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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" media="screen" href="/~d/styles/atom10full.xsl"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~d/styles/itemcontent.css"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:feedburner="http://rssnamespace.org/feedburner/ext/1.0" gd:etag="W/&quot;D0YCQ3k7fyp7ImA9WhdWFE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114</id><updated>2011-09-07T08:19:22.707-06:00</updated><category term="education" /><category term="tech" /><category term="business" /><category term="amazonas" /><category term="postgresql" /><category term="cellphone" /><category term="entrepreneur" /><category term="election" /><category term="encoding" /><category term="ebay" /><category term="pgcon" /><category term="immigration" /><category term="tourism" /><category term="wii" /><category term="nature" /><category term="parintins" /><category term="brazil" /><category term="pgbr" /><category term="databases" /><category term="patents" /><category term="impostos" /><category term="boi bumba" /><category term="taxes" /><category term="software" /><category term="profbay" /><category term="amazon" /><category term="mac" /><category term="fishing" /><category term="health" /><category term="2008" /><category term="debian tips" /><category term="brasil" /><title>Roberto Mello</title><subtitle type="html">A blog from a Brazilian programmer/entrepreneur</subtitle><link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/posts/default" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/" /><link rel="next" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default?start-index=26&amp;max-results=25&amp;redirect=false&amp;v=2" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><generator version="7.00" uri="http://www.blogger.com">Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/RobertoMello" /><feedburner:info uri="robertomello" /><atom10:link xmlns:atom10="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/" /><feedburner:emailServiceId>RobertoMello</feedburner:emailServiceId><feedburner:feedburnerHostname>http://feedburner.google.com</feedburner:feedburnerHostname><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0YCRHo7eip7ImA9WhdWFE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-6714881637534782598</id><published>2011-09-07T08:19:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T08:19:25.402-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-09-07T08:19:25.402-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brasil" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="taxes" /><title>O Jogo da Presidente Dilma</title><content type="html">Eu não votei na Presidente Dilma na eleição para presidente. Ela era uma incógnita para mim, visto que eu não tinha idéia de como ela se comportaria como presidente. Ela não tinha um histórico em cargos eletivos pelo qual os eleitores pudessem julgar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Ela continuaria com tudo o que Lula fez (bom e ruim)? Ou ela chutaria o pau da barraca e seria um Rambo?&lt;br /&gt;
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Passados 3/4 do primeiro ano do seu mandato, eu devo dizer que estou positivamente surpreso com a Presidente Dilma. Atitudes como demitir corruptos, chamar aliados nas suas (faltas de) responsabilidades, equilíbrio fiscal, são incomuns - e raríssimas - na política Brasileira.&lt;br /&gt;
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Especificamente sobre equilíbrio fiscal, a Presidente está de parabéns por ter mantido um pé firme nessa tecla, e enviado mensagens claras ao congresso, do risco e custos de se criar novos gastos sem fonte de renda.&lt;br /&gt;
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Obrigado Presidente Dilma! Por favor, continue. Você tem o nosso apoio! Não se intimide com os politiqueiros irresponsáveis que não pensam no país, estando preocupados apenas com seus bolsos. Por favor, nos ajude a pagar menos impostos. Pagamos demais, demais da conta, e não vemos esse dinheiro retornar para nós em forma de serviços do governo. Isso diminui a competitividade das nossas empresas, reduz o número de empregos que poderiam ser criados, suprime demanda, e aumenta a pobreza.&lt;br /&gt;
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Os Estados Unidos (e outros países), cujos governantes ignoraram esses riscos por muito tempo, agora sofrem problemas sérios, e os EUA só não estão numa situação como a Grécia devido ao extraordinário tamanho e dinamismo da sua economia, e por que os EUA imprimem a moeda de reserva mundial.&lt;br /&gt;
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A American Public Media, que publica programas de rádio excelentes, como o Marketplace, lançou um jogo onde você pode tentar equilibrar o orçamento do governo federal norte-americano, chamado "Herói do Orçamento". É o jogo que a Presidente Dilma joga, na vida real. Todo político deveria jogar esse jogo. Crianças em idade escolar e famílias se beneficiariam com esse conhecimento.&lt;br /&gt;
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E você, &amp;nbsp;consegue ser um Herói do Orçamento? Como você mudaria o orçamento do governo Brasileiro? Do governo do seu estado? Da sua cidade? Da sua família?&lt;br /&gt;
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O nome do evento era ambicioso e espetacular:&amp;nbsp;1o. Seminário e Workshop Nacional de Comércio, Negócios Eletrônicos e [Novos] Meios de Pagamento.&lt;br /&gt;
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Infelizmente eu achei o evento desapontante, e exponho aqui minhas razões.&lt;br /&gt;
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O principal motivo de desapontamento para mim foi que o conteúdo das palestras foi de muita pouca aplicação &lt;b&gt;prática&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;para o micro e pequeno empresário local. Não havia uma única empresa local sequer expondo ou apresentando no evento, apenas as patrocinadoras do evento.&lt;br /&gt;
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Como alguém que já organizou eventos, e entende de patrocínio, eu posso entender o por que disso, mas de qualquer forma, sem a presença de empresas locais que prestam serviços ou vendem produtos relacionados às áreas que foram discutidas e trazidas à atenção dos empresários, ficará muito mais difícil que algo dali se concretize.&lt;br /&gt;
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As grandes empresas que patrocinaram o evento - com exceção da SAMSUNG - gastaram aproximadamente METADE das suas apresentações falando de quão maravilhosas eram suas respectivas empresas.&lt;br /&gt;
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Caro Sr. representante da Vivo, sinto muito lhe informar, mas como empresário interessado em inovar e me preparar para a Copa de 2014, não tenho o mínimo interesse de saber que a Vivo fundiu-se com a Telefónica, e que ela atua em 25 países, e que tem não-sei-quantos-milhões-de-assinantes. Isso é conversa para sua brochura, ou para propaganda para acionistas, mas simplesmente não cabia no evento. O Sr. ainda tentou desconversar quando alguém trouxe à tona que a Vivo deixou a população Manauara na mão semana passada. Deveria ter encarado o problema de frente, reconhecido as falhas e pedido desculpas. O que eu queria saber da Vivo (e de todas as outras empresas) é "que soluções a Vivo me oferece que me ajudarão a vender? a criar um novo produto ou serviço? a melhorar minha produtividade e lucratividade?"&lt;br /&gt;
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O representante da GOLLog gastou boa parte do tempo dele dando o que parecia ser uma aula de matéria de um curso universitário de logística. Seria ótimo se eu fosse aluno de logística, mas não sou, e imagino que poucos presentes o eram. E francamente, o serviço da GOL Log é ruim, e caro. Ligue para a GOL Log e perguntar "onde está minha carga?" Quando você finalmente conseguir falar com alguém, vão lhe dizer que você tem que ligar para a franqueada de origem da carga e pedir o número de rastreamento, por que a franqueada daqui não sabe, e cada franqueada só fala com outra via e-mail (telefone?! Skype!? nem pensar!) então tem que esperar o e-mail voltar.&lt;br /&gt;
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Dentre os palestrantes empresariais, a Samsung foi a grande exceção. Maravilhou os presentes com possibilidades de produtos e serviços inovadores em torno de tablets, como os táxis que recebem clientes em várias línguas, e restaurantes que usam tablets como cardápios e para receber pedidos. Parabéns! Poderia ter ido um pouco mais além, engajando os presentes a participar de uma comunidade dos produtos da Samsung que foram demonstrados, não deixando passar o momento da isca apresentada na palestra.&lt;br /&gt;
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A Oracle nem sequer deu as caras. O Santander, infelizmente, cometeu o mesmo pecado que a Vivo. Eu já sei que o Santander é um banco grande. Não precisa me dizer isso, nem quantos correntistas tem, etc. Consegui absorver apenas uma coisa prática e útil da palestra do Santander: eles tem uma máquina de cartão de crédito que também faz transações pela internet. Ah, e que eles não cobram taxas de máquina quando a conta é com eles. Bom saber.&lt;br /&gt;
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O micro e pequeno empresário tem pouco dinheiro e pouco tempo. O evento deveria ter feito o máximo para que os empresários saíssem dali com &lt;b&gt;ítens de ação&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;(actionable items), práticos, realizáveis, mostrando possíveis parceiros. Abrir um pouco de tempo para que os empresários presentes tivessem 30 segundos para expor quais são os seus negócios, produtos e serviços, teria transformado os participantes de meros expectadores em participantes engajados.&lt;br /&gt;
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Chamamos esses espaços de "lightning talks" (palestras relâmpago) em eventos de software livre, onde participantes tem 1 minuto para falar sobre suas idéias. Como eu gostaria de ter ouvido as idéias dos participantes! Quem sabe eu não poderia ter identificado ali alguém com quem me associar para criar um novo produto ou serviço?&lt;br /&gt;
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No geral, o evento foi positivo. O loca é ótimo e bem central (Manaus Plaza centro de convenções). A palestra do Sr. Marcelo Castro foi extremamente motivadora e prática. Mas nossa, quanto potencial foi desperdiçado no evento. Temos problemas sérios a resolver até a Copa, e oportunidades reais a serem exploradas. Parabenizo a iniciativa do CDL, e os esforços dos que organizaram o evento, mas infelizmente o evento não alcançou o potencial que tinha.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-5977676445113230091?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/v_0vgBrv0C0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/5977676445113230091/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2011/09/objetividade-em-eventos-preparativos.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5977676445113230091?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5977676445113230091?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/v_0vgBrv0C0/objetividade-em-eventos-preparativos.html" title="Objetividade em eventos preparativos para a Copa de 2014" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>Manaus - Amazonas, Brazil</georss:featurename><georss:point>-3.1064093 -60.0264297</georss:point><georss:box>-4.1211028 -61.2898572 -2.0917158000000002 -58.7630022</georss:box><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2011/09/objetividade-em-eventos-preparativos.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CkIBSHk5eCp7ImA9WhdXF0w.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-4205869572224044554</id><published>2011-08-30T07:10:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2011-08-30T07:22:39.720-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2011-08-30T07:22:39.720-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pgbr" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="postgresql" /><title>Chamada de Trabalhos do PGBr 2011</title><content type="html">Está aberta a &lt;a href="http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/2011/chamada.php"&gt;chamada de trabalhos&lt;/a&gt; para a &lt;a href="http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/"&gt;Conferência Brasileira de PostgreSQL&lt;/a&gt;. Os trabalhos podem ser inscritos até o dia 16/09, então não deixe para última hora. Vários tipos de trabalhos podem ser inscritos: palestras, tutoriais, palestras avançadas, painéis acadêmicos.&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A conferência foca em PostgreSQL, mas se você tem algum trabalho relevante de banco de ddados, não deixe de inscrevê-lo, mesmo que não seja específico sobre PostgreSQL, mas possa de alguma forma ser aplicado, como por exemplo técnicas de otimização de SQL, bancos de dados não-relacionais (NoSQL), etc.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;O telles escreveu uma mega-chamada para a chamada de trabalhos, e eu não conseguiria fazê-lo tão bem, então &lt;a href="http://www.midstorm.org/~telles/2011/08/14/pgbr2011-chamada-de-trabalhos/"&gt;dê uma lida em alguns tópicos que ele sugere&lt;/a&gt;, e que esperamos ver na conferência.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Esperamos poder contar com alguns trabalhos do Amazonas e da região Norte. Envie seu trabalho hoje mesmo!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;
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Conferência Brasileira de PostgreSQL - Novembro 2011</title><content type="html">O &lt;a href="http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/"&gt;PGBR&lt;/a&gt; (antes conhecido como PGCon Brasil) é o maior evento sobre PostgreSQL das Américas: em 2009 e 2008, o evento trouxe mais de 300 profissionais de TI e, em 2007, mais de 200. Em 2011, serão 3 salas simultâneas com tutoriais, palestras e mesas de alto nível, contando com desenvolvedores nacionais e internacionais do PostgreSQL além de profissionais renomados no mercado brasileiro.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;O evento acontecerá nos dias 3 e 4 de Novembro de 2011, no Hotel Century Paulista em São Paulo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O &lt;a href="http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/"&gt;PGBR&lt;/a&gt; é um evento de alta qualidade, e que vale a pena participar. Este ano acontecerá em São Paulo ao invés de Campinas, para facilitar o deslocamento de participantes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Se você faz algo com o PostgreSQL, &lt;a href="https://listas.postgresql.org.br/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pgbr-geral"&gt;participe da lista de discussão&lt;/a&gt; e envie uma proposta de trabalho ou palestra (a chamada de trabalhos está prestes a ser publicada). Inscreva-se hoje mesmo!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://pgbr.postgresql.org.br/2011/imgs/divulgue_horizontal_grande.jpg" alt="PGBR 2011 - Conferência Brasileira PostgreSQL" width="728" height="90" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-2446828280648227832?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/Q-TEUtkDqQg" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/2446828280648227832/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2011/05/3a-conferencia-brasileira-de-postgresql.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/2446828280648227832?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/2446828280648227832?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/Q-TEUtkDqQg/3a-conferencia-brasileira-de-postgresql.html" title="4a. Conferência Brasileira de PostgreSQL - Novembro 2011" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2011/05/3a-conferencia-brasileira-de-postgresql.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CE8MSHkzeSp7ImA9Wx9SGU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-306400726288720426</id><published>2010-12-09T06:11:00.002-07:00</published><updated>2010-12-09T06:54:49.781-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-12-09T06:54:49.781-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amazonas" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brasil" /><title>Eficiência Energética no Amazonas</title><content type="html">Na última Sexta-feira, dia 3 de Dezembro, estive presente no &lt;a href="http://www.ceclima.sds.am.gov.br/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=285:governo-do-amazonas-lanca-projeto-de-eficiencia-energetica&amp;catid=42:destaques&amp;Itemid=5"&gt;lançamento do projeto de eficiência energética do governo do Amazonas&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O projeto está sendo implementado nos maiores consumidores de energia do governo numa primeira fase, encontrando uma economia significativa de energia elétrica e dinheiro do estado, e é significativo por vários motivos, na minha opinião:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) Demonstra que é possível usar as palavras "governo" e "economizar" numa mesma frase&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Como a matriz energética do Amazonas é quase toda fóssil, economizar energia significa menos emissões (seja diesel ou gás natural)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) É um projeto sério e conduzido de maneira muito competente pelo Sr. Anderson Bittencourt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Demonstra o que se consegue quando o governo cria instituições que focalizam nas prioridades do estado, no caso a Secretaria de Desenvolvimento Sustentável. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Parabéns a todos os envolvidos.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-306400726288720426?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/B2Fgozj2zxE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/306400726288720426/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/12/eficiencia-energetica-no-amazonas.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/306400726288720426?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/306400726288720426?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/B2Fgozj2zxE/eficiencia-energetica-no-amazonas.html" title="Eficiência Energética no Amazonas" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/12/eficiencia-energetica-no-amazonas.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DEIDRnczeSp7ImA9Wx5bGEU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-8557794354048413080</id><published>2010-11-04T09:37:00.008-06:00</published><updated>2010-11-04T10:02:57.981-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-11-04T10:02:57.981-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="entrepreneur" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="business" /><title>Who are Entrepreneurs?</title><content type="html">As a firm believer in the power of entrepreneurship to catalyze innovation and prosperity, I found this infographic (found via &lt;a href="http://dailyinfographic.com/who-are-entrepreneurs-infographic"&gt;dailyinfographic.com&lt;/a&gt;) to be revealing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/TNLUa4TGMJI/AAAAAAAAANc/oXfxzjKPaW8/s1600/media_httpdailyinfogr_lIiGk.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Brazil, I would say the biggest obstacles to entrepreneurs are:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Access to capital&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Complicated and bureaucratic regulations and procedures&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Complex tax code&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Outdated and draconian labor laws&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Slow and costly judicial system&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;li&gt;Access to qualified workforce&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are the biggest obstacles, in your opinion?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-8557794354048413080?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/5rpw8xuHdKA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/8557794354048413080/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/11/who-are-entrepeneurs.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/8557794354048413080?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/8557794354048413080?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/5rpw8xuHdKA/who-are-entrepeneurs.html" title="Who are Entrepreneurs?" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/TNLUa4TGMJI/AAAAAAAAANc/oXfxzjKPaW8/s72-c/media_httpdailyinfogr_lIiGk.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/11/who-are-entrepeneurs.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUMNSXcyeyp7ImA9Wx5UEEU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-7132311671342255515</id><published>2010-10-14T14:14:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2010-10-14T14:18:18.993-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-10-14T14:18:18.993-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="postgresql" /><title>PostgreSQL Day Manaus 2010</title><content type="html">Sexta, dia 15/10/2010 acontecerá o primeiro PostgreSQL Day (PGDay) de Manaus. PGDays são realizados no mundo inteiro, e vários já foram realizados no Brasil. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Do &lt;a href="http://www.postgresql.org.br/eventos/pgday/am/2010"&gt;site do evento&lt;/a&gt;: O que é?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Postgres ou PostgreSQL é um projeto de Sistema Gerenciador de Banco de Dados open-source que foi iniciado em 1986, na Universidade de Berkeley, na Califórnia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PGDay, ou Dia do Postgres, é um evento não tão formal quanto o PGCon Brasil (Conferência PostgreSQL Brasil) e de caráter regional, podendo ser realizado com poucas pessoas em qualquer/vários estados do país.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu vou estar ministrando duas palestras: Novidades do PostgreSQL 9.0, e Introdução ao PL/pgSQL, a linguagem de procedimentos mais comun do PostgreSQL.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O evento acontece no Auditório Rio Javari, no campus principal da Universidade Federal do Amazonas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nos vemos lá.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-7132311671342255515?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/pQYlTCY0HNE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/7132311671342255515/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/10/postgresql-day-manaus-2010.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/7132311671342255515?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/7132311671342255515?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/pQYlTCY0HNE/postgresql-day-manaus-2010.html" title="PostgreSQL Day Manaus 2010" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/10/postgresql-day-manaus-2010.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUMFSXk7fip7ImA9Wx5XGUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-5704012292583522537</id><published>2010-09-20T06:00:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2010-09-20T06:56:58.706-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-09-20T06:56:58.706-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="postgresql" /><title>PostgreSQL 9.0 Lançado</title><content type="html">20 DE SETEMBRO DE 2010: O Grupo de Desenvolvimento Global do PostgreSQL anuncia o lançamento do PostgreSQL 9.0, a versão mais recente do banco de dados relacional de código aberto mais avançado do mundo. Essa versão traz avanços em segurança, suporte a aplicações, monitoramento, performance, e armazenamento de dados especializados. Os usuários estão particularmente empolgados com as novas capacidades de replicação e "hot standby", que acelerarão a adoção em hospedagem na nuvem e aplicações escaláveis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"A replicação nativa da versão 9.0 e a capacidade de consultar um servidor em "hot standby" têm sido os recursos mais solicitados no PostgreSQL há vários anos," disse Simon Riggs, CTO da 2ndQuadrant e o principal responsável por sua implementação. "Replicação em fluxo eficiente e com baixa latência protege melhor seus dados, enquanto o hot standby reduz significativamente o custo total da solução. Em produtos proprietários essa capacidade é uma extensão que custa milhares de dólares."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;O PostgreSQL 9.0 inclui ainda dezenas de outras grandes melhorias que aprimorarão todos os aspectos do projeto e da performance de aplicações de bancos de dados, incluindo: suporte a windows 64 bits, gatilhos condicionais e por coluna, atualização in loco da 8.3 e 8.4, restrições de unicidade postergáveis, e mensagens assíncronas de alta performance. Para uma lista completa de novos recursos veja nossa página de informações sobre o lançamento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sendo um dos maiores operadores do mundo de infra-estrutura para registros centrais da Internet, a Afilias está contente em ver o PostgreSQL 9.0 incluir a atualização in loco, a qual nos permite atualizar para novas versões do SGBD com um mínimo de inconvenientes para a nossa base de 16 milhões de nomes de domínios," disse o CTO da Afilias Ram Mohan.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Nós estamos muito empolgados com as novas funcionalidades ... especialmente, nós esperamos as restrições de unicidade postergáveis como uma oportunidade para acelerar atualizações e melhorias para nossos clientes," disse Paolo Juvara, CTO da OpenBravo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Marc Balmer, fundador da Micro Systems na Suíça, está mais interessado na capacidade muito aprimorada de mensagens assíncronas com LISTEN/NOTIFY: "A nova opção de envio de dados em notificações assíncronas será utilizada na próxima versão de nossos programas para apresentação remota de dados."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Graças às contribuições de desenvolvedores e empresas em todo o mundo, como a NTT Open Source, EnterpriseDB, 2ndQuadrant, Red Hat e muitas outras, o ímpeto de desenvolvimento e adoção por usuários é maior do que nunca.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Aqui na CAIXA nós usamos o PostgreSQL em ambientes financeiros de missão crítica pois ele tem a qualidade para sustentar as nossas operações," disse Clarice Coppetti, vice presidente de TI, Caixa Econômica Federal, Brasil. "A nova versão mostra que o PostgreSQL está melhorando rapidamente para suprir as nossas demandas de negócio."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Kit de imprensa: &lt;a href="http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/presskit90.html.br"&gt;http://www.postgresql.org/about/press/presskit90.html.br&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Notas de lançamento: &lt;a href="http://www.postgresql.org/documentation/current/static/release-9-0"&gt;http://www.postgresql.org/documentation/current/static/release-9-0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Para baixar o PostgreSQL: &lt;a href="http://www.postgresql.org/downloads"&gt;http://www.postgresql.org/downloads&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para mais informações por favor entre em contato:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diogo Biazus&lt;br /&gt;+55 51 91410130&lt;br /&gt;Skype: diogobiazus&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Roberto Mello&lt;br /&gt;+55 92 91284346 / 36630649&lt;br /&gt;Skype: rlbmello&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;br@postgresql.org&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.postgresql.org.br/"&gt;www.postgresql.org.br&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sobre o PostgreSQL: O PostgreSQL é o sistema de banco de dados de código aberto mais avançado do mundo, com uma comunidade global de milhares de usuários e desenvolvedores, e dezenas de empresas e organizações. O projeto PostgreSQL tem mais de 20 anos de engenharia, começando da Universidade da Califórnia, Berkeley, e uma velocidade de desenvolvimento sem igual hoje. O conjunto maduro de recursos do PostgreSQL não apenas se iguala ao dos sistemas de banco de dados proprietários mais avançados, mas os excede em recursos avançados, extensibilidade, segurança e estabilidade. Saiba mais sobre o PostgreSQL e participe da nossa comunidade em &lt;a href="http://www.postgresql.org/"&gt;www.postgresql.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-5704012292583522537?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/QStfKvAHjZ4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/5704012292583522537/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/09/postgresql-90-lancado.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5704012292583522537?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5704012292583522537?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/QStfKvAHjZ4/postgresql-90-lancado.html" title="PostgreSQL 9.0 Lançado" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/09/postgresql-90-lancado.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CUIBSX09fyp7ImA9Wx5XGEs.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-5061157747135949618</id><published>2010-09-18T20:32:00.001-06:00</published><updated>2010-09-18T20:32:38.367-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2010-09-18T20:32:38.367-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amazonas" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brasil" /><title>Enchente do Rio Amazonas 2009</title><content type="html">As enchentes e vazantes anuais do Rio Amazonas são espetaculares. A enchente de 2009 foi particularmente espetacular por que foi a maior já registrada.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Em 2009 guardei links para um &lt;a href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=39359&amp;amp;src=eorss-iotd"&gt;artigo da Nasa&lt;/a&gt; que compara fotos de satélite da grande enchente de 2009 com a de 2004.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2004&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/39000/39359/manaus_ali_2004159.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 720px; height: 480px;" src="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/39000/39359/manaus_ali_2004159.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;2009&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/39000/39359/manaus_ali_2009180.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 720px; height: 480px;" src="http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/39000/39359/manaus_ali_2009180.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Um ano depois, temos uma vazante que já isolou muitos municípios do interior do Amazonas. Não encontrei fotos de satélite da vazante deste ano, ainda.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-5061157747135949618?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/G701ntfuPlU" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/5061157747135949618/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/09/enchente-do-rio-amazonas-2009.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5061157747135949618?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5061157747135949618?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/G701ntfuPlU/enchente-do-rio-amazonas-2009.html" title="Enchente do Rio Amazonas 2009" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2010/09/enchente-do-rio-amazonas-2009.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUYMRn4zcCp7ImA9WxNWEU8.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-3640526563294861663</id><published>2009-09-23T13:02:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2009-10-09T16:26:27.088-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-10-09T16:26:27.088-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="pgcon" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="postgresql" /><title>Terceira Conferência Nacional de PostgreSQL</title><content type="html">Eu estarei dando um tutorial de PL/pgSQL durante a &lt;a href="http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br/2009/"&gt;Terceira Conferência Nacional de PostgreSQL&lt;/a&gt;, que acontecerá nos dia 23 e 24 de Outubro de 2009 no Centro de Convenções da Unicamp, em Campinas, SP.&lt;a href="http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;Será a minha primeira PGCon-BR, como é conhecida a conferência, mas os anos anteriores tem sido de excelente qualidade, e este ano parece que será a melhor de todas. Excelentes tópicos e palestrantes. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nos vemos em Campinas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br/" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;       &lt;/span&gt;&lt;img src="http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br/2009/img/pgcon2009_horizontal_small.gif" alt="PGCon Brasil 2009" width="432" height="60" border="0" style="text-decoration: underline;" /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;b&gt;ATUALIZAÇÃO&lt;/b&gt;: nota de imprensa do PGCon-BR&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Maior evento sobre PostgreSQL da América Latina acontece em Campinas&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;A Unicamp se prepara para receber a 3ª Conferência Brasileira de PostgreSQL.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nos dias 23 e 24 de outubro, centenas de estudantes e profissionais de TI terão acesso ao maior evento latino-americano sobre o mais poderoso sistema gerenciador de banco de dados de código livre do mundo, o PostgreSQL.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A programação completa da Conferência já foi confirmada. O evento terá palestras e tutoriais com desenvolvedores nacionais e internacionais de PostgreSQL. Estarão presentes grandes nomes da comunidade internacional como Bruce Momjian, Magnus Hagander e nacional como Fernando Ike, Euler Taveira, Leandro Dutra, Roberto Mello entre outros, que abordarão entre outros temas, as novidades da versão 8.4, técnicas avançadas de monitoramento, ajustes de desempenho, migração de outros bancos de dados, o futuro do PostgreSQL e muito mais.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Além das palestras, o PGCon Brasil 2009 realizará o concurso “O elefante está entre nós’, em que os participantes do evento podem contribuir para a comunidade e ainda concorrer a prêmios inscrevendo-se nas modalidades: melhor consulta ou script, melhor estudo de caso, melhor artigo e melhor história em quadrinhos e concorrer a até 50 prêmios. O regulamento está disponível no site do evento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A 3º Conferência Brasileira de PostgreSQL acontecerá no Centro de Convenções da Unicamp, em três salas simultâneas. As inscrições pela Internet iniciam no dia 16/08 e vão até o dia 16/10 após essa data ainda será possível inscrever-se diretamente no local do evento. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mais informações, no site oficial do evento:  &lt;a href="http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br/2009"&gt;http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br/2009&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Durante anos, uma percepção comum da industria era a de que o PostgreSQL era mais difícil de usar que outros gerenciadores de banco de dados. Apesar de ser visto como o mais poderoso, mais focado em integridade de dados, e estritamente concordante com as especificações SQL, era tido como lento, e muito difícil de instalar e utilizar. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Como muitas impressões formadas no passado, essas ideias antigas e ultrapassadas não refletem a versão atual do PostgreSQL. DBAs, desenvolvedores, gerentes de TI e diretores, podem beneficiar-se com as discussões apresentadas na 3ª PGCon Brasil que contará com a presença de integrantes importantes da equipe de desenvolvimento internacional do PostgreSQL bem como de renomados membros da comunidade PostgreSQL Brasil demonstrando suas experiências e estudos de caso.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Venha discutir sua experiência e descobrir o que o PostgreSQL pode fazer por seu negócio&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-3640526563294861663?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/SEpk379rDME" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/3640526563294861663/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/09/terceira-conferencia-nacional-de.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/3640526563294861663?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/3640526563294861663?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/SEpk379rDME/terceira-conferencia-nacional-de.html" title="Terceira Conferência Nacional de PostgreSQL" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/09/terceira-conferencia-nacional-de.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DE4GRXg5eSp7ImA9WxJSEEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-7074848951892582138</id><published>2009-04-30T01:33:00.002-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T01:35:24.621-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-04-30T01:35:24.621-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="profbay" /><title>ProfBay.com Blog</title><content type="html">We started a new &lt;a href="http://blog.profbay.com/"&gt;ProfBay.com blog&lt;/a&gt; updates and announcements. Please see it at &lt;a href="http://blog.profbay.com/"&gt;http://blog.profbay.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-7074848951892582138?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/C1zQ2OcOccI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/7074848951892582138/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/04/profbaycom-blog.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/7074848951892582138?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/7074848951892582138?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/C1zQ2OcOccI/profbaycom-blog.html" title="ProfBay.com Blog" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/04/profbaycom-blog.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DkIBQ3g7eip7ImA9WxJSEEo.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-7374271755713416252</id><published>2009-04-28T16:39:00.006-06:00</published><updated>2009-04-30T00:55:52.602-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-04-30T00:55:52.602-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="ebay" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="profbay" /><title>Profbay.com Tracks How Profitable Your Sales Are</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lastwedge.com/images/profbay/dashboard.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 484px; height: 179px;" src="http://www.lastwedge.com/images/profbay/dashboard.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I should have written an entry about this much earlier, but I haven't been a good blogger. Shame on me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lastwedge.com/"&gt;We&lt;/a&gt; launched &lt;a href="http://profbay.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt;.com&lt;/a&gt; into open beta a couple months ago, and today it made it into two very prominent web sites: &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Lifehacker&lt;/span&gt;.com (&lt;a href="http://lifehacker.com/5230920/profbay-tracks-how-profitable-your-ebay-sales-are"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt; Tracks How Profitable Your eBay Sales Are&lt;/a&gt;) and The &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Redferret&lt;/span&gt; Journal (&lt;a href="http://www.redferret.net/?p=14032"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt; - how much money are you making from eBay?&lt;/a&gt;). Needless to say, our sign up rate went through the roof (thanks &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Redferret&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Lifehacker&lt;/span&gt;!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Lifehacker&lt;/span&gt;.com said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;If you're a regular &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;lister&lt;/span&gt; on eBay, you know how much your items are selling for, but maybe not the hard margins on your best stuff. Free (in beta) web tracker &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt; aims to help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt; can't read tea leaves to know how much it cost you to acquire or prep an item for sale, but it does do the hard math on your shipping, eBay's insertion and listing fees, and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;PayPal&lt;/span&gt; take-outs to determine how much you're in the black after sending your item out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;The &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;Redferret&lt;/span&gt; Journal said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://profbay.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a new online application that monitors your eBay account to help you track profitability from your sales. It’s in beta at the moment, and free, but the developers plan to charge a &lt;em&gt;‘small subscription fee’&lt;/em&gt; sometime in the future. Could be useful for all you budding auction entrepreneurs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt;.com is all those things, and more. So many eBay sellers sell mostly on the blind, or using clumsy, time-consuming spreadsheets. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt; automates this process by importing your completed listings, and giving eBay sellers an overview of how their eBay businesses are doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Main features:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Automatic importing of eBay listings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Automatically tracks all expenses, fees, and income&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Other income and expenses (including acquisition costs) can be added by the user&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Built-in graphs and charts to measure your profit or loss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;At-a-glance view of your eBay business&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Support for multiple eBay ids&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Track item views with a click of a button&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;In short, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;ProfBay&lt;/span&gt; is an &lt;a href="http://profbay.com/"&gt;eBay profit and loss analysis tool&lt;/a&gt;, and we hope it'll help eBay sellers make more money. Why not give it a try today?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S.: To all those who left feedback on our site and on comments, thanks. We know there are a few issues with the site, and we're working on it as fast as possible.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lastwedge.com/images/profbay/expenses.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 1126px; height: 359px;" src="http://www.lastwedge.com/images/profbay/expenses.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.lastwedge.com/images/profbay/sales-graphs.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 923px; height: 576px;" src="http://www.lastwedge.com/images/profbay/sales-graphs.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-7374271755713416252?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/NgG4POkIxlA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/7374271755713416252/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/04/profbaycom-tracks-how-profitable-your.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/7374271755713416252?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/7374271755713416252?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/NgG4POkIxlA/profbaycom-tracks-how-profitable-your.html" title="Profbay.com Tracks How Profitable Your Sales Are" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/04/profbaycom-tracks-how-profitable-your.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;A0MHRHc_eSp7ImA9WxVWFUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-7279136318767855802</id><published>2009-02-25T12:10:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-02-25T12:17:15.941-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-02-25T12:17:15.941-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amazon" /><title>Amazon Photography Exhibit in the Salt Lake City Library</title><content type="html">"&lt;span id="slt_site"&gt;&lt;span id="slt_article"&gt;When was the last time you saw a collection of photographs published as part of a special report before the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.sltrib.com/arts/ci_11749194"&gt;Salt Lake Tribune reports&lt;/a&gt; that -- until the end of February -- you can see an exhibit of 52 photographs titled &lt;span id="slt_site"&gt;&lt;span id="slt_article"&gt;"Amazônia Photography". The exhibit "&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="slt_site"&gt;&lt;span id="slt_article"&gt;document the forests' beauty and struggle for existence" and is part of a report to the United Nations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="slt_site"&gt;&lt;span id="slt_article"&gt;&lt;p&gt; Where: Salt Lake Main Library, 210 E. 400 South, Salt Lake City &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; When: Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.; Sundays, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Call 801-524-8200 for more information, or visit &lt;a href="http://www.slcpl.ut.us/" target="_BLANK"&gt;www.slcpl.ut.us&lt;/a&gt; for more information. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-7279136318767855802?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/Scprd38JOkA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/7279136318767855802/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/02/amazon-photography-exhibit-in-salt-lake.html#comment-form" title="1 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/7279136318767855802?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/7279136318767855802?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/Scprd38JOkA/amazon-photography-exhibit-in-salt-lake.html" title="Amazon Photography Exhibit in the Salt Lake City Library" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/02/amazon-photography-exhibit-in-salt-lake.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0MGQH0_eCp7ImA9WxVSEU4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-3547578440940683158</id><published>2009-01-04T09:51:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-04T21:57:01.340-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-01-04T21:57:01.340-07:00</app:edited><title>A Epidemia da Obesidade nos EUA: O Futuro do Brasil?</title><content type="html">Recentemente eu vi um &lt;a href="http://clichereality.blogspot.com/2008/12/soda-should-be-new-sin-tax.html"&gt;artigo&lt;/a&gt; do meu amigo Mike Howsden onde o secretário de saúde do estado de Nova York, nos Estados Unidos da América, defende um imposto de 18% proposto pelo governador a incidir sob bebidas açucaradas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-0744373709500056 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ARMgjdbY93o&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-0744373709500056 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ARMgjdbY93o&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a style="left: 0px ! important; top: 15px ! important;" title="Click here to block this object with Adblock Plus" class="abp-objtab-0744373709500056 visible ontop" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ARMgjdbY93o&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/ARMgjdbY93o&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/ARMgjdbY93o&amp;amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Esta semana o New York Times publicou um artigo sobre  &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/01/health/31memory.html?em"&gt;efeitos da flutuação de açúcar no sangue sobre a memória&lt;/a&gt;. Resumindo, o estudo indica que flutuações no nível de glicose (açúcar&lt;br /&gt;no sangue) afetam a formação de memórias permanentes no cérebro. Isso quer dizer que aquele "guaranázinho" ou "coquinha" (ou outros alimentos ricos em açúcar e pobres em fibras) que damos para crianças podem afetar o aprendizado e ajudar a diminuir o rendimento escolar das mesmas. Para quem tem mais de 30 anos -- idade na qual o controle natural de açuçar do corpo começa a não funcionar tão bem -- isso também tem implicações sérias.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu já moro nos EUA há quase dez anos. É um tempo considerável. É inevitável que eu faça comparações entre os dois países, já que eu conheço o Brasil melhor que a maioria dos Americanos, e conheço os EUA melhor do que a maioria dos Brasileiros (que costumam falar abrobrinhas enormes sobre os EUA quando eu vou ao Brasil).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu passei a maior parte dos meus anos no Brasil em Manaus, no Amazonas, mas também morei em outros estados, como São Paulo e Pará, e em várias cidades. No Amazonas come-se muito peixe, devido à sua abundância e ao gosto do Amazonense, que adora peixe. Mas também toma-se muito refrigerante no Amazonas, e eu só tenho visto isso aumentar nos anos que tenho retornado ao Brasil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu creio que hoje -- nos Estados Unidos, mas aparentemente ainda não no Brasil -- estamos na fase aonde chegamos ao final dos anos 80 em relação ao cigarro: temos informações suficientemente difundidas sobre os danos à saúde do uso exagerado de açúcares refinados -- cujo veículo principal são os refrigerantes -- que estão causando um movimento da sociedade e dos governos contra esses produtos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No Brasil, a meu ver, tem-se ainda mais um agravante: restaurantes do tipo &lt;i&gt;fast food&lt;/i&gt;. Crescendo no Amazonas, tínhamos pouquíssimos restaurantes de &lt;i&gt;fast food&lt;/i&gt; de cadeia. Tínhamos inúmeros restaurantes de hambúrguer e lanches, etc. locais, que eram nossos favoritos como adolescentes. Relativamente falando, não comíamos muito hambúrguer em lanches, geralmente uma vez no fim de semana, e a bebida favorita não era o refrigerante, e sim a jarra de suco de laranja ou o meu favorito na época: suco de cupuaçú com leite.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numa das últimas vezes que fui ao Brasil, fui a um &lt;i&gt;shopping center&lt;/i&gt; em Recife e fiquei embasbacado com o que vi: quase &lt;b&gt;todas&lt;/b&gt; as mesas da praça da alimentação tinham gente comendo refeições do McDonald's com refrigerante. Quase todas!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McDonald's é algo relativamente novo em Manaus, as primeiras franquias abrindo por volta de 2004, salvo engano. Quando estivemos em Manaus pouco tempo depois da abertura dos McDonald's, muitos amigos nos convidaram entusiasmados para visitar o McDonald's local, nos oferecendo o que eles viam ser o melhor. Quando recusávamos educadamente os convites parecia que éramos alienígenas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McDonald's, nos EUA, é onde se vai para comer quando não se tem dinheiro, quando você quer algo extremamente barato, mas que você sabe que é ruim. No Brasil McDonald's é caro, bem caro, e visto como o que há de melhor. Ledo engano.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se continuarmos nesse caminho, como o que vi no shopping em Recife, vamos acabar com o mesmo resultado onde os Americanos se encontram agora: uma epidemia de obesidade, um enorme custo aos cofres públicos para cuidados de saúde decorrentes de doenças que outrora eram inexistentes ou facilmente evitáveis, e gerações de pessoas menos produtivas e menos aptas a concorrer no mercado global. Tudo que um país em desenvolvimento como o Brasil não precisa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mudanças simples podem ajudar muito esse quadro sombrio:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Não se precisa de sal em tudo. Aliás, não se precisa de sal em quase nada. Os alimentos já dispõem de sal naturalmente.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Refrigerante deveriam ser algo que tomamos raramente, e não algo que tomamos como água. Além do açúcar, refrigerantes também tem muito sal (que é o que dá aquele ardor refrescante na garganta, para logo em seguida causar mais sede)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pão integral é melhor.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Todos nós, e especialmente crianças, precisamos de frutas e fibras vegetais, ao invés de doces e alimentos sem fibra nenhuma.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-3547578440940683158?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/fNiWbsQcRs8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/3547578440940683158/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/01/epidemia-da-obesidade-nos-eua-o-futuro.html#comment-form" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/3547578440940683158?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/3547578440940683158?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/fNiWbsQcRs8/epidemia-da-obesidade-nos-eua-o-futuro.html" title="A Epidemia da Obesidade nos EUA: O Futuro do Brasil?" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/01/epidemia-da-obesidade-nos-eua-o-futuro.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;AkcMQnc8eSp7ImA9WxVSEkQ.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-1277535364177244430</id><published>2009-01-04T09:12:00.003-07:00</published><updated>2009-01-06T20:14:43.971-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2009-01-06T20:14:43.971-07:00</app:edited><title>E você, o que me diz?</title><content type="html">"Espírito inquieto, mente buliçosa. Do tempo em que mais se ouvia do que podia falar. As perguntas calavam sem respostas. Os dramas do viver humano, os sofrimentos, as mágoas, as revoltas, as dores me inquietavam e faziam pensar..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Assim a minha querida mãe começou o seu próprio blog &lt;a href="http://www.evoceoquemediz.com.br/"&gt;E Você, O Que Me Diz?&lt;/a&gt;, e realmente a descrição é totalmente correta. Minha mãe sempre foi fascinada com a mente humana e sempre demonstrou imensa satisfação e realização na sua paixão e profissão de Médica Psiquiatra.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Para nós, em casa, ela sempre demonstrou enorme interesse no bem-estar dos seus pacientes, ficando genuinamente feliz e animada quando eles progrediam durante o seu tratamento com ela. Inúmeras vezes atendi a porta de casa para encontrar pacientes trazendo presentes ou outra forma de agradecimento sincero.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Infelizmente boa parte da população ainda tem a noção errônea que Psiquiatra é "médico de doido" e por isso recusam-se a ver um psiquiatra, preferindo optar por terapias mais "aceitáveis" socialmente. Infelizmente porque isso freqüentemente apenas prolonga o sofrimento do paciente, e por vezes agrava o problema, tornando o tratamento mais longo e doloroso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A palavra "Psiquiatria" vem do Grego &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;psukhē&lt;/span&gt; ‘alma, mente’ + &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;iatreia&lt;/span&gt; ‘curar’ (de &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;iatros&lt;/span&gt; ‘curador’ ). Eu testemunhei inúmeros pacientes onde essa cura da alma e da mente ocorreram.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E agora que já não mais me encontro sob as asas da minha mãe, sou leitor assíduo do &lt;a href="http://www.evoceoquemediz.com.br/"&gt;E Você, O Que Me Diz?&lt;/a&gt; na busca de continuar recebendo os frutos do conhecimento de uma pessoa com tanta experiência, competência e amor aos "emaranhados da vida humana, as inquietações, os sofrimentos e tambem os caminhos da vitória!" como &lt;a href="http://www.evoceoquemediz.com.br/sobre/"&gt;ela mesmo disse&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-1277535364177244430?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/lAp5PQx2gSk" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/1277535364177244430/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/01/e-voc-o-que-me-diz.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/1277535364177244430?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/1277535364177244430?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/lAp5PQx2gSk/e-voc-o-que-me-diz.html" title="E você, o que me diz?" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2009/01/e-voc-o-que-me-diz.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0YCQ3w5cCp7ImA9WxRUGE0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-1281615405179986534</id><published>2008-11-27T08:42:00.004-07:00</published><updated>2008-11-27T08:52:42.228-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-11-27T08:52:42.228-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="nature" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="fishing" /><title>Fishing in Utah, and a Bald Eagle</title><content type="html">&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=deer+creek+lake,+provo+canyon&amp;amp;sll=40.483466,-111.647208&amp;amp;sspn=0.008111,0.015814&amp;amp;g=deer+creek+lake&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;s=AARTsJoauGCkudDVEoLwjwNlaaQPfS4MBA&amp;amp;ll=40.443289,-111.488571&amp;amp;spn=0.078386,0.102997&amp;amp;z=12&amp;amp;output=embed" frameborder="0" height="300" scrolling="no" width="300" align="right"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I went fishing for the second time this year, which is kind of a record for me in Utah. My friend Travis invited me to go fishing with his family, but at the last minute it turned out they were going to a pretty far lake and I didn't want to go that far.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By then there was no way to back out. Rafael was already all excited about fishing. We went to a store, got some bait and drove to Deer creek, a lake in the beautiful Provo canyon that is stocked with fish by the Utah division of wildlife resources. Supposedly. I'm somewhat embarassed to say that in the two times I've been fishing this year I didn't catch anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS64XB_5rEI/AAAAAAAAAIs/BY7uf6UPxRg/s1600-h/princ.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 184px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS64XB_5rEI/AAAAAAAAAIs/BY7uf6UPxRg/s320/princ.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273354919510387778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now I don't have a boat, and people tell me that my experience is a fluke. They say they always catch fish in Utah lakes, with the biggest prize being the famous rainbow trout. Now I come from the Amazon, where I would go fishing with my dad and friends, and we usually caught some tambaqui and tucunaré (like this one in the picture) fairly easily. Granted, we were on boats, away from the city, but still... fishing in Utah is more frustrating than I thought&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS67ul2As0I/AAAAAAAAAI0/K4mNFGO3Bec/s1600-h/rob-raf-pescaria.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 216px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS67ul2As0I/AAAAAAAAAI0/K4mNFGO3Bec/s320/rob-raf-pescaria.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273358622804456258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even so, we had a good time. It's fun to be alone with Rafael, no distractions and just talk whatever comes to mind. Do some manual labor for a change. The lake was calm, with a few people around fishing too. The lake area is truly nice and well-maintained. Rafael gets really worked up about casting his line, and I just keep hoping he won't get that hook onto something he shouldn't. He casts it pretty well, is remarkably patient for a kid his age and has fun when we're there. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS693jVaukI/AAAAAAAAAI8/1QTrWQ46N1U/s1600-h/eagle_1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 216px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS693jVaukI/AAAAAAAAAI8/1QTrWQ46N1U/s320/eagle_1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273360975772957250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The greatest thing about our last fishing excursion was that we got to see a real, wild American bald eagle. It was just a beautiful animal! I started taking pictures from far away, as I walked closer and closer to the eagle. It let us get as close as we could to it, keeping close tabs on us as we got closer. It would give me this piercing look, straight at my eyes it seemed at times. We spent a good half hour or more just looking at that eagle, marveling at its magnificence. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS6_sqbTLeI/AAAAAAAAAJE/Vt3vMwt4_wk/s1600-h/eagle_2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 288px; height: 216px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS6_sqbTLeI/AAAAAAAAAJE/Vt3vMwt4_wk/s320/eagle_2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273362987721371106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Just goes to show that there's more to fishing than catching fish.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-1281615405179986534?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/Vtda1rGyPiw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/1281615405179986534/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/11/fishing-in-utah-and-bald-eagle.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/1281615405179986534?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/1281615405179986534?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/Vtda1rGyPiw/fishing-in-utah-and-bald-eagle.html" title="Fishing in Utah, and a Bald Eagle" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SS64XB_5rEI/AAAAAAAAAIs/BY7uf6UPxRg/s72-c/princ.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/11/fishing-in-utah-and-bald-eagle.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;C0AHRHg8eSp7ImA9WxRRGUU.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-3793798108702476833</id><published>2008-10-02T10:38:00.020-06:00</published><updated>2008-10-02T15:08:55.671-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-10-02T15:08:55.671-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="election" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="taxes" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="2008" /><title>Warren Buffett thinks he should pay more taxes</title><content type="html">Warren Buffett was just speaking at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, and I caught a piece of his talk with the senior editor. It was really interesting to hear what seemed like a very straightforward talk, something that seems rare in these crazy days of bank failures and widespread desperation. Here are some things he said:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;It's ridiculous that the cleaning lady who cleans my office every day pays more taxes than I do&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When we compare the taxes that the 19 people in berkshire hathaway's office pay, I pay the less taxes of all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The top 400 richest people in the the country had their net worth jump 7 times over the last 20 years, and the american worker has just gone nowhere, inflation adjusted&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When you have a billionaire like Warren Buffett saying the people who work for him pay too much in taxes when compared to him, well, I don't know how anyone can refute that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These particular quotes were interesting to me because just yesterday I saw a comparison of McCain's and Obama's tax plans, and McCain -- judging from his proposed tax plan -- disagrees with Buffett:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/06/12/GR2008061200193.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 447px;" src="http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2008/06/12/GR2008061200193.gif" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Under a McCain administration taxpayers in the Warren Buffett bracket would pay 4.4% less in taxes, the biggest tax break of all, while those Mr. Buffett says currently pay too much in taxes (like his cleaning lady) would get barely any breaks (source: Washington Post)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's look at two other tidbits of information about McCain versus Obama...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SOUTasr1t1I/AAAAAAAAAHk/Q5098bLa16k/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SOUTasr1t1I/AAAAAAAAAHk/Q5098bLa16k/s320/Picture+3.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252625889790113618" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SOUTa6GfL0I/AAAAAAAAAHs/UTEwkiuOnC8/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SOUTa6GfL0I/AAAAAAAAAHs/UTEwkiuOnC8/s320/Picture+4.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5252625893391544130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obama's plan spends more (than McCain's) BUT cuts taxes less than McCain's, and the people who make less money will get bigger tax cuts (and therefore end up with more money.) Source: &lt;a href="http://www.ntu.org/main/page.php?PageID=141"&gt;National Taxpayer Union&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;McCain's plan will spend less (than Obama's), but he will be making bigger tax cuts (and mostly for the very rich), which will in turn make it so the government actually spends more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both candidates' plans are fiscally irresponsible, but McCain's plan is more so, by 1.5 &lt;b&gt;trillion&lt;/b&gt; dollars. Obama would increase the national debt by $3.5 trillion (or $12,000 per American) over 10 years. McCain's plan would increase the national debt of $5 trillion (or $17,000 per American). Source: &lt;a href="http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/UploadedPDF/411749_updated_candidates.pdf"&gt;Tax Policy Center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-3793798108702476833?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/hW3ncEKEoYE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/3793798108702476833/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/10/warren-buffett-thinks-he-should-pay.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/3793798108702476833?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/3793798108702476833?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/hW3ncEKEoYE/warren-buffett-thinks-he-should-pay.html" title="Warren Buffett thinks he should pay more taxes" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SOUTasr1t1I/AAAAAAAAAHk/Q5098bLa16k/s72-c/Picture+3.png" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/10/warren-buffett-thinks-he-should-pay.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEEFRHgyeCp7ImA9WxdVF0k.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-118531930971890108</id><published>2008-07-22T11:46:00.005-06:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T10:03:35.690-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-07-22T10:03:35.690-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="tourism" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brazil" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amazon" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="parintins" /><title>Parintins: Pure Magic</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2690655622/" title="O Boi Garantido"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 180px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2690655622_742f44da6d_m.jpg" alt="O Boi Garantido" border="0" height="240" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I was born and raised in Manaus, in the Amazon, a city that borders the Amazon river. My ancestors are part native indians, part Europeans, like a good chunk of the Brazilian population.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Amazon culture is very rich in legends, tales, stories, centered around the forest, animals, and everything derived from the native indigenous culture. My dear grandma Olendina used to always tell stories from the years she lived in the country side, in the forest. The Boi Bumbá is part of this rich regional folklore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"The ritual of the Bumbás shows the legend of Father Francisco and Mother Caitirina who, with the help of the Pajé (indian healer), are able to resuscitate the farm owner's ox. The legend tells that Mother Caitirina, pregnant, wishes to eat the tongue of the farm's most beautiful ox. To satisfy the desire of his wife, Father Francisco kills the farm owner's pet ox. Father Francisco is discovered, tries to escape, but is arrested. To save the ox, a priest and a doctor (the Pajé, in the indian tradition) are called and the ox is resurrected. Father Francisco and Mather Caitirina are pardoned and a great feast takes place." (source: &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Folcl%C3%B3rico_de_Parintins%E2%80%9D"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 9 years that we've been living in the USA, the music (toadas) and lyrics of the boi-bumbá have been one of the best ways we've found to keep connected with our native culture. 2008 was our first time visiting Parintins to watch the Folkloric Festival that happens there every year on the last weekend of June. I confess to being absolutely mesmerized with the beauty of the festival, with the very high degree of refinement, art, and the impecable hospitality of the people of Parintins.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689833679/" title="IMG_0592 by rlbmello, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/2689833679_cc93230104_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; We traveled to Parintins by boat (and returned to Manaus by plane, a mere 45-minute flight), because all flights were booked already, and made all the arrangements at the last minute (I thank my dear sister-in-law Jordana for arranging everything for us). We boarded an express boat, arriving in Parintins 12 hours later. The boat had its interior much like an airplane, with lined-up chairs for the passengers, unlike the regular regional boats ("motor"). Our on board service was actually good, with breakfast, lunch and dinner.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689840465/" title="Fantasias do boi Garantido"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2689840465_0ac288b134_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We arrived in Parintins at 6 PM, a couple hours before the start of the Festival. We were in the "galera" (fan base) of the boi Garantido. We've been fans for a while. The party started with deafening (and beautiful) pyrotechnics, followed by the open air opera that tells the legend of the boi bumbá, amazonian legends, its tribes, regional characters, and so on. The costumes -- like the ones in this picture -- are true works of art, the result of the beautiful creativity and dedication of all those who work in the festival all year long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689841575/" title="Alegoria do boi Caprichoso"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2689841575_7d89fcafcf_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The floats further take your breath away, each bringing different characters and dancers, with movement and dances that, with the music and energy of the presenting boi's fan base ("galera") create a spetactacle worthy of any major metropolis, but strikingly happen instead in the small island in the middle of the Amazon River. I believe this took the crew of the Bandeirantes TV network by surprise. Bandeirantes broadcasted the entire festivity nationally for the first time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689842243/" title="Triciclo em Parintins"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2689842243_393558052a_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On Saturday, second day of the Festival, we took a walk through town by taking a tricycle - a bicycle adapted to carry several people. We went downtown, to the harbor, to the local open market bustling with people and souvenirs of each boi bumbá. The strong police presence was striking and welcome, with slogans that referenced the bumbás. In the stands at the bumbódrome (where the party takes place), the police uniforms had colors that matched the different fan bases: red for the Garantido, blue for the Caprichoso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689842697/" title="'Computerized' local restaurant"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2689842697_06edfbe22b_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On the second night we dined at a tiny restaurant across the street from the bumbódrome. I was impressed with the restaurant's cashier, that had a computer, not something you usually see at a street restaurant. Looking from the back of the computer everything seemed normal, until I looked closer and noticed the "monitor" was nothing more than a monitor case being used to keep the money. Another show of creativity from the people of Parintins. My beautiful Juliane is in the picture, along the restaurant's cashier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689844133/" title="Boi Garantido Float"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2689844133_9cbf905b6c_m.jpg" alt="IMG_0753" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;On the festival's second night I thought the Garantido boi had the best presentation (each of the 2 competitors presents for 2.5 hours on each of the festival's 3 nights), unlike the first night, where the Caprichoso was clearly the winner. I must admit that the Garantido is the clear owner of my heart, with its beautiful poetry and songs (toadas) and a galera of electrifying energy. I invite all to visit Parintins and experience this fantastic party. It is undoubtedly worth it. I'll finish this post with a montage of the videos I made during the festival. Enjoy. Feel free to ask any questions about the festival, its history and how to visit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/pUIADOumshQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/pUIADOumshQ&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" height="344" width="425"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe width="300" height="300" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=parintins,+amazonas,+brasil&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;s=AARTsJrFZU0p8xWj4swZIKsgv9KB14Uf5Q&amp;amp;ll=-2.454693,-57.079468&amp;amp;spn=1.646381,1.647949&amp;amp;z=8&amp;amp;output=embed"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;q=parintins,+amazonas,+brasil&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;ll=-2.454693,-57.079468&amp;amp;spn=1.646381,1.647949&amp;amp;z=8&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color:#0000FF;text-align:left"&gt;View Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-118531930971890108?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/a81n_je0UIc" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/118531930971890108/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/07/parintins-pure-magic.html#comment-form" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/118531930971890108?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/118531930971890108?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/a81n_je0UIc/parintins-pure-magic.html" title="Parintins: Pure Magic" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2690655622_742f44da6d_t.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/07/parintins-pure-magic.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;CEcFR3o4fCp7ImA9WxdVF0k.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-1450977893453816355</id><published>2008-07-22T11:33:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2008-07-22T09:53:36.434-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-07-22T09:53:36.434-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="boi bumba" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="amazonas" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brasil" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="parintins" /><title>Parintins: Magia Pura</title><content type="html">&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2690655622/" title="O Boi Garantido"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 180px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2690655622_742f44da6d_m.jpg" alt="O Boi Garantido" border="0" height="240" width="180" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Eu nasci e fui criado em Manaus, no Amazonas, uma cidade que fica às margens do Rio Amazonas. Meus ancestrais são em parte nativos do Amazonas, em parte Européia, como grande parte da população Brasileira.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A cultura do Amazonas é riquíssima em lendas, contos, “causos”, em torno da floresta, dos animais, e de tudo derivado da cultura indígena nativa da região. Minha querida avó Olendina sempre contava histórias dos anos em que viveu no interior. O Boi Bumbá faz parte desse rico folclore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“O ritual dos Bumbás mostra a lenda de Pai Francisco e Mãe Catirina que conseguem, com a ajuda do Pajé, fazer renascer o boi do patrão. Conta a lenda que Mãe Catirina, grávida, deseja comer a língua do boi mais bonito da fazenda. Para satisfazer o desejo da mulher, Pai Francisco manda matar o boi de estimação do patrão. Pai Francisco é descoberto, tenta fugir, mas é preso. Para salvar o boi, um padre e um médico são chamados (o pajé, na tradição indígena) e o boi ressuscita. Pai Francisco e Mãe Catirina são perdoados e há uma grande comemoração.” (fonte: &lt;a href="http://www.blogger.com/%E2%80%9Dhttp://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_Folcl%C3%B3rico_de_Parintins%E2%80%9D"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nos 9 anos que estamos morando nos EUA, as músicas (toadas) e letras dos boi-bumbá têm sido uma das melhores maneiras de nos mantermos conectados com a nossa cultura nativa. 2008 foi a nossa primeira vez visitando Parintins para assistir ao Festival Folclórico que acontece lá todo ano no ultimo fim de semana de Junho. Confesso que fiquei absolutamente embasbacado com a beleza de todo o festival, com altíssimo grau de refinamento, arte, e uma cordialidade impecável do povo Parintinense.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689833679/" title="IMG_0592 by rlbmello, on Flickr"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3243/2689833679_cc93230104_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Fomos à Parintins de barco (e voltamos de avião, que são apenas 45 minutos de vôo de Manaus), pois todos os vôos já tinham sido esgotados, e arrumamos tudo de última hora (agradeço à minha querida cunhada Jordana que fez tudo para nós). Pegamos um barco expresso, que chegou à ilha de Parintins em 12 horas. O barco tinha o interior como o de um avião, com cadeiras alinhadas para os passageiros, diferente dos barcos regionais comuns ("motor"). Nosso serviço de bordo foi até bom, com direito a café da manhã, almoço e janta.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689840465/" title="Fantasias do boi Garantido"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3152/2689840465_0ac288b134_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Chegamos à Parintins às 6 da tarde, quase início do Festival. Ficamos na galera (torcida) do Garantido, pois somos fãs há bastante tempo. A festa começou com uma ensurdecedora queima de fogos, seguida pela ópera a céu aberto que conta a lenda do boi bumbá, lendas da amazônia, das tribos, figuras regionais e por aí adiante. As fantasias - como as mostradas nesta foto - são verdadeiras obras de arte, fruto de linda criatividade e dedicação de todos que trabalham o ano todo no festival.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689841575/" title="Alegoria do boi Caprichoso"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3175/2689841575_7d89fcafcf_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;As alegorias são ainda mais de tirar o fôlego, cada uma trazendo seus personagens e dançarinos, com movimentos e danças, que juntamente com a toada do tema, os versos do amo do boi e a agitação e energia da galera (torcida do boi que está se apresentando), criam um espetáculo digno de qualquer metrópole mundial, e no entretando acontecem numa pequena ilha no meio do Rio Amazonas. Acho que isso assustou à equipe da TV Bandeirantes, que pela primeira vez transmitiu o festival na íntegra em rede nacional.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689842243/" title="Triciclo em Parintins"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3023/2689842243_393558052a_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;No Sábado, segundo dia do festival, pela manhã fomos andar pela cidade e pegamos um triciclo - uma bicicleta adaptada para carregar várias pessoas. Fomos ao Centro, ao porto, à feira abarrotada de lembranças de cada boi-bumbá. Algo que sobressaiu foi o ostensivo policiamento, presente em todos os lugares, "caprichosamente garantindo a segurança" como estava escrito em seus uniformes em alusão aos bois Caprichoso e Garantido. Nas arquibancadas os uniformes dos policiais seguiam as cores de cada boi, vermelho no Garantido e Azul no Caprichoso.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689842697/" title="Restaurante local 'informatizado'"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/2689842697_06edfbe22b_m.jpg" alt="" border="0" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Na segunda noite jantamos antes do festival numa barraquinha de esfihas feitas na hora em frente ao bumbódromo. Fiquei impressionado até com o caixa do restaurante de esquina, dotada de computador. Olhando por trás do computador parecia tudo normal, até que olhei pela frente e notei que o "monitor" nada mais era do que o local onde a caixa guardava o dinheiro. Outro indício da criatividade Parintinense. Na foto a minha linda Juliane, ao lado do caixa do restaurante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/22521449@N00/2689844133/" title="Alegoria do Boi Garantido"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2689844133_9cbf905b6c_m.jpg" alt="IMG_0753" height="180" width="240" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Na segunda noite do Festival, eu achei que o Garantido teve a melhor apresentação, ao contrário da primeira, onde o Caprichoso me pareceu o vencedor claro (cada boi se apresenta por 2 horas e meia em cada uma das três noites do festival). Eu devo admitir que o Garantido é claramente o dono do meu coração, com suas lindas poesias e toadas e uma galera de energia eletrizante. Deixo aqui o convite a todos os leitores para que façam uma visita a Parintins para experimentar essa linda festa. Realmente vale a pena, e muito. Termino aqui com uma montagem dos vídeos que fizemos durante as noites do festival. 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Brazil has had those for a few years, following a George Washington University study showing that the more graphical and bigger the warning, the greater the inhibitting effect it has on the smoker. The messages on tobacco products in the U.S. faired pretty poorly because of their little size, with no pictures.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The old warnings were already very graphical, but the new ones go further. According to the &lt;a href="http://portal.saude.gov.br/portal/aplicacoes/noticias/noticias_detalhe.cfm?co_seq_noticia=47817"&gt;health ministry&lt;/a&gt;, the new warnings were designed after studies and targeted straight at the youth, who the ministry says is constantly targeted by tobacco companies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The new campaign focused in the following areas, with a different picture to illustrate each area: victims of tobacco, gangrene, death, heart attack, toxic smoke, suffering, erectile dysfunction, danger.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The twenty-year-old program to reduce smoking has had positive results. In 1989 the smoking population was 34.8%. In 2003 it was down to 22,4%, and the last survey in state capitals, 16% of the population above 18 years of age. Given that Brazil is the biggest producer and exporter of tobacco products, such government indepedence and action in the public interest is very welcome.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is your reaction to these pictures?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border="0"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpmCSdv5tI/AAAAAAAAAF0/Xq_FUWACz04/s1600-h/tabaco3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpmCSdv5tI/AAAAAAAAAF0/Xq_FUWACz04/s320/tabaco3.jpg" alt="The use of this product diminishes, impairs or prevents an erection." id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222598907391895250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpmoL7X4OI/AAAAAAAAAF8/qz-toWTaKjQ/s1600-h/tabaco2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpmoL7X4OI/AAAAAAAAAF8/qz-toWTaKjQ/s320/tabaco2.jpg" alt="This product causes early skin aging." id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222599558472130786" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpqj7a6HTI/AAAAAAAAAGE/-zlCbTe2b3s/s1600-h/tabaco1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpqj7a6HTI/AAAAAAAAAGE/-zlCbTe2b3s/s320/tabaco1.jpg" alt="Inhaling this product's smoke causes pneumonia and bronchitis." id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222603883368029490" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The use of this product&lt;br /&gt;diminishes, impairs or&lt;br /&gt;prevents an erection.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This product causes&lt;br /&gt;early skin aging.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inhaling this product's&lt;br /&gt;smoke causes pneumonia&lt;br /&gt;and bronchitis.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpsYkwh51I/AAAAAAAAAGM/a5TVGFaV82g/s1600-h/tabaco5.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpsYkwh51I/AAAAAAAAAGM/a5TVGFaV82g/s320/tabaco5.jpg" alt="This product contains toxic substances that lead to sickness and death." id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222605887329396562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwi3-xbvI/AAAAAAAAAGU/A-rMHfW43VE/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwi3-xbvI/AAAAAAAAAGU/A-rMHfW43VE/s320/Picture+1.png" alt="The risk of brain stroke is higher with this product" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222610462334611186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwi_CWMuI/AAAAAAAAAGc/kciwgTEPNJ8/s1600-h/Picture+2.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwi_CWMuI/AAAAAAAAAGc/kciwgTEPNJ8/s320/Picture+2.png" alt="The use of this product leads to death by lung cancer and emphysema" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222610464228651746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This product contains&lt;br /&gt;toxic substances that&lt;br /&gt;lead to sickness and death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The risk of brain&lt;br /&gt;stroke is higher&lt;br /&gt;with this product&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The use of this&lt;br /&gt;product leads to death&lt;br /&gt;by lung cancer and emphysema&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwjOTdhnI/AAAAAAAAAGk/cTvzrka3NU0/s1600-h/Picture+3.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwjOTdhnI/AAAAAAAAAGk/cTvzrka3NU0/s320/Picture+3.png" alt="The use of this product causes death by heart diseases" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222610468326966898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwjfaw-nI/AAAAAAAAAGs/XCErCgxO_M4/s1600-h/Picture+4.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwjfaw-nI/AAAAAAAAAGs/XCErCgxO_M4/s320/Picture+4.png" alt="The use of this product obstructs arteries and impairs circulation" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222610472921004658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwjbJCxfI/AAAAAAAAAG0/XNDKIZckqk8/s1600-h/Picture+5.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHpwjbJCxfI/AAAAAAAAAG0/XNDKIZckqk8/s320/Picture+5.png" alt="This product intoxicates the mother and the baby, causing premature birth and death" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222610471772931570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  The use of this&lt;br /&gt;product causes death&lt;br /&gt;by heart diseases&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  The use of this&lt;br /&gt;product obstructs arteries&lt;br /&gt;and impairs blood circulation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  This product intoxicates&lt;br /&gt;the mother and the baby,&lt;br /&gt;causing premature birth&lt;br /&gt;and death&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHp0tFnAWQI/AAAAAAAAAG8/j4boGa0cXmA/s1600-h/Picture+6.png"&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SHp0tFnAWQI/AAAAAAAAAG8/j4boGa0cXmA/s320/Picture+6.png" alt="Nicotine dependence causes sadness, pain and death" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5222615035838224642" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;   Nicotine dependence&lt;br /&gt;causes sadness, pain&lt;br /&gt;and death&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-5602516126019994237?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/WdS_05ZbseY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/5602516126019994237/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/07/new-graphical-tobacco-warnings-in.html#comment-form" title="4 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5602516126019994237?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" 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gd:etag="W/&quot;Ak8HSHs6fCp7ImA9WxdWEko.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-5809257532811031941</id><published>2008-06-24T18:57:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2008-07-05T11:27:19.514-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-07-05T11:27:19.514-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brazil" /><title>The Things You are Reminded of</title><content type="html">&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I went to get some lab work done in Brazil today. I was surprised to see so many people waiting at the lab’s waiting room. I had to get a numbered ticket and wait to be called on one of those electronic boards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I was waiting, an old lady probably in her 60’s came up to the front of the waiting room, with her back straight to the 6 lab receptionists and asked people for help to buy ingredients to make a bone soup.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That is something that you usually never see in the United States. More surprising than the event itself was that:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The lab staff carried on as if nothing was happening. No asking her to stop or leave.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;I’d say that out of the 20 people in the lab’s waiting room, some 10 gave the woman some money&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;The woman asking for help was fairly aggressive, going row by row after the first wave of people had given her money, and at least one time she directly asked one person for help.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To me this reminds me and indicates some things:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;This is a common event at this busy location, and probably at any busy location.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;People are very used to this type of thing, and they are sympathetic and do help, even though most people at the lab at that time appeared not to be of high economic means.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; That lady -- as is probably the case with others in the same situation -- grow a pretty thick skin due to the repeated experience of having to ask for help.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Growing up as a then-rare middle-class person in Brazil, almost everywhere you went there were people asking for money. Often people would ring the door bell of our house and would relay a pretty sad story going on in their lives: sick daughter, just got out of the hospital and need money to pay for the bus fare, some recently-inflicted wound, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your gut reaction is to help, but eventually it happens too often for you to help everytime. Adding to this unfortunate scenario are the scammers. I remember one guy came asking for help at our house once, and we gave him money. A couple days later the same guy came over, with a different story. He probably forgot that he had been through that neighborhood before.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually we got into a system of help-for-work. If someone asked for help at the house, we would ask them to do some small work around the house in exchange for food and (pretty good) money. Without exception those asking for help would reject the offer and move on to the next house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My mom was once scammed by a nicely-dressed lady who supposedly had “ran out of gas” and needed money to get her car going again. I remember my mom telling me about the very well executed scam, with the lady being very eloquent. Some time later the same person tried to scam my mom again, at the very same intersection, and received instead a good scolding from my mom.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It’s unfortunate, but eventually you get desensitized to this sort of thing, because it just happens so often. But I was glad to see that -- judging by the people at the lab -- most people do help those who at least appear to be in need.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-5809257532811031941?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/TYpzgIwmWRA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/5809257532811031941/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/07/things-you-are-reminded-of.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5809257532811031941?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5809257532811031941?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/TYpzgIwmWRA/things-you-are-reminded-of.html" title="The Things You are Reminded of" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/07/things-you-are-reminded-of.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0YCQ3w4fSp7ImA9WxdQGEw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-367781339433010322</id><published>2008-06-17T07:47:00.004-06:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T12:52:42.235-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-06-18T12:52:42.235-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="impostos" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="brasil" /><title>Contra a Contribuiçao Social da Saúde</title><content type="html">A administração Lula do governo Brasileiro realmente tem um apetite insaciável por dinheiro fácil, um comprometimento com a ineficiência e demonstra a incapacidade de administrar competemente uma área importante como a saúde.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Que outra explicação se dá para a última tentativa de ressuscitar a CPMF com um novo nome que só serve para enganar o povo e roubar a economia da produtividade que ela necessita para competir no mercado interno e internacional. Que descaso gigantesco para com o sacrifício do povo Brasileiro diante de seguidas arrecadações recordes do governo.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Quão vergonhoso da parte do congresso nacional, por aprovar uma medida &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;claramente &lt;/span&gt;impopular e desnecessária puramente por motivos políticos, ou quem sabe por pura preguiça de reprovar a medida e mandar o governo procurar administrar melhor com os recursos de que dispõe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Entre em contato com seus senadores, telefone, mande e-mail, faça o possível para demonstrar aos seus representantes eleitos que essa contribuição deve ser derrubada. Precisamos, como um povo, ser mais ativos e exigir uma reforma tributária justa.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-367781339433010322?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/tqQUtQze9IE" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/367781339433010322/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/06/contra-contribuiao-social-da-sade.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/367781339433010322?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/367781339433010322?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/tqQUtQze9IE/contra-contribuiao-social-da-sade.html" title="Contra a Contribuiçao Social da Saúde" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/06/contra-contribuiao-social-da-sade.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUABQ3YycSp7ImA9WxdQGE4.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-5121756301672590818</id><published>2008-06-17T07:37:00.003-06:00</published><updated>2008-06-18T19:09:12.899-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-06-18T19:09:12.899-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="debian tips" /><title>Fixing problems with Debian installation scripts</title><content type="html">Debian packages are usually of very high quality. The packages may have installation scripts that are executed before or after installation or removal. They're called preinst, postinst, prerm, postrm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those scripts almost never have to be changed because they rarely have problems, unless you're creating your own packages and make a mistake, like I did. And when you make a mistake in those scripts you may be unable to remove or reinstall the package.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't think it's well known that one can easily fix or change installation or removal scripts in Debian packages once the've been installed. My good friend &lt;a href="http://noodler.blogspot.com/"&gt;Paul Cannon&lt;/a&gt; pointed out to me that you can modify them at /var/lib/dpkg/info/$packagename.{prerm|postrm|preinst|postinst}.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-5121756301672590818?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/xqvYZRCdxuM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/5121756301672590818/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/06/fixing-problems-with-debian.html#comment-form" title="0 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5121756301672590818?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/5121756301672590818?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/xqvYZRCdxuM/fixing-problems-with-debian.html" title="Fixing problems with Debian installation scripts" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/06/fixing-problems-with-debian.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;D0AMRHw6fCp7ImA9WxZXGUw.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-4152388321686311105</id><published>2008-03-05T12:49:00.006-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-07T11:49:45.214-07:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-03-07T11:49:45.214-07:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="databases" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="encoding" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="postgresql" /><title>PostgreSQL e Codificações (PostgreSQL and Encodings)</title><content type="html">Uma pergunta freqüente na lista pgbr-geral é "Qual codificação eu devo usar com o PostgreSQL"? Recentemente isso foi &lt;a href="http://listas.postgresql.org.br/pipermail/pgbr-geral/2008-March/007157.html"&gt;discutido novamente&lt;/a&gt;, e as mesmas coisas foram discutidas novamente.  Tal como seus colegas nos EUA -- onde eu trabalho há 9 anos -- os desenvolvedores de aplicações do Brasil parecem conhecer muito pouco sobre codificações e conjuntos de caracteres.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eu recomendo o ótimo &lt;a href="http://local.joelonsoftware.com/mediawiki/index.php/O_M%C3%ADnimo_Absoluto_Que_Todo_Desenvolvedor_de_Software_Absolutamente%2C_Positivamente_Precisa_Saber_Sobre_Unicode_e_Conjuntos_de_Caracteres_%28Sem_Desculpas%21%29"&gt;artigo do Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt; sobre o assunto. Sem desculpas. Tem que ler. Já leu? Não continue antes de ler.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Numa conversa no canal #postgresql na rede freenode, conversei com a Susanne Ebrecht, que recentemente escreveu um bom resumo do assunto para uma apresentação no grupo de usuários de PostgreSQL da Alemanha. Ela me deu permissão para publicar a apresentação dela. A apresentação entitulada &lt;a href="http://www.divisiblebyfour.org/pool/pgencoding.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Encoding Issues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; está disponível &lt;a href="http://www.divisiblebyfour.org/pool/pgencoding.pdf"&gt;aqui&lt;/a&gt;. Espero que isso esclareça as dúvidas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;ATUALIZADO&lt;/span&gt; [2008-03-07]: Coloquei link para o artigo do Joel Spolsky em Português.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A recurring question on the pgbr-geral Brazilian PostgreSQL mailint list is "Which encoding should I use with PostgreSQL?" Recently this was &lt;a href="http://listas.postgresql.org.br/pipermail/pgbr-geral/2008-March/007157.html"&gt;discussed again&lt;/a&gt;. Just like their US colleagues -- where I've worked for the last 9 years -- the application developers in Brazil seem to know very little about encodings and character sets.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I recommend the excellent &lt;a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html"&gt;article by Joel Spolsky&lt;/a&gt;. No excuses. Got to read it. Have you read it? Don't go on before reading.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During a conversation on the #postgresql channel on the freenode network, I spoke to Susanne Ebrecth, who recently wrote an excellent summary of the subject as it relates to PostgreSQL, for a presentation to the German PostgreSQL Users Group. She kindly gave me permission to publish her presentation.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The presentation entitled &lt;a href="http://www.divisiblebyfour.org/pool/pgencoding.pdf"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Encoding Issues&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is available &lt;a href="http://www.divisiblebyfour.org/pool/pgencoding.pdf"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. I hope this helps clear up the matter.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-4152388321686311105?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/fKSKHnP5J90" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/4152388321686311105/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/03/postgresql-e-codificaes-postgresql-and.html#comment-form" title="2 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/4152388321686311105?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/4152388321686311105?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/fKSKHnP5J90/postgresql-e-codificaes-postgresql-and.html" title="PostgreSQL e Codificações (PostgreSQL and Encodings)" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>2</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2008/03/postgresql-e-codificaes-postgresql-and.html</feedburner:origLink></entry><entry gd:etag="W/&quot;DUcNQHw8eSp7ImA9WB9TGU0.&quot;"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14872114.post-8857382240326115506</id><published>2007-09-25T23:08:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2007-09-27T09:31:31.271-06:00</updated><app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2007-09-27T09:31:31.271-06:00</app:edited><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="patents" /><category scheme="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#" term="software" /><title>Who is Winning with Software Patents?</title><content type="html">When I worked at Novell, they heavily encouraged us to submit anything and everything for patent review. By submitting an idea -- no matter how crazy it was -- you would receive a free t-shirt. If the idea proved worthy of further patent-exploration, you'd get something else, and if the patent was approved you'd get $1000.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I remember talking to a co-worker about something I wanted to do to our internal Wiki to improve our collaboration, and he said "you should submit this for a patent". That was such a foreign thought to me, but that's the prevailing mentality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;While I was working at Novell ZenWorks, they patented a feature of the new ZenWorks web-based user interface. When the user clicked on something, a little dialog box would pop up, and the rest of the browser screen would fade into a darker shade of gray. Nothing that I had not seen before, but I remember the celebration when they were awarded a patent for some trivial CSS and Javascript. I've seen people unknowingly infringing on Novell's patent in several places.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A company &lt;a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070914-company-patents-playlists-sues-everyone.html"&gt;recently sued a slew of other companies&lt;/a&gt; (Microsoft, Verizon, AT&amp;T, Sprint, Dell, Lenovo, Toshiba, Viacom, Real, Napster, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Nokia, Sandisk Hewlett-Packard, Acer, Gateway, and Yahoo) for an amazingly original and innovative invention: the playlist. A file with different lines that a program reads and does something with each line. They could probably sue every software company in the U.S. for writing programs that use such "innovative" technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Predictably, Premier appears to have no tangible company history other than patent infringement lawsuits and does not produce any sort of product that competes with any of the companies listed." says the ArsTechnica post. Predictable indeed. Every year &lt;a href="http://www.realgeek.com/us-software-patents-hit-record-high/"&gt;40,000 new software patents&lt;/a&gt; are awarded by the USPTO. A record in 2007. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vonage will likely die from patent litigation. It just lost a &lt;a href="http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/290781.html"&gt;$69.5 million case against Sprint&lt;/a&gt;, and its shares plummeted yet again. This is after a battle against Verizon that it also preliminarily lost. I'm not sure how much longer they can withstand such a beating. And I wonder why other prominent Voice-Over-IP companies have not been sued yet. Maybe they're busy settling with Verizon and Sprint after the public Vonage crucifixion.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The question I have is: who is &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;really&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; winning with software patents? Vonage certainly isn't. Estimates say it costs $20,000 to check a line of code against patent infringement, and 2 to 10 million to fight one. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An acquaintance, when he found out I was a programmer, eagerly approached me to distill the advantages of going with his firm for software patents. Numbers flew for how many patents they had "gotten through". He certainly is winning. The lawyers certainly are winning. I'm not sure anyone else is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(No, I'm not against all patents)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[Update: Vonage &lt;a href="http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9785790-7.html?tag=nefd.blgs"&gt;lost the appeal&lt;/a&gt; against Verizon.]&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/14872114-8857382240326115506?l=blog.divisiblebyfour.org' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/RobertoMello/~4/_m5WhcDEUU8" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</content><link rel="replies" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/feeds/8857382240326115506/comments/default" title="Post Comments" /><link rel="replies" type="text/html" href="http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2007/09/who-is-winning-with-software-patents.html#comment-form" title="3 Comments" /><link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/8857382240326115506?v=2" /><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.blogger.com/feeds/14872114/posts/default/8857382240326115506?v=2" /><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/RobertoMello/~3/_m5WhcDEUU8/who-is-winning-with-software-patents.html" title="Who is Winning with Software Patents?" /><author><name>Roberto Mello</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/12351821831652782671</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail" width="29" height="32" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JIBezqSUZzU/SLKrZIlG5aI/AAAAAAAAAHM/HWKYP8Wvwlw/S220/avatar.jpg" /></author><thr:total>3</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://blog.divisiblebyfour.org/2007/09/who-is-winning-with-software-patents.html</feedburner:origLink></entry></feed>

