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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

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Milking machines are used to milk a cow. The cows go into a milking barn, their udders are cleaned and a rubber lined suction cup is attached to the teat. The suction cup simulates the suckling action of a calf nursing. The suction cup is attached to hoses and pipes which collect the milk in a holding tank. The milk is then quickly cooled. Cows are milked twice and sometimes three times a day, usually at the same times each day. All equipment used for milking is thoroughly cleaned and sanitized before and after each use.  2, record 1, English, - milk

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It is important to milk a cow properly, or the cow could get mastitis, a very painful disorder for the cow.  3, record 1, English, - milk

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

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Notre équipe de soigneurs trait les vaches deux fois par jour, à 6 h et à 16 h, à l'aide d'une machine à traire que l'on rattache à un lactoduc moderne. Ce système de traite permet de traire une vache en 3 à 5 minutes, alors qu'il en prend 10 à 15 minutes pour traire une vache à la main.  2, record 1, French, - traire

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traire une vache, une chèvre  3, record 1, French, - traire

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traire : terme extrait du «Glossaire de l’agriculture» et reproduit avec l’autorisation de l’Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques.  4, record 1, French, - traire

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Record 2,  Textual support,  English

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Canadians who are wounded are labelled as WIA : wounded in action. This gets the medevac helicopters into the air. If things go badly, WIA might get upgraded to VSA : vital signs absent. This means the wounded soldier is now in cardiac arrest.  1, record 2, English, - vital%20signs%20absent

Record 2,  Textual support,  French

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Record 3,  Textual support,  English

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The pool-sweep theory of intelligence. People who have large swimming pools often purchase a device called a pool-sweep, essentially a motorized float with long tentacles that sweep the bottom of a swimming pool. It has to be programmed to the shape of the pool, and then simply is left to do its work. When someone sees a pool-sweep in action for the first time, it looks very smart. It appears to go after the dirt and make its way around the pool as if it were being steered by a little man. It is indeed programmed in the sense that it has been given a set of instructions and it follows them. When we think of something as being programmed we imply that it is in some way intelligent, certainly more intelligent than something that hasn’t been programmed, or that cannot be programmed. People are fooled initially by the pool-sweep, and only see it for what it is after being told that it's just programmed for one pool, and if it were placed in a different pool it wouldn’t work. In a similar way, people can be fooled initially into thinking that computers are really smart of intelligent.  1, record 3, English, - pool%2Dsweep%20theory

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