The county council has also put a number of agricultural contractors on standby to clear more remote rural roads in the event of heavy snow.

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Facebook, Linkedin and twitter discussions of the event utilize storage on remote servers (cloud storage).

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For sky-watchers, the reports bring to mind the famous Tunguska event of 1908 in remote Siberia.

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For sky watchers, the reports bring to mind the famous Tunguska event of 1908 in remote Siberia, in which an asteroid entered the atmosphere and exploded, leveling trees over an area of 820 square miles -- about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island.

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In any event, Plan Colombia has reminded Brazil that its remote northern border region is wide open.

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Online voters even have the option to re-vote with a paper ballot in the event that hurried or pressured decisions were made from their remote voting locations.

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You can demonstrate products and you can event conduct two-person interviews on camera because you have a remote-control which also doubles as a microphone.

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In case you were on a remote island a couple of days ago, Apple dedicated a few hours to the iPhone 5 with an event in chilly northern California.

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