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A Walk Down The 'Pashmina' Lane
Pashmina. Just the sound of this word, evokes a feeling of luxury, timelessness, heritage and craftsmanship. An age old craft, it also brings forth a burst of nostalgia. While in countries other than India, the elite and the nobility wore it as a mark of status, for those in India, it struck another chord. We've seen our mothers carefully pull out their glorious Pashmina shawls- delicately wrapped and stowed away in trunks- to be draped in all its glory for a family wedding or a special occasion. As lovingly as they would be brought out and marvelled at, they would enjoy an equally ceremonial retreat back into the trunk, to be seen again, next winter. A symbol of heritage- revered and respected- throughout the world.
Awe-worthy as it is, the genesis of this wonderous natural fibre is equally enthralling. While the name "Pashmina" has its roots in Persia ( pashm, meaning 'Soft Gold') the craft is specific to Kashmir. This confluence of cultures makes this lightweight and luxe fibre even more intriguing! But, honestly, as much as the beauty of Pashmina lies in the final product like shawls and scarves, it's the process that is the true hero!
Contrary to the 'fast fashion' world that we inhabit, weaving a Pashima shawl is a journey. An experience. A phenomenon. The idiom "it takes a village to raise a baby", can easily be applied to weaving a shawl. It involves a human connection, the touch of expert hands, generations of artisans who have dedicated their lives to this craft, the finest fleece, and above all, passion and patience, to create something as revered as Pashmina!
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Picture this - An altitude of 14,000 ft above sea level. A herd of Changra goats grazing the high pastures of the Changthang in Ladhakh, where temperatures dip to as low as -20degrees! These sturdy, refined and domesticated goats are blessed with a double fleece consisting of the fine, soft undercoat of hair mingled with a straighter and much coarser outer coating of hair- that keeps them warm during the arid cold winters. Had it not been for the Changra goats, there probably wouldn't be any Pashmina! Or atleast, not the finest!
The only source of livelihood for the herders, the wool from these goats is obtained once a year, usually in the month of June or July. The hair is usually harvested either by combing or shearing. The herders comb the fine woollen undercoat from the neck and chest of the goat. The resultant 'fleece' or wool is called 'Asli Tus' and is worthfully sold.
It's no mean feat to weave a Pashmina. It's an art and can be done justice to, only by a true artist! The skill and expertise is unique to the artisans of Kashmir, the unsung heroes of this age old craft. Other than being rightfully referred to as "Heaven on Earth", the one thing that is a hallmark of the beautiful valley of Kashmir, is its inimitable craftsmanship! With generations of artisans deftly putting their unmatched skill to use, weaving Pashmina shawls has been the backbone of the Kashmiri economy, or atleast used to be so!
Just like any business set up, Pashmina weaving too involves the entire family, in one way or another. It's mostly the men of the household who traditionally weave Pashmina, while women meticulously spin the fibre into thread. The entire process is done manually, given that the fibre is ultra soft and is prone to breakage if processed on a machine.
It takes the wool of 3 goats to make 1 shawl. 8 to 10 hours devoted daily on designing and embroidery. Six months to an year to make a shawl. At best, 2 shawls are made a year!
Who could have imagined, that these heirloom pieces that we flaunt and fuss over, go through such a precise, time consuming and arduous process! We are oblivious to the long months of wait, the harsh weather conditions, the painstaking process and the long hours spent by the weavers and artisans on doing embroidery, in dimly lit rooms. At Mecraaz, we salute the expertise, commitment and unbridled passion of the Kashmiri artisans who have worked against all odds, to keep this glorious craft alive! And it's our endeavour to proudly keeping walking down the "pashmina" lane!
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Perdue will testify Tuesday before the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee, whose ranking Democrat, Jeff Merkley of Oregon, has joined the top Democrat on the Senate Agriculture Committee, Debbie Stabenow of Michigan, in sharply criticizing the rural development plans.
In a letter to Perdue on Friday, the senators pressed their concerns about Perdue's plans to eliminate the undersecretary of rural development as well as the 30 percent cut in spending that President Trump proposed.
"While we appreciate your comments that rural development is a personal priority of yours, given the magnitude of these responsibilities, it is essential that the Senate retain its oversight obligations to review and confirm any nominee that would serve as the leader of the Rural Development mission area," the senators wrote.
Trump's budget would eliminate numerous popular programs across the RD mission area, including Business and Industry loans and the Value-Added Producer grants. Overall funding to support Rural Business-Cooperative Service programs would be slashed from $157 million to just $12 million in 2018.
While USDA's workforce would be reduced by 5.5 percent, or 5,263 employees, under the budget, the RD staff would be slashed by nearly 20 percent, dropping from 4,825 to 3,900. Perdue argues that the reorganization would elevate the importance of RD programs because the assistant that he plans to appoint to oversee them would have walk-in privileges with him.
The budget would cut crop insurance by $29 billion over 10 years and eliminate the $1.7 billion Food for Peace program as well as two programs that many farm groups consider critical for developing export markets: the Market Access Program and the Foreign Market Development Cooperator Program.
Even as appropriators hold the budget hearings this week – EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also will testify before subcommittees this week – GOP leaders are struggling to make progress on spending and tax reform, and some conservatives are pushing for cuts to food stamps that could complicate the writing of a new farm bill.
Work on the actual spending legislation has been delayed because neither chamber has developed a budget that would set the spending limits.
Leaders of the House Freedom Caucus are calling on GOP leaders to consider slashing welfare spending by $400 billion as a way to reach consensus on the budget and to offset the revenue loss from cutting taxes. Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, proposed legislation that, among other things, would tighten work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps.
"There is a budget deal that could happen if you adopt Jim's plan," said the caucus chairman, Mark Meadows, a North Carolina Republican who is cosponsoring the Jordan legislation. "The American people have waited long enough." Meadows was speaking at a Heritage Foundation event on Friday with Jordan and another co-sponsor of the bill, Dave Brat, R-Va.
Jordan's proposal to cut SNAP could be carried out separately from the farm bill as part of the fiscal 2018 budget reconciliation process that Republicans want to use to pass tax reform. But the cut would anger Democrats and other supporters of the program.
Also this week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee will hold a hearing Wednesday on the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act, which would extend the Reid vapor pressure waiver to E15, allowing wider use during summer months.
International Dairy Foods Association Regulatory RoundUP, Loews Madison.
United Fresh Produce Association convention, through Thursday, Chicago.
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) holds second public meeting on proposed changes to its regulations for agricultural biotechnology, in Davis, Calif. Webcast available.
10 a.m. - House Agriculture Subcommittee hearing on small watershed infrastructure, 1300 Longworth.
10 a.m. - House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee hearing on Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection 2008 Rayburn.
10:30 a.m. - Senate Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee hearing with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, 124 Dirksen.
2:30 p.m. - Senate State-Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee hearing with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, 192 Dirksen.
9 a.m. - House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing with Tillerson on the foreign affairs budget, 2172 Rayburn.
10 a.m. - Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing on the Consumer and Fuel Retailer Choice Act, which would extend the Reid vapor pressure waiver to E15, 406 Dirksen.
2 p.m. - House State-Foreign Operations Appropriations hearing with Tillerson, 2359 Rayburn.
9:30 a.m. - Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on agricultural research, 328A Russell.
10 a.m. - House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing on the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017, 1324 Longworth.
1 p.m. - House Interior-Environment Appropriations Subcommittee hearing with EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, 2007 Rayburn.
APHIS holds third public meeting on biotech regulation, Riverdale, Md.


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HTC One Flagship Model is Launched
Written by Carmel Brown on 19th February 2013
UPDATED 1600 GMT
It's official: the much anticipated HTC One flagship model has finally arrived!
We've had weeks of speculation and guesswork, and now HTC has unveiled its latest flagship model, jam packed with impressive features.
The Taiwanese company has released images on its website which show the new device's full metal body, live home screen, dual frontal stereo speaker system and a rear-facing camera which allegedly lets in up to 300 per cent more light than other smartphones.
Just watching the promotional video is making us excited about getting our hands on the device, which looks sleeker and more stylish than any HTC model yet. Being the first handset to feature the new Sense 5.0, we can only expect good things from the HTC One.
Are you as excited as us about the new HTC One? Let us know your thoughts on its look, design and features by Tweeting us @mobilephonescom, or following us on Twitter or Google+.
UPDATE 1300 GMT
While HTC is due to unveil its One flagship model in London at 3pm today, it would seem that the Taiwanese manufacture has given the public a sneak peak at the new handset.
Images released look to be legitimate, and suggest that the new model will be available in both a silver/white and black, as predicted in many rumours that have been circulating in the past few weeks. The leaked pictures also depict not one, but two, speakers, one at the top and one at the bottom of the handset, which should bring us an even better sound quality than any existing HTC model.
Some sources say that HTC will release the One flagship model during the weeks following MWC in Barcelona next week. Other reports speculate that HTC will also launch a further two devices today in their 3pm meeting in London. One of these additional devices, the HTC M4, is said to sport a 4.3 inch display, a 1.2 GHz processor and a 13 MP camera, while the other, supposedly the HTC G2, will have a smaller 3.5 inch screen, a 1 GHz processor and the Ice Cream Sandwich version of Android. Presumably HTC is aiming to fulfil the lower, mid and high –end of the smartphone market with their new range, though until it is revealed how much these devices will cost, it is difficult to suggest how well they will do against competition from the likes of Samsung, Sony and LG.
We will bring you more of the official launch at 3pm. In the meantime, let us know your thoughts about what the new model looks like by Tweeting us @mobilephonescom. HTC has been in the news a lot lately with specification and alleged image leaks of their latest flagship phone, the HTC One. The latest has come from HTC themselves in the form of a cheeky teaser image on their Facebook page showing a little corner of a phone peeping out from under a cover with today's date embroidered on it.
Update: 0800 GMT
HTC Shows Flagship Teaser on Facebook
Today is the launch event for the HTC One with events happening simultaneously in New York and London so it won't be long before we see the cover removed completely.
So far the rumours hint at the phone having a 1080p HD display as well as a beefy quad-core processor and of course the ultrapixel camera. Android Jelly Bean is expected to be on board along with the latest version of the Sense UI.
The event will be kicking off soon and we will bring you all the details of this latest phone from HTC. Whatever the phone launch brings will this be enough for HTC to gain back some of their previous popularity with mobile users? Do you like HTC as a brand? Do you think they can still compete with the likes of Samsung?
Let us know your thoughts by tweeting us @Mobilephones.com or connecting with us on Google+ and Facebook.
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1. JOHN1 MAYNARD was born 1792, and died Bef. 1837. He married ELIZABETH ELLIOT May 06, 1819 in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England. She was born 1797, and died Aft. 1837.
3. iii. JOHN MAYNARD, b. December 25, 1819, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England; d. March 19, 1900, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
4. iv. WILLIAM MAYNARD, b. December 25, 1819, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England; d. June 30, 1880, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
v. MARY MAYNARD, b. February 08, 1824, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England.
vi. ELIZA MAYNARD, b. June 29, 1828, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England; m. THOMAS WESTLICK, 1854, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England.
vii. THOMAS MAYNARD, b. 1831, Kilhampton, Cornwall, England; d. 1833, Kilhampton, Cornwall, England.
viii. THOMAS MAYNARD, b. October 06, 1833, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England.
2. JAMES2 MAYNARD (JOHN1) He married MARGARET.
3. JOHN2 MAYNARD (JOHN1) was born December 25, 1819 in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England, and died March 19, 1900 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada. He married FLORA MACLEAN December 07, 1853 in Port Hill, P.E.I.. She was born October 10, 1829, and died March 18, 1922 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada.
5. i. CATHERINE "KATE"3 MAYNARD, b. January 25, 1854, Port Hill, P.E.I..
6. ii. ELIZABETH ANN MAYNARD, b. June 08, 1855, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. May 1942.
7. iii. DANIEL W. MAYNARD, b. February 21, 1857, Port Hill, P.E.I.; d. August 27, 1920, Port Hill, P.E.I..
8. iv. HUGH JOHN MAYNARD, b. April 23, 1858, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. March 1917, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
v. THOMAS -HENRY- SWABEY MAYNARD, b. January 31, 1860, Port Hill, P.E.I.; d. May 06, 1945, Waltham, Mass.; m. SUSAN BASTABLE; b. England; d. November 10, 1944, Waltham, Mass. U.S.A..
Christening: April 11, 1861, Rev. H.B. Swabey, Port Hill, P.E.I.
9. vi. JAMES HERMAN MAYNARD, b. December 17, 1861, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. Bef. 1961.
10. vii. EDMUND MAYNARD, b. January 01, 1864, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. June 01, 1961, Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
viii. MARGARET -JANE- MAYNARD, b. July 27, 1866, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. April 05, 1966; m. PETER CARROLL.
11. ix. CHARLES ANDREW MAYNARD, b. July 28, 1868, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. February 06, 1950, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
12. x. MINNIE IDA MAYNARD, b. October 13, 1870, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. September 02, 1960, Birch Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
13. xi. ARTHUR FREDERICK MAYNARD, b. May 18, 1874, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. March 1946.
4. WILLIAM2 MAYNARD (JOHN1) was born December 25, 1819 in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England, and died June 30, 1880 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada. He married (1) BARBARA YEO Bef. 1851 in England. She was born in England, and died March 19, 1867. He married (2) ELIZABETH YEO January 12, 1869 in Parsonage, Port Hill, P.E.I.. She was born January 15, 1820, and died January 11, 1912 in Line Rd..
Burial: January 13, 1912, St. James Ang., Port Hill, P.E.I.
14. i. ISABELLA3 MAYNARD, b. 1844; d. 1920.
15. ii. JOHN MAYNARD, b. August 21, 1845, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England; d. January 28, 1940, Birch Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
iii. ANN MARIA MAYNARD, b. Abt. 1849, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England; d. May 04, 1900; m. GEORGE PLATTS; b. Abt. 1847; d. September 12, 1916.
iv. MARY JANE MAYNARD, b. January 10, 1851.
Christening: December 07, 1853, Port Hill, P.E.I.
16. v. BARBARA -LOUISA- MAYNARD, b. April 14, 1852.
vi. ELIZA CAROLINE MAYNARD, b. April 28, 1856, Port Hill, Prince Co, P.E.I., Canada; m. JOHN R. "RHEDDY" THOMPSON, March 18, 1875.
17. vii. SARAH -ALICE- MAYNARD, b. May 20, 1859; d. 1941.
5. CATHERINE "KATE"3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born January 25, 1854 in Port Hill, P.E.I.. She married (1) NEWTON WHITE.
ii. LILLIAN "LILY"4 MAYNARD, b. November 24, 1881, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. October 08, 1959; m. MELVILLE LORNE -FRANK- MACKENZIE, October 01, 1905, St. James Anglic, Port Hill, P.E.I.; d. June 17, 1954.
6. ELIZABETH ANN3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born June 08, 1855 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died May 1942. She married EDMUND HENRY BIRCH May 06, 1879 in St. James Ang. C, Port Hill, P.E.I.. He was born March 01, 1851 in Birch Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died April 30, 1944.
i. JOHN -WALTER-4 BIRCH, b. Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. Child.
ii. JAMES -RUSSELL- BIRCH, b. April 07, 1881, Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. April 16, 1960; m. EDITH PEARLE MONKLEY, 1909; b. January 23, 1880, Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. March 08, 1969.
iii. ERNEST REAGH BIRCH, b. December 25, 1882, Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. September 19, 1951; m. ANNIE MINERVA MACARTHUR, October 04, 1944, St. James Church, Port Hill, P.E.I.; b. May 15, 1880; d. November 08, 1971.
iv. THOMAS -REGINALD- BIRCH, b. November 09, 1884, Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. October 19, 1980, S.M.H.C., Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; m. (1) MARY KATHLEEN ADAMS, October 01, 1924; b. May 31, 1889; d. January 09, 1944, Birch Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. (2) LULU CONSTANCE YEO, September 24, 1947; b. 1889; d. January 29, 1981, Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
v. ELIZA -FLORENCE- BIRCH, b. December 01, 1888, Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. August 18, 1970, Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. ALEXANDER -EDWARD- "NED" MACARTHUR, November 20, 1912, Home of the Brid; b. 1878, Northam, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. November 14, 1957, Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
vi. PERCY LAWRENCE BIRCH, b. November 15, 1889, Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. March 28, 1974; m. ANNIE -ENID- NEWCOMBE, August 09, 1922, Home of Bride's; b. December 31, 1901, Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada.
vii. BERTHA JANE BIRCH, b. December 08, 1891, Birch Hill, Lot 13, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; m. EDWARD EARL DYMENT, November 03, 1920; d. 1972.
7. DANIEL W.3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born February 21, 1857 in Port Hill, P.E.I., and died August 27, 1920 in Port Hill, P.E.I.. He married ABIGAL -JANE- HEFFELL August 22, 1883 in St. Johns Ang., St. Eleanors, P.E.I.. She was born October 23, 1861, and died January 04, 1940 in Birch Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
Christening: April 1857, Rev. H.B. Swabey, Port Hill, P.E.I.
i. WILFRED ROY4 MAYNARD, b. December 23, 1884, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. July 03, 1963, Cape Traverse, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
ii. JOHN LESTER MAYNARD, b. March 09, 1886, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. 1955; m. MINNIE ISABELL SPROULE, October 01, 1919; b. 1889, Stellerton, N.S., Canada; d. 1976.
iii. HARRISON BURNS MAYNARD, b. September 20, 1891, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. 1974, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; m. LAURA CLARK, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; d. 1974.
iv. OLIVE EMMA MAYNARD, b. January 04, 1894, Birch Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. October 20, 1975, Natick, Mass., U.S.A.; m. HIRAM NISBET, September 05, 1929, St. Marys Church, Summerside, P.E.I.; b. September 23, 1885, Harmony, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. December 21, 1963, Cochituate, Mass., U.S.A..
Burial: Lakeview Cem., Cochituate, Mass., U.S.A.
v. DANIEL -EARLE- MAYNARD, b. October 20, 1896, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. June 07, 1975; m. NINA JEANNETTE SOMERS, November 27, 1929, St. Marys Church, Summerside, P.E.I.; b. August 12, 1909; d. 1974.
vi. FLORENCE MARTHA MAYNARD, b. February 26, 1907, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. 1993; m. MARSHALL FRYE.
8. HUGH JOHN3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born April 23, 1858 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died March 1917 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada. He married (1) LEILA ISABELLA WARREN April 04, 1888 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada. She died Bef. 1898. He married (2) ANNIE MINERVA MACARTHUR August 21, 1898. She was born May 15, 1880, and died November 08, 1971.
i. SUE MYRTLE4 MAYNARD, b. August 09, 1899, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. January 04, 1984; m. WINFORD J. KEAY; d. 1950.
ii. ALEXANDER -HATFIELD- MAYNARD, b. July 20, 1901, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. August 13, 1974; m. MARGURITE ELEANOR MILLAR, September 21, 1927, Bideford, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; b. June 24, 1901; d. November 06, 1992.
iii. LILLIAN DELORES MAYNARD, b. March 23, 1903, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. October 1924, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
iv. JENNIE PEARLE MAYNARD, b. December 18, 1905, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; d. July 23, 2000, Wedgewood Manor, Summerside, Prince Co., P.E.I.Canada; m. ERNEST -ALVIN- MACLEAN, October 29, 1930, St. James Church, Port Hill, P.E.I.; b. March 04, 1905; d. Bef. 2000.
v. HAZEL LORNA MAYNARD, b. October 29, 1908, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. September 28, 1988; m. HENRY BEECHER DENNIS, June 29, 1932, St. James Church, Port Hill, P.E.I.; b. May 24, 1898; d. May 10, 1968.
vi. HENRY RUSSELL MAYNARD, b. June 19, 1911, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. February 12, 1996; m. HELEN JEAN MACLEAN, September 16, 1935; b. May 02, 1913; d. July 09, 1969, Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
vii. FREDERICK -COURTNEY- MAYNARD, b. November 17, 1915, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. LUCY M. MACARTHUR; b. September 07, 1919; d. March 27, 1998.
9. JAMES HERMAN3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born December 17, 1861 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died Bef. 1961. He married BERTHA MCCLEAVE.
iii. FLORENCE MAYNARD, d. Child.
10. EDMUND3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born January 01, 1864 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died June 01, 1961 in Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada. He married SARAH JANE MACARTHUR October 1892. She was born October 26, 1873, and died November 1962 in Summerside, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
i. BERTHA -MAUDE-4 MAYNARD, b. June 21, 1893, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. December 21, 1987; m. HARRY FRANKEL.
ii. EMILY MABEL MAYNARD, b. February 10, 1895, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. October 15, 1982, S.M.H.C., Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; m. CHARLES B. NEWCOMBE, July 03, 1917, Rectory, Port Hill, P.E.I.; b. April 17, 1892, Northam, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. June 12, 1954.
iii. ARTHUR LLOYD MAYNARD, b. September 28, 1896, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
iv. FLORA MAY MAYNARD, b. September 24, 1898, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. JOHN THOMPSON.
v. GERTRUDE BELLE MAYNARD, b. January 15, 1901, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. 1988; m. DR. JOHN CLIFFORD JACK, October 19, 1934, St. James Church, Port Hill, P.E.I.; b. 1901; d. 1946.
vi. JAMES -LEIGH- MAYNARD, b. April 11, 1903, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. March 25, 1998; m. HENRIETTA -PEARL- ENGLAND, September 08, 1932, Kensington, P.E.I.; b. September 11, 1910, Somerville, Mass., U.S.A..
vii. EDITH JANE MAYNARD, b. June 19, 1905, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. OLIVER BEERS MACKAY, September 13, 1924, St. Marys Church, Summerside, P.E.I.; d. Bef. 1961.
viii. HELEN KATHLEEN MAYNARD, b. March 31, 1910, Northam, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. DONALD CARR SMITH, 1937; b. 1912, McNeill's Mills, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. 1992.
11. CHARLES ANDREW3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born July 28, 1868 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died February 06, 1950 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada. He married MARY DELORES ANDREW December 19, 1906 in Rectory, Northam, P.E.I.. She was born October 13, 1874 in St. Eleanors, P.E.I., and died March 18, 1933 in Port Hill, P.E.I..
Christening: February 25, 1875, St. Mary's Ang., Summerside, P.E.I.
i. ALICE IDA4 MAYNARD, b. December 27, 1908, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. August 31, 1984, Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. EDMUND -EARLE- WILLIAMS, September 09, 1930, St. James Church, Port Hill, P.E.I.; b. August 20, 1906, Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; d. November 14, 1977, Prince Co. Hosp., Summerside, Prince Co.P.E.I., Canada.
ii. JOHN -WILLIAM- MAYNARD, b. June 17, 1912, Port Hill, P.E.I.; d. May 30, 1986, PrinceCounty Hos, Summerside, P.E.I.; m. LOIS -PEARL- STEWART, September 06, 1935, Rectory, Port Hill, P.E.I.; b. September 24, 1905; d. April 11, 1995, Tyne Valley, P.E.I..
Christening: July 16, 1913, Port Hill, P.E.I.
iii. JAMES -HERMAN- MAYNARD, b. August 13, 1914, Port Hill, P.E.I.; d. October 24, 1958, Massachusetts, U.S.A.; m. FRANCES GEORGINA HUNT, September 1941; b. May 06, 1919, St. Eleanors, Prince Co., P.E.I.; d. June 2000, Vancouver, B.C..
Burial: Oceanview Mem., Saint John, N.B.
12. MINNIE IDA3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born October 13, 1870 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died September 02, 1960 in Birch Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada. She married ARTEMAS MACARTHUR. He was born October 22, 1858 in Birch Hill, Lot 14, P.E.I., and died January 22, 1945 in Arlington, Lot 14, Prince Co. P.E.I, ..
i. HAZEL K.4 MACARTHUR, b. April 14, 1894; d. September 18, 1959.
ii. JOHN MAYNARD MACARTHUR, b. August 15, 1905; d. 1987; m. LILLIAN -OLGA- MACLEAN, June 23, 1931; b. January 16, 1910.
iii. LILY FLORENCE MACARTHUR, b. July 15, 1908; m. STANLEY THOMPSON.
iv. KENNETH EDMUND MACARTHUR, b. May 30, 1912; d. April 21, 1987.
13. ARTHUR FREDERICK3 MAYNARD (JOHN2, JOHN1) was born May 18, 1874 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died March 1946. He married LULU GORRILL June 27, 1900 in St.James Church, Port Hill, P.E.I.. She was born June 03, 1883 in Northam, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada, and died January 1934.
ii. LILY -MAE- JOSEPHINE MAYNARD, b. November 24, 1900, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
iii. JOHN -HARRY- MAYNARD, b. October 27, 1902, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. MABEL, December 03, 1924, Killarney, Manitoba; b. May 13, 1904.
iv. ARTHUR REAGH MAYNARD, b. June 04, 1905, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
v. SARAH JANE "JENNIE" MAYNARD, b. November 20, 1906, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada; m. JOHN LAND.
vi. HERMAN EDMUND MAYNARD, b. July 06, 1909, Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada.
vii. RAYMOND MAYNARD, b. Abt. 1918; d. January 11, 1919.
14. ISABELLA3 MAYNARD (WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born 1844, and died 1920. She married ALEXANDER CRAWFORD SHAW November 28, 1868 in Summerside, P.E.I..
i. WALTER4 SHAW, b. December 20, 1887, West River, Prince Co., P.E.I.; m. MARGARET MACKENZIE, 1921; b. Victoria West, P.E.I..
15. JOHN3 MAYNARD (WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born August 21, 1845 in Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England, and died January 28, 1940 in Birch Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., Canada. He married (1) CAROLINE ALICE YEO November 07, 1873. She was born September 01, 1838 in Port Hill, Prince Co., P.E.I., and died December 24, 1897. He married (2) ALICE E. YEO September 29, 1898 in Res.of Bride's M, Port Hill, P.E.I.. She was born July 07, 1864, and died October 25, 1903. He married (3) MARY ANN THOMAS LADNER May 10, 1905 in Res. of Thomas A, Arlington, P.E.I.. She was born July 23, 1862 in West Point, Prince Co., P.E.I..
Burial: December 26, 1897, St. James Ang., Port Hill, P.E.I.
i. MAURICE BAYFIELD4 MAYNARD, b. June 12, 1884; d. Bef. 1987; m. ETHYL GRACE ENMAN, October 07, 1903, Res. JohnMaynard, jr., Port Hill, P.E.I.; b. December 28, 1887, P.E.I.; d. December 1968.
ii. LINDSAY4 MAYNARD, d. Bef. 1987; m. MILDRED INMAN.
iii. MARTIN MAYNARD, b. January 16, 1898.
iv. JOHN EARLE STANLEY MAYNARD, b. June 23, 1900; d. August 12, 1987, Stewart Memorial, Tyne Valley, Prince Co., P.E.I. Canada; m. LOIS GRAY MACARTHUR, September 28, 1939, Presbyterian Man, Summerside, P.E.I.; b. April 18, 1913; d. March 30, 1986, SMHC, Tyne Valley, P.E.I..
16. BARBARA -LOUISA-3 MAYNARD (WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born April 14, 1852. She married ARCHIBALD MCINTOSH July 26, 1881. He was born 1833, and died 1893.
i. ETHYL BELL4 MCINTOSH, b. April 29, 1882; m. ARTHUR LARGE.
ii. EDITH ALICE MCINTOSH, b. September 04, 1884; m. RALPH SMALL.
17. SARAH -ALICE-3 MAYNARD (WILLIAM2, JOHN1) was born May 20, 1859, and died 1941. She married HENRY BARRETT. He was born 1848, and died 1914.
i. MARY CAROLINE4 BARRETT, b. September 06, 1891; d. December 02, 1891.


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An acoustic camera is an imaging device used to locate sound sources and to characterize them. It consists of a group of microphones, also called a microphone array, from which signals are simultaneously collected and processed to form a representation of the location of the sound sources.

Terminology
The term acoustic camera has first appeared at the end of the 19th century: A physiologist, J.R. Ewald, was investigating the function of the inner ear and introduced an analogy with the Chladni plates (a domain nowadays called Cymatics), a device enabling to visually see the modes of vibration of a plate. He called this device an acoustic camera. The term has then been widely used during the 20th century to designate various types of acoustic devices, such as underwater localization systems or active systems used in medicine. It designates nowadays any transducer array used to localize sound sources (the medium is usually the air), especially when coupled with an optical camera.

Technology

General principles
An acoustic camera generally consists of a microphone array and optionally an optical camera. The microphones – analog or digital – are acquired simultaneously or with known relative time delays to be able to use the phase difference between the signals. As the sound propagates in the medium (air, water...) at a finite known speed, a sound source is perceived by the microphones at different time instants and at different sound intensities that depend on both the sound source location and the microphone location.
One popular method to obtain an acoustic image from the measurement of the microphone is to use beamforming: By delaying each microphone signal relatively and adding them, the signal coming from a specific direction  is amplified while signals coming from other directions are canceled. The power of this resulting signal is then calculated and reported on a power map at a pixel corresponding to the direction . The process is iterated at each direction where the power needs to be computed.

While this method has many advantages – robustness, easy to understand, highly parallelizable because each direction can be computed independently, versatile (there exist many types of beamformers to include various types of hypothesis), relatively fast – it also has some drawbacks: the produced acoustic map has artifacts (also called side lobes or ghost sources) and it does not model correctly correlated sound sources. Various methods have been introduced to reduce the artifacts such as DAMAS or to take in account correlated sources such as CLEAN-SC, both at the price of a higher computational cost.

When the sound sources are near the acoustic camera, the relative intensity perceived by the different microphones as well as the waves not being any more seen as planar but spherical by the acoustic camera add new information compared to the case of sources being far from the camera. It enables to use more effective methods such as acoustic holography.

Reprojection
Results of far-field beamforming can be reprojected onto planar or non-planar surfaces.

Two-dimensional
Some acoustic cameras use two-dimensional acoustic mapping, which uses a unidirectional microphone array (e.g. a rectangle of microphones, all facing the same direction). Two-dimensional acoustic mapping works best when the surface to be examined is planar and the acoustic camera can be set up facing the surface perpendicularly. However, the surfaces of real-world objects are not often flat, and it is not always possible to optimally position the acoustic camera.

Additionally, the two-dimensional method of acoustic mapping introduces error into the calculations of the sound intensity at a point. Two-dimensional mapping approximates three-dimensional surfaces into a plane, allowing the distance between each microphone and the focus point to be calculated relatively easily. However, this approximation ignores the distance differences caused by surfaces having different depths at different points. In most applications of the acoustic camera, this error is small enough to be ignored; however, in confined spaces, the error becomes significant.

Three-dimensional
Three-dimensional acoustic cameras fix the errors of two-dimensional cameras by taking into account surface depths, and therefore correctly measuring the distances between the microphone and each spatial point. These cameras produce a more accurate picture, but require a 3-D model of the object or space being analyzed. Additionally, if the acoustic camera picks up sound from a point in space that is not part of the model, the sound may be mapped to a random space in the model, or the sound may not show up at all. 3-D acoustic cameras can also be used to analyze confined spaces, such as room interiors; however, in order to do this, a microphone array that is omnidirectional (e.g. a sphere of microphones, each facing a different direction) is required. This is in addition to the first requirement of having a 3-D model.

Applications
There are many applications of the acoustic camera, with most focusing on noise reduction. The camera is frequently applied to improve the noise emission of vehicles (such as cars, airplanes),trains, structures—such as wind turbines and heavy machinery operations such as mining  or drilling.

Acoustic cameras are not only used to measure the exterior emission of products but also to improve the comfort inside cabins of cars, train or airplanes. Spherical acoustic cameras are preferred in this type of application because the three-dimensional placement of the microphone allows to localize sound sources in all directions.

Troubleshooting of faults that occur in machines and mechanical parts can be accomplished with an acoustic camera. To find where the problem lies, the sound mapping of a properly functional machine can be compared to one of a dysfunctional machine.

A similar setup of the acoustic camera can be used to study the noise inside passenger carts during train operation. Alternatively, the camera can be set up outside, in an area near the train tracks, to observe the train as it goes by. This can give another perspective of the noise that might be heard inside the train. Additionally, an outside setup can be used to examine the squealing of train wheels caused by a curve in the tracks.

Challenges

Dynamic range

Low frequencies in the far-field

Computational power
The signal processing required by the acoustic camera is very intensive and needs powerful hardware and plenty of memory storage. Because of this, signal processing is frequently done after the recording of data, which can hinder or prevent the use of the camera in analyzing sounds that only occur occasionally or at varying locations. Cameras that do perform signal processing in real time tend to be large and expensive. Hardware and signal processing improvements can help to overcome these difficulties. Signal processing optimizations often focus on reduction of computational complexity, storage requirements, and memory bandwidth (rate of data consumption).

References

Further reading
 Abrie J., Oberholster. "Localizing the source of the sound efficiently", University of Pretoria Article 2021.

External links
http://blog.prosig.com/2010/03/15/comparison-between-sound-intensity-probes-and-acoustic-cameras/

Manufacturer links
https://www.cae-systems.de/en/
https://www.sevenbel.com/en
https://www.sorama.eu/
https://www.acoustic-camera.com/
https://www.distran.ch/
https://www.fluke.com/en-us/product/industrial-imaging/sonic-industrial-imager-ii900
https://nlacoustics.com/
https://web2.norsonic.com/product-cat/acoustic-camera/
https://www.plm.automation.siemens.com/global/en/products/simcenter/simcenter-sound-camera.html
http://www.signalinterface.com/index.html
http://smins.co.kr/en/
https://www.microflown.com/products/sound-localization-systems/near-field-acoustic-camera
https://www.bksv.com/
https://acsoft.co.uk/product/acoustic-camera/
https://www.flir.com/products/si124/
https://soundcam.com/

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Welcome to the 2018 Showroom.
Explore what it means to create a sense of hospitality at every exchange. From soft and welcoming touch-points to highly flexible environments, this year's showroom–Hospitality at Work–presents a new way of thinking about the office and a more welcoming way to work.
As mobile workstyles lift limitations on where work is done, organizations are focused on creating engaging environments that attract workers to the office.
Inside our showroom, visitors are invited to experience themed spaces that illustrate the power of hospitality in the workplace: Welcoming Environments, User-Directed Experiences, Flexible Solutions, Material Variety and Residential Aesthetic. Each Incorporates residential comforts and hospitality amenities that encourage comfort, community and ideation. Today's workplace is a place you want to be.
A welcoming environment invites you to feel at home. These spaces evoke a sense of comfort that encourages you to take a seat, plug-in, or strike up a conversation. An approachable concierge area or reception desk serves as a gateway to an experience-based workplace. Abundant plants and greenery bring the outside in, pairing lush green foliage with warm furnishings for a tranquil introduction to the space.
Our perspective on Immersive Planning, a Knoll Revolution Workplace planning paradigm, positions hospitality as one of five key factors that contribute to a new way of working and thinking about the office environment.
The power of choice is essential to hospitality in the workplace—to be able to chose what kind of environment you want to work in at any given moment. This space features a large, open footprint with areas to kick back and ideate, or spread out and roll up your sleeves.
Welcoming materials, soft-touch points and up-to-date amenities are expected. Companies are realizing the importance of creating a space that is truly inspiring to attract and retain the best talent.
Hospitality in the workplace goes beyond providing choice in environment to providing choice at the product level. Allowing for an ever-changing work landscape, flexible, multi-use spaces empower you to control your surroundings and adjust workspaces for the task at hand. Truly flexible spaces host a spectrum of collaboration, co-creation, power and data solutions.
Material variety balances warm and rich tone swith creative forms to compose a truly inviting space. Natural materials–warm woods, wool felt, premium leather–evoke a "third-place" within the workplace. Mixing unexpected materials in a more informal manner enlivens a space. The right mix of hard and soft, bright and subdued, harmoniously ties a space together.
New to the Knoll constellation, Muuto has its own dedicated space in the Hospitality at Work Showroom. Rooted in Scandinavian design traditions and characterized by enduring aesthetics, functionality, craftsmanship and an honest expression, Muuto is a natural complement to the Knoll aesthetic.
Muuto products pair seamlessly with the range of modern Knoll designs, offering an expanded breadth and depth of affordable luxury products that reflect today's evolving workstyles and trends in residential design, with particular appeal to a younger generation of architects, designers and clients and those seeking a homier, more relaxed aesthetic.
2018 will be our biggest presence ever at NeoCon. We want to tell the Muuto story to the American audience, showing how our resimercial Scandinavian design can affect workplaces and public environments for the better.
Muuto creates products that bring personality and a unique sentiment to any professional or private space. Through a collection that spans across furniture, lighting and accessories, Muuto's products have a shared identity that is at once modern, timeless and functional.
In honor of our 80th anniversary, Knoll introduces new products for both the home and the office that honor the iconic forms of the past and propel a modern sensibility into the future utilizing contemporary materials and complex manufacturing techniques.
Ollo is a light task chair designed to support improvisation and spontaneity across a variety of environments and workstyles. With its modern form and intuitive movement, Ollo adapts to the task at hand, whether you're just touching down or staying a while.
Poised to bring material warmth and the latest charging technology to the desktop, Lars Beller Fjetland's new collection of desktop accessories organizes the evolving workplace – one filled with digital devices and everyday essentials rather than reams of paper.
Previewing at NeoCon 2018, The Beller Desktop Collection combines functionality and natural materials, primarily wood and cork, to create a family of products that efficiently organize the everyday things that clutter the worksurface. The lightweight, bent wood collection is designed to easily stack together or be used individually, providing maximum storage flexibility for any size desktop. The collection also integrates wireless and USB charging technology.
A contemporary re-introduction of some of our earliest designs, KnollStudio presents the Butterfly Chair and the Risom Outdoor Collection.
Designed by Jens Risom in 1943, the Rise collection of chairs and tables has since been used for every application imaginable, from the home to the workplace to hospitality environments. Honoring the collection's enduring design, selected classics from Risom's original collection have been re-engineered using teak wood and Sunbrella® webbing for outdoor use.
Designed by Antonio Bonet, Juan Kurchan and Jorge Ferrari-Hardoy in 1937, the Butterfly Chair encouraged a new way of sitting, freeing people from formal situations and encouraging a new convivial spirit that laid the groundwork for contemporary furniture design. Today's Butterfly Chair has sinuous, dynamic lines made possible by the materials involved: thermoformed felt fitted to a steel frame.
From Rockwell Unscripted to the k. collection to DatesWeiser, Knoll has spent the last year measuring how current collections have adapted to the evolving workplace, noting where a product can be enhanced to maximize its capabilities or where there is an opportunity to take the core foundation of a collection and create an entirely new complementary product.
Creative Wall Enclosures incorporate the same post and lintel framework as Creative Wall but offer entirely closed spaces with doors and windows for private phone conversations or highly focused work.
Sawhorse Workbench, with its warm expression of wood and welcoming curved and tapered touch-points, merges the privacy and focus of traditional benching systems with the collaborative and open characteristics of today's workplaces. Powerful dividers and cable managements make the Sawhorse Workbench a truly versatile product.
Achieve more with less. k. bench is a straightforward height-adjustable benching system. A small, yet adaptable kit of parts allows for the integration of two height ranges in the same cluster, and the continuous power channel offers the flexibility to add or subtract desks in the field. The simplified and integrated cable management system anticipates the long-term needs of cable management upkeep – meaning no visible cables. Slim upholstered screens provide visual privacy and tactile warmth to the open plan.
KnollTextiles presents the Interwine Collection by Dorothy Cosonas, KnollTextiles Creative Director, and the Atmosphere Collection, a collaboration with Trove. Marking the 10-year anniversary of Knoll Luxe, three Knoll Luxe advance preview products are on display. The Intertwine Collection explores patterns, structure and geometry both on and off the grid with upholstery and drapery products. The Atmosphere Collection is a study of how intrinsic forces in nature shape patterns rendered in large-scale gestural movements on high performance Thermoplastic Olefin wallcovering. Selections from each collection are incorporated into a larger than life display of flowers, plants and creatures made exclusively with KnollTextiles products.
Ribsy is an acoustic wallcovering that has a ribbed texture made with thick wool felt strips. The tile-based system creates wall-to-wall installations with subtle color variation between felt strips to create rich depth and texture.
Spinnybeck showcases Dukta flexible wood, a collaboration with the Switzerland-based company. Dukta developed its patented incision process that makes wood flexible, allowing for textile-like properties that adapt to a wide-range of applications including wall and ceiling panels, free-standing screens and acoustic installations.


Forget About Passwords…and Say "Hello" to Dragon ID!
Forgotten passwords are officially a thing of the past! Today, I'm thrilled to introduce you to Dragon ID — an exciting new dimension of the Dragon Mobile experience that gives you the power to say "goodbye" to oft-forgotten passwords and say "Hello Dragon" instead.
With Dragon ID, your VOICE is your password. So by saying something as simple as "Hello Dragon" -Dragon ID not only hears what you say, it also recognizes your voice and unlocks your device – no fumbling with small keyboards or multiple password attempts due to 'fat-finger' mistakes!
What's more – because Dragon ID knows who you are by your unique voiceprint, you have confidence in knowing that your device, along with the content on it, is always secure.
We have much more to tell you about Dragon ID. Just click here to make the jump.


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Again, Laynie says: What's the big deal about camp, you ask? Well, my son is 13 years old and has type 1 diabetes. He was diagnosed at age 10, and suddenly felt overwhelmed, alone. He is one of three diabetic children at his school, and he spends a good portion of every day managing his diabetes. He wears an insulin pump 24 hours a day, we do site change every three days, and he checks his blood sugar anywhere from 3-10 times a day, sometimes more if it's a bad day. He doesn't get to just eat, just live... he's always having to manage his diabetes.
But for three weeks every year, he gets to attend Camp Sweeney. This camp isn't just a summer camp... it's 300 kids with diabetes, all able to be just like everyone else for that three weeks. They aren't stared at for checking their blood sugar or having an injection. They don't feel out of place, or left out. They get to be a normal kid for three weeks, swimming, hiking, doing all sorts of activities. They also learn about how to manage their diabetes, and learn to not use it as an excuse for why they can't do something.
When we told our son about the possible cures coming up, he told us that given the choice, he'd wait until after he was 18 (and no longer able to go to camp) to get the cure, because camp means that much to him. It's a magical place, and I cry every year when I see what a wonderful experience it is for him.
The problem is that it's expensive. The fees for the camp itself are covered by scholarship, but we live very far from camp. (It's north of Dallas, and we live in south Louisiana.) Getting him there and back, and supplies for camp, costs us about $1500 all total. But this year, I'm disabled and my husband is severely underemployed. Add to that my 2 surgeries lately, and we just don't have the money to get him there.
They need $1500. They have $834.
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Remember mslaynie's efforts to get her son to diabetic camp? She's gotten lots of donations - yay, and many thanks to those of you who helped!
He's not quite there yet, though. So if you didn't get around to it last time, and if you can, please throw a few bucks in the hat. Whether you can or not, pimp this link.
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The 4x4 Expo is opening its doors for the 3rd year but its roots go all the way back to 2002 !!
In 2002 the people who organise the 4x4 Expo started up the British Indoor 4x4 Show. They ran the Show for 4 or 5 years before the then publishers of Total OffRoad magazine bought the rights to the show from them.
Unfortunately whilst under the new ownership / management the show declined until in 2012 it was staged for the last time. This left a gap in the market for a 'true 4x4' show so David & team started again at Donington.
Using the original concept and with the same aims of a show that the public can enjoy and the trade can earn a living at the Donington 4x4 Show was born and ran for the first time in 2013.
The same format from all those years ago still works today for the trade and public alike - no hype, no frills just a great show where anything you might want to buy for your 4x4 is available from the wide selection of trade there. The Show has a real emphasis on people who actually 'use their 4x4s' rather than just the lifestyle...
2018 An exciting, new chapter begins...
With no guarantee that Donington will even be available to hire as a venue from now on and the fact that we have sort of 'outgrown the building' the decision was made to find a new home for the event.
Bingley Hall at the Staffordshire County Showground, ST18 0BD provides the perfect new home:
Just as easy to access in a central location. Far bigger main hall with additional hall space for us to grow into without having to move again.
The first '4x4 Expo' in February of 2018 was a great success really showing the benefits of the new, bigger venue.
The second '4x4 Expo' in February of 2019 was an even bigger success with more traders and more visitors
The first 4x4 Show of the year makes February the start of Show season - roll on the 2020 4x4 Expo!
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Today marks the 7th birthday of the History Repeating blog!
It's 7 years ago today that I published my first History Repeating blog entry.
Birthday Cake time! Photo: Will Clayton via Creative Commons.
I picked out a photograph of my Great Grandmother Clara Gilbert, with her siblings, parents, nieces, nephews, and Grandmother, standing outside the family home from about 1911, and decided to blog about it in my first post.
I'd like to thank you all for sticking with me to read my posts, and for all the comments, and sharing of my articles.
In those moments of doubt in December 2007, as to whether anyone would find my posts even the slightest bit interesting, I'm glad I thought 'oh, sod it' and clicked 'Publish'. I've enjoyed writing this blog, and have found that it's been a great way of connecting with more relatives, and helping to get opinions on areas of research that I am unsure of.
If you're toying with the idea of blogging – do it! Start your blog in 2015.
I've just had news from Steve Bardouille, the co-founder over at Famberry – they've just upgraded their package for users.
They're now offering a massive one terabyte of space to users who sign up (it's for a limited time – sorry folks, I don't know how long that means!), but that is a LOT of space to store photographs and memories. Steve estimates that's about 300,000 photos!
The difference with Famberry, is that it's a safe and secure environment in which you can build a tree and keep those family memories.
Okay, so the wisdom of crowds is quite a powerful thing, and often opens up avenues of new research, or reaches out to 'new' distant relatives, or, if you get as frustrated as me – opens up the possibilities to introduce ridiculous errors courtesy of other less-careful researchers. But, if you're wanting to collaborate with your relatives in private, then it's got that box ticked perfectly.
I took a look at online data security in my Privacy and the Genealogist post a few months ago.
Author Anne Brontë's headstone has been given an erratum plaque by the Brontë Society. Should headstones be corrected or left as a historical object?
Have you ever seen a headstone that carries incorrect information? Should it be corrected? Left as a historical object? Or should a correction be added?
I have just read this BBC article relating to the correction of an error on author Anne Brontë's grave in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
The error, her age at death, which should have been 29 rather than 28 years, has stood in the churchyard since 1849, but now the Brontë Society has made the corrections by adding a plaque alongside the original standing stone.
This is not the first time her headstone has been corrected – her sister Charlotte arranged the correction of five earlier errors.
Elizabeth Yarrow's headstone doesn't match burial records on several counts.
This reminds me of my own Great x 5 Grandmother, Elizabeth Yarrow (née Wright), whose own age, date, and year of death differs by two years depending on whether you're reading the headstone, or one of the two parish registers that record her burial.
Dates range from 1837 to 1839, and her death seems to not to be covered by certification.
What do you think? Is it right to correct a headstone, preserve it with its error, or add an 'erratum'?
Creepy or a lovely sentimental touch? How a QR (quick response) code could help you break through that research brickwall by providing you with extra information at the grave side.
Small black and white squares and a handheld device could be the key to that long-awaited research breakthrough.
QR codes ('quick response codes') are a kind of square barcode that can be scanned by mobile and tablet device cameras and then link you through to a webpage. You may have seen some on bus stop or underground posters, or food packaging, or even on the tags found on the end of a teabag string.
Whilst those examples might not help you discover what happened to your Great Great Aunt Emily after surviving the sinking of the Titanic, or reveal a photo of your mysterious lost Uncle Freddie, QR codes could become a genealogist's friend in the future.
Companies are finding ways to use these codes to expand on the information that can be obtained from gravestones. I quite like this idea, although several non-genealogist friends I've talked about this with, find the idea to be unsettling.
So will it catch on here in the UK? I guess it's down to the delivery – if a memorial web page had to carry advertising, or was poorly designed, i'm sure that it would be unpopular.
A poll carried out by The Guardian newspaper in September 2012, found that 62% of respondents answered 'No' to the question 'Would you have a QR code on your gravestone?'. Is the QR code a fad? Deemed 'too gimmicky' and disrespectful to appear on a gravestone?
To explain how a QR code may work on a gravestone, here's a video from Quiring Monuments – just one of many organisations who offer this service in the USA.
The Commonwealth War Graves Commission has already started a similar project to bring QR codes in to Botley Cemetery, Oxfordshire, England, which they hope to complete in time for the centenary of the beginning of the First World War in 2014.
In May 2012, Monmouth in Wales, became the world's first 'Wikipedia town', with buildings receiving QR codes that would lead tourists to find out more about the history when scanned, under the moniker of 'Monmouthpedia'.
Gibraltar and Brazil followed suit with similar ideas.
QR codes are generally free to create. I created the code at the top of this article at Kaywa.com.
Have you ever seen,or used a QR code on a headstone? Are headstone QR codes a creepy or a lovely sentimental touch? Would love to know what you think.
Heir Hunters is now prime-time on BBC 2 in the UK with presenter Lisa Faulkner.
Probate research show Heir Hunters arrives on prime-time BBC tv.
For quite some time now, I've been addicted to the daytime television series Heir Hunters, which has screened in the UK for several series.
The premise of the show is to use genealogical research methods to uncover the relatives of people who have died intestate (ie without a Will or any known legally recognised family), leading them to making a claim of the deceased's estate which would otherwise be absorbed by the government.
The show follows a handful of the companies (mainly Fraser & Fraser, and often Celtic Research) that work against the clock to beat rival companies, to work out family trees and connect real people to their legal entitlement.
This often unearths long-lost and incredible stories about the deceased, or brings memories flooding back to living relatives who lost touch, and in several cases, comes as a complete shock to receive notification that the deceased person even existed.
The series has now been given a prime-time 7pm slot over on BBC 2, where it is now given a much longer programme, and this gives it the chance to add a much more educational and genealogical context – with investigations into the society that the deceased lived in.
Actress and the show's former narrator since 2008, Lisa Faulkner, now takes to the screen as presenter, bringing interesting and educational interviews with experts and even the to-camera pleas for information on individuals who have been languishing on the government Bona Vacantia list.
The current run of episodes essentially contain the stories used in the last series, but with extra footage and interviews edited in. According to the Heir Hunters twitter feed, a brand new series is complete and ready for transmission.
What do you make of the show? Is the new format better? Did you prefer the shorter programme, or the time of day that it was on? Let me know in the comments below!
Free Family History step-by-step guide and CD-rom inside every copy of The Telegraph on 19th and 20th February 2011.
In association with Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine, The Telegraph are giving away a step-by-step Family Tree guide and CD-rom, that will help you to trace your ancestors in only 14 days. Find out more about these great gifts at The Telegraph website.
If that's not enough, the fifth Who Do You Think You Are? LIVE event takes place at London's Olympia between 25th and 27th February. I'm going to be going along on Friday 25th in a bid to catch talks by Monty Don and Tony Robinson.


For those of us who can't imagine anything more chillaxing than sitting on the couch with a blankie, popcorn and an entire season of Netflix to binge, your life just got *that* much better.
Netflix has just introduced their biggest game-changing hack yet. According to The Verge, Twitter users this week noticed that if you hover over the title sequence for some Netflix OG series like Stranger Things and Iron Fists, a "skip intro" button appears.
Unfortunately, the feature is only available on the online version of Netflix, not the app - for the moment. There's no word on whether they will be expanding the feature beyond Netflix originals, but hey, it's a treat.


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For marketers who want to run online ad campaigns, there's a plethora of channels and approaches for media buying: from direct integrations and numerous ad exchanges to affiliate/ad networks and mobile demand-side platforms (DSPs).
Today, with the growth and development of ad technologies and the standardization of transparency, buying via DSPs is becoming more and more attractive and in some ways even more efficient compared to other approaches. The heart of a DSP is the real-time bidding (RTB) functional that brings automation, transparency, scalable buying capabilities, and many other advantages.
The lack of transparency across affiliate/ad networks remains a substantial issue which programmatic buying can overcome: with the help of a DSP, marketers can know exactly how each ad is performing and which inventory works best for their product as well as ensure brand safety and monitor the exact source, context and format of each and every ad that was served. This allows advertisers to see ad spend clearly and reallocate it to the best performing publishers, while eliminating "bad apples" that might not be the best choice for your brand and/or show fraudulent signals.
Detailed analytics and reporting
Along with transparency, it's essential to track other campaign performance metrics. And this is where RTB media buying platforms excel.
Advanced reporting provides marketers with in-depth insights into how users engage with their ads. It is possible to explore all the strengths and weaknesses of each campaign and optimize it using granular real time data.
Another advantage is the ability to access various metrics beyond the basic impression/click/install data: win rates, fill rates, frequency and other parameters provide insight to the media buying process and performance. These can help marketers compare between DSPs as well as collect valuable data for various purposes such as testing new platforms or in-house media buying.
Advanced targeting opportunities
The classic marketing process begins with determining the target audience. DSPs can help identify, find, and categorize audiences based on each advertiser's goals and KPIs while reaching those quickly and efficiently: about 90% of the users globally can be reached via the large ad exchanges.
There are various targeting parameters that allow marketers to understand users through behavioral patterns. Some of those include:
demographics data: gender
behavioral data: interests
geographic: location, country, city, zip code
device and campaign technical data : session depth, frequency cap, carrier, device type, vendors, models, operating system, IP, GEO and others.
To discover your potential customer's inherent behavioral patterns, you can refer to data collected by DMPs – data management platforms. DSPs powered up with data (sourced from a 3rd party, or their own) will provide marketers with insights on how to craft their targeting settings to reach audiences with the most relevant message at the right moment and context.
Advertisers can also set impression frequency and improve their targeting on the go by setting a bid price, audience and apps where they want their ads to be featured on.
Re-engagement campaigns
Efficient and scalable re-engagement campaigns are one of the key benefits of buying media via RTB. When an advertiser has a given list of users to re-engage, finding those on the exchange is the easiest and fastest way to go. Based on collected insights on how audiences engage with the app and factors contributing to an ad's "success", advertisers are provided with an opportunity to maximize user retention and revenues using granular segmentation, personalized ads based on user history and real time incrementality testing.
For example, if an advertiser wants to reach users who visited a product page but abandoned their shopping cart, creating a campaign for this custom audience utilizing personalized messaging based on their previous patterns can be a great way to encourage them to go back and complete their purchase.
Knowing that the ads are reaching the required market through accurate targeting and wide reach allows advertisers to focus more on testing various ad inventory to find the top-performing sources.
DSPs are integrated with RTB ad exchanges, so marketers can access various in-app inventory available from supply-side platforms and premium inventory providers via one single interface.
As mentioned earlier, over 90% of all users globally can be reached programmatically. MoPub alone (one of the top mobile ad exchanges, and a division of Twitter) reaches over 55,000 apps across more than 1.4 billion unique devices. Bidding on the open exchange allows reaching multiple monetization SDKs through a single platform, eliminating overlap and creating a standard for data processing, analysis and reporting.
A DSP provides advertisers and media buyers with everything they need in order to expand their online ad strategies to new markets and audiences and reach their goals whatever those might be: from brand awareness and user acquisition to retention and user loyalty.
With a clearer picture of the real-time bidding advantages and keeping in mind that it requires a data-driven mindset and a methodical approach to scaling and optimization, marketers can now make the most out of their programmatic initiatives.
When it comes to digital media buying, transparency is a key factor that makes real-time bidding via programmatic stand out. The level of transparency offered by programmatic buying helps minimize fraud, delivers more campaign performance insights, and enables greater scale.
Pavlina Vasilatou, Strategic Partner Development Manager, MoPub
RTB allows advertisers to get access to true user-level auction bidding with better transparency than a traditional waterfall or affiliate network.
Matthew Sadofsky, Chief Marketing Officer, Studio
When in comes to DSPs you deal directly with end users. You can target users who are eligible for your KPIs despite the app where your ads are shown. For example, a "good" poker user can be acquired in a hyper casual app. So, in general, DSPs have broader targeting options comparing to ad networks (app category, interests, age, sex, first impressions etc.)
A crucial fact is that using DSP we get better transparency rather than most of the ad networks can offer – we see all the information about ad requests, impressions, win rates, sources volume and many more. Based on this data we can make decisions how to optimise, scale and increase ROAS.
Sam Forrest, Director for Global PR, Marketing and Communications, KamaGames
One of the main benefits programmatic advertising provides is the possibility of acquiring users that are not available in classic Ad Exchanges.
The reason for this is the inventory itself, available only via RTB, and wider opportunities for targeting. Programmatic allows the targeting of users by a wide range of parameters, starting from country, state, city or any location, such as a hotel or a mall, and ending with such flexible parameters as searching for people in mobile apps by bundle id, limiting the number of impressions per user and even mobile carrier.
All of that allows a more granular level of user acquisition to be reached and, thanks to flexible settings, more quality app installs are received.
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'Unlearning' has a stabilizing effect in collective memories.
Crick and Mitchison have presented a hypothesis for the functional role of dream sleep involving an 'unlearning' process. We have independently carried out mathematical and computer modelling of learning and 'unlearning' in a collective neural network of 30-1,000 neurones. The model network has a content-addressable memory or 'associative memory' which allows it to learn and store many memories. A particular memory can be evoked in its entirety when the network is stimulated by any adequate-sized subpart of the information of that memory. But different memories of the same size are not equally easy to recall. Also, when memories are learned, spurious memories are also created and can also be evoked. Applying an 'unlearning' process, similar to the learning processes but with a reversed sign and starting from a noise input, enhances the performance of the network in accessing real memories and in minimizing spurious ones. Although our model was not motivated by higher nervous function, our system displays behaviours which are strikingly parallel to those needed for the hypothesized role of 'unlearning' in rapid eye movement (REM) sleep.


Oily vs. Dry Skin: Does One Type Actually Age "Better"?
Oily skin has a few stereotypes, like the appearance of larger pores, shiny skin, and often being prone to acne and blackheads. Another common belief is that this skin type will age better and develop fewer wrinkles than other skin types, particularly dry skin. I can't even begin to tell you the number of times I've heard this from clients in the facial room.
So, is there any truth to this?
The short answer is: Oily skin ages differently than other skin types but doesn't necessarily mean fewer wrinkles. It just means different types of wrinkles. Let's talk about how skin ages in the first place.
There are many signs of aging and the formation of wrinkles is just one — though it's often considered to be one of the biggest.
The reason wrinkles form is not from oil production. It's because of the breakdown and loss of collagen and elastin fibers which are responsible for providing support and structure to the skin. This is due to intrinsic aging but also lifestyle, repetitive facial expressions, the ever-present force of gravity tugging on these fibers, and the biggest contributor: sun damage. These factors affect all skin types.
Oil provides moisture and a plump look to the skin. With dry skin, you may appear to have more wrinkles. Normal and combination skin types fall somewhere between the two.
Genetically, dry skin tends to be thinner, pores are smaller, and skin appears to be smoother. But fine lines and wrinkles do appear more exaggerated. Oily skin, on the other hand, has much larger pores and is thicker. This provides extra padding or cushion to the skin.
Because of this, oily skin will have less of those "crinkly" apparent fine lines often found in forehead areas of the face. Oily skin tends to be thicker where there are more oil glands, which means forehead lines may be less apparent. However, oily skin may end up with deeper lines in the lower half of the face with more loss of tone.
As for the eye area, it really doesn't matter your skin type. In a 2015 study of skin wrinkles, results showed that the presence of oil glands didn't correlate with crow's feet in the eye area. These lines appear regardless of skin type.
The best things you can do for any skin type is to wear sunscreen daily, don't smoke, eat a healthy diet, and get enough sleep. Skin care products that contain hyaluronic acid are a great option for plumping fine lines.
For deep wrinkles that form in the lower half of the face, topical skin care won't make a huge difference since the cause is primarily muscular. But if you're looking to tackle that area, fillers, laser, or facial acupuncture could help.
While there are perks to each skin type, one doesn't necessarily age better than another. We all age differently — and require different protocols.
Science has discovered a way to make vegan collagen. We're here to answer exactly how that works, and whether it works.


Welcome to Field Commander: Napoleon, the third in our series of Field Commander games. The goal in designing this game system was to make the careers of some of history's great commanders accessible in an easy to learn, fast playing game format. We decided on solitaire, because it had the proper feel. Commanders have staff and advisors, but in the end, they alone make the hard decisions that affect lives, change the course of campaigns, and decide the fate of nations.
In this game, you make all the decisions needed to command your Forces. The game rules, charts, and die rolls dictate the actions of the opposing forces.


Home Legal Counsel Owning a Business in San Diego – Why Should You Hire a Lawyer?
San Diego is one of the best locations to live in California. In addition to being the second largest city in the state, it's one of the most populated in United States. Its warm climate, its beaches and its exciting nightlife are just some of the reasons why thousands of tourists visit San Diego every year.
Obviously, because it's one of the tourist areas par excellence in North America, it's also an excellent place to do business. Founding cafes, restaurants, hotels and nightclubs could be good options to obtain incredible income. However, before making any decision, it's good to request advice from a San Diego business attorney.
There are hundreds of different business opportunities in San Diego, however, the area in which you choose to found your business can be the difference between success and failure. A San Diego business attorney will help you make the best decision, based on years of experience in the field.
Before starting a business, you must know all regulations that govern commercial activities and ensure you meet each and every one of them. Those who don't do it are in risk of committing crimes that can be penalized with fines and even jail.
If you have a business and you commit an infraction, you'll ruin the reputation you took years to build. If your reputation is tarnished, you'll lose trust of your clients and sooner or later they will stop visiting your business. And that's the worst thing that could happen to you.
What about employees? To ensure success of a business, functions of each employee must be clearly stated in the contract to avoid misunderstandings. Payment mode, working day duration, benefits, duties and rights. These are only some aspects that you cannot ignore in a contract if you don't want to have legal conflicts in the future.
If you have no idea how to make an employment contract or how to handle hiring or dismissal of the staff, it's a good idea that you choose contract lawyer San Diego. If you don't have a master's degree in law, it's better to leave the legal affairs of your business in the hands of an expert.
Advocacy is one of the most lucrative professions in San Diego, due to the large number of legal cases that occur daily in its courts. In United States, millions of people enter and leave the courts because of demands. If you hire the services of a contract lawyer San Diego, you'll be in advantage compared to business owners who don't request legal advice.
The world of laws is full of clauses and small letters, which when ignored, can have very serious consequences. If you are about to sign a contract, making sure a trusted lawyer reads it first. This way you'll avoid being a victim of fraud or scams.
Many people have ended up leaving their own businesses in the hands of third parties and taking them to bankruptcy by not paying attention to the documents they sign. The world of laws can be full of subtle traps, which only an expert with years of experience is able to detect.
For that reason, never start a business without first getting enough advice on legal matters. In short, don't do anything without first hiring a good lawyer.


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I quite literally just received this (Thanks Laura!). The long-awaited follow up to "Go Get Goo Goo" is "Five Steps Ahead" and it's gonna be walking all over us courtesy of Sounds of Subterranea in March!! More info as it becomes available...
Mr Helsing wishes it to be known that...
THE THANES - A NIGHT IN GREAT KING STREET 10" LP - LARSEN (LZ079) It's here...NOW! The new 10" live LP by Scottish garage-beat purveyors THE THANES - A NIGHT IN GREAT KING STREET - issued on fabulous French label Larsen (LZ079). Features never before issued tracks, such as the group's urgent cover of the Q65 nugget "I Despise You", plus many on-stage favourites, including "The Lovely Laura-Anne", "It's Just A Fear" and "The Next One". Start bugging your local record shoppe to order your copy, like now!"
Other news... Got an e-mail from Tony Blair this morning. Me and 1.8 million+ others. It had to be rescued from my junk mail. This was because I signed the road pricing petition that's been in the headlines. And actually, I'm not so much against road pricing as I am agin the tracking that it would allow the all-enveloping surveillance industry to undertake. Lord knows, is the mobile phone epidemic not hellish enough. Not that there's much to glean about my comings and goings but it's the principle. Actually, if there was a halfway decent public transport infrastructure then I wouldn't even have a bloody car. However, the likelihood of such a thing in this backwater is slimmer than a very slim thing on the proverbial slim-athon slimfast diet.
Taken to yon logical conclusion, if I didn't have to earn a crust then I'd seldom leave the house at all. But anyway, all this guff with carbon footprints, etc., until our co-habitees in burgeoning economies start screwing the napper then there's little or nothing our hapless attempts to restrict climate change can do. We're on the rocket people, but what you can do is resolve not to waste energy for your own self. Nobody else. Just you. I also had to listen to some bollocks about "ethical trading" from someone who gets printing done in China rather than here in the UK where the triple standard and creative accountancy reign supreme. Pity about my fellow travellers who are just trying to get by. Anyway, I guess Tony didn't catch any of the Hold Steady shows because there was no mention of them in his message. Or maybe they're not britpop enough. That could be it. I'm tempted to make a sinking shjips crack but I can't be arsed.
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5 Nigerian Celebrities Who Graduated At The Top Of Their Classes With Excellent Grades (Photos)
1) Koredo Bello
Despite being a ladies' man with his striking looks, Koredo Bello extended his intelligence to the academic world when he graduated with a distinction in journalism to become one of the top seven best students out of 1340 graduating students at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Lagos.
2) Adesua Etomi
Adesua Etomi bagged a first class in Drama and Performing Arts from the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. She has proved her intelligence in most of the movies she has been featured in.
3) Kizz Daniel
Kizz Daniel reigned supreme in his class when he graduated with a top result in engineering. However, he missed out on having a first-class result.
4) Joy Solana
Joy Solana graduated with a first-class degree in Film and TV Production. Her intentions to study the course were greatly motivated by her brother, Don Jazzy, who was already a superstar in the entertainment industry.
5) Iwobi Marie
Marie Iwobi is a hard-working lady who graduated from the University of Leicester with a first class degree. She is the sister of Alex Iwobi, the Nigerian footballer.
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Texas Governor Slams Austin City Council for Defunding Police
by Bob Price on August 14, 2020 at 8:43 AM
Texas Governor Greg Abbott slammed the Austin City Council for its decision to strip $150 million from the capital city's police department.
"Some cities are more focused on political agendas than public safety," Governor Abbott said in a written statement. "Austin's decision puts the brave men and women of the Austin Police Department and their families at greater risk, and paves the way for lawlessness."
The entire Austin City Council voted to cut $150 million from the city's police department budget on Thursday, the Texas Tribune reported.
"This moment has been born out of a lot of hurt in the community," Austin City Councilman Greg Casar said during the council's Thursday meeting. "We know we have a long way to go."
Casar drafted the plan to cut the Austin Police Department budget by about one-third, the Tribune reported. His plan calls for an immediate cut of about $20 million. The plan calls for some of the budget cuts to be diverted to fund abortion and food access programs. The plan also calls for $80 million to be diverted over time to move divisions from the police department to civilian functions including forensics, support services, and victims' services. Another $50 million will go to a "Reimagine Safety Fund" to create alternative forms of public safety.
The council also eliminated the current 150 slots for now-vacant officer positions.
Late last month, Austin City Councilman Jimmy Flannigan made headlines by calling for the "expedited demolition" of the Austin police headquarters building, Breitbart Texas reported.
"We should expedite the demolition of the APD Headquarters by directing the City Manager to move all remaining APD staff out of the existing headquarters building and into other underutilized city facilities," District 6 Councilman Flannigan wrote in his plan posted on AustinCouncilForum.org.
Austin resident Mackenzie Kelly, Flannigan's opponent in an upcoming city council election, called Flannigan's proposal, "Nothing is more symbolic of recent efforts to de-fund the police than this scheme to demolish Austin Police Headquarters," in an interview with The Hayride political blog. "If anyone for even a second thinks that these proposals are designed to save money or increase accountability, remember that Jimmy Flannigan is now proposing swinging a wrecking ball at the very heart of law and order in our city."
In a Facebook post, she called Flannigan's proposal "reckless and completely unthinkable."
Governor Abbott vowed to have the Texas Legislature address the issue when it meets in Austin next year.
"In the meantime," Abbott stated, "the Texas Department of Public Safety will stand in the gap to protect our city."
Originally published on Breitbart Texas. Bob Price serves as associate editor and senior news contributor for the Breitbart Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston's What's Your Point? Sunday-morning talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
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Q: Why don't rules applied inside ContourPlot3D work? The output of the following code is the same as the input.
waals = (P + a/V^2) (V - b) == R T;

ContourPlot3D[waals /. {a -> 1, b -> 1, R -> 1},
 {P, 0, 100}, {V, 0, 100}, {T, 0, 100}]

But
ContourPlot3D[(P + 1/V^2) (-1 + V) == T,
 {P, 0, 100}, {V, 0, 100}, {T, 0, 100}]

works fine.
What's wrong? Do I have to specify all the parameters in the equation?

A: You need to evaluate it before Plot to get placements done.
ContourPlot3D[
 Evaluate[waals /. {a -> 1, b -> 1, R -> 1}], {P, 0, 100}, {V, 0,
  100}, {T, 0, 100}]

As suggested by @rcollyer, ContourPlot3d has HoldAll attribute, which can be seen as ,Attributes[ContourPlot3D] (*{HoldAll, Protected, ReadProtected}*)

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Dry Sheep Equivalent (DSE) is a standard unit frequently used  in Australia to compare the feed requirements of different classes of stock or to assess the carrying capacity and potential productivity of a given farm or area of grazing land.

The unit represents the amount of feed required by a two-year-old, 45 kg (some sources state 50 kg) Merino sheep (wether or non-lactating, non-pregnant ewe) to maintain its weight.  One DSE is equivalent to 7.60 megajoule (MJ) per day.

The carrying capacity of a farm is commonly determined in Australia by expressing the number of stock carried during a period of feed shortage in terms of their DSEs.

Benchmarking standards used by Grazing for Profit programmes quote that one labour unit (40 hours per week) is required for 6,000 DSE (other benchmarking standards set the figure at 7,000 DSE).

See also
Livestock grazing comparison
Sheep

References and notes

External links
How to use Dry Sheep Equivalents (DSEs) to compare sheep enterprises
Grass, Cows & Kangaroos
Using DSEs and carrying capacities to compare beef enterprises

Australian sheep industry
Livestock in Australia
Equivalent units