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This week we evaluate the options in Pontypridd for a holiday in Costa Brava.
The mystery shopper visited two travel agencies in Pontypridd, Wales and requested a one-week holiday for two adults and one child to the Costa Brava, with a budget of £1,200 in May half-term.
They then made two Google.co.uk searches using the term 'Costa Brava beach holiday'.
Score: 86%
Mystery Shopper said: The website was one of the first sponsored ads that appeared. It also stated the key words "sale" and "low deposit". The site loaded quickly and looked professional and informative. A contact number was in a prominent position. It was easy to search for Costa Brava, and all UK airports were available. I searched for flights and then for hotels. There was a brief description for each one and a TripAdvisor link. There were plenty of options fitting my budget, and it was clear how much the extras cost and the breakdown of the overall price. The finer details were well explained and told me everything I needed to know. The only issue was I could not find a list of pre-bookable excursions on the website. I was able to spread out the payments, paying up to two weeks before my departure, and no other company was able to offer this. The range of holidays and easy-to-use website swung it in OntheBeach's favour.
Combines golden beaches and crystal clear waters with rocky promontories and little coves backed by sheer cliffs topped with pine and oak forests. The interior is equally stunning, with pristine medieval villages.
All year round, it is possible to see the sardana – traditional Catalan dance – being performed. Each town's Festa Major involves merrymaking and dancing, colourful processions are the order of the day at Easter, and Carnival in February offers another excuse for frantic partying.
The Marineland complex near Blanes is hugely popular. There's also the the mind-blowing Surrealist art of the Dali museum at Figueras, the drama of Montserrat's Benedictine monastery and Europe's biggest water park, just outside Lloret de Mar.
Source: Onthebeach.co.uk
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Purchasing a home can be challenging for many individuals, particularly first-time home buyers who work in lower-paying fields, such as teaching. Those teachers can take advantage of several federal programs, which offer more favorable loan terms, down payment assistance and other help. Many states also offer assistance to teachers.
Good Neighbor Next Door Program
Through its Good Neighbor Next Door program, the Department of Urban Housing and Development offers pre-kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers discounts of 50 percent off the list price of homes in revitalization areas. In return, teachers must live in the houses for three years. Teachers can bid on homes in the program for seven days, called the lottery period. After that time, the bidding is opened to a wider pool of potential buyers. Teachers can find listings by visiting HUD.gov's HUD Homes page and clicking on the state where they live. HUD requires participants to sign a "silent second" mortgage for the discounted amounts on their homes. For example, if a home list price was $200,000 but sold for $100,000, the participant would sign a silent mortgage for $100,000. No interest or payments are required on the second mortgage unless the three-year residency requirement is not fulfilled.
Help for California Educators
Under California's Extra Credit Teacher Home Purchase Program, eligible teachers, administrators, classified employees, and staff members working in public schools, continuation schools or high-priority schools may apply for junior loans ranging from $7,500 to $15,000. These loans can only be used as down payments. To qualify, teachers must be first-time home buyers, occupy the home, meet income limits and agree to work in the location where the home is located for three years from the date of the loan. Single-family homes and condominiums -- but not manufactured homes -- may be purchased.
Assistance for Educators in Texas
The Homes for Texas Heroes program offers fixed-rate home loans and grants for down payment assistance that requires no repayment. To quality, you must be a full-time classroom teacher, teacher aide, librarian, counselor or nurse in a Texas public school, or be employed by a Texas college or university as allied health faculty or nursing faculty. Teachers who are first-time home buyers may apply for the Mortgage Credit Certificate Program, which allows them to take a portion (up to $2,000) of the annual interest paid on a mortgage as a tax credit.
Homes for Heroes: The Company
Teachers are among those eligible for discounts when using real estate service providers affiliated with Homes for Heroes, a private company created after the events of Sept. 11, 2001. "Our Heroes include military personnel, firefighters, law enforcement officers and others who make our communities a better place to live," the company notes on its website. Discounts include 25 percent off commission fees and discounts for lending fees, home inspections and closing costs. Amounts vary according to location and home price.
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With the way technology is changing, it is also changing the way businesses buy advertising just as much as it has changed the way the general consumer has changed their way in how they prefer to received their advertising. Yet in this changing economy do not fret it is not impossible to target your consumer that is going to buy or hire your services. In fact the general concept to operate and grow a business has not changed with the right technical marketing team even the smallest of businesses can compete with the heavy hitting
Are you still buying media on the same local broadcast television station? Since the creation of DVR television and Tivo consumers can pick and choose whether to watch advertisements or simply fast forward them. Take into consideration; are you in control of your media buy? Are consumers able to fast forward your commercials and skip them completely? With so many satellite and cable networks to choose from and the hundreds of channels to view the likelihood your brand is seen is slim to none. For those consumers that have removed traditional television from their daily routine all together, millions of consumers have switched to Amazon, Youtube, Netflix and Hulu.
The culture has changed, the way we receive our information has transformed the way advertising is delivered. The general consumer is spending record amounts of time outside of their homes and you can reach them with digital out of home media. According to PQ Medias Consumer DOOH exposure index the average global consumer was exposed to various digital out of home (DOOH) media for 14 minutes per week in 2013, a 75% increase from only 8 minutes in 2007. PQ Media's forecast calls for DOOH exposure to increase to 56 minutes per week by 2017. DOOH media is now the second fastest growing ad medium worldwide, after mobile, based on average weekly consumer exposure. The United States is the World's Largest DOOH Market.
So you can't seem to reach consumer on traditional media platforms like television, direct mailers and newspaper? The simple fact is less people are watching the television, less people are checking their mail on a daily basis because most people simply pay bills online and why subscribe to a local newspaper when you can simply check the local news via social media and online forums.
So how do you reach an audience that seems to be unreachable?
According to google, more than 50% of all mobile searches have local intent and 17% of search happens while consumers are on-the- go. 23% of consumers search for more information on their mobile devices after seeing outdoor advertising compared to 16% for other media according to COG Research and OnDevice Research. Digital out of home ADVERTISING networks can provide advertisers with additional engagement opportunities that include interactive touch screens and mobile integrations using NFC, BLE, and QR Codes. New to the market you might also even see more outdoor digital displays. Large format touch screen displays. Look out for new digital signage technology from Digi-VUE Advertising that will allow you to generate real time interaction results with live facial recognition along with live streaming social media feeds from Facebook and twitter. Digital signage is a blank canvas with more ways to connect to your consumer than ever before. Consider it for your next marketing campaign.


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Apr/18 Junya Ishigami
Cancelled - Junya Ishigami | Arthur H. Schein Memorial Lecture
junya.ishigami+associates is an international architecture firm based in Tokyo, Japan. Established by Junya Ishigami in 2004, the firm gained international recognition following the completion of the Kanagawa Institute of Technology's KAIT Workshop in 2007, which was awarded the Architectural Institute of Japan Prize in 2009. Similar success followed with exhibitions at Venice Architecture Biennales, the latter of which being awarded the Golden Lion for Best Project of the 12th Biennale in 2010. The office has continued to enjoy growing foreign attention for the wide range of design possibilities we explore, from numerous exhibitions and installation projects, such as 'Ballon' and 'Table', to large scale construction commissions: our current construction projects include a university multi-purpose plaza and a House&Restaurant project in Japan, the redevelopment of the Russian Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, as well as several residential complexes in Dali, China. Regardless of scale, each project is approached from a limitless and open-ended creative perspective to deliver a unique and inspiring outcome.


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Rosemary Heights! Craftsman style lovely family home located in a quiet cul-de-sac backing onto a greenspace. Built by Foxridge Homes with professionally finished with lots of upgrades. Good size main floor with beautiful kitchen with all h ardwood floors in the main area. Unfinished basement with lots of open space, fully fenced back yard with greenbelt at the back with lots of privacy. All measurements are approx, buyer to verify.
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Come Die With Me by William Campbell Gault
Brock gets caught in a dangerous triangle between a jockey, a mobster, and L.A.'s finest blonde
Gloria Malone is a big woman with a little husband, and a problem only Brock Callahan can solve. Her jockey beau, Tip, has fallen in with a half-reformed gangster, and Gloria fears trouble for the pint-sized horseman. But as Brock quickly finds, L.A.'s criminals have more to fear from Tip than he does from them. The short man has a long mean streak, a girl on the side, and a couple of illegitimate children to boot. Even his horses don't like him. Brock isn't surprised when someone decides to end the little gremlin's racing career once and for all—with a carving knife.
The world of horse racing is buried under a layer of grime that's thicker than the Santa Anita racetrack's mud after a thunderstorm. To penetrate it, Brock will have to take the whip into his own hand and do whatever it takes to stay on the horse.
"[Gault] writes with passion, beauty, and with an ineffable sadness which has previously been found only in Raymond Chandler." - Dorothy B. Hughes, author of In A Lonely Place
"A legend in his own time." - Bill Pronzini, creator of the Nameless Detective series
"Brock Callahan is surely one of the major private detectives created in American fiction since Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe." - New York Times
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Hetzner - DokuWiki
Windows Server HyperV/en
The following describes how additional single IPs can be used in conjunction with Hyper-V for virtual machines.
With Hyper-V this can only be done by using virtual MAC addresses, which can be applied for via Robot, for each additional single IP.
Roles and Features
The required roles and features are:
- Hyper-V and management
These can be installed via the Server Manager using the "Add Roles and Features".
During the installation of Hyper-V a virtual switch with the physical network card needs to be created.
Creating a Virtual Switch
NOTE: This step is only necessary if during the installation of Hyper-V a vSwitch was not created.
- Open the Hyper-V manager and within the manager for virtual switches add an external virtual switch and select the option "Allow sharing this network adapter with the management operating system".
- Create a new "Generation 1" virtual machine
- Via "Settings" remove the automatically added network card
- Via "Add Hardware" create a new legacy network card and connect it with the internal virtual switch
- Under "Advanced Features" statically enter the virtual MAC address, which can be gotten from the Robot
- Start the virtual machine and test PXE boot
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College roundup: Monmouth tops Quinnipiac; Albertus sweeps; UNH volleyball advances
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Je'lon Hornbeak and Collin Stewart each made five 3-pointers and Monmouth opened the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference season with a 91-72 victory over Quinnipiac Thursday.
Hornbeak tied a career-high with his five 3-pointers while Stewart bested his and was perfect from the field on six shots. Micah Seaborn added three 3-pointers and 17 points and Justin Robinson 10 points and eight assists. The Hawks (5-2, 1-0) were 14 of 31 for 45.2 percent from the arc in winning their fourth consecutive game.Mikey Dixon scored 18 points, Peter Kiss 15 and Chaise Daniels 13 with 10 rebounds for the Bobcats (1-5, 0-1), who were under 30 percent from the arc (7 of 24).
The Hawks led by 11 at halftime and scored the first nine points of the second half, including 3-pointers from Hornbeak and Seaborn, to lead 54-34. The closest Quinnipiac got after that was 14 points.
Albertus Magnus 93, Emmanuel 77 >> Senior guard Devin Coleman topped the 20-point plateau for the second game in a row to lead the Falcons to this Great Northeast Athletic Conference win in New Haven. Coleman finished with 24 points.
Women's Basketball
Albertus Magnus 89, St. Joseph 66 >> Sophomore guard Jill Johnson poured in a career-best 26 points on 8-of-16 shooting for the Falcons in this GNAC victory in New Haven.
Johnson continued the torrid start to her second-year on campus, topping the 20-point plateau for the second time in the last three contests. She hit 7-of-8 from the free-throw line to go along with four rebounds, two assists and two steals.
Junior guard KiKi Epps had her strongest game of the season, netting 18 points thanks to hitting all four of her shots from the charity stripe. Junior forward Olivia Bolden added 17 for the hosts on an efficient 7-of-11 shooting from the field and classmate Angelina Piccirillo was the other Falcon in double figures with 11 points off the bench. Senior Liz Falcigno had a balanced game for the hosts, grabbing 10 boards to go along with six steals and four assists.
Women's Volleyball
NEW HAVEN 3, pHILADELPHIA 2 >> Behind four players in double figures and nearly a fourth straight triple double for Kristine Rios, the third-seeded Chargers advanced to the semifinals of the NCAA Division II East Region Championship with a thrilling 25-20, 20-25, 27-25, 22-25, 16-14 win over the No. 6 Rams.
Senior outside hitter Meghan Kennelly who finished with a season high 18 kills for New Haven, who advanced to the regional semifinals for the fourth time in the last five years.


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Bengaluru, April 21: Dale Steyn produced a perfect outswinger, tempting Shane Watson for an expansive drive and the Chennai Super Kings opener fell for the bait. Marcus Stoinis held on to a sharp catch at first slip. Steyn followed that act of enticing with a delivery that was brutally direct – a 143.7 kmph yorker. Suresh Raina's bat came down that second late, enough for the ball to crash onto the timber.
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Chennai were 6/2 after the first over. In effect, it was Steyn's fourth wicket in Power Plays spread over two matches he played in this IPL for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Imagine, before the arrival of Steyn the Bangalore side had managed just three wickets in Power Plays over eight matches. The effort of the South African great gave Royal Challengers a much-needed momentum while defending a middling total like 161 for 7. Chennai struggled to recover from those early blows, finishing at 160 for 7 and RCB emerged a 1-run winner despite Dhoni's power hitting. It was RCB's third win and Chennai's third defeat.
The Royal Challengers total was built on a fifty by opener Parthiv Patel after captain Virat Kohli departed very early, edging an away swinger from Deepak Chahar to MS Dhoni behind the wicket. Thereafter the Royal Challengers innings revolved around Parthiv as none of the other batsmen were able to accelerate in time or failed to stay long enough to take the burden off the wicketkeeper batsman.
The Royal Challengers also made a questionable call of keeping in-form Moeen Ali far too long at the dug out while promoting Akshdeep Nath and Stoinis ahead of the England left-hander. By the time, Moeen came out to bat only 26 deliveries were left in the match. Moeen underlined the thoughtlessness of not promoting him with a 16-ball 26 that contained five fours. However, in that limited frame of mind Moeen ensured that Royal Challengers reach a total that gave something for their bowlers to have a crack at.
Unreal stuff at the Chinnaswamy stadium as @RCBTweets keep the fight going 💪#RCBvCSK pic.twitter.com/drxLIP5nzf— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 21, 2019
Indeed the RCB bowlers made that total look a tough one with steady bowling for a good part. Apart from Steyn, Umesh Yadav came up with an on-target first spell inside the Power Play segment. Umesh's 2-0-10-2 was as significant as his new ball partner's effort. For once, the paceman got his radar right and picked up the wickets of Kedar Jadhav and Faf du Plessis. The double strike from Steyn and Umesh meant Chennai lost four wickets in the Power Plays for a mere 28 runs.
Of course, Chennai still had Dhoni, Ambati Rayudu, Ravindra Jadeja and Dwayne Bravo in the hut to make a fist of the chase. But the asking run-rate kept mounting after that terribly slow beginning, mandating some serial big-hitting from the Chennai batsman. Dhoni, who made a fine fifty, kept the hopes of Chennai fans alive till the final overs.
THIS IS OUR HOUSE! YAARE BARALI! YENE BARALI! #playBold #VIVOIPL2019 pic.twitter.com/0Ca6ZNhVq0— Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) April 21, 2019
In fact, Dhoni even refused to take two singles with Bravo at the other end with 36 needed off 12 balls – a sign of immense belief in his ability to produce big hits at will and he did come up with a few of them too. But daring single man heist was not the theme of the night.
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Victorians who swap their old hot water system for a solar one can get a $1000 rebate under a $60 million program as the state government seeks to woo voters on cost of living.
The 10-year program starts immediately, Premier Daniel Andrews announced on Monday at solar hot water manufacturer Rinnai at Braeside.
"It's real and practical, common sense action to save households hundreds of dollars each and every year and dealing with some of those up front costs that all too often prove a barrier to installing," Mr Andrews told reporters.
The government predicts the systems will save households between $160 to $400 a year in electricity bills.
The program follows the premier's announcement on Sunday that a re-elected Labor government would pay for 650,000 homes to get solar panels under a $1.24 billion plan where owner-occupiers would get about $4500 to install panels and repay half through their bill savings.
The government says the panels plan could save Victorians up to $900 a year on their energy bills.
Both plans will be available to households with a combined income of up to $180,000 who live in their own home valued up to $3 million.
The hot water rebate has been created so houses who cannot get solar panels because of roof design or shade can still get a reduction in energy bills.
Houses can take part in the half price solar panels program or the $1000 hot water rebate, but not both.
The schemes will be run through a new independent agency, Solar Victoria, which will also oversee regulation and training of thousands of electricians who will install the panels.
Opposition Leader Matthew Guy was dubious of how much the announcements would save households.
"I've had solar (panels) at home for about two years and anyone who says that having solar at home is going to drop your bills by $1000 a year, I think they're dreaming," he told reporters.
"If the government can come up with magical figures like they do, I'll be interested to see them."


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By William Deresiewicz
The movie 'Ivory Tower' and the rhetoric of crisis and collapse
While I was watching Ivory Tower, a documentary about the state of college in America that appears in select theaters this month (the movie also airs on CNN this fall), it occurred to me that of the many problems with higher education these days, not the least concerns the way we talk about it. "Efficiency," "art-history majors," "kids who graduate with $100,000 in debt," "the college bubble," the whole rhetoric of crisis and collapse: The public discourse is dominated by sound bites, one-liners, hearsay, horror stories, and a very great deal of misinformation.
Higher ed is not unique in this respect, of course, but it is particularly bad. College, as the movie points out, was always treated as a black box: 18-year-olds were inserted at one end, 22-year-olds came out the other, and as long as the system appeared to be working, no one bothered to inquire what happened in between. Americans, as a result, have very little understanding of what college is about—how it works, what it's for, what larger social benefits it offers—and those employed in higher education have had very little practice in explaining it to them. The debate has been left to the politicians, the pundits, and increasingly, the hustlers and ideologues. Few who talk about college in public understand it, and few who understand it talk about it.
Ivory Tower, for the most part, is an honorable exception. The movie, directed by Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside the New York Times), covers a lot of territory, and it covers it patiently, clearly, and thoughtfully. The headline issues of ballooning tuition and student debt are placed in their historical context: institutional competition, expansion, and borrowing; administrative bloat; the rise of the "party track" and its concomitant amenities as public universities have turned to full payers from out of state to deal with budgetary shortfalls; and the long-term withdrawal of public funding—the shift from taxes to student loans—that has been the fundamental factor in creating the entire mess.


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The Knicks definitely took a risk when they went with French point guard Frank Ntilikina with the 8th overall pick in the 2017 NBA Draft. They decided to pass up on two 19-year-old talented guards in Dennis Smith, Jr. and Malik Monk -- a decision that left some Knicks fans scratching their heads. They decided to go with more of an unknown.
The decision to draft more of an unknown paid off well in 2015 when the Knicks took 7'3" Latvian Kristaps Porzingis. While fans booed the pick on draft day, it has now been all cheers for the big man who has become the cornerstone of the franchise.
Will this year's unknown work out as well?
What we continue to hear about Ntilikina is his size. He's a 6'5" point guard with a 7-foot wingspan, which is almost unheard of. The only starting point guard taller than him is fellow rookie Lonzo Ball. The only starting point guard with his wingspan is fellow rookie Markelle Fultz.
Ntilikina's body frame for his position is right there at the top of the NBA. That's a good sign for the Knicks, especially on the defensive end. It all starts with your point guard, and if Ntilikina can learn how to defend well in the NBA, he can force turnovers. Turnovers equal fast breaks, which equals easy buckets. This is something the Knicks have lacked from the position for a while.
This is going to take time, though. Ntilikina hasn't played in America and there is always that adjustment period. This entire first season for him will be a learning and a growing process. If anyone expects him to come out firing right out of the gate, they will be disappointed. It's going to take a lot of patience, but after a year or two, expect to see him as the clear-cut starting point guard for this team.
Ntilikina's impact early on will be seen on the defensive side of the floor, where he will be able to be a three-position defender. But don't look for him to have a huge impact immediately like Dennis Smith, Jr. or De'Aaron Fox likely will.
On the offensive side of the ball, he can make a pull-up three and use his long strides to get to the hoop off the pick-and-roll. The high character guard from Belgium is in a good spot to learn. If Jarrett Jack makes the roster, and there is no reason he should not (if healthy), he'll be the perfect guy to teach Ntilikina the ins and outs of the game. Jack has been around for a decade with several teams and has started and come off the bench.
Ntilikina also has veteran Ramon Sessions to help him learn the point guard position at the NBA level as well. Sessions has been around the block and knows how to be effective off the bench.
With the size and wingspan, veteran leaders alongside him in the backcourt, and his defensive strengths, look for Ntilikina to be a solid addition to the Knicks. He'll never be at the level of Porzingis, but in a few years when he's a bit more mature, and knows the NBA game, we'll see the French guard leading the Knicks up the floor in playoff games.
For now, just watch him adjust to the game and get through the early-season struggles he may have at this level. In his rookie season, expect him to play around 25 MPG and average somewhere around 10 PPG, 6 APG, and 5 RPG.


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Institut für Sexualwissenschaft
The Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as Institute of Sex Research, Institute of Sexology, Institute for Sexology or Institute for the Science of Sexuality. The Institute was a non-profit foundation situated in Tiergarten, Berlin. It was headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. Since 1897 he had run the Wissenschaftlich-humanitäres Komitee ("Scientific-Humanitarian Committee"), which campaigned on progressive and rational grounds for LGBT rights and tolerance. The Committee published the long-running journal Jahrbuch für sexuelle Zwischenstufen. Hirschfeld built a unique library on same-sex love and eroticism.[1]
The Nazi book burnings in Berlin included the archives of the Institute. After the Nazis gained control of Germany in the 1930s, the institute and its libraries were destroyed as part of a Nazi government censorship program by youth brigades, who burned its books and documents in the street.[2]
Origins and purposeEdit
The Institute of Sex Research was opened in 1919 by Magnus Hirschfeld and his collaborator Arthur Kronfeld,[3] a once famous psychotherapist and later professor at the Charité. As well as being a research library and housing a large archive, the Institute also included medical, psychological, and ethnological divisions, and a marriage and sex counseling office. The Institute was visited by around 20,000 people each year, and conducted around 1,800 consultations. Poorer visitors were treated for free. In addition, the institute advocated sex education, contraception, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and women's emancipation.
The Institute became a point of scientific and research interest for many scientists of sexuality, as well as scientific, political and social reformers in Germany and Europe, particularly from socialist, liberal and social-democratic circles. In 1923 the Institute was visited by Nikolai Semashko, Commissar for Health in the Soviet Union. This was followed by numerous visits and research trips by health officials, political, sexual and social reformers, and scientific researchers from the Soviet Union interested in the work of Hirschfeld.[4] In 1926 a delegation from the institute, led by Hirschfeld, reciprocated with a research visit to Moscow. In 1929 Hirschfeld presided over the third international congress of the World League for Sexual Reform at Wigmore Hall.[5]
Transgender pioneersEdit
Magnus Hirschfeld coined the term transsexualism,[6] identifying the clinical category which his colleague Harry Benjamin would later develop in the United States. Transgender people were on the staff of the Institute, as well as being among the clients there. Various endocrinologic and surgical services were offered, including the first modern sex reassignment surgeries in the 1930s. Hirschfeld also worked with Berlin's police department to curtail the arrest of cross-dressed individuals, including those suspected of wearing certain clothing in connection with sex work, through the creation of transvestite passes issued on behalf of the Institute to those who had a personal desire to wear clothing associated with a gender other than the one assigned to them at birth.[7][8]
Nazi eraEdit
In late February 1933, as the influence of Ernst Röhm weakened, the Nazi Party launched its purge of gay (then known as homophile) clubs in Berlin, outlawed sex publications, and banned organised gay groups. As a consequence, many fled Germany (including, for instance, Erika Mann). In March 1933 the Institute's main administrator, Kurt Hiller, was sent to a concentration camp. The buildings were later taken over by the Nazis for their own purposes. They were a bombed-out ruin by 1944, and were demolished sometime in the mid-1950s. Hirschfeld tried, in vain, to re-establish his Institute in Paris, but he died in France in 1935.
On 6 May 1933, while Hirschfeld was in Ascona, Switzerland, the Deutsche Studentenschaft made an organised attack on the Institute of Sex Research. A few days later, the Institute's library and archives were publicly hauled out and burned in the streets of the Opernplatz. Around 20,000 books and journals, and 5,000 images, were destroyed. Also seized were the Institute's extensive lists of names and addresses. In the midst of the burning, Joseph Goebbels gave a political speech to a crowd of around 40,000 people. The leaders of the Deutsche Studentenschaft also proclaimed their own Feuersprüche (fire decrees). Also books by Jewish writers, and pacifists such as Erich Maria Remarque, were removed from local public libraries and the Humboldt University, and were burned.[10]
While many fled into exile, the radical activist Adolf Brand made a stand in Germany for five months after the book burnings, but in November 1933 he was forced to announce the formal end of the organised homosexual emancipation movement in Germany. On 28 June 1934 Hitler conducted a purge of gay men in the ranks of the SA wing of the Nazis, which involved murdering them in the Night of the Long Knives. This was then followed by stricter laws on homosexuality and the round-up of gay men. The address lists seized from the Institute are believed to have aided Hitler in these actions. Many tens of thousands of arrestees found themselves, ultimately, in slave-labour or death camps. Karl Giese committed suicide in 1938 when the Germans invaded Czechoslovakia and his heir, lawyer Karl Fein, was murdered in 1942 during deportation.
After World War IIEdit
The charter of the institute had specified that in the event of dissolution, any assets of the Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld Foundation (which had sponsored the Institute since 1924) were to be donated to the Humboldt University of Berlin. Hirschfeld also wrote a personal will while in exile in Paris, leaving any remaining assets to his students and heirs Karl Giese and Li Shiu Tong (Tao Li) for the continuation of his work. However, neither stipulation was carried out. The West German courts found that the foundation's dissolution and the seizure of property by the Nazis in 1934 was legal. The West German legislature also retained the Nazi amendments to Paragraph 175, making it impossible for surviving gay men to claim restitution for the destroyed cultural center.[11]
Li Shiu Tong lived in Switzerland and the United States until 1956, but as far as is known, he did not attempt to continue Hirschfeld's work. Some remaining fragments of data from the library were later collected by W. Dorr Legg and ONE, Inc. in the USA in the 1950s.
Later developmentsEdit
In 1973 a new Institut für Sexualwissenschaft was opened at the University of Frankfurt am Main (director: Volkmar Sigusch), and 1996 at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
See alsoEdit
- ^ Harry Oosterhuis. (Ed.) Homosexuality and Male Bonding in Pre-Nazi Germany: The Youth Movement, the Gay Movement, and Male Bonding Before Hitler's Rise: Original Transcripts from Der Eigene, the First Gay Journal in the World. (1991).
- ^ "Institute of Sexology". qualiafolk.com. Qualia Folk. 8 December 2011. Archived from the original on 18 January 2015. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
- ^ In Memory of Arthur Kronfeld)
- ^ Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent, Dan Healey, 2001, pp.132-133
- ^ The Times, League For Sexual Reform International Congress Opened, 9 September 1929;
- ^ Ekins R., King D. (2001) Pioneers of Transgendering: The Popular Sexology of David O. Cauldwell. IJT 5,2 (text online Archived 2006-04-28 at the Wayback Machine)
- ^ Beachy, Robert (2015). Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 0307473139.
- ^ "Between World Wars, Gay Culture Flourished In Berlin". NPR.org. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
- ^ "Dinge, die wir suchen". magnus-hirschfeld.de. Retrieved 2016-08-07.
- ^ Leonidas Hill (2001). "The Nazi Attack on 'Un-German' Literature, 1933-1945" IN: The Holocaust and the Book: Destruction and Preservation.
- ^ James D. Steakley. The Early Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Germany. (1975).
Further readingEdit
- John Lauritsen and David Thorstad. The Early Homosexual Rights Movement, 1864-1935. (Second Edition revised)
- Günter Grau (ed.). Hidden Holocaust? Gay and lesbian persecution in Germany 1933-45. (1995).
- Charlotte Wolff. Magnus Hirschfeld: A Portrait of a Pioneer in Sexology. (1986).
- James D. Steakley. "Anniversary of a Book Burning". The Advocate (Los Angeles), 9 June 1983. Pages 18–19, 57.
- Mark Blasius & Shane Phelan. (Eds.) We Are Everywhere: A Historical Source Book of Gay and Lesbian Politics (See the chapter: "The Emergence of a Gay and Lesbian Political Culture in Germany" by James D. Steakley).
- Beachy, Robert. Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity. (2014)
- Rosa von Praunheim (Dir.) The Einstein of Sex (Germany, 2001). (A biographical drama about Magnus Hirschfeld - English subtitled version available).
External linksEdit
- [1] "Institute for Sexual Science (1919-1933)" Online exhibition of the Magnus Hirschfeld Society - warning, complex JavaScript and pop-up windows.
- Documentation in the Archive for Sexology, Berlin
- When Books Burn - University of Arizona multimedia exhibit.


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To create a campaign for both NHS employers and employees, aimed at tackling mental health discrimination in the workplace.
To create a campaign for both NHS employers and employees, aimed at tackling mental health discrimination in the workplace.
We discovered that given 1 in 4 people are suffering with mental health issues, those that look after us – the health service themselves – need to recognise the signs and know where they can find support.
We developed the campaign positioning 'Open Your Mind', complete with it's own brand identity.
An internal communications campaign was subsequently developed which featured recognisable images from within the NHS environment, combined with thought provoking messages to help raise the awareness of mental health symptoms and support avenues.
We developed a microsite which included the ability for NHS trusts to order subsequent campaign materials, and handled the campaign's email marketing.
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We are really proud to have been involved in this campaign, for a subject that is too often seen as the last taboo. It was widely regarded by all government health departments as a huge success and was backed by the national 'time to Change' campaign.


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The German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, the State of Baden-Württemberg and the City of Heidelberg will jointly host the International Conference on Climate Action – ICCA2019 – in Heidelberg on 22 and 23 May 2019. The conference will bring together leaders and decision-makers from countries, regions and cities as well as stakeholders and experts from around the world.
Covenant of Mayors sessions at ICCA2019:
Mayors session and breakfast (May 23, 07:30-10:30):
This session for mayors on the second day will provide space for mayors from all over the world to talk together before the event moves on to multi-level cooperation on climate action. It will also be the occasion for signatories to exchange about the shared values of the Covenant of Mayors. It mostly aims at identifying financial, legal and policy frameworks that are necessary to implement the Paris Agreement at local level and defining new indicators of wealth to shift responsibilities and choose for the right priorities.
Workshop Governance III: Collaborative planning for ambitious climate and energy policies (May 23, 11:00-12:30):
To put the vertical integration of climate action into practice, all levels of government and a wide range of actors need to take part in the design, planning and implementation of energy and climate policies. These collaborative processes are as important as the ambitions and targets they propose, or even more so: they determine whether all actors can be successfully mobilized and condition whether a broad consensus on the way to reach the objectives can be established.
Design processes for energy and climate policy and planning are as important as the ambition and targets they propose. They are fostering the mobilisation of all actors and are crucial for ensuring a broad consensus on the way to reach the objectives. This session showcases the various ways in which local and regional actors, as well as civil society, are already working with other levels of government to reach common targets, and explore how this can be improved and used across other countries. Examples from the European Covenant of Mayors framework and how its signatories, coordinators and supporters cooperate across government levels will be highlighted along with success stories from other world regions.


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With the advancement of law enforcement technology and the increased interest by the media in the area of forensics, increasing numbers of individuals have been pursuing a career as a forensics scientist. Forensic scientists examine physical evidence and then testify about the results of their examination in court and provide interpretations or opinions regarding the results.
Familiarize yourself with the field of forensics by reading books from the library, materials online and bookstores. Talk with your school counselor and with people in the field.
Receive at least a Bachelor's Degree in a science such as chemistry, biology or physics, with coursework including microscopy, statistics and lab work. Forensic scientists work in a number of different fields. A forensic generalist is broadly trained in a variety of forensic specialties. They work with forensic specialists as needed. Fields of forensic science include odontology, anthropology, pathology, engineering, computer science and psychiatry.
Determine if you need to have a Master's Degree. This will be based on your area of specialization and the type of job you are pursuing. Talk to educational counselors, other forensic scientists and possible employers to find out if additional education is required.
Decide geographically where you would like to work and look for positions in local, state and federal government agencies. A smaller number of forensic scientists work in colleges and universities and private labs. Employers often look for individuals with experience, so you may have to first work as a forensic technician. It is also helpful to get experience through internship programs that are offered by numerous schools.


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How to Choose an Interior Designer in DubaiJanuary 27, 2019
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With so many different options in the region, it can be difficult to determine how to choose an interior designer in Dubai. We've put together some of the key things to consider when choosing the right creative team to bring your space to life: Portfolio, Personality, Process and Pricing...
When you are considering how to choose an interior designer in Dubai, the first and perhaps most obvious thing to look at is the portfolio of projects the agency or designer has worked on. Their projects will be visible on the company website so take some time to search for and scroll through the credentials of the company. Ideally, the designer will demonstrate projects related directly to your requirements in which case it will be easy to envisage your compatibility on a project. At Brand Creative, a lot of our clients have seen our work for salons, F&B or retail and are confident that we are innovative and experienced in this area.
Mauzan Luxury Retail Interior, Al Ain
Conversely, if there are a lack of solid examples that are similar to your vision or industry, look at the way the designer approaches their projects. For example, do they have a certain signature style where each project looks the same or do they begin each project with completely new ideas? This will indicate the ability of the designer to come up with an original concept that is a unique and considered response to your brief.
Dunk n' Dip Chocolate Café, KSA
When we first met the client for chocolate café Dunk & Dip, they were encouraged by the variety in our portfolio. The client was intrigued not only by our F&B work , but also the projects that demonstrated our imaginative thinking, such as Al Jalila Children's Hospital. Through looking at the variety of creative projects and seeing our versatility, they were confident that we would create an exceptional design for the launch of their brand in Saudi Arabia.
Al Jalila Children's Hospital, Dubai Finalist in Commercial Interior Design Concept of the Year 2018
Once you chose an interior designer in Dubai you are entering a business relationship in which you will be spending a lot of time interacting with one another. As such, it is important that you not only trust the process of the designer but you also feel comfortable in their company. Understand who it is you will be communicating with throughout and make sure that you can establish a good, trusted working relationship from the beginning.
Brand Creative Dubai team
When somebody gets in touch at Brand Creative, we always encourage an initial meeting where we invite the potential client to see our studio, meet the members of the team and have a chat about how we can collaborate.
During the first meeting with an agency, do not be afraid to ask how their design process works. Each company will have a different procedure and it is always a good idea to have an understanding of this whilst you are in the selection process.
Brand Creative Studio Interior, Dubai
At Brand Creative, interiors projects begin with a research-focused strategy phase that informs our design process and ensures that the creative outcome fits the criteria on every level. Subsequently, we present the client with two different moodboards where the client can discuss their visual preferences and choose a direction to take. Only then will the designers begin the creative process, making sure that the client has been involved with the visual development from the very beginning.
The topic of pricing can be daunting as there is such a wide variety in the cost of interior design in Dubai. On beginning any type of project, it is important to plan your allocated costs beforehand to enable you to chose a company that is compatible with your budget. Fee proposals are usually submitted once the client has had a meeting with the design agency and discussed the brief and scope of their project.
Design fees vary for a number of reasons such as the size of the company, the success of their projects and the number of awards they have won. It is not simply a case of 'the more expensive, the better' or 'go with the cheapest', but more an overall consideration of what the agency offers within their fees. Be sure to select your designer based on an overall analysis of their abilities, credibility and offerings.
Carla on the Panel at Index 2018
Once you have selected your creative team, it is hugely beneficial to be transparent about the monetary allocation for fit out, furniture and finishes, as this will enable your designers to work towards a concept that will be in keeping with your requirements both creatively and financially.
Our Creative Director Carla covered the topic of "Delivering Excellence on a Budget" at the 2018 Index Exhibition Design Talks panel discussion, speaking amongst other industry leaders about the best way to navigate cost engineering in a design project. At Brand Creative we have worked on projects on both end of the spectrum, and work with our clients openly to ensure that their requirements are met in every aspect, beyond the visuals alone.
The process of choosing an interior designer in Dubai can appear complicated, but if you go into the process prepared it will be a positive experience. Take time to identify the key things you expect from a designer, determine your project requirements, do your research and go out and find the creative team who will do your project justice. "How to Choose an Interior Designer in Dubai" by Helen Ampen, Brand Strategist at Brand Creative
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It seems I've inadvertently bunched all the useless deals together, though in all honesty, this group of deals are not as useless as the previous deal, it is nevertheless somewhat nonsensical. It seems to me, that generally, people learn to deal thirds, fourths and fifths to show off. Now, don't get me wrong, the deals can be employed to great success. For example, rather than stacking four aces on the top of the deck you can deal fifths till the first ace, then fourths till the next, then thirds till the next and so on. The problem with this concept is one must ask, "Why don't you just bottom deal?" The reality is that bottom dealing to accomplish the equivalent of this feat is much simpler. I personally have a case where I use thirds to help facilitate a ten-hand poker stack concept but it too shares a similar fault. If one is going to use false deals, then why bother stacking at all? It's a curious question, because some uses of a second deal may be classified in the same manner. You can use a second deal in order to simplify the stacking procedures you intend to use (though I hope that given the stacking concepts described earlier no one encounters the need in the future), but why not simply bottom deal? You could argue that perhaps the individual possesses an excellent second deal, but a poor bottom deal. That may be so for a second deal, but it is much easier to learn a good bottom deal than to learn to deal thirds, fourths and fifths. Thirds, fourths and fifths are then in my opinion a show-off technique.
Which method of performing thirds, fourths and fifths is best, is I suppose a matter of debate. Briefly, the concept of doing so is roughly the same for both a push-off deal and a side strike deal, namely, the take is slightly different than that of a second. The reason for this is that you encounter difficulty with getting one and only one card as often the other want to come along for the ride so to speak. In order to solve this problem, with you perform the take, while your middle finger pulls the card out, you want to use your thumb at the edge of the card rather on top of the card and push towards the deck, effectively causing the bottom card (the one you want to deal) to free itself and come separately. Now in the case of a side strike deal it ends there, the deal is quite simple and quite deceptive, but with the push-off deal you encounter a second problem in pulling the cards back onto the deck, since often the cards will separate and you'll end up with so called "hangers", if you merely pull back with your thumb. In order to adjust for this fact, rather than performing your take to the side as normal, you perform your take in a much more forward direct away from yourself. This exposes the lower right section of the cards slightly to your pinky so that you may square up the cards with your pinky rather than attempting to use merely your thumb.
Strike thirds, fourths and fifths are perhaps more popular, however, these constitute strike seconds of a different form. In essence, you push-off two, three, or four cards, but do so just slightly as you would for a push-off deal. Then, you strike the deck in the upper right corner much as you would for a strike second and perform a forward take, this allows you to make use of your last three fingers on the right side of the deck to square it and for you to continue with the next deal. There are numerous potential tip offs here, but the method is nevertheless quite deceptive and I won't traverse too deep into the concept. I will mention however, that I prefer this method to push-off thirds, fourths, and fifths, for myself.
For those interested in the one-handed concept, I've heard stories of numerous methods in existence, but have developed none myself, though I have experimented with bullet thirds, which function virtually identically to bullet seconds. Since I tend not to use bullet seconds in practice and tend not to use thirds, I'm sure you can deduce how rarely I use bullet thirds. If anyone is supremely interested in the subject, perhaps I shall explore it at a later time in a later manuscript.
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The Culmination Of Elegance And Excellence
Upon entering the 2019 Jaguar XJ, immediate captivation ensues. It doesn't offer trims. It offers handcrafted artistry. It doesn't provide seating. It provides a compilation of rich materials and unrivaled craftsmanship. And, it doesn't furnish an interior. It presents a one-of-a-kind aura you won't find at just any Honolulu showroom. Experience the new unrivaled class of the Jaguar XJ today at Jaguar Honolulu.
While 2019 BMW 7 Series models provide premium materials, it's the culmination of it all that sets the 2019 Jaguar XJ apart. Handcrafted veneer runs throughout its cabin, highlighting striking details, such as diamond quilted stitching patterns in fine leather seats. Of course, comfort is considered as well. Enjoy active ventilated heated and cooled front and rear seats, as well as front seat massage and 4-zone climate control.
Drivers throughout the island of O'ahu have an opportunity to elevate their driving experience. The 2019 Jaguar XJ is coming soon to Jaguar Honolulu, serving Kaneohe, HI.
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The new 2019 Jaguar XJ offers 3 brilliant engine options to ensure every driver finds an experience tailored to their preference.
For balanced excellence, the full-size luxury sedan provides a potent, yet efficient 3.0L supercharged V6, generating 340 horsepower and 332 lb.-ft. of torque. Drivers can also opt for a 5.0L supercharged V8, upping output to 470 horsepower and producing a 0-to-60 MPH time of under 5 seconds. Similarly equipped, the BMW 750i xDrive produces just 445 horsepower.
The Jaguar XJ offers another 5.0L V8 option as well, only this one is for those seeking a thrill. Behind 575 horsepower, it clocks a vitalizing 0-to-60 MPH time of 4.2 seconds and reaches a top speed of 174 MPH.
Drivers can soon experience the 2019 Jaguar XJ at Jaguar Honolulu.
Experience The Apex Of Driving Dynamics At Jaguar Honolulu
Using a combination of cutting-edge technology, the new 2019 Jaguar XJ provides unrivaled engineering to harness its unique power.
Beginning with a light-weight aluminum unibody construction, every aspect of the Jaguar XJ is designed to optimize performance. Its adaptive dynamics system ensures every ride is smooth and seamless. Meanwhile, an 8-speed transmission along with the sedan's JaguarDrive Selector provides drivers with total control.
The Jaguar XJ also offers available intelligent all-wheel drive and All Surface Progress Control, which team up for optimal traction in Hawaii's ever-unpredictable weather — a dynamic you won't find at any other luxury car showroom in Honolulu, HI.
Not all full-size sedans are built for the island of O'ahu. Where the 2019 BMW 7 Series falls short, the 2019 Jaguar XJ truly excels.
Enticing, Transcending Technology
Jaguar doesn't only strive for excellence when it comes to performance. The new 2019 Jaguar XJ offers a wealth of cabin technology to ensure every moment of your ride is extraordinary, including stop lights.
Via a standard 10-inch touchscreen, passengers have access to a range of innovation through the Touch Pro infotainment system. InControl Apps puts popular mobile features such as Spotify and Accuweather at your fingertips, and a standard navigation system helps drivers to stay on course. It's all easily accessible as well using familiar smartphone gesture controls.
Technology flows across the Jaguar XJ's dashboard as well. The luxury sedans provide a standard built-in Wi-Fi hotspot, Bluetooth and a 20-speaker Meridian audio system, while available options include a rear-seat entertainment system with dual 10.2-inch displays.
Perhaps Jaguar's most groundbreaking technology, however, is purposed for driver safety. The 2019 Jaguar XJ provides standard driver assist features, such as Lane Departure Warning, Lane Keep Assist, Emergency Braking, Blind Spot Assist, Driver Condition Monitor and more. None of these intuitive features come standard in the BMW 7 Series. The 2019 XJ also provides available options, including Adaptive Cruise Control, 360-Degree Parking Aid and a Surround View Camera.
Sedans such as the 2019 BMW 7 Series lack dedication to the entire driving experience. For all-around excellence, visit Jaguar Honolulu and drive the new 2019 Jaguar XJ.
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Not only does the 2019 Jaguar XJ outclass the new BMW 7 Series, it caters to potential drivers with a long range of enticing options.
Customize your driving experience by selecting 1 of 6 models: The XJ R-Sport, XJL Portfolio, XJ Supercharged, XJ50, XJL Supercharged and the XJR575. Next, choose a distinguishing color, such as Rosello Red or Santorini Black. The Jaguar XJ even offers a standard wheelbase or an extended wheelbase, providing extra rear-seat legroom for growing families.
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WFXT Goes Up to 11
WFXT Boston debuts an 11 p.m. newscast Nov. 5, the Boston Globe reports, V.P./G.M. Gregg Kelley says the popularity of FXT's 10 p.m. newscast pushed the station to try 11 p.m. too.
The Fox O&O joins a jammed news bunch in Boston; WHDH, WCVB and WBZ all air an 11 p.m. news.
Kelley tells the Globe he'll use the MLB playoffs and World Series to promote both the 10 and 11 p.m. shows. The longer the beloved Sox stay in the hunt, the better the platform for promotion.
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The executive-employee compensation gap, a newly focused dimension of the executive compensation packages by the previous literature, has been given a great deal of attention because of the growing inequality in the compensation practices within the firms over the past two decades in China. The CEO-worker ratio in the cash compensation level of the top 100 largest publicly listed enterprises has risen to the level of 50-to-1 in 2014 from a level smaller than 15-to-1 before the year 2000. Against this background, a series of remuneration control policies have been announced in China by the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and many other government departments. However, as a whole, the effects of such policies are rather poor. At present, nothing seems to catch Chinese corporations' and even the Chinese economy's attention like a threat to the pay and perks of the top executives and the closely related executive-employee compensation gap.
On the one hand, the executive-employee compensation gap is getting larger with unlimited growth in China. On the other hand, there is still a huge research gap in the executive-employee compensation gap's forming mechanisms and its consequences on various organizational outcomes in China. Given the above two facts, this book attempts to systematically investigate the antecedents and consequences of the executive-employee compensation gap from the perspective of corporate governance. To be specific, the investigated antecedents in this book include CEO age, CEO tenure, the independent directors, the board of supervisors, the CEO's educational background, female executives, the CEO's downward overstepping behavior and the CEO-employee discretion gap, while the investigated consequences of the executive-employee compensation gap include workplace territorial behavior, knowledge loss, employee turnover rate, individual innovative behavior and the firm's future performance.
The critical new findings of this book are shown as follows: (1) There is a positive relationship between the CEO's age and the executive-employee compensation gap, and knowledge intensity can positively moderate such a relationship; (2) the CEO's tenure can improve the enlargement of the executive-employee compensation gap in a nonlinear positive manner, and the CEOs with a longer tenure would enlarge the executive-employee compensation gap to the best degree with their self-served motivations; (3) the independent directors have the significant intention to enlarge the executive-employee compensation gap in Chinese listed manufacturing companies; (4) the board of supervisors has a direct negative effect on the executive-employee compensation gap, which is rather steady and significant, and it has various and unsteady moderating effects on the relationships between several critical corporate governance variables; (5) there is a cubic relationship between CEO educational attainments and the employees' compensation, and there is a weak U-shaped relationship between CEO educational attainments and the executive-employee compensation gap; (6) the female executives have negative effects on the executive-employee compensation gap in Chinese listed manufacturing companies; (7) the downward overstepping behavior of the CEO has positive effects on the executive compensation gap, and the CEO's downward overstepping behavior has positive effects on the executive-employee compensation gap; (8) the CEO-employee discretion gap has a much stronger positive effect on the executive-employee compensation gap than the effect that CEO discretion or employee discretion individually have; (9) the executive-employee compensation gap can determine the workplace territorial behavior via the mediating roles of psychological ownership, employee engagement, organizational citizenship behavior and the leader-membership exchange, while the effects are moderated by gratitude and trust; (10) the executive-employee compensation gap will be positively related to knowledge loss via the mediation effects of the leader-membership exchange and psychological ownership, while compensation communication can negatively moderate the positive relationship between the executive-employee compensation gap and knowledge loss; (11) there is an inverse U-shaped curve between the executive-employee compensation gap and the employees' turnover ratio; (12) the executive-employee compensation gap has significant negative effects on the individual innovative behavior, which are partially mediated by the leader-membership exchange, psychological ownership and the sense of self-efficacy; and (13) technological intensity can positively strengthen the linkage between the executive-employee compensation gap and the firm's future performance, and the positive pay-performance sensitivity strategy can improve the positive performance consequences of the executive-employee compensation gap.


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Our January tour provides transportation by Conch Train between the homes. A limited number of seats are available by reservation only for $45 each. When purchasing your tickets choose a starting time of 3:00 pm, 3:20 pm or 3:40 pm. All trains board at the Oldest House (322 Duval Street). Plan on arriving at least 20 minutes before your scheduled departure and check in at the table in our garden behind the House.
Each train will travel to all of the houses and you will spend about 20 minutes in each house. The most convenient way to purchase tickets is by credit card online.
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Tiger Shroff and Sabbir Khan team up yet again for NextGen Films' 'Munna Michael'. Based on the story of Munna, a street boy from Teen Batti in Mumbai, who loves dancing and grows up idolizing the legendary dancer, Michael Jackson,the mass entertainer will push the envelope when it comes to action and dance, two elements that audiences enjoy seeing the Gen-X sensation in.
Eros International and Viki Rajani's action-music entertainer also marks the coming together of director Sabbir Khan and Tiger Shroff after 2 consecutive hits. The film also stars Nawazuddin Siddiqui, in an all-new avatar. With great music, high octane action, never-seen-before choreography and stellar performances, the film is one of the most anticipated this year.
'Munna Michael' starring Tiger Shroff, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and introducing Nidhhi Agerwal will release on the 21st July.


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Royals Exercise Option on Yost for Next Season
KANSAS CITY (AP) -- The Kansas City Royals have exercised their option on manager Ned Yost to keep him with the club through the 2013 season.
The team announced the move Tuesday, six days before pitchers and catchers are due to report to the Royals' spring training home in Surprise, Arizona.
Yost was hired in May 2010 to replace Trey Hillman. He signed a two-year extension that July that included a club option for next season.
Yost is just 126-163 since taking over the Royals, but he's been credited with helping bring along one of the youngest rosters in baseball. A youthful team led by Alex Gordon, Eric Hosmer and Mike Moustakas is expected to begin contending in the AL Central for the first time in years.


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Ian Blaney
Ian acts for a wide range of charitable organisations, with a particular focus on ecclesiastical and education law.
His practice extends to:-
- the establishment and regulation of charities;
- academies set up under the Academies Act 2010, particularly in the conversion of maintained schools to academies in relation to which he has been involved in over 100 projects;
- charity property, acquisition, development and disposal, and trusts of land; and
- all matters relating to the Church of England.
Ian was educated at Alsager School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read history. Ian subsequently studied the law both in London and in Cardiff.
Ian was an ecclesiastical clerk in Lee Bolton Monier-Williams from 2005 until 2011, working in the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the diocesan registries of the Bishops of Ely, Guildford, Hereford and Liverpool. After a brief spell in China he completed a training contract with Lee Bolton Monier-Williams and qualified into the ecclesiastical, educational and charity department. He has acted for a wide range of institutional and private clients.
He has contributed to respected publications on the law of marriage, ecclesiastical property, and burial law and cremation and has a detailed knowledge of the law of school sites and trusts.
Ian is the Registrar to the Bishop of Lincoln and a notary public for ecclesiastical purposes.
He is Deputy Registrar of the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Deputy Registrar of the Hereford and Guildford Dioceses, a Governor of St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Hornsey, a member of the Hornsey St Mary and St George Parochial Church Council and a trustee of the Friends of the Church in China.
Interests include running, the parish churches of England, and foreign travel when off the beaten track.


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I've had the luxury of living in large metropolitan areas – namely Milwaukee and Tampa/St. Petersburg.
While there, I made sure I utilized all the wonderful amenities afforded to those living among many others. I was impressed with the facilities and even more impressed with the progressive stance on entertainment and the arts. It seemed there was always something to do and somewhere to go; stages and galleries where performers and artists did their stuff.
When I opted to return to four distinct seasons – and chose the less-than-urban setting of Western Wisconsin, I wondered how my appetite for all things cultural and refined would be satisfied. I was a bit nervous that my artistic libido might shrivel and go into certain dormancy.
Now, twenty years later, I continue to marvel at how unfounded my fears should have been and how quickly they were allayed. Y'see, Western and Northwestern Wisconsin are very nicely seasoned with some of the most imaginative and resourceful people and venues I've had the pleasure of patronizing…and I've taken it upon myself to do everything I can to see that everyone residing within our caste known as the 'rank-and-file' accepts, visits and supports them.
Here are just some of the innovators: Eau Claire Theater Guild, Eau Claire Children's Theater, Menomonie Theater Guild, Old Gem Theater, Theatre in the Woods, Red Barn Theatre, Northern Star Theatre, Fanny Hill Dinner Theater, St. Croix Festival Theatre, Northern Lakes Center for the Arts, Phipps Center for the Arts, Willow River Players, Heyde Center for the Arts, River Falls Community Theater, Big River Theater, The Space Center for Creativity, Great River Road Theater, Cumberland ETC, Black River Arts Alliance, Falls Players, Barron Spotlighters, as well as several wonderful venues contained on college campuses from Eau Claire to River Falls to Rice Lake. Why, there is as much talent and artistic energy here as there is fertile land and recreation. Musicians – really good musicians – abound. Artists practicing in every possible medium are found on side roads and city streets alike. Writers and poets use their surroundings to inspire them and actors may train elsewhere, but can find a whole lot of stage time at places in which they may have been raised. This place has an appeal for many that is irresistible.
So, as you go through life in your big city neighborhood or suburb, partaking of a plethora of marvelous museums, theater districts, coffee houses, arenas, civic centers and glorious galleries – wondering how the heck anyone can really live in or on one of the small towns or rural routes of Western and Northwestern Wisconsin, save your sympathy for the people on the Gulf. I've been able to live among the masses – and, here, I'm able mix culture with fresh air. In coming 'blogisodes', I hope to turn the spotlight on specific examples of that good fortune. In the meantime, enjoy July and try to slow down summer a bit, will ya? Thanks.
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7 Tips for Buying a GRC Platform
Organizational change requires people, processes, and technology. Too often companies see technology as the silver bullet solution. It's not, nor should it be. To be transformative for your organization, it takes your people and processes aided by technology to stand strong and make a difference.
One of the difference makers in technology is GRC platforms. But how do you go about buying a GRC platform? It's not like a trip to the grocery store and grabbing an item off the shelf. There isn't an easy button you can press and have a GRC platform fully integrated into your organization.
In our recent webinar, How to Buy a GRC Platform, we shared some common challenges and misconceptions encountered during the buying process. In this blog, we offer seven sure-fire tips for helping ensure you have a successful GRC purchase and implementation.
- Find a GRC Champion
Having an executive who is a project champion greatly increases the odds of success with your fledging GRC program. If not an executive, consider a steering committee of individuals across departments that offer a unified voice.
- Encourage user adoption and buy-in
For a GRC platform to be a catalyst for your business processes, you need employees using it every day. In the planning stages, interview the people who will use the platform. Nobody likes to change, but if you involve users early, they become advocates seeing change as progress.
- Review Processes
One of the first tasks to complete when considering a GRC platform is reviewing your processes. Identify process owners, interactions, and deliverables to document how things are done. In fact, a major reason for buying a GRC platform is uncovering broken, undefined, or inefficient processes.
- Be Realistic
A major reason why programs fail is trying to do too much too soon. Being gung-ho about GRC is great, but it's wise to be realistic about your goals. Consider a phased roll-out and emphasize communications with your GRC Champion who can give status updates to management.
- Aim for quick wins
Company leaders like to see results of major projects as soon as possible. GRC platforms have a longer timeline for payoff. To maintain momentum, focus on generating some quick wins early on. For example, calculate savings by comparing an old process to a new streamlined process.
- Know your buying stage
Just realizing the need for a GRC platform? Building a case for it? Researching options? By knowing where you are in the buying process, you can focus on that step's to-dos before proceeding to the next step or stage. Why? Skipping stages can hurt adoption, success, or result in any number of unfortunate developments.
- Focus on education and training
A GRC platform takes time to learn. Users expand their skills with training and tips. Make training materials accessible and easy to understand. Conduct training sessions for users to learn and ask questions in a group setting.
For more tips and considerations, watch the webinar, How to Buy a GRC Platform. Change isn't always welcome. However, change can be welcomed with the right kind of support, by focusing on technology's beneficiaries—people and processes—and demonstrating measurable results.
For more buying guidance with GRC platforms, download our GRC Buyer's Guide.
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Leptin, fat loss, and more!
How and why we get fat – simplified by Sean Croxton
Wow, little did I know before I made the permanent commitment to a low carb lifestyle – that there was tons of really valuable information out there to gobble up. It makes me wonder why the whole world collectively hasn't "gotten it" yet (I suspect mainstream media plays a role in it…)
Either way – each week that goes by, I find more and more places that preach to the same choir – and keep adding to my own knowledge base.
Deprivation often leads to weight gain – it's how we're programmed
This case in particular – is an independent blogger named Sean Croxton – who runs the Underground Wellness site. I just recently stumbled upon his sites, but this video in particular educates people in a simple, brief and effective manner – about Leptin – and how it's relatively overlooked, and plays a huge role in why some of us are struggling with our weight.
Key point to take from this video: Depriving yourself of (good) food is rarely a bright idea. Your body "defends" itself, which ends up lowering your metabolism and increasing hunger. So going to the gym and working out like a psycho, and just to eat croutons and drink water will lead to negative consequences. Voluntary starvation plays no positive role in a healthy life, even though psychologically you might think you're making progress. You're not.
Watch the video to understand. And to read the expanded text version of this subject – click here.
(Note that Sean does try to market his book "The Dark Side of Fat Loss," but that's OK – we live in a capitalistic society for the time being).


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When Nathaniel Bernier saw realtor Jack Kelly putting up a For Sale sign in front of the house at 251 Main Street last spring, he immediately called his mother. Without hesitation, Jane Bernier said, "Tell him I want it." The sign came down that day.
Lincolnville Center observers have been watching that house, vacant for many years, slowly deteriorate, as paint peeled, trim boards broke loose, and clapboards sagged. A classic haunted house, the Boo Radley place to some, calling up the mysterious character from To Kill a Mockingbird.
But despite its decrepit exterior, it still had a commanding profile, steep roof bordered with decorative gingerbread and impressive doorways. It had good lines, and as Jane says "that's what we were looking for." The roofline was straight, the foundation basically sound; it was a good house waiting for a savior; Jane and Jerry Bernier fill that bill.
The couple have been restoring old houses for decades, starting in Atkinson, then in Winterport, Cleveland Heights, Belfast, Appleton, and finally Lincolnville, making a home for themselves or keeping them as rental properties. They've had their eyes on the Main Street place for a long time, and it came on the market at just the right moment.
Jane, who had recently retired from her Belfast dental practice, was looking for a new project; it was also time to think about downsizing from their Ducktrap Road farm where the couple raised sheep, Dexter cows, chickens, and a flock of geese. A house in downtown Lincolnville Center will be the perfect next step, within walking distance of the General Store and Library.
"Do they have any idea what they're getting into?" some wondered.
While there have been a couple of surprises along the way, the project has proceeded pretty much as they expected. They've approached it methodically. Finding the right people to do the work was paramount, and they turned to Val Desjardins, of Swanville, a veteran at this sort of restoration, a man who'd done work for them before, to figure out the steps.
A new roof was the first priority, and Lincolnville's J.P. Yandell took on that job, negotiating the unusually high and steep incline. Three old roofs had to come off, two layers of cedar shingles and one of asphalt. Meanwhile, mason Guy Hallett, of Rockland, worked on the chimneys, lining and repairing them.
A screened porch and deteriorating addition on the back of the house was torn off, leaving a gap in the foundation. The cellar was a mess with several defunct water heaters, furnace parts, oil tanks, etc. lying around.
Jim Nelson and his Brothers in Arms, of Searsmont, repaired the fieldstone foundation, resetting the granite sills that cap it – one piece is over 10 feet long, leading Jane to wonder if it came from Mount Waldo or perhaps from the Fernalds Neck quarry.
Granite steps from the crumbling bulkhead, which was removed, were used to top off the cement wall that filled the gap. They installed drains to keep the cellar dry and covered the floor with crushed rock.
Speaking as a lover of old cellars, this one is elegant. The beautifully constructed stone walls and granite sills show off the skill of both the original builder and the modern Brothers. With all that old metal junk gone it even smells good.
Thanks to the steep pitch of the roof water didn't have a chance to seep in, so rot wasn't much of a problem, but gravity and a leaky bathtub had done its work. The floors were sagging, three or more inches off in places. Val did extensive work here, sistering the floor joists and installing wooden posts in the cellar. The hardwood floors are in good shape, and will be sanded at the end.
With no heat in the place work stopped for the winter, but in the past month or so a lot has been done with Lincolnville's Peter Thomas joining Val.
The Berniers will be living on the first floor, so the four upstairs bedrooms and attic won't be restored at this time.
Downstairs all the plaster has been removed, and every window, upstairs as well, has been replaced, including nice deep sills to hold plants. One room holds all the bags of insulation that will be installed once some new electrical outlets are in. After that comes the sheetrock, and it will begin to look like a finished house.
A lot of dreaming goes into a project of this magnitude. What does the budget allow? How much of the old to save, what has to go? There are no sheets of plans, just competent workers taking on each problem area as it presents, patching, replacing, shoring up, rebuilding. Jane can't wait to get the outside painted and is playing with color, promising it will be colorful. The gingerbread trim will stay; it seems to be original to the house.
TUESDAY, May 21
Knitting Workshop, 4-6 p.m., Library
Five Town CSD Budget Meeting, 7 p.m., CHRHS
WEDNESDAY, May 22
Special Town Meeting-School Budget Vote, 6 p.m., Walsh Common, LCS
MCSWC Board of Directors, 6:30 p.m., Camden Town Office
THURSDAY, May 23
Soup Café, Noon-1 p.m., Community Building, 18 Searsmont Road
Grades 3-5 Concert, 6:30, Walsh Common. LCS
MONDAY, May 27
Memorial Day Parade, 1 p.m., starts at LCS; in case of rain ceremony at Walsh Common
AA meetings, Tuesdays & Fridays at 12:15 p.m., Wednesdays & Sundays at 6 p.m., United Christian Church
Lincolnville Community Library, open Tuesdays 4-7, Wednesdays, 2-7, Fridays and Saturdays, 9 a.m.-noon. For information call 706-3896.
Soup Café, every Thursday, noon—1p.m., Community Building, Sponsored by United Christian Church. Free, though donations to the Community Building are appreciated
Schoolhouse Museum open by appointment, 789-5984.
Bayshore Baptist Church, Sunday School for all ages, 9:30 a.m., Worship Service at 11 a.m., Atlantic Highway
United Christian Church, Worship Service 9:30 a.m., Children's Church during service, 18 Searsmont Road
June 4: Grades K-2 Concert
Slab City Rendevous Film showing
June 11: Grades 6-8 Concert
June 18: Eighth Grade Graduation
June 19: Last Day of School
The King Kineo wood cookstove that was in the house will be the centerpiece of the kitchen/living room. Windows look out at future gardens and a greenhouse/sunroom to be built off the kitchen. And a picket fence will enclose her front garden, Jane says, a garden their two dogs will be banned from.
Lincolnville Center continues to surprise. It actually has an entrance now: Breezemere Park with its Bicentennial Bandstand at the head of Nortons Pond and the refurbished Veterans Memorial make us look like a real town.
One by one those wonderful 19th Century buildings are coming to life again. Of course there's the Library at one end of the village, concocted out of the shell of an 1846 one-room schoolhouse into a cozy and inviting town library/meeting room.
Across the road the old fire station fills up on summer days with kids learning to sail with the Lincolnville Boat Club.
Next door the once hulk of a shed is a warm and productive pottery studio.
One by one houses are being revitalized. A barn and pasture complete with horses at one, several painted or re-sided, spruced up with gardens and workshops, including Janis and Tom Sadowski's shop, The Red Cottage. Of course, the General Store is a story all to itself, another apparently doomed old building brought back lovingly to what has already become a destination for townspeople and visitors alike.
United Christian Church at the Searsmont end of Main Street not only added its first "flush" some years back, but a parish hall/Children's Church room, protective storm windows over re-glazed, original 200 year-old sashes, restored stone steps at the entrance, and just this year, a cozy office for the pastor. Next door the Community Building, a mere youngster built by volunteers in the 1960s as a basketball court, has been converted into an inviting space for town events complete with kitchen.
Last but not least, it looks like Petunia Pump will be with us another 50 years.
Built in the 1930s by Herbert Heal (Bessie Dean's father – she was a role model for growing old as those of us who knew Bessie always tell each other) the old structure was showing its age. In fact, that's not even the original, as that was replaced in the 1980s by the Boy Scouts and leader, Andy Hazen.
Just the other day the finial was finally attached by the volunteers who reshingled the roof last fall – Mike Richardson, Joan Richardson, Nick Fernandez, Mike Timchak, and Tom Dickens.
Maybe some day there'll be a real sidewalk through the Center. But I won't hold my breath; it will come in time. Meanwhile, I can't wait to stroll up Main Street and look over Jane and Jerry's picket fence to see what's growing there.
Memorial Day Parade
Monday May 27 is Memorial Day this year with the parade stepping off at 1 p.m. from the school and ending at the Veterans Park next to the Library. The speaker will be Representative Paige Ziegler, our representative in the Legislature. Right after the ceremony at the Veterans Park the color guard will drive down to the Beach to cast a wreath into Frohock Brook in honor of those lost at sea. One of the Lincolnville men lost in WW II, Maynard Thurlow, was in the Navy and died when his ship was hit with a kamikaze pilot off Okinawa. In case of rain, or should I say since it will be raining, the parade and the Frohock ceremony will be cancelled, but the speaker will be inside the school in Walsh Common.
A number of middle school students visited the State House to watch the Legislature in action. As the culminating activity for a civics and leadership enrichment program originally presented by Mrs. Russo before she left to take a new position as the Policy and Legal Director for the Senate President, the students were the guest of State Senator Erin Herbig, met Governor Janet Mills in her office, attended a memorial service at the Maine Law Enforcement Memorial, and visited the Maine State Museum.
In spite of the lousy weather LCS eighth grade students joined their future classmates from across the five towns, Northport, and St. George at Camden Hills State Park last week for a day of hiking, cooperative activities, and a picnic lunch. Many thanks go out to all of the members of our local police and fire departments, EMS folks, and the many parent volunteers who came out to support this day that brings eighth graders together.
Check out the LCS newletter, The Lynx this week as several summer camps and programs are advertised.
The Book Group will meet Tuesday at 6 p.m. to talk about a recent release "Circe" by by Madeline Miller. All are welcome whether you've read the book or not.
Monday, May 27, Memorial Day this year, the Library holds its annual book and plant sale, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Bring your own bags and fill 'em up.
Slab City Rendevous
This summer the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland is exhibiting the work of several New York artists active in Lincolnville and surrounding towns during the 1950s and 60s. Since much of their work centered around Slab City where Alex Katz had settled about 1950, the group became identified with that road. Most of them were painters, but in those years while summering in our area they also dabbled in film making.
Five short films – Shoot the Moon, Lurk, The Cowgirl, Slipperella, and Windmill for Polly – by filmmaker Rudy Burkhardt featuring a cast and crew of artists Edwin Denby, Rackstraw Downes, Red Grooms, Mimi Gross, Yvonne Jacquette, Alex Katz, and Neil Welliver will be shown June 4 at the Rockport Opera House, 5-9 p.m. The evening includes food trucks, beer, wine, and dessert. Admission is $15, $10 for Farnsworth members.
Birds Galore
A staple of my Camden Herald column was always the birds people were seeing at their feeders. It was déjà vu for me when Marilyn Pendleton called the other day to tell me about a little bird that's been showing up at her feeder, a small, chickadee-like bird with yellow bars along its side and on its head. She hasn't been able to identify it. A kinglet, I wondered. Or a warbler.
Then Annie McCormack told me about her scarlet tanagers. Scarlet tanagers! They're apparently nesting in her yard on Hope Road. Reed takes his birds very seriously and has several feeding spots around the house, tacking up oranges for the orioles and grape jelly for the tanagers. Yes, grape jelly. Wonder if they can tell the difference between grape and any other kind. The Carrolls up on Searsmont Road have a blooming quince bush this spring that's attracting hummingbirds like crazy. Mine's about to bloom, so now I'll be looking for hummers too.
I heard a loon call for the first time yesterday, a single cry and pretty far off, but a loon no doubt. They generally fly over Ducktrap Road every morning on their way from Coleman where they nest to the shore where they fish.
Keeping Our Roads Clean
Dee Boehmer and Susie Gerow are back at it, or rather, still at it, picking up bottles, cans, and other trash along their walking route – Beach Road from Stevens Corner (Youngtown Road) to Drake's. Since last year they've picked up 2,115 returnables and 6 fifty gallon bags of trash. What on earth is in the mind of someone who opens the car window and throws their garbage out onto the road?
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