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The three raging wildfires in California have killed 44 people since it started last week, a record number of deaths from a wildfire in the US state, officials said.Of the 44 people killed, 42 died in Northern California’s Camp Fire, while two others were killed in the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, Butte county Sheriff Kory L. Honea told the media on Monday night.Honea said more than 200 people remain missing in and around the wooded town of Paradise in northern California, which sits in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada and was popular with retirees, The New York Times reported.The Camp Fire which broke out in Paradise on the morning of november 8, has already burned about 117,000 acres, destroyed 6,453 homes, and was only about 30 per cent contained.“My sincere hope is that I don’t have to come here each night and report a higher and higher number,” Sheriff Honea said.Camp Fire, which continues to rage in the hills and ravines east of the city of Chico, is also the most destructive fire in California history, with more than 7,100 structures destroyed, most of them homes.Meanwhile, an estimated 435 structures have been destroyed in the Woolsey Fire west of Los Angeles, up from the 177 figure provided on Sunday night.Another 57,000 structures were believed to be under threat.The blaze, which is 30 per cent contained and has charred more than 90,000 acres in communities like Malibu and Thousand Oaks.The third blaze known as the Hill Fire has ripped through 4,500 acres in Ventura county. It was 85 per cent contained as of Monday, according to Cal Fire.President Donald Trump on Monday evening said on that he had approved a request to declare the fires in California a major disaster, making people affected eligible for various types of federal government support.According to the National Weather Service, weather conditions were forecast to worsen in Southern California, where the Woolsey and Hill Fires are raging, The New York Times reported.Much of that region will face critical fire weather conditions through Tuesday afternoon, with low relative humidity, no rain and a high-wind warning in effect for the mountains. it added.The strong winds propelled a new brush fire in Simi Valley on Monday morning, which quickly spread to cover about 105 acres before firefighters brought in under control.IANS : 13th. Nov,18

THREE RAGING WILDFIRES IN CALFORNIA HAVE KILLED 44 PEOPLE SINCE IT STARTED LAST WEEK : The three raging wildfires in California have killed 44 people since it started last week, a record number of deaths from a wildfire in the US state, officials said.Of the 44 people killed, 42 died in Northern California’s Camp Fire, while two others were killed in the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, Butte county Sheriff Kory L.

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December 17th, 2016 // Day 352 of 366

Subject: Austin Wayne King

Age: 33 Years Old

Born: Modest CA // Raised in Manteca, Riverbank, and Chico CA

Currently: Chico CA

Occupation: Music Teacher 

“You mention sheet music, there’s a really cool thing where I was at school and a teacher there did where he wrote up a bunch of eighth notes in a row, and then he did it again, and he’s like, ‘what’s the difference?’ The point he was getting at was, maybe more to drummers, but to anyone is, ‘the space in between the notes is what’s different and how you play it is going to be different how I play it.’ and how you interpret those notes that are, you wrote the notes, they’re the same thing; they’re eighth notes, that’s all they are, that’s cut and dry, [and] there’s no arguing. But you can play it a million different ways, and that’s just with the rhythm, and then you can apply a pitch, and intonation, and all those little aspects. And that’s where the uniqueness of each performer or each ensemble kind of comes out, and it can be really powerful in that way, and the interpretation of those notes, and what each listener gets; a song that may hit you really powerfully may hit me really powerfully but it might be for totally different reasons. I think that it validates some of our emotions, or challenges some of our emotions, but the written part is nice to have a starting place but then I think the spirituality part comes from how it’s performed, and how it’s received, and the emotional states of people doing that.” 

“You have to remind yourself, when we talked about how I love history and I think that kids should just love history, and I love music and so you go into it and be like, ‘well, kids should love music and makes you wanna practice.’ and you realize that’s always the case. And every kid is different, and some kids you’re like, ‘why aren’t you practicing?’ and they’re like, ‘well, I sleep in the same room as grandma so I don’t have a place to practice.’ And then you realize like, ‘wait a second.’ we have to care of the basic stuff first. A lot of it’s like, ‘how are we gonna make these people good people?’ and it’s a lot of like, ‘now we need to be on time because we’re apart of a team.’ or we need to prepared with our stuff; we need to have our stuff. The challenges are so seldom about learning and performing the music really well, but organizing this group of different kids with different experiences to work together, and to express what they’re doing. And then talking about other things like ‘how do you practice something?’ or ‘how do you get better at something?’ and I apply it to music because it’s a music class but it works for if you’re into sports. A lot of my kids do music but they’re really into rugby or into football and I go, ‘well, how do you get better at football or rugby?’ it’s the same way essentially; you break things, and you practice them, and you work hard at them. And I tell the kids all the time, like, ‘I really want us to be good [and] I want us to be a great ensemble.’ but I don’t care as long as people are like, ‘oh, they cleaned up after themselves and they did the right things in between performances.’ and that’s way more important, this is what I want too like that’s what we’re working towards content-wise, but more importantly let’s be good people, and most of kids I work with are really good people; they don’t need that much work with that. But trying to reinforce that idea of who you are and how you act on stage is a reflection of what we’re trying to do as humans.” 

“I think we all tend to take our normal day to day life for granted. But I don’t know if I try to make a point but once in a while I find myself thinking like, ‘man, things are, things are real good.’ And when things are bad, and things have been rough, you’re still like, ‘I’ve got it good and I’ve got it a lot better then a lot of people have it.’ and you have to remind yourself to be thankful. And jobs can be stressful or things like that but you’ve just got to be like, ‘Well, I have got a great wife, and a great kid, and a great family, and a lot of friends who are very supportive.’ and that’s awesome. You should remind yourself about the good things you have otherwise you kind of go through, and it can be easy to be bogged down in all the things you have to do, and all the work you’ve got, and certainly that happens to be me too but it’s nice to reflect that, ‘oh yeah, I’ve got a good life’.”

“I think I’ll go in phases for a couple of months where I’ll be really focused on what I’m practicing, and I’m practicing and writing down everything, and I don’t ever have to be insistent on my own time; it comes and I never really feel like I’ve never had enough of it or get enough. And there are times where I’m just like, ‘I’m going to veg out.’ because I just want to sit down and not do the getting better at things, and going through those phases. But I don’t ever feel like I don’t get enough time, I’m never like, ‘I need some time to go sit at the drums’. Like I don’t have to insist on that, I’ll wait until everything that has to be done gets done, and I’ll be like, ‘I’m going to play some drums.’ and it’s never a problem.” 

Got in my second Rugs person this week with Austin King meeting up for some chill times, coffee drink, and good talks. I’m always amazed about the amount of patience and hustle a band teacher must have when it comes to organizing and forming bands out of kids and getting results with little to no resources. Over the years I’ve gotten to know Austin a little better just by seeing him play around in his band the Rugs and when he comes into the Music Connection to get supplies and what I’ve gathered is that he’s a super positive person trying to do right by his community, his family, and his friends with is job with school bands, being in a cool band, and just treating people well. He’s definitely one of those people that everyone only has good things to say and I’m glad that he saw my project as something that he wanted to participate in. 

Thanks Austin!