I skate back home, not at outdoor rinks like this, but indoor rinks.
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Other rinks ban smaller custom wheels, a style favored by many black skaters, because, the rinks say, those wheels harm the wood floors.
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Both the Wollman and Lasker Rinks, two popular ice-skating rinks in New York City's Central Park, are operated by the Trump Organization.
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The Trump Organization has run the rinks since the 1980s, with the rinks helping Trump further his position in the city's commercial real estate market.
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There's a depth of emotion and attitude towards the game, the rinks, and the youth players that you just don't find at more modern city rinks.
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As Smithsonian Magazine explains, the ice used in rinks in the Olympic ice is purified water, sprayed on rinks one layer at a time to create surfaces of flawless consistency.
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Despite the community's historical significance to both the civil rights movement (skaters protested for desegregated rinks back in the 1960s) and the birth of hip-hop (rappers would perform at rinks when other venues wouldn't allow them), the film reveals that the scene's very existence is under threat as rinks around the country close down.
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Cities with a population of more than 500,000 people will be encouraged to build public ice skating rinks and the government is also looking to construct rinks on suitable rivers and lakes.
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Denmark has 12 rinks and has produced six or seven.
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Well skating rinks for black kids are basically parties anyway.Exactly!
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The IIFH counts just seven rinks in the entire country.
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South Korea supplied nine drivers, most working the practice rinks.
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Past tense When the cold snaps, our rinks come alive.
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Ten years ago, there were 5,627 players and 44 rinks.
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Slovenia has five ice rinks and has produced a similar number.
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Looking to hit up some ice-skating rinks for the holidays?
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Especially for outdoor ice skating: Local rinks are closing up shop.
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By the late '70s, rinks began to experiment with disco music.
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Snow-covered rice paddies have been replaced by Olympic skating rinks.
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The Sunshine State was a spot for iced drinks, not ice rinks.
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This is particularly true on hockey rinks and Canadian roads in winter.
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You go to skating rinks down in Atlanta and everybody's actually skating.
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Mr. McLeman said that life without natural outdoor rinks was not unthinkable.
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We've watched these closed rinks become the same 10 big box stores.
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But some say opposition to Christmas skating rinks is just political opportunism.
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On display in the exhibition is a map Rosenfeld created that documents all the rinks she came across in her research, from naturally occurring ponds to rooftop rinks in Midtown to the world-famous rink at Rockefeller Center.
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Thousands more play on ponds and homemade backyard rinks all through the winter.
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There are over 400 full-sized rinks scheduled to be built by 2020.
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"It's a perspective you don't usually get in most NHL rinks," Condon said.
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One problem is that Finland produces so many players, those rinks are crowded.
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Currently, there are two Olympic-sized rinks in Malaysia (Yee trains in Canada).
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Ice-skating on frozen lakes is way more fun than at indoor rinks.
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Over 300 American homes have these rinks in their garages, basements or backyards.
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South Korea's success in skating is unusual because there are not a lot of rinks in the country — a couple dozen regular-sized rinks, plus one long-track oval at Taereung National Training Center, a vast multi-sport complex in Seoul.
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"Maybe three rinks in Beijing [back then], and now there's what, 15?" he recalled.
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Ice rinks are stinky, because the tend to be filled with smelly, sweaty skaters.
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The Riveters prioritized offense, while in Japan, where rinks are bigger, defense is emphasized.
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In Walz's list were also amusement parks, bowling alleys, skating rinks and country clubs.
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It calls for Russia to buy 900 pianos and build 50 covered ice rinks.
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The popularity of the pastime, and the number of rinks, grew as technology advanced.
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But there are dozens of rinks in Moscow now, some private, some state-operated.
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The group travels to many rinks in the region but considers RollerJam a favorite.
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N.H.L. players reported to rinks around North America on Tuesday and excavated their emotions.
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Lacking snow to complete the holiday atmosphere, Moscow bought fake snow from skating rinks.
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The recommendations included just one indoor ice hockey facility and five artificial ice rinks.
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Around the same time, business owners began introducing rinks on rooftops, theaters, nightclubs, and restaurants.
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I did spend a lot of time at roller skating rinks in the late 1990s.
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Now his son, Domenico, goes on the road and outfits teams at their home rinks.
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With so few indoor rinks, India's hockey season is almost entirely dependent on the weather.
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They prefer an air-conditioned Bangkok, with malls, ice-skating rinks and Instagrammable dessert cafes.
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Basketball courts and coffee shops seem to be on every corner, but ice rinks are scarce.
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Botta further stated that Barclays has PVP piping, while all other NHL rinks have steel pipes.
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They started on, say, frozen ponds and backyard rinks in Boston or Toronto, Detroit or Minneapolis.
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Leemet: I was born in the Dominican Republic, so, no winter, no snow, no big rinks.
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Just like bowling alleys and Blockbuster, roller rinks were pillars of the weekend in the '90s.
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Private hospitals have been nationalized and ice rinks and conference centers transformed into morgues and hospitals.
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One reason is the fact that ice bumper cars give ice rinks an additional revenue stream.
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Rinks in major metropolitan areas have been shuttering over the last decade, largely felled by gentrification.
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The country has just five indoor rinks and athletes have had to crowdsource funding for equipment.
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According to Ice Hockey U.K., there are 13,325 registered players in the country and 68 rinks.
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As rinks close, their loss is slowly extinguishing a skating culture that fed into hip-hop.
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Founded in Europe eight years ago, Glice now has 1,800 rinks worldwide, according to the company.
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Many ice rinks across America were built in the 29s and '213s and desperately need repairs.
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He played pickup hockey on Ely Lake and on the outdoor rinks in town, four miles away.
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Thousands bunked down in arenas, hockey rinks and oil work camps, often short of fuel and food.
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This week, Brian Burke offered up an argument in favor of increasing the size of NHL rinks.
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Since she was 2 weeks old, the rinks around Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia, became Crosby's second home.
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In Central Park in New York, there are two authorized skating rinks: Wollman Rink and Lasker Rink.
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Where Americans Come Together (2017) Roller rinks like Skate World in Oregon still strengthen our social fabric.
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Many ice rinks around the United States offer lessons and courses for a range of aspiring athletes.
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Meet the group that resurfaces the ice in Pyeongchang, South Korea, keeping the rinks in top shape.
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And they're growing more popular in tourist destinations around the world: Glice now has 1,800 rinks worldwide.
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Though France's first indoor rink opened in 45, the proliferation of Christmas rinks is a recent phenomenon.
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For Rinks, that's not a terribly difficult task, considering the college student is constantly near his phone.
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The artificial snow was produced by cutting ice at skating rinks around the city, the authorities said.
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They spent hours twirling around on outdoor rinks in winter and honed their shooting skills in their basement.
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The Trump Organization has reportedly removed the business's namesake from two ice skating rinks in New York City.
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Trump began operating the rinks in the 1980s under a concession agreement with the city of New York.
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Inside Curtis Bay, the drugs are processed and destroyed in an area the size of several hockey rinks.
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Until that tournament, she mostly played in small rinks, in front of crowds comprised of family and friends.
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Brown: We also took time finding footage and photos of artists in their early days performing in rinks.
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Now, wheels on wood at rinks and gymnasiums are perhaps more common than wheels on asphalt or concrete.
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As the world warms, a Swiss company called Glice is banking on the idea of synthetic ice rinks.
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"He's got the booming voice and it was pretty easy to find him in the rinks," Gorton said.
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Critics argue that Glice rinks are still bad for the environment because they are made of, well, plastic.
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Many become scouts, sitting in rinks, taking notes while watching teenagers who hope to make it as pros.
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The Lannisters are from Casterly Rock, which is way too far south in Westeros to have ice skating rinks.
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The Trump Organization also recently removed his name from signs at two ice rinks it operates in Central Park.
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The country has just 22,212 players out of a total population of nearly 2325 million and just 220 rinks.
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Her No. 2000 jersey is abundantly spotted at rinks throughout the league, where Japanese television crews often follow her.
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Now there are dozens of rinks in Moscow, some privately operated, others run by the state, coaches and officials.
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After the Soviet Union fell, a number of rinks closed and some top coaches moved to the United States.
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And the city now considers things like shelter from the winter winds when placing skating rinks and toboggan hills.
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These guarantees help ensure that the host makes money on its investment in a town's fields, rinks or arenas.
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But it is more notable as one of the first rinks in the city to make its own ice.
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On the fields, courts, ice rinks, and other venues where competitive sports take place, 2017 was a year of transcendence.
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Brantford, a city of 100,000 people, maintains as many as 25 outdoor rinks each winter through the work of volunteers.
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At the same time, it's a sacrifice they were willing to make because the rinks are at risk of disappearing.
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South Korea has only a couple of dozen rinks, organizers said, so the talent pool of top drivers is small.
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A life estate is required where the Rinks will continue their tours and continue to care for their beloved residence.
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It's what children conjure on rinks and ponds as they imagine themselves to be Penguins or Oilers or Golden Knights.
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The city had little hockey tradition; it has hosted minor league teams but has few ice rinks or youth leagues.
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With skating season starting, the Trump Organization quietly made the Trump name much less visible at two Central Park rinks.
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The contract under which the Trump Organization operates the rinks, Mr. Levine noted, is set to expire in early 123.
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Twenty games will go on at once on Roulston Lake, with the scaled-down teams playing on scaled-down rinks.
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Birthday parties underwent a glow-up in the 1980s when family entertainment centers — bowling alleys, roller skating rinks, arcades — proliferated.
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"I believe going into the next winter season we will have three Glice rinks at U.S. ski mountains," he said.
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Unsure whether to see a doctor when the symptoms reappeared, Rinks would call his mom, who was a state away.
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"I grew up in Georgia, not a lot of ice rinks, you know, nothing froze over in the winter," she explains.
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Then came a boom in the 1890s as skating became commercialized, and technological advances allowed for rinks to be built indoors.
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Department stores and hotels get a jolly makeover, and don't even get us started on the Christmas markets and skating rinks.
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The central authorities and local governments are building curling rinks from Tianjin on the coast to Xining on the Tibetan plateau.
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Multi-story caramel-colored chalet-style buildings with massive mirrored windows loom around skating rinks, fire pits, and fur-lined tourists.
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When I think of Jersey and growing up, and I think of Springsteen, Seaside Heights, and roller skating rinks in Hamilton.
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A citizen science project based in nearby Waterloo is tracking what may become the extinction of natural ice rinks in Canada.
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There are also two practice rinks for hockey, a training center for short-track and a practice rink for figure skating.
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Given the season, let's start with how to avoid slips, trips and falls outdoors when sidewalks can sometimes resemble hockey rinks.
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The changes at the rinks, first reported by The Washington Post, were not sought or required by City Hall, officials said.
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Indoor rinks might have concession stands and locker rooms, but frozen lakes offer stunning views of nature and fresh winter air.
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A proposal is in front of city council to eventually turn the arena into a community sports facility with multiple rinks.
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The news is full of examples of local rinks closing or cities having to raise piles of money to save them.
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It has also approved the construction of ice rinks throughout China, including in the more tropical, southern parts of the country.
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Trump took over the ice skating rinks, which were first a renovation project taken on by the city, and finished them himself.
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For years the tournament was played in rinks across Seoul before news of it reached the ears of Canadian Senator Yonah Martin.
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But affluent Shanghai, as if eager to shed its business-obsessed, slightly effete image, has invested in three curling rinks since 2012.
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Then, it became the stigma of junk food consumption in the 90s and it was banned from hockey rinks and high schools.
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But the project, which entails building a 5,000-seat hockey arena, eight additional ice rinks and a community center, has been stalled.
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Their brightly colored skates are currently sold at Urban Outfitters, Bando, Dolls Kill, and roughly 200 roller rinks and skate shops worldwide.
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The large number of rinks for such a small city means that most young people can skate within walking distance of home.
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" He will keep building rinks, he said, "As long as I've still got some kids that are willing to play on it.
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But much of how we learn about one another as a society comes from physically being together in places like skating rinks.
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China currently has 400 ice hockey rinks in the country but more needs to be done in terms of infrastructure, he pointed out.
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And there are some serious logistics issues in most NHL rinks that would make changing the rink size very difficult, if not impossible.
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Her illustrations are set in classic American diners and retro rollerblading rinks, while her photography is hued with muted tones and pastel palettes.
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One of the premier speedskating rinks in the country is the Pettit Center in Milwaukee, home of the U.S. Olympic trials in January.
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Moscow makes it snow: During the warmest December on record, the Russian capital trucked in artificial snow that it bought from skating rinks.
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"It's a lot colder than other rinks I've skated on, but it was still so much fun," 12-year-old Harper told Insider.
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Mason Rinks would be studying for exams or working at his internship when he would feel lightheaded and dizzy and sometimes experience palpitations.
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"Since I myself knew absolutely nothing about building rinks, I set out to find the best skating-rink builder I could," Trump writes.
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Laval and Thetford Mines play in wonderful, well-maintained older rinks, while in Jonquière attractive women in referee jerseys sell alcohol from rolling carts.
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Any semblance of Trump's name at the ice skating rinks is now in smaller font and less visible to the public, the Post reported.
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The Riveters practice five times a week, and Nana and Jonathan spend much of that time working on adjusting to the NWHL's smaller rinks.
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China has little experience with winter sports and few hockey rinks or players, and the N.H.L. offered a pregame primer that featured team mascots.
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Mr. Trump's company itself has removed or minimized signs reading "Trump Organization" at a carousel and two ice rinks it operates in Central Park.
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In comparison Glice rinks cost $80,000 to $150,000 for a 133,000 to 4,000-square-foot rink, the range of sizes most shopping malls use.
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The city incorporates its back routes into events, from Restaurant Weeks that include alleyway pop-ups to "white alleys" with winter sledding and ice rinks.
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The skating rinks at the LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Prospect Park are also still open to the public, but some events have been canceled.
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For them and other members of junior hockey teams across the country, buses become almost as much a part of their lives as ice rinks.
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There are 311 female ice hockey players in India, which has only five indoor rinks and a sports culture dominated by cricket and field hockey.
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Measures in several French cities have included plans to limit cars in Paris and the disappearance of skating rinks whose carbon footprint had elicited concern.
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The Verge reached out to The Trump Organization's golf course and ice rinks in Manhattan and did not receive a response by time of publication.
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The entire search area is 250' by 125' and 25 feet deep -- that's roughly two hockey rinks with 25 feet of garbage piled on top.
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Ice skating in France: Some cities have canceled their outdoor skating rinks, citing concerns about the size of the carbon footprint needed to maintain them.
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He saw a cardiologist, Dr. Abdul Alawwa, who recommended Rinks receive Abbott's Confirm Rx, an insertable cardiac monitor that connects to the myMerlin smartphone app.
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The Wollman and Lasker ice rinks in Central Park were bought by The Trump Organization in the 1980s, and have always been emblazoned with Trump branding.
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Mr. Trump's disclosure forms reported income from the Wollman and Lasker ice rinks of just under $13 million last year, and $8.6 million the year before.
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The Farny family owns and operates Ice Bumper Cars (IBC) International, which supplies ice bumper cars to 25 ice rinks in the country in eight states.
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"There is not many rinks N.H.L. size," said Jagr, who also played for Kladno during the N.H.L. lockouts in 1994-95, 2004-5 and 2012-13.
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Our local rinks — or a movie about a certain figure skater — may have recently reacquainted you with the grace, beauty and occasional disasters of ice skating.
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Paul — broken windows in the garage from pucks flying during indoor games, a pond across the road and rinks at the high school up the street.
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The Trump Organization's two city skating rinks — Wollman Rink and Lasker Rink, both in Central Park — seemed to be prospering in the winter of 2015-2016.
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That includes city parks — and, by extension, The Trump Organization's two skating rinks in Central Park and golf course in Ferry Point Park in the Bronx.
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It has become the de facto reunion spot for the regulars of now-closed rinks around the city, including Roll-A-Palace in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.
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Instead of using the Sabres' practice facility in Buffalo and the Devils' practice facility in Newark, those teams are now based in suburban or exurban rinks.
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She attended open sessions at local ice rinks, where she taught herself basic techniques by reading books and imitating other skaters she saw on the ice.
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And over 300 American homes, mostly in the Midwest, have Glice rinks, which start at $1200 for a small one, in their garages, basements or backyards.
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The goals were developed after an internal assessment of the environmental impact of NFL operations and the more than 4,800 indoor ice rinks across North America.
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South Korea, home to more than 50 million people, has only 2,675 ice hockey players and 913 indoor rinks, according to the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
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"We have 9,000 people and we have three hockey rinks," she said, adding that her father was also a goaltender for a major junior ice hockey team.
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Seven years ago, Chris King, known around hockey rinks as Kinger, was cut loose from the Islanders' radio team because, well, it had actually ceased to exist.
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The Russian president, who wears a No. 11 jersey for his friendly games, has appeared frequently at ice rinks with members of the amateur Night Hockey League.
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"You could be somebody in Hartford; people knew who you were," said Crawford, the owner of the Champions Skating Center in Cromwell and other rinks in Connecticut.
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In two places, the roughly four-foot-wide paths led to adjacent rinks, one set up with boards and nets for hockey, the other for figure skating.
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But just as heated pools can make swimming appealing in Northeast winters, synthetic rinks can now bring the pastimes of "ice" skating and hockey to warmer areas.
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Donald Trump, who became the third US president to be impeached on Wednesday, owns many properties around the world, from hotels to golf courses to ice rinks.
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At ice rinks, laboratories and wind tunnels around the world, the top countries are engaged in a hush-hush arms race, a different sort of cold war.
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He said the experience on the ice rinks had probably helped prepare him for the task of navigating a loaded cargo bike through the crowded streets of Manhattan.
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Until this year, Trump's name was clearly seen across the rinks, with that changing over the summer, a spokesperson for the city parks department told the news outlet.
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Now in a twist, his own company, the Trump Organization, recently, and quietly, removed the Trump name from signs at two ice rinks it operates in Central Park.
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OTTAWA — Canada, where hockey passion is so intense that weddings on rinks are a thing, will not have a single team in the N.H.L.'s Stanley Cup playoffs.
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But the Washington Post and ABC7 New York report Trump's name has been booted from center stage on the rinks' branding — either removed entirely or made very small.
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Jocelyne Larocque, a 2014 gold medalist, said those events had also helped grow women's hockey throughout the province, as the games fill smaller rinks with hundreds of fans.
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But business is not thriving at the four concessions in New York City operated by the Trump Organization: a golf course, a carousel and two ice skating rinks.
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If the next owners don't have a need for a car showroom, the space could be converted into stables or sports courts and rinks, Berry told The Journal.
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Because of the players' rigorous study schedules, it has been tough to schedule practices, and rental fees are steep at rinks on Long Island and in New Jersey.
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It has a similar ethos as the roller skating rinks Andres cut his teeth on in the D: get your ass on the floor, and don't look back.
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I have my skate key here from years ago when we used to skate out in the streets—then you "graduate" later on and go into the rinks.
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A blizzard that buried parts of the Northeast in more than a foot of snow was followed Friday by icy temperatures that left roads as slick as skating rinks.
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The first storm buried parts of the Northeast in more than a foot of snow and was followed by icy temperatures that left roads as slick as skating rinks.
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It had been a hard struggle to get that far in a country where the yearly annual temperature averages 27 degrees Celsius and rinks are few and far between.
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Mr. Trump also runs several publicly owned attractions — the carousel and ice rinks in Central Park and a golf course in the Bronx — under agreements with New York City.
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As one of the earth's wealthier nations, U.S. ice skaters can toil away on private rinks in Wisconsin, and U.S. volleyball players can get the best physical training around.
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So far, they have not acted on the idea because the volunteers are determined to keep the old-fashioned rinks open, and the city is committed to the volunteers.
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But there were no rinks in Naters, where they grew up, so their mother, Katja, had to take them to the rink in nearby Visp to learn the game.
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He and a fellow scientist Colin Robertson run RinkWatch, a citizen science project where nearly 1,500 participants have submitted climate data and its effect on their homemade skating rinks.
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The crowds are smaller, too, mostly because many of the city's rinks built in the 1930s and 1940s have either closed or been demolished to make way for condominiums.
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I could play in the snow, skate on outdoor rinks, and sled for hours at a time — and that's what I did for the first 11 winters of my life.
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To grow hockey in China the NHL will need infrastructure and the Chinese government and businesses have already displayed a keen interest in helping the cause by building ice rinks.
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Soon after it was announced in 2015 that Beijing would host, China launched a plan to build 650 skating rinks and 800 ski resorts (complete with fake snow) by 2022.
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Trimming trees, attending funerals, picking up garbage, fixing sidewalks and erecting water parks, bowling alleys and ice rinks have long garnered mayors the good will, and votes, of their people.
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Recent figures were not available, but a 2011 city audit showed that for the previous three years, an average of $25,1043 a year for both rinks was left after expenses.
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New Yorkers have dozens of places to ice skate, from Prospect Park to Coney Island to Clove Lakes Park on Staten Island — along with Manhattan's big rinks, Lasker and Wollman.
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But the rinks — two of several public concessions that the Trump Organization, Mr. Trump's main business vehicle, operates in the city — continued to flash the name prominently through last spring.
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The Backstreet Boys are an obvious nostalgia object, but Chance the Rapper also traffics heavily in nostalgia in his current musical era, churning out songs about roller rinks and church services.
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In two of three measures of ice hockey might examined by Reuters, it comes in at number two - players per capita (one per 413) and rinks per capita (one per 18,000).
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Alberta is hard-pressed by the same slump in oil revenue, and money spent renovating curling and skating rinks could mean less money to build and repair schools, roads and parks.
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Fake snow in Moscow: As the warmest December on record drew to a close, the city authorities tried to compensate by chipping ice from skating rinks and distributing it around town.
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Fake snow in Moscow: As the warmest December on record drew to a close, the city authorities tried to compensate by chipping ice from skating rinks and distributing it around town.
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With skating season kicking off at Central Park's two rinks, those returning to the ice may notice a lot less of something that was conspicuous in the past: President Trump's name.
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But for others, as issues like climate change loom larger than ever in local and national politics, Christmas cheer is competing with growing concern about the environmental cost of holiday rinks.
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"I have really good American drivers," said Remy Boehler, an ice expert from France in charge of the surfaces for the figure skating and short-track speedskating arena and practice rinks.
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He wants to double the sport's development budget, reach out to nontraditional skating nations and urban youths by using temporary rinks, eliminate anonymity for judges during competitions and introduce new competition formats.
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Donald Trump's name has been removed or hidden from the branding at the New York City ice rinks which have for decades borne his name, and been a source of repeated boasting.
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The ice itself is made in the same way as other rinks, with very thin layers — each two to three millimeters thick — built up to ensure no oxygen is left trapped inside.
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Lee, who played part of three seasons at the Coliseum before the shift to Barclays, said he did not expect his squad to miss a beat despite playing in two home rinks.
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Tracy: I'm from New Jersey and she's from Philadelphia, but I operate two skating rinks back home, so [skating's] a business and a hobby I was able to turn into a career.
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Around the country, warmer winters could mean the closure of skating rinks, more pollen, and more ticks carrying Lyme disease, since temperatures won't be dropping below freezing as often to kill them off.
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Home to more than a third of the 1.76 million registered players of all ages globally, Canada is also host to around half of the roughly 17,500 ice hockey rinks on the planet.
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At two ice skating rinks in Central Park — the Wollman Rink and Lasker Rink — red signs used to spell out "Trump," the Washington Post reported, but recently they've been covered with white tarpaulins.
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It's close-the-ice-hockey-rinks cold Cold and hockey are as Canadian as maple syrup, so something has gone haywire if Canadians are running off the rink and into the great indoors.
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For less crowded rinks, try weekday mornings or evenings at The Rink at Bryant Park in Midtown, LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Prospect Park, or The Rink at Brookfield Place in Lower Manhattan.
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But with three rinks closing a month across the country, they understood if they didn't do something soon to have more eyes on this community, they might not have spaces to continue growing.
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Most Zambonis at the Olympics are the new model 650, an electric version that has a slightly wider wheel base and a curvier body style than typical models found in North American rinks.
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The Rinks have regularly given free tours to those who make an appointment or are just passing by, and display artifacts discovered on the grounds, such as an almost three centuries-old shoe.
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Over the last decade, scores of key rinks have closed, including Skate Depot in Los Angeles, Orchard Skating Rink in Baltimore, Rich City Skate in Chicago and the Empire Roller Rink in Brooklyn.
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Choosing either short or long track can be difficult at a young age, since almost all training of children is done on regular-sized rinks, like those used for hockey or figure skating.
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Glice is arguably more ecologically conscious and certainly more convenient than traditional ice rinks, which require large amounts of water and electricity, as well as noisy, cumbersome machines including refrigeration systems and compressors.
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For decades, roller skating rinks have fought for their survival, and over the past five years, participation in roller skating is down about 4 percent, according to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association.
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For getting around, 5G-equipped autonomous buses developed by Hyundai and KT in partnership with Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport will be moving guests around the city's stadiums, slopes and rinks.
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With the help of enthusiasts from different cities, the movie traces how the sport became a mainstay of black culture and sheds light on how, post-segregation, racism lives on within the rinks.
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His name was removed from residential high-rises and a hotel in SoHo after numerous complaints, and the Central Park skating rinks that his company runs diminished the presence of his name on signs.
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Business has remained steady or declined at some Trump-branded hotels, as well as at the city-owned golf course, carousel and ice skating rinks operated by the Trump Organization in New York City.
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In the '80s, when artists like Salt-N-Pepa, Naughty by Nature, N.W.A. and their fans were eyed with suspicion by many established concert halls, robbing them of normal bookings, rinks happily accepted them.
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More rinks are still needed to grow the sport — but that's going to take time, as much more infrastructure is needed to build an ice rink than other sporting facilities, such as a basketball court.
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The country has about 8.2 million people but comes in at number five in players per capita and number four in rinks per capita and has a middle of the road 41 players per rink.
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In the 80s and 90s, it was fairly common to see some variation of "Don Cherry for Prime Minister" signs dotting Canadian NHL rinks, and the Conservative Party even tried to recruit him in 2004.
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Part of this is a new revenue share program in which IBC International will partner with rinks, providing cars free-of-charge for a share in the revenue that the cars produce at those facilities.
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The new cars, which are what you'll see spinning, sliding, and bumping in ice rinks across the country, include high-tech updates such as two proportional joysticks that control the specially designed Ice Motor Wheels.
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According to the federation, there are 311 female ice hockey players in India, the world's second most-populous country, which has only five indoor rinks and a sports culture dominated by cricket and field hockey.
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When Adam Sherlip, a former men's coach who helped the women's team, first came to the area in 2009, there were only three ice rinks and there was very little interest in hockey, he said.
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Unlike the WNBA, which plays to fairly large crowds often in the same big arenas as the NBA, the five-team National Women's Hockey League (NWHL) operates in far smaller rinks in the United States.
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"There are a lot of issues, and first of all, you worry about his safety and making sure he's doing OK." Rinks returned home to Michigan from Butler University in Indianapolis during his winter break.
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She called Moses "the secret Santa" of skating rinks, because as parks commissioner, he built several, including the Wollman Rink in 1949 and the Kate Wollman Memorial Rink, in Prospect Park in Brooklyn, in 1961.
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Dippin' Dots—the company that's been making those little, frozen, spherical ice cream beads you've consumed at county fairs, zoos, and roller rinks for three decades—has just launched a company devoted entirely to cryogenics.
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Using a new, sprawling Canadian telescope dubbed CHIME — which is the size of six hockey rinks — scientists identified the short, repeating burst in the summer of 2018 and published their results Wednesday in the journal Nature.
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With bigger and faster athletes playing on rinks and fields and courts whose dimensions have remained constant for decades, every sport — not just hockey — is impossible to referee without the all-seeing eye in the sky.
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The devices resemble a miniature Zamboni, the machine used to resurface ice at ice-skating rinks, and a motorized wheelchair, the news outlet said, and are already in use at airports in Seattle, Boston and Miami.
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The company also has a fleet of 16 rental cars; this option appeals to holiday popup rinks like the one in Bryant Park, New York City, and at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Denver.
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A decades-long endeavor — rinks sprouting, participation swelling, Blues alumni staying in town to coach — culminated in 2200, when five St. Louis-bred players were drafted in the first round, or five more than ever before.
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Fleury will not be tasked with saving a franchise from bankruptcy as Lemieux did, but he will be a prominent part of building hockey in a region where many children have limited access to ice rinks.
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It provides various services to the games, such as keeping ice rinks at the right temperature, and is the technical partner of the U.S. luge team (pictured), helping them fine-tune sleds to make them faster.
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Boston University women's hockey beat Minnesota 6-5 in overtime on Saturday and play-by-play man Max Walpoff decided the best way to celebrate was to sound his barbaric yawp over the rinks of the world.
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The two rinks have official names — Wollman Rink in the southern part of Central Park and Lasker Rink at the park's northern end — but Trump's name was displayed as prominently as the official ones, the Post noted.
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For three months out of the year, when temperatures drop well below -20°C (-4°F) and it is too cold to keep the schools open, natural ponds and communal, hand-made rinks dot the arid landscape.
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The games would not sell out arenas, but they packed smaller rinks, enabling a generation of young girls to watch Olympians like Hilary Knight, Meghan Duggan and top college stars and imagine a future as paid professionals.
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With the help of tournament sponsors—most prominently and fittingly given the constant imbibing, Budweiser and Fireball—the organizers measure off a dozen pond hockey rinks across the lake, along with a beer tent hosting nightly events.
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Rinks at high altitudes are believed to be better-suited for fast times as there is less oxygen frozen into the ice, making it denser, but a delighted Lee said athletes had nothing but praise for the venue.
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Ms. Amram's and Mr. Kwong's theme has two 13s and two 15s in it, which cuts down on space for longer entries, but they do pretty well with LEFT TO RIGHT, HELEN MIRREN, ICE RINKS and MARS BARS.
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Mr. Weisbrodt, the outgoing artistic director of the festival, has his own suggestions for how the space could be used: for culture, of course, but also hockey rinks, a rock-climbing wall with commissioned murals and a school.
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A world away from the N.H.L. rinks he aspired to play on, Glass discovered a passionate fan base and the opportunity to grow and develop in a place he could not even imagine living with his wife, Allie.
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The Central Park Conservancy announced in the fall it would have to spend $215 million fixing the Lasker Rink, which is actually two 195-by-65 feet rinks, among other improvements, at the north end of the park.
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The figure skating component includes both on- and off-ice instruction twice a week at skating rinks across New York City and, as of seven years ago, three synchronized skating teams that compete throughout the tri-state region.
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The genre quickly took over the country's airwaves, nightclubs, and roller rinks, and according to freestyle DJ Andy Panda in Vivian Host's excellent oral history, Miami championed a poppier, more carnival-like sound in comparison to edgier New York's.
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IBC International is rolling out something new in 2020: a revenue-share program in which IBC International will partner with rinks, providing cars free-of-charge for a share in the revenue that the cars produce at those facilities.
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The building is in the heart of Brooklyn Heights, a short walk from the historic Brooklyn Bridge and several amenities along the water, including basketball courts, roller-skating rinks, jogging and biking paths, and sweeping views of Lower Manhattan.
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"Not only are you in another state where they don't take your insurance because you're in a different state, but it's difficult because you have to find the right place to go out of network," Mary Ellen Rinks said.
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Denmark, a country of 218 million in the shadow of the hockey powerhouses Sweden and Finland, has 25 rinks and about 4,000 registered hockey players, but it has grand ambitions to develop some of the best hockey players in the world.
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The players Reuters spoke to all recall the rivalry beginning for them while they were still in the junior ranks, continuing through their international careers and even onto the rinks of North America, where most of them plied their trade.
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The final look is one part 1920s retro and one part 1980s brightly colored fever dream—an homage to the golden age of roller rinks in Los Angeles, and a perfect fit for Instagram where they're coveted by thousands of followers.
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In January of 2016, former Minnesota Wild and St. John's IceCaps coach Ian Andersen decided to leave the big arenas of North America for new adventures on some of the most remote and highest altitude natural ice rinks in the world.
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The popular ice grooming machine used at skating rinks and hockey matches has no place in a sport that can claim to provide the most level playing field of any at the Winter Olympics, and one of the most technical.
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The government has poured $13 billion into the region, building a new bullet train and highway — and 97 tunnels and 78 bridges — to improve access to Pyeongchang from Seoul, as well as sporting facilities such as ice rinks and ski slopes.
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On the scrubby soccer pitches of Cameroon, in the batting cages of the Dominican Republic or in the ice rinks of provincial Russia, sporting success seems like the last, best chance for the world's also-rans to join the global elite.
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He said his efforts to expand the game had faced multiple challenges, including a warm climate; the cost of ice time, which he said was typically $1,500 or more per hour; and the absence of hockey-specific facilities at rinks.
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You'd think that a guy whose ubiquitous name is stamped on everything from hotels to golf courses, skating rinks to skyscrapers would be a beloved prodigal son, returning home a front-runner presidential candidate to the open arms of a proud hometown.
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The city has indicated it does not want to have to go to court to evict the developer if the project cannot be financed, nor does it want construction work to render the building unusable for any other purpose than ice rinks.
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" In the '60s and '70s, if black skaters came during a white night, Ms. Brown said, "some rinks would hire thugs to trip them on the wood, or rink owners would claim they didn't have skates to rent in those patrons' sizes.
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The promising Russian goaltender Igor Shesterkin, 23, also was assigned to Hartford, where he will work at adjusting to nuances of the game in the smaller rinks of North America after three seasons starting for SKA St. Petersburg, the Kontinental Hockey League powerhouse.
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With a history of erratic ownership, contract spats and brutal violence, the six-team league was not only welcoming some of the nation's best players back into its rinks, it was also adding a fine patriotic finish to its profit-minded enterprise.
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"United Skates" profiles business owners as rising rents and rezoning force their successful rinks out of business; in stunning sequences, the cameras stay rolling to document the police searches and arbitrary rules that greet black patrons who try to skate at unfriendly establishments.
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As the New York Times's Kenneth Chang has explained, a 150-pound person standing on blades would only lower the melting point of ice from 32°F to 31.97° F., while ice rinks for figure skating are commonly kept around 24°F.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China wants to get 300 million citizens involved in winter sports by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and plans to encourage them by building more than 500 ice skating rinks and 240 ski slopes over the next six years, the government said.
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Here are some of Trump's sources of income in 3113: The lengthy form published Thursday also includes such miscellaneous entries as $2311 million from operating ice skating rinks in New York City, and at least $216,22019 in royalties for his "Select by Trump" coffee brand.
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Here are some of Trump's sources of income in 2018: The lengthy form published Thursday also includes such miscellaneous entries as $8.5 million from operating ice skating rinks in New York City, and at least $5,000 in royalties for his "Select by Trump" coffee brand.
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Additionally, it's a lot easier to compete in these events throughout the year thanks to indoor rinks, so there are a slew of more local competitions run by the U.S. Figure Skating Association, giving you the chance to see talent both local and national.
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In 2005, he created the Ed Snider Youth Hockey Foundation, which maintains ice rinks and provides equipment, coaching and hockey programs for thousands of children in Philadelphia and Camden, N.J. He also endowed a research center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Respect for the rinks runs so deep that at the peak of the gang wars between the Crips and Bloods in Los Angeles in the '80s, places like Skate Town (in Bloods territory) and World of Wheels (Crips) were considered exempt from the conflict.
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While Saul is eventually able to leave the school for a foster family, his new hockey team made up of fellow Indigenous players experiences the same kind of subjugation and violence at the hands of Canadians in the rinks and in the towns they visit.
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It had a hospital and a community clubhouse; riverfront parkland; curling and skating rinks; a public school for 400 students; apartment buildings and hundreds of new houses; paved streets; power, water and sewer systems; and a hotel worthy of a princess and her prince.
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Since 2007, the homegrown event has been setting up shop at various venues and rinks across the city; in 2010, it even traveled to London for a one-off party with Red Bull Music Academy, soundtracked by Moodymann and UK party-outfit Horsemeat Disco.
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At annual gatherings like Coachella in the California desert, Bonnaroo in Tennessee and Lollapalooza in Chicago, fans get flushable toilets, art installations, sneaker cleaning, roller skating rinks, mini spa treatments and sex therapy sponsored by the likes of Revlon, American Express, Durex condoms and Hewlett Packard.
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Most teams play in arenas with seating capacities that don't exceed a few thousand, and which look and smell like traditional hockey rinks, where popcorn, hot dogs and poutine waft through the air, and groups of men cluster together to drink beer and socialize on the concourse.
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It is on these rinks children and youth from all over the region come together to fulfill their need for recreation and camaraderie, giving them a counterbalance to the high demands of school and household duties while building self-confidence and developing a strong sense of community.
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We were trying to show the importance of roller rinks as community spaces that helped give rise to these hip-hop artists, that were centerpieces for early civil rights battles—one of the first sit-ins in the country was a skate-in at a roller rink.
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As the 1911-12 season was nearing its end, there was speculation that teams in the East were looking to take advantage of the artificial ice at the Boston Arena, which could accommodate weather challenges later into March that their own natural ice rinks could not.
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Every year they collect donated hockey gear from Canada and the US and invite North American hockey players, coaches and youth leaders to volunteer as a way to democratize a sport previously only available to a lucky few on well funded rinks in the capital city of Leh.
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The filmmakers Tina Brown and Dyana Winkler went to shoot a piece about the death of roller-skating culture and instead were introduced to a whole new side to the sport: a thriving community of black skaters who flock to rinks across the country in the dead of night.
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The project, which would pack a 220,000-seat hockey arena, eight additional rinks and a community center within the armory's brick walls, seemed to have so much going for it: Unlike prior proposals, it had the support of community groups, elected officials in the Bronx and city and state government.
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According to the school's website, some of St. Paul's state-of-the-art sports facilities include a 95,000-square-foot fitness center, an eight-lane indoor swimming pool, two rock-climbing walls, two hockey rinks, squash and tennis courts, a 2,000-meter rowing course with boathouse, and nine athletic fields.
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"Industrial logging claims more than a million acres of boreal forest every year, equivalent to seven National Hockey League rinks each minute, in part to meet demand for tissue products in the United States," said the report, which was jointly authored by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Stand.
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With a sense of style that rivals Liberace's, Mr. Rieu brings a heavy dose of spectacle to his performances, with his female musicians dressed up in cakelike pastel crinolines, stage sets that include life-size ballrooms and ice rinks, thousands of balloons, and lighting effects that bring to mind magical sunsets.
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Here we used the beauty of skating and the celebration of this world to share hard-hitting issues about why this community faces stereotyping, why roller rinks are still segregated in this country, why on "adult nights" skaters aren't treated the same—there's heavy policing and metal detectors absent on other nights.
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The Washington Post reported the ice skating rinks in Central Park, which are two of President TrumpDonald John TrumpSchedule for additional depositions in impeachment inquiry revealed Sondland attorney disputes key portions of Taylor testimony: report Impeachment inquiry might be public by mid-November: report MORE's oldest businesses, no longer bear his name on the boards around the rink.
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What Sun Belt teams lack in access to rinks and elite competition at home, they compensate for with coaching, said Alex Hicks, an assistant for the Arizona State University men's team, which begins play as a full-fledged N.C.A.A. Division I member next season in yet another measure of hockey's growth in the South and West.
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Founded in 1924 by Armand G. Hudon, Amesbury's deputy fire chief, and Emilien "Mickey" Jutras, a local barber and undertaker, the Maples' beginnings were humble: they played their games on a 150 foot by 85 foot sheet of ice that was mapped out on a local pond (indoor rinks were essentially unheard of at the time).
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"One of the biggest pain points for rinks (which is what we've attributed a lot of our success to) is they're busy and they're set in their ways, so they don't want to bring in a new attraction ride that is just going [to] require them to have more manpower or someone always maintaining the cars," Farny said.
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Completed in 2014 at a cost somewhere north of $200 million, it is among the most expensive construction projects in the city's history, home to two rinks, a Marriott-operated hotel, the (716) sports bar and restaurant, IMPACT Sports Performance, the Academy of Hockey, a smattering of retail spaces, and a special Sabres-themed Tim Horton's, replete with blue and gold signage, Buffalo Aud timeline, and Horton hagiography.
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But as a winter lover who once traveled to Winnipeg to skate that city's sculpture-dotted frozen river in below-zero temperatures, I was intrigued by the icy fount of adventurous possibilities in Quebec, Canada's largest province, where it's possible to escape the oval confines of what we normally think of as ice rinks, and skate for long, sinuous stretches on frozen trails through forests and snowy landscapes.
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Sure, there were mornings when my car wouldn&apost start because even the garage was too cold, and times I forgot my gloves at home and couldn&apost feel my fingers, but winter in the Midwest is also one of the most beautiful times of year, when snow coats tree branches, lakes freeze into ice-skating rinks, and the occasional snow day provides a brief respite from your routine.
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Some have since closed, but New York has been shaped by other rinks that have had the means to endure, from Rockefeller's rink to the Wollman Rink — which reopened after Donald Trump repaired it (no, it wasn't an act of philanthropy.) Rosenfeld wonders if another golden age of ice skating might be on the horizon: plans to develop the Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx into the world's largest ice-skating complex have been underway for a few years, although the ambitious project has been delayed by lawsuits and funding challenges.
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The Nae Nae and the old-school choreography it comes out of are hard to describe if you didn't grow up with them at those long-ago basement parties when the O'Jays were the shit, those carefree evenings in roller rinks going around and around while all that delicious Chaka or Foxy was piped in, or those nights on the Christopher Street piers watching girls like Tiffany—smart-as-hell girls who had nothing, growing up, except their charisma and their spirit—dance for their own enjoyment, and for ours.
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