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	The Big Freeze
		But my freezing fireplace could be a candidate for "Unsolved Mysteries." Here's the scoop.
		For the first few years, because of relatively warm winters, we didn't notice the fireplace was sucking in a steady stream of cold air -- a dastardly deed known as "backdrafting." But during the last two much-colder winters, our family room was like a meat locker.
		Last winter the chill was so big that I sealed the fireplace opening with shrink-wrap insulation, the plastic film that covers drafty windows from the inside.
	www.woodheat.org /technology/fireplacebigfreeze.htm (924 words)

	Big Al's Products - Big Al's (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Big Al's aquarium plants are so incredibly life-like that once they are in the aquarium, you can't tell them from the real thing.
		Big Al's sponge selection is the perfect choice for cleaning all tanks and accessories.
		Big Al's gravel cleaner is constructed with high quality, flexible tubing and a unique gravel tube material that will not crack or chip.
	www.bigalsusa.com /products.cfm (1075 words)

	Big Freeze - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Big Freeze is a scenario in which the universe simply becomes too cold to sustain life due to continued expansion and the decay of free energy due to the action of entropy.
		The Big Freeze is a theory of a possible fate of the universe.
		The Big Freeze could occur if the universe's geometry is either flat or hyperbolic, as either of those would mean that the universe would expand indefinitely.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_Freeze (395 words)

	Part III - Big Freezes
		This freeze may forever be known as the freeze that killed the palm trees in the Valley.
		The worst freeze for a meteorologist may be entirely different than one for a citrus or palm grower.
		After that, the four similar freezes of 1852, 1873, 1888, and 1983 are all contenders for fourth place, with 1888 getting the nod since it apparently had more hours in the low twenties.
	www.raingardens.com /psst/articles/artic03.htm (1719 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| How life survived the big freeze
		There is growing geological evidence that our planet went into a big freeze at least twice during the late Proterozoic era, 600-800 million years ago, with the polar icecaps a kilometre deep extending to the equator.
		The cause of the big freeze is thought to have been a combination of a dimmer Sun - by about 6% - and lower levels of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
		One is that a liquid ocean may have soaked up carbon dioxide, preventing the big build-up necessary for the warming phase to begin.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/763696.stm (415 words)

	Big Bounce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Big Bounce is an event derived from the oscillatory universe interpretation of the Big Bang where the first cosmological event was the result of the collapse of a previous universe.
		According to some oscillatory universe theorists, the Big Bang was merely the beginning of a period of expansion that followed a period of contraction.
		One of the main objections to the Big Bounce view is the evidence that has been accumulating that our universe is destined for a Big Freeze or heat death rather than a Big Crunch (see Accelerating universe).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Big_bounce (475 words)

	Catching Pluto Before The Big Freeze
		The result is that a big section of the planetary science community is in a state of restrained panic, with interest groups such as the Planetary Society launching a campaign to persuade NASA and Congress to provide extra funds in order to save the 2004 Pluto mission.
		On Contour, the RTG could be mounted where the unneeded solid kick motor is currently attached; while on Stardust, the RTG could be mounted where the 25-kg sample return capsule for parachuting the comet-dust samples back to Earth when the craft returns here is currently located.
		In both cases, that big high-gain antenna dish would go on the craft's other end, just as is planned for the current Pluto Express spacecraft.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/pluto-00c2.html (1132 words)

	Halfbakery: Entropy Prevents The Big Freeze
		The big freeze is a potential scenario for the end of the universe.
		The big freeze would be a very low entropic state (perfectly ordered), and thus will never happen due to the second law of thermodynamics.
		Once the universe reaches total uniformity, as in the big freeze, it will be in a state of perfect equilibrium--no part will be different from any other part, so no part will have any reason to change its state.
	www.halfbakery.com /idea/Entropy_20Prevents_20The_20Big_20Freeze (980 words)

	BBC - Science & Nature - Space - The End
		If the expansion continues forever then the Universe is destined for the Big Freeze, gradually pulled apart into a cold desolate wasteland of dying stars and fl holes.
		The fate of the Universe is basically a battle fought between the inward pull of gravity and the outward push of expansion.
		Smaller than 1 and we're heading for the quick Big Freeze, a universal ice age.
	www.bbc.co.uk /science/space/origins/theend (565 words)

	The big freeze - Epicure - theage.com.au
		The second problem with slow freezing is that the particle membranes have more time to break down, allowing moisture to leach out.
		Call it what you like, bulk freezer cooking is big in the United States, and it is all explained on websites such as organizedhome.com/freezercook.
		Several titles on freezing by Audrey Ellis, published by Hamlyn in the '70s, are both entertaining and useful.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2003/08/19/1061261127197.html (1902 words)

	Bay Area Braces For Big Freeze - Bayinsider
		Bay Area residents are advised bring their plants and pets indoors overnight as the National Weather Service predicts widespread frost and freezing temperatures.
		Forecasters predict that freezing temperatures could hit the interior valleys and mountain areas by midnight and last for two hours or more.
		Freezing temperatures are predicted in the Central Valley where citrus farmers are mobilizing to protect their crops.
	www.ktvu.com /bayinsider/news/10424780/detail.html (294 words)

	McGUIRE'S Big Freeze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Though his employment agreement calls for a pension that would pay him $5.1 million a year for life and a lump sum of $6.4 million, plus other perks, McGuire walked away from UnitedHealth without it.
		For McGuire's part, the freeze stops the clock on the time he has to exercise those options.
		When the freeze is lifted, that's when the sparks will fly between McGuire and UnitedHealth, observers predict.
	www.topix.net /content/kri/3299424814158372732006305843311728747831 (1258 words)

	WarrenZevon.com - Big freeze - are you OK ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Re: Big freeze - are you OK ?
		Glad no-one is having a major disaster, although it sounds a bit grim in Lee's part of the world with 20,000 people without power.
		We had more coverage of your freeze on local news last night here in Tasmania and some of the footage looked very bleak.
	www.warrenzevon.com /cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1169034558 (599 words)

	The big freeze: Using cryosurgery to kill breast cancer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Using an ultrasound, a probe is placed in the center of the tumor to freeze and kill the cancer cells, says Michael Sabel, M.D., a surgical oncologist at the U-M Comprehensive Cancer Center.
		And by exposing the immune system to the tumor, it may help prevent cancer from returning or spreading to other parts of the body - a common occurrence in breast cancer patients who are diagnosed after the cancer has already spread to the lymph nodes or beyond.
		Cryosurgery involves freezing the breast tumor to kill all of the cancer cells.
	www.cancer.med.umich.edu /news/cryosurgery.htm (778 words)

	Isthmus \| The Daily Page - Lake Monona's big freeze
		Freeze and thaw dates for both lakes Monona and Mendota have been kept for 150 years.
		The mark for latest freeze on both lakes is Jan. 30, 1932.
		Until this year, the second-latest freeze for Lake Monona had been Jan. 14, recorded in 1890 and tied in 2000.
	www.thedailypage.com /daily/article.php?article=5382 (524 words)

	whites.com - The Big Freeze
		With THE BIG FREEZE all this is possible.
		The Big Freeze offers a choice of two Nikon lenses: a 28mm F2.8D and a 85mm F1.8D (more selections available soon).
		The Big Freeze utilizes the Nikon F-60 camera and an 8 perf Vistavision format.
	www.whites.com /heads_cranes/big_freeze.asp (391 words)

	Meltdown Blamed For Big Freeze
		Talk about a climate change: A University of Illinois at Chicago professor says he has found new evidence that a massive meltdown of polar ice 8,200 years ago put North America into a deep freeze for a century.
		The "most dramatic climate change in the last 10,000 years" followed a flood of fresh water from a glacial reservoir into the salty water of the Gulf Stream, which controls our continent's weather.
		His findings establish the first sea-level record corresponding to the big flood.
	www.rense.com /general60/meltdownblamedforbig.htm (442 words)

	Robert Latorre Adds High-Tech Innovation to Gold Buckle Network Western Sports and Lifestyle Programming
		The Big Freeze has been used in a host of commercial productions and has garnered a number of awards for Latorre and his Dallas-based production company Big Fish Films.
		Known as The Big Freeze Digital®, the system will have the unique capability to download and playback the effect in High Definition (HD) while still on the set or other filming location within minutes—a revolutionary advancement in film and television production.
		As founder of Big Fish Films®, Latorre set out to do what had not been done and created the effect known throughout the world as The Big Freeze.
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/12/emw185850.htm (871 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		I think the appeal might be the fact that he can take breaks during commercials and not miss any crucial data in the process.
		The narrator for this edition was again John Ingle, who also does the voice of Cera’s grandfather and known in daytime as Edward Quartermaine on General Hospital.
		The animation is fantastic as usual with the sparkle of the snow and the sound of the wind blowing plus the neat expressions on their faces as they brave the first snow and trek over the mountain.
	www.epinions.com /content_83478154884 (1422 words)

	SysEx & Sonar's Big Freeze
		Sonar 4 now has that one-click freeze solution for virtual instruments, tracks and processors, that not only reclaims CPU power, but in the case of instruments that load samples into RAM (such as samplers that don't stream from hard disk), reclaims the RAM as well.
		There's little advantage to freezing an audio track unless it uses effects that cause a CPU hit, but freezing virtual instrument tracks can save a huge amount of CPU power.
		The final option in the list of Freeze Options is the ability to set a duration that extends beyond the last clip, to accommodate tails from delays, reverb, and so on.
	www.soundonsound.com /sos/jan05/articles/sonarnotes.htm (1931 words)

	Death toll rises as Europe shivers in big freeze - World - smh.com.au
		The cold wave, which has been blamed for more than 50 deaths in Russia, claimed at least 13 lives over the past five days in Moldova, where authorities said another 30 people, many homeless, were in hospital with hypothermia.
		At Dresden Zoo, 21 Humboldt penguins were moved from their minus 21 degree outdoor environment and into a building where the temperature was a more comfortable zero to ensure their feet did not freeze.
		In Moscow, which has been held in an icy grip for the past 10 days, trolley buses and trams returned to full operation but record electricity consumption continued to strain the system.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/death-toll-rises-as-europe-shivers-in-big-freeze/2006/01/25/1138066865646.html (538 words)

	In brief : Big freeze - 20 December 1997 - New Scientist
		In brief : Big freeze - 20 December 1997 - New Scientist
		Movements of ocean ice that ushered in the last big chill appear to have started again.
		Gerard Bond of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, tracked the past movement of ice flows by a type of igneous rock debris called gabbro they leave behind on the ocean floor.
	www.newscientist.com /article/mg15621134.600-in-brief--big-freeze.html (214 words)

	Extreme Weather in Asia: The Big Freeze
		One of the highest death tolls has been in India's Uttar Pradesh state, where at least 102 people have died but temperatures have not dropped any lower than minus 1C.
		In Bangladesh, at least 40 people have died, although temperatures have not even dipped to freezing.
		In Nepal, 11 people have died of the cold - not in the high Himalayas, where the sherpas are hardened to cope with the savage winters, but in the low plains to the south that border India, where the temperature is only hovering around freezing.
	www.truthout.org /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/34/16888 (1649 words)

	The Big Freeze On Fun
		Fruity Fun: Fill some small containers with grapes for a super sweet treat (freezing emphasizes their natural sugars).
		Or halve a banana, insert a toothpick or skewer and drizzle with chocolate sauce.
		Just chop and freeze in baggies, making grabbing the perfect amount a breeze.
	www.homebasics.ca /viewarticle.asp?articleid=3297 (250 words)

	Big freeze an alternative to cremation - World - smh.com.au
		Big freeze an alternative to cremation - World - smh.com.au
		Swedes will then be able to bury their dead by the pioneering method, which involves freezing the body, dipping it in liquid nitrogen and gently vibrating it to shatter it into powder.
		This is put into a small box made of potato or corn starch and placed in a shallow grave, where it will disintegrate in six to 12 months.
	www.smh.com.au /news/world/the-big-freeze/2005/09/29/1127804608668.html (360 words)

	USATODAY.com - Big freeze hits English soccer; doesn't stop Chelsea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		LONDON (AP) — A winter freeze hit English soccer Wednesday, forcing three of 10 Premier League games to be called off because of dangerous playing conditions.
		While most of European soccer is on midseason break, the English leagues schedule four rounds of games in eight days to take advantage of fans enjoying time off for Christmas and New Year's celebrations.
		Games between Bolton and Middlesbrough, Blackburn and Sunderland and Newcastle and Charlton were among 17 called off across England because of freezing weather.
	www.usatoday.com /sports/soccer/europe/2005-12-28-england-freeze_x.htm (450 words)

	The Big Freeze - Moviefone
		The Big Freeze (1993) The Big Freeze on IMDb: Movies, TV, Celebs, and more...
		The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze Movie - DVD The Land Before Time VIII: The Big Freeze Movie - DVD.
		The Big Freeze - Cast & Crew, movie showtimes, plot, synopsis, exclusive features, trailers, clips, theater listings, reviews, message boards, dvd, videos, rentals and more on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /movie/the-big-freeze/1084880/main (126 words)

	Big freeze coming for the world economy
		By the end of this year, that reality will start to emerge behind the smoke and mirrors of stock market exuberance and big business bluster.
		So big has been the flow of money into mutual funds been, that for the first time in American capitalist history, these mutual funds have more savings in total than all the American banks.
		The American middle classes are speculating with their life savings in a big way.
	www.marxist.com /economy/freeze.html (1559 words)

	The Big Freeze Could Hit You Hard In the Wallet :: WRAL.com
		The freeze could result in considerably higher prices in the produce department, according to agricultural economist Dr. Ed Estes.
		The potential impact at the dinner table is bad enough, but the potential impact on fruit farmers is worse.
		Freezing water on delicate fruit vines actually warms them slightly.
	www.wral.com /news/local/story/124198 (467 words)

	Big Freeze Death Toll Grows in Russia - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		State schools said students did not have to attend as long as the temperature remained under minus 20 C in the morning, while buses in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities were filled with special “Arctic” diesel fuel to minimize disruption.
		The Moscow city government set up a special “headquarters to counter the Siberian freeze”, while in St. Petersburg emergency services were instructed to draw up plans for dealing with cold-related emergencies, the RIA-Novosti news agency said.
		Moscow energy officials issued warnings to about 200 companies and other organizations whose energy supplies might be reduced in order to conserve supplies.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2006/01/18/coldtoll.shtml (697 words)

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