Professor X, Gambit, Beast, Night crawler, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cyclops and Storm. ... Cloud seeding can improves a cloud's ability to produce precipitation by adding to a cloud tiny particles called ice nuclei which water needs it to freeze. ... Cloud top seeding aircraft use ejectable flares and dry ice, which are released directly into the super-cooled cloud top. ... For example, in the movie X-men, Storm is the character that has this unique ability. ... But for Storm in the movie X-men, she can fly by creating winds strong that enough to support its weight. ...

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Such is the case in Linda Hogan's novel, Solar Storms#. While not at all shy about speaking her mind directly and sharing her beliefs throughout Solar Storms, Hogan also whispers other subtle ideas throughout her novel through the names she chooses for the people and places. ... And that is exactly what Adam's Rib is in Solar Storms; it is the place where each of these strong women truly begins to form their life, to come to see who they really are. ... We are told that it is here that many animals come when the lake is frozen and then are trapped when the ice melts. ... Just as sign...

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There will be changes in precipitation, storms, and wind directions and so on. Rising temperatures are expected to increase tropical storm activity. ... Storms will be more severe. ... The vast ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland account for most of this area. ... Much depends on how fast the polar ice melts. ...

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There will be changes in precipitation, storms, and wind directions and so on. Rising temperatures are expected to increase tropical storm activity. ... Storms will be more severe. ... The vast ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland account for most of this area. ... Much depends on how fast the polar ice melts. ...

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This PG does a good job in explaining some of the hardships but also good things that happened while the snow storm was going on. ... In December 2013, there was a snow storm that threatened the safety of the students that drove up to school from their home. ... After the snow storm had passed, but the roads and sidewalks were still icy, the University attempted to clean the ice out and putting sand in the sidewalks so it could melt faster. This bumped up the security measures so the students would not slip and fall and injure themselves because of the ice. ... Without these measures being tak...

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Abstract Losing a day of production does not sit well with Toyota management, so when its Georgetown, Kentucky, plant had to shut down for a day because a Midwest ice storm prevented passage of parts necessary for production, Japan's largest automaker decided it should get better at tracking and responding to the weather and hired Weather Data Inc. to be its own private forecasting company. ... Toyota Motor Mfg., the auto industry's model of efficiency, had to shut down its Georgetown, KY, plant for nearly a day because an ice storm in the Midwest left roads impassable. ... An i...

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While approaching the airport the flight crew noticed lightning coming from a storm cell directly in their flight path. ... Icing is a condition in which ice forms along an aircrafts leading edges. ... By failing to activate the engine anti-ice system, large amounts of snow and ice that were sucked into the engines during reverse thrust was allowed to remain there. Ice built up on the compressor inlet pressure probe, which measures engine power. ... The combination of the ice covered wings and low power caused an immediate stall on takeoff killing 74 people. ...

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Fog, ice and storms could delay getting across by half a day or even more. Sometimes the river contained so much ice that it could only be crossed on foot. ... It would have to be high enough to allow ships to pass under, and strong enough to withstand the winds that whipped along the river during storms. ...

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Its effects are predicted to be catastrophic: dramatic climate changes, leading to the melting of the polar ice caps and great rises in sea level. ... The strength of hurricanes, for example, is largely determined by the temperature of the ocean waters over which these storms develop. Some atmospheric scientists think that as global warming raises water temperatures near the oceans surface, hurricanes will have the potential to develop into even more ferocious storms than they are now. ... But as global temperatures continue to increase, it is assured that mountain glaciers, as well as the ...

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I have seen our river, when, the landscape being covered with snow, both water and ice were almost green as grass. ... Once in the winter, many years ago, when I had been cutting holes through the ice in order to catch pickerel , as I stepped ashore I tossed my axe back on to the ice, but , as if some evil genius had directed it, it slid four or five rods directly into one of the holes, where the water was twenty-five feet deep. ... Making another hole directly over it with an ice chisel which I had, and cutting down the longest birch which I could find in the neighborhood with my knife, I mad...

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These tornadoes can appear to be transparent until they begin to pickup debris and it is not uncommon for two or more tornadoes to occur at the same time with close proximity of each other during these storms. ... River flooding tends to be the most common and also the most inevitable since anything from spring rains to ice jams to land fallen tropical storms can cause this type of flooding. The second type, coastal flooding, is caused by tropical storms and hurricanes, which produce a large storm surge. ...

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The storm lasted for four days and the boys were locked in their own building. ... At the fifth day the storm was over. ... But the storm was so strang that Jamie got so weak that he wanted to lay down. ... After the storm had gone they walked together to the camp of the Eskimos and Reetyuk brought the two boys to his headman. ... Over six months they were alone in the cold ice dessert of Canada....

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Ice-breakers and social activities may be of benefit at this stage. ... Successful ice-breakers and social events will ensure a climate of trust. ... Once the members have a clear idea of their purpose and are comfortable in the group they may move on to the "storming" stage of the team development. Forming is followed by storming. ...

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According to a recent edition of Webster's Dictionary, hip-hop is "the popular subculture of usually black urban youth, especially as characterized by rap music" (313). Furthermore, it defines rap as "a kind of popular music marked by the rhythmical intoning of rhymed verses to an insistent beat" ...

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Ice on rivers and lakes are breaking up quicker, glaciers have shrunk, animal ranges have shifted and trees are flowering sooner. ... There has been a loss of sea ice, accelerating sea levels, longer, and more intense heat waves. ... Europe has been experiencing increasing risk of flash flooding, more frequent coastal flooding and increasing erosion caused by storms and sea level rise. ...

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It is also known that dust storms are prevalent and leaves the surface of Mars covered by a red haze. ... Mars also has no magnetic field. " Because the atmosphere of mars is so thin, wind velocities up to several hundred Km per hour are required to raise the dust particles during a dust storm, and these fast- moving particles erode structures with a sand-blasting effect " (Grolier, 1992). ... The poles of Mars are iced over and the temperature is about 160 - 170 degrees K. ...

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To further emphasize the importance of jobs to Filipinos, here is an excerpt from a column in the Philippine Daily Inquirer stating, "Last Wednesday new graduates of information technology schools who were jobless stormed the business center in Makati and staged a protest in front of the Enterprise II building where the Microsoft office is located. ... It started as a two-branch ice cream shop during the 1970s. ... Here, graduates have to storm business centers to demand for job opportunities. ...

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Hell, as described by Dante, consists of dark and frightening abysses between gigantic rocks; steaming, stinking marshes, lakes, and streams; storms of hail, rain, snow, and fire; tortured souls, grimacing faces, and blood-curdling screams (Durant, 1069). ... Cerberus oversees the gluttonous whose punishment is to be trapped under continuous storms of rain, sleet, and snow. ... Satan is described as a three-headed beast trapped in a lake of ice. ...

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It is the  rapid  pace at which the temperature will rise that will result in many negative impacts to humans and the environment and this why there is such a world-wide concern. 3.2 Small Average Global Temperature Can Have A Big Impact Just a few degrees increase in the earth's temperature can cause droughts and crop failures, ecosystem imbalances, as well as melting ice caps causing sea levels to rise. ...

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"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is a narrative poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, also known as S. T. Coleridge. Coleridge lived from 1772 until 1834. He was the son of a clergyman, and not part of a wealthy family. He met Wordsworth at Cambridge University, where the two gentlemen became best frien...

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The noises grew more audible as if it was the gradually increasing amount of rain at the start of a storm, the noises grew into steps and every so often the Hunter heard a twig snap. ... The awful patchy hide was no more than disproportionately placed hair covered in mud; the pain-fuelled hollow body was no more than starvation and unhappiness due to circumstance; and the fiery ice-blue eyes that pierced his soul were just pigments. ...

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Knowing all of this information Captain Hazelwood decided to cut it close by trying to turn the tanker in the narrow space between the ice and the reef. ... The night of March 26, a massive storm hit Prince William Sound. ... They would have to stop after that because of winter storms that would make the work impossible. ...

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Critical thinking evolves as we progress in our personal, business, and academic lives. Intermediate level critical thinkers (according to Ridel, Ph.D. (2015).) do not put much effort into the process. I was an intermediate level thinker in the sixth grade. I would sometimes put effort into homewor...

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He formed the first circulating library in America, helped organize their fire department, and suggested ways to light streets, deepen the rivers, dispose of garbage, and keep people from slipping on ice. ... Just to name a few of his more famous inventions, he made a stepladder stool with a seat that turned up, his "Y-stick" that allowed him to reach books on high shelves, the Franklin stove, a clock with three wheels for hours, minutes, and seconds, bifocal glasses, made "magic squares", and made very helpful contributions to science by risking his life to find out more about electric...

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Mike is protective of Celia and after the C.D.A storm the restaurant and arrest Celia Sully has to drag Mike away to stop him rushing to her aide. ... Blue skies studios "Ice Age" had a similar character whose humourous personality made him likable. ...

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