They say the expanded financial data would allow anti-terrorist agencies to better understand normal money-flow patterns so they can spot abnormal activity.

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This idea has been proposed to the State of California as a way to temporarily and quickly address water disruptions caused by a disaster that affects the water-delivery systems of the Delta, such as an earthquake that destroys levees, disrupts flow patterns, or damages pumping systems.

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We can understand flows often enough, but we usually look for quantized bits within the flow itself to match it to patterns that we have seen before.

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Though Egyptian agriculture was (and still is) based on irrigation, the flow of the Nile is controlled ultimately by rainfall patterns at its headwaters.

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Buying dips is working and trading break out patterns in stock specific plays is adding cash flow to the growing portfolio we outlined last month.

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Sometimes we can see a trend in where the flow has been and even predict where it is going because of these recognizable patterns.

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More importantly, some scientists are concerned that the flow of desalinated water into the sea could disrupt the Gulf Stream, which could change weather patterns.

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