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A firearm that automatically re-cocks and reloads the next round with each trigger pull is considered a semi-automatic or autoloading firearm.
In season 5, the bonus round was played for $ 25, 000 ( savings bonds in the quarter-finals, cash in the semi-finals ), and the grand champion automatically won a new Jeep Wrangler.
The winners of Fast Track events are automatically qualified to enter the final round.
Since 2011 winners of the challenge events are no longer automatically qualified to enter the final round.
Semi-automatic firearms, when fired, automatically extract the spent cartridge casing and load the next cartridge into the chamber, ready to fire again ; they do not fire automatically like a machine gun ; rather, only one round is fired with each trigger pull.
The breech block was of vertical falling wedge type and operated semi-automatically, meaning that after firing the empty cartridge case was automatically ejected, while the breech cocked itself and remained open, ready to take the next round in.
WebTV closed its first round of financing, US $ 1, 500, 000, from Marvin Davis in September, 1995 and developed a prototype WebTV set-top box, based upon a custom chip and custom software, and also developed a WebTV online service that the WebTV set-top boxes would automatically dial into using a dial-up modem that provided subscriber services such as HTML-based email, and proxied websites accessed by the WebTV set-top box so as to make them display more efficiently on a television screen.
After this a team proceeds to the finals round in the host country, although hosts qualify for the tournament automatically.
The 2007 South Pacific Games, won by New Caledonia, served as qualifying round for three teams and New Zealand qualified automatically.
The songs are performed live with telephone lines open for the first round of voting ; the song receiving the most votes in the first round automatically qualifying to the final, skipping the second round.
Beginning on the 2009 contract, TSN has the third, fifth, and seventh choices of series during first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs ( previously, the CBC automatically had rights to any series involving a Canadian team ) CTV also acquired the rights to The Hockey Theme after the CBC decided not to renew its rights to the theme song in June 2008 amid a legal dispute with its composer, Dolores Claman.
Any player winning all four hands in any round is said to have crashed, and automatically wins the entire game.
Although automatic weapons and selective fire firearms do the same tasks, semi-automatic firearms do not automatically fire an additional round until the trigger is released and re-pressed by the person firing the weapon.
* A semi-automatic firearm, a firearm which automatically reloads, but will only fire one round per trigger pull
If it is realised that a player had had all 8 cards and leads a round with this card, he / she automatically loses the game and is severely penalised ( i. e. will have to do something embarrassing, drink lots of alcohol or say something ridiculous to a common friend the next day ).
The Etesia robot mower – known as a ' mow bot ' – uses GPS technology to automatically guide it round the pitch without the need for human intervention and gathers power from the solar panels already at the stadium.
After the trigger is pulled and the round is fired, the recoil operation of the handgun automatically extracts and ejects the shell casing and reloads the chamber.
If a player is dealt four pairs or two complete suits, that player automatically wins the round.
Five preliminary round matchups were played with the winners automatically advancing to the quarterfinal round, along with the three highest scoring losers.

round and ends
After this second round, if there is still no winner, during the regular season the game ends as a tie.
If he is shot, the bonus round ends.
The voting for the Representatives according to the majority principle can be conducted in two electoral rounds, whereas the voting according to the proportional principle ends in the first round.
The betting round ends when all players have either matched the last bet or folded.
At any time during a betting round, if one player bets and no opponents choose to call ( match ) the bet and all opponents instead fold, the hand ends immediately, the bettor is awarded the pot, no cards are required to be shown, and the next hand begins.
If the live blind checks, the betting round then ends.
Normally this occurs when a player calls, and the next player whose turn it is to act is the one who made the last raise, so he cannot raise further ( this ends the betting round ).
The pole vault crossbar has evolved from a triangular aluminum bar to a round fiberglass bar with rubber ends.
If so many voters give their first preferences to the " weak " candidate that it ends up winning the first round, it is highly likely they will gain enough campaign momentum to have a strong chance of winning the runoff, too, and with it, the election.
When the allotted time for each round ends, any money not banked is lost, and if the host is in the middle of asking a question, or has asked a question but the contestant has yet to answer, the question is abandoned.
The breed has a broad chest, shoulders and hips with short legs, round paws and a plush but not fluffy tail that ends in a round or blunt tip.
The horseshoe arch is based on the semicircular arch, but its lower ends are extended further round the circle until they start to converge.
Players alternate taking turns until one player ends the round by knocking, going Gin, or until only two cards remain in the stock pile, in which case the round ends in a draw and no points are awarded.
If all 10 or 11 cards in a player's hand fit into melds and thereby the player has no deadwood, he or she can choose to go Gin in which case the round ends and the player going Gin receives a Gin bonus of 25 points ( or another established amount ) plus any deadwood points in the opponent's hand.
In the open, with an abundance of air and light, the main trunk divides into several leading branches which leave the trunk at a sharp angle and continue to grow upward, gradually diverging, dividing and subdividing into long, flexible branchlets whose ends, at last, float lightly in the air, giving the tree a round, somewhat flattened top of beautifully regular proportions and characteristically fine twiggery.
A betting round ends when all active players have bet an equal amount or no opponents call a player's bet or raise.
Apollo is in dire straits and taking the worst beating of his life as the first round ends.
Since those fluid waves move the cochlear partition that separates the scalae up and down, the waves have a corresponding symmetric part in perilymph of the scala tympani, which ends at the round window, bulging out when the oval window bulges in.
Rules in the United States now dictate that any bout which ends prior to the completion of the 4th round, due to an accidental headbutt, is to be declared a no-contest.

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The president is elected for a five year term by the people ( absolute majority with 2nd round if necessary ).
The hybrids are able to adapt to year round watering and fertilization but can also tolerate completely dry summer conditions if need be.
Of course, it is not possible for the casino to win exactly 53 cents ; this figure is the average casino profit from each player if it had millions of players each betting 10 rounds at 1 unit per round.
Furthermore, if we flat bet at 10 units per round instead of 1 unit, the range of possible outcomes increases 10 fold.
The second round wins if the shooter rolls the come bet point again before a seven.
The second round wins if the shooter rolls a seven before the don't come point.
More than anything else, the caddy is there to make the player's round enjoyable by taking care of menial tasks, speeding up play, and providing mental support if asked.
There are several methods for creating loaded dice ; these include round and off-square faces and ( if not transparent ) weights.
For instance, if the clock shows that it is midnight in London when it is noon locally, then you are half way round the world, ( e. g. 180 degrees of longitude ) from London.
In boxing, this can happen even if the fighter fails the 10 count ; or, in many regions, a fighter has been knocked down three times in one round.
In AIBA competition, this does not apply if a fighter loses by a technical knockout outclassed, when a fighter is behind more than 20 points — 15 for junior levels — in any round except the final round.
Rotary guns are less prone to jamming than a gun operated by gas or recoil, as the external power source will eject misfired rounds with no further trouble, but this is not possible if the force needed to eject the round comes from the round itself.
* Spades double: In variations where the trump card is chosen randomly, some play that if a spade is turned up, the points for that round double.
At the end of the last betting round, if more than one player remains, there is a showdown, in which the players reveal their previously hidden cards and evaluate their hands.
In poker, the showdown is a situation when, if more than one player remains after the last betting round, remaining players expose and compare their hands to determine the winner or winners.
On a twist round, players make the decision of which card to replace in turn starting with the player who bet first on the preceding round ( usually the player whose upcards make the best hand ), discarding the card they choose to replace, if any.
In the game of poker, a betting round is said to be closed if no player will have the right to raise in the round.
The round can also said to be closed before it has actually ended if there are still players remaining to act, but they will not be entitled to raise either because the last raise was a sub-minimum all-in raise ( see poker table stakes rules ) or because the limit (" cap ") on allowed raises has been reached.
In a poker game with more than one betting round, an out is any unseen card that, if drawn, will improve a player's hand to one that is likely to win.

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