| May be 'winter of discontent' for Royal Gorge
Back before Lakes Serena and Dulzura at Donner Summit were a twinkle in an early subdivider/developer's eye, they wore the much more prosaic name of Ice Lakes. True to form, every winter they obligingly iced over. For a brief time, a commercial ice-harvesting operation was carried out on the Ice Lakes. These lakes still freeze pretty solid. In colder years, before heavy snowfalls, they support ice skating and winter frolicking - think of a picture painted by Brueghel or a Currier and Ives print.
How solid do Serena and Dulzura freeze? This year, the Sierra Lakes County Water District directed employees to study the depth of freeze, and recent ice core samples have shown that at the channel between the lakes, it's frozen solid. The channel is 412 feet deep, so that's 412 feet of hard, solid ice.
What’s smug and deserves to be decapitated?
Having walked to work in the city for the last 5 years, I've been hit once and nearly taken out half a dozen times - and they usually have the cheek to harangue me, the pedestrian. I have never been badly hurt. This is fortunate as they are the only vehicles on the road that don't require third party insurance. This means that if one does injure a pedestrian or cause an accident with other vehicles, the injured party has no come-back whatsoever. I believe that this should change. Cycles used on city streets should be registered, taxed and insured. I for one would report the the red-light jumpers if I could. .
Lost your job? John Calipari can help you
With my wife, lets just say, if I didn't get a job, it would've hurt us. She was getting tired of seeing me. She said I was giving too many suggestions around the house and I needed to get a job. That's when I knew it was time to get back to it. Alipour: What's the most important step in the comeback process? .
Ronnie Thomson Touched Many Lives
MACON, GA (BRAIN)Ronnie Thomson didn't live to see 69 this Thursday, but he did live long enough to touch everyone in the bicycle industry including most of all his employees. "Ronnie always said the best marketing was to have the best product," said The L.H. Thomson Company marketing manager David Parrett. "He expected the very best out of all of us and anyone who did business with us." Thomson passed away in the middle of the night at his home over the weekend. Parrett said that Thomson was recovering from bladder cancer, but said his "sudden" death had nothing to do with that, and more likely was a "stroke or heart attack." "Ronnie was always like a father figure," said Karen Glass, accounts coordinator for the company, who had known Thomson for almost 10 years. "I know this will be a rough road for the entire Thomson family.
The Argonaut begins review of the year's local stories
The City Council would later rescind the ordinance.The Santa Monica City Council authorized a construction contract with Pankow Special Projects for the rehabilitation of the former Marion Davies Estate, located at 415 Pacific Coast Highway.The 5.5-acre property, which newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst purchased for Davies, a 1920s era actress and Hearst's mistress, will become a public beach club after renovations are completed.The city has received a grant from the Annenberg Foundation to operate the club, which will be called the Annenberg Community Beach Club. It is expected to open to the public in 2009.Lydia Kennard announced that she would leave her position as the executive director for the Los Angeles World Airports to become chief of a new aviation-related real estate company.
Instant Analysis: Kansas
My guess is that Earnhardt had a minor fluid leak maybe oil or power steering fluid on a header. Whatever it was, it wasn't major. Yeah, it could be related to the hole in the nose. Lap 150: Bowyer leads as Burton moves to second place ahead of Biffle, Stewart, Johnson, Kyle Busch, Martin, Jarrett, Gordon and Nemechek. Lap 149: Green flag Lap 148: Kenseth back on pit road. Lap 147: Marlin pits. Burton, Bowyer and Biffle took two tires on pit road. Hamlin, Riggs and Truex all get pit-road speeding penalties. Lap 146: Lead-lap cars hit pit road. Sterling Marlin stays out to lead a lap Bowyer wins race off pit road, in front of Biffle, Burton, Stewart, Johnson, Kyle Busch, Martin, Dale Jarrett, Jeff Gordon and Nemechek. Caution 7 Lap 144: Caution No.
NY horses and carriage under animal cruelty cloud
A New York City tourist attraction, the carriage horses lined up at Central Park, may soon become a thing of the past if the City Council adopts a proposal to ban it as a tradition cruel to animals. Council member Tony Avella, a Democrat, introduced the bill in mid-December and Council President Christine Quinn has yet to include it on the board's agenda on an unspecified date, said Mr Avella's press office. The Horse and Carriage Association of New York representing carriage horse owners has the support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who considers the quaint transport an integral part of the Big Apple's tourist appeal. All decked out in plastic flowers for new year festivities, some 70 carriage horses did a brisk trade as they parade non-stop up and down the streets of the city.
Forest users divided over federal protection
Intent on tracking the six-point buck he had wounded, Tony Lakey carried his lever-action Winchester into dense woods on a sparkling Saturday morning. Lakey walked through drifts of leaves down a hollow, one of dozens forming a corrugated blanket of wooded ridges and ravines leading to Swan Creek, some five miles to the west. .
Tony Blair to advise JPMorgan Chase
Toyota posts record 2007 sales Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. said Thursday that it had sold a record 9.37 million vehicles in 2007, keeping it on course to end US rival General Motors' seven-decade reign as the world's top automaker. Toyota said that its global sales rose six percent to 9.37 million in 2007, including subsidiaries truckmaker Hino Motors Ltd and small car specialist Daihatsu Motor Co, beating an earlier forecast of 9.36 million.TOKYO Agence France Presse British brewer rejects Carlsberg-Heineken offerBritish brewer Scottish and Newcastle said Thursday it had rejected an improved bid from Danish group Carlsberg and Dutch peer Heineken that was worth about 7.6 billion pounds ($14.8 billion). S&N, the maker of Foster's lager and Strongbow cider, said in a statement that Carlsberg and Heineken had ramped up their offer to 780 pence per share, compared with 750 pence previously.LONDON Agence France Presse Matsushita to rename itself PanasonicJapan's Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.
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