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Q: A formula for counting points on a elliptic curve over a finite field Let $E(\mathbb{F}_p)$ is an elliptic curve, #$E(\mathbb{F}_p)=p+1-a$ and  $x^2-ax+p=(x-\alpha)(x-\beta)$.
Now I found the following formula here https://joeylitalien.github.io/assets/elliptic-curves.pdf  (Theorem 3.3)
# $ E(\mathbb{F}_{p^2})=p^2+a-(\alpha^2+\beta^2)$ but it doesn't work in problems.
What is wrong?

A: If $|E(\Bbb F_p)|=p+1-\alpha-\beta$ with $\alpha\beta=p$ then
$$|E(\Bbb F_{p^n})|=p^n+1-\alpha^n-\beta^n.$$
Here,
$$|E(\Bbb F_{p^2})|=p^2+1-\alpha^2-\beta^2=p^2+1-a^2+2p$$

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If you live in a city, this one might be a bit tricky… but if you are based in the countryside this is a fantastic way to not only have fun but also, on a more practical level, keep warm! The grandkids love a chance to huddle around the fire and maybe even toast some marshmallows!
This is more than a chance to teach the little ones about where Guy Fawkes Night has come from; it's also a chance to get creative and make your very own Guy to go on top of the bonfire! Everyone can get involved and if there are lots of you, you can turn it into a competition to see who can make the most convincing one!
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JetBlue is encouraging people to take a vacation with a range of ironic "souvenirs" that remind them how much time they spend at the office.
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NetFlow is one of the most popular technologies for network monitoring and traffic flow analysis. If you have intelligent switches and/or routers, they may support NetFlow, and you can add software or appliance-based probes that export NetFlow.
When your network grows to the point that seeing what's going on has become tricky, tools leveraging NetFlow may be the solution.
2.2 Sending out packets to see what happens (active monitoring).
2.3 Querying devices that offer management/status APIs or protocols.
2.4 Subscribing to ongoing summaries of activity and event notifications.
3.2 Displaying and exploring real-time network state.
3.3 Get automatic early warning of anomalies.
3.4 Roll up historical traffic data to show patterns and trends.
Why can't I get to Google? Why is the network slow? Did that server just go down? Is that old switch failing?
Uh oh – is there something funny going on?
With the street traffic outside your location, it's usually obvious what's going on. Personal vehicles come and go; delivery trucks arrive, drop off items (or pick them up), and leave. If traffic is slow or backed up, you can usually see the problem – there's been an accident, a traffic light is out, there's road construction going on, etc.
Network traffic is different. What's going on inside your network is a black box to the average person. The lights on the network device boxes shine and blink, and even if you know what they mean they provide minimal information on traffic flow.
When you're responsible for keeping the network up and performing well, it can't be a black box to you. You need visibility. If your network is growing larger or more complex, you may need network monitoring and traffic analysis tools.
There are four main ways for network analyzer tools to gather information from a network. We'll illustrate these with screenshots from command line tools.
A tool that can watch packets passing by on the wire (or through the air). For instance, windump (tcpdump) and the graphical tool WireShark collect and display packets passing by an interface.
Sending out packets to see what happens (active monitoring).
A tool can probe devices and hosts by sending customized packets to see what responds, and how. For instance, ping can show if a host is up and reachable by sending test packets to its IP address; nmap will list all the live hosts on a network address range, and can discover many of their characteristics.
Querying devices that offer management/status APIs or protocols.
When a network device (or host) supports a reporting protocol, such as SNMP, remote WMI, etc, a tool can poll the device, asking it to reply with information like status and metrics.
Subscribing to ongoing summaries of activity and event notifications.
Certain devices (and hosts) have facilities that will observe events for you, and send you updates. Some devices can be configured to send alerts over the network to a designated collector when certain events occur (e.g. via SNMP traps). Some devices can be configured to roll up metrics data and regularly push it to a designated collector (e.g. via NetFlow or sFlow), giving network administrators live data on events.
The information gathered by these methods is detailed and complex, and – unless your network is quite small – voluminous. Modern network monitoring and traffic analysis applications have built-in facilities for summarizing and interpreting the data, to provide automated assistance for many different tasks.
Auto-discovering the devices and hosts on your network helps you identify critical infrastructure and dependencies (possibly unexpected ones). A real-time map helps in spotting unauthorized devices and connections. And an up-to-date inventory provides data to your change control process.
Displaying and exploring real-time network state.
A smart network analyzer tool can roll up and correlate the firehose of complex information it receives to display the state of devices and traffic on your network in useful ways. A tool can show you which hosts, users, and applications are consuming the most bandwidth. It can highlight latency and communication issues. It can support exploration to diagnose and troubleshoot problems – sorting and filtering data, drilling down into the relevant details.
Get automatic early warning of anomalies.
It's nice not to have to sit in front of the real-time display all day long. Automated alerting can watch for known types of issues – failing or failed devices, misconfigured devices, spikes in usage, unstable routing tables, signs of security incidents, etc.
Roll up historical traffic data to show patterns and trends.
For troubleshooting, captured history lets you peer back in time to identify the precursors that resulted in a network problem. And spotting long-term patterns is key to adapting and planning. Saving historical statistics and displaying patterns and trends provides the information necessary for adjusting QoS and traffic shaping. It also offers early warnings as to the need for replacement hardware and upgrades.
Below, we look at several popular NetFlow-based network monitoring and analysis tools for Windows. All are sophisticated, having a considerable learning curve; so online training and good support are important.
SolarWinds produces a suite of products providing comprehensive support for network monitoring and management. The Real-Time NetFlow Analyzer is a free tool that provides real-time insight into your current flows. The free version is focused on displaying the current and recent state of your bandwidth usage. It's limited to one NetFlow interface and 60 minutes of data. Flow technologies supported include NetFlow, Juniper's J-Flow, IPFIX, and Huawei's netstream.
The analyzer identifies which devices/IP addresses, apps, and users are consuming the most bandwidth. The user interface displays inbound and outbound traffic for the chosen NetFlow exporter; traffic can be sorted and displayed in various ways. The user interface's tree explorer summarizes NetFlow traffic, parsing it into applications, conversations, domains, endpoints, and protocols. Each can be expanded into an inclusive graph for drilling down to explore particular aspects. The tree views and graphs update in real time.
Installation is via a standard Windows setup wizard, and the NetFlow Configurator is included to assist in configuring the NetFlow collector and your devices that support various NetFlow variants.
If your key devices support NetFlow, and you're looking for a lean and clear viewport into your current and recent bandwidth usage, the SolarWinds Real-Time NetFlow Analyzer fits the bill.
For a more powerful and feature-rich version, SolarWinds for-cost option, the Network Traffic Analyzer, is covered below.
Another free traffic analysis tool that you could try is the SolarWinds Flow Tool Bundle. This is a useful traffic sample collector that employs Cisco NetFlow v5. As well as collecting traffic samples, the tool includes a traffic flow simulator, which will enable you to preview the effects on the network of extra traffic volumes, or changes in hardware layout.
The SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is the for-cost step up from their free tool, the Real-Time NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. NTA is a module in the Network Performance Monitor (NPM), so you must accommodate the costs and platform requirements of both. NTA and NPM both are available in a 30-day fully-functional trial.
NTA might well be called the Network Traffic Analyzer since it handles not just the original Cisco Netflow but many of its variants from other manufacturers, as well as NetFlow's primary alternative, sFlow.
Once installed, NPM and NTA offer you a wide range of sophisticated facilities for managing multi-vendor networks. It features bandwidth monitoring, traffic analysis, performance analysis, alerts, customizable reports, policy optimization, and more.
The NetFlow Traffic Analyzer gathers flow data exported by the flow-enabled devices tracked by the SolarWinds network monitoring software.
The default NetFlow Traffic Analyzer Summary has multiple sections like Top 5 Applications, Top 5 Endpoints, Top 5 Conversations, Top 10 Sources by % Utilization, etc.
As a flow analyzer, NTA identifies the users, applications, and protocols consuming the most bandwidth. You can sort by ports, source, destination, and protocols, and view traffic patterns over minutes, days, or months.
NTA and NPM are enterprise-grade packages, so even the free trial will consume considerable resources on your system. If you have a sophisticated network with NetFlow-enabled devices, NTA's capabilities are worth exploring. For details on NTA, see our SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer review.
The Paessler PRTG Network Monitor is a "batteries included" solution that monitors bandwidth utilization, the availability and health of devices on your network, and more. PRTG can monitor multiple sites, WAN, VPN, and cloud services. The free version provides unlimited sensors for a month, and thereafter is limited to 100 sensors; a sensor is an individual data stream, so each device will typically require several sensors.
In PRTG's user interface, a primary view is the device tree showing all devices on your network and the sensors monitoring each. Devices include firewalls, routers, access points, servers, workstations, virtual servers, storage, etc. The device tree is supplemented by table views of sensors, logs, and alarms, as well as various charts and graphs for bandwidth, etc. Tables can be sorted and filtered.
Drilling down through the tree view reveals indicators and metrics at every level. Settings, like scan interval, are inherited and can be overridden at lower levels in the device tree. Alerts can similarly be set at every level, so you can arrange to be notified about events and threshold transitions of a particular critical device, or rolled up from an overall aspect of your network. Alerts can be transmitted in multiple ways, including SMTP email and SMS text messaging.
The devices-and-sensors abstraction shapes the dashboards and reports too. Custom dashboards can be created, including interactive maps. There is a range of predefined reports, and facilities for designing custom reports; reports can also be scheduled.
Installation is straightforward. There is a setup wizard, as well as a video providing step-by-step guidance. At installation, the core server's local probe does auto-discovery to identify devices and set up sensors. Additional sensors (including NetFlow collectors) can be added manually; a video provides instructions.
The core server is Windows only. Monitoring of a single site can be done via the web application, but the simultaneous view of multiple core servers requires using the enterprise app on Windows. A mobile app is also provided. One clever addition is that PRTG provides QR codes that can be pasted on particular devices for a quick look-up and statusing in the mobile app. PRTG supports clustering for fault tolerance: you can set up failover instances of the monitor.
Though PRTG is all-in-one so you don't need multiple products and licenses to gain comprehensive monitoring, a key question to evaluate is how many sensors your network needs, and what will be the long-term cost of the sensor-based licensing model as you grow. To evaluate, you can download a free trial of the software here.
The ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer provides real-time visibility into network bandwidth and traffic patterns. The tool visualizes traffic by applications, conversations, protocols, etc. Alerts can be set based on traffic thresholds. There are a variety of useful predefined reports, ranging from troubleshooting oriented to capacity planning and billing. Custom search reports can be created.
The NetFlow Analyzer has a suite of NetFlow-oriented tools for managing complex networks. The web-based user interface has a default dashboard with several real-time pie charts, including a heat map showing the status of monitored interfaces, top applications, top protocols, top conversations, recent alarms, top QoS, and more.
Hovering over a graphic usually provides an explanatory pop-up, and clicking on any graphic drills down to more details on the selected element. There are specific displays for detecting security issues. Dashboards are customizable.
Alerts show up as pop-ups on the user interface. Multi-site traffic can be analyzed; there is a smartphone app for mobile monitoring and alerting.
Flow technologies supported include NetFlow, IPFIX, J-Flow, NetStream, and several others. The tool leverages advanced features of Cisco devices, including support for adjusting the traffic shaping and QoS policies on your network.
The ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer provides a range of capabilities for managing complex networks making heavy use of NetFlow. The free version allows unlimited monitoring for 30 days but then reverts to monitoring only two interfaces. ManageEngine has a variety of related products to expand beyond NetFlow traffic-oriented analysis into a full network management suite.
ntopng is an open-source web-based traffic analysis tool that does passive network monitoring based on flow data and statistics extracted from observed traffic. ntopng does the packet capture itself; to receive flow data it depends on nProbe, a NetFlow/IPFIX exporter/collector. Flow protocols include NetFlow v9, IPFIX, and NetFlow-lite.
The community version of ntopng is free. The professional (small business) and enterprise versions require a paid license, but are free to educational and nonprofit organizations. nProbe can be test-driven for free but a fully functioning version requires a paid license. So the use of NetFlow data is limited (unless you qualify for a free license).
ntopng's web-based user interface rolls up data into traffic (e.g., top talkers), flows, hosts, devices, and interfaces. Most categories have multiple views, a mix of charts, tables, and graphs; and in each you can drill down to explore in depth and cross-reference. Tables can be sorted – so for instance, selecting the throughput column on the flows table shows the current top bandwidth users.
The flow display shows application protocols (e.g. Facebook, YouTube). Latencies and TCP statistics (e.g. packet loss) are displayed. Observed hosts/IP addresses can be displayed on a map via geolocation. Alerts can be set on hosts based on many criteria, and will show up as an icon in the user interface.
The professional version can save and display historical application usage statistics, do active monitoring via SNMP, generate custom traffic reports, and several other additional features.
The installation package for both ntopng and nProbe is a zip file containing a standard Windows setup wizard. The installer will install winpcap (for packet sniffing) if needed.
Since ntopng is open source, there is considerable scope for extending it. Data can be exported to MySQL, ElasticSearch, and LogStash, where is can be merged into the reports stored by your Syslog server.
Plixer Scrutinizer is a sophisticated flow-oriented traffic analysis system with particular focus on security forensics (it's called the "Scrutinizer Incident Response System"). It supports both NetFlow and sFlow.
Scrutinizer can be installed as a dedicated physical appliance, as a virtual machine running on a server, or as a SaaS solution running in the cloud (public or hybrid). It's a sophisticated system, so even the free trial on a virtual machine demands considerable resources (e.g., a dedicated 16GB of RAM).
Scrutinizer is designed for high performance and scalability from small to very large environments. It provides a rich range of analysis and reporting features.
The trial includes full access for 30 days. After that, the free version has a limit of 10K flows collected per second, five hours of raw flows kept, and one week of historical summaries maintained. The paid version includes notifications, dashboard customization, custom reports, scheduled email reports, and support. License pricing depends on the platform chosen and the number of flow exporters to be supported.
Nagios is an enduring standard in network monitoring. Nagios Core is the open-source free version, and Nagios XI is the commercial for-cost variant with additional features and automated assistance for configuration. Nagios has a reputation for being powerful, reliable, scalable, and extremely customizable – and being complex to configure.
The free version has a learning curve but also an active community. It monitors servers, services, and applications, just like the commercial version. It includes reporting by email and SMS, a basic user interface (including the network map), and basic reports.
Nagios Core lacks auto-discovery, and you must learn to set up and maintain complex configurations. On the plus side, it does give you a lot of flexibility to customize and extend the tool. Community-developed addons can perform discovery and help you get started with configuration.
You can use the free 60-day trial to evaluate the for-cost version. If you elect to go with the free version when the trial is done, you can save the auto-generated config files from /usr/local/nagios/etc before uninstalling your eval copy. You can then use those files as your starting point for your new installation's configuration.
The commercial version Nagios XI has a richer range of features, including automated support for discovering your devices and hosts, automatically configuring the tool, and commercially-supported addons. It has a much more sophisticated user interface and more advanced reporting that covers trends, capacity planning assistance, etc.
Nagios XI is built to run on Red Hat Linux and CentOS. For Windows, use a VM appliance with Hyper-V or VMware. It includes an auto-discovery tool and a configuration wizard for adding a new device, host, or application.
Once Nagios XI is installed and monitoring, the Operations Screen gives you a high-level view of the current state of the network, and the Operations Center lets you drill down to the items mentioned.
The Host Status page shows a summary of metrics for the monitored hosts. You can drill down to an individual host to see details including performance graphs, capacity planning info, alarms, etc.
The Service Status page summarizes the state of the monitored services.
Nagios is a well-regarded solution for network monitoring. As with other tools that offer a fully-free vs commercial version tradeoff, you must decide whether you have (or will develop) the expertise and time to use the free tool, or whether it would be more cost-effective to pay for the automation and support of the commercial version.
Kentik Detect, in contrast to the traffic analyzer tools above, is a pure Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) system. As such, it offers the scalability of the cloud.
Networks are growing, and off-premises network resources are more vital to success. Thus, traffic data is becoming big data, and cloud-based big data solutions start to make sense.
Kentik aims to capture the details of multiple types of data, provide a unified view of all of it, and provide interfaces for accessing the data and integrating with other systems. Kentick Detect is composed of a custom high-availability time-series datastore (Kentik Data Engine) and a UI (Kentik Portal). Protocols include Netflow, IPFIX, sFlow, SNMP, and BGP.
Kentik Portal is a web-based interface (of course) and provides a growing range of configurable dashboards.
The Data Explorer permits ad-hoc exploration of the collected network data. You can quickly drill down and filter on potentially billions of records, obtaining views in the form of tables and graphs.
Alerting to notify you of unusual conditions can be set up by creating policies that define when an alert will enter alarm state. Alerts can be sent by various media, including email, Slack, paging, etc.
WhatsUp Gold is a well-known network monitoring tool from IPSwitch that's feature-rich yet is straightforward. It's available in both a free starter edition and a 30-day trial to evaluate the paid one.
WhatsUp Gold monitors network traffic, servers, virtual servers, cloud services, and applications. The free version is a free five-point license for monitoring up to five resources (e.g., five servers).
WhatsUp Gold must be installed on Windows. Setup is simple and uses auto-discovery. The user interface provides multiple views with an interactive network map and the ability to drill down to investigate issues.
WhatsUp Gold's list view shows the discovered hosts and devices, summarizing their characteristics and status.
The map view is an interactive map for visualizing your network's components and their statuses. You can drill down to inspect the availability and performance of individual nodes.
Traffic analysis facilities work with a wide range of flow-enabled devices, including NetFlow, sFlow, NetFlow-Lite, IPFIX, and J-Flow.
Dashboards are customizable. WhatsUp Gold provides many canned reports, including reports for bandwidth and utilization; you can design customized reports, too.
The top 10 view shows critical statuses in your network.
You can configure alerts to notify you when senders or receivers exceed bandwidth thresholds, when interfaces exceed utilization thresholds, etc. There are multiple possible methods for notification, including email and SMS. Triggered actions give the ability to execute actions automatically as responses to alerts.
The free edition of WhatsUp Gold is a straightforward and fully-featured tool for monitoring and managing a small shop. Graduating to the for-cost version lets you move up to covering large networks.
Perhaps none of the above pre-packaged NetFlow analyzers are customizable enough or powerful enough to meet your needs. Maybe you're sure you can do better, or you just want to experiment with analyzing the data yourself. There are multiple packages for time-series data capture and analytics available that make this quite doable. Several are free open-source software; some are not. Some can be integrated with prepackaged analyzers, such as Plixer and ntopng.
Here are a few possibilities to check out.
Splunk is a for-cost package for searching, monitoring, and analyzing/visualizing big data. Splunk captures real-time data and provides web-based facilities for analyzing and visualization. Splunk has an add-on for NetFlow, and one for IPFIX.
The ELK Stack – Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana – is an open-source analytics toolset typically used with data that resembles log messages. Elasticsearch is a popular distributed search and analytics engine. Logstash is a data collection and log-parsing engine. Kibana is a browser-based data visualization dashboard for analytics and search. Logstash includes a codec for processing multiple versions of NetFlow data.
Several groups have used the ELK Stack with NetFlow. Cisco has a guide for doing it, and there are several other articles online. People have built systems using the ELK Stack with other popular components, such as the Riemann distributed system monitoring and alerting tool. An alternative to logstash is fluentd.
Influxdata's TICK Stack – Telegraf, Influxdb, Chronograf, and Kapacitor – is a set of Go-based open-source tools for capturing, monitoring, and analyzing/visualizing time-series metrics data. Telegraf collects performance metrics; InfluxDB is a time series database; Chronograf performs real-time visualization of InfluxDB data; and Kapacitor is a streaming/batch data-processing engine that can do monitoring and alerting of views of InfluxDB data. The TICK Stack has been used with network statistics from sFlow and SNMP.
Another powerful tool, sometimes used with Influxdb is Grafana, an open-source package for time-series analytics and visualization. Grafana is analogous to Kibana, but where Kibana is log-message oriented, Grafana is metrics-oriented.
Multiple excellent tools for network monitoring and traffic analysis are available. Small organizations have an array of free choices, and large or growing organizations have many for-cost options.
In recent years, open source solutions have become widely implemented for many types of networking software and also for business and security applications. A benefit of open source projects is that anyone can read the code that drives the software. By that enquiry, you can be sure that there is no malicious code hidden inside the program.
Usually, open source projects are maintained by volunteers. The benefit of enthusiast-developed software is that it can be given away for free. The downside of this setup is that the free tools aren't professionally managed and can contain bugs. The lack of income of free software means that the organizations that maintain it don't have the funds to keep up with security standards or fix problems with the code.
When you consider using open source software for network monitoring and analysis, check out the packages that interest you and test them thoroughly before you commit the network to it. Consider paying for network analysis tools in order to get guaranteed performance and also support from the commercial organizations that provide that paid software.
Anyone who wants to contribute the effort to learn has a toolbox of powerful components that you can use to roll your own solution. Your final choice depends on the size and complexity of your network, the expertise you bring (or want to develop), and how you expect your network to evolve in the future.


Humorix | Australia To Ban Windows?
Two years ago, Australia passed legislation that effectively outlawed Linux. Now, the nation appears poised to pass legislation that would effectively throw all Windows users in jail.
Australia wants to make it illegal to possess "hacking paraphenalia", including the source code to malicious viruses. However, every Windows computer connected to the Internet has undoubtedly received at least one macro virus coded in Visual Basic.
Thus, millions of users have the source code to a virus sitting somewhere on their hard drives.
Thus, thousands of email servers have the source code to a virus sitting in some poor schmuck's inbox.
Thus, hundreds of Internet Service Providers have the source code to a virus flowing through their network even as you read this sentence.
The bottom line is that countless Australians could shortly become criminals because they use Windows and Outlook. Oh darn.
The developer responsible for integrating Visual Basic into Microsoft Outlook was unavailable for comment at press time.


***Edit: Turns out this needs to be ran each time the OS boots so create a shell script, chmod +x it and add it to startup.
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Even though I love my job, my employer and the people I work with I still watch the trends in the job place. For years I ignored the trend because I was developing stuff for Eve and doing so very quickly using PHP and Symfony.
Keep in mind that this blog is not meant as a full fledged teaching resource, it's mainly used as my brain dump so I don't forget things.
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Iggy Azalea has directly addressed the reasons why she called off her engagement to professional basketball player Nick Young. Young made national headlines for all the wrong reasons back in March when a video taken by his Los Angeles Lakers teammate surfaced showing him confessing to cheating on Iggy. Then there were photos of what appeared to be Azalea tossing Nick's stuff out of their home. These circumstances, combined with a recent report claiming that Keonna Green, the mother of Young's son, is expecting another baby with Young after a one night stand, compelled Azalea to explain herself.
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Iggy Azalea cut right to the chase about fiancé Nick Young's alleged cheating following the controversy surrounding a video made by the NBA baller's teammate in which Young claimed to have hooked up with another woman. Azalea made it clear that she would "nip" any cheating in the bud and was having none of the argument that she should just accept that NBA players sleep around.
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A couple caveats: These are single serving recipes, so if you're cooking for more than just yourself, double (or triple or…quadruple?) the ingredients. Also, some recipes call for cheese, so if you prefer vegan or dairy-free diets, you'll need to either find a suitable substitution or omit the cheese altogether.
Peel and dice the mango into bite-sized chunks, then do the same with the avocado.
Grate the Gouda cheese and measure out 1/2 cup of the resulting shreds.
Grease a small skillet with cooking spray, then heat it on a medium stove-top setting.
Place 1 tortilla in the pre-heated skillet, then spread the shredded cheese evenly on top.
Layer the avocado and mango chunks over the cheese and top with the other tortilla.
Cook the bottom tortilla for approximately 3 minutes, or until the cheese starts sizzling.
Flip the quesadilla over and cook the other tortilla for the same amount of time.
Allow the quesadilla to cool slightly before cutting it into triangular slices.
Chop the cauliflower into small florets, then wash the florets in a strainer.
Peel the potato and chop it into bite-sized chunks, then do the same with the onion.
Grease a large skillet with cooking spray, then heat it on a medium stove-top setting.
Add the cauliflower, potatoes, and onions to the pre-heated skillet, then sautee for 10 minutes.
Pour in the coconut milk and Thai red curry paste, then turn the heat up to a boil.
Stir this mixture vigorously until the coconut milk starts to bubble, then reduce the heat to medium.
Continue sauteing this mixture, while stirring constantly, until the coconut milk has thickened.
Allow the curry to cool slightly before mincing the mint leaves and sprinkling them on top.
Fill a medium-sized pot with 3/4 cup of water, then heat on a high stove-top setting.
Once the water has reached a rolling boil, add the couscous, garlic, and olive oil.
Stir this mixture vigorously for approximately 1-2 minutes, then reduce the heat to low.
Cover the pot and allow this mixture to simmer for approximately 10 minutes.
Grate the feta cheese and measure out 1/2 cup of the resulting shreds.
Finely slice the cherry tomatoes, red onion, spinach, and kalamata olives.
Once the couscous has absorbed all the water, add the feta and vegetables to the pot.
Stir this mixture thoroughly until all the ingredients are combined evenly.
Allow the couscous salad to cool slightly before pouring in the lemon juice.
Spread the basil pesto evenly over the smooth side of the Naan flatbread.
Thinly slice the tomato and mozzarella, then place each slice on 1 half of the Naan.
Layer the basil leaves side-by-side on top of the tomato and mozzarella slices.
Fold the other half of the Naan over the layers of tomato, mozzarella, and basil.
Transfer the Naan onto an open panini press or George Foreman grill.
Close the lid of the panini press or grill and cook for approximately 3 minutes.
Once grill marks appear on both sides, remove the panini from the heat.
Allow the panini to cool slightly before slicing it in half, diagonally.
I say "almost" because this recipe uses 1 egg, which qualifies as an animal by-product, but true vegans need not despair. Simply substitute 1/4 cup pureed banana, 1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt or 1/4 cup oil of your choice, and you've got a bona fide vegan party-in-the-mouth!
And, for all you other foodies out there, meet the answer to your ongoing dilemma: Do I eat dessert and regret it later, or skip dessert and regret it RIGHT NOW? These Avocado & Almond Butter Cookies deliver all the indulgence of your favorite guilty pleasure…only without that pesky guilt-part. Rejoice!
Combine the mashed avocado, egg yolk, honey and almond butter together in a mixing bowl.
Add the baking powder, Stevia packets and almond flour, then stir until the batter is smooth.
Fold in the dates, then spoon the batter onto a greased baking sheet in the shape of cookies.
Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 15 minutes, or until the cookies have cooked thoroughly.
In addition to a sweet mid-afternoon snack or lighter after-dinner dessert, enjoy these tasty treats in the morning for an omega-3 and protein-packed breakfast.


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In memoriam: Warren Carter 1951-2011
Warren Carter, convenor of the Hope for Europe prayer network, died in Salzburg hospital on February 14, six days after sustaining brain injuries in ski accident. While giving ski lessons to his son and other children, he slipped and hit his head against a concrete beam.
Aged 59, he was father(-in-law) to Jonathan (13) and David (7), Christopher and Liz, grandfather to Genna, Maegan and Jackson, and husband to Leanne. A Memorial Service was held in Vienna for Warren last Wednesday in their local church, the Evangelikale Gemeinde Baden, near Vienna.
We knew Warren through his involvement with the prayer network of Hope for Europe. He had left his motherland, The USA, to identify with the spiritual needs of Europe. He and Leanne had set up an organisation called Discipling the Nations, based in Missouri, to facilitate their work.
Warren focused on leadership development and mentoring pastors in Austria and beyond to East and Central Europe.
Warren had a BS in engineering, an MBA from Cornell University, and a leadership diploma from Fuller School of World Missions.
We are very thankful for Warren's life and the gift he was to many. He leaves a large hole in our hearts and fellowship, but he also leaves a strong memory of a brother passionate for Jesus, and deeply committed to the transformation of this continent through prayer.
HOPE for Europe has been strengthened by Warren's leadership in the networking of prayer. We thank God for the personal enrichment we received by travelling with him on a ten-year stretch of our journey.
We had expected him to be with us this week in Budapest for a meeting of the Hope For Europe working group to prepare for HOPE•II, where he was to convene the prayer consultation.
Leanne wrote to friends and supporters asking what lay ahead for her and the boys as follows:
"I am sure many questions come to mind. The first many ask is what are Jonathan and David and I going to do. My ministry and our family life has been rooted and centered in Austria for decades and we are firmly committed to continuing the work the Lord has started and is continuing. Discipling the Nations, the mission Warren and I founded, will remain the ministry vehicle through which I will work and serve and for this I am very grateful. Our partnership with Action Canada also continues.
"As we walk through the valley of the shadow of death we do not fear but we are heartbroken over the loss of our precious husband/father. We are grateful for your love and prayers for us here and our son Christopher and his family in Wheaton and all of those who loved Warren."
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Conservative commentator Michael Reagan, adopted son of Ronald Reagan, released an op-ed apologizing for his and other conservatives' support of the War in Iraq.
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After the US spent untold billions of dollars and lost thousands of American lives in a failed attempt to remake Iraq into some type of secular Jeffersonian-style democratic republic, the Persian Gulf nation has slipped into a full-blown civil war. Some experts are suggesting that Iraq might even split into three separate countries. With the Sunni rebel group the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria having seized control of huge sections of the nation and neighboring Syria, Iraq's US-backed Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is swiftly losing credibility as a leader.
Iraq War veterans have been forced to watch their efforts unwind on television, after many lost friends securing since-fallen areas like Mosul and Fallujah and spent significant time training Iraqi forces that would later drop their weapons and run in the face of conflict. Understandably, a broad debate has emerged over what went wrong, with neoconservatives blaming Obama for pulling out of Iraq, despite the fact that he did so according to the 2008 Status of Forces Agreement signed by former Republican President George W. Bush. On the other hand, US Senator Rand Paul pointed the finger at neoconservatives like Dick Cheney, expressing that, had we followed the foreign policy of former President Ronald Reagan, the nation never would have gotten itself involved in the quagmire in Iraq in the first place.
Michael Reagan, the adopted son of former President Ronald Reagan, seems to agree with Rand Paul's point of view. In March of this year, when Rand Paul penned an op-ed for Breitbart called "Stop Warping Reagan's Foreign Policy," Michael Reagan tweeted a link to the article with the added comment, "Rand Paul gets it." This week, the son of the Republican Party's favorite President went even further in an opinion piece for the Albany Herald, apologizing for his own support of the War in Iraq.
Said Reagan, confessing early concerns about the sensibility of the Iraq War, "I had serious doubts about the United States going to war in Iraq in 2003. But I joined the bipartisan parade and supported the commander in chief. I figured George W. Bush knew more than I did about the situation in the Middle East. I also figured he had lots of good reasons to go to war and assumed his administration knew what it was going to do after our easy military victory." However, he was skeptical of the need for a full-blown invasion if the rationale was to stop Saddam Hussein from developing weapons of mass destruction. "If the whole idea of going to Iraq simply was to get rid of Saddam Hussein and his invisible weapons of mass destruction, we should have just sent some Special Forces guys in to do the job in the middle of the night."
Though Reagan indicated that President Obama bears responsibility for the disaster in Iraq, he penned tough words for his ideological allies who also supported the original push for war, "But we conservatives have to take a lot of the blame too. It was us who supported going to war in Iraq in the first place, even though Bush 43 didn't have an entrance strategy or an exit strategy."
After so many American families lost loved ones in a war that seems now to have served little purpose, Michael Reagan humbly offered an apology for his own support of the invasion and occupation, "As a conservative who supported the war in Iraq and my president, I apologize to all of the families of those killed or wounded in Iraq. Going to war in Iraq seemed so right at the time. But I didn't think it through and neither did Washington. Next time, I promise I'll know better."
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Spectators watch above as Tiger Woods plays from the first tee during practice at Le Golf National in Guyancourt, outside Paris, France on Tuesday. The 42nd Ryder Cup will be held in France from Friday through Sunday at Le Golf National.
SAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — Tiger Woods paused on his walk toward the 18th green at Le Golf National and threw his head back in laughter. These are happy times for Woods, regardless of whatever Bryson DeChambeau said to cause such a reaction Tuesday. Now if he can get that to translate in the Ryder Cup.
For all his amazing feats in golf — 80 victories on the PGA Tour, the most recent on Sunday at the Tour Championship after returning following a fourth back surgery that threatened to end his career — Woods has been on only one winning team at the Ryder Cup. That was nearly 20 years ago and required a record comeback on the final day. His own record is 13-17-3, a product of being on six losing teams.
Woods used to get defensive about his mark, pointing out that no one could recite the Ryder Cup record of Jack Nicklaus (17-8-3 during an era of U.S. dominance), but that everyone knew Nicklaus had won 18 majors. One element he faced every two years was trying to be on a team of 12 players even as the golfing world saw it as Tiger Woods and 11 other Americans. He was 21 when he played his first Ryder Cup in 1997 and already was the sport's biggest star.
Back in the Ryder Cup as a player for the first time in six years, Woods is in the spotlight again. One year ago, he was riding in a cart as a vice captain in the Presidents Cup, having played one PGA Tour event in two years with no certainty there would be another. And then he made yesterday look like yesteryear with a wire-to-wire win at the Tour Championship, his first trophy in more than five years and the feeling that more was to come.
Woods and DeChambeau, one of three Ryder Cup rookies on the U.S. team, have been looked upon as a potential partnership for Le Golf National. Furyk said not to read anything into the way he sent off his players in groups of four for the first official practice round. He said Tuesday was more about learning the golf course because only six U.S. players have seen it.
Mickelson then caused a small stir by saying he and Woods would welcome another chance to play together, even though their 2004 partnership at Oakland Hills resulted in two losses and plenty of ridicule in the years that followed. Will it happen?
"I do have an idea of what Captain Furyk is thinking, yeah," Mickelson said with a grin.


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A south Dublin shop owner can't believe his luck after selling a winning Euromillions ticket just 10 days after opening for business.
Santosh Kumar owns the Mace Store in Walkinstown , which sold Friday night's Euromillions Plus top prize of €500,000 to a lucky punter.
The new store owner, who is originally from India, only last week took over the running St. Peter's Road shop.
Santosh said: "We only became a National Lottery agent this week so it's a complete shock to us!
"We have just finished installing our lottery terminal in the store so to have a massive win like this almost immediately is just fantastic for us.
"Most importantly however, it is a great reward for one of my new customers who has supported me in this business from the very start.
People in Walkinstown are being urged to check their tickets after Friday's draw produced the 21st top prize winner of the EuroMillions Plus game in Ireland so far in 2018.
There was no winner of Fridays €17,000,000 jackpot but another another lucky player from Cork matched five numbers in the main draw to scoop a €46,722 prize.
The winning Quick Pick ticket was sold yesterday at the LIDL store in Glanmire, Co. Cork.


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This paper analyzes the determinants of remittances to Tonga. The results indicate that macroeconomic conditions in remitting countries and exchange rate fluctuations influence remittances. In particular, remittances growth falls when the Tongan currency appreciates, but increases with higher real GDP growth and lower unemployment in remitting countries. The analysis also finds that the influence of these determinants varies with the recipients of remittances, with remittances to non-profit organizations being more sensitive to an appreciation of the Tongan currency and the interest rate differential between Tonga and remitting countries than remittances to households. However, the analysis does not find evidence of "?Dutch Disease" in Tonga, as the real exchange rate does not appear to be affected by remittances.


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Chris Ayers Elected Executive Vice President of Alcoa, Chief Operating Officer for Alcoa's Global Primary Products Business
Alcoa announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Chris L. Ayers an Executive Vice President of the Company. Additionally, Ayers has been named Chief Operating Officer for Alcoa's Global Primary Products business, effective immediately.
"Chris has a proven track record for translating operational performance into sustainable financial outcomes," said Alcoa Chairman and CEO Klaus Kleinfeld. "Since joining Alcoa earlier this year, he has quickly made his mark as a results-oriented leader."
Ayers had been Chief Operating Officer, Cast, Forged and Extruded Products within Alcoa's Engineered Products and Solutions business. In this role, he was responsible for the Alcoa Forging and Extrusions, Alcoa Power and Propulsion and the Alcoa Oil and Gas businesses.
In his new role, Ayers will work to leverage Alcoa Global Primary Products strategic advantages across the regions in which it operates, uniting the strengths of the Company's technical and operating teams to set new standards in world class performance. He will report to John Thuestad, Executive Vice President of Alcoa and Group President of Alcoa Global Primary Products.
"Chris will play an important role in integrating our solid presence in five strategic regions with our technological leadership in the four drivers of the Primary business – mining, refining, smelting and energy," Thuestad said.
Alcoa operates 23 aluminum smelters around the globe, nine alumina refineries and has bauxite assets in Australia, Brazil, Jamaica, Suriname and Guinea. Alcoa's global aluminum smelting capacity totals 4.5 million metric tons, and its global alumina capacity totals more than 18 million metric tons.
Ayers joined Alcoa in February 2010 as Chief Operating Officer, Alcoa Cast, Forged and Extruded Products, a new position. He was elected a vice president of Alcoa in April 2010, and executive vice president of the company in August 2010.
Prior to joining Alcoa, he was President of the Forgings Division of Precision Castparts Corporation. This unit is composed of two separate companies: Wyman Gordon Forgings and Special Metals Corporation. When Ayers led PCC Forgings, this business had $3.5 billion in revenues and 5,500 employees in facilities located in North America, Europe, United Kingdom, and Australia. He was president of Wyman Gordon Forgings from 2004–2006.
Ayers began his career with United Technologies Corporation, working in a number of assignments in its Pratt & Whitney business. Later, he joined PCC Airfoils, Inc., a manufacturer of airfoil castings for the aerospace and industrial gas turbine industry, where he was Vice President/General Manager of facilities in Cleveland, Ohio. He was also the Managing Director of facilities located in both Leeds and Leicester, England. Ayers joined Precision Castparts in 1999.
Ayers is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology, where he received a bachelor's and master's degree in aerospace engineering. He obtained an MBA degree from the University of Connecticut.
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In fact, sometimes the simplest and most straightforward ideas turn out to be the hardest to implement.
Today I'd like you to meet Kyohi Kang the founder and CEO of Atmoph. Atmoph is a programmable window which can display the sights and sounds of hundreds of scenic places from all over the world. It's an exciting project, and the team attracted a great deal of early interest. They even ran one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns and a smaller, but still successful, Japanese campaign on Makuake.
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You know, I was moderating a discussion panel at the big Hakusuka event last month and before things kicked off, I sat down at a café with Kyohi Kang, the found of Atmoph. Now, Atmoph is one of those ideas that is so obvious once you see it that you're sure that someone has thought of it before. In fact, you're pretty sure that you've thought of it before.
We did, right? And yet, Atmoph seems to be the only company in the world that is producing this product. What is it? Well, I'm getting to that.
You'll hear a lot of the details during the interview and it's always challenging to describe something so intensely visual on an audio podcast, but Atmoph is literally a window onto the world. It's a 27-inch diameter monitor that's mounted in a picture frame and it displays the sights and sounds of, well, anywhere, really: a window onto a Polynesian beach, a Roman Piazza – anywhere.
Kyohi and I also talk about how Atmoph's very successful Kickstarter campaign almost bankrupted his company and since the team has run crowdfunding campaigns in both the US and Japan, we'll go over some of the most important differences between the platforms in both countries, and more importantly, the important differences about the customers and the customer expectations in both countries, and even though we met in Osaka, we talk a lot about Kyoto.
Kyoto has the potential to become one of the most important startup communities in Japan. It's not quite there yet but there's a lot of promising signs and a lot of promising startups, for that matter.
But you know, Kyohi tells that story much better than I can. So let's get right to the interview.
Tim: So I'm sitting here with Kyohi Kang of Atmoph and it's kind of a digital window, so thanks for sitting down with me.
Kyohi: Thank you for inviting for this interview.
Tim: I think you guys have got a really, really interesting product but you can probably explain it a lot better than just a digital window, so tell us a little bit about what Atmoph is.
Kyohi: We are calling "digital window" but the concept is very simple and you can hang on your wall, and it's a 27-inch display and once you hang it on your wall, you can see a view of the world, and every content is filmed by us in 4K and you can see such as views in Iceland, France, Germany, and also Hawaii, Japan, anywhere in the world.
Tim: And it also has sound as well, right?
Kyohi: Right. It has one speaker inside so that you can feel as if you are actually there like Hawaiian beaches, sound of the waves, sound of the birds.
Tim: Now, I've noticed that – I mean, looking around the world, there are lots of kind of digital picture frames for still images, but Atmoph seems to be one of the very, very few companies that has brought a video window type of a concept to market. Why do you think that is?
Kyohi: There are many digital art frame companies out there but we wanted to have a window, like a virtual window. In nature, everything is moving, like wind and also the fires and birds flying, so to feel as if it's real, we thought it should be moving.
Tim: So the idea is kind of the window out into the world, so if I had Atmoph installed and it was looking out into a Hawaiian beach, would I see like, the scene changing at different times of the day?
Kyohi: Yes, yes, indeed. There are many locations and also many seasons, and many different times, so you can see in the morning or sunset, or nighttime.
Tim: So tell me about your customers. Who is using Atmoph?
Kyohi: From last year, we started shipping and about half of our customers is purchasing our window because there is some kind of closeness in their environment, like from their window, they can only see the next buildings or highways.
Tim: So most of your customers, I mean, is it consumers or is it office space?
Kyohi: 70% is consumer. The rest is restaurants, bars, and clinics, offices.
Tim: Well, I could see why this would be very attractive to restaurants in particular, especially in Japan. There's so many basement Italian restaurants that you could have a window out on Florence or something.
Kyohi: Actually, there are many, really many places, café or bar without any window, so yeah, they should be all our targets.
Tim: That seems to be almost a perfect target for you. So let's back up a bit. So this started out, well, it started out as an idea, but back in 2015, you launched a very successful Kickstarter campaign.
Tim: How did that go? Running a Kickstarter campaign from Japan has got to be somewhat challenging.
Kyohi: It was all about challenging because at that time, doing Kickstarter in Japan was very rare, so it was hard to do, and for us, that was our first crowdfunding project, so everything was very tough. The reason we needed to do crowdfunding was we didn't have enough money to do the manufacturing production. Also, many people are asking, nobody would want a digital window, everybody said. So I needed to prove at least some customers should buy.
Tim: And how much did you raise on Kickstarter?
Tim: Okay, so that's a substantial raise, more than enough to get the product through the first batch of production.
Kyohi: Yes, we thought, but we needed more money because making injection molding, it costs a lot, and also, to do a project for crowdfunding, we need to reduce the price because it's a kind of presale.
Tim: Well, you mentioned that it wasn't quite enough money but you did deliver the products, so how did you do that?
Kyohi: Yes, Kickstarter campaign was good and also, after that, we did another crowdfunding in Japan too.
Tim: That's right, you ran a Makuake.
Kyohi: A Makuake. Yes, we did that too but it seemed okay, but to make enough products, we needed to collect more and we asked for some governmental bank for startups' loan, and also, one year later, we did first round of VC funding, US$1 million, approximately.
Tim: Oh, wow. So you needed that funding in order to fulfill the Kickstarter promises.l?
Tim: What turned out to be a difficult part? What did you underestimate?
Kyohi: We underestimated too many things. First, it was our first time doing production, so we needed to find good manufacturers but it was very hard, so each time we visit and find, they said, "We can't do this, we can't do this in small batch," or something.
Tim: So did you do your manufacturing in Japan or in China?
Kyohi: Yes, actually, but we have about five manufacturers coordinating each other. So assembling is in Nara, next to Kyoto, and the board production is in Osaka, and some plastic parts and cable are near Shanghai, so all products gathered in Nara and assemble.
Tim: Almost all of the hardware products on not just Kickstarter but the hardware startups tend to outsource to China.
Tim: Why did you decide to have your manufacturing in Japan even though you knew the costs were going to be much higher?
Kyohi: Yes, because actually, it sounds we are better, because we didn't have enough money. To do manufacturing in China, we needed to travel often to do the negotiation or see actual product going on, but we didn't have money. We needed to save our money, so we were based in Kyoto, so there are many manufacturers in Kansai area because in the past, Panasonic manufacturing, there are many bunch of them, so we thought it's easier and also cheaper, and better quality to do in Kansai area but cost get a little bit expensive than we thought.
Tim: What surprised you? What drove the costs up? Was it just having to do multiple prototypes or why did it cost so much more than you thought?
Kyohi: Yes, that's because we underestimated small things, like we checked our costs of LCD panel and also the computer boards, but we did all the assumption, but minor things like tiny plugs or tiny connectors, and tiny cables, and manhandling, and all the costs sums up.
Tim: I mean, when you're talking about tiny plugs, do you mean the actual hardware or do you mean like, the design parts? Because the plugs are a couple of cents each, right?
Kyohi: Actually, it's more expensive.
Tim: Oh, okay, maybe that's what got through the trouble.
Kyohi: Yeah, right, right. Each connector is sometimes one US dollar, so it sums up to US$10 easily.
Kyohi: And we needed some storage and also Wi-Fi adapter. At the time, those prices were going up, so it depends on world consumption rate also.
Tim: If you had the chance to do it again, if you could go back to when you were just starting your Kickstarter campaign, what would you do differently?
Tim: So you mean just have as few parts as possible or..?
Kyohi: No, we can always make it in a simpler forms. Boards or plastic parts or anyhing, like boxes too, but before fixing the budget, we need to make it simple as possible, but at that time, we didn't know we should do that or we didn't have enough knowledge how we could achieve that, so there are many abundant process or parts and design. It was not simple enough.
Tim: Can you give me an example of that?
Kyohi: Suppose we are making next model, we would make a single board composed of CPU and sensor, and power, and speaker amps, anything, but right now, we are making three or four boards and each costs around in sum.
Tim: That makes sense. Actually, going back to the crowdfunding, you ran a Kickstarter campaign in the US and you run a Makuake campaign here in Japan. How is crowdfunding in the US different from Japan?
Kyohi: Kind of big difference because crowdfunding started in the US, in Kickstarter. Kickstarter is more for arts and science. In Japan, crowdfunding is for almost everything, but Kickstarter prohibits to very specific field, and also, for Kickstarter, the users are very accustomed to what is crowdfunding. It's not a store. So our supporters patiently waited for a long time, like we delayed almost about a year or so, but they patiently waited. In Japan, for Makuake, our customers waited a long time too but there were some people get angry.
Tim: About why the delay?
Kyohi: Delay and why the specification has changed but less happened and Kickstarter because the customer in Kickstarter, they understood more what is crowdfunding.
Tim: What about after you shipped, I mean, Japanese consumers are famous around the world for being very, very demanding of quality.
Kyohi: That's right, that's correct, and because it was our first production, we made many mistakes, and right now, everything okay but Japanese customers are very – they can tell tiny difference, but that helps us a lot to improve our product quality. Right now, we don't have much claims but about a half year ago, we had many but that helped us a lot.
Tim: Crowdfunding is still, I wouldn't say it's rare in Japan, but it's not nearly as popular in Japan as it is in America, and actually, a lot of Japanese startups will use Kickstarter or Indiegogo instead of Japanese. Do you think the attitude is changing or do you think that Japanese consumers are just still very demanding of crowdfunding projects?
Kyohi: I think it's very, very changing in a fast pace. From recent years, I can tell it's changing a lot because there are many projects mostly in Makuake and also other platforms too and people get accustomed, especially in technology field, so it has changed, I should say.
Tim: You are based in Kyoto and Kyoto has a lot of hardware startups. Among the startups that choose crowdfunding today, are most of them using US crowdfunding or are they using Japanese crowdfunding?
Kyohi: I think half and half or maybe two thirds are choosing, or more, Japanese crowdfunding.
Tim: Ah, okay, so that has really changed in the last few years.
Kyohi: Yes, I think so, indeed.
Tim: That's excellent. A lot of founders and a lot of projects get a lot of momentum and a lot of sales through Kickstarter, through crowdfunding, but then they have trouble kind of keeping that momentum after the project is over. Did you have trouble keeping that momentum going?
Kyohi: No, I couldn't successfully do that because first, after doing crowdfunding, we needed to 100 focus on manufacturing, so we did that for about a year, doing almost no marketing or something.
Kyohi: Yes, because it was very hard doing software development and hardware development, manufacturing, and after shipping, we gradually started attending interior exhibition in Paris or US.
Tim: So it's almost like starting again from scratch?
Tim: Well, after the Kickstarter and Makuake campaigns ended, what's been your main source of sales and marketing?
Kyohi: Via our website, we were accepting preorders, so that was almost only the channel, but I can feel now, I should have done more aggressively on presales or make interesting sales channels.
Kyohi: Now, I admit. At the time, I thought putting our product on our website and that's it, but it doesn't go that way in the world.
Tim: Yeah. Now, your initial push for sales was Kickstarter and you mentioned attending design exhibits in Europe. Are most of your sales in Japan or are they international?
Kyohi: About 70 or 80% was from Japan. Because we were based in Kyoto in Japan, sometimes, there were interviews and we were featured in articles and newspapers, and sometimes, on TV, so that helped in Japan.
Tim: And are you in full production now?
Tim: Okay. So what's the future plans? Are you planning on scaling into mass production or are you planning on having this as a kind of a small lot boutique product?
Kyohi: We don't want to be a tiny maker in the end. I'm a huge sci-fi movie fan and every time I see movies, there is always a virtual window. The goal is to become interface of outside and inside world, like not only showing views, but you can actually interact with the world.
Tim: You also have a marketplace where users can download hundreds, maybe even over a thousand different views right now.
Tim: 500 views? So before, you were talking about making it a genuine marketplace where users can upload their views and sell them online at the store, are you guys moving forward with that plan as well?
Kyohi: Yes, yes. Right now, all the contents are filmed by us, but in coming months, our customers will be able to upload their own contents, and after that, they are going to be able to sell, and after that, we can be like OS of the window.
Tim: Yeah, I mean, it's sort of the iTunes model, right?
Tim: The next logical question then is do you see your future as being a hardware company or a software company? It's really hard to scale up hardware, so do you see the future as maybe like partnering with Panasonic and Samsung and letting them do the hardware?
Kyohi: It could be possible but we are seeing a mix, like Apple. Software side is very important for us but we need to have some special sensors or camera, or microphone, or heat sensors, CO2 sensor, whatever, so that people can feel more and more real about view or experiencing as if they are in Hawaii or Paris. To achieve that, only showing in some display is not enough, so maybe we can make a product that enhances their experience. To do that, we need to make hardware too.
Tim: Do you think you will always be a hardware company as the goal just to get one or two more product iterations out there and make sure it's right, and then do partnerships? Or do you see the hardware as part of who you are?
Kyohi: Yes, it's part of who we are. So we are continuing making as a hardware.
Tim: Okay. Let's talk a little bit about Japan and well, Kyoto, specifically. Kyoto has got a very interesting and fast growing startup community. You've been there for a while, so how do you think things have changed in Kyoto over the last five years?
Kyohi: Actually, five years ago, I moved from Tokyo to Kyoto, so in these five years, we have seen changes. In these two or three years, we've seen many startups coming from Kyoto. So I think it's gradually changing, but compared to Tokyo, the number, of course, is different but there is a sense of optimism. Kyoto has a long history and all the companies have history of hundreds of years, so startups think in long-term. So I think that's a good thing and because there are many good universities in Kyoto, so the startups are emerging every year, hopefully, increasingly.
Tim: A lot of startup founders from all over Japan moved to Tokyo to start their startups. You moved from Tokyo to Kyoto. Why?
Kyohi: The first reason was to work at Nintendo and the office was in Kyoto, but I lovef Kyoto before that. I was always traveling to Kyoto but I never thought I was going to live in Kyoto and start a company. There are many beautiful places and beautiful history, and also nice universities, and also manufacturers, there are many, so there is no reason not starting in Kyoto.
Tim: It's interesting that – I mean, Osaka and Kyoto are very close to each other in terms of distance. One are the problems that Osaka startup community has had in the last 10 years is that whenever startups begin growing and getting bigger, they tend to move the company to Tokyo and that doesn't seem to be happening in Kyoto. It seems like Kyoto, the startups are staying there.
Kyohi: Yeah, I can feel that too.
Tim: Yeah, why do you think that is? What do you think is the difference between the startup community in toto and the start of community here in Osaka?
Kyohi: Maybe there's a nice combination of optimism in Kyoto and thinking in long-termship, maybe only after making a company and surviving in five years or 10 years, but in Kyoto, that's only a short time-based think, they may think, and also, there are many big companies in Kyoto, like Nintendo, Kyocera, Omeron, many, many companies, and selling their products overseas, and they have strong brands. So I think that culture, technological or company culture is stronger than Osaka.
Tim: Yeah, I could see that. Yeah, I mean it is interesting because there's lots of different cities in Japan where you can say, well, yes, they've got all the parts, but I think Fukuoka, I think, is one of the few places in Japan that has a really strong startup community, and I think Kyoto seems to be emerging as a startup community there as well.
Kyohi: There are many communities in Kyoto too. In recent years, there are many foreigners like non-Japan born people are coming and gathering in Kyoto and that's one good thing because there's many community, like makers boot camp, and they connect with other cities and other countries, people gathering to Kyoto and doing some hardware projects or something like that, and also, Kyoto is number one or two travel city in Japan, so there are many travelers coming too and they stay in Kyoto too sometimes.
Tim: It is interesting because Kyoto has a reputation of being very traditional and conservative even by Japanese standards. So it's very interesting that we're seeing the start of community being built up there.
Kyohi: Yes, the point is right and Kyoto is conservative. That's absolutely right but at the same time, they are finding new ways. So maybe Kyoto city is also looking for a way to incorporate new things, new innovations or something.
Tim: So conservative but practical?
Tim: Well, listen, Kyohi, before we wrap up, I want to ask you what I called my "Magic Wand" question and that is, if I gave you a magic wand and I told you you could change one thing about Japan, anything at all – the education system, the legal system, the way people think about risk, anything at all to make it better for startups in Japan, what would you change?
Kyohi: I would say to be noncritical or less critical because I was born in Tokyo, so I know people are talking in small volume in trains because they are scared somebody might be critical about your volume, or if you have eccentric idea, maybe you feel some people might be critical about that, or if you are singing in the street, maybe people can be critical or unhappy about that. It can be said, all the people in Japan are feeling a little bit more optimistic and a little bit more noncritical. I think things will change in more better way.
Tim: So you think if people were less critical, it's easier for artists and entrepreneurs, and everyone, really, to take new risks and try new things?
Kyohi: Yes, that would happen, and increasing innovation, but of course, being critical is important but not all the time.
Kyohi: Yes, Indeed. I think that's very important.
Tim: Do you think that's changing in Japan?
Kyohi: I think so. Japan is becoming diverse, like I read on some article, it says in Shinjuku area and in Tokyo, ⅛ born is non-Japanese. So it's a very high number in Japan, so it's becoming diverse city, Tokyo, and also, other area too, and Kyoto too, and different thoughts and different people from different countries may make a little noncritical.
Tim: Just because it would make people have a little more open-mind and have new experiences?
Kyohi: Yes, and also so that Japanese can think there are people with other thought, just to see that is important, I guess.
Tim: You know, it's interesting though, because I think you're right. Japanese people are extremely critical compared to just about anywhere else in the world, but I think there's a difference because it also can be an advantage. When you are critical of yourself and your desire to succeed and build a beautiful product, that's a really powerful thing, but maybe we just need to be less critical of other people.
Kyohi: Right, exactly. It's very difficult for me too, but yeah, that sounds perfect.
Tim: Yeah. Alright, listen, thanks so much for sitting down with me.
Kyohi: Thank you so much.
Tim: I really appreciated it.
I loved Kyohi's thoughts on and his experience with criticism in Japan. This criticism and this sense of public shame is really something that both holds people back in Japan and also propels them to truly fantastic levels of achievement, but Kyohi's right that there is this tendency to criticize others' work and this fear of being criticized that often prevents startups from releasing products and getting user feedback as quickly as they should, but that same instinct can lead to a desire for perfection that has made Japan the world leader in cars and cameras, and so many other things.
However, there's a subtlety here that we really need to look at more closely. Many people point out that Japanese startups are too slow to release their initial products and prototypes, and that they should get user feedback sooner rather than spending time polishing a product that might not be what the customer wants. There's a lot of truth in that but we need to remember that it is the customer and not the startup founder that determines what is a minimum viable product.
As a startup, your opinion doesn't really matter a whole lot here. If you don't have a client who is willing to use your product, then by definition, it's not viable, and you need to put some more work into it. Startups in Japan have to spend more time developing their initial product because Japanese businesses and Japanese consumers demand more.
I have spent most of my life selling B2B software and I can tell you that American companies are some of the best initial clients you can have and Japanese companies are some of the worst. American firms seem to know what they're getting into. You'll usually be able to find a sponsor and a champion in the organization who will work with you and brainstorm with you, and try to come up with ways that you might be able to improve your product to meet the company's needs and broader industry needs.
In Japan, such people do exist but they're exceedingly rare. I've been fortunate enough to work with one or two, but for the most part, Japanese corporate clients want to interact with startups the same way they do their enterprise vendors. They expect your product to work, to integrate with their workflow, to have comprehensive support and documentation, and they sure as hell don't think it's their job to teach you about the industry.
The end result is that a minimum viable product in Japan is a lot less minimal than it is in the United States, but you know, this is changing. There has been real growth in startup events and enterprise startup matching programs over the past few years and more and more Japanese executives are slowly coming around to the idea and the role of being a mentor and being engaged with the startup team. It's a slow transition but we are seeing it. In everything from Kickstarter campaigns to enterprise B2B software sales, Japanese customers are being a little more tolerant and a little more understanding of the efforts of creatives and of startups, and that, combined with the Japanese long-term focus on improvement and perfection might just give Japan a unique advantage and a unique place in a competitive startup world.
If you have thoughts about windows on the world or how minimal a minimum viable product can really be, Kyohi and I would love to hear from you, so come by disruptingjapan.com/show115 and tell us about it, and when you come by the site, you'll see all the links and notes that Kyohi and I had talked about and much, much more in the resources section of the post.
And hey, by the way, please feel free to get in touch and connect with disrupting Japan on Twitter and Facebook, and even drop by our LinkedIn group. A quick search for Disrupting Japan on any of those platforms will take you right to us. I'd love to hear from you and we have a lot more information about Japan on the social media sites and on our website as well.


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William Wishard, MD's interest in Urology came in 1880 following the death of a patient with urinary retention. An autopsy revealed an almost pedunculated median lobe and Wishard was impressed that removal of this might have averted death.
From 1879 to 1887, Wishard was superintendent of the City Hospital, which had fallen into disrepair after the civil war. Wishard was successful in securing $60,000 and directing the addition of three buildings and a nursing school. A century later, the Marion County General Hospital took its name from him. It's now known as Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital.
Shortly after leaving the City Hospital in 1887, Wishard completed post-graduate work in urology in New York, studying at the Polyclinic Medical School under Eugene Fuller, MD, F. R. Sturgis, MD and Edward Keyes, MD. He would later travel to Europe to visit the Berlin International Medical Conference, further demonstrating his love of learning.
Wishard founded the department of Urology in 1887 and served as chief for 49 years. After Wishard declined a position in general surgery at Indiana Medical College and was asked to be chair of a new department of genitourinary surgery, Dean Marsee retorted, "Why, William, what on earth do you want that for? You will be nothing but a respected venereologist." However, he gave him the chair. During this time, he was one of the fathers and great innovators of the field. He arguably performed the first cautery of the prostate done under direct vision in 1890 using a perineal approach. He went on to develop novel techniques, cystoscopes and endoscopic instruments. His soft-nosed rubber catheter was perhaps the most widely used tool until the Foley catheter in 1935.
Wishard was also very involved as a medical statesman and president of the Indiana Medical Association. In 1898, he authored legislation requiring a medical license to practice medicine in Indiana. In 1904, he served as president of the national American Urologic Association and in 1918, he served as vice president of the national American Medical Association.
Wishard was fortunate to have talented partners that formed the "Wishard, Hamer, Mertz" urology group. Homer G. Hamer, MD went on to serve as the 24th president of the national American Urologic Association and as president of the American Association of Genitourinary Surgeons in 1942. Henry O. Mertz, MD was recruited from LaPorte, IN in 1918 and became the second chair of the IU School of Medicine Department of Urology in 1936.
Wishard's family and church held parallel devotions to medicine. William Wishard, MD, Jr commented, "a more devoted husband and father never lived" and "[his travels were] the only thing which interrupted his place at the head of the family table." When President Benjamin Harrison died, Wishard was elected to his position as elder of the first Presbyterian Church of Indianapolis, which he served for 40 years. Upon Wishard's death, Townsend commented, "He will be one of our symbols of the victory of immortality over mortality. Those who were only acquainted with Wishard respected him; those who came in close touch admired him; those who knew him well loved and revered him."
Dr. W.N. Wishard, Sr. biography (1969)
Dr. W.H. Wishard biography
Dr. W.H. Wishard biography (1977)
Gov. visits Dr. W.H. Wishard (1913)
Dr. W.N. Wishard, Jr biography (1974)
Wishard Fam bio by Citizens Historical Assoc (1934)
Genesis of the Marion Co Gen Hosp (1965)
Notes on the Surgery of the Prostate (1892)
Prescription book (1893)
Transurethral Operations upon the prostate (1933)
Wishard Obituaries (1941)
Dr. Homer G Hamer biography (1972)
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