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Topic: Breaking the Ice


In the News (Sun 29 Nov 09)

  
  THE DIRTY TRICKS COMMITTEE
Long liberty periods had been granted to compensate for the weeks we had been deployed and ice probes to prepare for the opening of Buffalo Harbor in the Spring were still a couple of months away.
Spring arrived and OJIBWA began ice probes to ascertain the composition of the ice fields at the Buffalo end of Lake Erie.
Unbeknownst to us, her CO had passed the word for all hands to "watch the horsepower of this tug." Accordingly, a good percentage of her crew was on deck as we approached.
www.jacksjoint.com /dirty_tricks_committee.htm   (988 words)

  
 Antarctic Ice Shelves Breaking Up Due To Decades Of Higher Temperatures   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Two ice shelves on the Antarctic Peninsula known as the Larsen B and Wilkins are in "full retreat" and have lost nearly 3,000 square kilometers of their total area in the last year, say scientists in Colorado and the United Kingdom.
Antarctic Ice Shelf Retreats Happened Before (February 28, 2005) -- The retreat of Antarctic ice shelves is not new according to research published this week (24 Feb) in the journal Geology by scientists from Universities of Durham, Edinburgh and British Antarctic...
Ice shelves are floating plates of ice that are still attached to continents and which form when large glaciers flow toward the ocean in polar areas.
www.sciencedaily.com /releases/1999/04/990409073216.htm   (904 words)

  
 Medical Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Her very easily managed rigging permitted her to venture, with a few men, in sight of the impenetrable fields of ice of the southern hemisphere.
Ursula are of rich brocade ornamented with floral designs, while on each side of her is a white flag, on which is a red cross.
One would have said that she had turned to stone with the cell, ice with the season.
latest-n-greatest.com /medical_encyclopedia.html   (2064 words)

  
 Breaking the ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
During the warm spell before the last ice age, melting of the Greenland ice sheet contributed more to the higher sea level than was thought, say Kurt Cuffey of the University of California at Berkeley and Shawn Marshall of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
But earlier computer simulations of these ice sheets under the presumed conditions of the Eemian climate (which was warmer than today) suggested that they did not contribute equally to the rise in sea level.
If the floating ice shelves around the edge of the sheet were to break up, this would expose the rest of the sheet to the ocean waters, which could induce sudden collapse, melting the rest of the ice.
www.nature.com /nsu_new/000406/000406-9.html   (748 words)

  
 Valley News Web Story Layout   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Her firm was getting about 10 calls per day “just for ice,” forcing her to contract work out to three freelancers in addition to her four full-time workers.
Ice dams form when melting snow runs down a roof but then freezes at its usually uninsulated eaves and valleys.
If the ice dams are not fixed quickly, the seepage can cause expensive damage and even require an entire roof replacement, according to David Levin, who founded Lebanon-based Groundskeepers, another landscaping firm that offers snow and ice removal.
www.vnews.com /01142003/870481.htm   (707 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice (Enterprise episode) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On the comet, Reed scans the ice and turns to find that Mayweather has built a snowman.
The heat from the exhaust melts the ice beneath, trapping the shuttlepod in a chasm.
Breaking the Ice article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Breaking_the_Ice_(ENT_episode)   (1785 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Breaking through Greenland's ice cap   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
And meltwater obtained from beneath the ice cap may contain microbes that have been isolated from the outside world for hundreds of thousands of years.
The goal was to recover ice frozen 120,000 years ago, from before the last major ice age, when the world was warmer than it is today.
This is to allow the ice to reach equilibrium with the surface conditions after spending tens of thousand of years under intense pressure.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/3090279.stm   (554 words)

  
 [ENT] Jammer's Review: "Breaking the Ice"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
After seeing "Breaking the Ice" I've developed a new theory that says any show where space explorers build a snowman on the surface of a comet is not exactly trying to make us feel awed about the wonders of space travel.
"Breaking the Ice" is a character-driven story of trust and friction between ideals -- and, for that matter, personality types.
The comet rotates toward the sun, the ice melts and cracks, Mayweather is injured, and the shuttle falls into a chasm of ice.
st-hypertext.com /ent-1/ice.html   (1692 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice :: Astrobiology Magazine :: Search for Life in the Universe
Since 2002, when the Larsen B ice shelf broke away from the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, scientists have witnessed profound increases in the flow of nearby glaciers into the Weddell Sea.
Large ice shelves in the Antarctic Peninsula disintegrated in 1995 and 2002, as a result of climate warming.
The Scambos study examined the period right after the Larsen B ice shelf collapse to try to isolate the immediate effects of ice shelf loss on the glaciers.
www.astrobio.net /news/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1212&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0   (745 words)

  
 Legislative Electronic Publications -- Manitoba To Test Ice-Breaking Equipment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Flooding downstream of Selkirk in the rural municipalities of St. Andrews and St. Clements is usually caused by increased water levels from ice jams.
The machine being tested is called an Amphibex AE-400 and can break up the solid ice sheets at locations where ice jams are likely to form or it can break up the ice jam once it has formed.
The Red River North Ice Mitigation Committee, comprised of Manitoba Water Stewardship, the City of Selkirk and the rural municipalities of St.
www.gov.mb.ca /chc/press/top/2005/04/2005-04-04-03.html   (331 words)

  
 New Scientist Breaking News - Breaking the ice
Previously, researchers thought most ice shelves were more than 10 degrees too cold to be vulnerable to break up.
If the speed at which floating ice shelves are cracking were to double, says Scambos, that could increase the rate of sea level rise from 1.0 mm per year to about 1.2 mm per year.
Scambos and colleagues examined satellite images of the Larsen Ice Shelf to determine the role of ponded meltwater in ice break-up.
www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn328   (414 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Their bodies were stored in outhouses since no pick could break the iron grip of cold on the ground.
For a day they prayed to the Frost Fathers, begged them not to break the land with the iron might of their cold.
Ice blasted the warrior, tearing her cheeks with its fine needles.
www.academyofbards.org /fanfic/m/marymorgan_breakingtheice.html   (7250 words)

  
 Breaking The Ice, Arizona's White Mountains, Ice Fishing
However, wether you are a novice or a seasoned ice-fisher, before you grab your fishing gear and take to the ice, there are some precautionary measures you should take to ensure you are equipped for the dangers one might incur.
Ice which looks thick and solid may actually be riddled with water pockets and soft spots.
Falling through ice at freezing/sub-freezing temperatures exposes the body to evaporation, cold-air temperatures, and wind-chill factors which disturbs the body's temperature, resulting in hypothermia.
www.wmonline.com /attract/icefish.htm   (629 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
Breaking the Ice is a peace project founded by Heskel Nathaniel.
"Breaking the Ice" is an idiom that means to take the initiative in getting to know someone.
"Breaking the Ice" is also the title of a Star Trek: Enterprise episode.
education.music.us /B/Breaking-the-Ice.htm   (312 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Since opening their Ice Magic franchise in December, Vickie McDermott and Kathy Gallivan have developed quite a client roster and, they hope, a reputation for creatively decorating events.
McDermott, 44, and Gallivan, 51, work with their clients and employees to design ice sculptures and select the perfect touches--everything from flowers to illuminated acrylic tables--to make each event special.
Likewise, Ice Magic is somewhat of a dream come true for these franchisees.
www.entrepreneur.com /mag/article/0,1539,299041,00.html   (267 words)

  
 Jedi Council Forums - Breaking the Ice (L/M vignette; another in the Temperature series!)
He nearly fell, but instead slid across the ice, its surface likely smoother than it could ever be in nature.
I thanked the Force repeatedly when it didn’t break, and we were able to skid over to dry land, sputtering and shivering all the while.
Breaking the Ice, means, I guess, breaking Mara's icy barriers, as well as breaking ice literally.
boards.theforce.net /message.asp?topic=13507215   (3598 words)

  
 United States Olympic Committee - Breaking the Ice;
Palmer is an accomplished ice dancer, at the highest level of competition.
Ice dancing can also be painful, as Palmer, who attends the University of Delaware, recently found out.
There was a puddle of blood on ice," said Palmer, who chipped two front teeth and broke her jaw.
www.olympic-usa.org /11506_29276.htm   (871 words)

  
 EO Newsroom: New Images - Breaking Sea Ice in McMurdo Sound
Though adults were probably able to make the trip to feed themselves, scientists feared the adults would have to consume most of the food they were bringing to their chicks because of the increased length of the return journey.
The Drygalski Ice Tongue is a floating extension of a land-based glacier.
Such ice tongues have been known to break under smaller strains, and according to NASA scientist Robert Bindschadler, the Drygalski Ice Tongue has never experienced a blow of the magnitude that B-15A could deliver.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=16790   (572 words)

  
 City Pages - Breaking the Ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Once the ice globes freeze around the orb, Pennington will remove the wooden box to reveal a glowing glacier that looks as if it has emerged from the lake's center.
He and his friends created a heart-shaped ice rink for Valentine's Day 2004 and used a homemade camera obscura to project the skaters onto the walls of the house.
The current works of the 40 or so collaborators in the Art Shanty Project wouldn't necessarily be labeled iconoclastic: The artists are not seeking to battle the ice fisherman in turf wars or redefine the sacred art of ice fishing.
www.citypages.com /databank/26/1260/article12885.asp   (1866 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice
This video documents the destroyed lives and devastation that the ice epidemic in the Northern Marianas has wrought.
We see abundant examples of the social impact of ice use and hear community leaders telling about how they propose to conduct the war against this drug.
Drug users testify to the destructive power of the drug in their lives, but there are also stories by persons who have broken themselves of the habit and reclaimed their lives.
www.micsem.org /video/videotapes/12.htm   (153 words)

  
 STARTREK.COM : Episode
On the comet, Reed and Mayweather are setting charges in the ice as the first step of their drilling operation, but they can't resist taking some time to build a snowman — with Vulcan ears.
Their pace is slowed as Reed helps the limping Mayweather back to the shuttlepod, and sunlight begins to break across the horizon.
The ice begins fracturing beneath them as they take their final few steps toward the shuttle.
www.startrek.com /startrek/view/series/ENT/episode/121968.html   (876 words)

  
 Index   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Women aren't disempowered, feminists reasoned, because they were inferior, but because the state and male beneficiaries of power had many tools in place that thwarted their rising.
The personal as political was a tool for breaking state power, and keeping each other accountable to the broader circle.
The false conception anarchists have now is that the personal is not political, but individualized: people make individual choices through individual values and we respond to them appropriately, or win victories by their singular steps.
slash.autonomedia.org /print.pl?sid=05/02/01/188202   (4369 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The helicopter was operated by the US Coast Guard from the Ice Breaker ship.
Early in the season, water has to be carried to the camp in tanks on the backs of Deltas, which look like flat bed monster trucks.
The experience of working here is very hard to describe, as hard to describe as the views of the mountains and the ice.
www.globalclassroom.org /frdave18.html   (651 words)

  
 What is Breaking the Ice? - Romance Love Tips
Breaking the ice isn't about starting an hour long conversation.
If this is someone in your school or work you're interested in, don't try to leap 8 hurdles at once.
Just try to break the ice the first time.
www.romanceclass.com /miscr/LoveDtl/629   (123 words)

  
 Wired News: Breaking Through the ICE
"What ICE is trying to do is create a standard by which companies can exchange information site-to-site," said Oliver Muoto of Epicentric, one of the companies on the advisory council helping to steer ICE's development.
ICE could also be merged with other protocols seeking to be established as standards.
ICE might also be used to automate the distribution of the demographic information of a site, transforming its users' data into a new variety of syndicated content.
www.wired.com /news/technology/0,1282,15445,00.html   (684 words)

  
 Ice Cream Van — Gumball 3000
Carrying the mantle for all vehicles slow and eccentric that take part in the Gumball (like the “Spirit of the Gumball” award winning Citroen 2CV in 2004)  this year the ice cream van caused the biggest stir and against all odds made it to the finish line.
The reason director Matthew Devlen chose an ice cream van was to highlight George Bush's policies that push kids towards the military.
This particular ice-cream van was borrowed from an ice-cream salesman in Kent just the day before the rally started, and everybody laughed when it turned up on the starting grid, complete with full stock of ice-cream.
www.gumball3000.com /features/car-reviews/ice-cream-van   (296 words)

  
 Boston.com / Business / Technology / Breaking the Ice 2.0
But a Boston company has come up with a solution that helps break the ice at big meetings.
All participants need to do is enter some personal information into an electronic file before the meeting or event: place of employment, alma mater, job title, hobbies, or, for sports lovers, the name of the team they rooted for during the World Series.
For those who do their networking at cocktail hour, when the lights are dim and the bar is stocked, the nTAG lights up in the dark.
www.boston.com /business/technology/articles/2004/11/15/breaking_the_ice_20   (535 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
maybe someone had been ice fishing, and the pilot didn't see the hole.
A freak hole in the ozone layer melted the ice in that spot.
The ice was obviously not thick enough to support the weight of the plane, and it plopped right through.
www.safetycenter.navy.mil /photo/archive/photo64p.htm   (160 words)

  
 BREAKING THE ICE: For Teachers
The integration argument was championed by Shadd, the segregation policy argued by Bibb, and the general arguments that fostered fear and prejudice against the Blacks.
Many of those who helped slaves reach Canada were knowingly breaking the law, to correct a social wrong.
Today there are also many individuals who occasionally break the law to right wrongs.
www.whitepinepictures.com /seeds/i/5/teacher1.html   (456 words)

  
 Breaking the Ice: Winter Paddling
The sky is clear, the air is still and the temperature will rise during the day, making the cold milder.
A ribbon of ice chunks mixed with slush is drifting against the ice edge.
Furthermore, coming back across the ribbon might be impossible if the density of the floating ice increases during the day.
www.seakayakermag.com /2002/02Dec/ice01.htm   (280 words)

  
 Star Trek: Enterprise: Breaking the Ice - TV.com
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www.tv.com /star-trek-enterprise/breaking-the-ice/episode/48973/summary.html   (205 words)

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