After writing my previous blog post, "5 examples of amazing print", I was inspired to dive back into my research and find more amazing pieces of print to share. Print really does allow you to be so creative and speak to people in a way that other forms of media can't. The following products caught my eye straight away and I couldn't help but share them!
This amazing piece of print was created by Saatchi & Saatchi for the Israelian energy company Shiku & Binui Solaria, who focus on green power. They created this ad to draw attention to the purpose and importance of sunlight. The idea behind the ad was that looking at the page normally, there would be no colour and it looks quite boring. Whereas when you follow the directions on the page and hold it up to the sunlight, the image fills with colour and an extra line of text appears pointing out the benefits of sunlight. This piece of print definitely isn't ordinary and is something I'd never expect to see, but I think that it's really effective.
Moo are a print and design company who create things like business cards, stickers, postcards and much more. They created wedding invites for Susan Wai who wanted something non-traditional and personal that her guests could keep. Moo offer to create personalized postcards which is what Susan chose as her wedding invites, and I think it's such a good idea. They include pictures of them as children, along with memories of them travelling. I love this idea as it has been well thought out and the personalization makes it feel more special. The inspiration page for this print on the website explains more about the idea behind them and there is input from Susan herself about the product and why she chose it. I love when companies have inspiration pages on their website because it's great fun to look through and helps inspire others to create some interesting print.
Leo Burnett created an ad campaign for Jeep with the slogan, "See whatever you want to see". The reason this piece of print is so cool is that there is an unexpected twist. When you first look, you see the image of an animal (for example, the animal on one of the pages is a giraffe). But when you flip the page upside down, a new animal appears without anything changing! (The giraffe turns into a penguin once flipped). I think this is an impressive idea that will definitely spark discussions, leaving viewers amazed at how it's been done, like an optical illusion. This shows that advertising doesn't need to be digital to be creative and different and that print is still being used in many different ways.
This print is slightly different to everything else I've shared as it's not traditional print. This piece is a business card created by Jukebox for The Secret Garden Tea Company made from a tea bag! I absolutely love this product as I've never seen anything like it before, it would make the company stand out and I think people are more likely to take notice of this business card and it's not just something that can be placed to one side and ignored - it will always attract attention. The technique was a speciality print technique called Silk screening and the website page explains the process of creating a prototype for the project.
Within their advert in a magazine, DHL wanted to portray their super quick delivery and the idea they came up with is genius. They decided to created a double page spread with a transparent page in the middle. The transparent page had the image of a courier collecting a DHL parcel from one person, and when the page us turned, they are delivering it to the other person. What a clever idea! I think this is really original and it would definitely catch my attention and make me want to look into it more. This is a more creative way of using print as there is no text on the page, just images, which allows the company to get across their message without having to state it which is an impressive thing to achieve.


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We can manage the process at all stages, from shipping, freight, storage, handing, and delivery. As a local business, we have a 700m2 showroom and warehouse to process, store, assemble, and a fleet of vehicles to deliver. We liaise with builders, facility managers, and all stakeholders to coordinate logistics, and ensure this process runs as seamless as possible.
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It is: in 2018, in terms of the weather, a year of records. Never since records began, the sun has shone for so many hours, it rained so little and it was so many days, extremely hot. With extreme consequences: farmers and their Crops, the inland waterway came to a Standstill, petrol, fruit and vegetables were more expensive in the Winter, the drought damage in forests, meadows, and cultivated Fields visible. lost Forecasters say We will have to in the course of climate change. The German weather service (DWD) has therefore developed a new prediction model of ground sage wet for the farmers. How this works is explained by Paul Becker. The meteorologist is Vice-President of the DWD.
TIME ONLINE: In the past year, the consequences of the ongoing drought dramatically for the agricultural sector. Were surprised the farmers of the drought?
Paul Becker: A period of drought builds slowly, but the farmers can not expect a priori that a year is extremely dry or wet. This is because the weather can be said for up to two weeks in advance.
Zeit ONLINE: you have now presented a model that the soil moisture for a period of six weeks. What exactly is the soil moisture?
Becker: The soil humidity describes how much water is in the soil available. This percentage is also referred to as stick water, since he remains against the force of gravity in the upper layers of soil, instead of in the deeper layers to sink in. It was important for us to look at the area from which the plants draw their water. This is just under the surface of the earth. To find out how wet is the reason, we consider the soil and its properties: for example, whether it is coarse or fine-grained. Once we know this, we can determine how much water it can absorb. We then calculate how many litres fell per square metre and how much of it evaporates.
Becker:, Lysimeter allow it to capture the soil moisture. However, the measurement is often error-prone and time-consuming. Accordingly, it is preferable to calculate the soil moisture. For our forecasts we have looked at us on a regular basis as adverse weather conditions – the weather conditions in a certain period of time – and with our soil water balance model is coupled.
TIME ONLINE: The calculation model has been around longer. Why have meteorolog inside and meteorologists, it is not used?
Becker: the coupling of the soil moisture model with a classic weather forecast of about two weeks, only a very small gain in knowledge. It was only when a coupling with longer-term weather observations became possible for four to six weeks – could be relevant to the soil moisture fluctuations are calculated. In addition, extensive testing was necessary to ensure the quality of the prediction estimate. For this purpose, we have attributed to 20 years.
TIME ONLINE: now, If the DWD predicts that the soil is moist in the coming weeks, slimming, what they can do to farmers?
Becker: The agricultural sector can reduce future crop damage and Yield losses in a targeted and resource-use taxes. For example, by applying fertilizer and then, if enough moisture for its uptake in the soil is present. Another example is the targeted use of plant protection measures, which related to the weather, can be adapted to the situation.


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Dmitry Grinberg utilizing the PIC12F1840 and an SD card made a simple sound player to record and playback your files.
"The purpose of this project was to create a sound player that can play high quality sound using nothing but a single chip (plus an SD card for data storage).
The chosen microcontroller was the PIC12F1840. It was chosen because of its fast clock rate (up to 32 MHz). Since microchip PICs have this atrocious property of executing one instruction every four clock cycles, this results in 8MIPS performance. The second reason for the choice was the hardware SPI module - bit-banging SPI is not hard, BUT doing it fast enough to sustain the sound playback would be - the hardware SPI module helps by allowing the SPI clock to be as high at 8MHz without using nearly as much CPU time as bit-banging would. The reset of the circuit design was easy: the PIC outputs a PWM waveform to drive the speaker, which is amplified by a MOSFET, PIC's SPI controller talks to the SD card, and another GPIO is used to provide power to te SD card allowing it to be powered off and thus letting the circuit sleep in very low power mode (nanowatts of power used). The pic is overclocked using the OSCTUNE register to 33MHz from the stock speed of 32MHz."


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Your data is telling you a story. Does it tell you where to find upside or new markets for growth? It may tell you that your competitors are eating your lunch, but you don't know why. At Valorem Reply, we believe there is only one choice - turn your data into a strategic asset! Valorem Reply's Data Platform and Analytics modernization services enable you to connect the dots, forging an intelligent, agile enterprise that fosters innovation and competes on the global stage.
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The Austin, Texas-based startup is uniquely positioned to address a key pain point within the HR industry and is primed for growth. The company's platform removes the heavy lifting out of extracting, cleansing, modeling, and delivering analytics from your workforce data.
"One Model sits at the center of all people data held by an organization. As such, we're in a unique position to understand, extend, and deliver organizations with transformative value from this data. Our vision is that every company will need what amounts to a secondary system of record that connects together all of their disparate people systems and provides a level of insight that no transactional system can achieve on its own. We're only beginning to scratch the surface of what is possible with the level of HR system interaction we are now achieving, and this investment allows us to double down on our approach" says Chris Butler, CEO of One Model.
One Model provides a data management platform and comprehensive suite of people analytics directly from various HR technology platforms to measure all aspects of the employee lifecycle. Use our out-of-the-box integrations, metrics, analytics, and dashboards, or create your own as you need to. We provide a full platform for delivering more information, measurement, and accountability from your team. To learn more about One Model or to sign up for a demo, visit onemodel.co. Request a demo today at http://www.onemodel.co/.
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Zach Whiting
State Senator, District 1
Address: P.O. Box 385, Spirit Lake, IA 51360
Email: zach.whiting@legis.iowa.gov
Committees: Labor & Business Relations (Vice Chair), Administrative Rules Review, Government Oversight, Judiciary, State Government, Transportation
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A native of Spirit Lake, Senator Zach Whiting is a fifth-generation Northwest Iowan whose family has deep roots in agriculture, education, and community and public service. He has been married to his wife, Juliana, for seven years, and they have two children.
Senator Whiting graduated from Spirit Lake High School in May 2006. After graduation he accepted a scholarship to attend Stetson University. He graduated from Stetson in May 2010, summa cum laude with Phi Beta Kappa distinction, with a bachelor of arts degree in political science.
He graduated from the Regent University School of Law in May 2014 with a Juris Doctor degree. During law school, he worked as a law clerk at the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ). He served as articles editor of a law review and had a constitutional law article published in a faith-based law journal. He was also a Renoud Family Constitutional Law Scholar and a member of the Law School Honor Council.
Senator Whiting is proud to live, work, and raise his family in Northwest Iowa.


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Welcome to Cliché Hell
Posted by White Rhino
Have you read Dan Brown's new book? Inferno is a lot like The Da Vinci Code, only this time all the action swirls around Dante Alighieri, his epic poem The Divine Comedy, and its infamous nine circles of Hell.
Dante's rings were carefully devised to mete out a fitting punishment for the sins that each soul committed on earth. For example, if you were greedy or miserly in life, you'd be forced to push around enormous bags of money around for all eternity.
When Dante wrote his masterpiece 700 years ago, he was harping on the seven deadly sins. But I can't help but wonder, if the poet were alive now, would he carve out a deeper circle exclusively for business-to-business advertising professionals? For the lazy? The uninspired? The easily satisfied?
I mean, there's an endless stream of stuff out there competing for your audience's attention. Why make it easier for them to ignore you by settling for recycled, unimaginative work?
I can easily picture Satan flipping through the pages of a trade pub, groaning and shaking his head as he looms over a cowering creative team.
"Really, guys? Of everything you could have possibly created, you chose to do an ad of two business guys in suits shaking hands? Even though you knew it had been done a million times before? It's the 10th circle for you, amigos."
And with a dismissive kick of one of his taloned heels, he'd send the writer and art director bouncing pell-mell ever deeper into the bowels of hades. If you think about it, Satan, the king of temptation, makes for a fitting judge of advertising. Tricking people into coveting and lusting after material possessions is his MO, after all. Lazy visual clichés and tired puns rarely get the job done.
The team's penance would be to languish perpetually in a conference room as a pack of demons pummeled them with stock photography books—meanwhile, a mountain of shiny industry awards loom maddeningly close but just out of reach.
And they wouldn't be alone. For using sports-related metaphors as a crutch—especially ones showing track and field athletes—there's a corner of Hell where creative teams are buried in a field up to their waists while runners wearing shoes cleated with spikes try to hurdle their heads, and just miss.
The deepest ring of Hell runneth over, writhing with advertising executives just like us: Creative directors who blessed images of climbers ascending to the tops of mountain peaks. High-tech designers that resorted to digital 1's and 0's as a motif for their annual reports. Art buyers who purchased photos of spinning globes, broken piggy banks, chessboards, and chains with breaking links.
The next time you sit down to ponder an assignment, remember Dante's cautionary tale and resist the temptation to commit advertising's Cardinal Sin. Clichéd work may be easy to write, easy to sell, and easy to buy, but it's also easy to ignore.
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Are You Wasting Your Money? 5 Things To Stop Doing Right Now!
Every day we waste money and if you are one of the millions who are trying to pay back debts and get financially stable, putting a stop to this wasted money could be your solution.
In the UK alone there is over one million worth of personal debt. That's a lot of money and many households across the country spend their monthly earnings paying off various payments, when they could pay the debts back faster and start saving.
So where do we waste our money each day and every month?
One of the major ways to waste money is on TV subscriptions. TV companies offer various packages and you pay a good amount of money each month towards having a wide selection of TV channels.
How many of the channels do you actually watch? Recently I dropped my TV package and saved almost £20 a month. I realised that I wasn't watching even half of the channels I had been paying for over many years and there were only a few select channels I enjoyed.
Dropping the package is giving me a £240 saving each year that money can be put towards some of the repayments made on debts each month, bringing them down quicker. You'd be amazed how £20 over and above a minimum payment on a store card can bring the balance down faster.
Visiting the pub is a way of life in the UK. It's a traditional thing and everyone does it. The minute you turn eighteen you visit the pub on a regular basis, for some they visit more than others.
Being in the habit of visiting the pub more than twice a week can put a serious drain on finances. It's easy to spend £20 or even £50 a night at the pub, having a few drinks with friends.
Imagine visiting the pub twice a week and spending £100 for the week, while the landlord probably loves you, your finances don't. Cutting back to one night out a week can save you over £2,000 each year; can you imagine how quickly you could repay your debts with that?
Down here in the south of England our tap water isn't the greatest and I was spending about £2 a day on bottled water, using it in the kettle to make tea and as drinking water.
That was £14 a week I was spending just on water, excluding the actual tea, sugar and milk.
There are water jugs you can buy which can help you save a fortune if you live in an area you cannot drink the water. Paying for the water jug is less than two weeks' worth of bottled water and the filters are affordable, overall I am saving around £12 a week by using a jug for water, that's a saving of over six hundred pounds each year, money I can use to repay my debts.
Going out for dinner with friends is a great way to relax and unwind after a hard week at work. Restaurants are expensive and you can easily end up spending over £100 for two people at a restaurant in one night.
Keep your going out for dinner nights to a minimum, try and cut back to only once or twice a month rather than a few nights a week. It's easy to cook a good meal at home and entertain at home on a minimum budget. You can save yourself a fortune each and every month.
Once you find where you are wasting money and you make necessary changes, you'll realise you have money over when you do your budget. Don't stick to your regular routine when paying your bills at the end of the month, take some of the money you are saving and put it towards one of the bills to help reduce the balance and get your debts paid off quicker.
The Telegraph's fashion team offer their top 5 tips for saving money in end of season clearance sales.
Savers are losing more than £17billion a year as inflation continues to wipe out the low interest earned by their savings and current accounts, according to research. It comes as banks have access to cheap money via the Funding for Lending scheme.
I designate specific days (once or twice a week) where I simply don't visit any touristy attractions that cost any money. Instead, I'll take the time to wander randomly around streets, back-alleys and markets. Not only have I saved money but some of my most memorable experiences have come about on days such as these. Discovering a wonderful local market and having a delicious lunch or randomly encountering a local who invites you into his/her home for tea are just some of the highlights I've experienced over the years. – Samuel Jeffery from Nomadic Samuel and Smiling Faces Travel Photos.


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Yahoo's Carol Bartz: 'We Are Not A Search Company'
by Laurie Sullivan @lauriesullivan, May 27, 2009
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz had a busy week. After an on-stage interview at the D: All Things Digital conference and another for CNBC's "The Kudlow Report" that's expected to air Thursday in excerpts throughout the business day, she could be forgiven for being tired.
"We are not a search company," she told CNBC's Jim Goldman, suggesting Yahoo is no different than any other software company competing against Microsoft, though it doesn't sell operating systems. "Just because we are on the Internet does not mean we are a search company."
Bartz told Goldman Yahoo is much broader than a search company. When Goldman suggested that Yahoo tries to compete with Google, Bartz said Yahoo is positioned completely different. She says people don't go to Google to research what's happening in the financial world, connect with similar interest groups, or get the headline news of the moment (Really, Ms. Bartz?). She attempted to make the argument that Yahoo is very different than Google, yet just as special.
When asked how Bartz intends to unlock the power of Yahoo to continue the company's turnaround, she confronted Goldman. "There's no turnaround at Yahoo," she said. "Yahoo is only down 13% year over year. Far less than most people in the advertising business, far less if you look at a lot of advertising-related companies, they are down 30 to 40%. In this market down 15% is the new flat."
Bartz said the turnaround is more mental than physical. It's about continuing to grow and expanding the company's reach. Yahoo has the No. 1 finance Web site, news site, sports site and email service in the world, and "all this business of turnaround is just crazy," she said.
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Ex-Real Madrid man is surprise target for Mourinho and Man United
Jose looking at midfield options
With a number of midfielders set to leave Manchester United this January, boss Jose Mourinho is reportedly keen on bringing in Lassana Diarra.
The 31-year-old is currently at Marseille, but after starting the campaign with the captain's armband, has barely featured in recent weeks.
Valued at just over £4m by transfermarkt.co.uk, Diarra could be acquired for a mere snip, especially with the likes of Morgan Schneirderlin set to depart.
The Frenchman looks set to move to Everton for £20m, freeing up squad space and plenty of funds for Mourinho to bring in his own targets.
Bastian Schweinsteiger and Marouane Fellaini could also leave the club in the near future.
Signing Diarra would seem a little unusual however, with the Frenchman set to turn 32 in March.
And the story takes another turn when you consider that the midfielder and Mourinho paired up previously at Real Madrid.
Diarra made 43 La Liga appearances under Jose at the Bernabeu, before moving to Russia ahead of the Portuguese's final season in Spain.
So they know each other well, and perhaps that's exactly why the Special One wants him, as a safe pair of hands.
Mourinho clearly doesn't rate either Schneiderlin or Schweinsteiger, while many have been surprised that Fellaini has played as often as he has.
Ander Herrera has become the de-facto holding man at Old Trafford, while Jose may well wish that Michael Carrick was ten years younger.
But with the club now on a 13-game unbeaten run – including a six-game winning streak in the Prem – it seems Jose is forging the side he wants to lead at Old Trafford.
That's bad news for a number of outcasts, but it may explain why there's more to this Diarra link than initially meets the eye.
The Red Devils are in Emirates FA Cup action this weekend, when they host Reading.
Mourinho's men are 2/9 favourites to get the job done, against the Championship outfit now managed by former United legend Jaap Stam.
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Why Houseplants Become Leggy And How To Prevent Or Fix It
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Have you ever had a houseplant that was growing tall or long but stayed very thin? Perhaps the stems were mostly bare except for a few straggly leaves at the top, or it just didn't look healthy and flushed out even though it was definitely still alive. The term used when stems become lanky and sparse like this is etiolation, Botanical Bright notes. When left untended, a plant with this problem inevitably turns leggy. Weakened stems will not be able to stay upright, often bending over from the weight of whatever leaves remain.
According to Patch, the most common cause of etiolation in houseplants is a lack of proper light exposure. Plants forced to stretch towards a faraway light source will not be able to handle the situation for long. Sometimes they'll bend towards a window, like the striving succulent pictured above. But, most often, the stems will grow straight up, expecting to find the sun above them just as it would be in nature. Etiolation usually happens to succulents, but it's a problem that any plant can have.
Patch adds that, on occasion, outdoor garden plants will become leggy due to a lack of annual pruning. But when it comes to your indoor potted houseplants, you can depend on the fact that low light is the cause of your issue.
How to prevent legginess in your plants
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We've established that legginess is caused by insufficient light, and, as is to be expected, the Garden Answer YouTube channel explains that the single best way to prevent etiolation from even starting is to move your plants into a brighter location or provide grow lights. But how much brighter and for how long? And, wait, aren't there actually different kinds of light?
In their guide to indoor light, Patch takes the basic knowledge — that all plants depend, at least to some extent, on light for survival — quite a few steps further. First, light levels differ with changing seasons; they also change depending on the time of day. Even windows facing different cardinal directions (north, east, west, south) experience varying quantities and degrees of exposure. Then we have direct versus indirect light. Some plants, like cacti, love enormous amounts of hot, intense sunlight — the kind that would give many among us a sunburn; others, such as monkey mask monsteras, not so much. Then we have the ferns and other low-light plants, who don't really need much sunshine at all. Ahh, but they do need some!
This is why houseplants come with care instruction labels sticking out of their soil. Learning about each of your plants' individual requirements allows you to determine the best placement for each within your home, and proper placement means full, happy houseplants that don't need to stretch uncomfortably in search of light and, thus, do not become leggy.
How to fix legginess when it's already happened
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Fixing legginess that has already begun to occur is a tougher problem to tackle. Succulents Box says that once etiolation occurs in a succulent, it is a permanent problem, and there's no chance of your plant going back to a normal shape. The best way to help a stretched-out plant is to cut its stems and leaves for propagation. With sharp, clean gardening shears, remove all leggy stems. Next, cut off all of the lower leaves from the removed stems. Leave each piece to dry and callous for 24 to 48 hours. Finally, plant the stem cuttings in pots and care for them as you would any new plant.
Garden Answer explains that once planted, new roots will shoot out of the stem cuttings at each point where a leaf had originally been attached. Another option with a leggy plant is to prune it all the way back to the soil level. Pruning is your way of telling a plant to focus its energy on new growth, and with a little luck, pups will begin to shoot out over time, and the plant will regrow.
Garden Answer suggests using a shallow tray filled with succulent-specific soil to propagate the leaves you initially removed from the stems. Gently lay the leaves on top of the soil. Wait a week before spritzing them with water. After a few weeks, you should see roots starting to grow (via YouTube).


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After scooping a Tony Award for his performance in Fences and directing the acclaimed film adaptation, Denzel Washington returns to Broadway for devastating Eugene O'Neill classic The Iceman Cometh.
In a rundown New York bar, a group of alcoholics clutch their beers and lament their long-lost ambitions. Usually chief among the drinkers is boisterous salesman Theodore "Hickey" Hickman, but today he's changed. As he encourages his peers to put down their glasses and turn pipe dreams into reality, O'Neill's play darkly explores self-deception, reinvention and the ever-elusive American Dream.
Denzel Washington is a true titan of both stage and screen, having won two Academy Awards (Training Day; Glory), three Golden Globes and a Tony. His previous Broadway appearances include Fences and A Raisin in the Sun.
He is now set to play Hickey in this revival of The Iceman Cometh, with further casting including Colm Meaney (Breaking the Code), David Morse (How I Learned to Drive) and Bill Irwin (Waiting for Godot).
Playwright Eugene O'Neill was an innovative and hugely influential figure in American theater, earning four Pulitzer Prizes throughout his career. His catalogue of work includes Long Day's Journey into Night, Strange Interlude and Anna Christie.
The creative team on this new revival of The Iceman Cometh includes visionary Angels in America director George C. Wolfe, with set design from Tony Award winner Santo Loquasto (Hello, Dolly!) and costumes from Ann Roth (The Book of Mormon).
The Iceman Cometh at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre is a sublime meeting of one of the greatest contemporary actors with some of the most muscular, compelling American drama. Sure to be a knock-out theatrical event, the play begins previews on March 23 2018.
Fans of classic American drama shouldn't miss this opportunity to experience one of the true greats performed by an Academy Award winning actor. Those who missed out on Denzel Washington's lauded turns in previous Broadway hits should also snap up tickets for The Iceman Cometh as soon as possible.
Running time: 3 hours 50 minutes (including two intermissions)
Press night: 26 Apr 2018
Booking until: 01 Jul 2018
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A lot has been happening over the last few weeks, the brilliant designer Nanni Goebel has been working intensively on the layouts while I have been tweaking the texts, image editing and sequencing and now all the hard work is coming to fruition. Today the layouts have finally been finished, the proofreading is over, and it's final preparations before the actual printing in Heidelberg in just two weeks' time.
One of the most exciting things has been evolving the designs for the cover, and I'm really thrilled about what is emerging - it's going to be a highly graphic design but also with hidden symbolism that reflects the whole idea of the book. Just the kind of thing that I really love: graphic form + symbolism = a happy me. The cover will be quite different from the provisional look of the book as it appeared in the Kehrer catalogue.


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Responses to the survey will be accepted until June 27, 2016. Paper ballots are available at the town office and the Killington Welcome Center or can be filled out online. For more information contact amy@killingtontown.com.


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Jewish New Year Brings a Shemitah, Blood Moons and Unsure Future
11:00AM EDT 9/25/2014 JONATHAN FELDSTEIN
We are in the midst of four consecutive blood moons, all which fall upon dates of biblical festivals on the Jewish calendar. (Reuters file photo)
Some months ago, I wrote about the blood moon phenomena as my friend, Pastor Mark Biltz, who discovered the connection to the overlaying of current events with the Jewish calendar, and how, during years when there were successive "super moons," great or tragic things happen to the Jewish people and the land and people of Israel.
This year, not only are we in the midst of four consecutive blood moons, but these also take place on the biblical festivals, according to the Jewish calendar. As Pastor Mark says, we may not know what is in store, but the overlay of these blood moons with the biblical festivals serves as "God's billboard," making us aware that something is coming.
Since then, I have been asked countless times what I think is coming. I share Pastor Mark's view that it's not for us to assume that we know, to be prophets, but to be aware, and to be ready. I invite you to read my original article at charismamag.com and other original sources from Pastor Mark at El Shaddai Ministries and others to learn more about it.
During this Rosh Hashana 5775, the world is in chaos. Any or all of these events may be part of the big picture of what's in store, or what's taking place before our eyes that we'll look back on with clarity and see God's hand:
The U.S. is leading a coalition to fight, and God willing, destroy ISIS and its ideological allies while ISIS threatens Western hostages in Iraq and Syria, and to bring the battle to our front yards.
Russia has resumed Soviet-style expansionist threats, specifically against Ukraine where fighting and bloodshed continue, but with a fear that their reach could go wider.
Anti-Semitism coupled with the persecution of Christians is on the rise globally—an affront against the only people who have a true relationship with the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Iran remains a world pariah, threatening not just Israel and the Middle East, but with continued export and funding of their terrorist ideology worldwide.
And while there was a war this past summer in which Hamas fired more than 4,600 missiles at Israel and they have not given any indication they will stop, at least their plot to launch a large-scale attack on Israel this week was foiled—for now.
There are other events that are no less dramatic taking place before our eyes. Any of them could be markers on the road as we pass sign after sign of what's to come. Again, it's God's billboard. I don't want to pretend I know what's coming. I don't. I simply recall my daughter summing up a conversation about the blood moons with a guest last winter by saying, 'So basically every time these four blood moons happen and they fall out on Jewish holidays, something really great or really horrible happens for the Jewish people and in all cases, blood is shed.' I guess that about sums it up. All we can do is be aware, and pray for a positive outcome.
A close friend, Pastor Todd Hadley, asked this past spring, what he and his church should pray for. One thing that kept coming to mind in all of this was that the connection between blood moons and shedding our blood. The concepts have an indelible link to Heart to Heart, the virtual blood-donation program that supports Israel's national blood center, of which he and his church, and so many others, have been active supporters. The program helps ensure that Israel always has the blood it needs, regardless of what may be on the horizon, and especially now with God sending clear signals that something is coming.
As we exchanged emails on the subject, he wrote, "As to what to pray for, God put this on my heart:
To pray that, whatever God is signaling us is coming, it be for the good of Israel and the nations
To pray that even if it is good, it does not involve a loss of life, especially in Israel
To pray that if there is death, that this be kept to a minimum;
To pray that if blood is shed, as the one thing that can heal and save all people, Israel's blood supply and the resources to protect it, are always abundant."
I might modify the third item in the above prayer somewhat, having been through a war with Hamas this summer, a smaller and less globally threatening version of ISIS but one that's no less radical and deadly, and the extremist ideology they espouse that's rooted in Islamic extremism. Even though they don't sanctify life, the fewer terrorists left alive at the end of fighting against them is a good thing.
But there's another interesting twist. This New Year we enter theShemitah or sabbatical year, the seventh year of a cycle in which God commands us to let the land lie fallow. It's an awesome statement of faith for farmers to simply not plant this coming year, and put a big billboard on their property saying, "Here we observe Shemitah."
Pastor Mark discovered that when the blood moons happen during aShemitah year—at least the last two cycles—there were financial calamities as well. In 2001 and 2008 there were major economic downturns. Nothing's guaranteed, but two in a row coupled with the world events in front of us is a little too much of a coincidence for me. Personally, I decided that rather than sitting on a bunch of dollars or shekels in the bank, that it'd be safer to buy some gold. It's a good investment either way, but on the verge of a potential economic downturn, of course I can pray, but here's a way that I can also take action.
Whatever God has in store, I pray that for you and your family and loved ones, and for all of Israel, that the New Year will be one of happiness, health, abundance, and if not peace, than at least quiet.
Blessings from Jerusalem for a happy 5775.
Jonathan Feldstein was born and educated in the U.S. and immigrated to Israel in 2004. He is married and the father of six. Throughout his life and career, he has been blessed by the calling to fellowship with Christian supporters of Israel and shares experiences of living as an Orthodox Jew in Israel. He writes a regular column forCharisma's Standing With Israel. You can contact Jonathan at firstpersonisrael@gmail.com.
Unless otherwise specified, the opinions expressed are solely the author's and do not necessarily reflect the views of Charisma Media.
*GRAPHIC* Islamic State (ISIS) behead children and women after stripping them naked | Pamela Geller, Atlas Shrugs
*GRAPHIC* Islamic State (ISIS) behead children and women after stripping them naked
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Here is a must-read piece from Satya D, a prominent Hindu thinker and activist:
From the advent of Islam, it is the brutality that was used to conquer. Will Durant and other authors have translated Arabs own memoirs on how the Islamic invaders have destroyed cultures and swathes of land with utmost brutality and inhumanity with mountains of Kafir's heads and rivers of blood. Durant quotes how a Sultan of Delhi becomes restless if he does not see mountains of Kafir's heads every day morning. Steven Knapp quotes Arab memoirs of literally rivers of blood and the number of men and women sold in Arab markets as slaves (women as sex slaves).
But what is more important is not who did it, but what drives them to do it. That is the point lost in the struggle between Muslims and other communities. A Muslim child is raised with Koranic verses such as below from childhood and Prophet as the model. What does child assimilate when he was told the hate speech such as a Kafir is same as Urine, Feces, Semen, Dead Body, Blood, Dog, Pig, sweat of an animal who eats impure (najis) and alcoholic beverages. This is recited as sacred verse. When people say that is a matter of interpretation, how much is there to interpret here and Mosques themselves are not making it a secret. In the pictures below, when you see ISIS slaughtering a Christian Kid or stripping a Chritian woman naked and beheading her, they are doing what is preached, that a Kafir is same as animal that can be slaughtered. Just watch how an animal is slaughtered and how a Kafir is. In fact, a Saudi Wahaabi cleric in this link gives a lesson on proper way of beheading (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHt-eqrLEOY ).
There is a Hindu Kush (Hindu slaughter) mountains in now Afghanistan and Pakistan region where just on one day they headed 100,000 Hindus. But that is history and why we worry. Because it is repeating again and again and we live in our own world, rather not see to it. On Direct Action Day in 1946 hundreds of thousands were slaughtered that resulted in one million people killed and many beheaded and paraded in the streets like today. Most of the reduction of Hindus/Sikhs from 25% to 1.8% in Pakistan happened in the first few months. This is not to say there were no retaliations and in places like Calcutta Muslims were slaughtered after Hindus realized they could go to East Pakistan if they kept quiet. In Bangla Desh ongoing genocide that reduced Hindus from 30% to 10%, Mosques encourage rape of Hindu Kafir women with words like Hindu women pubic hair smells very pleasant. Love Jihad, where Mosques encourage Muslim boys to seduce and marry Kafir girls for conversions is rampant not just in India but also in UK (BBC has a series on it). The boys task is to marry, produce children and move on to another girl. 1400 UK minor girls were raped by Muslim men and threatened to douse with fire if they mention about it to parents and adults, in a small town in UK!! In 1989, Mosques blared in Kashmir asking Hindu men to leave after leaving behind Hindu women that resulted in half millions still living as refugees in their own country. In Delhi Nirbhaya rape case, it is Muslim juvenile who inserted rod in Nirbhaya's vagina and pulled out her uterus and intestines. Same with the middle aged Hindu woman by Muslim men in UP inserted a big rusted rod into her vagina and killed her.
Aurangzeb alone destroyed 10,000 Hindu temples (see Fact India exhibition from Aurangzeb's own diktats). Taj Mahal is Hindu Palace/Temple. Durant notes how Ghazni could not find enough carts to carry the enormous wealth of just one Somanth temple after slaughtering 50,000 Hindu priests. The once great country with 25% world GDP was brought to its feet, a country of skeletons as Vivekananda put it in 1890s by Islamic and European conquests. The estimate is Islam killed 80 million in Indian Sub continent and 220 million worldwide. The UK rapper Muslim convert who beheaded American Journalist Foley was brainwashed by Indian UK Muslim Anjem Chowdhary.
India is the most affectd by Islamic terrorism after Middle East, but Islam is doing its job where 150,000 were killed since 9/11 itself in Kafir lands, of course half million slaughtered in Middle East itself where one Muslim sect considers other as Kafir!! World is slowly recognizing the only way to destroy destructive people is to turn them on themselves (like the Hindu mythological story of Mohini Bhasmasura).
Those Muslims who do not perform the brutalities either become immune or indifferent because deep in their psyche, a Kafir is less than animal. Many are in a denial phase and have little courage to face the truth. When Muslims pray in Mosque, with all men standing in rows and fiery sermons, it is nothing but a call for conquest. Why do Muslims want to create Mosques on the destroyed places of Kafirs, it is symbol of conquest. In Andhra, one Muslim MP Owaisi roared, give 24 hours without police and 20 crores of Muslims will slaughter 100 crores of Hindus in India. Yes, there are retaliations against Muslims to many provocations, but look at any Muslims groups, they talk about the retaliations made to their community encouraging more hatred, but never about what is causing it. It is never ending cycle of brainwashing and violence. A miniscule world population of Jews has the most Nobel prize winners and one Billion+ Muslims only produced terrorists and suicide bombers. A brutal religion only can produce the brutes that are ISIS. While one is using its abilities to shield its people, the other is using every opportunity to use its people as shields. Half of Muslims, women are forced to wear burkha and hijab so that she will not arouse passions for man while man can have four wives (at least in Sunni sect). This is Islam for the world.
But reading this stuff and putting our heads in the sand will not help. We all have to take personal responsibility to stop Islam hate preachings. How many of us checked on where Mosques are coming up and what they are teaching to little Muslim kids? How many of us have contemplated taking up Koran, Sira and Hadith as really a dangerous and brutal political ideology, an ideology of a brutal warlord, who has little respect for womanhood, who cleverly masqueraded it as a religion? Islam as it is today, does not belong to humanity or in any civilization. How many of us questioned why Saudi Arabians, the prime sponsor of terrorism allowed to fund Mosques in US and Europe to radicalize Muslims in the West and endanger our lives and civilization, while they do not allow any other religion (or even worship at home)? How many of us took up with our congressmen and senators to address why America is allowing immigration of those who consider this hate ideology as a religion into our nation and potentially destroy us from within eventually? How many of us took time to expose shady Muslims Organizations like CAIR? How many of us take on oil companies that forces us to pay the very money that are used by Islamic worlds to destroy our civilizations (see how oil companies killed battery cars so effectively in documentary 'who killed the electric car'!!). How many of us are taking on the Islam embracing perverted leftists or 'politically correct' pundits/politicians who are dragging our civilization into a hell hole. Name one country, just one, where Islamic countries give equal rights to non-Muslims.
We worry for children, but we will possibly be leaving a living hell for our descendants starting with Europe. The demographic changes in Europe and India where many Muslims are using women as breeding machines combined with others reducing their populations, is a dangerous and direct threat to democracies and it is literally a matter of survival. From Michigan to Meeankshipuram, we are heading towards a disaster for all humanity if we do not take responsibility? /blockquote>
"Slaughter of Middle East Christians Children and women," Catholic.org
Islamic State terrorists have begun their promised killing of Christians in Mosul, and they have started with the children. According to a report via CNN, a Chaldean-American businessman has said that killings have started in Mosul and children's heads are being erected on poles in a city park.
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Obama at the UN: Don't Blame ISIS
by DR. SEBASTIAN GORKA 24 Sep 2014, 10:31 AM PDT 493POST A COMMENT
In what could have been a seminal wartime address to the nations of the world at the UN today, instead of rallying the West and her regional allies against the barbarity of the Global Jihadist Movement, President Obamachose to reinforce the administration narrative that America's deadly enemies are a product of local injustices.
Since 2008, the Obama administration has promoted the argument that what we face in the guise of Al Qaeda, or ISIS, or any other part of the global Jihadi coalition, is simply "Violent Extremism" that grows out of "local grievances."
This is Beltway speak for an academic idea called Social Movement Theory. (If you want the full history behind this idea and who pitched it to the White House, here is a piece on its origins).
In short, this view sees the violence of jihadi groups against Christians, Yazidis, or even fellow Muslims, as a reaction to the injustice endemic in their societies. Years of oppression by Saddam, Maliki, or the Assad family will inevitably lead to religious genocide and mass slaughter when circumstances allow (e.g. after US forces leave Iraq).
Today the President went even further by drawing the analogy that the violence here in Ferguson, Missouri is an example of the same injustices prevalent throughout the Middle East. The President of the United States appeared to equate the shooting of a thief by a sworn law enforcement officer with the mass slaughter of women and children based upon their religion.
In response to ISIS, the Commander-in-Chief called upon the "international community" to come together and improve said conditions and make "a better life" for all.
Unfortunately history teaches another lesson.
ISIS, the Islamic State, the Al Nusra Front, Al Qaeda, Boko Haram are simply the various faces of a new totalitarianism. The commonality of Jihadism with Fascism and Communism is not an accident. In fact, key Jihadi authors such as Sayyid Qutb of the Muslim Brotherhood studied Mussolini, Lenin and Hitler when writing seminal Jihadist works such as Milestones.
Social Movement Theory denies the responsibility of the perpetrators of heinous acts such as the recent beheadings of innocents journalists. Jihadi John isn't responsible. Taking seven minutes to cut of James Foley's head while he is alive is just the natural response to years of "oppression."
In reality, this fight is simply another war against a totalitarian enemy who truly believes that either they will win and we will be killed or we will win. Unfortunately, it will be impossible for us to be victorious if our plan is based upon solving all injustice in the world and especially if we believe that the enemy is the victim.
Sebastian Gorka, Ph.D. is the Major General Matthew C. Horner Distinguished Chair of Military Theory at the Marine Corps University and the national security and foreign affairs editor of the Breitbart News Network. Follow him on Twitter @SebGorka.
Obama Forbids FBI to Use Religion in Identifying Terror Threats, as ISIS Recruits Openly in U.S. Mosques
by THE INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT ON TERRORISM (IPT) 24 Sep 2014, 12:29 PM PDT 1336POST A COMMENT
AT had a chance to catch up with Steven Emerson, head of The Investigative Project on Terrorism, and hear his assessment of the ISIS threat here on American soil. Emerson runs the country's top data center on Islamic terror groups in the United States, working like a man possessed, and accomplishing the work of thousands on sheer guts and determination to protect our country.
Wherever the bad guys have been caught and prosecuted successfully, you will find Emerson working quietly behind the scenes as an invaluable ally of the FBI and Homeland Security. Because he accepts no money from the government, Emerson has been free of the diktats of the Obama administration that have forbidden the FBI to train their sights on Muslim terrorists. (That means The Investigative Project needs yourhelp to continue its work.)
In the words of U.S. Representative Pete Hoekstra, Ranking Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence:
The Investigative Project on Terrorism is critical to our nation's security. There is no other non-governmental group that has better intelligence or data on the threat to the United States and our allies. Making do with a bare bones budget, the IPT is a national treasure whose influence and achievements are unparalleled.
It is not an exaggeration to say that because of Democrat political correctness hamstringing our FBI agents, they could not combat the Islamists in our midst without Steven Emerson. Oliver "Buck" Revell, former head of FBI Investigations and Counter-Terrorism, said as much in these words: "The Investigative Project has been one of the most important sources of accurate and timely information on the real goals and objectives of the wide spread and powerful Islamist movement."
The FBI turns to Emerson to find out what is happening. So does AT. This is what Emerson told us:
Isis is Al Qaeda 3.0. They are already in the United States and the only reason there has not been a terror attack is that they have not decided to do it yet.
The chief danger Steven Emerson sees is that there are three to four hundred ISIS killers in Syria and Iraq with American passports, who can return whenever they want, and the Obama administration is blocking the FBI from monitoring them in mosques. As Emerson told Judge Jeannine Pirro on Fox News:
The FBI has been handcuffed in terms of investigating religious extremists in mosques, as a result of guidelines put out by the attorney general earlier this year. And so therefore, there is… a definite problem now in investigating those militants in the United States who are either recruiting for ISIS or have returned from Syria or Iraq having fought for ISIS, and are ready to carry out freelance or directed terrorist attacks on behalf of ISIS against the United States…
the Department of Justice [which] put out guidelines that restricted the FBI and other law enforcement agencies from using religious factors in identifying threats, national security threats to the United States in the homeland.
…we're seeing ISIS recruiting biophysicists, engineers, social media types, people who have expertise in really carrying out sophisticated terrorist attacks coming back to the United States.
there's one recruiter that [had been]... picked up [in the past], well identified, in Bloomington, Minnesota at the Al Farooq Mosque. There are recruiters going around the country in other mosques, where they identify potential volunteers. They test them out to see if they're willing to die on behalf of martyrdom of the cause for Allah. Then they give them cash, they provide money for their families in case they die. They give them tickets to go to Turkey. Turkey has allowed them, hundreds, to go through to Syria, then to Iraq. And we [the U.S.] count Turkey as one of our top allies. We haven't put [many of] them on the terrorism watch list, which we should. So there's a major disconnect, Judge, here between what we should be doing to protect the homeland and protect American citizens.
Question for our Congress: Obama will do nothing to revoke the passports of American ISIS maniacs. What are you doing about it?
This post originally ran at the American Thinker (courtesy of the Investigative Project on Terrorism).
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Q: Efficiently Using Multiple Numpy Slices for Random Image Cropping I have a 4-D numpy array, with the first dimension representing the number of images in a data set, the second and third being the (equal) width and height, and the 4th being the number of channels (3). For example let's say I have 4 color images that are 28*28, so my image data looks like this:
X = np.reshape(np.arange(4*28*28*3), (4,28,28,3))

I would like to select a random 16*16 width x height crop of each of the 4 images. Critically, I want the crop to be different per-image, i.e I want to generate 4 random (x_offset, y_offset) pairs. In the end I want access to an array of shape (4, 16, 16, 3).
If I were to write this in a for loop it would look something like this:
x = np.random.randint(0,12,4)
y = np.random.randint(0,12,4)
for i in range(X.shape[0]):
    cropped_image = X[i, x[i]:x[i]+16, y[i]:y[i]+16, :]
    #Add cropped image to a list or something

But I'd like to do it as efficiently as possible and I'm wondering if there's a way to do it with strides and fancy indexing. I've seen the answers to this question, but can't quite wrap my head around how I might combine something like stride_tricks with random starting points for the strides on the second and third (width and height) axes.

A: Leverage strided-based method for efficient patch extraction
We can leverage np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided based scikit-image's view_as_windows to get sliding windows that would be merely views into the input array and hence incur no extra memory overhead and virtually free! We can surely use np.lib.stride_tricks.as_strided directly, but the setup work required is hard to manage especially on arrays with higher dimensions. If scikit-image is not available, we can directly use the source code that works standalone.
Explanation on usage of view_as_windows
The idea with view_as_windows is that we feed in the input arg window_shape as a tuple of length same as the number of dimensions in the input array whose sliding windows are needed. The axes along which we need to slide are fed with the respective window lengths and rest are fed with 1s. This would create an array of views with singleton dims/axes i.e. axes with lengths=1 corresponding to the 1s in window_shape arg. So, for those cases we might want to index into the zeroth element corresponding to the axes that are fed 1 as the sliding window lengths to have a squeezed version of the sliding windows.
Thus, we would have a solution, like so -
# Get sliding windows
from skimage.util.shape import view_as_windows
w = view_as_windows(X, (1,16,16,1))[...,0,:,:,0]

# Index and get our specific windows
out = w[np.arange(X.shape[0]),x,y]

# If you need those in the same format as in the posted loopy code
out = out.transpose(0,2,3,1)

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"that the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation continues to constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, and hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat."
The original order was signed by former President Bill Clinton in 2000 and was to protect payments that the U. S. made to the Russian Federation under the agreement between the two governments concerning the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons, or what is commonly referred to as HEU Agreements.
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I have exercised my authority to declare a national emergency to deal with the threat posed to the United States by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation in the Russian Federation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material.
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The CEO's cultural heritage affects bank performance under competition
Louis Nguyen, Jens Hagendorff, Arman Eshraghi 02 October 2017
We know that managerial traits help explain firm performance, but we don't know whether the cultural heritage of those managers has a role in shaping performance through their behaviour. This column uses a novel dataset of bank CEO ancestry to argue that descendants of recent immigrants outperform their peers when competition is high. Banks led by CEOs whose cultural heritage emphasises restraint, group-mindedness, and long-term orientation are safer, more cost efficient, and are associated with more cautious acquisitions.
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The extent to which corporate outcomes are affected by the attributes of managers is a topic of significant interest to policymakers. A growing body of research shows that managerial traits explain a lot of the variation in a firm's capital structure, investment, and profitability. These studies investigate the usual attributes, such as age, gender, experience, and educational achievement (e.g. Dittmar and Duchin 2016, Bernile et al. 2017, Cronqvist and Yu 2017, Schoar and Zuo 2017), but the role of cultural heritage in shaping managerial behaviour and firm outcomes has been overlooked.
To shed light on the role of cultural heritage, in recent work we ask whether a CEO's cultural heritage, traced back several generations, can affect corporate investment policies and profitability today (Nguyen et al. 2017). We focus on US-born CEOs who are the children or grandchildren of immigrants. These CEOs are exposed to the same legal, social, and institutional conditions as other US-born CEOs, but they possess a cultural heritage influenced by the countries that their parents or grandparents have emigrated from, which is different from that of other CEOs.
This research design means that we can capture the heterogeneity in a CEO's cultural heritage while holding constant the institutional and economic factors that all US-born CEOs face. We hand-collected a novel dataset that tracks the family tree of CEOs in the US banking sector. It shows that the cultural values prevailing in their ancestral country affect their decision-making behaviour, which in turn shapes their firms' policy choices, as well as performance.
The premise is that culture is transmitted by parents to children, between peers, and through interactions in the neighbourhood and school system. If culture evolves slowly, the influence of cultural heritage changes little over time. So our research is a joint test of the importance, and persistence, of cultural heritage for CEOs.
The effect of cultural heritage
To identify this cultural heritage, we hand-collected data on the country of origin of a CEO's ancestors from Ancestry.com, the world's largest genealogy database, which has access to almost 17 billion family histories. We trace the CEOs' ancestors by using the name, birthplace, and birth year to identify parents, and then doing the same for parents to identify grandparents. This allows us to map a CEO's family tree for up to six generations. We are able to track a CEO's ancestral country, and how many generations ago ancestors moved to the US. As an example, James Dimon, the CEO of JP Morgan, is a third-generation descendant of Greek immigrants to the US.
We must be careful with causal inferences. Identifying a causal effect of CEO cultural heritage on firm performance is challenging because CEOs are often selected by firms because of their characteristics. We rely on an exogenous shock that disrupts the matching of CEOs to firms to isolate CEO-specific effects from these firm-specific effects.
We focus on banks because the banking industry experienced a series of profound shocks to competition in the 1990s. The Interstate Banking and Branching Efficiency Act (1994) legalised interstate branching across the US, and increased competitive pressures in some US states (see Cornaggia et al. 2015). Our identification relies on the staggered and unanticipated deregulation of interstate branching that was applicable to banks in US states. The Act therefore introduced substantial variation in industry competition, with both geographical and temporal dimensions.
In our data, banks led by CEOs who were children and grandchildren of immigrants are associated with superior performance when there is high industry competition (that is, following the deregulation of interstate branching). This effect is robust when controlling for CEO, board, bank and location variables as well as for fixed effects including constant firm factors. We also find a monotonic reduction in bank performance under competitive pressures as we move from CEOs who were second-generation descendants to later-generation descendants.
Further, we find that not all recent descendants of immigrants outperform under pressure. The effect varies by the country of origin of a CEO's ancestors. Our findings imply that CEOs whose ancestors were from Germany, Italy, Poland and Russia are associated with better bank performance under competitive pressures. CEOs with British or Irish ancestors do not display different performance from the rest of the sample. Figure 1 shows the additional return on assets associated with CEOs, by the country that a CEO's ancestors were from. The red bars indicate that the effect is statistically significant different from zero (5% probability). The blue bars indicate that the effect is not statistically significant.
Figure 1 CEO country of origin and competitive performance
Does nature or nurture better explain our results? Our results suggest that a CEO's cultural heritage explains competitive performance more than we would expect from the genetic differences between people in their countries of origin. Instead, we can trace the outperformance of CEOs to specific cultural values. CEOs whose cultural heritage is characterised by lower individualism, higher uncertainty avoidance and higher restraint are more likely to outperform under pressure. Alternative interpretations such as CEO ability, the geographical characteristics of the area where banks are chartered, or the institutional and economic factors outside the US at the time when the CEO's ancestors emigrated to not explain this variation.
A CEO's cultural heritage seems to affect performance through three bank policy choices: cost-efficiency, credit losses, and acquisition performance. That is, we find that CEOs with ancestors from a high-restraint cultural backgrounds boost profitability by being more cost-efficient, while CEOs from a cultural background that is more uncertainty-avoiding are associated with lower credit losses and better acquisition performance.
Culture and regulation
Our study demonstrates that banks led by CEOs whose cultural heritage emphasises restraint, group-mindedness, and long-term orientation are safer, more cost efficient, and are associated with more cautious acquisitions which, in turn, explains their outperformance. Our work is consistent with the hypothesis that the culture of a CEO's ancestors influences his or her decision-making behaviour, firm policy choices and performance. Our results also show that the performance effects of cultural heritage depend on the market environment in which a CEO operates. The strengths and weaknesses of particular cultures are, ultimately, context-dependent. Overall, our study implies that financial regulators could improve their supervision and monitoring outcomes by accounting for the cultural attributes and heritage of top-level managers in the finance sector.
Bernile, G, V Bhagwat, and P R Rau (2017), "What doesn't kill you will make you more risk-loving: Early-life disasters and CEO behaviour". Journal of Finance 72: 167–206.
Cornaggia, J, Y Mao, X Tian, and B Wolfe (2015), "Does banking competition affect innovation?" Journal of Financial Economics 115: 189–209.
Cronqvist, H, and F Yu (2017), "Shaped by their daughters: Executives, Female Socialization, and Corporate Social Responsibility", Journal of Financial Economics, forthcoming.
Dittmar, A, and R Duchin (2016), "Looking in the rear view mirror: The effect of managers' professional experience on corporate financial policy", Review of Financial Studies 29: 565–602.
Nguyen, D D N, J Hagendorff, and A Eshraghi (2017), "Does a CEO's Cultural Heritage Affect Performance under Competitive Pressure?" Review of Financial Studies, forthcoming.
Schoar, A, and L Zuo (2017), "Shaped by booms and busts: How the economy impacts CEO careers and management styles," Review of Financial Studies 30: 1425-2456.
Topics: Financial regulation and banking Migration
Tags: banking, CEO, cultural heritage, immigration
Louis Nguyen
Lecturer in Banking and Finance, University of St Andrews
Jens Hagendorff
Professor of Finance, University of Edinburgh
Arman Eshraghi
Senior Lecturer in Finance and Director of MSc Finance and Investment, University of Edinburgh


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