What is the On Story Project?
An extension of AFF's programs, mission, and messaging, On Story offers inspiring and instructional curations from the entertainment industry's leading writers, directors, and creatives. It serves to shine a light on these visionaries who, through the transformative power of storytelling, boldly reflect the best of humanity and, subsequently, inspire and instruct the next generation of storytellers.
The On Story Project houses six major components: a television series, podcast, radio show, book series, archive, and an all-encompassing website. The rich material captured at the Festival and year-round events is then curated into productions offered for free online and through public radio and television; preserved and archived at The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University; and edited into a multi-book series in partnership with The University of Texas Press.
A mirror to the Festival's organic, unfettered, story-driven experience, On Story provides high quality, inspirational and educational free content for any and all. It embodies the heart and soul of the on-the-ground programming, sharing AFF's values and personality with the world at large.
One of the original initiatives of the On Story Project, AFF launched the 30-minute On Story television show in 2011 on PBS-affiliate station, KLRU. The show harvests footage from AFF's 25 years of recorded events as a way to examine the art and craft of storytelling. Initially a local program, the show was swiftly picked up by stations nationwide due to its engaging creative content and an untouched market, hungry for a deeper exploration of storytelling. As of 2019, On Story has a presence in 85% of PBS affiliated markets nationwide, include major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas-Ft.Worth, Washington D.C, Houston, San Francisco, Atlanta, Boston, Miami, San Antonio, New Orleans, and St. Louis.
On Story is two-time Lone Star Emmy winning show having received accolades for the Season 4 episode, Breaking Bad: A Conversation with Vince Gilligan and for the Season 8 episode Script to Screen: Arrival in 2018.
Its recent history has shown a progression to include a wider breadth of storytelling mediums, and AFF has welcomed guests like John Patrick Shanley and Tracey Scott Wilson discussing playwriting; Sarah Burns and James Moll discussing the art of the documentary; Issa Rae and Bernie Su discussing digital storytelling; and Wendy Calhoun and Jamie Wong discussing writing for virtual reality. The upcoming seasons will also play host to experts from the worlds of podcasts, journalism, narrative fiction, and more.
The On Story podcast launched in April 2011 as an audio companion to the television show. The podcasts are free and easily accessible to the public through iTunes and PRI's website. Available to stream or as free digital downloads, the podcast surpassed over 1,000,000 downloads in January 2017. Heavy on practical advice and writing techniques, the podcast is catered toward aspiring and established filmmakers and writers; teachers and students; and anyone curious about the art and craft of narrative storytelling. Podcasts are selected to correlate with trends in the industry and the cultural zeitgeist.
The first On Story radio show debuted on KUT in Austin in February 2015, featuring 11 hour-long episodes in its first season. Its immediate success led to a distribution partnership with Public Radio International (PRI) by its second season. The content often features current trends in the industry, with episodes released in conjunction with major film and television releases. Now exclusively distributed by PRI, the one-hour program can be heard on over a dozen stations nationwide, including in Austin and Nashville. Currently in its fourth season, the show will continue featuring 1 hour-long episodes nationwide.
On Story partnered with The University of Texas Press to publish a series of three books, edited from its rich history of transcripts. The first installment, On Story: Screenwriters and Their Craft, was released at the Festival's 20th anniversary in 2013, the second book, On Story: Screenwriters and Filmmakers on Their Iconic Films, was published in October 2016. The last of the companion series, On Story: The Golden Ages of Television was released during the 25th annual Festival in 2018. The book series provides concrete offerings on how to navigate a career in film and television from both the craft and business perspectives.
In 2009, AFF's Executive Director, Barbara Morgan, realized AFF's invaluable inventory of audio/video recording was in danger of deteriorating, prompting the quest to both preserve and share this material. The cornerstone is the On Story Archive, housed at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University, which now physically and digitally hosts over twenty years of content. This partnership is designed to kinetically and creatively engage both academic and non-academic populations, and has led to unique partnership opportunities.
A total inventory of AFF's recordings, the On Story Archive is routinely being created in collaboration with (and donated to) the Wittliff Collections. An ideal partnership, the Wittliff Collections includes materials from numerous screenwriters, authors, photographers, and artists, and the archive welcomes visitors from all over the country, free of charge, to survey and study its comprehensive collection. Since the Wittliff Collections website went live in February 2017, there have been over 2,000 unique online visitors from all over the world. No other archive houses as many significant conversations – between such a deep and wide array of creators – that contribute as many revelations to the study of film as the On Story archive.
Thanks in part to a grant from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission AFF is digitally preserving video and audio recordings of hundreds of panels with screenwriters and filmmakers from the past 25 years.
The Austin Film Festival archives are established at the Wittliff Collections at Texas State University and available to the public. The finding aid for the collection is also available on the Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO).


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Culture can help people rewrite the story around UK poverty
Stephen Armstrong
Stephen Armstrong collaborated with JRF to create Picture Britain: Our People, Our Poverty - a photography exhibition and accompanying book celebrating the strength and resilience of people swept into poverty.
We live in a society that conflates the trivial with the heroic, celebrating dancing soap stars and ignoring the real heroes. There are millions of outstanding and remarkable people in the UK - people collaborating to unlock opportunities and resist negative social division, people who are actually changing the world.
In 2017 I travelled across the UK with award-winning photographer Jillian Edelstein to fix an image of our country as it faces the radical change of Brexit and continues to haul itself slowly from the depths of the 2007/8 recession.
Having previously written about people denied opportunity by an unjust system – most recently my book The New Poverty – it was clear that we don't have an honest picture of the country we live in. Picture Britain is an attempt to show what we're missing.
As we travelled, we met people trying to climb near insuperable obstacles - working two jobs on zero hours contracts, unable to afford bus fares despite being in full-time employment, battling mental health issues with little or no support and turning to strangers just to feed their children.
But we also found people using their talents to solve problems that have baffled highly-educated thinkers for decades. In Enniskillen, we met Lauri McCusker who brings Catholic and Protestant families together through shared education – an idea now adopted by Unicef, South Africa, Israel and Cyprus. In Glasgow we met Karyn McClusky, the former police officer who pioneered the public health approach to violence, helping halve Scotland's murder rate in just ten years. We met Nola Edwards in Bath who brought together rich and poor across the city to protect a condemned estate.
We visited Wigan, Hull and Merthyr, finding boarded-up shops alongside community centres producing a rich independent culture through art classes, spoken-word poets and musicians. Everywhere we found different versions of carefully planned support for local kids from families trapped in poverty to ensure they benefited from their education.
These triumphs shouldn't justify the hardship that produced them. There is no need for so many to be locked out of opportunity. So what should be done?
We owe it to ourselves – to everyone, living and yet to be born - to stop such a senseless waste of potential. Not just through a change in our mindset but through cross-party collaboration to improve the services we all depend on. We need to allow everyone a back-up plan, ensuring social security truly anchors people when they most need it, preventing the worst excesses of precarious work through simple legislation, and ensuring our social housing provision allows no family to be homeless and hungry.
We like to think we live in a compassionate society where justice means protecting each other from harm. Yet right now, millions of us have no wealth, receive no justice and are treated badly every minute of every day.
Imagine the unbridled creativity we could share if we freed people's ingenuity from the struggle to survive. Imagine what we could achieve with these minds, bodies and souls if our system recognised value over price and potential over punishment. Imagine the stories we could hear and the songs we might sing if we valued every voice.
Picture Britain: Our People, Our Poverty was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation featuring photographs by Jillian Edelstein and stories captured by journalist Stephen Armstrong.
It will be at Borough Market, London, from 20 February to 7 March.
Related JRF content
Can this Budget help the people locked out of opportunities?
Why it's time to tell a new story about UK poverty
22nd Jan 2018
Rising rents are sweeping people on low incomes into poverty - but we can help
How we can use our culture to find common ground in divided times

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Rally Deployment Unification
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Make Rally be able to examine any software through the API,
unbound it from OpenStack.

Problem description
===================

Rally is able to examine only system that use Keystone as an
authentication service, which limits sphere where Rally is suitable.

At the moment to run Rally Task or Rally Verify you must specify OpenStack
deployment which contains credentials of it. These credentials are used in
Rally Task & Verify for different setups and validations.

Rally is not able to store more than one credential for one deployment, so
it is impossible to support multi-scenario runs related to different systems.

Proposed change
===============

* Modify 'Deployment' database model to be able to store credentials
  of many different systems, adding type of system.

Now we have model Deployment with admin and users columns,
which are credentials for Keystone (tight coupled with OpenStack).

There is next model now:

.. code-block:: python

    class Deployment(BASE, RallyBase):
        ...
        admin = sa.Column(types.PickleType, nullable=True)
        users = sa.Column(types.PickleType, default=[], nullable=False)
        ...

and values of columns in DB something like that:

``admin = {admin_creds} or None``

``users = [{user_creds1}, {user_creds2}, ...] or []``

We need to decouple deployment from OpenStack and
make credentials more flexible, we describe it in one column named
``credentials``, where we can store special structure containing credentials
for many different systems, including type of credentials for each.

.. code-block:: python

    class Deployment(BASE, RallyBase):
        ...
        credentials = sa.Column(types.PickleType, default=[], nullable=False)
        ...

So, for current OpenStack credentials we will have next data
in credentials column in DB after migration:

.. code-block:: python

    credentials = [
        [
            "openstack",
            {admin: {admin_creds} or None,
             users: [{user_creds1}, {user_creds2}, ...] or []}
        ],
    ]

and for multi-credentials deployment:

.. code-block:: python

    credentials = [
        [
            "openstack",
            {admin: {admin_creds} or None,
             users: [{user_creds1}, {user_creds2}, ...] or []}
        ],
        [
            "zabbix",
            {"url": "example.com", "login": "admin", "password": "admin"}
        ]
    ]

Future summarized schema in DB:
``credentials = [[<type>, <Credentials>], ... ]``

To implement this point we need to write db migration, tests for it
and write adapters for credentials get/create/update methods,
mostly for support backward compatibility in ``rally.api`` module methods.

* Get rid of ``rally.common.objects.credential.Credential`` class
  and fix it usages mostly in ``rally.osclients`` if needed.

Refactor all usages of passing ``rally.common.objects.credential.Credential``
to ``rally.osclients.OSClient``, make possible to take dict as credentials
for ``rally.osclients.OSClient`` class, initialise
``rally.plugins.openstack.credentials.OpenStackCredentials`` class
in ``OSClient`` ``__init__`` method.

Base class for credentials will be inherited from plugins.Plugin
and must implement validation method,
it will be placed in ``rally.plugins.common.credentials``:

.. code-block:: python

    @six.add_metaclass(abc.ABCMeta)
    @plugin.configure(name="base_credentials", schema="{...}")
    class Credentials(plugin.Plugin):
        def __init__(self, credentials):
            self.validate(credentials)
            super(Credentials, self).__setattr__("credentials", credentials)

        def __getattr__(self, item):
            if item in self.__dict__:
                return self.__dict__[item]
            return self.credentials[item]

        def __setattr__(self, key, value):
            self.credentials[key] = value

        def to_dict(self):
            return self.credentials.copy()

        def validate(self, obj):
            jsonschema.validate(obj, self._meta_get("schema"))

and we need to add child for openstack credentials,
it will be placed in ``rally.plugins.openstack.credentials``:

.. code-block:: python

    openstack_credentials_schema = {
        "type": "object",

        "properties": {
            "auth_url": {"type": "string"},
            "username": {"type": "string"},
            "password": {"type": "string"},
        },
        "required": ["auth_url", "username", "password"]
    }

    @plugin.configure(name="openstack_credentials",
                      schema=openstack_credentials_schema)
    class OpenStackCredentials(Credentials):
        pass

Replace usage of ``rally.common.objects.credential.Credential`` to
``rally.plugins.openstack.credentials.OpenStackCredentials``
in ``rally.osclients``

* Update cli to show deployment type in output of 'rally deployment list'.

Make possible to show deployments list in case of multi-scenario as:

.. code-block:: shell

    > rally deployment list # (in case of many deployments)

    uuid   | name   | created_at | type      | credential
    -------+--------+------------+-----------+---------------------------------
    <uuid> | <name> | 21-02-2016 | openstack | {"admin": {...}, "users": [...]}
                                 | zabbix    | {"login": "login", "psw": "..."}

Alternatives
------------

None

Implementation
==============

Assignee(s)
-----------

Primary assignee:
  rpromyshlennikov aka Rodion Promyshlennikov (rpromyshlennikov@mirantis.com)

Work Items
----------

- Change Deployment db model class
- Write migrations
- Make adapters for credentials get/create/update methods for temporary
  support changed data format
- Remove all usages of passing ``rally.common.objects.credential.Credential``
  to ``rally.osclients.OSClient``
- Create new plugin based class for credentials
- Write subclass of rally.plugins.common.credentials.Credential
  for OpenStack credentials with proper validation of them
- Migrate to new credentials class
- Remove ``rally.common.objects.credential.Credential`` class
- Improve CLI-client to make possible show multi-credentials deployments.
- Feature refactoring: remove adapters after
  "Multi Scenario support" implementation.

Dependencies
============

None

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This release builds on 3.25.0 where we have continued to improve the styling of the web application that makes the Web App functional on mobile browsers. Users will experience a much-improved experience of the web app when logged in using a mobile browser making it much easier for Managers in Swept to make changes on the go.
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During this release we have also continued with ongoing work to improve core feature functionality in the platform.


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Due to technical troubles, we have been unable to update the site for over two months. Thank you for all your emails expressing concern and support. They are much appreciated. The problems are being seen to, but the updates might still be (more than?) a bit erratic for a time.
On this First of May, we have something nice to tell, though. Warner Music Japan is continuing with their "paper jacket" reissue project this year, and five more albums will be coming out in July.
WPCR-15759 "To Whom It May Concern"
WPCR-15760 "Life in a Tin Can"
Work has been on-going for some time. As with the ten original albums that were released in autumn 2013, the five will be coming out in the original "paper jackets" complete with "obi" and will have new liner notes (in Japanese) and bi-lingual lyrics sheets.
The project was launched with the conviction of Warner Music Japan that it is essential that Bee Gees albums should remain in the market in their original forms. Among the first lot of ten, "Odessa" is the consumers' favorite probably because of its distinctive "velvety" cover. With neither "detailed specifications" nor "materials used for the original production process" available, they went to considerable trouble to find materials that could reproduce the feel of the original "Odessa."
According to Warner Japan, it was also hard to recreate the greenish brown color scheme of the original "Horizontal" sleeve. It was after dozens and dozens of trials that they finally felt that they got the colors right. So you can imagine all the hard work and attention to details that went into the producton of the first ten albums.
In the "looks" department, "Life In A Tin Can" might be worthy of note. As seen in Pic 2, the original Japanese version of "Life In A Tin Can" presented the flat printed surface while the U.S. and U.K. releases showed the three brothers looking up from inside a three-dimentional(?) can.
Please also watch out for "To Whom It May Concern" with the pop-up paper figures of the three brothers. The original Japanese version included only a sheet of paper with the instruction on how to "cut them out yourself." Opening the sleeve of a U.S. copy recently, I was a bit disconcerted to find that the glue came off during the time that has passed (Don't ask me why...) and the three paper figures lay there rather flat. The portraits by the way were based on one of their Japanese appearances from the 1972 Trafalgar Tour.
The work will continue throughout May for the early July release. We hope to keep you updated of its progress.


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Or Graur
Astrophysicist and Writer
To date, I have published more than twenty short stories in Hebrew in a variety of Israeli literary journals and several anthologies. In 2008, I published my first collection of stories, The War Painter. My first popular science book, Supernova, will be published by the MIT Press in February 2022. I am currently working on a new collection of stories, in English, as well as a popular science book about galaxies for the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series.
Supernova, a concise illustrated introduction to the history and physics of supernovae, the brilliant explosions of stars, is now available for pre-order.
Supernova will be publishd by the MIT Press in February 2022.
The War Painter (Tsayar ha-Milchamot) collects 21 short stories in Hebrew. These include the titular story, "The War Painter," which has also appeared in English and Spanish, and "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte," which won the Ha'aretz annual short story competition in 2007.
The War Painter was published in 2008 and is available for purchase from Tsomet Sfarim and other Israeli bookstores.
Together with Yael Tomashov-Hollander, I founded the Israeli literary journal Almanach, and served as its fiction editor. You are welcome to download the first three issues of the journal.


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The Universal Pallet Rack Drop Pin provides an easy, cost-effective way to help prevent pallet rack accidents in the warehouse. Without safety clips, lift truck operators can accidentally dislodge beams from the racking. This can cause costly damage to product and threaten the safety of personnel. We commonly hear from businesses who installed safety drop pins only after an accident had occurred. Be proactive and outfit your warehouse with drop pins before an incident takes place.
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Thread: Sako Carbon Wolves in 28 and 30 Nosler? Hell yeah!
To make it even more interesting, the customers wanted the rifles converted and range-tested in time for a whitetail hunt they had planned together, giving us less than two weeks to get it all done!
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Last Saturday I got the chance to see one of my closest friends that came to visit Puerto Rico for the Holidays. We had brunch at Blonda, the same place I went to last time where I wore the "Polka dots are a walk in the park" look. What I'm wearing here is a dress from a PacSun line called Seneca Rising that I got at Marshall's for just 5 dollars! The unbelievable gun tights are from Romwe, which are the first purchase I made from the website and I can't wait to show the other items I got. I was also wearing the spiked lita booties from Zooshoo, and pink satchel and matching socks from Forever 21. I actually realized that the gun tights looked perfect with the outfit when I returned from the brunch so I didn't wear them there, but now I am so regretting it! Still it was a perfect look for hanging out in Condado during the day. Until the next look, enjoy this one!


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Goldman Sachs VP explains why he quit
Greg Smith, who publicly resigned in scathing op-ed, says investment bank's unethical culture threatens firm's future
The following is a script from "Resignation" which aired on Oct. 21, 2012. Anderson Cooper is the correspondent. Andy Court and Anya Bourg, producers.
Many of us have, at some point in our lives, dreamed of quitting our jobs very loudly and telling our bosses exactly what we really think. Very few of us ever do it. But seven months ago, a vice president at the legendary investment bank Goldman Sachs did just that, resigning in an article on the op-ed page of The New York Times. The article caused a sensation -- not just because its author Greg Smith was saying, three-and-a-half years after the financial crisis, that the bank was headed on the wrong ethical course, but also because it's so unusual to learn anything at all about the inner workings of Goldman Sachs.
When people leave Goldman, they tend to do it quietly. Though the firm's gold-plated reputation took a big hit after the 2008 financial crisis, it's still regarded as the smartest, most profitable and politically well-connected firm on Wall Street, and the toughest place to get a job. Now, on the eve of publishing a book about his experiences at Goldman, Greg Smith is talking for the first time about what led him to leave the firm, and to do it in such a public way.
Greg Smith: I literally wanted to hit the board of directors over the head, and say, Listen, I was proud of Goldman Sachs. I worked here for a long time.
Anderson Cooper: So an op-ed resignation, you hoped it would be a wake up call?
Greg Smith: I really did. Because there are a lotta people who acknowledge things internally. But no one is willing to say it publicly. And my view was the only way, you force people to change the system, is by saying something publicly.
At the time he left Goldman Sachs, Greg Smith was 33 years old, and making roughly half a million dollars a year as a vice president, a mid-level position in the division of Goldman Sachs that trades securities for hedge funds, pension funds, and other big investors. He'd been at the firm for about 12 years, and could hardly have scripted a more dramatic exit. "Integrity? It is eroding," he wrote in The New York Times. "The environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it...it makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping their clients off."
Greg Smith: You know, this might be hard for people at Goldman Sachs to understand, but I loved the place. I put a lot of my heart and soul into it. I don't view it as a betrayal. I actually think the leaders of Goldman Sachs today don't have the long run interests of the institution at heart.
Anderson Cooper: Did anybody within the firm know you were going to be leaving?
Greg Smith: No.
Anderson Cooper: So, the first time many people within Goldman Sachs learned you were leaving was when they opened up The New York Times and saw this op-ed.
Greg Smith: Yeah, I mean the idea of the op-ed was not to do any destruction.
Anderson Cooper: I think some people are-- just aren't going to believe that, that-- to not give notice to a company you've worked for for 12 years, and in the most public way possible in the page of The New York Times, to say that they are going against all the values that they once held, how can that not be seen by-- as a betrayal?
Greg Smith: Well, it's true. I mean, I think the company is going against the values it once held.
[Goldman Sachs recruiting video: Join a culture of excellence, with a reputation for integrity...Goldman Sachs.]
For years Greg Smith was one of the company's true believers. He was selected to appear in this 2006 recruiting video, in which he talked about the business principles Goldman teaches to every new employee.
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Hackers use small businesses to get to the big businesses. If a hacker uses a cyber attack on your business as a stepping-stone to a larger attack, your partners are going to come after you big time. Small businesses are easy to hack. In fact, 58% of businesses breached have been small businesses.
See #1. Hackers will use low-hanging fruit to get at high-value targets. Hackers will target any firm that provides them will data they can resell or use to access bigger fish. Even if the data being targeted doesn't have resale value on the darkweb, a ransomware attack can make low-value targets more profitable.
Anti-virus and anti-malware solutions are certainly an important part of a risk management program, but there is so much more to it. A layered approach is required. The layers will depend upon your firm's goals and risk tolerance. But software alone will not protect your business. To truly protect your organization, you need a total solution that encompasses everything from employee training to insider threat detection and disaster protection.
Strong passwords are great. But passwords alone won't keep your business secure. Two-factor authentication is essential for user security.
A robust cybersecurity risk-management program requires buy-in from the C-level. Also, your employees must be trained on cybersecurity best practices, like how to spot phishing scams and avoid unsafe links.
Today's modern malware is much more stealthy and hard to detect. Businesses require a 24×7 monitoring solution to detect breaches. Your IT partner will keep an eye on your network and remediate detected anomalies.
Insider threats should be monitored. Insider threats can come from anyone on the inside, from disgruntled employees looking for professional revenge to content employees without proper cybersecurity training.
Businesses should not allow their employees to use public wi-fi, password protected or not. The solution: VPN.
Employees who use their personal devices for work-related activities need to follow the same protocols put in place for all of the network's computers.
Cybersecurity is a continuous effort. Threats evolve, solutions evolve. You must continuously monitor your systems, conduct internal audits, and review, test, and evaluate contingency plans.
Security must be considered in every aspect of network and mobile technology that the organization uses. There is no one-size fits all approach to cybersecurity. ACE IT Solutions can tailor a cybersecurity program matched to your specific risk profile. By partnering with ACE IT Solutions, organizations can thwart hackers attempts and respond quickly to minimize the costs of a breach.
By partnering with the most respected and innovative names in cybersecurity, we are well positioned to create highly effective security solutions. Our security minded clients with the right strategy in place will be better prepared and protected for any potential threats or hacks and for future cybercontrol initiatives they will be implementing. Contact us at 646-558-5575 to set up a cybersecurity assessment.


Pressurized Water Reactors are known as "PWRs." They keep water under pressure so that it heats but does not boil. Water from the reactor and the water that is turned into steam are in separate pipes and never mix.
Boiling Water Reactors are known as "BWRs." In BWRs, the water heated by fission actually boils and turns into steam to turn the generator. In both types of plants, the steam is turned back into water and can be used again in the process.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- President Bush and his wife, Laura, headed a parade of mourners Sunday who passed by the coffin of Rosa Parks as she lay in state in the Capitol rotunda.
Parks' body was flown to Washington after a funeral service in Montgomery, Ala., where she helped start the civil rights movement almost 50 years ago by refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white man. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was among the speakers at St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church.
"Without Mrs. Parks, I probably would not be standing here as secretary of state," she said.
Some members of the public stood in line for eight hours or more to enter the rotunda.
"Because of her strength, courage and presence, it is more than befitting to have her final minutes with us here on earth displayed in this fashion," said Tynetta Magruder, who came from New Jersey.
The Capitol was to remain open until midnight Sunday, and then reopen for three hours Monday morning. After a service at a Washington church, Parks' body is to be flown to Detroit, where she lived for many years, for burial on Wednesday.


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Spring Season Opens January 31
Happy New Year! Celebrate 2015 with musical concerts, dance performances, theatrical events, intimate evenings with theater and performance artists, and more. Join us often from January through May to see and hear new, rediscovered, and re imagined works from special guests and Bard students and faculty.
Skin Horse Theater
Work-in-progress showing
January 31 at 2 pm
Followed by a post-performance discussion with the artists
LUMA Theater
Tickets: Free, reservations required
Founded in 2009 by five Bard students, Skin Horse Theater returns to the Fisher Center to develop a new project. Based in New Orleans and the recipient of a 2014 Big Easy Award, the company is a performance collective dedicated to experimentation.
Conducted by Leon Botstein, Music Director
February 6 and 7 at 8 pm
7 pm Preconcert Talk
Sosnoff Theater
Tickets: $25–40
"Mr. Botstein drew playing of alluring effervescence from the orchestra."—New York Times
The American Symphony Orchestra's annual winter subscription series at the Fisher Center continues in February with Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 4. The evening performances also include concerto works by Carl Reinecke and Erich Wolfgang Korngold, featuring concerto competition winners Gabriel Baeza '18, violin, and Adrienn Kántor '14, flute.
SummerScape 2015
June 25 – August 16
Tickets on sale February 17
Now in its 13th season, Bard SummerScape presents eight weeks of stellar events in opera, music, theater, dance, film, and cabaret. The prime focus of these offerings is the 26th annual Bard Music Festival, which this year examines the life, times, and creative output of the 20th century Mexican composer, conductor, and educator Carlos Chávez, whose compositions synthesize Indian, Spanish, and Mexican elements together with trends in European musical modernism. Other highlights of the SummerScape season include Ethel Smyth's The Wreckers, a rarely performed opera based on the nefarious tradition in Cornish coastal villages of plundering ships that were deliberately lured onto rocks; an exciting new chamber version of Oklahoma! by Rodgers and Hammerstein; a dreamlike, alfresco theatrical production of Fernando Rubio's Everything by my side; extraordinary dance works by Pam Tanowitz with FLUX Quartet, set to the music of Nancarrow; a film series exploring the Mexican modernist cinema; and the return of the Spiegeltent and its incomparable cabaret acts, presided over byJustin Vivian Bond. It all adds up to an unforgettable arts festival—SummerScape 2015.
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Never heard of bentonite clay before? Well, then you may be very surprised to hear that individuals in various cultures refer to it as "healing clay" that cleanses the body. In fact, many people enjoy bentonite clay benefits by taking internally (in other words, drinking and eating it), on top of using it externally on the skin.
So, what is bentonite clay? It's actually composed of ash made from volcanos. The largest known source of bentonite clay is found in Fort Benton, Wyoming, where numerous volcanos are present. The name of the clay stems from the town where today much of the supply is still harvested.
Bentonite clay stems back far in history as a traditional healing method for protecting the body from disease. It has been reported that several traditional cultures living in regions of the Andes, Central Africa and Australia have applied and consumed clays in numerous ways for centuries. Because the clay is readily available and required no modern processing, it has been a popular and cost-effective way of "detoxing" the body for quite some time.
Bentonite clay also benefits the body because it has the ability to produce a charge that is electrical in nature when it comes in contact with liquid — similar to how earthing (touching your bare feet to the earth, in particular wet grass) works. When the clay touches any type of fluid (normally water), it takes on a different charge and is thought to bind to any present toxins within the fluid.
While in its natural state, bentonite clay has negatively charged molecules. Most toxins and heavy metals have positively charged molecules. This allows the two to bind together easily and stay united while the toxin removal process happens.
Some people have reported using bentonite clay as a soaking liquid to remove toxins on the skin.
By removing toxins, digestive-distress causing chemicals and heavy metals from the gut, bentonite clay helps to promote digestion. Research has also shown that, in animals, bentonite clay can bind to particular toxins like "aflatoxins" that are common in the standard diet, found usually on improperly stored food products. (5, 6) When left unattended, an influx of aflatoxins can contribute to liver damage and potentially even the onset of certain cancers.
In a study using cows, scientists found that bentonite clay molecules bound to bovine rotavirus and bovine coronavirus, two major viruses that contribute to gastroenteritis (referred to as stomach flu in people). (7) Variations of both of these viruses can also be present in human beings.
It's possible that the reason people find relief in these situations has to do with the way bentonite protects the lining of your intestines from letting toxins through, which would otherwise contribute to leaky gut. (8, 9) So far, this effect has only been observed in animals, but may also apply in human subjects.
In rats and mice, bentonite clay helps to absorb certain thyroid hormones (T3 and T4), resulting in the alleviation of hyperthyroidism. (13) This result suggests bentonite might potentially help people keep thyroid levels down, although the test has not been duplicated in humans as of yet.
Bentonite clay is an age-old method of treating many different disorders in a number of cultures. From the skin to the digestive system, this substance has the ability to fight infection, boost immunity and more.
If you choose to consume bentonite clay, be sure to do it only in small quantities and use clay sold by trusted merchants.


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Perennials play a central role in today's gardens. Choosing specific plants, however, can be daunting. Is this plant hardy in my area? How big does it get? When does it bloom? Perennials: A Gardener's Reference answers these and many other questions for more than 2,700 species and cultivars in 250 genera, making it one of the most comprehensive guides available. The informative text is enlivened throughout by the authors' wide-ranging experience with perennials and by Lynne Harrison's sumptuous photographs. Whether you're a beginning gardener, a seasoned expert, or a green-industry professional, Perennials: A Gardener's Reference will be the book you turn to again and again for essential information about these supremely beautiful and useful plants.
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Just like a lot of the couples we met since we began shooting wedding photography Playa del Carmen, Tara & Steven met online. Their digital fairytale began a while back. Like some kind of culinary premonition for the Mexico wedding to come, Steven actually proposed over tacos! That precise moment was when their wedding planning journey began. And, luckily, it led them right to us and the Viceroy Riviera Maya resort: one of the most beautiful petit hotel locations in the Mexican Riviera Maya.
We've come to know about this while getting to know Tara & Steven before shooting their wedding photography Playa del Carmen. We also discovered that one of the things they were looking forward the most was to spend a relaxed family vacation with their closest friends, and share the celebration of their love together.
Their ceremony was the perfect wedding photography Playa del Carmen moment. As they said their vows, they promised to grow old together and had us tearing up behind our camera lens.
Having a wedding in a specialized location such as the Viceroy Resort has many benefits. Their wedding planning team is made up of seasoned Riviera Maya wedding professionals such as Karla Aguirre and Karen Lozada, who make sure that everything goes just as planned! And, what a plan that is. A couple getting married in this location needs to just relax and enjoy their day… and their wedding photography 😉 Everything else, will be professionally taken care of, ironed out, and delivered with a nice pink bow on it (or, whatever your favorite color might be).
The day was perfect for wedding photography. Playa del Carmen, and the beach by the Viceroy resort, in particular, is a place with an amazing sunset light, which we were able to take advantage of when doing this couple's photo session after their wedding ceremony.
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Cyclic AMP: Definition, Mechanism, and Examples
Cyclic AMP Definition
Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (Cyclic AMP) is a type of adenosine monophosphate, which is in a cyclic manner and is a message carrier, which transforms signal at the cell level. Adenosine monophosphate comprises of ribose sugar, adenine base and a phosphate group, thus forming a nucleotide.
AMP gets transformed to ATP, when its phosphorylated, which functions as the nucleic acid component. To the nucleotides, the ATP bounds and can form chains, but cAMP does not result in the formation of a chain, as it's in a ring forma like the 3'-5' cyclic AMP with ester.
What is Cyclic AMP?
Adenosine monophosphate when comprises of a phosphate group and ribonucleoside is called as the nucleoside monophosphate, which possess a single phosphate group and a ribose sugar. In adenosine monophosphate, the nucleoside is the purine base adenine which is bound to ribose sugar and to the nucleoside only a single phosphate group is bounded.
Cyclic AMP and Adenylic Acid
Adenylic acid is another name for cAMP, which is obtained when the adenosine and phosphoric acid fuse as a precipitate. When nucleic acids are broken, it results in the formation of this nucleotide. The difference in the 3' and 5' adenylic acid is the position of ribose and phosphoric acid. Deoxy adenylic acid has hydrogen substituted rather than hydroxyl group at 2nd carbon of sugar.
Cyclic AMP Metabolism
ATP is generated from cAMP, which takes place in the cell membrane and the reaction is carried out by adenylate cyclase, which gets triggered by the signaling molecules, which gets attached to the receptors. The breakdown of cAMP occurs by the enzyme phosphodiesterase resulting in the formation of AMP.
Cyclic AMP Function
The very first function is acting as the messenger and converts the signal to the cell level. They type of signal it will act depends on organism, like an intracellular signal in the cAMP pathway. The addition of glucagon and adrenaline within the cell, through cAMP as hormones cannot by themselves enter the plasma membrane and requires a messenger.
This process works by triggering the protein kinase A, to which the cAMP will bind at the sub unit, so that the catalytic and regulatory subunit separate out. The catalytic subunit will interact with the protein substrates, where their phosphate group will move to other residues like serine and threonine.
Further the protein will be phosphorylated and either they will prohibit the ion channel or interact with them. The phosphorylated protein will further interact with protein kinase A at the DNA's promoter region and will escalate transcription. However, not all the protein kinase will interact with cAMP.
The amount of calcium ions which can pass through the channel, is also under the control of cAMP. The activation of lac operon model, which is used to study the growth of bacteria is also regulated by cAMP.
Hypothalamus: Definition, Function, & Location
Cyclic AMP Citations
Cyclic AMP in prokaryotes. Microbiol Rev . 1992 Mar;56(1):100-22.
Cyclic AMP in prokaryotes. Annu Rev Microbiol . 1974;28(0):353-69.
Cyclic AMP signalling during mammalian sperm capacitation–still largely terra incognita. Reprod Domest Anim . 2003 Apr;38(2):102-10.
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Ford bought the Lincoln Motor Company in 1922, five years after it had been founded by Henry Leland, and ever since, it has offered cars that were far more luxurious and costly than those with the Blue Oval badge on them. During the heyday of the marque, this was a clear rival to General Motor's Cadillac, with such landmark cars as the V12 models of the 1930s and the Continental series of the 1950s and 1960s. More recently, though, it is as if Ford has not quite known what to do with Lincoln. The steady business of supplying the Lincoln Town Car to the rental fleets and chauffeur driven market was hardly sufficient to sustain this once proud brand, and the large Navigator SUV was soon challenged by the Cadillac Escalade in the small but significant market for massive domestic luxury SUVs. As others have discovered, volume generally only comes with lower-priced products, so it was perhaps no surprise that in 2005, there was a Lincoln version of the new mid-sized Ford Fusion, as well as the Mercury alter ego, making a three car range all based on the same basic body shell with only differences in styling detail and trim levels to tell them apart. The Lincoln model was christened Zephyr, and I recall testing one in early 2006, immediately after the arrival of the first batch of them at Hertz' Los Angeles Airport facility. It was a very pleasant car, but then so, as I would later find out, was the far cheaper Fusion, so it was perhaps no surprise that sales of the car were not that strong, peaking at around 33,000 a year. A corporate rebranding which saw the model christened the MKZ from 2007 was unlikely to do much to help sales, and nor, frankly, was the facelift that was applied to all three versions of the design in 2010. During the first few years of the twentyfirst century, Ford's ambitions to grow market share in the profitable premium and luxury sectors had been underpinned by their acquisition a few years earlier of Jaguar, Land-Rover, Volvo and Aston Martin, which had been grouped together to form the Premier Automotive Group, or PAG. The Lincoln-Mercury Division has been incorporated in the PAG, but following the sale of all of those brands, and the closure of Mercury, by 2010, only Lincoln remained to further the Blue Oval's ambitions to grab a larger slice of the prestige marketplace. New product was the only way to do it, and it was clear that at least visually, these would need to look completely different from the Ford products on which they would inevitably be based. The first of these, the large MKS Sedan, based on the 2009 Taurus did not exactly wow anyone, and the massive estate-like MKT did little other than provide a potential replacement for a lot of those aging chauffeur-driven Town Cars. When Ford revealed the second generation Fusion at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, as a 2013 model, there was a concept Lincoln version on show, suggesting that the new Lincoln was going to look quite unlike the Ford on which it was based. Sure enough, the production car which was premiered a few months later at the New York Show was very similar to the concept, with the rather large grille, and a flowing fastback rear making the car look quite unlike the Fusion. It finally went on sale in mid 2013, and has sold in much the same volume as its predecessors, at around 30,00 units a year, so roughly one MKZ for every 10 Fusion models sold.
With the exception of a handful of the gargantuan Navigator SUV, Hertz have not had any Lincoln models on fleet for some years now, and I was beginning to think that the only way I was going to get to test an MKZ was to defect to one of the other rental companies. And then, just as I walked up to the large Gold Customer board at LAX one morning, to see what been allocated, I saw an MKZ, in a rather attractive burgundy colour which Lincoln call Ruby Red Tintcoat, still dripping wet from its trip through the car wash, driven past me, and taken to a stall nearby. I followed it so I could investigate and discovered it was classed in Group I, a luxury car the same as the Volvo S80, Chrysler 300 and Buick LaCrosse. At this point, one of the staff from the Gold Counter emerged as she had spotted me, and was on notice from the girls who usually staff the outdoor desk, but who were not working as this was a Saturday, to "look after me". As the car was not yet on the system, it clearly had not been allocated to anyone else, so it was easy to get it against my reservation.
The car I received was a 2017 model. These sport a facelift which was first seen at the 2015 Los Angeles Show, with a new nose being the most obvious identification point. Instead of the wide grille with lots of vertical slats that has been used on all Lincoln models in the past 10 years, the MKZ now has the same rectangular-shaped grille that is used on the larger Continental, and which looks like it has been borrowed from a first generation Jaguar XF. Other changes include the substitution of the 3.7 litre V6 with a new 400bhp 3.0 litre turbo V6 unique to the Lincoln, and plenty of trim and equipment updates. As well as the standard model, plus Premiere, Select, Reserve and top level Black Label, there are now three special appearance packages, a tradition started with the Designer Editions in 1976. The MKZ offers the "Vineyard", "Chalet", and "Thoroughbred" theme appearance packages. MKZ has always been offered with an optional Hybrid system, and I should have realised that when I saw a badge of "2.0H" on the back that this is what I was getting. All Wheel Drive is an option on the regular petrol cars, but is not offered on the Hybrid, meaning that this was a front wheel drive car, and like all MKZ models, it had an automatic transmission, in this case of the continuously variable type.
Before driving anywhere, I had not just to adjust things like seat, wheel and mirrors, but to familiarise myself with the driving controls. Ready to go, taking advantage of the keyless starting, my hand went for the centre console, for the gearlever, to put the car in Drive. And there was no gearlever. And nor was there one on the column. Then I spotted a row of buttons on the left of the central section of the dash, to one side of the display screen, marked up in familiar PRNDL. This is a new feature for the 2017 models, and I have to say it worked pretty well. The button to start the car is at the top, and then you just press the appropriate gearlever button you want. Lincoln say that this feature is a revival of an approach used in the 1950s by the Chrysler push button PowerFlite and the Packard Touchbutton Ultramatic. Being a Hybrid, the MKZ starts, completely silently, on the batteries, and you can glide away from your parking position without making any noise, as indeed I did. Only when your speed reaches a few mph does the petrol engine cut in. It does so very smoothly. Indeed, the Hybrid operation of the car was generally impressive. A display to the left of the speedometer shows when the batteries are being charged, which is when you lift your foot of the throttle and under braking, and the state of charge in the batteries. There is no doubting the fact that this technology has a marked benefit on fuel consumption. On the first day that I had the car, I drove 340 miles, and recorded an average of 43.5 mpg US (which is 51.97 mpg Imperial) and the system recorded an incredible 61.5 mpg over the last 35 miles of the test (largely downhill over the Hollywood Hills, it must be admitted!). The petrol engine in this model is a 2 litre turbocharged 4 cylinder engine which combined with the assist from the Hybrid system means that there is 188 bhp available, quite a reduction from the 245 bhp of the non-Hybrid 2 litre car. Even so, this proves to be enough to make the MKZ brisk, though you'd never call the MKZ Hybrid rapid. That is no real hardship if you think of this as luxury sedan, as sporting it is not, really, despite the use by some of this word in promotional material (but then when I saw the Toyota Corolla being so described, as it was at the LA Auto Show, I am tempted to give up trying to understand advertising altogether!). Overall noise levels are well suppressed, with little interference from the road or wind as well as muted engine note even when the petrol unit is being pushed quite hard. Although for the MKZ luxury is more of a theme than sporting prowess, this is a Ford Motor Company product and so it is actually rather enjoyable to drive. The steering is as well as judged as you will find on just about product that the company produces, with a perfect balance between feel and weighting meaning that the car is as enjoyable on the twisties as it is on the straight bits and with suspension which although soft does not make you pay for this with handling compromises. There is little in the way of body roll, and the car rides well on its standard 245/45 R19 wheels, coping far better with the often poor quality roads of the greater Los Angeles area than most others do. Standard on all MKZ models is Lincoln Drive Control, which allows you to select three settings: Normal, Comfort and Sport for both suspension and steering. Although I did press the button a couple of times, the differences did not seem that obvious in what I will concede was quite limited and rather subjective testing. Needless to say, the brakes are well up to par, with a nice progressive feel to the pedal, something not easy to achieve when it is linked to the regenerative system for charging the batteries. There is an electric handbrake operated by a button on the lower left of the dash. Despite the rather steeply sloped rear window, visibility was good, with a rear parking camera making it easy to judge precisely where the back of the MKZ might be.
The interior of the MKZ is quite different from that of the Fusion, both in overall design and the materials used. It attempts to look rather more luxurious, and I would say generally succeeds. There is lots of leather in here, and a careful selection of other materials which look good and generally feel pleasant to the touch. There are matt wood inlays in the dash and there is a titanium finish to the centre console, which presents itself flying buttress style so that there is stowage space underneath it (though not easy to access), much like you get in a Volvo. The steering wheel is leather wrapped and was particularly pleasant to hold. The instrument pack itself is more obviously shared with Ford, adopting the current corporate approach of an all digital display, with a central circular speedometer, flanked by two rectangular areas the displays of which are controlled by pressing a series of buttons on each of the spokes of the steering wheel. There are various menus on both. To the left, in addition to the vertically-stacked bar chart fuel gauge is the trip info and the state of charge of the battery, whilst on the right is an Eco Coach which rates your acceleration, braking and cruising in a series of colour-coded bar charts, or a display showing average consumption over recent driving periods. Chunky column stalks are used for indicators and wipers, and the lights are operated by a rotary dial on the dash to the left of the wheel. The central part of the dash is dominated by a large 8″ colour touch sensitive screen which has very clear graphics on it. As well as operating the navigation system, and providing a view for the reversing camera, there were plenty of functions and apps available from this screen, including the Sirius Travel Link which contained information on traffic and the latest weather reports and forecasts. Beneath it were a simplified set of controls for the audio unit – volume and other adjustments – and the dual zone climate control. That leaves the centre console between the seats largely clear of clutter, buttons and knobs, and is all the better for this fact.
10-way seat adjustment for the driver was all electric, with a 2 position memory included in the specification. When switching the ignition off, the seat powered rearwards somewhat, which was not really necessary for me, as even though I had the seat set well forward to cope with my short legs, there was still plenty of clearance to get in and out with no difficulty. The steering column – adjustable for rake and reach – was also electrically adjustable. The seat proved very comfortable, and the leather facings were pleasant to the touch.
Those in the back will find little to complain about, as long as there are only adults there. Leg room is good with the seat well forward and acceptable with it set well back, as you would rather expect from a car of this overall size, and although there is quite a slope to the rear roofline, there did not seem to be any particular restriction on headroom. There was a glass sunroof in the test car, an optional feature. Previous MKZ models that I have inspected at Shows have had a huge sunroof which opened in an almost theatrical way by sliding back and over the roofline of the car, but in this case, the glass panel, more modestly sized, simply slid back inside the car, as you see more commonly on other vehicles. There is a rear central armrest, with cupholders in the upper surface. It is when you open the boot that you see the sacrifice required of you by the Hybrid system, as there is quite a sizeable area of the forward most part of the luggage area given over to housing the batteries. This means that the boot floor is not flat, as you lose some depth in this area, which is not regular in shape either. The rear-most part of the boot is quite deep, and there is decent length from front to back, but you do lose a good 4 cubic feet (25% of the total) in this version. The rear seat backrests are fixed, with just a ski flap for extra length. There is a bit of space under the floor for odds and ends around the area used for the tyre compressor. There is no spare wheel. Inside the cabin, there is a decently sized glovebox, bins on all four doors, a central cubby under the armrest, more space under the floating central console and there are map pockets in the back of the front seats. Enough for a car full of 4 adults, probably.
Four trims are available in 2017 model year MKZ cars: Premiere, Select, Reserve, and Black Label, and when you combine these with the engine choices, then there is quite a range of MKZ cars. Entry level is the 2 litre 4 cylinder car, with a 245 bhp unit, and then there is the new 3.7 litre V6 with 350 bhp for front wheel drive cars and 400 bhp for the all-wheel drive models, and completing the range is the Hybrid like this test car. The entry level MKZ trim is known as the Premiere. This comes with synthetic leather seats, the SYNC 3 infotainment interface, an 8-inch colour display, 11 speakers, Bluetooth, two USB ports, dual-zone automatic climate control, 10-way power-adjustable heated front seats with lumbar support, a leather-wrapped steering wheel, a proximity key with remote start, push-button start, rear parking sensors, and a rearview camera. Next up is the MKZ Select and standard features in this version include leather upholstery, two rear-seat USB charging ports, a 110-volt household-style power outlet, wood trim, ambient lighting, and auto-dimming power-folding side mirrors. This was the spec of the test car. The MKZ Reserve includes perforated leather seats, a voice-activated navigation system, heated and cooled front seats, blind spot monitoring, rear cross traffic alert, and a powered boot lid. Top of the range is the MKZ Black Label which we are supposed to think of being as exclusive as it sounds. Inside, Venetian leather seats and a 20-speaker Revel audio system as well as special order pain colours feature here. Like most Lincoln products, the test car featured a numeric key pad on the door pillar, to permit entry without the key.
The press have not reported that favourably on the MKZ, though comparing it with the E Class Mercedes, as at least one source seem to be doing when it put the MKZ in 16th out of 16 cars in the segment and the E Class at the top suggests that their view of the segment and mine are not quite the same. If you want a car of this size and luxury appointments in America, the only real choice is the Lexus IS300h, unless you (and let's be honest not that many Americans would!) consider diesel. I've not driven the latest Lexus, but I did sample its predecessor and was somewhat underwhelmed, also my conclusion on testing the GS450h earlier this year, so the MKZ Hybrid could be a (very small) class leader for now. The Hybrid worked well and it did endow the car with excellent economy, so is well worth considering. Take that away and the rest of the MKZ package was fairly convincing, too. Whether I will get to sample one of those – from Hertz or elsewhere – remains unclear, but having at least got behind the wheel of this one, I would say that Lincoln has come a long way from the soggy old Town Car and even the rather uninspiring MKS, and so can look to the future with more confidence. It won't be scaring the German brands and nor will it be likely to appear in Europe any time soon, I would imagine, but for those who want an all American mid-sized luxury car it has to be a real contender and quite the rival to the Cadillac ATS, another car which has eluded me for years.
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Louise Timpson (née Louise Hollingsworth Morris Clews, formerly Vanneck; November 27, 1904 – February 10, 1970), previously Louise Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, was an American socialite and, later, a British aristocrat. She was the second wife of Ian Douglas Campbell, 11th Duke of Argyll and the mother of the 12th Duke.

Early life
She was the daughter of the American-born artist Henry Clews Jr. (1876–1937), and his first wife, the New York socialite Louise Hollingsworth (née Morris) Gebhard (1877–1936). Before her parents' 1901 marriage, her mother had been married to Frederick Gebhard.

Her paternal grandparents were Henry Clews, an English-born Wall Street investment banker, and Lucy Madison (née Worthington) Clews, who was related to U.S. President James Madison. Her maternal grandparents were John Boucher Morris and Louise Kittera (née Van Dyke) Morris.

Personal life

First marriage

On September 1, 1930, Louise was married to the Hon. Andrew Nicholas Armstrong Vanneck (1890–1965), son of the Hon. William Arcedeckne Vanneck, and his wife, the former Mary Armstrong.  Andrew was the younger brother of William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield, who was the 17th Governor of Victoria. Their married home was at Heveningham Hall. They had no children, and were divorced in 1933.

Second marriage
Two years after her divorce from Vanneck, she married Captain Ian Campbell (1903–1973) on November 23, 1935.  Campbell's first marriage, to Janet Gladys Aitken (daughter of Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook), had ended in divorce in 1934. There was one daughter from Campbell's marriage to Aitken, Lady Jeanne Campbell (1928–2007), who was brought up mainly by her father when her mother returned to Canada without her. Lady Jeanne later married the American writer Norman Mailer in 1962; they divorced shortly thereafter in 1963. Together, Louise and Ian were the parents of two sons:

 Ian Campbell, 12th Duke of Argyll (1937–2001), who married Iona Colquhoun, daughter of Sir Ivar Colquhoun, 8th Baronet, and had two children.
 Lord Colin Ivar Campbell (born 1946), who married Georgia Arianna Ziadie, a Jamaican-born British writer.

During the Second World War, Campbell was in the armed forces and spent some time as a prisoner of war. His wife crossed the Pyrenees to Lisbon, where she helped with relief efforts. Among other things, she arranged for beer and Christmas puddings to be received at the POW camps.

Campbell inherited his cousin's dukedom in 1949, making his wife Duchess of Argyll, but they were divorced in 1951. The duke was a notorious spendthrift, and, when asked, Louise is said to have replied "He took everything but my trust funds." The duchess filed for divorce because of the duke's adultery with the woman who would become his third wife, the notorious Margaret Whigham Sweeny.

Third marriage
She relocated to the United States following her divorce, and her third marriage was to Robert Clermont Livingston Timpson (1908–1988), an American investment banker, in 1954.  Timpson was the grandson of John Henry Livingston of the prominent Livingston family. They moved into Grasmere, a mansion in Rhinebeck, which she later opened to the public.

They divorced in 1963, and the former duchess died in New York in 1970, aged 65.

Descendants
Through her eldest son, she was the grandmother of Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll (born 1968) and Lady Louise Iona Campbell (born 1972), who married Anthony Burrell and had children.

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Dividends And Value Stocks Have Been Ignored In This Market...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018 - 12:00am
The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
In the August update issue of High-Yield Investing, I pointed out that a narrow group of six tech stocks had accounted for virtually all (98%) of the market's year-to-date gains. I've seen this behavior before, most recently in 2015, when the ten largest stocks in the S&P 500 represented more than 100% of the index's return while the other 490 were net losers.
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It's easy to forget about dividends at times like this. Who can get excited about a 4% annual income stream when stocks like Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) soar 69% and 92%, respectively, in just eight months?
But then the Dow surrendered nearly 1,400 points in two days in October, throwing some cold water on those red-hot gains. Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) fell 5.5% in the market swoon. Amazon retreated 8.1%. And Netflix plunged 9.6%.
That doesn't mean these highfliers are about to crash and burn. In fact, they've already rebounded off their lows. But gravity always reasserts itself in time -- and tumultuous two-day pullbacks of nearly 10% demonstrate the vulnerability.
This was only a glimpse of what the next market correction would look like. And it wasn't pretty. The tech sector suffered its worst daily loss in seven years, which spilled over into the broader market and erased well over $1 trillion in market cap by the closing bell the following day.
Imagine a full-blown panic.
So what happens when confidence starts to buckle? Momentum-driven gains stall, money flows out of riskier assets, and investors pile into safer havens. Now, I'm not suggesting that a market correction is imminent. But it never hurts to be prepared by shifting into defensive value stocks.
Growth Stocks Have Ruled The Market
The tremendous run-up we've seen in the tech sector is part of a much larger trend where growth stocks in general have ruled the roost while value stocks have been largely ignored. Check out the performance gap that has emerged over the past year.
Source: Morningstar
There are two clear takeaways here. Large-Cap stocks have dominated small-caps and growth has trumped value. So while we continue to see headlines of the major averages plowing ahead to record highs (at least until this month), the reality has been very different for income investors. Those with portfolios comprised mostly of value dividend-payers are lucky to have eked out a 1% or 2% return over the past 12 months.
It has truly been a tale of two markets.
And this isn't a new development. Here's how it looks over the past three years.
Since October 2015, growth has been outrunning value by roughly a 2-1 margin, across the entire market-cap spectrum.
Keep in mind, this period coincides perfectly with the Fed's current rate tightening cycle, which started three years ago. That means rate-sensitive groups such as master limited partnerships (MLPs) and real estate investment trusts (REITs) have not only had to contend with a negative market bias, but also the effects of eight interest rate hikes. Not surprisingly, many have turned in negative returns over this time span.
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If a firm can power through the Civil War, two World Wars, the Great Depression and Recession... you'd assume it was a top performer and could generate wealth for decades to come... right? WRONG! Today there are thirteen Fortune 500 companies that are at least 150 years old... And not one of them was good enough to make our Legacy Assets list. This is a portfolio that's given investors back $480,000 for every 100k they put in a decade ago. But what makes these Assets different? What enables them to perform under ANY market condition? They all have three simple connections... our Secret Legacy Asset Traits. To discover the seven stocks with these traits -- stocks that have doubled the S&P in the past year and almost tripled it in the last decade -- click here now.
In short, this has been a tough time to be a yield hunter. Given the market distaste for value stocks, I'm pleased that my High-Yield Investing portfolio has increased by 16% over the past 36 months.
But I want to reiterate a prediction made back in August:
Sooner or later (probably at the first hint of market distress), dividends will take on more importance -- and assets will rotate accordingly.
After this month's tumultuous selloff, I think the pendulum may finally be turning. In tomorrow's StreetAuthority Daily, I'm going to explain why I think that's the case -- as well as why "value" stocks may not necessarily be what you think.
P.S. My High-Yield Investing newsletter is devoted to not only finding the best, most reliable dividends on the market, but also to identifying and explaining different asset classes, and that leads to a more diverse and less volatile portfolio. With big-picture tactical planning, anyone can benefit from a well-balanced portfolio. If you'd like to learn more about all that High-Yield Investing has to offer, please follow this link.


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Joe Farrell is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins. His litigation practice focuses on employment law litigation and counseling. Mr. Farrell provides employment law advice to and represents employers in litigation in the following industries:
In addition, Mr. Farrell also provides legal advice to not-for-profit organizations.
Mr. Farrell writes on a variety of employment law topics. He is the Contributing Editor for the Rutter Group's California Practice Guide, Employment Litigation, Age Discrimination chapter. He is co-author of Age Discrimination, A Guide For California Employers and Age Discrimination Claims: A Growing Problem for Employers. He has also assisted in drafting chapters in B. Lindemann & D. Kadue, Sexual Harassment in Employment Law, and P. Grossman and B. Lindemann, Employment Discrimination Law, concerning responding to internal complaints of sexual harassment and class action employment discrimination litigation, respectively.
Mr. Farrell also teaches Employment Law as an adjunct professor at USC Gould School of Law.
Mr. Farrell has trial experience in employment and commercial litigation. He has defended employers in the areas of discrimination, wage and hour claims, wrongful discharge claims and sexual harassment. He assists employers with executive employment agreements, employment and wage policies and counsels them on a wide range of employment-related issues.
Mr. Farrell's experience includes defending:
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We can often overlook the importance of a mattress when it comes to the quality of sleep for our children. A mattress should be like a well made pair of shoes.
You wouldn't put your children in cheap, ill fitting shoes knowing they wear them for around eight hours a day. The same has to be said for the mattress they sleep on (for just as long if we are lucky), so when we were offered the innovative luxury Leesa mattresses for the twins we were more than just a little thrilled. Having reviewed the king size mattress ourselves (you can read all the detail HERE ) and had more than one or two nights with the boys sneaking into our newly super comfy bed we already knew they were in for a treat.
The mattresses arrive in boxes ! How cool is that, still can't get over the fact that Leesa mattresses come shrink wrapped . As dad was at work the twins offered to carry the boxes upstairs to prove that delivery and installation of Leesa mattresses truly is child's play. Weighing just 20kg each for the single mattress and arriving compressed into a box the boys were eager to get the mattresses upstairs and onto their beds.
We can do this !
OK so here we go. All Leesa mattresses are delivered within 4 – 7 working days of you placing your order and all arrive in the same size box measuring 40cm x 40cm x 106 cm . One adult can manoeuvre them but it might help to have a friend. The boxes also have hand holes in the sides to make it just a little easier to pick up.
Lot of giggling and a few rest stops but they managed them both in the end.
Knowing what to expect from a Leesa mattress, Jarvis was already a little in love with his ! Both the twins were really excited to be getting their own super comfy mattresses, It bought home to me just how overlooked this aspect of our life and health had been in the past. Most of us realise that quality sleep is essential to happy , healthy children but how many of us ever really consider the mattress our children are lying on ? Buying quality mattresses was not something we had ever given much thought to in the past. Of course you do your research when it comes to cots when the children are first born and you look into all the safety concerns for babies and toddlers, but most of us don't give much though to mattresses for our children once they move into single beds. My twins have had their fair share of broken sleep over the years and also complained of aches and pains which we often put down to growing pains. I do wonder now how much of that discomfort was due to the poor quality mattresses they slept on.
Approximately one hour after removing the shrink wrap this is one twin who couldn't wait for a lie down ! All that's left to do now is have a play with the boxes.
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Great post. I love my Leesa mattress!
I've never really thought about mattresses for kids and now I feel guilty. Why shouldn't kids need a decent mattress just like we do. Their quality of sleep is just as important. I bet your boys love their new mattresses.


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The wheel size is the diameter of the wheel, in inches, not counting the tire. Modern tires in North America have several other measurements associated with their size. A tire designated as a "225/70R14" denotes a tire with the following dimensions: width of tread: 225 mm; ratio of tire height to width: 70 percent; rim diameter: 14". Therefore a 185/70R14 has the same rim diameter and aspect ratio, but a smaller overall diameter and narrower tread face than the 225/70R14.
Wheel Backspacing
The easiest way to measure backspace is to lay the wheel face down onto the ground so the backside of the wheel is facing up.
Take a straight edge and lay it diagonally across the inboard flange of the wheel. Take a tape measure and measure the distance from where the straight edge contacts the inboard flange to the hub mounting pad of the wheel. This measurement is the backspace.
The photo below shows three wheels with 2", 3", & 4" backspace.
Wheel Bolt Pattern
The bolt pattern or bolt circle is the diameter of an imaginary circle formed by the centers of the wheel lugs. Bolt patterns can be 4, 5, 6, or 8 lug holes. A bolt circle of 4x100 would indicate a 4 lug pattern on a circle with a diameter of 100mm.
The diagram indicates the proper measuring methods. 6 lug wheels are measured like the 4 lug wheels.
The offset, measured in millimeters, can be negative or positive, and is the distance from the hub-mounting surface to the rim's true centerline. A positive offset means the hub-mounting surface is closer to the outside edge of the wheel; a negative offset means the hub-mounting surface is closer to the inside edge of the wheel. Offset affects the scrub radius of the steering and it is advisable to stay within the limits allowed by the vehicle manufacturer. If tires are fitted which are significantly wider than those specified by the manufacturer, a compromise may have to be adopted whereby a wheel with less offset is used to prevent the tire rubbing on the suspension.