Showing Trend of Cuts, Insults, Muzzlings, and Cancellations
Here we see a trend towards ignorance initiated by policies of the Harper Government, which took office by a slim majority in 2006.
Numbers are derived from data compiled by John Dupuis in his post, The Canadian War on Science: A long, unexaggerated, devastating chronological indictment,
I’ve simply summed the number of documented actions for each year, since Harper came into power, and charted them to demonstrate a decided trend.
On a visit to Peterborough, Ontario, we stopped to visit Amy’s grandfather, Howard Vaughan, and were treated to some lovely songs and stories about his early days as a meteorologist in the second world war.
Here’s a video clip of Howard and Amy.
How to make FB album public (Balsamiq)
Bill and Mary (Christiano) Dumaresq. Grandson, Michael, in the middle. Circa 1960. Vancouver, BC
Grandpa and Grandma (with big brother Mikey in the middle) back in the days when you didn’t look into the camera unless you were a kid.
Grandpa was a detective with the Vancouver Police Force. Started as a Beat cop and worked in Chinatown.
Grandma was a champion bowler, dart player, and a dab hand at cards. She could make anything in the kitchen, but the best things I remember her making was us happy.
From Darrell Dumaresq (son/of Bill, s/o Frank, s/o Joe, g-s/o Perry): "Jo and I were thinking of something to send you, we recalled you asking for a pic of Frank and Maude (your great grand parents) I can't remember whether you wanted it or Anne (Cameron) did. Anyway here's the original. ... It's really a striking pic. They were certainly dressed for a very formal event and carry it off well. I wonder if the pearls Maude has on are those that son "Bill" brought back from the Orient when he was "cabin boy" on the Princess of Asia (Empress of Asia). I think that's the right name." "Love from all of us and especially me! Dad xxoo"
Thanks Dad! (Love from … especially me!)
I came across these notes on Maude, Frank's wife She lived at 4143 W. 12th, but earlier on the 1800 block of West 5th (all of the Dumaresqs lived within about two blocks until ca 1930). She came to Vancouver on November 13, 1866, with her brother Albert William Mahoney who lived at 1508 9th St. W. in New Westminster, and her half-brother Samuel H. Walker, who lived at 266 9th St. E. North Vancouver. Mother thinks they came from Ireland, but she had no accent "A nice lady". Died September 25, 1965 at 82 yrs. I guess they were orphaned; she couldn't have been very old, perhaps 3.Maude's brother Albert married Jan. 7 1920 to Nellie Cobban (Baillie). Samuel Henry Walker married Janet Marie Colbourn on November 20, 1906. Ann
Found this in Vancouver marriages 1920 20-09-211761 Albert William MAHONEY, 34, waiter, Port Arthur Ont., Vancouver, s/o John MAHONEY, farmer, & Elizabeth KINCADE, married Nellie BAILLIE, 27, widow, Dundee Scotland, Burquitlan N.W. B.C., d/o James COBBAN, engineer & Elizabeth ROBERTSON-WALKER, witn: Susie BARNES & Keith LYONS, 7 Jan 1920 at Vancouver Ann
Thanks Ann!
Joe Dumaresq and children. Rear: Name?, Frank, Name?, Name? Front: Joe, Kitty, Jim.
I think Frank is second from the left behind Kitty and G’pa Joe. I’ll check when I can. My g’pa Jim is the lower right. -Ann Cameron. (Thanks Ann!)
Some history about Joe’s Grandfather, Perry Dumaresq:
This is a historical site in New Brunswick:
Grave of Lieutenant Perry Dumaresq, Royal Navy
Riverview Cemetery, Dalhousie
Buried in the Riverview Cemetery, Dalhousie, is a naval veteran of the War of 1812. Lieutenant Perry Dumaresq was born into a titled family on the Island of Jersey, Great Britain, in 1788. He entered in Royal Navy at an early age, served in the British North American and West Indies Squadron, and was promoted lieutenant on 14 April 1810. During the War of 1812 he was the commander of HMS Paz and part of the squadron under command of Admiral John P. Beresford, responsible for blockading the east coast of North American. Dumaresq distinguished himself by capturing many enemy ships, mainly American schooners. His most noteworthy seizure was the capture on 27 March 1813 of the armed American merchantman Montesquieu, en route to the USA with a rich cargo from Canton, China. A controversy followed with Dumaresq claiming that Beresford, his squadron commander, had usurped his prize money. Dumaresq retired from the navy after the war and entered the custom service, where he played a prominent role in the political life of northeastern New Brunswick. He died in Dalhousie on 13 March 1839.
What would you discover if you took the documents from, say WikiLeaks #CableGate, and performed relationship analytics on them through a social network analyser like AutoMap or some such tool?
What would it show? A tangle? A jungle? Or a coherent group of connected relationships that could not have been imagined?
Enron Email Analysis
I wonder…
I closed my PayPal account today, and in the process told them why. Now you must imagine that I’m typing into a small text box, and my session has already expired once, forcing me to retype the entire harangue–bother–so the results below are more, or less, just what I told PayPal:
In this link you make a legal determination based on supposition, but WikiLeaks has not been convicted.
You also say above (see link) that this was your own decision, and that:
PayPal was not contacted by any government organization in the U.S. or abroad.
However, here we have a different story.
In short, how can I trust you with my money?
Okay, I’ve been sitting on this one for a couple years now – way too long! It’s time to revealed it to the world (let me know if you google any prior art). Lets begin with the Stationary Cloaking Device. Note: the parts list will require pairs of two items (monitors, and webcams) -this is required for the fully built out wearable cloaker.
Now decide what object you are most interested in cloaking? Let’s say you’ve got a kid sister or brother or dad who’s always sneaking into your room and playing with your latest RC model racer. We can fix that. Let’s cloak the racer with a stationary cloaker.
Parts List
Part 1) RC Model Racing Car
1/16 E-Revo VXL 4WD RTR
Part 2) Two 19 inch flatsceen monitors. (Note, only one needed for the stationary cloaking device)
Part 3) Two webcams. (Note, only one needed for the stationary cloaking device)
Part 4) A cheapie laptop that has a second video port, and two usb ports.
Cheap Laptop
Part 5) A decoy – a ready made largish poster (not too interesting, and not too large). Use your imagination.
Avril Levine in Concert poster
Assembly
Dad, thinking about going to the AL concert...
Okay, now we’re cooking with jet fuel! Let’s move on to the sure-to-freak-em-out Wearable Cloaking Device:
This device will use the spare parts from the parts list for the stationary cloaker
Parts List
Part 1) second 19″ flatscreen monitor.
Part 2) second webcam
Part 3) Two 12″ lengths of light twine or shielded wire.
Assembly:
Now call your little sister in…. 🙂 heh heh 🙂
And there you have it! Cloaking, the low tech way. And they said it couldn’t be done! 🙂 Let me know if any of you manage to build one… and let me know if you find any prior art on the Internet.
Happy Canada Day, eh!
The Public Health Agency of Canada’s website states, Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in adult Canadian men and women.
After looking at the Heart Monitor for iPhone app, which allows you to find your heart rate, It struck me that, for the purposes of Tele-epidemiology, it would be interesting to invite folks who are using the Heart Monitor to allow uploads of their data to a publicly accessible database.
When mashed with anonymized user profiles (e.g. location, age, sex), this data might reveal some interesting and useful patterns. One question I have is whether this would be of any value to public health agencies and researchers.
My next question would be, what incentives would be necessary to persuade users to allow the upload of their data. My guess is many would be perfectly willing to allow it for the common good – if they could see how their data was being used (maybe with some nice visualization overlaying a map mashup).
And my final question is what would encourage the developers of Health Monitor to implement this feature? Some incentive might be necessary here… Don’t know.
Any ideas?
