And that means - and what happened that year, could that happen this year for the rest of the winter?
The latest findings show that virtually all the ice surveyed is what is called first-year ice, ice that only grew this past winter, as opposed to tougher multi-year ice which survives the warmth of summer.
She shared the award with Katharine Hepburn, recognised that year for The Lion in Winter.
Takahashi took more time out in 2011 when he had to have the bolt from that knee surgery removed, but he recovered the following year to win his first Grand Prix Final -- which was held in Sochi, the Russian resort city that will host next year's Winter Olympics.
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Former Salt Lake City Deputy Mayor Brian Hatch, a key player in securing that city's winning bid for the 2002 Winter Games, recalled showing some Beijing officials around that year to help them prep for their city's hosting role in 2008.
Gone from last year: Lance Armstrong (our list is for active athletes only), White (now that we're a year past the 2010 Winter Games), Ohno (ditto), and NBA stars Kevin Garnett, Dwyane Wade and Kobe Bryant (probably just random, though Wade's stature decreased a tad with LeBron James joining his team, and Garnett is another year older).
The warming trend means that, every year, there is less old ice and more new ice that has formed in the winter just past.
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He said it was not unusual to see peaks in admissions over winter, but that so far this year there had been relatively more respiratory infections circulating among children than in recent years.
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On that winter's night more than a year ago, Captain Schettino was trying to show off his vessel and his seamanship by sailing desperately close to the shore, reports the BBC's Rome correspondent Alan Johnston.
"We have a lot, " he said, noting that demand earlier in the year was subpar because the mild winter meant few spring floods.
For those not cognizant that there was roughly a year until the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, a sudden injury to American World Cup alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn served as an immediate reminder that the Sochi Games are quickly approaching.
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Home Depot shares might not have held up under pressure when the company reported fourth quarter results because of a highly profitable winter last year an unseasonably warm period that boosted numbers across retail.
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Henneberry had tied down the covering on the vessel in his backyard so firmly that it had not budged all winter long, not even through this year's blizzards.
Other events that attract masses of students are the numerous gratis festivals that take place throughout the year in public parks, such as the Hyde Park Winter Wonderland festival.
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And it turns out that when the Earth is close to and zipping by the sun, when we are moving fastest in our annual orbit, that's the time of year we in the Northern Hemisphere call fall and winter.
What I also learned (very confidentially) is that there will be little if any ice wine for sale this year because the mild winter was not helpful.
In Chicago, more than a third of the district's 675 schools opened Aug. 13, part of a year-round schooling effort that spreads out the school calendar with shorter summer and winter breaks.
My other picks include La Canadienne, a 45-year-old company in Montreal that makes the best waterproof, but sexy footwear for the winter months.
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As we break into the winter shopping season, early data is showing positive year-over-year trends that could put retailers in the holiday spirit.
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You will all remember a crucial breakthrough in the James Holmes case that came courtesy of Jana Winter, a veteran Fox News journalist, in late July of last year.
That is one reason why seasonally adjusted jobless claims were under 400, 000 during the winter, this year.
Nationwide, the USDA said Wednesday that U.S. farmers planted 10% more acres of winter wheat in recent months than a year prior.
What Mr Kasyanov did not say was that Russia's harsh winter means that daily production always falls by around that much in the early months of the year (see chart).
Every year, Christie's produces interesting vintage winter-resort sales a challenge given that these posters were originally produced for commercial purposes and often hung in the open, making it hard to find examples in good condition dating so far back.
"The automakers want a new version of the OS every fall so that they have a test bed over the winter and can offer it in their cars for the next model year, " said Keith Weintraub, product manager for Windows CE for Automotive.
The National Federation of Coffee Growers of Colombia, or Fedecafe, isn't giving a firm forecast for next year's crop, saying estimates are hard to make given the large amount of rain that came down this winter.
Results from a survey of 60 business schools -- 58 of them in the United States and one each in France and Canada -- conducted earlier this month found that 98% had seen increased recruiting activity during the fall and winter recruiting period compared to the same time a year before.
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