This time they self- financed and set out the simpler task of refining and packaging the model for sale as software.

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"You have to talk to the elderly in a kindly way, " she tells volunteers as she uses a human-sized model to demonstrate the task of putting a diaper on a grown-up.

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The four-day bail hearing encapsulated the arguments from both sides, highlighting the state's challenge of convicting Mr. Pistorius of premeditated murder and his defense team's task of showing the death of girlfriend, the model Reeva Steenkamp, was a tragic accident.

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The task is immense: no less than inventing a new model for Indonesia--and redefining what it means to be Indonesian.

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The WikiLeaks spinoff OpenLeaks, for instance, despite its mysterious inability to launch over the last year and a half, suggests a clever model for future leaking sites: It plans to split publishing from the more technical task of ensuring anonymous submissions, and to simply pass on any leaks it receives to reporters at whatever media outlet the source chooses.

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All that scientists can do is formulate models and it seems to me that the model needed is one that accurately describes the entire climatic system of the earth, a gargantuan task in itself.

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This says something: even though a stateless network cannot absolutely make guarantees on delivery or completion of its task or even the path it may take, this downside is overcome by the sheer scalability and flexibility of this model over stateful systems.

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