Monday, February 28, 2011

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The boys are well

Today was an unexpected holiday. Of those that you are almost by surprise, as a result of which the council has had to relocate parties in their original dates coincided with holidays. And you find that you do not know what to do.

Not me, of course, but for my wife. And I said, you want to go to the movies? - Okay, so let's go.

And then came what to choose what to see. It was a long time since we were not going to the movies and I really do not know what could be more interesting movie. Perhaps influenced by the recent Oscars, is, I looked among them had received a statuette, but do not usually go by this kind of approach, where previously we had major disappointments.

We finally settled on a film nominated for four Oscars, but has not received any. We trusted too much, why reading the review, we Dramon tremebundo sounded.

But, surprise! The film, despite being low cost, is performed superbly, with excellent photography and execution of plans that include and soberly dramatize the strength of the scenes.

The actors are superb, both Annette Bening and Julianne Moore in their respective roles of mother and lesbian mother, parent of two teenagers - Mia Wasikovska and Josh Hutcherson - born after artificial insemination paths generated from a single sperm donor, Mark Ruffalo.

With these ingredients could have been concocting a story that easily fall in squalor or histrionica overacting. But no.

One issue, that of families of same-sex marriages, even conflicting fit into society, is treated with great delicacy and naturalness.

much that you get in nature rather skeptical about this issue, see with different eyes. Another issue is that in the end the history of infidelity, the protagonists could have any say traditional couples.

recommended film to watch and reminded me of a conversation heard in Radio days ago. An announcer offered him an imminent viewer pay half the price of admission to the nearest multiplex, if I went to see a English film. The viewer said he still preferred to go to see an American movie, the quality that no doubt find in this nationality. This is surely an exaggeration to comment, but it partly right.

English cinema, heavily subsidized, is committed to the deep-sea movies very dramatic and far-reaching, if not grotesque, type Torrente. But he has the ability to tell stories Quotidiano with the strength and the pulse necessary to attract viewers.

Hence the low interest and low box office revenue. Indeed, if these subsidies are paid with money from the taxpayers' (and therefore I have also contributed to them) should not be either downloaded from the Internet crime films made by such subsidies. Right?

Monday, February 21, 2011

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LOCTI: Are we still talking about CTI or just research?


progress and development of a society is inextricably linked to advancing to do science, technology and innovation of a country. It is therefore essential that they do not become politicized, uniform, abridging, or limit. Quite the contrary by the characteristics of their goods and services supported in the knowledge and management, demand the formation of a critical mass able to systematize, document, research, question, propose, create, implement and massively knowledge, applications and solutions that add value in a basic criterion of autonomy and independence of mind alien to political whims, economic, religious or dogmatic, sometimes try to catch and dispose of in dynamic are not, nor should they ever find it as their own.

development activities in science, technology and innovation includes multi-faceted and dynamic processes ranging from scientific or technological research, but not restricted to action to investigate, ie to investigate, document, test, contrast, experiencing or developing theories, models, methodologies, facts, prototypes, taxonomies and an extensive and valuable etc.

The work of science, technology and innovation have a greater scope, activities also include management and technological development , training, dissemination, incubation of technology-based businesses, entrepreneurship and innovation, it is scientific, technological, organizational or social, as well as the activities of transfer and appropriation of technologies and expertise, external technical linkages, STI capacity building as the formation of R & D, interface units, spin-off, for the last two almost non-existent or ineffective in the country where traditional approaches have restricted the technology parks that despite being articulated to campus for academic excellence or spaces have important limitations.

As can be seen STI activities are more extensive than it is scientific research, technological or social. Therefore concerned that the guidelines regarding the use of resources from the obligation under the Law on Science, Technology and Innovation (LOCTI) to two months reform, seem only summarized the research (other activity that is in my opinion passionate and valuable for the development of a country), running the risk of reduced LOCTI a Research Act which among other things raises the centralization of resources by the State why there is a need to remember that the law is not research, but the activities of science, technology and innovation (STI) which are broader and more diverse than just the research per se.

Moreover the work of CTI as no single "locus" to the academy, which logically has a specific weight, but not unique. Corporations, foundations, civic associations, technology development centers, NGOs, technologists, including freelancers, consultants and graduate students, etc, in addition to universities, are part of that critical mass that makes up the National Science, Technology and Innovation, which we know is insufficient for the challenges and challenges involving developing country.

CTI activities require the confluence of diverse actors and not respond to a model that contains new settings the complex and dynamic cycle of CTI to a relationship - State University - Society, where the Company does not intervene as a "locus" of this cycle but as a financier.

Moreover, to minimize the existence of companies that evade or deflect unfortunately LOCTI obligation to others processes for purposes other than linking with universities and R & D, or learning processes, technology and innovation management depends on an adequate understanding of the business and commitment to the local CTI, but then a lot depends on and proper management control, the same that has prevented the current date to know how many units of R & D business than academics were formed, reactivated or boosted between 2005 -2010, 2005 LOCTI product?, or how many and in what areas increased external technical linkages between universities and the productive sector, or do many courses graduate, graduate, or professional development programs increased enrollment LOCTI investment product, how many technical courses increased their demand for it, how is saving the country foreign exchange product engineering activities, design and technological development of components, equipment, parts and local?, despite the overall increase in imports promoted by the State in food items, agricultural, manufacturing, etc. by the inconsistency of policies supported in the process of expropriation and dismantling capabilities, foreign to the spirit and purposes of the LOCTI.

Or on the other hand, how many publications were generated with the input received by universities in these 5 years LOCTI 2005, how many investigations and in which areas contributed to developing country?.

In neither case are true answers, because the regulator on the issue unfortunately has not fulfilled its role and to do so requires a restructure and focus again resources, performance and evaluation criteria, in addition to the approval of who gives and who not, and the times when absolute discretion to implement such procedures as well as accountability so far lacking, despite people have valuable and able to propose and implement sensible proposals, but have in many cases marginal, saturated, underutilized and unmotivated.