 Russian exports flatten US wheat plains Financial Times Wheat futures have gained almost 8 per cent in the past week as cold air settles over Russia and Ukraine, threatening to damage plantings that lack enough snow cover, forecasters Commodity Weather Group said in a note. But fears over the weather and ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Tears, joy as woman sets Antarctic crossing record The Seattle Times British adventurer Felicity Aston became the first woman to ski alone across Antarctica on Monday, hauling two sledges around crevasses and over mountains into endless headwinds, past the South Pole and onward to the coastal ice shelf, persevering for ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Snow Goose Festival offers free activities Enterprise-Record Vasiliy Baranyuk, renowned Russian biologist, will also give two free lectures on The Snow Geese of Wrangel Island, the nesting grounds for the population of snow geese that winter in our area. Baranyuk has studied the island's wildlife for the past 30 ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Skier's journey to Sochi goes through Huntsville CottageCountryNow.ca “I mostly skied recreationally in Russia. I did a few races before coming to Canada in 1999.” Moving to Toronto has cut back her opportunities to ski due to the lack of snow, but things picked up again in 2005 when the family moved to Ottawa. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sochi Slopes Chief Says Runs Are World's Best RIA Novosti The 2014 Sochi Winter Olympic ski runs are the best in the world, the site's chief executive claimed Thursday. The Rosa Khutor ski resort is gearing up for the first serious test events next month with World Cup alpine skiingstages, and the organizers ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Public Transport Drifting in Russia [Video] autoevolution Russian winters need no presentation, which means that drivers in the country are always ready to tackle the snow and ice, right? Wrong. You'd expect that public transport vehicles in Russia have turned winter tires into a religion, but this is far ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Canada's freestyle skiers arrive in Calgary remembering Sarah Burke Hamilton Spectator He landed a couple of jumps with a “slap-back,” meaning he fell backwards onto the snow and bounced upright. It wasn't until a week later back in Calgary, when he had a searing headache and became dizzy lifting weights, that Shouldice realized ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| EU wheat up on world markets, weather worries Reuters Africa Additional support came from concerns cold weather in eastern Europe was threatening crops, although traders were split on assessing the level of snowcover. * Expectations that Russia might curb exports also helped drive prices higher. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cold, dryness, quality stoke Black Sea grain fears Agrimoney.com More question marks appeared over Black Sea grain supplies as Russiabraced for extreme cold, Kazakh exports faced claims of poor quality, and a 30% harvest slump was forecast for Ukraine. Temperatures in southernRussia, east of the Black Sea, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Showery W Mediterranean Very cold east WeatherOnline Very cold but a dry day across Russia and the Ukraine. Snow is expected across eastern Turkey with heavy rain showers for western Turkey, southern Greece and the eastern part of the Mediterranean again where is stays windy. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Advancing ice puts Bering Sea snow crab season on hold Anchorage Daily News The same extensive sea ice that slowed the journey of a Russian fuel tanker and Coast Guard icebreaker to Nome has Bering Sea crab fishermen rushing to pull pots from the water and waiting for better conditions, reports KUCB in Unalaska. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| 10th Mountain veterans wow museum crowd Vail Daily News It started with group of young skiers including Charles Minot Dole, talking about how winter-camouflaged Finnish ski troopers had held off a vastly superior Russian force during an attempted Soviet invasion of Finland. Dole and his compatriots tried to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Action sports imperil lives Ithaca College The Ithacan A legend who helped make women's freestyle skiing an event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Burke ruptured the vertebral artery — one of four primary arteries that deliver blood to the brain — during a run. Following surgery to repair ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Billionaires blame wealth disparity Business Day Some of those occupiers have moved into what they call "Camp Igloo" in Davos, where 155cm of snow was on the ground by yesterday, the second-highest level for a January 25 since the Institute of Snow and Avalanche Research, based in the ski resort, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Davos rolling blog: Day 2 Financial Times (blog) AP Photo/Sergei Grits Spotted in Davos: an inscrutable Alexei Kudrin, former respected finance minister of Russia, critic of President Medvedev and putative leader of a new liberal grouping in the country. Kudrin made enemies in Moscow last year after ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| On the List | Children's film fest, Deathcake, Shared Walls tour, Trek trivia ... CHS Capitol Hill Seattle By jseattle There's probably still a dirty patch of snow or two left on Capitol Hill but things are decidedly back to normal. Go stomp in a puddle. Add your Capitol Hill events to the CHS Calendar. The 2012 Children's Film Festival Seattle opens at ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Filly Brown cast Toronto Star Orthodox Epiphany Thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers plunged into icy rivers and ponds across the country ... PHOTOS: Hindu Magh Mela cel... Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus take a bath at the confluence during the astronomically ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Southbury Daily Briefing: Jan. 26 Patch.com 1992 – Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons. 1978 – The Great Blizzard of 1978, a rare severe blizzard strikes the Ohio – Great Lakes region with heavy snow and winds up to 100 mph. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Polaris Industries' CEO Discusses Q4 2011 Results - Earnings Call Transcript Seeking Alpha We projected margin pressure in the quarter and commodities, currencies and dismal snow conditions did combine to reduce fourth quarter gross profit margins by 160 basis points. Despite this decrease earnings growth was solid and net income increased ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| February calendar GoErie.com CROSS COUNTRY SKI BEGINNER CLINICS: Saturdays, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, 10:30 am-12:30 pm; Asbury Woods Nature Center, 4105 Asbury Road; register day of program only and arrive 15 minutes early for equipment rental; must be at least 6 inches of snow; ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Andrew Brownbill/AP Toronto Star Orthodox Epiphany Thousands of Russian Orthodox Church followers plunged into icy rivers and ponds across the country ... PHOTOS: Hindu Magh Mela cel... Hundreds of thousands of devout Hindus take a bath at the confluence during the astronomically ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Datebook: your guide to area clubs, meetings and events Scranton Times-Tribune Jewish Family Service Grow Yourself Series: Making Tracks in the Snow, Feb. 5, 1 pm, Lackawanna State Park; each $10 JFS members/$15 nonmembers. 344-1186. Community Medical Center Auxiliary Meeting: Feb. 6, 5:45 pm, second floor, CMC Professional ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Weather Outlook for Shetland – Thursday, 26th January 2012 at 11:19 Shetland Times Online This, and other fronts, will almost certainly be held to the west as a large anticyclone, developing over northwest Russia, builds a ridge southeast over southern Scandinavia. Though some uncertainty remains, it now looks likely the anticyclone to the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| LIBRARIES AND LECTURES Albany Times Union Beat the Snow Winter Concert Series, Schenectady County Public Library — Central, 99 Clinton St., Schenectady When: 2:30 pm Cost: Free Contact: 388-4511 or http://www.scpl.org Notes: Selected short stories, read by actor Joe Quandt, will be featured. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A midsummer ice dream Bizcommunity.com But, judging by the audience applause at the sight of gently falling snow, it was clearly a year well spent! From the frozen streets of St. Petersburg, to the welcoming warmth of the Pavlov home, to the candy colours in The Land of Sweets, every detail ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Kvitová reaches semi-finals at Australian Open Radio Prague In Thursday's semi-final game, Petra Kvitová will face fourth seed Maria Sharapova from Russia. The coming days should be mostly overcast withsnow showers in places. Daytime highs will range between -4 and 0 degrees Celsius. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| No dragon your feet! Hi-Desert Star We will see more rain, snow, icebergs melting, and so on. Major man-made dams may have incidents due to flooding. There will be series of earthquakes or volcanoes erupting in the period between August and Jan. 5, 2013. The Year of the Dragon is not a ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| CMS Cameron McKenna | Russia in 2012: Forces for Change Linex Legal (press release) (registration) ... no sensational sackings (although we saw the Finance Minister resign and 4 | Russia in 2012: Forces for Change Surkov moved out), no drought and, up to New Year at least, not even much snow, as we experienced the warmest December for 130 years. See all stories on this topic » |
| PlanetSKI | News | Skiing in Russia, the journey continues Enjoying the snow - The storms of earlier have passed and people are enjoying... PlanetSKI goes skiing in Russia - This weekend we will be in Sochi. It hosts the Winter... Czech Republic links to Austria - A ski lift is planned but not everyone ... PlanetSki.eu - News |
| PlanetSKI | News | PlanetSKI goes skiing in Russia Enjoying the snow - The storms of earlier have passed and people are enjoying... PlanetSKI goes skiing in Russia - This weekend we will be in Sochi. It hosts ... www.planetski.eu/news/3442 | ||
| Crystal's Russia Trips: Latest, snowHeads ski forum Just wondering as always intrigued by the possibility of skiing somewhere new and... snowHeads ski club 2.0 is the friendliest ski club ever. Impartialsnow ... snowheads.com/ski-forum/viewtopic.php?p=1962208 | ||
| World Snow Day marked: Voice of Russia This Sunday is World Snow Day, proposed and organized by the International Ski ... Ms Elvira Lando is the chief organizer of World Snow Day events in Russia: ... english.ruvr.ru/2012/01/22/64390337.html | ||
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