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Down economy in Brazil: time to save
20
May
Several websites help consumers make savings in Brazil, compare products, shops, airline
tickets, and there are those who give discount coupons for online stores, and show how to practice the best prices.
The Buscapé is undoubtedly one of the best sites to save, you will find it offers organized by category, if you want the best looking good this site.
Zoom and Bondfaro sites are strong competitors in the Buscapé comparison, a lesser-known but no less efficient the JáCotei, sites for buy in Brazil.
In order to provide comparative prices in supermarkets of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Curitiba and some local Santa Catarina Meu Carrinho application Buscapé group, compares prices of 25 networks registered supermarkets, such as: Extra, Balcony Zone South, Sugar Loaf, Delivery, probe, pricesa, Mercaorama, Angeloni and others
To help finance people with financial problems, debts, insurance, cards and consortiums, also with health and education, Konkero is a portal that can help users a lot.
To buy and sell cars, check list prices, analyze different regions of the country iCarro site is one of the most versatile.
There are countless websites for travel, tours and flights, it is best to find what the best for the region, namely that companies make flights, including the possible hosting locations and verify that the packages are not cheaper.
But do not forget credit cards only last if necessary, overdraft use is almost a usury (reaches over 200% per year) and see what fits in the budget do not forget to make reservations for emergencies: the brakes in bags.
5 myths about technology
19
May
While technology may have dangers, this is not unique to it, all means that man uses can cause deviant behavior, 
addictions and consumerism, but almost everything we use is kind, from clothes, books and food, mobile phones, tablets and computers.
Information online as Infomoney and Olhar Digital released its myths, only one I repeat here, the idea that mobile phone use causes brain cancer, there is no evidence of this, just coincidences of people who have used very mobile and had cancer, which It is different from proving that this is the cause.
The other 4 important are: the computer usage difficult to read, in fact make a different reading on the computer, it is a little tiring continuously read on the computer, but whole pages should be avoided, but the reading of e-books is practice many readers, but there are also those who prefer books and those who use them.
Another myth is that young people would be less going to libraries because the digital world, did a post with Pew Research Internet Project site data showing that this is false.
The fourth myth is that through the virtual world is opposed to the real, that unfortunately even sociologists and serious thinkers spread, first this is a logical error because the virtual is not opposed to real, not unreal, but only “potential” towards possible, with a lack of knowledge of the meaning of the word that comes from virtus, which is the same rais of virtue.
The fifth myth is that technology somehow opposes the construction of the human being, or even of humanism or anything positive for man, that is unaware that throughout human history technology has always sought to help the man, of course there are instruments of war, the atomic bomb etc, that is destructive technology, but beware of generalizations, almost everything we use clothing to work instruments, almost everything suffers and suffers constant technological change in order to improve the instrument.
The fifth is a philosophical myth of the West, the idea that everything is object is negligible and should not prevent direct human relationship, now just think of things from day to day: clothes, objects of our home, our work, books and of course their own money and technological objects, they are “impregnated” of humanity because they are part of our relationship Others, of course can be used positively or not, but this decision is up to man
Understand the case SwissLeaks
14
May
The name was created in association with the website that denounced the US secret data on a site that the net-activist Assange
built to disclose secret information, revealing little moral actions of many governments around the world, he was pursued and was arrested.
The SwissLeaks case actually began long before when in 2007 a list of 106 000 high-profile customers (read: a lot of money) have been identified in the bank’s accounts, involving politicians, people from the showbiz world, athletes, drug dealers and weapons, Herve Falciani was a former employee of the IT field who denounced the subsidiary HSBC Bank Switzerland.
At the time the British government and the French also identified several evaders and the names became known as the “Lagarde List” due to arrests and attempts to recover the funds in Greece, Spain, United States, Belgium and Argentina.
The French newspaper Le Monde had access to recent documents list and transferred to a consortium of journalists called ICIJ (International Consortium of Investigative Journalists) which released the data, and impressed the number of Brazilians involved.
Brazilian data included 5,500 secret accounts Brazilians, between individuals and companies, with a total balance of $ 7 billion (about US $ 20 billion Reais), with Brazilian companies participating in government projects, getting the famous Galvão Brazilian company.
A book that explains the investigative journalism was written by Paul Bradshaw “Scraping for Journalists” and is available in online acquis.
Company announces clean energy
07
May
The Tesla company had already announced last year the construction in the US state of Nevada a super lithium-ion 
battery capable of supplying power to several cities, the investment of 5 billion dollars (about 15 billion real) in partnership with Japanese Panasonic, now announces a new step in clean energy, Powerwall which is already being developed in a warehouse on the outskirts of Los Angeles, announced last week.
The Tesla Powerwall equipment is to supply home residences from solar panels, and can operate at night, in addition to providing a secure backup in case of a power outage, as news on Business Insider.
In theory the device can be mounted to a garage wall can make completely independent houses of traditional electricity, using only solar energy.
The idea of solar energy can change the energy pattern around the globe, eliminating the anti-ecological (and often antissocial in Brazil) energy from hydroelectric and dangerous nuclear energy, and the announcement on first May, the company’s founder the American Elon Musk said the goal is to turn all worldwide energy infrastructure until we get the ‘zero-carbon’ sustainable, left to governments and energy companies will leave.
Later this year takes place in Paris the prestigious UNFCCC – or the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change that promises an effective and real pressure presence in governments and businesses.
What is being learned online?
05
May
A new report on the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) was published in late April and
can show progress and setbacks in these new means of mass education.
The report, again funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates (the first was also and did a post), was coordinated by George Siemens, a technology-academic expert at the University of Texas at Arlington, and states that the initial frenzied enthusiasm seems now a little milder: “It’s almost like now we passed by a shameful period in which we forget we were researching and how were scientists, hurried to make decisions and proclaim things that were not scientific whole,” he told the publication of Wired Campus .
The goal then this new report is to offer research topics: student engagement and learning success in a process of self-regulation and social learning, network analysis and network learning, including: motivation, attitude and criteria success.
Siemens understood the basics of networks, this might be embarrassing said that without the involvement of the students. “Now the subject of particular interest,” it is just a distraction from a distance and is “is literally just a click away” as the published report (download).
Five key research themes were identified in the report: student engagement and success of learning, Mooc´s design and curriculum, self-regulated learning and social learning, social network analysis and network learning, and motivation, attitude, and success criteria.
The names of student engagement reports as a prominent issue. Many students enrolled in MOOCs non-traditional, to make sure that they are involved and able to succeed in such a course is even more important.
The Siemens teacher said he hopes the report will help colleges to tomaem r intelligent decisions based on research and evidence, to create their digital campuses.
Technology, science and rebirth
04
May
The architecture of cirterciense monks, was followed by the Gothic cathedrals of medieval
and technical advances arc usage (support span roofs and even bridges) was a product of the Middle Ages, the invention of the printing press (the Chinese movable type already there) and later internalized understanding (silent reading was new) was important as the first step towards the democratization of writing and learning “scholar” whose word has a Latin root “scholastic”.
Among the most beautiful libraries in the world (see the list of top 10) is the Admont Abbey Admont founded in Austria in 1074 and 1776 embellished with golden tones, and the library and the library of the Strahov monastery in the Czech Republic beyond 1143, and indeed just cited, the monks built 3,500 libraries in the medieval world, knowing it was not popular was true, but it was a period of construction that culminated in the written press.
The dissemination of written culture through books, will start a learning process of democratization, which was not possible without the reproduction of books and even the invention of spectacles as much of the population was shortsighted, and allowed a faster propagation of ideas which paves the way for the expansion of reason, ideas and culture.
technology of great voyages allow not only the European maritime and commercial expansion, but will be the scientific advances that will discover an extraordinary number of new species of animals and plants, and new geological and climatic formations.
All this is in check including the technology itself, should I switch to a complex thought and look at the planet as a homeland for all, but you can not throw away the progress and advancement that rebirth gave rise, perhaps a new re-rebirth .
In the ceiling fresco of Strahov (pictured) made in the eighteenth century was called The humanity’s efforts for true wisdom, I think this is our effort.
The being, things and values
23
Apr
That being is fragmented, the speech and culture were fragmented in the course of modernity we all know, let’s call it
liquid, gaseous or virtual, will not be the characteristic that solve and put back to life and society on track.
Recognizing that the public and private spheres are divided and confused when they should not be just looking at the various levels of the “so-called public life” to know that certain estates (not classes) took public account and become private.
The deeper problem is one that separated us or leagues to things, be they money, technology or even intangible things like ideologies, ideas and religions, and we were not in physics, but the meta-physics that was abandoned.
The problem is that intangible things or are not recognized as such, or recognized are separate views of Being (not the subject, fragmentary category of modernity), since the things that catch (tangible) are seen as “appropriations” only and not as things that should also be conceived on the basis of Being, Husserl claimed: “We need to return things for themselves,” did not want the father of phenomenology separate it from being, but just the opposite building, or rebuilding ontological project.
Being is more general, Heidegger claimed, referring to Aristotelian metaphysics (book B, 4), we read:
By keeping the “being” is the most general concept, this can not mean that it is as clear and that does every other explanation. The concept of being is, on the contrary, the most obscure. (Heidegger. 1960, p. 3).
But we set the logical, well-made settings, where the Self is indefinable, but as real as anything that is tangible, and then we demand of Being it is.
Who is deepening and trying to understand the depth of this Being, the ontic sciences (the separate things of Being idealistic project) does not account for themselves, says Heidegger:
Every ontology, however rich and highly structured to be the system of categories available to it, remains blind and works for the falsification of its most authentic intention, provided that does not begin with sufficiently clarify the meaning of being, and waive understand this clarification as its fundamental task. (Heidegger. 1960, p. 11).
Calls Edgar Morin’s “Hhead well made”, teach everything, but does not teach a man to learn to live, to be a citizen, etc. early in the book, Chapter 2 uses the philosopher Blaise Pascal’s quote “does not teach men to be honest,” we might add from the head well made: not combine the knowledge giving them sense, does not teach the human condition and their relationship with nature, which sets limits for us (I include the two authors) ontology (being) precedes ethics, contrary to what liquids speculators (Bauman & others) think the net of modernity.
HEIDEGGER, Martin. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1960.
Operators continue to grow and bill in Brazil
20
Apr
The Telefónica group, its Brazilian affiliate owns Vivo, had already announced the capital increase to around 3 billion euros 
(around £ 9 billion) that was used to finance the close a deal with Brazilian operator GVT broadband French group Vivendi.
The purchase right with Vivendi is around 4.66 billion euros (close to US $ 15 billion) according to information on various vehicles in sight, which means about 12% of Brazil’s Telefonica, ie continue to earn easy money here.
Vivo had a little difficulty with CADE (Brazilian Administrative Council for Economic Defense), as there are concurrent operations of TIM in select cities in the state of São Paulo, and GVT entered a short time in this market but with aggressive pricing, but still cover and customer base is low, so that the combination does not yet guarantee an improvement in the service state SP.
So what’s the point of the acquisition of GVT, fixed operations of Vivo focus only in the state of São Paulo, integrating GVT to their business, she now has a presence in several cities in the country and will operate with pay-TV, fixed telephony , mobile and broadband, expanding the range of services.
Hopefully this will result in some increase in price and improvement of services.
“Status” group in public services and political corruption
06
Apr
The class structure in countries where there was a fertile and lasting capitalism, often with all the contradictions that are
inherent to them: exploration, consumption, price changes and cyclical crises, went on to develop structures where the state acts as mediator in conflicts and allows certain advantages in economic boom times.
The structures inherited in Saxon countries in the Americas differ profoundly from Iberian colonization structure involving all of Latin America, Max Weber analyzed this, explaining that this constitutes a web of relationships in a certain power that affects them in some particular field of activity, this does not is new and has historical origins.
In the words of Raimundo Faoro: “The bureaucratic status commands the civil branch and military administration, and this base, with its own rigging, invades and directs the economic sphere, political and financial. In the economic field, the measures put in place, beyond the formal regulation of liberal ideology, reach from the financial and monetary requirements to the direct management of companies, through the system of State concessions and ordinances about the job. Acting directly or through incentives are techniques developed within a single scope. In its relations with society, the director estament provides about the political rise of opportunities, sometimes dispensing prestige, sometimes repressing seditious disorders, which seek to break the control scheme, the work of Raymundo Faoro”Os donos do poder” (power owners 2nd. edition is 1973, São Paulo: Globo), which explains a lot to Brazilian reality.
The design of patrimonial state is one in which the individual property is designed by the state, called by Faoro of “sobrepropriedade” crown to his subjects and also the state being written by a sovereign and its employees.
These sectors, predominantly middle class that will occupy high positions in government, concessions, banks (in the process of privatization) almost always linked to political power, end up constituting a network of favors that ultimately guides the political power.
What is new in Brazil, along with the C class whose sustainability is doubtful because of it is funded by credit cards, also companies and state sectors had a swelling due to a large public works plan, but with limited firepower, and now in ever deeper cuts to reduce the deficit.
If it is true that corruption is in the estates, officials and civil servants, and state-owned enterprises, it is also true that there is a very strong connection with political sectors and without the removal of this power is no use to establish rules, the corrupt are precisely those people who do not want to comply with the rules, or relativize these.
The knowledge necessary for the future
27
Mar
To inspire can read what’s even open format in MEC (Brazilian Ministry of Education yes, and they read?) Morin of Work 
“The seven knowledge necessary for education of the future”, as he explains in the beginning it is not a content for any level of education, but know how to dribble in education teaching what is knowledge, because “given that we know that the key problem of knowledge is the error and the illusion” (Morin).
Why is this important? asks the author himself, and the answer is something entirely new even to some educators: “Because knowledge is never a reflection or mirror of reality. Knowledge is always a translation, followed by a reconstruction “of the author.
Traditional education only makes the construction, it is called-education: banking, basic, constructive or even dialectic, always incurs the same error: teaches “belief”.
You need to explain the perception of the phenomenon, which is primary, but hides the reality that we see, this is a clear example of the author, “as well as ultraviolet and infrared rays that we do not see, but we know they are there and impose us a view that its effects “and this perception needs reconstruction, needs to former complication and needs study and theory, in fact Violet is a good color to represent it, because” we do not see. ”
And so we know that there is no “there is no intrinsic difference between a perception and a hallucination”, here is the explanation of error and illusion.
Among the errors pointed out by the author, it is important for a globalized world, “Other error causes are cultural differences, and social origin” and thus can not read Arabic or oriental world with a perspective of the West, is a very serious mistake .
The second hole presented by the author is the “relevant knowledge,” we might add also relevant in the sense that knowledge is the source, but the author explains: “pertinent knowledge, ie knowledge that not mutilate your object. How come? Because we follow first, a world formed by the subjects. ”
The other five are simpler: the earthly identity (we are on the same planet), teach the ethics of “mankind”, teach uncertainties (to question), understanding and the human condition, that is a little more difficult, return this type of “knowledge”.
According to The Independent, Finland has just abolish the division of the disciplines, but in Brazil we still need decent pay teachers.
