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Iraq, Kurdistan, Turkey
Turkish attack inside Iraqi Kurdistan kills five civilians, injures two
Peoples Dispatch / July 18, 2022
Scores of Iraqis have been killed since Turkish forces launched their so-called Operation Claw Lock in Iraqi Kurdistan in April, allegedly to fight the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK)
Kurdistan, Turkey
Turkey sentences former Kurdish parliamentarian to 22 years in prison
Peoples Dispatch / December 23, 2020
Güven has been vocal about the plight of Kurdish people.
Iraq, Kurdistan
At least eight people killed in anti-government protests in Iraq's Kurdistan region
The protesters, mostly government employees and unemployed youth, are demanding timely disbursal of their delayed salaries and employment
Kurdistan, Syria, Turkey
Over 100,000 displaced following Turkish invasion of northeastern Syria
Peoples Dispatch / October 12, 2019
The attack by Turkey on the Kurdish forces in northeast Syria with the approval of the US has already led to the death of 14 civilians and threatens the councils, communes and self-managed cooperatives built as part of a multi-ethnic project in Rojava
Argentina, Kurdistan, New Zealand
Around the World in 8 Minutes: Episode 27
Peoples Dispatch / May 29, 2019
Peoples Dispatch takes a look into the Argentinian feminist movement for legal abortion and the victory of Kurdish hunger strikers. Also, we report on the teachers' strike in New Zealand.
Kurdish hunger strike ends in victory
After successfully breaking the isolation of political prisoner Abdullah Öcalan, Kurdish activists have ended their hunger strike
Thousands of Kurds continue hunger strike in support of Abdullah Öcalan
It's been 199 days since MP Leyla Güven began her hunger strike demanding an end to the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, and Kurds from around the world have joined the protest in solidarity.
Kurdish Movement and the Fight for Radical Change: In Conversation with Erol Polat
Peoples Dispatch / April 23, 2019
Erol Polat of the Kurdish National Congress spoke to Peoples Dispatch in Venezuela about the current struggles facing the Kurdish people who organize within Kurdish territories and in exile
Kurdistan, Pakistan, Turkey, United States of America
Peoples Dispatch / March 23, 2019
In this episode we look into death of Kurdish political prisoner Zülküf Gezen, Aurat Azadi March in Pakistan and Venezuelan opposition's attempt to occupy consulate building in United States.
Kurdish hunger striker Zülküf Gezen takes his life, police attack funeral
Zoe Alexandra / March 19, 2019
Thousands of Kurdish leaders and militants have been on a hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, incarcerated on the Imrali island prison for the past 20 years
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Taxi insurance differs to insurance for a normal vehicle because it also insures the passenger who is paying for the journey. London taxi insurance can be expensive, so here is a quick guide.
There are two categories of taxi insurance. Private hire taxis are restricted to pre-booking, and are not licensed to pick up the public. Public hire taxis on the other hand are licensed to collect people from the side of the road, as they stick their thumb out, or stumble out of a club.
It is also possible to get many different types of policy: taxi insurance, black cab, and cover for entire fleets, which is recommended if you run a larger cab business as it is cheaper than insuring individual cabs.
Taxi insurance is expensive at the best of times, and even more expensive in London. It is essential to shop around for the best deals. Price comparison websites are a great starting point to find London based insurers, which you can compare to national providers who deal in taxi insurance. Some companies specialise specifically in taxi insurance, such as CoverMyCab, and DNA Insurance. They may be able to provide a better value deal, more tailored towards your needs.
The single best way to get the cheapest taxi insurance is to keep a good track record, and a solid no claims bonus. This dramatically reduces the amount you will pay, because your insurance is based on your individual circumstance. As a proven safe driver you represent much less risk to an insurer, and therefore benefit from a cheaper deal. This discount is huge, and can save you a lot of money, up to 70 percent in some cases.
The final consideration to make is that you should always be looking to get a quote from your potential provider. London taxi insurance is expensive, but competition makes it easier to find the best deal. If you are really up for it you can also get several quotes off companies and play them off against each other. Driving a taxi is a business, and therefore you have to maximise your profits and minimise your costs.
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Oceans Losing Oxygen
A swirling green phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Sea traces the edges of a vortex, July 18, 2018. Algae blooms now regularly cause dead zones in the basin. (Photo: Joshua Stevens and Lauren Dauphin / NASA Earth Obervatory)
Warmer water holds less oxygen than cool water does, so as the globe and the oceans heat up, they're losing oxygen. The problem is heightened by pollutants like nitrogen and phosphorus, which contribute to oxygen-starved "dead zones" in the Gulf of Mexico and elsewhere. Denise Breitburg is a senior scientist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center and explains to LOE's Bobby Bascomb what declining ocean oxygen is doing to sea creatures, and what needs to be done to address the crisis.
BASCOMB: And I'm Bobby Bascomb.
One of the most far-reaching consequences of climate change is ocean warming. Higher ocean temperatures affect everything from fish health to hurricane strength, and worsen sea level rise because of a phenomenon called thermal expansion, that could add a full foot to sea level rise by the end of the century. And warmer ocean temperatures are even changing the chemistry of the ocean itself by reducing the amount of oxygen in the water. Pollution is also depleting ocean oxygen. Here to explain is Denise Breitburg, she's a Senior Scientist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Denise, welcome to Living on Earth!
BREITBURG: Oh, thank you.
BASCOMB: So Denise, what's going on here? How much have ocean oxygen levels declined in the last few decades?
BREITBURG: Well, since the 1970s, the open ocean has lost about 2% of its total oxygen content. That may not sound like a lot, but that's 150 billion tons of oxygen. And then during the same time, we have recorded occurrences of low oxygen in over 600 coastal sites around the world, places like estuaries and inland seas.
Dissolved oxygen changes in the oceans over the past five decades. While oxygen has increased in some locations, overall the world's oceans are losing oxygen. (Image: Schmidtko, S., Stramma, L. and Visbeck, M., 2017. Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades. Nature, 542(7641), p.335.)
BASCOMB: And how does that less oxygen actually affect ocean creatures? Can you give us a couple examples?
BREITBURG: The best way to think of the effect of oxygen decline on creatures that live in the ocean is by the old motto of the American Lung Association, which is "if you can't breathe, nothing else matters". So low oxygen affects the ability of organisms to survive in the ocean, it affects where they live. It affects where they're fished. And for microbes, it really affects how they influence the chemistry of the ocean. So when oxygen is really low microbes in the ocean will produce things like methane or nitrous oxide that are really potent greenhouse gases.
BASCOMB: And why are oxygen levels in decline?
BREITBURG: There are two main reasons. One is that the earth is getting warmer. Warm water can't hold as much oxygen as cool water can, and warm temperatures also make it much harder for oxygen from the atmosphere to mix into deeper water. The other problem is that we are discharging way too much nutrients into our coastal waters. You can think about nutrients as fertilizing a lawn; a little bit is you know, not damaging, it can stimulate growth. But as we put more and more nutrients in from sewage, from burning of fossil fuels, and from agriculture, we are growing way too much phytoplankton; way too much biomass is created. And as that decays, the decay process uses up oxygen.
BASCOMB: And then you're looking at dead zones?
BREITBURG: Right, they're dead zones when you think about where fish and crabs and things like that can live, they're not dead in terms of microbes. It's great habitat for microbes that live in the absence of oxygen or where oxygen is incredibly scarce. So basically, energy from the ecosystem that would be going into production of fish and corals and all those kinds of organisms that we normally think of living in the ocean, instead get shuttled into microbes.
A phytoplankton bloom in the Chesapeake Bay in 2014. (Photo: Joshua Stevens and Jesse Allen / NASA Earth Observatory)
BASCOMB: And you've studied the problem of dead zones in the Chesapeake. Can you tell me about some of the impacts that you're seeing there?
BREITBURG: In the Chesapeake Bay during summer, oxygen concentrations are really low in bottom waters in the middle of the bay, in some of the tributaries, and at nighttime, even in really shallow water. And when oxygen is low, things that can swim away do, and animals that can't avoid the low oxygen die, or they don't grow as well or they're more susceptible to disease where oxygen is really low in the dead zone. Instead of waters filled with fish and jellyfish and all kinds of animals swimming around, it's empty and silent.
BASCOMB: What about the very base of the food chain in the ocean, zooplankton -- how are they impacted by lower oxygen levels?
BREITBURG: Zooplankton will often avoid low oxygen if they can. But it's critical to their ability to use habitat and some new work that has been done out in the open ocean in some of these low oxygen areas shows that even small changes, just a small further decrease in oxygen can completely exclude these animals.
BASCOMB: How troubling is that? I mean, zooplankton, of course are eaten by tiny fish which are eaten by larger fish and so on up the food chain, until you get to whales and sharks at the very top.
BREITBURG: Low oxygen can completely change the way food webs operate. They can control whether things like zooplankton are available to fish to eat, they can control whether they are able to escape predators or become more sensitive. And we also really worry that for fish and other things that are targets of fisheries, low oxygen can actually make them more susceptible to becoming overfished.
Low oxygen levels cause fish kills in the Chesapeake Bay and other coastal waters that experience phytoplankton blooms. (Photo: Chesapeake Bay Program, Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0)
BASCOMB: And how might lower oxygen levels ultimately impact people that rely on fish for their subsistence or commercial fishermen?
BREITBURG: We really worry that low oxygen can make fisheries less sustainable and can have negative effect on fishing communities, especially ones that are very dependent on local resources. If you have a fishery that's, you know, highly industrialized, can move to where the fish are, they may be able to catch fish in spite of low oxygen, but even there, there's potentially a problem. If fish are avoiding low oxygen areas, they're becoming more concentrated in areas with higher oxygen which may be closer to the surface or if we think about the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico, they can become really abundant around the edges of the dead zone. Fishers know how to target these areas. And so what oxygen can do is it can concentrate the fishing fleets and the fish or shrimp into the same area, make it easier to catch them. And then we really worry about overfishing.
BASCOMB: So it's literally like shooting fish in a barrel.
BREITBURG: Yeah, it can be like that.
Oysters are an important part of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and help clean the water, but they are particularly vulnerable to low oxygen, which appears to suppress their immune systems. (Photo: Steve Freeman, Flickr CC BY 2.0)
BASCOMB: Well, Denise, what can be done about this? I mean, what can we do to address this problem of declining oxygen levels in the world's oceans?
BREITBURG: There are two basic things that we need to do. The first is to reduce nutrients coming into coastal waters, from agriculture, from fossil fuel burning and from human waste. And these are all things that have real direct human health benefits if we take those steps as well as benefits to the ocean. So if we are doing a better job at sewage treatment that makes for a much cleaner environment that is less likely to cause health problems for humans. For agriculture, there are practices that can reduce the amount of nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus that are added to our waterways while still producing the food that the growing human population needs. The other major thing that we need to do is to take the steps needed to reduce the problem of global warming and reverse the trajectory that we're on.
BASCOMB: So stop the warming of the oceans, you know, that would go quite a long ways in addressing this problem.
BREITBURG: We absolutely need to stop the warming of the oceans, both for the sake of the oceans and for the sake of the human population that's on land.
BASCOMB: Denise Breitburg is a senior scientist with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Thank you for taking this time with me.
BREITBURG: Thank you so much.
Scientific American | "The Ocean Is Running Out of Breath, Scientists Warn"
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Aegialia arenaria est une espèce d'insectes de l'ordre des coléoptères, de la famille des Scarabaeidae, du genre Aegialia.

Répartition et habitat

Répartition
On le trouve dans la zone paléarctique (Pays-Bas, Belgique, France (dont Nord-Pas-de-Calais), Allemagne, Danemark, Portugal, Espagne, Royaume-Uni, Norvège, Suède) ainsi que dans la zone Néarctique (Canada, Nouvelle-Écosse, Île de Sable, au Massachusetts, New Hampshire)

Habitat

Morphologie

Biologie

Systématique
L'espèce Aegialia arenaria décrite par l'entomologiste danois Johan Christian Fabricius en 1787.

Synonymie
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Aegialia globosa Illiger, 1798
Aegialia rufoides Verhoeff, 1891
Aphodius globosa Illiger, 1798
Aphodius globosa Sturm, 1805
Scarabaeus arenaria Fabricius, 1787
Scarabaeus arenarius Fabricius, 1787
Scarabaeus globosa Kugelann, 1794
Scarabaeus globosus Kugelann, 1794

Notes et références

Liens externes

  Aegialia arenaria sur BugGuide

Espèce de Coléoptères (nom scientifique)
Aphodiidae
Coléoptère décrit en 1787

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Le Coq voted star player
Honiton Hornets Hockey Club 5, Ashmoor 2nds 0
Saturday's match proved to be a very successful one for Honiton, who were playing at home to a mainly young, but very determined, side from the borders of Dartmoor, writes Ann Reed.
Although both teams were playing hard from the opening whistle with play moving freely, neither side seemed to be able to gain a lead until the 23rd minute when Honiton's captain, Sophie George, slipped the ball into the circle where Becky Bond was waiting to score.
This goal was followed up when excellent field play enabled Becky Hammett to make a great strike, sending the ball once more to the backboard.
In the second half, Honiton proved its superiority, even though the visitors did not give up in their efforts to contain their opposition.
Two penalty corners, the ball passed by Vanessa Trude across the circle, were rewarded with goals when Amy Phillips and Sophie George, respectively, put the ball over the goal line. The third goal resulted from a quick pass to the half way line from Jackie Pinn to Lucy Le Coq, who then took the ball up the remainder of the pitch and into the circle and from there to the back of the net.
The final whistle blew shortly after - a 5-0 win a very healthy result.
Player of the Match: Lucy Le Coq (with Becky Hammett right behind)
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By: Solomon Schechter, S. Mendelsohn
Babylonian scholar of the third amoraic generation (third century); contemporary of Rab Judah b. Ezekiel. The two were known as "sabe de Pumbedita" (elders of Pumbedita, Sanh. 17b; 'Er. 79b et seq.).
'Ena once pronounced at the house of the exilarch a halakic discourse which greatly displeased his younger contemporary Rabbah, and the latter declared his statement to be astounding and himself to deserve degradation by the removal of his "meturgeman" (Ḥul. 84b; see Rashi ad loc.).
Rab Naḥman, however, had a better opinion of 'Ena's learning. Twice 'Ena opposed Naḥman's views (Pes. 88a; Meg. 14b); and both times Naḥman, familiarly addressing him as "'Ena Saba" (Old 'Ena) or, according to some versions, "'Anya Saba" (= "Poor Old Man"; a play on his name, "'Ena"), points out that 'Ena's views as well as his own are right, their respective applications depending on circumstances. Both times he prefaces this with the remark, "From me and from thee will the tradition bear its name."
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Lenovo Slims Down the ThinkPad
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Lenovo is rethinking the ThinkPad.
After much talk and favorable review in the Wall Street Journal, Lenovo announced Feb. 26 that the company is ready to sell the ultrathin ThinkPad X300 laptop, which weighs less than 3 pounds but comes with a hefty $2,800 price tag.
While the new ThinkPad X300 has already drawn comparisons to Apple's MacBook Air, the two laptops are geared toward different customers, according to several analysts. Lenovo, which is based in Raleigh, N.C., is pitching the X300 as a durable machine for "road warriors" and corporate executives on the go. Apple's latest Mac is designed for the company's traditional customers as well as small-business users.
"This solution is for the road warrior and business-class users who value the types of innovations that we have included," said Tom Ribble, director of ThinkPad marketing, who added that Lenovo plans to incorporate some of the technologies found in the X300, such as SSDs (solid-state drives), into other ThinkPad laptops later this year.
Lenovo developed the X300 with an eye toward making an extremely thin, portable laptop that also could withstand the wear and tear of the road and constant travel. Instead of using a typical magnesium alloy frame, engineers used a combination of carbon and glass fibers that helps reinforce the structure, giving the PC flexibility without adding more weight to the frame.
IDC analyst Richard Shim said portability is the X300's greatest strength, which goes back to the types of materials Lenovo used with the roll cage.
"The alloys that they used are much more rigid," said Shim. "When companies look for these thinner systems, they try to get them down to a certain weight, and they skimp on the features in order to get the weight down. With Lenovo, they found a way to deploy the reliability and features you want in a ThinkPad."
Lenovo and Apple are changing the laptop market. Read more here.
The one major drawback to the X300, according to several experts, is the price, which can expand to more than $3,000. Ribble declined to comment on whether Lenovo will drop the price after the initial launch.
The X300, which is less than 1 inch thick, offers a 13.3-inch LED backlight display and weighs 2.9 pounds with a standard three-cell battery that offers about 4 hours of life. If a user decides to add the options that will boost the battery life to up to 10 hours, those extra battery components will add another half pound to the weight.
The Lenovo X300 and the MacBook Air both use an Intel Core 2 Duo SL 7100 processor, which offers 4MB of Level 2 cache, and an 800MHz front-side bus and a thermal envelope of about 20 watts. The Mac offers two different processors, with clock speeds ranging from 1.6HHz to 1.8GHz, while the X300 offers only one processor that runs at 1.2GHz.
Both laptops also offer 64GB SSD drives, which cut down on moving parts and conserve battery life. The MacBook offers a standard hard disk drive with 80GB of data capacity as well.
Lenovo offers several features required by enterprise users, including three USB ports, an optical DVD burner that measures 7 millimeters, 4GB of memory, and support for both WLAN (wireless LAN) and cellular-based WWAN (wireless WAN) networks. In addition, the new X300 will support Intel's "Eco Peak" technology, which will be available later this year and integrates both WiMax and Wi-Fi technology into the silicon.
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eloomi named a Solid Performer by Fosway Group's 2022 Learning Systems Market Analysis
HR Analysts Fosway Group have named eloomi as a solid performer in the 2022 Fosway 9-Grid, recognizing eloomi as a learning management system with consistent high performance and dedication to its customers.
Recognized by leading HR industry experts
eloomi has achieved recognition as a solid performer in the Fosway 9-Grid for Learning Systems for the first time, after being highlighted for performance in the Talent & People Success category for two years running.
Fosway Group is Europe's #1 HR Industry Analyst, with more than 25 years of experience working with corporate clients to understand the challenges facing the market and anticipating the future of HR, talent, and learning solutions. The report analyzes learning systems across the marketplace and ranks them in terms of performance, potential, market presence, and total cost of ownership.
The pandemic and acceleration of all things digital have led to a huge increase in e- learning content partnering. Buyers are actively looking for system providers with pre- stocked content libraries. Providing high quality learning 'out of the box' is now an important differentiator
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This year, eloomi's breakthroughs in the LMS industry have made us stand out as a solid performer with one of the lowest total costs on the market. With a clear focus on out-of-the-box usability and intuitive design, eloomi outperforms overly complicated and clunky learning solutions by delivering a platform that simply works – and it shows in our customer satisfaction.
Ranking highly for performance means users choose eloomi as a platform that delivers on promises, listens to user needs, and provides excellent customer support along the way with our extraordinary learning and development team.
Solid performance in a rapidly developing market
Fosway Group also identified significant market shifts for 2022. Demand for learning solutions has exploded internationally as pandemic adjustments move organizations towards hybrid workspaces and digital platforms.
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Looking to the future, the report has picked up on some of the up-and-coming features for eloomi Infinite:
Skills continue to be the biggest business-critical people topic affecting all of HR – from recruitment, to learning, to performance and talent retention", is a key takeaway from the report. It's also a cornerstone of the eloomi Infinite vision, with Skills allowing users to gain true insight into the skills across their organization and tailor training to bridge skill gaps, harness untapped talent, and retain and engage employees in every role.
Out-of-the-box solutions are highlighted as being crucial for the future of work. "Buyers are actively looking for system providers with pre-stocked content libraries" with "access to content bundles, curation tools and content suites". Which is why eloomi Infinite excels with intuitive design and off-the-shelf content. Users skip the hassle of another HR project and instead get to start implementing meaningful training in a matter of minutes.
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A makeshift sign that memorialized the two workers killed in the 2015 Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services explosion, Adrian LaPour and Dallas Foulk, near the scene of the tragedy. (Megan Farmer/The Omaha World-Herald)
The U.S. Justice Department announced a 22-count indictment Thursday against a Nebraska railroad services company and its owners related to an April 2015 explosion that killed two workers and injured a third.
Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services and its owners were accused of, among other things, trying to cover up workplace safety violations to deceive federal inspectors as well as mishandling hazardous wastes from railroad tanker cars.
Omaha-based Nebraska Railcar was highlighted in a 2016 FairWarning story about the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration's Severe Violator Enforcement Program. Nebraska Railcar's shoddy workplace safety record provided an example of how slowly federal authorities sometimes move to put wayward employers into the severe violator program, which subjects companies to extra regulatory scrutiny.
FairWarning found that the company wasn't listed as a severe violator until after the deadly 2015 explosion even though it, as well as other businesses controlled by Nebraska Railcar's majority owner, Steven Michael Braithwaite, 65, had repeatedly been cited for safety violations dating back to 2005. That included a 2013 citation involving a fire risk from oil storage tanks. Nebraska Railcar stayed off the list partly because its violations didn't involve hazards the agency deemed high-priority, such as falls, amputations, cave-ins and exposure to toxic chemicals.
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Thursday's indictment charges that after the 2013 inspection, Braithwaite – who was named in the indictments along with his son, Adam Thomas Braithwaite, 37, the company's vice president – agreed to test for hazards involving flammable liquid benzene. But when federal safety inspectors returned to the Omaha site for a follow-up check in March 2015 – one month before the explosion – they were turned away by the elder Braithwaite.
After that, according to the indictment, the two Braithwaites created documents "to falsely show" that the company "had been purchasing equipment to test the contents of railcars for benzene and had taken other required safety precautions."
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The indictment also charged that Nebraska Railcar ignored instructions given in 2013 and 2014 by federal and state environmental regulators to test wastes to determine if they were hazardous so that they could be properly disposed. Instead, authorities said, the company sent untested waste to a landfill not permitted to receive hazardous materials.
The 22 counts returned by a federal grand jury in Omaha included conspiracy, violating worker safety standards resulting in deaths and violating the Resource Conversation and Recovery Act, which governs hazardous waste management. Adam Braithwait also was charged with perjury.
"Protecting the health and safety of American workers at hazardous job sites is of paramount importance," said Jeffrey H. Wood, the acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's Environment and Natural Resources Division. "The defendants in this case failed to live up to that responsibility, even falsifying documents to evade worker safety requirements. Tragically, employees at the defendants' facility lost their lives while working in these unsafe conditions."
Representatives of Nebraska Railcar and the Braithwaites could not be reached. A woman who answered the phone at Nebraska Railcar said, "Our company has no comment." If convicted, the Braithwaites could face 20 or more years in prison.
The two workers killed, Adrian LaPour, 44, and Dallas Foulk, 40, died on April 14, 2015 soon after returning from a lunch break and starting to dig thick residue out of a a fume-filled tanker car. LaPour was trapped in a flash fire ignited by substances inside the car, and Foulk was hurled out the top to his death.
The lone survivor among the three employees working on the tanker, Joe Coschka, said he was just outside the car, lowering buckets of the blacktop-like material into a 55-gallon drum.
Joe Coschka was the sole survivor of the explosion that took the lives of two co-workers in 2015 at Nebraska Railcar Cleaning Services in Omaha.
LaPour's longtime girlfriend, Marcella Schwartz, expressed a measure of relief over the news, saying "maybe justice will be served."
"It's not going to bring Adrian back or anything, but maybe I can sleep a little bit better knowing that at least he [Steven Braithwaite] is going to suffer maybe some consequences for his actions for what he blatantly did. He knew darn well that that it not safe" to send workers into a tank car still filled with flammable fumes.
Schwartz also expressed frustration over the failure of OSHA to more quickly crack down by putting the company in the severe violator program, arguably the broadest workplace safety initiative launched during the Obama administration, before the fatal explosion. If they had, she said, "it would save a lot of lives of our hard-working American people, and maybe Adrian wouldn't have had to die."
Nebraska Railcar was listed as a severe violator in October 2015, six months after the deadly blast. At that time OSHA also cited the company for more than 30 safety violations and proposed fines of nearly $1 million.
Coschka was due to enter prison today on a domestic violence charge and could not be reached. One of his lawyers, James Martin Davis, said Coschka, who is in his late 30s, was traumatized by the Nebraska Railcar tragedy. "He's been a basket case since this happened," Davis said.
"It's classic PTSD [post-traumatic stress disorder] that you'd see in wartime when you get a couple of your buddies killed and you survive."
In 2016, Coschka told FairWarning that the odor from inside the tanker was powerful in the moments before the explosion, and that an air monitor was beeping. Even so, he said he assumed a supervisor who have known better than him whether the air was a hazard. Coschka had started at Nebraska Railcar only a month earlier.
Soon Coschka heard a loud hiss, and then sparks started shooting out of the tanker. The next thing he remembers is dangling from the side of the car, still attached to his safety harness, with a fire raging inside. "And I knew Adrian was in there, and Dallas was looking pretty bad on the ground. I just knew I had to get out of there," said Coschka. He managed to scramble to safety despite suffering back and shoulder injuries.
Coschka said in 2016 that he remained haunted by the disaster. Although he said he sometimes blamed himself for not questioning the foreman who sent the workers into the tanker car, most of his anger is aimed at the elder Braithwaite, the main owner of the business. He said he wished the tougher OSHA actions had come sooner. Referring to the years of citations against the Braithwaite companies, Coshka added: "It's just sad because this guy dropped the ball so many times and he just keeps getting away with it."
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An American Idol runner-up announced Monday, January 10, that he would run for Congress in North Carolina.
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/**
 * @file   AnimationManagerSerializationHelper.h
 * @author Sebastian Maisch <sebastian.maisch@uni-ulm.de>
 * @date   2016.08.25
 *
 * @brief  Definition of the serialization helper for the animation manager.
 */

#ifndef ANIMATIONMANAGERSERIALIZATIONHELPER_H
#define ANIMATIONMANAGERSERIALIZATIONHELPER_H

#include "main.h"

namespace cgu {
    class OrbitAnimation;
    class RotationAnimation;
    class WaypointAnimation;

    class AnimationManagerSerializationHelper final
    {
    public:
        static void LoadAnimation(std::istream& file, WaypointAnimation& animation);
        static void SaveAnimation(std::ostream& file, const WaypointAnimation& animation);
        static void LoadAnimations(std::istream& file, std::vector<WaypointAnimation>& animations, std::vector<std::string>& animationNames);
        static void SaveAnimations(std::ostream& file, const std::vector<WaypointAnimation>& animations, const std::vector<std::string>& animationNames);

        static void LoadAnimation(std::istream& file, RotationAnimation& animation);
        static void SaveAnimation(std::ostream& file, const RotationAnimation& animation);
        static void LoadAnimations(std::istream& file, std::vector<RotationAnimation>& animations, std::vector<std::string>& animationNames);
        static void SaveAnimations(std::ostream& file, const std::vector<RotationAnimation>& animations, const std::vector<std::string>& animationNames);

        static void LoadAnimation(std::istream& file, OrbitAnimation& animation);
        static void SaveAnimation(std::ostream& file, const OrbitAnimation& animation);
        static void LoadAnimations(std::istream& file, std::vector<OrbitAnimation>& animations, std::vector<std::string>& animationNames);
        static void SaveAnimations(std::ostream& file, const std::vector<OrbitAnimation>& animations, const std::vector<std::string>& animationNames);
    private:
        AnimationManagerSerializationHelper();
        ~AnimationManagerSerializationHelper();
    };
}

#endif // ANIMATIONMANAGERSERIALIZATIONHELPER_H

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Fri, 2018-02-16 22:09 — Michael Dew
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The spreadsheet was developed using macros (programmed in visual basic) and in order for the spreadsheet to operate your security settings in Microsoft Excel must be set to allow macros to run. To enable macros in Excel 2010 (similar procedures will apply in other versions of Excel) click:
File (i.e. the menu on the top left)
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Macro settings
Enable all macros
Macros can pose a security risk because they make your computer perform certain steps automatically, but are typically only dangerous when made to be that way by a computer programmer with a malicious intention – hence the warning when you change the security settings in Excel. However, the macros available in the spreadsheet available for download are made with good intentions and should not harm your computer.
Users downloading and using this spreadsheet do so entirely at their own risk and agree to accept all risks associated with using the spreadsheet.
Overview of the spreadsheet
The spreadsheet available for download allows one to sort, and bring forward / postpone reminders, allowing the user to add columns with content to describe each reminder. There are three mandatory columns for each reminder:
Date = The date the reminder comes date.
Day = The day of the week of the Date.
Time status = The colour coded cell that indicates the status of the reminder as past due, due next week, etc.
The working zone of the "Active!!! Tab" (i.e. the tab listing currently active reminders) occupies columns A to Z and up to row 5,000 i.e. that is the zone which is sorted when the sort macros are used. Therefore, with just 3 columns with fixed name users can name the remaining 23 columns anything they wish. This provides much greater flexibility than the original lawyer-focused reminder spreadsheet.
Currently outstanding reminders are stored on the Active!!! Tab, and as reminders are completed they are sent to the Completed!!! tab.
Users should not edit any of the cells (or worksheet names) ending in "!!!", these are landmarks used by the macros and editing those cell names or worksheet names will prevent the macros from working.
The cells in the Time Status!!! column contain a formula which determines the text shown in that column e.g. "Within 1 week", "1 Week to 1 Month", etc. The formula used is self-contained (i.e. is not modified by or involved in operation of the macros) and does not reference any cells apart from the Date!!! column. Therefore, that formula can be edited by the user e.g. to change the time periods that apply, or the text that is displayed for each time period. After editing the formula in the Time status!!! column be sure to copy that formula down through the rest of the rows in the Time status!!! column so that the same formula applies throughout the spreadsheet, and also applies to new reminders created in the future (i.e. the macro that creates new reminders uses the formula from the Time status!!! column of the neighbouring row.
Conditional formatting (available through the Styles Group on the Home tab of the ribbon) based on cell contents is used to determine the colour of the cells in the Time status!!! column, and that conditional formatting can be edited by the user as per the normal conditional formatting feature of Excel.
Functionality of buttons on the Active!!! tab
The following buttons on the Active!!! tab perform the following functions.
New Item = Adds a new item to the list of active reminders, and when doing so prompts the user for the number of days into the future the reminder should be set for. It allows the user to use a date picker form to choose a date if desired. Right after using the New Item button the user can click the "Duplicate item in column" button to pull previously existing notations into the newly created item; see further explanation below.
Duplicate item in column = Used to pull into the currently selected cell a copy of text in any other cell in the same column. This button can be used when creating a new reminder e.g. if the user has a column named "File name", then an existing file name in that column can be added to the row containing the new item by clicking on the cell (in the "File name") column to contain the new text, and then running this macro, which will present a list box containing a deduplicated alphabetical list of all pre-existing items in the "File name" column, thus allowing the user to select a pre-existing file name to enter onto the current cell. (Note that "File name" is just an example, having a column named that is not mandatory – the only mandatory columns on each of the Active sheet and the Completed sheet are Time status!!!, Day!!!, and Date!!!).
Duplicate entire row = This duplicates the entire row selected at the time the button is clicked. This may be used to create a duplicate of a reminder and then the date of the duplicate can be changed so that the same reminder comes due at two different times (i.e. to add an extra reminder for safety a long way out from the actual due date). Alternatively, users may wish to create a duplicate and then edit just the description of the reminder to create a different reminder but with the same project / client / contact person / etc. details.
Modify Date = Use this button to change the date that the reminder will come due. This macro is used, for example, to push reminders off further into the future.
Sort = Allows sorting of the data on the Active!!! tab according to any of columns A to Z. The range sorted is columns A to Z and rows 6 to 5000. The data is sorted by the column that is selected prior to the Sort!!! button being clicked.
Sort & Go To = Sorts the contents of the spreadsheet by the column selected before the button is clicked, and then presents a form that allows the user to select a value in the column to jump to. This macro can be used to group together and jump to all items with the same notation (e.g. "File Name" if the user has created such column heading).
Display / hide columns = Allows users to easily hide and display certain of columns A to Z.
Move to completed = Moves the selected item to the Completed!!! Tab i.e. once the task the reminder relates to is completed.
Caution regarding editing column names
Note that the flexibility in being able to rename 23 of the 26 columns from A to Z on the Active!!! sheet causes complications when moving items from the Active!!! sheet to the Completed!!! Sheet after changing column headings. For example, if the user changes the column headings on the Active!!! sheet after already having sent items to the Completed!!! sheet, then items subsequently sent to the Completed!!! sheet will not fit neatly under the existing headings on the Completed!!! sheet.
To prevent data being written into mismatched columns, the "Move to completed" macro checks if the headings currently on the Active!!! sheet match those on the Completed!!! sheet, and if they do not match the macro prompts the user to confirm whether to proceed. If the user does proceed then the macro will write the current headings on the Active!!! sheet into the bottom of the Completed!!! sheet before copying the current item from the Active!!! sheet to the Completed!!! sheet. This will result in the data on the Completed!!! sheet being a bit less usable (i.e. with column headings changing part way down list sorting may disrupt the data), but that is a consequence of allowing flexibility in column naming on the Active!!! sheet.
When changing column headings on the Active!!! sheet, consider saving the spreadsheet as a new version and deleting previous content on the Completed!!! sheet. Doing this will ensure that new data added to the Completed!!! sheet can be usefully sorted, and the old data will still be available in the previous version of the file.
Additional points regarding the "Move to completed" button and the Completed!!! tab
Note that the "Move to completed" macro will not work if the column heading "Date!!!" is not already on the Completed!!! sheet. This is because the Date!!! column is important for sorting the data on the Completed!!! sheet, and is used by the macro as a guide as to where to paste the data being brought in from the Active!!! sheet.
Therefore, when first using the spreadsheet and before sending any items to the Completed!!! sheet it is advisable to define the column headings you want to use on the Active!!! tab and then copy and paste that row of column headings from the Active!!! sheet over to the Completed!!! sheet.
The "Move to completed" macro writes the date the item was moved to the Completed!!! tab into column AA of the Completed!!! tab. This allows the user to keep a record of when the to do item was moved to the Completed!!! sheet.
Need more sophisticated sorting?
If you wish to sort the data by one column and then sub sort by a second column, you can do so as follows (i.e. using the built in "Custom Sort" tool in Excel):
Click on the cell containing the upper left most heading for your data set (perhaps the Time status!!! column).
Press Ctrl – Shift – End to select the entire data set.
In the "Editing" group on the Home tab of the Ribbon click on "Sort & Filter", and then click on "Custom Sort"
In the Custom Sort dialog that appears click the "My data has headers" checkbox and then use the "Sort by" dropdown list to specify which column to first sort by, and then click the "Add Level" button to add a sort level and allow you to define the column to sub sort by. Additional levels can be added as needed.
Want to email reminders to others?
It is acknowledged that some users will want to send out emails to others reminding them of tasks needing completion, seeking updates about ongoing tasks, etc.
Writing data from Excel to an email client is possible but complications arise depending on what data the user wants to write, what email client (e.g. Outlook?) the user is using etc.
Consider the following method for "quickly" adding data to emails if Outlook is used as an email client:
Put the email addresses the reminder will routinely be sent to in a suitable column. You can enter multiple email addresses in the same cell, separated by semi colons.
Turn on the clipboard pane in Excel by clicking on the expansion button on the bottom right corner of the Clipboard group on the Home tab of the Ribbon in Excel.
Turning on the clipboard pane will show not just the item currently on the clipboard, but a list of recent items on the clipboard.
Copy to the clipboard (by selecting cells and then pressing Ctrl-C) the various batches of data you want to appear in the email. You will see a list of copied items appearing in the clipboard pane in Excel as you copy them to the clipboard.
In Outlook, compose a new message and turn on the Clipboard pane in that message (on the "Clipboard" group on the "Message" tab on the Ribbon in the new Outlook message i.e. similar to how the clipboard pane was displayed in Excel).
By clicking in fields in the email (e.g. "To", "Subject", Message body, etc.) and then sequentially clicking on items listed in the clipboard pane in Outlook (which will be a duplicate of the clipboard pane in Excel) you can quickly enter data into the new email in Outlook.


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Joke telling and banter in the workplace - when does it become discriminatory?
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My Line Manager asked me if I could come in on Saturday to deal with an urgent matter. "No problem," I said "although I'll probably be late as public transport is bad on weekends." My Line Manager said "That will be fine. When do you think you'll get here by?" I answered "Monday."
Telling jokes in an office environment can be an important tool to creating a positive working environment. "Research shows that leaders with any sense of humor are seen as 27% more motivating and admired than those who don't joke around. Their employees are 15% more engaged, and their teams are more than twice as likely to solve a creativity challenge — all of which can translate into improved performance" (Harvard Business Review).
But laughter can be insensitive, and a joke can be offensive. If the above joke was aimed at a disabled employee regularly late for work because of their disability, and it was part of regular pointed references, they could feel that they were being victimised.
The potential difficulties for an employer are even more fraught when the office culture uses teasing and banter. In 2018, a claim came before an Employment Tribunal where the Claimant said that derogatory remarks had been made about him by his colleagues. In order to succeed under the Equality Act, he would have to show that he had been subjected to unwanted conduct related to a protected characteristic such as race, sex or disability and that the unwanted conduct had the purpose of effect of violating his dignity or creating an environment that was intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive.
The derogatory remarks were based on the fact that the Claimant was overweight and had some links to the travelling community. As the Claimant had failed to adduce evidence that his weight was connected to a disability, that left the Claimant's allegations of race related harassment.
The Tribunal determined that the office culture was one where teasing and banter was common and, indeed, the Claimant himself would often reply in kind. The Tribunal found that such behaviour appeared to be accepted and treated as normal within the office, which the Tribunal described as "indiscriminatingly inappropriate." The Tribunal decided that harassment within the meaning of the Equality Act had not been established. The Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) agreed. Whilst the comments made about the Claimant were plainly "derogatory, demeaning, unpleasant and potentially discriminatory", that did not mean that the test for harassment was made out. The EAT referred to an earlier decision in which the Judge stated, "Dignity is not necessarily violated by things said or done which are trivial or transitory, particularly if it should have been clear that any offence was unintended."
The Claimant had been an active participant in the culture of banter, he had not been offended and the comments did not have the purpose of violating his dignity or creating an intimidating environment for him.
Contrast this with a 2015 decision where the Tribunal found that there was a culture of sexual banter and sexual behaviour in the workplace in which both the Claimant, Miss Smith and her manager actively participated. It concluded that Miss Smith was not shocked by the day-to-day banter between colleagues, and this did not go too far. However, it found that the comments made by her manager did go too far and the type of personal innuendo and questioning he engaged in was offensive to her and constituted unwanted conduct. While the Tribunal found that Miss Smith was relatively robust and not adverse to participating in, or even initiating, sexual banter, the conduct and comments of her manager went beyond what was acceptable to her.
The Tribunal took into account that it would be harder for Miss Smith to deal with and complain about the behaviour of her manager than that of her other colleagues. It also noted that, where a culture of sexual banter exists in a male dominated industry and is actively condoned by a male manager, a female employee may feel compelled to join in as a coping mechanism and not obviously take offence at language and conduct that they otherwise would find demeaning.
The Runnymede Trust, in partnership with the Fawcett Society, published a report in May 2022 on the workplace experiences of over 3,000 women from ethnic minority backgrounds categorised in the report as "women of colour". It found that 75% of women of colour reported having experienced one or more forms of racism at work ranging from "banter" about ethnicity or culture, surprise at their ability to speak English and micro-aggressions such as repeated mispronunciation of their name or outright racial slurs.
Jokes and office banter can help to create a positive working environment but, if the end result is that an employee feels humiliated and demeaned, their whole purpose has been undermined. Much safer for employers to find other ways of creating a positive working environment.
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Q: Automatically extracting gcc -I paths for indexing source code in Emacs After reading:

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*A Gentle Introduction to CEDET

*A Functional Introduction to CEDET-EDE
I learn that when creating a project folder with an existing make file and source code, I can have semantic index the files by either:

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*defining a simple EDE project with:
(ede-cpp-root-project ... :system-include-path '( "~/exp/include/boost_1_37" )

*or by specifying the include paths to semantic directly with
(semantic-add-system-include "~/exp/include/boost_1_37" 'c++-mode)
But this still requires me to type the paths manually. Is there any way to automatically extract the include paths for semantic from an existing make file?
Background:
Some IDEs have a function to autodiscover gcc -I paths from an existing make file. For example, in Eclipse, you can create a project on a path with an existing make file and source code, and Eclipse would infer the include paths for its "intellisense" when building the project (I presume Eclipse parses the output of GNU make to do this). I would like to do the same in Emacs.

A: The answer is "yes": There's a way to discover this include path.  AFAIK the code for it hasn't been written yet (tho I may be mistaken on this one).  All you need to do is to run make -n and look for the "-I" in the output.  Of course, the devil is in the details, but it should be possible to write a proof-of-concept fairly easily.

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English sentences with artificial intelligence in context,
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Then came the discovery of the 'IF Chip' and artificial intelligence could not only help with scientific experiment, it was surpassing what any human could possibly do.
Upon his arrival the competition winner discovers that he is to assess a unique artificial intelligence in a Turing Test.
artificial intelligence (noun)
Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (non-natural, man-made) entity. The branch of computer science dealing with the reproduction or mimicking of human-level intelligence, self-awareness, knowledge,...
Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (non-natural, man-made) entity. The branch of computer science dealing with the reproduction or mimicking of human-level intelligence, self-awareness, knowledge, conscience, thought in computer programs. The essential quality of a machine which thinks in a manner similar to or on the same general level as a real human being. a computer system or software package which is artificially intelligent An intelligent, self-aware computer or computer program.
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Natural blonde who dyed his/her hair in a dark(er) color.
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Virtual intelligence is something that fools you into thinking it's intelligent, and Artificial Intelligence is actual intelligence capable of processing situations and thought.
It should make itself clear but basically a vulture is someone who can automate a job with artificial intelligence that used to be done by a human (i.e.
We are capable to cerate artificial intelligence (or whatever you want to call complex software that emulates thought), which is able to take over creative tasks, like inventing new things, writing books, composing music, drawing pictures, etc.
Every time we think we have a system with Artificial Intelligence that can replace a human, it forces us to realize how limited our understanding of human intelligence really is, and how full of holes our present definition of it is.
Once artificial intelligence is superior to human intelligence, humans will be almost useless.
The moral conclusions also bother me when it comes to Artificial intelligence and their rights to life.
They basically just stumbled into artificial intelligence by the chance convergence of the works of many different people over time, whereas Doctor Soong worked nearly by himself and always intended to create artificial intelligence, and his creation was never not recognized for being what it was.
Humans are artificial intelligence, too.
• Battle against the Artificial Intelligence.
2027 - The first artificial-intelligence-writing artifical intelligence (coined "ASW's", for artifical screen writers) is written, allowing for even more advanced AI's to be created.
Calling games AI "artificial intelligence" has probably always been hyperbole or even little tongue-in-cheek.
One needs to discern and have a critical level of thought, something not found in any searching algorithm which is what I think the Artificial Intelligence alludes to.
if you dig a little into gaming artificial intelligence you would find that its just a bunch of gimmicks to make it seem like npcs have intelligence.
Ok, you have asserted that you don't believe Watson possess consciousness (because I charitably am reinterpreting what you mean by "artificial intelligence", as clearly Watson does possess that).
If what you mean by artificial intelligence is artificial consciousness, then... wow.
Artificial intelligence on its own will likely move you towards a research position if you want to do that kind of work only.
The thing is, sometimes developers want Artificial Stupidity rather than Artificial Intelligence.
It seems to play loose with what qualifies as "artificial intelligence" (automated document processing is not the same as AI) and never really questions the assumption that we'll have complex AI systems in a decade and a half.
This is to say nothing of "crazier" technologies like artificial intelligence, etc.
The first Artificial Intelligence.
Perhaps, but why don't you make a prediction as to when the US will drop a constitutional right to a jury trial in favor of artificial intelligence deciding cases?
Are you human or an artificial intelligence?
I think artificial intelligence should replace judges not the lawyers.
I'm 14 and really interested in robotics and AI (artificial intelligence) I plan on doing well in the HSC and doing mechatronics in uni.
The term "artificial intelligence" often makes AI sound more complicated than it often is; most people probably think about neural networks ("brains") when it's mentioned, but there are far simpler systems that also count as AI.
I like to think of game AI as "artificial SENTIENCE", rather than artificial intelligence.
It's a pseudo-artificial intelligence that you can communicate with via a text chat.
Artificial Intelligence.
Think of the portrayal of artificial intelligence in both movies.
Fantomex has nanobot-type things living inside his body which allow him to interface with certain computers/artificial intelligences such as eve, its actually these bots which heal him, unlike wolvie, and deadpool its not usually an automatic process and fantomex usually goes into a trance where his body repairs itself, when eve is out of his body he can still feel though.
Let's imagine an "agent" (artificial intelligence) playing the game at the outset as the "x" player.
Like fusion power, artificial intelligence is one of those things "that's gonna be working in 15 years" for the last 60 years…
He was also involved in the development of early computers and Artificial Intelligence.
So a program's artificial intelligence is probably going to be hundreds upon hundreds of smaller classes and modules designed to perform very specific functions.
EDIT: I reread the top comment and I guess it's more about the philosophy of artificial intelligence, not "how it's made" from a literal standpoint.
It increases the amount of concern we should give to questions of artificial intelligence and transhumanism, by proving that these things are at least possible (due to the fact that they must have already happened in order to culminate in a simulation).
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Far across the galaxy an alien race is nearly wiped out by an artificial intelligence of their own design.
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an artificial intelligence.
), artificial intelligence is becoming more intelligent at rates that are astronomically faster than humans are.
Figuring out artificial intelligence/giving machines self-awareness.
(It won't take "artificial intelligence" to replace lawyers.)
I guess you must be some kind of expert in artificial intelligence, or you're pretending to be.
Law professors would be among the first to be at least partially replaced by artificial intelligence, as much of their work is gathering and using information in logically predictable, consistent, and well documented ways, something computers are hugely efficient at.
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This handout picture, taken by Tokyo electric Power Co (TEPCO) on May 18, 2011 shows workers entering the unit 2 reactor building of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (AFP Photo / HO / TEPCO) © AFP
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