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ADB approves $240M to help Kazakhstan modernize transport, improve connectivity

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The project will reconstruct and upgrade about 299 km (186 miles) of a deteriorated section of the Aktobe–Makat road in the western part of the country, and introduce a modern transport information system to increase road traffic safety and logistics effectiveness.

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BP closes out 2013 with deepwater finds in Gulf of Mexico and offshore Angola; new activity offshore Brazil

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The Gila discovery was made by an exploration well on Keathley Canyon Block 93, about 300 miles (483 miles) southwest of New Orleans, in approximately 4,900 feet (1,494 meters) of water. BP owns a majority interest in the Gila discovery which is located approximately 25 miles west of Tiber, also located in the Keathley Canyon area.

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Lotfi Zadeh and the Birth of Fuzzy Logic

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He was born in 1921 in Azerbaijan, then part of the Soviet Union, and moved to Iran at age 10. Part of the problem was the name—“fuzzy” is hardly proper terminology. His parents—his father a businessman and newspaper correspondent, his mother a doctor—were comfortably well off. Research in Iran was nonexistent.”