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Knowledge management practices are based primarily in conceptual frameworks that are responsible for the design and development of methodologies and technologies that can provide some common ground in the way people use and manage knowledge in an organization. These conceptual frameworks are often derived from integrated perspectives that are influences not by one but multiple disciplines and practices. Can a knowledge management framework be useful and practical when is based on the universal constructs for knowledge, awareness and meaning? Operational definitions for these constructs were designed within a recent research study that was conducted by reviewing and analyzing 180 relevant sources from a variety of disciplines and practices including psychology, cognition and the cognitive sciences, human and organizational development, complexity theory and physics, computer science and artificial intelligence, philosophy, neuroscience and biology, mathematics and statistics. The operational definitions obtained from the research process were combined with general principles that were formulated in order to explore a potential model that may integrate and apply the three constructs of knowledge, awareness and meaning with the view of facilitating the conceptualization of knowledge management practices. The research presents the multiple perspectives from various disciplines on knowledge, awareness, meaning, thinking methods and organic models and at the same time provides a conceptual framework to determine the effectiveness of knowledge management practices with the purpose of integrating the know what, the know how and the know why of managing knowledge.
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Remember when the only thing we knew to do with a tub of this tangy cheese was to cook up a batch of lasagna? Times have changed. Today's nuanced, artisanal versions of ricotta lend a delicate flair to everything from potato salad to homemade ice cream.
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Vietnam War Hero to Receive Posthumous Medal of Honor
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"It was a very emotional day -- a very, very emotional day," she said. I couldn't even sleep that night. And ... when I did fall asleep finally and I woke up the next morning, I went, 'Now wait a minute, did I dream this? Is it really real?' I couldn't be more proud of him.
In her home near New Castle, Pa., Sabo-Brown has set up a museum of sorts in tribute to her late husband and his comrades who were killed in Cambodia.
When his platoon was ambushed from all sides by a large enemy force, Sabo charged the enemy position, killing several enemy soldiers. He then assaulted an enemy flanking force, successfully drawing their fire away from friendly soldiers and ultimately forcing the enemy to retreat. While the platoon was securing a re-supply of ammunition, an enemy grenade landed nearby. Sabo picked it up, threw it, and shielded a wounded comrade with his own body -- absorbing the brunt of the blast and saving his comrade's life.
Although wounded by the grenade blast, Sabo continued to charge the enemy's bunker. After receiving several serious wounds from automatic weapons fire, he crawled toward the enemy emplacement and, when in position, threw a grenade into the bunker. The resulting explosion silenced the enemy fire, but also ended Sabo's life.
Sabo's unit nominated him for the Medal of Honor, but the paperwork was lost until Tony Mabb, a Vietnam veteran of the 101st Airborne Division and a writer for the Screaming Eagle Association magazine, came across a thick file on Sabo while on a research trip to the National Archives military repository in College Park, Md.
Mabb contacted his congresswoman, who recommended that the Defense Department reconsider a medal of valor for Sabo. Mabb also made contact with Sabo's widow.
"The Leslie I know would give his life to anybody," she said. "He would. He would give you the shirt off his back. That's the kind of man he was."
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We have had a relative break in the humidity, at least in the mornings, so I decided to try this recipe. Seriously, it is the best I have ever made. Look at it! AMAZING! I even changed the recipe to meet my whole wheat needs and it came out perfectly. The crust is crunchy and tough while the inside is fluffy and delicious and a little salty! My rolled oats and sunflower seeds didn't stay on the top when I cut it though. Not sure why... maybe someone can tell me? Do I need to stick them on with something?
The best part of all is that this bread is $.40 a loaf. Really? I pay $3 or more at our local grocery store for an Artisian bread. There really is nothing like a loaf of freshly baked bread coming out of the oven at your own home. It gives you such a feeling of accomplishment and my family gobbles it down as soon as it is cool enough. The smell is awesome too. If you have never baked bread, I suggest you try this recipe. It is great for those who have never tried because the step-by-step shows pictures and the description covers everything you need to know to get it right.
So, the secret to this loaf being so easy is the lack of need for kneading and a quick-rising yeast! You just mix it up in about 2 minutes, set it aside for 2 hours and then pull some out of the bowl and shape it, let it rise for 30 minutes or so, cut the hash marks on top, put it in the oven. It is perfect for a weekend lunch or dinner.
Anyway, the original source of this beautiful bread at The Italian Dish. I changed the recipe a bit for my needs so I will just tell you what I did differently and you can visit The Italian Dish for the step-by-step tutorial. She (he?) did a wonderful job showing you how the loose bread dough should look and explains everything beautifully.
For my version, I replaced half of the flour with whole wheat flour and 1/2 cup of raw wheat germ and I used a yeast specifically made for whole wheat bread. The packets of yeast had more yeast in them than the original recipe called for, so I used 1-1/2 packets. I also added a bit more water because it didn't look as loose as her/his picture looked. This worked perfectly.
Another change I made was to half the dough between two containers because when it rises, it really rises. The first time I made it, it bubbled completely out of the container and onto the counter. It was hilarious and the yeasty smell took over the entire kitchen!
I also added rolled 7-Grain mix and some sunflower seeds to the top. Like I said though, they didn't stay on while I cut the bread. Not sure why. I will investigate.
For the coarse salt, I used French Grey Sea Salt. It was nicely salty without being overly-salted. I will definitely use that again.
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The Crime Fighters is a non-profit corporation comprised of employees of the St. John Parish Sheriff's Office. Our purpose is to support employee programs, and to improve the quality of life of our community. We can accomplish this, which is attainable by a group effort, and in doing so, build unity within the ranks.
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* 1985 Crime Fighters was formed
* Aug. 23, 1993 Incorporated with State of Louisiana
* Feb. 8, 1994 Established Tax ID Number 58-207-8933 with IRS
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Treasurer: Sgt. Steven Faucheux
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Assessment of Increase in Perinatal Exposure to HIV Among Hispanics --- 20 Counties, Georgia, 1994--2002
CDC recently received reports from clinicians in a specialized pediatric human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) care clinic (clinic A) suggesting that the number of perinatally HIV-exposed Hispanic infants in the Atlanta metropolitan area had increased disproportionately to the growth of Hispanics in the area's population. To assess this increase and characterize trends in perinatal HIV exposure in this population, CDC collaborated with health-care providers at clinic A, which serves residents in 20 Georgia counties, including the Atlanta metropolitan area. This report summarizes the results of that assessment, which suggest that the increase in the number of perinatally HIV-exposed Hispanic infants was associated with multiple factors, including the growth of the Hispanic population, increasing HIV prevalence and fertility among Hispanics, and lower preconception awareness of HIV serostatus among those with HIV. The findings suggest a need for improved access to voluntary HIV counseling and testing and increased opportunities for reducing the risk for unintended pregnancy among Hispanics in these counties.
Data on maternal race/ethnicity and infant final HIV-infection status were obtained from Ryan White Comprehensive AIDS Resource Emergency records maintained by clinic A. Infants born during 1994--2002 were referred to the clinic because 1) HIV infection had been diagnosed in the mother preconception, and the infant had perinatal exposure to HIV or 2) the infant was believed to have acquired perinatal HIV infection from the mother. In this report, Hispanics might be of any race; non-Hispanics were classified either as non-Hispanic black or as "non-Hispanic white and other races." The HIV-infection rate for each racial/ethnic population was defined as the number of infants who were HIV infected divided by the total number of infants who were exposed perinatally. During the study period, HIV infection (i.e., without acquired immunodeficiency syndrome [AIDS]) was not reportable in Georgia. Thus, the number of women with HIV infection giving birth in Georgia and the proportion of perinatally HIV-exposed or perinatally HIV-infected infants in the 20 counties who did not receive care from clinic A is unknown. However, approximately 70% of Georgia AIDS cases were reported from five metropolitan Atlanta counties (1), and clinic A is the state's principal provider of specialized pediatric HIV health care.
The numbers of live births by year and maternal race/ethnicity were obtained by using the Online Analytical Statistical Information System (OASIS) of the Georgia State Division of Public Health (2). U.S. Census data for 2001 were used to estimate racial/ethnic trends in the female populations of childbearing age in those counties (3). Data from HIV serologic surveys of childbearing women, which are no longer conducted in the United States, can be compared with other health data to describe the dynamic of HIV among women of childbearing age (4). As an alternative to a serologic survey of childbearing women, minimum HIV seroprevalence among women who gave birth in 2002 and among all women who were of childbearing age in the 20 Georgia counties was estimated by using the number of infants known to be perinatally HIV exposed in 2002 as the numerator. The numbers of women of childbearing age and of women who delivered live infants in these counties in 2002 were used as the denominators (2,3).
During 1994--2002, the number and proportion of live births to Hispanics in the 20 counties increased more than threefold, from 5.0% (2,620) to 16.8% (11,130) (1) (Figure). Conversely, during the same period, although the number of live births increased, the proportion of births to non-Hispanic whites and other races declined from 60.5% (31,612) to 50.3% (33,256), and the proportion to non-Hispanic blacks declined from 34.5% (18,017) to 32.9% (21,765). The estimated proportion of Hispanics in Georgia's population of females of childbearing age increased from 2.5% to 6.1% during this same period (3). The proportion of perinatally HIV-exposed infants who were Hispanic increased by more than ninefold, from one of 96 (1.1%) in 1994 to 10 of 95 (10.5%) in 2002 (p<0.001) (Table). Among HIV-exposed infants who were non-Hispanic white and other races, the proportion increased from five of 96 (5.2%) in 1994 to seven of 95 (7.4%) in 2002; among infants who were non-Hispanic black, the proportion decreased from 90 (94.0%) of 96 in 1994 to 78 (82.0%) of 95 in 2002.
The proportion of HIV seroprevalence to live births among childbearing women in the 20 counties in 2002 was estimated at 0.36% (78 HIV-exposed infants of 21,765 live births) among non-Hispanic blacks, 0.09% (10 HIV-exposed infants of 11,130 live births) among Hispanics, and 0.02% (seven HIV-exposed infants of 33,256 live births) among non-Hispanic whites and other races (p<0.01).
Assuming that HIV seroprevalence among women of childbearing age in these counties was similar to that among women who gave birth to a live infant in 2002, 0.36% of 341,379 non-Hispanic blacks (1,229), 0.09% of 79,237 Hispanics (71), and 0.02% of 620,743 non-Hispanic whites and other races (124) had HIV infection. On the basis of these estimates, 10 (14.1%) of 71 HIV-infected Hispanic women had a live birth in 2002, compared with 78 (6.3%) of 1,229 non-Hispanic black women and seven (5.6%) of 124 women of non-Hispanic white and other races (Fisher's exact 2-tailed p<0.03). In contrast to the proportion of Hispanic women living with HIV who gave birth in 2002, only 2.5% of women receiving services at clinic A were Hispanic.
Reported by: S Nesheim, MD, R Dennis, V Grimes, Emory Univ School of Medicine, Atlanta; RL Shouse, MD, Georgia State Div of Public Health. K Dominguez, MD, Div of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention; Z Ali, CM Beck-Sague, MD, Div of Reproductive Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion; K Asamoa, MD, EIS Officer, CDC.
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Although the increase in number and proportion of perinatally HIV-exposed Hispanic infants outpaced the increase in the proportion of births that occurred among Hispanics in Georgia and Atlanta (2), the findings in this report suggest that the increase in perinatal HIV-exposure in 20 Georgia counties in part was associated with increased fertility rate. During the preceding 20 years, the U.S. Hispanic population approximately doubled because of an unprecedented level of immigration and the highest fertility rate of any U.S population group (3,5). The growth in the number of Hispanics was particularly large in metropolitan areas in the U.S. Southeast, where Atlanta had the greatest increase.
In 2002, among all U.S. regions, the Southeast had the largest estimated number of persons living with HIV/AIDS (6). Although Hispanics do not represent a large percentage of persons with AIDS in Georgia, they have experienced the largest increases in AIDS cases (1). Nationwide, compared with other population groups, Hispanics with HIV infection are substantially less likely to have had two or more outpatient visits during the preceding 6 months, more likely to have HIV infection diagnosed late in the course of their disease, and less likely to have health insurance (7). The small proportion of Hispanic female patients at clinic A in 2002 suggests that these national trends also might have occurred among HIV-infected Hispanics in Atlanta.
In the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth, Hispanic women were less likely than those other U.S. population groups to use contraception during their first intercourse or to use reversible contraception (8). In the 20 Georgia counties studied in this report, 16% of Hispanic women of childbearing age had a live birth in 2002, compared with 6.3% of non-Hispanic black women and 5.4% of women who were non-Hispanic white and other races (2). Less use of health resources (e.g., HIV testing and family planning services) by Hispanic women in these counties might contribute to their overrepresentation among childbearing women with HIV.
The findings in this report are subject to at least four limitations. First, the small number of perinatally HIV-exposed Hispanic infants limits the precision of estimates. Second, identification bias might have reduced the number of mothers classified as Hispanic in 1994, exaggerating the increase in the Hispanic proportion of perinatally HIV-exposed infants. Third, because perinatally HIV-exposed infants were identified through voluntary counseling and testing of mothers, certain mothers whose status was not determined might have been HIV infected but not included. Finally, although national estimates and international comparisons of HIV seroprevalence continue to be based on sentinel surveillance among pregnant women, HIV seroprevalence among childbearing women might not be similar to that in the general population. Because HIV infection reduces fertility, particularly later in the course of HIV infection, the seroprevalence in childbearing women might underestimate seroprevalence among other women (9).
All sexually active women of childbearing age, particularly those in areas with high HIV/AIDS prevalence, should be advised of the potential for remaining symptom-free if HIV infection is diagnosed and treated before the onset of severe immunodeficiency (10). Opportunities for HIV testing, ideally before conception, but also during pregnancy, should be increased. HIV testing during labor should be considered a community standard of care for women who have not been tested during pregnancy. In addition, linkages should be offered to specialized treatment and prevention services, including family planning services, for all women who wish to delay childbearing to reduce the risk for both sexual and perinatal HIV transmission and to improve symptom-free survival among underserved women living with HIV.
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This week confirmation hearings began for John Brennan nominated by Obama for Director of the CIA. In the run up to the hearing, several articles have been leaked this week offering more details about the kill lists that Brennan created for the Obama Administration as well as details about torture and "extraordinary rendition" that Brennan defended. We look at how the administration, the courts and the Congress have viewed these activities.


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I'm pretty sure Hotty McHotpants would've Snapchat'd me back in high school. (Yes, Snapchat. More later. But first, Hotty.)
Oh man, she was hot. She had blonde hair (crimped), a white leather jacket (fringed) and a lot of Spandex (clingy). She had smoky eyes, a smokin' body and she also smoked, which was still pretty hot back in 1987. In short, she looked like she lived inside a Whitesnake video.
And she liked me. She didn't "like me like me,' but she liked me. Which was good enough, as I was tall, gawky and acne-ridden. I had glasses the size of my face, a mullet the size of a history textbook and a nose the size of a really, really, really big nose. Think a young Ichabod Crane, and not the Johnny Depp one.
But I was a nice enough guy – a personable chap — and so I wasn't totally invisible to people like Hotty McHotpants. (Can't give her real name. Sorry.) Now, as you might imagine, Hotty had a bit of a reputation. Deserved? Who knows. Who cares. But one thing was obviously, painfully clear: I was never going to be a contributor to her reputation. I had better odds of getting to first base with the New York Mets than I did of getting to first base with Hotty.
But a boy could dream. And believe me, there was dreaming. Daily. So I had a thing for Hotty, and I'd like to think I was just nice enough (and she was just naughty enough) that if I asked — and if Snapchat existed, of course — Hotty would've given me a Snapchat shot of her. Nothing dirty, but something just a little … imaginative. But hopefully dirty. It would have been the proper thing to do.
Ah yes: Snapchat. Are you familiar? It's an app that allows users to send pictures and video to anyone they please. The catch — and the draw — is simple: The pictures and video will disappear within 10 seconds after viewing, unless the recipient grabs a screenshot of them, a glitch I'm pretty confident will disappear within weeks.
So who uses Snapchat? The vast majority of users are kids and teens. A good use for the app? For kids to send pictures to their parents alerting them of their whereabouts. A bad use for the app? Hotty McHotpants sending selfies of herself — clothed or otherwise — to pimply, desperate 14-year-olds.
As you might imagine, the latter scenario is causing some concern with anyone who isn't lusting after Hotty.
For instance: A pair of Ridgewood, N.J. freshman girls Snapchat'd themsevles in various states of undress to a boy in their school, and the kid grabbed the screenshots and posted them to Instagram. All of a sudden, "child pornography charges' are being bandied about.
Of course, hard to blame Snapchat for this kid being a creep. I mean, what's wrong with him? These girls were trying to do something nice and …Oh wait. I see. Hold on a second. I'm a dad now. I have a daughter. If she's sending naked pictures of herself one day I'd probably … well, are we still allowed to tie our children to their bedposts? Not up on current law. But she's only 2 years old. I have time to worry about it.
In the meantime (and while I shop for twine), it's not Snapchat's fault some people — heaven forbid, teenagers – decide to send each other nudie shots. We're humans, we're Americans, we're brought up to believe sex is somehow bad, and if there's technology that allows us to explore these not-so-dark corners of our psyche in semi-private, you better believe we're going to take advantage of it.
Instead of demonizing the technology — just do a Google search for Snapchat and you'll see some good ol' demonizing — maybe we should just loosen up when it comes these hard-to-shake Puritan ideas about our naughty parts. I'm not saying we should meet up for an old style Greek orgy or anything, but come on, in the grand scheme, what's a few sexy shots among friends?
And before you think I'm giving the OK for kids to be doing this … well, all I'm saying is we were kids once. If we had modern technology — from Snapchat to just about everything else — you don't think we would've found ways to co-opt it into something less than pure?
That's why talking to kids about this stuff seems a lot more level-headed than raging against the tech and threatening teenagers with child porn charges. That's a losing hand, right there.
Another losing hand is the fact I was born 25 years too late. Just one Snapchat shot from Hotty McHotpants would've been a dream come true. So uh … if you're out there reading this Hotty … well, do you have a Snapchat account?
Jeff Edelstein can be reached at facebook.com/jeffreyedelstein and twitter.com/jeffedelstein.


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Virtualization at the server, network and storage layers is making replication of data within a disaster recovery system easier, and will make it easier to do in the cloud, said Dale Wickizer, chief technology officer of U.S. Public Sector with NetApp, a provider of storage systems.
Replication technology duplicates stored or archived data in real time over a storage-area network. Virtualization is a means of sharing a physical resource across multiple users with each of the users believing they have all of the resource. The resource could be servers, networks including the Internet, or storage.
Before virtualization, organizations needed to have the same hardware at their primary and disaster recovery sites. With virtualization, agencies can abstract the systems and have different types of hardware; they don't have to maintain the tight, hardware-compatible control at multiple sites, Wickizer said.
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With virtualization, VMware has made replications easier at the server layer, as has Cisco with its Nexus switches at the network level and NetApp at the storage level. Now, organizations can have heterogeneous storage arrays at the primary and disaster recovery sites.
A cloud provider such as Terremark, a Verizon company, uses NetApp's FlexPod data center solution, which combines Cisco networking, VMware server virtualization and NetApp storage in a shared infrastructure.
The NetApp FlexPod can help ensure replication in a secure multi-tenant environment, Wickizer said. With the infrastructure, data center administrators can create storage arrays, each with its own administrator, data stores and directory services. That level of separation can also be enforced at the network and server layers. These virtual silos maintain tenant integrity and can be moved to another set of systems or to another site, Wickizer said.
Cloud providers will have to offer multi-tenant capabilities. The question is how well they can maintain multi-tenant integrity and how easy it is to move a tenant from one place to another without service interruption, Wickizer said.
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Thanks for visiting me on another Operation Write Home blog hop! I've been having a ball making cards for Easter, Mother's Day and Spring. Here's one of my new favorites:
I used a couple of Nestablities dies, Prima flowers and cardstock from Club Scrap. The sentiment is a stamp by Ali Edwards at Technique Tuesday. Sorry, it looks like this Studio AE set is sold out.
Just a reminder, current card deadlines include Easter (March 18th) and Mother's Day (March 31st). I'll be mailing a box on Monday.
My plan is to make lots of cards over the weekend, with plenty of stops for inspiration along the hop, too. The sketches at the Stars and Stripes Sketch Collection page are also great. I want to get busy and try out some new designs.
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Ep 8 goes to Warsaw, and then perhaps is scheduled to go somewhere else, (perhaps they were going to Krakow, but don't) but since everything is delayed, the final pit stop is on "that grassy field" in Warsaw. The only thing that throws cold water on this scenario is the fact that "they were there all night and pestered by mosiquitos" Mosquitos in Warsaw in December?
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Petraeus cites 'hard-won' progress in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — Though "hard-won" progress has taken place in Afghanistan, it has been uneven, the commander of U.S. and NATO forces there said.
In an Oct. 6 interview in the Afghan capital of Kabul, Army GEN David H. Petraeus praised service members in Afghanistan, noting they have seen tough combat, but also are seeing results.
Overall, GEN Petraeus said, a reversal in Taliban momentum has taken place. "In certain very important areas such as Kandahar, the enemy is responding to us rather than us responding to the enemy," he said. "There are attacks, but we are the ones on the offensive, they are the ones responding."
Progress is coming in pockets, the general said, and the goal is to connect those pockets over time. "Then with the security in place, we've got to develop the economy [and] develop governance," he added.
It is important for the Afghan government to provide basic services so its people see the future is brighter if they support the Afghan government rather than revert to support of the Taliban, GEN Petraeus explained.
The bottom line is that for a counterinsurgency program to work, service members have to relate to the people, the general said. "There's an old saying that 'all politics are local.' Well, so are all counterinsurgency operations," GEN Petraeus said. "It comes down to that village, that valley, that community."
This requires service members and civilians to get out and meet the people face to face — to invest the time to know the elders and the technocrats of the area, the local government leaders, the religious leaders and the businessmen, GEN Petraeus said, and to fully understand the dynamics of local communities and resist rushing to judgment."We have to be careful how we develop the relationships," he added, "and more importantly, how we reward individuals and communities."
An important aspect of this outreach to local communities is the Afghan local police initiative, GEN Petraeus said. Sixty-eight sites for that effort have been approved, and about eight to 10 per month will be added. The sites are in locations where there are insufficient densities of Afghan and coalition forces. "They are essentially community watches with AK-47s," he said. "We think these will complement our operations in other areas."Special operations forces have been working with community leaders to train these local police forces to defend their villages from the Taliban, the general said, and the rapport they have established in the villages has been tremendously important to the effort in Afghanistan. "In some cases, they have 'flipped' communities who once even actively supported the Taliban," he said.
Noting that the strategy is in place and the last of the U.S. surge troops have arrived in Afghanistan, GEN Petraeus said security gains have been made and he gave his frank assessment of the gains in various areas.
Regional Command Southwest has seen continued progress in security, but it has been at a cost. "The enemy is very much fighting back, because we've taken control of sanctuaries and safe havens that mean a great deal to him," he said. "In Marja, for example, which eight months ago was the center for the illegal narcotics industry and a Taliban command and control headquarters, now you see a high school opening for the first time in six years."Other schools have opened, and men are volunteering to serve in the police for the first time, GEN Petraeus said. The security gains, he added, have made it possible for gradual improvements in governance and development.
"It's the same in varying degrees in the other districts of central Helmand province," he said.
Further east in Kandahar, major operations are going on inside and outside the city. The battle in the Panjwai area illustrates an increasingly important aspect of the fight, the general said. In Panjwai, the 101st Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team and the Canadian task force have been joined by substantial numbers of Afghan soldiers and police.
The Taliban see the area as a safe haven and have laced it with explosive belts, dug-in positions and mined houses rigged to blow up. The Afghans are working well with the coalition forces and are helping to "establish a security bubble around Kandahar City and again take away areas of importance to the Taliban," the general said.
From Kandahar, coalition and Afghan forces are working along Highway 1 — the major road between Kandahar and Kabul — and going after various pockets there. "They have done substantial damage to the infiltrators of the Haqqani network that come in from North Waziristan in Pakistan, and done considerable damage to the mid-level Taliban fighters and leaders in the southern areas as well," GEN Petraeus said.
Kabul is a security high-point. The area has roughly 5 million people, and it's been quite secure and stable in recent months, the general said. The enemy has been trying to launch attacks in the capital but, so far, Afghan intelligence and Afghan forces working with International Security Assistance Force service members have been able to disrupt and defeat these efforts. "This is important because Afghan forces are in the lead in security in all but one district in Kabul," he said. "It's an example of what we'd like to do in more places in the future."
In the northern part of the country, German forces, along with a brigade of the U.S. Army's 10th Mountain Division, are beginning operations to reduce insurgent influence. The same is happening in Regional Command West, GEN Petraeus said.The general said U.S. troops are the most experienced and professional military America has ever had.
"Virtually all of our commissioned, warrant and noncommissioned officers on the ground now have had at least one tour in Iraq or Afghanistan, and many have had multiple yearlong tours," he said. "There's an enormous reservoir of experience and expertise. I see enormous versatility, initiative, innovation, just sheer understanding or the complexities of these operations, and also extraordinary courage."


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Haven't had much time to blog this weekend, as I was busy running a pilot survey for my Phd (more about that in the future), but I will just share 2 wild/random ideas I have about email.
Gmail and LibX
In my last post, I talked about how LibX is very useful, for acquisitions work, in particular how it can do autolinking of isbns.
"Any page with an isbn is recognized and converted into a clickable link. Clicking on it will do a search of your library catalogue. It even searches related isbns (different publishers, different editions) if your opac supports that or lists related isbns in a sidebar that you can search with another click if your opac doesn't."
Say you subscribe to various book alerts like Blackwell collection manager's enotes, and they send you attachments (rtf, doc) in email. On receiving them, you would like to click on the ibsns given in those attachments to do a direct ISBN search of your catalogue, but unfortunately the Libx autolinking of isbns works only with actual webpages, so getting them in rtf, doc format doesn't help.
What's the solution? What you can do is to subscribe to those mails in your gmail account, then when the mail arrives click on "view as html", which will open the document as a html page.
Why do so? Simple, so LibX can work its magic.
Now just click on the isbn and you can do a isbn check of your OPAC!
Want to buy the item? Just copy and paste to your email (rtf or html format) and send it to the acquisitions department, and the acquisitions department staff can verify again by clicking on the link (Why do they need to double check if you checked it already? One reason is that between the time you checked the catalogue and sent the email and the time they received and processed it, they might have ordered it for someone else already)
Google's "view in html" works for not just Word documents but also excel, pdf, ppt etc. A common thing often done is to search for a bunch of items from your integrated library system (ILS) using a certain search criteria (say all items catalogued last year and circulated at least 5 times), then export the results (which will almost always include isbn or Marc field 020) into excel. But if you want to look at those items you would have to manually cut and paste the isbn etc into your opac to search.
Instead, email it to gmail, then use the same trick above, and you will see all the isbns are links already!
Another interesting option would be to view/convert such documents in Google docs or one of their competitors (Zoho, Buzzword, etc), since they are web-based with the corresponding benefits.
In fact, besides the LibX functions there are several functions that are accessible only when viewed in html, these include IE 8's web accelerators, various Firefox addons that add searches to the context menu etc, so viewing a document in html can actually be quite useful.
Use Xobni for tracking email
Many libraries use a Outlook account to handle user queries. By using Xobni (Inbox spelled backwards) a free plugin, one can access Xobni analytics, which helps to quickly answer the following questions.
In terms of mail volume, when are your users emailing you. How many percent of them email you during the weekend? How many percent do it after office hours? Does mail volume vary across the year?
In terms of response speed, what is your libraries' median response time to a mail? Does this vary much by hours? (Typically it does, mail received before office hours say 7 am obviously have a slower response time). Does this vary by day of week or across the year? (Again it is obvious response time is typically slower during week-ends if the account isn't manned those times). Are you meeting your service level targets?
You can filter results by person, subject, domain, folder, context and more
All this is very helpful to decision making, for example if you find a spike in emails received after midnight say during April (just before assignments are due?), you might consider setting up a night shift to answer emails during this period?
Is your response time noticeably slower for certain questions? Particularly, you might find a class of questions that are commonly received say after office hours or on friday nights and which require answers that cannot wait until office hour begins… Which could be a source of dissatisfaction.
Xobni also has Facebook, Linkedin and Skype integration. With many libraries establishing a presence in Facebook, (even Library of Congress has one!) due to the rapid rise in popularity of Facebook and a smaller number providing support via Skype, Xobni is the ideal tool. For instance, a user emails you to ask a question, use Xobni to instantly offer to "Friend" him with your Library's Facebook account.
Or instantly find his skype account and communicate with him via Skype.
Note : There might be privacy concerns if you use Linkedin, Facebook related features.
That's all for this week. I hope you found some of the tips here useful. BTW, my blog is now 6 months ago (it's genesis dates back to 24 Feb 2009) , would like to thank readers for their comments and interest.


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H.W. Plainview (Dillon Freasier) and Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) Scour the California Countryside for Oil, from Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2007)
You may have already noticed, but Hollywood has a pretty good idea of what the 19th and 20th centuries looked like. And this is especially true when studios begin to crank out films that have a distinct emphasis on landscape. I take this to mean that Hollywood films have developed a recognizable visual language used to depict the natural and built environments of the 19th and 20th century.
What are the elements of this visual language? On the one hand, there is the sheer expanse of the framing. Cameras capture and ensnare whole mountain ranges and cloud flotillas within a generously rectangular (and decidedly un-boxy) aspect ratio. On the other hand, colors are either depicted under natural conditions, or else they are almost completely washed out. Sometimes this varies according to the seasons that are being portrayed. Whereas a scene taking place in summer will take advantage of the harsh, natural light and its resultant jagged shadows, a winter shoot make opt for a limited, yet heavily saturated palette. In the latter, figures across a landscape may become lost in a field of scrub brush and snow. This interplay of grays of whites across a limited spectrum creates a moody moire, the end result being an atmosphere of want or fear that resonates at the most basic visual level. In other words, cinematographic and post-production techniques are used to alter time and place.
This is not, however, only a recent phenomena. To be sure, the advent of new projection formats, such as Cinemascope, Vistavision, and Todd-AO have quite literally opened up new vistas for the burgeoning camera eye. And new camera technologies have enabled cinematographers to capture unusual light conditions that help emphasize a particular film's period feel. Two examples of this that come to mind are Nestor Almendros' and Haskell Wexler's work on Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven (1978) and John Alcott's shooting for Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975). For Days of Heaven, Almendros and Wexler (who came in after to production ran behind schedule) used natural, undiffused light to capture the feeling of a world without incandescent, artificial lighting. Most of the shooting took place at the "golden" twilight hours, making for a difficult shooting schedule. And two the film's most famous sequences, where the landscape is obliterated by fire and locusts, give the best sense as to how Almendros gave visual evidence to a world that may have had a different quality of light.
On the other hand, for Barry Lyndon, the development of ultra-fast Carl Zeiss lenses allowed John Alcott to capture a different time and place as well. Consider this excerpt from an 1975 interview for American Cinematographer magazine. When asked about the film's "soft" look and candlelit ambiances, Alcott remarked how
In most instances we were trying to create the feeling of natural light within the houses, mostly stately homes, that we used as shooting locations. That was virtually their only source of light during the period of the film, and those houses still exist, with their paintings and tapestries hanging. I would tend to re-create that type of light, all natural light coming through the windows. I've always been a natural light source type of cameraman - if one can put it that way. I think it's exciting, actually, to see what illumination is provided by daylight and then try to create the effect. Sometimes it's impossible when the light outside falls below a certain level. We shot some of those sequences in the wintertime, when there was natural light from perhaps 9 o'clock in the morning until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The requirement was to bring the light up to a level so that we could shoot from 8 o'clock in the morning until something like 7 o'clock in the evening -- while maintaining the consistent effect. At the same time, we tried to duplicate the situations established by research and reference to the drawings and paintings of that day - how rooms were illuminated, and so on. That actual compositions of our setups were very authentic to the drawings of the period.Today's landscape-dominated period films seem to be shot by only a handful of cinematographers. These are the go-to men who studios rely on to depict American vistas from the 19th and 20th centuries. In fact, three of the most critically-acclaimed films of 2007 are heavy on landscape. One would be hard pressed to disagree with the fact that Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men, Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood, and Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford are period landscape films. These films also exemplify many of the elements I mentioned above: large aspect ratios, extremely natural or washed-out color palettes, and manipulated atmospherics.
Llwellyn Moss (Josh Brolin) in a Texas Landscape, from Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men (2007)
These are beautiful, meticulous films. Yet they are oddly similar. In No Country for Old Men, an arid caldera becomes the stage set for a rash of violent killings between American and Mexican drug traffickers. It is similar to the beveled canyons from the opening shot of There Will Be Blood. And in fact, the similarity between the two stems from the fact that parts of both films were shot in Marfa, Texas. In other words, through the camera lenses of 2007, the 1980s and the 1890's shared similar visual cues. In these two films, figures are engulfed by yellowing sandscapes. The effect is not unsimilar to Frederic Remington's landscapes featuring cowboys and Indians. Like the characters in No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood, the figures in Remington's paintings are caught in a tension between stasis and motion. The flat expanse of earth -- its painterly depiction famously referred to by Jean-Louis Comolli as the "geographic extension of the field of the visible" -- stands in contrast to the figure in motion. The contrast between motion and non-motion, between figure and landscape, human and nature no doubt resonates within the frames of No Country for Old Men and There Will Be Blood. These landscapes are all rendered as devoid of human life, with only the smallest hints of habitation.
Frederic Remington, The Scout: Friends or Foes?, 1902-1905, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Although the cinematic elements of Remington's paintings may seem coincidental (he began his ethnographic paintings of horsemen at the same time that Edward Muybridge began his motion studies), there is another reason why these period landscape films from 2007 look similar. It is true that Roger Deakins, No Country For Old Men's cinematographer, and Robert Elswit, who shot There WIll Be Blood, used similar locations. It is no coincidence that Deakins was also the cinematographer for The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
A Pensive Jesse James (Brad Pitt) Surveys the Missouri Landscape, from Andrew Dominik's The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
For starters, Dominik's film shares a visual language with No Country For Old Men and There WIll Be Blood. These films share similar color palettes and landscapes. But unlike the Coen Brothers and Paul Thomas Anderson, Dominik shot his film in Alberta. And here, one wonders if this film owes more of its visual style to Malick's Days of Heaven than to anything else (this film was also shot in Alberta). The shots of Jesse James (played by Brad Pitt) wandering among fields of wheat will no doubt remind some of Richard Gere in Days of Heaven. These shots are also reminiscent of those from the Coens' and Anderson's films.
The similarities extend well beyond their formal compositions. All three films from 2007 were shot in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. The 2.35:1 aspect ratio was the anamorphic standard up to 1970. However, new projection technologies and videographic requirements have transformed the 2.35:1 ratio to 2.39.1. Yet in a deferential nod to the history of cinematography and motion picture projection, the aspect ratio is still commonly referred to as "2.35:1."
Unlike Barry Lyndon and Days of Heaven, the makers of No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford had a vast array of digital post-production techniques at their disposal. These techniques were used for image alteration and correction as well as for non-linear editing. The size of the files required for this process continue to grow. Whereas editor Walter Murch required 1.2 terabytes of disk storage to finish Cold Mountain (2003), there is no doubt that this requirement has already increased.
But what about the periodic landscape film? The ability to store and edit footage requires a lot of storage space, but more importantly, this space is also reserved for footage that is color corrected or otherwise altered to give it a period film. In the 1970s, Nestor Almendros, Haskell Wexler, and John Alcott used painting and photography for visual references. And now, the ability to create Western Texas or the Mojave Desert in the 1890's, 1900's, and 1980's relies on more than the director's figurative vision and the cinematographer's literal eye. These are, after all, landscapes that are stored in computers.


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A Timeless Interfaith Wedding at Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco, California
Meghan Williams (27 and a health care technology manager) and Alex Scherbatskoy (32 and a lawyer) met and fell in love in San Francisco, California. When they planned their wedding, elegance and classic city style was key—as was honoring their families' religious traditions: Meghan is Catholic, and Alex is Jewish. "We feel that ritual and tradition have their place in life, and the celebration of marriage is one of those places," Meghan says. "Marriage is an act of faith." After a ceremony at St. Dominic's Catholic Church in the city, the newlyweds hopped into a vintage Rolls-Royce and headed to their reception at Julia Morgan Ballroom, where they signed a ketubah—the Jewish marriage certificate—broke a glass and danced the hora with all their guests. The night was full of elegant details, from the vintage silver candelabras topping the white linen-topped tables to the four-course dinner. "The decor was chic and romantic," Meghan says. "Tons of candles and flowers took over the space." Later in the evening, Meghan and Alex brought in specially made desserts from Harvey's Gourmet Mini Donuts and coffee from local favorite Travelin' Joe. "Enjoy the process," Meghan says. "It's incredibly fun to be the bride, so enjoy every moment with your mom, girlfriends and future husband. Soak it up!" —Carolyn Meers


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Cooke: No surprise if Johnson leaves
ESPNscrum Staff
November 15, 2011
Martin Johnson's future is still undecided © Getty Images
Former England chief Geoff Cooke has conceded that he would "not be suprised" if Martin Johnson left his post as England's team manager.
Johnson's future remains unclear in the wake of England's failed World Cup campaign when poor performances on the pitch were accompanied by off-field controversies. Cooke, who led England to two Five Nations grand slams during his seven years as England manager, wonders if Johnson will want to carry on after widespread criticism of the behaviour of England players in New Zealand.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he decided he didn't want any more of it," Cooke told the Yorkshire Post. "He's got to ask himself does he need the flak that he's been getting." If Johnson instead opts to carry on Cooke believes the Rugby Football Union will need to insist that he instigates a shake-up of his backroom team.
"I wouldn't be unhappy if they decided to stick with Martin Johnson; after all, he's got the experience now. But he certainly needs a different team of coaches with him. The key decision is still Martin Johnson. Everything depends on that, whether they decide to keep him on, let him go or he decides to go himself."
Cooke also feels the decision of Shaun Edwards to commit himself to Wales was a missed opportunity for the Rugby Football Union. Edwards announced yesterday he had signed a new deal as Wales defence coach, which he will combine with a new role at an Aviva Premiership club after leaving Wasps.
"It is very unfortunate that Shaun Edwards wasn't prepared to hang around. Whether something has gone on behind the scenes that we're not privy to we'll never know. It's a pity, because Edwards seemed to be the type of character we could have done with."
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