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Automation

Automation  can be defined as the technology by which a process or procedure is performed without human assistance. [2] In other words,  Automation [1]  or  automatic control , is the use of various  control systems for operating equipment such as machinery, processes in factories, boilers and heat treating ovens, switching on telephone networks, steering and stabilization of ships, aircraft and other applications and vehicles with minimal or reduced human intervention, with some processes have been completely automated. Automation has been achieved by various means including mechanical,  hydraulic ,  pneumatic , electrical, electronic devices and  computers , usually in combination. Complicated systems, such as modern factories,  airplanes  and  ships  typically use all these combined techniques. The benefit of automation include labor savings, savings in  electricity costs , savings in material costs, and improvements to quality, accuracy and precision. The term  automation ,
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Association football , more commonly known as  football  or  soccer , [a]  is a  team sport  played between two teams of eleven  players  with a spherical  ball . It is played by 250 million players in over 200 countries and dependencies, making it the world's most popular sport. [3] [4] [5] [6]  The game is played on a rectangular  field  with a  goal  at each end. The object of the game is to  score  by getting the ball into the opposing goal. Association football The attacking player (No. 10) attempts to kick the ball beyond the opposing team's goalkeeper, between the goalposts, and beneath the crossbar to score a  goal . Highest  governing body FIFA Nicknames Football, soccer,  the Beautiful Game , the World Game [1] First played 19 December 1863, Limes Field,  Mortlake ,  London , England [2] Characteristics Contact Permitted ( Limited ) Team members 11 per side (including goalkeeper) Mixed gender Yes, separate competitions Type Team sport ,  ball sport Equ

Austria

On 12 March, Austria was annexed to the  Third Reich  and ceased to exist as an independent country. The  Aryanisation  of the wealth of Jewish Austrians started immediately in mid-March, with a so-called "wild" (i.e. extra-legal) phase, but was soon structured legally and bureaucratically to strip Jewish citizens of any assets they possessed. The Nazis called Austria " Ostmark " [64]  until 1942, when it was again renamed and called "Alpen-Donau-Reichsgaue". Though Austrians made up only 8% of the population of the Third Reich, [69]  some of the most prominent Nazis were native Austrians, including Adolf Hitler,  Ernst Kaltenbrunner ,  Arthur Seyss-Inquart ,  Franz Stangl , and  Odilo Globocnik , [70]  as were over 13% of the  SS  and 40% of the staff at the Nazi  extermination camps . [69]  Vienna fell on 13 April 1945, during the  Soviet   Vienna Offensive , just before the total collapse of the Third Reich. The invading Allied powers, in particula