The Art of Insight and Action Search: Seven Tribes (now Eight Tribes) This concept first developed as an “information continuum” from described in 1992 as being from schoolhouse to White House, and then in 1993 covering nine elements as shown below. 1992-1993 Nine Sectors From there, for General Peter Schoomaker at USSOCOM, it was described as eight segments, treating the Internet as a separate entity. 1997 Eight Segments It matured when Alvin Toffler and Robert Steele visited DIA for lunch and came away understanding that DIA (at the time) wanted absolutely nothing to do with anything other than military intelligence. Eight Intelligence "Blocks" From there the concept evolved to seven tribes, with media and non-governmental organizations as one “ground truth” tribe. Seven Tribes 2003 Information Peacekeeping & The Future of Intelligence: The United Nations, Smart Mobs, and the Seven Tribes See especially the figures and Note 4. Outreach Concept 1998 Operationalizing IO in Bosnia-Herzegovina by LtCol Garry Beavers and Stephen W. Inter-Agency Information-Sharing
10 Eating Rules French Children Know (But Most Americans Don't) How the French eat, age, dress, raise their children and live in general is a real talking point these days. So, as an American mother of three half-French kids, I figured I'd add my two cents to the conversation. I lived in France before becoming a parent, but eventually it was my kids who taught me everything I need to know about eating like a French person: Eating, and staying slim and healthy, isn't just about what you eat, but also how, when and why. 1. Three meals a day, plus the children’s traditional after-school “gouter,” or snack, which might be a pain au chocolat, fruit or applesauce. When mealtimes roll around, you eat with real pleasure because you’re hungry. 2. Consuming three meals a day without grazing in between means you can eat well when you sit down at the table — and that includes a starter, main course, cheese and dessert. Starter course: Lentil salad Main course: Roasted chicken, green beans Cheese course: Vanilla yogurt 3. 4. 5. Lunchtime is the main event. 6. 7. 8.
Einstein's Puzzle # Copyright (C) 2004 Lauri Karttunen # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. Einstein's Puzzle Variations of this riddle appear on the net from time to time. Let us assume that there are five houses of different colors next to each other on the same road. The Englishman lives in the red house. The question to be answered is: Who keeps fish? This is a simple constraint satisfaction problem. The next concept to define is that of a House. The result is a network with five paths. With C16 added, only one solution remains. We can now see the solution.
Perché non abolire la carne di cavallo dai menù Per aver detto di amare la carne equina, Maria Elena Boschi è stata aspramente criticata da chi vorrebbe eleggere il cavallo ad animale d’affezione. Pubblicato La ministra delle Riforme Maria Elena Boschi è stata bersaglio di polemiche per aver mangiato e gradito una pietanza a base di carne di cavallo, il Tordo matto, offertale alla Festa dell’Unità di Zagarolo, Roma, lo scorso venerdì. Apprezzato l’assaggio, la Boschi si è lasciata scappare la frase: “A Roma si fa fatica a trovare carne di cavallo”. Ho già avuto modo di spiegare il mio punto di vista sulla questione degli animali migliori di altri, ad esempio sulle critiche mosse al Giappone perché si nutre di delfini, considerati belli e intelligenti, e quindi più simili a noi. Tralasciando la posizione di Brambilla, e dopo aver specificato che non è vero che la carne di cavallo è proibita negli Usa (come invece si vocifera sulla questione), vorrei commentare la reazione dell’Enpa.
101 Ways to Be Healthy Do the healthy thing, even when it's challenging, inconvenient or considered weird. Take pride in that. Just because it's popular doesn't mean it's smart or good for you. Enlist fellow trend buckers and create a trend of your own. Don't be boring. Help Remedies: simple healthcare products for headaches, bodyaches, allergies, sleep issues, cuts and blisters 13 techniques pour ne jamais abandonner La principale raison qui fait que les gens n’obtiennent pas ce qu’ils veulent, c’est qu’ils abandonnent trop tôt. Ca peut être n’importe quoi, mais souvent le schéma est le même : vous n’avez pas obtenu ce que vous vouliez alors vous avez abandonné. Arrêtez d’abandonner ! La persévérance est de ces qualités qui font la différence dans une vie. Une qualité, ce n’est pas de l’inné. Voilà quelques techniques pour apprendre à être persévérant et vous aider à ne pas baisser les bras à la prochaine difficulté. 1- Faites du sport Ca peut paraître surprenant comme premier conseil pour ne pas abandonner. Vous pouvez aussi faire une séance de musculation en salle. Vous avez là l’occasion de découvrir des limites physiques, de persévérer quand ça devient difficile. Qu’est-ce que vous attendez pour faire du sport ? 2- Inspirez-vous des exploits des autres Qu’est-ce que vous êtes capable de faire ? Vous êtes une personne parmi tant d’autres. Regardez quelqu’un faire quelque chose qui semble impossible.
TicTrac is a Great Personal Data Aggregation Dashboard and Reporting Service The idea of aggregating data from disparate sources is a common issue on the internet and the search for doing this with social services was the impetus for this blog. I started to see this phenomenon become an issue for the quantified self community as more devices and services for tracking became available. I’ve seen several services come online to tackle the issue of aggregating quantified self related data over the last few years and list them here. One of the primary reasons for aggregating multiple sources of activity data is to provide a single view to more easily glean insights. A simple method to visualize this is by seeing multiple bar graphs plotted together based on these distinct data points. I’ve been searching for a personal dashboard that would allow me to import my personal data from both hardware devices and web services that I use. In my above dashboard you can see I have a variety of widgets showing various metrics.
14 Ways to Acquire Knowledge: A Timeless Guide from 1936 Consider the knowledge you already have — the things you really know you can do. They are the things you have done over and over; practiced them so often that they became second nature. Every normal person knows how to walk and talk. Most of us quit on the first or second attempt. Any normal child, at about the age of three or four, reaches the asking period, the time when that quickly developing brain is most eager for knowledge. Those first bitter refusals to our honest questions of childhood all too often squelch our “Asking faculty.” Every person possessing knowledge is more than willing to communicate what he knows to any serious, sincere person who asks. Ask! You never learn much until you really want to learn. Desire is the foundation of all learning and you can only climb up the ladder of knowledge by desiring to learn. If you don’t desire to learn you’re either a num-skull [sic] or a “know-it-all.” You may be surprised to hear that you already know a great deal! Write!
Stop Making Plans: How Goal-Setting Limits Rather Than Begets Our Happiness and Success by Maria Popova “Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities — for success, for happiness, for really living — are waiting.” “The job — as well as the plight, and the unexpected joy — of the artist is to embrace uncertainty, to be sharpened and honed by it,” Dani Shapiro wrote in her beautiful meditation on the perils of plans. There is hardly a better time than a month into a new year to behold the disconnect between our plans and our reality as even our most vigorously intended New Year’s resolutions crumble, despite all that we know about the psychology of self-control and the science of forming new habits. The solution, however, might not be to further tighten the grip with which we cling to our plans — rather, it’s to let go of plans altogether. What motivates our investment in goals and planning for the future, much of the time, isn’t any sober recognition of the virtues of preparation and looking ahead. Uncertainty is where things happen. Donating = Loving
This isn’t a Bucket List; it’s a F**k-it List Life can end in an unpredictable instant. The degree of separation between people is estimated to be around 4.74. This is why we’ve all heard about the friend of a friend who was murdered, the local car accident with multiple fatalities or the fire which ended the lives of several we knew in our community. Most of us too have had something unexpectedly terrible happen to a loved one which resulted in their death. For example, there are terminal illnesses which spontaneously occur at many different ages and not just once a person has lived a full life, as well as accidents, rare diseases etc. It also feels all too common that we hear about a father who died whilst saving his son from drowning or an adult member of the public who perished whilst attempting to rescue another person from some life or death situation. These are both tragic and triumphant stories of human affairs. This article isn’t about fear or tragedy, but self-empowerment. Humans are naturally communal animals.
Work and Pleasure: Theodor Adorno on the Psychology of “Gadgeteering” and How the Cult of Efficiency Limits Our Happiness by Maria Popova “One is forced to have fun in order to be well adjusted or at least appear so to others because only well-adjusted people are accepted as normal and are likely to be successful.” Few thinkers have advanced our understanding of the machinery we call popular culture more than the great German sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and media critic Theodor Adorno (September 11, 1903–August 6, 1969). In the 1950s, Adorno embarked upon a rather unusual project: He began analyzing the horoscopes published in the Los Angeles Times as an inquiry into “the nature and motivations of some large-scale social phenomena involving irrational elements … fused with what may be dubbed pseudo-rationality.” From these investigations, eventually published as The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture (public library), sprang expansive and enduring insight into many of the myths that bedevil modern culture and still limit our lives on a daily basis. Adorno writes:
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