http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/usb000ahy0#shakemap

LAKE GEORGE - A small fire exploded across more than 100 acres in less than a hour and continued to grow Sunday afternoon near 11 mile reservoir.

Hundreds of campers, including scores of Boy Scouts, have been evacuated from the area around the blaze, which is burning in Eleven Mile Canyon, about three miles south of the town of Lake George. Scores of firefighters have rushed in, with trucks, helicopters and air tankers. Facing stiff winds, firefighters were trying to get ahead of the blaze, named the Springer Fire, but were having to let some areas burn. "If this fire is cranking, I'm not sending firefighters in there," expalined Forest Service spokesman Gregg Goodwin.

The fire was being pushed north and east by stiff winds that exceeded 20 mph at times Sunday. Goodwin said high temperatures and low humidity in the high country were hampering efforts to quell the blaze, which started sometime after noon.

A team including more than 40 firefighters, one single engine air tanker, three fire engines and two helicopters have responded, officials said. One helicopter is dropping buckets of water and firefighters are rappelling from the second, he said.

The fire danger is high today because of high temperatures and 20 mph winds. The National Weather Service has issued a "Red Flag" warning for most of the high country.

http://www.gazette.com/articles/fire-140405-fighters-lighting.html

French electoral law mandates that parties must present an equal number of male and female candidates. If not, they are fined through reduction of their public funding. The UMP loses a high proportion of its funding through fines; most other parties respect parity in numbers of candidates, but not in results : i.e. women are typically cannon fodder in unwinnable districts.

Only two parties respect partity in terms of results.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

This is the first time there have been districts for French citizens living abroad.
Of 11 districts, only three elected right wingers : Switzerland, southern/eastern Africa, and Asia.

EELV won Latin America.

_{It is rightly acknowledged that people of faith have no monopoly of virtue - Queen Elizabeth II}

For county commissioner, both candidates are females, the incumbent is involved in a scandal where they pushed through a term limit bill with misleading verbiage that increased the term limits, while the other is claiming to be just like the first, except more conservative on every issue.

For university board of regents, both candidates are males,  one is an only half-way retarded physician, while the other has claimed to have a master's degree (thus qualifying him to run the state's biggest and most prestigious PhD-granting university???), but it turns out he doesn't--and when confronted about it said that he didn't want to waste all that time with "academic BS that nobody cares about." Even the Republican party bigwigs are having a hard time swallowing that...

So at least in my neighborhood, the idiocy is not related to gender, we are equal-opportunity dopes.