Students protest

The student marches have aroused in the young the desire to be heard by the authorities. The mass demonstrations of thousands of young people clearly show that there are certain points in the Chilean education-both at school and university level- which doesn’t leave happy students and teachers. Clearly, this movement has attracted the attention of authorities in various policy sectors. While some have tried to capitalize on the educational issue to increase its popularity, others have tried to be an educational contribution to this conflict. This is how it passed the creation of a commission of inquiry in education by the House of Representatives, even though it was rejected weeks ago.

I think there are several problems within the Chilean education. First there is the issue of quality of education at school level. Clearly, private schools, with a few local schools have good educational quality. However most of the municipal schools have no educational desired quality. The idea of ​​create municipal schools of excellence is good as a first step, but bigger changes are needed in order to deliver quality education in all sectors. I'm not sure that turning schools into state is the solution.

With regard to university education is the problem of lack of funding in traditional universities. In this sense it has generated a progress of the state. The second problem is the cost of education. Here the generating cheaper credit is an advance, but should be a fund that students do not have to pay interest for study. Another problem is the profit with education. In this sense I find that there should be banned private universities, but whether to regulate their existence. If you generate profits, you must pay taxes and not receive public money. Also, to operate all universities should be accredited, regulating the quality and the amounts charged are not excessive. Finally should control the number of universities and quota for each profession, as the supply of professionals increasingly demand more than generating many doesn´t find job.

A Photograph

I like take photographs very much. I like to take photographs as well as see it.  Every time that travel, I take many photographs in each site, testing different angles and modes, and many times my family rush me to continue walking. Then when I comeback of the travel, I see all the photographs and delete the bad. Later I select the best photographs, then print these, and finally put in my album.

I like take photographs of landscapes, to represent all its beauty, trying to take the landscape as a whole, in order to capture the memory in photography. Another kind of photography that I like to take is to small animals and insects, particularly those of unusual shapes and colors. Of this way, I can keep the memory of strange animal in colors.

The picture that I upload is one of my favorites. This picture was taken by mi brother, which lives in Punta Arenas. Show the “horns of Paine”, in the national park “Torres del Paine”. Was taken in the surrounding area of “big jump”, that is the biggest waterfall of the park. This park is very beautiful, and I consider that is one of the best places in Chile to travel. The picture was taken in February of the summer of two thousand and nine.  I like this picture because is placed in a very beautiful place, and was a very good travel with my brother and father. This journey was very special to my father and my, because I don´t know the  park, and my father lives is the region his childhood,   but the last time that visit the park was many years ago.

Antumapu

Antumapu is a very beautiful campus. Is one of the greenest campuses of the University of Chile. The campus includes the faculty of Veterinary, Agronomist, Forester and Natural resources. The Faculty of Veterinary is separated of the other by Farm world. Farm world is a place that receive visit of children, and they can see and learn about different animal, such as farm animal, in example cows, chickens, horses, rabbits, donkeys, sheep, goat and geese.  But others animal exist in Farm world like ostriches and deer. Includes a lagoon surrounded by many crops. Have a casino to eat, and many rustic tables, that make a very comfortable place to lunch, with the nature round you. By this reason, Farm world is one of my preferred places to eat.

The Faculty of Veterinary is very familiar, separated of the other Faculties, with small structure, many individuals that remind cabins, and is very attractive that doesn’t present any structure of two floors.  The advantage is that almost all veterinary students interact, but the disadvantage is that being separated from the other schools produces less contact with students of other faculties. 

The side of the campus with Agronomist, Forester and Natural resources has many more interaction between the students. Parties made in Antumapu are good, especially the “Fonda Antumapu” in September, in which dance “Cueca”, and has a very folk atmosphere, that allows return to our traditions.

About the name I don´t know the meaning or the origin of this, sound as a Machupe word, but I am not sure of this. 

I can say that Antumapu is a good campus, in contact with nature and a friendly atmosphere, allowing a relaxed area to study. Perhaps should have better infrastructure, but is a great campus to study

Ventana problem

I don't now much information about the case. I now that exist a coal from Codelco producing a lot of contamination in the area of Quinteros and in the Ventana port. It produced high levels of pollution, and was the cause of “La Greda” school closing. The students were moved to another location by the authorities. The branch of Ventana was a temporally closed, but recently was reopened.

Respects to the causes of this situation, the authorities have an important part of the responsibility, because they must be stricter in control measures. It effects can be very high, including health’ problems and others such as incommodity by live in a contaminated environment.

I think that the first step to prevent this kind of problems, is be more strict in requirement of contamination level such as in the way that the industrial waste were manipulate. Another form to prevent it is to be stronger in sanction when some irresponsible industries violate the laws. Is very important that authorities take in to account the damage that industrial contamination can produced in the environment and in people.  

About the possible solution, I think that the first is close the coal until they be shore assegurate that contamination levels can be lowed. The authorities must obligate to the company to do a decontamination plan, to counteract the impact of it in the environment. It necessary to, that the companies compensate to the village and pay all the possible cost of treatments, in case those correspond.

The Japanese nuclear tragedy

Because the tsunami, nuclear plants was damaged in Japan. This damage in one of them produces leaking of radiation. At the beginning, the Japanese authorities don’t say the real magnitude of radioactivity in the nearby area. The situation becomes more dramatic, whit an increasing in levels of radiation. They can’t get cold the reactors, and a group of workers put in danger there life to try down the temperature. Helicopters use sea water to get cold the reactors, but from many days the reactors don’t get cold.

The levels of radiation was very high, and can produce intoxication by radiation and generate alteration in pregnant.  The government recommended close windows and doors, use mask and take medicaments to eliminate the radioactive iodine. I think that the Japanese government didn’t take all the measures to protect the citizen’s health.  They can evacuate a mayor area to safeguard the people health.  

When I compare with Chernobyl, the causes are different, because in the Japanese case was a great natural disaster that cause the problem.  But in terms of the impact, the Japanese case has equal or greater level of radiation that Chernobyl. This can do that the impact in the people’s health can be very great, and will be seen in a large period of time.

AsalBase website

Hi, today I write about the ASalBase site, that is the Atlantic Salmon genomic and genetic sequence database. The web site is: http://www.asalbase.org/sal-bin/index. The website has all the information of the Atlantic Salmon genome proyect. This site includes all the information generated by the cGRASP, which is the Consortium for Genomic Research on All Salmonids Programs. The effort to generate the Atlantic Salmon genome is made by an international aliance between Chile, Norway and Canada.

The sections of website are sequence, markers, genetic map, contigs, gene comparsions and BLAST. This site is a very useful tool if you work on genetics analisys in Atlantic salmon. You can search specific sequences, markers or genes in the database of the site. You can also compare your sequence whit the sequence on the database by the tool BLAST. I visite the website one time for month, because is very useful to my research proyect.

This site like to me because include all the information that exist respect to the Atlantic salmon genome, and I can compare sequences, find the sequence of specific markers, see genetic maps, all in the same website.

I hope that this site was useful for you.

Comments of Prince of Persia

The last movie that i saw was Prince of Persia, is a fiction movie about the Persa empire and  a young orphan that become in prince. After the Persa empire invade a holly city, the king is murderer and the protagonist is accused of the crime. He escape away  whit the princess of the city, and in the travel discover a special daga that allows back in time. The prince must comback and probe his innocence.

I recomend this movie, because is fun and have good special efects. Altought the trama of the movie is simple, you can get two hours of light entretainment whit this movie. I see of the same director Harry Potter and the Globet of fire, and i see to The good father.