Honor's event in Berlin today was expected to only feature the Global launch of the Honor Play. They announced the gaming phone's pricing and availability in Europe at the event. At the end of the launch, viewers were surprised by a sneak peek at the second edition of a phone that we first saw back in 2016: the Honor Magic. But first, let's start with the Honor Play.
See our hands-on video with the Honor Play in the Ultra Violet color.
The Honor Play will be available in five different colors. The first three colors are midnight black, navy blue, and ultra violet. These colors will come with the price-tag of €329. Honor also announced a "Player Edition" version of the phone that will feature a special design for gamers in black and red. The Player Edition will be sold for €349.
While talking about the GPU Turbo feature, Honor also announced that this feature will be coming to other Honor phones in the form of an OTA update. They shared a timeline for the release.
Honor talked a little bit about their new partnership with PUBG Mobile and how we can expect them to be working together in the future to offer Honor users a better gaming experience. The GPU Turbo bumps the average frame rate up to 39.46fps on PUBG Mobile. Jitter rate has been reduced to 0.21%. Honor is also using AI to improve the gaming experience. The AI adjust vibration to match the game, and 3D audio creates an immersive effect.
The camera was another point of emphasis for Honor. The 16MP front camera has AI motion detection and intelligent recognition. Photos should look great on the big 6.3-inch FullView display with a 19.5:9 aspect ratio as well.
The Honor Play will be available for €329 in Europe and £279 in the UK. That's for the base model with 4GB of RAM as they did not share pricing for the 6GB RAM model. The Ultra Violet color will not be available in the UK. The "Player Edition" colors will be slightly more expensive at €349 and are exclusive to Germany and Spain right now. The phones are available to purchase right now from the HiHonor website.
While mostly everything about this phone was kept a secret, we did get a look at the "Magic Fullview Display," which features an edge-to-edge screen and no notch.
The Honor Magic 2 with Fullview Display.
While the design appears to have left no room for the camera, a physical demonstration shows off the "Magic Slide." The camera is revealed as the top of the phone is slid up, exposing the sensor. This looks similar to what we saw on the Oppo Find X, although the Honor Magic 2 has a manually-retractable camera, unlike the Find X's motorized version. Some of the other specifications we know include the HiSilicon Kirin 980 system-on-chip and 40W Super Fast Charge. We'll learn more about the Kirin 980 at Huawei's press event tomorrow.
Lastly, there was a brief moment during the teaser video that seemed to hint at a new AI Assistant named "Yoyo." At the end of the video, you hear a voice say "Hello Yoyo," which triggers a response from a female voice that appears to be Honor's own digital assistant.
There is no information on any of the other features that you might expect in the Honor Magic 2. We'll let you know if we learn more about this device.
Note: Huawei has stopped providing official bootloader unlock codes for its devices. Therefore, the bootloader of the Honor Play and Honor Magic 2 cannot be unlocked, which means that users cannot flash Magisk/TWRP/Project Treble Generic System Images/AOSP-based custom ROMs.


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Het dier behoort tot het geslacht Cryptoparachtes. De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd voor het eerst geldig gepubliceerd in 1992 door Dunin.

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Tritaia is located in the center of the imaginary circle that created the villages Penteoria, Vounichora, Agia Euthumia, Sernikaki and the town of Itea from which is just 9km.
A small, beautiful village in Phocis, Tritaia is built in the middle of the route between Itea and Galaxidi.
Tritaia and Kirra are the oldest residential areas in Greece as several archaeologists put in its place the ancient town Ypnia based on a stone inscription which refers to a treaty between Ypnia (Tritaia) and Mionia (Agia Euthumia). The historian Thucydides and Pausanias also referred to Ypnia.
Tritaia can also be included in the villages that had been destroyed by the earthquake of 1854.


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Morsi and NY Times mislead Americans
The New York Times published an interview with Egyptian President and Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohamed Morsi today.
Morsi makes some interesting statements, like this:
If you want to judge the performance of the Egyptian people by the standards of German or Chinese or American culture, then there is no room for judgment … When the Egyptians decide something, probably it is not appropriate for the U.S. When the Americans decide something, this, of course, is not appropriate for Egypt.
I suppose this means that if they want to murder Christians we oughtn't to judge them, while they reserve the right to attack our embassy whenever someone in the US makes a video that insults them. Unfair? What else could it mean?
He said several times that the US favors Israel over the Palestinians, and that this is a problem in relations between Egypt and the US. I would say two things in response: first, Egypt has never been a friend to Palestinian nationalism, except insofar as it could be used as a weapon against Israel. In 1948, Egypt established a harsh military occupation of the Gaza strip. Arab refugees were forced into refugee camps at gunpoint — by Egyptian soldiers.
Historian Efraim Karsh tells us,
[In 1948] the Egyptian government showed no desire to annex the Gaza Strip but had instead ruled the newly acquired area as an occupied military zone. This did not imply support of Palestinian nationalism, however, or of any sort of collective political awareness among the Palestinians. The local population was kept under tight control, was denied Egyptian citizenship, and was subjected to severe restrictions on travel.
In economic and humanitarian terms, the 'plight' of the Palestinians was far worse under Arab occupation before 1967 than after Israel took control of the territories. Karsh writes,
Under Israeli rule, the Palestinians also made vast progress in social welfare. Perhaps most significantly, mortality rates in the West Bank and Gaza fell by more than two-thirds between 1970 and 1990, while life expectancy rose from 48 years in 1967 to 72 in 2000 (compared with an average of 68 years for all the countries of the Middle East and North Africa). Israeli medical programs reduced the infant-mortality rate of 60 per 1,000 live births in 1968 to 15 per 1,000 in 2000 (in Iraq the rate is 64, in Egypt 40, in Jordan 23, in Syria 22). And under a systematic program of inoculation, childhood diseases like polio, whooping cough, tetanus, and measles were eradicated.
No less remarkable were advances in the Palestinians' standard of living. By 1986, 92.8 percent of the population in the West Bank and Gaza had electricity around the clock, as compared to 20.5 percent in 1967; 85 percent had running water in dwellings, as compared to 16 percent in 1967; 83.5 percent had electric or gas ranges for cooking, as compared to 4 percent in 1967; and so on for refrigerators, televisions, and cars.
This is not to say that the Palestinians are happy being ruled by Jews, which of course is devastating for their sense of honor and Muslim sensibilities. But it does make one wonder how much Egyptians have historically cared for their Palestinian Arab 'brothers'.
Second, it is simply untrue that the US has favored Israel over the Palestinians, unless you understand this to mean that the US has not (yet) supported maximalist Arab demands for the replacement of Israel by an Arab state. The US has certainly pressured Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians, and it is only the Palestinian desire to 'have it all' that has prevented a US-brokered Palestinian state from coming into being.
And here is something else that is untrue:
… he also argued that Americans "have a special responsibility" for the Palestinians because the United States had signed the 1978 Camp David accord. The agreement called for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the West Bank and Gaza to make way for full Palestinian self-rule.
"As long as peace and justice are not fulfilled for the Palestinians, then the treaty remains unfulfilled," he said. [my emphasis]
The sentence in bold is not presented as a quotation from Morsi. It is a simple statement of 'fact' by the Times' writers, David D. Kirkpatrick and Steven Erlanger. Regardless of who said it, it is quite false. The Camp David agreement called for Israel to end its military government and withdraw troops from areas of the territories where a self-governing authority is elected by the Palestinians. These conditions have been more than met with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. Elder of Ziyon comments on the text of the agreement thus:
Camp David does not say that there will necessarily be a Palestinian Arab state in the West Bank and Gaza. It most certainly says nothing about a full Israeli withdrawal from the territories, only that its final status (and, by implication, its borders) will be up for negotiation after a transition period. And it explicitly says that there will be a redeployment of Israeli security forces – in order to ensure security for Israel – into locations that can only mean in parts of the territories, or else it would have just said "withdrawal of remaining Israeli forces," period.
Indeed, the agreement also talks about joint Jordanian-Israeli patrols in Judea/Samaria!
By demanding "Peace and justice … for the Palestinians" as part of Camp David — and we know well how this is interpreted in the Arab world — Morsi can justify Egypt's abrogating any part of the treaty that it chooses (although I doubt he will be returning the Sinai to Israel any time soon). This is important, because it will soon become a live issue as the Egyptians 'reconsider' the treaty.
The Times' presentation is either incompetent (they don't know what's in the Camp David agreement) or dishonest.
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3 Responses to "Morsi and NY Times mislead Americans"
Robman says:
The answer to the multiple choice question above is obviously choice "b".
Of course they are dishonest. If they were simply incompetent, by the law of averages, they would from time to time produce "incompetent" journalism that winds up favoring Israel. It is interesting that their "incompetence" always winds up being in a particular direction, every time, without fail.
This reflects both the obvious justice of our own cause, and the incredible level of corruption in our media today.
No matter what spin they tried to put on it, if they simply stuck to the facts, Israel would likely come out ahead in the court of public opinion, or at least in a lot better shape than she's in. What we see here – what we see so often – is that the other side and their lackeys cannot win the argument based on fact. They have to literally make things up, frequently, in order to make Israel look bad.
It isn't enough that they dominate discourse at our universities. It isn't enough that the overwhelming majority of the time, every opportunity is taken to make Israel look as bad as possible through selective use of what facts there are, plus raw sensationalism aimed at public emotions. They have even corrupted our most heretofore respected journalistic institutions to the point where they routinely tell outright lies in order to support the Palestinian narrative and portray Israel as the villain.
If it comes to war – and sooner or later this seems inevitable – I hope that Israeli leaders do not hold back at all, one iota. Ironically, Obama has pushed Israel into a corner such that he has practically invited her to take this approach, leaving her with little left to lose by doing so. She must fight like she did in '67, going all out…but with the much greater power she has today compared with then.
As she will get no help from anyone, she has to strike as fast and as hard with the full range of her capabilities, with the maximum level of violence up front, so as to decisively throttle her enemies before whatever sanctions she may be subjected to by the world community have a chance to bite during the fighting. Increasingly this appears to be the only option remaining.
nanhum says:
well said, Vic. Morsy and the NYT in propagandist collusion.
Shalom Freedman says:
Why is the 'Times' incapable of knowing the facts presented in this article? The answer of course is also given in the article. They really don't want to.
I would like to add I very much enjoyed reading this devastating taking- apart of the mendacious interview given by Morsi.

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Q: SIGINT not captureble, in python I am trying to catch cntrl-c events so that I can gracefully shutdown my server( using the bottle framework). However, when I test this, I never hit the stop method in the debugger and I get a unclosed socket warning as well to confirm this. What am I missing here.
class CFMServer(ServerAdapter):

    def run(self, handler):
        from wsgiref.simple_server import make_server, WSGIRequestHandler
        self.server = make_server(self.host, self.port, handler, **self.options)
        # set signal handlers
        signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, self.stop)
        signal.signal(signal.SIGTERM, self.stop)
        try:
            self.server.serve_forever()
        except KeyboardInterrupt:
            self.stop()
            raise

    def stop(self):
        pdb.set_trace()
        manager.save()
        self.server.server_close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('port', metavar='P', type=int,
                        help='Port to assign the server in localhost')
    args = parser.parse_args()
    port = args.port
    server = CFMServer(host='localhost', port=port)
    service.run(server=server, debug=True)

Here is my output from the shell, when I interrupt.
    Bottle v0.13-dev server starting up (using CFMServer())...
Listening on http://localhost:11245/
Hit Ctrl-C to quit.

^CTraceback (most recent call last):
  File "./cfm-service", line 127, in <module>
    service.run(server=server, debug=True)
  File "/repo/ekrmann/next-debugger/python/emca/gdbcmds/emca/core/third_party/bottle.py", line 881, in run
    run(self, **kwargs)
  File "/repo/ekrmann/next-debugger/python/emca/gdbcmds/emca/core/third_party/bottle.py", line 3476, in run
    server.run(app)
  File "./cfm-service", line 108, in run
    self.server.serve_forever()
  File "/app/vbuild/RHEL6-i686/python/3.5.0/lib/python3.5/socketserver.py", line 237, in serve_forever
    ready = selector.select(poll_interval)
  File "/app/vbuild/RHEL6-i686/python/3.5.0/lib/python3.5/selectors.py", line 367, in select
    fd_event_list = self._poll.poll(timeout)
TypeError: stop() takes 1 positional argument but 3 were given
sys:1: ResourceWarning: unclosed <socket.socket fd=4, family=AddressFamily.AF_INET, type=SocketKind.SOCK_STREAM, proto=0, laddr=('127.0.0.1', 11245)>

A: Your stop method does not implement the Python signal handler signature. Instead of
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, self.stop)

write a helper function that does:
signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, lambda _signum, _stack: self.stop())

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Why building an online product in a 12-month timeline is wrong?
It might be a complex online system, it might be an application. When we plan to build an online business, we need to focus on benefits for our clients, instead of an impressive amount of features. If we decide to create a product packed with functionalities, we will have to face a 12-month work process. Why designing an IT project in a 12-month-ahead system is a bad idea?
Having plenty of ideas and a wide perspective for our online business is great. So is owning a huge budget to make our plans come true. Then we can work on a product as advanced as we want to, and wait for amazing results. However, if our aim is to break into the market, earn money fast, and all of that on the lowest risk of failure, then we will have to reconsider our methodology. Instead of trying to achieve hundreds of functionalities of our app, our main goal should be to address the needs of our target audience.
If we choose Waterfall as our project solution, we will have to deal with a long haul operation. From the analysis, through designing and implementation, up to testing our product – the entire process will take at least a year. Why?
Let's dive into the very first stage. The one that lasts for several weeks or months, long before we kick off the actual work. That's a big idea and a vision of a product. Yes, it is crucial to come up with a brilliant business concept. However, rethinking, discussing it with our friends and business partners, may postpone the whole project, and that gives time for our competitors to leave us behind. The problem is that we isolate ourselves during a product design process, instead of teaming up with a software house in creative and productive product workshops.
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• Freezing up our specification for 10-12 months will make us very vulnerable. Will we have a chance to react to the technology updates and our competitors' business activity? Even if we manage to do so, we have to postpone shipping our product to the market, which equals bigger risk and higher cost.
• Product specification is based on our assumptions and beliefs, rather than on real analysis.
For instance, if we run a network of beauty salons and we hire a software house to establish a system for providing analytical reports of scheduled treatments, we might eventually conclude that all we needed is a platform to increase the number of clients. Which means the product has to be written all over again. Our platform needs to have features to reach more clients and then to provide a high-quality customer service. This case shows us how important is to make correct assumptions, and that verifying them is essential. Can we afford to take a risk of validating those assumptions after 12 months of Waterfall work?
Fortunately, there is a powerful alternative and a cure for our problems – the Lean Startup approach. With the help of Scrum tactics, we can get useful feedback, not after 12 months, but after just few weeks. Together with a software house we carefully choose the most important features of our product, that will address the pain points of our clients. After we find elements that hold the greatest value, we reach our end users with a dialogue. What we can get is a meaningful feedback on our product, and just after a few weeks, we enriched our business with a network of dedicated clients, engaged in creating a product with us.
Worst case scenario – if after those few weeks the feedback is totally negative and our users reject the app, we still have 11 months to improve it. Good news is that after many months of iterations and modifications we finally receive a product and we still have a valuable audience of customers. In the case of Waterfall, after the same period of time, we would be releasing an app without the initial feedback, and without marketing at all. Are we willing to risk that much?
• Is there an application on the market that we can incorporate into our system? It will be cheaper and faster to buy a ready app and include it in our product. Instead of 3 months of work spent on building an app, it will take 3 days to solve this problem.
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Choosing an effective project methodology is an essential business decision. At this stage, we can prevent our company from failure. The agile approach will save us time, money, and effort, and most importantly – it will lead us to a product that will resonate.


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Q: how to auto click element in webbrowser? VB i need auto click some element on page load.
web:
https://faucet.raiblockscommunity.net/form.php
this is the source:

Got it!

this is my VB code:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace WindowsFormsApplication16
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{
    public Form1()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
    }

    private void webBrowser1_DocumentCompleted(object sender, WebBrowserDocumentCompletedEventArgs e)
    {

    }

}
}

I need to automatically click on the element when the page is loaded on the webbrowser, without pressing any button

A: You can do it by different ways. One of them is to integrate Selenium and use fire path/firebug to inspect the element, to get the respective id and then you can use following code,
WebDriver test_driver = new FirefoxDriver();

driver.findElement(By.id("element id"))

You can do this in different ways within Selenium . Refer the link: https://loadfocus.com/blog/2013/09/05/how-to-locate-web-elements-with-selenium-webdriver/


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First Student with Down Syndrome to Graduate from DC Public Schools Does So with Honors
John Burger - published on 06/16/16
Mother pushed school to treat her like everyone else, and it paid off
Madison Essig has reached a milestone in her life, and she may have given the public school system of the nation's capital a milestone of its own.
The 18-year-old just received her diploma from Woodrow Wilson High School and became the school's first youngster with Down syndrome to have graduated with a full diploma.
She might, in fact, be the first student with Down to graduate from any Washington, DC public high school with a standard diploma since D.C. Public Schools started keeping digital records in 1996, according to The Washington Post.
And she did so as part of the National Honor Society, graduating with a 3.7 GPA.
"I'm so happy I'm graduating," Essig said at the ceremony Tuesday at American University's Bender Arena. "I have come so far in what I have done."
The end of this chapter may have been very different, were it not for the intervention of Madison's mother, Kimberly Templeton.
"When Madison was born, we were told she would walk, but there was no guarantee that she would ever read or write," Templeton told Fox's DC affiliate.
Madison and her mother said the biggest obstacle in her development wasn't Madison's ability – it was the education system. Schools were reluctant to give her access to the full curriculum because they told her it simply hadn't been done before. So Templeton pushed. "What I wanted was her not to be labeled as a kid with Down syndrome, but just be a kid who had the opportunity to achieve," she said. "Until she proves she can't do it, let's not stop her now."
Essig took the majority of her courses in mainstream classrooms without an aide, the Post reported. Other courses — including geometry — she took in a class with a special education teacher but followed the standard curriculum and workload.
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That turned out to be a temporary problem.
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Q: What syntax is better for python != or is not? For example:
match = re.search('...', str, re.IGNORECASE)
if match is not None:
    pass

# or
if match != None:
    pass

What is better?

A: From PEP 8:

Comparisons to singletons like None should always be done with is or is not, never the equality operators.


If your reading this you're probably ready to take your social media marketing to a whole new level. Statistically speaking, that's exactly what scheduling does for your social media presence. Scheduling helps put your content in front of the people that care about your products at the perfect time, on the perfect day, and in a way that is far more effective than you could achieve through manual efforts.
The "perfect day" to schedule to social media is the day when your content will be the most meaningful and the most viewed.
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Teen Testifies About Abuse at Trial of New Jersey Yeshiva Teacher
In nearly two and a half hours of testimony in a New Jersey courtroom, a teenage boy described repeated sexual assaults by a counselor at an Orthodox Jewish summer camp.
The boy, 16, and described by the Asbury Park Press as "tall, lanky and rosy-cheeked," said he was happy when he attracted the attention of counselor Yosef Kolko in 2007 at Yachad summer camp, saying he had no friends at the time and it felt "awesome" to be noticed by a "cool" counselor. But when the boy returned to camp the next summer, Kolko singled him out in a series of encounters that involved touching, oral sex, and attempted anal sex, the Press said.
The teen testified that secret encounters with Kolko continued through 2008 and into early 2009 at places in and around Lakewood, New Jersey, including the basement of a synagogue.
Kolko, who was a counselor at Yachad as well as a teacher at Yeshiva Orchos Chaim in Lakewood, is charged with aggravated sexual assault, attempted aggravated sexual assault, sexual assault and child endangerment, the Asbury Park Press said.
In her opening statement, Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Laura Pierro praised the boy and his family for bringing the case to the authorities. The Orthodox community discourages its members from involving secular authorities in abuse cases, pressing them to resolve such matters internally, Pierro said. The family was ostracized by the community and eventually moved away to Michigan, the Asbury Park Press reported.
The teenager said he hesitated to tell anyone about the abuse in part because he was afraid of ruining Kolko's career and his chance to get married, the Press said. Kolko had said he was getting help, the boy testified, so the boy thought there was no reason to say anything. But in early 2009, when he confided in a therapist who discouraged him from contact with Kolko, the boy decided he should tell his father about the abuse.


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Francisco Jeronymo Salles Lara (São José dos Campos, 22 de junho de 1925 – São Paulo, 7 de setembro de 2004) foi um bioquímico, pesquisador e professor universitário brasileiro.

Grande oficial da Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico e membro titular da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, Francisco foi professor da Universidade de São Paulo e um dos mais importantes bioquímicos do Brasil.

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Francisco nasceu em São José dos Campos, em 1925. Ingressou no curso de biologia pela antiga Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras da Universidade de São Paulo (USP), formando-se em 1944 como bacharel e obtendo a licenciatura em 1945. Embarcou para os Estados Unidos em 1949 para seu doutorado na Universidade Stanford, onde foi orientado por Cornelis Bernardus van Niel, renomado cientista norte-americano responsável pela demonstração da fotossíntese como processo metabólico de fotólise.

De volta ao Brasil, ingressou como pesquisador independente no Instituto de Biofísica Carlos Chagas Filho da então Universidade do Brasil (hoje a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), dirigido pelo por Carlos Chagas Filho. Saiu do Rio de Janeiro e foi para Ribeirão Preto, para a recém-instalada Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto da Universidade de São Paulo (FMRP-USP), em 1951. Por último, foi para a capital paulista, como professor-colaborador junto ao Departamento de Botânica da antiga Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras a fim de ministrar Bioquímica aos alunos de Biologia.

Foi como professor de bioquímica na USP que Francisco começou a estudar pufes de DNA que ocorrem nos cromossomos politênicos de Rhynchosciara americana, uma espécie de mosca. Francisco também foi responsável pela organização da pós-graduação em bioquímica da USP, além de ter sido promovido a professor titular de biologia molecular.

Francisco usou o estudo dos pufes de DNA para formar seus estudantes na nova disciplina e introduziu suas técnicas e modo de ataque a problemas científicos no Brasil. Formou cerca de dezenove doutores e sete mestres, tendo publicado 60 artigos originais em revistas de renome internacional. O principal feito de seu laboratório consistiu em descobrir, na década de 70 que os pufes de DNA são responsáveis pela formação de ácidos mensageiros, o que norteou as pesquisas no campo desde então.

Além de professor e pesquisador, Francisco trabalhou no desenvolvimento e aperfeiçoamento dos órgãos nacionais de pesquisa, como membro-titular da Academia Brasileira de Ciências e como Membro-fundador da Academia de Ciências do Estado de São Paulo. Foi secretário executivo e presidente da Sociedade Brasileira de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular (SBBq), e membro da comissão organizadora do programa de Bioquímica da FAPESP.

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Francisco morreu em 7 de setembro de 2004, na capital paulista, aos 79 anos, por complicações após um infarto. Sua missa de 7º dia se deu e 13 de dezembro, na Igreja São José, no Jardim Europa, em São Paulo.

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I am typing this post using Firefox, an \'open-source\' web browser developed by Mozilla, a non-profit organisation that rose from the ashes of AOL/Netscape. Like millions of other Firefox users, I use Mozilla products because they are free, well-maintained (by the wisdom of crowds), and gently cock a snook at proprietory behemoths like Microsoft\'s Internet Explorer.
This morning (yesterday afternoon in California), Brendan Eich was driven to resign as chief executive of Mozilla, because of his opposition to same-sex marriage, and specifically his support of California\'s Proposition 8. Obviously, I disagree with his views, and think it\'s sad that people become so obsessed with preventing other people enjoying equal rights that they throw money at preventing it. But his views don\'t make Mr Eich a bad chief executive, nor do they make Firefox a bad product (either in terms of its intrinsic quality, or in terms of its wider social and ethical impact).
There\'s an interesting comparison to be drawn between Mr Eich and Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon. Mr Bezos\' credentials are impeccably liberal. The $2.5 million he spent campaigning for gay marriage in Washington State dwarves the $1,000 donation made by Mr Eich. But Mr Bezos heads a business whose huge wharehouses provide minimum-wage employment under Orwellian surveillance, which drives out of business bookshops, record stores and any other retailer it focuses on, and which has been criticised on both sides of the Atlantic for the paltry levels of tax it pays.
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In June 2001, the Ganchahe Town Authorities began to explore the possibility of privatizing the construction and management of the town's public utilities. Through a variety of mechanisms, such as closed auctions, contracting, public bidding, and the provision of government subsidies, the town has put the following under private management: street cleaning operations, the construction and operation of a water plant, a kindergarten, an elementary school, and a public cemetery.
The project has made some breakthroughs in the privatization small town public amenities:
1) The town government has broken through its former ideological and systemic constraints. It makes decisions based on the practical needs of local residents and the need for sustainable development in the town. For example, the town government had been attempting to construct a water plant for over 10 years, but was unsuccessful because of the lack of public finances. In the second half of 2000, the town government sold the management rights to private investors in an open auction. With the participation of the private sector, the water plant was completed in August 2002 at a cost to the government of only 600,000 yuan. The plant has a capacity 2000 tons of water per day. By the end of 2003, more than 300 households were using water from the plant.
2) The privatization of public utilities facilitates the transformation of the role of government, helping to transform the government from a direct investor in public utilities to a regulator of them. It reduces the government's management costs, so that the government can invest more funds in the provision of other public goods.
3) Through the introduction of competitive market mechanisms such as auction and public building in privatizing public utilities, the town has promoted transparency and accountability in privatization. The quality of construction and the provision of services by public amenities have improved as well.
The project at Ganchahe Town has become a model for Shucheng County. The towns of Qianrenqiao and Hangbu have emulated Ganchahe's experience with its water plant. Not only has the aim of providing water been achieved, but nearly 3 million yuan have been saved as well. The construction and operation of the public cemetery has been promoted by the county government as an example from which other townships can learn.
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St. Mary's Cathedral (Portland, Oregon) facts for kids
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St. Mary's Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland in Portland, Oregon, United States and serves Roman Catholics in western Oregon.
Architectural Style and Details
In 1925 Archbishop Alexander Christie authorized construction of a new cathedral at the corner of NW 18th and Couch streets as he struggled with a mortal illness. Parishioners and clergy from all over the archdiocese responded. In less than a year, on February 14, 1926, the new church opened. The first services were held on Friday, February 19, 1926.
In 1993, a restoration study was completed. Thomas Hacker and Associates, a Portland architectural firm, was asked to a draft detailed restoration plan for the cathedral and a larger master plan that would provide for long-range improvements around the cathedral in keeping with the Catholic tradition of service. The cathedral was restored for the 150th anniversary of the Portland Archdiocese in 1996. The restoration included seismic strengthening, electrical, heating, and lighting updating, as well as liturgical and artistic modifications.
The marble statues of Mary and the Sacred Heart against the north walls of both transepts were carved in Switzerland and brought to the earlier 3rd and Stark Street cathedral by the Benedictine monks, who later founded Mount Angel Abbey. The Narthex doors' glass etching contains subtle symbols of the seven Sacraments. The transept windows date from the 1870s and were brought from two earlier cathedrals, as well as the Archbishop's Chair.
The stations of the cross are original to the cathedral.
The architectural plans were by Jacobberger and Smith. The architectural style is Twentieth Century Romanesque and Byzantine, with a red tiled gable roof, cast-stone Corinthian columns, and a square tower with copper cornices. The marble floor in the apse was laid in 1926. The new marble on the floor in the remainder of the cathedral is a pattern of several Italian marbles. The doors are white oak in cast bronze on the exterior. Letters on the granite sign are Roman majuscules from the Trajan inscription in Rome. The coat of arms on the sign is of the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon.
The three bells of the tower were cast in the late 1880s and originally installed in the former cathedral at Third and Stark Streets. They were manually-pealed until 2017, when the bells and yokes were refurbished and fitted with linear ringing motors. They sound at the pitches of D¹, F¹, and Ab¹.
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6 simple ways to get back on the fitness track. You can do this. The first step is to read this piece.
Life is full of surprises and regardless of how well you plan, often times things beyond your control occur and can ruin the best intentions. There are times that work gets so crazy that even the most dedicated fitness enthusiast can't get in a workout. Maybe you have an ailing child or parent who consumes all of your time. Or maybe you did the unthinkable and worked out like an 18 year-old ninja and injured yourself. But probably you just did what many of us do — you started eating unhealthy and you stopped exercising. The bottom line is it doesn't matter how you ended up here — what's important is how you get back on track.
I know many of you think that I'm the iron woman, steadfast in my life of excellent nutritional eating and long, grueling workouts. While this is true most of the time, I have fallen off the wagon more times than I can count. The numerous and painful surgeries I have had — spinal fusion with hardware, broken shoulder, hip replacement and massive dental work — knocked me down hard. Additionally, just like all of you, I have had long stretches of time when fitness had to be put on the back burner because of life issues that consumed all my time. Then there were times when I just got lazy, ate like a pig and stopped going to the gym.
These difficult times helped me develop a strategy that allows you to ease back into your fitness program simply. Of course, recovering from a serious injury or illness cannot equate with eating an entire cake and gallon of ice cream every night for a month, but the process of getting back on track are very similar.
BANISH NEGATIVITY: Easier said than done? Absolutely! But you are 100% in control of your thoughts and it's solely up to you to push forward both physically and mentally. If you need to cry, do it! It's okay to feel down or disappointed and it can be cathartic to have a good wail.
RETHINK YOUR GOALS: Although weight loss is usually the main goal for starting a fitness program, it's usually not the only reason. Increased mobility, flexibility and strength or the desire to run a 5K race are some other fitness motivators. When trying to get back on track it's best to start with goals like "I will eliminate junk food" or "I'll walk for 15 minutes everyday" instead of "I want to lose 50 pounds and run a marathon." Make your goals simple, attainable and accountable! Write them down and then do them. Once you are back on track you can reassess your goals and make them harder to reach.
ONE DAY AT A TIME: There's a reason this is the mantra for many people looking to rid themselves of poor behaviors. It's because it works! Don't live in the past or future because you need to focus all your energy on today!
SET YOURSELF UP FOR SUCCESS: Decide what you need to start working on immediately and figure out what you need to do to get it done. Want to take an early morning exercise class? Put all your workout gear out the night before and set up the coffee machine. My post "HOW WOMEN OVER 50 CAN LEARN TO EMBRACE MORNING WORKOUTS" is full of great tips to help you achieve this attainable goal. If you've been eating poorly and have put on some weight, the first step is to clean up your nutrition. My video "PREPPING YOUR KITCHEN FOR WEIGHT LOSS SUCCESS" will teach you how to create a diet friendly environment.
GIVE YOURSELF A PAT ON THE BACK: It's not easy to start or stay on track with a fitness program. If you've gone astray and returned to your fitness routine I think you should give yourself a small reward like a manicure or new lipstick. "6 SIMPLE TREATS FOR PAMPERING AFTER A WORKOUT" has lots of great ideas.
Regardless of what made you stop, with some thought you can get back on track with your fitness program. Don't be hard on yourself. Acknowledge your situation and move forward. So many times they told me I couldn't but I did. So many times I said "no more" but eventually came back. Whether no time, no motivation or no ability, your spirit can move you back in the right direction if you chose. It's all there for you!
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A big concern that homeowners often express is that being Firewise might mean getting rid of all of the trees on their properties. Fortunately, there are quite a few things to do that make trees and homes safer that do not involve mass deforestation.
In some cases, simply removing overhanging branches or limbing trees up from the ground will make you sufficiently resistant from embers or firebrands. Healthy, well-maintained trees or forestland on your property looks attractive and not necessarily pose a major risk for the spread of wildfire.
Each site is slightly different, and the best bet is to consult an arborist or forester on the species and arrangement of the trees, as well as other factors. You may need to remove or thin out some trees to maintain the health of the rest, and it will leave you with better landscaping and a more secure home out of the bargain.
The March/April issue of Wildfire Magazine highlights the work NFPA's Wildland Fire Operations Division is doing to include the nation's estimated 8.8 million youth, in grades six through twelve living in wildland/urban interface areas, in wildfire awareness and preparedness outreach efforts.
This young demographic has traditionally been under-utilized in the development of most education programs and strategic messaging; even though they hold tremendous potential and have the power to be valuable conduits for getting mitigation information into their homes. Their ability to initiate family conversations about wildfire preparedness and motivate their family to implement actions is significant and should be a key component in all outreach efforts.
If you have kids, nieces, nephews, or grandchildren, take a moment to think about the times they've been the motivator and reminder for you to incorporate safety actions into your everyday life; and how those things have now become part of your daily routine. Young people can be very persistent in getting us to change our mindset about what and how we do things. Ask any parent about the power their kids hold in getting them to make changes. Those conversations cover many topics…seat belts, talking on a cell phone while driving, reminding us to change the batteries in our smoke and CO alarms, wearing helmets while bike riding or skiing; the list is long. Begrudgingly, we need to give our kids the credit they deserve for being effective at giving us those annoying and not so gentle nudges in tackling the things we tend to avoid, or put on the back burner, even though we know they're important.
So let's empower them to nag a little more and get their families to take actions that reduce wildfire risk, and help them prepare for the day that a wildfire may be an uninvited guest knocking at the door. Young people are great motivators, positive influencers and messengers. They're our future mitigation champions!
NFPA's report Engaging Youth in Reducing Wildfire Risk — Community Conversation Workshop Findings and Research is available in the Youth and Families section of the Firewise website.
The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Coalition has released a report, "Lessons from Waldo Canyon" and companion video, "Creating Fire Adapted Communities: A Case Study from Colorado Springs and the Waldo Canyon Fire." Both the video and report are available on the Fire Adapted Communities website.
In the wake of the June 2012 Waldo Canyon Fire that destroyed 345 homes and resulted in the evacuation of more than 30,000 residents from the City of Colorado Springs, CO; members of the Fire Adapted Communities Coalition visited the area to learn how the city's decade-long wildfire safety programs had affected the outcome of the fire. The report and video are the result of interviews, field visits and tours of the city's most affected neighborhoods during a three-day postfire visit in July 2012.
With support from the U.S. Forest Service, the mitigation assessment team was comprised of representatives from the FAC Coalition including the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS), the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), with invaluable assistance from CSFD's Fire Marshal Brett Lacey and the department's Wildfire Mitigation Section.
For more information about Fire Adapted Communities visit http://www.fireadapted.org/.
Do you know someone between the ages of 12 and 17 that's made an impact in reducing their community's wildfire risk?
If so, now's the time to nominate, or encourage them to apply on their own behalf, to serve on FEMA's National Youth Preparedness Council. This is a unique opportunity for youth to serve on a highly distinguished national council and share their opinions, experiences, ideas and solutions to help strengthen our nation's resiliency for all types of disasters. Council members are selected from applicants throughout the U.S. and represent the youth perspective on emergency preparedness.
Nominations must be received by midnight (EDT) on Friday, April 19. Click here to access the application and find additional information.
I have the personal privilege of knowing the 2012 Council Chair Rebekka McCaleb from Sterling, CO; and with youth like Rebekka working to make a difference, our nation's future generations will have a better understanding about the importance of mitigation and preparedness. Read bios on the current council's amazing fourteen members.
Make sure you get a permit. At certain times of the year such as during fire season campfires may not be allowed. Be sure to follow your local guidelines.
Select a level, shaded location away from heavy fuels such as logs, tents and other flammable materials like overhanging branches, brush or decaying leaves and needles.
Some campsites may have designated fire pits these should be used. If allowed in the area, use a shovel to clear an area at least 10 feet in diameter (local regulations may vary). Scrape away grass, leaves or needles down to the mineral soil.
Scoop a depression in the center of the cleared area in which to build the fire and place a ring of rocks around it.
Cut wood in short lengths, pile within the cleared area and light the fire. The fire should be built no larger than necessary. Never use an accelerant such as gasoline to start the fire.
Fire must never be left unattended and the fire must be extinguished completely before everyone leaves camp.
Fill a bucket with water and pour it on the campfire while completely stirring and wetting all the ashes. Turn wood and coals over and wet all sides.
Move some of the dirt immediately adjacent to the fire into the fire and mix thoroughly.
Feel with your hand all around fire to be sure nothing is still smoldering.
http://nfpa.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8351b9f3453ef017ee9bacb71970d-piAlways follow safety measures so that you leave with a pocket full of good memories. Leaving a campfire unattended is a violation of Federal Law (36 CFR 261.5) and is punishable by a fine of $225 to $5,000 and as many a six months in jail. You could also be held liable for fire suppression costs if a campfire that you started got out of control and started a wildfire. Be safe!
Last summer, the Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado prompted the evacuation of more than 30,000 people in the region. A month after the fire was contained, a pair of local organizations that support people with disabilities, The Independence Center and the Rocky Mountain ADA Center, held a public forum and conducted online surveys to collect information on accessibility barriers encountered during the fire.
Their report, "Summary of Findings: Waldo Canyon Fire Forum for People with Disabilities" highlights issues that arose, and offers suggestions from people with disabilities on how to better plan for emergencies. In the latest issue of NFPA Journal, Molly Mowery explores this challenge, and highlights the report in her latest Wildfire Watch column.
Additional fire safety information and education materials for people with disabilities can be found on NFPA's consumer safety page. Check out their latest issue of E-Access, a bi-monthly newsletter designed to help reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life for people with disabilities. There's also an emergency evacuation planning guide, videos, checklists and much more.
The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Coalition has announced the release of a new report, "Lessons from Waldo Canyon" and a companion video, "Creating Fire Adapted Communities: A Case Study from Colorado Springs and the Waldo Canyon Fire." The post-fire field report and video are a first from the FAC coalition.
With support from the U.S. Forest Service, the mitigation assessment team, comprised of representatives from the Coalition including the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS), the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)and The Nature Conservancy (TNC), worked closely with the Colorado Springs Fire Marshal's Wildfire Mitigation Section and the Colorado State Forest Service.
Learn more about Fire Adapted Communities, the Coalition and the programs and resources it offers by visiting the website at www.fireadapted.org.
Additional information about the "Lessons from Waldo Canyon" report is available by contacting IBHS.
Calling all Coloradans - grab a friend, your entire family, or join a group of neighbors and participate in the statewide Wildfire Preparedness Day of Service on Saturday, May 4, 2013. The date coincides with the International Association of Wildland Fire's (IAWF) Global Wildfire Awareness Week. Colorado is NFPA's Wildland Fire Operations Division's pilot state for this coordinated project.
Potential projects span a wide range of possibilities – some require physical energy and others can be as simple as talking with or texting important information to neighbors and friends. You may choose to invest time at your own home doing a project with family members, or choose to organize a group to participate in a neighbor-to-neighbor activity for someone who needs physical assistance completing their Firewise tasks. Perhaps, a totally different path is more aligned with how you want to serve your community – and there's plenty of options for that too: hold a garage sale and donate the proceeds to the local fire department's wildland fire team or use the money to pay for a neighborhood chipping day. Another option is to set-up a table at a shopping center and distribute free wildfire education information. The scope can be large or small – you decide the details.
The Wildfire Preparedness Day of Service is open to participants of all ages, with a special outreach effort being made to teens – middle school age and older. A broad-range of age appropriate project ideas has been developed and is available at Firewise.org/dayofservice. Each one was created to be easily accomplishable in a single day. The event is being promoted through NFPA's Firewise.org, Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/firewiseand Twitter sites; with opportunities for coordinated local group projects to be added to our project locator map. Additional outreach is being coordinated by the Colorado State Forest Service, READYColorado, the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, the Mile High Chapter of the Red Cross, and the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association.
Share photos and details of what you're planning and who's particiapting on both our Facebook page and yours. Your ideas could motivate others to follow your lead!
As evidenced each year during October's annual Fire Prevention Week, there's enormous strength in motivating individuals to implement fire safety actions on a designated day; and a coordinated day of wildfire preparedness is an opportunity to increase awareness while reducing risk. Service days engage communities into taking action and provide a mechanism for individuals to help with important local issues.
This past weekendthe southeastern United States experienced severe red flag weather conditions.  A red flag weather warning is typically issued by NOAA when the combination of low humidities and high winds combine to create conditions that are ideal for wildfire ignition and rapid spread.  During this high wildfire risk period two major conflagration events occured in Pigeon Forge, Tennesseeand Myrtle Beach South Carolina.
Although the above stories are tragic, there are a number of things you can do before a red flag warning event to limit your exposure to wildfire risk.  Becoming a recognized Firewise Communities/USA® site sets your community on a path to increased community resilience and survivability in the event of a wildfire.
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Saws and Slaws is much more than a catchy name for mitigation activities, it's more like an old fashioned barn raising, or current day block party where friends and neighbors pool their efforts to help a fellow community member and then close their time together with good food (and sometimes home-made beer). The premise is simple: you work hard for four hours and at the end of that time the group's efforts are rewarded with lunch and camaraderie; a truly simple way to create synergy and reap social capital benefits. Saws and Slaws can be easily duplicated anywhere in the nation – but remember you heard about it first in Boulder!
Communities in Boulder County, CO are learning first-hand about the benefits of working with their neighbors to reduce the wildfire risk across multiple properties. Last summer the Town of Nederland located west of Boulder, Colorado borrowed the Saws and Slaws recipe from their neighbors in Coal Creek Canyon (who also provided many pairs of hands to help them get started) and found it was something they'll do again.
The recipe is easy: Find a neighborhood champion (in this case it was Mr. Cesar Gellido) to lead and organize; and then carefully add some neighborhood sweat equity while utilizing the talents of volunteers of all ages and voila - you've created a delightful mixture that others will want to taste.
A special thank you to Jim Webster and Ryan Ludlow with Boulder County for their efforts to educate, support and encourage wildfire mitigation in the communities they serve. With the snow quickly disappearing, I'm anxiously looking forward to hearing them share many more S & S stories in the near future!
These days, fire departments are working with reduced budgets and limited resources for fighting fire. But some small and volunteer departments who concentrate their efforts in high-risk wildfire areas are taking on this challenge and finding innovative ways to help protect their communities including working together with residents in wildfire risk mitigation activities.
NFPA's new DVD, Before the Smoke! Preparing Your Community for Wildfire, highlights the work of three local fire departments whose ongoing relationship with their residents allowed them to create a community better prepared for the threat of wildfire. The DVD also provides important information about key programs that communities can engage in during the year including Firewise® and Ready, Set, Go, which are a part of the Fire Adapted Communities® initiative.
The DVD can found on NFPA's wildfire safety online catalog.
You can also find other materials to help guide your mitigation activities with neighbors and friends. And don't forget to share your plans and projects with us! We love to spread the word ... your hard work continues to inspire and encourage others to get involved!
Yet another inadvisable state of mind as far as wildfire prevention: Well, my insurance should cover any damages on the exceptionally unlikely occasion of nature burning down my house.
In the event that a wildland fire does reach and destroy your home and all of your worldly possessions, it may seem logical just to be grateful that you're adequately insured. However, most homeowner policies do not cover any landscaping or plants that are destroyed in wildland fires. Also, your worldly possessions likely hold some sort of sentimental value separate from their monetary worth.
So, on top of making every effort to ensure that your home is taken care of through Firewise principles, try to schedule a yearly insurance evaluation to understand what is or is not covered. Taking inventory of your home is also sensible, just in case of an unforeseen disaster; there are free online tools to help you through it.
Within a relatively short period of time, awareness of the Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) program has grown rapidly; and stakeholders are embracing the fact that the more actions a community undertakes, the more fire adapted it becomes.
Last week I was reminded just how much the FAC movement is gaining momentum when I received an email from Schelly Olson with the Grand Fire Protection District in Granby, CO. She promoted their use of the Firewise and Ready, Set, Go programs by adding the FAC banner to her email signature, demonstrating how stakeholders at all levels can promote the importance of being a Fire Adapted Community.
Awareness about the collection of information and resources available on the FAC website continues to build through public service announcements, outreach projects, and the work of a wide-range of proponents. By simply adding the FAC banner to her emails, Schelly's promoting the plethora of resources available on the fire adapted communities website. Show your commitment to being a Fire Adapted Communities advocate by putting the banner on your signature line; and encourage your colleagues to add it too. Demonstrating and reinforcing that it takes a unified and complimentary collection of resources for a community to become fire adapted benefits everyone.
To add the banner to your signature line - copy the graphic above and add it to your email's signature box. For additional PSAs and campaign tools, visit the FAC Media and Outreach page.
In my role as a wildfire mitigation specialist and Public Information Officer for the Florida Forest Service, I was assigned to the recent "Bermont Road 2" fire in Punta Gorda in southwest Florida's Charlotte County. Fires have been increasingly frequent and intense this season in this area of the Sunshine State. While two mobile homes were destroyed during this particular incident, I was able to document a home that survived fire burning right up to the foundation, with no intervention by fire fighters. This home was a prime example of Firewise principles in action.
The property had very good defensible space with only short grasses near the main home and outbuildings. But since the wind-driven fire was spotting embers into the grass, it was the home's Firewise features - a solid block foundation, screened areas behind latticework, heavy timber construction and a metal roof - that kept it from suffering the fate of the homes that burned. Small flames and sparks meant the demise of the two mobile homes, but didn't have an entry point in the Firewise home.
I'm grateful to Wink News, our local CBS affiliate, for the great coverage of the fire itself and the story of the Firewise home I observed. Click on the image below to go to the story and watch the video.
As a Society of American Forester member, I came across an interesting article titled 'What is Happening in Our Forest?' written by Steve Wilent in the latest Forestry Source publication. The interesting part about the article is how a environmentalists are beginning to see the value of active forest management (conservation) versus a 'hands off' preservation approach to the management of our forests.
'wildfire mitigation techniques like Firewise landscaping is contrary to our deeply held preservation ethic'.
This notion is reinforced in community ordinances, covenants, conditions and restrictions (CC & R's) where homeowners are required to seek permission from authorities to remove trees that are 4 inches and greater in their backyard - sometimes the 'rules' are inforced without thinking about the forest health and wildfire risk potential.
For more information on wildland mitigation strategies visit Fire Adapted Communities. For further information on Firewise landscaping and construction check out this information pamphlet. What you will learn is that Firewise is not advocating 'moonscaping', but rather sustainable neighborhoods in a fire driven ecosystem.
We have changed our forest because we choose to live there. Let's adapt to nature and Firewise our home and neighborhoods - let's become a recognized Firewise Communites/USA® site and help our community become more Fire Adapted.
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Wildfires can go by many names: brush fires, grass fires, forest fires, etc. All have one thing in common – they can quickly spread and create embers that can land on properties well outside of the actual area exposed to flames. Once embers land on something combustible on your home or business, they can ignite the material and spread fire to the entire structure.
Firefighters across the country are working with residents to help minimize wildfire risks through the [Ready, Set, Go! | http://www.wildlandfirersg.org/] Program. The program has a three-pronged approach toward getting you ready for wildfire season.
Skipping out on mitigation, just because firefighters will try their hardest to prevent your home from burning down, is not a viable approach to dealing with wildland fires. There are a few problems with risking the well-being of your property by being entirely dependent upon fire departments.
Brush fires might not draw the attention of a fire department until they are advancing on homes, and they grow in strength as they spread uphill. As about 85% of our nation's fire departments rely on volunteers, it can be difficult for the volunteer departments to respond as quickly as they would like.
The natural land around your home, while picturesque, can also hinder the efforts of firefighters. If it's uphill, far from water and/or has narrow winding roads, reaching any given house if many are threatened becomes a daunting task.
For more information and frequently asked questions, visit the Firewise page.
In southern California it is never too early to prepare!
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Residents here in Southern California can take preventive steps to protect probably one of the biggest investment of their lives, their home.
Make sure that you have vents that meet the current fire code.
For more information and tips to make your home safer during wildfire events go to the Firewise website at www.firewise.org. There are free online classes and handout materials that you can order to help you. Find out how your community can become a nationally recognized Firewise Communities/USA® site. Too learn more about what you can do to prepare for an evacuation visit Ready, Set, Go!


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A fantastic new tool has become available for anyone interested in using the power of the web to trace word use. Google's Ngram is a digital storehouse which comprises words and short phrases - 500 billion of them from 5.2 million books - contained in books published between 1500 and 2008 in English French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian.
Google was aiming at a scholarly audience, and this will be a great boon to PhD students, but it will also have a much wider appeal, lending itself to all kinds of searches. For instance, you can quickly use the tool to see that "women," in comparison with "men," is rarely mentioned until the early 1970s, when feminism gained a foothold. The lines eventually cross paths about 1986.
"The goal is to give an 8-year-old the ability to browse cultural trends throughout history, as recorded in books...We wanted to show what becomes possible when you apply very high-turbo data analysis to questions in the humanities," said Erez Lieberman Aiden, a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard. Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, assembled the data set with Google and spearheaded a research project to demonstrate how vast digital databases can transform our understanding of language, culture and the flow of ideas.
Steven Pinker said: "When I saw they had this database, I was quite energized. There is so much ignorance. We've had to speculate what might have happened to the language."
Jean-Baptiste Michel said that the team recognised that including information with errors was worse than not including it at all, so all books that did not pass strict standards for accurate labelling and scanning were filtered out.
"That is why we end up working with 5.2 million books and not the whole 15 million," Mr. Michel wrote. (The 15 million figure refers to the number of published books that Google has digitally scanned so far.) "These filtering algorithms took us over a year to improve to our satisfaction. Indeed, if we hadn't worked on them, we'd have published our very first version of the Ngrams, totally unfiltered, back in 2008."
For their paper, Mr. Michel and Mr. Lieberman Aiden based their research on books published in English from 1800 to 2000. "We do not consider that trajectories outside of English 1800-2000 are scientifically validated," Mr. Michel wrote. "In particular, before 1800 there are just too few books: one does not have enough statistical power."
The new database is seen as being of such significance that Science magazine has taken the unusual step of making the article about it freely available on its website.
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