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[Mike Rotonda] noted that the fire is currently posing a serious threat to the resort community of Wrightwood. \"We are doing our best to protect lives and property,\" he said. \"We will be dropping approximately 2000 gallons of either retardant or water, per mission, depending on the needs of the Blue Cut Fire Air Attack.\" \"When we first got there, the Soberanes fire had just started,\" [Robin Rogers] noted. \"We now have a Bell 212 and two Eurocopter AStars working on the fire. Mostly, the helicopters are doing water drops, but the two AStars are also flying helicopter coordinator missions, an air traffic control function, directing other helicopters where to go to drop the water.\" \"This year, we are seeing an increasing amount of property destruction in California, particularly as a result of the state's ongoing drought, and a growing number of people residing in wildland-urban interface zones,\" said George Hill, Executive Director of the American Helicopter Services and Aerial Firefighting Association (AHSAFA). \"These companies, which are all privately owned and operated, have brought an enormous amount of resources to bear in one of the world's most fire-prone areas, and have deployed them with a tremendous degree of dedication.\"

\"We have nothing on contract currently, but we could likely make aircraft available if needed,\" explained Dan Sweet, Columbia Helicopters' Public Relations Manager. \"Keith Saylor, our Fire Operations Manager, is monitoring the situation in California and is communicating with officials of both CALFIRE and the USFS, making them aware of our aircraft readiness.\" \"California may be leading a trend away from seasonal to year-round periods of wildland fire danger,\" said Tom Eversole, Executive Director of the American Helicopter Services And Aerial Firefighting Association (AHSAFA) in Washington. \"Rogers Helicopters and Columbia Helicopters are fine examples of the capability of the privately operated aerial firefighting companies to adjust to what is becoming the new reality with wildland fire risks, thanks in part to global climate change.\"

\"This is the first year that Neptune Aviation's entire tanker fleet has been deployed at any given time, under USFS or State exclusive use contracts, throughout the Western US,\" [Dan Snyder] noted. \"That includes all six of our P2Vs, and all six of our BAe 146s--one of which is under a Cal-Fire contract.\" According to [Robin Rogers], the fire situation in California this year has been sporadic.\" We've seen fires that break out, last about 10 days, and then we have 10 days to two weeks without anything serious, before they flare up again,\" he said. \"What we've been spared, so far, are fires caused by dry lightning, but if we start seeing dry lightning within the next 45 to 60 days, that will be a tipping point.\" \"The privately operated aerial firefighters have been an essential tool for initial attack and containment of wildland fires, and the two major ones going on in California right now are another illustration,\" said George Hill, Executive Director of the American Helicopter Services And Aerial Firefighting Association (AHSAFA). \"The companies flying on those fires have once again proven their readiness for immediate deployment, even at the initial attack level, and throughout the containment process.\"

This is a very important discovery, because cellulose and lignin have a wide variety of uses,\" says [Robin Rogers]. \"Cellulose can be used to make products such as paper, biofuels, cotton and linen, as well as many other commodity materials and chemicals. Lignin can be used to create performance additives for various applications, such as strengthening cars and airplanes with a fraction of the weight of conventional reinforcement materials.

An account of homicide committed at the College of Nursing, University of Arizona in which three professors of nursing were shot and killed. The shooter, a nursing student and a divorced Gulf War veteran and father of two, had also killed himself. He had failed two courses and faced expulsion. The author, who is writing a doctoral dissertation on bereavement following a loved one's homicide, found herself living herdissertation and learning first hand what people in her study had told her. Relates her knowledge of the victims and describes her reactions to the two she knew as friends and the one she did not know personally. Provides an account of the killer and describes her reactions, andthose of others towards him. Relates the reactions of the survivors and the way they reacted to the memorial service where a native American healer blessed the place with burning sage.

SHE WASN'T a blushing bride, but Robin Rogers' canceled wedding reception raised $10,000 for the hungry instead. The Queens College professor turned her called-off nuptial get-together into a fund-raiser and hosted a party for at least 45 people, which raised much-needed funds for a Brooklyn church yesterday. \"I feel great,\" said Rogers. \"When something doesn't work out, it's sad, but I'm really glad we got something good out of it.\"

\"The world was melting down financially. There were a lot of changes going on and a lot of challenges, obstacles, and we were at war in a sense,\" [Shannon Leto] said. \"It doesn't have to be a war, literally at war with tanks and grenades or anything like that. And it doesn't have to be just us fighting our record label. I think when you're evolving and changing and growing, and taking risks, you're always going to be at war with your habitual self, or your self that just wants to settle and be comfortable.\" - Blues artist Robin Rogers has been sent home for hospice care after being diagnosed with an untreatable cancerous tumor on her liver. She is not a candidate for a liver transplant. A fund has been established to help pay for Rogers' medical expenses. Checks (made out to Rogers' husband, Tony Rogers) can be sent to Robin Rogers, c/o Piedmont Talent Agency, P.O. Box 680006, Charlotte, N.C. 28216. Rogers recently finished recording her new CD, \"Back In The Fire\". - Also releasing new CDs on Sept. 28 are the Upside Down (\"The Town With Bad Wiring\"), The Sleeping (\"The Big Deep\") and Combichrist (\"Making Monsters\").

  Calling them strange falls short of the mark, too, especially since at least part of the remarkable impact of such hybrid beings as \"Goat Girl,\" \"Wolf Woman\" and \"Koala Boy\" stems from the Chesapeake couple's knack for giving them life by tempering the outlandish with the familiar. \"So it's pretty exciting to see that we've finally put her head on, that we've got her hands to put on and that we're finally going to be able to see her.\" Photos courtesy of [Julia Rogers] and [Robin Rogers]; Julia and Robin Rogers' latest sculpture features a mother and her origami rabbit young.; \"Mechanical Heart,\" left, and \"Koala Boy\" are some of about 30 works on view at the Suffolk Art Gallery in \"Instinctual Insight,\" an exhibit of the Rogers' glass work.

  \"We're trying to develop things that are totally different than what the industry is based on,\" [Robin Rogers] said. \"It's not going to work for every (drug), but, goodness, if it works for just one, you can imagine the commercial success.\" \"Our contention is pure liquid salt has unique therapeutic effects that a solution of a crystalline salt doesn't,\" Rogers said. \"There are huge advantages.\" \"Anytime you come up with something that is so opposite from the normal practice, they are not going to want to think about it,\" Rogers said. \"We are going to have to teach people why they are interesting.\"

  The story is the classic good verses evil.