| Dorel spins into high-end bike realm
Dorel Industries Ltd. says it's aiming to move its bicycle business away from the mass market with yesterday's acquisition of high-end manufacturer Cannondale Bicycle Corp. Dorel chief executive Martin Schwartz said the deal, worth close to $200 million U.S., will help Dorel achieve its goal of becoming the world's largest bicycle maker. "We are strong in the mass market and we want to market the business to independent bicycle dealers," he said. "We want to be No. 1." .
Two bicycle accidents leave one dead, one critically injured
A bicyclist was killed this morning on La. 92 one mile north of Cade, when he was struck from the rear by a Ford Explorer. Another is in critical condition after being struck when he cut in front of a van on the southbound service road of the Evangeline Thruway near Carencro according to Trooper David Anderson of Louisiana State Police Troop I. .
New Era Canning Company recalls beans
New Era Canning Company recalls beans Cans of beans may cause botulism Posted: Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 11:20 a.m. New Era Canning Company has issued a recall on cans of green beans and garbanzo beans because they may cause botulism. New Era Canning Company is recalling all cans of #10 (6 to 7 pounds) green beans and garbanzo beans because they may have been processed under conditions which could have led to production of botulinum toxin, which can cause life-threatening illness or death. “The Illinois Department of Public Health has confirmed the recalled green beans have been distributed in Illinois," said state public health director Dr. Damon Arnold. The codes on the affected product begin with the numbers “00249" or the letter “GREEN" or “GARB." The recall only affects the products in the large #10 cans.
Tour of California notebook: Riders hit Sausalito early for ...
All that was missing at the Tour of California team presentation and gala in Sausalito on Friday was an "Entertainment Tonight" crew to interview the stars and Joan Rivers to critique what they were wearing. The 136 riders from 17 professional cycling teams were given the Hollywood-like red-carpet treatment, literally, when they arrived for the gala beneath a giant tent erected off Spinnaker Drive. After competing in a prologue in Palo Alto on Sunday, the world-class cyclists will kick off on Monday morning in downtown Sausalito to begin the first stage of the seven-stage, 650-mile race. The Friday night "black tie and spandex" gala included a hanging bicycle museum above the crowd. It featured a bicycle built for five, an English Ordinary and a 1941 Schwinn Excelsior used in the first series of mountain bike races in Marin.
MacMillan Wharf: Chapter Twenty-Three
Annie was at the helm of the Whale Center rescue boat as they rounded the tip of Provincetown. She looked to her left and saw the old weather-beaten Coast Guard Station near Race Point Beach. This was nearly the exact spot where yesterday she and Juicy hauled Linda’s body onto the deck of the Explorer. She looked around the boat. Bruce sat next to her, holding his arm in the sling that Annie fashioned out of a T-shirt. Juicy leaned against the stern, staring out at the water. She wondered if he, too, was thinking about what happened. For a moment, their eyes met. From the sad look he gave, she knew instantly that he was. All three were silent as the boat skipped over the waves. When they were off shore of Herring Cove Beach, the large white hull of the Explorer came into view about a mile away.
Unstoppable Obama
On the basis, rather, of large-scale and unrelenting public pressure on Obama to match the vapid, happy talk with real action. As for the whole "post-partisan" thing, if it means shameless acquiescence to Repub fascistic bullying then it is worse than meaningless. But if it means politics that benefit the vast majority of people in the country, including the Repub rank and file, then it is worth doing. And if you demonstrate by means of measurable improvement in people's lives, that a more humane, progressive political philosophy is more likely to improve people's lives then you have won. It's another New Deal and they can't stop you again until your children or their children grow up and lose faith and sellout and pull the ladder up behind them again. I have no illusions about Obama.
Blizzard of '78 memories remain strong as a gale
Snowbanks two stories high. Cars buried so deep they were left for dead. Gales along Salisbury Beach ripping cottages off their foundations and shredding pizza stands. Kids home from school indefinitely. Ninety-nine people dead. T-shirts came next: "I survived the Blizzard of '78." If you were living on the East Coast 30 years ago today, you have a story. To view slideshow Click Here Lowell's Dan Macheras, of Macheras Oil Service, didn't sit around feeling helpless. He jumped on his snowmobile with toolbox in hand and motored through whiteout conditions to fix heaters. His brother Peter did the same with cars. The pair even ferried prescriptions to elderly people who couldn't make it to the pharmacy. "It was cold and windy. People were very happy they got their heat back on," Dan Macheras said.
Preparing to move ... again
As it has all week long, the sun lit up the city in all ways brilliant. But for most of the week, there was always something different about the view as it rose towards its highest point of the day. If you were on the Lewvan, and looked to the east, the sight was almost frightening. The city's downtown skyline was shrouded in narrow wisps of rising smoke. These strings of grey and white and dark grey seemed moving ever so painfully into the sky. At times, if you looked to the southeast, there might even be the faded image of a rainbow. And, on the road, a wind carried slithering fingers of loose snow across the pavement, like snakes winding their way across a desert. Everything, it seemed, was shivering. Late into February, winter hung on, so cruelly. But it did not seem to want to let go.
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