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Event Timetable
Monday, February 18, 2013
|7:45 - 8:45
|Registration & Networking
|8:45 - 9:30
Welcome and Opening Address; Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open StandardsAllen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Welcome and Opening Address
Enterprise Transformation and the Role of Open Standards
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Enterprise transformation seems to be gathering momentum within the enterprise architecture community. The term, enterprise transformation, suggests the process of fundamentally changing an enterprise. Sometimes the transformation is dramatic but for most of us it is a steady process.
Key takeaways:
Allen Brown is President and CEO, The Open Group – a global consortium that enables the achievement of business objectives through IT standards. For over 10 years Allen has been responsible for driving The Open Group's strategic plan and day-to-day operations, including extending its reach into new global markets, such as China, the Middle East, South Africa and India. In addition, he was instrumental in the creation of the AEA, which was formed to increase job opportunities for all of its members and elevate their market value by advancing professional excellence.
Prior to joining The Open Group, Allen Brown held a range of senior financial and general management roles both within his own consulting firm, which he founded in 1987, and other multi-national organizations.
Allen is TOGAF® 9 certified, an MBA alumnus of the London Business School and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
|9:30 - 10:15
Leadership, Systems Thinking and Complexity Management: Charting the Future of EADr. Pallab Saha, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Leadership, Systems Thinking and Complexity Management: Charting the Future of EA
Dr. Pallab Saha, Institute of Systems Science, National University of Singapore
Governments are changing, by design, necessity and compulsion. This change is being exacerbated and shaped by megaforces that interact in a complex labyrinth of evolving nodes and connections. As a result, today's government leaders and policy makers operate in the realm of confounding uncertainties and astounding complexities. These lead to incomplete and often non-actionable information that make decisions increasingly speculative. To unlock the grid and move forward, it is being acknowledged that governments of the future have to be connected. Connected government is no utopia. It is simply a pragmatic approach to capitalize on complexity. Enterprise Architecture (EA) as a metadiscipline provides governments and leaders the means to address the twin challenges of dynamism and complexity. As governments become increasingly hyperconnected, they ought to be examined as systems, where holism, causality, heterarchy and interrelationships are crucial to ensuring overall coherence in a state of omnipresent flux. This contrasts with the traditional fixation on efficiency and cost. Going beyond the rhetoric, this session demonstrates the value of amalgamating the systems approach within EA methodology to address a national priority in Singapore, and provides insights to amplify the impact of EA by integrating creative thinking to tackle complex problems that enterprise transformation brings forth.
Intended audience: Chief Architects, Business Analysts;.Transformation Specialists; Consultants & Practitioners; CIOs, Chief Str Officers
Key takeaways:
Dr. Pallab Saha's current research, consulting and teaching interests include Enterprise Architecture (EA) and Governance. Dr. Saha has published four books: Handbook of Enterprise Systems Architecture in Practice; Advances in Government
Identified as a Technology Thought Leader by Forrester, Dr. Saha is the primary author of the Methodology for AGency ENTerprise Architecture (MAGENTA) and Government EA Guidebook for the Government of Singapore and has led them to international prominence.
Earlier, as Head of Development, Dr. Saha managed Baxter's offshore centre in Bangalore. He has had engagements in Fortune 100 organizations in various capacities. Dr. Saha holds a Ph.D in Management (Information Systems) from theIndian Institute of Science, Bangalore and has received the best research design and best thesis awards. He is an alumnus of the MIT Sloan Executive Program.
|10:15 - 11:00
Architect and Integrate Innovation Management into Mainstream BusinessK Ananth Krishnan, VP and CTO, Tata Consultancy Services
Architect and Integrate Innovation Management into Mainstream Business
K Ananth Krishnan, VP and CTO, Tata Consultancy Services
K Ananth Krishnan will talk about measures TCS has taken in order to integrate innovation management with mainstream business.
Ananth will also share the story of an innovation that is transforming TCS into a vivacious workplace.
K Ananth Krishnan is an M. Tech. in Computer Science and an M.Sc in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He also has a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Fergusson College, Pune. He joined TCS in February 1988, straight from campus.
Ananth is currently the Chief Technology Officer of TCS and chairs the TCS Corporate Technology Board. He is a member of the TCS Corporate Think-Tank since 1999, and has led several strategic initiatives. He has been a Principal Architect and Lead Consultant in the Architecture and Technology Consulting Practice, and earlier the head of the TCS Systems Management and the Systems Software Group.
He was named in Computerworld's Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2007, and in Infoworld's Top 25 CTOs in the same year. He was named a Distinguished Alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2009.
He was an invitee to the quarterly management review with the TCS Board (the executive committee of Tata Sons Limited) from April 2000 to March 2004. He has served on several Advisory Boards of software companies as well Industry and academic bodies and Government committees. He has served on the organizing committees of several national and international conferences.
He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and of the Computer Society of India as well as a member of the Association of Computing Machinery, and has served on the ACM India Council. He has been an invited faculty in the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.
|11.00 - 11.30
|Tea / Coffee
|11.30 - 12.15
Compelling Reasons for Open and Collaborative ITSudin Apte, CEO and Managing Director, Offshore Insights Research & Solutions
Compelling Reasons for Open and Collaborative IT
Sudin Apte, CEO and Managing Director, Offshore Insights Research & Solutions
Focus of IT organizations is shifting from underlying technology to business processes and business leaders are asking CIOs of organizations to transform and deliver industry leading business processes. But often the processes flow across various departments and functions that use diverse systems. Further, changes in business models, increasing penetration of technology in business delivery and rising adoption of emerging technologies like cloud and Mobility are making matters further complex. To deliver this requirement across functions and apps firms, and for assured connectivity across systems one needs standardization and better collaboration. The session will discuss:
The speaker will present latest client side data and examples to discuss above issues and how open standards forms one of the core pillar to achieve high performance collaborative IT.
Sudin Apte is a leading business and technology advisor. Sudin is a veteran industry analyst, and established thought leader. Over last 15 years he has been advising global corporations to build their IT strategy and helping them to extend IT's value for their business benefits. He has founded his own research company Offshore Insights Research and Solutions, with its headquarters in Pune, India. This venture focuses on Business and Technology research and provides advice to top technology companies as well as Fortune 500 companies. One of his focus area is Outsourced/Offshore Product Development (OPD) and he is working with some of the top high-tech, software and manufacturing companies who are long term offshore clients (via partners or own facility) as well as few of focused OPD service providers. Recently he is working on OPD market trends (budget, post recession changes, adoption new/emerging technologies, trends related to hot themes like Cloud, Mobility, devices et al in high-tech or hybrid engines, telematics, infotainment et al in Auto/Tier 1, and so on), decision making about R&D/innovation partnering, and criteria for partner selection. Sudin regularly speaks at various prestigious national and international level conferences.
In the last two years he spoke at national level conferences arranged by Nasscom, CSI, Indo American Chamber of Commerce. In same period, he was interviewed and participated more than a twenty times in interviews and panels on CNBC, NDTV Profit, Times Now, and Bloomberg. His exclusive articles, interviews, and quotes appear on weekly basis in leading business press - Economic Times, Times of India, Business Standard, Business Today, Outlook, Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, Asian Age, and regularly in international publications like BusinessWeek, Economist, ComputingWorld, and Wall Street Journal. Sudin has also worked as visiting faculty at Judge Business School – Cambridge University and via Cambridge University's Centre for India and Global Business, he recently conducted industry workshop in UK on Leveraging Global Innovation.
Prior to his current engagement, Sudin started Forrester's operation in India and led it for nearly ten years. He has also worked as VP of business operations at another leading research company – Gartner - before Forrester.
Sudin Apte is a graduate in Mechanical Engineering, Post graduation in Management Science and has a qualification Cost & Works Accounting. Sudin has total 20 years of industry experience.
|12:15 - 1:00
Importance of EA Management Practices from a Transformation PerspectiveNabarun Sengupta, Chief Architect, Cognizant
Importance of EA Management Practices from a Transformation Perspective
Nabarun Sengupta, Chief Architect, Cognizant
Enterprises today are faced with challenging and at the same time interesting times. On the one hand there are disruptive business models and technologies that have potential to transformation enterprises. On the other hand there are significant short term challenges – cost pressures, regulatory requirements and immediate business needs.
Nabarun Sengupta has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, including Architecture, Project Management, Requirements Gathering, Analysis, Design, and Development application software in Middleware, Client-Server and Internet technologies. Nabarun has 10 years of Architecture and Project Management responsibilities, which include Estimation, Proposals, Architecture, Onsite and Offshore co-ordination and client interactions. Currently, Nabarun is Chief Architect and a member of the Banking and Financial Services CTO Office at Cognizant.
|1.00 - 2.00
|General Session
|2:00 - 2:45
|Venguswamy Ramaswamy, Global Head iON Business, Tata Consultancy Services
|2:45 - 3:30
The Changing Face of Government: Trends and a Solution Architecture for Citizen ServicesSandipan Sarkar, Executive Enterprise Architect, IBM India
The Changing Face of Government: Trends and a Solution Architecture for Citizen Services
Sandipan Sarkar, Executive Enterprise Architect, IBM India
Governments across the world are facing unique, deeper and unprecedented challenges across the world. Interesting trends are observed in citizen service delivery as a response to these challenges. A solution architecture that may help the governments to address these trends is presented in this presentation.
Sandipan Sarkar is an IBM Executive Architect and The Open Group Distinguished Chief Architect. In his 17 years career in IT industry, he was responsible for consulting, presales, delivery and implementation of technology solutions in various domains including Financial Services, Healthcare, Hitech, and Telecommunications. As a technical leader, Sandipan led and executed the development of complex technical solutions; negotiations with customers and vendors; evangelization of innovative technologoies and solutions; and sizing and pricing of complex system integration projects. In his recent responsibilities, Sandipan led the capability development of Microsoft products that resulted in a multi-thousand strong team in IBM India. He is currently serving as the Architect Profession Leader of IBM's India & South Asia region.
In his day job, Sandipan is working as the Chief Architect of one of the major portfolios of IBM Global Government Center of Competence, providing Cloud and Smarter Government solutions to public agencies in growth and mature economies across the world. He spends his spare time in pursuing his research interests in the area of Literature, Computational Linguistics, Information Retrieval, E-Governance and Social Media. Sandipan teaches and speaks regularly in internal and external forums. He is a national record holder in the area of social community development around the philosophies and works of Noble Laureate Rabindranath Tagore. He is an amateur bird photographer.
|3.30 - 4.00
|Tea / Coffee
|Industry Verticals
|Banking, Finance & Insurance
|EA Professional Development
|Retail, Consumer Packaged Goods & Manufacturing
|4:00 - 4:40
|Driving Information Centric Organization Strategy and Culture through EA - A Case Study
Ram Kumar, Group CTO, Insurance Australia Group
AEA - Building a Professional Body for Enterprise ArchitectsSteve Nunn, CEO, Association of Enterprise Architects
AEA - Building a Professional Body for Enterprise Architects
Steve Nunn, CEO, Association of Enterprise Architects
Steve Nunn's role as CEO of the Association of Enterprise Architects (AEA), is focused on creating and developing the definitive professional association for enterprise architects around the globe. To achieve this, Steve is dedicated to advancing professional excellence amongst AEA's 20,000+ members, whilst raising the status of the profession as a whole.
In addition to his role of CEO of the AEA, Steve is the VP and COO of The Open Group. Steve's primary responsibility for The Open Group is to ensure the legal protection of its assets, particularly its intellectual property. This involves the development, maintenance and policing of the trademark portfolio of The Open Group, including the registered trade marks behind the Open Brand and, therefore, the various Open Group certification programs, including TOGAF®, Open CA, Open CITS, and UNIX® system certification. The licensing, protection and promotion of TOGAF also falls within his remit.
Steve is a lawyer by training and has an L.L.B. (Hons) in Law with French and retains a current legal practising certificate.
|Value of EA, Powered by TOGAF®, in Global Modernization Program
Shrikant Palkar, Enterprise Architect, Costco;
Vish Viswanathan, CC&C Solutions
|4:40 - 5:20
Application Integration Architecture: Standardization & Role of EA (Insurance)Hirok Choudhury, Enterprise Architect, Global Technology Officer, Cognizant Technology Solution
Application Integration Architecture: Standardization & Role of EA (Insurance)
Hirok Choudhury, Enterprise Architect, Global Technology Officer, Cognizant Technology Solution
This presentation relates to a general insurance company in India.The IT landscape has many redundant and inappropriate components and the primary reason found was the exponential business growth. Applications such as policy admin, claims, agent management system, online portal were individually supporting the business functions as desired. However, wherever integration was required among the applications, problems started to creep in resulting in delayed and undesired quality of project delivery. This led the senior management of IL to initiate an assessment of integration architecture in order to get a future state and road map defined. Integration was difficult because of the existing spaghetti mess created due to uncontrolled use of DBLink. As part of the assessment, Cognizant conducted multiple face-to-face sessions with various application owners to understand the current integration landscape and associated constraints. Based on their inputs, a list of observation was derived and used to identify gaps between the current state and the future reference middleware architecture. The consolidated gaps were plotted on a 3 year roadmap.
Key takeaways:
Hirok Jyoti Dutta-Choudhury has over 12 years of professional experience in IT, predominantly (10+ years) in the insurance industry. For last 6 years Hirok has been working in IT architecture and consulting services. He has worked in various roles and capacities starting from Technical Analyst, Designer, Solution Architect, presales solution consultant and IT Consultant within the insurance vertical. Hirok has insurance domain certification from The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII), UK. He is certified in Prince2 practitioner and in the IBM SOA foundation.
IBM's application of CITS & CA Certification programs for Client SuccessGautam Bhat, Lead Enterprise Architect, IBM India
IBM's application of CITS & CA Certification programs for Client Success
Gautam Bhat, Lead Enterprise Architect, IBM India
Gautam K Bhat is an IBM Certified Senior IT Specialist (Thought Leader) with IBM and The Open Group Distinguished IT Specialist. He has over 12 years of IT experience, and holds multiple roles such as Enterprise Architect and Global SME.
Getting EA Results Fast - A Retail Industry Case StudySuresh Done, President, SNA Technologies Inc
Getting EA Results Fast - A Retail Industry Case Study
Suresh Done, President, SNA Technologies Inc
Normally the perception on Enterprise Architecture is, it is long term and it takes long time to reap the benefits of EA.
Intended audience: CxOs, Enterprise/Solution Architects, Program/Project Managers
Key takeaways:
Suresh Done has more than 22 years of experience in IT and Engineering. Suresh is a TOGAF® 9 certified Enterprise Architect, consulting and training on Enterprise Architecture. He has worked in many industries including Automotive, Health, Telecom, Banking, Retail andGovernment sector. Since the inception of highly successful AEA Michigan Chapter, Suresh has been the Chairman and Co-Founder.
|5:20 - 6:00
Information Rich BankingVish Viswanathan, Managing Principal, CC&C Solutions
Information Rich Banking
Vish Viswanathan, Managing Principal, CC&C Solutions
As global banks are challenged by international market turbulences in the aftermath of GFC, information as an asset is becoming critical. Information needs in a modern bank go beyond the traditional transactional information all the way to mission-critical information for survival and success. Increased compliance is demanding accurate and timely information to meet statutory requirements.
Is Enterprise Information Architecture ready to meet these challenges? What is the relevance to Indian banking industry?
Vish Viswanathan is currently Managing Principal of CC&C Solutions, an organization in Asia/Pacific specializing in practical implementations of Enterprise Architecture based on a best-of-breed approach involving TOGAF® and other methodologies and tools. Recent assignments include Enterprise Architecture consultancy, specialized training and implementation assistance in the following sectors:
Vish has had over 25 years of experience in IT & Telecommunications in technical, marketing and strategy positions as senior executive with IBM, Fujitsu and AAPT (Telecommunications) across Asia Pacific having been located in New Delhi, Bangalore, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore. During his career, Vish has successfully managed several new technology startup initiatives in Australia, India, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Singapore. He is actively spearheading The Open Group activities through championing TOGAF® in Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN regions as the Regional Partner as well as in his capacity as the Vice Chair- Asia Pacific for The Open Group Architecture Forum.
Creating an Enterprise Architecture Ecosystem for your OrganizationSuresh Cherusseri, Chief Architect, Tata Consultancy Services
Creating an Enterprise Architecture Ecosystem for your Organization
Suresh Cherusseri, Chief Architect, Tata Consultancy Services
The relevance of Enterprise Architecture has increase manifold over the last few decades. In India the IT spending and the industry demand for the skills have seen a tremendous uptake over the last few years. The creation of an Architecture ecosystem to build capability and practice architecture principles is essential for every organization to meet the ever changing business needs and market demands. Leveraging available frameworks like TOGAF, Open CA certifications to build competency as well as leveraging professional organizations like AEA is essential for practitioners to provide right solutions meet the business demands. The session illustrates with an example creation of an Architecture ecosystem and career path leveraging The Open Group frame work to enable architect and deliver solutions better. The session will also discuss how the support system in India comprising of The Open Group, AEA,CSI have come together in India to support the Enterprise Architecture profession and practice over the last 3 years
Intended Audience: CIO,CTO, Business Leads, Practice Leads, Chief Architects, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects,Technical Architects,Program Leads
Key takeaways:
Suresh Cherusseri is the Chief Architect and Head of Solution Engineering Group at TCS. SEG as a group is a core engineering group that builds domain based products. He is himself a Distinguished IT Architect certified by The Open Group. He has more than 24 years of industry, research and innovation experience. In his current role as Head-SEG, Suresh has been single mindedly focusing on engineering world class products that are highly architecture centric and performance driven. He has a number of patents to his credit in this area. In his previous roles, Suresh has worked extensively in architecting complex business solutions and large transformation solutions. Suresh is very active in Open Group arena, is always looking to contribute to a best practice and absorb the best practices into the engineering group.
Interactive Architecture – Increasing Value from Architecture ArtifactsAtul Singh, Enterprise Business Architect, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble
Interactive Architecture – Increasing Value from Architecture Artifacts
Atul Singh, Enterprise Business Architect, Global Business Services, Procter & Gamble
Accessibility and usability were limiting the power of the information stored in P&G's Enterprise Architecture space.With a simple interface, graphically organized by the key business processes, combining all relevant information on a single click, and allowing user to drill all the way from processes to responsibilities and applications, people from across the enterprise had easy access to the library of architecture artifacts enabling increased visibility and reuse. With the increased availability, the value of the artifacts and in turn the value of architecture overall increased dramatically.
Hence the interactive Business Architecture Framework (iBAF) was born.
The iBAF has become the standard language that the organization uses to describe their work processes and the scope of their projects. Riding on the success wave, similar tools for other EA domains were developed such as the EASE (Enterprise Architecture Search Engine) and interactive Data Dictionary. These tools have become the standard for how Architecture artifacts and EA data is consumed interactively today in P&G.
|6:30 - 9:30
|AEA Mumbai Chapter Meeting
followed by dinner at the hotel
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
|7:45 - 8:45
|Registration & Networking
|8:45 - 9:30
Opening Address: The Open Group Focus in IndiaAllen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
Opening Address: The Open Group Focus in India
Allen Brown, President & CEO, The Open Group
|9:30 - 10:15
An Architecture for IT Literacy through Open Source Software and Spoken TutorialsDr. Kannan M Moudgalya, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
An Architecture for IT Literacy through Open Source Software and Spoken Tutorials
Dr. Kannan M Moudgalya, Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai
Bridging digital divide through Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and helping migration to Scilab from Matlab
A spoken tutorial (http://spoken-tutorial.org) is a ten minute screencast of a computer session with a running commentary. By careful creation and use, it is effectively deployed for self learning and in volunteer organised SELF workshops. By dubbing only the audio, people who are weak in English can be made IT literate, while retaining the employment potential. Through the funding from National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, spoken tutorials and the SELF workshops are available free of cost to everyone. In the last one year, we trained 100,000 students. Through colleges, schools, cyber cafes and Aakash, we can empower everyone.
Dr. Kannan M. Moudgalya is a professor of Chemical Engineering, Systems and Control, and Education Technology at IIT Bombay. He has been with IIT Bombay for 25 years. He was a visiting professor at the University of Alberta. He received chemical and electrical engineering degrees from IIT Madras and Rice University.
Prof. Moudgalya has written two textbooks: (1) Digital Control, published by John Wiley & Sons, Chichester and (2) Optimization: theory and practice, jointly with Prof. M. C. Joshi, published by Narosa, New Delhi. He has published a large number of papers in refereed international journals and conferences in the areas of mathematical modelling, control and simulation.
Prof. Kannan is now devoting his time on spreading education on a massive scale, without quality dilution. He has been focusing on spoken tutorials, open source software systems, virtual labs and the low cost tablet, Aakash. He has held the posts of Associate Dean (R&D), Head of Oce Automation and Head of the Centre for Distance Engineering Education Programme, at IIT Bombay. He is a Member of the Standing Committee of the National Mission on Education through ICT, MHRD, Government of India.
|10:15 - 11:00
Certification and Professionalism - The Open Group PerspectiveJames de Raeve, General Manager India and VP Certification, The Open Group
Certification and Professionalism - The Open Group Perspective
James de Raeve, General Manager India and VP Certification, The Open Group
The Open Group's TOGAF® and ArchiMate® knowledge based certification programs, their current status and uptake.
James de Raeve is the Vice President, Certification, overseeing all certification and testing programs of The Open Group, including the popular TOGAF certification and the new IT Architect Certification Program. Since joining the company in 1989, James has been closely involved with all of the certification and testing activities of The Open Group and its predecessor X/Open, as well as the programs developed for other consortia. Before joining The Open Group, James worked in business development and technical roles in protocol testing and telecommunications. He holds an MSc in Digital Systems and a BSc in Physics.
|11:00 - 11:30
|Tea / Coffee
|11:30 - 12:15
|Raghavan Muralidharan, CTO, Tata Power SED
|12:15 - 1:00
Application Architecture Evolution for Social BankingDr. Radha Krishna Pisipati, Principal Research Scientist, Infosys
Application Architecture Evolution for Social Banking
Dr. Radha Krishna Pisipati, Principal Research Scientist, Infosys
The rise of digital inclusion and abundance of social network and media have made tremendous impact on today's banking. By analyzing the customers' conversations, timely feedback and opinions, a large number of social and business insights can be derived for customer relationship management (Social CRM). On the other hand, application requirements evolve over a period of time due to complexities involved in adoption of new business processes and advanced technologies such as Big Data and Social Networking. These trends have significant implications on application architectures, thereby necessitating additional capabilities in terms of modeling, supporting evolving requirements and discovering actionable insights. This talk aims at recent studies on architectures that support evolving applications with a focus towards Social Banking Technology.
Dr. P Radha Krishna has been in the profession of research, development and technology adoption for about two decades. He is currently working as a Principal Research Scientist at Infosys Labs, Infosys Limited, Hyderabad, where he is associated with innovation and research projects leading to futuristic information management and analytical solutions.
Dr. Krishna conceptualized numerous research projects in the areas of CRM, social network analytics, soft data analysis, predictive analytics and in-cloud analytics, and associated in building innovation labs for leading industries. He also delivered tutorials along with Prof. Kamal Karlapalem, IIIT-Hyderabad and Prof. Krishnamurthy Vidasankar, St-John's University, Canada, at international conferences ER 2007, ICWS 2007, WWW 2008, CAiSE 2010 and IEEE Services 2010.
Prior to joining Infosys, Dr. Krishna served as a faculty at the Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT - a research arm of the Reserve Bank of India & an associate Institute of University of Hyderabad, and as a scientist at National Informatics Centre (Govt. of India), Bhopal.
Krishna has double PhDs – one from Osmania University and another from IIIT Hyderabad. His research interests include databases, data mining, data warehousing and electronic contracts and services.
|1:00 - 2:00
|General Session
|2:00 - 2:45
Financial Inclusion Driven by Inter-operable Cloud ArchitectureSatya Mishra, CEO, cEdge India
Financial Inclusion Driven by Inter-operable Cloud Architecture
Satya Mishra, CEO, cEdge India
The objective of Financial Inclusion (FI) is to extend financial services to the large hitherto un-served population of the country to unlock its growth potential. In addition, it strives towards a more inclusive growth by making financing available to the poor in particular.
Recognizing that technology has the potential to address the issues of outreach and credit delivery in rural and remote areas in a viable manner, banks have been advised to make effective use of information and communications technology (ICT), to provide doorstep banking services through the Business Correspondent (BC) model where financial transactions can be carried out by illiterate customers assisted by a BC and using biometrics as an additional authenticator, thus ensuring the security of transactions and enhancing confidence in the banking system.
TCS has been working with leading commercial banks in the implementing the technology backbone for FI. TCS solution is based on open architecture which can offer multiple financial services, across channels (mobile, PoS, kiosk, etc.) to banks and the partner agencies. In addition a part of the solution is available from a cloud infrastructure providing unique benefits of cost and time to implement. For its ability to scale, robustness and inter-operablity, TCS FI solution has been reconginzed as the leader in this segment.
Satya Mishra has 20 years of industry experience having joined TCS in 1993. In TCS, he holds the role of Head of Business Solutions, India. In his current role, he is focusing on bringing new business solutions and services to Indian companies in different industries leveraging on technologies such as cloud and mobility. Prior to his current role, Satya was the CEO of C Edge Technologies, a joint venture between TCS and SBI, which provides core banking solution on a cloud to small and medium sized banks in India. In his different roles Satya has been instrumental in establishing new operating models for Indian companies using technology as key enabler, thereby positioning TCS as a strategic partner.
|2:45 - 3:30
Business Transformation and Enterprise ArchitectureJason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS
Business Transformation and Enterprise Architecture
Jason Uppal, Chief Architect, QRS
To remain competitive in today's economy, organizations need two broad capabilities:
Most organizations have the right structure and resources to support the first capability but many often lack the fundamental building blocks to deliver change. This is evidenced by the number of ICT or transformation centric investments that fail to deliver expected returns. How can you be certain that your organization has the capability to identify opportunities and pounce on them quickly?
This presentation will outline:
Jason Uppal, P.Eng. was the first Master IT Architect certified by The Open Group, by direct review, in October 2005. At that point, Jason had been chief architect of QR Systems Inc (www.quickresponse.ca) for six years and had been providing senior Enterprise Architecture services. He holds an undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering, graduate degree in Economics and a post graduate diploma in Computer Science.
Jason's commitment to Enterprise Architecture Life Cycle (EALC) has led him to focus on training (TOGAF), education (UOIT) and mentoring services to his clients as well as being the responsible individual for both Architecture and Portfolio & Project Management for a number of major projects.
Jason has found that education is only beneficial to those companies who can industrialize the EALC process – staff must be able to implement what they have learned. To that end, he lead a team of java software developers to develop an end to end industrialization product which encapsulates Enterprise Architecture, Portfolio and Project Management, Project Management and IT Services Management processes. Implementing this software product, ITO, (www.itoProcesses.com.) permits companies to take full advantage of TOGAF and any other custom processes which might already be in place within their organization.
|3:30 - 4:00
|Tea / Coffee
|Industry Verticals
|Track 1 - Cloud Computing
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|Track 3 -
|4:00 - 4:40
Practical Case Study - Architecting eLearning Solution on CloudBala Prasad Peddigari, HiTech Innovative Solutions Lead, Tata Consultancy Services
Practical Case Study - Architecting eLearning Solution on Cloud
Bala Prasad Peddigari, HiTech Innovative Solutions Lead, Tata Consultancy Services
Learning is a continuous process and there are various mediums and channels to expand knowledge breadth and depth. Keeping the wide spectrum of channels - it is important to construct a platform to interconnect this sources to drive through an holistic solution where eLearning can be made possible to deliver learning over cloud for Students across the universities. This practical case study explores the procedural way of architecting the overall SaaS based eLearning solution on cloud describing
Bala Prasad Peddigari (Bala) is an Enterprise Architect and Business Value Consultant with Tata Consultancy Services Limited. Bala specializes in Enterprise Architecture, IT Strategies, Business Value consulting, Cloud based technology solutions and Scalable architectures. Bala has been instrumental in delivering IT Solutions for Finance, Insurance, Telecom and HiTech verticals. Bala currently heads the HiTech Innovative Solutions Technology Excellence Group with a focus on Cloud, Microsoft, Social Computing, Java and Open source technologies. He received accolades in Microsoft Tech Ed for his cloud architectural strengths and Won the Microsoft ALM Challenge. Bala published his papers in IEEE and regular speaker in Open Group conference and Microsoft events. Bala serves on the Open CA Certification board for The Open Group.
Certifications: Open Group Master Certified IT Architect, TOGAF Certified, MCTS - Windows Communication Foundation, SharePoint, Microsoft Delivering Business Value Planning Services
IT Organization Models - Preparing for Disruptive TechnologiesPrasanna Anantharamaiah, Business Value Consultant, Hewlett Packard India
IT Organization Models - Preparing for Disruptive Technologies
Prasanna Anantharamaiah, Business Value Consultant, Hewlett Packard India
The benefits from disruptive technologies are hard to ignore. It excites both the Business team and also the IT team. These technologies bring change across one or more of People, Process, Technology, Partners and on Information. Secondly, the speed at which some of these technologies are being adopted by large organizations. A successful IT transformation to embrace these new technologies can only happen by understanding and managing the impact on the organization. This session discusses the impact of Cloud, Mobility and Big-Data have on the organization and explores how IT organizational models are being evolved to accept, adopt and maximize benefits from these disruptive technologies.
Prasanna Anantharamaiah is a Business Value consultant and IT Strategist with Hewlett Packard. He specializes in IT Strategy and Architecture, Business and Operational Process consulting, IT Service Management and Management of Organizational Change. Prasanna has worked extensively on IT solutions for large telecom service providers, enterprises in FSI vertical and Data center automation solutions. His research interests include IT organizational model for hybrid cloud environment and Next generation networks. Prasanna serves on the OpenCA certification board for The Open Group. He has five patents to his credit.
EA is Critical to Large Transformation ProgramsSuyog Shah, Lead Enterprise Architect, Deloitte & Touche Consulting India
EA is Critical to Large Transformation Programs
Suyog Shah, Lead Enterprise Architect, Deloitte & Touche Consulting India
Business transformation is increasingly a key driver for many organizations in today's competitive environment where the focus is either on cost reduction by means of improving operational efficiency or on increasing the market share through innovation and other means of growth. Information Technology (IT) is looked upon as one of the key enablers for business innovation and competitive differentiation. As a result, many organizations identify a number of IT initiatives that enable business transformation and alignment of IT to business objectives and drivers. Such initiatives are often undertaken as part of large, multi-year business
This presentation highlights the need for enterprise architecture definition in large transformation programs, key considerations for defining the enterprise architecture, key challenges involved, and concludes with the benefits enterprise architecture brings to various stakeholders involved in transformation programs
Intended audience:
CxO level executives, Business & IT leaders involved in transformation, Enterprise Architects, Program and Change Managers.
Key takeaways:
Investing in enterprise architecture as part of a large transformation program helps address challenges faced during the transformation, and ensures alignment of implementation projects to the overall business and IT strategy of the organization. Enterprise architecture acts as a bridge between strategy and implementation by providing the necessary principles and
Suyog Shah has extensive experience in managing and delivering technology advisory related consulting engagements for industry leading corporations across the globe. Suyog has lead and delivered multiple management consulting engagements on technology strategy, enterprise architecture and IT enabled business transformation.
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Moving Businesses into the Cloud -- A Look at Application Migration to Cloud ComputingJoydipto Banerjee, Technical Solution Architect, IBM and Open Group Master Certified IT Specialist
Moving Businesses into the Cloud -- A Look at Application Migration to Cloud Computing
Joydipto Banerjee, Technical Solution Architect, IBM and Open Group Master Certified IT Specialist
Cloud Computing is the industry buzz and its benefits well established. However, have we thought of how to migrate an organization's workloads to cloud, without renovating or re-engineering applications? Should we discard all these existing assets and build new applications or should again spawn a transformation project spending considerably in this tight economic condition?
Joydipto Banerjee is a Technical Solution Architect for IBM Migration Factory and likes to read and work with new technologies. Joydipto is an IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist (Master Certified IT Specialist from The Open Group) and has written number of technical articles, mostly on cloud computing. He is an IBM Cloud Computing Ambassador and participates in IBM University Relation programs for various schools and colleges. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Silchar, India.
Integration of Information Technology and Operational TechnologyDr Sundeep Oberoi, Head of Niche Technologies, TCS
Integration of Information Technology and Operational Technology
Dr Sundeep Oberoi, Head of Niche Technologies, TCS
While traditionally OT has been specialized hardware and software (Process control, SCADA, Industrial Automation etc.), there is a rapidly evolving trend of replacing this specialized hardware by commodity computing platforms (like those typically used in IT), and vastly more complex software. Moreover proprietary communication protocols are increasingly being replaced by the same standardized protocols used for communication in standard IT systems and indeed the Internet. This large-scale deployment of Operational Technology, communicating over the Internet has often been referred to as "The Internet of Things".
Dr. Sundeep Oberoi has more than 26 years of industry, research and entrepreneual experience in diverse areas of Information and Communication Technology. He has a wide spectrum of experience in Delivery Management of large and critical programmes, technology development, product development, business development, system integration and management of research laboratories. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from I.I.T Bombay, an M.Tech in Computer Science from I.I.T. Delhi and a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from I.I.T. Kanpur.
Dr. Oberoi heads the Niche Technology Delivery Group which is a part of the Technology Excellence Group in TCS. The role of the group is to provide delivery in specialized technology like security, RFID sensors and NFC, Web 2.0 technologies, User experience, Collaboration and Unified Communication, Cloud Computing and Next Generation Networks. The group also runs operations of TCS Certifying Authority which is the largest licensed Certifying Authority in India. The group is responsible for supporting and evolving some of TCS flagship enterprise solutions (Dhruvam®, FormSigner®, Fortiora™, SSF) in the security area, which are widely deployed in Banking, Finance, Insurance, Government and Telecom sectors.
Prior to this Dr. Oberoi has been in a variety of roles including heading the security consulting practice within the TCS Global Consulting Group, heading the Systems Integration and Security Group and heading the language processing group in another Tata group company.
Dr. Oberoi is the author of two books and several conference and journal publications, and holds the CISSP credential.
Business Architecture and Operating Models - Key to Business Transformation in the Digital AgeAmeya Vanjari, Global Head of Delivery - Architecture Consulting in TCS
Business Architecture and Operating Models - Key to Business Transformation in the Digital Age
Ameya Vanjari, Global Head of Delivery - Architecture Consulting in TCS
Ameya Vanjari is a practicing Enterprise Architect and Global Head of Delivery - Architecture Consulting in TCS. In this role, Ameya is responsible for delivery of consulting engagements, providing sales support for opportunities, demonstrating thought leadership and maturity of the practice. As an architect, Ameya advised global businesses on IT Strategy, Enterprise Architecture and IT Roadmaps. Ameya has keen interest in retail, financial services industry and business innovation driven by IT. Has global exposure by virtue of traveling and working with customers in over 15 countries.
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| Platform as a Service - Cloud Offering for Telecom Service Providers
Srinivasan Varadanarayanan, Head of Non Linear Initiatives, Telecom, TCS;
Ramachandran Selvarajan, Enterprise Architect, Hosted OSS/BSS Platform, TCS
Policy Based SOA Governance in EA TransformationAnirban Chakrabarti, Senior Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Policy Based SOA Governance in EA Transformation
Anirban Chakrabarti, Senior Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions
Architecture governance is an important aspect in Enterprise Architecture transformation. A large number of organizations are moving from application oriented architecture to service oriented architecture. Many organizations are going to expose their services as API in near future. In this context, governance of services are very important for both design-time and run-time service enabled environments to comply with various strategies adopted by organizations. A suite of policies and processes are developed in platform independent manner to govern a service oriented environment, and its transformation to a complaint environment. Case studies will be presented for successful implementation in Banking and Media publishing industry vertical.
Anirban Chakrabarti is an Enterprise Architect working in rchitecture transformation programs for various CTS customers. For the past 5 years, Anirban has been working on architecture governance. He has created a service offering for design-time and run-time policy based SOA governance, unique in the industry.
National Skill Development – An Enterprise Architecture PerspectiveHarish Iyer, Lead Architect, Special Initiatives, TCS
National Skill Development – An Enterprise Architecture Perspective
Harish Iyer, Lead Architect, Special Initiatives, TCS
Skill development is a key imperative for India to successfully leverage and capitalize on the demographic dividend that it will enjoy in the next few years. But vocational skill development is at a stage of infancy and fraught with challenges and issues. The government has set up a council to develop a strategy at the national level and develop an action plan for skill development to maximize job generation within the country and create human resources for global needs.
Intended Audience: Chief Architects, Enterprise Architects, Solution Architects, Technical Architects, Program Leads,
Harish Iyer has an overall experience of about 18 years in the IT industry and has played a diverse set of roles in this duration. Harish, while currently managing a customer relationship for a large financial services organization, is also working with the Office of the Advisor to the Prime Minister on Skill Development. In this role, he is primarily looking at leveraging IT to enable the vocational education and employment in the country.
Prior to this, Harish was heading the Solution Engineering Group at TCS and was instrumental in setting up this group for developing business solutions within TCS. Harish has been certified as a Distinguished Chief IT Architect by The Open Group and is also a certified TOGAF® architect. Harish has played key architecting roles across various large enterprise engagements across multiple industry domains and has been instrumental in creating key reusable frameworks in the java and integration space.
Harish Iyer is well regarded as a mentor in the architecture and technology space within the organization. His key aspiration is to bring a manufacturing rigour and automation to the area of software development.


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Passive terror: a multi-billion dollar business
According to the dictionaries and thesauruses, "terror" is synonymous with extreme fear, dread, horror, fright, alarm and panic.
Modern use of the word "terrorism" refers to the use of violence and intimidation to cause terror for the pursuit of political aims.
"Terrorists" are people who use terrorism to allegedly pursue their political objectives.
If terrorism instills fear, horror, anxiety and fright, I believe there are well-developed passive techniques that were created for goals other than political gain. Every day we see passive terrorism used domestically as an instrument of profitability to generate billions of dollars in revenue.
The biggest perpetrators of domestic terrorism do not go to work carrying automatic weapons while they dress in combat garb. They drive to their plush offices in exotic cars and dress in expensive, tailor-made suits.
Disguised as advertising and media executives, domestic terrorists and their associates instill more fear than all of the professional terrorists combined do. And they never fire a shot or carry a weapon. Their methods are passive and legal.
Think about it. When was the last time you saw a television commercial for a pharmaceutical product that didn't make you feel anxious or concerned about your health?
How many times a day do you hear and see advertising that sounds something like this:
"If you are overweight, suffer from insomnia, mood swings, blurred vision, and/or occasional dizziness, you could be suffering from a serious illness called blahblah blah. See your physician and ask him to recommend Curitall and you'll be able to play with your grandkids without fear of having to run to the bathroom every five minutes." Sound familiar? I'm sure it does.
Pharmaceutical companies and manufacturers of health related products purchase the majority of television advertising time. Their commercials are designed to make you fear diseases and conditions that you may or may not have. That category of advertising is closely followed by insurance, fast food and beer.
The first two categories are created to cure you from the last two, which are designed to kill you. The insurance is used to protect you from anything that might happen if you are victimized by all four.
Before the age of mass communication, news traveled slowly at best. People living in rural areas where newspapers were all but nonexistent, didn't hear about wars, disasters or elections for months, and sometimes years. Ignorance was bliss.
Today, professional terrorists depend on the media to tell the world of their dastardly deeds so they can effectively strike fear in the hearts of possible victims. Without help from the media, terrorists would be out of business.
We can also thank advertising and public relations agencies for glorifying drugs, alcohol use and irresponsible partying by celebrities. If these overnight millionaires leading the good life partake in those indulgences, what kid is not going to be curious about why they do that?
Exploring concepts and ideas, and satisfying curiosity is what kids do. It's their job. Life is a learning experience. If advertising and media moguls peddle stories of these activities to the masses, then kids will want to know more about it.
By using celebrity lifestyles as models, these companies guide youth to believe that the images celebrities portray should be emulated. Young people create their personal images to mirror that of their favorite movie stars, recording artists and athletes. All celebrities are certainly not bad, but the ones that get the most publicity are usually the most controversial.
The passive terror mongers have even spawned an industry that is experiencing tremendous growth. Curing anxiety, depression, drug addiction, alcoholism, and phobias is big business. Therapists, counselors, social workers, and self-proclaimed life coaches are at the high end of the pay scale.
Drug and alcohol related clinics can cost more than $30,000 a month, and often require several revisits. According to the experts, all of these maladies stem from some kind of fear. People who are terrified by one or more aspects of their life want treatment.
How can we not be terrified when everything we hear, see or read every day is rife with rumors and threats that result in doom and gloom?
As long as we're fighting terrorism, we might consider eliminating the passive terrorism generated by the real fear mongers. They make considerable profit and live very well by telling us we should be afraid of living in a system we can't understand.


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The idea of children working was not new: children always worked on farms or with their parents as they grew up. But with the industrial revolution of the early 19th century, factory owners found that children with their small size and nimble hands could perform many tasks better than adults. Although this was accepted at first, through the 1800s a reaction slowly built against child labor. By 1899 twenty-eight states had set a minimum age limit of twelve for manufacturing work, and a concerted reform campaign to ban all child labor under the age of sixteen began around 1900. Reformers argued that making children work during their most important formative years would cause deep harm, and that white children in particular were vulnerable. Child labor could lead to "race deterioration," as this pamphlet argues on its back cover. The National Child Labor Committee was one of the most effective reform organizations, utilizing poignant photographs on their informational materials.
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At the first Board of Education meeting since the Island Park School District began the new school year, Superintendent Dr. Rosmarie Bovino presented two teachers and a support-staff member with awards for their exemplary performance.
The 20th annual SOAR awards were given to teachers Christine Chu and Kathy Garfield, as well as Jamie Varrichio, receptionist and clerk-typist. These award recipients meet a wide range of criteria, including a display of innovation, support beyond the classroom and participation in volunteer activities and professional development.
According to Bovino, Chu began working in the Island Park School District as a computer teacher at Lincoln Orens Middle School in 2002. Among her many duties, Chu manages two computer labs, facilitates the technology needed for events and programs and organizes an annual trip to the New York Hall of Science.
"Most notable among Mrs. Chu's accomplishments as a teacher is the Cornell University/National Science Foundation Science Fair's Virtual World's program that she brought to Island Park," Bovino explained. "Through this program, Mrs. Chu teaches complicated concepts and computer programming effectively."
Chu has had an instrumental role in the implementation of the new iPad program in the middle school, Bovino said, and she has taught courses to her colleagues on the use of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SMARTBoard and Go Green.
"Mrs. Chu's commitment to showcasing the District and its programs is unparalleled," Bovino said. "She always has budgetary requests a mile long. It is sometimes a challenge to harness her enthusiasm, despite reductions in revenue."
Garfield, who has been in the district since 1985, is a special education teacher and has worked in both the middle school and Francis X. Hegarty Elementary School. In addition to teaching for special-needs students, Garfield has served as proctor for New York State Assesments and has been a summer support teacher, a member a number of committees, including the Special Education Committee of the PTA.
"Mrs. Garfield is described in numerous classroom observations as having a warm, patient and caring manner with all her students," Bovino said. "She makes it a priority to keep everyone informed and works to find solutions to situations before they become problems."
While working in the district, Garfield earned her Master's degree from Adelphi University and received her permanent certification in special education, and she has received many commendations on her performance in the classroom.
"She is respectful of the different ability levels and cultures of her students," Bovino continued. "In addition, Mrs. Garfield is consistently outstanding as a communicator with parents and administrators."
Varrichio began working in the district in 1986 as a monitor at the main entrance of the middle school, until, in 1993, she began working in the Business Office, where her main duties are to greet and direct visitors and to manage the main telephone switchboard. This year, Varrichio has had to take charge of the implementation of the district's new fiber optic phone system, transferring old numbers and assisting with the creation of automated messages.
Bovino said that Varrichio is also a talented proofreader and is recognized and loved by many of the families in the district.
"Finally," Bovino added, "I would be remiss if I did not mention how grateful I am to Mrs. Varrichio for her calm and caring manner and her level of commitment to the children and parents of Island Park that goes far beyond what is expected of her. Mrs. Varrichio is a counselor, detective, confidante and real-time GPS navigator, par excellence."


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US stocks open lower as more earnings roll in
July 21, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are opening lower as more U.S. companies turn in their quarterly results and as investors worry about tensions with Russia over the downed airliner in Ukraine.
Hasbro fell 2 percent in early trading Monday after the toy maker reported second-quarter earnings and revenue that fell short of analysts' targets.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell five points, or 0.2 percent, to 1,972.
The Dow Jones industrial average lost 56 points, or 0.4 percent, to 17,036. The Nasdaq composite slid four points, or 0.1 percent, to 4,426.
European markets also fell. Germany's DAX sank 1.1 percent and France's CAC-40 lost 0.7 percent.
Bond prices rose. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 2.47 percent.


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Honey is such a miracle product. I love to purchase raw honey from local farmers, using it to sweeten the kids' oatmeal, to soothe sore throats and coughs, to dab on tiny boo-boos, to drizzle on homemade biscuits slathered with butter, and to make granola. Such a simple, pure, amazing product.
Studying bees during The Boy Wonder's science lessons only added to the honey idolatry around these parts. It's just good, good stuff. And honeybees are perfectly amazing creatures.
Honey has antibacterial and antimicrobial properties, and because local flowers are used by the honeybees, it is thought (but unproven) that the consumption of local honey can help with allergies. The fact that it tastes like heaven doesn't hurt.
Last summer, Crunchy Betty wrote a detailed series of posts on using honey as a face wash, and I was stunned by the idea. I had never even heard of it, and here she was suggesting that honey was good for acne, for aging skin, for dry skin or oily skin, for sensitive skin and for normal skin, and it was healing to boot, and would even help heal acne scars.
See, I have bad skin. For many, many years I fought a losing battle with cystic acne that cost absurd amounts of money, wreaked havoc on my self-esteem, and resulted in scars over most of my face. It has only been in the past seven years that I have found a cocktail of cleansers and creams that do not aggravate my skin, but I have long been uncomfortable with the amount of chemicals in these products. And it has occurred to me more than once that all these drying products would possibly exacerbate the onset of wrinkles as I age.
There is no end to the injustice.
I do not care to speak about this usually, for even as the intervening years have softened the blow of that decade in which I wore heavy makeup to cover my blemishes, I get a little nervous still about the thought of changing my cleansing routine and possibly causing problems to resurface.
But this honey face wash had my interest piqued. So I went for it. And I haven't looked back in months now.
Using raw honey is important (Crunchy Betty explains the reasons here), and I have easy access in my area to local, raw honey, but you can find raw, truly unheated honey at most health food stores as well. I have also used regular old store-bought honey in a pinch, and found it worked just fine.
I follow Crunchy Betty's routine almost completely. In the mornings, when there is no makeup to be removed, I simply wet my face with warm water, rub about 1/2 tsp of honey onto my face, and then rinse off. I follow that with a tinted moisturizer that contains sunscreen, and some loose powder, and I'm good to go. No need for toners or acne creams or anything else. {Well, there is usually mascara and eyeliner involved, but that has more to do with vanity than with skin, so we'll skip the boring parts about how I do my eye makeup}.
At night, to make sure I have completely removed my makeup, I again follow one of Crunchy Betty's routines: I wet my face, squeeze about 1/2 tsp of honey into my palm, and then add about 1/2 tsp of baking soda to the honey, mixing it up with my finger. I apply the scrub to my face, and rinse with warm water. Following that, to rebalance the pH of my skin - because the baking soda will alter the balance somewhat - I use a homemade toner comprised of 50% water and 50% apple cider vinegar. I then apply a little bit of tea tree oil and jojoba oil to my face for moisturizing and blemish-preventing protection.
I've followed this cleansing routine for the past six months now, and I cannot help but think it's a whole lot of fabulousness. Facial cleanser is one more item crossed off the shopping list, and yet another notch that can be added to the belt of consumer anarchy.
Gah. That might be my worst metaphor yet.


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Leah Douglas from thebuggspot.blogspot.com here. St. Valentine's Day is soon arriving and I've whipped out a little table runner in anticipation of the Saint's Day celebrating the man who performed marriage ceremonies for Roman soldiers who had been denied the luxury by the Emperor Claudius II. There's your history lesson for the day.
1 jelly roll (Posy)
1 jelly roll will make 16 blocks (approx. 2 1/2 strips per block) but you probably don't want to use
any strips that are similar in color to your background fabric, so more like 12 blocks total
white background (cluck daisy white)
1 1/2 strips (at 2 1/2″ wide) per block
These are instructions for making ONE love knot block. I chose to make three total and turn them into a table runner, because that's what I happened to need at the time. You should be able to make 12 blocks easily out of one jelly roll and turn them into a 3 x 4 block quilt if you would like. Each block finishes at 11″ square.
Cutting the Love Knot Block:
Start by choosing 5 strips from your jelly roll. Trim them from 2 1/2″ wide down to 1 1/2″ wide. If you have a honey bun instead of a jelly roll, that will be perfect without any trimming.
Start by sewing these pieces together and then iron (ironing will be assumed from now on):
One Love Knot Block measures 11″ square, finished
1 jelly roll yields 12+ blocks
My table runner measures 15″ x 45″
Leah Douglas
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There are billions and billions of people in the world. Every human being is significant; there here for a purpose. Ethnicity, gender, religion, economics, country of nativity has a lot to do with how our social skills are formed and developed.
We live in a technological society where social media is the leading form of communication. What's really interesting is the fact that you do not have to be in the same room while communicating, but, you can make the visit as live as possible through cameras, video's and etc.
Communication is very important to convey one's message or receive ones message. Your ability to communicate effectively I believe has a lot to do with your personality. An introvert personality seems to be a person who is shy, timid, reclusive, withdrawn and quiet. The Webster dictionary describes introvert as being turned inward upon oneself. An extrovert personality seems to be sociable, outgoing, friendly and talkative. When it comes to communicating which is better?
I personally believe if you plan to stay with the one you love which of course is yourself and never venture outside of unfamiliar territory than introvert is the personality that you probably have. You probably love technology and can't live without it. That way you can spend more time with yourself excluding social media's that require constant communication and just posting what's going on in your life without any real concerns for others. You are in your comfort zone.
On the other hand, if you love yourself and people you probably would be an exciting person to be around, lively talkative conversations with laughter and excitement. You probably would be a little more assertive especially when correcting and getting your point across. Some people may even think you are a little more aggressive because they are too afraid to speak their mind and therefore keep everything bottle up on the inside, still thinking the same exact thoughts, just too reclusive to speak.
I like to believe whether you hold it in or speak the actions of each individual is what tells the real story of a person. Illustrating who you really are is what makes a person true and real. If you are communicating out of your mouth one thing but thinking something entirely different then you are not being true to yourself and therefore probably are not true to others or an effective communicator.
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Experience the Benefield House, your Jefferson, Texas Bed and Breakfast
The Benefield House Bed and Breakfast is located in historic Jefferson, Texas and is a Queen Anne Victorian painted lady. The house was built in circa 1895 and is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, but has the amenities of today. Our Jefferson, Texas bed and breakfast is ideally suited for a weekend getaway or a romantic interlude. It a perfect place to host an intimate wedding, vow renewal or any special event. Our Inns three guest rooms are luxuriously, yet comfortably appointed with all Kings size beds each with private baths with both tubs and showers in room Coffee stations, bathrobes and more. Guests may also enjoy the comforts of our two parlors and all day refreshment bar. There are spacious, well manicured grounds for strolling or just sit on the porch and enjoy the calm and peaceful sounds of nature.
The picturesque town of Jefferson, in northeast Texas, features attractive old Southern homes, as well as Victorian style homes, cozy antique and gift shops, museums, and many fine restaurants and Bistro's. There are boat tours in town or on the Big Cypress Bayou and Caddo Lake, Historic horse and carriage rides, steam train rides, and tours of historic homes. Enjoy nature trails, hiking, a local winery, beaches, and other recreational areas in nearby Caddo Lake National Park. See the Historic Turning Basin and riverfront walk. The Benefield House Bed & Breakfast is located in walking distance to the town center.
Jefferson, Texas is known for its Southern hospitality and innkeepers Donna and Frank hold true to that tradition at the Benefield House Bed & Breakfast. It is their pleasure to make your stay as relaxing and as memorable as it can possibly be. They will gladly assist you in planning your special getaway, celebration or event at their Jefferson, Texas bed and breakfast.


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Updated 12/6: While the 1.2 update fixed the long-term play issues for most PS3 users, we are aware that is not the case for some. We've been reaching out to a number of those users to collect save games, so we can take a look at their specific issues. Right now we know it's not one thing, but a combination of smaller ones that some folks are seeing, but others are not. Some seem to be the PS3 autosaving in the background (you can turn that off), some may be SPU AI updates, and some may relate to dynamic system memory allocation. These fixes are not in the current 1.3 update that is in final testing, but will be in future ones. We understand how frustrating it can be when your game is having issues, and we thank all of you for your continued feedback and patience. Rest assured we take your gameplay experience seriously and will continue working on this until it's resolved.
Original Post: As of today, it's been three weeks since we released Skyrim worldwide. We're simply blown away by the response, from new and old fans, and amazed by the sheer number of people playing the game. It's been absolutely fantastic hearing your stories, seeing early mods, and watching fan videos (more live music ones please, we love those).
We want to thank everyone reading this for playing our game and supporting all it tries to do. We wouldn't have this success without you, and we want you to know we're committed to making your Skyrim experience even better. And not just in the short term, but over the life of the game. Here's a quick peek at what we're working on right now:
Creation Kit — Beginning in January, PC players will be able to download for free the same development tools we used at Bethesda Game Studios to create Skyrim. In tandem with the Creation Kit's release, we will roll out a new Wiki and videos to help you get started. It also features something we think you're going to love…
Steam Workshop — We're excited to share news that we've been working closely with Valve to integrate Steam Workshop into the Creation Kit. Using the Workshop, you'll have free user content with the push of a button. The Creation Kit will bundle your mod and upload it to the Workshop, where everyone can browse, rate, and flag mods for download. You'll be able to do this from any web device, including your smartphone. Like a live Netflix queue, when you fire up Skyrim, mods you flagged will be automatically downloaded and installed. Everyone here is really excited about the opportunities and possibilities this opens up for our entire community.
Prefer to use existing modding sites? Not a problem. You'll still be able to upload/share/access Skyrim mods on fan-created mod sites.
Continued Game Updates — This week we released update 1.2 across all platforms, and we'll be releasing an incremental update next week. We anticipate it will be up on PC first, and then hit PS3 and Xbox 360 later in the week. Among other things, the update will fix issues like magic resistance not calculating properly and the rare, amazing backwards flying dragon. Once the update is released, we'll share the full release notes.
After the holidays, we'll continue to release regular updates for the game — through full title updates, as well as incremental "gameplay updates" to fix whatever issues come up along with rebalancing portions of the game for difficulty or exploits. We plan on having a lot of these, not just a few. Overall, you should expect updates to be hitting the PC and Steam earlier and more often, as that's a process we control. Console updates will follow, as they must be certified and processed by those manufacturers.
We all know this is a huge game, and everyone has a different experience. We'll continue to do everything we can to make the game better and better for as many people as possible every day. We've also realized that with the millions upon millions of people playing Skyrim, we need to treat our updates with greater care. If we get too aggressive trying to fix a minor issue, we run a risk of breaking something larger in a game like this. To be safe, we are prioritizing code side fixes right now over data fixes. Quest and balance issues are usually data, and those will start rolling in a large way with the January updates.
Thanks again for your continued support and patience. We truly have the best fans in the world, and we couldn't do it without you.


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Occupy and the Global Movement
Activists from Occupy, 15M and The PIIGS talk about Agora 99 and The European Social Forum at the Friern Barnet People's Library.
In the past month events around Europe have helped strengthen the ties with other movements around the world and in particular in the rest of Europe. As a result two convergences occurred in early November: Agora99 in Madrid and The European Social Forum in Florence.
People from Occupy, 15M, and The PIIGS who participated in these events will be giving a presentation on them, describing the outcomes and laying out the important dates that people around the world are mobilising for in the next months.
This will not only be an opportunity to find out what's happening and ask questions, but also to discuss what place Occupy in London can take within the global movement.
See all of you there!
Friern Barnet Library
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text: In the twentieth century, many problems across all of physics were solved by perturbative methods which reduced them to harmonic oscillators. Black holes are poised to play a similar role for the problems of twenty-first century physics. They are at once the simplest and most complex objects in the physical universe. They are maximally complex in that the number of possible microstates, or entropy, of a black hole is believed to saturate a universal bound. They are maximally simple in that, according to Einstein's theory, they are featureless holes in space characterized only by their mass, charge and angular momentum. This dual relation between simplicity and complexity, as expressed in black holes, has recently been successfully applied to problems in a disparate variety of physical systems. I will give an introduction to the subject intended for a general audience.


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If you think winter in Chicago is brutal, try visiting Mongolia in February.
Local indie rockers Canasta did just that recently, spending ten days touring the remote country as part of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' Arts Envoy Program. While there, the band performed concerts and participated in seminars with local artists and musicians--all while struggling with temperatures that averaged around 25 degrees below zero.
"I would say a lot of the trip was closer to roughing it than I'm used to," said singer Matt Priest, 36. "So some of that caught me off guard."
Reached less than 24 hours after returning to Chicago, the jet-lagged Roscoe Village resident talked about his attempts at traditional Mongolian throat singing, the reaction locals had to the band's music and why he's glad he was never challenged to a wrestling match.
I imagine packing for a trip like this was a daunting task.
It was really daunting, actually. And to be honest, I'm pretty bad at packing to begin with. We would talk to some people and they would be like, "Oh, it's going to be freezing. Bring all your best winter gear." Then other people were like, "It sounds worse on paper than it is." It turned out to be every bit as intense as those people that were warning us claimed it would be.
What was the most jaw-dropping part of the experience?
For some reason with "jaw-dropping" I think of something that was a little bit negative. During the winter, (Mongolian capitol) Ulaanbaatar is the most polluted city on the planet. A lot of people burn coal, and they have entire districts where lower-income folks ... burn whatever they can get their hands on--tires and all sorts of other things. The moment we got off the plane it was negative 44 degrees and you could instantly taste the pollution in the air.
How did the locals respond to your music?
It was a mix of people who were fascinated and didn't know really how to react and people who were totally loving it. Everywhere we went I think we made an impression, and they definitely made an impression on us.
Did anyone try to teach you traditional throat singing?
I did spend about 20 minutes speaking to this guy in this one town who was sort of the master of the art form. I did my approximation of it, which he thought was pretty funny. Then he showed me how you really do it, and after about five seconds my throat was already tearing up. It was like, "If I do this anymore I'm not going to be able to sing tonight."
Did you have any Andrew Zimmern/"Bizarre Foods" experiences when it came to the cuisine?
As a band we actually all watched that footage before we went over there to see what the strangest stuff would be. But for the most part nothing we faced was insurmountable. They'll supposedly take a goat and use a blowtorch to get all the fur off it and then they'll stuff it with hot rocks to cook it from the inside out, but we did not witness that. There was a lot of mutton and fried noodles and fried rice and dumplings and soups. There was also tea everywhere, which was something I loved.
The country's most popular sport is wrestling. Were you ever challenged to a match?
We were not. I've heard it's a huge deal over there, but we didn't experience any of that. It's interesting, we had so many shows and workshops scheduled that even though we took in lots of real-life culture just being there, we didn't have a whole lot of time for museums and monasteries and things like that.
What do you think the result would have been if someone had challenged you to wrestle?
We're musicians before we're athletes, and the Mongolian people...I feel a really great word to describe them is resilience because there are all sorts of things about their way of life and the weather that I found to be really, really tough. Towards the end of it I was like, "I can't do this anymore. I'm glad we're going home." And here are these people that live it every day.
So you're saying you would have gotten your butts kicked?
I'm saying we would have gotten our butts absolutely kicked. They're tough people, man.
When: 10 p.m. March 9
Where: Lincoln Hall, 2424 N. Lincoln Ave.
Tickets: $15, 773-525-2508
Matt Priest personality test
What's the last album you bought? "The new Chairlift record. It's awesome."
Song you've listened to on repeat recently? "There were a couple songs we listened to a bunch as a band on the trip, and one of them was 'Baby Baby' by Amy Grant."
Song you never want to hear again? "We had Amy Grant's 'Greatest Hits' when we were there, so I would say 'Next Time I Fall' by Amy Grant and Peter Cetera."
Best concert you've seen in the last year? "I saw Bonnie Prince Billy at Lincoln Hall. He was a quite a showman. It blew me away."
New band you don't know personally that deserves to be big? "There's a band called Ghost. It's wicked progressive metal."
Favorite movie ever? "It varies, but today I'm going to say 'Notorious' by Alfred Hitchcock."
Chicago's best music venue? "Probably Schubas. The acoustics are perfect and it's just the right size to pack the place. We played our first show ever there, and we have our ten-year anniversary coming up so I was actually going to contact them to see if we can do an anniversary show over there. We'll see if that happens."


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Geriatrician Joe Verghese explains how subtle changes in gait can identify which patients are at risk for frailty – with the goal of preventing falls and mental decline. Dr. Verghese is chief of geriatrics at Einstein and Montefiore Medical Center and a professor of neurology and of medicine at Einstein. This edition of Einstein On, a research and medicine podcast, is hosted by Paul Moniz, managing director of communications and marketing at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.