Sentences with phrase «off the ice led»

What would certainly help the Islanders is consistent play from Denis Potvin, the 23 - year - old defenseman whose exalted opinion of himself on and off the ice led to a long period of estrangement from his teammates and a deterioration of his game last year.

Not exact matches

While a section of ice may lead in a new direction or to new limits, making the most noise and gaining the most attention, these peninsulas are also the most likely to be those that break off and fall into the sea as icebergs, floating away and disappearing.

«He has a very distinct creed — the way he lives, the way he wants to lead and be as a person on and off the ice,» Bruins defenseman Kevan Miller says.

The second half did not start off particularly exciting, but in the 51st minute, Marquette broke the ice and took a 1 - 0 lead.

Lead really takes off in the ice record in the 20th century, however, with the addition of this element to gasoline.

Permafrost has thawed, causing houses to slide off suddenly muddy cliffs; sea ice has thinned, creating expanses of open water that rise up in ever higher storm surges; and glaciers are melting, leading local sea levels to climb (albeit very slightly).

A new study led by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics has found that wind over the ocean off the coast of East Antarctica causes warm, deep waters to upwell, circulate under Totten Ice Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from belIce Shelf, and melt the fringes of the East Antarctic ice sheet from belice sheet from below.

Tonya was aware of Jeff and Shawn's original plan, but even if she wasn't physically involved in Nancy's injury, she may as well have been as this off - the - rink scandal would lead to the end of her career from being banned for life from the Ice Skating Association.

Infamous for her dust - up with Nancy Kerrigan in the lead - up to the 1994 Winter Olympic Games, Harding was known more for her off - ice activities than her performance on her skates.

With Europe pretty much devoid of snow and ice at this time of the year, Land Rover put Jami, the lead dog, in to the back of the Disco Sport and took him off to the underground Vesileppis Ski Tunnel in Finland to meet the rest of the team (read that as the Discovery Sport is very dog - friendly).

Maybe he wants to keep playing catch long after your elbow is ready for the ice pack, or he literally runs circles around you when he is off - lead.

So if you have a day off, you can join the pub crawl, let curiosity lead you to the ladyboy cabaret or simply kick back in one of the beach bars with an ice cold Chang and good company.

The hike through the valley leads you over rocks, streams, and rivers created by the runoff of snow and the melting of ice from both the Hooker Glacier and those glaciers hanging off Mount Sefton.

The real jewel in the crown in Obliteracers is it's multiplayer, it is definitely geared more to be a party game than a racing game with the full pack of racers being followed at one time, this gives it an arena feel rather than an actual straight up racing game, you still have to try and lead the pack (at times) although that's only to knock other racers out as the main aim is to destroy your enemy, within multiplayer you can customize your game to suit your preferences from turning certain or all weapons off, reversed controls, ice skating which is an extremely slippery track speed boosts etc etc, i'd liked to have listed them all in this review but with so many you'll have to take a look yourself.

Now one could argue that an impact of that sort, onto either the open waters of the St. Lawrence or the Laurentide ice sheet, could have vaporized a good deal of water and ice, thus creating a large tsunami that funneled up the St. Lawrence and then broke through to glacial Lake Vermont, and then set off a chain of events that lead to the draining of Lake Vermont and Lake Agassiz, and that could very well satisfy the proxy evidence in the Younger Dryas boundary layer.

For several years, Rhett Herman, a physics professor at Radford University, has been leading students on an expedition each spring break to study the condition of the sea ice off the coast near Barrow, Alaska.

And yes, we will cool off... eventually, as global warming leads to what most likely be a new ice age.

The report from the UN's intergovernmental panel on climate change concluded that climate change was already having effects in real time — melting sea ice and thawing permafrost in the Arctic, killing off coral reefs in the oceans, and leading to heat waves, heavy rains and mega-disasters.

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

The question is, why were Southern Beaufort Sea polar bears off Prudhoe Bay (see map of the study area below), still hunting and capturing only adult and subadult ringed seals from sea ice leads when newborn ringed seal pups and their mothers should have been plentiful and relatively easily available in their birth lairs on the sea ice (see below)?

Lead author of the study Joseph MacGregor said in a statement: «Typically, the leading edge of an ice shelf moves forward steadily over time, retreating episodically when an iceberg calves off (breaks off and floats out to sea), but that is not what happened along the shear margins.»

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The early de-icing devices were rubber leading edges (boots) that would expand and contract causing the ice to fly off the wing!

Then at the end of the novel, they go into the Arctic Ocean and we're led to believe that they die as they drift off on an ice floe,» he said.

Photos from the US Coast Guard icebreaker Healy (http://mgds.ldeo.columbia.edu/healy/reports/aloftcon/2011/) indicate that ponds and leads began to freeze over around the first of September at 88 degrees latitude, which is in line with the relatively early leveling off of the ice extent time series shown in the NSIDC contribution.

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While people may have written off the «ice bucket challenge», used to raise money and awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease, as just a social media flash in the pan, the money raised by people participating in the challenge and their supporters funded the research that led to the discovery of the gene (NEK1) that causes ALS.

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