a new halibut catch share plan on the second day of its October meeting. Testimony came after a report from the advisory panel, which voted 14-6 that the council should take final action on a plan using the allocations in alternative three, which was also the council’s....

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Agenda changes, chinook research, and stock of concern statuses are up for discussion at the state of Alaska’s Board of Fisheries work session Oct. 9 and 10 in Anchorage. The board has 21 agenda change requests, or ACRs, to consider, ranging from gear changes in salmon fisheries to a new herring designation. Several of the agenda change requests ask the board to consider various Cook Inlet issues, which are not scheduled to come up under the regular, three-year meeting cycle until 2014. Kenai River Sportfishing Association, or KRSA, has said it would like to see all Kenai River king salmon issues considered, and submitted one of the proposals, but several other Cook Inlet groups offered only partial support for the taking up the controversial Cook Inlet issues out of cycle. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game submitted one of the proposals, which would allow the...

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The — now official —disaster in Cook Inlet during the 2012 salmon season is back in front of the Board of Fisheries at its upcoming annual work session Oct. 9 to 11 in Anchorage. Issues between the sport and commercial users that are contentious in the best of times will be front and center against the backdrop of a record-low return of Kenai kings in 2012 with the Kenai River Sportfishing Association, or KRSA, pushing for a full evaluation of king salmon management while Peninsula setnetters and the statewide United Fishermen of Alaska are opposing the KRSA agenda change request. The issue upon which the two sides agree is the need to formally adopt new escapement goals for....

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Hello again my water soaked fellow citizens. The recent flood that effected our community caused much damage to our local public infrastructure, businesses and private property, and led to the death of some of our wildlife. Levees were breached, roads flooded, driveways washed out and many along our floodplain fled to safer shelters within Seward. At Clear Creek, flood conditions appeared on Sept. 19-20 due to a major breach in the Box Canyon levee. Many fled while I remained since I still had electric, well and septic fully functional throughout this 2012 flood event. While some of you may believe that the rain was the main cause of this event, the real cause is to the millions of cubic yards for glacier- and mountain-supplied gravel and rock. Each year surrounding glaciers produce around 4 million cubic yards of grave...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 4, 2012  /PRNewswire/ -- Weighing in at 91,000 pounds, the world's largest salmon landed in Anchorage today to a cheering crowd of hundreds of Alaska Airlines employees and seafood industry executives. Stretching nearly 129 feet, the fish-themed Boeing 737-800 is the most intricately painted commercial aircraft in the world and celebrates the partnership of Alaska Airlines and the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute....

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Boeing to enhance navigation technology to keep GPS receivers working amid jamming, RF noise, and interference
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WASHINGTON, 4 Oct. 2012. Satellite navigation experts at the Boeing Co. Defense, Space & Security segment in Huntington Beach, Calif., are moving forward with a U.S. Navy research program to keep GPS receivers working amid electronic jamming and interference by augmenting Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite with the Iridium commercial satellite communications system. Officials of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington awarded a $40 million sole-source contract to...

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Major resurfacing works on the junction of North Road and Ringway are on track to finish on Friday.

Workmen have been braving the freezing temperatures, hail, sleet and snow in the past few weeks and have pulled the project back on track.

Lancashire County Council say they’ve pumped extra resources into ensuring the resurfacing works finish on time.

Minor works are due to continue after Friday as detectors and cables need to be fitted to traffic signals and will be completed by Friday 20 February.

The junction, by the Holiday Inn, has been subject to roadworks throughout the back end of 2014 to install new traffic lights and lane closures overnight in January for the resurfacing.

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