Winter Storm in Texas Kills at Least 5 (AP)
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Winter Storm Reaches From Kan. to S.C.
(AP)
Winter Storm Reaches From Kan. to S.C.
(AP)
01/25/2004 08:44 PMAP - Winter storms dumped freezing rain, sleet and snow from the
Plains to the East Coast on Sunday, making traveling treacherous along
ice-slicked roads.
First Winter Storm Rolls Across
Northeast U.S
First Winter Storm Rolls Across
Northeast U.S
12/06/2003 10:13 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 9:37PM ET
First Winter Storm of Season Socks
Northeast U.S
First Winter Storm of Season Socks
Northeast U.S
12/06/2003 07:57 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 6:40PM ET
First Winter Storm of Season Socks
Northeast
First Winter Storm of Season Socks
Northeast
12/06/2003 05:40 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 3:30PM ET
Winter Storm Snarls Midwest (Reuters)
Winter Storm Snarls Midwest (Reuters)
12/24/2004 12:19 PMReuters - A winter storm barreled out of
the U.S. Midwest on Thursday, creating misery for holiday
travelers, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of
people and breaking snowfall records.
Winter Storm Socks Northeast US,
Disrupts Travel
Winter Storm Socks Northeast US,
Disrupts Travel
12/06/2003 10:13 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 6 2003 9:37PM ET
Winter kills off army camel corps
(Reuters)
Winter kills off army camel corps
(Reuters)
01/09/2004 09:55 PMReuters - Legendary desert resilience did little for a squad of camels
charged with keeping grass trim at an army base in
northern Israel, where they all died of cold.
Ivan Returns As Tropical Storm Near
Texas (AP)
Ivan Returns As Tropical Storm Near
Texas (AP)
09/23/2004 09:42 PMAP - Making an encore appearance in the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical
storm, Ivan swirled toward the Texas coast Thursday with a potential
for up to 10 inches of rain over the weekend.
Ivan, the Remake, Heads to Texas as
Tropical Storm
Ivan, the Remake, Heads to Texas as
Tropical Storm
09/23/2004 01:08 PMReuters via Wired News Sep 23 2004 4:27PM GMT
Tropical Storm Kills 53 Across Asia (AP)
Tropical Storm Kills 53 Across Asia (AP)
07/04/2004 09:11 AMAP - Mudslides buried houses, and rescuers battled floodwaters to
evacuate trapped villagers Sunday as tropical storm Mindulle swept
over Taiwan and battered the Chinese coast. At least 53 people have
been killed in the storm.
Troops Patrol Florida After Storm Kills
13
Troops Patrol Florida After Storm Kills
13
08/15/2004 12:26 AMReuters via Wired News Aug 15 2004 4:38AM GMT
Tropical Storm Gaston Kills 5 in
Virginia
Tropical Storm Gaston Kills 5 in
Virginia
08/31/2004 01:27 PMReuters via Wired News Aug 31 2004 5:16PM GMT
Flooding Spawned by Storm Kills More
Than 550 in Haiti
Flooding Spawned by Storm Kills More
Than 550 in Haiti
09/21/2004 01:16 AMMore than 550 people died in Haiti last weekend from flooding and
mudslides set off by Tropical Storm Jeanne.
Explosion at Texas plant kills worker
Explosion at Texas plant kills worker
07/06/2004 06:35 PMData Management Ranks 29th as Texas’s
Fastest Growing Technology Company in
Deloitte Texas Crescent Technology Fast
50 Program
Data Management Ranks 29th as Texas’s
Fastest Growing Technology Company in
Deloitte Texas Crescent Technology Fast
50 Program
09/15/2004 02:00 AMAttributes great team work and flawless execution to its 416 Percent
Revenue Growth. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]
Suicide Bomber Kills Three, Israel Kills
Militant
Suicide Bomber Kills Three, Israel Kills
Militant
12/25/2003 05:33 PMReuters via Wired News Dec 25 2003 3:33PM ET
Winter Dry
Winter Dry
10/29/2003 12:13 AMmarcus wrote: "I really prefer that to the wet cold they get along the
coast. I remember when I was...
Cold Winter
Cold Winter
06/22/2005 01:56 AM
I got another free product in the mail the other day to review
— a PS2 game called Cold
Winter.
It was rated M (for Mature), but I'm not much of a gamer so I
enlisted my 10-year-old son to play it with me.
It's something of an espionage adventure that starts in a Chinese
prison. You are Andrew Sterling, disavowed secret agent of some kind,
and you have to fight your way out. I gather there's a lot more after
that, but we never found out (keep reading).
Cold Winter earned its M rating: in one of the first cut scenes,
Sterling gets tortured and has his finger bent back until it breaks
(yes, it's as bad as it sounds). Thoughout the rest of the game, when
he's holding a pistol so you can see his hands on the screen, he
flexes his left hand as if it's still stiff from the break however
many months ago. And when you get shot, there's a lot blood.
And...chunks. And then there's the guy who gets killed sitting on the
toilet, and just kind of slumps there. It's not elegant.
Anyway, the storyline didn't hold our interest so much, so we quit
that and just went to two-player mode — you know, Capture the
Flag and all that. It turns out that Cold Winter is a pretty good
first person shooter.
It tends toward the realistic side of combat, rather than the
cinematic. There are a lot of weapons to pick from, and they have
realistic touches: you run really slow while carrying the rocket
launcher (tough to do much but camp), and if you fire anything more
than a short burst from the MP5, the recoil kicks it
up so you're shooting at nothing but air. The controls are good and,
before long, we were running around blowing each other to smithereens
for a couple of hours.
The gas grenades are the best part. You can lob one and seal off
an area with poison gas. Your opponent can only wait until it
dissipates enough to make a run through it (though I'm willing to bet
there's a gas mask in the game somewhere — we were two busy
killing each other to bother looking).
If you get exposed to gas, your vision starts getting blurry and
you may go down for the count, which makes you pretty picky as to
whether you should risk making a run for it. (In fact, you can get
shot in this game, but not die right away — you limp away from a
fire fight only to lose too much blood and go down around the corner
or something.)
There's a poetic joy to trapping your opponent in some alley with a
cloud of poisonous gas, then just firing rocket after rocket blindly
into the cloud until he comes stumbling out.
Later, as we were cycling through the game options to play, we
found an interesting one called "Headmatch." It's like the flag-based
games where you get a point for every second or so you're holding the
flag. Except there's no flag. It's the "decapitated head of an
unknown man." Seriously.
When you start a headmatch, first you have to find the head, which
could be anywhere. So me and the boy are running around the rooftops
of some Morrocan
town, looking for a decapitated head, which was pretty funny,
actually.
He finds it first and yells, "I've got the head! I've got the
head!" I tell him to wait so I can come over to look at it. Then I
tell him to turn around so my guy can crouch down and look under it
while he holds it aloft by its hair.
Then, suddenly, it hit me: I'm the worst parent ever.
Winter Corporation
Winter Corporation
12/13/2003 09:23 AMThe Largest and Most Heavily Used Databases in the World, 2003 .. a
list of humongous databases .. top 10 biggest
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The Tick in Winter
The Tick in Winter
04/12/2004 06:07 PMThis week's question: How do ticks survive winter?
I hate winter
I hate winter
01/10/2004 01:37 AMHoly crap, it feels like -31 Celcius out there apparently. I'm
freezing just sitting here. I have my skating clothes...
Winter albums
Winter albums
12/29/2003 01:18 AMThe photos from the snow trip a couple of weeks ago are up, sorry for
the delay. Captions are being...
Keeps you warm in winter
Keeps you warm in winter
07/14/2004 10:40 PM
The American Merkin Company. (NSFW) Handcrafting merkins for
over 150 years!
Has your last wax or razor encounter left you a little too exposed for
the nude beaches of SXM? Are you getting on in years and finding that
thinning hair leaves you a bit embarrassed? Why not try a merkin!
Great for both females AND males!
winter break
winter break
12/22/2004 01:53 AMRyan and Nolan start their Winter break today, and I have decided
to take a Winter break of my own. I'm dangerously close to getting
burn out, so I'm taking this week off, to spend time with my family.
I'm thinking about maybe doing some geocaching, probably watching some
Return of the King extended edition, and definitely a lot of playing
Magic with Nolan.
I can't believe that there are just eleven days left in 2004, and
for the first time in years I'm not looking back in frustration on the
year that could have been, I'm looking back fondly on the year that
was . . . and excitedly looking toward the year to come.
Merry, Happy, Joy, and Peace everyone.
Especially Peace.
Winter Gear From REI
Winter Gear From REI
09/03/2004 09:43 PMG4 Tech TV Sep 4 2004 1:12AM GMT
Winter nostalgia
Winter nostalgia
03/08/2004 11:03 PMIt is tough to imagine anyone being nostalgic for this past winter
in New England but perhaps this photo of sammies
in the snow will do the trick. It comes to us from
Willie Stromeyer, whom I met as an 8-year-old son of a friend.
He's now married and living in Upstate New York.
Winter Weather
Winter Weather
03/13/2003 10:16 AMVermont is locked deep in the grasp of winter. This December, the
Conneticut River Valley received about three feet of snow (quite
remarkable in these days of global warming). The snow has
reflected
sunlight back into space, causing the temperature to drop far
below our
winter average. But this Saturday, the weather got
seriously
cold.
Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice
12/09/2003 06:10 PM Are you miffed that Christmas just isn't about Jesus anymore?
Annoyed that is all seems to be about commercialism and spending
money? You Christians can now empathize with the ancient pagans who
were miffed that Christmas just wasn't about
Mithras
anymore. But don't feel bad about
jacki
ng Christmas from them, Mithras jacked it from Apollo, who
borrowed it from the Etruscan god Sol.
Winter Depression
Winter Depression
02/07/2005 01:55 AMWinter Depression
1) Jan. 24
called worst day of year
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/i
d/6847012/
2) Winter Darkness, Season
Depression
h
ttp://my.webmd.com/content/Article/52/50396.htm?pagenumber=3
3) Shed light on SAD to ease winter blues
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-01-28-winter-blues_x.htm
4) Ask the Doctor: Clinical
Chronobiology
http://chaos.cpmc.columbia.edu/nyspi/askthedr/for_
Pt/question4.asp?Departments=sad
5) Norway: A
natural research laboratory
http://www.sv.uit
.no/seksjon/psyk/wd-norw.htm
6) Society for Light
Treatment and Biological Rhythms
http://www.websciences.org/sl
tbr/
7) Psychology Today: Seasonal Affective
Disorder
http://cms.p
sychologytoday.com/conditions/sad.html
A U.K.
psychologist has developed a complex mathematical formula using seven
variables to predict winter's emotional low point. The good news is
the worst day of the year was last week; nonetheless, seasonal
depression remains a problem for many. The first link (1) is to an
article about the equation worked out by Dr. Cliff Arnall, who
specializes in seasonal disorders at the University of Cardiff, Wales.
The second link is to a WebMD page (2) about winter depression, often
referred to as Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). The next link (3) is
to a recent news story about the results of a five-year study that
found, rather than antidepressant drug therapy or air ionizers, light
box therapy is the best remedy for the seasonal condition. The fourth
link is to a set of Frequently Asked Questions (4) about SAD offered
by Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City. The fifth
link, to the Winter Depression Research Group at the University of
Tromso in Norway(5), explains why Norway is a natural SAD research
laboratory. The next link is to a international portal site (6)
maintained by medical professionals and researchers in the field of
light therapy and biological rhythms. The final webpage(7), from
Psychology Today, compares the symptoms of winter depression with
summer depression.[From The NSDL Scout Report for the Life Sciences,
Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005.
http://scout.wisc.edu/]
A Walk in Winter
A Walk in Winter
03/06/2004 01:55 AM
A few photos from a walk on a winter
day.
Alan Burlison always has such nice pictures and stories from his own
walks around
the Peak District that I thought I'd have a go with my urban
landscape. No fields of heather or peat bogs here, but it's home. :)
We took a nice walk around the southern edge of Helsinki and I needed
to finish off a roll of film. We wound up walking out on the ice which
made me nervous even though it appeared to be a very popular Sunday
pastime for quite a few people. Where I come from, only stupid people
who want to die walk out on the invariably thin ice, but Finland's ice
is much thicker so that only a few people manage to fall through each
year. :) It's strange to walk on the ice where in summertime there are
only boats. The abandoned fuel station looked out of place and
abandoned in spite of the people with strollers, with pets, with
friends all wandering on the ice around it. It may be winter here, but
we don't let the cold keep us inside all the time.
Now is the winter of SCO discontent
Now is the winter of SCO discontent
12/15/2003 10:30 AMWinter Break for Web Site
Winter Break for Web Site
12/22/2004 01:47 AMLJ Web site on hiatus this week.
Winter blast causes problems
Winter blast causes problems
01/28/2004 03:36 PMParts of Scotland are hit by ice and snow resulting in school closures
and transport disruption.
Ah, Midwest Winter Weather
Ah, Midwest Winter Weather
12/24/2004 12:37 PMAs Josh notes, there's a lot of snow 'round these parts. My sister
just headed back outside to shovel her driveway. Last night (after it
took way to long to get here from the airport) I joked that I should
have bought them a snow blower for giftmas. Except that I really
wasn't joking. I think she's given up on the idea of shoveling the
whole thing, instead concentrating on making two large "stripes" where
the tires meet the driveway....
Winter Wonderland Icons 1.0
Winter Wonderland Icons 1.0
12/23/2003 04:29 PMIconic symbols of the holiday season.
Premiership set for winter break
Premiership set for winter break
01/28/2004 06:39 PMPremier League chairmen vote in favour of introducing a winter break
next season.
Ah, Copenhagen in the depths of winter
Ah, Copenhagen in the depths of winter
01/01/2004 01:30 PMWell, class materials are in, tickets are bought, and I'm off to
Copenhagen for NordU in a few weeks. (I get in on the 25th, and leave
on the 29th, with the class the afternoon of the 28th) Should be
interesting to wander around Copenhagen for a few days, too--I've
never been there. (Anyone with recommendations as to what to do, feel
free to let fly...)...
A Winter Garden in Spring
A Winter Garden in Spring
04/17/2004 04:41 PM
A few photos from a trip to the Helsinki
Winter Garden just before Easter. The garden is enclosed in a
Victorian era greenhouse and hosts quite a nice succulent room, palm
room and room for various seasonal plants. Easter brings little baby
chicks to the Win
ter Garden that little kids press their faces up to the glass to
watch intently as they cheep and hop around. Tulips and daffodils also
add a splash of colour to the landscape inside the green canopy. It's
free to visit during its rather limited hours of operation and the
outdoor garden is beautiful during the summer when the flowers are in
bloom. It reminds me a lot of the Jewel
Box, an art deco conservatory, and Tower Grove
Park, a Victorian walking park, in St. Louis quite a bit since
they were all built during a time that building public gardens for all
people to enjoy was popular. I still miss living next to Tower Grove
Park as it was one of the most beautiful spots in the city.
Winter approaches in Alaska
Winter approaches in Alaska
12/17/2004 06:36 PMA friend in Alaska sent this email in response to a postcard from
warm sunny Greece:
"So, you are there...and... well...we are here... in the snow,
sleet, rain, pestilence, fog, and darkness. What more can be
said? The dogs are howling, the bears are hibernating, and we
are hunkered in our camp, slowly cooking cassoulet while riding out
the storm. In fact, it has been so bad here that one of our
local judges, Sam Adams, age 47, died of a heart attack while on a
moose hunt a week ago, and he had to stay put with his hunting party
for a few days before the clouds could clear and the plane could
land. Can you imagine being one of the guys around the fire,
wondering whether to put cards in Sam's hand, or look for another
moose, etc."
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