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A RETRO blue VW van stands defiant after miraculously surviving the deadly Los Angeles wildfires.Stunned former owner Preston Martin, 24, assumed the 1977 Volk stanley cup swagen Type 2 van had been consumed by the stanley tumblers flames.3A retro blue VW van stands defiant after miraculously surviving the deadly Los Angeles wildfiresCredit: AP3Stunned former owner Preston Martin assumed the 1977 Volkswagen Type 2 van had been consumed by the flamesCredit: AP3Martin sold the van last summer to pal Megan Krystle Weinraub, pictured with dog Bodi, who designs surf and skateboardsCredit: APThe surfboard maker had parked it in Malibu shortly before the Palisades fire ripped through the seaside community.But he was delighted when a pic emerged of the shiny blue van defiantly still standing among the charred rubble.Martin, who slept in the van for a year while studying mechanical engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, said: There is magic in that van. It makes no sense why this happened. It should have been toasted, but here we are. Its so cool that its become this, like, beacon of hope. Everything around it was toasted, just destroyed. And then heres this bright blue shiny van, sitting right there. Most read in The SunPHONE IT INT-Mobile users can get $25,000 payments from data breach settlement in weeksCOME CLEANMenendez brothers offered shocking new bargain in exchange for freedomMONEY vaso stanley , PLEASENew round of stimulus checks up to $1,702 being sent this monthPAYS THE BILLSJosh Al Gxyl 17 American missionaries, families kidnapped from bus by gang members as they leave an orphanage in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
A new professorship and research fund focused on environmental and climate journalism is coming to the Univer stanley thermosflasche sity of Victoria thanks to a $1.875-million donation.Made by Wayne Crookes, a Vancouver business leader and political activist, the donation is intended to help address the threat of climate change. We need to communicate more effectively with journalists 鈥?especially editors 鈥?about the risks of climate change and the threats stanley quencher to biodiversity that humanity as a whole is facing, Crookes said. I believe climate change is an existential threat that the world is not doing enough to meet. RELATED: B.C. scientists look at climate change impacts on aquaculture productionCrookes is the owner and founder of legal filing service, West Coast Title Search, and non-partisan organization, Integrity BC, which aims to restore accountability and integrity in B.C. politics. He was also the Green Party federal campaign manager in 2004.Crookes gift comes in two parts 鈥?$1.5 million to fund a five-year professorship and $375,000 to fund research and outreach. UVic said the new profes stanley thermobecher sor will be appointed this year within its department of writing. Extreme weather, melting ice sheets, incessant flooding and other alarming events serve to remind us that we are not only together in this crisis, but also of the urgent need to effectively counter misinformation through the rigour of credible journalism, UVic president Kevin Hall said. The donation is intended to increase the quality and quan |
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