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Panel Urges Pay Cut, Furloughs for Washington County Supervisors

Give them credit for trying to cut the budget. Members of the Washington County Finance and Personnel Committee proposed cutting supervisors’ pay by 6 percent in addition to taking the equivalent of two furlough days. Read about it in the Post Star.

Unknown Filmmaker Gets $30m for Robot Movie

This is what’s great about the Internet. An unknown filmmaker from Uruguay has been given $30m by Hollywood studio bosses – to turn his $500 YouTube video of a giant robot invasion into a movie. Read about it and watch the clip here.

Ice Age Giants from our Backyard

Denton Publications reports that Mastodons roamed our area long ago. Learn about a great exhibit in Albany where 100’s of extinct local animals are detailed.

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No to Three Card Monte

With so many people visiting New York City and other urban areas over the holidays, I thought this video on the dangers of playing Three Card Monte on a street corner would be worthwhile. If you ever see these guys on a street corner, know that people in the “crowd” are part of the scam also. Here’s how it works.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSBzECxL1cU&feature=related

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New York’s Budget Crisis Worse

The NY Post reports that the Comptroller says the budget crisis is even worse than Gov. Paterson says it is.

Washington County Cuts Some / Adds Some

The Whitehall Times reports on some cuts and additions to the budget.

World’s Most Amazing Golf Courses

Check out this link to deckchair.com to see some really unique golf courses. Be sure to check out the pictures and video for the Legend Golf & Safari Resort (the second one down).

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Post Star Notices Adirondack Park Agency Craziness

There was an editorial in the Post Star about new proposed Adirondack Park Agency regulations regarding boat houses. Everyone is noticing how fast the APA is killing communities. Read the whole thing.

“The APA apparently has a lot of free time on its hands, now that half the land in the Adirondack Park is protected by statute and the other half is being abandoned faster than an underage drinking party during a police raid. Lacking a sufficient number of puppies to kick and left to its own gluttonous impulses, the agency has decided to extend its regulatory reach to telling lakeside property owners what they can do with the roofs of boathouses.”

Washington County Sales Tax Revenue Up This Month

Nick Reisman at the Wash Blog reports some good news and bad news.

Bridge Must Go

The Addison County Independent has a story about the need to demolish the Lake Champlain Bridge spanning Lake Champlain at Crown Point and Addison, VT.

No Deficit Deal So Far in Special Session

More of doing nothing, makes the deficit go up. Read the Associated Press article.

Vermont Catamounts Open Season at Loyola Friday

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEz2ozOzFqE

Cool Science Website Shows How Small Things Really Are

This is for anyone who loves science. Here is a cool website from the University of Utah that I stumbled upon which shows how small things really are at the microbiological level. Use the scroll bar to zoom in on the bottom.

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The Year in Video (You Didn’t See)

I make no bones about it, my videography skills are not the greatest. However, as you may have noticed, they’re getting better.

So here is a recap of a few scenes that I shot from the last year, that haven’t been seen so far.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKoQEerQaZk

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Our Top 10!


Even though our name was misspelled on the Giants media pass when I visited their training camp in Albany in August, the fact that we were given media credentials demonstrates how bloggers have gained status in reporting on the news in the last year alone.

Yesterday we celebrated one year of posts at the Huletts Current. So to recap the last year I thought I would link to the top 10 posts from our first year:

1. Doing it Mountain Dew – Huletts 1980’s
2. Interview with Adam Terry, Baltimore Raven
3. Center for Watershed Protection -Their Backyard
4. The Lost Radio Ad
5. Behind the Plays: NY Giants Training Camp
6. What Exactly is a Catamount?
7. Behind the Scenes of the Today Show
8.Two Great Guys Honored
9.The Mystery of the 1842 Marker
10. The Keough’s & Vice President Biden

Tomorrow, the celebration continues with some out-takes from the videos I shot this past year.

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Albany Highlighted in Angelina Jolie Trailer

The trailer for SALT, the Angelina Jolie thriller that was filmed in Albany this past year, was recently released. While it won’t be in theaters until July 23, 2010, you can definitely see parts of Albany in the preview. They were filming the jump from the overpass when we brought a friend to the Albany-Rensselaer train station this summer.

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40 Years of Big Bird

For those who may have missed this, here is Big Bird being interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Sesame Street turns 40 years old next week, so I thought I’d pass this along. Some fun with a big yellow friend on a Friday afternoon. (Video is in 2 parts.)

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=el9tfwU208I&feature=popt00us0a

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b48x_uv_l1k&NR=1

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Saturday Quote

“I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser.”

Arnold Palmer

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Blogosphere Here to Stay, NY Times Latest to Cut Workforce

The New York Times will cut up to 150 positions because of declines in advertising revenue, it was announced Monday.

Victim of Canon Blast Still Hurts

The Post Star follows-up on the canon accident at Fort William Henry.

Queensbury Moose Relocated

The Post Star reports on the moose caught at Aviation Mall. And you didn’t believe it when we reported a moose sighting.

Amazing New Technology

There is now an application to clean your computer screen from the inside. Click here to see a demonstration.

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A Bedtime Poem on Cold Nights for Little Leaves


I’ll tell you how the leaves came down,
The great tree to his children said.
You’re getting sleepy, yellow and brown,
Yes very sleepy, little red.
It’s quite time to go to bed.

“Ah,” begged each silly pouting leaf,
Let us a littler longer stay.
Dear Father Tree, behold our grief,
‘Tis such a very pleasant day.
We do not want to go away.”

So for one more day
The great tree to his children clung.
Frolicked and danced and had their way,
Among the autumn breezes swung.
Whispering all their thoughts among.

“Perhaps the great tree will forget,
And let us stay until the Spring,
If we all beg and coax and fret.”
But the great tree did no such thing,
He smiled to hear their whispering.

Come children all to bed, he cried,
And e’er the leaves could urge their prayer.
He shook his head, and far and wide
Fluttering and dancing through the air
Down came the leaflets – everywhere.

I saw them – on the ground they lay
Golden and red – a huddled swarm
Waiting for one, from far away
White bed-clothes heaped upon her arm
Should come to keep them safe and warm.

The great bare tree looked down and smiled,
“Good-night dear little leaves,” he said.
And from below each sleepy child
Looked up and murmured
“It is so nice to go to bed.”