After this seeding mess, hopefully the NCAA gets the picture: margin of victory needs to play a role in seeding.
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The revolutionary work has led to a bizarre-sounding birth practice that some are calling swab seeding, or vaginal seeding.
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I create cloud-seeding materials by coating salt crystals — a conventional cloud-seeding material — with a nanometer-thick titanium dioxide shell.
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LA County's neighbor to the north, Santa Barbara County, has been cloud seeding with both ground-based machines and a dedicated cloud-seeding airplanes since the '80s, and there are active cloud-seeding programs in nine states west of the Mississippi.
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While cloud seeding is still regarded as relatively safe, some studies have cautioned that there is not enough long-term information on what happens to the cloud seeding chemicals once they disperse.
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So far, its cloud seeding programs have mostly been considered a success—in fact, back in March, record rainfalls soon after a series of cloud seeding missions led to flooding in the country.
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The change was originally linked to an agreement to use surface-based seeding, but at this stage surface-based seeding exists only to a limited degree at Wimbledon, yet the 32 seeds remain.
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McConnell's Sweet Sixteen sticks to seeding, even taking out Xavier.
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I also thought, 'What if 'cloud seeding' could do this!
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Could cloud seeding be our latest and greatest terraforming strategy?
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Schonfeld is seeding its new quant investment with $100 million.
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"Those [cases] are now seeding the second wave," Cowling said.
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Seeding or reseeding lawns takes a great deal of work.
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But change on the seeding issue is far from certain.
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The concept, called cloud seeding, has been around for decades.
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The Sixers earned the third playoff seeding in the Eastern Conference.
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Corn seeding is normally complete by this point in the season.
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We'll start with seeding and then dive deeper into the divisions.
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He described cloud seeding as "giving mother nature a helping hand".
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Seeding of this year's crop got off to a slow start.
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In March, USDA had pegged wheat seeding at 49.559 million acres.
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"Mast seeding is an evolutionary process," Hurteau tells the Albuquerque Journal.
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Yang's website states that he's interested in cloud seeding as well.
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We've got some questions already, which we've been seeding for Walt.
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Seeding has counted for little at Wimbledon or the U.S. Open.
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The run in Rome clinches her seeding at the French Open.
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Wimbledon broke with the status quo by granting the 183rd-ranked Williams the No. 25 seeding here, and the United States Open last month announced it would revise its approach to seeding players coming back from pregnancy.
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Yet there's also no denying that there are some real obstacles to ditching the practice of seeding playoff teams 1 through 8 by conference and instituting a 1-to-16 seeding protocol based purely on overall record.
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So is there an interstellar conveyor belt seeding life throughout the galaxy?
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But by seeding the grassroots of the Church, he makes change inevitable.
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We'll be retweeting our favorites throughout the week, while seeding anonymous tips.
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The cloud seeding drone just had its first test flight in Nevada.
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Zou is looking into using nanotechnology to develop novel cloud-seeding materials.
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That means many growers have made a slim profit from seeding soybeans.
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"This is about seeding the market and kick-starting activity," Barcham said.
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But cloud seeding can be used for more than just curing droughts.
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But when they're ready, Shields plans to start seeding them in schools.
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He's attuned to seeding problems early so that they sprout distress later.
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Visualizing the playoff chances and seeding possibilities with one week to go.
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What about cooling the ocean or seeding storms with silver hydroscopic particles?
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The company sees cloud seeding as part of a solution for droughts.
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Exploring the playoff chances and seeding possibilities with one week to go.
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You're seeding that discovery, you're going together ... so, Saudis, back to that.
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He used a seeding machine to write out the proposal, according to hessenschau.
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Let's hope we are not seeding any class tensions between our robotic explorers.
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And why is he seeding his text with echoes of Shira's own stories?
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"This type of cloud-seeding technology is only provided by Apollon," he explains.
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And other players, including Maria Sharapova, have suggested that Williams deserves a seeding.
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After a seeding pattern is planned, the drones are loaded with seed pods.
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But scientists are now seriously worried that "amyloid seeding" is actually a thing.
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It involves seeding the oceans with iron to stimulate growth of marine algae.
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Within two years, the fourth or fifth playoff seeding in the Eastern Conference?
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It was an early form of seeding, the downloader simultaneously playing the uploader.
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In 2015, the UAE ran 186 different cloud seeding missions, which cost $558,000.
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We'd attack each one by seeding it with at least one acting term.
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A Warriors win would clinch the top seeding in the Western Conference playoffs.
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Exploring the playoff chances and seeding possibilities with one week to go. 5.
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Weather Modification describes cloud seeding as "an enhancement" of the natural precipitation process.
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Louise Randall is a midwife who has written comprehensive safety guidelines for vaginal seeding at Buckinghamshire NHS Trust in the UK. "There is not yet any robust research evidence to support or refute the safety of artificial seeding," she explains.
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Later tests revealed that cloud seeding is much less effective than it first appeared.
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The Zags had much higher seeding hopes entering this season, but Seton Hall vs.
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The U.S., in comparison reportedly spends about $15 million on cloud seeding per year.
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The Aztecs' best seeding in program history is a No. 2, earned in 2011.
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That may herald a growing role for technologies such as cloud seeding, experts say.
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Just two months ago, many faced the prospect of seeding crops for negative returns.
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The loss had no bearing on the playoff seeding for the Warriors (57-25).
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SEEDING I would really like a goat because goats are hilarious and very endearing.
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He also emphasized his support for geoengineering technologies like space mirrors and cloud seeding.
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Alien narratives became fertile seeding ground for social allegories in the decades that followed.
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Iceland has spent the past two decades seeding its youth coaching ranks with professionals.
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This means Maryland's bizarre seeding also creates the most difficult possible path for Connecticut.
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Despite her seeding and eye-catching rise, Buzarnescu has remained a relatively unknown quantity.
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All six teams have been determined; the only thing on the line is seeding.
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Friday's contest also could play a big role in seeding for the NCAA Tournament.
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For Murray the work continues with seeding games that will help determine world rankings.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the Steelers' seeding in the A.F.C. playoffs.
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Sales of combine harvesters, tractors and seeding machines plummeted last year, government data showed.
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But, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) said in a statement on vaginal seeding, the research is still inconclusive and certainly not strong enough that new parents should be seeding their babies at home, which has its own set of risks.
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The lack of a seeding could leave Williams facing seeded players very early in France.
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There's a clear argument to be made against Gonzaga's seeding, at least by NCAA standards.
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They had received a bye into the quarterfinals by virtue of their top-four seeding.
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A Chinese soldier prepares to fire artillery shells for cloud seeding and rainmaking in 2010.
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But it's more about seeding dialogue that extends the conversation taking place in the gallery.
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It might therefore be possible to save reefs by seeding them with heat-resistant symbioses.
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"Basically, you take this Aadhaar number and you start seeding different [government] databases," Soz says.
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In seeding developers, Magic Leap is attempting to steer the design direction of its technology.
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However, some women decline screening, even those who are interested in vaginal seeding, Pereira said.
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Maybe we should scrap the whole thing and go back to seeding 1 through 8.
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How complicit are they in contributing to global warming and seeding doubt about its existence?
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Johnson has been accused of seeding the site with prompts for evidence he already had.
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The current WTA rankings are the usual criteria to decide seeding in the women's draw.
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I began this puzzle by seeding the 66-Across entry and building the southeast stack.
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When tree and soil aromas drift skyward, they act as water-gathering hubs, seeding raindrops.
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"We know the importance when it comes to playoff seeding, it's obviously crucial," Bailey said.
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Seeding aside, whether this qualified as an upset at all depended on who you asked.
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When these women do blow up, seeding tabloid stories about themselves, they are controlled demolitions.
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A year or two after BitTorrent was invented, I was uploading and seeding G.I.S.M. records.
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Two years later, scientists began a research project in Wyoming to study the effectiveness of cloud seeding by comparing precipitation from a storm system as it hit two adjacent mountain ranges — one range would be the control, the other would be outfitted with seeding machines.
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That said, the company is investing in the technology by seeding the network with VR content.
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McConnell may stick to party lines, but in several cases, he threw seeding to the wind.
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Proponents of cloud seeding say it will easily cool the earth back down to "normal" levels.
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Many of Williams' competitors, like Maria Sharapova and Simona Halep, have said they support protected seeding.
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After seeding the cells onto collagen membranes, the team cultured them for an additional two weeks.
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No. We do use characters from the DC mythology, but we're still seeding our own story.
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Farmers in those areas are trying to prepare fields for seeding of spring crops including corn.
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Terblanche believes cloud seeding shouldn't be seen as the best way to deal with water shortages.
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Considered a leader in "rain enhancement", the nation now uses six specialized aircraft for seeding flights.
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By engaging directly with the developer community worldwide, Amazon is seeding interest in its Alexa platform.
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Even alive, lawns occupy a state of eerie, suspended animation, bereft of seeding and grass flowers.
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Carroll's teams have historically played their starters in end-of-season games despite clinching playoff seeding.
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These fluctuations are thought to have eventually magnified to cosmic size, seeding galaxies, stars, and planets.
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Anyone could carry the virus back home, seeding a mosquito-borne outbreak or transmitting it sexually.
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Azarenka was denied a seeding last year after giving birth to her son the previous December.
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"The seeding of Serena from a Wimbledon perspective was nothing to do with maternity," Lewis said.
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Respawn Entertainment said players will compete for points only, which will be used for tournament seeding.
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The Chargers are a tiebreaker behind Kansas City for the top seeding in the A.F.C. playoffs.
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The teams are still jockeying for seeding, and any number of intriguing postseason matchups are possible.
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In the U.A.E., cloud seeding is just one measure, but it can grow into a solution.
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Trump and his evangelical advisers have been seeding this rhetoric into his presidency since the beginning.
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Problem is, for all these decades, it's been tough to prove that cloud seeding is actually working.
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Indonesian authorities have pledged to use aircraft for water bombing and cloud seeding to fight the fires.
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Regular observation and enforcement was the only way to prevent unapproved propagation, unlicensed seeding, and independent fertilization.
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But looking past their lowly seeding, the Seahawks have the potential to be an extremely dangerous team.
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Campaigns also made a bigger investment in seeding political content on Facebook pages dedicated to local news.
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And so, they're almost seeding the marketplace a little bit and training people to pay for content.
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Occasional over-seeding can also help cut down on weeds over time, especially in thinner lawns. 3.
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Delayed corn planting may prompt some farmers to shift to seeding soybeans instead, or leave fields fallow.
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Farmers in those areas are trying to prepare fields for the seeding of spring crops including corn.
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While the success of cloud-seeding efforts remains in question, commercial use of the technology is growing.
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A "crank path" is a plan for restoring substation networks and seeding power back into a grid.
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LA's current cloud-seeding operation is run by the Sandy, Utah-based North American Weather Consultants, Inc.
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"but not the seeds," Oh. I can't imagine most core-eaters are de-seeding their apples first.
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She talked afterwards about a perceived difference in treatment with Serena Williams over seeding after giving birth.
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It is also the first time this has happened at Wimbledon since seeding began in the 1920s.
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The government had also prepared aircraft for cloud seeding in the hope of generating rain, Yeo said.
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We already have chronicled why the NCAA's metric of choice for seeding teams, the RPI, is awful.
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The UAE has carried out at least 17 cloud seeding flights this month, according to local media.
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A lattice of massive cables crisscrosses the world, seeding connectivity to every continent and into each country.
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I also got a recommendation for ear seeding to reduce jet lag from a friend of mine.
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A week later, LibGen is seeding 10 terabytes and 900,000 scientific books thanks to help from Seedbox.
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The powerful influence of so-called quality wins can be seen most clearly in certain seeding choices.
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In 40 years of seeding, only six No. 5 teams have even advanced to the Final Four.
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Serena Williams was ranked 183rd ahead of last year's tournament but was handed a seeding of 25.
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Now, with 2 games left -- and playoff seeding on the line -- the Pats will be without Gordon.
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Check out the videos below to learn how make informed decisions when it comes to seeding your business.
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There's an A24 movie bracket floating around that I need to weigh in on, iffy seeding be damned.
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Cloud seeding is a multimillion-dollar industry and used in countries like the United States, China and India.
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Jen: I have the same question about what the time-knife joke might be seeding for the future.
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A second machine, a robotic arm, is responsible for all the fine manipulation tasks, like seeding and transplanting.
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But that doesn't mean any of these teams will be letting up pressure as they fight for seeding.
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The patchwork nature of promoting trustworthy sources online has had the unintended consequence of seeding fears of bias.
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Terblanche said in some areas where cloud seeding is used, rainfall has increased by more than 10 percent.
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The only other game that matters for seeding purposes in the NFC is Carolina's game against the Bucs.
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Skorupa provides fertilizer, custom application, seeding, soil testing, and crop consulting for farmers and ranchers in southern Montana.
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From there, it was a matter of seeding the bigger corners with interesting entries and building it out.
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"Cloud seeding" technology to make artificial clouds and produce higher rainfall that naturally possible in the Saudi desert.
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The remaining 16 teams will be placed into the Main Event tournament bracket based on their seeding points.
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Fake media could manipulate what we remember, effectively altering the past by seeding the population with false memories.
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The Wildcats are expected to be given a top-four seeding in a bracket of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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These include ceramic units for seeding coral larvae, spearheaded by Secore, a conservation organization that restores coral reefs.
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Having won so many Grand Slams and being No. 1 for so many years, she deserves a seeding.
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The new scheduling may help the teams that do make the N.C.A.A. tournament get better seeding as well.
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Closer to home, Chinese "content farms" have spread disinformation on social media in Taiwan, seeding pro-Beijing narratives.
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He arrived at this French Open seeded 20th, his worst seeding at a Grand Slam tournament since 2006.
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"Studies have shown that priming or seeding of the microbiome in the child is absolutely critical," she said.
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Kim-Farley said if it does spread to other countries, we could see it "seeding" in more places.
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As a result of the cloud seeding program, it's seeing an 8% to 15% percent increase in snowpack.
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They could be near the top of the polls from now until the seeding of the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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However, Seattle is also hoping to claim the division crown, and a win would improve their playoff seeding.
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After seeing the original email thread announcing the upcoming multi-million dollar seeding fund, the hacker took action.
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Ten of 12 spots have been claimed, with mostly seeding to be decided in the season's final week.
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Spring is here, and that means millions of Americans will soon be seeding, fertilizing and mowing their grass.
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We're already seeding clouds with particles to stimulate precipitation, and California has been doing this for nearly 3.03 years.
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Here is what you need to know about seeding a Roth for the young people in your family: 1.
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The government is also thinking about setting up what would be the world's largest cloud-seeding operation in Tibet.
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We've got to look at the big picture again, we've got to look at the seeding where we are.
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All of this permits variable-rate seeding, meaning the density of plants grown can be tailored to local conditions.
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And China used cloud seeding during the Beijing Olympics to make sure clouds released precipitation before reaching the capital.
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This year, trees in Colorado and New Mexico are experiencing a "mast seeding," producing more viable seeds than usual.
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This year's mast seeding gives conservationists an opportunity to gather excess pine cones, remove the seeds and redistribute them.
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An earlier version of this article referred incorrectly to the seeding of the three suspended players at the Open.
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Such efforts could include say, seeding clouds with aerosols to reflect away sunlight or putting giant mirrors into space.
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If the NHL wants to move back to just seeding each conference one through eight, sure, go for it.
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Before the Wimbledon seedings were announced, the United States Open organizers changed the seeding rules to reflect Williams's circumstances.
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This can easily be avoided in the future if the NCAA adds margin of victory as a seeding component.
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Cilic benefited from Wimbledon's unique seeding system and will be 13th — up five from his ATP ranking of 18.
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To get the full ear seeding experience — jewels and all — I headed to NAO Wellness in New York City.
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I hastily scanned the stapled papers for my seeding in the race and laughed mightily at what I discovered.
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All 16 teams competed in group stages this past Saturday and Sunday to determine their seeding in the bracket.
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Both Malaysia and Indonesia are inducing artificial rain through cloud seeding methods in a bid to aid relief efforts.
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Her lack of seeding received plenty of criticism at the time, with Ivanka Trump, in particular, calling the ruling "ridiculous" .
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Corn and soybean traders remain focused on U.S. weather following historic rains this spring that stalled seeding of both crops.
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The company uses a process called "cloud seeding," a scientific method deployed to alter natural weather patterns and increase precipitation.
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Step 1: Get an airplane Cloud seeding is performed by pilots who fly into areas of moisture in the atmosphere.
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All he cares about is seeding, because to a large extent, that one datapoint predicts how a team will fare.
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Even localized control of regular weather, through schemes like cloud seeding, has only seen limited success despite decades of research.
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Sulfates into the stratosphere, a trillion thin mirrors in space reflecting sunlight, cloud-seeding, forests of artificial CO2 sucking trees.
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Even though there is little evidence so far, it is also too soon to close the book on vaginal seeding.
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But measures taken by the government, including seeding rain clouds, regulating truck traffic and hosing down streets, have helped little.
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Celeste bucks the trend, quickly seeding that Madeline is dealing with much more than a random trek to the Mountain.
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Magic Leap has been seeding the hardware to certain users since last year, Abovitz said, but they're under nondisclosure agreements.
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By then, the Warriors might have wrapped up the West's top playoff seeding and home-court advantage throughout the postseason.
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Cloud-seeding is a form of geoengineering– or manipulating of weather systems to reduce the negative effects of climate change.
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He said that includes keeping existing subscribers, acquiring new consumers as well as seeding and launching completely new markets entirely.
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"This is the prime seeding and planting time, when we have the most success with our rehabilitation efforts," KC said.
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It's nice background seeding of a problem that will turn out to be key to solving this season's big mystery.
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In the meantime, some question whether vaginal seeding is wise without longer-term studies on the effects of the practice.
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And he has a group of accomplices who aid him with, as he calls it, "seeding" photos across the globe.
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Not only were the Terps rewarded with a bad seeding, but a less-than-coveted spot in the Connecticut bracket.
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So too with aerosol scattering and ocean seeding (Kelsey Piper wrote a piece about one such attempt at the latter).
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When it's time to reseed those areas, EZ Straw Seeding Mulch with Tack will help you watch the grass grow.
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Dr. Tanzi describes this as "seeding" the amyloid, causing it to ensnare the virus in fibrous nets that form plaques.
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Her draw could have been much more difficult had she not been granted a seeding of 25th by the tournament.
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It's about seeding a generation of leaders who have the conviction to put their values first, in politics and beyond.
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Indonesia and neighbouring Malaysia are also trying to quench the flames and clear the haze they produce by seeding clouds.
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After seeding the grid with HAMBURGLAR, I'm pretty proud of how many lively entries I was able to squeeze in!
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American: Three of the four teams in the semifinals are going to the NCAA tournament and are working on seeding.
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Cloud seeding didn't get much attention until 2017 when the National Science Foundation funded a study to determine its effectiveness.
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Apple first announced iOS at WWDC in June and has been seeding developer and public betas for it ever since.
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And Wisconsin, incensed after receiving a lower seeding (8) than it had anticipated, took care of Virginia Tech, 84-74.
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Still, criticism of the seeding decisions by the tournament selection committee seemed, for the most part, to have some merit.
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The Spartans earned a share of the Big Ten title, alongside Purdue, and top seeding in next week's conference tournament.
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Planting the shape was tricky for the farmer because the seeding machine wasn't designed to make letters, as Schwarz told hessenschau.de.
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And today Eduardo has a new job, he's at Freedman Seeding, he's a production supervisor, and he has a pay increase.
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In late 214 she went to work creating a product, seeding the startup with $10,000-$20,000 she'd received as wedding gifts.
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Toni Syarifudin of Indonesia competes in the Cycling - BMX Men's Seeding Run at The Olympic BMX Centre on August 17, 2016.
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For Wu, what defines a maker boils down to this: getting your hands dirty, and seeding knowledge back into the community.
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Step 5: Repeat Cloud-seeding flights can take three to four hours, during which time pilots can release dozens of flares.
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Hucksters, seeding narratives that are simple, neat, and wrong, exist on every frequency of the political spectrum, if not equally so.
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In the past one year, LeEco India has gained market recognition and the initial stage of market seeding has been successful.
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MELBOURNE, Australia — Her seeding is not yet back in line with her quality of play, nor the expectations placed upon her.
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Thanks to improved seeding technology, beet yields have been rising, says Kona Haque from ED&F Man, a commodities-trading house.
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It's certainly possible in theory to prevent rain in one place by using cloud seeding to induce it in another, upwind.
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Turns out that El Niño had a little help—precipitation was increased by an estimated 15 percent thanks to cloud-seeding.
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Any given 12 issues from those respective runs could tell three or four full stories, while seeding half a dozen more.
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Taken together, these overlapping factors create unnecessary and unfair distortions, both when it comes to schedule making and NCAA Tournament seeding.
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South Africa and New Zealand finished second and third in the standings behind Fiji to claim a top-three Olympic seeding.
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If the full project involving tens of thousands of burners is completed, it would be the world's largest cloud-seeding operation.
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Most teams can't afford to sacrifice opportunities for their starters to build familiarity with each other or risk their playoff seeding.
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Both teams wanted to win, but Colorado was preparing for Pac-12 play and playing for seeding in the NCAA Tournament.
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The top three teams from each group will move onto a second group stage with seeding determined by spring season HCP.
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In addition to bacterial infections, experts worry vaginal seeding could infect babies with herpes virus if the mother has genital herpes.
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We are now witnessing the aggressive seeding of the clouds that may lead all too quickly to that fog of war.
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The tools have ergonomically designed handles, so they're easy to use for seeding, weeding, pruning, or watering your beloved plant babies.
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It isn't clear, however, that cloud seeding is any better at bringing rain than carving bighorns into the sides of rocks.
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An article on Tuesday about first-round matches at the French Open misstated, in some copies, the seeding of Sloane Stephens.
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This suggests that vaginal seeding gives the "good" bacteria a chance to colonize and multiply in newborns delivered via C-section.
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As even Laimbeer pointed out, the threat of single elimination led to coaches working harder to maximize seeding throughout the year.
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If seeding nuclear war wasn't a violation of Twitter's terms of service, then Twitter wasn't a service I wanted to endorse.
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In both cases, another player lost her seeding to make room for Williams, who has won 23 Grand Slam singles titles.
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Most of the seeding machinery is operated automatically and remotely, but there is still a need for engineers, for manual oversight.
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The improvements to Apple Watch UI, as well as the refocus around health, are direct learnings from that first market seeding.
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This is the kind of loss that haunts you when it comes to seeding or just trying to make the playoffs.
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Federer, 22015, was seeded 22015th, his lowest seeding at a Grand Slam event since the early, unseeded days of his career.
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He said the migration of people from tropical areas to the district could have played a role in seeding the disease.
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In a country with a dry climate like the United Arab Emirates, cloud-seeding materials, which act like nuclei, can help.
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Clippers 124, Knicks 113 Doc Rivers insists he does not stress out about the standings or speculate about N.B.A. playoff seeding.
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A suit in the back of the room mouthed 'real-time media seeding' across the table, to another, who quickly nodded.
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"Research studies have shown that cloud seeding can increase rainfall over limited areas in some conditions, but it is controversial whether or not cloud seeding on such a large scale as the Chinese are attempting can lead to a regional increase in precipitation," said Jeff Masters, a meteorologist and weather blogger at Weather Underground, in an email to Gizmodo.
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Age: 673 Nation: Austria Seeding: 663 World ranking: 653 Grand Slam titles: 643 ATP titles: 633 ROAD TO FINAL (prefix denotes seeding): First round: beat Adrian Mannarino (France) 623-613 603-212016 216-213 Second round: beat Alex Bolt (Australia) 216-214 212014-216 213-216(214) 6-1 6-2 Third round: beat 29-Taylor Fritz (U.
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This raises the specter of geoengineering: things like seeding the stratosphere with sulfur, or using ice crystals to dissolve heat-trapping clouds.
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Professional obligations mean I don't make predictions, but I honestly believe all the Final Four teams have a shot regardless of seeding.
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Digital Currency Group will be seeding it with its own capital and it will be offered initially to accredited investors, he added.
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In reality, cloud seeding with AgI -- the current default option -- only really tackles the first of these processes, forming the condensation nuclei.
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Salter envisions unmanned boats spraying sub-micron-sized water droplets into the sky, seeding shinier clouds in areas forecasted to spawn storms.
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Turns out the last time cloud-seeding was used in Southern California was back in 2002—but not necessarily due to cost.
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The company says its messaging service has over 5 million registered users and they will form the basis for seeding this network.
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Meanwhile, some American resorts are trying to coax more snow out of the clouds by seeding them with plumes of silver iodide.
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Unlike Instagram and Twitter, this type of fringe, if not obscene sensationalist political commentary and conspiracy theory seeding is much less discoverable.
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The first step in the plan is seeding the Echo and Alexa into as many rooms in as many homes as possible.
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The payment brings the aggregate loan amount to 2.3 million francs, part of a seeding drug discovery award announced in February 2017.
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Both are solidly in the upper tier of the NA LCS, but are going to be in tight competition for playoff seeding.
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But if a bunch of lobbyists are seeding the media with speculative pipe dreams, you have to ask what they're really after.
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The 16 qualifying teams have been split into four groups of four based on their seeding from regional spring and summer seasons.
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Rather, the idea of cloud seeding is to make rain form more efficiently inside clouds so more water comes down, he said.
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If home ice doesn't matter and seeding doesn't matter and anything can happen, what's the point of investing in the regular season?
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UEFA will also begin to award clubs bonus points for their "historical success" in Europe when determining seeding in the group stage.
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SPORTS An article on Tuesday about first-round matches at the French Open misstated, in some copies, the seeding of Sloane Stephens.
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This year, in a change from past policy, the results from the Mid-Season Invitational in May will impact the pool seeding.
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After a report on that, we're taking you flying for a look at how scientists try to increase precipitation through cloud seeding.
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Apart from Williams, 2016 men's runner-up Milos Raonic is the biggest riser with a 13th seeding from a ranking of 32.
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Businessman Andrew Yang, meanwhile, expounded on his support for geoengineering efforts like seeding clouds with aerosols to reflect sunlight back into space.
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If the marathon test proves successful, WearWorks will begin seeding more devices to early adopters before moving forward with a public launch.
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The Charlotte Hornets have clinched a playoff spot but are still battling over seeding in a tight scrum in the Eastern Conference.
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If you want to argue for going one step further and just seeding the entire league one through 16, I'm all ears.
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Yet for most start-ups, seeding a retirement plan doesn't seem as enticing to would-be employees as ownership or recreational benefits.
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The American Jobs Act, which Obama unsuccessfully begged Congress to pass in 2011, would have created one, seeding it with $10 billion.
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Rather, Mr. Doshi approaches his projects with an eye toward seeding miniature societies that its residents can expand and animate over time.
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Salter envisions unmanned boats spraying sub-micron-size water droplets into the sky, seeding shinier clouds in areas forecast to spawn storms.
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In the wake of Williams's return to tennis this year, the WTA received criticism for not making seeding allowances specifically for pregnancy.
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He should also still receive a high seeding at Wimbledon, which uses a formula that takes recent grass-court results into account.
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By seeding conspiracy theories and baseless claims on the platforms, Russians hope everyday Americans will retransmit those falsehoods from their own accounts.
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Ranked fifth in the conference, NC State is widely considered to be on the bubble when it comes to NCAA tournament seeding.
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Otherwise, no one besides the committee and NCAA staff is present while any of the selection, seeding or bracketing is taking place.
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"A trial without all the facts is a farce," he said, seeding the idea that acquittal will be meaningless without witness testimony.
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A powerful American team drew confidence from an outstanding 690 from former world champion Brady Ellison, who took second seeding behind Kim.
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Texas will be leading the way seeding a domestic manufacturing industry for similar high-speed projects throughout the rest of the country.
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On Tuesday night, the committee released its latest round of rankings, seeding Alabama first, Ohio State second, Michigan third and Clemson fourth.
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This includes deliberately seeding clouds or spraying sulfuric acid into the stratosphere to offset some of humanity's impacts on the world's climate.
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This calls for seeding a portfolio partly with companies based in economies like India that might not be hurt by lower commodity prices.
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The Heat are also 13-6 since the All-Star break as the team battles for seeding in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
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When watered, the mulch in the seeding product will expand to fill the entire area and help keep the seed covered and moist.
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Melinda Gates has spent the past 16 years seeding social change through the world's largest private philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
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To perform cloud seeding, aircraft and rockets penetrate clouds with catalysts such as dry ice or silver iodide, to induce or increase rainfall.
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Borealis is getting into the seeding business at a time it is becoming ever tougher for new hedge funds to sign up clients.
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Soybeans were flat to lower on abundant global supplies and worries that delayed corn seeding could shift more acres to later-planted beans.
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If that proves successful, then the idea of saving reefs by seeding them with heat-resistant strains will have received a significant boost.
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Seeding could theoretically make the road easier for whichever squad wins this encounter, and both teams will take any edge they can get.
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Thiem has lived up to his fourth-seeding, his highest at a Grand Slam, and says he is comfortable in such elevated company.
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In California's Los Angeles County, cloud seeding has been used for more than half a century, including to combat a recent long drought.
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In the nearby United Arab Emirates, officials at the National Center of Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS) say cloud seeding efforts there are working.
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Now heavy snows are threatening the seeding of spring wheat, which represents up to a third of total U.S. wheat production each year.
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Our national healing cannot move forward if even well-meaning leaders don't recognize the role our Founding Fathers played in seeding white supremacy.
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With five games remaining, their seeding is very much up for grabs, with seventh-place Milwaukee and eighth-place Miami on their heels.
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Microsoft found in April that hackers hijacked its development tool Visual Studio, seeding backdoors into three video game companies that use the tool.
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Azarenka, 28, a member of the WTA Player Council, has championed giving top players returning from their maternity leaves seeding consideration at tournaments.
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These games help determine seeding, automatic bids, and can swing the momentum for teams to make a deep run in the big dance.
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It had been three years in the planning, down to the last almost Godlike detail, seeding the clouds to keep the rain away.
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"Generally the U.S. system has been pretty good at seeding different types of approaches," says Adam Segal of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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And perhaps more than other right-wing billionaires, the DeVoses couple their seeding of ideological causes with an aggressive brand of political spending.
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"It was just what I was hoping — I was seeding myself into these somewhat affluent homes all over the country," Mr. Malin said.
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LibGen also teamed up with another massive online archiving project, The-Eye, to facilitate the tracking, storage, and seeding of LibGen's scientific archive.
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By spring 2018, the same tournament had 512 registered players and likely would have accepted more if the seeding software could support it.
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Linda Zou was among the first winners, for her interest in cloud seeding, the dispersing of artificial nuclei into clouds to coax precipitation.
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We came up with all kinds of things, but that was us seeding it with them and then they had to own it.
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Major studios will continue to be able to partner with MoviePass to promote their first run films, seeding them with a valuable moviegoing audience.
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For example, AgDNA takes machine data from John Deere farm equipment, analyzes it and automatically uploads new prescriptions to improve seeding, fertilizing and harvesting.
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The same sort of seeding might happen in people whose genes cause them to make too much amyloid-β, in the absence of infection.
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Soybeans were lower on sluggish U.S. exports, abundant global supplies and worries that delayed corn seeding could shift more acres to later-planted beans.
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Today, French Open officials announced that they would establish the women's seeds based on WTA ranking, meaning they would not give Williams special seeding.
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"I think it's more of a protection for women to have a life," Williams told the New York Times last month about protected seeding.
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For the Seahawks, it's now all about playoff seeding: Can they stay a half-game ahead of the Lions even without safety Earl Thomas?
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The consensus right now, it seems, is that more research needs to be done to make sure vaginal seeding is something doctors should recommend.
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Apart from environmental risks, cloud seeding could also lead to geo-political spats if over-used in one region, depriving areas downwind of rainfall.
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Omar Al-Yazidi, director of research and development at the NCMS, believes science shows cloud seeding is safe for the environment and the public.
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But Apple is already grooming the next generation of developers — seeding its new iPads with children's games to learn Apple's newest programming language, Swift.
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It is important to tell these mothers that seeding might not have any benefit and might be increasing the risk of infection, Cunnington said.
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Authorities plans to carry out cloud seeding from this month, shooting salt flares into clouds in an attempt to trigger rainfall in dry areas.
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The new year brings emerging league-wide trends, February features trade rumors and deadline deals, and March revolves around the push for postseason seeding.
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His withdrawal, announced on the eve of Friday's draw, means the nine-time champion Rafael Nadal will move up to the No. 4 seeding.
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For example, cloud seeding tests in Wyoming — where snowpack is a primary source of water — reportedly increased snowfall in the area by 5-15%.
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The surprise singles gold medalist Mónica Puig of Puerto Rico gained a last-minute seeding, at No. 32, when Sloane Stephens withdrew Friday morning.
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But Yang has a long way to go before cloud seeding or giant space mirrors could hit the policy docket, though eh remains optimistic.
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Neom is supposed to draw on "cloud seeding" technology to make artificial clouds which will produce more rainfall than naturally possible in the desert.
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Teams showing down in the playoffs year after year is GOOD, and blowing up the seeding and keeping that from happening would be asinine.
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Building a mountain would be a pretty extreme step, but, at least philosophically, it's in line with the UAE's ongoing cloud seeding geoengineering program.
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Doctors and midwives are exercising caution and many are quick to point out the important role that breastfeeding might play in 'seeding' the microbiome.
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"We have the potential to come in with our technology and begin seeding almost immediately and help," said Logan Ullyott from DroneSeed to Motherboard.
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This thinning could be theoretically accomplished by seeding cirrus clouds with particles that disrupt ice crystal formation (nucleation), leading to reduced cirrus cloud cover.
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They brought to Thursday's matchup a 24-11 record, a mid-pack finish in Big 12 Conference play and a seeding of No. 9.
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And one of the challenges is, if you are on the boards of these companies, is choosing not to engage is seeding the field.
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When the brackets were announced, the Huskies' seeding was considered shocking, which speaks to the ridiculously high standard to which the program is held.
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Had Tiafoe not obtained a last-minute seeding, this would have been the first Grand Slam event since 1973 with no seeded American man.
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From 1962 to 1983, the US government operated Project Stormfury, a perfectly-named attempt to weaken tropical storms by seeding them with silver iodide.
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And perhaps the biggest obstacle: N.B.A. Commissioner Adam Silver cannot unilaterally change the league's playoff format or seeding procedures, even if he wanted to.
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What appear at first glance to be piercings may actually be the latest wellness trend: a non-invasive form of acupuncture called ear seeding.
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In response, Steve Case's "Rise of the Rest" fund is seeding investment in entrepreneurs in America's heartland -- rather than a handful of coastal communities.
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"Putting it out there and getting in this milieu and seeding the idea of volunteering for the FBI is a good idea," he added.
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The 19th seed has struggled for consistency this year, hence her low seeding, but Roland Garros tends to bring the best out of her.
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The WTA is reportedly already considering changing the rules to protect the seeding of highly ranked players who take time off for maternity leave.
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West Virginia brought a No. 33 seeding and a nationally known smothering, turnover-forcing press into its game against Bucknell of the Patriot League.
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Governments in the region are scrambling to find solutions, with Indonesia and Malaysia using cloud-seeding methods to try to artificially start rain. 4.
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Oakland dropped into a tie with Tampa Bay in the race for wild-card seeding and home-field advantage for the one-game playoff.
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Bulls are down, and desperately flailing for some solution to their through, deeply embarrassing pantsing at the hands of a team with inferior seeding.
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On Thursday afternoon, Butler opens the NCAA tournament against Winthrop as the fourth seed in the South region, the best seeding in school history.
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I mean, how are they ... if I were an investor in Disney, I'd be wanting to know what are the new things they're seeding?
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"Kubernetes is about seeding the industry with open source standards for application development and operations that aim to disintermediate workloads from a specific IaaS provider."
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Compared with the men's draw, whose four top contenders are neatly arranged at the top of the seeding table, the women's bracket is downright chaotic.
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Because of the way seeding works, McConnell had to choose between the two in their Final Four match-up, with Louisville coming out on top.
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It's certainly possible that Zuckerberg is seeding the idea that Facebook isn't as dominant as everyone thinks in order to ward off potential antitrust concerns.
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Mountain-erecting—like its little brother, cloud-seeding—is not only an expensive temporary fix for a bigger problem, it's also not a sure thing.
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K2 will also help scientists study the early stages of supernovae—the violent explosions that rip stars apart, seeding the cosmos with planetary building blocks.
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Several teams are already sitting pretty at the top of the standings with playoff spots secured, but questions of seeding have yet to be answered.
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They met in a preliminary round game that mattered only for final-round seeding and Canada won it 2-1 in a hallmark nail-biter.
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Beijing also turned to cloud seeding in the build-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics, to try to avoid rain during its spectacular opening ceremony.
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The canisters are then ignited remotely - "like sparklers" - with smoke carrying the chemical seeding agent up to the clouds, Lee told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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They spent long months in a windowless mouse colony at the Broad, injecting cohorts of mice with the compounds and seeding their brains with prions.
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It eliminates the guess work when it comes to ripeness and any challenges if you are not familiar with peeling and seeding a fresh avocado.
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Identifying these traits and seeding forests with super-saplings that possess them could help future forests persist in the hotter, more volatile climate to come.
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To help stop the fires and preserve crops, authorities are turning to cloud-seeding, by shooting salt flares into clouds to try and trigger rains.
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At practice Monday, the team's first since learning its N.C.A.A. seeding, the sky was overcast and the wind blew fiercely, skidding balls across the sand.
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Hickel found himself doing the seeding for the heats and laughed when he recalled who ended up in the first heat of the event: Fanning.
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Fields, who will race in the same eight-man semi-final heat as Willoughby, said the wind had changed direction from Wednesday's individual seeding runs.
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The deep slide has allowed the Portland Trail Blazers to pass the Grizzlies, and guard Tony Allen said the seeding isn't the most important thing.
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The government is considering measures such as cloud seeding to try to bring rain but in the meantime, farmers have been asked to hold off.
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He's begun seeding crowds with plainclothes officers to sniff out dissenters, tightened efforts to corral reporters, and dances dangerously close to inciting violence against protesters.
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He proudly recalls the firm designing the two Os in "crooked" to resemble a pair of handcuffs, and then seeding the artwork on the internet.
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If you're up for just a little more kick to your salsa, don't bother de-stemming or seeding your Serrano peppers before pan-roasting them.
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All proceeds from the show are going towards the official Oceti Sakowin Camp (Seven Council Fires) Fund, Native Children's Survival, the Seeding Sovereignty Project, & GiveLove.
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Switching its focus to "younger, hungrier" managers results in hedge fund seeding firms, such as Stable, putting a lot of weight on a candidate's background.
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That outcome would improve their chances to about 45 percent, from 32 percent, and would not give them any chance of a top-two seeding.
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At Wimbledon, Williams was given a seeding of 25th, in the lowest stratus of seeds but far above her ranking of 20123 at the time.
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"In addition to the nutrient supply, dirty bath water also serves as a further source of microbial seeding for the bath toys," the researchers noted.
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There are dozens of examples, from facial tracking livestock to keep wildlife from bringing possible disease into farms, to a process called variable-rate seeding.
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The company hopes to begin seeding the robots in employees' homes by the end of this year, and potentially with consumers as early as 2019.
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So even though Portland won ten fewer games than they did last year, they still managed to maintain their playoff seeding and look like successes.
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In 2016, Laimbeer allowed Smith to coach the final regular-season game of the year, after the Liberty were already locked into their playoff seeding.
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Your hard work reseeding a lawn won't be for naught if you use EZ Straw Seeding Mulch with Tack to keep the seeds in place.
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Higher-ranked players faced the prospect of their seeding pitting them against a dangerous Williams before they'd had a chance to play themselves into form.
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The central government has sent more than 9,000 personnel to help tackle the blazes, dropped water from helicopters and used cloud seeding to encourage rain.
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Nadal has been critical of Wimbledon's seeding reflecting grasscourt results for the past two years, but Cilic, runner-up in 2017, was certainly not complaining.
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Having spent so long gaming FIFA's rankings system to ensure a top seeding, it would be a waste if Poland did not make the quarterfinals.
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Williams's seeding was the committee's only deviation from the current WTA rankings; her elevation meant that the 32nd-ranked player, Dominika Cibulkova, was left unseeded.
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Quite the contrary: The company typically prefers the efficiency of a blog post for new gadgets, occasionally seeding the announcement to a few news sites.
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Seeding federal projects with companies that are owned and run by individuals (not shareholders, boards of directors and CEOs) is good business and good economics.
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Consultancy Strategie Grains said soft wheat production in the European Union would fall 3.6% in 2020 to 140.5 million tonnes, reflecting a decline in seeding.
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In January, authorities in Bangkok deployed planes with special rainmaking capabilities -- a technique known as cloud seeding -- to relieve persistent pollution in the Thai capital.
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"Numbers are coming in off the Eurozone so that helped prop the European markets up a bit and that's seeding into the U.S.," said Lovell.
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None of those permutations has mattered, as James's team has pushed through to the finals each time regardless of opponent or seeding, winning three championships.
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The NFL shuffled several game times for Week 17, with contests impacting either playoff berths or seeding now being played in the same time window.
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But when all was said and done, ten of the teams that were in line for a playoff spot remained in the same seeding order.
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It is pre-seeding the announcement now, presumably so that in a couple months it can say that a gazillion publishers are already on board.
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"With the caveat that there are still significant uncertainties associated with ice nucleation in cirrus clouds and its representation in climate models, cirrus seeding appears to represent a powerful [climate engineering model] with reduced side effects," concluded a team led by Trude Storelvmo, a climate scientist at Yale University, in a 2013 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society study that modeled the impact of cirrus cloud seeding.
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And getting users to create that content requires seeding a critical mass of users in order to justify their time to create that kind of content.
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My research is about figuring whether they aren't needed anymore, that they've done enough seeding of these memes so that the community is just reproducing it.
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"Seeding your lawn can make it less susceptible to pests, disease, and weeds," says Jim Fanning, president of Evergreen Lawn and Pest Control of Orlando, Fla.
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It isn't necessary to restore every forgotten writer to the canon; some achieved what they could during their time, influencing and seeding possibilities where they could.
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Blackstone is not alone in the seeding business, with rivals like Paloma Partners, Protégé Partners and Reservoir Capital Group also making start-up investments in newcomers.
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Seeding is the system through which tennis officials assign athletes positions in a tournament so that top players are not facing one another in early rounds.
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Seeding works best in clouds which have a pre-existing mixture of water droplets and ice, as this type of nucleation requires ice-crystals to form.
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Some even say, quite incorrectly, that cloud seeding experiments caused floods, such as those that killed 35 people in the English village of Lynmouth in 1952.
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While the WTA may add protected seeding for highly ranked players who return from maternity leave, the change would likely not take effect until next year.
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The top eight after tomorrow's third round will earn a seeding into the fourth round and get a bye during the first round of match play.
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At the Starlight project, for which UCSB is the operational headquarters, entertaining the idea of seeding other planets with life involves a certain amount of doublethink.
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It's fine to reward wins and losses, but with unbalanced schedules across conferences, it's necessary to use an equalizer like margin of victory when seeding teams.
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With this expanded Fellowship, Amazon is seeding the system with entrepreneurs, researchers and academics who are working with voice technology, and specifically, Amazon's Alexa voice platform.
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But before voting opens, let me give any n00bs reading this an overview of each method and its seeding in each of our four "regions": 1.
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China, however, has the biggest cloud-seeding operation, which it utilizes not only to increase rainfall but also to avoid hailstorms that can devastate farm crops.
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In 2009, The Royal Society released a report that discussed BECCS and other carbon capture techniques alongside plans like seeding clouds to block out the sun.
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Once a week, she dons boots and a hat and hikes out to a patch of mud on the riverbank to see what's flowering or seeding.
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Name the Persian Gulf country, comparable in size to South Carolina, where cloud seeding began 15 years ago to meet the population's growing need for water.
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"Hopefully (the article) will help the medical profession to feel they have a little support," whether they decide to practice vaginal seeding or not, he said.
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She entered this tournament coming off a semifinal appearance at Wimbledon and seeded sixth, her first top-10 seeding at the U.S. Open in six years.
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But he says his harassers have also been seeding his body with Morgellons, a painful, insectlike infestation of the skin that many doctors say is psychosomatic.
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If corn seeding is delayed sufficiently, farmers may decide to plant soybeans or something else instead, since the growing season for corn is very specifically timed.
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With its 3.25-inch-long blade, this Swiss-made stamped knife can handle jobs ranging from peeling or seeding fruit to slicing onions to mincing garlic.
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The trip, which includes games against the Los Angeles Kings on Thursday and the San Jose Sharks on Saturday, will help determine the Rangers' playoff seeding.
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Keys, who has her highest seeding in a Grand Slam event, at No. 43, has now played two of the most memorable matches of this tournament.
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On Monday, Hsieh will face the 33rd-ranked Cibulkova, who missed out on a seeding because Wimbledon decided to give one to 183rd-ranked Serena Williams.
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It eliminates the guess work [sic] when it comes to ripeness and any challenges if you are not familiar with peeling and seeding a fresh avocado.
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However, an expert committee of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recently warned that the practice, known as vaginal seeding, was premature and possibly hazardous.
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Lamonte Turner had 24 points for the Vols (243-5), who entered the game with a chance at the program's first-ever No. 1 N.C.A.A. seeding.
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Stanford is ranked fourth in the Women's Golf Coaches Association poll and is jockeying with other top teams for seeding positions at next month's N.C.A.A. championship.
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Ranked 21st coming into the tournament, Djokovic was seeded 12th here because of the Wimbledon seeding committee's formula that weighs past success at grass-court tournaments.
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Jacobellis, 32, had the fourth-fastest time in the morning's qualifying heats, where riders compete alone against a clock to secure seeding for the group races.
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Wimbledon, which has a tradition of deviating from the rankings in its seeding because of the specificity of grass, is likely to take a different approach.
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I've seen dozens of companies attacking every part of the farming equation – from field clearing and preparation, to seeding, to weeding, applying fertilizer, and eventually harvesting.
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Thankfully for Golden State their top seeding gives them the right to play Game Seven at home, where they have lost just four times all season.
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Prize pool: $500,13 USD Teams: 16 Format: Two double-elimination groups of eight teams compete in bracket play, with seeding determined by ESL CS:GO World Rankings.
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Yang talked up his $5 trillion plan to reduce emissions, which includes cash for unproven and risky approaches like geo-engineering, space mirrors and cloud seeding.
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Pick: Bills +6.5 In these matchups between contenders and also-rans, the drama centers mostly on how the result will affect the stronger team's playoff seeding.
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However, the Post said it gave Plame three rather than the full four "Pinocchios" for the claim due to "possible seeding of the leak" by Libby.
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The club did what it could to fire the imagination: choreographing prematch displays, dimming the floodlights, encouraging or seeding the use of suspiciously pristine, professional flags.
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Seeding the knockout round purely on total goals scored would be unfair, however: Teams losing, 4-3, would be better off than teams winning, 1-0.
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To help the organizing committee, the teams and the fans plan ahead, Rounds 235 to 3 may follow a predetermined bracket populated randomly from seeding pots.
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For over half a century now, scientists have been toying with the idea of cloud seeding for snow—that is, inducing clouds to spit out more moisture.
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The gap between the best and worst playoff teams is thinner than ever, so trying to get the seeding exactly right feels like a waste of time.
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Technologists—Hewlett, Packard, and Paul Allen in the '90s and early aughts, Qualcomm's Franklin Antonio more recently, and Milner lately—have been seeding alien-seeking ever since.
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Ebell has long been criticized by environmental groups for seeding doubt in climate science, and trying to dispel what he has called "the myth" of global warming.
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The Warriors (68-8) retained a 4 1/2-game lead over the San Antonio Spurs in the race for top seeding in the Western Conference playoffs.
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US cyclist Nicholas Long (right) practices with other competitors ahead of the Cycling - BMX Seeding Run at the Olympic BMX Center on Wednesday in Rio de Janeiro.
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Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, run by Tom Hill, as a unit invests some $73 billion in hedge funds through direct investments, the seeding funds and other means.
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Villanova won its fifth straight game and further cemented a No. 1 seeding in the NCAA Tournament, and Providence helped its cause for an at-large bid.
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Several major Democratic donors have privately expressed interest in founding a pro-Booker super PAC, or in seeding his campaign with early money and high-dollar fundraising.
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This idea of seeding Earth life on other worlds isn't new, of course, but Gatti explores the potential outcomes and strategies in light of recent exoplanet discoveries.
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The Spartans are still sitting pretty for an at-large NCAA Tournament berth and can only strengthen their seeding with a strong finish in Big Ten play.
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He estimated that it would cost $40 million to construct a prototype cloud seeding system but has not been able to find any public or private takers.
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What doctors should tell mothers While doctors might not be doing a lot of vaginal seeding themselves, some mothers are taking the matter into their own hands.
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Several competitor crops are unlikely to experience an increase in planted area as a result of the decline in winter wheat seeding, based on national-level trends.
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In 2017, it launched a family of Home products, brought a new pair of smart earbuds and began seeding Assistant onto smart speakers from third-party manufacturers.
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Stanton got the top seed by virtue of his win in last year's contest, and then the rest of the seeding is based on home run totals.
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Authorities are looking into the possibility of cloud seeding to combat the hotspots by triggering rainfall in dry areas with flares of salt shot into suitable clouds.
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This isn't about ceding our power as automatic delegates, this is about seeding power among the grassroots Democrats who will grow the party for generations to come.
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We're probably going to go into the final weekend without anything really at stake other than seeding, the Pacific Division title, and a few home-ice scenarios.
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Ebell has long been criticized by environmental groups for seeding doubt in climate science, and trying to dispel what he has called "the myth" of global warming.
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The refusal to test could result in the hundreds of passengers "re-seeding their communities" when they're released, UCSF professor of epidemiology George Rutherford told the Chronicle.
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Her seeding upgrade meant that 32nd-ranked Dominika Cibulkova became unseeded, but there is no such issue at the U.S. Open because of Williams's relatively minor promotion.
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In the spirit of March Madness, we devised a bracket-style tournament, seeding the countries so that those with more similar systems would meet in the semifinals.
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That data can then be communicated to a program that analyzes it and suggests adjusted seeding plans so the most productive areas are being taken advantage of.
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Salter estimated that it would cost $40 million to construct a prototype cloud seeding system but has not been able to find any public or private takers.
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That speaks well of the seeding process, our columnist writes, but the casual fan won't be seeing the unlikely wins and upsets that make March Madness appealing.
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Officials there will have to decide whether to give her a seeding even though her current ranking, No. 451, is a long way from the top 32.
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A seeding of 232th at Wimbledon, while much higher than someone with Williams's world ranking could normally expect, still brings a difficult road as the tournament progresses.
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With an upgraded seeding to No. 17 from her world ranking of No. 26, she could face her sister Venus, the 16th seed, in the third round.
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The venue, the equipment, the officials and the seeding must meet professional standards, and tour events cannot simply pick and choose the players they want to invite.
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For months, Indonesia has deployed thousands of personnel to fight the fires, utilizing dozens of aircraft to conduct water bombing and cloud-seeding efforts to trigger rain.
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This includes a wide range of herbaceous plants that cover soil, like clump-forming sedges, rhizomatous strawberries or golden groundsel, and self-seeding columbine or woodland poppies.
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The A's (96-64) dropped into a tie with Tampa Bay in the race for wild-card seeding and home-field advantage for the one-game playoff.
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After defeating Michigan, 3503-1, on Thursday night, Penn State is tied for 12th in the PairWise rankings, which determine seeding in the 16-team N.C.A.A. tournament.
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Significantly, a top seeding comes with a prized home field advantage until the Super Bowl as well as a bye in the opening week of the playoffs.
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C.K. was able to announce the project with a simple email to those who'd previously downloaded his standup specials from his website, seeding Horace and Pete's audience.
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None of the top eight women's seeds have reached the quarter-finals for the first time since seedings were introduced in 1927 — although Williams' 25th seeding is misleading.
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"Fairly short windows of opportunity for late seeding still likely to add to significant reductions in Midwest corn acreage," Commodity Weather Group said in a note to clients.
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Similar to Y Combinator, early-stage technology startup accelerator Techstars has spent much of the last decade supporting and seeding innovative projects, including Plated, ClassPass, SendGrid and PillPack.
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Ferrer is 20053, and with his No. 8 seeding, he is perhaps even more a reflection of the staying power of the modern men's tennis player than Hewitt.
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"There are definitely things we are seeding in the sites that will come to play in later episodes, like in the next episode and the finale," Phillips says.
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The actors behind these groups whose inconspicuous astroturfing operations play a part in seeding discord and sowing chaos in American electoral processes surely are aware of this fact.
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"Seeding can be very lucrative and offer some higher returns," Weinberg said, noting that seeders reap a fund's returns, get discounted fees and earn revenue from third parties.
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That forecast raised the prospect of adding more supplies to an already huge stockpile, sending corn prices into a tailspin and causing growers to question their seeding choices.
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Neither role at the two companies involves day-to-day operations, Bloomberg reported, but, still, Bansal is seeding his money and experience to shape the Indian startup ecosystem.
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The victory allowed the Warriors to remain four games up on the San Antonio Spurs (33-11) in the battle for top seeding in the Western Conference playoffs.
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Thus, French Open organizers announced they would not give her a seeding, leaving the three-time French Open champion to face highly ranked players early in the tournament.
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Unlike most other candidates, Yang wants the US to take the lead in geoengineering: artificially manipulating the environment using technologies like space mirrors, carbon capture, and cloud seeding.
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The service has been tested prior to this official launch, with the team seeding it to friends and family, which they say resulted in it spreading "like wildfire".
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On Wednesday night, Trump attempted to blame Europe for "seeding" American hot spots with "a foreign virus," and argued that securing American borders would help fight the disease.
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In addition to the nongovernmental organizations that make products their priority, start-ups are seeding microbusinesses in which, say, Rwandan, Indian and Ugandan women make and sell pads.
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Sometimes Apple's bets are about pushing the entire market forward, intentionally seeding ideas that aren't quite ready now in order to force the future it believes should come.
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Sometimes Apple's bets are about pushing the entire market forward, intentionally seeding ideas that aren't quite ready now in order to force the future it believes should come.
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"We mimic what the two tours do, but we have discretion in our rules, similar to seeding," said Chris Widmaier, a spokesman for the United States Tennis Association.
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The Celtics accomplished on Wednesday night what virtually no one predicted and landed the No. 1 playoff seeding in the N.B.A. Eastern Conference, surprising the mighty Cleveland Cavaliers.
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The last lingering mysteries about its playoff prospects will be settled on Sunday, when its seeding and opponent for a semifinal game later this month will be announced.
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Wichita was one of the most efficient offensive and defensive teams in the nation this season, but their low seeding reflected some lack of respect from the committee.
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It is a risky business, divining meaning from happenstance — especially when it involves the N.C.A.A. tournament, a single-elimination playoff that is notoriously susceptible to seeding and luck.
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If climate change gets catastrophic enough, there are a group of scientists who advocate we experiment with geoengineering—artificially cooling the planet's temperature, perhaps by seeding the clouds.
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This thread feels rushed in I Think We're Alone Now, and the movie would likely have been improved by a more careful seeding of the idea early on.
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And so that's part of what we were doing, was seeding that kind of agitation in the company so that other people would want to go do it.
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After falling in the first round at Wimbledon for the second year running, he will be hoping to live up to at least his seeding over the next fortnight.
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The move shows Google casting an increasingly wide net as it pumps cash into global medical research, seeding what it believes will become a core long-term healthcare business.
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They say they've been seeding that ending since season 1 when she reacted with cold calm to her husband Khal Drogo executing her brother Viserys in a ghastly fashion.
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Like a state with a successful business-friendly agenda, Apple has stimulated and enticed developers to do all the hard work of seeding, diversifying, and expanding its software ecosystem.
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Vaginal seeding has become increasingly common over the past few years, and now doctors are weighing in on whether or not new parents should worry about the controversial practice.
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The Pirate Bay, one of TorrentFreak's primary data points, doesn't show the precise number of downloads, but it does show that nearly 10,000 users are seeding T.L.O.P. right now.
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In India, local press reports that politicians across the spectrum are being accused of seeking to manipulate the forthcoming elections by seeding fakes on the popular encrypted messaging platform.
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The main qualm doctors have with vaginal seeding is that it could infect babies with dangerous bugs at the same time it is bestowing them with potentially healthy bacteria.
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LONDON (Reuters) - A look at the road to Wimbledon final for Spain's Garbine Muguruza and American Venus Williams ahead of Saturday's clash on Centre Court (prefix number denotes seeding).
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They made it to the semifinals at the World Championships after an unlucky seeding paired them against the eventual champions, but that placement wasn't good enough for the Tigers.
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It reserves the right to change the women's seedings to "produce a balanced draw" and Williams, whose protected ranking does not guarantee a seeding, clearly is a special case.
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This game, then, the last for each team in the first round, would be about temporary bragging rights and who would end up with a higher seeding — 1 vs.
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After announcing its grave bona fides, it continues to engage in a lot of narrative throat clearing, much of it dedicated to seeding Burroughs's foundational story with historical facts.
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This tactic of seeding doubt and raising questions that counter the dominant narrative in mainstream media has proven fruitful for the Rebel, which is just over two years old.
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Many fans have been scratching their heads over Oregon's high seeding, in part because the Ducks are ranked only ninth by Pomeroy and just 21st by Sagarin's predictor ranking.
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"When you come back, you shouldn't be seeded because you have players who work all year and play good all year to earn the seeding spots," Minella told me.
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Those could include adding compost on rangelands or seeding fields between harvests with so-called cover crops such as grasses and mustards, which add organic matter to the soil.
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Global warming is already generating plans for geoengineering: seeding the stratosphere with reflective particles to limit the sun or filling the ocean with crushed limestone to reduce its acidity.
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But Muguruza has punched high above her seeding, displaying the level of intensity and consistency that once earned her the hashtag #muguruthless — though it has been missing of late.
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Some farmers are responding to the worsening farm labor shortage by turning to automated harvesting equipment and other advanced technology that perform tasks such as pruning, seeding and weeding.
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The Big Ten New Play Initiative — yes, schools better known for football or basketball are behind it — has begun seeding the canon with a fresh crop of works by women.
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The armistice and the peace treaties that followed in 1919 and 1920 reshaped the maps of Europe and the Middle East, and imposed vengeance on the defeated, seeding future conflicts.
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While manipulating the weather as a weapon is now explicitly outlawed by the U.N.'s ENMOD treaty, there have been efforts to alter the outcome of conflict using cloud seeding.
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The three other majors — Australia, French, and the US Open — simply replicate the world rankings when it comes to seeding players for their tournaments, but Wimbledon does not do this.
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No one thought Memphis would be in the thick of the Western playoff seeding, but that's because we all forgot about the 299.9 Defensive Player of the Year, Marc Gasol.
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"We're always looking for the right moment in time that would accelerate the technology and form enough teams together and really cause the seeding of these new companies," Diamandis says.
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However, the U.S. Open will update its seeding policy to take into account a player returning from a pregnancy, United States Tennis Association president Katrina Adams said earlier this month.
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Teams from Europe, North America, South America and Australia are in the midst of a nine-week season to determine qualification and seeding to the playoffs in São Paulo, Brazil.
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The product has decent retail outreach, with availability at Target and Amazon, but seeding the product in schools could go a ways toward helping spread it by word of mouth.
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Blackstone wrote a $150 million check to Antara through its Strategic Alliance Fund III, a so-called seeding fund that helps incubate promising hedge fund managers who are starting out.
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MELBOURNE (Reuters) - A look at the records of American Venus Williams and Switzerland's Belinda Bencic before their first round match at the Australian Open on Monday (prefix number denotes seeding).
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And while vaginal seeding might not be ready for prime time just yet, there are other well-studied practices that could help ensure babies start life with a healthy microbiome.
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That's not to say that HBO hasn't engaged in some dubious anti-piracy efforts over the years, including the years it spent seeding "poisoned" BitTorrent files to hinder file traders.
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In fact, while researching our book, "Solomon's Code," we discovered several different successful models pursued by countries large and small, collectively seeding a diverse market of intriguing ideas and products.
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Each team in Group A and Group B will play the other teams in their groups twice, and each win will earn them a seeding point for the main event.
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Order of play on the main showcourts (all matches fourth round unless stated, times GMT, prefix numbers denote seeding): Court Philippe Chatrier (play starts at 0900) 143-Madison Keys (U.
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The team put cells that line the inside of human blood vessels into the newly-cleared spinach veins before seeding human heart cells to the outside of the spinach shell.
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Because of the tour's ranking and seeding rules, coupled with Williams's long absence last year, these two top players met in the first round instead of later in the tournament.
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And for that matter, if microbes can survive on the moon, can they survive interstellar travel, making them capable of seeding life across the universe, including on places like Mars?
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Amid the annual discussion of whether a dynasty is good or bad for women's college basketball, Connecticut's No. 13 seeding in the N.C.A.A. tournament qualifies as a sign of parity.
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Zverev, 20, is ranked sixth, but with some top players out with injuries, he is the No. 4 seed at the Open, his highest seeding at a Grand Slam tournament.
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"It wasn't a disappointment because we were glad to be in the tournament, but it kind of alarmed us going forward," MTSU Coach Kermit Davis said of his team's seeding.
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Wawrinka will move up to No. 4, a key spot for tournament seeding because he would not have to face any of the top three until at least the semifinals.
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Vaginal swabbing: No biological evidence The study also cast doubt on the practice of vaginal seeding -- swabbing the vagina and then wiping the fluids on the baby's face or mouth.
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Three-quarters of a century ago, foreign researchers had unusual success in propagating the tree in Yangambi, seeding saplings alongside mother trees in remarkable numbers not seen in the wild.
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It would be the Patriots' fourth No. 1 seed in seven years, the best such run in the A.F.C. since the current seeding-by-record format was adopted in 1975.
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In doing so, they earned not just a satisfying win but t he head-to head tiebreaker edge, which could matter in playoff seeding and, potentially, decide home-field advantage.
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The remaining six countries that have qualified to compete at Jack Nicklaus Golf Club Korea in Incheon City, in order of seeding, are Japan, England, Australia, Thailand, Sweden and Chinese Taipei.
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"He's caused difficulties for me in the past on faster courts: Cincinnati, New York, Wimbledon, Olympics in Athens," said Federer, whose 17th seeding ensured a demanding path to the second week.
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The analyst adds that recent dryness in the Great Plains region could trigger impacts, including a chance the USDA may report winter wheat seeding down slightly compared with a year ago.
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The government began seeding Aadhaar numbers into numerous government databases and, as BuzzFeed's Pranav Dixit reports, major tech companies such as Amazon and Uber have sought access for their own purposes.
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He capitulated to Russia in Syria, the unmet red lines, his betrayal of Poland and the Czech Republic by seeding to Russia&aposs demand to remove U.S. missiles defense systems there.
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There's an alien Engineer in the beginning of the film, seeding a new world, which might be Earth in the distant past, or might just suggest how the Engineers created humanity.
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One of the major drawbacks of cloud seeding is a lack of proof that it works: given weather forecasting remains imperfect, how would you know what would have happened without intervention?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A look at the road to the U.S. Open final for Rafa Nadal and Kevin Anderson ahead of Sunday's clash at the Arthur Ashe Stadium (prefix denotes seeding).
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"This means that in 20183, the sources of misinformation and origins of conspiracy seeding efforts on Facebook are becoming invisible to the public — meaning anyone working outside of Facebook," warns Albright.
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Something smelled fishy to a lot of basketball-heads when teams like USC were excluded from the tournament entirely and Arizona received a lower seeding than its season seemed to warrant.
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People were squawking after the Spartans were denied a No. 1 seeding, saying that Michigan State was snubbed due to their high potential to be prom king of the Big Dance.
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Although Nadal is ranked second in the world, his absence from numerous grasscourt tournaments ultimately gave him the third seeding at Wimbledon, prompting him to complain before the tournament got underway.
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Pittsburgh and other cities have realized that working with immigrant communities to build trust with local law enforcement — rather than seeding fear and mistrust, as some would like — helps fight crime.
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DRI, which has permission from the FAA to fly up to 1,200 feet up to conduct its research, plans to keep testing unmanned cloud-seeding techniques and will estimate their effectiveness.
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And with the seeding of its Far East outpost Circle is clearly hoping to be able to add China to that list of major markets in the not too distant future.
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JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia is preparing to carry out cloud seeding in an effort to trigger rainfall to prevent harvest failure and forest fire, the disaster mitigation agency's spokesman said on Monday.
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Golden State's 213th consecutive home victory — their 213st this season — gave it a three-game lead over San Antonio (211-227) in their duel for top seeding in the Western playoffs.
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The browser allows visitors to a site to download a copy onto their own computer to host (like re-seeding a torrent), or fork and modify it for their own purposes.
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Misleading posts go viral While there are plenty of things that can, and will, go wrong on Election Day, social media can make routine disruptions seem suspicious, seeding confusion and doubt.
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It is the Houthis, not the Yemeni government or the coalition that is seeding Yemen's farmlands with tens of thousands of landmines, who are creating a whole generation of civilian amputees.
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"Beyond seeding concerns across the industry over arbitrary enforcement, the CFTC's actions threaten to chill legitimate market behavior while failing to deter potential misconduct in the future," the FOIA complaint alleged.
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The concept of vaginal seeding was born out of research from Dr. Maria Gloria Dominguez-Bello, an associate professor of the Human Microbiome Program at New York University School of Medicine.
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The implications are huge for both the host Orange and the Yellow Jackets as neither team can afford a loss for its tournament résumé or its seeding in the ACC tournament.
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"We don't care about no playoff seeding or anything else right now other than getting back to playing like we're capable of playing," shooting guard Tony Allen told the team's website.
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"Our committee is intensely focused on selecting and seeding and bracketing the right 68 teams," Rasmussen, the athletic director at Creighton, said on Wednesday before going into seclusion with his colleagues.
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But the seeding is probably best summed up by former Maryland great and current Seattle Storm Crystal Langhorne: There is no shortage of other teams with reason to ask that question.
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The reality, though, is that a top-four seeding remains up for grabs and John Wall (only 39th in player efficiency rating) has another gear to rediscover in the second half.
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Boston's top seeding was aided immensely by the complacency of the Cleveland Cavaliers, and a hefty portion of last year's Celtics roster was jettisoned to make this new group a reality.
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Without fourth-ranked Wawrinka and fifth-ranked Djokovic in the draw, Alexander Zverev, a rising 20-year-old German, has his highest seeding at a Grand Slam tournament, at No. 4.
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Hardly a blade of water-craving grass is left in what passes for a lawn here; to my delight, self-seeding wildflowers have gradually crowded out the grass over the years.
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Instead, she will have a protected ranking of No. 6 that will allow her entry — but no seeding — at eight tournaments, including two Grand Slam events, in the following 12 months.
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Since the league instituted a seeding system in 1975, the No. 1 or No. 2 seeds have reached the Super Bowl 71 times while all other seeds got there 17 times.
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Last week's record: 8-5003-1 Overall record: 126-109-5 Much of the focus of this week will be on playoff seeding, with some plum spots still up for grabs.
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COLLEGE PARK, Md. — The biggest surprise of the N.C.A.A. women's basketball tournament bracket released on Monday night, in the eyes of many observers, was the seeding of the University of Maryland.
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But their West Coast Conference competition and their dearth of wins against highly regarded opponents mean a conventional, results-oriented analysis would probably leave them with a disadvantageous, double-digit seeding.
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The practice of seeding fields between harvests not only keeps topsoil in place, it also adds carbon to the soil and helps the beneficial microbes, fungus, bacteria and worms in it thrive.
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So if you own a lawn in Minnesota you may be eligible for a grant ranging from $150-500 for letting your grass grow long and seeding it with clover and wildflowers.
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Forecasts for storms through most of the next two weeks have sparked concerns that more farmers would abandon corn seeding in favor of soybeans, which can be planted later in the spring.
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Forecasts for storms through most of the next two weeks have sparked concerns that more farmers would abandon corn seeding in favour of soybeans, which can be planted later in the spring.
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Iowa has seven victories over teams in the top 50 in the Ratings Percentage Index, which should help its seeding on selection Sunday even if it fails to win the Big Ten.
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The Red Storm, who have won all five of their manager games this season, including the DePaul forfeit, seemed to feel slighted by their No. 4 seeding in KPI's initial postseason bracket.
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Although other seeding agents (and methodologies) exist, it is worth noting that, in the case of AgI, the nature of the clouds into which the particles are injected will govern the outcome.
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Back on his 4,000-acre (1620-hectare) farm in central Illinois, Johnson had planned to boost corn seeding by 400 acres (160 hectares) in 2019 before adverse weather sidelined him in November.
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Without a top seeding, the 23-time Grand Slam champion risks facing highly ranked players in the early rounds -- meaning there's a greater chance she could lose early on in the competition.
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The drought that's paralyzed the West over the past five years hasn't delivered much promising moisture to work with, since cloud-seeding requires an existing storm in order to make more rain.
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To cope with searing global temperatures, protracted droughts and chronic water shortages, countries from the United States to China are turning to "cloud seeding", which aims to boost rainfall in dry areas.
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In spite of the growing interest in vaginal seeding, there is a lack of data on its safety and benefits, and a lack of guidance for women and their doctors, Cunnington said.
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So along with partners like Citi, we started seeding college-savings accounts for kindergartners, raising matching money, and providing financial education for parents on subjects like household budgeting and understanding credit scores.
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Seeding equipment is becoming more precise, and increasingly cost-conscious farmers are applying fertilizer and chemicals more intelligently, said Al Mussell, head of research at Canadian think tank Agri-Food Economic Systems.
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This organisation takes a "venture capital" approach to seeding potential breakthroughs in our understanding of the biology of autism by funding research that lies outside the conventional, but largely unproductive, consensus view.
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The clot was infected with bacteria, and the disease spread from the jugular to the lungs, bones, brain and other organs when tiny pieces broke off, seeding the infection throughout the body.
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Columbus's strategy of seeding anticipated private real estate investment with taxpayer money defied the tactics of low taxes and public spending austerity that gripped Ohio's state lawmakers through and since the recession.
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But it's also possible that we could head into the season's final month with the 16 playoff teams all but settled, and nothing left to play for besides seeding and lottery odds.
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There's also a matter of seeding physical information in the outer reaches of our galactic reach, but Arch has already hitched a ride on one rocket, so how hard can it be?
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A spinoff of a British consulting company and sometime-defense contractor known for its counterterrorism "psy ops" work in Afghanistan, the firm does so by seeding the social network with personality quizzes.
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Adams' comments came in the wake of widespread criticism of tennis officials after Serena was denied a seeding at this year's French Open, her first grand slam after returning to the sport.
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With COVID-243 and measures to contain its spread seeding economic angst across the globe, the Dow's steep drop pushed the 30-stock index below the level where it closed on Nov.
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The WNBA is set to announce a landmark shift in how it operates postseason play by ignoring conferences to create initial seeding and reseeding during each round, according to a league source.
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Recently Ms. Oates wrote a cookbook to encourage gut "weeding and seeding and feeding," something the lavishly photographed book, nominated for a James Beard Award, has likely done for her customer base.
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Roughly 1 in 1,000 people in and around the city are infected, White House officials said Tuesday evening, warning that those who leave the city risk seeding the infection in new places.
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Son himself began seeding doubt when he announced in July that the Japanese conglomerate's second Vision Fund had reached $108 billion in capital commitments based on a series of memoranda of understandings.
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Idaho Power, which serves over 500,000 customers and has 17 hydroelectric power plants, invested more than $3 million dollars in a cloud seeding program to boost the snowpack in Idaho's highest mountains.
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Born: Belgrade, May 22, 1987 (28) Seeding: 1 GRAND SLAM TITLES (10): Australian Open: 2008, 2011, 2012, 2013, 63; Wimbledon: 2011, 2014, 2015; U.S. Open: 2011, 2015 Began playing tennis aged four.
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In a separate statement, the company said it would buy the agricultural grass and soil implement business of Kongskilde Industries to expand its offering in tillage, seeding and hay and forage segments.
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Producers in No. 1 soy state Mato Grosso were also quick to plant as soon as the soy seeding ban - a measure adopted each year to reduce soy rust outbreaks - ended on Sept.
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But on a basic level, "seeding" just means ranking the contenders before the tournament begins, so that the weakest players are knocked out early and the strongest ones don't face off 'til later.
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According to Berger, this discovery effectively confirms that neutron star mergers are responsible for seeding our universe with gold, silver, platinum, and other elements that we use in our phones and jewelry today.
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First of all, for those people without a degree in meteorology, it's important to note "cloud-seeding" literally means creating precipitation — in this case, rain — by way of introducing small particles into clouds.
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Ahead of the French Open, many people were wondering if Williams would receive "protected seeding," which is a measure that allows athletes returning from injuries to maintain their rank from before the injury.
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In just two years, Ajao would be a founding investor in de Antonio's ride-hailing business, Cabify, focused on Latin America and Europe; and Dapuzzo would be seeding the ride-hailing service 99Taxis.
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Driving the news: A new study published in the Astrophysical Journal details how these stars died, seeding the universe with elements that eventually gave rise to our sun, planets, other stars and more.
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Heavy rains in early October in Kansas and Oklahoma slowed seeding of the 1.003 crop, leaving wheat plants less time to produce tillers, or stems, and secondary root systems ahead of winter dormancy.
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However, experts say it is far too soon to say whether the vaginal microbiome gives babies a healthier start, and if so, whether seeding has the same beneficial effect as a vaginal delivery.
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I'm sure there would be plenty of men who would love to step up and face him if the interim title was involved, but Miocic might be putting his top seeding in jeopardy.
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And while we did not download the episodes to verify they're real (or that they're virus free), the thousands of people seeding the episode seem to suggest there's at least something there. Fun.
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Besides solidifying their seeds for next week's Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Durham, N.C., the Hurricanes and the Seminoles are seeking to bolster their résumés for a national seeding in the N.C.A.A. tournament.
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It was in China Lake where the military crafted the rain-making technology of "cloud seeding," which was deployed during the Vietnam War in an attempt to flood the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - A look at the 215 record of Spain's Garbine Muguruza and Czech Petra Kvitova ahead of their fourth round match at the U.S. Open on Sunday (prefix number denotes seeding).
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ET, RDS2, TSN5 (Ottawa), MSG-Plus (New York) ABOUT THE SENATORS (44-27-10): With its playoff seeding secured, Ottawa still is dealing with one pressing issue — the health of captain Erik Karlsson.
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In the process, he's become the model of an entertainment brand for a multiscreen generation, seeding every sort of outlet and venue (no matter how small) with a constant barrage of fanboy content.
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Building a mountain would be a much more permanent and much more expensive step than cloud seeding, in which dry ice, silver iodide, or potassium iodide are pumped into clouds to increase rainfall.
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Serena, who finished runner-up at Wimbledon this year after losing to Germany's Angelique Kerber in the final, is ranked 26th in the world, nine places below the seeding she has been awarded.
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Over the years, Mr. Wexner spun off most of the brands he had acquired, seeding Columbus with a new crop of independent companies that in turn tossed off their own spinoffs and imitators.
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Come Playoff selection time, when the selection committee weighs strength of schedule in its picks and seeding, that could be a factor the SEC has long assumed it didn't have to worry about.
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Now we learn that the company also sought to cover up the extent of Russian meddling on its platform — while quietly seeding invidious stories against its business rivals and critics like George Soros.
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Age: 21 Nation: United States World ranking: 20193 Seeding: 14 Grand Slam titles: 1 (Australian Open 2020) First round: beat Martina Trevisan (Italy) 6-2 6-4 Second round: beat Li Ann (U.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Apple is seeding the next generation of American-made glass for its iPhones and iPads, and its investments may have the side benefit of helping the company win favor in Washington.
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Age: 03 Nation: United States World ranking: 15 Seeding: 14 Grand Slam titles: 0 WTA titles: 3 First round: beat Martina Trevisan (Italy) 6-2 6-4 Second round: beat Li Ann (U.
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"They are caldrons that are constantly seeding and reseeding hospitals with increasingly dangerous bacteria," said Betsy McCaughey, a former lieutenant governor of New York who leads the nonprofit Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths.
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Indonesia will carry out cloud seeding on Friday in a bid to prevent further rainfall over the capital Jakarta, after deadly flash floods and landslides following some of the heaviest rains ever recorded.
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They are tied with the Indiana Pacers for the sixth seeding, with the Detroit Pistons two games behind in eighth place, and the Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks just beyond the cutoff.
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In a "Squawk Box" interview, Burns credited Trump's veiled military threats in response to Kim's aggression and diplomatic progress with North Korean ally China for seeding an environment to make a meeting possible.
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Middle Tennessee State's seeding, at No. 503 in the South Region, left the oddsmakers so unimpressed that the Blue Raiders were actually favored to win their first-round game against fifth-seeded Minnesota.
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Rather than just settle existing planets, Loeb suggests our species build a mobile "major upgrade to the International Space Station" capable of moving through space and seeding other worlds with our genetic material.
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Though Nadal is ranked No. 2 and Federer No. 3, Federer, an eight-time Wimbledon champion, was bumped ahead of Nadal by the tournament's seeding formula because of his stronger grass-court results.
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In a compromise with the coalition, the developers are now seeding $260,000 in a city fund to make the district a reality; in exchange, they will face less resistance in moving forward with construction.
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Seeding further nervousness in world markets, a truck drove into a crowd on a shopping street in the Swedish capital Stockholm in what the country's prime minister said appeared to be a terrorist attack.
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But what sets Hoffman apart, said his friends and political allies, is his deliberate, well-funded — and, to some, secretive — campaign to apply his smarts and investing acumen toward seeding a national political movement.
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By 2013, Feige and his team began explicitly seeding the MCU's releases with "infinity stones," making the — let's face it — silly concept a household term well in advance of Infinity War and Endgame's debuts.
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On Earth we already have what could be considered fledgling efforts and concepts: carbon sequestration to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide; desalination of oceans for drinking water; and even cloud seeding for rain.
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The change is at least in part due to Getty's 2014 collaboration with Sheryl Sandberg's nonprofit, Lean In. The collaboration started with the goal of seeding more modern images of women in the media.
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I am sure that the right wing will be looking to create disarray in a progressive or feminist conversation about this by seeding some false story and landing someone with a demonstrably false accusation.
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In seeding the system by sending out invites — most of which will come from Merit's team directly from now, as well as select miners — Merit hopes to foster a fast-growing community of users.
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Image by A. Passwaters/Rice University/NASA/JPL-CaltechResearchers from Rice University say that around 4.4 billion years ago, a Mercury-like planet smashed into Earth, seeding our primordial planet with life-giving carbon.
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While it is true that vaginal seeding probably only exposes babies to the same pathogens they would have gotten had they been delivered vaginally, these pathogens could have been avoided by C-section delivery.
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They had had success in seeding the federal courts with people who shared their ideological views, as well as in propagating an approach to understanding the Constitution that conveniently always led to conservative outcomes.
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For reasons beyond their seeding or pedigree, these Tar Heels will be considered the favorite as they try to capture Championship No. 20053, to beat upstart Syracuse on Saturday and Villanova or Oklahoma thereafter.
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After three home births, Rattue was "devastated" to need a caesarean with her fourth baby, but feels that doing a vaginal seeding procedure was key to feeling like she had "ownership" of the birth.
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Seeding systemic risk In its most recent financial stability report, the International Monetary Fund raised the alarm about piles of risky corporate debt, which it said could amplify problems and deepen the next recession.
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Ever since Facebook bought Oculus Rift for $303 billion, the company has been seeding the VR industry with money and technology to help generate content that might encourage people to give VR a try.
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While Griffin isn't in the business of seeding top producers in the way Tiger Management founder Julian Robertson or George Soros were, Citadel's pod structure gives portfolio managers the chance to run a team.
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Williams enters the tournament seeded 25th in the singles draw, after the Wimbledon seeding committee used their discretionary powers to rank a player who has played only three tournaments in the past 12 months.
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Wimbledon adjusted the seeding of only one other player that year: Williams's sister Venus, a five-time Wimbledon champion, who moved to 24th from 33rd and had also missed months because of an injury.
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So even if 15 out of 15 owners in the West were prepared to vote in favor of conference-free playoff seeding, where would Silver find five in the East willing to co-sign?
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Eastern, Saturday on ESPN It was the last playoff series to be determined, but both teams took care of business, which left them with matching records and the Clippers with the slightly higher seeding.
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And, in case you were wondering, Middle Tennessee State's win over Minnesota, though a major upset in terms of the seeding, did not surprise the handicappers in Vegas, who had the Blue Raiders favored.
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The unique influence of forum powerusers on consumer sentiment was not lost on retailers and advertisers, some of whom would start covertly seeding their products and clients in popular forums around the same time.
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Yet you seem fixated on seeding doubt and despair with its unrelenting focus on a select few people (Sunday Magazine, May 5), national politics (front page, May 28) and risks (Business Day, May 29).
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"It's all about seeding the ground, making it not unexpected for Aston to come with a world class mid-engined car because we've proven it in Formula One and at Le Mans," he said.
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A key difference in their practices is that deCaires Taylor creates his sculpture gardens with the express purpose of seeding artificial reefs in areas of the ocean particularly affected by climate change, pollution, and overfishing.
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It's possible that the block is an effort to prevent web users in the country from viewing these documents, including one that lists a number of private companies tasked with seeding and verifying Aadhaar data.
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The first Dota 2 Major of the 2016-2017 season is getting started this weekend as 16 teams battle in group stages to secure their seeding in the single-elimination bracket kicking off next week.
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Seeding clouds is a relatively simple process: Devices either mounted on the ground or installed on planes spray silver iodide into the moist air, which allows the air to form ice particles at warmer temperatures.
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But having failed to progress beyond the fourth round at any of the slams so far, the man tipped as a future Grand Slam champion was not about to read too much into his seeding.
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Oculus offers another classroom VR option with new pilot program Oculus is giving launching "educational pilot programs" in Taiwan, Japan and Seattle, Mariella Moon reports, seeding Rift and Go headsets to libraries, museums, and schools.
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Not only was Medium already rewarding time spent reading – typically, one of the ways to measure content quality – it's now directly seeding its network by paying for the kind of work it wants to see.
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From the looks of it, the company is playing the long game here, seeding mobile devices with Assistant and rolling out subtle upgrades that make its device less of a blunt instrument than Amazon's offering.
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"The $50 million is more like seeding funding, if you want, and based on the results we'll gather afterwards we will have a more ambitious program with more stakeholders between 2020 and 2030," he said.
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Even wilder ideas for cooling the planet down, like reflecting the sun's radiation back into space by seeding clouds, or even by zapping them with lasers, are waiting at the fringes of the climate debate.
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One exemption to that ban is that banks are allowed to provide temporary "seeding" investments to help start up such funds, with the understanding that the bank's investment would quickly shrink as outside investors join.
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Fruits dropped like crazy, and so as not to have to deal with thousands of ground cherries re-seeding in the bed next season, I collected as many of the dropped fruit as I could.
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With all of these moves to terminate, or threaten, programs that others at home and around the world have grown to depend upon, Trump has shown himself uniquely capable of shattering structures and seeding uncertainty.
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The team's winning entry was a solar-powered robot that would help small farmers carry out tasks including seeding and cutting crops like wheat, Afghanistan's embassy in London told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Thursday.
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While the Bannermans embrace the present passion for self-seeding flowers, with foxgloves in pink, purple and white, they assiduously avoid the trendy — which is the reason you see no ornamental grasses in their gardens.
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When the seedings committee met on Tuesday, the thorny issue of whether to break from the current WTA rankings, the usual criteria for seeding the women's draw, and elevate Williams was top of their agenda.
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With COVID-19 and measures to contain its spread seeding economic angst across the globe, the Dow's steep drop on Monday briefly pushed the 213-stock index below the level where it closed on Nov.
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If vaginal seeding is being considered, women should be informed of the risks and tested for infectious diseases and potentially pathogenic bacteria, including group B streptococci, herpes simplex virus, chlamydia and gonorrhea, the committee stated.
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The United States Open is changing its approach to seeding players coming back from pregnancy after tennis officials were criticized for their handling of Serena Williams upon her return to the French Open last month.
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The French Open did not grant Williams a seed, but Wimbledon, which begins on July 2, has traditionally been the only Grand Slam tournament to consider factors beyond a player's ranking in its seeding process.
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That doesn't bother Dmitri Mehlhorn, a political adviser to Mr. Hoffman, the billionaire founder of LinkedIn, who has brought a venture capital approach to politics, seeding a wide array of new groups on the left.
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GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Canada secured the top seeding in the knockout round of the women's Olympic Ice Hockey tournament on Thursday, taking down the U.S. 2-1 and pushing the Americans into second place.
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The reports also found that Russia ran a campaign to discredit special counsel Robert Mueller, and used Instagram for several distinct purposes, including cultivation of identity groups, seeding voter fraud rumors and post-election propaganda.
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