Freeze dates are defined as the observed period when a lake or river was completely ice-covered, and break-up dates as the last ice break-up seen before the summer open-water phase.

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This phase change of water causes a powerful local feedback, which, together with moderate global warming, can substantially increase the length of the melt season.

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The second phase involved filtering the waste-water a third time, to bring it up to irrigation grade quality, so that it could be reused locally without upsetting anyone downwind of the plant.

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Mr. WHITAKER: You could do a query to identify all parcels with a particular zoning designation within so many feet of three-phase electrical power and so many feet of a water line, and the three properties left to put your business or your school would light up.

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The first phase of construction includes early earthwork and concrete foundations for a mill and on-site power plant, expansion of the existing water-supply system, construction and operation of the initial phase of a new tailings facility, and expansion of camp facilities by approximately 6, 600 additional beds for workers.

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Two decades after Al Gore's historic hearings and James Hansen's histrionic Earth temperature-tipping point prognostications replete with dire eyeball-sizzling, sea level-surging, North Pole-melting, Water World-producing consequences, the planet seems to have entered another cooling phase.

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For most banks, it will be a phase change, a shift as fundamental as the shift from ice to water, or from water to steam.

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Phase shifts are not new, and are actually quite evident in nature (Water to Steam, Iron to Magnet).

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