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By 7 p.m. on June 11 the fire had made its way on to Skyway and would jump it,.
He said the fire reached the top of the Ridge and out of the canyon confluence and ran along Skyway.
During the night firefighters had cut a line at the gun range to hold the fire there.
With the fire now having jumped Skyway and into Nance Canyon, Paradise, which was wasn’t under threat in the morning suddenly was now.
And Broshears said that once fire got into Nance Canyon it quickly established itself.
A few of the fire from the old Post building on Clark Road.
operations center to order new evacuations. Paradise was able to avoid a direct hit, in part thanks to the wind shearing away from town, but Broshears said also said firefighters were quickly able to cut a line to slow its advance up the canyon. David Hawks, Division Chief, CAL FIRE/Butte County/Paradise Fire also pointed out the Humboldt Fire was one first times the new DC-10 plan was used in a fire.
It dropped a line along Nance Canyon to help firefighters.
The town of Paradise was able to avoid a direct hit, losing six homes in its town limits, the fire devastated the unincorporated area below Paradise along Neal.
One of the lessons learned from the fire was the evacuation process. When the fire jumped the Skyway, Broshears called in the new evacuations.
Since then the Hawks said that the town and county have detailed plans on evacuations. The plan has improved a few times in the last 10 years he said. One of the issues that was the evacuation on Pentz Road which was one lane out.
More than 100 vehicles were destroyed by the Humboldt Fire.
At the time Broshears wasn’t aware of contra-flow traffic uses. He soon learned of them, advocated for their inclusion and are now part of the plan.
The person responsible for the fire still not been found, though Garrett said they have spoken to many subjects, one of which could be the suspect, but they don’t have enough to determine one.
The original investigation of the fire was done by a large group of investigators.
Garrett said that there’s no fire she’d love to solve more than this one.
She said that they owe it to the public to take investigation as far as they can.
Garrett did say that while several vehicles were spotted near the fire, it was a white van that was of particular interest to them.
IFC Films has unveiled the trailer for its upcoming "Lucky Them" drama, starring Toni Collette, Thomas Haden Church and Oliver Platt. Check it out below.
Plot: The story follows veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug (Collette), who is more interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work. Now she has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine's editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god Matthew Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker (Church), Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
The new movie is directed by Megan Griffiths (Eden) and is set to hit select theaters on May 30th.
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Harry Redknapp fears the impact Bobby Zamora's suspension will have on QPR's fading Barclays Premier League survival bid.
Zamora is missing for the next three matches, starting at Everton on Saturday, after being sent off in Sunday's 1-1 draw with Wigan for kicking Jordi Gomez in the head. Rangers are seven points adrift of safety with six matches remaining and Redknapp is frustrated to have seen his strike partnership with Loic Remy dismantled once again.
"Bobby's sending off was a rash decision and missing him for three games is a big loss," Redknapp said. "It was a crazy challenge and it's cost us dearly because we lost him for most of that game and for the next three matches. He should be disappointed."
The former Tottenham manager added: "He's not 100% fit, you can see that, but he's still a good player. When Bobby and Remy have played together we always look like we're going to win, but we can't get the partnership together.
"Often one of them has been injured and now Bobby's suspended. This has cost us dearly. Remy's our joint leading goalscorer now with five goals. That's been the problem here - we've had no one to score goals.
"How can you have a leading goal scorer who's only scored five goals? It's almost impossible."
No team has ever escaped relegation from QPR's position, yet Redknapp clings on to a tiny glimmer of hope.
"It wasn't easy after the Wigan game, I felt low over the weekend for sure, but you just have to get on with it. We need to go again," he said. "There's still some life in us. If we'd picked those three points up I'd have fancied us to stay up. The momentum would have been with us.
"There are still games to go, we just have to win as many as possible. It's going to be hard, but when there's a chance you have to keep believing.
"Getting the three points is massive. We certainly need to win four games and draw one to give ourselves any sort of chance."
While retaining the bonus for board certification, lawmakers allowed the graduate-degree bonus to lapse, except for teachers who were already in the process of earning one. What will replace it? Legislative leaders and the McCrory administration envision a system in which teachers will receive pay bumps for taking on tough jobs – such as working in high-poverty schools or teaching difficult courses – and for performance in the classroom as identified by principal evaluations, value-added test scores, or both.
But the strategy does have adversaries. Teacher unions detest pay differentials based on subject matter or individual performance. Schools of education thrived on the artificial demand for graduate degrees created by the previous teacher bonuses.
Until these reform opponents can come up with more persuasive arguments than “we’ve always done it this way” or “shut up and do what we want,” my sense is that most members of the General Assembly are committed to the teacher-pay reforms begun in 2014 and welcome the chance to explain them to voters this fall.
Hood is president of the John Locke Foundation.
ARLINGTON, Texas — Manager Jim Tracy was direct.
Asked a few weeks ago about the Rockies’ most pressing need, he blurted “an impact bat.” The options range from fascinating (Victor Martinez, hello) to reclamation (Conor Jackson). Here’s a name to file under intriguing: Lance Berkman.
The Yankee will soon be a free agent, and he won’t be returning to New York. The Rockies kicked the tires on Berkman at the trading deadline.
“That’s a place that I would definitely have interest in,” Berkman said here Thursday.
It’s complicated, yes. Rockies general manager Dan O’Dowd said there are no plans to dramatically reduce Todd Helton’s role. “We need Todd to be Todd,” he told me. And Berkman hasn’t played the outfield since 2007.
And yet, it’s worth a phone call. Berkman is coming off career lows in home runs (14) and RBIs (58). But even at his worst, he could help. His walks (77) nearly matched his strikeouts (85), and getting a veteran who makes more contact is a priority. Berkman reached base 37 percent of the time this season and is a switch-hitter.
Look at the playoff lineups and they underscore the need for the Rockies to improve. Their offense is too top heavy — CarGo, Tulo and Who Knows?
The reason the Giants are still standing is because rookie Buster Posey became Mike Piazza circa 1993 and veteran Pat Burrell gave them a surprising middle-of-the- lineup threat.
The Rockies need another bat. It’s pretty simple. Maybe Helton rebounds — and I am not counting him out — or Ian Stewart dramatically improves. Another hitter is still necessary.
If not Berkman, if not Martinez (an admitted longshot), then someone.
The industry has noticed. At least one unnamed team has asked for permission to speak to Hurdle about its managerial vacancy following the Rangers’ playoff run, according to a major-league source. Hurdle managed the Rockies from April 2002 to May 2009, guiding the team to its first World Series in 2007.
“Stranger Things” hoodies are a hot item and fans of the Netflix series reportedly crashed a museum’s website trying to purchase the sweatshirt.
The purple sweatshirt sporting a skeleton of a Brontosaurus was worn by Dustin Henderson, played by Gaten Matarazzo, in episode one of "Stranger Things 2," Business Insider noted.
Turns out, the hoodie was first sold at the Science Museum of Minnesota in the early 1980s but has been made popular once again by the hit series.
It wasn’t long before fans inundated the museum with requests for the vintage "Thunder Lizard" sweatshirt, the Minnesota Public Radio said.
The museum opened up online sales on Tuesday morning but the demand caused the museum’s website to crash.
By 11 a.m. its store was back online and by 4 p.m., Minnesota Public Radio noted, 10,000 units of the hoodie, worth about $400,000, had been sold.
By midweek the stock had been depleted and the museum’s store announced via a post on its website that new merchandise would be on shelves again by Thursday.
“Stranger Things” costume designer Kim Wilcox told Newsweek that she came across the vintage purple sweatshirt online.
"I really loved the Brontosaurus for Dustin, so we bought the original,” she said. “Then we made our own purple hoodie with this great dinosaur art in Gaten's size."
According to the museum, proceeds from purchases of the hoodie will go towards supporting its ongoing educational and research efforts.
The ABLE Commission collected more than $1 million in license fees in October when the new laws went into effect.
Cordell Republican Todd Russ wants more guns and fewer law enforcement officers. That's a bad recipe.
The state’s legislative session ended in May, but State Sen. Stephanie Bice’s work on Senate Bill 383 has not stopped.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. /California Newswire/ — Beauty pageants are sometimes criticized for being overly competitive, cut throat and an advantage to the wealthy due to high costs of preparing for and participating in the pageant, says Stephanie Farrell of Miss Greater Bay Area, Calif. California's state pageant, owned and operated by Top 10 Productions of Southern California, works with several independent regional directors who host preliminary pageants that qualify contestants for the Miss California USA(R) and Miss California Teen USA(R) pageants. The 2016 state pageant will be held in Long Beach, California from December 4-6, 2015.
Northern California Regional Director, Stephanie Farrell, is working to debunk what she calls a myth about pageants as she helps advance nine northern California women who are running for 2016 Miss California USA(R) and Miss California Teen USA(R). Farrell explains that young ladies join pageants because participation helps achieve their professional goals and gives them local, statewide, national and sometimes international exposure.
Farrell's aim is to help all young ladies who wish to be involved get a fair opportunity to properly prepare for this event.
"I try to make it so that all our ladies – regardless of funding – can be well prepared to compete for these coveted titles," Farrell said. "I believe that the experience is much more than winning a crown. I mentor young ladies to gain an experience of not only self-empowerment, but also to help each other. We want our ladies to understand team work and sisterhood. It is important they experience the satisfaction of not only working on their own beauty, but also of helping others to improve and be their best. This, in turn, makes them stronger and more confident women."
To that end, Farrell is holding a "Crown Diva Boot Camp" event in the Bay Area, where all contestants get an opportunity to receive professional coaching from a "Pageant Boutique & Pageant Academy" owned and operated by Crown Diva of Santa Monica, Calif. Famous for an impressive history of coaching pageant winners, Crown Diva Owner Kristen Bradford has personally trained a Miss USA, Miss California USA and several other state and local winners from various systems. "The key to doing well in any pageant system is preparation," her website reads. The Crown Diva training program is designed to help contestants take their performance to the next level and bring home the crown. Contestants will be coached interviewing and answering questions, walking in high heels, maintaining composure while on stage in a swimsuit and evening gown, tips on their best colors, makeup and hair styling, fitness and nutrition, and exuding beauty and confidence.
However, Farrell's approach goes beyond these technical aspects of pageant preparation. Farrell has recruited two local businesses to help make the pageant preparation experience much more meaningful for all her candidates.
On Saturday evening November 21, 2015, between 7 to 9 p.m., Black Bear Diner of Pleasanton will host eight northern California beauties where they will have the opportunity to meet restaurant guests, answer pageant-type interview questions asked from guests, and gain a real experience endorsing a product.
Each lady will endorse an entree from Black Bear Diner's "Fit & Focused" menu. Black Bear will be offering a 20 percent discount for all Fit & Focused meals that are ordered during the hours of 7 to 9 p.m. on this evening. This will allow each lady to practice extemporaneous presentation in front of the public, and give them experience endorsing a product. Farrell says this experience is so valuable because the winners of the Miss California USA(R) and Miss California Teen USA(R) pageants will be hired to promote all aspects of California, and their journey will include endorsing many businesses and organizations within the state.
Later that night, Pleasanton's Doubletree Hilton Hotel is graciously sponsoring rooms, where the ladies will spend the night to further bond and prepare for their pageant.
Northern California's Miss California USA(R) candidates are Jayne Geist, Miss Greater Bay Area USA(R); Domonique Jones, Miss Capital Cities USA(R); Nancy Wang, Miss Golden Gate USA(R); Ronae Wells, Miss Greater Sacramento USA(R); and Sofia Hanan, Miss Golden State USA(R).
The Miss California Teen USA(R) candidates are Alexis Aguila, Miss Greater Sacramento Teen USA(R); Brooklyn Lowrey, Miss Golden State Teen USA(R), Kimberli Bautista, Miss Capital Cities Teen USA(R); and Linnea Visbal, Miss Greater Bay Area Teen USA(R).
The producers of the Miss California USA(R) and Miss California Teen USA(R) pageants is San Diego based Top 10 Productions, Inc. The winner of MISS CALIFORNIA USA(R) will go on to compete at the national MISS USA(R) competition which is televised live on FOX. The winner of Miss California Teen USA(R) will go on to compete at Miss teen USA(R).
More information: https://www.facebook.com/MissGreaterBayAreaPageant/ and https://misscausapageant.com/.
Is BHP too big and too powerful for the federal government to handle?
ONCE a rusty Newcastle steel producer, BHP Billiton recently overtook Microsoft to become the world's third-biggest listed company. Powered by a global boom in commodity prices, BHP looks set to deliver a full-year profit in excess of US$22 billion, a figure that exceeds the annual output of more than 100 countries.
To put it bluntly, BHP Billiton, which runs operations in coal, iron ore and copper is bigger than either Armenia, Macedonia, PNG, Iceland and much of sub-Sahara Africa.
Today, BHP Billiton is a very big company, and when it speaks - particularly in Canberra - it has a very big voice.
That voice was raised a few decibels when former prime minister Kevin Rudd proposed the original resources super profits tax and BHP played a key role in forcing a significant compromise. The new, revised mining tax thrashed out between former BHP Billiton chairman Don Argus and the Gillard government will now collect closer to a third of the $99 billion that Treasury had initially forecast the tax would bring in over the next decade.
This lost revenue was given a stark perspective as BHP yesterday handed down a $10.52 billion first-half profit - an 88 per cent jump on the same time last year.
With acquisition targets thin on the ground and low levels of corporate debt, BHP Billiton is getting to the point where it doesn't have a better option for its profits than handing much of it back to investors in the form of share buybacks and sweetened dividends.
In a further sign of BHP's increasing clout, The Age this week revealed that chief executive Marius Kloppers took personal credit for quashing the Chinese government-owned Chinalco's proposed $23.9 billion investment in rival Rio Tinto.
According to a WikiLeaks US diplomatic cable Mr Kloppers also believes BHP won a strategic victory when it encouraged the Australian government to ''draw a line in the sand'' over substantial Chinese investment in resource companies.
His remarks were made in confidential discussions with US consul general Michael Thurston at BHP's Melbourne headquarters. The discussion took place a day before the deal fell through.
In the cables Kloppers, a dual Australian-South African citizen, had described himself as ''only nominally Australian''.
Kloppers yesterday confirmed these discussions took place and did not deny his comments.
Magnifying BHP's power is the fact that the company is one of the nation's biggest employers of mining workers and contractors.
Of its 39,500 global employees at the end of last year, 38 per cent were based in Australia. This also goes for nearly half of its 58,500 on-site contractors.
But some observers say that even with the sheer magnitude of its profit and the mining-tax backdown, BHP shouldn't expect to have others dancing to its tune.
''Governments do have tremendous power in relation to these companies, particularly latent power,'' says Peter Brain, an executive director with the National Institute of Economic and Industry Research. ''Of course, that latent power can only be used at the right political moment.
''Yes, BHP has power, but basically they are the operators of Australian-owned resources, nominally owned by the residents. So it's up to governments to exert that fact,'' Brain says.
For example, British oil company BP felt the full wrath of Washington after last year's Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
At one stage doubts were raised among lawmakers over their ability to secure new exploration licences to operate in the Gulf.
The retirement last year of long-serving chairman Argus is viewed by many insiders in Canberra as a softening of BHP's political bite.
New chairman Jac Nasser, while having a strong track record as a global executive, does not have the same clout in Canberra as his well-connected predecessor. Argus learnt how to handle politicians while running National Australia Bank between 1990 and 1999. At that time NAB was Australia's biggest bank.
To counter Nasser's greenness, BHP Billiton has boosted its lobbying power, hiring Kevin Rudd's former chief of staff David Epstein to oversee its liaisons with government. Before joining BHP Billiton late last year Epstein held an equivalent role at Qantas, which is arguably the nation's most politically astute company.