Derek Scheer stands near the shore in a state part in Milwaukee on sunny, cold morning.

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That doesn't mean that I bounce out of bed at 4 a.m. on the days that I go to the local YMCA for the spinning class, that I haven't wanted to stay in bed on a cold, snowy morning instead of heading across town to do swim drills.

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On a bitterly cold January morning Spanish businessman Javier Capella sits in a warm General Growth boardroom in Chicago overlooking the river, talking about his dream to make his handbags as hot in the U.S. as they are back home.

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But is there anything worse than waking up in the morning in a freezing cold home?

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It was a cold snowing January morning in early 2012 in Beijing.

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"It was a cold winter morning out in Afghan and I was just walking down a sandy path with overgrown trees on it when I put my right foot onto a pressure pad IED, it detonated and the next thing I knew I was on my back, " he said.

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And so, when a little boy started complaining about the cold early in the morning, the 26-year-old volunteer, who was waving people through a gate, knew just what to say.

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