it is pretty disturbing i hope it was the work of someone drunk or out of their mind i find it hard to understand why anybody would do it we've never had problems with coyotes in the area we've never had anything like this happen before nevada county sheriff's office made a log entry of the event xor patrol for the area at night and sergeant daniel saunders of the nevada county sheriff's office i encourage the neighbors especially those who go to work early to give us a call if they see anything unusual at this point the police have stalled the investigation because there are no leads right now we are not considering this a hate crime as there is nothing to support it now wh or anything that would lead us to believe that i don't know why anyone would target to school saunders added he's never encountered a similar incident before a spokesman for the california department of fi game agreed we haven't had incidents where animals have been left displayed in a grisly manner in my recent history said spokesman harry moore's too bad some people  before especially and i've not been habitat of the great basin region between the sierra nevada and the rockies as high altitude climates grow warmer wildlife biologist eric beaver of the university of colorado population for years i joined him recently on the census of a mountain in south central nevada where peak is had been a non but now they are gone this mountain's population has gone extinct beaver concluded but even as he remains objective about his study beaver finds a progressive out of great basin pike or peak population unsettling to pick his troubles stem from its unusual lack of mechanisms to cool its body in the way the  heat the warm weather affects animals ability to digest food chemistry slows down its cold we were frederick food to slow the growth of bacteria he pushes bio chemistry faster to the point most of the work of digesting food is done by depend on water alone though it would take months even years to digest a meal within our stomachs are a tiny machines enzymes that grab food molecules bend them and open gaps to ease water entry and zombies make bio chemical reactions go millions and billions even trillions of times faster we can eat our lunch yet hunger for us just a few hours later besides digesting food enzymes build up and break down the molecules of which our bodies are made these molecules are different shapes determined by all their atoms link up and enzyme must have a grappling region or just the right shape to latch onto its target molecule makes molecules vibrate die they are the faster they vibrate and the harder they hammer each other then they collide egg white offers an example of how he works on enzymes egg white is made of long stringy protein molecules build up like balls of beyond dissolved in water these yard balls of protein all together because of protein strings are electromagnetically sticky when we heat the protein molecules vibrate and collide hard enough to make the yarn unravel the string molecules still sticky bind to each other but we have what had been a solution in tiny spears becomes a single large mass of solid protein he are boiled operates on the enzymes of living beings to all organisms have an upper temperature limit beyond which there in time stopped working as warmer temperatures affect plants and animals around the world creatures that can no longer tolerate the the animals expose themselves to hawks and other predators the migration is dangerous but not impossible but between the sierras and the rockies the mountains of the great basin are sky island surrounded by an ocean of uncrossable desert south lake tahoe satellite imagery and computer forecast models are now indicating a fairly strong but fast moving cold front will push across lake tahoe area this afternoon and evening south to southwest winds are expected to increase throughout the day to twenty to thirty mile per hour and gusts of forty five miles per hour and when prone areas by afternoon southwest winds up to eighty miles per hour forecast long as they are crest today and tonight daytime temperatures will cool into the mid and upper fifty's this afternoon the head  afternoon becoming most intense is even a cold front snow levels are expected to start at around seven thousand feet this afternoon and lower levels of around six thousand feet by evening snow is forecast to taper off through flurries after midnight with clearings and saturday models are indicating around point fifteen to precipitate a whole basin up to point forty inch in the high elevation by early saturday morning would translate around and inch of snow most of the grassy areas like level and two to four inches of mountain passes or above seven thousand feet much of this knowledge should melt as it hits the relatively warm pavement our visibility could be restricted during the more intense snow fall friday evening if you're beyond monday's the jet stream and storm track stays around pacific northwest bringing in heavy rain to washington but dry and mild conditions across the area for the remainder of the week some of the longer range computer models are suggestion another low price your trouble developing over the western towards next week which would not be out of character of our current unsettling fall weather pattern so much for the last of our summer that's right stand for the police blotter and the pictures in the blog are not from these actual events but used for visual aid only grass valley police department on thursday at eight forty four am a caller from maine hard drive it woman in a blue ford explorer was naked in chicken her breasts at the color police contacted an eighteen year old woman and a nineteen year old man and told them to leave the area ten fifty one a m police but his name stella and is dressed in a girl's clothes police contacted a caller who said the woman was passing through town in her whereabouts were unknown at eight thirty two p m a man from a business was three hundred block r forty six year old man on suspicion of drunk driving and on friday at twelve forty five a m police arrested a forty seven year old man and two hundred block of south church street on suspicion of violating probation  a woman lane reported dead animals were being placed over signs at a learning center deputy contacted the caller and we did a story about that today ten thirty i am a caller reported a little girl in a vehicle in nevada city highway looked like she did not want to be in that vehicle the caller said the man driving the vehicle was acting strangely it's a girl appeared to be around three years old with long blonde hair blue pants and top the man was slender with about six feet tall get a mustache she was wearing sunglasses and a cap officers checked the area and no contact was made twelve fifty three p m a call from business on the ten thousand block of rough and ready highway reported hearing was broken into overnight the person entered through the rooms back  caller did not know if anything was missing deputies took a report for trespassing three twelve p m call a report ported her in an accident on our forty nine and i would twenty officers reporting a tow truck responded the call to report a man threatened to burn his house down if he didn't pay him five thousand dollars forty eight p m on a woman reported employee out of business on a sixteen thousand block of dr threatened bad things would happen were going to happen to her because the woman wanted a log entry on friday seven sixteen a m a call reported into gear was stuck in a fence in the nineteen thousand block of last mile drive the bad a city police news out of washington republican john doolittle indicated thursday he planned to fight a justice department subpoena for eleven years of records as part of jack bribery investigation set up a lengthy court fight over congressional independence republican william jefferson no democrat had been locked in a similar dispute over the f b i raid on his capitol hill office last year a federal appeals court declared parts of that search unconstitutional by ruling from the justice department is challenging is vigorously protected just like bush any court challenge would go before a federal judge but to document would be sealed prosecutors are investigating connections between doolittle a neighbor mots a convicted lobbyist they influence peddling investigation already has netted a dozen convictions including a guilty plea from one congressman bob ney republican from ohio who resigned amid the probe the rest of the congress would be well served to pay attention to the message the executive branch seems to be sending about whether the three branches are truly co equal earlier this month to congress you were called before a federal grand jury is part of the do little investigation the raid even though they took only documents relevant to their bribery investigation and a big pot of money agents also reviewed legislative documents which were unconstitutional that ruling has already caused impeded ongoing investigations justice department attorneys syndicated court documents recently some members of congress interpret the rulings as prohibiting f b i agents from interviewing congressional staffers attorneys wrote co operatively legislative job of congress is pass bills that pay the costs of running the government after criticizing republicans for falling down on the job last year democrats are now the one stumbling the government's new budget year begins monday but congress has not completed even one of the dozen spending bill appropriating money for the day to day operations of the fifteen cabinet departments president bush's lobby details right after a veto threat after days of democratic spending bills because they taken as a whole they would break his budget by twenty three billion or more though bush is sagging in the polls so those threats have majority democrats tied in knots bush charted saturday in his signing a bill that prevents a government shutdown and gives lawmakers forty eight days more more days to the budget work earlier this year congressional leaders promised to show that they could be responsible with the people's money unfortunately they seem to have chosen the pass of higher spending the president said in his weekly radio address this is hardly the first time the congress has fallen behind schedule last year when republicans ran the congress they gave up on the budget altogether and forced democrats to finish it on valentine's day in february four and a half months later now it is democrats after roasting republicans for the way the budget work who are vulnerable vulnerable to criticism that they are now doing no better  republicans are happy to oblige it's deja vu all over again said republican jerry lewis republican of california representative who a year ago was chairman of the house appropriations committee he courted the current  republican representative david obey dan a democrat from wisconsin is blasting republicans in the past for failing to meet the most basic minimal expectations that the country has for it by way of doing our routine business like last year most democrats appropriations feelings can be blamed on the senate which has passed just four to twelve spending bills senator majority leader harry reid democrat from nevada has devoted lots of debate time to iraq immigration and defense policy bill at the expense of the hopes to complete two more bills this coming week before the senate takes a vacation you know like they need one he blamed bush in g o p opposition non related bills for the delay as you know there's controversy with the president over his threat to the bills we know we should have gotten them sooner but we've had forty eight filibusters we've had to deal with this year we drive slowed things down significantly long has been a symbol of bush administration and democrats would find themselves in a legislative train wreck that would not get resolved until late in the fall even in years when one party runs capitol hill in a white house congress invariably needs extra time to complete its budget work but democrats raised the expectation in last year's campaign that they would be doing a better job veto a single spending bill in his first six years in office and i guess he's going to catch up now many republicans want a series of vetoes that would allow the party to reclaim its reputation as a party of smaller government just as president clinton won many of his battles with republicans over the budget bush has great leverage so long as the g o p lawmakers stand with him that is the biggest reason democrats would prefer to negotiate the president needs to put down his veto pen and pick up the telephone said ho majority leader stephanie our differences are relatively minor we need to work out the differences rather than engage in political posturing democrats have some leverage too they holding back action of bush's one hundred eighty nine billion war request you can delay also delay the pentagon's non war budget bill until the white house agrees to talk on domestic spending both sides see the pentagon spending bill with forty billion increase for the military as the engine that will power legislative in comparison to all of the uncompleted bills into law maybe by christmas maybe christmas two thousand and thirty washington very young children simply should not take some commonly used cold and cough medicines federal health officials say it's recommending to consult your physician advice to parents on the labels be drawn recommendation from food and drug administration safety officials would apply to decongestants used in children under two and a history means in those younger than six according to the agency's documents released friday the more than three hundred fifty page documents are part of a broad and ongoing f d a examination of whether the roughly eight hundred medicines many popular and widely used are safe and effective in treating children's colds and cost f d a advise are to take up the  advisors are to take up the issue during an october eighteenth nineteenth meeting the f d a has not made a final decision on any label changes action is likely pending a recommendation from outside experts the review came in response to a recently filed petition in baltimore city officials who charge that many over the counter cough and cold remedies can harm toddlers and preschoolers those officials joined with the american academy of pediatrics cite evidence is just drugs are not only risky but also  work for the very young the basic question is why should a product be so wrong mostly marketed when it's not safe or effective said dr joshua sharfstein baltimore's health commissioner does not make sense in the absence of information to say consult a physician because they do not have superhuman powers they cannot make a product safe or effective the consumer health care products association which represents makers of over the counties over the counter medicines backs the recommendation that the cold and cough treatments not be used in children younger than two years old separately for any histamines the group recommends adding a war unit to drug not be used to sedate young children and f d a review of side effects workers filed with the agency between one hundred sixty nine is the kember two thousand and six found fifty four reports of deaths in children associated with decongest