The reporting reminded me of the slow chase of O.J. Simpson down the freeway or that of Weather Channel reporters standing in waist deep water in the wind and rain of a hurricane saying its not here yet, but just wait. Stupid speculation statements, lack of understanding and callus - thank God its not my house - attitude make reporters appear as nothing more than ambulance chasers with a desk job.
On television news channel 13, I heard a news desk anchor woman say something to effect that come Monday morning there would be many people in the Yorba Linda area filing law suits against the fire departments and the city because the fire was not gotten to quick enough. I'd like to see her out in the hills in the heat, wind and flames do a better job. She also said that the people with the bigger homes pay the "lions share" of the property taxes in the area and that they should expect better protection - while on the screen they were showing mobile homes burning and then describing the inhabitants as if they were just hapless cattle in the way of the fire fighters on the way to the bigger homes in the hills.
Another scene had a channel 13 reporter standing in a street with a camera pointed at rather large home which was on fire as the same desk reporter commented: Look at this home burn and not a firefighter in sight. ...and as the camera panned away you could see fire fighters struggling to get their fire truck around a news van parked in the MIDDLE OF THE ROAD.
...and then this comment in the LA Times this morning.
"Montecito is home to the billionaire TV show host and media mogul Oprah Winfrey...." "Ms Winfrey, who was in Chicago when the fires struck, said she had made emergency plans to check her dogs into a nearby Four Seasons hotel if the flames had threatened her estate."
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Frankly who gives a shit about Oprahs dogs....600 mobile homes burned to the ground - why doesn't Oprah put these people in the Four Seasons?
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To check on California - by County, by Proposition this is a link to the LA Times which you will find very helpful.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/politi
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My cheerished friend and second "father" has died.
I hadn't seen the news, someone just contacted me.
Frank Capra Jr. dead at 73
Jonathan Capra had a hard time deciding what his father's greatest legacy might be. Frank Capra Jr. worked tirelessly to boost North Carolina's film incentives. Through his well-known open-door policy, he touched the lives of hundreds of local aspiring filmmakers he mentored and taught. And from the time he picked up a Southern lifestyles magazine in 1983 with a picture of Orton Plantation on the cover, he forged and championed the local film industry in Wilmington. Finally, Jonathan Capra said, "He had a big passion for keeping jobs here and not letting them go somewhere else."
Frank Capra Jr., the president of EUE/Screen Gems Studios, the largest film studio on the East Coast, died at 7:50 p.m. Wednesday at Hannaman University Hospital in Philadelphia after a long fight with prostate cancer, according to a family statement issued Thursday. He was 73.
During the years he worked at the Wilmington studios, Capra helped secure such feature films as Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Domestic Disturbance, as well as the television series Dawson's Creek and, more recently, One Tree Hill.
"He had a smile that lit up a room every time you saw him," said Bill Vassar, executive vice president of EUE/Screen Gems Studios and the family's spokesman. "He was well known for his generous spirit. His dedicated service to the community benefited the greater Wilmington area as well as the film industry."
Capra is survived by his wife, Debra Capra, and daughter, Christina, both of Santa Barbara, Calif.; two sons, Frank Capra III of Los Angeles and Jonathan Capra of Wilmington; a granddaughter, Madalyn of Wilmington; and two siblings, Lucille Capra of Traverse City, Mich., and Tom Capra of Palm Desert, Calif.
Instead of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to:
Frank Capra Jr. Film Studies Scholarship Fund
c/o Marla Rice Evans
University of North Carolina at Wilmington
601 S. College Street
Wilmington, North Carolina 28403
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