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UA Ballots Recovered; Suspects Questioned by Campus Police

By Reuven M. Lerner
News Editor

A large number of Undergraduate Association election ballots, stolen along with a ballot box on March 11 from a Lobby 7 polling station, were returned in a cardboard box just after 12:15 a.m. today.

An anonymous female caller told The Tech that the ballots could be found "in Lobby 7, on the left-side pedestal, in a cardboard box." A subsequent investigation revealed a closed cardboard box containing a brown garbage bag. Campus Police later confirmed that the box, which was retrieved by Patrolman Paul V. Conway at about 12:30 a.m., contained UA ballots.

At press time, it was not known whether the cardboard box contained all of the stolen ballots, which numbered over 600.

The ballots' reappearance came just a few days after the Office of the Dean for Student Affairs revealed it, not the Campus Police, would take action against four students implicated in the incident.

Three of the four students -- Ross A. Lippert '93, Valerie J. Ohm '93, and Peter S. Yesley '92 -- said yesterday that they each gave Campus Police a statement concerning the theft about one week before spring break.

Campus Police, the UA, and James R. Tewhey, associate dean for residence and campus activities, refused to release, confirm, or deny the names of any of the students involved.

Tewhey explained that he did not want to release the names of any students under investigation because "this will probably be an ongoing case."

Tewhey updated UA President Stacy E. McGeever '93, Vice President J. Paul Kirby '92, and Election Commissioner Raajnish A. Chitaley '95 on the thefts at a meeting earlier this week. While the Dean's Office has implicated a total of five students in the theft, only four had been questioned as of that meeting.

According to Kirby, the UA Council will decide at its next meeting whether to press charges against any or all of the students under investigation. Any hearings resulting from such charges would be held under the auspices of the Dean's Office, rather than the Committee on Discipline, because "the COD is handling academic issues these days," Kirby said.

Neither Kirby nor Chitaley would speculate on what sanctions the UAC would seek to impose. "At the highest level, they can recommend suspension or expulsion," Kirby said. He added, however, that he doubts the council will take this route. "At the worst, they could put someone on probation, something on your transcript, make you work, make you write an apology, [or] make you serve on a UA committee."

The council, according to Kirby, might also ask the students for reimbursement of the $400 spent on preparation for a special election in Lobby 7 on March 13.

"If they just take whatever names they've heard around and decide to fine everyone across the board, I'm not sure that's particularly fair," Lippert said.

"Then again, I can understand them having to recoup whatever losses they've had," he added.

Lippert, Ohm, and Yesley said that they had not been contacted by Campus Police or the Dean's Office since giving their statements.

Split in the revolution

After giving the whereabouts of the ballots, the anonymous caller identified herself as a member of the Student's Revolutionary Government, which took responsibility for the theft. There has been a split among the membership, she added.

Yesley was shocked to hear that the ballots had been returned. "I don't know what happened to the ballots," he said. "I really don't. On the other hand, I was under the impression that they were destroyed."

"How can there be ballots?" Yesley asked. "Unless people are telling lies to me, I don't know what's going on. I guess I've been lied to. I'm starting to get angry."

The caller said the split had occurred because Yesley "doesn't know how to run a revolutionary movement." She added that several of the group's members thought of him as a male chauvinist.

But Yesley was surprised to hear that there had been a split in the movement. "The SRG is a government, and it's a government of students. ... I don't see how there could possibly be any hard feelings. They're my friends."


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Letters to the Editor

In looking through the World and Nation section of Tuesday's Tech, we were surprised to discover that not only is Sharon Stone a homewrecker ["Sharon Stone Is Homewrecker, Fiance's Estranged Wife Says," April 6], but that this is an issue of national (and Institute) concern. Maybe you should consider a section titled "Tabloid Headlines You May Have Missed." Surely even another update on the Waco siege would be more newsworthy. We hope that this letter will help to alleviate the apparent shortage of material available for filling column inches.

Erika Schutte '95

Cora Dancy '93

Jeanne Thienprasit '95

Melissa Hayes '96

Cambridge Parking Part of Secret Plot

To those of us who live, work, or park in Cambridge, it appears that the parking bureau is operating one step above legitimized corruption. As a model city acting under the guise of protecting the environment and adhering to the Clean Air Act, the City of Cambridge imposes parking "restrictions" to reduce air pollution by reducing the number of cars driving into and out of its boundaries.

But what if these "restrictions" increase air pollution while raising revenue? Last Wednesday MIT heard the city's proposals for Zone 2, the area surrounding MIT. It was surprising to learn that these proposals were drafted without consultation with the MIT community, a community heeding well to environmental standards by using only 4,500 parking spaces for a population of scientists, staff, and students exceeding 18,000.

Basically, the city is calling for putting time meters wherever there is unrestricted parking and where no residential parking is needed. Imposing time restrictions where there are currently none means that there will be five or ten cars a day pulling in and out whereas now there is only one. This doesn't reduce air pollution. Using the Clean Air Act as political leverage to impose these "restrictions" makes a mockery of this legislation.

Maybe the principal motivation for these "restrictions" isn't clean air at all. Maybe the underlying motivation is raising revenue. According to Cambridge's assistant director of traffic and parking, the parking clerk raised $6 million last year on parking tickets. A number that he should know well, but which my calculations indicate could be a lot higher.

It has been my perception that things have been getting out of hand. Tickets are being issued more and more irresponsibly and without consequence or accountability on the part of the parking clerk. This past winter I received two tickets for storing my vehicle on Amherst Street, which was highly unlikely since I drive to and from my home in Chelsea every day. What's more, I had to go through a protracted and very stressful series of arguments with officials in the clerk's office before turning to the mayor's office to get them dismissed. In the parking clerk's characteristic fashion, verbal responses to tickets are ignored and written responses are not acknowledged. Is this the "improved service" that the city claims its $6 million is being spent on? If you are going to contest a ticket by going to the clerk's office to see the (only) hearing officer, go when the line isn't too long and the hearing officer is not too busy, at lunch, and is in a compatible mood. (Also make sure you put extra quarters in the meter.) With all these in your favor, Cambridge's archaic system for contesting parking violations may work for you.

Why does haphazard ticketing exist in the first place? Because no one who works during the day has the time or patience to deal with the tense atmosphere of the parking clerk's incompetent bureaucracy, and the parking clerk knows this. The clerk is capitalizing on the seeds of inefficiency it has sown and on the MBTA's sporadic bus service to raise revenue through rampant ticketing rather than "improving services." If the clerk's office could improve services as well as it issues tickets and collects fees, Cambridge would be a lot more responsible, fair, and responsive to its inhabitants. Cambridge parking is imposing "restrictions" because they're having a field day raising revenue and putting up meters wherever they think they can make a buck, or a million.

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A security guard along with 20 other people who had been riding in a truck were arrested on Monday after the guard shot a teenage girl in central Baghdad, witnesses and an Iraqi army sergeant said. The guard, whose nationality was not immediately known, wounded the girl, who is 18, in the leg as she crossed the street in the bustling, mixed neighborhood of Karada around noon, according to witnesses.
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A flash mob wielding various flags of the world appeared shortly after President Hockfield’s speech. The mob danced in the middle of Killian Court before high-fiving Susan Hockfield personally.

President Hockfield, taken by surprise at the sudden appearance of the flash mob after her speech.

Chancellor Grimson shakes hands with President Hockfield after commending her various accomplishments as president.

MIT celebrated their 16th president in Killian Court on Thursday. Hockfield makes a speech directed at the community, offering reflections of her time as president.

Reif with pancakes! The president-elect serves pancakes to MIT students at the Flapjacks for Finals event at Lobdell on Sunday.

The Technology Children’s Center in the Stata Center takes care of around 80 children and employs 30 staff members.

Alan E. Siegel EdD, Chief of Mental Health Services

Kresge Auditorium’s facade shines with various colored banners corresponding to the different teams presenting in the 2.009 Product Engineering Processes final project milestone Monday night.

Protagonist Bobby Strong (Trevor J. Mulchay ‘15) leads a rebellion last May in the MIT Musical Theatre Guild’s production of Urinetown, a “tale of greed, corruption, love, and revolution.”

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Google Nexus 7 review

Google first tablet market is Nexus 7, an Asus-made device which has impressed us no-end

The Nexus 7 has been on the market for a while now; it's been almost a year since it launched. Over that time a number of rival tablets have arrived, most of which have arguably been copycat efforts.

Google Nexus 7 review: Design
As the name suggests the tablet has a 7in screen as is therefore a small tablet. The Nexus 7 is respectably thin at 10.9mm and very light at 336g

It's designed to be held in portrait mode predominantly and we found it very comfortable in one hand, in either orientation. You can easily reach right round the tablet with one hand, like you would with a smartphone. The pint-sized dimensions of 120 x 199mm mean you can also put the tablet in the back pocket of your jeans or the inside pocket of a jacket.

The front is one piece of glass only interrupted by a camera and light sensor surrounded by a silver metal frame. The back of the Nexus 7 is a dark brown, effectively black, textured cover which has a rubbery feel. The finish on the rear cover provides a good amount of grip and feels nice to the touch.

Google Nexus 7 review: Build quality
We've come to expect tablets with a price tag under £200 to offer poor build quality. However, the Nexus 7 throws this trend out of the window. Google's tablet is well made and feels like a premium product, almost making us double check the price.

The scratch resistant Corning glass sits neatly flush with the metal frame and the same is true of the rear cover. The buttons and ports also feel solid, not cheap and nasty like we've come to expect from budget tablets.

One very small quibble we found was rippling on the screen at the top and bottom edges. This is something we saw on the HTC One X and happened when putting pressure on the display. We're not suggesting that everyone will be pushing the screen like it's one giant physical button but it is more worrying in terms of traveling with the Nexus 7 in a bag.

Google Nexus 7 review: Hardware
The Nexus 7 has a surprisingly good line-up of hardware for a tablet with a budget price tag. For starters it uses the same nVidia Tegra 3 quad-core processor found in many high-end tablets. This is backed up by a healthy 1GB of RAM.

In the GeekBench 2 test the Nexus 7 scored highly with an average of 1452 over three runs. This reflects how smooth the tablet runs and performs. In our Egypt HD gaming test, it scored a solid framerate of 14fps.

The highlight for us is the 7in screen which uses a backlit in-plane switching (IPS) panel with a resolution of 1280 x 800. The display has excellent contrast, brightness and viewing angles. The level of detail is high thanks to the 1280 x 800 resolution giving a pixel density of 216ppi. This is higher than the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) which costs more.

Storage is limited at either 8GB or 16GB with the latter costing £199 compared to £159. It's worth noting that the full quoted capacity won't be available since the Android operating system uses around 2GB of the space.

There is 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi so you can tether the Nexus 7 to a smartphone for data on-the-go. Other connectivity includes Bluetooth, GPS and a near-field communications (NFC) chip.

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Thursday, October 6, 2016

Analytical Engine

In 1834, Charles Babbage began paintings on a new calculating device, called the Analytical Engine. Babbage was hoping that this new machine would be a long way more powerful than the distinction Engine. Lovelace observed his paintings with interest. She began thinking about what the new gadget is probably capable of, and started out studying the arithmetic underpinning it. The Analytical Engine was in no way finished, however this element become created by Babbage's son, Henry Babbage.

Jacquard loom

A model of a ribbon loom that makes use of Jacquard ideas. The version become designed and made by using James Heywood in 1870. In 1834, Lovelace and her mom toured the commercial north and midlands of england, inclusive of a ribbon factory in Coventry. Lovelace was interested by the machines, which reminded her of Babbage's distinction Engine.

Woven portrait

by way of the early nineteenth century, many weaving looms used punched cards to manipulate and decide the woven sample. Joseph-Marie Jacquard (pictured right here), a French weaver and service provider, evolved the mechanical Jacquard loom, which was managed by way of a "chain" of punched playing cards in series. The playing cards allowed for an limitless range of styles. This portrait of Jacquard became woven on a Jacquard loom using heaps of punched cards.

Calculating gadget

The difference Engine turned into mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage's first deliberate calculating gadget. Babbage envisaged that the system might be capable of calculate complex mathematical tables. The device changed into by no means completed, however Babbage did build this section to demonstrate what the device ought to do. In 1833, Lovelace (then 17 years antique) noticed this section at Babbage's domestic.

Portrait of a lady

Ada Lovelace, daughter of the well-known poet Lord Byron, changed into born Augusta Ada Byron in 1815. In 1835, she married and became Augusta Ada King. while her husband become made Earl of Lovelace in 1838, Ada have become the Countess of Lovelace. From that factor on, she used the name she is understood with the aid of these days: Ada Lovelace.

Apple-1 pc & uncommon Enigma system Up for auction

neglect scanning electron microscopes, high-speed centrifuges and laptop-controlled telescopes — a number of the coolest technological know-how tools ever made are completely analog, tremendously vintage and available for purchase as a part of a new online auction.
Hosted by means of Christie's auction house in London, the Seven Centuries of science sale functions a number of the coolest medical instruments from the 14th century onward. the online-most effective auction opened for bidding yesterday (Oct. 15) and lasts till Oct. 29.
The oldest artifact to hit the auction block is a horary quadrant — an device used to degree the time of day by calculating the altitude of the sun. it is predicted to sell for as a minimum $seventy seven,000, in keeping with Christie's.
any other antique-college astronomical tool up for sale is an astrolabe rete which can had been made by means of Georg Hartmann, one of the maximum prolific 16th-century producers of those devices. The spindly, round tool turned into made circa 1530, and it rotates to simulate the movement of stars inside the sky. The astrolabe ought to sell for more than $23,000, public sale residence officers stated.
but for folks that choose bloodless difficult cash to astronomical observations, there's the McFarlane calculating cylinder, a rotating tube used to calculate economic interest. The device turned into used earlier than the arrival of computing to perform ordinary (however hard) calculations regarding multiplication, division and square roots.
An device that features just like the McFarlane cylinder, but with a much specific appearance, is also for sale. Fuller's computing telegraph dates back to 1852. The round cardboard device has discs that spin around a metallic pin. The discs serve extraordinary purposes, with one that may be used to determine the range of days or weeks among two dates, and some other "logarithmic" disc that is available in on hand whilst identifying areas, distances, weights and volumes.
different mathematical devices up for auction are a bit more mechanical than the Fuller and McFarlane gadgets. as an instance, the primary-ever commercially successful calculator, the Thomas de Colmar arithmometer, looks like a group of little knobs and gears tucked inner a quaint wood box. The clunky system might not appear as high-tech as current calculators, however it became modern while it first became commercially to be had inside the mid-19th century. One present day review of the device raved that it may calculate the multiplication of eight-discern sums through eight-figure sums in less than 18 seconds.
only 60 or so Thomas de Colmar arithmometers are acknowledged to nonetheless exist, and this one is predicted to sell for at the least $7,700, in line with Christie's. however that sum pales in evaluation to the $ninety three,000 minimum bid that might be thrown down for a unprecedented Enigma machine, which is likewise up for public sale. Forces in Nazi Germany as soon as used the device to ship and decode clandestine messages. A comparable Enigma machine currently sold at auction for approximately $233,000.
however, if you definitely have money burning a hole to your pocket, then you may be interested in proudly owning a piece of computing history. Christie's is auctioning off an Apple-1 non-public computer. evolved in 1976 through computing prodigy Steve Wozniak and advertising and marketing genius Steve Jobs, the first-rate-unfashionable pc is literally the mom of all Macs. most effective 50 or so of these computer systems are recognised to nonetheless exist. The minimal bid for this little bit of tech memorabilia is simply under $four hundred,000, but it could sell for in the direction of $800,000, in line with Christie's.

satisfied Ada Lovelace Day! show off Honors 1st computer Programmer

A century earlier than the first pc became developed, an Englishwoman named Ada Lovelace laid the theoretical foundation for an all-reason device that would clear up a number of mathematically-primarily based troubles. broadly credited as being the primary-ever computer programmer, Lovelace's pioneering work is explored in a brand new exhibit that opens these days (Oct. thirteen) at the science Museum, London, within the united kingdom.
The date of the exhibit's starting wasn’t chosen at random. Tech geeks round the sector are commemorating Lovelace's achievements nowadays, as they do every year in mid-October — a day known as Ada Lovelace Day. the new show off capabilities fashions of early calculating machines, designated notes and handwritten letters that tell the tale of Lovelace's groundbreaking thoughts.
Born Augusta Ada Byron in December 1815, Lovelace turned into the daughter of renowned poet George, Lord Byron and his spouse, Anne Isabella Noel. She married William King-Noel, First Earl of Lovelace in 1835 (therefore her remaining name). [In Photos: Ada Lovelace Exhibit at London's Science Museum]
whilst Lovelace was a teenager, she visited the house of Charles Babbage, a mathematician and mechanical engineer, who became working on his difference Engine, a calculating gadget designed to resolve complex mathematical problems. Lovelace took a keen hobby inside the machine and in arithmetic greater commonly, according to Tilly Blyth, lead curator of the Ada Lovelace exhibition, who stated in a assertion that the issue each "involved and enthralled" the young Lovelace.
Her early fascination with arithmetic and the complicated machines used to resolve equations in the end led her to take a far closer have a look at the principles in the back of another system that Babbage proposed to construct, the Analytical Engine. In 1842, Lovelace translated into English an in depth account of this machine, as defined through the Italian mathematician (and later prime Minister of Italy) Luigi Menabrea.
Lovelace's translation of Menabrea's account turned into published along her tremendous notes approximately the Analytical Engine and its capacity makes use of. included in her notes was an set of rules that the system should use to calculate Bernoulli numbers (a fixed of rational numbers often utilized in number concept, or arithmetic). Many take into account Lovelace's algorithm to be the first laptop code ever created, because it was the primary logical set of steps evolved to be used with a particular gadget.
but in addition to developing with the world's first pc code, Lovelace additionally foretold the approaching of the pc age. Her notes on the Analytical Engine relay an crucial message: complex mathematical machines can do loads greater than crunch numbers. She anticipated that Babbage's contraption would possibly clear up any hassle that could be expressed the usage of logistical symbols — consisting of the introduction of complicated musical rankings.
Lovelace's notes are on show at the new show off, as are a set of her personal letters and several photographs of the Victorian-generation laptop programmer. additionally on show are Babbage's difficult drawings of the Analytical Engine, in addition to part of this calculating device (which changed into in no way completely built), in addition to other inventions.

Wearable Sensors could Translate sign Language Into English

Wearable sensors should in the future interpret the gestures in signal language and translate them into English, providing a excessive-tech option to communication troubles between deaf humans and people who don’t apprehend sign language.
Engineers at Texas A&M college are growing a wearable device which can sense movement and muscle interest in a person's fingers.
The device works by way of figuring out the gestures someone is making via the use of  awesome sensors: one which responds to the movement of the wrist and the other to the muscular moves in the arm. A software then wirelessly receives this information and converts the data into the English translation. [Top 10 Inventions that Changed the World]
After a few preliminary research, the engineers found that there were gadgets that attempted to translate signal language into text, however they were not as complex in their designs.
"maximum of the era ... changed into primarily based on imaginative and prescient- or camera-based answers," said take a look at lead researcher Roozbeh Jafari, an accomplice professor of biomedical engineering at Texas A&M.
those current designs, Jafari stated, aren't sufficient, because frequently whilst someone is speaking with signal language, they are the usage of hand gestures combined with specific finger actions.
"I thought maybe we should investigate combining movement sensors and muscle activation," Jafari informed stay technology. "And the idea right here become to build a wearable device."
The researchers built a prototype device which can understand words that human beings use most typically of their daily conversations. Jafari said that after the crew starts expanding the program, the engineers will consist of more phrases which can be less regularly used, so as to build up a extra huge vocabulary.
One disadvantage of the prototype is that the device must be "skilled" to respond to each character that wears the tool, Jafari said. This education system involves asking the user to basically repeat or do each hand gesture more than one times, that may take in to 30 minutes to complete.
"If i am sporting it and you are wearing it — our our bodies are exclusive … our muscle systems are unique," Jafari stated.
but, Jafari thinks the difficulty is largely the result of time constraints the team faced in building the prototype. It took  graduate students simply  weeks to construct the device, so Jafari said he is confident that the tool turns into extra superior at some stage in the following steps of development.
The researchers plan to lessen the schooling time of the device, or maybe dispose of it altogether, in order that the wearable tool responds routinely to the user. Jafari additionally wants to improve the effectiveness of the gadget's sensors so that the tool will be extra beneficial in actual-lifestyles conversations. currently, while someone gestures in sign language, the device can best study words one at a time.
This, however, is not how people communicate. "whilst we're speaking, we placed all of the phrases in one sentence," Jafari said. "The transition from one word to another phrase is seamless and it's absolutely instantaneous."
"We need to build signal-processing strategies that would assist us to discover and understand a complete sentence," he brought.
Jafari's closing vision is to apply new era, along with the wearable sensor, to expand modern user interfaces between human beings and computers.
for example, people are already at ease with the usage of keyboards to trouble instructions to digital gadgets, however Jafari thinks typing on gadgets like smartwatches isn't always sensible because they generally tend to have  small screens.
"We need to have a new consumer interface (UI) and a UI modality that helps us to speak with those devices," he said. "devices like [the wearable sensor] might help us to get there. it would essentially be the proper step inside the right course."
Jafari provided this research at the Institute of electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 12th Annual body Sensor Networks conference in June.

Apple-1 pc

developed in 1976 with the aid of Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs, the Apple-1 computer is literally the mother of all Macs. best 50 or so of these computers are nevertheless in life. The minimum bid for the retro system is simply underneath $four hundred,000, but it may promote for towards $800,000, Christie's auctioneers speculate.

Enigma gadget

Patented with the aid of Arthur Scherbius in 1918, this three-rotor Enigma device become a fashionable tool for German military employees at some point of global battle II. The device used its 3 rotors, every of which bears the 26 letters of the alphabet (as well as several other inner components), to create coded messages. Enigma codes were considered unbreakable till 1941, when British scientist Alan Turing advanced a system that helped crack the German Enigma code. The uncommon gadget is expected to promote for as a minimum $ninety three,000.

This Thomas de Colmar arithmometer wasn't the primary mechanical calculator ever built, however it become the primary commercially a success mechanical calculator to hit the market. offered inside the mid to past due nineteenth century, the gadget should carry out addition, subtraction, multiplication and department. One cutting-edge reviewer raved that the vintage-college calculator could accurately multiply an eight-parent sum through an eight-parent sum in only 18 seconds.

Horary quadrant

The oldest scientific instrument of English origin ever to be provided on the market by Christie's, this horary quadrant likely dates lower back to the 14th century. Medieval sky-gazers once used the device to calculate the altitude of the sun and, with the aid of extension, the time of day.

Astrolabe rete

another curious-searching astronomical device, this astrolabe rete helped sixteenth-century scientists hold song of the movement of the celebs. This precise device dates back to 1530 and changed into synthetic with the aid of Georg Hartmann, a pioneer in the mass manufacturing of scientific units.

Computing telegraph

A easy rectangular of cardboard, this computing telegraph might also had been utilized by enterprise owners who had to compute intervals among dates on a calendar. Fuller's computing telegraph incorporates circular discs that spin around a metallic pin. such a discs boasted linear scales representing the 12 months of the yr that spun round a bigger disc, which also denoted all 12 months of the calendar yr. the opposite aspect of the disc can be used as a logarithmic calculator, useful for figuring out complicated equations concerning location, distance, weight and extent.

Cylinder slide rule

Having problem calculating the hobby for your ultra-modern funding? This McFarlane calculating cylinder may want to assist (though a current calculator might be inexpensive). This predecessor of ultra-modern digital calculators, which is predicted to sell for extra than $2,six hundred at auction, helped nineteenth-century bankers resolve equations involving multiplication, division and rectangular roots.


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There was a time when Twitter wasn’t a well known form of social media. Many individuals would have had a Twitter account when it was not so popular, and maybe they were not active members.Nowadays it is very popular social networking website and has seen more users than ever before.

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Monday, April 14, 2008

Our House

I think that we really lucked out with our house. It is such a blessing! True, we do have drafty windows and there are too many over-grown bushes in the front yard but I think that it is going to be a great place for us. We have everything unpacked and now all I am doing is some final touches and a few more pictures on the walls.
We have 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms a playroom and family room. We even have a garage, which we have learned is not a accommodation that all homes in this area have. There is also a wonderful guest suite downstairs that is always ready for visitors!

The Albuquerque Sheps said...

WOW! What a beautiful home. I'm impressed. Are you guys going to be there for awhile? Your kids are cute like always. Good to see you!

Fallaws said...

Wow! So much bigger than our base houses at Hill! Tina, wish we could do bikini boot camp again together. I sure do need to lose this baby weight!

Jack said...

this guest suite has cable and broadband, right?


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So I guess I got some explaining to do (if I don't I think Ava might attack me). Jeez, let's see, where do I begin to explain...?

I think you all realize by now I ran into some trouble. It was the wrestler and the ninja- or should I call him Scar Face now? I've been on the move, hitch hiking rides across states and sleeping wherever I can find something even slightly comfortable. Well it found me at the bookstore I had been staying in during the day. Obviously he couldn't get to me but his goddamn minions could.

After I posted I got the hell outta there as casually as I could without drawing attention. Didn't need to get innocent adults and children killed- no matter how much of a jackass I am, that's where I draw the line. Of course they followed me, and I kept walking like I didn't see them, headed towards a public street. They're not stupid, they won't attack if hundreds of other people can see. So we were at a draw. Eventually it started to get dark and the streets were less crowded.

I got up to leave (had been staying put on a bench opposite them) and that's when they began to run at me. You can imagine the merry chase I lead them on. Over fuckin' fences, around buildings, through every alley way I could think of. By the time they finally caught up I was wheezing. So where they, but, eh, they have more of a drive when it controls them. Don't really seem to tire out until they're dead. Now here's were I'm embarrassed to talk- they managed to knock me out with a brick and dragged me to this construction area. My guess is they were gonna either torture me or hang me from some random piece of wood. Just another suicide, right?

I woke up sooner than they expected. They were in the process of duct taping my legs and one of them was going for the arms. Even had a piece over my mouth which wasn't pleasant to pull off, lemme tell you. Punched the scrawny one in the face before he could realize I was conscious and knocked the big guy off balance with a kick. Goddamn in those moments I always feel like I can't move fast enough. My bag was too far away, so I improvised. Used a plank of wood just lying there to turn and hit the big guy in the head as hard as I could. Managed to get my old knife off of him (idiot was keeping it in his back pocket) before the other sorta jumped on me and tried to punch my face in.

Ow, now it's throbbing. Great. Busted my nose up pretty bad and made me look like a raccoon, but nothing is broken.

When I got an opening I went to stab the bastard. Only, he's faster than I thought. Instead of slicing him right through the head, he dodged and got a nice cut right on his eye and up to his ear. Looked pretty painful. Right about then big guy gets back up and- you're not gonna believe this, it was total dumb luck and he must of been disoriented or something- tripped over the plank of wood I beat him over the head with. Landed right next to me.

So I stabbed him in the throat and ripped the knife outta the side.

Smelled pretty bad, that's for sure. And it never exactly feels good to take a life, but at least it's nothing new. Scar Face got outta there and left me and his dead companion.

It took me maybe an hour to get the tape off of my legs (they wrapped me up nice and pretty, like a present, hehe) and get my shit together as well as clean up my tracks. Have to be careful after all. Ended up carrying the body to a river next to the site and dumped it there. Went back and cleaned the blood up as good as I could (which included smearing mud and all sorts of other gunk lying around into the spot) but there's only so much I can do.

So now I'm hiding myself away so that if anything happens at least I won't be caught off guard. Damn, I feel like one giant bruise.

And y'know what, kids? This still isn't as cool sounding as nailing minions with bombs after bitch fighting in a forest in the dark. Hehe, gonna remember that story forever, Ava.

  1. Oh thank god you're alive Mother was going to kill you...

    As was I, actually.

    Jesus H Christ on a bike, man! That's TOO CLOSE for comfort!

    Still, at least you're not dying or dead....

    And you got your knife back....

    Urgh, it's hard to remain angry when you're hyperventilating and grinning madly ohgodfuckdamndshit.

    Fuck you, Awesome /Old Guy/ at least you're still alive.

    ....D'awwww....thanks XD

    But remember kids! Never EVER try this shit at home. This was done by PROFESSIONAL insane people.

    I've just got to go tell Mum, she'll stop sharpening that cleaver....

  2. Hehe, was Daisee planning on bringing me back to life and killing me again? I feel special, I got both generations of Delaney gettin' worried over me- guess that makes me a special guy.

    Eh, close calls happen often in this line of business. It kinda comes with the tall monsters in suits and crazy people who run around and leave cryptic messages. Just another average day for the survivors, right?

    Your way with words just touches my heart, /kid/. I think you brought a tear to my eye!

    Cleaver? Huh, kinda glad I didn't die. I don't think I'd wanna fight Daisee with a big ol' knife in her hands.

  3. Fuck, if that word verification thing crashes this one more time I'm giving up.

    You don't know me, but I need help. Please.

    No need to reply to this, everything's on my most recent entry.


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First it was nothing I’d ever heard of. Suddenly it was everywhere. Not Kony. I’d heard of him before all this. Actually, my first real lesson in Joseph Kony and the crimes for which he’s responsible was in the Vertigo comic Unknown Soldier. (Who says comics can’t teach us anything?) And a woman for whom I used to pet-sit, Leora Khan, has done lots of work on behalf of child soldiers through her organization PROOF Media for Social Justice, so I absorbed a lot from her, too.

But yesterday, I saw several people posting the following video on Tumblr, and I think you should watch it. It’s a little over 20 minutes long:

I was inspired, not just because I saw someone actively attempting to stop something on a continent that, quite honestly, few governments actually give a fuck about, but because it captured everything I think is wonderful about the technologically advanced and increasingly interconnected world in which we live. And so I passed the link around.

Today, I’ve seen several people talking about how we shouldn’t be supporting this campaign, because the organization behind it, Invisible Children, is “shady” with regard to the way it uses its money. Some have even gone so far as to say that the LRA, while a big problem (and they always qualify it, because they don’t want to seem heartless), isn’t that big of a deal now anyway, and the U.S. is already doing something about it, and Kony might be dead anyway, so why are we all gonna get invested in this campaign? Wil Wheaton reblogged a post from The Daily What’s tumblr. A friend of mine posted the following comment after I posted the video on Facebook:

Although Kony is still out there, the LRA has not been active in Uganda since 2006. And several reports have been made that he’s ill and not very active himself, possibly dead. We should find out for sure, of course, but Invisible Children has been criticized by several for leaving out facts and the group has come under investigation several times for questionable money practices and for sometimes refusing to share charity financial records. Definitely think Kony should be found and happy to spread the word, but not sure I want to support this particular video.

To which I responded:

1) the LRA “not being active in Uganda since 2006” is just flat-out not true. There was the Mokombo massacre in Dec 2009, and attacks continued through Feb 2010. Obama sent in 100 advisers at the end of this past year. No matter what the public said, Washington wouldn’t send anyone to Africa if it were considered a total waste of time.

2) Kony 2012 isn’t about charity. You don’t have to give them money at all. Purchasing the action kit and all that is optional, but the goal is to GET INVOLVED. With at least time and effort, if not money. So if possible charity shadiness is what you’re worried about, you don’t have to be. It’s just as easy to download and print posters yourself as it is to order them through their website. And the video just inspires people to action. However, just about EVERY non-profit has been, at some point, investigated because of how they use their money. Doesn’t mean they’ve done anything wrong. Or that, if mistakes were made, they weren’t fixed. Also, Invisible Children has all their financials on their Tri website going back to 2006 if anyone wants to look into it.

3) I’d be curious to know what reports have talked about him being ill or dead? Just did a Google search and didn’t turn up anything like that. The only references to him being “sick” all coincide with peace talks he was supposed to attend.

4) Another big reason why I’m behind this particular campaign so much is because it provides an amazing model for activism. I love that the internet really has changed the world in so many ways. From the Occupy Movement to stuff like this, people can actually get together and change things. And Kony 2012 is a very specific, focused goal. If progress is made on this front within this year (progress being that gov’t realizes that their citizens actually do care about this and don’t want the advisers pulled out), then this can be a template for change on other fronts.

I am absolutely shocked and disheartened by the “backlash” this video is getting, because it points to this generation’s seeming need to remain apathetic at all times. If people care about something too much, or if something is too popular, something is clearly awry. It’s our job to be skeptical, and if our choices are between “not having our money used properly” and “doing nothing,” people will choose Doing Nothing every time. Because, hey – at least we’ll still have our money, right? And those problems in the world? Well, it’s not like we were gonna solve them all anyway.

One of the biggest criticisms of the Occupy Movement was that the goals weren’t specific enough. What do these occupiers want? With KONY 2012, the criticism – in addition to the overly-inflated money concerns – is that this goal is too specific. Sure we’d be getting rid of Kony, but that won’t solve the real problems. God, it’s like people will use any excuse to not care! Your goal isn’t specific enough. Your goal is too specific. It’s like being stuck between a stubborn rock and an irrational hard place you wanna punch in the neck!

It’s funny, usually people are idealistic in their youth, and hardened and cynical in their “old age.” For me, the opposite has happened, and I find apathy and cynicism infuriating.

The thing is, KONY 2012 detractors have made this all about money, when the fact is, THERE’S SO MUCH MORE TO THIS VIDEO THAN THAT. You don’t have to spend A DIME. On ANYTHING. The video isn’t a call to finances, it’s a call to ACTION, and that’s what detractors are missing. Giving a small amount of money is only one thing this video is asking you to do, and honestly, it’s the least important.

So often we’re totally happy to merely throw money at problems. Look how charitable I’m being! I gave all this money! But we don’t actually care where the money goes. We don’t follow up on it. If we did, we wouldn’t need people to tell us when organizations are being shady, because WE’D ALREADY KNOW. And when it comes to things like calling congresspeople or senators? When it comes to organizing people in our communities? When it comes to making phone calls, or registering voters, or merely SPEAKING UP to our friends about a cause we care about? We don’t do it.

Because it’s too much fucking work.

That’s something that’s been annoying me for a long time. Because I’m someone who wants to DO things about things! I don’t want to just write a check and call it a day. I want to be INVOLVED. And whenever I’ve tried to be involved and get others to be as excited, I feel like a cheerleader without a team. And it’s difficult to be a cheerleader with no one else holding you up in the pyramid!

Watch the video and share it. It costs you absolutely nothing. I think the video might inspire you to a) learn more about the plight of child soldiers, b) call your elected officials, c) take this issue into account when voting this year, d) take part in more grassroots organizing around this, or any other issue you’re passionate about.

And as for Kony, I think that ascertaining his whereabouts is a worthwhile goal for all of us this year. It is one thing we can focus on and help to accomplish. Even if Invisible Children is inflating their involvement in our government’s decision to send advisers to Uganda, or misusing funds, or any of the other charges thrown in their direction…what the video says about us living in an age when we can accomplish so much more because we are interconnected, and have a duty to care about the world beyond our borders? That is not wrong. That is the idea this video ultimately spreads.

That, not money, is what KONY 2012 is about.

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  1. Teresa i think you are missing a huge point..
    This is not about America or the western World, its about the Acholi people. The Acholi people saw this video and got very angry, I was present.

    The video is emotionally manipulative and highly patronizing to the Acholi people.

    Thirdly America knew all about Kony years ago..President Bush was always in Uganda during that time..why was nothing done??

    Fourth this campaign came out the exact week news of oil production were introduced in Uganda…coincidence, right??

    5th Kony has not been active for 7 years..any other attacks you are mentioning , I suggest you do a serious background check on them and remember this is Africa , Kony is not the only threat.

    For God and my country

    • Tina, sorry I’ve been so late in responding. I’ve been bad about checking my comments! Thank you so much for your comment and for your perspective. I would be very interested in hearing exactly why this video made the Acholi angry, because I don’t know. Is it that this is “too little too late”? Or is it simply because it was done by outsiders? I’m very curious, and would like to know specifically how this is patronizing.

      As for it being “emotionally manipulative,” it’s supposed to be. It’s a video that’s designed to call people to action. It’s propaganda in a positive way. It isn’t enough to tell people (certainly not in the U.S.) dry facts and expect them to do anything about anything. The success of this video, for me, was effectively tapping into people’s emotions and inspiring them to find out more, or do something.

      I think you’re tying the efforts of this one non-profit to the actions of our government in a way that isn’t accurate. You’re right, our government has known about Kony for years and done nothing. That’s why this organization made this video. This entire Kony 2012 effort is an attempt to petition our government to take action in this matter, starting with Kony, symbolically, but not stopping there. It comes from a place of believing that our world is interconnected. That no group of people in any part of the world should have to suffer on their own. But as for Bush or news of oil production, the actions of this small organization has nothing to do with any of that. There would be no interest for a group like Invisible Children to have this come out to coincide with news of oil production in Uganda. That would require them to be working very closely with our government, which they are not. If anything, a criticism of the group here is that they are getting involved when President Obama has already made this a priority. If anything, IC is seen by many as ineffectual.

      Lastly, and again, as I said this throughout my entire post, neither I, nor this video, claims that capturing Kony will be the solution to all of Uganda’s, or Africa’s problems. It is one of many steps. Remember that this video was not made for the Acholi. It was made as a message to people here, to make them aware and to get them involved in petitioning the government. Because, as you say, our government has done very little in the past. And that is a mistake. This video is an attempt to gather people to convince the government of this mistake. If the video is offensive, I’m sure it’s not intentional, and I would encourage you, and anyone who feels the way you do to do their best to explain why it’s offensive, so the same mistakes aren’t made over and over.

  2. I’m so grateful for people like you who have the talent and ability to organize thoughts and ideas into a post that is clear and understandable for others to read. Fantastic post, thank you!

    • Well, thank you so much! 🙂 I’m glad for that. I don’t need people to agree with me, but I definitely hope people understand me. 🙂

  3. The other thing that bothers me a little bit is the nature of the “experiment” they are running. You could say that the experiment is to see if an Internet social network happening can put out a hit on an individual and have it carried out by the end of the year.

    Don’t get me wrong, it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. But it’s still a little disturbing. Because all that stuff in the video about Kony being led away in handcuffs is bullshit. This is going to end with US special forces shooting Kony in the head (we’re not going to trust the Ugandans to do it after they messed up in ’08) or with US drone aircraft bombing Kony’s camp, with dozens of collateral casualties. We should all be clear on that when we go put up stickers.

    That being said, I am going to put up stickers — not because I think this will solve Uganda’s problems but because at least it will be one less problem. I’m not giving money to Invisible Children, however. If I do decide to give money, there are grassroots organizations in Uganda that are doing more good and I’m going to give my money to them.

  4. It is actually true that the LRA hasn’t been active in Uganda since 2006. They entered into peace talks with the government in 2006 and when those fell apart the LRA left Northern Uganda and crossed the border into southern Sudan (Darfur) and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Mokombo massacre in early 2009 happened in the DRC, not Uganda. It was in response to an attack on Kony’s camp in the DRC in late 2008 — an attack that was planned by US military advisors and bungled by the Ugandan army. The US has actually been involved in an advisory capacity for years. The “advisors” that Obama is sending now are like the “advisors” LBJ sent to Vietnam — not advisors at all, but operational special forces troops.

    A few other objections:

    1. The government of Uganda, which the US is currently helping to hunt Kony, has also used child soldiers. The LRA committed atrocities against some Ugandan civilians, but the government arguably did greater damage by treating all civilians in the area like rebels and rounding them up to put them in concentration camps. The Ugandan army also commited atrocities against civilians. The video glosses over what kind of people it wants us to get in bed with.

    2. America’s aid to Uganda against the LRA probably has less to do with humanitarian concerns and more to do with the fact that Uganda is a key ally in the War on Terror. We got a lot of Ugandan soldiers killed stopping Muslim extremists from taking control of Somalia a few years back. Helping a brutal government get rid of its brutal rebels is a debt we’re paying, not an altruistic mission.

    3. The video is completely uncritical of the fact that Uganda’s hunt for Kony inside the DRC might be seen as military aggression against its neighbor, and could lead to a new conflict between Uganda and the DRC. By trying to funnel more American money into the hunt for Kony, the makers of the video are essentially asking us to fund and advise Uganda in a military aggression against its neighbor, and there’s no guarantee they’ll stop when they get Kony. Since militias in the DRC also use child soldiers, more children are potentially being endangered.

    4. Americans often get involved in problems in Africa without really understanding the nuances of the situation. This can have tragic results — 6 million people died when President Clinton attempted to intervene in a revolution in Zaire/DRC in the ’90s. If Kony gets desperate, or militias in the DRC are antagonized by Uganda’s increasingly US-funded violations of its territory, we could be reponsible for that sort of thing again.

    5. This video is entirely about putting pressure on the US government to help find Kony and says nothing about putting diplomatic pressure on the Ugandan of DRC governments to make the search a priority (only 2,000 Ugandan troops are currently taking part in operations against the LRA). In other words, it is the job of former colonial powers to rescue Africa from itself — an approach that smacks of colonialism.

    None of this is to say that it wouldn’t be nice to get that sadistic fuck Kony for all the terrible things he did. It’s just that we shouldn’t pat ourselves on the back too much if we do get him. For your average Ugandan, it’s a bad situation all around — even if we don’t mess up and make it worse, just getting Kony isn’t going to improve it very much.

    Here are some good articles if you want to get some perspectives beyond what is in the video:

    • Thanks for all the resources and for making these points – a lot of which I agree with. A couple of things:

      1) I definitely misread my friend’s comment, or I would’ve specified. I read what he wrote as “they haven’t been active.” And what I was trying to say is that they’re still active, they’ve just moved.

      2) Yes, the U.S. has already been involved to varying degrees. What the video is arguing for, however, is making this a priority.

      3) It’s not just about Americans – and that’s something I think you (and possibly others) are missing, too. A big point of the video, one I like, is the fact that this isn’t about “Americans getting involved.” It’s about the WORLD getting involved and making this a priority. It’s also not about solving all of Uganda’s problems. It’s about getting the world behind this one objective. And if we can do that, we can do so many other things. In a way, I see it as a reinforcement of what’s already starting to happen. Organizing by average people on a global scale. It’s not about colonialism, because this video could just as easily inspire people in India, in Egypt, in Uganda itself. It’s not only about getting our country involved, but getting people in other countries to get THEIR governments involved, and letting people in Uganda (those with internet, anyway) know that the world is rallying behind them, perhaps inspiring those in Uganda who thought themselves in a hopeless situation that they can do something to rally their own government, because the world has their back.

      This video isn’t about the US swooping in and saving the day. It’s about the inter-connectivity of the world, and how we have to start thinking that way in order to solve problems.

      4) Everything is motivated by self-interest down to doing something nice for the warm, fuzzy feeling it gives you. This doesn’t surprise me, nor is it a reason not to do something to help.

      5) So, governments should only intervene in countries with governments who haven’t committed human rights violations? ‘Cause, it’s likely that any government like that doesn’t need anyone to step in.

      You bring up a lot of valid concerns, and no one is saying that capturing Kony is going to end the troubles in Uganda, just like killing Osama Bin Laden didn’t stop terrorism. But it’s a start. And it sends a message. And this video and the actions it will likely inspire also send a message. That people are willing to speak up and rally their governments to action all over the world. Ultimately, that’s why I support the video and the campaign if not the organization behind it (which I still don’t know enough about one way or the other).

    • Also, I just read the HuffPo piece you linked to, and while I think it’s awesome that the writer provides historical context:

      1) He’s assuming that those who made the video don’t know that history, or that everyone watching it doesn’t know that history. He talks about people encouraging governments to “blindly” support Uganda, and that’s not what the video’s asking at all. It doesn’t even say we have to help the Ugandan government. It says that IC and the US HAVE helped in Uganda. I would assume that our military gets better information than any small non-profit. The goal is to get Kony wherever he is. Perhaps that means working with another government. Or putting more focus on Darfur to kill two birds with one stone.

      2) And that’s the thing. It’s not the average person’s job to come up with the solutions. That’s what we elect governments for. What IS our job is to stay informed and speak up about the things we want and don’t want. It’s our job to vote with our ballots, our money, our time, and our voices. I love how people are criticizing this video for not doing things it isn’t its job to do in the first place.

      3) The director who made this video has ALSO been to and worked in Uganda several times. If this HuffPo writer is going to point fingers about “well-meaning” White people visiting Africa and thinking they’ve learned everything about it…? Um, pot? Meet, kettle. You know what to do.

      4) Once again, we see this attitude of “if someone is naive enough to think they can solve a problem, they clearly don’t have all the information.” Or, “they don’t really understand the intricacies of the situation.” Because, of course, the more you know about something, the less likely you’ll want to get involved. After all, it’s just smarter to stay out of it, right? Because seriously, of all the criticism I’ve read that discusses what shouldn’t be done, no one’s proposed what should.

      I’m not interested in what we can’t do, I’m interested in what we can.

      The video has a clear focus, true. It’s not an hour and a half-long documentary on all of Uganda’s troubles. That’s not its job. It’s a 20-something minute piece about one facet of the problem. The facet that can rally the most support. Because the fact is, Kony is a great “gateway rallying point” for people. Once they care about that, it’s easier for them to start caring about the intricacies. Put a history book or article in front of people, and they’ll glaze over. One thing at a time.

      It’s already been effective in gaining press attention, which is only going to cause the video to circulate more.

  5. Angela

    You make some excellent points, Teresa. I’m glad to see you speaking up about how charity is not just about money, and its certainly not the new “cupcake” on the Hipster Trend List. I used to love Heifer International because the concept of a sustainable gift is great. Then I found out something about it that just didn’t sit well with me. So I stopped donating to that charity. I didn’t try to tell everyone about the evils of it, because it’s not evil. The idea is still a good one, it works, and it has spawned similar charities like it that also do good work. If you don’t think that a charity is sparkly enough to give your money to, then don’t. If it’s still a cause that you support, then find another way to support it – by donating to another charity, by volunteering with another charity, by spreading the word of the cause in general, but writing letters to elected officials…Having said that, I have to admit that I haven’t seen this video and don’t know the specifics of it or the charity or why it’s supposed to be so shady. I can say that there are plenty of other charities out there who do good work in these ignored regions of the world (International Rescue Committee is a favorite of mine), so a bit of shadiness on behalf of one organization is not reason enough to forget the general cause. You can look for a reason and a way to help (with or without money), or you can look for a reason and a way to avoid helping.

    • Exactly. Everything you said. With the addition that what I like about this particular campaign (which I’m thinking of separately from the organization that spawned it) is that it has a clear goal that people can rally behind. It’s like, Step One: Find Kony. Step Two: Everything Else. But so often activism doesn’t have this kind of specificity, and I think it should. I think the large problems should be broken down into smaller problems so that we can work our way through the list, as opposed to starting with the nearly insurmountable goal first. Because usually, the things that make a problem insurmountable are the little things that keep it propped up.

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Tetronics to speak and exhibit at the RWM show in September

The Resource Efficiency and Waste Managment Solutions (RWM) Conference and Exhibition will be taking place at the NEC, Birmingham in September 2013. Partnered with the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management, RWM is the premier resource and waste management solutions event, covering an industry-wide range of product and service areas. The show attracts senior public and private sector decision makers, such as CEOs, heads of recycling/waste, environmental and recycling managers, commercial waste managers, plant and facilities managers, transport managers and consultants. RWM also hosts a comprehensive free seminar programme, the industry’s largest collection of CPD accredited content and five themed conference theatres: Leaders, Local Authority, Commerce and Industry, Energy from Waste and The Sauce Communications Hub. Tetronics will be exhibiting at the show alongside their sister company Advanced Plasma Power on stand 20F59-E58. Additionally, Dr David Deegan, Technical Director, will be presenting in the Energy from Waste Theatre on the first day of proceedings. For further details about the event please visit their website by clicking here.

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Monday, August 02, 2010

No Limits on the Breadth of Idiocy: Sarah Palin Edition

Thanks to East Coast internet gumshoe Daphne
Strassmann for dredging up this foul linkaso.

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  1. Bless my little heart.Where do I begin? Is it the theft of a word in Spanish to talk about a clearly anti-Hispano law? Is it that Mama Bear used the equivalent of the term 'ball-sack' in talking about our nation's policies? Or, is it that she can only fathom women being strong,determined,courageous and gutsy by borrowing male genitalia? And here I thought that all a woman needed to be taken seriously, was to wear lipstick. Contradiction in terms much Ms. Palin? You Betcha! I see your hypocrisy and ignorance from my home (MAC) window.


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Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Legal Tip: How long do I have to file an automobile accident suit?

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Certain conditions or events may change the length of the statue of limitations, so you should contact a Charlottesville attorney about your particular case.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006

My friend, Henryk Numelin reminded me to day of the annual Baltic maritme festival in Helsingor, DENMARK. This year is will take place from August 18th to August 20th, and expects to have 40-50 traditional sailing ships.

Henrik can be reached at the e-mail:

And the webpage for the festival is:

Helsingor is home to "Hamlet's castle, and is across the channel from Sweden in NE Denmark.

That's it for today. Fair winds ! tk

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Sunday, April 30, 2006

One door, that's it.

Oooo I hate having man trouble. Wait, that is sexist. Home repair trouble. Where do people learn stuff about fixing up homes? Their parents? Environment? Or, as I tend to do, find a book in a library? Why do the guys I know just KNOW this stuff?

All I want to do is buy a screen door for the front door. How hard can this be? Well the first thing I find out is that doors aren’t a standard size. Why not? They should be, like stairs inside there should be one standard size. So fine, there isn’t a standard size, I guess I’ll have to measure something. The inside of the door? The size of the door we have? Inside the frame, or outside? I had a storm door before and obviously made a poor choice then. Oh, it worked all right, it just opened in a direction that everyone and his brother decided to tell me was the wrong way. Lord save me from a life so narrow the way a door opens is of paramount importance.

No, I’m not asking for help. But I’m frustrated, so I’m temporarily giving up. Think I’ll turn my hair blue instead. Which seems to be par for the course for me: get frustrated, change the hair. I thought I’d try blue since it is all getting cut off soon anyway.

Wednesday, April 19, 2006

To thine own geek be true

I am such a geek, but really, the show was amazing. I stayed up late last night watching NOVA: Mystery of the Megaflood. I can't decide if I should reccomend that you watch it - risking you spending an hour thinking "what a bore of a show, what a geek of a person" or tell you not to watch it should it play again, risking deterring you from watching this totally cool show. I'll leave it up to you Just keep in mind that I have never been - and never will be- the hippest kid in the class.

Thursday, April 13, 2006

Mind Surfing

As I sit here at work, no work in sight (see previous job related posts), I find myself thinking strange things:

1. If every one could read everyone else's mind, it would eventually mean the end of mankind. Lots of murders, and in the end no one would ever manage to be in a relationship long enough to have kids. In time we as a people would just die out. Those who hadn't been killed, or who weren't driven to suicide from having to listen to the thoughts of others that is.

2. Would bathing in chocolate be a good idea, or a bad one? So many things to think about here. How hot would it need to be to be comfortable? Straight chocolate, or chocolate melted with cream? (This whole thing occurred to me as I was stirring shaved dark chocolate into hot cream to make ganache). Milk chocolate? Dark? How big is the bathtub, how much chocolate would you need? How would you keep it warm? Wouldn't your hair get all gross and sticky? Would there be any benefit at all beyond the possibility that it might feel really cool? ( In the hip sense of the word, not the temperature sense). Good for your skin, or just fun?

3. If I were to keep track of how far I trudge/jog/walk on the treadmill, how long would it take me to cross the province? The country? How about the world? How many kilometres around is the earth at the equator?

4. If I could rob a bank with a guarantee that I would never be caught, would I do it? Or would the intrinsic wrongness of it hold me back?

5. If voodoo worked, who would I make a doll of just for the humour of making them walk funny?

6. I have friends, and in their family there are three sisters. Why are all three of them good looking? I mean, that doesn't seem statistically correct. Or fair, really. Maybe it would make sense if your parents are supermodels, or something, but in everyday life, how often does this happen?

7. Is the above influenced by being the homely one in a family of beauties? Oops, sorry, not homely, apparently plain would be a better choice of words. According to a friend. Ah, the honesty of friends, there's nothing like it!

8. What is the point of coming up with some clever bon mot if no one gets it?

9. Why can't I wear my hair as just plain hair?

10. What would you rather do, fly like a bird or swim like a dolphin?

11. If you could have one magic power, what would it be?

A rock is a hard place.

When I start the new job (that could be the 21st- or not, given how things work around here), I am planning on biking to work. Good for me, good for the planet, good for the pocketbook.

I got a head start on this by biking in the evenings after supper this week. Last night M. and I went to Rogers, to look for a movie and drop off some cookies. We didn’t find a movie we could agree on (no surprise there!), so we went from there to L. & B.s place. They have lots of movies to choose from, but no luck there either, so we biked home.

Now here’s my gripe: surely to heaven, all things considered, you’d think that I’d have more than enough padding to make the piece of Canadian Shield that serves as my bicycle seat comfortable. Wrong. WRONG WRONG WRONG. That trip was about the death of me. Or the end of ever sitting down again.

If I still intend to bike to work – and I do – my ass is going to have to learn to take more punishment (oh simmer down, you know what I mean), or I’m going to have to buy some sort of sissy seat cushion. Drat.

Friday, April 07, 2006

And maybe a winning lottery number too.

I reached a crisis point in my life yesterday, and I need to fix it. So I'm building a time machine and going back to undo something. Of course, if I undo it, then perhaps I won't have a crisis point. Which means I won't need to build a time travel machine. So I won't go back. Which means it won't get undone. So I will have a crisis, so I'll have to build a time travel device....ack. At any rate, if I can blog I will, but I figure the building and travelling should take three weeks, so you'll just have to live with a lack of posts.

Thursday, April 06, 2006

Oh My Girl.

I love my kids. I love the board game playing one on one. I love World Wide Wednesdays, when they choose a country and sample the cuisine of the culture. My little international sous-chefs! Part of the deal is learning a bit about their country of choice and sharing it over supper. We've added some recipes to out family favourites. A's Spanish Shrimp and M's Hawaiian Honey Chicken being two that appear on a semi-regular basis. I love the book reading, hot chocolate/tea/steamer in hand, reading favourite lines out loud. I love seeing them get hooked on an author that I've introduced them to. A is on his fouth book in Orson Scott Card's Enders series. I love playing badminton in the park until it's too dark to see the birdie. I even enjoyed it on the weekend when the park was soggy as well as dark!

So, my girl. Which is the whole point of the post. To get things in perspective, this is the girl who read the Hobbit in Grade 2. While her friends were reading Good Night Moon. She decided two weeks ago that she wanted to read Catcher in the Rye. Not sure why, but I told her that if we read it concurrently and talked about it then yes, by all means give it a try. So she asked for it at the school library (she's in grade 6). The librarian searched for it on the computer and didn't find it. She was, as it happens, searching for "Catch Her in the Eye". What kind of book would that be? An aid to violence in relationships? M. clarified the title and was told that The Catcher in the Rye is "VERY Unsuitable", and of course the school wouldn't have a copy. And she shouldn't be reading that until college anyway. College? Why not just say until she's 30, or 40. Anyway, the local library had it, so we started it last night. Should be an interesting literary journey for us!

How'd that Happen?

I was reading a friend's blog today, and discovered we share a common childhood favoured cartoon - Hercules. The thing is, as I was reading it, I thought about the theme song, (which I thought outlined the basic requirements for a husband) and realized that I knew the whole thing. How did that come about? I haven't heard it since I was a kid, and yet there was the song, word for word. Stupid unruly brain.

Tuesday, April 04, 2006

I Most Certainly Have Not!

Yesterday when I got home from treading I started to make supper, and was met with the following from my son: “Mom, you’ve done three ways before, how do I go about setting one up?” As I stood there, mouth agape thinking… well, let’s leave it at thinking, he – puzzlement on his face – said “mom? I’m on the phone with D. How do we make it so that we can both talk to A about going to the Matrix tonight?” Oh. Oh yeah. Calling. Three way calling. It’s in the phone book. Right.

The three of them went to the Matrix after supper and I picked them up when they were done. The night was capped off for me when, driving home, one of them said “A., your mom is such a guy”. Sigh. At least I know that it was meant as a compliment. Hope he improves his observational abilities when he starts dating!

Monday, April 03, 2006

I'm electric.

I was superwoman on Sunday. I had to give the outfit back, of course, but much was accomplished in a short time. Today is interesting too – I have WAY too much energy. I could re-roof the house, pave the driveway and dig a moat for the house. Before lunch! Not sure where it comes from – spring time and I’m happy? Would that be enough to give me scary amounts of fizzy energy?


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Monday, March 02, 2009

Some of my favorite "photographic" pictures ... haha

These are some pictures I've been taking with my new camera, and then editing them (sometimes) as well. I'm really enjoying my new hobby!

Niecey said...

Very nice. I especially looove that one on the bridge.

Kim, Aaron, Jake and Jack said...

LOVE your new little hobby! ;) So...what program are you using to do your edits?


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Monday, May 31, 2010

Twins bday and family

Yay for family! They came! It was so weird having people stay at my house. People don't stay at my house. Ever. And it was also weird because we just kind of live our own separate life up here, so having people here wasn't the norm. It was so fun though and we did a lot actually. I took so many pictures. Seriously a lot. Like 400 a lot. So i'll have to narrow it down for you. There is a lot more on facebook, but these are the best of the bunch.
We borrowed some dirt bikes from a friend and took them out to show what fort mac is really about. It was my first time too. I was awesome. Actually I sucked, I'm not sure if I was meant to dirt bike, i'll just stick to quading.

Me and Dust

We also went out for dinner when they got here, since it was Steph's bday the next day and I didn't feel like cooking. So we just went to BP's since it's right behind our house.

mom and dad

Our little fam jam at the end of the table.

Mom, Steph and I

We had Jayci and Presley's birthday Party on the Saturday and Jill was nice enough to let us have it at her house.

My pretty Birthday girls!

Cutest little twins I ever did see.

All 3 of my beauties.

My gorgeous sister and I

Somethin kinda sexy right there.

All their presents. They fought over the Dora chairs, even though they are the EXACT same.

Dora Pinata! This thing was hard to break! Pure metal, I swear.
Presley takin a whack at it

Jayci putting her damage in.

Fighting over turns. Typical.

Destroying Dora. I think the kids were traumatized.

Jayci and Presley kept saying, "uh oh, Dora!"

so sad.

But so hilarious.

Bday cake!

Jayci blowing out her candles.
Presley wasn't too sure about it.

So Jayci helped her. and I don't think Presley liked that. (I mean just look at her face, pure sadness!)
So we did it again for Presley, so worth it. Cutest picture ever.

Mom wanted a family picture of us.
This was the best family shot, Presley did NOT want a picture.

The cause of all this.
I blame him.

Happy Birthday to my two little sweethearts!!
I love them to death.

The party was great. I was exhausted just after opening presents! Trying to get both of them to open together, and not run away, or look at the camera or to not fight over who gets what. Man. But my girls are funny like that. If they open something or remember wearing or having something first, it's theirs. And it is ALWAYS theirs. They have been like this for a couple months now. It started with the sippy cups at bed. Kyla always liked to give Presley the pink one and Jayci the green. And one night we did the opposite and they freaked. Same goes for their bears which are the exact same but one has a blue bow and one pink. And their clothes, if they remember wearing a shirt, then they get that one EVERY TIME. So they did the same with their gifts. My mom got outfits for them, one pink, one green. Then the next gifts were the matching shoes but we accidentally gave them the wrong color and tried to switch. That did not go over well. It's pretty crazy. They ALWAYS remember too. So if I forget, just ask them!

They are talking like crazy, I can't even make a list of words because they say everything and will copy anything you say. They know so much. They are very smart and remember everything. Presley loves to sing and Jayci loves to talk. They call each other "see-see" (Presley), and jeecee (jayci) but they sound so alike a lot of the time so they both call each other the same thing and it's kinda cute. Kyla is "Dyla" and they call their cousin Tobin, "Toby" I love it. They are pretty clear at talking too, they are putting two words together and sometimes three word sentences. I am LOVING this. I couldn't wait for this to happen. COMMUNICATION!! yes!

They still nap once a day right after lunch for about an hour and a half, and they talk and play in their beds until they pass out. They go to bed at 7:30, wake up at 6:30-7ish. They love snacks, and hate good meals I make. It sucks and I dread cooking a big meal. With Dustin not being home in time to eat it and knowing my girls won't touch it. Some days, well most days, I don't even bother. Simple and quick is my favorite.

They love to cuddle and be with me, or Dustin when he is home. I go upstairs, they follow. I watch tv, they are right beside me or ON me. I'm on the computer, they are right beside me or ON me. It's pretty funny, well sometimes anyways. I like my space and so my shower is my space. So I take a LONG shower.

They throw tantrums, and I just let them throw them. They do it to get attention and stare at me the whole time to see if i'll acknowledge it and I don't. If they need a time out, they get a time out. This happens a lot actually. All 3 of them usually end up on the bottom stair together. They are so ticked. It's actually amazing, they stay there! Kyla NEVER stayed in time outs. EVER. EVER!! It sucked. I had to lock her in her room until she calmed down. But these girls sit and don't move until I say. Then I say "ok go give "Kyla" or whoever, a hug," they'll go over and hug them. It's awesome.

They love to color, still. They actually don't color on the walls anymore. Thank goodness. So that keeps them happy while I do my stuff. They love to play together. They laugh and laugh. They are so tough too, they get hurt all the time and barely cry.

To sum these girls up, they are hilarious. I always told my mom how funny they were and they are just so hilarious to watch. Then they came and totally saw what I meant. They are so entertaining to watch.

Here is a couple videos to show you what I mean. They are like this ALL THE TIME. The first one is them just playing, like normal. The second they had this little doll hat on their heads and would make it fall off and were laughing so hard. My mom took both these videos, I need to invest in a video camera. Like yesterday.

video video

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Girls Trip!

I don't really have time to post this, but I have too. This was one of the most fun times i've had in a long time. It was fun to just be me, no kids, no husband, no worries. Not that I don't love being with my family, but sometimes you need to escape and it was heaven! I could just do what I want, when I want. It was great to be a girl again.

We got massages, shopped, ate out, shopped, hot tubbed, and shopped! It was seriously a blast. We were constantly laughing and made a ton of hilarious memories. I'll just post a few pics since there are lots and they pretty much speak for themselves about how much fun it was. But we are definitely doing this again in the fall. Can't wait!

Shopping and trying on clothes!

Moi, pants are a little long.

What's a girls trip without some bed jumping.

Hot Becky. Ha.

Eating out at The Melting Pot (a fondu restaurant). the first one in Canada It was over 3 hours long, but so good.

All 4 of us. Love these girls.
Nice Girls. I love it.

Pam and I

Just working it. These are definitely taken in the restaraunt.

Landon, he saved us from a flat tire. He said we made his day. We may have worked it a little to get faster service. It definitely worked!

Ikea! We wanted to get a live feel for the rooms.

Pam, in her livingroom. Just chillin.

Just watchin some hilarious tv on my couch, in heels. With tags on all my furniture.

Starbucks before home.

These are only and handful of many must see pictures but seriously, best trip ever. I wish I could redo everything because we had so much fun! LOVED IT!! and love these girls!!

Now to go get my house cleaned and ready for my parents to come on Thursday!! Busy girl I am.

Monday, May 17, 2010

yay for new stuff!!

This week has been kinda boring, kinda not.

First of all as I said in the last post our camera broke. We bought a Canon digital camera in the summer and on mothers day morning it wouldn't work. The lens would freeze when you opened and closed it, and it would only open half way or close a bit. Almost like it is jammed or stuck. Anyways so we might have to send it away to get fixed, IF they will even fix it or give us a new one. So with so much coming up in the next two weeks and I don't have time to wait for a new one, we went out to buy a camera on Saturday. We ended up buying a Canon Rebel XS. I LOVE it!! I always wanted a nice camera but I don't really need an awesome expensive professional one, so this one is perfect for me! I used to want the new Rebel T2I but I realized I don't need that kind. I'm not going to be one of those "self-proclaimed" photographers, like everyone else out there just because I have a nice camera and photoshop. I just want a nice camera to take great pictures of my kids. So this is perfect for me it's just a simplier version of the better ones. I wasn't sure if we should buy it but Dustin wanted to buy it for me because i've wanted one FOREVER. I think it's on my Christmas list every year and I constantly talk about how much I "need" one. He said it was a belated anniversary gift. Sooooo Happy!! So i've been playing with it and it's amazing how awesome the pictures are compared to our point and shoot other one. They are just so much clearer, it's great! Plus we got it on a wicked sale. So if you can't tell i'm SUPER EXCITED!!

Since the camera broke for Mothers day, I didn't get a picture with my girls so we went out to take one before church. We got this beautiful shot of us 4.

Kyla looking more grown up than ever. Don't ya think?
I love this picture of Jayci, she is just so pretty and has the biggest eyes. Even with the chocolate on the face.
Just some of the girls, which includes Dustin holding them in place.
Meh. It adds personality.
cute. cute. and cute!

Saved the best for last,
Jayci just eating some chocolate chips on a Sunday afternoon.

I have a big two weeks ahead of me. I'm going on a girls trip to Edmonton this weekend with 3 friends! Shopping, massages, eating, fun, and more shopping! I can't wait.
My parents are also coming up!!! I seriously am so excited! They have been here once in the 2 years we have lived here. Well my mom and sisters did come up when Presley had meningitis when she was 10 weeks old. They stayed with the girls at our house for a couple days while I lived at the hospital and Dustin had to work. I don't count that, since it was not a fun time and I barely got to see them with all the chaos of nursing twins with one in the hospital and finding help for when they left since I was in the hospital with her for 10 days etc. That was a hard time.
So they are coming for Jayci and Presley's birthday and just because it's time! I can't wait! I miss them! So lots coming up! Way exciting!!
I'm also thinking a makeover is in need. I told Dustin I know what's wrong with me, because i've been thinking how blah I look.
He said what?
I said My hair is the same color of my face.
He didn't get it. He said, who thinks of that??
I said I do, cause it makes sense.
So maybe a change will be coming soon for me. Being summer and all. I don't know what yet, but we shall see. Change is good and i'm always changing!