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Considering The Strength of the Software Community
A strong community of users and service providers can help effectively support any software product and guide its evolution. This is true of vendor-provided software, but it's a predominantly important consideration for open source software. Because many open source packages are supported and improved solely by a community, the health of that community is crucial to your operations. What should you consider when looking at software communities? And how do those considerations differ for open source and vendor-provided products?
How large is the community? The more the user base the stronger the base, and more likely that the product will be around in the future and continue to improve. Are there companies that specialize in implementing the software? Are there training resources? How about user groups and events based around the product? With open source, it's also important to look at the number of developers and contributors to the code base. While an extensive community is useful for any product, it's critical in business scenarios specifically.
How frequent are the updates? Success in software comes from drive and innovation. Products that don't innovate are quickly crushed by their competitors or, they become vulnerable to the introduction of an open source alternative. Make sure vendors have a strategy and foundation for software releases. This can often mean that because of a wrong decision you have to change your technical direction, in which case might cost you a whole lot more than intended.
How cutting-edge is this community? Not all companies have the most technically innovative ideas. Some projects are directed primarily by one or two well-intentioned individuals. Others are full of cutting-edge technologists challenging each other for mutual technical respect. You always want to go with the community that has intelligent, motivated and innovative plans the same as you would in selecting a company to work for.
What Are The Potencies of Vendor-Provided Software?
There are reasons many organizations pay for vendor-provided software, including:
Ease of Getting Started. Organizations that don't already have experience with open source projects often find commercial software has a less intimidating road to getting up and running. Lack of I.T. or technical knowledge internally. Vendors often provide sales support and engineering staff trained to make this happen.
Documentation and infrastructure. Well organized and easy to use documentation can be a problem with any software. However, vendor provided software often comes with better documentation because it is someone's job to write it and keep it up to date for each release or version of the product.
Accountability. As opposed to a piece of electronic equipment or a car, problems and defects are expected in a software product, and discussed openly as a risk of using the product. While you're generally on your own for any issues with an open source package, commercial vendors typically guarantee against software errors that can impact your organization.
Mature Ease-of-Use. While it varies by product, in general, paying customers and a team of customer-facing sales people often push vendor-provided software into better user interfaces and ease of use. Open source products are often driven by developers instead of business or marketing folks, which can result in user experience and usability being pushed down the list of priorities.
What Are The Strengths of Open Source Software?
Why might you prefer open source software? Let's explore some of the most common benefits.
You can download the full version of an open source software package and start exploring it, typically without paying a dime. You can set up a prototype or rollout the full system without any fee for use. And, as long as you're careful with customizations, you can likely upgrade to future versions and get access to new features the community has built for you without cost. Of course, don't forget that you'll typically need to invest time or money into installing, configuring and updating the package, but with open source you have more choice over what and when.
Developers often focus on providing a flexible data model, extensible code base designed to give customers the ability to customize and modify for their needs. While vendor provided options generally tie your organization to the vendor's vision for the product, or even occasionally commit you to terms that make it difficult to use other options, open source products allow you more control over your own destiny should you want to do something different.
Because open source software is developed by a community with shared needs, there tends to be a greater sense of what is really needed and what is not. The best ideas get done, and the worst do not. Typically, communication and collaboration on the community's Web site, chat groups, events and conferences drive the most pressing issues directly into the hands of the developers solving problems cutting out the middle men in marketing, management, sales, etc.
Critically Assessing Your Own Need
You can likely see benefits and disadvantages to each type of software. There is no single right or wrong answer in these type of scenarios. Instead, you'll need to decide which strengths and weaknesses matter most for your unique situation.
For instance, if you'll need to highly customize a package, it's likely to be more expensive to customize traditional vendor-provided software–if it's even possible. However, if your organization generally needs lots of training and support, traditional vendor-provided solutions are likely to be a better fit.
Start by building a list of your needs, researching and weighing options on more factors than just cost. Conduct thorough due diligence, compare features and, whenever possible, try out the software. Do not allow the relative accessibility of an open source system to tempt you to start using it without having a solid set of requirements to compare against commercial alternatives. Likewise, you should never pay for software without researching its open source alternatives.
When it comes down to the fine decision making line, open source software and vendor-provided software aren't so different. It's critical to look at the features, attributes and costs for each and then weigh the unique benefits each model can bring. By choosing to use an open source system, you are tapping into a community of peers and taking more control of your software destiny, but you are also choosing a course of action that will require a different mindset.
In conclusion, there's no easy solution in complex technical development scenarios. Open source software isn't likely to be a free-and-easy cure to all your troubles, but it's certainly a viable option worth considering.


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James J. Peters VAMC Prepares For Returning Troops
By STEPHON JOHNSON Amsterdam News Staff | Posted: Thursday, December 22, 2011 1:37 am
On Sunday, the last convoy of U.S. soldiers left the nation of Iraq, ending a war that defined the first decade of the 21st century. The invasion of the country and eventual takedown of Saddam Hussein cost close to 4,500 American lives and tens of thousands Iraqi lives, including many civilians. Over 32,000 American soldiers were wounded.
At the time of America's departure, the war had cost around $800 billion to fight. In the end, it could cost upward of $4 trillion, when factoring in things like medical treatment and replacement of military vehicles.
With the imminent arrival of soldiers on American soil, places like the James J. Peters VA Medical Center in the Kingsbridge section of the Bronx are gearing up to treat and help soldiers adjust to civilian life. Jim Connell, director of community and government relations and a veteran of the United States Marine Corps, spoke with the AmNews about some of the programs the hospital has set up for the soldiers. He also wanted to address a few fears about the new veterans possibly overcrowding hospitals when they come home.
"First of all, people should keep in mind that the troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan represent a much smaller demographic than the troops of any of our previous wars," said Connell. "For instance, we had almost 16 million combatants in World War II, around 5 million in Korea and approximately 8 million from Vietnam. By contrast, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have seen around 2.5 million troops, many of whom have made multiple tours. Nationwide and here in the Bronx, the VA should be in good shape to absorb these veterans once they are discharged from active duty."
But once these soldiers are discharged from active duty, they have a rough landscape to face in America. With jobs harder to find and congress fighting over basic things like unemployment and tax cuts, Connell knows that the adjustment won't be easy.
"They are also coming back to a tender economy, a high cost of living area and high unemployment," he said. "The VA is ramping up its homeless and housing program staff and its mental health department and working on many new and exciting methods of diagnosing and treating the problems of our latest generation of veterans."
Connell's focus isn't only on the sensationalized aspects of soldiers coming home, like the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder and learning how to live with a limb, but also on things like weight loss and eating habits.
"Last year, we started a bariatric surgery program here, which has seen great success in helping overweight veterans bring down their weight and reduce associated problems like diabetes," stated Connell.
"We are the only VA in the country working with the ReWalk device, an exoskeleton mechanism that will allow paraplegics to walk and climb stairs," he continued. "We remain the region's only PolyTrauma and spinal cord injury referral center, and we are breaking ground on a new, three-floor Spinal Cord Injury Center of Excellence that is scheduled to be completed in 2017."
Connell also told the AmNews that several weeks ago, the James J. Peters VA Medical Center became the first VA medical center within the VA NY/NJ Veterans Healthcare Network to acquire the da Vinci Surgical System. The robotic system provides some advantages over the usual laparoscopic surgery by providing a "three-dimensional view of the operative area, improved magnification, hand tremor filtering and range of motion similar to that of the human wrist."
According to Connell, the approach is minimally invasive and results in less blood loss, less post-operative pain, shorter stays and speedier recovery.
So while a soldier may still have difficulty adjusting to the life of an everyday American, and there will be setbacks, they'll hopefully get the much-needed care and thanks for their sacrifice and service. Connell hopes so as well.
"We are proud of our outreach to these veterans, and we have the highest per-capita enrollment of recently discharged veterans in the country. We have enrolled approximately 70 percent of the veterans discharged to our catchment area [the area the institution serves]."
Maybe Christmas can come early for a few of the nation's bravest.

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Agile coach/change consultant based in Vancouver Looking for companies with the courage to change, to realize benefits far ahead of the curve that surprise your competitors and make your customers love you, talk about you, buy your product/service, and tell the world about you.
What drives successful agile adoptionDave SharrockAgile Coachagile42
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IntermediateIn 2010 CIO magazine identified Agile as one of three key drivers every technology executive should pursue. Since then, Agile has moved from a fringe framework to the dominant way of delivering software. Technology projects the world over now use agile methodologies like Scrum as the primary approach to successful project delivery. Today, even complex domains, such as regulated industries like finance and healthcare, products combining hardware and software, and non-technical sectors, are turning to agile. What is driving agile adoption across so many different industry sectors? We will discuss the impact of exponential change on our working practices, and the creation of three drivers for agile adoption, from the ubiquity of knowledge to the commoditization of change, that make a shift to agile methods inevitable.Once we can see why agile methods are becoming the norm, we must consider the impact on the organization. When an organization turns to agile, what does that journey look like? The leadership and the delivery teams within organizations that have successfully developed an agile mindset work differently to the way we may be used to working. What does this look like? How can you, as a leader, recognize and enable good agile delivery?
What Darth Vader, Qui-Gon Jinn and Luke Skywalker can teach us about leadershipDave SharrockAgile Coachagile42
schedule 10 months agoSold Out!
90 Mins
IntermediateThe Star Wars universe provides many examples from which to learn about leadership. It's obvious that Darth Vader's leadership style lacks that special something, while Yoda's leadership style captures something closer to what we might consider to be the quintessential agile leader.Yet perhaps Luke Skywalker's leadership style reflects our own struggles balancing different situations and expectations placed on us.Real leadership is more complicated than the black and white of Darth Vader or Yoda. It is a combination of how we behave and the organizational structure and culture within which we lead. At any one time, the our behaviour is one factor in many that contribute to the effectiveness of us as a leader. Leadership effectiveness depends on organizational structure, how leadership teams are formed, how information it's shared and what decisions need to be made. Culture plays a role, with different cultures responding to different leadership styles.During this workshop, we will use the Star Wars universe to introduce five leadership archetypes. Each archetype describes a specific behaviour, and is often associated with a unique leadership structure. Understanding these different archetypes gives us a language with which to evaluate and grow our leadership skills. It allows us to be contextually aware of our surroundings and to choose the leadership behaviours best suited to a given situation.
Zero Day Planning: light-weight long-range planningDave SharrockAgile Coachagile42
schedule 1 year agoSold Out!
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IntermediateZero Day Planning is a light-weight long-range planning approach for agile teams. Ideally we fund products not projects. We budget for the team, and keep a moving window on our product backlog, emerging and refining new requirements as we deliver our current features and learn from customer feedback and behaviours. But this isn't always possible. Maybe we have not yet moved to funding products, have funding for a project and have to figure out when we will deliver which features. Or we are budgeting for a new product over the next fiscal year and have to estimate how many teams we need. How can we estimate long-range budget needs and delivery expectations?I will describe Zero Day Planning, an approach used many times to provide early estimates for long-range planning. The estimation process takes a matter of days and provides a baseline the team can immediately start using and validating. Using real-world examples you will learn how the approach builds on agile principles and replaces more traditional and heavier long-range estimation techniques.We'll close with some cautionary tales of how things can unravel and why they might do so, just before we think of this as a silver bullet.
From Good to Great Product Ownership, or why experience is not enoughDave SharrockAgile Coachagile42
schedule 1 year agoSold Out!
60 Mins
IntermediateProduct Owners plant the seeds for excellent agile delivery teams. Great POs know how to plant the best seeds, seeds that the team can swarm around and deliver quickly, that provide rapid feedback and learning, and that morph towards excellent customer experiences. In some situations we need a good PO, in others we need a great PO. The trick is to know the difference. Join me on a journey of discovery working with contemporary examples to find out how to be a great PO or a good PO, and why you might, at different times, want to be both.We look at two key dimensions that determine whether you need good PO or a great PO, and how to tell the difference. First, what problem is the PO trying to solve? Are you rolling out changes to a mature product or battling to enter an emerging field? Are you scaling rapidly or slowly? Second, how is the PO making decisions about their backlog. Give a PO a project requirements document and a timeline, and what's a PO to do? Even the best and most experienced POs will struggle to deliver an exciting customer experience that captures the heart of the customer.Through the workshop, you will learn a simple model for identifying great POs based not on PO experience, but on how the PO makes decisions about their backlog. The best POs know how to combine data and stakeholder input to best effect.Finally, we consider the product problems you are trying to solve, the pace of change, and how this effects the PO - good to great - you want for your product.
Don't Panic: Stories of Cultural ChangeDave SharrockAgile Coachagile42Melissa BoggsEnteprise Agile Coachagile42
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IntermediateDon't underestimate the power of your vision to change the world. Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have a core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.-- Leroy HoodYou can't attend an agile conference these days without hearing about organizational culture. Cultural change is not optional for most organizations that want to become more agile. Agility requires a mindset that means many will have to change their traditions, habits, and behaviors.But culture is difficult to work with. It's intimidating; We begin to panic, asking ourselves: "Why do I feel powerless to affect change in my organization? What does it say about me or my org? What does it say about the likelihood of me being able to make these positive shifts outside my team?" and ultimately we may talk ourselves out of any change at all.However, wecaninspire others to see the value in the change. Creating sustainable cultural change means creating a movement within your organization, and this is done one story, one experience at a time. Learn how to recognize your existing culture, identify the areas that require evolution, and create a movement that inspires change.
Epic Budgeting - or how agile teams meet deadlinesDave SharrockAgile Coachagile42
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According to this year's State of Agile survey, the most common success measure for agile initiatives, at 53%, is on-time delivery. But if agile teams can choose how much work they take into a sprint, how can teams be sure of delivering pre-committed scope on time and on budget? There is more to agile delivery than product owners ordering a backlog of work for teams to work on.
Epic budgeting is one tool that allows the product owner to steer a product across the line, delivering the expected scope on time by managing scope creep or an unsustainable focus on the perfect over the pragmatic. During this session learn about how product owners and their teams work towards a fixed date or budget by applying double loop learning to epic sizing and breakdown. Expect some tales from real companies and a few light hearted moments. And I'm at least 53% certain we will finish on time!
Avoiding the Dilbert Syndrome: What does the manager do now?Dave SharrockAgile Coachagile42
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We answer the question "What does the manager do?" We focus on enabling flow and value delivery, using visible progress to guide behaviour, holding teams accountable with iterative and incremental delivery and increasing throughput with catalytic leadership.
We focus on how traditional management responsibilities move from tactical to strategic.
Line management - push responsibilities into the team, with managers keeping an eye on decisions and looking for outliers
Functional management - facilitate functional leaderships through an advocacy role within communities of practice (instead of waiting and hoping good practices will emerge)
Project management - the product owner/scrum master handles much of the overall problem solving/identification, responsibility for progress, and team management
Catalytic Leadership - enable continual flow through the team for fastest possible delivery to the customer. Get things done without being the choke point
There are many dependencies across the organization to understand and smooth-out. Catalytic leadership guides your teams to high-performance through the right guidelines, constraints, and safe-to-learn environment.
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Machine tools are the backbone of manufacturing. But which machine tools are the best for a specific application? This is a question that confuses even the most experienced and knowledgeable machining experts.
Not long ago, high volume production required dedicated machines that could be run without changing for many years. CNC machines were developed essentially to meet the production needs of aerospace companies and were subsequently adopted by short-run job shops. In time, manufacturing companies that built low volume products with many variations discovered the flexibility of CNC machines.
Within the last several years, an evolution has taken place in manufacturing. Large OEMs, especially the Big Three automakers, have been outsourcing machining work to Tier One suppliers. Now, Tier One suppliers are outsourcing to job shops, and shops accustomed to running lot sizes of one to 100 are now faced with contracts that require running the same part 24/7 with a yearly production of a million or more.
To meet that demand, job shops face an economic quandary. Purchasing stand-alone CNC machines to carry out the work requires huge capital expenditures, far more work and a great amount of floor space. But dedicated machines are not feasible due to the relatively short-term nature of the outsourced contracts. The answer that makes the greatest economic sense is the use of flexible technology.
The application of a cell consisting of a CNC flexible trunnion machine and stand-alone CNC machines can provide an excellent solution because the machines can be linked through automation, requiring only one operator to run the cell.
City Machine (Muncie, Indiana) recently shipped one such cell to produce an automotive drive train part. A standard twin spindle CNC chucker, a City Machine CNC heavy duty trunnion (HDT) machine and a converted standard upright drill with a four-spindle head were joined with robot loaders and a conveyor. Using this system, a family of parts can be machined complete at a rate of three per minute with a single operator.
All stations of the CNC trunnion machines are programmable and can be changed to a new part in the family very quickly. Each spindle has the productivity of a stand-alone CNC machine. Although the earlier generation of trunnion machines was dedicated to one part, the company's new generation of CNC trunnion machines features CNC controlled sliding spindle carriers that can perform the same functions as stand-alone CNC turning and machining centers. Additional productivity is gained by applying up to three spindles at one station. The machine can be reconfigured for a new application by rearranging the spindles, changing fixtures and tooling, and reprogramming for the next contracted part.
The configuration of a trunnion machine provides a great amount of flexibility. The drum is located with a large face coupling. Servo indexing time is 1 second or less. Chips fall into the conveyor by gravity and coolant wash. Floor space is comparable to a standard CNC horizontal machining center. Two horizontal heads and one radial head can be mounted at most stations without a center column.
The base allows high thrust and horsepower cuts. The sliding spindle carriers are adjustable so that precision alignments are achieved. Tools are easily changed outside the machine base.
The application of machine tools depends on the requirements of the individual part and the business contract specifications. When production volumes climb, it is time to consider the advantages of using a flexible CNC trunnion machine or a cell consisting of stand-alone CNC machines with automation. Use a CNC trunnion machine to machine the part features it can do best and apply a stand-alone CNC machine to machine what it can do best. Combine the two into a cell using both technologies to create a high production solution that is not a throwaway at the end of the contract.


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A person who is involved in any form of art work is referred to as an artist. Artists are skilled people who are well versed with the basic concepts of art and produces art in any form that has aesthetic value. An artist may nor may not have a degree in fine arts but may produce art either way. An artist may refer to a sculptor, painter or a photographer. The different types of artists include abstract painters, conceptual artist, portrait painters, sketch artists, illustrators, digital artists, printmakers, textile artists, glass artists, mixed media artists and jewelry artists among many other types of artists. People involved in the creation of films, may also be referred to as artist. Artistic activities also include dancing, acting, writing and music. Therefore any activity for which the imagination is used and creativity is unleashed is referred to as an artistic activity. Art history as a full-fledged academic discipline developed in the 19th century. In ancient times cave paintings, petroglyphs sculptures and rock paintings were done, which was around 40,000 years ago. Dig out more intriguing facts about many famous artists in the world, with this compilation of biographies that include trivia, interesting facts, timeline and life history.
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Home security cameras with modern night vision capabilities provide an extra layer of protection for your family. Some of these cameras can create images from total darkness, allowing the capture of video images for unauthorized entry including vandalism and theft that are hidden from normal view. Improvements in design and technology have made might vision cameras more affordable in recent years, giving homeowners the option to maximize home security systems with minimal additional cost.
Night vision cameras capture images in low light conditions that ordinary security cameras fail to do. Incorporating a night vision camera in video surveillance systems will provide the highest level of protection for home and family.
How Night Vision Cameras Work
Security cameras with night vision capture images in the dark through low-light imaging, thermal imaging, or infrared illumination technologies.
Thermal imaging that employ an uncooled detector is relatively inexpensive and produces images with high contrast. The thermal imaging camera with an uncooled detector is ideal for video surveillance systems because it easily detects people and vehicles, and unlike the low-light imaging camera, it is not affected by light sources. It has high reliability but it is not appropriate for high-speed and multi-spectral applications.
Planning Home Security Systems with Night Vision
You have many decisions to make when planning for your home security system. These include the number of cameras to use, the integration of a night vision camera in the system, black and white or color options, choosing the indoor and outdoor models, and the Lux sensitivity of the system. While it is best to leave some decisions to security experts, you should be well-informed about the different choices that you can make so that you can actively participate in designing your home security camera system as well as control the cost of the home security project.
Your choice of home security cameras defines the level of protection for your home, which should include night vision cameras for round-the-clock security.


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May 12, 2017 will mark 10 years of marriage for Ginger and I.
Never could we have imagined how much we would love our kids. All of them are treasures beyond our wildest dreams and have brought us joy upon joy upon joy.
There is no doubt of that.
Likewise, never would we have thought that our firstborn would be struck with a brain tumor. When we wed on that spring day in May, we not see that one coming.
And it's the intersection of those two unthinkables that makes these past 77 weeks so profound.
As well as this day, when Brouwer rang the bell to celebrate the end of chemotherapy.
This day, which closes a very dark chapter in our lives.
498 days of chemotherapy, began at the ripe age of 2.
The misdiagnosis and time lost. The moments and days after the correct diagnosis where we were led to believe that nothing could be done, that his fate was sealed. The months when MRI after MRI showed the wretched tumor advancing and overtaking more and more of his precious head. Worries about chemotherapy, concerns with his eyes, fears about blood counts. Week after week at the hospital for infusions and clinic visits. Watching drugs drip into his small frame. Knowing that he knew nothing and just implicitly trusted his mommy and daddy to make the monumental decisions on his life. Choices about fertility. Trying to balance work and give the time and affection to Banner that he deserved. Trying to convince many that we were just fine. Dark, dark days.
The road ahead may still be winding, we just don't know.
But I am certain of some things.
Tonight I tucked a 4-year old boy into his bed.
That boy can run. That boy can jump.
Sure, there's a scar on the back of his head and another on his chest. Yeah, his left side is slightly weaker than his right and his left hand trembles, subtlety, from time to time. He struggles with stairs and might not be quite as physically capable as other the 4-year olds.
But, as I said, tonight I tucked a 4-year old boy into his bed.
And I'm certain his brother is quite happy I did. Many nights, when they should be falling to sleep, we smile as we hear Brouwer and Banner talk and laugh well past the time young boys should be awake.
I'm certain his sister, who quiets best when he consoles her, will benefit richly from the love of her biggest brother.
I know that tomorrow is a new and wonderful day for us. No more will Brouwer need to swallow 25 pills on a weekend. In the coming months his appetite will return and his sensitivity from the vincristine will subside. Brouwer will again eat bananas, chocolate, cheese and other foods off limits for the past year plus.
Too though, I know that the odds are still against us. These tumors are stubborn and there's a 70% chance his will grow again.
But of all these things, of one thing I am most sure is that this May will feel different than that from 2007. Love, then young and naïve, after being tested by this life, has roots than run far deeper. The horse-backed white wedding-dressed girl from 10 years past has blossomed into a mom who works tirelessly to care for her kiddos. And me, then concerned primarily with career and calling, has had his attention brought back to that girl and our kids, thanks in part to the 4-year old one, here with us even this night, now fast asleep in his bed.
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Merguez and Chickpea Stew
It was around this time last year that I started working on a recipe for Harira Soup. There is something about the cold post-Christmas air that brings out the need for warming North African flavours. This year, after my weekly trip to Naas Farmers Market I have been inspired to use an ingredient that I haven't seen around these parts too often – Merguez Sausage. This spiced sausage made predominately from lamb but with a little beef to improve the texture was part of my favourite lunchtime treat when I worked at Gaillot et Gray back in 2016. I would squeeze it out of it's casing and onto fresh sourdough bread, spread it like butter and put it into the wood-fired oven until cooked through. I would then add a little of their pizza sauce and some Emmental cheese before it went into the oven again until the cheese was melted and bubbling – I didn't have it everyday, I swear!
I quite like this stew as it is but the last time I made it, I also had a head of romanesco doing nothing in the fridge. I simply roasted it in a really hot conventional oven before putting it on top of the stew and drizzling with the yoghurt dressing. It worked a treat with the nuttiness and texture of the romanesco adding a great deal to the dish. If you are in a bit of a hurry or as an alternative to the roast romanesco and yoghurt, preserved lemon and coriander dressing here, you can simply stir in a couple of handfuls of spinach leaves towards the end of the cooking time. Ladle out into bowls and drizzle with some natural yoghurt and lemon juice (see picture at bottom).
Serves 4
2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
1/2 Onion (finely chopped)
pinch of Chilli Flakes
pinch of Dried Oregano
4 large Merguez Sausages (roughly chopped)
500g Baby Potatoes (halved)
2 heaped tsp of Harissa Paste
a couple of drops of Rose Water (optional)
2 tin of Chickpeas (drained)
1 400g tin of Tomato Pulp/Chopped Tomatoes
10g Fresh Parsley (finely chopped)
Sea Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper
For the Romanesco Topping:
1/2 head of Romanesco Cauliflower (broken into small florets)
2 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Sea Salt and Freshly Ground Pepper
For the Dressing:
6 heaped tbsp Natural Yoghurt
1/2 small Preserved Lemon (skin finely chopped, flesh discarded)
15g Fresh Coriander (finely chopped)
Heat the oil in a pan over a medium heat. Add the onion, chilli flakes and oregano. Season with salt and pepper, stir well and reduce the heat to low. Allow to cook for 10-15 minutes until the onions are soft but not coloured.
Meanwhile put the romanesco onto a baking sheet and drizzle with the oil. Season and put into a 220 degree C. conventional oven for 30-35 minutes. If you only have a fan oven, put them in at 165 degrees C. for 40-45 minutes.
Turn the heat on the pan to medium and add the merguez. Allow to colour a little before adding the potatoes. Season before adding the harissa and rosewater (if using). Give everything a good mix and allow to fry for a couple of minutes before adding the chickpeas and tinned tomatoes. Fill the empty tomato tin with water and add this to the pan too. Bring to the boil before reducing the heat to a simmer. Allow to cook for 40-45 minutes until the potatoes are tender. Mix in the chopped parsley.
Meanwhile mix the dressing ingredients together and taste for seasoning. It shouldn't need any salt as the preserved lemon should season the dressing perfectly.
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Get to know Dev before the conference, check out these media sources:
Podcast: Making Innovation Work
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Article: The True Measure of a Good Idea
Don't miss your chance to see Dev give his keynote speech, "Wired to Care" Monday, May 18 at the Front End of Innovation Boston.
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Today, West Africa is typically described by reference to a linguistic divide between Anglophone and Francophone Africa. "Oh, he's from Senegal, He speaks French" is a typical way of categorizing West African immigrants here in the US. On this view, the local languages of Africa are simply a bunch of tribal "dialects" without a written tradition. This view is wrong for a number of reasons. First, while the region's countries use French as the official language of government and education, indigenous African languages remain the mother-tongues of essentially the entire region. They are not dialects of French but are languages in their own right that typologically distinct from the former colonial language. Second, many of these languages were indeed written prior to colonization through a connection with the tradition of scholarship that stems back to Islam's arrival in the region more than 1,000 years ago.
The majority of Islamic scholarship carried out through the various Koranic schooling systems in West Africa was and continues to be carried out in Classical Arabic. That said, for a number of major West African languages there exists a tradition of Ajami, which is a commonly used term to refer to the use of the Arabic script to write in sub-Saharan African languages. Western scholars have become increasingly interested in Ajami practices and texts in recent years as both a new archival source and as a narrative that counters the idea of Africa being on the oral side of a great literacy divide. For certain West African lingua francas like Hausa, spoken primarily in Nigeria and Niger, Ajami practices were quite wide-spread and remain so today. In the case of Manding varieties however the practices have seemed more limited.
Manding is a linguistic term used to refer the closely related and largely mutually-intelligible varieties of a language and dialect continuum in West Africa (see the map below) that includes varieties such as Bamanan in Mali, Maninka in Guinea and Jula in Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire. In the Western Manding varieties of Guinea-Bissau and the Gambia, Ajami practices appear to be rather well-established. In the case of Eastern varieties such as Bamanan and Jula however Ajami practices have been as rather limited. Indeed, the last Western evidence of Jula Ajami for instance stems from a French colonial linguist, Maurice Delafosse, in 1904. My own recent experience & research however suggests that Jula Ajami may have just been invisible to particular scholarly communities.
During the Peace Corps I lived and worked in a Jula-speaking region of Burkina Faso for two years. Two summers ago I returned to the area for unrelated research & to visit old friends and decided at the same time to ask about potential Ajami practices. Having learned the Arabic script with Burkinabè friends during the Peace Corps, I was skeptical that I would come across much. One market day as I made the rounds around the town-center to say greet friends, I happened upon some friends that I knew to be proficient in Arabic from their ties to the local mosque and Koranic school. Having greeted them and been offered a seat I decided to inquire about this idea of using Arabic letters to write in Jula. Had they ever heard of anyone doing that I asked? Watching the busy market-day pass by, a snicker or two passed between them before one of them spontaneously produced a small piece of cardboard from his wallet. "Like this?" he asked as I gazed at a tiny piece of cardboard with 5 lines of Arabic script. Though I could not and still cannot read those lines, I had just been introduced to Jula Ajami literacy practices that I had been blind to for two years.
As a result of this initial introduction I carried out preliminary ethnographic research on Jula Ajami practices over the course of the next couple days which has now been published as a working paper in my department's in-house journal, Working Papers in Educational Linguistics. Anyone brave enough to handle my attempt to more fully analyze Jula Ajami practices is welcome to look the paper. Given its length, jargon and citations though, here I want to really briefly highlight two of the most interesting features of Jula Ajami that I discovered in my research.
First, authentic Jula Ajami texts (i.e., those not produced at my request) all fit into the genre of medicinal treatment recipes. That is, they were lists and instructions for preparing medicinal treatments using local plants. These recipes also incorporated religious elements from Islam within the preparation instructions. In this sense, the recipes fall under the banner of what scholars have labelled esoteric Islamic sciences (Brenner, 1985). These kinds of practices are esoteric in the sense that they frequently only circulate in limited circles based around initiation-style learning. They are not secrets because of their illicit-nature but because their efficacy itself depends on their limited circulation. The fact that Jula Ajami seems to be closely tied to these kinds of practices may explain in part why the literacy practice is not widely on display to outsiders or foreigners.
Second, my linguistic analysis of the texts suggests that Jula Ajami is not written in the form of Jula that is most widely-spoken in Burkina Faso. They are written in a distinct register (Agha, 2007) which resembles a form of the language that is spoken in and around a town in Côte d'Ivoire named Kong. Curiously the texts that I collected however were produced in Burkina Faso where the speakers' so-called native dialect is arguably the lingua franca variety of Jula spoken across the country. Linguists in West Africa typically conceptualize each village or town as having a particular dialect that can be assigned to the people in the place. But language is not tied to a place. Different ways of speaking a language travel every time that someone uses the language. Moreover, these ways of speaking are imbued with a certain social reading. They can be perceived as "lower class", "pure" or as reminding someone of a certain kind of person in the world. What is interesting in the case of Jula Ajami then is that a certain way of speaking Jula–that is, a certain register–came to be adopted as appropriate in writing texts. In this sense, Jula Ajami texts reveal the ways that even so-called vernacular or local languages of Africa have a complex social life on par with any official, "modern" or global language.
- Brenner, L. (1985). The "Esoteric Sciences" in West African Islam. In B. M. D. Toit & I. H. Abdalla (Eds.), African Healing Strategies (pp. 20–28). New York: Trado-Medic Books.
- Agha, A. (2007). Language and Social Relations. New York: Cambridge University Press.


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Happy Thursday, blog friends! I'm sorry it has been so quiet around here! I had such a wonderful time with my family, and didn't do any prep work for my blog over the weekend, and I don't have a lot of time during the week to do it. So, thank you for bearing with me while my blog went a bit quiet.
Today I have a card to share with you that has a color palette that is a little out of my norm for cards, but not so much for me! My cards are typically pretty colorful, but still very light & airy {most of the time}. But my home is very neutral light grey & white, with just small pops of blue here & there. Ever since losing Ellie & Layton, I've needed my home to be tranquil and calming...and these light & airy neutral colors help me feel this way. Some might consider it boring, and that's okay....they don't have to live here! Lol!
For this card, I wanted to take my love for neutral home decor, and bring it to my card! I am using the gorgeously intricate Folklore background die from Pinkfresh Studio, and the sentiment from the Folk Mandala die set.
To start, I cut the Folklore background four times: once from cashmere cardstock, and three times from white cardstock. This die is VERY intricate, and it only cut out completely when I used my metal shim (I made the mistake of not using it the first time I cut with it). This has nothing to do with the quality of the die nor your diecut machine! This is the purpose of a metal shim, and I highly suggest having one on hand for intricate dies like this. Once I added the metal shim to my sandwich, it cut out perfectly every single time.
Next I diecut the sentiment four times as well: once from gold foiled cardstock and three times from white cardstock. With all the diecutting complete, I stacked and layered each section of cuts together with a Zig glue pen.
With all the diecutting & layering complete, it was time to put the card together. I cut & folded and A2 card base from cashmere cardstock, then layered a block of gold foiled vellum with a polka dot print to the front. This is an older piece of vellum from My Mind's Eye that is no longer available, but you could easily create your own by heat embossing the large polka dots in gold! Next I layered the Folklore background to the front using some mixed media adhesive, then did the same with the Just A Note sentiment. To finish, I added the jewel trimmed pearl to the middle of the card.
That is all I have for you today, friends! I have updated my Crafty Sales page with some of the lastest promos, so be sure to check it out! Before you move along with your day, I wanted to invite you to follow me on social media. I hang out on Instagram a lot, and share my work in progress in my stories...along with REALLY cute photos of my dogs! :) And of course, I would love for you to subscribe to my YouTube Channel. My channel has been pretty quiet recently - I am right in the middle of reorganizing my entire craft area...so it is a bit disjointed. I have given myself a deadline of the end of December to get it completely finished, with my new studio area ready for video creation!! So, there will be a TON more videos in 2019. So thank you for bearing with me until then!
You are going to see a new option up there....Facebook. I go back & forth on this a lot, but I was looking through my personal FB page the other day...and it was cards for days. It doesn't leave room for what I want my personal FB to have on it - personal photos & such. So, I have created a FB page for Lea Lawson Creates again. I would love to have you join, and be sure to subscribe to notifications so you don't miss out on anything. I would like to make the page interactive, and a way that we can actually hang out...so if you have any ideas on that, I would appreciate it!
I hope that you have a great Thursday!
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The Federal Government on Monday inaugurated the newly re-constituted Board of the Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC.
The investiture which was conducted by the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Finance, Alhaji. Mahmoud Isa-Dutse, in Abuja will have Mr. Olufemi Lijadu as Chairman of the Board of the Commission.
Lijadu, who hails from Ogun state, and is a leading commercial lawyer with over thirty years' experience, was also Executive Director of one of Nigeria's top four banking institution, United Bank of Africa Plc.
Mahmoud in his opening remark said, "This event signals another milestone in our efforts to emphasize the importance of the capital market in economic growth and development through the mobilization of long-term savings for investment as well as efficient pricing of financial instruments.
"The Nigerian Capital Market, in particular, has provided platforms through which corporate and government sources for capital with which they expand their operations and provide amenities for the citizens.
"The inauguration of the Board of the SEC is critical, as the existence and operation of a board are fundamental for an agency like the SEC to adequately and efficiently perform its regulatory and market development functions.
"It is in recognition of this that the Investments and Securities Act (ISA) 2007, requires that the Commission have a Board and Section 4 of the Act specifically provides that the SEC Board shall be responsible for the general administration of the Commission."
He further added: "Our capital market is growing and evolving. To sustain this growth and eventually transform to a world-class capital market, transparency and investor confidence is key.
"Investor confidence will accelerate the growth of our market and increase both domestic and foreign investor participation. Therefore, we must ensure that our market is transparent and listed companies imbibe good corporate governance and accountability.
"Like world-class capital markets, ours should be characterized by high levels of liquidity, depth, breadth and sophistication with a strong domestic investor base. It should be innovative, transparent due to robust disclosure regimes, and efficient both in price discovery and in the allocation of capital.
"We must have it in mind that world-class capital markets do far more than provide access to capital. They are enablers of socio-economic development because they hasten the rate of capital formation, foster a meritocracy and promote good corporate governance, innovation and entrepreneurship.
"Thus, our capital market should broaden access to economic prosperity by enabling the emergence of financially responsible citizens, accelerating wealth creation and wealth distribution, providing capital to small and medium scale enterprises (SMEs). and catalyzing housing finance."
He noted that the inauguration of the SEC Board is timely because it is coming at the time when many players in the market are displaying weak corporate governance practices that could potentially dampen investor confidence and undermine the steady gains we have achieved since the 2008 stock market crash.
"We therefore count on the patriotic service of the new Board members to play their own part as crucial enablers in the industry towards advancing a common vision for the growth and revitalization of our market," he said.
Mahmoud also emphasized that: "The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari is committed to transparency and accountability in corporate governance.
"To this end, I must emphasize that the role of Governing Boards is to provide effective oversight and strategic advisory to the management team. I would therefore like to advise all concerned to study and strictly adhere to the laid down Laws that have clearly defined the roles and responsibilities of the Board Members.
"In keeping with the law, the membership of the Board is carefully drawn from seasoned professionals and eminent personalities that would inspire confidence and trust from other stakeholders they would be working with.
"We trust the capacity of the new Board to deliver on their mandate as we have no doubt that the professional pedigree of members of the Board, their wealth of experience, and robust networks will be brought to facilitate the achievement of desired results."
The Chairman of the SEC, Mr. Olufemi Lijadu in his remark assured that the Board will work hand-in-hand with all stakeholders to ensure transparency and accountability which is critical to building investors' confidence and public trust. He also said that the Commission will always follow the rule of law to enforce rules in the Capital Market to ensure orderliness.
The Acting Director General of the SEC, Ms Mary Uduk also said: "The Capital Market will no longer be the same again because we have gotten the Board we have been waiting for for a longtime now.
"From the CV of the Board Members, the market will definitely move forward considering their qualifications and experience."
Part-time members of the Board are: Mr. Olufemi Dominic Lijadu (Chairman), Mr. Okokon Ekanem Udo (Representative of the Federal Ministry of Finance), Mrs. Angela Adewumi Sere-Ejembi (Representative of the Central Bank of Nigeria), Mrs. Faruk Ladi Rekiya (part time Commissioner), Mr. Lamido Abubakar Yuguda (part time Commissioner).
Full-time members are: Ms. Mary Joseph Uduk – Acting Director-General, Mr Isyaku Bala Tilde – Ag. Executive Commissioner (Operations), Mr. Reginald Karawusa – Ag. Executive Commissioner (Legal and Enforcement), Mr. Henry Adekunle Rowlands – Ag. Executive Commissioner (Corporate Services).
The inauguration of the Board comes with much excitements as market operators and stakeholders in the sector have been calling for the reconstitution of the board to strengthen SEC's operations.


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The Hon. Minister for Youth and Sports Isaac K. Asiamah (MP) on Friday, 6th September led a team from the Ministry to meet and interact with the management and some senior staff of the NYA.
The maiden meeting which was the first of its kind since the appointments of the CEO and his two Deputies were terminated, afforded the Hon. Minister the opportunity to ascertain happenings at the Authority thus far.
Hon. Asiamah commended the management and entire staff of the Authority for their hardwork and encouraged them to continue to work diligently and in the supreme interest of the youth particularly and Ghana in general.
He called for teamwork amongst the staff and advised them to continually support the new Ag. CEO to enable him effectively and efficiently steer affairs at the Authority.
The Hon. Minister assured the management and staff that government remains committed at ensuring that the corporate vision, mission and mandate of the Authority is achieved.
Mr. Emmanuel Anaman-Mensah, Acting CEO of the Authority thanked the Hon. Minister and his team for the visit and assured them that the Authority shall continue to work at meeting the hopes and aspirations of the Ghanaian youth.
In a related development, the Hon Minister then took turn to inspect the Youth Resource Center of Excellence currently under construction at the Azumah Nelson Youth and Sports Center. He expressed delight at the progress of work and said that at the rate of work ongoing, he expects work to be completed by the end of first quarter next year.
Edwin A. Amponsah
Head, Public Relations
National Youth Authority


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Terntank Opts for Wartsila's New Dual-Fuel Engines
Wartsila has announced that its new 2-stroke, low pressure, dual-fuel engine has been selected by Terntank Rederi A/S, the Denmark based tanker operator, to power two new environmentally advanced, 15,000 DWT tankers. These will be the first installations of this engine.
The new Wärtsilä technology was just recently introduced at a customer event held at the company's Trieste, Italy facilities on November 12. The first engine utilising this technology is the Wärtsilä RT-flex50DF.
The significance of the availability of low pressure, dual-fuel engine technology for 2-stroke engines is that it provides notable economic and environmental advantages over other technologies. The new engine is IMO Tier III emissions compliant in gas mode without need of NOx abatement equipment.
The engine will provide capital expenditure (CAPEX) savings of between 15 and 20 per cent compared to other 2-stroke gas engine technologies currently on the market. This is possible thanks to the fact that no exhaust gas cleaning systems are needed and that the LNG and gas handling system is substantially simpler and of lower cost since only low pressure gas compression is required.
Another key benefit is that the Wärtsilä technology allows stable operation on gas across the entire load range, meaning that at low loads, there is no need to switch to diesel.
When operating in gas mode, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from the Wärtsilä RT-flex50DF engine are at least 85 percent below those specified in the current IMO regulations. CO2 emissions are some 25 percent less than those of a conventional marine engine running on diesel fuel, while the sulphur oxide (SOx) and particle emissions are negligible at almost zero percent.
"These newbuild tankers will be among the world's most environmentally sustainable ships, and we are very proud of this. With the Wärtsilä engine technology they are Tier III compliant in gas mode, which of course means that we can operate in the Baltic Sea ECA without restrictions. Moreover, we expect considerable fuel cost savings. Conventional product tankers of this size have an average bunker consumption of 22 to 25 tons a day. With these newbuildings we expect daily bunker consumption of just 14 tons," says Tryggve Möller, Board Member of Terntank Rederi A/S.
"When the new Wärtsilä 2-stroke, low pressure, dual-fuel engine technology was introduced it was widely hailed as being a 'game-changer' for the industry, since it makes IMO Tier III compliance possible for virtually all vessel types running on LNG as a primary fuel, and with the lowest CAPEX and OPEX. These first installations are, therefore, an historic landmark in the process towards general acceptance of LNG as a marine fuel and a cleaner future for shipping," says Martin Wernli, Vice President, 2-stroke, Wärtsilä Ship Power.
The Wärtsilä 2-stroke dual-fuel technology will be rolled out to the entire Wärtsilä Generation X Engine low-speed engine portfolio. Already today Wärtsilä RT-flex50, Wärtsilä X62 and Wärtsilä X72 engines can be delivered with a dual-fuel (DF) ready package to prepare the engine for a DF conversion if needed later on.
Press Release, December 2, 2013
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