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Bride Of ReAnimator - 3 Disc Blu-Ray Boxset - Stuart Gordon
The success of Stuart GordonÕs hit horror-comedy Re-animator meant that a sequel was all but inevitable. The resulting follow-up, Bride of Re-animator Ð this time helmed by director Brian Yuzna (Society, Return of the Living Dead 3) Ð would prove that there was a good deal more life left in the story of Dr. Herbert West and his ghoulish exploits.
It is 8 years since the Miskatonic massacre. Unperturbed by the disastrous outcome of his previous meddling with the dead, Dr. West (again played by Jeffrey Combs) continues his research into the phenomenon of re-animation; only this time, he plans to create life Ð starting with the heart of his young protŽgŽ DanÕs dearly deceased, Meg Halsey. Surely nothing could go wrong?
With special effects master Screaming Mad George (the man behind the infamous ÒshuntingÓ sequence in Society) on hand to contribute a host of characteristically weird and wonderful creations Ð including zombified bats and a one-eyed finger spider Ð Bride of re-animator is a more than worthy successor to GordonÕs original cult classic.
DIRECTOR-APPROVED 3-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
Brand new 2K restorations of the Unrated and R-Rated versions of the film, approved by director Brian Yuzna
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentations
Original Stereo 2.0 audio (uncompressed PCM on the Blu-rays)
Digipak packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork by Gary Pullin
CollectorÕs booklet featuring new writing on the film by festival programmer Michael Blyth
Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator Ð the official comic book prequel to the original Re-Animator
DISC 1 [BLU-RAY] & DISC 2 [DVD] Ð UNRATED VERSION
Brand new 2K restoration of the Unrated version
Brand new audio commentary with director Brian Yuzna
Audio commentary with Brian Yuzna, star Jeffrey Combs, special effects co-ordinator Thomas Rainone and the effects team including John Buechler, Mike Deak, Robert Kurtzman, Howard Berger and Screaming Mad George
Audio commentary with stars Jeffrey Combs and Bruce Abbott
Brian Yuzna Remembers Bride of Re-Animator Ð brand new featurette in which the director looks back at the making of the first Re-Animator sequel
Splatter Masters: The Special Effects Artists of Bride of Re-Animator Ð brand new FX featurette with a wealth of behind-the-scenes footage and interviews with Robert Kurtzman of KNB, Screaming Mad George, Tony Doublin and John Buechler
Getting Ahead in Horror Ð archive making-of featurette
Meg is Re-Animated Ð deleted scene with behind-the-scenes footage
Carnival Sequence Ð the cast and crew discuss this excised sequence
DISC 3 [BLU-RAY] Ð R-RATED VERSION Ð LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
Brand new 2K restoration of the R-Rated version
Behind-the-Scenes Reel
 √îRE-ANIMATOR: DAWN OF THE RE-ANIMATOR√ï √ê LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE
Perfect-bound booklet containing Re-Animator: Dawn of the Re-Animator, the 1992 comic prequel to Stuart GordonÕs original Re-Animator, reprinted in its entirety


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First Look: March 31, 2009
China as an important trading economy is not the center of technological innovation that many expected, at least not yet. According to new research, China is lagging in research and development and inventions compared with the innovative prowess of other East Asian tigers like Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea. This finding should dispel misunderstandings about the impact of U.S. foreign direct investment in China, according to Carnegie Mellon's Lee Branstetter and HBS professor C. Fritz Foley. Their chapter in the forthcoming book China's Growing Role in World Trade clarifies several myths about the emergence of China. "The picture traced out by rapid changes in the structure of Chinese exports of an emerging technological superpower belies a more modest reality," the scholars write. "China's exports of high-technology goods are still quite dependent on imported components, technology, and expertise. Despite impressive progress and spectacular growth in human capital, China's transition to status as a significant net exporter of innovative goods and services almost certainly lies many years in the future." Also this week, the article "Milestones in Marketing" traces how concepts of market segmentation and market research entered standard practice. And a case follows the off-court marketing savvy of Cleveland Cavaliers' star LeBron James. —Martha Lagace
Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
James Austin and Ezequiel Reficco
Corporate Social Entrepreneurship (CSE) is a process aimed at enabling business to develop more advanced and powerful forms of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).
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Does Public Ownership of Equity Improve Earnings Quality?
Dan Givoly, Carla Hayn, and Sharon P. Katz
We compare the quality of accounting numbers produced by two types of public firms-those with publicly traded equity and those with privately held equity that are nonetheless considered public by virtue of having publicly traded debt. We develop and test two hypotheses. The "demand" hypothesis holds that earnings of public equity firms are of higher quality than earnings of private equity firms due to stronger demand by shareholders and creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower earnings quality than their private equity peers. The results indicate that, consistent with the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis, private equity firms have higher quality accruals and a lower propensity to manage income than public equity firms. We further find that public equity firms report more conservatively, in line with their greater litigation risk and agency costs.
Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors
Sharon P. Katz
This study explores how firms' ownership structures affect their earnings quality and long-term performance. Focusing on a unique sample of private firms for which there is financial data available in the years before and after their initial public offering (IPO), I differentiate between those that have private equity sponsorship (PE-backed firms) and those that do not (non-PE-backed firms). The findings indicate that PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are majority-owned by PE sponsors exhibit superior long-term stock price performance after they go public. These results stem from the professional ownership, tighter monitoring, and reputational considerations exhibited by PE sponsors.
Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004
Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury
We examine the accrual choices of outsourcing firms with links to U.S. congressional candidates during the 2004 elections, when corporate outsourcing was a major campaign issue. We find that politically connected firms with more extensive outsourcing activities have more income-decreasing discretionary accruals. Further, relative to adjacent periods, the evidence is concentrated in the two calendar quarters immediately preceding the 2004 election, consistent with heightened incentives for firms to manage earnings during the election season. The incentives can be attributed to donor firms' concerns about the potentially negative consequences of scrutiny over outsourcing for themselves and for their affiliated candidates.
Cases & Course Materials
Advanced Micro Devices: Competing in the Shadow of a Giant (A)
Harvard Business School Case 609-002
As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund microprocessor design teams, it also had to fund silicon process R&D, and it faced huge capital expenditures associated with constructing its manufacturing facilities. The company was at a crossroads: it had to decide whether to partner with IBM or align with other firms as it tried to keep up with Intel.
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Harvard Business School Note 309-097
This note addresses some of the most frequently asked questions about the relation between human rights and business. Topics include the definition of human rights, the business leader's role regarding human rights, and legal liability of companies and executives for violating human rights.
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DreamWorks SKG Inc.: To Distribute or Not to Distribute?
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Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank
In his role as Senior Vice President and Director of Research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis (Minneapolis Fed), Art Rolnick and his colleague, Rob Grunewald, had written "Early Childhood Development: Economic Development with a High Public Return." The thesis was fairly straightforward: early childhood development (ECD) had the highest returns; so states and local governments should invest in it. But the idea of investing in ECD for economic development was new and had never been tested on a large scale, particularly in the way that Rolnick and Grunewald recommended in a later paper—using market forces to drive demand for high-quality ECD programs. The Minnesota Early Learning Foundation (MELF), formed in 2005, invested in two projects designed to test the economists' recommendations. The St. Paul Early Childhood Scholarship Program (SPECSP) provided up to $13,000 a year per child for parents in two St. Paul neighborhoods to select a high-quality ECD program of their choice. MELF had also invested in Five Hundred Under 5 (FHU5), a Minneapolis program formed to improve the capacity and quality of providers. Comparing SPECSP to FHU5 would offer insights on the potential impact of supply-side versus demand-side ECD initiatives. Rolnick reflected on the two MELF experiments. Which would be more effective? Would parents in St. Paul really drive up the quality of providers through the choices they made or was it better to work with providers directly to improve quality?
Lan Airlines in 2008: Connecting the World to Latin America
Lan Airlines operates three distinct models: low-cost for domestic short-haul flights, full-service for international routes; and an international cargo business, the latter of which makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy carriers that derive 3% to 4% of revenues from cargo). Since a change of ownership in 1994, Lan has grown steadily and quickly at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 19% from $318 million in revenues to $3.5 billion at the end of 2007. Lan is at an interesting point in history as the low-cost model was recently implemented. While early results have been strong, observers wonder if the airline can successfully manage three disparate business models.
Lapdesk Goes Global—Africa First
Shane Immelman, founding CEO of the Lapdesk Company of South Africa, is facing a number of challenges in taking Lapdesk from South Africa into the rest of the African continent. How should the African strategy be different from that of South Africa? What is the appropriate structure?
'Lather, Rinse, Repeat': FeedBurner's Serial Founding Team
"Is this the right time or is it still too early?" Dick Costolo wondered as he reflected on the latest acquisition offer. He had been building FeedBurner with his three co-founders for almost four years and was staring at the details of an acquisition offer from Google. He and his co-founders had founded three prior ventures together, each of which had had increasingly attractive outcomes, but none of which had reached their full potential. The number on the table from Google was a big one. Should the deal be completed, it would be the biggest win the founding team had ever had. However, was this the right time to exit? If Costolo didn't think so, would he be able to convince his co-founders who all had different personal risk profiles? This was going to be the biggest decision in the life of FeedBurner and its co-founders.
In 2005, to the astonishment of many sports industry insiders, superstar basketball player LeBron James fired his agent and established his own firm, LRMR, to handle all aspects of his business ventures and marketing activities and named his childhood friend Maverick Carter as the CEO. LRMR is tasked with turning James into a global icon as well as helping him reach his personal goal of becoming basketball's first billionaire. In late 2008, James has entered various lucrative endorsement deals and is considering three exclusive videogame endorsement opportunities from Electronic Arts, 2K Games, and Xbox Live to add to his portfolio. Allows for a rich discussion about how superstar athletes and other celebrities can create and capture value from their brands as well as what role talent agencies and other intermediaries play in that process. Provides in-depth information on three endorsement opportunities that each represents a common way in which talent can (choose to) get compensated: through a fixed-fee payment, a bonus payment structure, or a revenue-sharing agreement.
Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)
Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979, they sold the business and retired. In 2000, Blake became concerned that Friendly's CEO, who owned approximately 10% of Friendly and also owned a larger percentage of another restaurant company, was shifting expenses between the businesses in a way detrimental to Friendly shareholders but personally advantageous to the CEO. Further, Blake believed that Friendly's board of directors was not meeting their fiduciary obligations to shareholders by properly overseeing the activities of the CEO and that the directors had conflicts of interest because they were involved with the CEO's non-Friendly business activities. In 2003, Blake filed a lawsuit against the CEO and the company. In 2006, Sardar Biglari, a hedge fund manager who had invested in Friendly, entered into negotiations with Friendly for him to join the board of directors to help improve the management of the business. When these negotiations failed, Biglari launched a proxy fight against Friendly in 2007. While these two activist investors shared similar objectives, they worked independently and chose different strategies.
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The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire?
The Walt Disney Company and Pixar Inc.: To Acquire or Not to Acquire? An Update
WL Ross and Plascar
How can distressed investors take advantage of the procedures governing an international bankruptcy? Wilbur L. Ross, chairman and CEO of the private equity firm WL Ross & Co., LLC, has the opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze Ross's strategy to reshape a global industry with significant overcapacity, consider the opportunities created by the legal procedures that govern cross-border insolvencies, study a debt overhang problem, and consider how restructuring alternatives can address this problem.
Innovator's Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman M.D., and Jason Hwang M.D.
McGraw-Hill, 2009
A groundbreaking prescription for health care reform—from a legendary leader in innovation. Our health care system is in critical condition. Each year, fewer Americans can afford it, fewer businesses can provide it, and fewer government programs can promise it for future generations. We need a cure, and we need it now. Harvard Business School's Clayton M. Christensen—whose bestselling The Innovator's Dilemma revolutionized the business world—presents The Innovator's Prescription, a comprehensive analysis of the strategies that will improve health care and make it affordable. Christensen applies the principles of disruptive innovation to the broken health care system with two pioneers in the field—Dr. Jerome Grossman and Dr. Jason Hwang. Together, they examine a range of symptoms and offer proven solutions.
Managing Crises: Responses to Large-Scale Emergencies
Arnold M. Howitt, and Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard, eds.
Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009
This casebook provides an organized treatment of the major challenges associated with managing large-scale disaster events, including discussion of systematic methods of organizing disaster response, preparing in advance for disaster situations, and distinguishing between routine emergency events and true crisis emergency events.
Finding Missing Markets (and a Disturbing Epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
Nava Ashraf, Xavier Giné, and Dean Karlan
American Journal of Agricultural Economics(forthcoming)
Farmers may grow crops for local consumption despite more profitable export options. DrumNet, a Kenyan NGO that helps small farmers adopt and market export crops, conducted a randomized trial to evaluate its impact. DrumNet services increased production of export crops and lowered marketing costs, leading to a 32% income gain for new adopters. The services collapsed one year later when the exporter stopped buying from DrumNet because farmers could not meet new EU production requirements. Farmers sold to other middlemen and defaulted on their loans from DrumNet. Such experiences may explain why farmers are less likely to adopt export crops.
Strategic Alliances: Bridges Between 'Islands of Conscious Power'
George P. Baker, Robert Gibbons, and Kevin J. Murphy
Journal of the Japanese and International Economies 22, no. 2 (June 2008): 146-163
Strategic alliances range from unstructured collaborations, through consortia and joint ventures that superimpose new governance structures on existing firms, to transactions that restructure firm boundaries and asset ownership. In this paper, we draw on detailed discussions with practitioners to describe and analyze a rich collection of feasible governance structures. Our model focuses on two issues emphasized by practitioners: spillover effects (as opposed to hold-ups motivated by specific investments) and contracting problems ex post (as opposed to only ex ante). By considering the allocation of assets, decision rights, and payoffs, we generate a large number of potential governance structures, including strategic divestitures, total divestitures, licensing agreements, and royalty agreements. For the broad range of parameter values and payoff functions we consider, we show that each of these possible strategic alliances could be optimal. We expect that, given institutional knowledge about a particular setting, our broad theoretical framework can be specialized to deliver testable predictions for that setting (as has occurred in some analogous work on vertical integration, for example).
Facts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China
Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley
In China's Growing Role in World Trade, edited by Robert Feenstra and Shang-Jin Wei. The University of Chicago Press, forthcoming
Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic research exploring these developments, a number of misconceptions distort the popular understanding of U.S. multinationals in China. In this paper, we seek to correct four common misunderstandings by providing a statistical portrait of several aspects of U.S. affiliate activity in the country and placing this activity in its appropriate economic context.
Lowering the Cost of Bank Recapitalization
John C. Coates, IV, and David S. Scharfstein
Yale Journal on Regulation (forthcoming)
Efforts to recapitalize banks in the current crisis have, to date, been focused on government assistance under the TARP, rather than private investment, and on bank holding companies, rather than banks. We describe three alternative or complementary approaches designed to lower the cost of bank recapitalizations by drawing in funds from the private sector and focusing on banks: rights offerings, debt restructurings, and FDIC-assisted bridge banks. Each approach was used in dealing with problem banks in the 1990s; each can be pursued without additional legislation; and each is worth considering now. We also propose two legal changes that would assist bank recapitalization: (1) the Fed should further modestly relax its rules under the Bank Holding Company Act to eliminate the presumption of "control" by investors at the current threshold of 5%, which would permit more capital to be invested in banks by private equity and other institutional investors and (2) Congress should consider a new statute to streamline the recapitalization of bank holding companies by moving them outside current bankruptcy laws into a new resolution regime similar to the FDIC regime currently used for banks.
An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s
Diego A. Comin
In Japan's Bubble, Deflation and Long-term Stagnation, edited by Koichi Hamada, Anil Kashyap, and Davis Weisntein. MIT Press, forthcoming
Why was the 1990s a lost decade for Japan? How is it possible that the Japanese economy stagnated for a decade if none of the shocks that arguably hit the economy seemed to have persisted for much more than three years or so? In this paper I show that the endogenous development and adoption of technologies can propagate these shocks, making their effect much more persistent. When feeding the markup shocks observed in Japan during the early 1990s, the model is able to generate time series for output, TFP, employment, consumption, and investment that track closely the actual data. In particular, the productivity slowdown in the model is as protracted as in the data. Reassuringly, I also find evidence that, as predicted by the model, the speed of technology diffusion slowed down in Japan during the 1990s and R&D expenditures also stopped growing.
Women and Leadership: Defining the Challenges
R. Ely and D. Rhode
In Advancing Leadership. Boston: Harvard Business Publishing, forthcoming
Collaboration Across Knowledge Boundaries within Diverse Teams: Reciprocal Expertise Affirmation as an Enabling Condition
Amy C. Edmondson, Kate Roloff, and Lucy H. MacPhail
In Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by Laura M. Roberts and Jane E. Dutton, 311-332. Psychology Press, forthcoming
We review research on expertise diversity, psychological safety, team collaboration, and role identity to propose a model in which reciprocal affirmations of expertise identity among team members—a feature of the team environment that we conceptualize as a dimension of team psychological safety—moderates the relationship between expertise diversity and collaboration across disciplinary or knowledge-based boundaries. We argue that mixed expertise teams in which members must work together across knowledge boundaries to accomplish challenging goals will be more likely to collaborate effectively if each individual member perceives that his or her expert identity, defined broadly to encompass disciplinary and other primary sources of role identification within the work context, is validated and valued by other team members. Reciprocal expertise affirmation is further hypothesized to be necessary but not sufficient for collaboration across expertise divides within diverse teams. We propose that conceptualizing reciprocal expertise affirmation as a dimension of psychological safety is a promising avenue through which to integrate positive identity with existing theory on interpersonal collaboration. Psychological safety is expected to reduce identity threats that may otherwise arise in diverse expertise contexts, encouraging open discussion of uncertainty, confusion, and mistakes and supporting learning across disciplinary boundaries. This lens on positive identity and collaboration exposes new opportunities for research on the role of positive identity as a moderator of multidisciplinary work processes within defined task groups.
Earning from History: Financial Markets and the Approach of World Wars
We are living through a paradox—or so it seems. Since September 11, 2001, according to a number of neo-conservative commentators, America has been fighting World War III (or IV, if you like to give the Cold War a number). For more than six years, these commentators have repeatedly drawn parallels between the "War on Terror" that is said to have begun in September 2001 and World War II. Immediately after 9/11, Al Qaeda and other radical Islamist groups were branded "Islamofascists." Their attack on the World Trade Center was said to be our generation's Pearl Harbor. In addition to coveting weapons of mass destruction and covertly sponsoring terrorism, Saddam Hussein was denounced as an Arab Hitler. The fall of Baghdad was supposed to be like the liberation of Paris. Anyone who opposed the policy of preemption was an appeaser. And so on. Yet throughout this period of heightened terrorist threats and overseas military interventions, financial markets have displayed a remarkable insouciance.
The Evolution of Corporate Ownership after IPO: The Impact of Investor Protection
C. Fritz Foley and Robin Greenwood
Review of Financial Studies(forthcoming)
We use firm-level data from 34 countries covering the 1995-2006 period to analyze how the characteristics of public markets shape the process by which firms become widely held. Firms in all countries in the sample tend to have concentrated ownership at the time they go public. Decreases in ownership concentration are more likely for firms in countries with stronger protections for minority shareholders, lower block premia, and more liquid stock markets. In these countries, firms are more likely to issue equity when investment opportunities are high, becoming widely held in the process. We find scant evidence, however, that changes in percentage blockholding forecast future returns, inconsistent with market-timing theories. Our results suggest that liquidity-based theories of corporate ownership may have been underemphasized in previous cross-country studies.
The Influence of Firm Ownership Form on Post-Merger Customer-Mix Strategies
Satish V. Joshi, Ranjani Krishnan, and Hema Krishnan
Journal of Managerial Issues (forthcoming)
This study empirically examines firms' post-merger behavior using an institutional theory framework. While mergers can serve as a strategic tool for firms to reconfigure their product and customer mix, differences in institutional constraints influence the extent of this reconfiguration. A firm's ownership form signals the extent of institutional constraints and hence it is hypothesized that post-merger customer-mix changes will differ based on firm ownership form. Empirical analysis using data from public and private for-profit, non-profit, and government hospitals in California, covering 773 hospital-year observations and 59 mergers, reveals differences in post-merger customer-mix reconfiguration strategies. For-profit hospitals increase their share of the insured patients and decrease their share of uninsured patients after the merger, while non-profit hospitals marginally increase their share of insured patients but do not decrease their share of uninsured patients. Government hospitals do not make any discernable change in their customer mix after a merger.
Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard
Robert S. Kaplan
Chap. 1.03 of Handbook of Management Accounting Research. Vol. 3, edited by C. Chapman, A. Hopwood, and M. Shields. Elsevier Science & Technology Books, 2009
David Norton and I introduced the Balanced Scorecard in a 1992 Harvard Business Review article. The article was based on a multi-company research project that studied performance measurement in companies whose intangible assets played a central role in value creation. Our interest in measurement for driving performance improvements arose from a belief articulated more than a century earlier by a prominent British scientist, Lord Kelvi: "I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind." If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it. Norton and I believed that measurement was as fundamental to managers as it was for scientists. If companies were to improve the management of their intangible assets, they had to integrate the measurement of intangible assets into their management systems.
After publication of the 1992 HBR article, several companies quickly adopted the Balanced Scorecard giving us deeper and broader insights into its power and potential. During the next 15 years, as it was adopted by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit enterprises around the world, we extended and broadened the concept into a management tool for describing, communicating, and implementing strategy. In this chapter, I describe the roots and motivation for the original Balanced Scorecard article as well as the subsequent innovations that connected it to a larger management literature.
Contribution to Harry M. Markowitz, Merton H. Miller, William F. Sharpe, Robert C. Merton, and Myron S. Scholes
Robert C. Merton
Vol. 2, edited by Howard R. Vane and Chris Mulhearn. Pioneering Papers of the Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics Series. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2009
Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency
Neeru Paharia, Karim Kassam, Joshua Greene, and Max Bazerman
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (in press)
When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency. Experiments 1A, 1B, and 1C reveal effects of indirect agency under conditions favoring intuitive judgment, but not reflective judgment, using a joint/separate evaluation paradigm. Experiment 2A demonstrates that effects of indirect agency cannot be fully explained by perceived lack of foreknowledge or control on the part of the primary agent. Experiment 2B indicates that reflective moral judgment is sensitive to indirect agency, but only to the extent that indirectness signals reduced foreknowledge and/or control. Experiment 3 indicates that effects of indirect agency result from a failure to automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Experiment 4 demonstrates an effect of indirect agency on purchase intentions.
Milestones in Marketing
John A. Quelch and Katherine Jocz
Business History Review 82, no. 4 (winter 2008): 827-838
Marketing flourished in U.S. business schools in the prosperous years following World War II. Students preparing for assistant-product-manager positions at the likes of Procter & Gamble, Lever, and General Foods enrolled in courses in marketing management, management of promotion, marketing research, sales management, distribution, and cost accounting. As the marketing field matured in the 1950s and 1960s, it articulated a set of foundational concepts. As early as 1900, some firms chose to differentiate their products in order to do a better job of satisfying customers' diverse needs. In subsequent years, the marketing discipline developed increasingly sophisticated tools for competitive positioning, target-market segmentation, and product-line strategy. Within firms, the boundaries of marketing proved to be fuzzy, in large part because customer issues cut across many different aspects of a firm's activities. The concepts of Smith, Borden, Kotler, Green, and Levitt continue to inform marketing education and research. Their ideas about market segmentation, the marketing mix, marketing for nonbusinesses, market research, and globalization are embedded in business practice.

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Kim Kardashian finally broke, silence speaks on Kanye's Mental Health
Kim Kardashian has finally broken her silence about her husband Kanye West's recent rants on Twitter.
After posting cryptic tweets accusing Kim and Kris of trying to lock him up and how the script of the Hollywood horror film 'Get Out' was based on his life, West has now posted a tweet in which he seems to be accusing Kim and Kris of "white supremacy".
"Kris and Kim put out a statement without my approval…that's not what a wife should do. White supremacy," Kanye's now-deleted tweet read.
There were other tweets too that the rapper deleted. He also said that he had allegedly been trying to get a divorce from Kim. "I been trying to get divorced since Kim met with Meek at the Warldolf for prison reform," the message from West read. He deleted the post in ten minutes.
Kim Kardashian has now released a statement via her Instagram stories to address her husband's mental health and his experience with 'bipolar' disorder.
"As many of you know, Kanye has bi-polar disorder," Kardashian West wrote on her Instagram Story. "I've never spoken publicly about how this has affected us at home because I am very protective of our children and Kanye's right to privacy when it comes to his health. But today, I feel like I should comment on it because of the stigma and misconceptions about mental health."
Kardashian West elaborated on her role in her husband's mental health, writing, "Those that understand mental illness or even compulsive behavior know that the family is powerless unless the member is a minor."
She went on to defend her husband, both as a person and an artist. "I understand Kanye is subject to criticism because he is a public figure and his actions at times can cause strong opinions and emotions," she wrote.
"He is a brilliant but complicated person who on top of the pressures of being an artist and a black man, who experienced the painful loss of his mother and has to deal with that pressure and isolation that is heightened by his bi-polar disorder. Those who are close with Kanye know his heart and understand his words some times do not align with his intentions." She added'
"Living with bi-polar disorder does not diminish or invalidate his dreams and his creative ideas, no matter how big or unobtainable they may feel to some. That is part of his genius and as we have all witnessed, many of his big dreams do come true."
Kardashian West concluded her statement by asking fans and observers for understanding. "We as a society talk about giving grace to the issue of mental health as a whole, however, we should also give it to the individuals who are living with it in times when they need it the most," she wrote.
"I kindly ask that the media and public give us the compassion and empathy that is needed so that we can get through this." She then thanked fans "who have expressed concern for Kanye's well being and for your understanding.
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Q: Unable to use external API on Botpress (axios) When trying to use axis to query an external Weather API, I get this error
ReferenceError: axios is not defined
at getTropicalCyclones (vm.js:16:9)

Here is my action for getTropicalCyclones {}
(of course I have to hide my client ID and secret)
const getTropicalCyclones = async () => {

    const BASE_WEATHER_API = `https://api.aerisapi.com/tropicalcyclones/`
    const CLIENT_ID_SECRET = `SECRET`
    const BASIN = `currentbasin=wp`
    const PLACE = `p=25,115,5,135` // rough coords for PH area of responsibility
    const ACTION = `within` // within, closest, search, affects or ''
    try {
        let text = ''
        let response = {}
        await axios.get(
            `${BASE_WEATHER_API}${ACTION}?${CLIENT_ID_SECRET}&${BASIN}&${PLACE}`
    )
        .then((resp) => {]
            response = resp
            text = 'Success retrieving weather!'
        })
        .catch((error) => {
            console.log('!! error', error)
        })

    const payload = await bp.cms.renderElement(
        'builtin_text',
        {
            text,
        },
        event.channel
    )
    await bp.events.replyToEvent(event, payload)
} catch (e) {
    // Failed to fetch, this is where ReferenceError: axios is not defined comes from
    console.log('!! Error while trying to fetch weather info', e)
    const payload = await bp.cms.renderElement(
        'builtin_text',
        {
            text: 'Error while trying to fetch weather info.',
        },
        event.channel
    )
    await bp.events.replyToEvent(event, payload)
  }
}

return getTropicalCyclones()

So my question is, how do I import axios? I've tried
const axios = require('axios')

or
    import axios from 'axios';
but this causes a different error:
Error processing "getTropicalCyclones {}"
Err: An error occurred while executing the action "getTropicalCyclones"

Looking at the package.json on GitHub, it looks like axios is already installed
https://github.com/botpress/botpress/blob/master/package.json
However, I cannot locate this package.json on my bot directory...
Secondly, based on an old version doc it looks like this example code just used axios straight
https://botpress.io/docs/10.31/recipes/apis/
How do I use axios on Botpress?
Any leads would be appreciated
Botpress: v11.0.0

A: Simply use ES6 import.
include this line at the top of your code.
import axios from 'axios';

Note: I'm expecting that the axios is already installed

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Cordero Ewing, 27, now faces up to 30 years in prison, with sentencing to be determined by the court, presided over by Caddo District Judge John D. Mosely Jr.
Ewing's sentencing date will be set at his next court appearance on June 27.
Ewing, originally from Homer, was arrested and incarcerated in October 2012, after he was accused of performing sexual acts on an 8-year-old girl. Due to the age of the victim, had he been convicted of the crime for which he was arrested, he could have been sentenced to mandatory life in prison.
The crime for which Ewing was arrested was reclassified under Louisiana Revised Statutes last August as "first degree rape."
Prosecutors were ADAs Britney A. Green and Ron Stamps. Defense attorneys were Michelle Andrepont and Michael Enright.


Bothnian Green Logistic Corridor presents a report on transport flows, actors and infrastructure between north of Sweden to central Sweden. It clearly shows the shortcomings of the current traffic and infrastructure.
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Našli jsme další záznamy k osobě שלמה סוקול.
שלמה סוקול je pohřben(a) na hřbitově Gadot Cemetery v místě zobrazeném na níže uvedené mapě. Tyto informace o GPS jsou k dispozici POUZE na stránkách BillionGraves. Naše technologie vám pomůže najít umístění hrobu a také další členy rodiny, pohřbené poblíž.
שלמה סוקול was 13 years old when World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II. World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier. The vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—eventually formed two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most global war in history; it directly involved more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. In a state of total war, the major participants threw their entire economic, industrial, and scientific capabilities behind the war effort, blurring the distinction between civilian and military resources. World War II was the deadliest conflict in human history, marked by 50 to 85 million fatalities, most of whom were civilians in the Soviet Union and China. It included massacres, the genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, premeditated death from starvation and disease and the only use of nuclear weapons in war.
שלמה סוקול was 19 years old when World War II: German forces in the west agree to an unconditional surrender. The German Instrument of Surrender ended World War II in Europe. The definitive text was signed in Karlshorst, Berlin, on the night of 8 May 1945 by representatives of the three armed services of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW) and the Allied Expeditionary Force together with the Supreme High Command of the Red Army, with further French and US representatives signing as witnesses. The signing took place 9 May 1945 at 00:16 local time.
שלמה סוקול was 27 years old when Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children (vaccination pictured). Jonas Edward Salk was an American medical researcher and virologist. He discovered and developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Born in New York City, he attended New York University School of Medicine, later choosing to do medical research instead of becoming a practicing physician. In 1939, after earning his medical degree, Salk began an internship as a physician scientist at Mount Sinai Hospital. Two years later he was granted a fellowship at the University of Michigan, where he would study flu viruses with his mentor Thomas Francis, Jr.
שלמה סוקול was 38 years old when Martin Luther King Jr. received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire.
שלמה סוקול was 46 years old when Munich massacre: Nine Israeli athletes die (along with a German policeman) at the hands of the Palestinian "Black September" terrorist group after being taken hostage at the Munich Olympic Games. Two other Israeli athletes were slain in the initial attack the previous day. The Munich massacre was an attack during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team members hostage and killed them along with a West German police officer.
שלמה סוקול was 63 years old when Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin. The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic, starting on 13 August 1961, the Wall cut off West Berlin from virtually all of surrounding East Germany and East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and finished in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, accompanied by a wide area that contained anti-vehicle trenches, "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc portrayed the Wall as protecting its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany.
שלמה סוקול was 63 years old when Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner. Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary, political leader, and philanthropist who served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country's first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. His government focused on dismantling the legacy of apartheid by tackling institutionalised racism and fostering racial reconciliation. Ideologically an African nationalist and socialist, he served as President of the African National Congress (ANC) party from 1991 to 1997.
שלמה סוקול was 75 years old when The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated suicide attacks killing 2,996 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The September 11 attacks were a series of four coordinated terrorist attacks by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda against the United States on the morning of Tuesday, September 11, 2001. The attacks killed 2,996 people, injured over 6,000 others, and caused at least $10 billion in infrastructure and property damage. Additional people died of 9/11-related cancer and respiratory diseases in the months and years following the attacks.


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An international rugby star has been spotted punting on the Cam
Jamie Roberts was spotted having a ball on the River Cam in Cambridge with a female companion
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Welsh International Rugby player Jamie Roberts and a female friend enjoy a punt on the River Cam in Cambridge.
Bright spark rugby star Jamie Roberts took time off from his studies - to spend a little time messing about on a river.
The Wales and Lions and international - who is also qualified doctor - was spotted having ball on the River Cam in Cambridge with a female companion.
When not dazzling crowds with his rugby skills, the 30-year-old is studying for a masters degree at Cambridge University.
Welsh International Rugby player Jamie Roberts and a female friend enjoy a punt on the river Cam
At the weekend he was seen with a lady friend, perhaps from his course, as she carefully stepped onto a punting boat while he carried her laptop for her.
Can you remember Cambridge United's previous foreign goalkeepers?
The two of them mirrored each other's body language as they relaxed in the afternoon sun in front of a boatload of tourists.
Jamie Roberts talking to people near the Cam
Dressed casually in a grey hoodie and jeans, he looked lost in conversation with his friend as the two sat at the back of the boat with legs spread out.
Having achieved a medical degree from Cardiff University, he began a Masters of Philosophy in medical science after the 2015 Rugby World Cup.
Jamie Roberts with his female companion about to plunge into the Cam
Since 2015, he has joined the Harlequins, making him one of the highest paid rugby players in the world.


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Salvationist Service Corps Members Return from a Summer Abroad
Salvationist Service Corps Members Return from a Summer of Serving Abroad
By: Laura Poff
While many young Salvationists spent their summer days working at camps to earn extra money for savings and school, 29 young adults from across the Southern Territory traveled across the United States and around the world serving, learning and discipling others as members of the 2017 Salvationist Service Corps.
While visiting Italy, Greece, Cuba, Romania, the Caribbean and the eastern U.S., team members learned how to handle interpersonal conflict, communicate across cultural barriers and rely on God and each other for support. They spent several challenging weeks cleaning crack vials off the streets of Camden, New Jersey, using a machete to chip paint off a corps building in Holguin, Cuba, and distributing local produce and food vouchers to nursing mothers at a refugee day center in Athens, Greece. The Romanian team traveled to the territory's five corps, leading day camps and afterschool programs with the help of a translator. SSC members said that they had returned with a renewed appreciation of the comforts of home and a deeper understanding of what it means to truly rely on God.
"It was a life-changing experience, but not in the way that I thought it would be," said Tim Nelson, a member of the Italy/Greece team. Nelson spent his summer painting an art gallery in Torre Pellice, Italy, leading an open-air in a Roman piazza and serving on Athenian streets. But it was the story of a young software engineer turned refugee from Iran that impacted him the most.
"He did everything right and still lost everything, through no fault of his own," he said, adding that the encounter showed him how privileged he is in comparison.
Twenty-year-old Juan Hernandez had a similar experience while serving in Cuba when he and his teammates decided to walk a Cuban corps member home after a day of sightseeing.
"We walked through neighborhoods and saw that she lived almost in a sewer; there was waste on her front porch," he said, adding that when he entered, the home was the size of a small office. He was moved by her strong faith and commitment to the Army despite her circumstances.
"When I signed up to go, I thought we were going there to change lives every day. I thought we were going to help others, to teach them, but they taught us."
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Category: Moon Base
Cult of an American Caligula: Military Moon base in President Trump's secret inaugural messages
Vancouver, BC – Exclusive new video published to social media on January 20, 2017, predicts a dark dystopian high-tech militarized future for America based upon expert analysis and interpretation of secret messages encrypted backwards in the inaugural address of President Donald J. Trump. The Capitol building in Washington, D.C., was the scene for today's inauguration of the 45th President of the United States. Secret messages detected in the president's remarks point to plans for (or the existence of) a military moon base. More disturbing findings suggest the president embodies some of the worst of Roman excesses and compare him with CIA Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones.
"President Trump's Military Moon Base: The Secret Inaugural Messages" appears among the latest investigative findings from former CBS Radio feature producer and NewsInsideOut.com reporter Jon Kelly. The acclaimed analyst's earlier discovery of military-grade intelligence concerning the Iraq War in the 2001 inaugural address of President George W. Bush was proven accurate by real-world events that followed upon its release sixteen years ago this Monday.
As a popular guest on talk radio Jon Kelly would go on to identify serial killers, name Russian spies, and detect the UFO information in Edward Snowden's NSA cache. Most recently his published findings are confirmed to have beaten The Intercept in reporting a revived CIA Phoenix assassination program three years before the Snowden press.
This legacy of unassailable excellence continues where "President Trump's Military Moon Base: The Secret Inaugural Messages" makes solid connections with existing lines of published inquiry. Citations are provide that offer links for the viewer to various authors who have already established ties between the president and the various themes articulated through the digital audio mirror.
In terms of Moon bases, the president's secret message gives reference to the satellite while discussing the role of the military in national security. This apparent reference to Earth's closest neighbor parallels the behavior of James Mattis, who was found in his Senate confirmation hearing last week to express suggestions of a "Mars mission". As SecDef the cabinet nominee would only provide oversite to military operations.
In a post-Gary-McKinnon-failed-extradition-attempt world it seems apparent the president and his cabinet are occupied with thoughts of secret military space missions. The Atlantic reported at the beginning of this month how "upon leaving the president-elect's office, Douglas Brinkley, a historian and conservationist, reported that Trump "was very interested in a man going to the moon."
The video contains an invocation to war but does not identify a clear threat or enemy. The Moon appears sequentially after this invocation in a way that suggests it's a prize to be won in an angry battle. Perhaps in this mirror way the president is trying to tell us something about competitive behavior and low-intensity warfare between partner nations over the further militarization of space. President Bush's 2001 inaugural address revealed a similar pattern in which the president was then observed discussing traditional American values while uttering an encrypted invocation to invade Iraq.
There are references in the video to cannabis legalization and facial recognition surveillance. In December the Daily Beast wrote how the president's pick for attorney general, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), could "redirect the Drug Enforcement Administration to go after legal marijuana growers in states from Maine to Alaska."
The Intercept wrote yesterday that "Backgrounds of the members of the team that President-elect Donald Trump is picking to shape the Department of Homeland Security suggests he will aggressively pursue surveillance using the latest technological advancements," with an emphasis on "facial-recognition technology."
NewsInsideOut.com 2016 campaign coverage included articles about a "future Trump presidency characterized by surveillance, dystopian false flags and prison camps." Stories reflected how "an intensified focus on cybersecurity in such a climate would take place under the name of an anticipated "War on Illegal Immigration."
In an article from last spring the UK Guardian noted the president's "fascinating parallels" with Caligula, "one of the most notorious of all Roman emperors." That report went on to describe how "The young Caligula spent six years on the island of Capri, where he often directed and appeared in spectacular pornographic tableaux for his great uncle, the emperor Tiberius – a man it was said, who enjoyed having swimming boys nibble at his private parts."
President Trump, whose ex-wife Ivana swore under oath that he allegedly raped her, is now cited as the "first porn president" in an item that appeared on today's Slate. There the president is said to have appeared in three soft-core porn films produced by Playboy during the 1990s.
NewsInsideOut.com covering the "Watersportsgate" press conference held last week disclosed evidence of urophilia. This is a condition intelligence agencies claimed makes the president hostage to Russian blackmail demands and possibly party to treachery in aid of Russian interests.
Finally, a surprising and unexpected comparison with CIA Jonestown cult leader Jim Jones is offered to the viewer for consideration. Both President Trump and Jones are portrayed uttering invocations to Moloch and collective suicide. Moloch is an ancient Canaanite deity of child sacrifice. At its most benign Moloch signifies the passage of time that changes children to adults. At worst the president appears to disclose ritualistic elements of child sexual abuse that induces an end of innocence and entry into a form of dysfunctional precociousness such as that said to occur on Sex Slave Island.
"President Trump's Military Moon Base: The Secret Inaugural Messages," offers a video filled with "crazy" and "excessive" images of a dystopian future on par with those said to have fueled the president's winning campaign. Mounting evidence points to the further militarization of space accompanied by war and environmentally/socially rapacious domestic policy.
Sorry, America, it appears you struck out with Donald Trump's "new vision." This reporter can only hope for some sort of miraculous intervention on the part of the president's better angels (if there are any left post-"American carnage").
The following is a partial transcript of the inaugural address of United States President Donald J. Trump from the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., from earlier today preceded by the secret message encrypted backwards therein. Full text of the address is available via the UK Independent. Discussion of methods and philosophy informing these conclusions can be found throughout this reporter's previous related coverage accessible in links below.
Caesar was their love. Kidnap, rape you: "We've defended other nations' borders while refusing to defend our own. And spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America's infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay. We have made other countries rich while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon."
A war. Missile must smash your brain. Nazis: "We will bring new roads and high roads and bridges and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off welfare and back to work – rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor."
I won the Moon in anger: "There should be no fear, we are protected and will always be protected by the great men and women of our military and most importantly we will be protected by god."
Hell with Moloch. Make a flower a crime. Make a face a crime: "Your voice, your hopes and dreams will define your American destiny. Your courage, goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Together we will make America strong again, we will make America wealthy again, we will make America safe again and yes – together we will make America great again."
We shall die. The crime is so black: "Thank you. God bless you. And God bless America. Thank you. God bless America."
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Iowa Growers Support New ISU Research on Soybean Rust
With financial commitment from the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board, Iowa State University will fund new research on soybean rust, a potentially devastating fungal disease that was found for the first time in North America this week.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed that soybean rust had been discovered on soybean plants in Louisiana. The disease, which can substantially reduce soybean yields, has affected crops in every continent where soybeans are grown.
"For the past two years, Iowa State has been a national leader in extension and educational efforts to prepare soybean growers for the arrival of soybean rust. With the support of Iowa soybean growers, we'll be well-positioned to lead the search for research solutions to soybean rust," said Catherine Woteki, dean of the College of Agriculture.
"Iowa is the nation's leading soybean-growing state with more than 338 million bushels harvested last year and a $2.6 billion economic impact," said Alan Karkosh, chairman of the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board and a grower from Hudson, Iowa. "Now that soybean rust has been confirmed in the United States, we need to focus on research areas that will help soybean growers address the problem."
The Iowa Soybean Promotion Board is a volunteer board of 17 Iowa soybean farmers elected by soybean producers to maximize the profitability of Iowa soybean producers by investing and administering checkoff funds in research, market development and educational activities.
Earlier this year, representatives of Iowa State and the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board began developing plans for a new research initiative on the disease.
As part of the new effort, Iowa State will create two new faculty positions in the colleges of agriculture and liberal arts and sciences, as well as a postdoctoral scientist position. The Iowa Soybean Promotion Board will provide $500,000 over three years to help fund salaries of the new faculty. After three years, the university will fully fund the positions. Iowa State will fund costs involved in starting up the new research programs, including setting up laboratories. ISU's Plant Sciences Institute will fund the postdoctoral scientist position and other research costs.
Searches for the new positions will begin soon. The soybean organization also has pledged additional support for research when the faculty members are hired.
"The new faculty positions will provide essential links from fundamental research on the molecular level to the more applied research with practical applications," said David Wright, director of production technology for the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board.
The new faculty members and postdoctoral scientist will conduct studies on fungal biology of soybean diseases and molecular-level research on how plants respond to attacks by pathogens. The primary emphasis will be on soybean rust. They also will work closely with ISU agronomists on identifying potential new sources of disease resistance in soybean.
ISU research currently underway on soybean rust includes:
- X.B. Yang, a professor of plant pathology, has studied soybean rust since 1989 - one of only a handful of scientists in the nation who has conducted research on the disease. The Iowa Soybean Promotion Board currently funds Yang's research on using environmental models to assess the movement of the disease.
- A research initiative underway in the Plant Sciences Institute addresses soybean rust at the molecular level. Plant pathology faculty Thomas Baum and Steve Whitham are embarking on research to analyze the molecular host-pathogen interactions of soybean rust. Knowledge gained from the work may lead to rust-resistant soybean cultivars or new management strategies to control the disease. Because U.S. quarantine regulations prohibit research with infected tissue at Iowa State, Baum and Whitham will conduct some of their experiments in South America. They have obtained permission to transport RNA from infected soybean tissue to ISU and have hired a postdoctoral researcher who will start in January.
The Iowa Soybean Rust Team has been preparing for the arrival of the new disease for the past two years. The team has trained approximately 400 Iowa crop professionals as "first detectors" to identify soybean rust. This winter, 12 additional meetings in ISU's Crop Advantage Series are planned to educate soybean producers about the disease. The team is encouraging Iowa's growers to attend the meetings. Members represent Iowa State University, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship, the Iowa Soybean Association, the Iowa Soybean Promotion Board and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. More information about the team and soybean rust is available on the Web, http://www.soybeanrust.info.
Pam Molitor, Iowa Soybean Association, Director of Communications, 800-383-1423
Brian Meyer, Iowa State University Agriculture Communications, (515) 294-5616, bmeyer@iastate.edu


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Q: How to force LaTeX to keep section/subsection headings with one line below it on the bottom of the current page? By default, LaTeX allows a page break after the first two lines of paragraphs following section/subsection headings, but I would like to keep the section heading with even one line below it at the bottom of the current page. How to do it?
Please note that I'd prefer not to use any additional packages such as etoolbox or needspace.
Here is my MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}% just for this example
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand{\dummy}{This is a test }
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-6]
\section{bla}
This is a test  This is a test  This is a test This is a test
This is a test This is a test This is a test
This is a test
\end{document}

A: Without any additional package, add the following lines in your preamble
\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@afterheading{%
  \@nobreaktrue
  \everypar{%
    \if@nobreak
      \@nobreakfalse
      \clubpenalty 1
      \if@afterindent \else
        {\setbox\z@\lastbox}%
      \fi
    \else
      \clubpenalty 1
      \everypar{}%
    \fi}}
\makeatother

MWE:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}% just for this example
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand{\dummy}{This is a test }

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\@afterheading{%
  \@nobreaktrue
  \everypar{%
    \if@nobreak
      \@nobreakfalse
      \clubpenalty 1
      \if@afterindent \else
        {\setbox\z@\lastbox}%
      \fi
    \else
      \clubpenalty 1
      \everypar{}%
    \fi}}
\makeatother

\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-6]
\section{bla}
This is a test  This is a test  This is a test This is a test
This is a test This is a test This is a test
This is a test
\end{document}

Output:

A: \documentclass{book}
\usepackage[showframe]{geometry}% just for this example
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcommand\dummy{This is a test }
\widowpenalty=-1000 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\clubpenalty=-1000  %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{document}
\lipsum[1-6]
\section{bla}
This is a test  This is a test  This is a test This is a test
This is a test This is a test This is a test
This is a test
\end{document}


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Q: Broken images in XSS attacks Many websites discuss broken images being good warning signs of a possible XSS attack in the pages source code.  My question is why so many attackers allow this to happen.  It doesn't seem like it would be very much more trouble for an attacker to use an iframe or an unassuming picture to hide their persistent script behind.  I could be wrong in assuming that broken images are very common with XSS.  Thanks for the help!
Edit:  I think XSS could be a misnomer in this case.  I understand why an image tag that points to a java script file wouldn't display and be too much trouble to display.  I think my question is more related to instances of files uploaded to the server with malicious code in them.  I guess that's sort of a second question actually--is that actually XSS or more like an exploit of insecure object references by the server (going by OWASP terms)?
Edit: Here is a nice article describing XSS in detail.  It mentions broken images, but it also discusses how to avoid them.  I can't find any articles mentioning specific attacks with broken images.  I recall reading about a few phishing attacks through email however (in these cases you are absolutely correct about CSRF, Daniel.

A: The websites that you have been reading may be referring to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks (CSRF; CWE-352). CSRF attacks are commonly carried out with "broken images" because (1) browsers load images automatically (so the browser automatically makes an HTTP request on behalf of the visitor) and (2) many websites allow users to add images to user-contributed content.
Imagine that a website allowed users to post comments on a blog, and the blog software allowed users to add images to their comments by specifying the URL of an image. There are likely various admin functions of the blog software that are invoked by requesting certain URLs. For example, a comment might be deleted by anyone who is logged in as an administrator if the admin "visited" /comments/delete/# (where "#" is an ID of the particular comment to be deleted). A malicious non-admin will not be able to delete a comment, say comment 7754, by visiting /comments/delete/7754 because he or she is not authenticated. However, the malicious user might try adding a new comment with the content consisting only of the "image" at /comments/delete/7754. If an admin were to subsequently view the comment (simply view the page containing the malicious user's comment), then the browser would automatically request the "image" at /comments/delete/7754. This could cause comment 7754 to be deleted because the admin is logged in.
This example of deleting comments gives you an idea of how some CSRF attacks work, but note that the effects can be a lot more sinister. The CWE page that I linked to references actual CSRF issues with various software that allowed things like privilege escalation, site settings manipulation, and creation of new users. Also, simply requiring POST for all admin functions does not make a website immune to CSRF attacks because a XSS attack could dynamically append a specially-constructed form element to the document and programmatically submit it.


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FeaturedLocal News
Reclaim Our Future koalas pay a visit to Federal MP
By Paul Bibby
Byron EchoMarlene Crompton, Mullumbimby - January 29, 2023 1
Agreement on floodplains
The Echo reports Paul Toole, Minister for Regional NSW, stating that we must stop development on floodplains, stop making...
Police find body of missing Elanora woman
Detectives attached to taskforce Victor Arum investigating the disappearance of 61-year-old Elanora woman Wendy Sleeman have recovered a body and vehicle at Wilston on Brisbane's inner north yesterday.
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'DISASTER'
Government 'DISASTER' signs promoting fear of floods are affecting property sales. We are trying to sell our beautiful family home...
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Family and domestic violence leave comes into force tomorrow
New laws to provide 10 days paid Family and Domestic Violence Leave will come into force tomorrow for workers...
Today Extinction Rebellion Lismore will make sure the federal member for Page hasn't forgotten about the black summer bushfires and their devastating impact on NSW's koala population.
After marching from the Lismore Quad from 11am, activists dressed as black wraiths and koalas will occupy Kevin Hogan's office with a dramatic and potentially messy reminder that we must immediately begin to transition away from fossil fuels if we want to limit extreme weather events such as the fires two years ago.
'It's about time our government earned some respect by acting on climate change like the
emergency it is,' said Daniel Berg, ex-Lifeline phone support worker and grandfather.
'We need massive subsidies out of fossil fuels and into renewables. We need urgent protection of old-growth and State forests.
'We need a seriously strong and scientifically-informed stance at COP26 and COP15
(biodiversity) events. There is no time to waste.'
There will be koala-focussed actions around the country today, as part of an escalating series of 'Reclaim Our Future' events, coinciding with important national climate policy developments and the lead up to international climate talks in Glasgow.
Today is also the start of Environment Minister Sussan Ley's appeal against the Federal Court's finding that she has a duty of care to protect young people from climate harm. The ruling on the case will be announced on Thursday.
In addition, there are two important parliamentary votes during this term – a Senate vote to disallow $50m to kick-start the huge Beetaloo Basin fracking project in the Northern Territory, and another attempt to pass MP Zali Steggall's climate action bill.
Yesterday, Ms Steggall tabled a revised draft of her Climate Change Bill to federal parliament.
The revisions reflect feedback from the inquiry process and introduce a new, short-term emissions reduction target of 60 per cent by 2030 vs 2005 levels.
In the absence of any policy from the government, the revised Bill provides Australia with an opportunity to adopt a meaningful climate commitment ahead of COP26.
Local XR activists have planned Covid-safe actions for the coming fortnight, and are prepared to do whatever it takes to motivate our political leaders in the lead-up to November's international climate negotiations.
'I never thought this was how I was going to spend my retirement,' said Susie Gipton, a 71-year-old local grandmother.
'I do this for your kids, my grandchild and the inheritors of the planet. I also think and am hopeful we will get there despite our government.
They need to get out of the way, and let private enterprise drive our journey to zero emissions.
Kevin Hogan
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Fully support this protest, it's so important to look after what's left of our flora and fauna.
Parliamentary debate on logging forced by petition's 21,000 signatures
Yesterday in Sydney the public gallery in the NSW lower house of parliament was packed with citizens hoping to hear their representatives support the community's calls for an end to the logging of our public native forests.
Slow down for wildlife in spring!
Local News The Echo - September 13, 2022 0
Drivers are being urged to be on the lookout for more wildlife on our roads over the spring months.
Call to stop logging NSW public forests to be debated as fire risk increases
Articles & Columns Aslan Shand - September 9, 2022 6
Over 20,000 people have signed a petition asking the NSW government to debate the proposal to place a moratorium on logging in public native forests, transition to 100 per cent sustainable plantations by 2024 for the native forestry industry, and ban the use of native forest materials as 'biomass fuel'.
Casino Drill Hall Precinct upgrade project completed
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The Casino Drill Hall Precinct has been completed with the unveiling of the final project, a granite monument honouring Diggers as the centrepiece.


Football betting: Table-topping Leicester to continue to surprise against Arsenal | City A.M.
Leicester have made a habit of proving people wrong this season.
Going into last Saturday's trip to Manchester City, there were plenty, myself included, who expected it to be the day the bubble would burst.
What followed was one of the best Premier League away performances in memory, with a 3-1 win that puts them five points clear at the top.
They visit Arsenal on Sunday with the finish line starting to come into view.
While the Foxes travel to Emirates Stadium full of confidence, the same cannot be said for their hosts.
The Gunners were winless in four before last week's game at Bournemouth, and hadn't even scored in their previous three matches.
Arsenal fans must bemoan their side's lack of ruthlessness – they should be comfortably leading the table, but sit only a point above fourth.
However, they did show enough in that win at the Vitality Stadium to suggest they still have it in them to continue their title bid.
Alexis Sanchez is back after three months out through injury, but more importantly, Francis Coquelin is fit again too. The Frenchman could be key in halting Leicester's feared counter-attacks on Sunday.
When looking at these two teams, it's difficult to split them.
Betway offer 3/1 for the draw and, with neither team wanting to lose ground on their rivals, I'm tempted by that.
Arsenal beat the Foxes 5-2 when these two met earlier this season.
Sanchez scored a hat-trick that day in an end-to-end game, but I don't see it being as open again on Sunday.
Claudio Ranieri has tightened up his defence drastically since then, conceding just twice in their last eight.
Given Arsenal's recent attacking woes, this could be a tight, low-scoring affair.
Spread bettors are advised to sell total goals at 2.75 with Sporting Index.


Learn about Kaua'i's exotic agricultural industry by attending a farm tour. Visit local farms that produce products unique to Hawai'i, taste the sweet succulent nectar of tropical fruits and discover how produce is grown and harvested on the island.
Chocolate lovers beware – you might not want to leave. This tour takes you through an 8-acre chocolate tree orchard located in Kapa'a. This is one of the few places you'll ever get to do this, as Hawai'i is the only state that commercially grows cacao. Included in the tour is a leisurely stroll through lush gardens with colorful flowers and the chance to taste tropical fruits like lilikoi and rambutan. Your sweet tooth will be exceptionally satisfied after an 11-course dark chocolate taste-testing soiree. Tours are offered several days a week. Visit steelgrass.org for more information.
This is the largest coffee grower in the state, as well as the country, since the beans are only commercially grown in Hawai'i — the ʻEle'ele plantation contains four million coffee trees on more than 3,000 acres of land. Personalized tours are offered throughout the week but your best bet is to jump in on one of the four free daily tours. You'll learn about how the coffee is grown, harvested and produced into the final product as you journey along a lovely pathway. You also have the opportunity to sample a vast assortment of unique coffee flavors, including banana and macadamia. Visit kauaicoffee.com for more information.
Located on a taro farm within a National Wildlife Refuge in lush Hanalei, this guided tour includes visiting the state's only remaining rice mill dating back to the 1800s. Visiting here includes accessing privately owned land and learning about the island's agricultural and cultural history. You also get to check out endangered birds, learn about kalo (taro) cultivation and enjoy food that features products from the farm. Tours are offered at 10 a.m. every Wednesday. Visit haraguchiricemill.org for more information.


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Eventi
San Gimignano viene sottomessa e integrata nel territorio fiorentino.
Viene celebrata per la prima volta la Natività di Maria nella Chiesa di Santa Maria di Piedigrotta di Napoli.
Compare la Sindone, il cavaliere francese Goffredo di Charny dichiara di possederla.

Nati

Morti

Calendario

Altri progetti

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More than 13 million older adults and people with disabilities receive long-term care from 65 million family caregivers, home health aides, and other care professionals. Although the U.S. spends over $200 billion on long-term care each year, life is often grim for people receiving care and those who provide it. Basic needs often go unmet. As the population ages and demand for care continues to rise, the long-term care system faces an emerging crisis.
The percentage of persons needing long-term care is growing 2x faster than those providing it. Even as of today, 46.9% of frail adults in the U.S. are on their own and lack basic care.
In 2035 the cost of long-term care is expected to increase to $315 billion – 100 billion over the cost of $215 billion spent in 2015. The average cost of long-term care per person is expected to be $50,000 a year with Medicaid paying for less that half of that amount for those who qualify.
23% of family members who give long-term care are more likely to suffer a stroke compared to other caregivers of the same age, not in a familial relationship with the patient.
According to a report by the federal government, 21% of nursing home residents are given antipsychotics, but do not have a diagnosis of psychosis. Medicaid spends more on antipsychotics than on any other class of drugs.
Lucette Lagnado, The Wall Street Journal (Aug. 27, 2013).
According to a survey of direct care workers, 60% of their patients' health is at risk due to staffing shortages. In long-term care, as many as 15% of jobs are unfilled. Staff turnover at many organizations exceeds 50% annually.
Reports of serious, physical, sexual and verbal abuse are "numerous" among the nation's nursing homes, according to a congressional report. The study finds that 30 percent of nursing homes in the United States — were cited for almost 9,000 instances of abuse over a recent two-year period, from January 1999 to January 2001.


When coaching a circuits class the other day, one of the participants got a bit heated with me over my coaching of the kettle bell swing. He didn't like the fact I was getting everyone to go to above the head and thrust with the hips, and he said other trainers / coaches had never told him to before and therefore I was wrong.
When it comes to the kettle bell swing there are two methods, neither is wrong, but… what the chap in the class was used to performing is the Russian KB Swing, where you only bring the arms up to shoulder height. Yes the Russian swing is going to give you a workout for sure, however, I favour the American KB Swing – where you fling the kb back between the legs, thrust forward with the hips and drive the kettle bell straight above your head.
The American Kettle Bell Swing, the power comes from the hips thrust!
Why do I coach this method? If you've attended my classes or worked with me, you'll know I love functional fitness and getting the full range of motion (ROM) out of people. So, why would you stop at shoulder height, your normal arm range doesn't stop there. If you do stop there you're not utilising your full ROM, and it's a scientific fact that over time if you don't use it you lose it.
So the American KB Swing ensures you're getting the most of your ROM and gives you a better workout response – my question, why wouldn't you use this method?!
Photos via crossfit.com and Train Manchester.
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Samuel Davenport (1783 - 1867)
RA Collection: People and Organisations
Samuel Davenport was an early exponent of steel-engraving, which he used for his major series of engravings for the British annual Forget-me-Not in the volumes published between 1828 and 1842.
Most of his plates were in line on copper or steel and signed Davenport, but S. Davenport and S. Devonport are also known.
Born: 1783 in Bedford
Works associated with Samuel Davenport in the RA Collection
After Henry Howard RA
Lady on a donkey with children
Steel-engraving
Associated books
Samuel Rogers
Italy, a poem - London: 1830