Nice piece in today's Santa Fe newspaper on the Redfish presentation
to SFI and city/county officials... http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/48088.html Mike |
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It was really delightful to have Tom Cova, Redfish/FRIAM, SFI, the Santa Fe Police, Fire, and City Council all in the same room! I think SFI was delighted too, because they've been looking for a way to have effective "outreach" into the community, and this could provide an opportunity. Several of Tom's papers are pointed to on the project web site: http://www.redfish.com/wildfire/ Tom is the researcher into Fire and Emergency planning who's been pointing out interesting ways for us to bring computational methods into the project. He also has great practical skills uniting geeks with emergency response folks. -- Owen Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net On Aug 19, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Michael Agar wrote: > Nice piece in today's Santa Fe newspaper on the Redfish presentation > to SFI and city/county officials... > > http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/48088.html > > > Mike > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
Must be a slow news day. The story made the front page of the
Albuquerque Journal North today, too. Congratulations. -- rec -- On 8/19/06, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net> wrote: > Cool! > > It was really delightful to have Tom Cova, Redfish/FRIAM, SFI, the > Santa Fe Police, Fire, and City Council all in the same room! I > think SFI was delighted too, because they've been looking for a way > to have effective "outreach" into the community, and this could > provide an opportunity. > > Several of Tom's papers are pointed to on the project web site: > http://www.redfish.com/wildfire/ > Tom is the researcher into Fire and Emergency planning who's been > pointing out interesting ways for us to bring computational methods > into the project. He also has great practical skills uniting geeks > with emergency response folks. > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net > > > On Aug 19, 2006, at 12:39 PM, Michael Agar wrote: > > > Nice piece in today's Santa Fe newspaper on the Redfish presentation > > to SFI and city/county officials... > > > > http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/48088.html > > > > > > Mike > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > |
Less slow news day, I think, than (for once) public servants doing a
fine and thoughtful job. It was a riveting presentation, and I was very pleased to think my own fire department is in the lead of such planning. Then I came home to my houseguests, one of whom is a former astronaut now working on the issues of deflecting asteroids that might hit the earth. Many of the same questions--who pays? Is evacuation a sensible tool (presuming that we can't get that tractor into space to nudge the asteroid out of collision orbit)? And who pays for any of those alternatives? On Aug 19, 2006, at 7:52 PM, Roger Critchlow wrote: > Must be a slow news day. The story made the front page of the > Albuquerque Journal North today, too. Congratulations. > > -- rec -- "These days, from time to time, the public libraries launch an effort to get children together with books, and signs bloom on their walls saying Read to Succeed! This seems singularly wrong-headed, since few seven- year-olds care about their future job categories, or at least no seven year old you'd want to know. The signs ought to say Books: The Way Out." Barbara Holland -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20060820/01400a19/attachment.html |
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