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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One major disturbance that effects the way trees grow are ice storms. Ice storms can be deadly for many trees but trees also can not be damaged at all because they become resistant to the ice. ... An ice storm can produce up to 2cm of ice on power lines, telephone poles, and tree limbs. ... Lemon had also studied the effects of a glaze storm in New York, but he mainly focused on forest ecology of ice storms. ... All these forms of research can determine if a tree species is susceptible, or resistance to an ice storm that may produce up to or more the 2cm of ice on tree limb....

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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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This phenomenon was proved by Carter who stated that tornadoes are caused by temperature increase and storm chasing. ... Some scientists try to explain tornadoes and storms as a result of changing weather conditions neglecting the influence of global warming on this process. ... Scientists suppose that removal of an ice core and building of the roads in winter have a direct impact on global warming. ... Drilling Ice Cores has a very negative effect on climate in tundra areas. ... Arctic ice is the main storage of drinking water, but if it can change the natural cycles in water, and resulted in...

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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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In stanza 15 he personifies the cracking ice as it "growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!... However, if one ties this back to the personification of the storm earlier in the poem, it can be seen that this has to do with more than just killing a bird. In stanzas 11-12, the storm that pushes their ship south is personified as a male bird of some kind, and which they're described as trying to escape: "And now the storm-blast cameHe struck with his o'ertaking wingsAnd southward aye we fled." Why the bird-personified storm chases them isn't really ...

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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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Famous artists including Vanilla Ice, Eminem, Justin Bieber, and Iggy Azalea are few of the white hip hop artists that have contributed to the surge of white participation in hip hop into the mainstream society. ... For example, in the documentary "Blacking Up: Hip Hop's remix of race and identity", rapper Vanilla Ice reveals that everything about his career was staged in order to become marketable towards the mainstream audience. His hit song "Ice, Ice, Baby", turned out to be a marketing scheme in which Vanilla Ice was made to do things out of his control. ...

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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) documented the consequences of the ecological degradation which affect negatively the environment: rising seas levels, increased frequency of droughts and floods, storms, hurricanes, water scarcity, disease outbreak. ... According to the International Organization for Migration (2010), climate change in Bangladesh is worsening many existing vulnerabilities, because this region is affected increasingly by severe floods, cyclones, storm surges and droughts forecast. ... Moreover the cultural and religious difference have exacerbated the con...

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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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Dust storms in deserts and smoke from forest and grass fires contribute to air pollution. ... Also, a certain element from automobile emissions in the United States has been observed in places as far away as the Greenland ice sheet. ... If this continues, it could melt the polar ice caps, raise the sea level, and flood the coastal areas of the world. ... "In time, this could cause a lowering of the Earth's surface temperature and may cause a new ice age (Tesar 92)." ...

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