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JimPinto.com - Connections for Growth & Success™
No. 270 : 25 August 2009
Keeping an eye on technology futures.
Business commentary - no hidden agendas.
New attitudes, no platitudes.
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Pinto Bucket-list trip - Greece tour & cruise
National Instruments' Geek Week
Invensys - Outsourcing the Crown Jewels
Healthcare Technology Revolution
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Small company thrived, then died
Digital textbooks squelched
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Some of you have noticed that the last eNews issue was dated over a month ago (15 July 2009). The lapse was because I was on vacation - in Greece. A Grecian vacation has always been high on my "bucket-list", and this trip was beyond my expectations.
Although tours are typically hurried and regimented, we decided to take a Trafalgar tour - they're fairly well known in Europe and we were well pleased.
We started in Athens, at an excellent hotel right below the Acropolis (the word denotes the highest point in a city). The Parthenon was built in 500 BC and, as if to greet us, it was all lit up at night - we have a spectacular photo from the hotel's rooftop restaurant. The just recently opened Parthenon Museum, just a short distance away, was built to house the rich archaeological finds that have been unearthed during excavations. The floor is glass, through which you can see excavations of an ancient village below.
Our land tour included the Corinth Canal, and then ancient Corinth, dating back to 5,000 BC – I couldn't help remembering that Apostle Paul wrote to the Corinthians a mere couple of millennia ago.
We were on route to Mycenae and the remains of Agamemnon's palace.' Then we drove through the mountains of Arcadia to Olympia – the site of the first Olympic Games in 776 BC. We strolled through the temples of Zeus and Hera – I tell you, those Greek Gods were fun-loving and temperamental.
Next we took the bridge across the Gulf of Corinth to mainland Greece, and then on the slopes of mighty Mount Parnassas to Delphi, home of the Oracle. It turns out that the Oracle was a series of old, epileptic women who made undecipherable pronouncements, interpreted as riddles by the priests. So, for example, they'd predict the outcome of a battle with a double-meaning riddle that turned out to be true. Hey, I'm thinking of developing my own Oracular website with similar predictions about business and politics...
Then there were the monasteries of Meteora, perched on gigantic rocks above the ancient battlefields in the plains below. The Greek word meteora means "suspended in the air", and these rocks, apparently under water millions of years ago, eroded into fantastic peaks upon which medieval monks built monasteries, several of which are still active. There are still some high, isolated caves there, accessible only by rope-ladder and inhabited by modern-day hermits.
The cruise which followed would not have been the same without the history lessons and overview of the land tour. The Greek cruise-ship was OK, but not up to the standard of the big cruise-lines. With less than about 1,000 passengers, it was small enough to dock at most of the islands; we still had to take tenders to the port when it anchored offshore at small Santorini.
The cruise took us to Mykonos, playground of the rich and famous (spectacular, I'd go back); Ephesus (now in Turkey, lots of biblical and earlier history); Rhodes (where we went up to the Fort on mules); Crete (we tasted their wine), Patmos (apostle John wrote the Book of Revelations here); and finally Santorini (a volcanic explosion destroyed a large part of this picturesque island, which means you have to climb down lots of steps, or take a mule, down to the port).
Of course, there are Olive trees everywhere in Greece – apparently, they don't need much upkeep and live for a few hundred years. In Greek mythology, goddess Athena created the first tree during a battle with Poseidon. She planted an olive tree at the Acropolis, and provided Athens with food, oil, shelter and wood. First cultivation of olives began after 2000 BC in Crete. To the people in the Mediterranean, olive oil has been more than something to cook food. Homer called it Liquid Gold. And there are lots of Olive soaps and beauty treatments.
There are lots of other Greek products worth sampling. Greek Ouzo is and alcoholic aperitif similar to the French Anis, which I don't much like; though I do like their liqueur Raki, and their sweet wine, Vin Santo. Hey, we discovered that having Greek yogurt and honey every morning cures everything and does wonders for the libido – try it! You can get some at Trader Joe's.
Beyond just mentioning these appealing names and a juicy tidbit, it's difficult to write even a short-description of each, and I'm running out of room. You'll find lots of links on the Internet (some provided below) which will help you to plan your own trip.
We took thousands of pictures, which are now in the process of being sorted out. That will take months – at least until I start planning my next bucket-list trip....
Greece - From Wikipedia
Travel Guides to Greece
Greek Island Guide
Just before my Greece trip, I visited National Instruments in Austin, TX. on a consulting assignment. I must tell you, this company continues to amaze me - the motivated people, the steady stream of new products, the impressive facilities campus, the continued growth even in recessionary times.
My visit was just a couple of weeks before the annual "geek bash" called NI Week - I call it "geek week". Gary Mintchell, editor of Automation World, was there. He reports in his blog (weblink below) that Founder, President and CEO, Jim Truchard (they call him Dr. T) greeted a record crowd with his opening keynote remarks: the "financial engineers" who helped create the mess we're in should go back and do "real engineering" to help get us out. The way Math has been taught in business schools has serious flaws; they are trying to apply the laws of physics to an area with a lot more variations.
NI is a company that prides itself on technological innovation. Some companies may be sales-driven, a few may be marketing-driven, but NI is still a nimble, technology-driven company. And nowhere is this seen as much as in the latest release of LabView, NI's flagship software, and the supporting cast of hardware.
National Instruments' revenue is now about $ 725M with a market-cap of over $ 2B and some $ 0.25B cash in the bank. The company has a unique corporate culture, described at some length in an article I wrote about 3 years ago, stimulated by open discussions with Dr. T. He predicted then that NI would continue to grow towards the next benchmark of $ 1B. Today, this fiercely independent company is still on track.
Addressing Global Challenges with Innovation at NIWeek 2009
Read Gary Mintchell NI blog
National Instruments - Culture of Growth & Success
The news was brewing on the JimPinto.com Invensys weblogs for months before it finally happened. The blogs were being generated by employees of Invensys Development Center (IDC) in Hyderabad, India, reporting that an Invensys deal was brewing to sell off IDC to Cognizant, an outsourcing services provider.
Clearly the weblogs had become a primary unofficial source of communications between IDC employees. But the daily stream of messages - disgruntled complaints, nervous rumors, canny comments - became so thick and heavy, that I had to request that they start their own unofficial blog; which they did.
In the meantime, Invensys was busy being reorganized as Invensys Operations Management (IOM). Management refused to comment on the persistent rumors which were circulating about the Cognizant deal. One weblog even suggested that Cognizant was buying all of Invensys, which wasn't too far-fetched since Cognizant is itself a Fortune-1000 company.
Then, in mid-July Invensys finally made the announcement. It had "entered a strategic relationship with Cognizant... to help improve the design, development and delivery of IOM products and solutions for customers around the globe." They officially confirmed the news which had been broadcast on the blogs for months.
Under the terms of the "initial 5-year agreement", Cognizant becomes IOM's global development partner, supplying "an array of development and maintenance services" and a long list of other stuff.
Cognizant is a provider of IT consulting and business process outsourcing, and also one of the world's leading SAP implementation houses. Perhaps the SAP connection explains the link with IOM CEO Sudipta Bhattacharya, formerly a SAP Veep.
Astute commentator Andrew Bond suggests in his "Automation Insider" that this looks as if Invensys IOM is pretty much handing over its crown jewels to Cognizant: all of the development for the former Foxboro, Triconex, SimSci-Esscor, Avantis, InFusion, Eurotherm and Wonderware. Wow!
Sudipta then hastily summoned some American journalists to a teleconference, apparently intended to clarify the situation. Sadly, this did not add anything, except further confusion.
Automation World's Gary Mintchell did get some clarification, through Steve Young, IOM VP of global development. Who is Steve Young, and when did he appear on the scene to make these pronouncements? He is not even listed as Executive Management on the Invensys website. Anyway, this Young fellow tried bravely to squelch suggestions that IOM was handing over control of its software "domain expertise", suggesting that they were transferring only the "heavy lifting": porting to new Windows platforms, writing drivers, and mundane stuff like that.
But Cognizant did not see it that way. Their own version of the press release stated that the deal "will enable Cognizant to further expand its customer base in discrete manufacturing, process manufacturing, energy and utilities..." and this continues with a complete list of areas which are key to IOM. Clearly, there was no agreement regarding whether the transfer was mundane "heavy lifting" or precious "crown jewels".
All this did not go over well with IDC in India. As reported in their copious weblogs, they had been suffering management problems and a high rate of staff churn. More than 95% of the 400 employees accepted Cognizant's offer of employment. The earlier weblogs now seemed prescient. And they still offer insights into how this whole debacle was triggered.
But, the problems don't stop at IDC in India. Back home at Wonderware in California, the source of the Invensys crown-jewels, exits are taking place at an alarming rate. Sudipta remains mum.
After all this idiocy: the IOM name and strategy change, the puerile website redesign, the transfer of the Wonderware crown jewels - comes the latest laugh. The IOM people have renamed the long established and highly successful "WonderWorld" events for this year as "OpsManage09". One can only guess how the hitherto highly successful WonderWare sales channel will greet this gross lack of commonsense.
Is Ulf immune to all this noise? Or, is he just pretending to be asleep? As he was when Paulett Eberhart was creating havoc with Foxboro? The Invensys weblogs reported that he had sold off some of his stock, and that the Cognizant deal was done simply to clean up the balance-sheet prior to the sale of the company.
Stay tuned for the continued comedy of errors. Hey, will you attend "OpsManage09"?
Read more in Andrew Bond's Automation Insider
Read the Invensys weblogs
Read Gary Mintchell's Feedforward weblog on Invensys
Healthcare is being transformed through a technology revolution termed Healthcare 2.0. This is led by the introduction of electronic health records that can be turned into searchable medical databases, providing a "smart grid" for medicine that will not only improve clinical practice but also help to stimulate research. Devices and diagnostics are going digital, advancing such long-heralded ideas as telemedicine and personal medical devices for the home.
In the past medicine had taken a paternalistic stance - the all-knowing physician dispenses wisdom. But today, the web has a plethora of medical advice. I can look up symptoms and side-effects for any medication, without waiting for my doctor to interpret these things for me.
On the doctors' end, digitization of medical information connects doctors not only to everything they need to know about their patients, but also to other doctors who have treated similar disorders.
Healthcare 2.0 information is available to the patients too, empowering them to play a bigger part in managing their own health affairs. Individuals take more responsibility for their own health and prevent problems before they require costly hospital visits. That means putting electronic health records directly into patients' hands.
The technology for a "Health 2.0" model already exists, and the standards needed to guarantee its smooth running are being developed and used widely. Devices will use USB or Bluetooth, and data transmitted between devices will use an IEEE standard in the same way that Wi-Fi networks do.
Focusing on preventative care and actually keeping people healthy actually provides a massive economic benefit not just to the healthcare industry, but to the economy as a whole. More healthy people contributing to production, output and consumption can do quite a lot for the economy. If the incentives could be aligned such that people are paid for staying healthy, rather than having illness treated, then there's a lot of money to be made without resorting to the old inefficient mess that is today's healthcare system.
Warning: U.S. insurers and health systems don't seem to want to adopt new technologies. That's because they make more money the sicker you are. Pharmaceutical companies make easy money with monopolies that limit the spread of useful drugs, to make their drugs expensive. Actual drug costs are nearly totally hidden from most consumers. There are lots of built-in artificial scarcities in the system, which make them rich. Opening up the flow of information will change that.
It's time to fix the healthcare system.
Medicine goes digital
Is the future of healthcare online?
Will technology improve healthcare delivery?
We must recognize that major parts of the economy - government, banking, insurance, health care, consumer services - use physical wealth, but do not create it. Financial services now comprise 45% of earnings of companies on the S&P 500 index, up from 10% just a quarter-century earlier.
Manufacturing is a primary wealth-producing sector and historically is responsible for this country's relatively high standard of living compared to other countries. Manufacturing has now declined to about 11% of America's GNP. The continued decline is ominous.
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) has an initiative that identifies emerging technologies that are making a positive impact on manufacturing. SME's Manufacturing Enterprise Council collaboratively selected five "innovations that could change the way you manufacture":
Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM): Use of additive fabrication processes; manufacturing components layer by layer, direct from 3D digital data, without machining, molding or casting.
Ultra capacitors: Electrochemical capacitors that have an unusually high energy density and provide significantly more storage power, with unparalleled life span.
Self-Assembling Nanotechnology: Manufacturing at the microscopic level.
Intelligent Device Integration (IDI): Monitoring, managing and servicing of intelligent devices over the Internet.
Integrated 3D Simulation and Modeling: Desktop supercomputers will revolutionize simulation and modeling, acting through microscope, telescope and time-machine operations to manage, view and tool a complete manufacturing system.
Perhaps a fortuitous result of the current recessionary environment is that the manufacturing decline is being recognized and addressed in new and innovative ways.
Automation World - Fundamentals: Manufacturing Innovation
SME - Innovations That Could Change the Way You Manufacture
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Russell Kinner [RKinner@ssoe.com] shares some stories about how small companies blossom and thrive, and then decline:
"I had a boss who did just as you suggest at a small engineering firm. He hired the best people he could find, gave them the tools they needed and then stayed out of their way. We did have to perform (as measured by the satisfaction of our clients and repeat business) and our performance exceeded what any of us could expect to do by ourselves. We challenged each other to do better. There was no cutting down colleague to get ahead; we all wanted to help everyone exceed their expectations. And that translated into success for the company. It was a great time in my career.
"Fast forward to today. That company with the great boss had its founders retire and the place lost direction, finally being sold a skeleton of its former self. I found work at a major automation supplier for 4 years and was caught up in one of their many RIFs. Fortunately, I was caught in one of the early RIFs (almost 3 years ago) and ended up at a 1000 person Engineering/Architectural firm. So, I was inadvertently pushed back into a larger company, but love where I am.
"Getting laid-off is not something I want to experience again, but they did me a favor. I now see a career future, not just serving my time until I can retire. In fact, I really don't see retirement in my future, I hope to work (maybe a few less hours each week) until my physical health won't let me.
"My bucket list is full, so a few days off occasionally to check some of them off (as you did on your recent trip) would be a good thing."
Jim Johnson [JamesRoss.Johnson@swagelok.com] tells us why his digital textbook venture failed. But Apple may now get in the game:
"In 2001 my daughter and I founded a company with a goal of marketing text books in a digital format. We signed a contract with the National Association of College Bookstores to be the exclusive provider of digital text books through their bookstores, which control around 45% of the nation's college bookstores.
"Our venture failed - because the publishers of the text books were unwilling to provide their content in a digital version. We were proposing to sell text book content by the chapter, or even by the page, so an instructor could utilize the best parts of a number of text books for the same price as a single hard copy text book.
"Apple noticed us and my daughter is now a Senior Manager at Apple in their iTunes University program. She works with Universities and other entities to provide digital educational content through iTunes.
John Blaesi [John.E.Blaesi@conocophillips.com] feels that another, higher degree won't help him:
"One reason I am not currently seeking another degree or a higher degree is the very structured and limited courses that I need to take to obtain that degree. Courses that I am not interested in or I do not think apply.
"In the past 2 hours, I have utilized information and/or education from engineering, IT, finance, legal, and psychology. I don't know of any one degree that offers all of these and I don't think anyone person should have five degrees just to occupy my chair."
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Susan Seidelman (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1952. december 11.) amerikai filmrendező, producer.

Életpályája
Egyetemi tanulmányait a Drexel Egyetemen és a New York-i Egyetemen végezte el. Philadelphiában egy tv-adónál dolgozik. Az And You Act Like One Too-ért diák Oscar-díjat kapott. 1982-ben készítette el első filmjét, a Smithhereens-t, melynek nemcska rendezője, de producere és forgatókönyvírója is ő volt. 1985-ben készült el második filmje, a Kétségbeesve keresem Susant, melyben Madonna is szerepet kapott. 1989-ben a Cuki című filmjében Peter Falk is látható volt. 1994-ben a 44. Berlini Nemzetközi Filmfesztivál zsűritagja volt. Seidelman legnagyobb sikert a Szex és New York című 1998-as sorozatával érte el. 2001-ben a Galiba a Gaudi házban című filmjével tért vissza a filmezéshez.

Filmjei

Rendezőként
 Smithereens (1982) (producer és forgatókönyvíró is)
 Kétségbeesve keresem Susant (1985)
 Keressük az igazit (1987) (producer is)
 Cuki (1989) (producer is)
 Nőstényördög (1989) (producer is)
 Confessions of a Suburban Girl (1992) (színész is)
 The Dutch Master (1994) (forgatókönyvíró is)
 The Barefoot Executive (1995)
 Erotikus mesék (1996)
 A kiválasztott - Az amerikai látnok (1996)
 Szex és New York (1998)
 Hűvösebb éghajlat (1999)
 Vissza a jelenbe (1999)
 Galiba a Gaudi házban (2001) (producer is)
 Hatalom és csillogás (2002)
 A farm (2004)
 Stella (2005)
 Szerelmes nyugdíjasok (2005) (producer és forgatókönyvíró is)
 The Electric Company (2009-2010)
 Musical Chairs (2011) (producer is)

Producerként
 Zűrzavaros éjszakák (1993)
 Occupant (2011)

Források

Jegyzetek

Fordítás

További információk

1952-ben született személyek
Amerikai filmrendezők
Amerikai filmproducerek
Amerikai nők
Philadelphiaiak
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Republican lawmaker says the GOP under Trump is 'advocating for crap' he never could've predicted
John Haltiwanger
FILE - In this March 6, 2019 file photo, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., speaks to the media at the White House in Washington. Kinzinger is slamming as "beyond repugnant" President Donald Trump's tweet of a conservative pastor's comment that removing Trump from office would provoke a "civil war." (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger said the GOP under Trump has "advocated for crap" he never would've dreamed of, according to The Hill.
The Air Force veteran was referring to Trump's recent decision to yank US troops out of Afghanistan before he leaves office in January and the GOP's relative silence on the matter.
Kinzinger also said that the tone of the Republican party needs to change moving forward.
"I think ultimately people are going to recognize the tone has to change," the Illinois lawmaker told The Hill.
In addition to being among the few Republicans willing to openly criticize Trump, Kinzinger is on the short list of GOP lawmakers who've recognized Joe Biden as president-elect.
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois is among the few congressional Republicans who have been openly critical of President Donald Trump.
In an interview with The Hill, Kinzinger said the Republican party in the Trump era is "advocating for crap" he never would've dreamed of. Kinzinger was speaking of Trump's recent, abrupt move to pull US troops out of Afghanistan before he leaves office and the relative silence of his GOP colleagues in response.
"I mean we're advocating for crap now that I never would have imagined ... When Trump says he's going to in essence recklessly pull out of Afghanistan, there's only a handful of us that even say anything about that," said Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran.
"If [former President Barack] Obama would have done the exact same thing, we'd be outraged," the Illinois Republican added.
Kinzinger has criticized Trump amid his refusal to concede to President-elect Joe Biden and baseless claims of mass voter fraud. He's on the short list of Republicans who've publicly recognized Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election.
The GOP lawmaker told the Hill that he's not afraid of Trump, who tends to lash out at critics and has the capacity to turn his supporters against Republican politicians perceived as hostile to the president. Kinzinger said his time in the military has influenced his tendency to challenge rhetoric he views as wrong.
"I understand how politics works, and I understand that you have to be political and I'm political ... but at the same point, if you're not willing to put your career on the line for a cause, how can you ask 18-year-olds to do it for the country?" Kinzinger said.
But Kinzinger also said he likes Trump "personally" and says the president is "hilarious."
He said he voted for Trump in 2020, and agreed with much of the president's agenda but would like the GOP to take a less divisive tone moving forward.
"I think his policy on Russia was great, but his words weren't. To this day I don't understand why he can't say a bad word about [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, but his policies were really aggressive," Kinzinger said of Trump. "There's a lot of good, some bad, but the biggest thing to me isn't the issues, it's the tongue. And it's that we've become unable to talk."
"I think ultimately people are going to recognize the tone has to change," Kinzinger went on to say. "I think a president sets a cultural tone and not just the issues, but just how people treat each other."
NOW WATCH: 'Everything we have achieved is now in danger': How Republican convention speeches have changed, from Reagan to Trump
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Most students who attend my courses want to know what the best stress management tips are. High school students are under so much pressure to achieve high results to get into the courses they want to do. A little bit of stress can propel students into action but too much stress can impair their performance.
Firstly, be prepared. We are all familiar with this Scout's motto. There is nothing more stressful than leaving your studying to the last minute and then panicking because there isn't enough time to study everything. Adults often report that they still have nightmares where they are in Matric and they have an exam the next day which they haven't studied for. A friend told me that he recently woke up from this type of nightmare. The way to avoid this type of stress is to start exam preparation two to three weeks before an exam. One feels much more confident and calm walking into an exam when one is well-prepared.
Secondly, breathe deeply. When panic starts rising in your body, then your breathing becomes shallow and it feels hard to think clearly. I find that it works really well to sit quietly, close your eyes and to breathe deeply for ten breaths. Try it. Your body feels more relaxed and your thoughts stop rushing frantically around your head. This is really useful to do when you sit down in an exam hall and the question papers are being handed out. No one will notice you discretely practising deep breathing. It is also useful if anxious feelings come up while you are studying.
And thirdly, practice positive self-talk. When you are feeling really nervous for a test or exam, it's natural for a negative soundtrack to run through your head. For example, "I'm so stupid that I'm going to fail this Maths exam and my parents are going to kill me and I'll never get into university or technikon and I'll be a failure…" This type of negative self-belief can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is counter-productive to feeling confident and self-assured before an exam. I tell students who are nervous for an exam to tell themselves, "I am going to do my best in this exam. That's all I can do". They may need to repeat it to themselves aloud until they feel calmer and more confident.
Students who have attended my courses have given me feedback that all of these strategies were effective in reducing their stress levels. I also recommend the book "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens" by Richard Carlson for more useful tips.
Which stress management tips have been most effective for you?
Parents and students often ask me how to study. I believe that the best study tip is to summarise the information and then memorise the summary. Students may choose to summarise information by writing information in a linear format, or by creating a mind map which is a visual representation using words, pictures and colours. I often find that students don't include enough of the important information in their summaries. When they are required to answer questions in tests and exams, they don't know enough details to answer fully. This is often the case with subjects like Biology and History.
I always tell students that it is not enough to simply summarise the information. While the process of summarisation helps one understand the information, most students aren't able to recall all the information sufficiently after doing this. The next step is to memorise the summary. Many students these days don't realise that they have to memorise information to do well in tests and exams. If you glance through The Answer Series book for Grade 11 Biology, you realise how much detail is required to get full marks for an exam question. Students need to know this information off-by-heart. It is not sufficient to merely read through one's textbook two days before an exam! I teach students to memorise their summaries and then test themselves the next day to see whether they can still recall the information. It's important to test yourself the following day to ensure that the information goes from your short-term memory into your long-term memory.
This study tip really helps students improve their results. I've worked with many Matric students in particular who have given me feedback that this tip was highly effective in helping them achieve their academic goals.
What is your best study tip?
The course made me think about new, interesting ways that people study and it showed me how to discipline myself.
I did your Study for Success course when I did my Matric in 2012, and it helped a lot. I am still using those skills today and I am currently in second year at university.


Yamada Planning Office is Manga Agency that helps various production companies to link with cartoonists, caricaturists and animators.
I, Hiroichi Yamada, am the president of this office,and I am also the member of A Japan cartoonists association and Japan animation association.
Before I started this business I had been producing programs on TV, radio, commercial films, and various events for twenty-seven years in the advertisement agency called Mannensha Inc. which has one hundred eight years history.
I imagine the companies such as media, advertisement, production, games, and Internet business might be interested in working together with our office.
Enjoy our website, Manga gallery, and if you are interested in using one of characters, please contact us.
Besides characters on our website, we have more samples in our office.
Moreover, you can order to make original characters that you like.
Although our website is opened for business purpose, we accept e-mails and snail mails to cartoonists, caricaturists and animators that appear on our website.
As I mentioned above, I am the member of Japanese cartoonists association and Japanese animation association, so that I have connection with a lot of cartoonists, caricaturists, and animators.
In a future, we are planning to open exhibitions, Manga class, events to get autographs, class to draw a portrait, and etc. As a theme of our plan we offer the word "spread of touching your heart through Manga".
Furthermore, we are interested in scouting for a new face. We are recruiting her/him on a new face corner, our website. Please let us know if you are interested in.
If you have question and any comment, please let us know.
We, Yamada planning office that is Manga agency, are looking forward to working with you.
Hi,I am hiroichi yamada,head of yamada-kikaku(yamada planning office).
I have many varieties of HP,eblog,youtube,and SNS.
Please show and enjoy them!.


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Digital Tweed
Digital Tweed® is the work of Kenneth C. Green, founding director of The Campus Computing Project. If successful, these posts will inform and entertain, and at times also annoy. A little dissonance can be a good thing.
Introducing InStride, ASU's For-Profit, Preferred Provider Strategy for Growing Online Enrollments
Two public presentations at last week's ASU GSV Summit, plus an exclusive interview with ASU President Michael Crow, offered new information and insight about ASU's plans to launch an online, for-profit, workforce training initiative.
Kenneth C. Green
Smart entrepreneurs seek large, underserved markets and have a special interest in those rare markets that are "evergreen" – markets that refresh themselves. They leverage (or exploit) the competitive advantage of their product(s) or service(s). And smart entrepreneurs also use "other people's money" (aka OPM) to launch and grow their operations.
These three factors – market opportunity, competitive advantage, and OPM – strike me to be the appropriate reference points for framing InStride, ASU's new, online, for-profit, "learning services company." Information about ASU's plans for this new for-profit first broke on March 19th. Then on Friday, April 5th, there was the ASU-InStride press release, three days ahead the annual gathering of education entrepreneurs, innovators, and investors at the ASU GSV Summit in San Diego. The press release announced the new company and formally proclaimed ASU's goals for this venture:
"Too many people have been left out of higher education for reasons such as cost, time, or family circumstances," said Michael M. Crow, president of Arizona State University. "Many forward-thinking employers are already leading the way in the movement to provide learning opportunities for employees that result in life-altering benefits. We have created InStride to accelerate that movement and partner with more employers who seek to provide flexible learning options for employees no matter what stage of their career they are in."
As previously reported, ASU will be a minority partner in this venture. The university will contribute key assets – online courses and content, plus its managerial experience and expertise with online education. Money to support this venture comes from The Rise Fund, a social impact fund that like all social impact funds proclaims to "do good" for society, while also "doing well" for investors. And the target market is large corporations that will direct employees eager to finish college degrees directly to ASU's online program via agreements to be negotiated by InStride.
Here's how my hyperactive inference engine assesses the ASU-InStride venture.
The world of online education is large, growing, and increasingly competitive. It has also become strategically important for a rising number of institutions eager to increase enrollments and revenues as operating support for public institutions remains flat or has declined in many states, and as US colleges and universities confront a decline in the population of traditional-age college students.
Recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) reveal that while overall postsecondary enrollment dropped by 90,000 students between 2016 to 2017, the number of students taking at least some of their coursework online grew by 350,000 during the same period (up 5.7 percent). In 2017, students enrolled exclusively in online programs or courses accounted for 15.4 percent of total enrollments, up from 14.7 percent in 2016. These percentages translate into some 3.1 million students enrolled exclusively in on-line programs and courses in 2017, out of a total enrollment of some 20.1 million students at degree-granting postsecondary institutions in the United States.
However, in the context of InStride, ASU President Michael Crow has his eyes on the 35 million adults who started college but did not earn a degree – "75 percent who work for a company and have no pathway [back] to college." (That's some 26 million adults currently in the workforce). To borrow from hockey great Wayne Gretzky's quip about "skating to where is the puck is going, not to where it is," Crow, his ASU colleagues, and his InStride partners are looking beyond the trajectory of the "puck on the ice" to the thousands watching the game from the other side of the glass in the arena or on television.
Moreover, the working adults who might be interested in going back to college constitute an "evergreen" market. What's significant here is that, in aggregate, baccalaureate degree completion rates have been stubbornly flat for several decades despite significant institutional efforts and expenditures to improve retention and graduation rates. This means, of course, that large numbers of students who start college subsequently leave college after year or two. Consequently the "some college" population refreshes itself each year even as many working adults with prior college experience and credits pursue and eventually complete baccalaureate degrees or other certificates.
So the market opportunity here is significant and the logic simple: mindful of Willie Sutton's quip that he robbed banks "because that's where the money is," ASU and InStride will target the "some college" population of adults employed by companies and corporations – because that's where the big numbers are.
Earlier this year US News and World Report ranked ASU's on-line baccalaureate program as No. 2 in the nation. The online program at ASU is large – some 40,000 students according to public statements last week at the ASU GSV Summit. ASU also offers a large, rich, and diverse portfolio of online bachelors degrees, taught, as President Crow emphasized in our conversation, by "regular ASU faculty."
In addition to its highly ranked online degree programs, ASU's competitive advantage includes experience and expertise with a large corporate partner. Launched in 2014, the Starbucks College Achievement Plan (SCAP) "provides all eligible U.S. partners the opportunity to receive 100% tuition coverage to Arizona State University" (original emphasis). SCAP has allowed ASU to gain direct experience working with a large population of "some college" corporate employees interested in completing their baccalaureate degrees. According to the numbers discussed last week at the ASU GSV Summit, some 12,000 "Starbucks partners" are currently enrolled in online degree programs at ASU. As of 2018, some 2,400 Starbucks employees had completed online degrees since the program launched in 2014, a number ASU officials estimate will rise 3,000 this spring.
So as above, the logic here is clear: InStride and ASU will leverage ASU's online programs and draw on ASU's experience with Starbucks to develop (many!?) additional corporate alliances that will send more members of the "some college" workforce directly to ASU for online courses and degrees.
Other People's Money
Smart entrepreneurs use OPM – other people's money. In this case the OPM that underwrites InStride comes from The Rise Fund. Crow previously characterized the Rise Fund's (initial?) investment as in the "low tens of millions." Additionally, Crow stated explicitly during our conversation in San Diego last week that ASU would not invest cash.
But interestingly, there is a second strategic OPM factor at work here – corporate reimbursement for the tuition of employees enrolled in ASU's online programs. So ASU and InStride benefit from two pots of OPM – the Rise Fund to support InStride's operations plus tuition reimbursement from Starbucks and future corporate partners funneling students to ASU.
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Last week in San Diego we also earned just how important the Starbucks relationship is for ASU's online headcount. The 12,000 Starbucks partners currently enrolled in ASU's online program account for almost a third (30 percent) of ASU's 40,000 online students. That's a large number of students who are directed to ASU by Starbucks and who also benefit from tuition support from Starbucks.
We know less about the metrics of success for the ASU-Starbucks initiative. The conventional cohort tracking models used for entering freshmen do not apply here. However, the aggregation of both public statements and ASU's public data provides some insight. The 2,400 Starbucks partners who completed online baccalaureate degrees at ASU through 2018 account for about a sixth of the 15,711 students who earned online degrees at ASU over the past three years (2016-2018). (Note that online degrees at ASU effectively doubled from 2016 to 2018, from 3,669 to 6,939)
Appropriate Analogies
If the appropriate reference points for the ASU-InStride initiative are market opportunity, competitive advantage, and OPM, what then are the appropriate operational analogies?
To me, InStride looks a lot like a medical PPO – a preferred provider organization. But rather than contracting with a network of physicians and other health care providers, major firms will contract with InStride (and ASU) for online courses and degree programs for their employees. These partnerships will direct large numbers of prospective students directly to Arizona State. And although President Crow affirmed that the InStride students will have to meet regular ASU admissions requirements, the partnership arrangements should help expedite the admissions process for the students who come to ASU via InStride's agreements with various corporate partners.
There is a second analogy, one that is a bit less "semantically enhanced." The ASU-InStride relationship with client companies is an educational funnel that will channel employees to InStride and ASU. The movement into the funnel of the "some college" workforce to ASU is fueled by students' aspirations to earn a degree and the financial incentives (corporate tuition remission) that underwrite their costs.
The funnel strategy has some clear benefits for ASU and InStride. For example, one of the major front-end costs for most online programs is "client acquisition" – the radio and cable TV ads, online marketing, and other activities required to promote programs and to recruit individual students. The ASU-InStride strategy would appear to bypass individual recruitment to target "pre-qualified" groups – the employees at Starbucks and at other firms who gather in break rooms or who check their HR benefits on corporate web sites. In other words, the funnel strategy is targeted recruitment, at scale, with significant financial incentives. Additionally, ASU and InStride will no doubt benefit from the peer-to-peer conversations among these employee groups: those who have successful experiences at ASU will likely share information about that experience with their work associates.
On the other hand, critics comment that the funnel strategy limits educational options by channeling employees to preselected educational providers. For example, the Starbucks College Achievement Plan (SCAP) directs employees only to ASU, although it places no limits on a student's choice of major. In contrast, Amazon's Career Choice initiative does not restrict which college or university an employee may attend, but does limit program choices, providing tuition support for "education only in areas that are well-paying and in high demand according to sources like the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics." There is another very important difference between the two programs: Amazon will only underwrite technical and vocational training, but not bachelors degrees; the Starbucks program is focused on helping baristas earn their baccalaureate degrees. Notably, neither Amazon nor Starbucks require that the education program be directly related to current or future career opportunities at the sponsoring firm, nor are employees at Amazon or Starbucks obligated to remain at the sponsoring firm once they complete an educational program.
Cash, Command, and Control
Among the chattering digeratti (like me), some of the big questions about InStride involve corporate control and decision-making. Rise is the banker and ASU is a minority partner. And as I noted in my March 27th blog post titled ASU Goes For Profits, "ceding control of a new venture to the 'money people' violates a cardinal rule of entrepreneurship: ALWAYS. RETAIN. CONTROL."
Consequently, it was interesting to hear Michael Crow explain why ASU needed to create InStride and how ASU "has control mechanisms" even as the university is a minority partner in the InStride venture.
Crow said that InStride "creation story" reflected ASU assessment, based on the Starbucks experience, that the university would benefit from an "intermediary" organization to recruit corporate partners and manage the corporate relationships.
As for control, Crow said that ASU, although a minority partner, has multiple "control mechanisms" over the InStride arrangement and the relationship with the Rise Fund. These mechanisms include half the seats on the InStride board, veto power over the CEO appointment, approval of any additional university participants, and also approval over the key terms of a financial exit for equity partners. So even as it is a minority stakeholder, ASU appears to have the controlling hand on critical strategy, partnership, financial, and operational issues.
Crow also framed InStride as another example of ASU's entrepreneurial culture and the university's many ("maybe 150, but that's not the exact number") equity and technology partnerships. Yet he acknowledged that InStride is different from the usual agreements to commercialize patents, products, and processes. Those agreements typically involve and (financially) benefit the creators (often individual faculty and research groups) as well as the university and the technology or equity partner. In contrast, the salaried Arizona State faculty and instructional designers who created the online course content that ASU contributes to InStride are not likely receive a direct financial benefit the way faculty and researchers do when their lab work finds a commercial market.
Indeed, at this early very stage the investor (and by extension InStride employee) equity issues appear to present some interesting (if likely longer-term) challenges. Equity investors typically seek a 3-5x return on their investment within 5 years. For the Rise Fund, that would mean a $30-50 million (or more) payout on what Crow previously characterized as an initial investment in the "low tens of millions." But because ASU has significant (but not total) control over the financial exit options for equity investors, it may be difficult for Rise and other equity holders to sell their equity in the company.
Too, there is the issue of the potential equity payouts for the InStride executives who helped launch and manage the company. Ahead of the ASU GSV gathering in San Diego, the backbuzz about InStride was that part of the recruitment pitch to the initial group of senior executives was a "five year exit and your gonna be rich." The usual way that founding executives at a start-up "get rich" is when the company is bought by another investor or goes public. Does the "gonna be rich" recruitment pitch suggest that ASU and/or Rise ultimately anticipate an InStride public stock offering, which would then allow equity investors and other equity holders, including ASU, to cash out? (Alas, this is an afterthought question I did not ask Crow during our conversation. And for the record, Crow stated that the "gonna be rich" recruitment pitch, if true, did not come from anyone associated with ASU.)
Other University Partners
During our interview Crow stated that he hoped other universities would join ASU as part of the InStride initiative. His requirement for potential InStride academic partners, over which ASU has final approval, is that they are "research grade universities" with "research grade faculty." Confirming Crow's statements about other university partners, InStride's home page proclaims that the company "provides an exclusive network of the highest-quality global universities, with a proven track records for working adults," followed by an ASU logo and two white box placeholders for an "additional university to be announced."
But why would ASU want to other universities to join InStride? And why would other universities want do so?
Additional university partners might compete with ASU's online programs. And adding partners would probably contribute to managerial complexity and challenges. As Crow tells it, ASU is clearly primus inter pares in this arrangement; other academic partners will have to play by ASU's rules if they align with InStride.
The incentive to join InStride might be access to the corporate partnerships that will (efficiently) funnel large numbers of students to online programs. Too, Crow said that ASU might give up some equity to other (qualified) academic partners, but he stated explicitly that ASU would not cede control to other academic partners – either positions on the InStride board or other key aspects of InStride's management and operations. Moreover, the equity might not be all that valuable if ASU controls the terms of a potential cash out/exit/sale.
So the potential participation of other academic partners now becomes one of those "this will be interesting to watch" issues. Over the next 3-6-12 months we will learn if other "research grade universities" decide to align with InStride, or alternatively, if they pursue other options and alliances to grow their online initiatives.
Admittedly, these are, as the British might say, "early days" for ASU and InStride. Much will be revealed in the coming weeks and months. InStride enters the marketplace for the "some college" population with great aspirations and with significant assets from ASU. Everything else remains to be revealed.
The key early indicators of success will be announcements about additional corporate participants and academic partners. And then, over time, the "metrics of success" become a matter of numbers: the number of corporate partners, the number of enrolled students from each partner corporation, and, ultimately, the number of baccalaureate degrees that the "some college" population Crow, ASU, and InStride seek to serve eventually earn through this new initiative.
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The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: When Will The White Lotus Episode 6 Air?
The White Lotus Season 2 Episode 5 Recap: Season 2 of "The White Lotus" certainly did not disappoint in delivering the wicked and surprising climax that fans of the show have come to expect. The season hasn't ended yet, but it's already pulling out all the stops for an unexpected journey. Season 1 of "The White Lotus" was surprising, but Season 2 is shaping to be much more so. No one knows who will die in the season finale except Daphne (Meghann Fahy), Rocco (Federico Ferrante), and Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore).
However, we can't get there until the characters' internal struggles are resolved. Continued episodes see Harper (Aubrey Plaza) becoming increasingly unstable as she struggles to make sense of her marriage to Ethan (Will Sharpe).
Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) is often her own worst enemy, but she may overcome this trait thanks to her new friendship with Quentin (Tom Hollander). In the meantime, Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Grann) are still striving to achieve their goals in the working world. The shocking and revolting events in Episode 5 are only a taste of what's to come in the series.
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We all recall Harper's apprehensions about the Babcocks at first. The wealthy couple, notably Cam (Theo James), who is sexually aggressive, is in direct opposition to her values. Something was wrong with him even before he stripped naked in front of Harper and followed her into the water. With Harper's concerns about Ethan causing a rift in her marriage, it's clear that Cam's treatment of her was more about foreshadowing than making her feel uneasy.
Chekhov's pistol predicted that Cam would eventually try to woo Harper. And after all she's been through, and she seems more than ready to do it. Harper is less anxious about keeping Cam and Ethan's stormy night a secret after a long day of drinking in the Italian wine country. Daphne doesn't care if she forgets about it or not.
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Not because she is clueless but because she knows what her marriage to Cam is, and she doesn't let it get her down. But Cam is following a different path. Cam touches Harper's leg when the topic of threesomes is brought up. Though Old Harper would have shied away, New Harper, bitter and hurt by her husband's secrets, isn't quite as frightened. Despite the lack of progress, it's becoming increasingly likely that Harper, not Ethan, is the one who is being unfaithful.
Albie (Adam DiMarco) may repeatedly hint that he went to Stanford, but Episode 5 reveals precisely how unworldly he is. Albie is an average guy who made the mistake of sleeping with a sex worker. This not only leads to shady schemes to come up with the cash to pay her, but it also paints an altogether more disturbing picture.
Although he shares some of his ancestors' misogyny, Albie's views are uniquely his own. He may not openly objectify women, but he does not value them as human beings. After realizing his error in judging her profession, Albie creates a false narrative in which Lucia is a victim of circumstance.
Albie's sexist grandfather has a better grasp of this than he does. "It's important to remember that not all women are angels, Albie. They share our humanity, "Bert (F. Murray Abraham) explains to him. Although Albie dismisses his argument as unconvincing due to his apparent antiquated outlook, the man makes several valid points.
You don't have to save Lucia. She has no apparent good or bad qualities. However, Albie's future fortunes may not improve because of this error. If you look at the Di Grasso family, you can see how the past keeps coming back around. Dominic (Michael Imperioli) confides in Bert that he has difficulty adjusting to marriage because he's all he's ever known is watching his father have extramarital affairs.
There is a chance that Albie will inherit his father's sexist views and behavior toward women. When young Di Grasso discovers that Lucia is not the ideal he had constructed, he risks following in the footsteps of the misogynists who killed off his father and uncle.
During their time in Palermo, Quentin warns Tanya, "Sicily may be quite alluring." The episode builds toward a surprising conclusion as it explores this concept in depth right as the titles roll. But before we can go into it, we must revisit the beginning. Tanya and Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) are invited to a lavish celebration at Quentin's Palermo house.
Since Tanya is like a tragic Puccini heroine, as Quentin puts it, a trip to see "Madama Butterfly" seems like a no-brainer. Both visibly moved by the opera, Tanya and Quentin discuss how beauty is the only way they can understand their lives. Despite the concept's intriguing surface, it's mired in shady dealings.
Like Quentin, Sicily has a certain allure. To all appearances, he is a generous man who places little stock in anything beyond the superficial. After a great evening in the villa, however, Tanya realizes that Quentin's outward charm is an act. When Tanya hears noises in the bedroom, she immediately opens the door and catches Uncle Quentin and his nephew Jack in front of the copulation.
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This Sunday, December 6, at 9 p.m. EST on HBO and HBO Max, the sixth episode of Season 2 of "The White Lotus" will be broadcast. Considering two more episodes left in the season, we're making our way to the finish line. An unexpected find by Tanya at the end of Episode 5 suggests that the action will continue. The true mystery is what steps she'll take next with this knowledge.
Tanya is aware of Jack and Portia's sexual relationship, but she has been known to do nothing in the past. She worries that this episode will be the final nail in the coffin of her marriage, so she asks if people think she is oblivious. This may be the moment to make a shift.
And then there are Harper's declining fortunes to worry about. There is a growing awareness of the door connecting the Spiller and Babcock rooms, and it seems inevitable that she and Cam will eventually cross a line beyond redemption. In Episode 6, we'll get even nearer that line and the horrific conclusion hinted at in the first episode.
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Research has found that the latest smartphone and mobile applications have yet to capture the imagination of mortgage advisers.
The Mortgage Solutions People's Poll asked whether brokers used apps or mobile technology as part of their day to day business. Only 22% of advisers said that they used them on a regular basis, with a further 19% saying that they used them every now and again. A third of said that they had never used an app that was designed for brokers.


President was over here at 8am sharp to collect the missionaries to whom he had promised a trip to Corinth before they go home. He related to us the scare that they had last night (about 3:45am) when Sis. F. heard a door bang, followed by footsteps!! It was very unnerving, especially to Sis. F. and they didn't really get any more sleep after that. Just after Pres. left of Corinth, Sis. F. called - there was someone walking around the grounds and she couldn't see who it was. The house has high stone walls and heavy steel gates and entrance door to the grounds, with cameras, so you are supposed to feel safe there!! Brent went over and found that the "intruder" was a man sent by the landlady to check out the security cameras etc. - so that was alright. After a lengthy investigation it ws determined that the early morning caller was the gardener!!! - nobody had told Freestones that the gardener works three homes in the area before he goes to work at his day job! hence his early morning activity. Problem solved - but not before a lock & key man had come to change the locks and had actually started on the door/gate to the street!! The gardener has now been given a new key and asked not to start at their house so early. The elders arrived back mid-afternoon with a good case of sunburn - but they'd had a good time. A pigeon flew into one of the huge sliding glass doors in the office and he didn't move for quite a while. When he did move, he was just walking - he made one feeble effort to fly, but didn't get anywhere, so we think he's hurt or damaged his wing. One of the elders thought that it could heal in a couple of days and then fly off. We'll watch it and see. Can you believe this?? Brent went out to the bird which was on the balcony and took him some bread chunks and water!!! I think the chunks are too big for the bird to manage though. These "pigeons" don't look like the Canadian ones - they might be doves! They're small and more delicate looking than ours. Tonight, all the couples went to dinner at "Inez's Mexican Restaurant." Inez (she's from Peru) is a very good friend of Elder & Sis. Mower (he speaks Spanish) and she has a baptismal date for Sept. 22nd. She is so sweet and she wanted to do a farewell dinner for the Mowers and his "guests" (we 4 couples). Inez does not normally open on Monday nights, so this was a special dinner just for us! First, she brought us tamales, then a large platter of sliced potatoes, covered with a mustard sauce and a half of boiled egg on top - it was really good. Then came sweet potatoes, then a shrimp and fish dish in lemon sauce with mushrooms. Savory Rice came next and the finale was a huge dish of prawns and veges in a sauce (that was so good). Dessert was a kind of cherry cheesecake - it was a little bit different than our cheesecake, but very nice anyway. Inez wouldn't let Elder M. pay for the dinner, so we just left money under our plates when we left and hoped we could get a ways down the street before they discovered it.
Here our little feathered guest. Brent calls him "my flight school drop-out!!!


Thank you everyone for making the Florenceville-Bristol Haunted Trail 2013 a great success.
A special thanks to the Northern Lights Dancers for their great performances.
The Haunted trail offers two intensities, a milder version for the young ones earlier in the night, then a more intense version for teens and adults after the sun sets down.
Come visit us next year at the Haunted Trail located at the Shogomoc Railway Site in Florenceville-Bristol, NB!


This has been sat on my shelf for a while. And by a while, I mean since September. Oops.
To tell the truth, I was putting it off. Not only is it of a genre I normally don't read, it's also 457 pages long. I've read longer, but it does still seem quite daunting – right?
The plot…has so many twists and turns. I was actually shocked I could keep on my toes and follow the entire time. I guess that depends on the writing and character building. I felt like I could see what was happening, to the point of almost gagging and a couple of gruesome parts!
The characters…are very well built. Honestly, I felt so close to Cassie and I really felt her pain, her happiness, her sadness. But mostly, her pain. It was extremely vivid.
The writing…is extraordinary. I know, I know – I say this a lot. But this one put other books to shame – even one's I've also rated 5 moons.
I have to really admire Rick for the amazing creation of this…parallel universe, I guess. One identical to the one we know today, but completely different is so many ways. The writing really makes that vivid, and understandable.
Something I liked…is the short chapters. Not only did it make the book more managable, but it also made the pages seem like they were turning themselves. This is a rating on the back of the book (about the turning pages thing), which at first I didn't understand. Pages turning themselves? What?
Well, this was explained as soon as I started reading. It takes so little time to read just a chapter, you just want to keep carrying on reading. And there really is no other way to describe it – the pages really do turn themselves.
Something I disliked…has to be the sudden character changes by section. Every 10-50 pages (or so) there was a change in POV, and suddenly the book was being written by another character. There wasn't any issues with this – it gave the book a good edge – it just took a page (or 5) to realise who had started telling the next part, and then get into the new writing.


This article was exclusively written for The European Sting by Ms. Amany Gonçalves Robaina, a 21 years old and medicine student at Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), in Blumenau, Santa Catarina – Brazil. She is affiliated to the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA), cordial partner of The Sting. The opinions expressed in this piece belong strictly to the writer and do not necessarily reflect IFMSA's view on the topic, nor The European Sting's one.
Since the Indutrial Revolution it was belived in the eternaty of the natural ressourses and therefore invested in the exacerbated and irresponsible industrial productin, which dismissed the concern with the environment. In our times, we feel the consequences of those past choices and current consumer society model : global warming, pollution, depletion of natural resoueces, increase of natural didasters, climate change.
During the last century the environment theme was discussed, treaties were signed and elaborate goals. However, depite the broad discussion of climate and environmental changes, how these changes negatively affect human health have been neglected.
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. Air pollution kills approximately 7 million people anuualy, with 80% noncommunicable diseases and 20% of respiratory infections, due to exposure to particles in pollution air, which penetrate the lungs and cardiovascular system, causing spills, heart diseases, lung câncer, chronic obstructive pulmonar disease and respiratory infections.
Over 90% of deaths related to pollution occur in low and middle income countries. The lack of resouces and governamental immaturity are possible causes for the perpetuation of choices withiut responsibility.
Unfortunately, about 40% of the worl's population depends on biomass burning for household chores or warm – a lethal basic need, with and view that approximately 12% of the planet's deaths are related to burning of intradomiciliar biomass and burning of forests and because of the inhalation of smoke.
The WHO establishes maximum levels of emission of harmful gases to human health. Many megacities exceed five times the organization's reference levels, representing a great risk to the population health of these cities. Although the levels are too high in most of the world, one can observe a great interest in reversing this deadly frame. In recent years more and more countries are willing to measure the emission of harmful gases and take action to reduce it, resulting in more than 4300 cities around the country in 108 with the air quality within the proper parameters. A slower and more positive progress of the world's authorities with a commitment to preserve the environment as well as health.
Furthermore, the global temperature rise, caused by large emission of greenhouse gases (CO2, N2O, CH4, CFCs, HFCs, PFCs, SF6), contributes to the proliferation of vectors and therefore diseases such as malaria, dengue, Zika, which concern mainly the populations inhabiting tropical countries. As a result of this increase in temperature, the heat waves of the phenomenon has intensified and became more frequent. As the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, this phenomenon increases the risk of mortality in proportion to the intensity of the heat, and has caused thousands of deaths in Europe and Russia, for example. Most vulnerable populations such as the elderly and children are more susceptible to thermal drift due to the low ability to maintain body temperature.
It follows therefore that pollution, together with climate change affects human health in many ways, directly and indirectly, and therefore the proposed targets since ECO-92 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, they are so important both for the environment and for human health. Therefore, compliance with the targets set in global authorities of meetings, such as reduced emission greenhouse gases, conservation of nature and biodiversity, use of renewable energy, the commitment of countries together with the collaboration of the population in search sustainable development preserves the health of our planet and the health of each individual who lives, preventing them from cardiovascular diseases, pulmonary diseases, malaria, dengue fever, among other diseases. Therefore, the environment of the connection to health calls for a reassessment of these goals for the inclusion of health as a basic agenda of discussions on the preservation of nature and global biodiversity.
Amany Gonçalves Robaina is 21 years old and a medicine student at Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), in Blumenau, Santa Catarina – Brazil. She is in the second period of college and became a member of IFMSA during her first week there. She has a lot of interest in health and how it is affected. Besides, she really likes politics and social actions. So as a member of the IFMSA she took action in the university and in the community with the goal of improving my skills and learning as much as possible.


When I climbed Mt. Fuji, the sky was so dark with storm clouds that I couldn't see the mountain from the station. It's a pretty unremarkable spot. There's not much seating, and the food is expensive (though a steal compared to what you find on the mountain). The attendants in the station are pretty pleasant though, and they will help you with whatever questions you have. You can get a number of shuttle buses to various regions in Kanto, not just around the mountain.


Grants Pass Power Equipment, LLC began life as KCK's Shop in the early nineties. Aaron and Cara Gore purchased the business in 2017 and changed the name to Grants Pass Power Equipment, LLC in 2018.
We are a small outdoor power equipment shop that provides excellent service on all brands of outdoor power equipment as well as sales of RedMax, Makita, Briggs and Stratton, Kohler, Tecumseh, and more equipment, parts, and accessories.
Our mission is to provide excellent service, products, and support for our customers.


Horiatiki salata is the name of the famous traditional Greek village salad! From all the Greek recipes that exist, this horiatiki salata recipe is the one you definitely need to know. It is so easy that you can know it by heart. Horiatiki salata means in Greece the salad of the village. Pay attention to the ingredients you use for this traditional Greek village salad, as they really make the difference. I have traveled to many countries and during my trips, I always visited a Greek food tavern. Food is good. But, not as half good as it is in Greece. I personally believe there is something magical about the food in my country. I don't know what it is. But almost everything tastes fantastic. It must be the quality of our vegetables and our great sunlight! So to make the most out of this horiatiki salad recipe, go to your local grocery store and get the best vegetables. Organic vegetables taste a lot better!
So, how do you make a horiatiki salata? Let's start with the basic ingredients. To make this traditional salad, you need tomatoes, cucumbers, green pepper, olive oil and feta cheese. If you are after the authentic taste, try to get extra virgin Greek oil olive, olives, and Greek feta cheese. This horiatiki salata recipe is ready in less than 10 minutes.
Start making the horiatiki salata by carefully cleaning your vegetables with some fresh water.
Unpeel the cucumber and cut into rounds.
Cut the green pepper into wedges.
Take a large deep bowl. Mix tomatoes, cucumbers, onion, pepper and feta cheese.
Add olives (optional). You may remove the pits from the olives. This is not actually necessary although you would see a lot of Greek salad recipes suggesting you need to do it. To be honest I don't remove the pits from the olives.
Add oil olive and sprinkle with oregano.
Put some salt but be careful as the original Greek feta cheese is quite salty.
Once you place all the materials, mix them again.
Taste to see if more salt is needed. Add to taste. Mix again.
Now, you can impress your friends or significant other. If you like this horiatiki salad recipe, stay tuned for more Greek food recipes. Kali orexi (Bon appetite in Greek)!


Commonwealth is accepting applications for Commonwealth PhD Scholarships 2019 in UK. Commonwealth PhD Scholarships are for candidates from low and middle-income Commonwealth countries, for full-time PhD study at a UK university.
The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of 53 independent and equal sovereign states. The Commonwealth is home to 2.4 billion people and includes both advanced economies and developing countries. Thirty-one of our members are small states, many of which are island nations. Their shared values and principles are inscribed in the Commonwealth Charter Member countries are supported by a network of more than 80 intergovernmental, civil society, cultural and professional organizations.
The Department for International Development (DFID) was set up in 1997. DFID leads the UK's work to end extreme poverty. They are tackling the global challenges of their time including poverty and disease, mass migration, insecurity, and conflict. Their work is building a safer, healthier, more prosperous world for people in developing countries and in the UK too.
They work in countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, many of which are fragile or at risk from fragile neighbours. They also have regional programmes in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, and development relationships with 3 aid dependent Overseas Territories – St Helena, the Pitcairn Islands and Montserrat. In addition to working directly in countries, DFID also gives UK Aid through multi-country global programmes and core contributions to multilaterals.
Supporting statement from a proposed supervisor in the UK from at least one of the institutions named on your application form – submitted directly by your proposed supervisor to the online application system (supervisors will be sent an email request).
The CSC will not accept supporting documentation submitted by nominating agencies or outside the online application system.
Supporting documentation uploaded to the online application system must be uploaded as files which are no more than 5 MB in size and must be in one of the following formats: PDF, .doc, .docx, .odt, .jpg, .jpeg . Files submitted in any other format (including Zip files and PDF Portfolios) will NOT be accepted.


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Q: Construct Completely Ad-hoc Slick Query Pardon my newbieness but im trying to build a completely ad-hoc query builder using slick.  From our API, I will get a list of strings that is representative of the table, as well as another list that represents the filter for the tables, munge then together to create a query.  The hope is that I can take these and create the inner join.  A similar example of what i'm trying to do would be JIRA's advanced query builder.
I've been trying to build it using reflection but I've come across so many blocking issues i'm wondering if this is even possible at all.
In code this is what I want to do:
def getTableQueryFor(tbl:String):TableQuery[_] = {
   ... a matcher that returns a tableQueries?
   ... i think the return type is incorrect b/c erasure?
}

def getJoinConditionFor:(tbl1:String, tbl2:String) => scala.slick.lifted.Column[Boolean] = (l:Coffees,r:Suppies) => {
    ...a matcher
}

Is the Following even possible?
val q1 = getTableQueryFor("coffee")
val q2 = getTableQueryFor("supply")
val q3 = q1.innerJoin.q2.on(getJoinCondition("coffee", "supply")

edit: Fixed grammar issue.

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Ecology and evolutionary biology is an interdisciplinary field of study concerning interactions between organisms and their ever-changing environment, including perspectives from both evolutionary biology and ecology. This field of study includes topics such as the way organisms respond and evolve, as well as the relationships among animals, plants, and micro-organisms, when their habitats change. Ecology and evolutionary biology is a broad field of study that covers various ranges of ages and scales, which can also help us to comprehend human impacts on the global ecosystem and find measures to achieve more sustainable development.

Examples of current research topics

Birdsong
There is a number of acoustic research about birds. Birds learn to sing in specific patterns because birdsong conveys information to select partners, which is a result of evolution. However, this evolution is also affected by ecological factors. Research with recorded birdsong of male white-crowned sparrows from different regions found that the birdsongs from the same location have the same traits, while birdsongs from different locations are more likely to have different song types. Birdsongs from areas with dense vegetation tend to only have slow trilling sounds and low frequencies, while birdsongs from more open areas have fast trilling sounds and higher frequencies. This is probably due to differences in the propagation of sound through vegetation. Low frequencies can be heard from further away when going through dense vegetation than high frequencies. For that reason it would be an advantage for birds who live in dense vegetation to sing at lower frequencies. That way, their songs can still be heard by competitors and potential mates far away.

Something similar was found in birds living on a mountain. The birds who lived higher up were singing at higher frequencies. This was probably due to the higher parts of the mountain being colder and therefore fewer other species living there. Other animals also make sounds with which the birds would have to compete, so when there are less species, there are less high frequency sounds to compete with.

Snail colour
The colour and ornamentation of the snails' shells are almost entirely determined by their genes. One kind of land snail, Cepaea nemoralis, which is very common in Europe, has been studied and found to have a few different colours and a different amount of dark bands on their shells. In a large citizen science project 'the Evolution Mega-Lab', citizens of many different countries throughout Europe collected snails and counted how many snails of a certain colour/band pattern were present in a certain habitat.
Some colours can be seen better by birds, which is one way in which the best camouflaged snails are selected for. This also depends on the habitat in which the snails live. For instance yellow snails living in the dunes are better camouflaged than brown snails. Another reason that one colour of shell might be better in a certain habitat is because of the temperature. It was found that darker shells absorb more heat, which can be a risk for overheating of the snail in certain habitats like dunes. In those places lighter coloured snails were found more often.

Urban evolution
With fast growing cities and high rates of urbanization a whole new kind of environment has emerged. The urban ecosystem is a place of extremities and makes for fast evolution. Higher rates of phenotypic change have been observed in urban areas compared to natural and nonurban anthropogenic systems. A field of study has emerged regarding urban evolution in which the adaptations of animals and plants to urban environments are studied.

In tropical regions a certain species of lizards, Anolis cristatellus, lives in both urban and natural areas. These lizards climb on tree trunks, fences and the walls of buildings. In urban areas more slippery and smooth surfaces are found than in natural areas. This creates a higher risk of falling and dying. The lizards in cities were found to have adapted to these slippery surfaces, by developing longer limbs and more lamellae under their feet that help them to run safely on these smooth surfaces.

One of the differences between urban areas and natural areas is anthropogenic noise, such as traffic noise. The frequencies of these sounds overlap partly with the frequencies of bird songs. In cities, birds started to sing at higher frequencies than they do in natural areas, in order to still be heard by their conspecifics. Their songs were also found to be shorter. This is a way in which the birds adapt to the new urban environment.

An example of urban evolution in plants was found in Crepis sancta. This plant makes seeds with pappus that can travel with the wind, for seed dispersal. In urban environments green patches are very rare and are also often very small and far apart. Due to this, the chances of the seeds landing on asphalt or stone and not being able to sprout are way higher than in open fields. Crepis sancta makes both light seeds with pappus as well as heavier seeds without pappus. In the city the plants were found to make more heavy seeds in comparison to the plants in nonurban areas. This makes sense from an evolutionary perspective since heavy seeds fall very close to the mother-plant, probably in the same green patch, and therefore have a higher chance of sprouting.

Another characteristic of urban areas is light pollution. One of the well known consequences of light pollution is the attraction of insects. Before the presence of human light, the only source of light at night was the moon. Insects fly with a fixed angle to the moon to be able to fly in a straight line. Our light sources, however, are very close by. So if an insect flies with a fixed angle compared to a street light for instance, he starts flying in circles and eventually ends up circling the street light, which reduces his chances of finding food and a mating partner. Urban moths were found to have a reduced attraction to light sources, which directly impacts their chances for survival and mating by not wasting time close to a light source.

Degrees in North America
Some North American universities are home to degree programs titled Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, offering integrated studies in the disciplines of ecology and evolutionary biology. The wording is intended as representing the alternative approach from the frequently used pairing of Cell and Molecular Biology, while being more inclusive than the terminology of Botany or Zoology.  Recently, due to advances in the fields of genetics and molecular biology, research and education in ecology and evolutionary biology has integrated many molecular techniques.

A program that focuses on the relationships and interactions that range across levels of biological organization based on a scientific study is Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.  The origins and history of ecosystems, species, genes and genomes, and organisms, and how these have changed over time is all part of the studies of how biodiversity has evolved and how it takes place.  Ecology and Evolutionary biology in North America is based on research impact determined by the top 10% of ecology programs.  The interactive web of organisms and environment are all part of what the field of Ecology explores.  There have been studies in evolution that have worked to prove that "modern organisms have developed from ancestral ones." The reason that evolutionary biology is so interesting to learn about is because of the evolutionary processes that is the reason we have such a diversity of life on Earth.There are many processes that make up evolutionary biology that give great insight to how we came to be, some of which include natural selection, speciation, and common descent.

Among the best-known Ph.D.-granting departments that use this name are
Columbia University
Cornell University
Princeton University
Rice University
University of Arizona
University of California at Los Angeles
University of Colorado
University of Michigan
University of Toronto
Yale University

See also

 Evolutionary biology
 Evolution
 Ecology

References

Science education


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CBC Members React as Jesse Jackson Jr. Gets Out of Prison
Lauren Victoria Burke
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Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. leaves the federal court house after being sentenced to prison Aug. 14, 2013, in Washington, D.C. Jackson was sentenced to 30 months in prison for using $750,000 in campaign money to pay for living expenses and luxury items.
Today, former Illinois Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. is scheduled to leave an Alabama federal prison after serving time for misusing $750,000 in campaign funds for personal use.
The 50-year-old former congressman and son of the Rev. Jesse Jackson received a sentence of 30 months in prison in 2013. Jackson Jr.'s sentence was shortened by three months because he completed a substance-abuse program, and after serving 17 months, he is expected to be released to house arrest until Sept. 20. Members of Congress who visited Jackson in prison commented on his pending release.
"I took him to prison the first day," Congressional Black Caucus Chairman G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) told The Root. That day, Oct. 26, 2013, Butterfield went with Jackson to report to the Federal Correctional Complex in Butner, N.C., located in Butterfield's district. Jackson was later transferred to the federal prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Ala., amid rumors that Jackson was assisting fellow inmates on legal matters.
Now, 516 days later, Jackson is set to leave.
"Jesse has been a very intelligent community leader who made a mistake along the way," Butterfield said as he walked from his office on Capitol Hill to the House floor for votes. The CBC chair was positive about Jackson's future.
"He has paid his dues to society and is now re-entering. I have every reason to believe he is going to be a contributor—not just of the African-American community—but to the interests of all minorities," Butterfield said.
Though there are currently no indications that Jackson plans to run for office again, The Root asked Butterfield: Does he think Jesse Jr. will run again?
"I hadn't thought about it. I hadn't thought it through that far, wow," Butterfield answered.
Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.), who now holds Jackson's former seat, is said to be interested in running for the U.S. Senate. The move could leave Jackson's old House seat open in 2016.
Several members of Congress, including Reps. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.), Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) and former Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), visited Jackson over the past year.
"I met and went to see him several times," Brown told The Root Wednesday as she left the weekly CBC meeting on Capitol Hill.
"Jesse Jackson Jr. was one of the smartest members of Congress. I think he's going to be a success no matter what he does in the next phase of his life," said Cleaver, who last visited Jackson at the Birmingham prison three weeks ago.
"Those of us who care about him are going to continue to care about him and support him. Seriously, I think in a couple of years we're going to be reading about Jesse and talking about his meteoric rise again," Cleaver added.
Cleaver also pointed out that it was Jackson who pushed for a plaque to be added to the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center commemorating the lives of slaves who built the Capitol, but he was unable to attend the ceremony because he was in prison.
Jackson's wife, Sandi, is expected to begin serving a year in prison in September for filing false tax returns in connection with the misuse of the campaign money. She is scheduled to be released in 2016.
Lauren Victoria Burke is a Washington, D.C.-based political reporter who writes the Crew of 42 blog. She appears regularly on NewsOne Now with Roland Martin on TV One. Follow her on Twitter.


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News 15 Dec 2021
EL endorses Gift Responsibly Campaign
Every year NCPG and the International Centre for Youth Gambling Problems and High-Risk Behaviours at McGill University ask lotteries to support the responsible gambling campaign and help raise awareness regarding the risks of underage lottery play during the holiday season.
EL proudly endorses this campaign together with the World Lottery Association (WLA) and North American Association of State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL).
The Campaign which began back in 2003 to raise awareness about the risks of youth gambling, provides materials and messaging for lotteries and non-lottery organisations to communicate responsible gambling around the holidays and all year long. It educates communities on the risks of buying lottery tickets for children.
In 2021, the campaign theme changed to a general Gift Responsibly message. While the campaign continues to focus on the holiday season, the name changed to enable lotteries to expand the responsible giving messaging for all the occasions where children might receive lottery tickets as gifts (e.g., birthdays, graduations, etc.).
Make a difference: Join your colleagues across the country and around the world in the responsible gambling campaign to raise awareness regarding the risks of underage lottery use. Lottery products are appropriate for gifting only to adults, from adults.
Research shows why: the earlier a person's participation or even exposure to gambling in childhood, the more likely they are to develop gambling problems later in life. And gambling in childhood is frequently some kind of lottery product, given through lack of awareness by a well-meaning adult.
Participants of the 2021 Gift Responsibly Campaign includes several EL Members:
Lottery Level 1:
SAZKA a.s.
The U.K. National Lottery
Ukrainian National Lottery
Hrvatska Lutriija d.o.o.
Österreichische Lotterien GmbH
Premier Lotteries Ireland
Factsheet on the Gift Responsibly Campaign 2021
Show your support as a participant!
Interested in finding out more?
Press Release 14 Jan 2022
New EL Report - Members contributed 16 billion euros to the benefit of society in 2020
Event 13 Jan 2022
EL/WLA Members come together to learn how to prevent & manage cyber crisis & risks
Interview 7 Jan 2022
IGT Italy achieves 5th RG Certification