We are operating the sole United States icebreaker, heavy icebreaker, the Polar Star.
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In contrast, the United States operates only two icebreaking ships — one heavy icebreaker and one medium-weight icebreaker—to serve both the Arctic and the Antarctic.
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By comparison, the United States' icebreaker fleet consists of one heavy icebreaker, which is "on life support," according to the Coast Guard Commandant, Admiral Paul Zukunft.
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A look at Russia's icebreaker inventory underscores its commitment to the region; Russia has nearly 40 icebreaker ships in service, with five more under construction and six more planned.
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Icebreaker: A new video explains why Olympians bite their medals.
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Anyone can send you unsolicited nudes as their icebreaker. ANYONE.
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Drill this into your head: It is a horrible icebreaker.
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American spies used it as an icebreaker in foreign countries.
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They ate snacks, listened to poetry and played icebreaker games.
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The wine turned out to be unnecessary as an icebreaker.
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There aren't any icebreaker questions or catching up with old relatives.
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"Your work is going to be the true icebreaker," he says.
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They join forces to construct an icebreaker to save the day.
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The icebreaker was easy: I trained at Vanderbilt, I told him.
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" He took her to a Giants football game "as an icebreaker.
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China is building a second icebreaker able to cruise polar waters.
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Another icebreaker is on its way to bring it more fuel.
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If you winced at the word "icebreaker," I don't blame you.
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Icebreaker: The most-used emoji on Tinder is the blushing smiley face.
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Canadian Coast Guard Icebreaker, Sir Wilfred Laurier, Northwest Passage, Nunavut, Arctic Canada.
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Icebreaker: Tinder's new app, Tinder Social, matches users with groups of friends.
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Didn't the whole 3D rigmarole wind up being a sort of icebreaker?
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A Swedish icebreaker, the Oden, is expected to make two resupply trips.
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Scientists returning to the icebreaker Polarstern from the ice on Dec. 4.
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They can also help you say goodbye to your routine office icebreaker.
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In 2012, a Chinese icebreaker dubbed the Snow Dragon transited the Arctic.
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Sounds like the perfect post-dinner icebreaker after inhaling too much take out.
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This image captures the interior of an icebreaker tanker intended to carry LNG.
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I've worn this Icebreaker shirt for a few days without taking a shower.
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Yael: Plus it's a nice icebreaker to talk about the odd word combos.
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He couldn't drop in a line about the Riemann hypothesis as an icebreaker.
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"It's deliciously matte" — a simple but surprisingly effective icebreaker for this arranged meeting.
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Now, he's a pastor, and he says the tattoos are a good icebreaker.
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It is the first nuclear-powered icebreaker in the world, built in 1959.
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The Chinese are also building a second icebreaker, like the one pictured above.
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"Ultimately, this historic Muharram is an icebreaker for other events," Mr. Abdeali said.
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I used the gag as an icebreaker for the rest of the night.
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Nowhere is this more obvious than in the pitiful state of its icebreaker fleet.
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Icebreaker: A new study suggests that people who behave more altruistically have more sex.
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Icebreaker: The Prime Minister of Japan appeared as Mario during the Olympics closing ceremony.
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"ICEBREAKER" by Horatio Clare, a British nonfiction writer, is an encounter with the void.
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"Support for the president has become a dealbreaker instead of an icebreaker," she said.
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She relied on an icebreaker of the era, bumming cigarettes to start a conversation.
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The Mackinaw, commissioned in 2006, is the largest American icebreaker on the Great Lakes.
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She has seen her students develop more and more icebreaker games in recent years.
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Dale Lankford, Coast Guard, 103-210 I was on an icebreaker based in Seattle.
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The U.S. has five, only one of which is a so-called heavy icebreaker.
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A half-finished icebreaker loomed at the pier, its deck crawling with tiny figures.
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It would also be too costly to buy and build just one icebreaker, he said.
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Unlike ice buckets, the Icebreaker has a bottom tray that collects melted water between servings.
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On the contrary, they are often an icebreaker and the beginning of an exciting conversation.
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The service is now on course to secure its first heavy icebreaker in 40 years.
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The $750 million for the heavy icebreaker has been requested but is still not guaranteed.
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Currently, the Coast Guard has one remaining active icebreaker, the 42-year-old Polar Star.
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Icebreaker: The Beyhive trolled Chick-fil-A for suggesting their lemonade was fresher than Beyoncé's.
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And in Shanghai, Chinese shipbuilders recently launched the country's second icebreaker, the Snow Dragon 2.
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Casteel is a self-described introvert, and baking has also become an icebreaker of sorts.
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A professor recently asked students, as an icebreaker, to describe their favorite family vacation spot.
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"This will require the Coast Guard to have icebreaker assets in the region," he added.
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Now Russia is building floating nuclear plants with reactors taken from their nuclear powered icebreaker program.
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And, it's safe to say it will always take a unique icebreaker to impress an Aquarius.
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The icebreaker, of course, is already available – you're both going to the same event, after all.
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They had recently been to the North Pole aboard Russia's nuclear icebreaker, 50 Years of Victory.
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You initiate the match and can even send an icebreaker message to get the convo going.
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Plus, if you're both friends with the same person, you already have an icebreaker for conversation.
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Icebreaker-friendly characters also include Jon Snow at 43 percent and Cersei Lannister at 14 percent.
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Babb is a scientist who was aboard the icebreaker, and is a coauthor of the study.
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Presently, the Coast Guard only has one operational heavy icebreaker, and it is 85033 years old.
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The US has just one heavy icebreaker, the decrepit Polar Star, operated by the Coast Guard.
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But those clashes have now become the icebreaker in the speech she gives to Arkansas audiences.
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The fleet also includes one medium icebreaker, but no deep-water port within the Arctic Circle.
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Just like the Open Banking Standard, Icebreaker One will steer the development of the SERI standard.
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As a geeky icebreaker, we go around the table and share our favorite guilty-pleasure website.
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It is not a cocktail party icebreaker question, but rather a test of perspective and experience.
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The United States has only two operational icebreakers, plus another heavy icebreaker that is not in commission.
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Available in different packs and colors, you can grab a 2-pack of the Icebreaker for $86.
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Icebreaker: Emirates has been named the best airline in the world in this year's World Airline Awards.
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Icebreaker: According to a new study, the Earth is the warmest it's been in roughly 120,000 years.
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Keep breath mints handy as an icebreaker Fresh breath should be a priority in everyone's life. 11.
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If you're rolling your eyes and muttering, "That's such a generic and broad icebreaker," you're absolutely right.
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I still remember the icebreaker my English teacher kicked off our class with nearly a decade ago.
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Last week, Russia launched its first military icebreaker in 45 years, according to the TASS news agency.
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Icebreaker: Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star Ellie Kemper has confirmed that she is pregnant with her first child.
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Now a customs broker, she brings business associates to the shop as a special treat and icebreaker.
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An unconventional icebreaker for brainstorming sessionsWhy recounting embarrassing stories leads to more idea generation isn&apost clear.
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We've all been victim to a terribly trite icebreaker with coworkers that made us roll our eyes.
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Snapshot: Above, the German research vessel Polastern, right, and a Russian icebreaker vessel, left, in Tromso, Norway.
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ARRESTED It is really too bad that the scientists studying GLOBAL WARMING in Antarctica got stuck on their icebreaker because of massive ice and cold The rescue icebreaker, trying to free the ship of the GLOBAL WARMING scientists, has turned back-the ice is massive (a record). IRONIC!
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Design-wise, it's similar to Hinge, and profiles consist of a series of photos paired with icebreaker prompts.
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Crystal Ventures acts as an "icebreaker" for the private sector, says Frederick Golooba-Mutebi, a Kigali-based researcher.
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The Coast Guard has just two fully functional icebreakers, only one of which is a heavy-duty icebreaker.
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An icebreaker couldn't tow it for another couple weeks—leaving the crew plenty of time for R&R.
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"There are tools and products that you can use as an icebreaker for a first date," she says.
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It has $6900 million to move along the process of building a new icebreaker for the Coast Guard.
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Mr. Cosgrove thinks of Tinder as an icebreaker, since it can ease the stress of approaching a woman.
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Icebreaker: San Francisco, ever the hotbed of innovation, will see the world's first "cannabis gym" open this fall.
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Indeed there's anxiety among military types in the US about an "icebreaker gap" between the US and Russia.
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" Coming up with potential sex toys was, she said, "a great icebreaker on the topic [of jerking off].
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Each time the icebreaker ushers a ship to safety, the crew records a mark on the ship's window.
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MOSAiC had already chartered the Swedish icebreaker Oden to ship north and rendezvous with the Polarstern in June.
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In the best case, the first new icebreaker will float out of dry dock six years from now.
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She noticed that organizers sometimes prompt attendees to do icebreaker exercises, which often involve recalling accomplishments and achievements.
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You're the non-label type, but in this situation the label is great, because it's an awesome icebreaker.
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On Friday, the German icebreaker Polarstern will leave Norway, above, for the Laptev Sea, north of Central Siberia.
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The icebreaker was followed by an exercise intended to explore how to navigate conversations with A.H.F.'s critics.
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The Lyft IPO, which could come next month, may serve as an icebreaker in the frozen IPO market.
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The Jayhawks raced to a 15-2 lead before Isaac White's icebreaker, but committed 14 first-half turnovers.
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Zukunft told an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that the "icebreaker package" was intended to get information from the industry about its ability to build and develop a new icebreaker that will be in use for 40 years, and explore other options such as leasing.
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Icebreaker: The infamous corpse flower bloomed at the New York Botanical Garden for the first time in 80 years.
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"It's the best icebreaker I've ever found and always leads to deeper subjects than just the chart," she explains.
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The study, named BaySys, started last month, and the scientists were traveling on the Canadian Research Icebreaker CCGS Amundsen.
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The wheelchair is also a great, literal icebreaker: My chair can plow though small patches and even snow banks.
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One role he will be welcome to play is as an icebreaker at the Oval Office happy hour. Mrs.
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If passed, it would be the first time Congress has funded an icebreaker since the 1990 defense appropriations bill.
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The Coast Guard's 2017 budget request asks for $85033 million to fund planning and design for a new icebreaker.
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The icebreaker sliced in front of the Burns Harbor once, then swerved ahead to carve a path to follow.
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An earlier version of this article misstated where the Polarstern icebreaker would stop and become frozen in the ice.
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A table at the front holds prizes the teens can win in icebreaker games, like makeup brushes and stickers.
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Finland, owner of the world's second-largest icebreaker fleet has seven, followed by Canada and Sweden at six apiece.
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Paul Zukunft noted that the Coast Guard's new heavy icebreaker will be unarmed when it enters service in 2023.
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There's no better icebreaker than having to pretend to be someone you're not in front of a room of strangers.
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Steam rises from the water in the port of Sabetta, where an icebreaker tanker intended to carry LNG is docked.
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We were sailing around on a coast guard icebreaker in blue water that could have been anywhere in the world.
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It took 40 hours for a Canadian icebreaker to arrive to evacuate the 120 passengers from the 330-foot boat.
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He reminded me we were in an icebreaker, a solidly built ship, but not designed for a smooth, swift ride.
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Everyone has a strange story about their childhood they like to pull out during icebreaker circles or while tipsy parties.
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As Mobvoi employees file off the bus at the resort, it's time first for a Chinese-style icebreaker: massage trains.
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Newer brands like Saxx and Icebreaker are trying to change that with inventive new designs and new and improved fabrics.
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We cut along the fjord heading out of town, then looped back along the harbor and by an icebreaker ship.
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"Make a joke as an icebreaker and talk about protection up front — it is NOT a mood killer," she suggests.
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But Beck says his big break came when he landed a promotion in 2014 with New Zealand clothing label Icebreaker.
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A sparkly top and bold pixie pant pairing like this will serve as an icebreaker when you can't find the words.
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The Canadian research icebreaker CCGS Amundsen, an Arctic expedition vessel, will not be venturing north for its planned trip this year.
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Enter Icebreaker Urban Portable Ice Maker — an amazingly simple hand-held ice maker that churns out ice cubes quickly and easily.
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Russia has also reoccupied seven former Soviet bases in the Arctic region and launched its first military icebreaker in 303 years.
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In his letter, Hunter said the Coast Guard has had to order parts online to operate its single heavy-duty icebreaker.
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Even NPR's Terry Gross, host of the popular podcast "Fresh Air, " agrees that this seemingly simple icebreaker has a powerful impact.
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Senvion was seen as an "icebreaker" and other firms had pinned their hopes on Senvion's success for their own IPO plans.
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Icebreakers are having a moment, in the world of maritime security, with growing concerns over an "icebreaker gap" and America's underachievement.
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Nonprofit Lake Erie Energy Development Corp, or LEEDCo, expects to start construction of the six-turbine Icebreaker Wind project by 2021.
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She was just 17 and he was 19, and they were paired together for an icebreaker event on the first day.
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The Coast Guard currently has three icebreakers, but only two are fully functional and only one is a heavy-duty icebreaker.
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Stewart's question to Hoult's character, "What did you look like when you were little?" is officially our new first-date icebreaker.
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Pros: Thin, supportive, breathable, odor-protectingCons: Oversized logo, though it could be worseShop men's Icebreaker underwear at REI, starting at $27.73
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ICEBREAKER might make you think of cruising to Antarctica; it's also the name of a very common brand of breath mints.
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For men, Wirecutter recommends the Icebreaker Men's BodyfitZone Zone Leggings along with the Smartwool Men's Merino 150 Base Layer Long Sleeve.
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The app functions as a digital icebreaker, designed for people who would rather meet someone IRL than first chatting on an app.
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To overcome my anxiety, I turned to the most natural and obvious icebreaker that we all had in common: the trip itself.
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The matchmaker can then recommend that the two people connect, and can even send an icebreaker message to get the conversation started.
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He then gave another COR executive a surefire icebreaker with the governor: He told him to chat with Mr. Cuomo about Corvettes.
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For the past six months, the German icebreaker Polarstern has been drifting through the central Arctic Ocean, intentionally frozen into the ice.
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Unless you enjoy hosting a group of nervous people hugging the wall, you need an ICEBREAKER to make things convivial between strangers.
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The teacher used it as an "icebreaker," the superintendent, Todd M. Nichols of the Cuyahoga Falls School District, said in a statement.
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By way of an icebreaker, I ask which outfit was stranger to wear: the motion-capture suit or the body paint for SI?
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At one point, a nuclear icebreaker escorted Venta Maersk through a frozen Russian strait, then the container vessel continued to the Norwegian Sea.
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However, that number has dwindled to two, including only one heavy-duty icebreaker, the aging 399-foot USCGC Polar Star, commissioned in 1976.
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"The structural design of an icebreaker that allows it to cut through dense ice means it needs a strong propulsion system," he said.
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The U.S. military's only operational heavy icebreaker, the Polar Star, is seen as incapable of remaining in service more than another five years.
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Icebreaker Hyperia Lite Men's Jacket, available at Moosejaw, from $181.99Icebreaker's Merinoloft line is lightweight and almost paper-thin, but warm as can be.
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But hey, at the very least, bringing up music will give you something to talk about if you're in need of an icebreaker.
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Dario outfitted his sailboat with his own icebreaker, crafted himself in an Inuit village back at Herschel Island with $40 worth of supplies.
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On that first day we visited the Atomic Icebreaker Lenin, the most prized tourist attraction in a city that does not get tourists.
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The very nature of the format gives guests an easy icebreaker: the food itself, who made what and how you got it there.
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"We are sprinting out of the starting blocks to build the first heavy icebreaker by 2023," he said in a speech in March.
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Together, the Akademik Fedorov and the German icebreaker, the Polarstern, sailed from Tromsø, Norway, in mid-September and headed toward the central Arctic.
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Joined by a Russian icebreaker carrying more equipment, it will sail east for two weeks to the Laptev Sea, north of Central Siberia.
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Russia fields more than 2900 icebreakers, including several with nuclear propulsion; by contrast, the U.S. Coast Guard operates America's two-ship icebreaker fleet.
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In 2015, a Coast Guard icebreaker named after him, the Healy, became the first unaccompanied U.S. surface ship to reach the North Pole.
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A generation ago, they might have needed a Coast Guard icebreaker to do their work but on this trip, saw only open water.
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They're busy investing in icebreakers to help navigate newly open waters, even as the U.S. relies on a single working Coast Guard icebreaker.
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"I'm from the federal government; I'm here to help," he said — a Ronald Reagan joke that has been Graham's preferred icebreaker for years.
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"We're right here next to the water where the icebreaker berths and a lot of the Antarctic crew come in," Ms. Radman said.
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The question "Do you know what it means?" is both test and icebreaker, and the answer is yes, I do know what it means.
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"Now, you not only have something in common, you also have a genuine icebreaker and your first-date spot," says Tinder on its blog .
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The Icebreaker men's briefs have flatlock seams to prevent chafing and are made from odor-resistant merino wool, a necessary quality in all underwear.
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Washington (CNN)Faced with a growing Russian military presence in the Arctic, U.S. leaders are calling for a new billion-dollar icebreaker ship. Sens.
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Schneider missed one in Antarctica in 1985 because he couldn't find a plane or an icebreaker to take him into the path of totality.
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This year pitches were judged by a panel of Finnish and international investors from DFJ Dragon Fund, 01 Ventures, and Icebreaker VC, among others.
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The United States today is outmaneuvered in icy waters by Russia, which has numerous icebreaking vessels, and China, which is building a third icebreaker.
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The icebreaker cast off from Thule, Greenland on July 18 and has conducted a series of experiments with the help of students on board.
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Oceanographer Anna Wåhlin paced across the bridge of the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker like a nervous parent waiting for a teenager out past curfew.
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Icebreaker has been producing some of the finest merino-wool-based layers around, so it's no surprise they're putting their expertise into underwear, too.
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He said the exercise was meant to be an "icebreaker" and that he has made the same presentation dozens of times at other institutions.
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Turned out the potatoes were fully candy, nobody says "hut hut hut" ever, and making tepees and feather headdresses together was a great icebreaker.
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Mohammed Umer Daudzai, a member of the council, said an informal meeting with the Taliban in Qatar, seen as an icebreaker, would go ahead.
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In Congress, members of both parties have called the situation a national embarrassment and provided funds to begin designing a new American icebreaker fleet.
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If you have a few months to spare, you can board an icebreaker and chug across a small section of the sea, taking measurements.
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I'm currently onboard the German icebreaker Polarstern, which is frozen within the Arctic ice at roughly 85 degrees north latitude and 130 degrees east longitude.
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As she built a network of clients, she found politics to be an icebreaker and her husband a willing partner at dinners with prospective investors.
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The drinks acted as an icebreaker, infusing me with a kind of mellowness that allowed me to be the person that I needed to be.
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Francis said he was particularly struck by news last week of a Russian boat that managed to go through the North Pole without an icebreaker.
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"I was just waiting for this moment," she said, deploying the kind of slightly nervous icebreaker you might use on a doctor before a colonoscopy.
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"She's a nice icebreaker, especially now with all the Russian things going on," said Kristaps Birmanis, the owner of the Riga design concept store Bold.
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She has a Jolteon she received attending the 2010 Pokémon National Championships, a necessary icebreaker for the shy teen trying to make conversation with strangers.
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It all began when the NERC invited the public to christen the 129-meter long icebreaker, the largest and most advanced British research vessel to date.
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"The majority of our community's pre-founders are working long hours at their current jobs," says Aleksi Partanen, also a co-founder and Partner at Icebreaker.
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As an icebreaker, Miller sent a GIF from a 1967 episode of Spider-Man, in which two people dressed as Spider-Man point at each other.
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However, Maersk is now exploring the possibility of offering a service in cooperation with Russia's nuclear-powered icebreaker company Rosatomflot, High North News reported on Friday.
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The majority of the speakers at the event on national security challenges in the Arctic estimated the cost of the icebreaker ship at approximately $1 billion.
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The nuclear icebreaker 50 Years of Victory arrives to tow a cargo ship carrying supplies for the Yamal LNG factory in Sabetta through the Kara Sea.
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Good, liberal white people — the ones for whom "I voted for Obama" is supposed to be an icebreaker — inflict as much harm as obvious bad ones.
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Well, I had done some research on you and had realized you had grew up right around there and thought it would make a good icebreaker.
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So on March 3, another icebreaker, the Admiral Makarov, left Murmansk, Russia, with a load of extra fuel to intercept the Kapitan Dranitsyn on its way.
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China's giant state-run shipping company, COSCO, has announced its intention to take advantage of the shorter routes and the government is building a second icebreaker.
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It did receive a $600 million lift this month after a spending bill funded a replacement for the Polar Star, the Coast Guard's only heavy icebreaker.
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But the researchers propose that it could be used in the Icebreaker Life mission, a NASA Discovery Program project that aims to search for life on Mars.
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Phthalate and BPA-free and EU food-approved, the Icebreaker boasts a mechanical design that doles out ice cubes one by one with just a simple twist.
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The next Icebreaker event, dubbed "Pre-Founder Project," will see the Finnish VC firm invite 50 "qualified pre-founders" for afterwork events and workshops with different themes.
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"The area that we're talking about from the European Arctic standpoint, the North Atlantic, that strategic area, you don't need an icebreaker to operate there," Eikenes said.
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Comparable data are not available for Arktika, but America's heavy icebreaker, Polar Star, can break a channel through two-metre ice at a rate of three knots.
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The guys mingle for a bit before Lance leads them in a soulless icebreaker that consists of saying their name, occupation, and a hashtag to describe themselves.
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This huge, gorgeous Russian icebreaker ship that took more than 100 eclipse chasers from the tip of Africa down through the Indian Ocean to the Antarctic coast.
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Whether you like to keep it innocent or X-rated, there is a category for every level of desire, including Classic, Romantic, Flirt, Icebreaker, Foreplay and Sex.
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Icebreaker has the flashy stuff on offer, sure, but grays, blues, and blacks span their line, meaning I can pull this stuff off in the office too.
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"A watch is the greatest icebreaker there is," Hamilton Powell, the CEO and founder of Crown & Caliber, an online secondary market for luxury watches, told Business Insider.
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Next on the agenda is sketching a vagina, an assignment that usually acts as an icebreaker once the drawings—often anatomically inaccurate—take shape, according to Htar.
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"If you're on an icebreaker and you wanted to know the best way to navigate, a SAR image can really help you with that," Mr. Caro said.
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Punk begat New Wave, which congealed into the turgid bolus of synthesizer-heavy '80s rock — until the icebreaker of Grunge brought yet another return to the basics.
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They left in December on another icebreaker as part of a planned rotation of personnel, and recently came to New York City to talk about the expedition.
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The expedition, called Mosaic, is the first opportunity climate researchers have had to study the Arctic during the winter season as it has lacked necessary icebreaker equipment.
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Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc, which built the newest U.S. icebreaker and delivered it in 1999, said it was "absolutely interested" in building icebreakers for the U.S. Coast Guard.
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Icebreaker, a new €14 million VC fund based in Helsinki, is de-cloaking today with a remit to back early-stage startups and what it calls "pre-founders".
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When I was a kid, maybe eight or nine, I had what I considered to be the perfect "little-known fact about myself" to share in icebreaker games.
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He was assigned to the icebreaker Magga Dan and found himself gazing in wonderment at the aurora australis rippling in reds, purples, and greens across the polar sky.
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The Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) opened a poll for the naming of the 129-meter long icebreaker, the largest and most advanced British research vessel to date.
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Kepler's nanosatellites have successfully demonstrated achieving over 100Mbps of network speed to a German icebreaker sea vessel that acts as a mobile lab for the MOSAiC research expedition.
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China's first indigenously-built icebreaker, Snow Dragon 2, launched in December and will operate alongside its namesake, built by Ukraine for Beijing and put in service in 1994.
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"Issuance of the permit follows last year's Ohio EPA decision to grant Icebreaker its approval under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act," LEEDCo said in a statement.
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The Obama administration pursued an ambitious Arctic strategy to ensure the US remained a strong power in regional affairs, including plans to replace the heavy icebreaker by 2020.
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His new project is Icebreaker One, a new non-profit which last month raised £1m+ investment, largely funded by the UK's government-backed body UK Research and Innovation.
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Programming for the first day called for an icebreaker in which employees were asked to scribble unusual facts about themselves on pieces of paper tossed into a hat.
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The icebreaker Polarstern is preparing to set sail from Tromsoe in northern Norway, allowing hundreds of rotating researchers to spend the next year close to the north pole.
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Cheesemongering became the perfect queer icebreaker; from seeing women's "over the top crazy excitement" at her profession or awkward response, Cara knew who she wanted to pursue romantically.
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Funded by the National Science Foundation and the Heising-Simons Foundation in the United States, the expedition in the Swedish icebreaker The Oden ran from July 18 to Aug.
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Last August, a Russian tanker sailed direct from Norway to South Korea through the Arctic Ocean, the first time such a ship had done so without an icebreaker escort.
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"It is my goal to ensure that a heavy icebreaker is acquired as efficiently and quickly as possible — and I hope the Coast Guard shares that goal," he wrote.
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The yearlong expedition in the Arctic, known as Mosaic, is centered on a research icebreaker, Polarstern, that has been drifting with the pack ice for the past six months.
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Until very recently, it looked as if these researchers—traveling aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn—would need to find a new port due to Norway's coronavirus travel restrictions.
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As an icebreaker or think-pair-share, I have my students take this self-compassion quiz that measures how much self-kindness or harsh self-judgment they show themselves.
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Pattinson said the scene served as "an icebreaker" since they shot it on the first day, and was the product of wanting to impress Eggers on the first take.
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Or, even if you're not super close with a person, talking openly about something like sex can be an instant icebreaker that lets everyone's guard down — which might seem counterintuitive.
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Tavarez first heard of Co—Star from a queer friend who downloaded it while out on a date, using the app as an icebreaker to get to know each other.
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REI's in-house line offers a lot of value for the money, but if you prefer other brands, they also have a lot of Smartwool and Icebreaker on sale too.
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Meanwhile, in Russia—another country fervently working to open regular Arctic shipping—at least one company is offering tourists the chance to cruise the North Pole in a nuclear icebreaker.
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For those flirting with a new crush or attempting to introduce sexting into a long-term relationship, using silly filters and giant emojis can make Snapchat the ultimate sexting icebreaker.
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One of them was an icebreaker exchange between Clinton and me in which I mentioned that I had just seen a moose on the side of the New Hampshire road.
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For starters, the simple "icebreaker" anagrams I rely on were quite sparse: TOYOTA is a good, straightforward example, as are NACRE, SILENCE, AND OR, SPASM and a couple of others.
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Crossword constructing has been a super icebreaker when I meet people for the first time and having cruciverbalist on my résumé has helped me at job interviews more than once.
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Murray Energy, the nation's largest privately-owned coal company, is bankrolling groups and residents opposed to a planned $126 million six-turbine Icebreaker Wind project off the coast of Cleveland.
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With the support of the administration and the Congress we are on our way to build a heavy icebreaker replacement to serve our national interest that&aposs projecting our sovereignty there.
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The US Coast Guard is working on building its first new icebreaker since the 1970s, though it likely won't be able to send one to the Arctic regularly until after 2025.
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"Okay, let's all share whatever updates we have aaand...your favorite ice cream flavor!" said Rubin, introducing an impromptu icebreaker during one of their regular video conference calls with other organizers.
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For the first time ever, women were totally in control of starting the conversation — much to the delight of any man who has ever hated coming up with a witty icebreaker.
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Ramos, 88, who described his role as an "icebreaker", is known for an impromptu duet of Elvis Presley's 'Love Me Tender' with former Chinese president Jiang Zemin at a 1996 banquet.
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The two senators also linked the need for a new icebreaker ship to Russian military and commercial activity in the region, noting the disparity between the Russian and American icebreaking fleet.
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In June last year, the state-owned China National Nuclear Corporation was invited by Moscow to bid for a nuclear-powered icebreaker project that will be powered by floating modular reactors.
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In September, China launched a second icebreaker known as Xue Long 2, or Snow Dragon 2, with an expedition scheduled for the first half of 2019, according to state-run media.
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These changes have already made travel in the region notably easier; in 2007, for the first time in history, a ship navigated through the Northwest Passage without help from an icebreaker.
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Because it is an icebreaker, the people trying to get me to play it are invariably friends of friends — the class of person that commands the most deference in social situations.
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MOSAiC's organizers are now scrambling to pull together a contingency plan, which will likely involve ferrying the next group of scientists north with a resupply shipment aboard a giant icebreaker vessel.
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Every breakfast begins with an icebreaker — a game of sex and anatomy trivia to loosen up language around taboos — and then students break into smaller groups to air out personal confusions.
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She developed a set of rules to make the most out of networking: don't be a wallflower, prepare several icebreaker questions, ready an elevator pitch, and ace the follow-up game.
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There is also another unexpected benefit: As the Police Department has sought to project its friendlier side in an era of low crime, the Smart car has been an effective icebreaker.
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In 2014, she was invited to be the first choreographer-in-residence on the United States Coast Guard Cutter Healy, an icebreaker then on a science expedition to the Chukchi Sea.
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""Support for the president has become a dealbreaker instead of an icebreaker," she said, explaining the platform was created so that Trump supporters could "meet people without being afraid of talking politics.
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Arrival wasn't a play-by-play of documentation linguistics, but it fills in the hole left by any sci-fi with a "universal translator" function, and gives me a pretty okay icebreaker.
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Since 2013, Playford has worked with climate scientists, most recently joining young oceanographers on board the German icebreaker Polarstern as an artist in residence to collaborate on giant murals of the ocean.
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The first new U.S. icebreaker is unlikely to enter service before 2023, the U.S. Coast Guard says – but that will be contingent on additional funding this year that is not yet guaranteed.
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Although the Hudson was built for travel through sea ice, on the last leg of the journey it got stuck in the Northwest Passage and had to be rescued by an icebreaker.
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Merino wool is the traveler's best friend, so the Icebreaker Merino Connection Pants use it to ensure a soft and stink-free fit even when you're in them for the long haul.
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If Awkward Pop Songs was JANK's joke-cracking icebreaker, then Versace Summer is your fourth time hanging out with them, the point where things start to get less funny and more serious.
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"That was kind of his icebreaker," said the reporter, Taylor Kuykendall, who covers the coal industry for S&P Global Market Intelligence and has closely followed Mr. Ward's work out of necessity.
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Four years ago, on one of my trips, I turned a corner to find, in big black lettering: Her Brows Were All It Took So maybe these brows are indeed an icebreaker.
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At the same time, a Chinese icebreaker on a scientific mission completed a circumpolar navigation, traversing both the Northern Sea Route along Russia's northern shore and the Northwest Passage atop North America.
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What once served as a funny icebreaker, or even a source of adulation ( "In the '80s, they'd think I was rich!" one elder Trump told me) is now an invitation to be ridiculed.
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Starting conversations should be easy, since you hate the same things, but just in case, there's a built-in icebreaker game that poses a question and has you both fill in the blank.
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"Rather than people turning up and taking down names and numbers, making it a very clinical deal, it's a real icebreaker to have the dog and makes buyers receptive to us," Ashley said.
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The good news Thursday is that all 68 expeditioners and crew aboard the grounded icebreaker ship are "safe and well," according to the Australian Antarctic Division, a government agency that conducts Antarctic research.
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For those who don't use it: You answer three prompt questions, which the other person can comment on as a sort of icebreaker, it's a bit of a group-job-interview-type one.
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What once served as a funny icebreaker, or even a source of adulation ("In the '80s, they'd think I was rich!" one elder Trump told me) is now an invitation to be ridiculed.
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On the icebreaker floating research ship, Kepler has demonstrated 38Mbps down, and 120Mbps up, which is coincidentally above the max recommended specs that Google has posted for its highest quality Stadia game streaming.
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The researchers used a helicopter to land on ice floes and retrieve the samples during an 18-day icebreaker expedition through the Northwest Passage, the hazardous route linking the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.
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Among the other vessels spotted in Jiangnan was China's home-grown icebreaker, the Xue Long 2, which has yet to be completed but will be a key part of Beijing's growing Arctic ambitions.
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Read more: An icebreaker just tested a first-of-its-kind system that can slurp up oil spills in the frigid Arctic In deeper waters, modern platforms are specifically designed to resist hurricanes.
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Cover image: Researcher Tiina Jaaskelainen points out a possible sighting of wildlife aboard the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica as it traverses the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Saturday, July 22, 2017.
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Russian nuclear submarines sank in 1989 and 2000, while one Russian nuclear icebreaker caught fire in 2011 and the reactor on another leaked radiation that year, according to Bellona, a Norwegian environmental group.
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But instead of being halted by thick ice, or relying on an icebreaker, the tankers can turn around and churn stern-first through ice up to seven feet thick, although at slower speed.
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I was onboard a Russian icebreaker, the Akademik Fedorov, which was helping with the initial setup of the mission (known as the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate, or Mosaic).
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WASHINGTON, Jan 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard will release a proposed acquisition timeline and requirements for a new U.S. icebreaker later on Wednesday, Admiral Paul Zukunft, commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, said.
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President Barack Obama in September called for the United States to accelerate plans to buy at least one new heavy icebreaker for the U.S. Arctic by 2020, instead of the previous goal of 2022.
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But we need to make sure that the flotilla comes up behind this icebreaker who is Donald Trump and make sure the make America great again agenda is implemented for the next seven years.
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A view inside the engine room of an icebreaker tanker, one of 15 vessels created for the Yamal LNG project that are capable of cutting their own path through ice nearly 7 feet thick.
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Meanwhile, Australia has enlisted the United States' help to move more than 30 expeditioners who have been waiting at the Davis research station for the summer months, when an icebreaker could bring them home.
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These things also have in common a certain unpreventability: Life is booby-trapped with occasions for public speaking, whether they be wedding toasts or icebreaker games on the first day of a new job.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Yuri Ganus settled into his new office last year as the director of RUSADA, Russia's suspended anti-doping agency, he hung a picture of an icebreaker plowing through blocks of ice.
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A Canadian Icebreaker ship comes in during the summer to clear a path for cargo ships from the US, Canada, and Denmark to replenish the base's supply of fuel, construction supplies, cargo, and food.
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A GOP congressman is questioning whether the United States will be able to stay competitive with Russia in the Arctic under the current timeline for the Coast Guard to get a new icebreaker ship.
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VIDEO: SHANNON HALL To get a better handle on the timeline, scientists are spending one year in a German icebreaker that has been trapped within the sea ice at the top of the globe.
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In Hong Kong, the smaller Jockey Club Museum of Climate Change chronicles grand scientific expeditions, including those of the Xuelong, an icebreaker that went on voyages to probe the Arctic's response to global warming.
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Go for the unusual If what you choose to put at the center of your table is unusual, chances are it will be a great icebreaker, especially for guests who don't know one another.
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A large group of Afghan politicians, led by former President Hamid Karzai, met with the Taliban in Moscow this month in what they hoped could be an icebreaker for broader talks between the groups.
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Russia continues to modernize its nuclear submarines and add new icebreakers to its current fleet of over 40, including the recent launch of the world's largest and most powerful nuclear icebreaker — designed for military purposes.
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"In other words, Russia is not just exceeding the U.S. in icebreaker production and Arctic presence, they're in a class by themselves and setting a standard, supported by enhanced capability, that is unmatched," he continued.
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The icebreaker -- which two years ago came to the rescue of dozens stranded on a Chinese ship -- itself got stuck Wednesday morning, when it broke from its moorings off Antarctica's Mawson station amid blizzard conditions.
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Here's the good news: A Russian icebreaker on a voyage to resupply a climate change research expedition barely 100 miles from the North Pole finally reached its destination after struggling through heavy ice for weeks.
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This is the Standard for Environment, Risk and Insurance (SERI) which has been created to design, test and develop financial products with Icebreaker One members ahead of the COP26 conference in Glasgow later this year.
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CreditCredit TROMSO, Norway — Just days before the German icebreaker Polarstern sets sail on the largest and most ambitious climate-change research expedition the Arctic has ever seen, an air of quiet pandemonium prevails aboard ship.
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KIRUNA, Sweden (Reuters) - A year-long recording of the songs of Beluga whales has been salvaged from the Arctic after the crew of a Swedish icebreaker chanced upon a research buoy adrift in hazardous pack ice.
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Russia has more than 85033 of its own icebreakers, and China recently began a project to build its third icebreaker, a nuclear-powered ship — a sign the nation recognizes the significance of dominating the Arctic early.
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We must ensure the new heavy icebreaker is delivered by 2023 or risk being excluded from this important region, just as its potential as a new trade route and its unexploited natural resources are being developed.
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Throughout the Icebreaker Lenin there are statues and profiles of the ship's namesake, along with quotations exhorting the crew to spread the proletarian revolution to the polar bears, or whatever it says, I can't read Russian.
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In the message section, you can think of your own opening line, send a pre-made icebreaker question (if you're not smooth on your own), or simply send a smile, which is like poking on Facebook.
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The ship, the Polarstern, has been frozen into the ice since early October; Dr. Creamean and other researchers will be on board until next month, when a first relief team of scientists arrives on another icebreaker.
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The Taliban and a large delegation from Afghanistan, including government representatives, are expected to meet next week in Qatar for what is being described as an icebreaker conference, one that could eventually lead to direct negotiations.
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The Tinder-like feature might look like a strange addition to Facebook, but on the other hand, telling your friend that an AI told you two that you should hang out is a pretty good icebreaker.
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It describes ten winter days on a Finnish icebreaker, one of a fleet that works at perilously close quarters with ice-trapped cargo ships in the Bay of Bothnia at the northern limit of the Baltic Sea.
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His surreal photographs depict the construction of the new plant, its freezing environment, and shipping activities along the Northeast Passage—including the monstrous icebreaker (pictured above) that appeared one snowy night to tow the ship to port.
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When Thom greets the narrator with the line, "We look like an all-male Lady Gaga cover band," he is regurgitating some out-of-context inside joke, and eagerly offering it to the narrator as an icebreaker.
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Mosaic, shorthand for Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate, uses the German ship, the 400-foot icebreaker Polarstern, as its base as teams of researchers and technicians study conditions in the remote Central Arctic.
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Together, writers Adam R. Perlman and Willie Reale and director Stacie Passon operate this week's episode, titled "Icebreaker," like a factory assembly line, cranking out perfect new foils for two characters who are never complete without conflict.
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Spend an hour browsing the many shops and galleries of Queenstown, filled with Kiwi brands like Swanndri, makers of the classic "Swanny," or long woolen bush shirt, and the outdoor clothier Icebreaker, which specializes in natural fabrics.
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That month also saw the election of Theresa May, who became Britain's second female prime minister, causing a torrent of stories about her fanciful footwear, which she proudly proclaimed was a tactical "icebreaker" in high-level meetings.
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In the past, only powerful nuclear-powered icebreakers could forge through Arctic seas; these days, even commercial ships can navigate the region from roughly July to October—albeit sometimes with the help of skilled pilots and icebreaker escorts.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) - Russia launched a nuclear-powered icebreaker on Saturday, part of an ambitious program to renew and expand its fleet of the vessels in order to improve its ability to tap the Arctic's commercial potential.
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Then, American diplomats met with Taliban representatives in Doha, Qatar, in what was seen as an icebreaker to ease the insurgent group's long-held demand that it would first talk to the Americans without Afghan government officials present.
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Credit... Since October, the Polarstern, a German research icebreaker, has been frozen in the ice in the Arctic Ocean on a mission to learn more about climate change in the region, the fastest-warming area on the planet.
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Thomas Krumpen, a Wegener Institute senior scientist who was aboard the Akademik Fedorov, a Russian icebreaker that accompanied the expedition for the first month before returning to Norway, said that finding a good ice floe had been difficult.
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"We noticed that there are a lot of people who are on successful career paths but are looking to start or join startups – these are the people we call 'pre-founders'," explains Icebreaker co-founder and Partner Riku Seppälä.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Shipping group A.P. Moller-Maersk said on Friday it is in talks with Russia's state-owned icebreaker operator to send more goods via the Arctic, which is becoming more accessible as climate change reduces the sea ice.
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While Zukunft acknowledged that defensive capabilities would be considered in designing the new icebreaker, he downplayed the chances of an accidental military incident with Russia and stressed the advantages of robust communication between the U.S. and Russian coast guards.
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The resupply trip was expected to take about two weeks, but the icebreaker ran into trouble from the start, when a storm in the Barents Sea forced it to anchor off Tromso for the better part of a week.
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Credit... Despite difficult ice conditions and curious polar bears, a German research icebreaker with 100 scientists and crew members is comfortably adrift in the frozen Central Arctic, two months into a yearlong expedition to study the region's changing climate.
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View from the bow of the icebreaker the RRS James Clark Ross on a 2014 scientific expedition, during which University of Rhode Island researcher and five other scientists discovered an active volcanic heat source beneath the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica.
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Depending who you ask, they might consider Fiona an icebreaker for discussions about wildlife conservation, a reprieve from toxic online spaces, an icon of body positivity, the queen of pop, a cute distraction, literally just a hippo — the list goes on.
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ST PETERSBURG, Russia, May 25 (Reuters) - Russia launched a nuclear-powered icebreaker on Saturday, part of an ambitious programme to renew and expand its fleet of the vessels in order to improve its ability to tap the Arctic's commercial potential.
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What struck me most about my experience, aside from universe's maudlin sense of humor in forcing me to interact with Tim for a brief pocket of time, is that escape rooms hit that sweet spot between icebreaker and party game.
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What Sucks: Your Sweat Will Turn to Ice Make it Suck Less: Icebreaker Oasis Long-Sleeve Pyrenees, $100It doesn't matter if it's 15 degrees outside; if you're hiking with a heavy bag on your back, you're going to get hot.
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I had just moved to the mainland to attend college at the University of San Francisco, and I was sitting on the floor of the basketball court with a bunch of other college freshmen, engaged in an awkward icebreaker exercise.
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Plus, the fact that I write about them for a living gives me an icebreaker at the beginning of semesters so that I don't seem like a horribly old, complete weirdo… just like a sort of old, kind of weirdo.
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Hunter asks the Coast Guard for more details on the timeline, whether the service plans to try to extend the life of its current heavy-duty icebreaker and if not, how it plans to address the capability gap, among other questions.
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But we shouldn't be the least bit surprised; Icebreaker is tops when it comes to covering up odor — which, by the way, is great when you're stalking big game (and/or trying to keep a safe distance from bigger game).
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The administration reversed itself and increased the Coast Guard's budget request to, among other things, build a new Arctic icebreaker for the first time in 40 years as the United States competes with Russia and China in the polar region.
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Russia has also expanded its fleet of icebreaker ships to more than 40 (the United States has only two that are operational) and reopened military bases in the Arctic that were shut down after the end of the Cold War.
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Scientists on the 400-foot ship, Polarstern, and an accompanying Russian icebreaker selected the ice floe, which is roughly in the shape of an oval a mile and a half wide by a little more than two miles long, on Thursday.
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The meetings, organized by Qatar and Germany, are seen as an icebreaker that could eventually lead to direct negotiations between the Afghan rivals and to a peace deal that would end the costly 18-year American military presence in the country.
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Editorial The passage of a specially built Russian tanker carrying liquefied natural gas through the warming Arctic without an icebreaker escort marks a critical milestone in a centuries-old yearning for a shorter, faster route between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - When Vladimir Putin announced the withdrawal of most of Russia's military contingent from Syria there was an expectation that the Yauza, a Russian naval icebreaker and one of the mission's main supply vessels, would return home to its Arctic Ocean port.
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When I'm older, he will explain that he used to bring me along to these appointments because the presence of a small child was an icebreaker for anxious patients in a potentially awkward social situation, but in hindsight this strikes me as improbable.
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On the security side, partly in response to Russia's destabilizing activities, we are hosting military exercises, strengthening our force presence, rebuilding our icebreaker fleet, expanding Coast Guard funding, and creating a new senior military post for Arctic Affairs inside of our own military.
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Our lack of a modern icebreaker fleet is a glaring national security liability; one that prevents our Navy from safely operating in the region, and which also leaves the vast expanse of Alaska's North Slope and the strategic Bering Strait virtually unprotected.
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In the fiscal year 2019 president's budget, President Donald J. Trump requested $750 million in funding for a new U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker — a long overdue asset for the service and one that helps the United States maintain a presence in the Arctic.
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If that's a little too bold for you, you can also make eye contact with one member of the circle and start with, "Hi, my name is X." It's a great idea to have some icebreaker questions prepared to get the conversation flowing.
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A friendly, inside-joke-laden icebreaker email chain begat the successful dusting off of some old songs in the Control Center, then a couple of new songs that felt right, then a handful of shows in 2016 before committing to a new album.
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Several years ago, the Bank of Canada placed five suffragettes, known as as the "Famous Five", and Quebec feminist and politician Thérèse Casgrain on the back of a $50 bill, but then replaced them in 2011 with an icebreaker when they introduced polymer bills.
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Way back then, the US and China were implacably hostile, so this seemingly innocent exchange of ping pong players between the US and China served as a sort of icebreaker and a way for both countries to show that they weren't bent on world domination.
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Though some of the meetings played out a bit like a summer camp icebreaker ("When was the last time you were bold?" was a question I had to stand up and try to answer), the sentiment and general vibe of these gatherings were always positive.
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Such fields hold great promise for Russia, which exhibits all the characteristics of a petro-state, but there's one huge problem: The only practical way to get that output to market is via specially designed icebreaker-tankers sent through the Barents Sea past northern Norway.
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One tells grinning jokes about how dumb Trump's Cabinet is before launching into celebrity icebreaker games; the other dissects the news of the day with a horrified raise of the eyebrow and fiery declarations about the danger Trump poses to America and its citizens.
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High school kids looking for something to do, art tourists, ranchers, and touring bands are able to connect over chicken-fried steak and mac-and-cheese grilled cheeses served on Plexiglas-Astro turf trays which serve as an icebreaker for strangers dining in the middle of nowhere.
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Uploaded to the YouTube channel Relax Sleep ASMR, "White Noise Sounds of Frozen Arctic Ocean with Polar Icebreaker Idling - Creating Delta Waves" is exactly what the title describes, a 10-hour recording of sub-zero reverberations of distant howling wind, falling snow, and a ship's engine.
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Debby Herbenick, a professor at the Indiana University School of Public Health, who has conducted research studies related to child and adolescent sexual expression, said that as an icebreaker for talking with undergraduates, she shows them comments about the now-discontinued Harry Potter Nimbus 2000 battery-operated vibrating broomstick.
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His introduction to Devils season-ticket holders in July at Prudential Center was more than an icebreaker; it was a showstopper, with a drum line from Philadelphia, Subban autographing jerseys and presenting them to teenagers and, finally, Subban being draped with a glittery, pro-wrestling-like "The Subbanator" robe.
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If the U.S. and Taliban finalize their agreement on troop withdrawal and counterterrorism guarantees, Western officials said, a group of about 60 Afghans could meet with Taliban representatives early next month for what would be an icebreaker, before more direct negotiations at a later stage with the Afghan government.
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New contracts that are starting to boost results include three in Australia — running correctional centre Grafton in New South Wales, the design and construction of an icebreaker ship and provision of health services in the defence sector — as well as a mammoth UK asylum seekers' accommodation contract won this year.
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New contracts that are starting to boost results include three in Australia -- running correctional center Grafton in New South Wales, the design and construction of an icebreaker ship and provision of health services in the defense sector -- as well as a mammoth UK asylum seekers' accommodation contract won this year.
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Here are the best active men's cargo pants you can buy:Best active men's cargo pants overall: Mammut ZinalBest for the classic look: Sherpa Adventure Gear GurkhaliBest active men's cargo pants for travel: Icebreaker ConnectionBest for guys who live in jeans: Backcountry WorkwearBest active men's cargo pants for fit: Mountain Hardwear AP
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Two weeks after leaving northern Norway for the Central Arctic, and with the polar darkness settling in, an icebreaker carrying climate researchers settled next to an ice floe on Friday, putting itself at the mercy of the drifting ice for a planned yearlong expedition to better understand the changing Arctic climate.
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The coal company's involvement in resident opposition to the project was unearthed last week in documents filed with the Ohio Power Siting Board that showed that the company was bankrolling anti-Icebreaker consultants and paying for the lawyers of at least two local residents who had testified against the project.
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And a video of Trump's granddaughter reciting Chinese poetry in Mandarin went viral in China, an event that was seen as an icebreaker amid rumors in the Washington foreign policy establishment that Xi was not willing to get on the phone with Trump without an assurance he would respect the "One China" paradigm.
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For years, a running complaint among advocates of a more robust U.S. presence in the Arctic was that the Coast Guard had just one working heavy icebreaker: the Polar Star, a 43-year-old rust bucket that breaks down often and spends much of its time on the other side of the world — Antarctica.
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Here's a list of the brands VF owns: ■ Altra ■ Bulwark■ Dickies■ Eagle Creek■ Eastpak■ Horace Small■ Icebreaker■ JanSport■ Kipling■ Kodiak■ Lee■ Riders by Lee■ Napapijri■ Red Kap■ Reef■ Rock & Republic■ SmartWool■ Terra■ The North Face■ Timberland■ Vans■ Walls■ Workrite Uniform Co.■ Wrangler Still, spinning out the jeans business, particularly two brands with such long histories, is a big step.
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In May and June 2500 in Seattle, Foster, Johnston and hundreds of other activists tried to prevent the departure of Royal Dutch Shell's offshore oil rig, the Polar Pioneer, by forming chains of kayaks and canoes; the following month, Foster joined another boat blockade, in Portland, that tried to stop a Shell icebreaker from leaving for the Arctic.
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"We had several groups of friends and family that had never met one another, so it felt really important to have some sort of icebreaker, besides the bar, that would allow people to feel comfortable and really get to know each other," said Ms. DePalma, who is a project manager and coordinator for a research organization.
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The emphasis was on technology and improving existing operations, such as expanding the Border Patrol's air and marine operations, increasing "risk-based" targeting of passengers and cargo at ports of entry, bolstering the Federal Emergency Management Agency's preparedness programs, improving the Transportation Security Administration's threat detection capabilities at security checkpoints and even funding a new Coast Guard polar icebreaker.
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The Icebreaker community, which exists online and offline via multiple kinds of events being run and supported by the newly outed VC, is designed not only to help co-founders find each other — in a vein not entirely dissimilar to some of the work being carried out by the U.K.'s Entrepreneur First — but also new recruits, advisors, contacts, customers, and wider feedback.
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