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  Burning Man: What is Burning Man?: FAQ
Burning Man is an annual experiment in temporary community dedicated to radical self-expression and radical self-reliance.
Burning Man is an experiment in temporary community, and one that is radically all-inclusive.
Burn barrels shall be secures and constructed in a way that the burning surface is at least 6 inches from the playa to prevent baking or scaring of the playa surface.
www.burningman.com /whatisburningman/about_burningman/faq_what_is.html   (4886 words)

  
  Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) - Oil Spill Burning Information
Burning oil spills produces a visible fl smoke plume that may be seen for many miles.
For this reason, in-situ burning is conducted only when the winds are blowing away from or at sufficient distance from population centers.
A Heli-torch is a device that is attached to a helicopter and aerial releases burning gelled fuel on the oil.
www.dep.state.fl.us /law/BER/InSituBurning.htm   (419 words)

  
 Amity Fire District - Backyard Burning
Burning associated with a dwelling is considered to be domestic burning, backyard burning or burning of yard debris, and is not part of the farming operation.
Field burning is limited to the burning of residue left from the harvest of a seed crop, usually grass.
Slash burning (burning debris from logging) is limited to burning on forest lands for forest management and is usually managed by the Oregon Department of Forestry.
www.amityfire.com /backyardburning.htm   (981 words)

  
 Miles & Marabee Barry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Miles was beside himself partially because of the carousel (although he didn't like the songs they played)...
Miles told his very first story ever tonight -- it was about an ATV that falls off the road onto the freeway and then it drives over a bump ("Kind-of pointy, as big as my middle finger") and then a garbage truck comes.
Miles figured out a way to shoot bubbles up out of a funnel that is plunged upside down in the water.
www.lucky-bean.com /miles   (1231 words)

  
 Miles
Nelson Appleton Miles, commander of the American forces that invaded and occupied Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War, was perhaps one of the most characteristic American military figures of all time.
Miles was promoted to full Brigadier General of Volunteers on May 12, 1864, for distinguished services in his last Civil War battles, Wilderness and Spottsylvania, during which he commanded a division.
Miles died from a heart attack in 1925 and his body was buried in the Arlington National Cemetary.
www.spanamwar.com /Miles.htm   (1405 words)

  
 The Payson Roundup: The 2006 Fire Season
With the aid of a fizzling weather front, firefighters were able to contain the February Fire burning east of Pine and north of Payson.
The February Fire, raging on the Tonto and Coconino forests six miles east of Pine, has grown to 1200 acres and has jumped the Highline Trail.
The February Fire, burning six miles east of Pine and 12 miles north of Payson, was more than 100 acres and growing at press time.
www.paysonroundup.com /section/2006_fire_season   (694 words)

  
 CD Baby: BURNING RIVER BAND: 1000 miles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
burning river band covers the spectrum of musical genres with their new album, 1000 miles.
The Burning River Band is an up-and-coming groove band based in the Rock-N-Roll Hall of Fame city of Cleveland, Ohio.
They are currently on the road in the Midwestern United States supporting their new album, “1000 Miles.” They play an eclectic blend of rock, bluegrass, funk, and country, all of which will get you dancing.
cdbaby.com /cd/burningriver   (561 words)

  
 IDEM - Media
Open burning is the burning of any materials that produce air contaminants that are directly emitted into the air, without first passing through a stack or chimney from an enclosed chamber.
Burning household trash and outdoor waste, such as plastics and building materials, is illegal.
Burn materials in a noncombustible and ventilated container, such as a metal drum with enclosed sides and bottom.
www.in.gov /idem/who/media/factsheets/openburning.html   (570 words)

  
 Idaho Field Burning: Earthjustice: Environmental Law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Local firefighters are kept on call during field burns, and on at lease six occasions this past summer, firefighters were called in to douse fires that had gotten out of control and moved into nearby trees and fields.
While field burning proponents sometimes argue that the field burns happen far from any homes or towns, as many of these pictures illustrate, smoke is certainly visible from nearby schools and hospitals.
This photo is of a field burn in Benewah County that spread to a nearby wheat field and required fire fighters to keep it under control.
www.earthjustice.org /library/background/idaho-field-burning.html   (1094 words)

  
 Seasonal Burning
Open burning is allowed in Hamilton County between October 1 and April 30 with the appropriate permits.
Burning restrictions are proven methods of controlling air quality and they encourage residents and companies to seek out alternatives to burning, like chipping, composting and recycling.
Burning permits cannot be issued until the permit application has been reviewed by Bureau personnel and an on-site inspection is made by the Fire Marshall, where appropriate, and Air Pollution Control personnel at the convenience of such inspectors.
www.apcb.org /Open_Burning/home.aspx   (759 words)

  
 The Burning Question
Adding more miles to your week is probably the easiest and most obvious way to burn more calories.
A good way to start burning more calories is to add one mile (or five to 10 minutes) to each of your daily runs for three weeks; then back off for a recovery week.
If you run more than 40 miles per week, or if you run faster than an eight-minute mile, you can add two miles at a time to your long run.
www.runnersworld.com /article/0,7120,sssssss6-242-304--10586-1-1X2-3,00.html   (722 words)

  
 Frequent flier miles and airline bankruptcies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The other alternatives for burning miles include converting miles to points and then back to miles with a more financially sound carrier.
The points can be converted back into miles with the program's 24 other partner airlines, but at a 2-to-1 ratio so that 10,000 Club Reward points becomes 5,000 miles.
When you can't burn the miles with the original carrier, he says it makes more sense to convert to the points in any loyalty program that allows it and get the full value of the points, if not the miles.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/advice/20030430a2.asp   (832 words)

  
 The Fire This Time : Rolling Stone
For a few hours, it was unclear whether Burning Man -- which in ten years has exploded from a small-scale gathering of Bay Area artists and fringe dwellers into an annual week-long ritual 26,000 strong -- could survive the elements, as well as the chaotic impact of its own success.
Black Rock City, seven square miles of the 400-square-mile Black Rock Desert 100 miles northeast of Reno, Nevada, is now an institution requiring weeks of construction before the community arrives in force.
Once a gathering of naked freaks burning shit down and tripping in the desert, Burning Man is now an enormous gathering of dot-com CEOs and cutting-edge artists building a high-tech but incredibly temporary fantasia in the desert -- while getting naked, burning shit down and tripping.
www.rollingstone.com /news/story/11364562/the_fire_this_time?source=music_news_rssfeed   (757 words)

  
 The Burning Of Washington (1814 )
There, some fifty miles from Washington, the troops were landed without a sign of opposition, the there were several detachments of Maryland militia, under State orders, at points not far distant.
Enervated as the troops had been by the close confinement of the voyage, and wilting under the burning sun of that season, it was with difficulty, at first, that they staggered along.
Several private houses were burned, and some private warehouses broken open and plundered; but, in general, private property was respected, the plundering being less on the part of the British soldiers than of the low inhabitants, fl and white, who took advantage of the terror and confusion to help themselves.
www.multied.com /documents/BurningWash.html   (1553 words)

  
 Fire in Chiricahua Mts. is a mile from summer camp | www.azstarnet.com ®
A lightning-sparked wildfire in the Chiricahua Mountains has spread to 350 acres and is burning about a mile from a Methodist summer camp.
● The J Canyon Fire is burning 15 miles northeast of Wickenburg in steep, rugged terrain.
It is burning 14 miles north of Apache Junction in Tonto National Forest.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/85271   (416 words)

  
 Article - Money - Frequent-flier miles tempt airlines
Frequent-flier mile liability wouldn't cause a bankruptcy, but it might be one factor that increases the company's costs of borrowing or makes its financial position more precarious, Watkins said.
Sorensen believes the problem in redeeming miles "has to be addressed for the good of the industry; otherwise, Congress will step into the situation and will regulate it, and, boy, I don't think the airlines want that."
They can sell miles to credit card issuers for about a penny a mile, or $250 for each ticket that is "purchased" with 25,000 miles.
www.ocregister.com /ocregister/money/article_1312450.php   (1028 words)

  
 Airline Programs: How Your Frequent Flier Miles Can Disappear - New York Times
Starting Jan. 31, US Airways Dividend Miles accounts will be closed, and all miles forfeited, if there has been no activity, either earning or burning miles, within 18 consecutive months.
Delta is cutting the life span of frequent flier miles down to two years from three and has instituted a retroactive deadline.
And the introduction of the shorter life spans, he said, could very well trigger a change in what has been a common rule of major carriers: that miles do not expire as long as there is some kind of account activity every three years.
www.nytimes.com /2006/10/22/travel/22pracmiles.html?ex=1319169600&en=ec25bfc687ffbe27&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss   (1220 words)

  
 California fires force evacuations - U.S. Life - MSNBC.com
Burning about 60 miles north of Yellowstone National Park, the fire grew to 40,000 acres, or 62 square miles by Wednesday morning, officials said.
The lightning-caused fire was estimated at 147,095 acres, nearly 230 square miles, an area roughly the size of Chicago.
By late Tuesday, the lightning-caused fire was estimated at 147,095 acres, or nearly 230 square miles, between Winthrop and Conconully in the Okanogan and Wenatchee national forests.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/14586624   (783 words)

  
 Update: Displaced residents allowed to return to Punkin Center | www.azstarnet.com ®
The blaze had spread up to a rate of a mile per hour earlier in the week, but the fire has calmed down because of increased humidity, Taylor said.
It was burning grass and brush on rugged terrain.
BAGDAD — A wildfire burning 10 miles east of here grew to 22,000 acres Thursday and was 20 percent contained.
www.azstarnet.com /sn/printDS/85308   (839 words)

  
 Miles of Fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Miles of Fire/The Burning Miles (Огненные вёрсты, Ognennye Versty, 1957), is an early Red Western.
One time Mosfilm actor, Samson Samsonov had a versatile directorial career coming to the Burning miles fresh from an adaptation of Chekhov's The Grasshopper that won two prizes as Venice Film Festival.
The Burning Miles is obviously a film that is much influenced by the railway Western films like John Ford's classic Stagecoach, because of the diverse set of characters thrown together in desperate circumstances.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Miles_of_Fire   (347 words)

  
 FrequentFlier.com - Strategies & Tactics
And since most miles are earned for airline flights, the choice of FFP comes down to the choice of airline which best meets your travel needs.
Miles may be donated in increments of 5,000.
For donations of 15,000 miles or more, member may specify the organization to which miles will be donated.
www.frequentflier.com /ffp-006.htm   (1007 words)

  
 3 options for shaky frequent-flier miles - MSN Money
Estimating that the air miles currently in circulation are worth $500 billion, The Economist magazine labeled frequent-flier miles as the second biggest "currency" after the dollar.
Even though there are brokers willing to sell award tickets for you (they can't do anything at all with miles sitting in your account), if someone else is caught with your award ticket, it will be confiscated and your frequent-flier account permanently frozen.
However, many people can't redeem the miles from the carriers as fast as they can earn them, says Petersen, who is CEO of a number of travel-related businesses besides AirGuard, including Inside Flyer magazine.
moneycentral.msn.com /content/SavingandDebt/P47545.asp   (1533 words)

  
 DenverPost.com - Miles, but not smiles
In frequent flier programs, airlines reward their own passengers with frequent-flier miles while also selling the miles to businesses such as banks, which use them as rewards for their credit-card customers.
The liability of accumulated miles is more of a problem for "mature" airlines like United and American, which have 25-year-old frequent-flier programs.
United is offering short-haul awards for 15,000 miles through December this year, for flights 700 miles or less.
www.denverpost.com /ci_4493941?source=rss   (1372 words)

  
 Are others burning miles in response to UA's troubles? - FlyerTalk Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
I'm strongly considering burning 200K (most of my miles) to fly to HKG in first class in the week after Thanksgiving, but I'm worried that the quality on the ground and on board may go down before then...
I'm betting my sizable number of miles that UA will pull out of this, or in worst case will be taken over with their elite flyers being one of their best assets.
I don't think you should rush out and burn miles - like the sky is falling in or anything - but I do think that using the miles to take some vacations is better placed now than it has been.
www.flyertalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=100500   (1342 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Weather front expected to fuel western wildfire growth   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The fire is actively burning 10 miles southwest of Stanley in central Idaho and was 40% contained after torching more than six square miles.
_ Crews on the Trail Creek fire 22 miles north of Stanley spent Monday removing trees that could spread fire to the Diamond D Ranch and the Loon Creek Guard Station, which are threatened by the southern flank of the blaze.
_ A historic fire lookout 10 miles north of Nordman in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest was prepared to withstand the approaching flames of the Hughes 32 Complex fire while 261 personnel were assigned to the Ulm Peak fire burning on the Panhandle forest along the Idaho-Montana border.
www.usatoday.com /weather/storms/2006-08-29-western-wildfires_x.htm   (826 words)

  
 Rafting - 2003
Boles Meadow fire -- Twenty-five miles northeast of Missoula, this almost 3,750-acre fire used to be park of a complex combined with the Mineral/Primm fire.
Cooney Ridge complex -- Twenty miles southeast of Missoula in the Bitterroot Valley, burning in the Sapphire Mountains.
Cathedral Peak -- 1,000 acre fire burning 10 miles south of Nye in steep heavily timbered area in the Beartooth-Absoroka Wilderness area.
www.stickney.cc /rafting.htm   (1301 words)

  
 KOLO | Wildfire Update: Winters, Basco, Taylor Fires   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Wildfires currently burning in Northern Nevada charred areas of land larger than the size of New York City, including its five boroughs.
The Winters Fire is burning about 50 miles northeast of Winnemucca and about five miles northwest of Midas, and it has burned an amazing 370 square miles...and continues to threaten the I.L. Ranch.
Meanwhile, the Basco Fire is burning 18 miles northwest of Elko and is 90 percent contained.
www.kolotv.com /home/headlines/3451676.html   (523 words)

  
 KKTV | Home
Fire crews are working to build containment lines around a wildfire burning on about 1,300 acres near Rifle.
Fire officials hope to contain a 679 acre wildfire burning 15 miles southeast of Cortez by Monday.
Despite the burn bans and other restrictions the number of acres destroyed by wildfire this year keeps rising.
www.kktv.com /firewatch   (309 words)

  
 Danger Drives Burning Man: On the Road
Perhaps it's the proximity to Black Rock or a certain level of comfort with the desert conditions at Burning Man. I brought the Silver Seed to a stop at a house in Mesa, where an all-day (and most of the night) gathering was planned.
Out on the backyard patio, food and drink were in abundance, videos of Burning Man were playing on a large screen, and a table loaded with art supplies and various materials encouraged creative participation.
The highlight of the evening was the burning of a life-size wicker reindeer.
roadtrip.burningman.com /content/journal/05.23.01.1/05.23.01.1.html   (292 words)

  
 Forest fire set by diary burning
She is in her 40s and has been in the Stehekin area as a transient resident for the past year, living and working in campgrounds, he said.
She told authorities that she put dirt and water on it after it was burned, but believes that it must not have been completely out, he said.
Harum said if fire investigators conclude she started the fire July 26, she could face gross misdemeanor charges for illegal burning and be asked to pay the cost of suppression, now in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/279727_wildfires02.html?source=rss   (644 words)

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