1. This lets everyone, (including sane folks without FB accounts), to view the contents of your photo album. But that’s what you want, right.

Copy and share the link that appears at the bottom of the page.

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 oldest brother Mikey in the middle.

Back in the days when you didn’t look into the camera, except if you’re 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 it show? A tangle? A jungle? Or a coherent group of connected relationships that could not have been imagined?

Enron Email Analysis

I wonder…

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?

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

1. Tack the poster on the wall.
2. Mount the webcam on top of the monitor pointing toward the wall (i.e. focused on the poster)
3. Place the RC on a box so that it’s raised high enough to be hidden by the monitor.
4. Connect the monitor and the webcam to the laptop
5. Turn it all on and step in front of the monitor. Voila! the RC roadster vanishes…. (sorta)

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:

1. Remove the stands from both monitors
2. Mount the webcams on each monitor as follows: you’re going to wear the monitors, with the cameras mounted on them both cams facing away from the viewing side of the monitors.
3. Tie both pieces of twine, or wire, to the backs of the monitors, so that the monitors can be hung over your head, with one on your stomach and the other on your back.
4. Hook the second monitor to the second video port and the second webcam to the second usb port on your laptop
5. Turn the suckers on and then gently pull the monitors over your head, so they hang over your tummy and back with the webcams point to the front and the rear.

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!

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?

… Don’t let “the delinquents and the strangers” [quote from Ayatollah Khomeini, quotation marks added] confiscate from you the precious heritage of the Islamic Revolution, which is built from the blood of your honest fathers.

One will allow police to monitor our Internet activity – without requiring a warrant – and another to force ISPs to install “intercept-capable” equipment, enabling police to track “suspicious” activity and seize subscriber’s personal information – name, phone, address… Billing info?  Maybe, who knows? All of this while passing the cost on to us – of course.

In announcing the bill, Justice Minister Rob Nicholson and Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan defended the move by saying our laws governing telecommunications were designed in the “era of the rotary dial telephone” and that “Twenty-first century technology calls for 21st-century tools.” Police need these updated technologies to help them “catch up to the bad guys.”

Michael Geist points out this is a renege on a pledge by then Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day in 2007, when he announced the government had reversed its decision to force ISPs to hand over customers’ personal information to police without a warrant.

Also today, it was reported that a parliamentary committee recommended police should be given the power to conduct random roadside blood alcohol tests. A spokesperson for Mothers Against Drunk Driving praised the recommendation saying it was a good thing, because it would make people think twice before drinking and driving. Others raise concerns that a police officer, who felt a citizen wasn’t showing enough respect, might then demand they submit to a roadside breathe sample.

And really that’s what it all boils down to, respect. With cases in the news such as the horrible tazing death of Robert Dziekański and off-duty police officers beating and robbing a Vancouver newspaper delivery man, Phil (Firoz) Khan, the public loses its respect for the authorities.

And without respect, you don’t get to have cooperation, which is really the basis for law abiding behaviour. But where are the examples of respect and cooperation? Certainly not in parliament with the “big swinging dick contest,” going on daily.

It’s been said the RCMP need a good public relations campaign; this may be true for police agencies across Canada. But really, where’s the sense in putting lipstick on the pig? (No pun intended). Respect and cooperation have to be demonstrated at the top, before they will be adopted by the rank and file.