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next and cloud
For example, during the next 10 million years the known star with the greatest possibility of perturbing the Oort cloud is Gliese 710.
Under the updraft is a rain-free base, and the next step of tornadogenesis is the formation of a rotating wall cloud.
The company has announced plans to transition most of its software into cloud services over the next three years.
" Moore was the BBC's presenter for the total eclipse in England in 1999 ( the next such event will occur in 2090 ), though the view he and his team had from Cornwall was completely obscured by cloud.
Virga also has a role in seeding storm cells whereby small particles from one cloud are blown into neighboring supersaturated air and act as nucleation particles for the next thunderhead cloud to begin forming.
At the keynote, Apple unveiled its next generation software: Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of Mac OS X ; iOS 5, the next version of Apple's advanced mobile operating system which powers the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch ; and iCloud, Apple's upcoming cloud services offering.
This is big country ... one day peaceful, a study in green and blue, the next melancholy and misty, with low cloud veiling the tops ... an awesome place, with its granite precipices, its hanging valleys, its earthquake faults and its thundering cascades.
Over the next few days, the cloud pattern associated with the system fluctuated in organization and a tropical depression may have developed as early as August 24.
According to the Qur ' an, the next day, as Abraha prepared to enter the city, a dark cloud of small birds appeared.
The organization of the convection improved and the cloud system became Tropical Depression Eleven-E the next day.
His next documentary " Google World " which premiered on CBC's Doc Zone examined Google and its move into ' cloud computing '.
He rolls himself in a black mud puddle to disguise himself as a little black rain cloud, and then uses the balloon to float up next to the tree hollow that houses the beehive.

next and gun
Of all their worldly belongings, next to the oxen and his gun, the seed grain had been the most treasured.
it's a single-shot bolt-action with an automatic safety -- i.e., the safety goes on every time the bolt is lifted and the gun cocked for the next shot.
The gun fired next to his ear with a vicious whoosh like the first stroke of an old steam engine.
The official army position, backed by the British Home Secretary the next day in the House of Commons, was that the paratroopers had reacted to gun and nail bomb attacks from suspected IRA members.
The United States ' XM360, which is planned to equip the Future Combat Systems Mounted Combat System light tank and may be the M1 Abrams ' next gun upgrade, is reportedly based on the XM291 and may include ETC technology, or portions of ETC technology.
The next major advance can be seen in the Birch gun developed by the British for their motorised warfare experimental brigade ( the Experimental Mechanized Force ) after the end of the War.
The next step was to mount the guns on a tracked chassis ( often that of an obsolete or superseded tank ) and provide an armoured superstructure to protect the gun and its crew.
Harry grabs Ben's rifle and threatens to shoot him, but Ben takes back the gun and shoots Harry, who stumbles into the cellar to collapse next to Karen, who has died of the infection of her injury.
* July 29 – In New York City, the " Son of Sam " pulls a gun from a paper bag, killing 1 and seriously wounding another, in the first of a series of attacks that terrorize the city for the next year.
On August 4, 1985, a gun shootout occurred at the FRG Sports Complex — formerly known as Muller's Park — directly next to Oakland's former swimming park located along the Ramapo River called Pleasureland.
Over the next two days the allies completed the gun placements and dragged the artillery into line.
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.
* A man is shot in a guarded room, while the still-smoking gun was delivered next door in a sealed envelope prior to the shots being fired.
He was, with difficulty, persuaded to postpone this pending the arrival of a 32 pound naval gun which came the next day, 1 July.
The LTTE broke the ceasefire and blew up two Sri Lanka Navy gun boats known as SLNS ' Sooraya ' and ' Ranasuru ' on 19 April, thus beginning the next phase of the war, dubbed Eelam War III.
Ryan moved along Fairview Road, killing Abdul Rahman Khan who was mowing his lawn, then proceeded to injure his next door neighbour, Alan Lepetit, further along Fairview Road: Lepetit had helped Ryan build the gun display unit in which Ryan housed his weapons.
He was, with difficulty, persuaded to postpone this pending the arrival of a 32 pound naval gun which came the next day, 1 July.
The next witness was Gerald F. Wilkes, a local FBI ballistics expert, who testified that he found the shell casing at the crime scene which he compared to Gilmore's gun that was left there.
She accuses him of this the next time they meet, but he explains that he found her gun at the bar and that he buried Marty alive.
Initially the Eagle was engaged with two French ships, but one moved away and for next two hours battle Rodney engaged the seventy gun Neptune until his steering wheel was struck by a lucky shot, and his ship became unmanageable.
A known glitch about the zapper is you can get a perfect hit score every time in some poorly programmed games by simply pointing the gun right next to and into a light bulb.
After moving to England, he settled in a large house formerly owned by Lord Thurlow in West Norwood where he developed his design for an automatic weapon, using an action that would close the breech and compress a spring, by storing the recoil energy released by a shot to prepare the gun for its next shot.
So was the man next to him and a third was seriously wounded by machine gun fire.
In the next century, the automatic rifle traces its roots to World War I, where the Browning Automatic Rifle ( BAR ) and Huot first appeared, to fulfill the function of the light machine gun in an infantry assault role ; only the Mondragón and the Browning entered service.

next and smoke
Captain Cook arrived first offering a pipe and tobacco to smoke ( which was dismissed as a ' burning thing .. stuck in his mouth '), then boiling a billy of tea ( which was dismissed as scalding ' dirty water '), next baking flour on the coals ( which was rejected as smelling ' stale ' and thrown away untasted ), finally boiling beef ( which smelled well, and tasted okay, once the salty skin was wiped off ).
Dahmer held off the Klan with his rifle to give his wife, their three young children, and elderly aunt time to escape their burning home, but he died of burns and smoke inhalation the next day.
The city is blanketed by a sweet-smelling smog caused by the smoke generated as farmers outside the city burn their fields in preparation for planting the next crop.
The next morning, October 8, Cabrillo came to San Pedro Bay, which was named " Baya de los Fumos " ( English: Smoke Bay ), after the burning chapperal that raised thick clouds of smoke.
So Chet, when you ride away to the West to Montana on your new horse, I will have to admit to at least a mild envy, and when you're out there under clear skies and clean air, maybe once in a while you will think of those of us still here, fighting the traffic, the transportation breakdowns, stress, pollution, and wondering what is left that we can eat, drink, smoke or breathe that will not kill us, and wondering what horror will be visited upon us next.
Phivolcs maintained threat level at Alert Level 4 for the next month because of the continued extrusion of lava, ash explosions, steam and smoke plumes, seismic activity, and threat of further eruption.
The forecast contains weather information relevant to fire control and smoke management for the next 12 – 48 hours.
While Riddler and the writer hide as the smoke clears, three costumed assailants enter the wreckage, looking for their victim to mark with their next riddle.
The view the crew members had of the first test as it was performed matched what the legend said ; after the smoke from the explosion had cleared, both Buster ( the crash-test dummy ) and the chair had disappeared, though Buster and the remains of the chair were found next to the ' launch-pad '..
The next day, however, the Argus appeared as Hull had seen the smoke from their fires.
A ' huge shock of sound ' erupted as a thunderous cacophony of salutes from steamer whistles, brass bands, and booming guns, together with clouds of smoke from the cannonade, engulfed the statue for the next half hour.
The next four minutes were spent by the crew trying to confirm the warnings, and by the Flight Engineer going back into the cabin to confirm the presence of smoke in the cabin.
No-one was killed as a result of the fire ; 14 people ( four passengers, one police officer and nine members of London Underground staff ) were taken to hospital for smoke inhalation, of whom all but one were released next day.
This cleared smoke locally and allowed the occupants of the amenity coach to see that they were right next to an open cross-passage.
In the third quarter, with PAO leading 50 – 42, the game was halted for about an hour after Olympiacos fans threw various incendiaries at the PAO bench, with one smoke bomb exploding next to the bench.
On lap 33, Stewart's car emitted a puff of smoke, and the next time around, he coasted down the pit lane with no oil pressure.
On their next stop, Richard heads into the forest to smoke and encounters the Woman in White.
Cheech & Chong's Next Movie opens with both men on a mission to siphon gasoline for their next door neighbor's car, which they apparently " borrowed ," and continue with their day ; Cheech goes to work at a movie studio and Chong searches for something to smoke ( a cockroach ), followed by him revving up an indoor motorcycle and playing extremely loud rock music with an electric guitar that disturbs the entire neighborhood.
* Reaper: In the second season finale " The Devil and Sam Oliver ," Mary Pat, the greeter at the Work Bench holds up a pack of Morleys before she steps outside to have a smoke next to the LP gas tanks.
For example, when the player is driving a car that can sustain a certain number of hits, a smoke trail might appear when the car can take only two more hits, fire might appear from the car to indicate that the next hit will be fatal.
The Doctor awakes the next morning suffering from exhaustion and smoke inhalation.
And I may not be I .” As he is out on the deck for a smoke, he sees Colonel Arbuthnot sleeping, next to his wife.
Since Hank couldn ’ t smoke when he was singing he liked Lum to stand next to him to play.
The next day when Qin Ming returns to Qingzhou, he grows suspicious after seeing smoke but no travelers.

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