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using System;
using System.Reflection;

using GoogleMobileAds.Common;

namespace GoogleMobileAds.Api
{
    public class BannerView
    {
        private IBannerClient client;

        // Creates a BannerView and adds it to the view hierarchy.
        public BannerView(string adUnitId, AdSize adSize, AdPosition position)
        {
            Type googleMobileAdsClientFactory = Type.GetType(
                "GoogleMobileAds.GoogleMobileAdsClientFactory,Assembly-CSharp");
            MethodInfo method = googleMobileAdsClientFactory.GetMethod(
                "BuildBannerClient",
                BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public);
            this.client = (IBannerClient)method.Invoke(null, null);
            client.CreateBannerView(adUnitId, adSize, position);

            configureBannerEvents();
        }

        // Creates a BannerView with a custom position.
        public BannerView(string adUnitId, AdSize adSize, int x, int y)
        {
            Type googleMobileAdsClientFactory = Type.GetType(
                "GoogleMobileAds.GoogleMobileAdsClientFactory,Assembly-CSharp");
            MethodInfo method = googleMobileAdsClientFactory.GetMethod(
                "BuildBannerClient",
                BindingFlags.Static | BindingFlags.Public);
            this.client = (IBannerClient)method.Invoke(null, null);
            client.CreateBannerView(adUnitId, adSize, x, y);

            configureBannerEvents();
        }

        // These are the ad callback events that can be hooked into.
        public event EventHandler<EventArgs> OnAdLoaded;

        public event EventHandler<AdFailedToLoadEventArgs> OnAdFailedToLoad;

        public event EventHandler<EventArgs> OnAdOpening;

        public event EventHandler<EventArgs> OnAdClosed;

        public event EventHandler<EventArgs> OnAdLeavingApplication;

        // Loads an ad into the BannerView.
        public void LoadAd(AdRequest request)
        {
            client.LoadAd(request);
        }

        // Hides the BannerView from the screen.
        public void Hide()
        {
            client.HideBannerView();
        }

        // Shows the BannerView on the screen.
        public void Show()
        {
            client.ShowBannerView();
        }

        // Destroys the BannerView.
        public void Destroy()
        {
            client.DestroyBannerView();
        }

        private void configureBannerEvents()
        {
            this.client.OnAdLoaded += (sender, args) =>
            {
                if (this.OnAdLoaded != null)
                {
                    this.OnAdLoaded(this, args);
                }
            };

            this.client.OnAdFailedToLoad += (sender, args) =>
            {
                if (this.OnAdFailedToLoad != null)
                {
                    this.OnAdFailedToLoad(this, args);
                }
            };

            this.client.OnAdOpening += (sender, args) =>
            {
                if (this.OnAdOpening != null)
                {
                    this.OnAdOpening(this, args);
                }
            };

            this.client.OnAdClosed += (sender, args) =>
            {
                if (this.OnAdClosed != null)
                {
                    this.OnAdClosed(this, args);
                }
            };

            this.client.OnAdLeavingApplication += (sender, args) =>
            {
                if (this.OnAdLeavingApplication != null)
                {
                    this.OnAdLeavingApplication(this, args);
                }
            };
        }
    }
}


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Язи́к (також лизень) — страва з вареного телячого (волового) або свинячого язика, що поширена в багатьох кухнях Європи, Азії та Північної Америки. Може були закускою, другою стравою, додатком до інших страв.

Історія і поширення
В їжу яловичий язик почали вживати давно — корова як джерело м'яса і субпродуктів цінувалася з давніх-давен. Оскільки язик завжди вважався делікатесом, доступний він був аж ніяк не всім. Так, у середньовічній Франції селяни після забою корів або іншої худоби зобов'язані були віддавати язика для панського столу.

Яловичий язик — продукт відомий і улюблений у всьому світі. Виняток становлять тільки індуїсти — корова для них священна тварина, тому для більшості населення Індії вживання в їжу її м'яса або субпродуктів табу. Не вживають яловичий язик також послідовники зороастризму, більшість сингальских і китайських буддистів. Вегетаріанці від цього продукту також відмовляються.

Свинячий язик менш поширений у приготуванні. Зазвичай використовується у кухнях України, Польщі, Чехії, Угорщині, Румунії.

Приготування

Яловий язик
Загалом відомо до 100 рецептів з яловичого язика. Перед приготуванням язик замочити у воді на 1,5 години, щоб було простіше очищати його від забруднень. Після вимочування ножем зняти слиз, жир, бруд, кров, залишивши шкіру чистою, потім добре промити під холодною водою.

З різних способів приготування язика найчастіше використовується варіння. Варять його зазвичай близько 3 години, при цьому він істотно збільшується в розмірах. При приготуванні яловичого язика рідко додають будь-які приправи. Зазвичай лавровий лист, сіль і гострий або духмяний чорний перець. При варінні язика в воду часто додають ріпчасту цибулю і моркву.

Відварний язик може використовуватися як самостійна закуска або один зі складників різних страв. Найчастіше його додають у салати, жульєни, заливні страви.

Варіантів гарніру до відварного язика вдосталь. Найпростіший і найпоширеніший варіант — картопля варена або пюре з неї. Язик нерідко поєднують з маринованими грибами, каперсами, артишоками, зеленим горошком. У деяких кухнях світу з відвареним язиком подають солоний кавун. В українській кухні додається підлива з родзинок. Також в Україні солять яловичий язик.

У салатах яловичий язик змішують зі всілякими інгредієнтами: різні овочі і зелень, яйця, гриби, чорнослив, зелений горошок, сир, шинка, курка, морепродукти. Язик використовують замість м'яса в будь-якому салаті, наприклад, олів'є. Відварний язик може стати основою для фаршированих рулетів. Як начинки відмінно годяться гриби, горіхи, яйця, зелень, різні овочі. Яловичий язик додають в різні ковбаси, шинку, копченості, роблять з нього консерви.

В Азії яловичий язик маринують в соєвому соусі з солодким перцем і приправами. В італійській кухні з відвареного язика роблять канапки, додаючи мариновані огірки і сир. Крім того, італійці кладуть язик в піцу і пасту. У французькій кухні є безліч рецептів з яловичим язиком. Відварний язик може бути використаний як основа для різних страв — в цьому випадку його зазвичай попередньо витримують у маринаді.

Яловичий язик також тушкують. Найчастіше його тушкують в червоному вині, соєвому соусі, сметані або вершках. Його також запікають або смажать у клярі чи сухарях. У грузинській кухні відварний язик тушкують з грибами, морквою і цибулею в горіхово-часниковому соусі. Інший варіант приготування язика в Грузії — запікання на вертіві. У Китаї яловичий язик використовують для приготування різних салатів, відварюють його зі всілякими спеціями, запікають у тісті. У бразильській кухні яловичий язик гасять в червоному вині з ріпчастою цибулею, зеленню та спеціями або квасолею і свіжими овочами. В Америці язик готують з овочами і спеціями під горіховим соусом.

Свинячий язик
Свинячий язик вживається у вареному, смаженому, печеному і тушкованому, з овочевими гарнірами, запіканки, салати і пироги. А також добре поєднується з макаронними і картопляними гарнірами, а також прекрасно гармонує з грибами, зеленню, кервелем і овочами.

Потрібно вимочувати в холодній воді близько 2 годин, а потім варити від 1,5 до 3 годин на повільному вогні. У бульйон додаються приправи, а сіль — до звареного язика, з якого знята шкірка. Щоб зняти її, відразу після варіння ще гарячий язик потрібно опустити в холодну воду — плівка відійде сама.

Корисні властивості
У яловичого язика багато вітамінів — E, PP, групи B. Він містить низку мікроелементів — фосфор, цинк, магній, сірка, натрій, кальцій, хлор, калій, залізо. Завдяки малому вмісту сполучних тканин яловичий язик добре засвоюється і корисний для травлення. Також він нормалізує рівень цукру в крові, позитивно впливає на нервову систему.

Яловичий язик потрібно вживати при низькому рівні гемоглобіну, тому його долучають до раціон маленьких дітей, вагітних і жінок, що годують. Вживання відвареного язика рекомендовано при кишкової недостатності і виразковому гастриті. За рахунок властивості виводити з організму холестерин яловичий язик корисний при захворюваннях серцево-судинної системи. Постійне включення яловичого язика в раціон дозволяє підвищити імунітет. Завдяки вмісту заліза й цинку вживання яловичого язика добре позначається на стані шкіри і волосся. Цей субпродукт є одним з елементів дієтичного харчування.

У вареного яловичого язика смак ніжний і приємний.

Свинячий язик — це також делікатес, який добре засвоюється організмом. Він не поступається за вишуканості смаку яловичого язика.

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 Як приготувати свинячий язик
 Ароматний свинячий язик
 Яловичий язик — правильне приготування і рецепти смачних страв

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Innovation on Campus: Evolving Food Safety Training for Student Organizations
Before her risk management career began, Susie Johnson worked in student-alumni affairs at Iowa State University, a sprawling campus that's home to 36,000 students and more than 900 student groups. At an on-campus event, one of her student groups served chicken, and Johnson recalls worrying about whether it was properly cooked.
Fortunately, there was never a significant food handling issue. But years later, Johnson remembered the event and the potential for a widespread food-borne illness. Now, as the university's risk management director, Johnson has developed an online training program designed to help ensure that students know how to reduce the chance of food spoilage and contamination, while also complying with local food service regulations.
"Student organizations are a key part of our brand," Johnson explains. "They're active in so many ways, with theme weeks and traditions throughout the year celebrating their colleges. They take great pride in cooking for these events, from grilling burgers to making ice cream. They have great intentions, but it could just take one bad event for it to be a significant problem."
The initial training was an in-person, 90-minute class that tested student attention spans and proved difficult to scale for the size of the student body. Johnson worked with dietary and food specialists at Iowa State University's Extension and Outreach division to create a series of online modules covering topics ranging from using gloves to having handwashing stations.
"One of the keys to the success of this program was recognizing the importance of developing a curriculum that would resonate with students in the way they prefer to learn," said Heath Kidd, Travelers Education IndustryEDGE manager. "Thousands of students complete this training every year."
Recognizing that it was in everyone's interest to have the information available to everyone, the training can be accessed by students, faculty advisors, community members, college students and anyone else who might be serving food on campus.
"We asked how we could get them information that meets them where they are and is ready when they are," Johnson explained. "The curriculum is on-demand and online, so they can do it at 11:30 at night if that's when they have time." Students take a quiz at the end and must visit the student activities center in person for a card to show that they passed. "It has been effective," Johnson said.
Creating a Student-Centered Program
In her role as Director of Risk Management, Johnson oversees the risk and insurance needs for the university, where she finds herself constantly looking to appropriately manage risk across campus and beyond, from student organization events to international travel for students and employees.
For risk managers considering online training, she has several tips for developing a student-centered program.
Practice user-centered design. "We need to be in touch with the population the training is targeting, including running focus groups and surveys to see what's important to them," Johnson said. Students at Iowa State can see the connection between wanting to have a safe and successful event and getting the important information from accessible training.
Don't wait for perfect. "One of the things that's been important is not to wait for it to be just right," Johnson said of the training. The risks of delaying the training were compelling enough to launch the first generation of the online training program. "Get something out there that you can continuously improve upon, rather than waiting for it to be perfect from the start."
Recognize emerging risks. The emergence of additional food sensitivities makes the risks of a food safety incident even greater now compared to years ago when Johnson first joined the university. Conducting sessions where you evaluate your potential risk scenarios can help you identify areas where additional safety training can help prevent unfortunate incidents.
Johnson is also always looking for efficiencies and ways to streamline processes, which, she says, reflects student expectations of being able to self-serve to get the information they need. As she prepares to update the next generation of training materials, she'll be looking for new technologies and other ways to do that.
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Telling Barney About His Pants
C.T. May
Why America needs the term "Springfield moment."
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The Lewinsky impeachment, WMDs, Palin, the death panel garbage. There's a pattern to the right's behavior and it should have a name. If I wrote a script for President Obama, I'd want him to say, "This is a Springfield moment. This is people getting worked up just to get worked up. Right now Moe's got his torch out and everybody's full steam ahead, but before the next commercial they're going to decide everything wasn't so bad after all." Eventually he'd be able to say, "America has had its Springfield moment and now we've got to move on. No more, we've learned." Crazy late-era America could stop being crazy and waddling about with its pants dipping. The fits would end.
"Springfield moment" is from The Simpsons, of course. It's an ancient show and not too funny nowadays. But it's given a lot, and one of its gifts is this concept: When any collective entity, and especially the American public, passes into a state of non-reason marked by frantic and pointless activity, that would be a Springfield moment. The burst gets little done and events return to normal, more or less, but in the meantime everyone at large acts up in a way that's big and stupid. In 2008 the Obama campaign fell back on the term "distraction" when discussing this sort of flap. I think that's a bit blank and impersonal. "Springfield moment" would communicate.
The attitude that goes with the phrase—an attitude we can sum up as "Come on already, snap out of it"-—has been part of the liberal makeup since at least the Reagan years. When Reagan proved a success, liberals came to see him as a carnival master who kept the public distracted with fireworks and jet planes while our SAT scores rotted from the inside. His era was viewed as an episode of mass childishness marked by a collective flight from reality. It was a Springfield phenomenon before Springfield came to birth. Now we have the term and ought to use it. When people are milling about because of a new bogeyman or two-minute wonder, we have a piece of language for calling them out.
Personally, I think it's fair comment. The right's bogeymen and triumphs have been a series of big fusses over very little. The left has had one good-sized burst of Springfield-ism, the Obama "Hope and Change" campaign. But at least that was benign. All the noise and thrills induced a fit of hopefulness, not fear or resentment. After the great O carnival of 2008, of course, all we've had is a man trying to patch American society while it can still be patched. That's hope and change? Huh. But the work does need to be done, so there's that.
The American liberal: his situation. The right says liberals try to get in under false pretenses. If so, one would be the pretense that we want to do something grand, something interesting. We don't, actually. Our aims are limited and reactive. Telling America it needs public health insurance is like telling a fat man he needs a belt. The conclusion is forced upon you, and even when steps are taken the situation remains unpleasing. The best you can say is that his pants are now up instead of down, and in the meantime you've offended him.
Liberals find themselves in that sort of jam. If there was ever a friend who needed a friend to tell him not to drive drunk, it is present-day America. But just try being that friend. Even wanting the job indicates an unlovable personality: explaining people to themselves is impertinent. It's also why liberals are alive, and our defense is only that we're not wrong.
The right doesn't explain America to itself. It bangs pots and pans about made-up crises and the occasional alleged miracle. The right says America's great but being cheated, that someone is getting between Americans and their honor or their security or the right to live out their lives. The right says this good and loud, with great flair and a conviction that soars above fact. Meanwhile, liberals want that dumb noise to stop so America can hear us talk in its ear. Our plan is to tell America exactly what we've figured out about it. Good luck.
Something about Harvard. Obama is one of the few liberals to break through. That was in 2008, with his Philadelphia speech about race. But around the same time he was bit on the ass by comments he had dropped about the ways of small-town whites left behind by the economy—the "bitterly cling to guns and religion" episode. A rule for politicians: Working-class whites don't get held up for explanation. They are the given, the backbone; the rest of us pretend to be add-ons. Because he forgot this, Obama experienced months of grief from Hillary Clinton as she posed with beer mugs.
So telling the folks about themselves is a tricky business. Somebody has been doing it quite well, and that's according to the folks themselves. Anybody who has watched The Simpsons knows that us, the American people, are the joke. And the joke is told by really smart guys, Harvard guys in large part. All these decades, Harvard has been recruiting undergrads from towns across America. I guess that's why the Simpsons writers' room can give us material about rip-off water slides. They also tell us what smart-ass liberals think of the American people, especially working-class and lower middle-class white American people. When America laughs at Springfield, it's laughing at how dumb it looks to the people who placed out of ordinary life and joined the elite because of their board scores.
The picture comes down to this: Springfielders are like popcorn that's always on the skillet. Their brains keep hopping, and they have no idea why. They're a mob made up of would-be individuals but collectively jolted by a rumor or a bad metaphor or a TV commercial for Gabbo. I think that's all fair comment, and the public seems to think so too. The next time the country's necessary patch-up work is threatened by a pleasant fit over nothing, I hope the president uses the term "Springfield moment." At the very least, it's a polite way of saying, "Don't be an idiot," and nowadays America needs someone to say that as often as possible.
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Conflict Resolution Oral Histories
Interview with Rob Gould
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Alexandra Ibarra, Portland State University
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Rob Gould was interviewed by Alexandra Ibarra on May 18, 2020, in Portland, Oregon. Also participating in this interview are Patricia Schechter and Liza Schade.
In this interview, Gould recalls the origins of Conflict Resolution and peace studies at Portland State, relating the development of the program to changing cultural and political currents beginning in the 1960s, and rising interest in solutions and alternatives to conflict at all levels of interaction. He discusses the challenges the program faced as a fledgling department and as it grew, involving funding, collaboration with the University of Oregon and community organizations for peace, and cultural perceptions of peace studies at the time of the program's founding following the Gulf War. He celebrates the program's successes, integrity, and longevity.
Rob Gould is the co-founder of the Conflict Resolution program at Portland State University, which began as a graduate program in 1996.
This interview is part of a series of oral histories given by former and current faculty members in the Conflict Resolution program at Portland State University. In spring 2020, public history students at PSU undertook this research as the program celebrated its 25th anniversary.
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Well, I won't actually have an Artist Alley table at Anime Weekend Atlanta, but I'm hoping to bring a few examples with me anyway... IF they're done in time. I dunno, we'll see.


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On Jan. 24, 2007, Judy Windom, a special education teacher at Eagle High School, was struck repeatedly in the head with a club her son made by attaching weights to one end of a dumbbell. After his arms tired, Ethan Windom, then a junior at Borah High School, stabbed his mother in the throat, chest, abdomen and the head.
He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder, and Copsey gave him a life sentence.
In 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court held in the Miller v. Alabama case that a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole for a juvenile violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The court found that children are constitutionally different from adults for purposes of sentencing.
Four years later, the Supreme Court ruled in Montgomery v. Louisiana that the ruling in Miller had to be applied retroactively. It affected up to 2,300 cases nationwide, with defendants entitled to be considered for parole or given another life sentence after considering factors such as immaturity and the failure to appreciate risks and consequences.
In the Montgomery case, the court held that a lifetime in prison is a disproportionate sentence for all but the rarest of children, those whose crimes reflect "irreparable corruption."
While Windom was not sentenced to a mandatory life sentence, the Idaho Supreme Court found that the Montgomery ruling also applied to those given a life sentence without considering the "distinctive attributes of youth."
"Before imposing sentence, the district court discussed at length Windom's statements to classmates that he hated his mother; the brutal nature of the murder; his apparent lack of remorse when questioned by police; his fascination with serial killers; his diagnosis as a paranoid schizophrenic; and the need, if he is released into society, that he be treated by a competent mental health professional, that he take his medications, and that they actually work," Idaho Supreme Court Justice Daniel Eismann wrote in the July 10, 2017, decision. "However, the sentencing hearing did not show that evidence was presented regarding the factors required by Miller. Those factors must be individualized for the juvenile being sentenced."
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Ethan Allen Windom
Brady doctrine keeps some from testifying in court
Canyon County Sheriff updates information on fatal shooting in farmer's field
During pursuit of a suspect, Canyon sheriff's deputy strikes pickup with his patrol vehicle
By Ruth Brown
Canyon County deputies responded to the area of Locust Lane and South Midland Boulevard in Nampa, while trying to locate Erik Ivan Enriques. The pursuit began and at some point a deputy crashed his patrol vehicle.
SWAT arrests man wanted on multiple domestic violence warrants in Nampa standoff
At hearing for suspect in Boise killing, judge tells victim's family no 'RIP' shirts
Boise man convicted of battery with intent to commit rape for 2018 crime
Christopher Tapp officially exonerated of rape and murder charges
Ex-Ada County treasurer sentenced to probation, no jail for misuse of public money


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Olympic champion Burton extends advantage at Laser Men's World Championship
By Dan Palmer
Reigning Olympic champion Tom Burton extended his lead at the International Laser Class Association Laser Standard Men's World Championship in Sakaiminato after the penultimate day of racing in Japan.
Australia's Rio 2016 gold medallist took over at the top from New Zealand's Sam Meech yesterday and enjoyed a six point advantage overnight.
His lead is now 18 points after fifth and 13th place finishes from today's two races ‒ placing Burton on a total of 32.
The 13th place is currently discarded from his total as it is his second lowest finish so far after a 21st in the second race.
It means he likely only needs one finish inside the top 10 tomorrow to win the world title.
Today was the second day of Championship racing, following three days of qualification, which has seen the athletes split into gold, silver and bronze fleets with 52 boats in each.
Meech, the Rio 2016 bronze medallist, had a poor day and slipped from second to seventh after finishes of 39th and 21st left him on 59 points.
It means Burton's nearest challenger is now Bernaz Jean-Baptiste of France, who came second and then 11th today to end on 50 points.
Australia's Matthew Wearn is third after coming 30th in the first race but then winning the second to end on 52.
American Charlie Buckingham enjoyed a strong day of results ©Junichi Hirai/Bulkhead Magazine Japan
Charlie Buckingham enjoyed a strong day for the United States, coming home third and second to sit fourth overall with 53 points.
He has climbed up the rankings from his overnight placing of 17th.
Germany's William Nik was the day's other race winner as he triumphed on the first trip to the water, but he was only 40th second time around and is 23rd with 108 points.
Robert Scheidt, Brazil's two-time Olympic gold medallist, recorded finishes of 15th and 25th and is 12th overall with a tally of 71.
The last day of the Championship is tomorrow.
In addition to the quest to become world champion, five sailors will qualify their not already qualified countries for an entry in the men's one-person dinghy event at next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.
Sweden, Hungary, Argentina, Russia and Guatemala currently hold the all-important places.
July 2019: Olympic champion Burton claims lead at Laser Men's World Championship
July 2019: Perfect day sees Meech top qualifying at Laser Men's World Championship
July 2019: Three-way tie for lead at Laser Men's World Championship
July 2019: Jurišić and Gautrey tied for lead after day one of Laser Men's World Championship
July 2019: Tokyo 2020 qualification up for grabs with ILCA Laser Standard Men's World Championship set to begin
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David Hemmings
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: David Hemmings
, Vanessa Redgrave
, Sarah Miles
Blu-ray (Color)
Blow-Up available in Blu-ray, DVD
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Newly, restored 4k digital transfer, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack; New pieces about Director Michelangelo Antonioni's artistic approach, featuring photography curators Walter Moser and Philippe Garner and art historian David Alan Mellor; Blow Up of "Blow Up," a 2016 documentary on the making of the film; Conversation from 2016 between Garner and actor Vanessa Redgrave; Archival interviews with Antonioni and actors David Hemmings and Jane Birkin; Trailers; Plus: A book featuring an essay by film scholar David Forgacs, an updated 1966 account of the film's shooting by Stig Björkman, the questionnaires the Director distributed to photographers and painters while developing the film, and the 1959 Julio Cortazar short story on which the film is loosely based
David Hemmings Thomas
Vanessa Redgrave Jane
Sarah Miles Patricia
Peter Bowles Ron
John Castle Painter
Jane Birkin Girl
Gillian Hills The Brunette
Jill Kennington Actor
Veruschka Model
Yardbirds Actor
Peggy Moffitt Actor
Ann Norman Actor
Julian Chagrin Mime
Jeff Beck Himself with The Yardbirds
Susan Broderick Antique Shop Owner
Tsai Chin Receptionist
Harry Hutchinson Shopkeeper
Ronan O'Casey Jane's Lover in Park
Jimmy Page Himself with The Yardbirds
Michelangelo Antonioni Director,Screenwriter
Edward Bond Screenwriter
Edward Bond
Frank Clarke Editor
Assheton Gorton Production Designer,Set Decoration/Design
Tonino Guerra Screenwriter
Tonino Guerra
Herbie Hancock Score Composer
Carlo Di Palma Cinematographer
Carlo Ponti Producer
Paul Rabiger Makeup
Jocelyn Rickards Costumes/Costume Designer
Pierre Rouve Executive Producer
Donald Toms Production Manager
Yardbirds Score Composer
A cinematic time capsule that distills the very essence of the swinging London of 1966, filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni's provocative art house hit remains a brilliant psychological thriller. David Hemmings portrays a British fashion photographer whose voyeuristic tendencies compel him to take pictures of a couple he sees embracing in the park. Upon making blow-ups of the images, he notices details indicating that a murder might have been committed: Returning to the park, he finds the body of the man he photographed. As the woman in the case, Vanessa Redgrave made a vivid impression and entered the ranks of stardom. Her participation in what was then thought to be a highly erotic sequence involving nude modeling helped lend notoriety to the film, which upon release was condemned by the Legion of Decency and other watchdog organizations. It's obvious today that, for his first English-language film, Antonioni was less interested in developing a Hitchcockian narrative than he was in capturing attitudes and images that, to him, symbolized the social upheaval of the times. Blow-Up is suffused from first frame to last with the "mod" and "pop" sensibilities that many in the '60s thought so corrosive. It would seem that the film risks feeling dated today, but it's really no less powerful thanks to the richness and complexity of Antonioni's vision. Multilayered and at times deliberately obtuse, Blow-Up still casts a hypnotic spell over viewers, and repeated viewings often reveal additional details and meanings.
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A masterpiece of 1960s art-house cinema, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up is a dizzying exploration of images, appearances, and existence amid the mod glamour of Swinging '60s London. Antonioni took his signature influence of existentialist philosophy, seen in such earlier films as L'avventura (1960), La notte (1961), The Eclipse (1962), and Red Desert (1964), and pushed it to full-scale reflexivity: instead of just questioning existence, he questioned the nature of reality itself. Just as Thomas blows up his photographs until they are pure abstraction, Antonioni uses deliberately odd framing, expressionistic colors, and an extremely long telephoto lens, which crushes depth from the image, to make the film look both striking and opaque. Thomas himself is adrift in this world: absorbed in the surfaces of things yet unable to perceive intrinsic beauty, he finds it increasingly difficult to distinguish objective reality from the simulacra of advertising and fashion photography. By the end of the film, he is no longer certain if distinctions among image, illusion, and reality even exist. The film's brilliantly dense philosophical underpinnings aside, its Rear Window-esque plot makes it a compelling piece of work. Moreover, it features some of the most memorable sequences in cinema: the pantomime tennis match at the end of the film, the naughty ménage à trois on purple paper, and the almost farcically erotic photo shoot at the beginning of the film between model Veruschka and Thomas with his oversized camera lens. Blow Up proved extremely influential on younger generations of filmmakers; and it was later echoed by both Francis Ford Coppola in The Conversation (1974) and Brian De Palma in Blow Out (1981).
All Movie Guide - Jonathan Crow


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Los loricarinos (Loricariinae) es una subfamilia de peces siluriformes de agua dulce integrante de la  familia Loricariidae. Las especies que incluye (agrupadas en alrededor de 30 géneros) habitan en aguas templadas y cálidas del Neotrópico y son denominadas comúnmente viejas del agua.

Distribución y hábitos

Las especies que integran esta subfamilia se distribuye en cursos fluviales de aguas templadas y cálidas de Centro y Sudamérica, desde Costa Rica por el norte hasta la cuenca del Plata por el sur, alcanzando en latitudes australes hasta el centro-este de la Argentina (la cuenca del río Salado, en el centro de Buenos Aires).

 Hábitos

Son peces que viven en el lecho de los ríos y lagunas, adhiriéndose también a troncos y rocas por medio de sus bocas a modo de ventosas. Son mayormente nocturnos, con una alimentación omnívora. Suelen preferir descansar entre ramas sumergidas, ya que allí, por su forma alargada y baja y por su coloración, logran pasar más fácilmente desapercibidos ante los ojos de sus depredadores.

Taxonomía

Esta subfamilia fue descrita originalmente en el año 1831 por el naturalista, político y ornitólogo francés Charles Lucien Bonaparte.

Subdivisión

Esta subfamilia se subdivide en 2 Tribus, ambas descritas por Isaäc J. H. Isbrücker en el año 1979.
 Harttiini Isbrücker, 1979
 Loricariini Isbrücker, 1979

Características y relaciones filogenéticas

Dentro de la familia Loricariidae, los miembros de la subfamilia Loricariinae presentan rasgos morfológicos altamente diversificados, si bien tienen en común la presencia de un largo y aplanado pedúnculo caudal y por la ausencia de aleta adiposa.

Muestran una notable variación en la forma del cuerpo, así como en la morfología de los labios y en la dentición. Las diferencias morfológicas entre los dos sexos frecuentemente suele ser pronunciada. Los machos que alcanzan la madurez sexual frecuentemente presentan hipertrofia de odontoides en los radios de la aleta pectoral, sobre el borde del hocico y, a veces, en el área de predorsal. En el caso de ciertos géneros, también se observa dimorfismo sexual en las estructuras de los labios y hasta la de los dientes.

Subdivisión tradicional

Para mediados del año 2015, y exceptuando algunos géneros descritos o revalidados mayormente por Isbrücker, esta era la subdivisión tradicionalmente aceptada.

 Tribu Loricariini

 Grupo Loricaria
 Brochiloricaria Isbrücker & Nijssen in Isbrücker, 1979
 Loricaria Linnaeus, 1758
 Paraloricaria Isbrücker, 1979
 Proloricaria (Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1978)
 Ricola Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1974

 Grupo Loricariichthys
 Furcodontichthys Rapp Py-Daniel, 1981
 Hemiodontichthys Bleeker, 1862
 Limatulichthys Isbrücker & Nijssen in Isbrücker, 1979
 Loricariichthys Bleeker, 1862
 Pseudoloricaria Bleeker, 1862

 Grupo Pseudohemiodon
 Apistoloricaria Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1986
 Crossoloricaria Isbrücker, 1979
 Dentectus Martín Salazar, Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1982
 Planiloricaria Isbrücker, 1971
 Pseudohemiodon Bleeker, 1862
 Pyxiloricaria Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1984
 Reganella Eigenmann, 1905
 Rhadinoloricaria Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1974

 Grupo Rineloricaria
 Dasyloricaria Isbrücker & Nijssen in Isbrücker, 1979
 Fonchiiichthys Isbrücker & Michels, 2001
 Hemiloricaria Bleeker, 1862
 Ixinandria Isbrücker & Nijssen in Isbrücker, 1979
 Leliella Isbrücker, Seidel, Michels, Schraml & Werner, 2001
 Rineloricaria Bleeker, 1862
 Spatuloricaria Schultz, 1944

 Tribu Harttiini

 Aposturisoma Isbrücker, Britski, Nijssen & Ortega, 1983
 Cteniloricaria Isbrücker & Nijssen in Isbrücker, 1979
 Farlowella Eigenmann & Eigenmann, 1889
 Harttia Steindachner, 1877
 Harttiella Boeseman, 1971
 Lamontichthys Miranda Ribeiro, 1939
 Metaloricaria Isbrücker, 1975
 Pterosturisoma Isbrücker & Nijssen, 1978
 Quiritixys Isbrücker, Seidel, Michels, Schraml & Werner, 2001
 Sturisoma Swainson, 1838
 Sturisomatichthys Isbrücker & Nijssen in Isbrücker, 1979

Otras subdivisiones propuestas

Aunque se han realizado numerosos estudios taxonómicos sobre la familia Loricariidae, no había una filogenia molecular integral de esta subfamilia hasta que en el año 2015 se publicó una, realizada por los investigadores Raphael Covain, Sonia Fisch-Muller, Claudio Oliveira, Jan H. Mol, Juan I. Montoya-Burgos y Stéphane Dray. En la misma se utilizó información genética de 350 de sus integrantes, con base en el análisis de 8426 posiciones de sus genes mitocondriales y nucleares. La filogenia resultante corroboró la división de Loricariinae en dos tribus hermanas: Harttiini y Loricariini, pero ambos conjuntos resultaron contener clados parafiléticos. Para resolver estos problemas, y dado la falta de características morfológicas definidas de muchos de los géneros establecidos, los investigadores han propuestos arreglos taxonómicos para hacer coincidir la sistemática tradicionalmente aceptada (resultante de rasgos morfológicos) con la molecular encontrada.

La tribu Harttiini quedó restringida a 3 géneros: Cteniloricaria, Harttiella y Harttia (que se propuso que incluya a Quiritixys como sinónimo más moderno).

Dentro de Loricariini se distinguen dos subtribus: Farlowellina y Loricariina. Dentro Farlowellina, el género nominal Farlowella formó en el estudio un grupo parafilético, al igual que Sturisoma y Sturisomatichthys. Para arreglarlo se propuso que el género Sturisoma quede restringido a las especies que habitan al oriente del encadenamiento andino y que el género Sturisomatichthys quede acotado a los taxones que se distribuyen al occidente de los Andes.

Dentro de Loricariina: Apistoloricaria, Crossoloricaria y el nominal Loricaria, también resultaron parafiléticos. Para arreglarlo se propuso que las especies de Apistoloricaria y Crossoloricaria que se distribuyen al este de los Andes sean reagrupadas dentro del género Rhadinoloricaria. De este modo, el género Crossoloricaria quedaría limitado a las especies que habiten al oeste de la cordillera andina.

Dentro del género Rineloricaria se propuso que incluya a todas las especies que integran los géneros: Ixinandria, Hemiloricaria, Fonchiiichthys y Leliella. Se consideró como válido al género Proloricaria, el cual había sido puesto en duda por otros autores.

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Q: Getting error while passing list from lightning component to apex class I need to pass List<WrapperClass> from lightning helper to apex class. Passing the list directly gave me the following error while iterating the list in apex.

Error message: An internal server error has occurred Error ID:
  1137130244-1625 (119852647)

So I tried to stringify the list in helper and passed it as a string .This time I am getting the below error in apex.

QueryResult must start with '{'

Please find my code.
public class WrapperClass{
      @auraEnabled
      public Custom1__c custom1{get;set;}
      @auraenabled
      public Custom2__c custom2{get;set;}
      @auraenabled
      public List<Custom3__c> custom3List{get;set;}
      @auraenabled
      public List<String> currentList{get;set;}
}

Lightning helper:
       var action1 = component.get("c.saveCustomVolumes");
       {
       var customs = component.get("v.customIds");
       var tvList = component.get("v.wrapperList");
       var tvString = JSON.stringify(tvList);
       var baseYear = component.get("v.selectedYear");
       action1.setParams({
            "customList":customs,
            "tvString":tvString, // passing wrapper class as a String
            "baseYear":baseYear
        });
        action1.setCallback(this, function(response) {
            var state = response.getState();
            if (state === "SUCCESS") {

                }

Apex class:
@auraenabled
public static saveCustomVolumes(List<String> customList,String tvString, String baseYear){
    List<WrapperClass> wrapList =
 (List<WrapperClass>)JSON.deserialize(tvString,List<WrapperClass>.class); //This line gives the error QueryResult must start with '{'
}

Could anyone please help me with the issue.

A: I resolved this issue by forming JSON objects in javascript and adding it to a list and then passed this list to apex using JSON.stringify

A: JSON String passed into apex method must match the wrapper class format. For example, JSON string should be something like,
[{
    "custom1" : {
        "Id" : "a0O0j0000061rzXXXX",
        "Name" : "Test"
    },
    "custom2" : {
        "Id" : "a0r0j0000002esXXXX",
        "Title__c" : "a0O0j0000061rzXXXX"
    },
    "custom3List" : [{
            "Id" : "a0r0j0000002esXXXX",
            "Title__c" : "a0O0j0000061rzXXXX"
        },{
            "Id" : "a0r0j0000002esXXXX",
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        }
    ],
    "currentList" : ["ABC","DEF"]
}]

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In the early 90s most "young female students living in Blackpool worked in a hotel, guesthouse or B&B on the weekends and school holidays" and at the age of 13 Claire Smith did just that.
The hospitality industry certainly runs in the family. Her husband's parents and grandparents all owned guesthouses and hotels in Blackpool, so when her son reached school age the couple decided it was time for a career change.
Claire and her husband have now been running the Number One South Beach hotel and a B&B – Number One St Lukes – for 24 years. Now representing the fourth generation of hoteliers in the Smith family, Claire's 27-year-old son Ben undertakes the online tasks his parents would rather avoid.
Claire strongly believes that hospitality is a greatly undervalued career choice for women with children. As a hotelier she enjoys a "fulfilling, demanding and successful career" with the added bonus of being a "stay-at-home mum".
As with any venture a business plan is a crucial starting point. But Claire is keen to point out that you should do it for yourselves and not just the bank.
• An explanation of your vision – what will make you stand out from the crowd?
When looking for financing, shop around and don't assume your bank will be your best option, Claire advises.
There are plenty of funding options available to small business owners, she continues. Talk to the business arm of your local council, consult with your accountant, speak to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and Chamber of Commerce.
The more evidence that you can provide to a prospective lender supporting your viability as a borrower, the stronger your case will be, says Claire. The Smiths also conducted a feasibility study and it was this that persuaded the banks to lend to them.
When asked about competing with large chains Claire says it's vital that you go above and beyond in terms of customer service.
It's usually the small things that make the difference. One of Claire's "tricks" is to find out a little about the guest before their stay – the reason for their stay and their interests – then emailing relevant links to events/shows/discount codes/vouchers/special offers etc.
It's all too common for hoteliers to drop their rates in challenging times, only to drop standards too when margins become tight.
Claire's husband has a saying: "If you don't value your own product then nobody else will." Add value, offer the chance to upgrade, perhaps offer lower rates for longer stays – but be wary of discounting, they both warn.
"You absolutely need to be a jack of all trades and master of them all, or at least when you're setting out."
Accounting is integral to the running of the business, says Claire, as you don't want to be working or nothing or, even worse, at a loss.
She suggests employing an accountant to track income and control expenditure as well helping with VAT, workplaces pensions etc.
A strong online presence is essential in the age of social media and customer reviews. Online bookings are particularly challenging.
Three-quarters of late bookings are now made via PCs, phones and tablets, usually via websites like Bookings.com, LateRooms, Expedia and LastMinute.com, which charge anything between 15-20% commission.
So your £100 room is reduced to £60 before the guest even arrives, and on top of that you have to cover utilities, laundry, breakfast, staff wages and so on.
It is therefore essential that your website has its own booking system. Describing the website as "a shop window" Claire says it must be visually strong, updated regularly and mobile-friendly.
A strong brand that is consistent across the business – from your website and stationery to indoor and outdoor signage – is particularly important in the hospitality industry.
Start-up costs or the costs of a post-acquisition refurbishment can be significant.
For cost-effective PR Claire suggests offering free stays for journalists or free meals for guests to generate interest.
Do your research – investigate every aspect of the business, the local area and the demographic profile of visiting tourists or business travellers.
Listen to others but don't take it as gospel – Heed all advice, but do what you think is right, be confident in your decisions and do it your way. Don't let others steer you away from your vision.
Remember, it's going to be extremely hard work – It's a lifestyle business where you'll be on call 24-7.
Finally, there are some major advantages to the hotelier lifestyle to go with the drawbacks. While you may not draw a great salary in the first few years, your living costs can be negligible.
"Any business pays its own running costs and in the case of a guesthouse or hotel where you live on the premises, running costs are also your living costs, so any salary taken is pretty much disposable income," says Claire.
"The business should pay for the gas, electricity, rates, water and business loan – so no mortgage, food, laundry, car, gardening, window cleaning or life insurance costs etc.


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Q: How to assign IP address to an Ingress Controller ON K8S cloud providers - EKS and GKE How do I assign an IP address into an Ingress controller?
I am using AWS EKS and also GCP GKE.
If possible is to get a private IP address from the cloud provider. I don't want it to be available to the public.
I use it as internal load-balancer using HaProxy.
I saw this article but it not have enough details.
https://github.com/kubernetes/ingress-nginx/tree/master/docs/examples/static-ip
Thanks
Yaniv

A: You can use the nginx ingress controller and use internal load balancers for as the service. Using an internal LB will use an internal IP and you can define that internal IP (if you want) in the service definition.
This will not work with the cloud provider ingress controller. If you use the GCE or AWS ingress, you will either get a GCE HTTP(S) LB or an elastic IP. Using the Nginx ingress controller will provide you a workaround


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1) A summary of the article's main points in a clear and concise manner.
2) Analysis of the article as it relates to risk management in health care organizations.
3) An evaluation or critique of the article: Did you agree or disagree with the merits of the article and why?
This assignment uses a grading rubric that can be viewed at the assignment's drop box. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the assignment.


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Kreuzberg VS Google
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[dropcap]K[/dropcap]reuzberg is Berlin's most hip and cool area of the city, going from the poorest neighbourhood of West Berlin to the coolest, hosting the best punk and alternative punk scene. Since the 1970s this area has been the heart of resistance and social protest, but nowadays it also has the best nightlife and it gathers together creatives and startups. This, in fact, is the main reason why the technology giant Google wants to create a Campus right in this area.
The designated space is some square meters inside the Umspannwerk, which means "transformer station", as it is a former power station used nowadays for parties, events, restaurants. So reserving a space to Google for its campus is actually a good idea. The place will be little, just for ten Google employees but big enough for a dozen of startups to work and get together there. Google's aim is to create a place where they can support and empower local startups and entrepeneurship. But what will happen if Google goes to Berlin?
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Supporting this protest is the website Fuck Off Google, which explains the reasons why they don't want Google to move to Berlin. They explain with articles and example the biggest concerns around Google, like the fact that they evade taxes and go against the law (their motto is "do the right thing"), or the fact that they were caught red-handed participating in NSA's mass surveillance. These very negative aspects around this technology giant are all thoroughly explained on the website and related articles. If you have anything to share with the world, they invite you to take action and participate in their wiki.
The main issue is gentrification: locals from Kreuzberg are afraid of the arrival of this giant firm because workers will want to live closer to the campus, so housing rents will rise and locals will have to leave their homes, looking for a cheaper place to stay. This is already happening in the city, an issue that hits every European capital, such as London. Besides the fact that the whole city is undergoing a rapid gentrification, the biggest fear for locals is that Google will forcily move locals from the nearby houses. This happened in San Francisco, where, as an example, Jack Halprin, lawyer of Google, purchased a house in San Francisco and evicted the seven families in the building under the Ellis Act. This caused immediate protests, with signs saying "Evict Google".
This could even happen in Berlin, especially in Kreuzberg, where the locals are mainly young creatives, locals who prefer the dodgy, mysterious and still a bit punk way of living of the neighbourhood, so bringing Google within this vibrant reality is like taking a fascist, homophobic guy inside the Kit Kat Club.
Some people are happy to welcome the company in the city, as an opportunity to empower the economy and the industry, but the percentage of locals unhappy is higher. The streets of Kreuzberg have been lined with posters against the giant since the announcement. And even a local anarchist bookshop, Kalabal! K, is hosting a bi-monthly Anti-Google Cafe, and writing a newspaper entitled "Shitstorm: Against Google, displacement and tech dominance…", which is being printed and circulated around the neighbourhood.
Berlin's brand new and wonderfully named newspaper, "Against Google, displacement and tech dominance…" #shitstorm pic.twitter.com/qa5cHKzSN3
— Natalie H (@planetnatty) April 24, 2017
So what will happen when Google, along with Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, will spread in every neighbourhood and city of the world, changing the way locals live and interact with technology and creativity? What will happen to Kreuzberg if the Campus will be made and startups will start working with Google? It's not a future that people want to make it happen, so it's up to the people to make a change. Take Action!
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NIST last week released the first draft of a framework intended to define how federal information systems impact the privacy of individuals and how to better build and manage those systems.
NIST (The National Institute of Standards and Technology) is seeking public input on the initial draft of the Privacy Risk Management for Federal Information Systems draft report. The draft is a first effort to understand privacy risks and how to build privacy principles for federal systems in order to mitigate those risks.
The document introduces a privacy risk management framework (PRMF) for anticipating and addressing risks that result from the processing of personal information in federal information technology systems.
The government is looking for repeatable methods to measure impacts on privacy, something that is not defined in existing tools such as the Fair Information Practice Principles (FIPPs) and privacy impact assessments (PIAs).
NIST has developed three privacy objectives: "predictability, manageability, and disassociability." The hope is these objectives form the foundation of privacy-preserving information systems, and allow developers to build systems that implement privacy goals and support management of privacy risk.
NIST developed the draft with input from privacy experts in a series of open comment periods and workshops.
NIST has already developed cybersecurity risk frameworks, namely the Risk Management Framework (RMF), which helps organizations select appropriate security controls for information systems. Using that model, NIST developed the Privacy Risk Management Framework (PRMF) that is key to the draft report it released.
The comment period on the document, known as NIST IR 8062, is open until July 13. Comments can be sent to privacyeng@nist.gov using NIST's comment matrix.


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Final regulations clarify potential benefits of the GILTI high-tax exclusion
August 5, 2020 Article 7 min read
Randall Janiczek Robert Malmstadt Arthur Ruple
New guidance grants additional flexibility on timing of election, but calculating the exclusion remains complex.
The IRS has released final regulations regarding the election to exclude certain income subject to a high rate of tax from the global intangible low-taxed income (GILTI) calculation. Among other changes, the new guidance creates additional flexibility by allowing the election to be made on an annual basis rather than the previously proposed 60-month restriction period. Also, the final regulations permit taxpayers to choose to apply the GILTI high-tax exclusion to taxable years of foreign corporations that begin after Dec. 31, 2017, and to taxable years of U.S. shareholders in which or with which such taxable years of foreign corporations end.
What is GILTI?
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) created a regime that allowed certain earnings of controlled foreign corporations (CFC) to be repatriated to U.S. corporate shareholders without being subject to U.S. income taxes. Income eligible for this regime is limited to earnings not subjected to current U.S. taxation under Subpart F or GILTI. The GILTI regime is intended to discourage corporations from shifting intangible property (IP) to CFCs operating in low-tax countries where the income they generate could then be repatriated to the U.S. tax-free. In short, the GILTI provisions impose a current U.S. income tax on the net income of a CFC that exceeds 10% of the net tax value of its depreciable assets.
Non-U.S. income qualifies for the GILTI high-tax exclusion if the effective foreign tax rate is greater than 90% of the maximum U.S. corporate tax rate.
Although the intent of Congress' enactment of Section 951A was to discourage the offshore holding of IP, many taxpayers who held ownership interests in CFCs became liable for the new GILTI tax regardless of any IP holdings due to the arbitrary 10% of assets threshold.
GILTI high-tax exclusion election
Congress intended GILTI to discourage corporations from allocating IP to low-tax jurisdictions as a tax minimization strategy, not to penalize all corporations that generate income overseas regardless of the reason. If the CFC is earning income in a foreign jurisdiction with a high-tax rate, the rules are willing to consider that any IP allocated to that country is there for a purpose other than tax avoidance. These final regulations govern the election that U.S. shareholders of CFCs will use to exclude global income earned in high-tax jurisdictions from the GILTI calculation.
What constitutes a high-tax rate? Non-U.S. income qualifies for the GILTI high-tax exclusion if the effective foreign tax rate is greater than 90% of the maximum U.S. corporate tax rate (currently 18.9%, based on the U.S. corporate tax rate of 21%). However, the calculation is significantly more complicated than just looking at a country's corporate tax rate table to see if the rate is higher or lower than 18.9%
The effective foreign tax rate is calculated by taking the foreign income taxes paid or accrued for the "tested unit" (see below) for the CFC's tax year and comparing them to the tested income of the tested unit as calculated under U.S. tax principles. Whether the exclusion applies will need to be analyzed for each tested unit, and should not be assumed to apply based on the statutory foreign tax rate, as differences may exist between the calculation of tested income for GILTI and the taxable income taken into account in the foreign jurisdiction.
Tested-unit approach: The final regulations provide for a targeted approach to calculating the effective foreign tax rate paid by individual "tested units." Any of the following entities, interests, or activities could meet the definition of a tested unit:
A CFC.
An interest in a pass-through entity held, directly or indirectly, by a CFC. For this purpose, a pass-through entity is defined to include a partnership or a disregarded entity.
A branch, or a portion of a branch, the activities of which are carried on directly or indirectly by a CFC outside of the CFC's country of incorporation.
The rules clarify that tested units are determined independently of one another. For instance, even though a CFC is itself a tested unit, the CFC may have other separate tested units. The final regulations provide for a combination rule under which tested units of a CFC (including the CFC tested unit), are generally treated as a single-tested unit if the tested units are tax residents of, or located in, the same foreign country. The combination is mandatory rather than elective and applies without regard to whether the tested units are subject to the same foreign tax rate.
The final regulations provide for a targeted approach to calculating the effective foreign tax rate paid by individual "tested units."
Procedure for making the election: The controlling domestic shareholder of a CFC or CFC group may claim the high-tax exclusion on an annual basis by filing an election statement and, if needed, providing notice to all other persons known by the controlling shareholder to be domestic shareholders. Since a partnership (or S corporation) is only treated as owning the stock of a CFC for purposes of determining whether any partner or shareholder of the pass-through entity is a U.S. shareholder of the CFC, there is confusion as to whether a pass-through entity should be treated as a controlling domestic shareholder for purposes of making the election. The Treasury Department and the IRS have stated an intention to address comments regarding this. Under currently applicable regulations, a domestic partnership may be a controlling domestic shareholder for purposes of determining which party elects the GILTI high-tax exclusion.
Election applies to all members of a CFC group: The guidance provides that if a CFC is a member of a CFC group, the high-tax exclusion election (or revocation) must be made for all members of the CFC group or not made at all. For this purpose, the final regulations provide that a CFC group is an affiliated group, as defined in Section 1504(a), with certain modifications that broaden the definition. The final regulations also clarify that if a CFC isn't a member of a CFC group, a high-tax election is made (or revoked) only with respect to the CFC.
Amending previously filed returns: The final regulations generally provide that the election may be made (or revoked) on an amended federal income tax return only if all U.S. shareholders of the CFC file amended federal income tax returns for the taxable year (unless an original return has not yet been filed, in which case the original federal income tax return may be filed consistently with the election (or revocation)). Amended returns would also be needed for any other taxable year in which their U.S. tax liabilities would be increased by reason of that election (or revocation). In the case of a partnership, an amended return would be needed if any item reported by the partnership or any partnership-related item would change as a result of the election (or revocation).
The amended returns need to be filed within 24 months of the unextended due date of the original federal income tax return of the controlling domestic shareholder's inclusion year with or within which the CFC inclusion year, for which the election is made (or revoked), ends. The final regulations also provide that amended federal income tax returns for all U.S. shareholders of the CFC for the CFC inclusion year must be filed within a single six-month period (within the 24-month period).
The controlling domestic shareholder of a CFC or CFC group may claim the high-tax exclusion on an annual basis by filing an election statement.
Conformity to subpart F high-tax exception: A separate set of proposed regulations attempts to conform the rules implementing the subpart F high-tax exception to the rules implementing the GILTI high-tax exclusion, and provides of a single election for purposes of both subpart F income and tested income. The IRS will consider comments on the new proposals and intends to eventually finalize a process that works for both the exception and the exclusion at some point in the future.
The new guidance includes some favorable modifications that give taxpayers more flexibility to elect the exclusion. The rules give taxpayers the opportunity to analyze whether the election should be made on an annual basis. While the election may appear favorable initially, further analysis may reveal that certain "side effects" of the election such as BEAT, FDII, or foreign tax credit limitations make the election less attractive. Therefore, careful modeling of the election should be undertaken, accounting for all of a relevant taxpayer's attributes.
If you have any questions about how the GILTI high-tax exclusion election could affect your GILTI calculation or would like to discuss the final regulations, please contact Plante Moran.
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Like the action of the snicker-snee in The Mikado, this speech delivered a 'short, sharp, shock.' There was no name-calling, no histrionics. This was the President of the United States calling attention to a national emergency and inviting his colleagues across the aisle to put aside partisan point-scoring for a moment in order to accomplish something important for the commonweal.
I believe that the American people, even that subset that supports the President, do not appreciate what this man is attempting to do for the country. In brief, he is attempting to roll back the forces of barbarism and dissolution.


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The Other Side – Vimeo's General Counsel Defends Title II
By Alex Silverman | July 11, 2017
As fellow Cablefax columnist Steve Effros pointed out last week, the buzz around net neutrality will be deafening on Wednesday when more than 200 websites, companies and organizations carry out a joint protest of the FCC's proposed rollback of the previous administration's classification of broadband as a Title II common carrier. Much to the chagrin of their ISPs, Internet users will be bombarded by gifs of buffering webpages and all-caps "SAVE THE INTERNET" exclamations.
The video hosting and streaming platform on Wednesday will attempt to drive pro-Title II comments to the FCC via social media placements, emails, texts and app notifications. Vimeo's primary call to action is a short motion-graphic video, which claims, "Without strong net neutrality supported by a solid legal foundation—Title II of the Communications Act—[ISPs] can pretty much do anything with their Internet pipes: block traffic, charge for priority service and favor their own content."
Broadband providers, of course, take issue with activists conflating Title II with net neutrality, claiming they would remain committed to an open Internet under Title I classification. Cheah, however, doubled down on the notion that Title II is the only thing preserving an open Internet.
"If you designate the carriers as Title I information services, you cannot treat them as common carriers, you cannot do things like anti-blocking and anti-discrimination, you have to let them negotiate on an individual basis with the edge providers," Cheah said. "So, if that's true—and that seems to be the law—there's really not much room that the FCC has to issue enforceable net neutrality rules under a Title I regime."
When FCC chairman Ajit Pai introduced his plan to reverse Title II classification earlier this year, he claimed the net neutrality regulations introduced in 2015 sought to address a problem that never existed. "The Internet was not broken in 2015. We were not living in a digital dystopia," he said.
Cheah countered the idea that things were hunky dory prior to Title II classification, pointing to AT&T's restriction of Facetime usage in 2012 to customers with certain plans, Comcast's alleged interference with subscribers' use of BitTorrent in 2007 and Netflix's dispute with Comcast over connection speeds in late 2013 that eventually resulted in an interconnection agreement.
"Beyond the specific examples, there's a tremendous incentive for the carriers to do something," Cheah added. "It might not be outright blocking—I'm not sure if anyone has the intent to do outright blocking—but there is a powerful incentive to impose some kind of paid prioritization model, which does radically change the way we use the Internet today."
Asked about his expectations for the Day of Action, Cheah acknowledged that no matter how many comments the protest generates, the activists have their work cut out for them in terms of swaying the FCC. The hope, he said, is that it is another step toward a legislative solution.
"I hope by taking this effort, Congress will take notice," he said. "Last time it was very powerful that people formally commented. We certainly want lawmakers to understand this is a top-tier issue."
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Republican FCC commish Brendan Carr is taking aim at rules for spending the $350 billion in American Rescue Plan Act funds on broadband projects. "Rather than directing those dollars to the rural and other


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Fachdatenbanken sind fachspezifische Datenbanken, die Fachinformationen auf klassischen Dokumentationssystemen bereitstellen. Im herkömmlichen Sinn lassen sich Fachdatenbanken einteilen in solche, die Dokumente oder Fakten enthalten (Volltextdatenbank bzw.
Wissensdatenbank), und solche, die auf Dokumente verweisen (Bibliographie, Literaturdatenbank).

Typen
Fachdatenbanken unterscheiden sich nach

Art der gespeicherten Information
 Bibliographische Datenbank (synonym: Referenzdatenbank, Literaturdatenbank, Literaturhinweisdatenbank, Bibliographie) beinhaltet Inhaltskennzeichnungen wie Titel, Autor oder Verlag, eventuell einen Abstract von meist wissenschaftlichen Publikationen (Literatur- und Patentinformationen). Allgemeine Datenbanken wie Bibliotheksauskunftsysteme (OPAC) verwenden auch bibliographische Datenbanken.
 Allgemeinbibliografie
 Bibliothekskatalog
 Verbundkatalog
 Fachbibliografie: Nachweis von Werken zu einem oder mehreren speziellen Themen oder Fachgebieten
 Nationalbibliografie: Literaturverweise zu Werken über ein Land oder einen bestimmten Sprachraum, die in einem Land oder in einer bestimmten Sprache erschienen sind
 Regionalbibliographie: Veröffentlichungen aus oder über eine bestimmte Region
 Zeitungs-, Zeitschriftenbibliographie: geordnetes Verzeichnis von Zeitungen und Zeitschriften
 Dissertationsverzeichnis: Nachweis von Dissertationen
 Buchhandelsverzeichnis: Nur im Buchhandel Lieferbares; Bücher, zeitschriftenartige Reihen, Karten, CD-ROMs, DVDs, Disketten, Videokassetten, Kalender, Noten
 Faktendatenbank enthält statistische und numerische Daten (Zeitreihen, Bestandszahlen), Angaben mit Eigenschaften chemischer oder physikalischer Einheiten, betriebliche Daten, Marktinformationen, Wirtschafts- und Wissenschaftsinformationen
 Referral-Datenbank enthält Verweise auf Firmenprofile, Produktbeschreibungen, Forschungseinrichtungen, u. ä.
 Adress- und Firmenverzeichniss enthält Nachweise von Firmen oder Institutionen oder Personengruppen und deren Kontaktadressen
 Volltextdatenbank enthält vollständige und verschlagwortete Publikationen
 Aufsatzdatenbank bietet Aufsätze aus Zeitschriften und zeitschriftenartigen Reihen (mit Festschriften, Tagungs- und Kongressberichten) sowie Buchkapitel; fachübergreifend oder fachbezogen, referenzierend oder als Volltextdatenbank möglich.
 Bilddatenbank
 Ton-Datenbank
 Multimedia-Datenbank enthält geläufige Medienformen (Bilder, Grafiken, Audio, Video)
 Link-Datenbank
 Zitationsdatenbank
 Numerische Datenbank
 Software-Datenbank
 Biographische Datenbank bietet biographische Daten oder Lebensbeschreibungen von Personen

Art des Mediums
 Online-Zugriff über ein Telekommunikationsnetz: Online-Datenbank
 Telnet, Datex-P
 WWW
 Offline-Zugriff: portable Datenbank
 CD-ROM oder DVD: CD-Rom-Datenbank
 Magnetband, Disketten usw.
 Kombinationen, Intranet (Hochschulzugang)

Art des verwendeten Datenmodells
 Relationale Datenbanken
 Invertierte Struktur (vor-relational)
 Hierarchische Datenbanken (z. B. IMS)
 Netzwerk Datenbanken (Hypertext)

Zugangsmöglichkeit
 öffentliche Datenbank
 landesweit frei zugängliche Datenbank (durch bestimmte Verträge geregelt)
 nichtöffentliche Datenbank
 behördliche Datenbank (z. B. Nachrichtendienstliche Informationssystem (NADIS))
 Uninetz-Datenbanken
 Kostenfreie Datenbank
 Kostenpflichtige Datenbank
 Ehemalige Datenbank

Lizenz
 Open-Content-Datenbanken

Inhaltsthema
 Filmdatenbank
 Juristische Datenbank
 Wirtschaftsdatenbank

Geografischem Bezug
 Datenbank aus Japan (z. B. mit Referenzen auf japanische Literatur)
 Datenbank aus Deutschland (z. B. mit Referenzen auf japanische Literatur)

Sprache
 Datenbank in Englisch
 Datenbank in Deutsch
 Datenbank in Russisch

Recherche
Datenbankanbieter und Datenbankproduzenten stellen ihre Fachdatenbanken zur teilweisen gebührenpflichtigen Recherche zur Verfügung. Auf Datenbanken lässt sich je nach Angebot über einen Online-Dienst (Host, Datenbankproduzent selbst) oder offline über portable Datenträger (z. B. CD-ROM) zugreifen. Virtuelle Fachbibliotheken vereinigen die Informationen ihrer Fachdatenbanken unter dem Portal vascoda.

Die Recherche in Datenbanken unterteilt sich in
 Data-Retrieval (auch: Fakten-Retrieval, Suche nach strukturierten Daten) einer Suche in abgeschlossenen Mengen mit klar definierten Suchanfragen, nur genau zutreffenden Antworten, einer Sprache mit spezieller Syntax und Semantik (Data Retrieval Language, DRL)
 Information Retrieval (Suche nach unstrukturierten Daten) einer Suche in größeren, eventuell wachsenden Datenmengen, mit vagen Suchanfragen, teilweise zutreffenden Antworten und einer natürlichen Sprache.

Das Gale Directory of Databases verzeichnet Datenbanken für 2005 weltweit:
 Online Datenbanken 9489
 CD-ROM 3920
 DVD 113
 Diskette 420
 Magnetband 220
 Handheld 21
 Batch Acess 95
 Produzenten von Datenbanken 3416
 Anbieter von Datenbanken 2927

Geschichte
Ausgelöst durch den Sputnikschock 1957 unterstützten westliche Regierungen den Aufbau großer bibliographischer Datenbanken, in denen wissenschaftliche Publikationen in elektronischen Katalogen angelegt wurden, um einen effektiven Zugriff auf relevante Literatur zu erleichtern und Doppelarbeit bei der Forschung zu vermeiden. Nachdem die Funksignale des Satelliten erfolgreich entschlüsselt wurden, stellte sich heraus, dass der Code bereits seit langem in Fachzeitschriften publik und zugänglich war, ohne dass die Fachzeitschrift gefunden wurde. Durch die explosionsartig  wachsende Anzahl von wissenschaftlich-technischen Veröffentlichungen wurde es immer schwieriger einen Überblick über die aktuelle Forschung und deren Teilgebiete zu erhalten. Dokumentenorientierte Datenbanken werden seit Anfang der 1970er Jahre kommerziell genutzt. Der Datenbankanbieter Dialog stellte 1972 mit dem DIALOG Information Retrieval Service das weltweit erste kommerzielle Angebot mit Zugriff auf eine Online-Datenbank vor und setzte (das WWW entstand 1989) 1997 zwei hypertextbasierende Webzugänge ein. Es kamen immer mehr Datenbanken auf den Markt, die nicht nur forschungsorientiert waren, sondern auch Veröffentlichungen anderer Gebiete wie Wirtschafts-, Rechts- und Sozialwissenschaften oder sogar Tageszeitungen und populäre Zeitschriften referenzierten. Da immer mehr Publikationen für den Druck in eine digitalisierte Form gebracht wurden und die Kosten für Rechnerkapazität und Datenspeicher stetig sanken, wurden seit den 1970er Jahren Volltextdatenbanken angelegt.

Beispiele für Datenbanken: PubMed, RSWB, Medizinische Datenbank, VINITI, PubSCIENCE (eingestellt)

Siehe auch
 Zeitschriftendatenbank
 Deep Web
 Volltextrecherche

Literatur
 Eleonore Poetzsch: Information Retrieval – Einführung in Grundlagen und Methoden, E. Poetzsch Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-938945-01-X
 Matthias Kraft:  Juristische Online-Datenbanken : eine Einkaufshilfe, 1. Auflage, Kraft-Verlag, Münster, 2005, ISBN 3-9810225-0-5

Weblinks
Linklisten zu Datenbanken
 Datenbank-Infosystem
 Recherchen Blog, Internetrecherche und Fachdatenbankrecherche
 Internet-Datenbanken.de, Hamburger öffentliche Bücherhallen
 Rechercheportal.de, Datenbankverzeichnis
 WorldWide-Archives, kostenfreies Zeitungsarchiv
 Juristische Datenbanken
 Überblick über freie Zeitschriftendatenbanken

Linklisten zu Datenbanken, englischsprachig
 CompletePlanet.com, über 70.000 Datenbanken, BrightPlanet
 22.000+ free public record databases on the internet
 How to find valid public record sites online
 Gary Price's List of Lists
 Direct Search, links to the search interfaces
 Librarians' Index to the Internet
 Directory of Open Access Journals

kostenfreie Datenbanken
 Wer liefert was?, Business-to-Business Produkte
 Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv
 Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog, Bibliographie

Suchmaschinen für Datenbanken
 PsychSpider, Psychologie-Suchmaschine des ZPID, durchsucht u. a. PSYNDEX
 Vascoda.de, wissenschaftliche Informationen
 Forschungsportal.Net, Suchergebnisse nach Forschungseinrichtungen sortiert
 Scirus.com, wissenschaftliche Informationen
 IncyWincy, The Invisible Web Search Engine

Agentensoftware, Suchagenten
 (ehem. Lexibot), Datenbank-Suchwerkzeug von BrightPlanet
 Copernic
 Lookeen

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As a Client Services Coordinator at Seattle Sperm Bank, Kandy Lindstrom keeps busy. She handles multiple duties ranging from interacting with donors and potential donors to fulfilling Internet orders. But she spends the bulk of her time talking with clients and helping them start families. This includes helping with photo matching, answering questions about the process, and matching women and couples with the right donor.
In this interview, Kandy shares advice for choosing a donor, what to look for in a sperm bank, and reveals how few men qualify to be sperm donors.
One of perks of working for a relatively small company is I get to do so many different things in a day. I manage a lot of different tasks around the office, but most of my time is spent helping women and couples understand the process of ordering donor sperm. This is most often done on the phone, but also through email, live chat, or in person. I have always liked interacting with the public and I love how much time I get to spend connecting with women and couples all over the country.
About half of my time is spent helping clients choose a donor. I do that through our Photo Matching program, my own impressions of our donors, and anything else to help them narrow down their search. One thing that's unique about Seattle Sperm Bank is our coordinators, like myself, get to know almost all the donors in person. This allows us to give honest and informed opinions to clients. Clients appreciate this because choosing the right donor, or choosing to use a sperm donor at all, can be one of the most difficult decisions they'll ever make, so it's helpful for me to walk them through the process and offer insight.
Also, I help our new donors get their profiles together for our website and spend time getting to know them. I get to be involved with many aspects of our services, which is rewarding to me, and helpful to our clients.
What advice do you have for women when it comes to choosing their sperm donor?
Choosing a donor is subjective. You might be surprised how many ways there are to do it. Some women seem happy to choose nearly at random, while others simply go with whichever donor is on sale that month. Other clients spend countless hours poring over donor profiles and talking with us about different donors. Sometimes clients ask specific questions about donors we may not have thought of, so we'll find answers and get back to them.
I tell all our clients just starting the process the same thing: before you even look at the donor catalog, decide which one or two factors are most important to your family, and then search with those in mind. This helps them stay focused during their search since it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the information and so many profiles.
What should families know when comparing sperm banks?
All the major sperm banks and fertility clinics in the U.S. are substantially different, so it's good to look around. There are big differences in pricing, minimum sperm cell counts per vial, donor profile information, and much more. For example, some clinics offer adult photos while others don't. I encourage people to look at all their options to find the best fit for them.
When shopping around, it helps to ask about consultations. At Seattle Sperm Bank, we provide free one-on-one customer service. That means I'll chat with people as long as they like to get their questions answered. Some other clinics charge for phone consultations as well as for photo matching or basic donor profile information. All of that is free at SSB, so it's good to ask about it before you choose a sperm bank.
We make the selection process much more personable and affordable since we don't charge for services such as phone or in-person consultations. It also helps that I, and the other coordinators, know all our donors personally. This helps us connect clients and donors. One thing we consistently hear from clients is that they have a great customer service experience with us—and we're proud of that.
Is it difficult to get donors to commit to a donation schedule that ensures they build up a big enough inventory to meet client demand?
No, it's rarely difficult. Once selected, donors agree to a contract so they know what they're getting into. It's a job for them in that there are contractual obligations. They agree to donate at least once per month for a period of six months, a year, or more. They can donate up to three times a week and some do. Most donors fully understand the obligations and have a great attitude about it.
What many people don't realize is that donors must agree to a sexual abstention schedule while in the program. So, it does affect their personal lives and involves some planning on their part. It's not as easy as some people think to be a donor. Plus, there are physical exams, blood testing, and of course remaining healthy, so most men take it very seriously. It's unusual for a donor to skip out without fulfilling his entire contract.
What percentage of men who apply to be donors make it into the program?
Only about 1%. That's largely because we require a high total motile cell count (which is a sperm count, basically) from our donors. That requirement alone eliminates most potential donors since we require a much higher than average sperm count. That means men with even a normal sperm count don't make it. You really need more than average to qualify.
The other thing that prevents many men from donating are their family medical histories. Many otherwise healthy men are disqualified due to genetic conditions we discover during our screening process.
Aside from being in good health, which is mandatory, what characteristics are you looking for when selecting donors?
Aside from health factors, we largely screen based on our personal impressions of them. We look for good people with good personalities. And good looks are important too! Clients often ask specifically for those that are the most handsome. This is subjective of course, but truly most of our donors are considered handsome. We have a steady stream of applicants so we also make sure to select men who are applying for the right reasons, meaning, they want to help women and couples start families. We can be picky about this since those are obviously the donors we want.
Are any ethnicities in higher demand than others?
Actually, yes. There is a strong need for African American donors now. I get a lot of clients looking for this including those who have looked at several different sperm banks and found a lack of choices for African American donors. In general, we don't have enough people of color apply as we would like. We're currently focusing recruiting efforts on this to meet client demand.
The two most common reasons are to earn supplemental income (especially among young men in college) and to help families. Some donors come in due to a personal connection. Maybe they know someone who has been through the process or who had a child using donor sperm. We also get some medical professionals who are aware of the need for donor sperm and so choose to contribute. Or others who don't want children of their own but want to help because they have good genes and know there is a growing need for donor sperm.
I'm lucky. I really do enjoy my job. I especially like that I get to be involved in many parts of our operation. Again, it's one of the benefits of a relatively small staff. I get to interact with clients and donors, plus help with distribution, storage, administrative needs, marketing, clinic coordination, and more. This not only keeps the work interesting, it also allows me to be more helpful to clients since I understand the entire process.
I also love the follow-up we get from clients. Of course, we talk with them the most when they are starting out and going through their procedures. But I enjoy hearing from women after they get pregnant and give birth. We get baby pictures and thoughtful thank you notes in the mail, and that makes it all worthwhile. We're all about the babies! That's the end goal behind everything we do, so we welcome the chance to see the babies and connect with families who have been successful.


Have you ever had the chance to stop everything and just be. What would it feel like if you weren't obsessing over what you had to do? Would that mean you've arrived at your destination? Can you even remember what that looks like?
A wise woman once said to me, "Go where the energy is".
I've been back in New York several weeks now and when people ask me 'what's next' I give them one answer: "I don't know". Many people dread saying "I don't know", like there is some hidden shame attached to it. But to me it is truly a blessing, a luxury….a relief. That is not to say I don't believe in having a direction, but what I am after is a feeling. A feeling I can generate from that only allows for logic to come into play after a vision has emerged.
Are we "doing" while we are "being"?
Having just come from a part of Portugal where people go to unwind and relax I noticed one remarkable thing: people are having a harder time unwinding and relaxing. It is possible that as we get even more technologically connected that taking a vacation may evolve into engaging a mindset of "being". That is potentially good news for your wallet but not always good for your ego……which always wants a master plan…..with something important to do.
There is a beauty in 'being' that is often overlooked in our overly 'doing' lifestyles.
Sometimes when we are always living in our heads the most fruitful opportunities can pass us right by. So I've been opting to be more present with everyone I encounter. I want to engage their essence with mine without running through the script of what I have to do over and over in my head…..I mean what are we 'doing' it all for, isn't it to find the time and space to be? It seems the less I plan the more opportunities come.
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The heart of a Mayfield education lies in its Catholic, Holy Child values that inspire students to become joyful young women of faith, empowered with a strong sense of self, a respect for the dignity of others, and the awareness that God is an active presence in our lives.
As a member of the Holy Child Network of Schools, Mayfield Senior School shares in the mission of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus: "to help others to believe that God lives and acts in them and in our world, and to rejoice in the divine presence." Mayfield offers an education with a distinctive spirit, grounded in the philosophy and spirituality of Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus.
Mayfield Senior School takes great pride in its educational heritage, which is derived from the vision of Cornelia Connelly (1809-1879), the foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. One of the few American women to establish a Catholic religious order, Cornelia promoted the serious education of young women at a time when such views were daringly progressive.
She boldly provided her female students with a rigorous curriculum and instructed her teachers to "lead pupils by love rather than fear," and encouraged them to "take the trouble to study the character of each child." She understood that the right learning environment could create a lasting impact far beyond "book learning"—it could build character, spirit and faith. The hallmark of a Holy Child School is its emphasis on respect, trust and joy.
Mayfield Senior School is a testament to Cornelia's vision and to all that is unique to a Catholic, Holy Child education—love of learning, a lifelong commitment to service, a strong sense of self, a joyful spirit, and true respect for the inherent worth of every human being.
Holy Child educators take on a huge responsibility. Yes, it's important that we teach with enthusiasm, energy and creativity—engaging our students so that they are captivated and motivated, strengthened and inspired. Yes, we strive for excellence and hold ourselves to incredibly high academic standards. In most schools this would be enough. But as Holy Child educators it is not enough. Most importantly, we are called to let our students know that they are loved.
... who is grounded in God's love.
...who celebrates the uniqueness and dignity of each person, and of creation.
... who participates compassionately and responsibly in her local and global communities.
... who shares her gifts to create solutions.
... who leads with confidence.
... who cultivates spiritual, intellectual, emotional, artistic, and physical well-being.
...who embraces life in its entirety.
Mayfield Senior School of the Holy Child Jesus is a Catholic, independent, college preparatory school for young women sponsored by the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. The school is committed to academic excellence within the context of Christian values. Mayfield's philosophy is rooted in the belief that knowledge is best gained in an atmosphere of disciplined thought, personal concern and religious awareness. Mayfield fosters each student's intellectual, spiritual, artistic, emotional, and physical gifts, thereby enabling each to make a meaningful contribution to society. Mayfield also challenges each student to reach beyond herself and render service to others.
Respectful of its traditions, Mayfield is always open to the new, "meeting the wants of the age" in the spirit of Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. Cornelia Connelly viewed God's world with deep respect and care. Her schools offer a holistic response to the challenges of each historical period. This education requires insight into the needs of the time regarding its values, ethics, choices and spirituality.
Within the Mayfield community, interaction among faculty, students and administration is characterized by courtesy and mutual respect. Trust, responsibility, friendship and self-discipline are normative. Each is encouraged to "be yourself but make that self what God wants you to be." Consequently, Mayfield values humility that is vigorously honest and compassion that is enduring.
The measure of a Mayfield education goes beyond cumulative grade point averages, test scores and academic success. It plumbs depths that touch character and virtue and finds expression in "Actions Not Words." Mayfield fosters unity within diversity, simplicity and faith that generates a joy of being.
"One Woman's Journey in Faith"
Cornelia was a first class and creative educator, daringly providing in her schools a wide curriculum which included drama, Greek, geology and logic. There was also a sense of fun in Holy Child Schools... at a time when many girls were lucky to receive any schooling, and what schooling existed was often rigid and unimaginative.
Holy Child Schools foster a faith commitment that engenders a joyous personal relationship with God in addressing the challenges of the world.
Holy Child Schools live, learn, and worship as a dynamic Christian community.
Holy Child Schools offer an intellectually challenging and creative program of study that develops a love of learning and academic excellence.
Holy Child Schools work for Christian principles of justice, peace, and compassion in every facet of life.
Holy Child Schools create a learning climate based on trust and reverence for the dignity and uniqueness of each person.
Holy Child Schools promote the personal growth and development of all who participate in the life of the school.
Holy Child Schools ensure the continuation and growth of Holy Child mission and philosophy in the school.
The Holy Child Network of Schools spans the globe and educates students from all walks of life.