There’s a saying in the environmental health and safety industry: “There are no accidents.” Basically, the idea is this that all accidents can be avoided.

The first snowflakes hit the ground in Park City, Utah, in late October, before a single peanut butter cup hit the bottom of the Halloween bag. The first snow of the 2022 season dumped 10 inches of fresh powder on the town on Oct. 23, giving skiers and winter sports enthusiasts an early start to their activities.

In 1988, Holland, Michigan’s downtown needed revitalization. Merchants were leaving for a nearby indoor mall. Local industrialist Ed Prince proposed installing a snow-melt system for the streets and sidewalks after seeing a similar system in Europe.

Headquartered in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, BlackHawk is a leading distributor of cutting tools, abrasives and industrial MRO products used in manufacturing, aerospace & defense, energy, auto aftermarket, construction, general industrial, medical and agriculture applications. 

When snow and “ice missiles” blowing off semi-trailers and trucks are added to the equation, the risk factor increases exponentially.

There is a way to remove snow quickly, safely, and efficiently from trailers with automated machines to help keep fleets clean and running on time.

When it snows, the law often requires the building owner to remove it

Dr. Snowden excels as the neuro-interventional radiology section head at Radiology Associates

Hight and Bang lead the Tour, as the 12 best all-mountain, freestyle snowboarders in the world vie for a win at the Tour's third stop and the overall Tour champion crown in the Alaskan backcountry

CEO Kim Ho-yeon has won a prize for an innovative idea at a human interface device contest when working for Intel, and predicted that human interfaces will be used by many people in metaverse (virtual reality) in the future.

For more information about the winter wonderlands in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, please visit https://www.uptravel.com/outdoors-recreation/winter-activities-sports/

Traditional hair stylist Ashley Shawver offers haircuts, blowouts, special occasion styling, scalp wellness treatments, and coloring services

Beyond Key's Snowflake Consulting Services: Empowering Businesses with Data Excellence - A Game-Changer in Data Management and Analytics.

The New Jersey Superior Court’s Appellate Division ruled that a worker was entitled to benefits for his injuries from falling while taking a dip in a hotel pool. Case: Terhune v.

Hydronic snowmelt systems can bring convenience and comfort to places like zoos, sidewalks, decks, pools, and driveways — but they can also save lives.

Young Film Critic (15-19 category) Katie Snow attended the world premiere of The Woman in Black at the Royal Festival Hall last week and wrote us this great review of the forthcoming film.

Washington, D.C.'s streak of 718 days without heavy snow will not likely be broken anytime soon, even as the rest of the East Coast prepares for a winter storm this weekend.

49° NORTH Nestled inside the Colville National Forest, you'll find 49° North Mountain Resort, Eastern Washington's largest ski resort at more than 2,300 acres…

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SFGate reviewers want the scene of Prince Charming kissing Snow White to be removed from the ride because he kisses her while she is sleeping and 'without consent.'

SFGate reviewers want the scene of Prince Charming kissing Snow White to be removed from the ride because he kisses her while she is sleeping and 'without consent.'

Cortex and I decided to make up for lost time after the delayed previous episode by knocking out another one quick-like, and here it is! Catching up on what we can of the last couple of months of MeFi, and also ranting and philosophizing a little bit about recent seismic changes in the social media sphere and also about design skeuomorphism and the semiotics of interfaces? That last bit is probably overselling it a little? Anyway, runs about 90 minutes.

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- Do some last minute holiday shopping at The MeFi Mall
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- Explore Quasi-Periodic Tiling by gwint
- Everything in Conway's Game of Life can be constructed from 15 gliders by automatronic
- "we were, in effect, rewriting our own childhoods" by jessamyn
- The State of Ketchup in 2022 by Fizz

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- MeFi Posts for "Sale" by jessamyn
- What The MeFi BIPOC Board Does by brainwane

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- 73 Keep It Beautiful by chococat

Songbirds swarm their predators and seals appreciate a good rhythm

Whether it’s your first time on a snowmobile or you’re ready to explore the wilderness on your own machine, there are plenty of opportunities to ride across the snow in Colorado.

Lindsey Vonn did many things on skis that no American woman had done before her, so it was appropriate that she was welcomed into the Colorado Snowsports Hall of Fame in a manner unlike anyone else.

One of the most beautiful and powerful segments in this year's Warren Miller film begins with family footage of a little boy of Dominican descent, born in Brooklyn and raised in New Jersey, learning how to snowboard with his dad.

The following Colorado snow totals have been reported by the National Weather Service for Nov. 7-8, 2024

Snow is expected to taper off by noon Saturday, though Coloradans may see continued travel impacts through the weekend, state officials said.

The following Colorado snow totals have been reported by the National Weather Service for Nov. 9 , 2024

Rescue operations were ongoing in Lincoln County as of 10 a.m., with abandoned cars blocking plows and at least two rescuers stranded.

Thousands of homes across Colorado remained without power Sunday morning, according to Xcel. During the snowstorm's peak Friday, 52,000 were powerless.

United, Southwest and SkyWest airlines reported the most delays, according to FlightAware data.

CDOT warned that travel conditions could become “extreme to impossible” Friday and Saturday, expressing particular concern about I-70 east of Denver and I-25 south of Pueblo.

At least 486 flights were canceled and 890 delayed at Denver International Airport on Friday as heavy snow pelted metro Denver and Colorado’s eastern plains.

Deep, crusty snow piled up on fields in eastern Colorado after last week's snowstorm is driving herds of pronghorn onto roads, and dozens of them are dying, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said.

Frederick beat Northfield 32-14 on Friday in 4A's first round.

Colorado’s first snowstorm of the season didn't break any records but it topped average monthly snow totals for the Front Range and Eastern Plains.

Light snow is expected to fall over metro Denver tonight while some areas along the eastern Interstate 70 corridor are forecast to see up to a foot of fresh powder.

Netflix and chill on fleek!

Some birth dates don’t add up.

Canadian law enforcement authorities have arrested an individual who is suspected to have conducted a series of hacks stemming from the breach of cloud data warehousing platform Snowflake earlier this year. The individual in question, Alexander "Connor" Moucka (aka Judische and Waifu), was apprehended on October 30, 2024, on the basis of a provisional arrest warrant, following a request by the

The Sphinx, a patch of snow thought to be the longest-lasting in the UK, has melted for the fourth consecutive year.

Secrets and Spies: UK Intelligence Accountability After Iraq and Snowden Book sysadmin 15 January 2020

How can democratic governments hold intelligence and security agencies to account when what they do is largely secret? Jamie Gaskarth explores how intelligence professionals view accountability in the context of 21st century politics.

Using the UK as a case study, this book provides the first systematic exploration of how accountability is understood inside the secret world. It is based on new interviews with current and former UK intelligence practitioners, as well as extensive research into the performance and scrutiny of the UK intelligence machinery.

The result is the first detailed analysis of how intelligence professionals view their role, what they feel keeps them honest, and how far external overseers impact on their work.

The UK gathers material that helps inform global decisions on such issues as nuclear proliferation, terrorism, transnational crime, and breaches of international humanitarian law. On the flip side, the UK was a major contributor to the intelligence failures leading to the Iraq war in 2003, and its agencies were complicit in the widely discredited U.S. practices of torture and ‘rendition’ of terrorism suspects. UK agencies have come under greater scrutiny since those actions, but it is clear that problems remain.

Secrets and Spies is the result of a British Academy funded project (SG151249) on intelligence accountability. The book is published as part of the Insights series.

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About the author

Jamie Gaskarth is Professor of Foreign Policy and International Relations at The Open University. He was previously senior lecturer at the University of Birmingham where he taught strategy and decision-making. His research focused on the ethical dilemmas of leadership and accountability in intelligence, foreign policy, and defence. He is author/editor or co-editor of six books and served on the Academic Advisory panel for the 2015 UK National Security Strategy and Strategic Defence and Security Review.

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An increasing number of schools are replacing snow days with remote learning, but some plan to stick with the snow day tradition for now.

An Alaskan high school exchange program works to promote understanding between the state's urban centers and its remote Native Villages and communities.

Sometimes, in fact, nature is stranger than fiction