Random Thoughts of Chris Tilley

Jayci is a 10 year old who is dying of brain cancer after a long battle. Her dying wish is to have her dad at her bedside. Unfortunately her dad is currently incarcerated on drug charges. He is due to be released to a halfway house in Aug but Jayci is not likely to make it that far. Her father has asked for a 30 day supervised pass to be with his daughter which is within the power of the warden in exceptional circumstances. That request has been denied saying that his does not qualify as exceptional circumstances. Not sure what would qualify.

The is a FaceBook Group started to influence officials.
FaceBook Group: Let Jayci Yaeger see her dad!

Wardens Email Address: YAN/EXECASSISTANT@BOP.GOV

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Update Mar 27

Jason was let out for a short visit yesterday. While I thank the warden for this mercy I still would like to see Jason released until the end.

Update Mar 28

Jayci passed away last night. I have to believe that the short visit from her father was what she needed to make that final journey. There is no cancer in heaven and no pain. Rest in Peace Jayci. Lets pray for the family in this time that they may find comfort and strength to carry on. May they find ways to honor the memory of Jayci and to realize all the hearts she touched in her much to short life. She has had a profound effect on so many and I pray that she continues to have that positive effect on others.

I was checking up on one of my prior posts and one of my minor problems was that they weren't easily available in Canada. In going back they now have a number of distributors in Canada. Local to me would be Choices Market. I stopped in and they did indeed have gDiapers in stock. As I said in my previous post these are Cradle to Cradle Silver Certified.

On another note the Irish Group, Ceol na h'Eireann, my wife is part of now has a video up on YouTube. She is playing the flute over on the right.

This is a cool video I saw on Daily Planet this afternoon. It a very good illustration of how traffic slowdowns can occur when there appears to be no reason. All it takes is one car slowing a bit which triggers a chain reaction. Even on this very simple scenario with only 22 car on a circle without any other factors, traffic came to a compete stop.

Now consider your modern city with a huge number more cars traveling at a wider variety speeds, traffic lights, bottlenecks, merging traffic and a thousand other variables. Its no wonder that we have traffic jams.

I wonder how much gas we could save a CO2 emissions we could avoid if traffic flowed perfectly. Ok, perfectly is not very realistic but there is certainly room for improvement. In Portland Oregon The Climate Trust has a carbon offset project to optimize the traffic lights on 17 major arteries. They are expecting 171,786 metric tons carbon dioxide over the five year project lifetime.

Considering we will never get everyone on to mass transit even though that will have a major effect we will see more projects like this one.