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War 'has ruined Afghan environment'
A UN Environment Programme (Unep) survey found more than half of Kabul's water supply is going to waste.
More than half the forests in three Afghan provinces have been destroyed in 25 years.
A team from Unep's Post-Conflict Assessment Unit worked with the Afghanistan Transitional Authority to carry out the survey.
It involved 20 Afghan and foreign scientists in visits to 38 urban sites in four cities, and to 35 rural sites.
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The team's report says the years of conflict have led to the "collapse of local and national governance, destroyed infrastructure, hindered agricultural activity and driven people into cities already lacking the most basic public amenities".
It says: "Three to four years of drought have compounded a state of widespread and serious resource degradation: lowered water tables, dried-up wetlands, denuded forests, eroded land and depleted wildlife populations."
Dr Klaus Toepfer, Unep's executive director, said the report showed environmental restoration must be a major part of Afghanistan's reconstruction.
He said: "Over 80% of Afghan people live in rural areas, yet they have seen many of their basic resources - water for irrigation, trees for food and fuel - lost in just a generation. In urban areas the most basic necessity for human wellbeing - safe water - may be reaching as few as 12% of the people."
The report says Kabul's water system is losing up to 60% of its supply because of leaks and illegal use.
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In Herat, only 10% of the 150 public taps were working. There, and in Mazar-e-Sharif, Kandahar and the capital, the team found medical waste from hospitals being disposed of in the streets and an abandoned well.
In some cases it contained syringes and human organs. Urban drinking water had high concentrations of bacteria contaminants, coliforms and E.coli from sewage.
The report says: "Unep investigations of oil refineries and transport terminals, and brick, asphalt and lead battery factories revealed acute environmental and human health risks.
"In a plastic recycling/shoe factory in Kabul the team found children working without protection from toxic chemicals and sleeping at machines, or in factory alcoves, between their 12-hour shifts."
Wildlife pressure
In the countryside, it says, satellite imagery shows conifer forests in the provinces of Nangarhar, Kunar and Nuristan have shrunk by more than half since 1978.
Pistachio woodlands in northern Afghanistan, valuable money earners, have been devastated. The report says: "Almost no trees could be detected in Badghis and Takhar provinces in 2002 by satellite instruments, compared with 55% and 37% land cover respectively in 1977."
Inevitably, wildlife suffers: several hundred families had taken over an island in the Amu Darya river which was formerly home to otters, wild boar, Bactrian deer and birds of prey.
The team also spent two weeks on horseback in a remote area grazed by Kyrgyz and Wakhi herders, where there are snow leopards, Marco Polo sheep, wolves, brown bears and Asian ibex.
Unep says hunting, mainly for meat and furs, was significantly reduced during the Soviet occupation, but has increased since then.
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In just under two months we will hopefully come to the end of what has been a long and trying presidential election cycle. Some of the first candidates started declaring their candidacy almost eighteen months ago. This has created a cycle that at times feels like it would just be nicer if it all went away. As I've personally considered the options, or at times lack of options, I've pondered what does this all mean from a Christian perspective. Here are some humble thoughts.
Elections, in some ways, don't really matter. No matter who is elected on November 8, God will still be God, and will reign over all the earth. While the president of the United States may be one of the most powerful people in the world, the president is still a human. God is supreme. God rules over all the earth. God is bringing the kingdom to bear in this time and place. Both major parties will try to convince us that if the other party wins it is the end of our country as we know it, but ultimately that is just fear mongering. If God wants the United States to end, it will end. If God wants the United States to continue, it will continue. God is the one who is in charge, and four years from now God will still be in charge. Christians would do well to remember this truth.
Elections, in some ways, matter a great deal. Adolf Hitler rose to power not by taking over the country through a military coup, but through a legal election. The fact that Adolf Hitler came to power was a horrible reality for the rest of the world. Consider for a moment the death and destruction that happened because Hitler was in power. Elected officials have the capacity to bring much evil to the world. Being commander and chief of the largest and most powerful military in the world is a grave responsibility. Having access to such things as nuclear codes gives the president the power to wield death and destruction throughout the world. We, as citizens with the right to vote, have a responsibility to the rest of the world to choose wisely who will wield such power.
As Christians, we must be careful where we place our trust. My whole life I've been told "we are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles." We will use these phrases to convince ourselves that the United States is a "shining city on a hill" with the responsibility to bring freedom throughout the world. As this notion takes root, it breeds a reality in which every cause the United States gets involved in is a holy cause, and if we're not careful, the way of the United States will become enmeshed with the way of the Kingdom of God. The United States is not holy. Our trust for protection and blessings must never reside in the government of our country, or any country. The United States is an institution that like all institutions will make decisions on what is best for the institution, not what is best for the rest of the world. Sometimes these decisions are very unchristian. This doesn't make the United States evil, it's just reality. Our trust must never be in the country, but in Almighty God.
As the church, we are called to live as Kingdom participants in the midst of Fallen Babylon. As John Howard Yoder (and others) have stated, Jesus Christ very much had a politic that he was advancing, a way for humans to conduct themselves in the public sphere. That politic went against the mainstream politic of the day because it wasn't built on power and control, but on love and self-sacrifice. The same is true today. As the church, we are called to live a Kingdom politic with and for the rest of the world. At times, that will call us to join with our government in offering aid to refugees, assistance to the those who are poor, and honoring marriage, family, and life. At other times, it will call us to protest an unjust war, or welcome all human beings as neighbors because they are made in the image of God, whether they are documented or not. It means that we will be willing to welcome anyone, even those of a different religious faith such as Muslims, and see them in light of the parable of the Good Samaritan, a neighbor who needs help. Political seasons should cause us to embrace the kingdom politic more fully, not to rely on the politic of fallen Babylon. That should challenge us to become more involved, not necessarily in the political process but as involved participants in our local communities (places where we live, work, and eat) striving for change one person at a time. As we in the church learn to love the neighbor who is in front of us right now more fully, we will see God's kingdom come in this world, no matter who is elected and what policies they choose to follow.

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I have not had any success with Ms. Forman's recent releases lately. But I wasn't ready to write her off yet. Admittedly, I was filled with dread upon seeing this book. For one, we all know Ms. Forman's modus operandi. She either leaves her readers in tears, lost in the tumultuous emotions of her characters; or – she leaves them a frustrated mess of, 'what the hell just happened?'.
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This is the story of three people from different walks of life; unconnected, and dealing with their own personal upheavals. First, we have Freya. A pop singer sensation on the verge of greater success but have recently lost the ability to sing. While she's trying to figure out what will become of her once the world figures out she can no longer sing, Nathaniel was just getting off the bus to New York. A city that's a jungle and so much more different than the quiet and solitude of the place he used to call home. Then there's Harun who's about to embark on a journey to find himself a wife in his homeland of Pakistan.
They are three people who are lost in their own ways, and who will help each other find their respective directions in life.
I enjoyed this book even if their stories are heart-rending in their own ways. Nathaniel, most especially, is one that broke my heart over and over again. He used to be a normal teen; floundering through high school but somewhat happy despite the strangeness of his upbringing. He had a strong relationship with his father who was suffering from a mental illness and bouts of depression. When his parents split up, he chose to stay with this dad and soon had become estranged from his mother. But then his grandmother died, then lost one eye. He lost the only thing that brought him joy in school (baseball). He since then stopped going because he had to take care of his dad. On a good day, his father will be coherent and well adjusted to the remoteness of the way they lived. On a bad day, he was sporadic. Nathaniel looked after him until he no longer could. I felt for this boy. He lost his way when he lost his father.
While it would be easy to dismiss Freya's problems, it isn't in a way. She's lost her way since her father moved back to Ethiopia. Singing was her way of staying connected to him. But when she inexplicably lost her voice, her life was once again, on the verge of another upheaval. She has a difficult relationship with her mother, as well her sister. But she revels in her popularity in the social media. Losing her voice meant losing her adoring fans.
Harun is gay. But how does a staunch Muslim boy who believes in prayers and respecting the doctrine go on pretending that his heart does not belong to another man?
Gayle Forman perfectly knitted all three stories in a neat package. A common thread amongst the three is the question of how to proceed in life after going through cataclysmic awakenings. The characters were bestowed with distinct voices, and their friendship is at times, awkward but made all the more poignant by the way each was desperate to hold on to the other.


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Warnings of catastrophic flooding and disruption hamper the US presidential campaign as Hurricane Sandy sweeps down America's east coast.
It could be the October surprise that everyone's been waiting for: out of nowhere, what's expected to be one of the most violent storms ever to hit mainland America. It has sent tens of millions of people across the Eastern seaboard scrambling for emergency supplies, evacuating low-lying areas, and preparing for the worst.
Forecasters are predicting winds of between 60 and 80 miles an hour, enough to topple trees, loosen glass in high buildings and cause widespread flash flooding. Walking through city streets, they warn, will be "difficult and dangerous": driving conditions are likely to be treacherous.
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Already hundreds of thousands of people in lower Manhattan are being evacuated, the city's underground system will be shut down at 7pm, schools are being closed and some 2,500 flights will be cancelled.
The best thing we can do is focus on how we can help people during this storm. David Axelrod, Obama chief strategist
Although the hurricane is expected to hit land in New Jersey, the resulting storm will affect a vastly wider area, including the nation's capital Washington DC. In the city this morning, residents were taking advantage of the still-dry conditions to stock up on food, water and wet weather gear.
In the trendy Dupont Circle branch of Whole Foods Market, the queue snaked around the store, as people rushed to buy essential supplies of organic arugula.
It is not just daily life that is being affected. The impending storm has thrown the election campaign schedule off kilter, as the candidates hastily reorganised their travel plans.
Mitt Romney cancelled an election event in the swing state of Virginia, flying instead to Ohio to appear alongside Paul Ryan. President Obama will leave for Florida tonight, fitting in a campaign rally in Ohio on the way back to Washington on Monday to monitor progress of the storm.
A joint rally which Obama had planned with Bill Clinton in Virginia on Monday has been scrapped, along with plans to travel to Colorado on Tuesday: two more crucial swing states where every appearance by the candidates could be critical.
Virginia's Democratic senator Mark Warner, who was supposed to appear at the Obama/Clinton rally told Fox News: "The storm will throw a little bit of havoc into the race," although he was confident that it would not prevent his constituents from going to the polls.
The White House said the president was being briefed constantly on the hurricane's advance, while the authorities prepare "to bring all available resources to bear" in the worst affected areas.
And his Chief Strategist David Axelrod promised: "The best thing we can do is focus on how we can help people during this storm and hope that it all clears out and that by the next weekend we'll be free of it and people can focus on the election."
Several of the most important battleground states are in the path of the storm, including North Carolina, Ohio and Virginia, prompting fears that it could affect voter turnout, especially in efforts to persuade people to cast their ballots early.
But for the truly Machiavellian, the exact trajectory of the hurricane could even become a political advantage, according to Virginia University's Larry Sabato, in TPM:
"If Obama were directing the snowstorm it would be in the Shenandoah valley and south-west Virginia as they want as low a turnout as possible in those rural areas. If Romney were directing the snowstorm, it would go right down the corridor from Northern Virginia into Richmond, which is where Obama's votes come from."
The same holds true for Ohio, where snow or storms in the north-west could affect early voting for the Democrats, whereas if rural areas are hit, that could dent Republican support.
Whatever you make of the candidates' qualities, though, they're certainly not capable of controlling the weather. Yet. But it isn't just campaign events that are affected: opinion pollsters are also warning that they won't be going out to canvass voters in extreme weather.
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Hi everyone~!
Today I actually have a korean food recipe for you guys~!
If you follow me on Instagram, I sometimes post pictures of the food I made.
And I saw my lovely girl Misa talking about how I should to food recipe blog, because many people wants to try making korean food on their own.
Since cold weather had been keeping everyone cold and sick, I thought I would warm you guys up with the recipe of how to make Hot Spicy Champong, or also known as Spicy Seafood Noodle!
Champong is really popular noodle dish in Korean, that is prepared with hot spicy broth with seafood a nd vegetables in it.
They're supposedly originated in Japan with influence from China, but in Japan they serve it with the broth without using red pepper powder to make it spicy.
There are also instant noodle version of this, which you might be able to find it in your local Asian Market or Korean Market.
Tastes varies at every restaurants or the company that makes them.
In this you can use seafood such as squids, shrimps, clams and scallions.
And you can put vegetables of your choice such as onions, red peppers, green onions, cabbage, and etc.
Champong is considered to be mild to high in spiciness depending on your likes~
I love spicy food, so I like to make mine spicy, but you can make it less spicy by putting less red pepper powder!
** I usually save the root part of Leek to help the broth to become more spicy and have more flavor~
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The Celtics have overcome a long list of obstacles during their streak - can they do it again tonight?
I know this sounds obvious, but the Golden State Warriors will put Boston's win streak to the ultimate test tonight. The reason why it's not that obvious, though, is because the Celtics have overcome a long list of obstacles that, if it weren't for the new 280 characters, would be too long for a standard tweet.
Over the 13 games, the Celtics have come back from multiple 18 point deficits, have won without combinations of their star players Kyrie Irving and Al Horford (and, of course, Gordon Hayward), have survived plenty of ugly shooting nights, and more:
Obstacles Celts have overcome during 13-gm streak— Marc D'Amico (@Marc_DAmico) November 15, 2017
-No Hayward
-No Horford
-No Kyrie
-No Hayward AND Horford
-No Hayward AND Horford AND Kyrie
-Trailed by 18 in OKC
-Trailed by 18 vs CHA w/o Hayward/Horford/Kyrie
-Shot < 42% on FGs 6x
-Bench totaled 12 pts 1x
-Won by 7 or fewer 7x
Considering this, it is not as obvious that the Warriors are the toughest challenge for the Celtics yet. Yes, they are the best team they have played yet (or will play this year). But the Celtics aren't facing injuries to Irving or Horford, and (hopefully) won't be facing an 18-point deficit like they have many times throughout this historic winning streak.
That being said, the superteam Warriors will still be the toughest task at hand for this Celtics roster. Even though the game is on their home soil, the Warriors are the next hottest team and riding a seven-game win streak of their own. I don't need to tell you how good the talent is in their starting five, and I don't need to tell you about their two championships over the last three years. It will take a lot to fend off Steph Curry, Kevin Durant, and the rest of Golden State's firing squad.
NBA.com's Taylor Snow noted Brad Steven's quote on the Warriors about how if you have any sort of mental slip, it only takes a brief moment for them to build a lead:
"I think the number one way they take teams out of games," explained Stevens," is that they've got a lot of really good players, they're really well-coached, and you just have to be on your toes for all 48 (minutes) or else you'll give up that 10, 12, 14, 20-point run that ultimately kills teams. There's a reason why they haven't played a lot of close games, and it's because they're awfully freaking good."
"We just have to (play) possession-to-possession, stay poised, and stay in the moment," coach Brad Stevens said Wednesday afternoon following the Celtics' first organized practice at their training facility in 23 days. "If one thing doesn't go our way, move on to what's next. And that's what you kind of try to build toward because your margin for error is very small against a team of this caliber."
Stevens portrays how the Warriors present their toughest challenge when he talks about the slim margin of error. The Celtics have survived a lot of mental lapses during this streak, but if they have one tonight, it will be extremely tough to come back from.
In addition, this matchup is a clash of the No. 1 defense and the No. 1 offense, so we'll see which is a bigger force tonight. Is Boston's defense legit?
To try to find the answer to this before tip-off, let's examine the key matchups:
Draymond Green and Horford have both been tremendous defenders, so may virtually cancel each other out. Steph and Kyrie are such similar offensive players, but Kyrie's improved defense could perhaps make a difference in the star point guard battle. However, I think it really comes down to the two young Celtics stars. Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum draw matchups with two of the most efficient scorers and best two-way players in the league in Klay Thompson and Kevin Durant. Brown has been exceptional on the defensive end and Tatum has been holding his ground very well with his elite length and athleticism. However, will the 21 and 19-year-old wing players be able to slow down Thompson and Durant? To me, that is the critical question going into the highly anticipated contest.
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Reflections in brief:
- I've just hit 60k words, which is quite awesome.
- I plan to write 75k words, but it's not set in stone.
- That usually means somewhere around 100k words, but I don't think that will happen this time.
- There again, I didn't think it would happen last time.
- Some characters are chattier than I anticipated, which is nice. I think.
- And there are too many of them (see below).
- Word clouds are an excellent (if not distressing) way to see which words should not be in there as much as they are.
- Trying to write to a genre is one of the greatest constrictions on my creativity.
- I am no longer writing to a genre.
- I don't care.
- Mostly.
Gray Fisher - ex DCI running the SIU. Now a PhD student and part-time lecturer / TV extra
Will Richards - ex investment banker, animal rights activist, vegetarian, surfer
Rob Simpson-Stone - PC / DC
Naomi Tanner - slim, tall, well-dressed, separated from Aaron Tanner
Aaron Tanner - slob in designer suits, director of Berringer's bank - the techie
DCI Martina Hedley - Rob's previous boss, before he went to undercover
Chief Inspector Greg Petridis - Rob's uniform boss
DI Dom Hooper - new head of SIU
Josh Sandison-Morley (who?)
Thirdary (yeah, I made it up):
Zoë - Rob's ex-wife
Travis - Zoë's current BF
Lucas - Rob's 7yo son
Becky (Gray's sister)
Will's mum
Gray's mum (possibly, if I don't kill her off first)
Other important people (human or otherwise):
Frederick (Freddie) Berringer
Carrie Duggan (the language specialist)
Hector Laird-Browne (Naomi's lover)
Will's dogs and other animals
Jon, Micky and Tie - live on farm
Lord Berringer - Freddie's father
Aunt Cathy - Rob's aunty
Rob's mum
JJ - Rob's brother
Tanya - Rob's sister
Shammy - lives on the floor above Rob
And here is a Word Cloud in the shape of a star (not quite so random as it seems):
Made using WordClouds.com
The WAG and The Scoundrel is scheduled for an October release and is available for preorder on Beaten Track Publishing.
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As I mentioned earlier, I keep an eye on what search engine queries bring traffic here. Now I'm noticing that people are looking for the actual numbers of tourists coming into Bhutan, not just a discussion about whether there are limits on these numbers. I do have those figures at hand, thanks to a couple of sources including Bhutan 360.
Here are the totals for foreign tourist arrivals in the past five years. I understand that the number of regional tourists (i.e. Indian citizens) is about the same count again for each year. Note the dip last year which is mostly attributed to American and Japanese travelers staying home due to economic troubles.
2005 - 13,500 foreign tourists (approximate)
2006 - 17,347 foreign tourists
2007 - 21,094
2008 - 27,636
2009 - 23,480
Seeing those figures, it's clear that there's no tightly constricted cut-off number. I hope this info is of use to those who were searching for it.
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>> I notice that vc-root-diff only works if the current buffer is >> visiting a version-controlled file, and in certain other buffer modes. >> In particular, it works in dired-mode, where it uses the >> default-directory, but not in shell-mode, which is not one of the >> explicit special cases. > Could you give an example use-case where you'd want vc-deduce-backend to > be run in a shell-mode buffer? > I have gotten into the habit of using a shell buffer to disambiguate > which repo I want to use for general VC commands like vc-root-diff and > vc-dir. Hmm... I use a VC-Dir buffer for that ;-) > Since I bind "shell" to f8, it is often faster to type "f8 C-x > v d RET" than to supply an explicit pathname to vc-dir. (I'm often in > the right shell buffer already, having just typed "make test".) I don't follow: if you're already in the right shell buffer, then f8 won't do anything. > Since vc-root-diff doesn't take a pathname arg, I have to do something > explicit to get into the right tree anyway. So it makes sense to me > that vc-root-diff should work like vc-dir in a non-VC buffer. > There is already an exception for dired-mode; why not generalize? It can definitely be generalized, but I'd rather stick to buffers where there's a clear association with a particular file or directory. E.g. *Help* buffers aren't good candidates. shell-mode doesn't sound like a bad candidate, actually. The only problem I see with it is that a shell buffer's default-directory is easily out-of-sync with the underlying process's own notion of cwd. Does the patch below solve your immediate problem? > In fact, this is something of a regression from Emacs 22.x, where > "C-u C-x v = . RET RET RET" would do the equivalent of > (vc-version-diff (expand-file-name ".") nil nil) > which is nearly vc-root-diff, regardless of buffer mode. This no longer > works in the brave new world of filesets, This was the result of a trade-off (get rid of one RET since it's almost never used). But I guess we could/should prompt the user for a file/dir rather than signal "File is not under version control" or some such error. Stefan === modified file 'lisp/vc/vc.el' --- lisp/vc/vc.el 2010-10-05 18:47:39 +0000 +++ lisp/vc/vc.el 2010-11-08 16:18:04 +0000 @@ -921,7 +921,7 @@ (cond ((derived-mode-p 'vc-dir-mode) vc-dir-backend) ((derived-mode-p 'log-view-mode) log-view-vc-backend) ((derived-mode-p 'diff-mode) diff-vc-backend) - ((derived-mode-p 'dired-mode) + ((derived-mode-p 'dired-mode 'shell-mode) (vc-responsible-backend default-directory)) (vc-mode (vc-backend buffer-file-name))))
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Doug hails from Halifax and has been a staple in the real estate industry for the past 30 years. With a wide-range of experience in residential & commercial real estate as well as home construction and renovation, The development of The Keep is a natural progression for Doug. He has proudly put his vision and passion behind creating a building that is not only timeless and an immediate benefit to the surrounding area, but one that takes advantage of the strength of today's modern engineering.
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Elias Metlej is a Partner in McInnes Cooper's Halifax office with a practice focused in the areas of commercial and residential real estate transactions. He has extensive experience in the areas of condominium law and residential construction, representing both developers and investors. Elias has been recognized for his practice in Real Estate law by Best Lawyers in Canada for the past two years.


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I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas I know I did. Now it is time to pack all the decorations back up and get ready for a new year.
I didn't take many photos but here are a few I managed to sneak in with my iphone
Marley snuggled up on the couch
A crisp evening walk
a Thank you note from a co-workers daughter
tree + presents
a Gift
Ugly Christmas Sweater day at the office
being Lazy on the couch
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The Reunion by Guillaume Musso
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An elite prep school frozen in the snowThree friends linked by a tragic secretOne girl taken by the night The Côte d'Azur – 25 years agoOne freezing night, as her campus is paralyzed by a snowstorm, 19-year-old Vinca Rockwell, the most beautiful and glamorous girl in her prep school, runs away with her philosophy teacher, with whom she has been conducting a secret affair. For Vinca, "love is everything or nothing." She will never be seen again. The Côte d'Azur […]
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They are almost always manufactured out of copper that is at least 99.9% pure. Copper is a smooth, shiny, soft and malleable metal that is desired for its formability, chemical resistance, low oxidization rate and its conductive properties.
Copper coils are usually sold in large bundles and can be easily shaped, twisted and bent without the use of heat, tools or high force. They may be layered, annealed, or coated with plastic resin. Other specifications include temper (the hardness or softness of the copper), thickness and width. Copper coils are used as components of many different systems within engineering, heating, cooling, electrical, refrigeration and heat exchanging applications.
The crafts and jewelry making industries also use thin copper coil to make many different hand made products. Capillary tubing is made of copper coil, and is part of refrigeration and air conditioning systems, that act as metering devices. They are also found in relay switches as the winding part of the relay that produces a magnetic field to actuate the mechanism.
All copper coil, whether it has a solid profile or is hollow in the middle, exhibits seamless, uniform wall thickness. They are easy to form from billets, preforms and copper sheets that have been heated and forced through a mold in the shape of the coil. This process is known as extrusion. Thin copper coil, which is essentially wire that has been wound, is extruded several times through successively smaller and smaller molds until the desired thickness has been obtained. Extrusion produces a moderate amount of waste material, but it can be reused to form other copper products.
After the copper material has been extruded, it is annealed or heat treated, depending on how hard or soft it should be. It is then automatically wound into a circular or spiral pattern, cut and is ready to ship. One of the most widely used applications for copper coil is as an electromagnetic coil, which is a copper coil that acts as a conductor. It is wound around a core, forming an inductor. A single loop of wire is referred to as a turn, and by definition, coil must be comprised of multiple turns.


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If you have just gotten your new Chase credit card, you will not be able to use it just yet. You have to register and verify your Chase account first. And if you are not a computer savvy then you must be worried that you would be doing it wrong. Worry no more because this article will help you in every step of the way to assist and help you out use your Chase credit card right away through online verification.
2 Ways for Chase Credit Card Verification
There are two ways to verify and activate Chase credit card. One is via their customer service hotline and the other one is through online verification page courtesy of Chase official website.
Via Hotline
In case you have an access to a phone that has call credits, you can just do this one instead of going online. Chase hotline is 800-432-3117. Sometimes an activation number is accompanied by the card. You can use that and follow the instruction stated with the activation number. The process will be brief and you may be able to use your new credit card within the day or the next 48 hours.
Via Online
If you do not have call credits, or you would just prefer doing the verification online, this is your second option. Please follow the instructions carefully. This could be a bit confusing for those not very well-oriented with computer and internet technology. But we will try to do this as brief as possible.
- First, make sure that you have a reliable internet connection. You would not want any failed registration attempt when doing this activity. Sometimes faulty internet connection can cause pending verification. Although that seldom happens, it is best that you avoid it entirely.
- As soon as you are sure about your internet connection, open your preferred internet browser. Any browser will do; Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, Safari, Mozilla Firefox.
- On the address bar, type in https://chase.com/verifycard
- You will be greeted with the Chase login page. Fill in your email address and password that you used when you register online for your Chase credit card and then press Enter.
If you still have not registered yet, click the Sign-Up button and fill out the needed information. After you are done giving all your information and agreed to the terms and condition, the Chase website will send an email confirmation to your email address. Check your email account and click the confirmation link. You may try to log in now using the email and password you use to sign up. You can also use your online account access to check your Chase credit card application status and contact Chase Customer Service.
- Once inside your Chase online account, go to the My Account tab and activate your credit card. Click Save or Apply.
- You may wait 24-48 hours for your credit card to activate. Sometimes it is within the hour depending on the number of users that are also registering on their website. In any case, you have already verified your Chase credit card.
Always keep your Chase account pin and password private. There are malicious entities out there that are willing to take advantage of you in a heartbeat. So it is best that you safe keep all your important details with you.
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GARY THORNHILL was devastated following Saturday's controversial seventh round stoppage loss to Essex prospect Nick Cook.
Liverpool's former British champion was ahead on points when a left hand body shot from the visitor forced a sudden stoppage from the referee during their WBF Intercontinental super-featherweight title fight.
Thornhill, who dropped and sat on the bottom rope, was unhappy with the referee's failure to issue a mandatory eight count to give him the chance to catch his breath.
Trainer Colin Moorcroft said: "The rules state that if a fighter is being kept up by the ropes then a count should follow.
"Gary was boxing well up until that point but was caught by a good shot. He should have been given the opportunity to recover and rebuild.
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"City of Manta, Province of Manabi", Ecuador
Manta – Population is about 350,000 (working city, mainly fishing and fish processing). The country has three main geographic regions, plus an insular region in the Pacific Ocean:
· La Costa, or the coast, comprises the low-lying land in the western part of the country, including the Pacific coastline.
· La Sierra, ("the highlands") is the high-altitude belt running north-south along the center of the country, its mountainous terrain dominated by the Andes mountain range
· La Amazonía, also known as El Oriente ("the east"), comprises the Amazon rainforest areas in the eastern part of the country, accounting for just under half of the country's total surface area, though populated by less than 5% of the population
· The Región Insular is the region comprising the Galápagos Islands, some 1,000 kilometers (620 mi) west of the mainland in the Pacific Ocean
Manta is the second most populous city in the province, the eighth most populous in the country and, economically, the third most important city of Ecuador. Manta has existed since Pre-Columbian times. It was a trading post for the Mantas. The main industries are fishing and tuna canning and processing. Processed tuna is exported to Europe and the U.S. International tuna corporations including Bumble Bee, Van Camps, British Columbia Packers, and Conservas Isabel, as well as leading national tuna processor Marbelize, have sizable factories in Manta. Other important products include vegetable oil. Large Ecuadorian corporations including La Fabril and Ales have their main factories in Manta. Other economic activities include tourism. Various cruise ships make a port of call visit to Manta while traveling the southern Pacific Ocean
Manta possesses one of Ecuador's seaports. The port was used by Charles Marie de La Condamine upon his arrival in Ecuador when leading the French mission to measure the location of the equator in 1735. From Manta, Condamine started his trip inland towards Quito.
Manta has an international cargo airport, Eloy Alfaro International Airport. Between 1999-2009 Manta housed "Manta Air Base/Alfaro Air Base" which was used by the U.S. Air Forces to support anti-narcotics military operations and surveillance flights against Colombian drug trafficking cartels. The lease to the US Air Force was not renewed by the Ecuadorian government.
Currency (US Currency)
· Ecuador's monetary unit, the peso, was renamed Sucre (decree of March 22, 1884, effective April 1, 1884).
· Following the financial banking crisis of 1999, the US dollar became legal tender in Ecuador on March 13, 2000 and Sucre notes ceased being legal tender on September 11. Sucre notes remained exchangeable at Banco Central until March 30, 2001 at 25,000 Sucre's per dollar. Ecuador now only issues its own centavo coins.
Banking and/or transferring money out of the country is 5% transfer fees.
· Officially the Republic of Ecuador (Spanish: República del Ecuador literally translates as "Republic of the Equator")
· The main spoken language in Ecuador is Spanish (94% of the population). Languages of official use in native communities include Quichua, Shuar, and 11 other languages
Manta receives numerous visits from foreign as well as local tourists. The most visited beaches include "El Murciélago", "Santa Marianita", "San Lorenzo" and "Barbasquillo". Surfers often travel to San Lorenzo to find powerful waves (regularly head high). Kite surfing has recently become very popular in Santa Marianita (Playa Bonita) because of the excellent wind conditions and large beach.
Nearby, also, is the small town of Montecristi, founded in the early 17th century. With its colonial architecture, this small town is best known for its wickerwork weaving, and as the original birth place of the Panama hats which, despite their name, were historically produced in Ecuador. Panama hats are favorite souvenirs among visitors of Manta. Manabí is also famous for its delicious cuisine to include seafood is second to none.
Manta possesses a number of Universities and High Schools. The largest and most traditional University is the Universidad Laica Eloy Alfaro; other universities include Universidad del Pacifico (Pacific University) and Manta Institute of Technology. The most traditional high schools include Colegio San Jose, and Colegio Manabi. Other foreign oriented upper class high schools include Thomas Jefferson High School (American), Julio Pierregrosse High School (Spanish), and Leonardo Da Vinci High School (Italian). These are the most prestigious high schools in the city with international standards.


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The AgBMP Loan Program provides needed funding for local implementation of clean water practices at an extremely low cost, is unique in its structure and is not duplicated by any other source of funding.The AgBMP loan program provides 3% loans through local lenders to farmers, rural landowners, and agriculture supply businesses.
The MDA partnered with the USDA National Agricultural Statistic Service (NASS) and University of Minnesota researchers to collect information about fertilizer use and farm management. Surveys were conducted over the phone. NASS staff are highly skilled at obtaining critical information over the phone with minimal time and burden on the producer.In 2011, the survey focused on the southeast region of Minnesota. The survey was designed to gather information about nitrogen fertilizer rates, timing of nitrogen application and use of nitrogen inhibitors.
The goals of the program are to evaluate the effectiveness of agricultural conservation practices, identify underlying processes that affect water quality, and develop technologies to target critical areas of the landscape. Funded projects provide current and accurate scientific data on the environmental impacts of agricultural practices and help to develop or revise agricultural practices that reduce environmental impacts while maintaining farm profitability.
This project provides information to better understand nitrogen fertilizer management and the potential impacts to local groundwater.
The Discovery Farms program is a farmer-led effort to gather information on soil and nutrient loss on farms in different settings across Minnesota. The mission of Discovery Farms Minnesota is to gather water quality information under real-world conditions.
Funding supports an Irrigation Specialist to develop guidance and provide education on irrigation and nitrogen best management practices (BMPs). In this position, Dr. Vasu Sharma provides direct support to irrigators on issues of irrigation scheduling and soil water monitoring. She is collaborating on the development of new irrigation scheduling tools that help irrigators manage water and nitrogen resources more precisely. These tools help reduce nitrogen leaching losses in irrigated cropping systems.
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The Minnesota Water Research Digital Library (MnWRL) is a user-friendly, searchable inventory of water research relevant to Minnesota. It includes both peer-reviewed articles as well as white papers and reports. The Library provides 'one-stop' access to all types of water research.
The Minnesota Ag Water Quality Certification Program (MAWQCP) is a voluntary opportunity for farmers and agricultural landowners to take the lead on implementing conservation practices that protect water quality. Those who implement and maintain approved conservation practices will be certified and in turn obtain regulatory certainty for a period of ten years. This program will help address concerns about changing regulatory requirements from multiple state and federal agencies.
The Minnesota Nutrient Management Initiative (NMI) was developed to help farmers and crop advisers evaluate management decisions using the farmer's actual field conditions.Participating farmers work with a crop adviser to set up field trials. After completing plot harvest and submitting the required forms, farmers and crop advisers are reimbursed for their time and will receive a summary and analysis of their results.
The purpose of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture's monitoring activities is to determine the presence and concentration of pesticides in Minnesota's groundwater and surface water. Monitoring information is used to characterize and assess the extent of pesticide impacts to Minnesota's water resources.
Theme of this exhibit: Farmers are combining current conservation practices with new technology to protect the environment.
"Precision conservation" means targeting conservation practices to places on the landscape where they will be most effective. It's about getting the right practices in the right place, at the right scale.
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture has partnered with the USDA National Agricultural Statistic Service (NASS) and University of Minnesota researchers to collect information about fertilizer use and farm management. Partners have pioneered a survey tool for characterizing fertilizer use and farm management on a regional and statewide scale. Surveys are conducted over the phone. NASS staff are highly skilled at obtaining critical information over the phone with minimal time and burden on the producer.
Nitrate-nitrogen (nitrate) is one of the contaminants of greatest concern for groundwater in Minnesota. This funding is being used for activities that help identify the severity and magnitude of nitrate contamination and implement practices at the local level to reduce nitrate in groundwater. The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is working with many local partners and passing funding through to local government units (counties, cities, soil and water conservation districts) to address this concern.
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The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) has designed a Township Testing Program to determine current nitrate-nitrogen concentrations in private wells on a township scale. The MDA has identified townships throughout the state that are vulnerable to groundwater contamination (because of local geology or shallow groundwater) and have significant row crop production. These are the counties that will be prioritized for Township Testing.


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Where is the dbSNP information in oncotator result maf?
I use oncotator v1.9 to annotate Tumor-Normal paired somatic variants in MAFLITE format. As the document described, there are 26 datasources:
_Oncotator v126.96.36.199 | Flat File Reference hg19 | GENCODE v19 EFFECT | UniProt_AAxform 2014_12 | ExAC 0.3.1 | dbSNP build 142 | COSMIC v76 | 1000gp3 20130502 | dbNSFP v2.4 | ClinVar 12.03.20 | ORegAnno UCSC Track | CCLE_By_GP 09292010 | UniProt_AA 2014_12 | Ensembl ICGC MUCOPA | COSMIC_FusionGenes v76 | gencode_xref_refseq metadata_v19 | CCLE_By_Gene 09292010 | ACHILLES_Lineage_Results 110303 | CGC full_2012-03-15 | UniProt 2014_12 | HumanDNARepairGenes 20110905 | HGNC Sept172014 | COSMIC_Tissue v76 | Familial_Cancer_Genes 20110905 | TUMORScape 20100104 | TCGAScape 110405 | MutSig Published Results 20110905 _
I got a 348 columns maf for each sample, but information about dbSNP is empty, such as dbSNP_RS(column 14) and dbSNP_Val_Status(column15). The dbSNP populaiton informaiton cannot find, what I mean is something like "1000gp3_EAS_AF". What should I filter the dbSNP database?
How to annotate germline variants? Could I use oncotator?
Thx andvance if anyone help me out~
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LeeTL1220 Arlington, MA ✭✭✭
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Hi @hexy, let's ask @LeeTL1220 to chime in here.
@hexy In MAF, the dbSNP results should always be in the 14th column
dbSNP_RS... Are you saying that the column values are empty?
@hexy I've replicated a bug for rendering the DBSNP results. A fix should be coming ...
Thank you, @LeeTL1220, I have sovled it following the new version. And do you think it better to make the strict dependence more lenient, that is to change the dependencies from "==" to ">=" in setup.py file:
_ install_requires=['bcbio-gff>=0.6.2', 'pyvcf >= 0.6.8', 'pysam >= **0.9.0', 'pandas>=0.18.0', 'biopython>=1.66', 'numpy>=1.11.0', 'cython>=0.24', 'shove>=0.6.6', 'sqlalchemy>=1.0.12', 'nose>=1.3.7', 'python-memcached>=1.57', 'natsort>=4.0.4', 'more-itertools>=2.2', 'enum34>=**1.1.2'],_
because some the dependencies are too old to find the appropriate library, which makes the installaration difficult~
Thanks again for helping me!
@hexy No problem.
Actually, I have recently created the docker images using the static (i.e.
==) in the setup and virtualenv scripts and I had no trouble. In fact, years ago, we had the
>=and that caused many issues, since interfaces or behavior would change and introduce bugs.
Hi, thanks for replying. I used ">=" for all dependencies, otherwise it will be not installed successfully and still now no bugs emerge, thanks again~


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See what clients have shared about their experience with Rolfing and Leah Rachocki CR.
Leah has shown me a new way of healing that doesn't involve physical therapy, surgery or endless doctor appointments with no answers. Leah focuses on making your body whole in your session, which in turn solves the core problem. The physical healing I have gone through with seeing her is tremendous. As a runner, I dealt with persistent ankle tendinitis for 4 months last summer, with a "tingly" feeling in my ankle/shins & a clicking noise when I would move my ankle. This pain and irritation prevented me from participating in the sport all together. I rested my ankle (per my doctor's orders) and it was not healing. I knew deep down there was another way to heal this.
Then I found Leah and her amazing work. After one session, my tendinitis felt almost non-existent, and the clicking noise I had in my ankle subsided. After my second session, It was gone. Leah had no doubts in my body's ability to heal, and gave me the courage to try running again and I had no pain after just two sessions. I also had a very serious knee surgery in 2012, and her work in my body has helped strengthen my right knee and that side of my body.
My chief complaint was pain that ran along my inner left thigh and pain in my left arch. The source of the original complaint was resolved in five sessions. In my experience, the body heals in layers. As one layer heals, another layer that wants to be healed is revealed. This has been an incredible journey – I started out quite bow legged and unmovable through my hip joints. As each new layer is healed, my legs become less and less bowed and my body moves much more fluidly. Before working with Leah, I felt in pain, frustrated, and was unable to run and exercise like I had been doing. I had a fairly broad range of movement but it was stiff and sometimes painful. I worried about how my body would move and feel as I continued to age. Now that Leah and I have worked together, my attitude is – Bring on old age! We are still restructuring my body, but what a world of difference! I feel solid. I feel anchored. I feel connected to my body in a way I have not been connected since childhood. I learned the association of how one part of the body affects another. My arch may hurt but the pain can be originating from farther up my leg like my knee or my hip. -woman in her 40s
I was in an automobile accident a couple of years ago. I healed quickly because Leah is such a talented Rolfer. She was able to free up my diaphragm and the other connective tissue in my torso that "freezes" to protect our internal organs under such shocking physical force. Leah helps the body recover from unexpected physical traumas such as this. My son and daughter use infrequent maintenance sessions to correct anything that needs correcting since their previous session. Life bangs them around a bit from time to time. Leah helps their body heal from the bangs. I know they will age in a much healthier manner because of the Rolfing Leah provides. -woman in her 40s
I hired Leah to help with a herniated disc in my lower back. Before Rolfing with you, my low back hurt to the point of incapacitation. There was never any relief. I couldn't even carry a 5 gallon bucket of water or pack an armload of firewood. There was a noticable difference after the first session. My back no longer hurt. Last fall I carried loads of moose in excess of 100 lbs over a mile and a quarter to the airstrip. I also run half marathons. My quality of life has improved so much because of Rolfing with you. Everyday is better because of your awesomeness. Thank you! -man in his 40s
Initially, sciatica pain brought me in. I had pain radiating down from my hip down the back of my leg. I also had back pain located in my bra strap area that would wake me up at night. I also had a displaced tailbone that would bother me if I sat for periods of time. The originating pain was relieved after a few sessions. I had an ongoing coccyx pain from a prior injury that I had given up being able to manage. The work with Leah definitely improved my quality of life. My sciatica pain went away, my back pain disappeared and I have the ability to sit for long periods of time without major pain in my coccyx area. Thanks to Leah I learned how to listen to my body for cues and how to deal with those cues on my own. -woman in her 30s