The Coast Guard wants three new medium icebreakers and three heavy icebreakers.
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With Russia's progress on icebreakers, Hunter said, the U.S. should prioritize funding for six new icebreakers — three heavy-duty and three medium-duty.
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This included ordering icebreakers, patrol vessels and offshore wind farms.
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Of course, many of these icebreakers lead to great conversations.
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More often than not, our icebreakers are met with silence.
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Until 2016, only three icebreakers had accomplished this particular passage.
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By contrast, the U.S. has only two icebreakers, she said.
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If they are right, the icebreakers of tomorrow might be submarines.
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By comparison, Russia has 40 icebreakers and 11 more in production.
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Reporters were armed with icebreakers and opening questions to ask parkgoers.
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This Reddit thread is full of some hilarious (and thoughtful) icebreakers.
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Building new submarines to act as icebreakers would be a huge investment.
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The terrible thing about icebreakers is that they can be horribly awkward.
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Parfit was away much of the time doing battle with the icebreakers.
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They are building icebreakers and ice-hardened ships to ply Arctic waters.
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Ice-ready ships usually aren't even what we'd normally think of icebreakers.
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"Russia has 40 icebreakers, I've got two," Zunkuft told the conference last month.
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The reactors are modified versions of those used to power Taymyr-class icebreakers.
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They've provided Mashable with the GOT-related icebreakers that got the most replies.
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In contrast, Russia has 40 icebreakers and another 11 planned or being built.
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If and when more icebreakers follow, they'll be passing through St. John's, too.
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These aren't exactly high-quality games, but they can work as good icebreakers.
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After World War II, the United States had seven icebreakers in its fleet.
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By contrast, Russia has 40 icebreakers and another 11 planned or being built.
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The Coast Guard currently has three icebreakers, but only two are fully functional.
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Russia is better prepared, with several dozen icebreakers and more on the way.
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It maintains a fleet of forty icebreakers, including six that are nuclear-powered.
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Zukunft said a recent study concluded that the Coast Guard needed three heavy and three medium-sized icebreakers, but the current floor was at least two heavy icebreakers so one vessel could free the other if it became trapped in ice.
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The U.S. has just two functioning icebreakers, down from the eight it once maintained.
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They also reveal how bad many of us are at icebreakers and party games.
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They also are building nuclear icebreakers and, at one time, wanted airports in Greenland.
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Master a few icebreakers in order to learn more about the people around you.
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The 17 best icebreakers to use at a holiday party where you don't know anyone
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Zukunft said the United States also needs icebreakers to resupply national security infrastructure in Antarctica.
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Turning them into icebreakers to open up the Arctic might give them a second life.
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The locomotive engines jury-rigged to turn the naval vessels into icebreakers get a scene.
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The former Soviet Union developed nuclear technology for its biggest ships by testing it on icebreakers.
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Defense here goes beyond investing in military capabilities that can operate in the Arctic, like icebreakers.
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Business Insider spoke to seven relationship experts and found out their least favorite first date icebreakers.
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You don't need a giant pair of headphones, but you should still establish community using icebreakers.
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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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National icebreakers are gathering information in parts of the ocean too frozen for other vessels to reach.
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"I get very impatient because I don't see us prioritizing icebreakers as a national asset," said Sen.
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The first 45 minutes are icebreakers: getting to know each other, going over rules about consent, communication.
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It was poorly sheltered, though — on the outside of the northernmost dock, right next to the icebreakers.
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Russia, meanwhile, has a fleet of 40 icebreakers with plans for at least 11 more, some militarized.
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Russia is currently building a fleet of icebreakers to take advantage of the warming northern sea route.
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"Russia has incredible nuclear-powered icebreakers," said Laurence Smith, an Arctic researcher and professor of geography at UCLA.
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Russia has 42 icebreakers with another 12 ships planned or under construction, and China has two, Zukunft said.
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We have to do a bunch of embarrassing icebreakers, but the free food nearly makes up for it.
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Two Arctic icebreakers will be among a total of 18 new ships ordered, Trudeau told reporters in Vancouver.
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Some lawmakers, like Cuellar, were interested in the massive ships, called icebreakers, which are vital to national security.
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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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Russia has strongly opposed the idea that any foreign icebreakers could ply that route, which Russia today dominates.
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Icebreakers are discussion questions or activities used to help participants relax and ease people into a group meeting.
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Ships sailing through the NSR need the permission of Russian authorities, who collect transit fees and provide escorting icebreakers.
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Li said that the benefit of testing systems on icebreakers was that they also demanded large amounts of power.
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In 2018 only two functioning icebreakers remain, one of which is a heavy-duty vessel overdue for an update.
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The Coast Guard recently awarded a contract to build three new icebreakers, but the first isn't expected until 2024.
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Friends have told me to try harder; to be more inventive with my icebreakers; to go on more dates.
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The voyages were the first to bring Russian L.N.G. to Asia across the frigid Arctic Ocean unassisted by icebreakers.
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Friends have told me to try harder; to be more inventive with my icebreakers; to go on more dates.
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The first moments of my trip were filled with conversations about cameras, which turned out to be great icebreakers.
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Choices will be added to viewers' profiles, which Tinder hopes will spark conversation and make for some unconventional icebreakers.
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The bill also authorizes the fourth Ford-class aircraft carrier, six icebreakers, and a Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine.
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Last year they launched Arktika, the first of three giant, new nuclear-powered icebreakers intended to help open such routes.
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Twitter may also test other things like icebreakers (pinned tweets designed to start conversations), and a status update field (i.e.
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This route used to require the help of nuclear-powered icebreakers, and was not economically attractive for cargo shipping companies.
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"I've noticed that children are real icebreakers if they have commonalities where language is a barrier for adults," she said.
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As is LitLovers, the online book forum, which provides book club games and icebreakers that would work for any book.
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With the ice expected to become even thicker, the expedition, as planned, will abandon icebreakers for the next relief missions.
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Russia is vying for control of Arctic seaways and has built some 40 icebreakers — ships that can channel through ice.
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Hunter in February wrote a similar letter to Trump asking for more icebreakers to counter Russian movement in the Arctic.
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For instance, the company has experimented with ideas around status update fields and icebreakers as your pinned tweet to encourage conversations.
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It was not a high-strung first few moments of hand-wringing and awkward icebreakers — the conversation just seemed to blossom.
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The Russian Arc7 classification means that a vessel is capable of traversing waters north of Russia without the help of icebreakers.
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With ample real estate for flowery language, these confections served as icebreakers at adult social events, such as parties and weddings.
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At the time, the White House noted that after World War II, the United States counted seven icebreakers in its fleet.
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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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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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Crafted with the bon vivants behind Chambord raspberry liqueur, these 12 quirky icebreakers are all but guaranteed to banish conversational lulls.
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It is also critical to the United States' national security and geopolitical interests, that we further develop the region and invest in a fleet of modern icebreakers to keep pace with Russia, which has taken a commanding position in the Arctic by investing billions of dollars on infrastructure, including a large fleet of at least forty icebreakers.
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Dreisinger meets with groups of prisoners and leads them in icebreakers, role-plays, restorative-justice sessions, creative writing classes and theater workshops.
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A Republican lawmaker is pushing President Trump to buy more icebreakers for the Coast Guard to counter Russian moves in the Arctic.
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He recently met with Trump, according to the letter, but did not have time to discuss the issue of icebreakers with him.
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Last year, President Obama announced plans to acquire new icebreakers to ensure the US can operate year-round in the Arctic Ocean.
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The former Soviet Union started using icebreakers as experimental platforms for the development of nuclear reactors to power carriers in the 1950s.
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Russia also has a nuclear-powered fleet that includes icebreakers, which are designed to plow through ice with nuclear reactors on board.
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The US Coast Guard, which runs the icebreakers, faces significant budget cuts as more and more funding is reconsidered for border security.
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Mr. Pompeo said that Washington was "fortifying America's security and diplomatic presence" in the region, including with new military exercises and icebreakers.
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"Color and shape, these are the icebreakers when it comes to grabbing people's attention, and attention is the new currency," he said.
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There are relatively few government icebreakers or cutters in the region, and a long-range airlift by helicopters would be extremely difficult.
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But the United States Coast Guard has only two working large icebreakers, and has not built a new one in four decades.
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All business meetings end up in private dining rooms, employing pork and chicken as icebreakers and closing deals over dumplings and rice.
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Bailey has them joining together to help them work things out, because everyone knows traumatic injuries are the best icebreakers for conflict resolutions.
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That includes creating or reopening six military outposts and building three new, large nuclear icebreakers to add to its already 40-strong fleet.
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Funding and building new, state-of-the-art icebreakers would allow the United States to assert its sovereign presence in the polar regions.
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Heavy icebreakers are essential to ensure safe passage for commercial ships, conduct search and rescue operations, and project American sovereignty in the region.
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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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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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The Coast Guard currently has two operating large icebreakers, but only one is classified as "heavy," capable of breaking through the thickest ice.
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These range from America's tiny number of icebreakers when compared to Russia, as well as the lack of serviceable military outposts in the region.
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The development of nuclear technology to power small reactors in the South China Sea and for submarines and icebreakers are of concern, officials said.
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By the time it was ready to start building its first nuclear carrier, the Ulyanovsk, in 1988, it had already built five nuclear icebreakers.
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Global powers are relying on icebreakers as they move to maintain access to, if not control, new waterways created as Arctic sea ice melts.
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By 2035, Putin said Russia's Arctic fleet would operate at least 13 heavy-duty icebreakers, nine of which would be powered by nuclear reactors.
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The bill outlines the military's lack of icebreakers (it has a single functioning ship, noted Defense News) when compared to Russia's 40 and counting.
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Russia, which gets some 25% of its GDP from the Arctic, has more than 40 icebreakers of varying sizes with more on the way.
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Even in the warmer months of July to October, the route can be clogged with ice, and many ships need assistance from Russian icebreakers.
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The cost of building additional Arctic icebreakers, special-purpose ships designed to navigate through ice-covered waters, is estimated at approximately $22019 billion each.
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But I didn't feel particularly healthy after the coach spent two hours leading us through a guided meditation, some random icebreakers, and a dance party.
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It is the latest addition to a fleet of 40 icebreakers, as Russia seeks to build a dozen more ships over the next several years.
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Imports dropped by 0.4 percent as the import of aircraft, ships and other transportation equipment plunged by 28.3 percent from August, when the icebreakers arrived.
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OkCupid and Hinge go a little deeper — by listing mutual friends, and guiding users to a more detailed profile with survey questions and conversation icebreakers.
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President Vladimir Putin said in April Russia was stepping up construction of icebreakers with the aim of significantly boosting freight traffic along its Arctic coast.
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"We confirm that the Canadian Government does not particularly position icebreakers for our voyage," said Molly Morgan, a spokesperson for Crystal Cruises, in an email.
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"It is clear countries like Russia, with a large fleet of heavy icebreakers, understand the importance of a strong presence in the Polar Regions," Rep.
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"If you see Russia building tens of icebreakers and the U.S. doesn't do anything about it, that's a problem," a senior State Department official said.
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Everyone just sits at a table, eats some chicken, and engages in the kind of weird icebreakers you might endure at work functions and bachelorette parties.
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Resonance icebreaking was discovered in 1974 by Canada's coast guard, when it began using icebreaking hovercraft able to operate in waters too shallow for conventional icebreakers.
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The new profiles included both photos and "icebreakers" — a range of personal questions from which users could select three to answer and display on their profiles.
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Canada is in the process of commissioning new Arctic icebreakers: the first, the $1.3 billion CCGS John G. Diefenbaker, is slated to come online in 2022.
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RELATED: Obama wants new Coast Guard icebreakers in the arctic "An announcement is good, but what you really need is the money behind it," she said.
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Written and directed by revered comedian Mike Birbiglia, this charming 22017 comedy is about what happens when improv comedians stop playing icebreakers and start getting real.
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Russia is building six new bases, refurbishing old runways from the Cold War era, constructing new icebreakers, and putting modern submarines with nuclear warheads into service.
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The HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, the two warships they retrofitted to be icebreakers, were finally found on the ocean floor in 2014 and 2016, respectively.
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Additionally, the region benefits from increased military spending as it hosts the sector's production facilities (nuclear naval reactors for submarines and icebreakers, missile and artillery systems, etc.).
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The recipe goes something like: a choice mix of pals and acquaintances, snacks on snacks on snacks, and, of course, the right amount of icebreakers (read: booze).
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Right about now, Arctic sea ice should be building up toward its annual maximum, making most of the region impenetrable to all but the most hardened icebreakers.
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Statscan, citing the late arrival of import data regarding three Swedish icebreakers, said Canada had in fact posted a trade deficit of C$551 million in August.
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We're reminded that the majority of these characters don't actually know each other, leading to some icebreakers (pun not intended) between Gendry and Tormund, the happy Viking.
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Thrun is known for his icebreakers in TechCrunch Disrupt interviews — in the past, he's given his interviewer a birthday cake and has worn Google Glass on stage.
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Hunter's letter comes after Trump pledged to build up to six icebreakers while giving a speech at the Coast Guard Academy's commencement Wednesday in New London, Conn.
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As an indispensable part of U.S. seapower alongside the Navy and Marine Corps, the Coast Guard's requirement for 90 cutters plus six polar icebreakers must be met.
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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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Russian officials have said there is strong interest in the sea route from Asian countries and that new icebreakers will allow for year-round navigation in the 2020s.
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Cohan says that when she teaches undergrad classes on gender and psychology, she assigns students icebreakers to get them talking about how the issue has impacted their lives.
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Russia is the only country with enough icebreakers to reliably escort other shipping through still periodically frozen waters, and that gives it massive influence over regional shipping patterns.
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Truth be told, the U.S. probably should have more icebreakers, but the Arctic deserves to be thought of as more than a place with ice that needs breaking.
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Russia's Arctic arms program is perhaps the most ambitious, and includes new nuclear-powered icebreakers and the cold-weather 80th Motor Rifle Arctic Brigade, which formed in 2015.
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The first time I can really remember being like, "Pumpkin is my thing," was in high school or college, in one of those get-to-know-you icebreakers.
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Last month, Serbia deployed icebreakers to smash ice blocks that jammed parts of the Danube river and ripped through marinas and moorings, damaging dozens of boats and floating restaurants.
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But Russian officials have said there is strong interest in the sea route from Asian countries and that new icebreakers will allow for year-round navigation in the 2020s.
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Moscow has built and is building nuclear power stations, nuclear-powered icebreakers, chemical facilities, and communications installations in the Arctic while rivers, and shorelines there are all at risk.
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Russia is arguably the most active Arctic state, with a fleet of more than 40 icebreakers, and it is reluctant to allow non-Arctic countries to develop the region.
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Organizers are currently in talks with "a number of icebreakers," Rex said, as well as authorities in various partner countries to determine where their vessel can ship off from.
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Russia is also developing three new nuclear-powered icebreakers to add to its fleet of at least 2, deepening concerns that the U.S. lacks the wherewithal to push back.
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Scrambling to update its aging fleet, the U.S. Coast Guard plans to build six more (three heavy and three medium icebreakers), though the first won't be delivered until 2023.
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He gave no details about funding for icebreakers, and said the Coast Guard's fiscal 2017 budget request was still being finalized with the White House Office of Management and Budget.
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As countries jockey for power over the melting Arctic, the United States wants to plant itself in the region with a strategic port meant for Navy destroyers and massive icebreakers.
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CreditCreditMaxim Babenko for The New York Times MURMANSK, Russia — Along the shore of Kola Bay in the far northwest of Russia lie bases for the country's nuclear submarines and icebreakers.
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Lame bathroom jokes get old quickly, but they make good icebreakers, which makes them useful for Jack Sim, the movie's central figure, who travels the world broaching a taboo subject.
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Participants in the lesson also watched videos about the large-scale innovative projects, including the development of a new generation of nuclear-powered icebreakers and a heavy-class space launch center.
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In order for the service to fulfill its motto of "semper paratus," or always ready, the Coast Guard can't rely on Polar Sea to go toe-to-toe with foreign icebreakers.
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Why should some kinds of steel come only from northern Finland, where it is so cold in winter that the sea freezes and icebreakers must clear a path to the harbor?
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After early concerns that the Coast Guard budget might be slashed, the Trump administration pledged continued support for the agency, and the president himself boasted about the plans for new icebreakers.
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And I'm proud to say that under my administration, as you just heard, we will be building the first new heavy icebreakers that United States has seen in over 40 years.
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To peer at the seafloor, scientists used icebreakers (although even a nuclear-powered one could not penetrate an area north of Greenland), and set up perilous, temporary camps on drifting ice floes.
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Russia has made developing the so-called northern sea route (NSR) - which requires new ports and heavy icebreakers to move goods - a priority, with supporters dubbing the route the northern Suez Canal.
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To counter foreign presence in the arctic, the Coast Guard has a validated requirement for three heavy and three medium icebreakers, and the single heavy Polar Star does not have that capacity.
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The push to build new icebreakers briefly became a casualty of politics last year when the House reallocated money meant for the ships to build President Trump's wall along the Mexican border.
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One of them tells him that icebreakers alone can consume 100 tonnes of fuel every 24 hours, against the 1.5 tonnes a year that might be consumed by the average Finnish family house.
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Some experts warn that the US faces the prospect of falling behind Russia, as well as China, when it comes to developing fleets of icebreakers capable of traveling through the resource-rich Arctic region.
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I was a state department brat, and so during all of those icebreakers for new kids, they would ask me to say something interesting about myself, and I always had a cool go-to.
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The Ural is due to be handed over to Russia's state-owned nuclear energy corporation Rosatom in 2022 after the two other icebreakers in the same series, Arktika (Arctic) and Sibir (Siberia), enter service.
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"You need investment and you need infrastructure to cover this gap," said Lawson W. Brigham, a former captain of Coast Guard icebreakers who is now on the faculty at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
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Gay's the Word has since endured as an information source as well as a community hub, hosting meetings for organizations including Icebreakers, the Lesbian Discussion Group, Gay Black Group, the Gay Disabled Group, and TransLondon.
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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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The good thing about icebreakers is that they can help teams get to know each other better, go beyond assumptions if people think they already know everything, and help welcome new people into the fold.
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However, as a DIY Tinder of sorts, Palaround also includes features designed for these unique networks, like a group chat option, and other tools designed to help get users chatting, like icebreakers and personality quizzes.
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Russia's state-owned United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) has tried since 2017 to sell its majority stake in the Finnish shipyard, which specializes in Arctic icebreakers, as U.S. sanctions against the holding company have hampered business.
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The ship, dubbed the Ural and which was floated out from a dockyard in St Petersburg, is one of a trio that when completed will be the largest and most powerful icebreakers in the world.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has made developing the northern sea route (NSR) - which requires new ports and heavy icebreakers to move goods - one of his priorities, with supporters dubbing the route the northern Suez Canal.
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"The Northwest Passage is thousands and thousands of nautical miles with absolutely nothing ... There is a need to discuss possible regulation," said Tero Vauraste, the CEO of Arctia, a Finnish shipping firm specializing in icebreakers.
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Important steps to manage new economic activity and preserve natural resources—like ratifying the Law of Sea Treaty, building new icebreakers, and protecting important areas—can be taken without fostering risky oil and gas exploration.
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"Our plan is to keep the Northern Sea Route open twelve months a year in 2023 to 25 with 100-megawatt-hour nuclear icebreakers," Novatek Chief Financial Officer Mark Gyetvay told delegates at an energy conference.
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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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And the fact that the technology is well tested in Russian ships gives critics little solace, given a long history of spills and accidents involving nuclear-powered submarines and icebreakers operated by the Soviet and Russian navies.
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Likhachyov, whose company will also be responsible for nuclear icebreakers that create "roads" through the thick Arctic ice for ships, said the state budget planned to provide 274 billion roubles for the NSR out of the total investment.
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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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Now, on any given day, if you were to venture down the rabbit hole of r/tinder, you'll see a glut of screenshots of clever profile bios, funny profile pics, creative icebreakers, and screenshots of full-on conversations.
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Aside from defense, icebreakers enable the Coast Guard to help many government agencies dependent on these ships to perform their functions, including the Department of Transportation, Department of the Interior, Department of Commerce, and the National Science Foundation.
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Restaffing and resupplying the Polarstern will require voyages of several weeks by other icebreakers from Russia and China and, sometime next year, by airplanes or helicopters when a runway is built on the ice floe near the ship.
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The amount of shipping in the Arctic is currently so small that it is difficult to justify the presence of additional icebreakers or naval cutters in the region, or a helicopter base that could aid ships far from land.
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Russia has been rapidly ramping up its military presence in the Arctic, building new installations and holding large-scale exercises, and the Coast Guard is charged with ensuring US access to the region via its operation of America's only icebreakers.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard on Wednesday released a proposed acquisition timeline and requirements for two new heavy U.S. icebreakers that could cost $1 billion each and said it would meet with interested companies during an industry day in March.
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As a result, China has positioned itself as a "near-Arctic" country and is spending billions— mostly on a fleet of Arctic icebreakers—to claim a place in the region despite having no territory within 153,000 miles of the Arctic Circle.
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Icebreakers have been used in ports of Boston, New York and Philadelphia to keep shipping lanes clear, though delays are expected, and the Coast Guard said late on Wednesday that those ships would remain at shore until the storm had passed.
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Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has launched the biggest military build-up in the Arctic since the fall of the USSR - bolstering its fleet of nuclear-fueled icebreakers, reopening abandoned Soviet military bases and building a string of new ones.
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Icebreakers have been used in ports of Boston, New York and Philadelphia to keep shipping lanes clear, but delays are expected, and the Coast Guard said late on Wednesday that those ships would remain at shore until the storm had passed.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russian gas producer Novatek wants to use nuclear icebreakers to keep the Northern Sea Route, a shipping path traversing the Arctic to Asia, open all year long for its liquefied natural gas (LNG), a top executive said on Wednesday.
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"One of the biggest issues is a mining company proposing to do year-round shipping with icebreakers," Shelly Elverum, who lives in Pond Inlet and works with the Ikaarvik Project, a group that connects northern communities with scientists from the south.
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Before the awards even started, there was a sense that even the paid red-carpet-host hype people were giving up, after one too many "can you believe we're all here in New Jersey?" small talk icebreakers didn't quite land.
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BOISE, Idaho — During a recent mayoral debate at a Boise homeless shelter, after disposing of icebreakers like the candidates' favorite Metallica album, the moderator turned to something more contentious: a decade-old lawsuit, now a step away from the Supreme Court.
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"We know that they are developing platforms for use on these islands and for nuclear powered icebreakers, also floating nuclear power plants, which give the potential for rapid deployment to any platform that it could be tethered to," the official said.
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Speaking to Congress in May, the commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, Admiral Paul Zukunft, revealed that Washington was considering fitting anti-ship cruise missiles to its latest generation of icebreakers, a major departure from these vessels' primary research and rescue role.
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Russia, which essentially rents out its much larger fleet of icebreakers to guide foreign ships through the Northern Sea Route, is not crazy about the competition, according to a Pentagon analysis published this year as part of its annual report to Congress.
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" Hunter praised Trump's speech as being "well-received" by cadets, their families, and other lawmakers and lauded the commitment "to invest in the future of the Coast Guard and direct the focus of your administration to construct at least six polar icebreakers.
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But with the design work already underway, the House of Representatives is threatening to eliminate this program from the budget at a time when Russia and China are both building out a larger fleet of icebreakers in a grab for dominance in Arctic waters.
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"Russia envisions under Putin a northern sea route that is essentially a toll road that requires Russian Arctic escorts in the form of icebreakers or other patrol boats, escorting not only the Chinese but others who want to ship across the Arctic," she said.
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There's both an integration with the LinkedIn Sales Navigator, LinkedIn's tool for generating sales leads and contacting them, and LinkedIn's messaging tools for sending InMail and connection requests — and sees info about a recipient's LinkedIn profile, including the LinkedIn Icebreakers section — right from the Mixmax interface.
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The thin ice has meant the expedition has had to delay offloading some of the heavier equipment, as well as construction of an ice runway that will allow planes to conduct relief flights after the ice gets too thick for all but the most powerful icebreakers, Dr. Krumpen said.
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Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Paul Zukunft told an event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies that notice was intended to get information from companies about their ability to build and develop icebreakers that would be in use for 40 years and to explore options such as leasing.
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If all goes as planned, some 300 scientists will be aboard the Polarstern in a series of two-month shifts, coming and going with the help of other icebreakers and, when the ice gets too thick in midwinter, airplanes that will land on an ice runway built on the floe.
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While new infrastructure developments, from roads, bridges, icebreakers, deep-water ports and transshipment centers to high-speed broadband internet in Alaska's Arctic regions will significantly improve the safety, health, and economic well-being of its native population, they are also critical to the United States' national security and geopolitical interests.
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Russian maritime authorities also ordered shipping halted in the Dvina Bay region of the White Sea, which is close to the military facility identified as the source of the radiation to shipping, and a specialized vessel used to collect waste from nuclear-fueled icebreakers was subsequently reported to be in the area, the Times wrote.
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So instead, the administration based its decision, the officials said, on concerns about helping China extend the reach of its fleets — like nuclear-powered icebreakers or floating power plants that could be used to solidify China's presence in the South China Sea, where it has claimed exclusive jurisdiction in areas around reefs that it reclaimed.
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"Canada's investing very heavily in our own ship capacity," with six ice-capable Arctic offshore patrol boats and three coast guard icebreakers "in the pipeline," Loken said Thursday at an Atlantic Council event hosted by the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, DC."We'll be happy to share our experience with the US as we advance in those procurements, just as we are extremely closely knit across the whole spectrum of defense," Loken added.
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