(Akiit.com) I for one will have to find more info on the duck homes as many of my friends have already did their research… Well the sun seems to have finally arrive…. I can’t wait until it’s officially summer… Need to hit the beach this year…. Enjoy the weather while allowing the sun to bake my skin…. I have the pale face look… Skin looks terrible to be honest… I do need to fix up the yard… At this time it’s plain looking… Maybe even plant some new flowers… Well sadly will have to wait another month for the Q10… Yes blackberry could do better… Will not waste my money on the full screen Z10…

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(Akiit.com) So glad the weekend has arrived… Shall hit the golf course with a few friends… Been a while since I used my clubs and I’m looking forward to completing 18 holes of golf…. With that nice to see Tigers Woods back to his old self… Already this great golfer has recorded four wins… Still not a major in a few years but that will happen soon… Well the alcohol treatment san diego I have helped people clean up.. So nice to see one get their life together… Well I do wonder if Mr. Woods can win a total of 10 events this year.. That would be something special.. Go down in the history books as many do believe he is already GOAT…

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(Akiit.com) A limousine taking nine women to a bachelorette party erupted in flames, killing five of the passengers, including the bride-to-be, authorities and the mother of one of the survivors said Sunday.

The limo caught fire at around 10 p.m. Saturday on one of the busiest bridges on San Francisco Bay, California Highway Patrol officer Art Montiel told The Associated Press.

Five of the women were trapped, but the four other women managed to get out after the vehicle came to a stop on the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, the patrol said.

Rosita Guardiano told the San Francisco Chronicle that the woman for whom the bachelorette party was being thrown was to be married next month. Guardiano said her daughter was one of the survivors.

Investigators haven’t determined what sparked the fire, but the patrol said the white stretch limo became engulfed in flames after smoke started coming out of the rear of the vehicle.

A photo taken by a witness and broadcast on KTVU-TV showed flames shooting from the back of the 1999 Lincoln Town Car.

Aerial video shot after the incident showed about one-third of the back half of the limousine had been scorched by the fire. Its taillights and bumper were gone and it appeared to be resting on its rims, but the remainder of the vehicle didn’t appear to be damaged.

The driver of the limo – 46-year-old Orville Brown of San Jose – was the only person to escape unhurt.

It wasn’t clear how he managed to escape without injury. Investigators Sunday afternoon were still seeking witnesses, the CHP said.

“Four people got out, as far as what was going on inside, I don’t know,” CHP officer Jeremy Lofstrom said Sunday. CHP investigators Sunday afternoon were still seeking witnesses to the incident.

All five women were pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsies were being conducted, San Mateo County Supervising Deputy Coroner Michelle Rippy said.

The company that operated the limo was identified as Limo Stop, which offers service through limousines, vans and SUVS.

A telephone message left at the company seeking comment by The Associated Press wasn’t immediately returned. Attempts to reach the driver were also unsuccessful.
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(Akiit.com) In the beginning, Phillip Patterson decided to write out every word in the Bible.

On empty pages, he wrote of Adam, an ark, locusts, loaves, fishes and the resurrection in his neat, looping cursive. Four years of work begat more than 2,400 pages and left a multitude of pens in its wake. Now, as he copies the last words of the last book, Patterson sees all that he has created.

And it is good.

“I hadn’t counted on the fact that it would end up being beautiful,” Patterson said. “Or that it would be so exhilarating. And so long.”

Patterson, 63, might seem like an unlikely scribe for the King James version of the Bible. Tall and bald with a hearty laugh, the retired interior designer is neither monkish nor zealous. He goes to church but has never been particularly religious. Health issues — including AIDS and anemia — have sent him to the hospital and slowed the work. He relies on two canes and will lean on walls and furniture to get around his apartment near the Massachusetts border.

But he has always been curious.

One day in 2007, his longtime partner, Mohammad, mentioned that Islam has a tradition of writing out the Quran. Patterson replied that the Bible was too long. Mohammad said, well then, Patterson should do it.

“The next day I started researching pens and pencils and paper and never looked back,” he said.

Patterson began copying the first five books of the Bible, known as the Pentateuch, in 2007. Work on this “prototype” allowed him to figure out technique, layout and technical details like the type of paper (19-by-13-inch watercolor) and writing instruments (felt-tip pens). He tackled the complete King James Bible in 2009.

Patterson works at a wooden desk by his bed, near neatly shelved pages of his completed volumes. Fingers on his left hand track the words on a small hardcover Bible while he methodically writes with his right hand. Patterson pencils in ruled lines on the sheets to guide his writing and erases them when he is done, leaving black ink on creamy white pages.

The Bible’s exact word count depends on who is doing the tallying, but multiple sources put the King James version at around 788,000 words or more. Patterson used to work up to 14 hours a day on the project, though he averages around six to eight hours a day now that his stamina has ebbed. He usually works until he can’t stay awake.

“I go to bed and close my eyes and feel so incredibly serene,” he said.

There has been darkness and light along the way.

He especially enjoyed the Book of Ruth, which he interprets as people acting loyally and doing the right thing. But he disliked the plagues, killings and other violence scattered throughout the Bible. Although he respects Jesus for promoting peace and love, he finds the character portrayed in the Gospels too glib and condescending to his disciples.

More importantly, the countless hours of transcription has led him to conclude that the Bible is more sublime than just a bunch of stories from thousands of years ago.

“The begetting and the begatting and all of that, that’s really incidental,” he said. “These people are trying to understand where they fit into this world.”

In a way, Patterson is doing the same thing. There were times when he wondered whether he would ever live to finish the project. Now as it nears its end, he said, it has helped him become more patient, more confident, more loving and more open to differences.

“Every day as I write, I discover something new and it expands my mind more and more,” Patterson said. “Not so I can become more of a religious person, but so that I can become more of a whole person.”

That assessment is echoed by Laura Glazer, a photographer who has documented the project since its start. Glazer, who has become friends with Patterson over the course of some 4,000 pictures, said Patterson has become more introspective since she first started collaborating with him. But she notes that could also be related to the death of Patterson’s partner several years ago and the passage of time.
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(Akiit.com) A panel of three judges has decided that the vast majority of the $1 million reward offered in the manhunt for rogue ex-cop Christopher Dorner will go to a couple he tied up in their Southern California mountain cabin.

The Los Angeles Police Department posted a document on its website Tuesday detailing the payouts for the much-sought reward, and it said about $800,000 will go to James and Karen Reynolds.

The judges wrote that they awarded the money according to the “comparative value of the information provided and how directly it causally led to Dorner’s capture.”

Daniel McGowan, who found Dorner’s burning truck in the Big Bear area where he eventually was discovered, will get $150,000, and $50,000 will go to tow truck driver R.L. McDaniel, who reported spotting Dorner at a gas station earlier in the manhunt.

Dorner had vowed warfare on LAPD officers and their families for what he called an unfair firing. He killed four people, including two law enforcement officers, during his nearly one-week run from authorities that ended with his death on Feb. 12.

The reward, gathered through dozens of law enforcement and other organizations, was announced by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Police Chief Charlie Beck during Dorner’s rampage, but details on the payout were murky, leading to months of competing legal claims and controversy.

A dozen parties came forward claiming they provided the key tip that ultimately led Dorner to hole up in a vacant mountain cabin where he apparently took his own life after a shootout with deputies.

The manhunt was under way Feb. 7 when McDaniel spotted Dorner at a gas station in Corona. He was about to call police when he spotted an LAPD squad car and alerted the officers.

“As the officers interviewed Mr. McDaniel, Dorner’s vehicle turned back,” the judges wrote. “Mr. McDaniel positively identified the truck,” and officers gave chase immediately.

That chase led to two shootouts between Dorner and police that left an officer dead.

Dorner then escaped 50 miles northeast to Big Bear, but that wouldn’t be known until the next breakthrough in the investigation, the document said.

McGowan, who works for the Snow Summit ski resort in Big Bear Lake, called authorities Feb. 7 after he spotted a burning truck on the side of a rarely used, unpaved fire route. He called authorities, who discovered the truck belonged to Dorner.

That information initiated an intense, focused search for Dorner. Officers went door-to-door in the following days, but it wasn’t until Feb. 12 that they received their next fruitful tip.

Karen Reynolds called authorities to say Dorner had held her and her husband at gunpoint and tied them up before stealing their purple Nissan SUV to escape.

Karen Reynolds identified Dorner, gave the location of the cabin and the Nissan’s description. Less than half an hour later, he was spotted by Fish and Wildlife wardens and a chase ensued.
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