AFRL Information Directorate's Seven "Core Technical Competencies"

The Air Force Research Lab's Information Directorate organizes its work into seven areas of "Core Technical Competencies:"

1. Information Exploitation
2. Information Fusion and Understanding
3. Information Management
4. Advanced Computing Architectures
5. Cyber Operations
6. Command and Control
7. Connectivity
   

ZMag's Digital Publishing's Seven

A print promotion in eContent magazine features "Seven Things You Should Know About Digital Publishing." The vendor, zmags, offers these:

1. Cost effective but doesn't replace print
2. Online versions encourage loyalty
3. Digital issues extends reader scope (SEO), tell-a-friend, social nets
   
4. Connect online catalogs to online stores
5. Learn what catches reader attention
6. Short ROI
   
7. Easy to use

If you disagree, tell them, not me. And, oddly, there is no unique URL associated with the print insert, which appears on pp. 41-44 of the July/August 2009 issue, 32(6). I think that violates a corollary of #3.

Italy's Eight Chianti Regions

The Chianti area in Tuscany produces a distinctive red wine of the same name. The straw basket around the Chianti bottle is less commonly found than it once was. The borders of the Chianti region cover the provinces of Florence and Siena, including the area between the two cities and also to the east and west of Florence.

There are eight regions in Italy where Chianti is produced (map courtesy of Chianti.com).

1. "Classico", area between Florence and Siena, as seen in lighter green area on the map to the right.
2. "Colli Aretini", hills towards Arezzo
3. "Colli Fiorentini", hills around Florence
4. "Colli Senesi", hills around Siena
5. "Colline Pisane", hills towards Pisa
6. "Montalbano", area in the Montalbano hills around Pistoia
7. "Montespertoli", hills around Montespertoli
8. "Rufina", area of hills near Rufina to the east of Florence

"Seventh House" in the Musical "Hair"

Maria Barron on her blog "The Sixties" asks "So what is the seventh house and all that?"

"The moon is always in someone's seventh house. It's in my seventh house for two or three days each month, just as it is in yours or anyone else's. Those are different days for different ones of us, depending on our moment of birth, but for each of us they signal pretty good times to fall in love. The seventh house in a person's birth chart is the house of marriage and partnerships, which are one-on-one relationships ruled by Libra. Aquarian relationships are 11th-house matters that are not one-on-one; they're 'One for all and all for one.'

"And what about Jupiter aligning with Mars? Jupiter rules Sagittarius while Mars rules Aries. Representing good fortune and willfulness respectively, Jupiter and Mars make a powerful conjunction when they come into alignment each year, but it's not a particularly Aquarian one.

"The root lyrical problem, I suspect, is that Aquarius is ruled by Uranus. And nobody can sing the name of that planet without cracking up."

Saw the current revival on Broadway. Highly recommended. The music holds up very well, and it's just as controversial and timely as the first time. The Canadian composer continues to work in relative obscurity.

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