You remember when you were little and you would keep checking the sky for snow clouds on the offchance that you got a snow day?
It is far too early to count Boehner out -- and it is possible to see a number of silver linings for him amid the clouds of the past few weeks.
But 200 years ago the young British chemist Luke Howard lay for hours gazing at the clouds--and then found a way to turn his observations into an elegant set of names still in use today.
Some of the bouncing back and forth has made it tough for him to settle in, and it also clouds the competition for the fifth starter's spot.
The pressure has been building for months, and the dark clouds around online privacy are finally releasing their rain.
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The question is, are open source clouds ready for the demands of the enterprise, in terms of scalability and availability?
Its simple interface has to date allowed people to create and share over 72, 000 visualizations ranging from the an analysis of the budget for the city of Moscow to tag clouds of the most common word in lyrics by the Beatles.
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So if you are struggling, please remember that the sun is still there, but it has just gone behind the clouds for a while.
In an article in IEEE Internet Computing, Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications, I point out several problems the public cloud vendors will have to solve to support business computing.
The Beijing Weather Modification Office gained fame around last year's Beijing Olympics for trying to drain clouds near the city ahead of Aug. 8 Opening Ceremonies.
In a recent paper in Climate Dynamics, Mark Webb of Britain's Hadley Centre for Climate Change and his colleagues reported that clouds account for 66% of the differences between members of one important group of models and for 85% of them in another group.
Just on the level of sheer spectacle -- and these are movies we're talking about, spectacle is no small matter -- a flick like "Jack the Giant Slayer" has a lot going for it: a perilous daylong climb into the clouds, a castle in the sky worthy of Hayao Miyazaki, waterfalls that drain into thin air and the delightful sight of a 100-foot chef sneezing into his pastries.
Still, the tourists' decision to bat on in the morning under overcast conditions, seemingly ideally suited for swing bowling, could be questioned as the clouds burned away to allow Fleming and Bell to bat freely in the afternoon.
Yoni Ben-Meshulam's R We the People is a package for the R statistics environment that allows users to generate word clouds and visualize the issues that petitions are created about over time.
It is the most widely used Linux on the top 1000 websites by traffic, the reference platform for OpenStack deployments, the most popular guest OS on public clouds, and ships on PCs from Dell, Lenovo, HP and other brands.
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Extell is betting that other buyers are willing to pay many millions more than previously thought for a chance to live in the clouds above Central Park.
His most famous is a version of Super Mario Bros. in which all graphics have been deleted except for the eight-bit renderings of clouds, which placidly pass across a blue background in endless repetition.
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For instance, clouds rising in the troposphere, the lower level of the atmosphere where air mixes freely, will bump up against the boundary of the much more stable stratosphere, forming ripples in the process.
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"The fact that (overall unemployment) rose again despite indicators showing a cyclical recovery in Spain clouds the outlook for the economy and does not bode well for demand, " said Silvio Peruzzo, economist at Royal Bank of Scotland.
It crouched there, a tightly wound spring scanning the horizon for prey, all lean muscle, tense sinews against the roiling clouds.
In fact, the survey finds strong support for private clouds, which is where CIOs and IT departments will retain their clout.
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But as current and former players started to arrive for the parade, sunshine broke through the clouds and the party began.
The clouds are getting darker for Energy Conversion Devices.
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The cloud characteristics included differences in the ease with which moist air in the tropics travels into the upper atmosphere, the speed with which raindrops fatten and the level of humidity required for clouds to form.
However, the result is still some very welcome news for Tony Blair at a difficult time, and removes one of the clouds that has been hanging over his government's record.
That makes the telescope ideally suited for studying the formation of stars and galaxies, previously shrouded from astronomical view by clouds of impenetrable cosmic debris, and compiling a detailed analysis of their chemistry.
The birth and death phases of stars, for example, are associated with heavy dust clouds that give off an infra-red signal which might resemble the swarm of artificial satellites constituting a Dyson sphere.
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But Mr. Ryan's advocacy of that principle is particularly important now because storm clouds are gathering over the push for immigration changes, among other conservatives generally and in the House in particular.
We're betting that heads are going to roll at both of these companies, formal investigations are going to be waged, users are going to be compensated in big ways, lawsuits are going to be filed, and textbooks could very well be modified to make sure that lessons are learned for the next generation of college grads tasked with keeping clouds running.
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As the monsoon clouds hover over the Arabian Sea starting June, they herald the worst of times for commuters in India's financial capital, situated on the country's western coast.
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