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Zaca Fire
The Zaca Fire was a wildfire which began burning northeast of Buellton, California, in Santa Barbara County, California. The fire started on July 4, 2007, and by August 31, it had burned over 240,207 acres (972.083 km2), making it California's second largest fire in recorded history after the Cedar Fire of 2003.[1][2] The fire was contained on September 2, 2007.[3] It was declared controlled on October 29, 2007.[4]
The fire was started as a result of sparks from a grinding machine on private property which was being used to repair a water pipe.[2][5]
By August 12, progress was being made on the fire through the combined efforts of firefighters and aircraft. Firefighters were able to turn the direction of the fire away from the Paradise Road community.[6]
As of September 2, the fire had cost $117 million to fight, and was 100% contained. The fire had primarily burnt away from populated areas in extremely steep and rugged areas of the Los Padres National Forest and the Santa Ynez River Recreation Area.[1] It only destroyed one Forest Service outbuilding. Its impacts on the environment and area water resources are not yet fully known.[7] Many trails and campgrounds in the Dick Smith Wilderness were destroyed; a number have been rebuilt.
- ^ a b [1] Cal Fire update page
- ^ a b Zaca Fire information on Yuba net
- ^ "Zaca Wildland Fire". Retrieved 2007-09-03.
- ^ "Zaca Fire Controlled But Not Out" InciWeb. Retrieved on November 6, 2007
- ^ "Officials Find Cause of Zaca Fire", KEYT3 news, July 6, 2007
- ^ Daniel, Stacy; Tina Leonard (August 12, 2007). "Critical turn in the Zaca Fire: DC-10 Airtanker flies over and Evacuation Order downgraded". KSBY-TV—San Luis Obispo, CA. MSNBC. Retrieved 2007-08-22.[dead link]
- ^ "Zaca Fire Impacts Will Linger for Years" by Ray Ford, Santa Barbara Independent. Retrieved on November 6, 2007
External links[edit]
- CDF—California Dept. Forestry: Maps of the Zaca Fire
- California Fire News: daily coverage of the "Zaca Fire" wildland fire including fire perimeter maps, photos - Over 100 pages labeled "Zaca Fire"
- Associated Press: "Giant fire in Los Padres forest to cross into Ventura County"
- Los Angeles Times - "Santa Barbara fire flares anew"
- Santa Maria Times - "Zaca Fire takes unexpected turn".
Coordinates: 34°42′57″N 119°46′58″W / 34.7159°N 119.7828°W


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By: Brittany Lewis
(ABC 6 NEWS) -- Whether it's two percent, whole, or skim, there's a good chance you're not drinking as much milk as you once did. Statistics from the USDA show a decline of 30 percent in the last 30 years.
Todd Leiding is a life-long dairy farmer. His 68 cows produce 1,000 gallons of milk every two days.
"That's our livelihood is producing milk. That goes to the paycheck," he said.
But according to recent Wall Street Journal story, that paycheck could be in trouble. The report claims milk production has fallen almost 30 percent since 1975 and the 20.2 gallons Americans drank last year was a decline of 3 percent from the previous year. Leiding has noticed the decline.
"Fluid milk consumption has dropped in the last 30 years probably by half," he said.
"We're just puzzled by this trend," said Uinie Biel.
Biel is a dairy farmer in Harmony.
"Our prices are declining and our expenses are rising and it's very, very frustrating," Biel said.
Both blame the decline on the same thing.
"The pop companies have got more billions of dollars and the dairy producers through our check off only have millions to spend on advertising," said Leiding.
And while there is concern as to how this might affect dairy farmers in the future, "It would make us think about decreasing our numbers or diversifying or and I'm sure there would be lots of farmers around us that would want to stop milking cows and get out of the dairy business," said Biel.
For Leiding, as long as other dairy products are selling, he's not as concerned.
"The fluid milk consumption is definitely a concern, but as long as the cheese or cheese consumption and the ice cream consumption and the yogurt and any other dairy products go up. That's our benefit," he said.
Leaving the future of these dairy farms in the hands of the consumers.

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Andy Love: Scalia and Thomas were featured guests at a retreat of wealthy Republicans and conservative leaders organized by Charles and David Koch, the brothers who finance right wing causes from the money they made from their energy conglomerate.
Justice Clarence Thomas' Income Tax Oversight?
Miles Blue: Recently, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, over a four year period, failed to report his wife's rather substantial income. A one-time failure may be human error; a four-time failure is a willful, criminal, act. Thomas deserves impeachment. His behavior is not acceptable for a Supreme Court Justice.


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Horace Pippin, 1940
Physical Details: Photographic print : 1 item : silver gelatin ; 36 x 28 cm.
Creator: Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), photographer
Description: Photo shows half-length portrait of painter Horace Pippin, facing right.
Identification in lower right (stamped): "Photograph by Carl Van Vechten".
Forms part of: Downtown Gallery records, 1824-1974, bulk 1926-1969
Rights Statement: Current copyright status is undetermined
Citation: Horace Pippin, 1940
Digital ID: 5535
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Parishes/churches within 3 miles of Oban - NM859298
View the church locations plotted on a Google map.
|St John the Divine, George Street, Scottish Episcopal, Oban, Argyllshire
|St Columba, Corran Esplanade, Roman Catholic, Oban, Argyllshire
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The GENUKI church database is not a complete list of all churches, and for many areas it just contains most parish churches at the start of the 19th century. It is planned that over time many more churches will be added but until then we hope that those it does find are useful.
The distances shown above are in most cases only approximate.This is because the church locations themselves are given as the corner of nearest Km square on the Ordnance Survey map in most cases. Some have been updated to the actual 1/10 Km location, but the majority have not. So use the distances as a guide, not a precise figure.


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Make it hard for their customers, the customers will avoid the stores.
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well if somebody here has several million to outfit an actual pro shop here with educated sales people and offer decent prices and carry a nice selection of stuff on a regular basis, well you would probably have a whole state worth of business...
there is your solution.
There are only a few drummers that are seriously seeking high end gear.
There are thousands of drummers seeking the lower end gear.
The stores simply cater to their customers.
Sales flow dictates what they stock and sell.
Department managers review national sales flow data and they stock their store accordingly.
They will stock a few high end products just to have some in the store.
They have a budget that limits the inventory that they can carry and also sales goals to meet.
The overhead of operating a store is very high.
The stores have no choice.
Bottom Line,
If the stores were swamped with people wanting to buy all kinds of expensive drum gear and all sorts of things like tension rods and hoops, etc. They would stock them.
Supply and Demand, Thats the first rule of economics.
The demand isn't there, so the supply isn't there.
I kind of like old drums:)
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Public radio station WQCS celebrates 30 years on the airwaves
Public radio station plans Open House to celebrate
WQCS 30th ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE
Highlights: Visitors can tour the all-digital station, meet "Young Musician Spotlight" performers along with on-air personalities "Morning Edition" host Drew Mello, public affairs and special features specialist Jill Roberts, "Floridays" host Janie Gould, John Bell of "Skywatch," "Lifeline" host Patty Corey and "America Songbook's" Dick Golden and many others.
When: 4 to 7 p.m. Nov. 30 and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Dec. 1
Where: Fort Pierce campus of Indian River State College near the Hallstrom Planetarium, 3209 Virginia Ave.
For details: Call 888-286-8936 or visit www.wqcs.org.
For three decades, public radio station WQCS 88.9 FM in Fort Pierce has kept listeners informed through devastating storms, provided engaging entertainment, news and classical music and sparked community involvement for causes across the Treasure Coast.
It's a 30-year mission the station's staff takes seriously, according to general manager Madison Hodges, who says the National Public Radio affiliate, located at the Fort Pierce campus of Indian River State College, will continue for decades to come.
"Thirty years is significant because it fairly represents the fact that the station has been providing service for a number of years," Hodges said of the radio outlet's anniversary, "and that the community has been very supportive of the station to enable it to continue to do these things."
To recognize its three decades of broadcasting, the award-winning station will have a 30th Anniversary Open House Nov. 30 and Dec. 1, where listeners can meet local program hosts and tour the station's all-digital studios.
QCS debuted as 88.3 FM in a small campus building as a 3,000-watt station on March 23, 1982, and was licensed to then-Indian River Community College. In its earliest days, according to the station's history posted on its website, QCS served an area between Fort Pierce, northern Stuart and parts of Vero Beach. By April 1985, the station changed to 88.9 FM and was dubbed "Classic 89," as it turned on a new 100,000-watt transmitter and tower built adjacent to its studio then located in the McAlpin Fine Arts Center.
In May 1993, the station moved into its current location near the Hallstrom Planetarium. It serves a listening area from northern Palm Beach County to southern Brevard County, including Indian River, St. Lucie, Martin and Okeechobee counties.
Veteran news director Jill Roberts, who in 1987 was hired as the station's public affairs and special features specialist, said she was once accustomed to people not knowing who they were.
"I used to go places and I would have to explain to people what QCS was. I have found that as the decades have worn on, I no longer have to do that," she said. "We did classical music as we continue to do, and at that point, I don't know if we had the news reputation that we have now, and that kind of limited our audience. But now I find it completely different."
During its three decades, some of public radio's top broadcast professionals made a career of bettering QCS, including former general manager Jim Holmes, who retired in 2006 after 23 years.
Adrienne Moore, the station's 25-year public relations specialist until she retired in 2007, said among his accomplishments, Holmes established the station's "quiet drive" fundraising efforts to avoid the widely used "beg-a-thons" known to disrupt regularly scheduled programs. Holmes kept in constant contact with the operation, Moore said, on and off duty.
"In the early years," she recalled, "he used to sleep with a plug in his ear so he could hear the station at night in case we went off the air."
Moore said through the years, dozens of dedicated staff members fostered the station's commitment to bring local news and relevant programming to its audience.
"The community really wrapped their arms around us," Moore said. "We were active during the Fort Pierce Centennial ... we even have a CD and a CD player put away in one of their 100-year capsules."
Most important, she said, has been QCS' role as the area's emergency broadcast station, a state-assigned designation.
After the 2004-2005 storms, Moore said people often called to say "I may not listen every day, you're not my kind of music, but God knows you people have helped us, and we know where to go to listen."
In the late 1980s and 1990s, Moore said QCS often invited the Army and Navy bands and the Coast Guard band to perform for a live audience, which was recorded for later broadcasts.
"That was kind of our audiences' interests as well," she said, "so that's why we did that."
IRSC President Edwin Massey said QCS has always been a major part of the college's commitment to fulfilling a cultural responsibility to the community.
"We have our fine arts and dance and theater programs, but WQCS is another piece that rounds out and added to our commitment to culture in the community," Massey said. "We are very proud of the radio station, and from the very beginning it has been a tremendous asset to the college."
In addition to music, QCS broadcasts local news and feature stories, educational programs and emergency weather alerts on three digital channels, and at wqcs.org. It also operates an all-volunteer Radio Reading Service for the blind and visually impaired.
"To drive in and listen to WQCS every day has been a personal pleasure to me," Massey added. "Every time I do it, I swell up with pride because the station has been so successful over time."
QCS though, has suffered its share of hard economic times, mainly through cuts in grants, state funding and fewer corporate donations.
At the same time, however, Hodges said individual contributions have gone up.
He attributed that in part to doing a better job of educating listeners about the station's budget woes — where its money comes from and the challenges it faces to keep popular programming on the air, which must be purchased.
Its current operating budget is $1.2 million, Hodges said, down more than $100,000 from last year. In 2008, the station's budget was $1.5 million.
A cut in state funding last year wasn't because of the Legislature, Hodges noted, but as a result of Gov. Rick Scott's veto pen, which stripped out $62,000 lawmakers had approved for QCS.
That led to the station laying off on-air staff and cutting hours for part-timers.
"We've had reductions in a little bit of everything, but at some point," Hodges said, "we want to get back into growing what we can do locally."
To that end, Hodges said despite budget challenges, the station will endure for decades to come, and during a fundraising drive that ends Nov. 9, organizers hope to gain 170 new members. Their last drive sparked 400 new members contributing to the station, he said.
"We made an effort on air to tell our story and they've responded. It's more people, and they're pledging at a higher level," Hodges said. "Does that make up for the loss of grants? No, but it really does go a long way toward helping.
"So the budget's a little lower; it's going to be very tight. We might have to make some programming changes for things that don't meet our budget any more," he added, "but we are still going to have the service people expect a public radio station to have."
Although large cash contributions are significant to the station's operations, they aren't always the ones best remembered.
One of Moore's most memorable moments at QCS, she said, was in the mid 1990s when she opened an envelope containing a listener's donation.
"There was $2 and a letter, saying, 'I have a boom box and I listen to the station every day, all day. It doesn't matter whether it's news or classical music, I just think it's a wonderful station, and I'm so glad public broadcasting and public radio is local here,'" she recalled. "He said, 'I'm a homeless vet and I live under the South Bridge, but I saved this $2 to send to you.'
"I'm sure it took him awhile to save the $2. It's a story I love, and he loved the station."
Jill Roberts: Received The Gabriel Award from the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals for the Short Feature story "Art Your Hands Can See," texture paintings for visually impaired people to touch.
Drew Mello: Associated Press Best Radio Newscast up to 5 minutes, his third consecutive year to win.
Jill Roberts and Janie Gould: Associated Press Best Series Reporting: Sept. 11 Anniversary on the Treasure Coast.
Jill Roberts: Associated Press Hard News Feature Finalist: "Fighting Fire with Fire."
Janie Gould: Associated Press Series Reporting Finalist: "Peace Corps Anniversary."
For its outstanding hurricane coverage during the 2004 hurricane season, the Treasure Coast Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association recognized the station with a Communicator of the Year Award and the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation presented its Service to America Award, naming WQCS the only radio station in the country to be recognized for its hurricane coverage.
Source: Madison Hodges, WQCS general manager
$1.216 million: Anticipated budget for 2012-2013
$1.253 million: Budget for 2011-2012
$1.320 million: Budget for 2010-2011
$1.510 million: Budget for 2007-2008
$357,000: Current cost for programming and related services, including The Associated Press, Public Radio International, independent producers and contractors, National Public Radio, RRS network, and American Public Media for shows and materials.
$676,000: Current costs for all full-time and part-time staff pay and benefits. This includes programming, operations, engineering, development and administrative staff.
Source: Madison Hodges, WQCS general manager
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Flat-Base Hardware - DW vs. Ludwig vs. Gibraltar
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Hey Chris, thanks to your excellent tip...just picked up a 20" tool bag for my Atlas hardware... I found a DeWalt tool bag on sale for $27. It's perfect!
I'll try and get a pic up soon. What a great compact solution.
*** Canadian drummers: get out to your local Canadian Tire store and grab the 20" DeWalt bag on sale this week!!!!
Awesome man! Yeah, let's see a pic when you get a chance!
I have the following in the bag for rehearsal tonight:
- Yamaha 700 Series Snare Stand (for snare)
- Ludwig AC Snare Stand (for tom)
- Ludwig AC Straight Cymbal Stand
- Ludwig AC Straight Cymbal Stand
- Ludwig AC Hi-Hat Stand
- Floor Tom Legs
- Bass Drum Cymbal Mount
- Throne Base
That's alot of crap in a tiny bag! Adding the second snare stand forced me to think about placement in the bag a little more. It all fits, but it's tight! If I add anything else, I think I'll get a second bag and split the stuff between both.
The funny thing is this tool bag is built much better than any hardware bag I've owned, which includes a Road Runner hardware bag, a baseball bat bag, and a new military patrol bag. It's also much cheaper!
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MAC for Doo.Ri @ NYFW F/W 2011
Doo.Ri @ NYFW Fall/Winter 2011
Doo.Ri @ NYFW Fall/Winter 2011
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Brian Hashimoto's RHD WRX Wagon
Brian Hashimoto's RHD WRX Wagon needs no introduction as it has been forever immortalized multiple times on the pages of Fatlace and Hellaflush.
While the former wheel choice of BBS RSs complimented the car so well, Brian chose to stay true to the roots of authentic JDM styling cues with Blitz 01s 17×9 +34 on 205/40 and right hand drive conversion, complete with JDM business card holder and Cusco brake cylinder.
Unfortunately, this feature will ultimately be a tribute to one of the cleanest Subaru Wagons as Brian ships his car to a new home today.
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Thats a pretty clean sub, done well!