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"Did you hear that?" Sam stepped out into the hallway. He didn't normally take the initiative to talk to people, but this was relevant enough to do so.
"Hear what?" Brian tilted his head.
"What? That was a rhetorical question, of course you heard it. Didn't you? Uh, do you have hearing problems?"
"I don't. When was it? I have memory problems." Brian reached into his pocket and pulled out a small notepad. Then he glanced at his watch. "Oh, just now? It sounded like a gunshot. I heard it from the south hall." Brian looked around, then pointed, "I was probably just over there somewhere."
"Wha- oh. Right. You're… Brian, was it? Anyway, yeah, a gunshot! Let's go see if it really was!"
"The logical option is to move away from the sound of a gunshot."
"Oh come on, it's been like two minutes and there haven't been anymore. If we wait too long, we might not be able to see what happened."
Brian reached out his hand and shook Sam's. "Very well. Let's go."
Adrian stood at the back of the crowd. He couldn't see anything, and there was no way he was going to get closer or try to push through the crowd. He couldn't gather any useful information from the mutterings and murmurings of those in front of him. Surely some of them should have been able to see, but he supposed any testimony of what was actually there was subject to doubt unless he could see who actually said it. Grace was pushing through the crowd, and she would be able to tell him what was there.
"Alright everyone, that's enough. Nothing to see here, move on please. The staff will answer your concerns later." Adrian heard Dr. Crocetti's voice. Yeah, he was right. There was no point in staying here. He couldn't even see what was going on anyway.
"Hey, weren't we going to look at the gunshot? Why is everyone leaving now?" Brian's grabbed Sam's wrist and tugged him to a stop.
"Huh? I dunno man, I was just kinda walking with the crowd. Let's go." Sam turned around and started walking against the crowd. Why had he left anyway? He'd just gotten there and hadn't seen what was going on. Still, when everyone left, he'd just sort of gone with them.
When he got back to the area with the gunshot, he sort of hid around the corner. He just felt like that was the right thing to do. By the front gate, he saw a pool of something. It wasn't oil or gasoline… and in fact it left a trail that drew his eye over toward the security building. There, he caught a glimpse of the security officers… and something more.
"What would you say that was?"
Brian shrugged, "I dunno. A body and an axe?"
"An axe? Oh, yeah. But, I was going to say… the body looked like an orc."
Brian put his hand on Sam's shoulder. "You're crazy man."
From the private journal of Doctor Odran Crocetti:
The last few days have been… eventful. Everything was proceeding as normal for a Tuesday, but then everything changed. The North Star Mental Clinic had a prime location… and then suddenly it didn't. Nothing happened to the area around us as far as we could tell, but rather it was just suddenly a different area. Teleportation, in a way, but there was no fanfare involved, just suddenly the whole facility was somewhere else.
That was strange, to the point I had to question if I myself was crazy. However, there were no warning signs, and the sheer reality of the situation makes me have to believe it. Perhaps I am crazy, then, but with no other sensory input, I must believe what I see, and what I saw. What I saw was that the clinic was in a different place… and if speculations are correct, a different world.
That part is somewhat crazy, but I have to admit there are some signs that make it seem probable. It is hard to imagine a point on Earth completely without satellite access- no, there shouldn't be any. Even if there were no useful signals, there should have been something. I have also found that I do not recognize any of the constellations, however a mere shift in hemispheres could cause similar disorientation. Then again, I can't think of a method that would shift our location on Earth, and given some other things, having come to another world is appearing more and more… rational.
Normally, when I tell people not to panic, I expect them to panic. Certainly, I expect them to panic less, but people don't function that way. Calm reassurance can help a situation, but even so people cannot control themselves entirely. All those who work here are competent individuals, and I do not mean to discredit them, but people do not act so calmly when faced with new stressful situations. Yet, all of them did. With my years of experience, it even seems to be a real calm, and not just a front. However, I know that is not the normal human response, for I experience it. I have no idea what to do. Should we plant food? Sure, why not. Keep treating the patients? It is our duty, but we can only do it so far as we have resources. I myself am on the verge of panic, but my staff… is calm. They do experience moments, but reassurance from me seems to help.
That brings me to the incident. Our youngest security force officer fired his gun today. Before this, he seemed stable and competent. Like the others, he seemed calm. After the incident, he was clearly not so. However, I cannot fault him for the incident. It was… well outside of expectations. Unfortunately, we only have his word to go by. There were no other witnesses, and we didn't have the security cameras on- a waste of power. On the other hand, I have heard people lie- to me and to themselves- countless lies. He seems to be telling the truth.
Someone not part of our Clinic approached the gate. They were threatening, and so the officer shot them. Unfortunately, there was a language barrier preventing clear communication, so we can't be sure. However… the person carried an axe. A large axe. That alone seems like a threat, regardless of whether it is brandished. The foreign person apparently didn't seems to react when the officer drew his gun, and he had to open fire.
Thus, we are left with what we have. A shaken officer, and a death on his hands. I don't know what the crowds saw, but they didn't get too close. Then, I asked them to leave… and they did. That is not how people work. At least there would have been grumbling and complaints, and eventually I could talk them down, but they just left… patients and visitors alike. That is strange, but perhaps not more than the body. The body had greenish skin, clothes I would describe- perhaps insensitively- as 'primitive', and large lower canines almost like tusks. I don't know what it is, but apparently it spoke… and for now I will have to go with the term 'orc', since that is the thought that it immediately brought to the minds of those who saw it. Regardless, it is nothing from Earth… and thus I must be crazy, or we are in another world- or at least have come in contact with one. These possibilities are not mutually exclusive.
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The Parallax SX48BD is a member of the SX family of configurable communications controllers.
The Parallax SX48BD-G is a RISC architecture, high-speed microcontroller with expanded flash program memory, in-system programming and debugging capability. Operating at frequencies up to 75 MHz with an optimized single-cycle instruction set, developers can implement real-time functions as software modules. Common examples include communication interfaces (I2C, SPI, UARTs), frequency generation and measurement, PWM, and sigma-delta A/D.
The on-chip functions of the SX48BD-G include two general-purpose 16-bit timers, an analog comparator, watchdog timer, a power-save mode with wakeup capability, a configurable internal oscillator and high-current outputs; the SX48BD-G is typically used in production and manufacturing for projects requiring lots of I/O.
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FE&S: Describe the biggest challenge you have overcome.
RS: Understanding that tomorrow is another day to win your guests over. The best catering teams in the world make mistakes, but the way you recover and make up for those mistakes is what will truly determine if you are great.
FE&S: What are you most proud of?
RS: Developing an amazing team at the University of Michigan. Each day I am impressed with the initiative my managers take in executing their work and making suggestions to improve our operation. One of my managers started as a student employee just three years ago and has developed into a catering captain who leads some of our largest events.
FE&S: Complete this sentence as it relates to your campus dining program: "I really wish we could …"
RS: … serve more students.
FE&S: What keeps you in this industry?
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In this era of rapidly rising medical, pharmaceutical and insurance costs, the American people and Congress are talking a lot about Medicare. This federally-funded medical plan for Americans age 65 and over covers medical expenses such as doctor's visits, hospital stays, drugs and other treatment. The need for a medical program for senior citizens became evident in the 1950s, but it was not until 1965 that Congress passed the laws that established Medicare. The law was amended in 1972 to include people with disabilities and end-stage renal disease.
As with many government programs, wading through the Medicare jungle can be confusing at best. Even insurance agents may not know all the ins and outs of dealing with the program, what it will cover and what it will not, or which medical professionals accept the plan and which won't. It's a true labyrinth.
Essentially, all Americans are eligible for Medicare when they turn 65. There is an initial enrollment period for seven months after one's 65th birthday, when one can enroll in the plan for free. After the enrollment period, someone who decides he or she wants Medicare may be subject to enrollment fees and penalties. Special enrollment periods may apply, but these are also complicated to navigate. Then, the senior citizen must decide whether to enroll in Part A only, which offers basic coverage, or also in Part B, which offers supplemental coverage. Some seniors who are covered by their company's group health insurance, or their spouse's, may decline to enroll at all, or may just decide to enroll in Part A since it is cheaper.
Some Medicare coverage is administered by HMOs, which means a private company is paid by the federal government to administer it. The debate over HMOs has raged for several years. Some seniors may receive better care under an HMO, while for others, the benefits may not be as good as a federally-managed plan. It all depends on the HMO and the state where the senior lives. Each state has a different way of dealing with Medicare.
Medicare reform issues have plagued Congress for several years, and a reform bill with a prescription drug benefit was passed in 2003. Because of the changing needs of senior citizens and rising medical costs, this is an issue that Congress will probably continue to wrestle with for many more years. It is difficult to create a "one-plan-fits-all" system.
A senior citizen picking his way through the Medicare jungle will probably need help. This may come in the form of an educated insurance agent or through classes that are available in many communities. There are also numerous resources on the Internet to help a senior citizen find his or her way. The program can be complicated — with many exceptions, provisions, rules, limitations, and so forth — making it seemingly impossible to unravel. The wise senior citizen will get assistance long before the time comes to enroll.
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I try as hard as possible to play by the rules once I'm out of the house. I get in line, use the pedestrian lane, the overpass, use the proper loading and unloading zones, keep right in the escalator and sidewalks to make way for those people behind who may be in a hurry, always mindful of how my movement might affect and indirectly inconvenience others.
And because of that I always get stressed out and my day has not even begun.
There's something about being part of a society that's always in survivor mode 24/7 and does not care much for rules when said things impede one's personal agenda. Suddenly you find yourself unconsciously playing the same despicable game just to avoid being a victim of the many others who feel the rules don't apply to them.It reminded me of a video I saw where Singapore statesman Lee Kuan Yew stressed discipline in the individual level as a vital component of a strong nation. And I was thinking about applying that principle to the Philippines and figured it would take nothing less than a miracle to reverse this type of thinking that has apparently become a big part of the culture that seem to foster and encourage exceptions into becoming rules.
Just this morning I almost called out a teenager in 7-11 who couldn't be bothered with falling in line despite the very obvious queue comprised of me and five more people. At least the cashier possessed enough good sense to call her off and told her to act accordingly. Most store crews don't even do that.
In a business trip with a colleague to Australia a while ago, our hosts decided to bring us to one of those eat-all-you-can buffets in the suburbs of Sydney. Apparently the sushi bar was a popular part of that restaurant and people were understandably lining up to it. Our hosts, fellow Pinoys who migrated there, called me and my colleague's attention towards the end of the queue as we sat down to eat our meal.
Near the end of the line where the customers were served, hovered two Asian-looking young women. Obviously trying to snatch a few choice morsels from the bar that operated in a first in first out basis. The two were moving in a way that was similar to ATM users who use multiple cards in one transaction. It was an obvious wholesale snatching for other members of their group.
That they were getting glares from people in line were useless. And we were wondering what country these people came from; and I was a bit relieved to know that this type of thick-faced activity was not exclusive to us Pinoys or in the Philippines. I thought and even made up my mind that they were either immigrant/tourist Cambodians, Indonesians, or Thai. Until a man—presumably their father—from afar told them: "Dalawa pa." (Two more.)
I found that embarrassment for the actions of fellow countrymen takes a whole new dimension when you're in a foreign land. Our hosts just gave a resigned shake of their heads. And to think I confidently accused other nationalities first.
I used to be one of those over-sensitive sorts who react with hostility whenever foreigners make generalizations and criticisms about us. But one can hardly blame that sort of perspective especially when examples to the contrary are being supplied effortlessly by the majority of the citizens on a daily basis. One popular saying among companies about good and bad publicity is that no one cares about good work because that's already expected. Incompetence, bad service, and overall annoyance are the sorts that stick better to memory.
And it's not even an isolated, occasional incident abroad. And that's just the simple issue of falling in line. Spend a considerable amount of time using the EDSA MRT and you'll see how that simple concept, even aided by clear signs instructing people to form only two queues on the platform, become an almost-impossible endeavor to the average passenger.
The same with PUVs. I have always wondered why these drivers almost always load and unload in the most outlandish places where possible accidents can happen as well as cause major inconveniences to other motorists. You can argue that they are just being true to form in being the reigning douchebags of the highways. Or that the commuters/passengers actually dictate where they should be so they can make money. And knowing most commuters—being one myself—they actually insist on disembarking in any convenient spot for them short of their own doorway.
Or waiting in the wrong loading area simply because using the proper facilities require too much effort and work. Waiting in the proper loading zones in most places in Metro Manila guarantees a lifetime of waiting for non-jampacked vehicles because of overeager commuters who can't be bothered with being inconvenienced with short walks to the proper zones. Where life and limb is risked simply because using the overpass requires too much effort, and because anyone can get away with it.
In an analysis and observation towards this type of jagged individualism, GRP webmaster benign0 wrote:
"Our ability as a people to behave as a collective will not come from political solutions. It will not come from new systems of governance, nor will it come from any new "leaders" or even "heroes" stepping up to the plate. Our ability to behave as a collective — as a UNIT — will come only from deep within the fabric of our character as a people and from a shared sense of what it means to be an individual that belongs."
Indeed, shared sense of belonging seems to be one of the many integral aspects needed in building a strong society that we desperately lack as a people. As long as each member marches to the beat of his own drum ignoring and refusing to recognize the responsibility that comes with it, we will be in a perpetual blind-leading-the blind situation with no clear directions to propel us forward.[Image courtesy Creative Bloq.]
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Words assigned to other human beings to identify them to their fellow human beings. We walk around every day, calling out to one another, using words of a specific language to address a chosen person. Even without knowing a person's name, we still use them to direct our thoughts, like "the blonde woman" or "the man with a beard." All of these words describe and name the people and world around us. These words direct us. But what if there were no names? What if we walked by someone we knew by looks, but could not call out to them to get their attention? What would life be like then? Would our thoughts hold a coherent structure? Would we even know each other?
Popular talk shows couldn't exist in this reality, because they couldn't name who they would talk to. Confusion would follow the presidential elections, as no one would know who they were voting for. School would be harder, since you would be meeting new people that you wouldn't even recognize. Our brains could not survive without naming people. Our minds would fill with thoughts but no one to direct them to, no one to name. Words like "blonde" or "bearded" would carry no weight, for those are names given to those we do not know. Languages would no longer be functional. If there were no names, nothing to describe a person, would they even exist? Could they exist? Is that why names were invented, to hold the human reality in place? Is that the price to pay for being withheld to a word given to you, one you didn't even choose? Is being trapped by a word worth your existence? People who change their names can create a whole new reality for themselves. Breaking away from a particular word can open up thousands of possibilities. Also, those people that give you names, do they own you? Are you withheld to their power, their will? We name animals, and by society's standards, we own the animals we name. If the government named you, would that mean that they owned you? Is being safe inside the confines of reality mean you give up your freedom? That is the conclusion I came to.
Now, you may be wondering why I asked you all these difficult questions. You may have already left, the ravings of a mad woman sent to torture your subconscious is not worth the time it takes to listen. Exactly what your captors want you to think. Who do you think started the naming process? Wouldn't be the people that owned you as well as the entire human race? Reality is what we believe our world exists in, what we don't want to break away from, when; in fact, it is the very thing that holds you hostage, holds you back from true freedom. Now that you've realized this, I only have one last question for you.
What is your name?
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How to stonewall Open Source
I seem to be posting a lot about Google these days but then they ARE turning into the digital equivalent of Nestlé.
I've been pondering this post for a while and how to approach it without making it sound like I believe in area 52. So I'll just say what happened and let you come to your own conclusions mostly.
Back when Google still ran the Google in Your Language project, I tried hard to get into Gmail and what was rumoured to be a browser but failed, though they were keen to push the now canned Picasa. <eyeroll> Then of course they canned the whole Google in Your Language thing. When I eventually found out that Google Chrome is technically nothing else than a rebranded version of an Open Source browser called Chromium, I thought 'great, should be able to get a leg into the door that way'. Think again. So I looked around and was already confused because there did not appear to be a clear distinction between Chromium and Chrome. The two main candidates were Launchpad and Google Code. So January 2011 I decide to file an issue on Google Code, thinking that even if it's the wrong place, they should be able to point me in the right direction. The answer came pretty quick. Even though the project is called Chromium, they (quote) don't accept third party translations for chrome. And nobody seems to know where the translations come from or how you become an official translator. A vague reference that I maybe should try Ubuntu.
I gave it some time. Lots of time in fact. I picked up the thread again early in 2013. Now the semi-serious suggestion was to fork Chromium and do my translation on the fork. Very funny. Needless to say, I was getting rather disgusted at the whole affair and decided to give up on Chrome/Chromium.
When I noticed that an Irish translator on Launchpad had asked a similar question about Chromium and saw the answer was they, as far as they know, push the translations upstream to Chromium from Launchpad, I decided I might as well have a go. As someone had suggested, at least I'll get Chromium on Linux.
Fast forward to October 2014 and I'm almost done with the translation on Launchpad so I figure I better file a bug early because it will likely take forever. Bug filed, enthusiastic response from some admin on Launchpad. Great, I think to myself, should be plain sailing from here on. Spoke too soon. End of January 2015, the translation long completed, I query to silence and only get more silence. More worryingly, someone points me at a post on Ubuntu about Chromium on Launchpad being, well, dead.
Having asked the question in a Chromium IRC chat room, I decided to have another go on Google Code, new bug, new luck maybe? Someone in the room did sound supportive. That was January 28, 2015. To date, nothing has happened apart from someone 'assigning the bug to l10n PM for triage'.
I'm coming to the conclusion that Chromium has only the thinnest veneer of being open. Perhaps in the sense that I can get a hold of the source code and play around with it. But there is a distinct lack of openness and approachability about the whole thing. Perhaps that was the intention all along, to use the Open Source community to improve the source code but to give back as little as possible and to build as many layers of secrecy and to put as many obstacles in people's path as possible. At least when it comes to localization.
At least Ubuntu is no longer pushing Chromium as the default browser. But that still leaves me with a whole pile of translation work which is not being used. Maybe I should check out some other Chromium-based browsers like Comodo Dragon or Yandex. Perhaps I'm being paranoid but I'm not keen on software coming from Russia being on my systems or recommending it to other people. Either way, I'm left with the same problem that we have with Firefox in a sense – it would mean having to wean people off pre-installed versions of Google Chrome or Internet Explorer.
Anyone got any good ideas? Cause I'm fresh out of…
Is Google getting a bit muahahaha?
Aye, Google… I'm rather disappointed at them these days I must say. It was a really exciting project in the beginning when I joined their Google in Your Language project. Gosh, I thought, they actually promise "Google believes that fast and accurate searching has universal value. That's why we are eager to offer our service in all the languages scattered upon the face of the earth." – how unusually enlightened for a software company, sign me up. Which I did, along with hundreds of other volunteers, putting in hundreds of hours of our time … well, you all know how it works. They did give us a t-shirt at one point, mind. In hindsight, the fact they did that rather than given each one of us, say, a dozen shiny Google shares should have set off some warning bells but hindsight is a great thing.
Initially, all languages were pretty much on a par but soon, inequality started creeping in. While other languages (the big ones) were getting jazzed up search interfaces, smaller languages like Gaelic weren't. And I also began to realise that Google did not enable all translation projects (they come as separate sub-projects) for all languages, per default or on request. Things like Gmail or GoogleDocs. Ah, requests… that kinda implies communication, doesn't it? We did have the google.public.translators group but as you might guess, admins were thin on the ground. Many questions and issue were left unanswered so while other projects got fancy with plural formatting and translation memories and suchlike, Google stuck to the if-it's-not-in-English-we-don't-want-to-know approach. Initially, I decided that, the company being a startup, this was down to limited resources and that change would come. Change did come to the coffers of Google but not to the localization teams.
More and more English kept creeping in, to the extent that I began to wonder how many people were still using the localized interfaces when they offer perhaps 10% of the overall functionality of Google. Yet, I kept telling myself it would get better. Hm.
I got briefly excited over Google Chrome.. very briefly mind. I foolishly assumed that something as important as this would automatically be made available to all teams. Nope. I emailed those precious few people at Google whose emails I had. No answer. Not to that particular question, but perhaps asking two questions in the same email is too demanding. So I start hitting the web in search of answers. I did get some, but everyone gave me a different one… some said that localizing Chromium would result in a localized Google Chrome, others contradicted that. No one over on the Linux side really seemed to know, answers again ranging from yes through maybe to no way. I'm still waiting for a definitive answer. A project to "move the web forward" indeed.
I've even written a very nice if somewhat disappointed letter to Google. That was back in January. Meanwhile, google.public.translators keeps coming and going on and offline and the newest post is from 2008. I posted earlier this year, asking where everyone was. Mysteriously, the post has disappeared. I deduce that admins are watching, but not communicating.
All in all, I'm feeling very bitter I must say. More so than over the OpenOffice thing. I still keep the User Interface for Gaelic up to 100% but in all honesty, if someone comes up with a good open source search engine, I'll decamp. Google has been successful not only due to its fancy algorithms but also due to the many volunteers who made the interface available in their languages. If Google had only ever catered for the English-speaking world, then I doubt they'd be as successful today. It feels like ingratitude of the worst kind.
Was I foolish to put faith into something that was so clearly aiming for a commercial stranglehold on the web? Perhaps. Perhaps they'll come good still, though I'm not holding my breath. In the meantime, I shall steer people towards OperaMail if they want online mail in Gaelic and put my hopes in the LibreOffice Cloud project.


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The Leonard Cohen covers keep on coming! Here's the New Pornographers' A.C. Newman performing Cohen's "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye" as part of Vimeo's "Old Ideas With New Friends" series, via the Matablog. #iframe:http://player.vimeo.com/video/35706706||||||
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Subtle, or not?
I thought this newly refurbished landmark, "The Ferry Building" looked good from under the bow of a cruise ship, what do you think? note the line from the extreme bow with a little flag on it near the water, anyone know what it is for?
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Brilliant photo ! A lovely old building.
My first immediate impression when I first saw the image was:- "it's been miniaturized !", my second thought was, "that building's been cut out from another image and pasted". then I noticed your message above the image (duh)...
Very clever, at first glance the bow of the ship makes the modern buildings appear smaller and the ferry building "dinky" and in complete contrast to the modern buildings behind it. At second glance the angle of the bow is nearly parallel with the tops of the buildings along the waterfront.
I know which building I prefer... the one that was "in-place" before the others were built.
As for the line hanging from the bow, my totally crazy guess is it that is a low-tech device for measuring the direction and intensity of the wind ! eg...line vertical=no wind, line at 20 degrees = breeze, line at 45 degrees= strong wind, line at 90 degrees = storm force, line disapeared = hurricane force.
I hope you won't keep us waiting for the answer toooo long !
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Algebraic Product is the Only t-Norm for Which Optimization Under Fuzzy Constraints is Scale-Invariant
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Technical Report: UTEP-CS-13-50
Published in Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Constraints Programming and Decision Making CoProd'2013, El Paso, Texas, November 1, 2013, pp. 8-11.
In many practical situations, we need to optimize under fuzzy constraints. There is a known Bellman-Zadeh approach for solving such problems, but the resulting solution, in general, depends on the choice of a not well-defined constant M. We show that this dependence disappears if we use an algebraic t-norm (and-operation) a * b, and we also prove that the algebraic product is the only t-norm for which the corresponding solution is independent on M.


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Scientists say they've pinpointed the time in our lives when we start losing friends, rather than making new ones, by looking at the phone data of some 3.2 million Europeans. It looks like 25 is the watershed age for making new relationships.
While this isn't a precise measurement of friendships, it does suggest that this is the stage in life when our social circles are at their largest, say researchers from the Aalto University School of Science in Finland and the University of Oxford in the UK.
From then on, we start losing contact with people, as children and careers start to put pressure on our time. We begin dropping friends for the rest of our lives, although there is a small plateau at the age of 45 to 55 years old.
Interestingly, at younger ages, men have more friends than women, but from the age of 39 upwards, that trend is reversed.
The researchers suggest that it's possible that women may interact with their own close family members more than men do, for the purposes of things like keeping other family members updated on children's activities.
The research serves as a reminder that all the modern tech we use to keep in touch with our friends and family has another. It's giving researchers a vast treasure trove of data to study. Females tend to have a close-knit pack of girlfriends, whereas males have a gang of guys to hang out with.
The researchers say the differences between cultures will probably lie in the timing of peaks and transitions, rather than in the overall patterns themselves.


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UK Surfers Are Not Limited to Big Earners
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According to NetValue, the addition of 800,000 new Internet users in the U.K. last month means that 2.3 million home Net users have got themselves connected since the beginning of the year, taking the total U.K. home online population to 13.6 million.
Interestingly, there is little evidence of a true digital divide, with 26.9 percent of U.K. surfers earning less than #600 per month compared to 8.3% earning more than #4,000 per month.
"The Internet is not reserved for a rich elite," NetValue's Alki Manias said. "These figures show that the Web is being welcomed by low income earners. Online businesses have to recognise that the Internet market is every bit as diverse as the high street market, and not limited to big earners."
The total Internet population in the U.K. in April was just under 18 million people, with almost 46 percent connected only from home, over 18 percent connected from both home and work, and 13 percent of users restricted to access from work.
Interestingly, over five million home users -- nearing 40 percent of the home online population -- clicked on a banner ad during the month, the average user viewing 97.3 ads, seeing each individual advert on average 2.5 times.
The figures do tend to suggest that there are a few old chestnuts doing the rounds that may not have that much basis in fact. The suggestion that Net-based advertising may not be effective seems harsh in the light of these figures, particularly when it is remebered that TV and print ads don't even have click-through rates. Likewise, worries that the Internet revolution would disenfranchise wide sectors of the community also appear somewhat over-played given the rapidly falling prices for new and second-hand PCs.


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It looks so real...so edible...and, haha, so delicious!
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Excellent piece of work !
Excellent piece of work !
looks edible, well after a
looks edible, well after a few hofbrauhause stiens! excellent
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made my tummy growl
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looking at types of bread that one can bake in a dutch oven - and no knead salt bread came up yummy and easy to make.
What an awesome and tasty looking loaf of bread. You are so good at realism Betty you know I have been a fan of yours since your first picture here at Queeky and you just keep getting better.
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Verdict: Three out of five stars. Nicholas Hoult carries the movie with a moving and often hilarious performance in this sweet, subversive zombie tale. Hoult also shares a tender chemistry with Teresa Palmer, while John Malkovich brings gravitas to proceedings. A pity then, about the sizable plot holes and the in-your-face metaphors. Still, more than worth the entrance fee.
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State of Industry in the Yukon August 2017
If you're like us in the YCS Office, your head is spinning when it comes to the mining, and oil and gas industries in the Yukon – big news is breaking regularly and project developments are coming fast and furious. To help you keep track, we've summarized the status of projects currently in the news. Give us a call at the YCS office – 668-5678 – if you want to learn more! We also encourage you to get to know our new government – connect with Ministers and their departments if you have questions or concerns about these projects.
Oil and Gas (read more here)
Kotaneelee – EFLO, Apache and Yukon Government
Located in the extreme south east of the territory, the Kotaneelee site is where the only commercially viable petroleum (gas) was ever produced in Yukon – the site opened in 1977 and ceased production in 2012.
Kotaneelee sits on top part of the Liard Basin, one of the largest shale gas resources in the world.
In 2015, the company in charge of the site, Houston-based EFLO Energy Inc. became insolvent and licenses for three of the four wells were turned over to another company, Apache. The fourth well become the property and financial responsibility of Yukon Government's Energy, Mines and Resources (EMR) oil and gas branch. Both Apache and EMR then filed applications with the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) to have the wells abandoned.
Well abandonment involves filling the well with cement and capping the pipe below ground, and removing associated infrastructure; experience has shown that it is not uncommon for well abandonment to fail and the well will need to be re-abandoned.
News emerged last month that the estimated cost of abandonment for the one well under YG ownership is $2.4 million. The original owner, EFLO Energy Inc., left a security deposit for $625,000 with the government of Yukon, which leaves Yukon taxpayers on the hook for $1.8 million.
Apache has recently sold all its Canadian assets. The new owners, Paramount, will be responsible for care and maintenance – at least until ownership transfers again.
YCS's main concerns: security deposits are not adequate to cover the cost of abandonment; if public money is used to heavily subsidize closure, there is an incentive for companies to walk away from wells.
Eagle Plain - Northern Cross Yukon
Eagle Plain in north central Yukon lies within the North Yukon land use planning region.
Thirty three wells were drilled in the Eagle Plain basin between 1958 and 1985, one was drilled in 2005 and four wells were drilled in 2012-2013. Currently there are eight inactive (suspended) wells at Eagle Plain; the others have been abandoned. One had to be re-abandoned in 2015.
In 2014, Northern Cross Yukon (NCY) submitted a proposal to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) to drill and conduct flow tests on up to 20 exploratory oil and gas wells in the Eagle Plains region. NCY is a small Calgary-based outfit; its only backer, the Chinese Overseas Oil Company (CNOOC) recently sold all of its shares in the company.
YESAB referred the project to an Executive Committee review due to unresolved questions about the impacts of the project on the Porcupine Caribou Herd. NCY then sought a judicial review of the referral and the case was heard by the Federal court in Whitehorse in April 2017. The ruling was released in late June: the Federal Court dismissed Northern Cross's application for a judicial review and the project will be reviewed by the YESAB Executive Committee.
News broke in April that NCY is suing Yukon Government for up to $2.2 billion dollars, claiming the government put a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing in 2015. The company is seeking reimbursement for rentals, capital expenditures, and the oil and gas revenues they won't be able to cash in on because of the moratorium. Yukon Government has not yet filed their statement in response.
In July, Northern Cross dissolved and was re-named Chance Oil after NCY's then CEO withdrew from the company.
YCS's main concerns: a large public payout for a private company that never had a viable business plan to develop oil and gas resources; the security deposit at Eagle Plain to cover abandonment is only $1.1M, grossly inadequate to cover abandonment of eight wells; precedent that a local government cannot make decisions to care for the land without industry demanding steep compensation for potential "lost profits" (similar to the concerns about foreign trade deals preventing local governments from regulating activities on their land).
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Coffee Gold Project – Goldcorp
The Coffee Gold project is located approximately 130 kilometres south of the City of Dawson. The project is proposed as an open pit, heap leach; no development has taken place to date, the project is scheduled to begin production sometime in 2021.
In 2016, Goldcorp, one of the world's largest gold producers, agreed to purchase the project from Kaminak Gold Corporation, a junior mining company.
Goldcorp filed its proposal to the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) at the end of March 2017. Since then, the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in has filed documents presenting its concerns with Goldcorp, citing aggressive timelines and inadequate responses to questions and First Nation concerns with the project. Selkirk First Nation has filed documents with YESAB outlining lack of appropriate consultation. The White River First Nation has also filed documents with YESAB expressing concerns about how YESAB addresses issues regarding a First Nation with an unsettled land claim as compared with those that do.
YESAB has discontinued its assessment process on this project until such time as adequate consultation has occurred between Goldcorp and Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in, Selkirk First Nation, and Na-Cho Nyäk Dun First Nation.
YCS's main concerns: an extensive, government subsidized all season road running south from the Dawson region to the project area would open up a region of the Yukon that does not have a land use plan; increased hunting and wildlife impacts; powered with fossil fuels; water treatment and final reclamation plan; financial security deposit.
Kudz Ze Kayah project – BMC Minerals
In March 2017, BMC Minerals, a private company in London, England submitted a project proposal to YESAB for a new mine located approximately 115 km southwest of Ross River. The proposed Kudz Ze Kayah mine would be an open pit and underground copper, lead, zinc, silver and gold mine and would begin commercial production in 2022.
The project is currently being assessed by the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB); YESAB recently filed a 94 page information request to the company. The company has responded, and a number of review bodies have asked for further information from the company regarding the response.
YCS's main concerns: on-site water treatment issues and the amount of financial security that will be asked of the company.
Eagle (Victoria) Gold project - StrataGold
A proposed open pit gold mine located between Mayo and Keno; cyanide heap leaching techniques would be used to extract gold.
The Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) completed an environmental and socio-economic assessment in 2010. The Government of Yukon, Natural Resources Canada, Department of Fisheries and Oceans, and Transport Canada, as the four Decision Bodies, issued their decision documents to 'accept' the recommendation of the YESAB Executive Committee to allow the project to proceed subject to mitigative terms and conditions. A water licence was issued by the Yukon Water Board. The Eagle Gold Project has signed a Comprehensive Cooperation and Benefits Agreement with the local First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun.
In May 2017, the Yukon Water Board contacted StrataGold regarding its Project Reclamation and Closure Plan (RCP), identifying "significant deficiencies in the RCP that need to be addressed." These include the presence of irrelevant and incorrect information, unaddressed questions regarding water treatment, security estimate deficiencies and significant calculation errors in the costing of certain aspects of mine closure.
YCS's main concerns: (at least) $64.5 million public investment to upgrade the electricity transmission line between Stewart Crossing and Keno in order to provide grid power to Eagle Gold Mine; connecting this mine to the grid will likely result in more fossil fuels being burned to generate electricity, which will result in higher greenhouse gas emissions and also higher electricity rates.
Faro Mine – Federal and Territorial Governments
Located 15 km from the town for Faro, the Faro mine was once the world's largest open-pit zinc mine. The mine was abandoned in 1998 and its owner went bankrupt, leaving the mine for the Federal government to take ownership of and responsibility for.
At least $250-million has already been spent maintaining the mine site and yet not even a handful of dirt has been cleaned up. The government is spending $40-million annually to run pumps to prevent the toxic tailings from breaching the dams. The cleanup itself could cost a further $1-billion, and will most likely end in a scenario where water treatment will have to occur on site in perpetuity.
The Federal government has just announced a series of community meetings over the month of June to get public input on the closure and reclamation plan for the Faro mine.
YCS's main concerns: water treatment. Water testing results are slowly being released by the Faro Mine Remediation Project team.
Casino Mine – Western Copper and Gold
This huge project is currently 'on hold' while the proponent provides more information to the YESAB Panel Review. The company has until Dec 31st, 2017 to provide a lot of information that YESAB has requested.
YCS's main concerns: access road north-west of Carmacks goes through the grounds of the Klaza Caribou Herd; the amount of fossil fuels consumed on site would double the Yukon's greenhouse gas emissions; proposed wet tailings dam (at 286 metres high) would be an environmental catastrophe in the making.
Placer mining – Dawson region goldfields
Several placer mining operations (and reality TV stars) have recently been fined for infractions of Yukon's Environment, Lands, and Waters Act. Infractions have included allowing sediments to flow directly into a stream and depositing waste into a waste management system without reporting.
In 2016 a proposal to placer mine in the Indian River wetlands south of Dawson City resulted in a recommendation from the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) that the wetlands be avoided. The decision body, Yukon Government, rejected the YESAB recommendation and approved the project. The Yukon Water Board (YWB) then issued a licence with conditions that supported YESAB's recommendation to avoid the wetlands, but the Board was ultimately forced to withdraw this licence for legal reasons (under Final Agreements, the YWB cannot issue conditions contrary to a decision document).
The YWB is holding a public hearing in Fall 2017 on another water license, for reality TV show associated company Tamarack which has applied for a water license to mine more of the Indian River wetlands.
Discussions about wetland reclamation are currently being undertaken between Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in and Yukon Government.
YCS's main concerns: Yukon does not have a Wetland Protection Act
Tiger Gold Road – ATAC Resources
An all-season, 65 km road proposed to run north-east of Keno City to a region known as the Tiger gold deposit.
In March 2017, the Yukon Environmental and Socio-economic Assessment Board (YESAB) recommended the project proceed with conditions, including the development of a comprehensive access regime for all land users and harvester groups and avoidance of nesting peregrine falcons. Government of Yukon is currently reviewing the recommendation and consulting with the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun. It is of note that the Yukon Government still has not released a Decision Document on the YESAB recommendation after two months. Usually Decision Documents are released within thirty days.
YCS's main concerns: 46 permanent creek and river crossings; habitat fragmentation; increased access leading to wildlife impacts; no regional land use plan in place to help fully understand all the values and impacts.
Roads to Resources/Yukon Resource Gateway Project – Yukon and Federal Governments
In 2016, news broke that the Yukon Government had made a pitch to the Federal Government asking them to pay $250 million toward road upgrades that would benefit three possible major mines in the territory - Coffee, Selwyn and Casino. The mining road application, called the Yukon Resource Gateway Project, would see the Yukon government contribute $112 million and industry contribute another $109 million toward roadwork in the Dawson and Nahanni ranges.
YCS's main concerns: landscape transforming decisions in the absence of a regional land use plan; no public consultation.


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Yay! I haven't posted in a while – I'm so glad to be back!
I haven't done a recent photography post in a few months (
probably because they take forever to make), but I finally finished gathering all my photos together so I could post one. I've taken quite a few new pictures since I bought my 50mm camera lens. I hope you enjoy looking at all of them! 😀
We'll start with this adorable dog that I saw in the Walmart parking lot last week. He kindly allowed me to photograph him while he waited for his owner. 😛
Isn't he adorable?
Some colorful toy cars in the grocery store. 🙂
I took this one right after I got 2 teeth pulled a few weeks ago. That was an interesting experience. XD
There's this really neat coffee shop in my town, and I got a lot of photos last time we went there. They have this old bicycle out front that is so pretty!
Here are some photos I took inside the shop. 🙂
This was an interesting old radio that was sitting by the window.
In the parking lot, there's this amazing old pickup truck:
Isn't it so cool?
Yep, I took this at Sonic. XD I wanted to get a picture of the waitress handing my mom her drink, and I succeeded. 😛
I love how the black window frame contrasts against the red bricks in this one!
I took this and the next few in the post office. It's funny how f1.8 aperture can make almost anything look pretty and interesting!
Here are a few black-and-white pictures. 😀
My brother Abram….
And my sister Laura.
Here are a few more pictures of Laura from a recent photoshoot I did with her. 🙂
Now for some kitties!
Ember loves to sleep in the flowerpot. XD
Several weeks ago, I attempted to create a blog post that turned out to be a total failure. I did get a few fun pictures, though, so I thought I'd share them anyways even though the post didn't work out. 😛
Yep, that's me reading with a giant panda. XD
Ahem. Moving on to horses! 😀 There are some people on our road who own a huge herd of horses, and I got to take some pictures of them the other day.
While we're on the topic of animals, here are some adorable goats. 😛
This is Stretch, and he's pretty much the cutest goat ever.
We have a ton of cattle egrets that follow our goats around at this time of year. I tried and failed to sneak up on them in the pasture, but I did manage to get a picture of them as they flew away, so all was not lost. 😉
I found this little guy on a plant next to Maude's pen. She waited impatiently for me to feed her while I ran inside and got my camera.
This was a lovely sunset we had the other night. 🙂 There was a huge rainbow, too, but sadly by the time I got my camera it was gone. 😦
PUFFY CLOUDS! I took these when we were driving somewhere… I forget where. XD
Now for a few random pictures. 😀
A round, ripe pear on our pear tree…
A little green lizard on the window.
Can you find the tiny snake? 😛 This little guy has been living in our steps. Thankfully he's not poisonous – he's actually kind of cute!
A huge spider that lives by the barn. *awaits the "AHH CREEPY SPIDER" comments*
Dew drops on lettuce in the grocery store. 😛
Finally, here are some book pictures that I got in the library the other day. 🙂
Well, that's about it for this post! 😀 Thank you so much for looking at my photos. I know there weren't quite as many as in my last recent photography post, but don't worry, I have more photos coming very soon. 😉 I hope you all have an absolutely amazing day! ❤
Which picture was your favorite? Least favorite? Comment below!