So they said to get 2 meters back “for safety”. Imagine the real thing.
A toro de fuego (“fire bull”) or toro embolado (“bull in balls”) is festive activity in which a bull that has balls of flammable material attached to its horns, which are lighted, is set free in the streets at night so that people dodge it to have fun. This activity is held in a number of Spanish towns during their local festivals. In recent years, animal rights campaigners have attempted to stop this from happening due to the cruelty to the animal. The live bull is now often substituted with a bull-resembling metal frame held by a runner and that is set alight.
The latest DEC Forest Ranger Activity Report just arrived, and there’s a distinct pattern to the incidents. Here are some highlights, full release after the jump:
Hiking with a group of friends and reportedly had had nothing to eat or drink all day.
60 year old male from Canada whose eye had been impaled by a tree branch.
Seizure from potential dehydration
Fishing buddies “abandon” friend
“pale and dizzy” – reportedly had been drinking water but had not eaten all day.
The rich diversity of natural life in the Adirondacks never ceases to fascinate me. Dr. Janet Mihuc at Paul Smiths College is leading an effort to inventory the Giant Silkmoths of the Adirondacks. She’s hoping that volunteer citizen-scientists will help by submitting sightings. Sightings will become part of the Adirondack All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) database and will be used to construct occurrence maps for each silkmoth species. It’s thought that the numbers of these moths are on the decline and this data help establish a baseline for future studies.
Every organization with a stake in state budget negotiations is doing the same with mixed results. You could say that I’m one of those “mixed results”. And like most things in life, there are two sides of the coin.
Paterson tossed a grenade into the assembly and senate chambers and waited for someone to dive on it. Of course there probably isn’t one upstanding human being in the legislature, so they did the only thing they could, they tossed the EPF on it to save themselves.
The Adirondacks are the paradise of the stagecoach driver. A peculiar genius is this Adirondack driver, as a rule. He does not at all suggest the immortal older Weller. If ever there was a distinctly American type, it is he ; but he belongs to his coach as much as Sandy in the old song belonged to his mill. He is essentially a product of the region. There is nothing conventional either in his speech or his appearance. The only concession he is known to make to the generally accepted social decalogue is in the matter of smoking. An Adirondack stage-driver smokes continually, but he never appears on the roof of his coach with a pipe in his mouth ; that would be beneath his dignity. He smokes cigars, and he smokes them from the time he gets up in the morning until he goes to bed at night. In all other respects he has contempt for the dictates of fashion. His topboots and big straw hat are picturesque, but they do not convey any impression that their owner is oppressed with ideas of order ; in fact, they look hot and uncomfortable. Moreover, he drives in his shirt-sleeves, — a proceeding which would have horrified the older generation of English mail-coachmen… (Link)
"Recreator is the story of three teenage hikers who discover an abandoned laboratory in the woods and accidentally trigger a deadly experiment that creates their duplicates – clones who are stronger, faster, smarter, and plot to kill the teenagers and assume their identities."
I thought she was a US Citizen? "Nelson crosses the border several times a month to visit relatives, friends and her family's second home, using her Canadian passport to leave the country and her U.S. passport to get back in."
"Images of the fires that are engulfing the surrounding forests of the Wemotaci reserve, 100km north of La Tuque in Northern Quebec, on Saturday, May 29, 2010."
"Last night there was the most wonderful sunset at nine o'clock. The sky was all the beautiful shades of pink; then the dark mountains and then the reflection in the water."
"The increase in occupancy tax is a windfall for the county marketing agency ROOST, as 95 percent of the tax on hotel rooms goes directly to the organization for operational costs."
"Each of those Essex County communities has its own unique set of community goals, needs, concerns and tourism opportunities." - Marketing by Committee....wheeeee!
"We provide our Twitter followers with trendy and appealing topics to engage their interest in New York and excite them to travel throughout our 11 vacation regions."
An Adirondack stage-driver smokes continually, but he never appears on the roof of his coach with a pipe in his mouth ; that would be beneath his dignity. He smokes cigars, and he smokes them from the time he gets up in the morning until he goes to bed at night. In all other respects he has contempt for the dictates of fashion. His topboots and big straw hat are picturesque, but they do not convey any impression that their owner is oppressed with ideas of order ; in fact, they look hot and uncomfortable. Moreover, he drives in his shirt-sleeves, — a proceeding which would have horrified the older generation of English mail-coachmen… (
