http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/lake/ en-us Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:18:48 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325299/posts Workers on the second shift at Cummins Filtration were gathered together Monday, told the news, and sent home with a letter directing them to be back in the morning. Tuesday morning, with a team of security guards surrounding company officials, workers at the company's two Lake Mills plants got the word and were then sent home for the day to be with their families. Starting in November, about 400 jobs will be moved to Cummins manufacturing plants in San Luis Polosi, Mexico. The job shift will take four months, completed by March, 2010. The cost-cutting move will help the company... KTTC.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2325299/posts#comment Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:18:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306092/posts BAIKAL, August 1 (RIA Novosti) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has made a dive to the bottom of the world's deepest lake, Baikal, in the Mir-1 mini-submarine. Putin, clad in overalls for a 4-hour plunge, spoke to journalists on a radio linkup from the deepest point of the lake's southern part 1,395 meters below the surface, saying he was surprised that the water was not transparent and calling it "a plankton soup." In his Saturday's dive, the premier, who on Friday set up a satellite transmitter on a white whale during a visit to Russia's Far East Khabarovsk Territory,... RIA Novosti http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2306092/posts#comment Sat, 1 Aug 2009 19:33:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270817/posts Note: The following post is a quote: THE BRIEFING ROOM THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ____________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 12, 2009 MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: NATIONAL POLICY FOR THE OCEANS, OUR COASTS, AND THE GREAT LAKES The oceans, our coasts, and the Great Lakes provide jobs, food, energy resources, ecological services, recreation, and tourism opportunities, and play critical roles in our Nation's transportation, economy, and trade, as well as the global mobility of our Armed Forces and the maintenance of international peace and security. We have a stewardship responsibility to... WHITEHOUSE.GOV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2270817/posts#comment Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:14:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256078/posts I was looking at an image of New Zealand from space, and I noticed a bright blue lake on the South Island. I was pretty sure why it was blue (suspended glacial flour, like Lake Louise in Banff), but I checked to make sure. Turns out, as are many bright blue scenic mountain lakes around the world, this is a scenic spot. If I ever take a trip to New Zealand, I'm pretty sure I'd run out of time before I ran out of places to see! So here's a variety of views of that lake, New Zealand's Lake Pukaki.... Panoramio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2256078/posts#comment Fri, 22 May 2009 04:23:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244428/posts Two off-duty Atlanta Police Department officers were arrested early Monday morning in Cherokee County, charged with reckless conduct for shooting dozens of bullets into Lake Allatoona. At around 1 a.m. Cherokee 911 received several calls complaining about the gunfire. Deputies were dispatched to the Allatoona shoreline, and one reported a bullet landed just 15 feet away from where he stood, said Cherokee Sheriff’s Office spokesman Jay Baker. “There were people fishing in the area at the time,” he said. The shots were traced to the Cedar Drive home of Atlanta police officer Dan Rasmussen, 43. Fellow cop Chad Armstrong, 31,... ajc.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2244428/posts#comment Tue, 5 May 2009 12:48:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2186973/posts Maria Sanchez Lake was formed in the late 1800s when Henry Flagler had the upper reaches of Maria Sanchez Creek filled. A dam was built to regulate tidal flow. Over the decades the lake has become a beauty spot, habitat, and food provider for many water bird species. There are some erosion problems. The City of St. Augustine is now building a concrete seawall around a large section of the lake. There were better plans, less expensive plans, plans that would have enhanced the beauty, and benefitted wildlife. The big problem with urban engineers seems to be an addiction to... SELF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2186973/posts#comment Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:18:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163437/posts WASHINGTON – A lawyer representing an Alaska gold mine urged the Supreme Court on Monday to uphold the mine owner's permit even though he acknowledged that the company's plan to dump metal waste into a nearby lake would kill all aquatic life. But mining company lawyer Theodore Olson told justices that the waste is more accurately defined as "fill." And, after a decade or more of mining, he said, the lake could be restocked with no permanent harm to the environment. AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163437/posts#comment Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:26:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035734/posts Mistake That is Fake by: Cliff Kincaid, June 24, 2008 If Barack Obama wanted to dispel doubts about his national security credentials, he hasn’t done so with the announcement of a new “Senior Working Group on National Security” that includes Dr. Tony Lake, a former national security adviser to Bill Clinton. Lake became a laughingstock for expressing doubts as to whether Alger Hiss, the founder of the United Nations and a top State Department official, was a communist spy. Lake’s doubts led to a controversy that caused him to withdraw his nomination as Clinton’s CIA director. Interestingly, Lake had expressed... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035734/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:48:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2161114/posts In a surprisingly under-reported story from 2007, Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University College, discovered a series of stones – some of them arranged in a circle and one of which seemed to show carvings of a mastodon – 40-feet beneath the surface waters of Lake Michigan. [Image: Standing stones beneath Lake Michigan? View larger]. If verified, the carvings could be as much as 10,000 years old – coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the upper midwest. [Image: The stones beneath Lake Michigan; view larger]. In a PDF assembled by... BLDG Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2161114/posts#comment Thu, 8 Jan 2009 20:15:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994667/posts By James A. Barnes, National Journal © National Journal Group Inc. Monday, March 31, 2008 If potential presidents can be judged by how they run their campaigns, then how they staff those efforts may provide important clues to the kinds of talent they would recruit for their administrations. Because Democratic front-runner Barack Obama is a relative newcomer to national politics, an examination of his inner circle of political and policy advisers offers new windows into his thinking, leadership style, and sources of expertise. The Democratic front-runner's team has a relatively shallow bench, but its political achievements thus far are quite... nationaljournal.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1994667/posts#comment Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:12:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2130696/posts OK, so I'm looking at the picture below (warning, it's fairly large, ~2 MB): Snake River Plain, Idaho, full-size image and I finally ask myself, "What is that pretty blue lake northeast of Salt Lake City?" It doesn't take long to find out that this is Bear Lake. Bear Lake is a pretty interesting place; let's go to Wikipedia for more: Bear Lake It's a basin lake, for one thing, and according to what I read, an outlet was created from the lake into the Bear River which allows the water to be used for irrigation as it flows to... Summer of 2006 Yellowstone Page http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2130696/posts#comment Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:15:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2118516/posts This is on my list entitled "places that would be amazing to see, but somebody is going to have to pay for my trip". India Mike, The India Travel Forum http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2118516/posts#comment Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:48:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070685/posts Sweden's own version of the Loch Ness monster, the Storsjoe or Great Lake monster, has been caught on film by surveillance videos, an association that installed the cameras said Friday. The legend of the Swedish beast has swirled for nearly four centuries, with some 200 sightings reported in the lake in central Sweden. "On Thursday at 12:21 pm, we filmed the movements of a live being. And it was not a pike, nor a perch, we're sure of that," Gunnar Nilsson, the head of a shopkeepers' association in Svenstavik, told AFP. The association, together with the Jaemtland province and local... AFP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070685/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:50:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047017/posts A LARGE great white shark has been sighted in a lake on the New South Wales Central Coast, prompting warnings for people to take caution in surrounding waterways. A commercial fisherman snagged the beast this morning while casting nets off Canton Beach, on the north side of Tuggerah Lake, which opens into the Pacific Ocean at The Entrance. news.com.au http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047017/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 17:49:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040041/posts One of Barack Obama's senior foreign policy advisers has said the prospect of a nuclear-armed Iran is the biggest threat facing the world. In an interview with the Financial Times, Anthony Lake, a former US national security adviser now working with Obama, said: "I believe that the most dangerous crisis we are going to face in the next three to 10 years is if the Iranians get on the edge of developing a nuclear weapon." Obama and his advisers, such as Lake, have stressed the Democratic candidate's readiness to sit down with Iranian leaders without conditions. In the interview, Lake... Britain News Network http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040041/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 01:03:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009815/posts Global Warming Affects World's Largest Freshwater LakeThis well-known landmark, Shaman Rock on Lake Baikal in Russia, stands guard over an ancient lake whose pristine condition is changing quickly. (Credit: Nicholas Rodenhouse) ScienceDaily (May 1, 2008) — Russian and American scientists have discovered that the rising temperature of the world's largest lake, located in frigid Siberia, shows that this region is responding strongly to global warming. Consensus of scientists regarding global warming Drawing on 60 years of long-term studies of Russia's Lake Baikal, Stephanie Hampton, an ecologist and deputy director of the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in... Science Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2009815/posts#comment Thu, 1 May 2008 18:00:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004967/posts CHICAGO — A gust of wind blew a 2-year-old in a stroller into Lake Michigan, where the boy remained submerged for at least 15 minutes before being pulled out unconscious but alive. The child's grandfather, who had been pushing the stroller on the lakeside Friday afternoon, jumped into the harbor to try to save the boy, the Chicago Fire Department said. Witnesses said the frantic grandfather struggled in the frigid water, just off a 70-foot long pier, pointing a few feet away and shouting, "Child! Child!" "He was just moaning in the breakwater, crying," said FOX NEWS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2004967/posts#comment Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:56:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1981552/posts Remote Ontario Lake Reveals Mysterious Ancient StructureWhile divers were conducting a unique submarine project in MacDonald Lake at the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve, they encountered an ancient stone structure revealing proof of life from Central Ontario ancestors. Haliburton, Ontario (PRWEB) March 5, 2008 -- While divers were conducting a unique submarine project in MacDonald Lake at the Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve, they encountered an ancient stone structure revealing proof of life from Central Ontario ancestors. The history of Eastern Canada is generally viewed in two stages: 1st - recent history, measured in decades and centuries, involving... PR Web http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1981552/posts#comment Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:19:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978064/posts Drained lake holds record of ancient Alaska By Ned RozellFebruary 27, 2008 Not too long ago, a lake sprung a leak in the high country of the Wrangell-St. Elias Mountains. The lake drained away, as glacier-dammed lakes often do, but this lake was a bit different, and seems to be telling a story about a warmer Alaska. The lake, known as Iceberg Lake to people in McCarthy, about 50 airmails to the north, had been part of the landscape for as long as people could remember. Pinched by glacial ice, the three-mile-long, one-mile-wide lake on the northern boundary of the... Sit News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1978064/posts#comment Fri, 29 Feb 2008 03:02:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972346/posts Ancient Town 'Sevtopolis', Submerged on a Lake Bottom to be Reconstructed Updated on: 18.02.2008, 18:33 Published on: 18.02.2008, 14:52 Author: Kristalina Ilieva Association ‘Preserve the Bulgarian' starts action for the realizing of ‘Sevtopolis' project. At first the organizators will collect subscription list throughout the whole country, the projects author and major architect Jeko Tilev announced. Sevtopolis or the City of Tracian King Sevt III is capital of the Odyisian state in the end of IV - beginning of III century before Christ. It was found and observed in 1948 - 1954 by the construction works of Koprinka dam like and... News.bg http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1972346/posts#comment Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:01:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912265/posts LAKE COUNTY, Fla. -- A sheriff's dive team discovered what is believed to be a late-1800s era steamboat at the bottom of a Central Florida lake during a training exercise last month. The Lake County sheriff's dive team found the boat at the bottom of Lake Minneola in the lake's southwest corner in Clermont while training with side-scan sonar, which they recently acquired. The sonar is a piece of equipment that is dragged by a boat and projects images of the underwater environment. After seeing an image of the boat, which appeared to be about 18 feet long, dive team... local6 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912265/posts#comment Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:45:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903157/posts PHOENIX -- A 14-year-old Lake Havasu boy has become the sixth victim to die nationwide this year of a microscopic organism that attacks the body through the nasal cavity, quickly eating its way to the brain. Aaron Evans died Sept. 17 of Naegleria fowleri, an organism doctors said he probably picked up a week before while swimming in the balmy shallows of Lake Havasu. According to the Centers For Disease Control, Naegleria infected 23 people from 1995 to 2004. This year health officials said they've noticed a spike in cases, with six Naegleria-related cases so far -- all of them... www.kpho.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1903157/posts#comment Thu, 27 Sep 2007 19:55:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900352/posts Expedition to drill ancient mega-lake gathers pace 12:41 21 September 2007 NewScientist.com news service Catherine Brahic An expedition to seek out a huge underground pocket of ancient water in Darfur, Sudan, is being prepared by geologists. About 100 metres beneath the arid sands in the north-west of the region there just might be the makings of an oasis – in the form of a hidden mega-lake, discovered in April 2007 using satellite imagery. The lake could provide much-needed relief to the war-torn African region, believe several UN agencies, the government of Sudan, and non- governmental organisations, which are backing the... New Scientist http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1900352/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2007 22:05:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894656/posts September 10, 2007 - 12:35 PMPrehistoric find located beneath the waves Archaeologists have discovered traces of Switzerland’s oldest known building, but it will never draw tourists: it lies underwater in the middle of a lake. Since it was made of wood scientists used dendrochronology – the technique of dating by tree rings – to give a precise figure of 3863 BC. The find in Lake Biel, northwest of the Swiss capital, Bern, was described as “sensational” by Albert Hafner, who is in charge of underwater archaeology in the region. Divers working for the cantonal archaeological service came upon the site... Swiss Info http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1894656/posts#comment Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:20:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1861869/posts The link above goes to the Webcam on the rim of Kilauea's Pu'u O'o crater. After a brief eruption hiatus last week, lava has returned to the crater, and the crater is hosting an active lava pond/lake. According the web site, nighttime views are spectacular. Close examination of the images when they change every five minutes indicates that the pond is active. Eruption Update Page USGS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1861869/posts#comment Fri, 6 Jul 2007 19:09:55 GMT