How Can You Get Out of a Contract
You've head the phrases. Buyer's remorse. Caveat emptor, let the buyer beware. But what can you do if you enter into a contract and find out that the deal you struck was not as good as you thought, or if you believe that you were cheated?
In most cases it's tough to get out of a contract, but in some cases it may be possible to revoke, rescind or terminate a contract.
Cooling Off Rules for Contracts
For some specific transactions, cooling off periods are required by federal and state law. Cooling off periods usually start at the time of the transaction. In some cases they do not start until the buyer receives specified documentation, if that documentation is not provided at the time of sale.
72-Hour Cooling Off Period
Under federal laws and regulations, certain consumer contracts may be canceled within a 72-hour period. The primary federal cooling off period rule, issued by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), applies when:
 1. The contract involves the sale, lease or rental of goods or services for personal, family or household use, or courses for instruction or training;
 2. The sale is in the amount of $25 or more if entered at home, or $130 or more if entered at another covered location, including any interest, delivery charges or other charges relating to the agreement;
 3. There is a written contract describing the terms of the sale; and
 4. The contract was entered into at a location other than the regular place of business of the seller, such as your home, a party where consumer products are sold, a seminar or sales pitch at a hotel or conference center.
The rule has some significant exceptions:
 - The rule does not apply if the contract is entered into in the seller's place of business, or where the terms of the contract were previously negotiated at the seller's place of business.
 - Although home repairs and renovations are generally covered, the rule does not extend to emergency home repairs.
 - The rule does not apply to the sale of real estate, securities, insurance, or contracts where your home is used as collateral or a security deposit for the transaction.
 - The rule does not apply to transactions that are completed entirely by mail or by telephone.
 - The rule does not apply to requests for repairs or maintenance on items of personal property.
 - The rule does not apply to car or motor vehicle sales, even if the sale occurs a location apart from the seller's usual place of business.
 - The rule does not apply to the sale of arts or crafts at locations such as art fairs, farmers' markets, shopping centers, schools, or civic centers.
The seller must provide two copies of a cancellation form that details how cancellation may be effected, and the deadlines and procedure for serving notice of cancellation. One copy is for the consumer's records, and the other may be used to give notice of cancellation.
Notice must be delivered to the seller by midnight on the third day after the transaction occurs. As an unscrupulous seller may deny receiving notice even if it is sent and received in a timely manner, if notice is given by mail, the consumer should send the notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, so that there is a record of delivery. For delivery in person, the consumer should have a representative of the seller sign and date a receipt reflecting that the notice was received. Cancellation may also be made by regular mail or telegram, but it is important to keep copies of documentation send and evidence that notice was sent in a timely manner.
If cancellation occurs, the consumer must return any products received prior to the cancellation date. The seller may be responsible for picking up the products or arranging their return and, if so, may lose the right to recover the product if they do not recover the products in a timely manner. If the seller received a trade-in product, the seller must return that product to the consumer. If the contract is for services and the seller provides services during the cancellation period, the seller may not collect payment from the consumer for services provided before a timely notice of cancellation is received.
Cooling Down Period for Mortgages
If a consumer enters into a loan that:
 1. Is for personal, household or family purposes;
 2. That results in the placement of a lien or security interest on the consumer's principal dwelling in order to secure payment; and
 3. Is not obtained for the purpose of purchasing or constructing a home;
the loan is probably covered by the Federal Truth in Lending Act (FTLA), pursuant to which there is a three-day cancellation period for the loan. As cancellation can be complicated, it is sensible to consult a lawyer before attempting to cancel a mortgage under the FTLA.
State Cooling Down Period Laws
States may also offer similar rules under their own codes of law. When the law applies to a transaction, the seller is required to provide the consumer with a prominent notice describing the 72-day cooling-off period at the time the consumer signs the contract. If that notice is required but is not provided, the consumer may be able to cancel the contract even after the 72-hour period expires. Some states extend the FTC's cooling off rule to additional types of transactions or locations where transactions may occur.
Some states offer additional cooling off periods for specific types of consumer contract. For example,
 - The State of Georgia requires a 7-day cooling off period for membership contracts with health spas and fitness centers.
 - Georgia imposes a 7-day cooling off period for campground and marine memberships.
 - In Michigan, where a consumer attends a sales presentation in response to the promise of a gift worth $25 or more, and makes a purchase at that sales pitch of $500 or more, the consumer may cancel the contract within three business days.
 - Michigan has a one-day cancellation period for home construction loans, where the contract is for home improvement and the homeowner agrees to make payments to the contractor performing the improvement services over time.
A number of states have passed laws that require sellers of time shares to notify consumers of a right to cancel a purchase, and define a notice period during which cancellation may occur. For example, the State of Florida offers a cooling off period for time share purchases of ten calendar days.
The Importance of the Deadline
When a transaction has a cooling off period, and the buyer wants to cancel the contract, it is crucial that proper notice be given within the notice period. The notice of the right to cancel will include a description of how to properly cancel the contract. It is important to read that description and to follow all of the instructions given.
For example,
 - The law may require that notice be written, not given orally;
 - The law may allow the seller to designate a specific address to which any notice of cancellation must be sent;
 - The law may require that a notice sent by mail be postmarked within the notice period, with no exception made for days when the post office is closed.
 - A notice period may end at a specified time during the day, such as 5:00 PM, and it is important to ensure that notice is received by that deadline. Don't assume that the deadline is midnight.
If you do not follow the instructions to the letter, you may find that your notice of cancellation is invalid and that the seller refuses to let you out of the contract.
Even if the seller doesn't follow the letter of the law, in order to best ensure that your cancellation notice will be held valid, it is sensible to investigate the law yourself and provide timely notice of cancellation just as you would have done had the seller been in compliance.
Cancellation Provisions Within the Contract
Man contracts include clauses that allow for termination of the contract. Thus, if you hope to escape a contract, you should look at the terms of the contract to see what cancellation provisions are included.
Not all contracts allow for early termination, and many that allow for early termination require the payment of a fee in association with the termination.
Even if no cancellation provision exists between the parties, it may be possible to negotiate the cancellation of a contract, often based on the payment of an agreed amount of compensation to the party that is being asked to allow early cancellation.
Common cancellation provisions include:
 - Contingencies in contracts for home purchases: A buyer may specify contingencies that must be met for the contract to be enforceable, and if the contingencies are not met the buyer can cancel the contract.
 - Financing provisions in car purchase agreements: Where a car buyer finances a new or used car at the dealership, the agreement will often include a clause that allows for cancellation of the sale if the financing agreement fails.
 - Lease agreements sometimes include provision for early termination, such as the payment of two months rent as an early termination fee.
Beware automatic renewal provisions in contracts. Sometimes a contract will provide that if you do not provide notice of cancellation by a specified date the contract will continue or renew. Some contracts renew for periods of a year or more so, if you hope to escape the contract at the end of its present term, you must know what your contract requires and provide any required notice of termination.
Rescission of Contracts
In some cases it is possible to rescind a contract, based upon principles of law or public policy. For example:
 - Statutes of frauds: A statute of frauds requires that some contracts be in writing and be signed by the party to be charged with the contract. When a statute of fraud applies, an oral contract may not be enforced, nor may a written contract if not signed by the person who is alleged to have breached its terms. Exceptions exist that may nonetheless allow a contract to be enforced, notably when there is partial performance of the contract before the breach occurs


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- Do not drop or jar the drive.
- Keep the drive in the protective anti-static container until ready to install.
- Protect the drive from static discharge by wearing a grounded wrist strap.
- Turn off the power to the host system during installation.
- Handle the drive by the edges of the frame.
- Do not apply pressure or attach labels to the circuit board or the top cover of the drive.
What you need
- Phillips screwdriver and four 6-32 UNC drive mounting screws.
- Standard interface cable and SCSI host adapter.
- An unused drive power cable for your new drive.
Most new SCSI hard drives are Ultra2/3 LVD (80 MB/s or 160 MB/s) capable. Low Voltage Differential (LVD) drives can operate in single-ended (SE) or LVD mode. This multimode capability provides backward compatibility so you can use it with or without an LVD-capable host adapter. The primary benefits of LVD include faster transfer rates, reduced power consumption, increased cable lengths, and improved device connectivity.
- SCSI ID – 0 thru 15 for Wide devices. Each device must have a unique SCSI ID.
- SE I/O – No jumper so the device can multimode (default).
- Motor Start – Disable motor start (default).
- Delay Motor Start – Disable Delay motor start (default).
- Write Protect – Write Protect Off (default).
- Parity Check – Enable Parity check (default).
- Terminator Power – Host adapter or other device provides term power (default).
Set the SCSI ID
Each SCSI device must have a unique SCSI ID. Most Seagate SCSI drives come with no jumpers on SCSI ID (SCSI ID = 0). The SCSI host adapter usually uses SCSI ID = 7. If you are installing a drive model ending in LC (uses 80-pin SCA connector), the host normally sets the ID over the I/O interface.
Only the devices at each physical end of a SCSI bus need to be terminated. The SCSI host adapter normally will provide termination for the controller end, therefore only terminate the last drive on the end of the cable. LVD drives do not have any provision for onboard termination; therefore, termination for LVD drives must come from another device or from an external terminator. Use only active SE or LVD terminators.
Configure Terminator Power
Active terminators must receive power from some source. The default configuration results in the drive not supplying termination power to the bus. Usually, the host adapter provides term power. Check the user's manual for your host adapter. Drive models ending in LC cannot be configured to provide termination power to the bus.
Attach Cables and Mount the Drive:
- Attach one end of the interface cable to the connector on the host adapter.
- Attach the interface connector and a power connector to the drive.
- Secure the drive using four 6-32 UNC mounting screws. DO NOT over-tighten the screws.
Partition and Format the Drive
All Seagate SCSI drives are low level formatted at the factory and should not need to be low level formatted. If performing a low level format, take care not to interrupt the format to avoid damaging the drive. Most operating systems provide partitioning and high level formatting utilities (i.e. FDISK, FORMAT).
- If the drive does not spin up, check that the power connector and the interface cable are securely attached.
- If the drive spins, but there is no LED on/off activity, check the SCSI ID setting. Set the ID so that each device on the SCSI chain has a unique ID.
- If the computer does not seem to recognize the drive, verify the drive is enabled by the SCSI host adapter setup utility.
- If FDISK does not detect the drive, run the FDISK program with FDISK /STATUS to verify the drive is present.
If the above steps do not solve the problem, contact your dealer, download SeaTools diagnostic tools, or contact Seagate Support.

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Gather a thin stick (a wooden spoon works well) and essential oil. Allow your baby to smell the scent of the oil and put to the side. With your baby lying down, hold the stick above your baby's chest and help them grasp it with both hands. Slowly pull the stick upward, imitating a sit-up motion and activating the sit-up reflex. Gently lower your baby back down, supporting their head as you do.
The Science
This exercise will help your little one learn how to coordinate muscle movements to achieve a goal. This will be important as your baby develops more complex motor skills later on in infancy and toddlerhood. In addition, by enriching this simple activity with scent, you can help strengthen your baby's muscle memory, and enhance the process of learning.


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63.1. Database File Layout
This section describes the storage format at the level of files and directories.
Traditionally, the configuration and data files used by a database cluster are stored together within the cluster's data directory, commonly referred to as PGDATA (after the name of the environment variable that can be used to define it). A common location for PGDATA is /var/lib/pgsql/data. Multiple clusters, managed by different server instances, can exist on the same machine.
The PGDATA directory contains several subdirectories and control files, as shown in Table 63-1. In addition to these required items, the cluster configuration files postgresql.conf, pg_hba.conf, and pg_ident.conf are traditionally stored in PGDATA, although it is possible to place them elsewhere.
Table 63-1. Contents of PGDATA
Item Description
PG_VERSION A file containing the major version number of PostgreSQL
base Subdirectory containing per-database subdirectories
global Subdirectory containing cluster-wide tables, such as pg_database
pg_commit_ts Subdirectory containing transaction commit timestamp data
pg_clog Subdirectory containing transaction commit status data
pg_dynshmem Subdirectory containing files used by the dynamic shared memory subsystem
pg_logical Subdirectory containing status data for logical decoding
pg_multixact Subdirectory containing multitransaction status data (used for shared row locks)
pg_notify Subdirectory containing LISTEN/NOTIFY status data
pg_replslot Subdirectory containing replication slot data
pg_serial Subdirectory containing information about committed serializable transactions
pg_snapshots Subdirectory containing exported snapshots
pg_stat Subdirectory containing permanent files for the statistics subsystem
pg_stat_tmp Subdirectory containing temporary files for the statistics subsystem
pg_subtrans Subdirectory containing subtransaction status data
pg_tblspc Subdirectory containing symbolic links to tablespaces
pg_twophase Subdirectory containing state files for prepared transactions
pg_xlog Subdirectory containing WAL (Write Ahead Log) files
postgresql.auto.conf A file used for storing configuration parameters that are set by ALTER SYSTEM
postmaster.opts A file recording the command-line options the server was last started with
postmaster.pid A lock file recording the current postmaster process ID (PID), cluster data directory path, postmaster start timestamp, port number, Unix-domain socket directory path (empty on Windows), first valid listen_address (IP address or *, or empty if not listening on TCP), and shared memory segment ID (this file is not present after server shutdown)
For each database in the cluster there is a subdirectory within PGDATA/base, named after the database's OID in pg_database. This subdirectory is the default location for the database's files; in particular, its system catalogs are stored there.
Each table and index is stored in a separate file. For ordinary relations, these files are named after the table or index's filenode number, which can be found in pg_class.relfilenode. But for temporary relations, the file name is of the form tBBB_FFF, where BBB is the backend ID of the backend which created the file, and FFF is the filenode number. In either case, in addition to the main file (a/k/a main fork), each table and index has a free space map (see Section 63.3), which stores information about free space available in the relation. The free space map is stored in a file named with the filenode number plus the suffix _fsm. Tables also have a visibility map, stored in a fork with the suffix _vm, to track which pages are known to have no dead tuples. The visibility map is described further in Section 63.4. Unlogged tables and indexes have a third fork, known as the initialization fork, which is stored in a fork with the suffix _init (see Section 63.5).
Caution
Note that while a table's filenode often matches its OID, this is not necessarily the case; some operations, like TRUNCATE, REINDEX, CLUSTER and some forms of ALTER TABLE, can change the filenode while preserving the OID. Avoid assuming that filenode and table OID are the same. Also, for certain system catalogs including pg_class itself, pg_class.relfilenode contains zero. The actual filenode number of these catalogs is stored in a lower-level data structure, and can be obtained using the pg_relation_filenode() function.
When a table or index exceeds 1 GB, it is divided into gigabyte-sized segments. The first segment's file name is the same as the filenode; subsequent segments are named filenode.1, filenode.2, etc. This arrangement avoids problems on platforms that have file size limitations. (Actually, 1 GB is just the default segment size. The segment size can be adjusted using the configuration option --with-segsize when building PostgreSQL.) In principle, free space map and visibility map forks could require multiple segments as well, though this is unlikely to happen in practice.
A table that has columns with potentially large entries will have an associated TOAST table, which is used for out-of-line storage of field values that are too large to keep in the table rows proper. pg_class.reltoastrelid links from a table to its TOAST table, if any. See Section 63.2 for more information.
The contents of tables and indexes are discussed further in Section 63.6.
Tablespaces make the scenario more complicated. Each user-defined tablespace has a symbolic link inside the PGDATA/pg_tblspc directory, which points to the physical tablespace directory (i.e., the location specified in the tablespace's CREATE TABLESPACE command). This symbolic link is named after the tablespace's OID. Inside the physical tablespace directory there is a subdirectory with a name that depends on the PostgreSQL server version, such as PG_9.0_201008051. (The reason for using this subdirectory is so that successive versions of the database can use the same CREATE TABLESPACE location value without conflicts.) Within the version-specific subdirectory, there is a subdirectory for each database that has elements in the tablespace, named after the database's OID. Tables and indexes are stored within that directory, using the filenode naming scheme. The pg_default tablespace is not accessed through pg_tblspc, but corresponds to PGDATA/base. Similarly, the pg_global tablespace is not accessed through pg_tblspc, but corresponds to PGDATA/global.
The pg_relation_filepath() function shows the entire path (relative to PGDATA) of any relation. It is often useful as a substitute for remembering many of the above rules. But keep in mind that this function just gives the name of the first segment of the main fork of the relation — you may need to append a segment number and/or _fsm, _vm, or _init to find all the files associated with the relation.
Temporary files (for operations such as sorting more data than can fit in memory) are created within PGDATA/base/pgsql_tmp, or within a pgsql_tmp subdirectory of a tablespace directory if a tablespace other than pg_default is specified for them. The name of a temporary file has the form pgsql_tmpPPP.NNN, where PPP is the PID of the owning backend and NNN distinguishes different temporary files of that backend.
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SSE/EFI Working Paper Series in Economics and Finance 728
This paper studies the evolution of peoples' models of how other people think - their theories of mind. First, this is formalized within the level-k model, which postulates a hierarchy of types, such that type k plays a k times iterated best response to the uniform distribution. It is found that, under plausible conditions, lower types co-exist with higher types. The results are extended to a model of learning, in which type k plays a k times iterated best response the average of past play. The model is also extended to allow for partial observability of the opponent's type.
Theory of Mind Depth of Reasoning Evolution Learning Level-k Fictitious Play Cognitive Hierarchy

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Use Tab Groups to organize a lot of tabs
Tab Groups (also known as Panorama) are an easy way to organize a lot of tabs. With Tab Groups, you can visually group related tabs, switch between groups and quickly search through all of your tabs. This article will have you juggling dozens of tabs in no time.
Why should I use Tab Groups?
If you're a tab addict, regularly ending up with more tabs than fit on the Tab Strip, Tab Groups were made for you. They're also great for grouping tabs by task and then switching between them. Try out the steps in the rest of this article – you'll quickly see how useful they are.
How do I create a Tab Group?
If you don't already have a number of tabs open to work with, do it now.
 1. Enter the Tab Groups view by using the keyboard shortcut, Command + Shift + ECtrl + Shift + E.
 2. When you enter the Tab Groups view for the first time, you'll see thumbnail previews of all of your tabs in one group. To make a new group, simply drag one tab out of the group and then drag a second one on top of it. A box will be drawn around them.
 - You can continue adding tabs to that new group and you can create more groups.
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 3. When you are done, just click on a tab to exit the view. You will be returned to Firefox, the tab you clicked on will be active and only the tabs in that group will be visible.
Tip: You can add a Tab Group button to your toolbar to give you easy access. See Customize Firefox controls, buttons and toolbars for instructions.
Panorama button
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How do I switch between Tab Groups?
Switching between tab groups is easy. Just enter the tab groups view by clicking Command + Shift + ECtrl + Shift + E, then click on the tab group you want to view. The tab you clicked on will be active and only the tabs in that group will be visible.
 - You can also use the keyboard shortcut, Ctrl + 'control + ' allows you to go to the next Tab Group and Ctrl + Shift + 'control + shift + ' to the previous Tab Group.
Try it out: Tab Groups are great for grouping tabs by task. For example, you might have a group of tabs related to searching for a gift and another group for paying your bills online. Try creating groups for things you normally do online and use Tab Groups to switch between them. It's an easy way to stay organized.
How do I search through my tabs?
Quickly find that tab – it's much easier than finding a needle in a haystack.
 2. Click the search button on the right side of the window to bring up the search box and then just begin typing the name of the tab you're trying to find.
 - Or just start typing and a search will happen automatically.
 3. As you type, the tabs that match your search will be highlighted. Just click on a tab to select it and be returned to Firefox.
 Panorama search panorama search fx29
 - If you have more than one Firefox window open, you may see tabs from other windows that match your search listed at the bottom of the window. Clicking one of those will switch you to that Firefox window, tab and group.
How do I organize my Tab Groups?
Tab Groups can easily be resized, rearranged and named. When you're done with a group you can close it and get rid of all of its tabs at once.
 - Resizing Tab Groups – Click and drag the resize handle at the bottom-right corner of a group to make it bigger or smaller. As you resize the group the tabs will get bigger and smaller accordingly.
 - If you make the group small enough, the tabs will get stacked on top of one another. Below this stack, a preview button will appear. Click the preview button to see what tabs are in the stack without changing the size of the group.
 - Rearranging Tab Groups – Click and drag on an empty area along the sides or bottom of a group to move it around the screen.
 - Naming Tab Groups – Click next to the pencil icon at the top of a group and type in a name for it. Then just hit ReturnEnter or click on some other area of the window.
 - Closing Tab Groups – Each tab group has a close button in the upper-right corner. Clicking it will close that group and all of its tabs.
 - If you've closed a tab group by accident, you can click the Undo Close Group button to restore it before leaving the Panorama view.
Pinned Tabs in Tab Groups
When you are using Pinned Tabs with Tab Groups, they will be represented by their site's icon on the right side of each tab group.
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The Gender Wheel (2017), written and illustrated by Maya Gonzalez, introduces readers to gender diversity through the concept of a "gender wheel." Gonzalez's images are warm and inviting. She illustrates her characters in a range of skin-tones with a variety of gender expressions.
The commendable purpose of the book is to teach children to understand gender outside of a binary model.Gonzalez connects the binary sex-gender system to European colonization of the Americas. As a result, she firmly places gender meanings as we inherit them within a history of socio-political struggle and conquest. This is a fair analysis and a useful alternative to considering binary sex-gender distinctions as a product of nature.
For Gonzalez, gender diversity is natural and gender "boxes," which emanate from a culture of conquest, violently disrupt the soft circles and cycles nature produces. In Gonzalez's theory of gender, nature and culture stand in an antagonistic relationship and readers should search to reconnect with nature and by extension their unique gender "truth". Gonzalez writes: "Seeing where girl/boy beliefs come from and how they try to control nature helps us see through the false boxes they create. This brings the truth of nature back into focus." Gonzalez's theorization of gender is reminiscent of essentialist models of gender and not the most sophisticated gender theory.
Although I don't agree with Gonzalez's theory of gender, I certainly appreciate the overall message of inclusivity. I think this could be a teachable text and a useful intervention into binary thinking about gender for young children. Because it is so very text heavy, I would suggest it for children nine to eleven. It could certainly be taught to younger children, but would need a lot of "scaffolding" from a competent teacher.
This review is part of my "Snapshots of LGBTQ Kid Lit" project. I'm working on a book, The New Queer Children's Literature: Exploring the Principles and Politics of LGBTQ* Children's Picture Books, which is under contract with the University Press of Mississippi. Part of my research is identifying and interpreting English-language children's picture books with LGBTQ* content published in the US and Canada between 1979 and 2019. Follow my blog to follow my journey!


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Demersal animals live on or near the bottom of the sea or lakes.[1] The term is usually applied to fish.
They occupy the sea floors and lake beds, which usually consist of mud, sand, gravel or rocks.[1] In coastal waters they are found on or near the continental shelf, and in deep waters they are found on or near the continental slope or along the continental rise. They are not generally found in the deepest waters, such as abyssal depths or on the abyssal plain, but they can be found around seamounts and islands. The word demersal comes from the Latin demergere, which means to sink.
Demersal fish are bottom feeders. They can be contrasted with pelagic fish which live and feed away from the bottom in the open water column. Demersal fish fillets contain little fish oil (one to four percent), whereas pelagic fish can contain up to 30 percent.
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 1. 1.0 1.1 Walrond C Carl. "Coastal fish - Fish of the open sea floor" Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Updated 2 March 2009


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October 1, 2012
An unprecedented research project in one Virginia community aims to show how peoples' genetics, environment, and especially their connection to others contribute to brain development and decisionmaking over a lifetime.
The Roanoke Brain Study, which begins with its first pediatric group of 200 to 300 children this fall, looks at how typically developing individuals and those with cognitive challenges like autism or attention deficit disorders interact with others.
"We're going to watch children as they grow up in a community and make decisions," said Sharon Landesman Ramey, who is leading the pediatric portion of the study with her husband, Craig Ramey, both distinguished research scholars at the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke, which is conducting the study. "We don't have a clue about some of the most important things we do as human beings: What we study when we go to college; what we think our occupations will be; how we decide to reach out to help others versus when we withdraw. "
The project, now being piloted with 200 adults, will include a mind-boggling array of data. As many as 10,000 people of different ages and cognitive abilities will receive multiple functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, scans on both individual and group tasks over several years. For each person, the brain-imaging data will be combined with cognitive and genetic tests, personal and family interviews, and, where possible, health and school-achievement and behavioral data to create comprehensive pictures of individuals, families, and the community over time.
Echoes of Framingham
"The decisions you make about what you eat, lifestyle, who you associate with, risks … have never been chronicled before," said P. Read Montague, the director of the Human Neuroimaging Lab at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, commonly known as Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg. "Roanoke is a good-sized place for that. It is big enough for diversity in brains and small enough for committed community engagement."
Roanoke researchers plan to make the community of nearly 100,000 the brain-science equivalent of Framingham, Mass., where for more than 60 years researchers have tracked the heart health, lifestyle, and environmental characteristics of more than 5,000 people over the course of their lives. That study has helped researchers identify many of the major heart-disease risk factors known today–from high blood pressure and high cholesterol to smoking, diabetes, and lack of exercise–and the Roanoke researchers hope that recording a nationally representative sample of people making decisions throughout their lives will provide similar identifications about cognitive development, risky behaviors, and other areas.
"Watching children will ultimately help us know when a person encounters problems, whether or not these are healthy and necessary to move on to the next phase of development," said Ms. Ramey, who has conducted several longitudinal studies of early-childhood development. "Many healthy, accomplished people have had some pretty rough periods in their life. I think this Roanoke brain study will help us understand more about the depth of human potential."
Gauging Social Learning
From a baby cooing in response to a father's smile to a gang of 3rd graders planning a tree fort or a company president working with a board of directors, humans' brains develop and learn in connection with other people. Cognitive psychologists have long studied group dynamics using behavioral and economic games, but, typically, brain-imaging studies have examined people's brains individually.
Mr. Montague has developed a technique called hyperscanning, which connects people online in up to six fMRI machines at a time to monitor brain activity as they take part in behavioral games.
"Some tasks are uniquely social," although they may correspond to individual characteristics, explained Ann H. Harvey, a research scientist in the Human Neuroimaging Lab and the program director for the Roanoke Brain Study.
For example, one classic behavioral game called "ultimatum" gauges a person's sense of fairness. One partner is given $20 and can offer to split it with a partner any way–50-50, or 80-20, and so on–but if the partner refuses, neither person gets any money. The task will be formatted in different ways to be appropriate to different ages, and researchers will be able to tell how people's sense of fairness and cooperation develops.
"We know during puberty a child goes through rapid physical and hormonal changes," Ms. Harvey said. "During pubescence it really is possible these behavioral and cognitive variables also go through these rapid changes–or even precede them."
Over multiple years and tests, the research team hopes to develop "cognitive phenotypes" similar to genetic phenotypes that describe how a person with a particular profile is likely to make decisions in different environments.
"We talk about people who are very creative or stubborn, but what do those things really mean when it comes to decisionmaking?" Ms. Ramey said.
If successful, the study could strengthen several areas in the education neuroscience field, according to Dr. Janet N. Zadina, an assistant professor of cognitive and educational neuroscience at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans.
The study's initial sample of 200 adults and the 200 to 300 children expected to be tested next year already make it larger than many brain-imaging studies. If it eventually reaches the goal of 10,000 participants, the study will be the largest longitudinal brain-imaging study ever conducted.
"In the past, most neuroimaging research has focused on unhealthy brains or on deficits and learning disabilities," Dr. Zadina said. "While this has been very helpful, what has been missing are large databases of information on healthy brains. It is just as important to know what 'normal' looks like as to know what is atypical."
Earlier this year, Alan E. Guttmacher, the director of the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development in Bethesda, Md., said his agency also would support more studies on normal cognitive development.
Michael S. Garet, a vice president at the American Institutes for Research and a specialist in large-scale assessments and study methods, said Roanoke's broad longitudinal approach "is very worthwhile when one is thinking about trajectories of development," but cautioned that it will be a huge challenge for researchers to keep track of so many children and families over generations.
The hyperscanning technology will allow the study to group people living in different cities, which may help researchers' ability to follow up with children who move. Ms. Harvey, the study's director, said the plan is to eventually "franchise" the testing battery and methods to researchers in other cities who can link up online. Partners are already waiting in London, Hong Kong, and Houston.
Yet Ms. Harvey said one of the study's greatest potential strengths could also be its biggest challenge: "You run the risk of throwing so much data in that you are sifting through a sea of data looking for correlations."
That said, Ms. Ramey suggests that the data could form the basis of new lines of study that go beyond the research team's focus on decisionmaking.
"The patterns of development are things I think you can only see when you are doing a longitudinal study like this. I think we're going to come to a more holistic, functional understanding by studying people from the time they are children through adults and elderly people, and get much more of a sense of how our brains affect our lives.
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The Fremennik are a group of Norsemen who live in the Fremennik Province, in northern Gielinor. All humans across Gielinor originated from the Fremennik.
They are in a war with the magical Moon Clan of Lunar Isle, because of a difference of opinion when it comes to Runecraft. The Fremennik do not approve of the crafting of Rune stones, and think that humans should only use the runes they were given by the gods. The hatred between the two clans is lessened during the Lunar Diplomacy quest.
Players become an honorary Fremennik after having completed The Fremennik Trials quest. Then upon completion of the trials, the player is given a Fremennik name (however, if the player is wearing a ring of charos (a) they may change their name at random by speaking to Brundt the Chieftain). Players may speak with the villagers and find out a lot more about them. The purchase and wearing of Fremennik armour is also made available after the trials.
The Mountain Tribe, were originally part of the Fremennik too (much like the Moon Clan) until a dispute over their more traditional nomadic way of life tore them apart.
The Fremennik have their own language, which can be discovered when examining the safety guarantee used in the quest Mountain Daughter. This document examines as: "The strange characters supposedly grant Svidi (a representative of the Mountain Tribe) safe passage into Rellekka." The strange characters must be the writing of the Fremennik.
History[edit | edit source]
The Fremennik are direct descendants of the humans Guthix brought with him from the original human realm when he was populating Gielinor in the First Age. They were once a nomadic tribe. They lived a simple life, hunting the local animals, fishing, and travelling throughout the Fremennik Province so as not to exhaust the land's rich resources.
Eventually, they abandoned their nomadic way of life, creating the village of Rellekka in the Fourth Age. While this greatly improved life for most Fremennik, some disagreed with this way of living. Many left the tribe, grouping together to form the Mountain Tribe, to continue the traditional nomadic lifestyle. This angered the Fremennik, and the two tribes have been somewhat bitter towards each other ever since, until the player eases these tensions slightly during the Mountain Daughter quest.
Some years ago, the Fremennik discovered a rock that was revealed to be rune essence. This caused a great struggle within the tribe; some believed the Fremennik ought to harness the magics of the essence to defend themselves from the races that were constantly seeking to conquer their land. Others believed that the rock was not to be used by mortals, and that the gods would destroy them if they used it. The tension grew until many more Fremennik departed for Lunar Isle, where they would form the Moon Clan.
Taking advantage of the Fremennik's temporary weakness in numbers and absence of awareness, the Mountain Tribe attacked the village of Rellekka and stole the rune essence rock which they believed to be sacred, taking it back to their encampment. The two tribes avoided contact from that point on, until the events of the Mountain Daughter quest.
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 - Most (but not all) of the Fremennik have traditional names with roots in old Norse.


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Multicategory
In mathematics (especially category theory), a multicategory is a generalization of the concept of category that allows morphisms of multiple arity. If morphisms in a category are viewed as analogous to functions, then morphisms in a multicategory are analogous to functions of several variables. Multicategories, are also sometimes called operads, or colored operads.
Definition
A (non-symmetric) multicategory consists of
 - a collection (often a proper class) of objects;
 - for every finite sequence of objects (for von Neumann ordinal ) and object Y, a set of morphisms from to Y; and
 - for every object X, a special identity morphism (with n = 1) from X to X.
Additionally, there are composition operations: Given a sequence of sequences of objects, a sequence of objects, and an object Z: if
 - for each , fj is a morphism from to Yj; and
 - g is a morphism from to Z:
then there is a composite morphism from to Z. This must satisfy certain axioms:
 - If m = 1, Z = Y0, and g is the identity morphism for Y0, then g(f0) = f0;
 - if for each , ni = 1, , and fi is the identity morphism for Yi, then ; and
 - an associativity condition: if for each and , is a morphism from to , then are identical morphisms from to Z.
Comcategories
A comcategory (co-multi-category) is a totally ordered set O of objects, a set A of multiarrows with two functions
where O% is the set of all finite ordered sequences of elements of O. The dual image of a multiarrow f may be summarized
A comcategory C also has a multiproduct with the usual character of a composition operation. C is said to be associative if there holds a multiproduct axiom in relation to this operator.
Any multicategory, symmetric or non-symmetric, together with a total-ordering of the object set, can be made into an equivalent comcategory.
A multiorder is a comcategory satisfying the following conditions.
 - There is at most one multiarrow with given head and ground.
 - Each object x has a unit multiarrow.
 - A multiarrow is a unit if its ground has one entry.
Multiorders are a generalization of partial orders (posets), and were first introduced (in passing) by Tom Leinster.[1]
Examples
There is a multicategory whose objects are (small) sets, where a morphism from the sets X1, X2, ..., and Xn to the set Y is an n-ary function, that is a function from the Cartesian product X1 × X2 × ... × Xn to Y.
There is a multicategory whose objects are vector spaces (over the rational numbers, say), where a morphism from the vector spaces X1, X2, ..., and Xn to the vector space Y is a multilinear operator, that is a linear transformation from the tensor product X1X2 ⊗ ... ⊗ Xn to Y.
More generally, given any monoidal category C, there is a multicategory whose objects are objects of C, where a morphism from the C-objects X1, X2, ..., and Xn to the C-object Y is a C-morphism from the monoidal product of X1, X2, ..., and Xn to Y.
An operad is a multicategory with one unique object; except in degenerate cases, such a multicategory does not come from a monoidal category.
Examples of multiorders include pointed multisets (sequence A262671 in the OEIS), integer partitions (sequence A063834 in the OEIS), and combinatory separations (sequence A269134 in the OEIS). The triangles (or compositions) of any multiorder are morphisms of a (not necessarily associative) category of contractions and a comcategory of decompositions. The contraction category for the multiorder of multimin partitions (sequence A255397 in the OEIS) is the simplest known category of multisets.[2]
Applications
Multicategories are often incorrectly considered to belong to higher category theory, as their original application was the observation that the operators and identities satisfied by higher categories are the objects and multiarrows of a multicategory. The study of n-categories was in turn motivated by applications in algebraic topology and attempts to describe the homotopy theory of higher dimensional manifolds. However it has mostly grown out of this motivation and is now also considered to be part of pure mathematics.
The correspondence between contractions and decompositions of triangles in a multiorder allows one to construct an associative algebra called its incidence algebra. Any element that is nonzero on all unit arrows has a compositional inverse, and the Möbius function of a multiorder is defined as the compositional inverse of the zeta function (constant-one) in its incidence algebra.
History
Multicategories were first introduced under that name by Jim Lambek in "Deductive systems and categories II" (1969)[3] He mentions (p. 108) that he was "told that multicategories have also been studied by [Jean] Benabou and [Pierre] Cartier", and indeed Leinster opines that "the idea might have occurred to anyone who knew what both a category and a multilinear map were".[1]:63
References
 1. Tom Leinster (2004). Higher Operads, Higher Categories. Cambridge University Press. arXiv:math/_PHONE_. Bibcode:2004hohc.book.....L., Example 2.1.7, page 37
 2. Wiseman, Gus. "Comcategories and Multiorders". Google Docs. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
 3. .Lambek, Joachim (1969). "Deductive systems and categories II. Standard constructions and closed categories". Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/bfb0079385. ISBN 978-3-540-04605-9. ISSN 0075-8434.
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Yet Another Baseball Defense Statistic
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Fangraphs recently published an interesting dataset that measures defensive efficiency of fielders. For each player, the Inside Edge dataset breaks their opportunities to make plays into five categories, ranging from almost impossible to routine. It also records the proportion of times that the player successfully made the play. With this data, we can see how successful each player is for each type of play. I wanted to think of a way to combine these five proportions into one fielding metric. From here on, I will assume that there is no error in categorizing a play as easy or hard and that there is no bias in the categorizations.
The model I will build is motivated by ordinal regression. If we only were concerned with the success rate in one of the categories, we could use standard logistic regression, and the probability that player $i$ successfully made a play would be assumed to be $\sigma(\theta_i)$, where $\sigma()$ is the logistic function. Using our prior knowledge that plays categorized as easy should have a higher success rate than plays categorized as difficult, I would like to generalize this.
Say there are only two categories: easy and hard. We could model the probability that player $i$ successfully made an hard play as $\sigma(\theta_i)$ and the probability that he made an easy play as $\sigma(\theta_i+\gamma)$. Here, we would assume that $\gamma$ is the same for all players. This assumption implies that if player $i$ is better than player $j$ at easy plays, he will also be better at hard plays. This is a reasonable assumption, but maybe not true in all cases.
Since we have five different categories of difficulty, we can generalize this by having $\gamma_k, k=1,\ldots,4$. Again, these $\gamma_k$'s would be the same for everyone. A picture of what this looks like for shortstops is below. In this model, every player will effectively be shifting the curve either left or right. A positive $\theta_i$ means the player is better than average and cause the curve to shift left and vice versa for negative $\theta_i$.
I modeled this as a multi-level mixed effects model, with the players being random effects and the $\gamma_k$'s being fixed. Technically, I should optimize subject to the condition that the $\gamma_k$'s are increasing, but the unconstrained optimization always yields increasing $\gamma_k$'s because there is a big difference between success rate in the categories. I used combined data from 2012 and 2013 seasons and included all players with at least one success and one failure. I modeled each position separately. Modeling player effects as random, there is a fair amount of regression to the mean built in. In this sense, I am more trying to estimate the true ability of the player, rather than measuring what he did during the two years. This is an important distinction, which may differ from other defensive statistics.
Model fit
Below is a summary of the results of the model for shortstops. I am only plotting the players with the at least 800 innings, for readability. A bonus of modeling the data like this is that we get standard error estimates as a result. I plotted the estimated effect of each player along with +/- 2 standard errors. We can be fairly certain that the effects for the top few shortstops is greater than 0 since their confidence intervals do not include 0. The same is true for the bottom few. Images for the other positions can be found here.
The results seem to make sense for the most part. Simmons and Tulowitzki have reputations as being strong defenders and Derek Jeter has a reputation as a poor defender.
Further, I can validate this data by comparing it to other defensive metrics. One that is readily available on Fangraphs is UZR per 150 games. For each position, I took the correlation of my estimated effect with UZR per 150 games, weighted by the number of innings played. Pitchers and catchers do not have UZR's so I cannot compare them. The correlations, which are in the plot below, range from about 0.2 to 0.65.
Interpreting parameters
In order to make this fielding metric more useful, I would like to convert the parameters to something more interpretable. One option which makes a lot of sense is "plays made above/below average". Given an estimated $\theta_i$ for a player, we can calculate the probability that he would make a play in each of the five categories. We can then compare those probabilities to the probability an average player would make a play in each of the categories, which would be fit with $\theta=0$. Finally, we can weight these differences in probabilities by the relative rate that plays of various difficulties occur.
For example, assuming there are only two categories again, suppose a player has a 0.10 and 0.05 higher probability than average of making hard and easy plays, respectively. Further assume that 75% of all plays are hard and 25% are easy. On a random play, the improvement in probability over an average player of making a play is $.10(.75)+.05(.25)=0.0875$. If a player has an opportunity for 300 plays in an average season, this player would be $300 \times 0.0875=26.25$ plays better than average over a typical season.
I will assume that the number of opportunities to make plays is directly related to the number of innings played. To convert innings to opportunities, I took the median number of opportunities per inning for each position. For example, shortstops had the highest opportunities per inning at 0.40 and catchers had the lowest at 0.08. The plot below shows the distribution of opportunities per inning for each position.
We can extend this to the impact on saving runs from being scored as well by assuming each successful play saves $x$ runs. I will not do this for this analysis.
Finally, I put together a Shiny app to display the results. You can search by team, position, and innings played. A team of '- - -' means the player played for multiple teams over this period. You can also choose to display the results as a rate statistic (extra plays made per season) or a count statistic (extra plays made over the two seasons). To get a seasonal number, I assume position players played 150 games with 8.5 innings in each game. For pitchers, I assumed that they pitched 30 games, 6 innings each.
Conclusions and future work
I don't know if I will do anything more with this data, but if I could do it again, I may have modeled each year separately instead of combining the two years together. With that, it would have been interesting to model the effect of age by observing how a player's ability to make a play changes from one year to the next. I also think it would be interesting to see how changing positions affects a players efficiency. For example, we could have a $9 \times 9$ matrix of fixed effects that represent the improvement or degradation in ability as a player switches from their main position to another one. Further assumptions would be needed to make sure the $\theta$'s are on the same scale for every position.
At the very least, this model and its results can be considered another data point in the analysis of a player's fielding ability. One thing we need to be concerned about is the classification of each play into the difficultness categories. The human eye can be fooled into thinking a routine play is hard just because a fielder dove to make the play, when a superior fielder could have made it look easier.
I have put the R code together to do this analysis in a gist. If there is interest, I will put together a repo with all the data as well.
Update: I have a Github repository with the data, R code for the analysis, the results, and code for the Shiny app. Let me know what you think.


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Languages Spoken in Each Country of the World
The table below lists the official language of each country as well as other languages spoken. In selected countries, the percent of the population that speaks each language is also given.
Afghanistan Dari Persian, Pashtu (both official), other Turkic and minor languages
Albania Albanian (Tosk is the official dialect), Greek
Algeria Arabic (official), French, Berber dialects
Andorra Catalán (official), French, Castilian, Portuguese
Angola Portuguese (official), Bantu and other African languages
Antigua and Barbuda English (official), local dialects
Armenia Armenian 98%, Yezidi, Russian
Australia English 79%, native and other languages
Austria German (official nationwide); Slovene, Croatian, Hungarian (each official in one region)
Bahamas English (official), Creole (among Haitian immigrants)
Bahrain Arabic, English, Farsi, Urdu
Bangladesh Bangla (official), English
Barbados English
Belarus Belorussian (White Russian), Russian, other
Benin French (official), Fon, Yoruba, tribal languages
Bolivia Spanish, Quechua, Aymara (all official)
Bosnia and Herzegovina Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian
Brazil Portuguese (official), Spanish, English, French
Brunei Malay (official), English, Chinese
Bulgaria Bulgarian 85%, Turkish 10%, Roma 4%
Burundi Kirundi and French (official), Swahili
Cambodia Khmer 95% (official), French, English
Cape Verde Portuguese, Criuolo
Chile Spanish
Colombia Spanish
Costa Rica Spanish (official), English
Côte d'Ivoire French (official) and African languages (Dioula esp.)
Cuba Spanish
Cyprus Greek, Turkish (both official); English
Czech Republic Czech
Djibouti French and Arabic (both official), Somali, Afar
Dominica English (official) and French patois
Dominican Republic Spanish
Ecuador Spanish (official), Quechua, other Amerindian languages
El Salvador Spanish, Nahua (among some Amerindians)
Estonia Estonian 67% (official), Russian 30%, other (2000)
Fiji English (official), Fijian, Hindustani
Finland Finnish 92%, Swedish 6% (both official); small Sami- (Lapp) and Russian-speaking minorities
Gambia English (official), Mandinka, Wolof, Fula, other indigenous
Germany German
Greece Greek 99% (official), English, French
Grenada English (official), French patois
Guinea-Bissau Portuguese (official), Criolo, African languages
Haiti Creole and French (both official)
Hungary Magyar (Hungarian) 94%, other 6%
Iceland Icelandic, English, Nordic languages, German widely spoken
India Hindi 30%, English, Bengali, Gujarati, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Kannada, Assamese, Sanskrit, Sindhi (all official); Hindi/Urdu; 1,600+ dialects
Ireland English, Irish (Gaelic) (both official)
Israel Hebrew (official), Arabic, English
Jamaica English, Jamaican Creole
Japan Japanese
Jordan Arabic (official), English
Kenya English (official), Swahili (national), and numerous indigenous languages
Kiribati English (official), I-Kiribati (Gilbertese)
Korea, North Korean
Korea, South Korean, English widely taught
KosovoAlbanian (official), Serbian (official), Bosnian, Turkish, Roma
Kuwait Arabic (official), English
Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyz, Russian (both official)
Lebanon Arabic (official), French, English, Armenian
Lesotho English, Sesotho (both official); Zulu, Xhosa
Libya Arabic, Italian, and English widely understood in major cities
Liechtenstein German (official), Alemannic dialect
Luxembourg Luxermbourgish (national) French, German (both administrative)
Macedonia Macedonian 67%, Albanian 25% (both official); Turkish 4%, Roma 2%, Serbian 1% (2002)
Madagascar Malagasy and French (both official)
Malta Maltese and English (both official)
Marshall Islands Marshallese 98% (two major dialects from the Malayo-Polynesian family), English widely spoken as a second language (both official); Japanese
Mauritania Hassaniya Arabic (official), Pulaar, Soninke, French, Wolof
Monaco French (official), English, Italian, Monégasque
Montenegro Serbian/Montenegrin (Ijekavian dialect—official)
Mozambique Portuguese 9% (official; second language of 27%), Emakhuwa 26%, Xichangana 11%, Elomwe 8%, Cisena 7%, Echuwabo 6%, other Mozambican languages 32% (1997)
Myanmar Burmese, minority languages
Nauru Nauruan (official), English
Nepal Nepali 48% (official), Maithali 12%, Bhojpuri 7%, Tharu 6%, Tamang 5%, others. English spoken by many in government and business (2001)
Netherlands Dutch, Frisian (both official)
New Zealand English, Maori (both official)
Nicaragua Spanish 98% (official); English and indigenous languages on Atlantic coast (1995)
Niger French (official), Hausa, Djerma
Norway Bokmål Norwegian, Nynorsk Norwegian (both official); small Samiand Finnish-speaking minorities (Sami is official in six municipalities)
Palau Palauan 64.7%, English 9.4%, Sonsoralese, Tobi, Angaur (each official on some islands), Filipino 13.5%, Chinese 5.7%, Carolinian 1.5%, Japanese 1.5%, other Asian 2.3%, other languages 1.5% (2000)
Palestinian State (proposed) Arabic, Hebrew, English
Panama Spanish (official), English 14%, many bilingual
Paraguay Spanish, Guaraní (both official)
Poland Polish 98% (2002)
Qatar Arabic (official); English a common second language
Romania Romanian (official), Hungarian, German
Russia Russian, others
St. Kitts and Nevis English
St. Lucia English (official), French patois
St. Vincent and the Grenadines English, French patois
Samoa Samoan, English
San Marino Italian
São Tomé and Príncipe Portuguese (official)
Saudi Arabia Arabic
Serbia Serbian (official); Romanian, Hungarian, Slovak, and Croatian (all official in Vojvodina); Albanian (official in Kosovo)
Seychelles Seselwa Creole 92%, English 5%, French (all official) (2002)
Slovenia Slovenian 91%, Serbo-Croatian 5% (2002)
Somalia Somali (official), Arabic, English, Italian
Swaziland English, siSwati (both official)
Sweden Swedish, small Samiand Finnish-speaking minorities
Switzerland German 64%, French 20%, Italian 7% (all official); Romansch 0.5% (national)
Togo French (official, commerce); Ewé, Mina (south); Kabyé, Dagomba (north); and many dialects
Tonga Tongan (an Austronesian language), English
Tunisia Arabic (official, commerce), French (commerce)
Turkey Turkish (official), Kurdish, Dimli, Azeri, Kabardian
Ukraine Ukrainian 67%, Russian 24%, Romanian, Polish, Hungarian
United Kingdom English, Welsh, Scots Gaelic
United States English 82%, Spanish 11% (2000)
Uruguay Spanish, Portunol, or Brazilero
Vanuatu Bislama 23% (a Melanesian pidgin English), English 2%, French 1% (all 3 official); more than 100 local languages 73%
Venezuela Spanish (official), numerous indigenous dialects
Western Sahara (proposed state) Hassaniya Arabic, Moroccan Arabic
Yemen Arabic
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Anthropology and Human Modernity
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Modern humans have physical and behavioral differences from ancient humans. When you're studying anthropology — specifically, modernity in humans — keep these points in mind. They highlight the most important characteristics of anatomical and behavioral human modernity:
Anatomical modernity is having anatomical characteristics indistinguishable from modern, living humans. Appearing by 100,000 years ago, these characteristics include a larger brain (averaging 1,450cc's), a larger body overall, and the presence of a chin.
Behavioral modernity is behaving in ways that are indistinguishable from modern humans; it appears by 100,000 to 50,000 years ago and includes symbolism (the use of one thing to represent another thing), complex language (with complex grammar), and complex tool use (such as the use of symmetrical tools).
Modern humans colonized sub-Himalayan East Asia by 80,000 BP (before present), Southeast Asia and Australia by 40,000 BP, Europe at least by 30,000 BP, the New World by 14,000BP, and the Pacific and Arctic by 1,000 BP.


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The Tale of Bausis & Philemon
A Tale from Greece
Zeus, the king of Mount. Olympus, came down to visit the country folk disguised as a beggar. People turned him away until he came to the house of a poor elderly couple, Bausis and Philemon. Bausis and Philemon shared their simple meal of bread and wine with their guest. Oddly enough, the wine jug never emptied and there was more bread after each slice was cut. It was then that Bausis and Philemon realized that this was no ordinary visitor, but a god from Mount Olympus.
They bowed low and apologized for the simple food they had to offer. Zeus replied, "When you have shared your best, there is never a need to apologize."
In return for their generosity, Zeus granted them their only wish: to remain together always. and so when Bausis and Philemon died, an oak and a linden tree grew with their trunks entwined around each other, on the spot where the couple was buried.
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The scholarship program not only allows young people's participation but also encourages the participation of the whole community, promoting citizen engagement through neighbourhood interventions. Winners will be provided with all possible expenses and benefits from accommodation to translation services for their convenience in understanding things better.
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Tipsy McStagger wrote on Mar 30, 2017, 15:35:
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Also, how was the prologue stupid?
You also wouldn't divert the resources to make planet fall without actually looking at the planet first, even the Nexus used satellites to scan planets first. Why would you make a ship without the ability to review options in contingencies? They obviously planned for issues with having pathfinders but none of the resources to do so?
It's made clear that the ship was damaged by the Scourge and it had sapped the power of the ship. They had to get away from it before the backup power ran out, which meant physically surveying the planet they intended to colonize to determine whether to start the process (waking up the other colonists) or head for the Nexus instead.
Heading for the Nexus with all of the colonists on board, instead of after waking them up and sending them to the planet is obviously a huge decision when they've already encountered a hostile "cloud". Something happens to the ship on the way to the Nexus, well that has different weight depending on which scenario is occurring.


114855: Ruling on eating snails; is it permissible to cook them alive?
What is the ruling on eating snails? Bear in mind that preparing snails dish requires cooking them alive! Were snails used as food during the era of prophet Muhammad peace be upon him?.
Praise be to Allaah.
Snails are of two types, land snails and sea snails. Land snails come under the same heading as "insects and vermin" which have no blood that flows. Sea snails come under the heading of shellfish, which are sea animals.
In al-Mawsoo'ah al-'Arabiyyah al-'Aalamiyyah it says:
The snail is a invertebrate sea animal, and it is a kind of shellfish. Most snails have an external shell; some snails have a small flat shell above or under the skin, but most do not have a shell at all.
Land snails have a pair of antennae, with an eye at the end of the longer antenna. The large sand snail is regarded as a harmful pest, because it has a voracious appetite for plants. Its length reaches 10 cm. End quote.
With regard to the ruling on eating snails:
1. Land snails come under the ruling on eating "insects". The majority of scholars are of the view that it is haraam. Al-Nawawi (may Allaah have mercy on him) said in al-Majmoo' (9/16): The view of the scholars concerning land insects … our view is that it is haraam. This was the view of Abu Haneefah, Ahmad and Dawood. Maalik said: it is halaal. End quote.
Ibn Hazm (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
It is not permissible to eat land snails or any other "insects and vermin", such as geckos, cockroaches, ants, bees, flies, wasps, worms, lice, fleas, bedbugs, mosquitoes or anything else of that type, because Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): "Forbidden to you (for food) are: Al‑Maitah (the dead animals)" and "unless you are able to slaughter it (before its death)" [al-Maa'idah 5:3]. And there is sound proof that slaughter can only be done in the neck or upper chest, so if it is not possible to slaughter it, then there is no way one can eat it unless it is dead i.e., not slaughtered properly, so it is haraam. End quote.
Al-Muhalla (6/76, 77).
The Maalikis did not stipulate that a creature which has no flowing blood should be slaughtered, rather they included it under the same ruling as locusts, and its slaughter is by boiling, roasting, or piercing it with a stick or needle until it is dead, whilst saying the name of Allaah over it.
In al-Mudawwanah (1/542) it says:
Maalik was asked about something in the Maghreb (North Africa) which is called a snail, that is found in the desert on the trees – can it be eaten? He said: I think it is like the locust. If it is taken alive and boiled or roasted, I do not think there is anything wrong with eating it, but if it is found dead, it should not be eaten. End quote.
In al-Muntaqa Sharh al-Muwatta' (3/110) by Abu'l-Waleed al-Baaji (may Allaah have mercy on him) it says:
If that is proven, then the ruling on snails is the same as the ruling on locusts. Maalik said its slaughtering is by boiling or being pierced with a stick or needle until it dies, and the name of Allaah should be mentioned whilst doing so, as it is mentioned when cutting off the heads of locusts. End quote.
2. Sea snails are halaal, because of the general permission with regard to eating seafood. Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):
"Lawful to you is (the pursuit of) water game and its use for food — for the benefit of yourselves and those who travel"
[al-Maa'idah 5:96]
al-Bukhaari narrated that 'Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: "Water game means what is hunted, and its food is what the sea throws out (onto the shore)."
al-Bukhaari narrated from Shurayh, the companion of the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him), that he said: "Everything in the sea is madhbooh (slaughtered)."
But we have not seen any hadeeth which suggests that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) ate snails.
To sum up:
The permissibly of eating snails applies to both types, both land and sea snails. If they are cooked alive there is nothing wrong with that, because land snails have no blood so that it might be said that they must be slaughtered properly and the blood extracted, and sea snails come under the general permissibility of sea game and food.
And Allaah knows best.
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Tips to help get rid of belching at night
Exercise: Bending over, jumping around and turning up can worsen belching symptoms for some people, especially after eating.
People with belching should give the system time to digest food about 1-2 hours before exercising.
Regular exercise improves overall health in general and the digestive system in particular.
Avoid late snacking: snacking late at night can lead to feeling full, full for a long time causing more belching episodes to appear.
Weight loss: in addition to the habits and foods should, should not be eaten listed above. People with acid reflux, belching are advised to lose weight if overweight, obese, stop smoking is and stay away from the smoke environment.
Eating vegetables is strange, oats, limiting spicy foods, coffee, limiting late snacking helps reduce the symptoms of belching at night.
Belching occurs when the sphincter dilates causing stomach acid to reflux into the esophagus.
According to Medicine, changing lifestyle habits and certain foods helps a person limit belching, especially at night.


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Tactile memory: a haptic architectural approach is explored as a way of revitalizing the historic lime works in Olifantsfontein through the process of making ceramic works as an exhibitionist element
This dissertation explores the reactions that architectural experience can elicit, specifically by means of sensory stimulation. William J Mitchell associates sensory stimulation with the recollection of memories (2005:8), which causes an enhanced experience through a layering of different times/moments (the current moment and the remembered time). Time is an important factor in the exploration, and as such the research is focused on sites with layered historical narratives within the South African context. The art history and development of Olifantsfontein in Gauteng recently came to light with the publication of Olifantsfontein Potteries _PHONE_. The potteries were originally started by Cullinan as part of the Consolidated Rand Brick, Pottery and Lime Company (Conrand). Between 1895 and the late 1950's Conrand was the driving force behind the development of Olifantsfontein. The original site of Conrand has since been subdivided and developed, but the portion that housed the lime works remains undeveloped. Some reminders of the lime works remain on the site, albeit in a state of ruination. These include a lime quarry, a historic lime kiln and a cemetery. The proposed intervention aims to celebrate the history of Olifantsfontein through the development of ceramics studios and galleries on the aforementioned site. The proposed program alludes to the concept of haptic architecture as a stimulus for recollection. The enhancement of architectural experience is further explored by developing the process of ceramic making as an exhibitionist element to showcase the tactile quality of the program. For this purpose the aspects of ceramic making is examined and discussed.


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In Oracle PL/SQL, OPAQUE refers to the abstract data types whose internal representation are maintained by Oracle. The opaque type available in Oracle is XMLType. The XMLType data is stored as series of bytes and Oracle does not expose this internal representation. There are separate methods provided by Oracle to access the OPAQUE data.
A table named XMLTEST of XMLType is created. A XML document is inserted as a whole (as a CLOB), whose internal representation is not known.
SQL> CREATE TABLE XMLTEST OF XMLTYPE;
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Lipases are particularly important due to the fact that they specifically hydrolyze acyl glycerol, oils and greases, which is of great interest for different industrial applications.
In this study, several lipase-producing bacteria were isolated from wastewater of an oil processing plant. The strain possessing the highest lipase activity was identified both biochemically and sequencing of 16S rRNA gene. Then we increase lipase activity by improving conditions of production medium. Also, lipase from this strain was preliminarily characterized for use in industrial application.
The 16S rRNA sequensing revealed it as a new strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and the type strain was KM110. An overall 3-fold enhanced lipase production (0.76 U mL −1) was achieved after improving conditions of production medium. The olive oil and peptone was found to be the most suitable substrate for maximum enzyme production. Also the enzyme exhibited maximum lipolytic activity at 45°C where it was also stably maintained. At pH 8.0, the lipase had the highest stability but no activity. It was active over a pH range of 7.0–10.0. The lipase activity was inhibited by Zn 2+ & Cu 2+ (32 and 27%, respectively) at 1mM. The enzyme lost 29% of its initial activity in 1.0% SDS concentration, whereas, Triton X-100, Tween-80 & DMSO did not significantly inhibit lipase activity.


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Activity Report: filtering by "is null" or "is not null" is ignored
On the Activity Details report, any filter that allows selecting "Is Null" or "Is Not Null" is broken (with the possible exception of the Source/Target/Assignee Contact filters).
- Go to the Activity Details report.
- Remove the "Activity Date is this month" default filter.
- Run the report. Observe the total number of activities in the database.
- Filter a field that allows null/not null (e.g. Location) to Is Null.
- Run the report again. Observe that the total number of activities is the same (but that could be legitimate).
- Filter the same field to Is Not Null.
- Run the report one more time. Observe that the total number of activities is still the same.
Filtering by "is null" or "is not null" is ignored.
Filtering by "is null" or "is not null" should work.
This was broken by the fix to CRM-18356. Since my initial attempts at fixing this reintroduced the bug described there, I wrote tests for both scenarios to lock both fixes in.


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In Act II scene 1 of Molière's 1668 comedy Amphitryon, the servant Sosie is trying to explain to his master Amphitryon that he has seen his doppelgänger but Amphitryon refuses to believe him, here is the extract:
Oui, moi : non pas le moi d'ici,
Mais le moi du logis, qui frappe comme quatre.
Te confonde le Ciel de me parler ainsi!
I don't understand what Amphitryon is trying to convey. Is he saying that he wishes Sosie to be humiliated in front of the Heavens for talking to his master in a such a manner? He's using subjunctive so it's similar to "May God have mercy on me" and "Te" is the object so it could be "May the Heavens humiliate you". The sentence doesn't start with "Que" so it's quite confusing.
Also, my teacher says that exclamation point and the use of "confondre" means that Amphitryon hopes for an irrefutable conclusion in the form of blackmail. But since I don't understand the sentence, I don't understand how the explanation works either.


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You don't have to be a dog lover to be constantly reminded of how many people are, but I never really thought about how dogs have been a major subject in the arts for literally thousands of years.
Laumeier Sculpture Park had an exhibition this past summer entitled "Dog Days of Summer". The exhibition was both inside in the galleries and had an outdoor installation by Tea Makipaa on the nature trail. The exhibition included "yappy hours" for dogs and their human counterparts, dog and human look-alike contests, and numerous dog related vendors and rescue organizations. There are even dog memberships now and according to the director of Laumeier, Marilu Knode, the exhibition drew a tremendously large audience. The "yappy hours" alone drew at least 100 humans and 50 dogs per event.
City Garden and Laumeier collaborated on showing William Wegman videos at City Garden. In 1970, painter, photographer and conceptual artist Wegman began making videos with his Weimaraner, Man Ray, named after the influential American artist of the first half of the 20th century. Man Ray became a central figure in Wegman's photgraphy and videos and remained so until he passed away in 1981, when the next generation of Weimaraners took place.
In an article on the internet by author Tamsin Pickeral states:"Five thousand years seems like an eternally long period of time, and it certainly is when you have your publisher breathing fire down your neck and muttering about word numbers and lack of space, but actually viewed within the context of our history, 5,000 years is relatively shorter when looking at archaeological evidence of domestic dog and the earliest discovered human/canine relationships which date back to around 14,000 thousand years ago."
Pickeral goes on to say, "It was with some hesitation then that the dog, our most beloved companion, first started to appear in the arts, but after an initially slow start, the dog became one of the most frequently painted animals. They appeared at first as subsidiary to the primary subject of art works, slinking into the canvas to hover up crumbs from beneath laden tables, licking clean the feet of religious figures or accompanying bold warriors on hunting expeditions and dogs were frequently included in paintings to convey a symbolic message, most often being representative of qualities such as fidelity, love and servitude."
There is no end to the list one can purchase on dogs on Amazon.com. Just a sampling of titles include,"Dog Painting: The European Breeds", "Sit! Ancestral Dog Portraits", "Dogs in English Porcelain of the 19th Century," and "The Artful Dog: Canines from The Metropolitan Museum of Art".
And I'll bet few St. Louisans realize that The American Kennel Club Museum is located in beautiful Queeny Park in west St.Louis County. It's home to the world's finest collection of art devoted to the dog. The 14,000 square foot facility, which includes historic Jarville House displays over 700 original paintings, drawings, watercolors, prints, sculptures, bronzes, and porcelain figurines, and a variety of decorative arts objects, depicting man's best friend throughout the ages.
So to all you dog lovers, whether your pooch yaps, barks, or woofs and you can't take enough photos of "Fido", just know that you are continuing an age old tradition.
(The opinions expressed are not necessarily those of St. Louis Public Radio.)
Arts Aficionado Nancy Kranzberg has been involved in the arts community for some thirty years. She serves on numerous arts affiliated boards, including The St. Louis Art Museum, Laumeier Sculpture Park where she is the Co-Chair, The Sheldon Arts Foundation and the Sheldon Art Gallery Board, Jazz at the Bistro, The Missouri Mansion Preservation Inc., The Mid American Arts Alliance, and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. Nancy was named Women of Achievement and was awarded the Distinguished Alumnae Award at Washington University Nancy is a docent at the St. Louis Art Museum and is an honorary docent at Laumeier Sculpture Park. At age 60 she became a Jazz singer. She performs with the Second Half which features Chancellor Tom George on the piano.


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The team of specialists has discovered several broken clay tobacco pipes, ceramic vessels and other objects that belonged to the slaves.
American archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 300-year-old slave quarter on a historic Jesuit plantation in the state of Maryland, reports St. Mary's College of Maryland.
The specialists are recoveringobjects used by slaves in the 18th century and buried in farm fields within Newtowne Neck State Park, near a mansion once occupied by Jesuit missionaries.
The team of archaeologists has discovered severalbroken clay tobacco pipes, ceramic glasses and other objects. The specialists use metal detectors to identify the location of cabins and the places where the slaves left evidence of their presence.
«The Jesuits were prolific in keeping their records, but very little has remained of the enslaved African-Americans who worked in the fields and served the Catholic Church."Says Maryland Department of Transportation Chief Archaeologist Julie Schablitsky.
«If there was once a place in Maryland that contains the history of diverse cultures converging to find religious freedom in an environment of conflict, sacrifice and survival, it is here.", has added.
Historical documents mentionthe 1838 sale of 272 Maryland slaves, including those who lived in this mansion, according to a press release. The descendants of these African Americans are found in Maryland and throughout the United States.
Dante Eubanks, a Leonardtown resident, has traced his family's ties to this plantation.
«Being able to be in the exact place where my ancestors lived and suffered is a powerful experience«, Eubanks emphasizes. «We need to remember these stories, they are important to our history and recovery", Add.


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Why Energy Healing Is Important for Your Happiness
The human body is complex and each person has their unique complexity. You also have to know that the complexity of your body has to remain as it is so that you live a happy and fulfilled life. It is also vital for you to make sure that you know various ways to take care of your body. Your body will be okay if you adopt a healthy diet that has all the nutrients required for body nourishment. You are also supposed to make sure that you are involved in fitness programs so that your body is fit and healthy. You are also supposed to take care of your mental health by taking care of your emotions. Your spiritual body is also supposed by maintained by ensuring proper nourishment. You, however, have to remember that sometimes your body may not feel well because your spirituality, your emotions, and your physical body is not functioning properly.
Where do you go for treatment when you are feeling sick? Some people will go to a medical facility. At the hospital, a physician will test you to determine the cause of your ailment and then prescribe an ideal treatment procedure. You may be injected, given prescription medicine, or recommended for a surgical procedure so that you can heal. The other thing that people do so that they recover from their ailment is going for traditional healing procedures where a combination of herbs is used. You also have to know that functional medicine is gaining prominence across the globe as well. Examples of functional medicine are, acupuncture, dietary healing, chiropractor, energy healing, among others. Below is vital information on energy healing.
Your body is made of various energy lines that have to be in balance so that your body works perfectly at all levels. When there is an imbalance in the energies in your body, your mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional levels will be affected. When you feel seek, you will notice that various parts of your body will be affected including your spirituality and your emotions. Once the sickness is eliminated, all levels of your body will be elevated. That is why energy healing is essential. In energy healing, the therapist will work at releasing the energies that cause imbalance in your body. This will in turn result to the initiation of a self-healing process and you will heal naturally. There are a number of centers that focus on energy healing. You should find one that has experienced energy healing therapists so that you are guaranteed of better results.
Energy healing is advantageous in many ways. It ensures that you get total healing. You do not have to visit a physician several times for you to heal because energy healing ensures you have a healthy body for a long time since the ailment is eliminated in entirety. This type of healing is also vital because there is no possibility of misdiagnosis. You will also be able to avoid numerous medications in form of medicine and injections.
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Definition of bah
interj. - An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.
The word "bah" uses 3 letters: A B H.
No direct anagrams for bah found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after bah (in bold), or to abh in any order:
c - bach l - blah s - bash t - baht bath u - habu
Shorter words found within bah:
ab ah ba ha
Words formed from any letters in bah, plus an optional blank or existing letter
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Letter-writing saves history
Letter-writing saves history!
In 1863, 1944 and 1961, three people each wrote one letter and thereby saved history for the fourth-graders in November 2013 who were attending a hands-on career day at Jackson's Northview Elementary.
The Civil War era letter in cursive, the WWII typewritten letter and the 1961 hand-printed letter from New York City rocked the Common Core Standards approach!
We used writing letters as a guide to life skills. I illustrated the ways science, math, social studies and reading are all a part of my job as Director at the Jones Museum as seen through the preservation and use of those letters written during the past 150 years. Also, we worked at reaching conclusions about the letters and the situations of the letter writers as related to Jackson County history.
For 20 minutes, history was alive in that school library through those letters.
Remember, no matter the date or topic, every letter is valuable because it tells a story and contributes to lifelong learning.
So be a superhero and save history.
Hurry and write at least one letter in 2013 and beyond!
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Sunday, 28 February, 2010
An excerpt from CBC News "Old mice run faster with supplements" (with video),
Researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process in mice.
Generally, aging diminishes the mind and compromises physical capacity.
David Rollo, a professor of biology at McMaster has found a cocktail of 30 dietary supplements such as B vitamins, vitamin D, ginseng and garlic counteracts symptoms of aging in mice.
The experiment was prompted by research that suggests single vitamin and antioxidant pills don't work. The researchers wondered if mixing the ingredients would.
Rollo said the results were profound, as not only were the mice twice as active, they also seemed to get smarter.
OK, so everything and the kitchen sink works in mice.
1) Will this translate well to human?
2) What things in "everything and the kitchen sink" work? And why?
Ref: David Rollo's research, McMaster University