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Brazilian independent theater at risk
18
Dec
The most popular form of cultural expression, older remains the theater, and the independent theater plays a key role in this, emerges from the national and São Paulo culture more freely and democratically.
Due to real estate speculation, happened yesterday in São Paulo Cultural Center the first protest that shows the fragile situation of the independent São Paulo theater groups, who may lose their spaces or being moved to less visible places.
The fact happened last November with the Testimonials Bartholomew Center, which is a mixture of epic theater and hip-hop, with 15 years on the road and even with the rent on time, the group had to give the space a shed in Pompeii (west side of São Paulo), see photo above the dump.
A manifesto entitled Manifesto “In Defense of Cultural Territories Threatened” or public recognition that the 22 theater groups are the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the City of São Paulo, a document excerpt says “Can not that the right to private goods market a few is more important than the cultural heritage of many. “
Social networks helped Brincante group to remain in place, Vila Madalena (West Zone) with #ficabrincante campaign, by court decision the institute will remain there in 2015.
Shoes in 3D custom
08
Dec
The shoes usually tighten over the side, heel or finger because people have different feet and ways not always fit the foot of the people, the company True Gault has the solution, scans the feet and makes shoes from the 3D model .
For now the service is available only to women, the 3D model customizes the shoe of how the customer prefers, choosing the color, shape, fabric and accessories dozen, and the company would reach the options the 2000 models.
After scanning your feet will mold to Spain where the shoes are made, the whole process takes six to eight weeks, and the price is not cheap, U $ 360 (about 900 brazilian reals), and from there is sent to the client’s home, then it worldwide.
The fashion of customization can change gradually manufacturing in many companies, there are now also manufactures clothing.
The economy of Thomas Piketty
01
Dec
The French Thomas Piketty is undoubtedly a reading in terms of the economic crisis, to publish his book “The capital in the 21st century”, this year he managed to touch the exposed wound of capitalism, but also the demagogic speeches of socialists and social democrats: inequality
Professor at the Paris School of Economics, Piketty cracked the role of inequality of income and wealth in the social structure configuration which we live, with rising inequality .
The British magazine The Economist called it “definitive guide on inequality”, as the Nobel Prize in Economics Robert Solow described it as having “a powerful contribution.
With extraordinary clarity it shows that we should not set solely on income inequality, but try to understand the systematic and methodical way, the story of wealth because it is made of interests and institutional mechanisms that maintain social structures and that is embodied in the policy governing our lives.
So your method is simple, the first is a theoretical framework of laws relating inequality to economic growth and return on capital employed, then shows the evidence from economic history of Europe and the United States, from the eighteenth century to confirm their hypotheses.
So he denies that this cycle is being broken or in Europe or in America and also includes Brazil, despite not having gained access to the actual data, which would be from the income tax, by national laws that guarantee their privacy data.
Google faces problems in Europe
28
Nov
The European Parliament voted in favor to question Google, as a solution to end the complaints about the company favors in their search services, although it cannot on trade relations sent a clear message to commercial bodies.
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The final decision will be in the hands of free trade commissioner Margrethe Vestager, who has worked in 2010 on anti-competitive case of Google’s rivals in 2010.
On the other hand, the US political and commercial organizations have expressed their dismay at the vote, saying the search giant acts legally.
According to the BBC data,, Google has around 90% of the share market, to research data in Europe, and rival asked to investigate four areas::
- The manner in which Google displays its own vertical search services compared with other, competing products,
- How Google copies content from other websites – such as restaurant reviews – to include within its own services,
- The exclusivity Google has to sell advertising around the search terms people use, and,
- Restrictions on advertisers from moving their online ad campaigns to rival search engines.
Restrictions on advertisers to move their online advertising campaigns to compete with search engines.
In the previous case, Joaquin Almunia (see our post) rejected the concessions made by Google, and suggested that the fine can be $ 5 billion.
Internet access should be a human right
26
Nov
It is indicating a survey done in Canada and in 24 countries, with 23,376 respondents who indicated that access the
internet is key to economic future, important for the freedom of political expression, for it should be a human right.
The survey was conducted by Ipsos Institute for GCIG (Global Commission on Internet Governance), and presented at the beginning of a two-day meeting in Ottawa on governance on the Internet.
The World Commission on Internet Governance, the main host of the Ottawa conference, revealed that the world is on a path of struggle for power and many groups and governments have an interest in maintaining influence on all aspects of internet.
But the study of this committee argues that most people do not want any nation or organization in control of the world wide web and therefore a matter of planetary citizenship, and the problem is who should regulate access and use the internet.
The idea is that a group formed by a combination of specialists, engineers and non-governmental groups, is chosen by 57% of those who would be entrusted with this task, but 50% thought that the United Nations could carry out this work and there are still 36% that argue that the United States should take the lead in this area.
The survey was conducted from October 7 to November 12 in the countries: South Africa, Germany, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, South Korea, Egypt, France, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Kenya, UK, Switzerland, Tunisia and Turkey.
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The CGIg which is chaired by diplomat and former politician Carl Bildt Swiss, shall submit its final report for future governance of the Internet in 2016.
Neutralidade nos EUA
19
Nov
Enquanto no Brasil já temos uma lei que garante a neutralidade na
rede (o Marco Civil), nos EUA o debate ainda esquenta, e os internautas pressionam o congresso americano para que não faça o que está sendo chamado de “segmentação da rede”, velocidades diferentes conforme os conteúdos e planos das operadoras.
Desde que o presidente da FCC (Federal Communications Commission) Tom Wheller, revelou em abril que comissão que regula as comunicações nos EUA, estariam mudando as regras que regulam como os provedores de internet administram o tráfego de dados, os internautas começaram a protestar, este mês chegou a 3 milhões de e-mails recebidos na FCC.
O presidente americano Barak Obama defende a neutralidade da rede, em documento deixou claro que “não podemos permitir que os provedores de internet restringissem o melhor acesso ou escolham vencedores e perdedores no mercado online de serviços e ideias”.
As 36 principais empresas de internet que incluem a Google, Netflix e Amazon, defendem a neutralidade, mas os provedores e as operadoras pressionam no sentido contrário.
Os e-mails e comentários foram de consumidores, advogados, companhias e congressistas sobre as regras propostas para a chamada neutralidade de rede, na medida em que se aproxima o prazo final para análise do tema e o debate no congresso americano esquenta.
Embora não exista prazo formal, e a FCC já tenha realizado uma série de workshops sobre aspectos tecnológicos, legais e econômicos das novas regras, a pressão aumenta e é pouco provável que a matéria seja aprovada ainda em novembro.
Projects that can help the planet
14
Nov
Many new technologies are helping conservationists to better analyze the data they collect to improve the ways they protect the wildlife and natural habitats, retaining not only animals, but also the whole ecosystem present.
The TechRepublic article points to several ongoing projects, such as the program that uses the HP Vertica analytics platform to analyze millions of photos and estimate as a kind of animal is occupying a given area and thus to protect them, using the program Insight Earth.
Another example is that IBM is working to integrate the PAM, a cloud-based application developed by The Nature Conservancy, which enables land managers to monitor and meet environmental goals, a platform called Conservation.io.
The Nature Conservacy can also use data from various crowdsourcing bird watchers who use eBird, satellite images and data to create diamonds BirdReturn, which allows to observe and assist in the control birds nest sites, food and bath during their migration.
Other projects are cited: Bumble Bee Watch is one crowdsourced, other crowdsourcing using Intel card is Galileo board, and many others.
Android code 5 is released
05
Nov
In practice this means that not only manufacturers but also developers can download the system image and follow the instructions on the link to install the version that is being called Lollipop, and this version is already announced for the Nexus 4, 5, 6 (versions by 2012) and 7 (version 2013) for Edition Google Play devices.
These versions will be available in the coming weeks, for now is only available l version 9 for the Nexus tablet, released this week in the US.
And other Motorola, Asus, HTC, Sony and OnePlus, manufacturers also update for these devices are available at this link.
CyanogenMod much as had warned should now have begun since the Lollipop had said that once the source code of the current version was released this update would begin.
It is possible that Android 5.0 will soon land in the most varied devices already in the memories ROMs (previously recorded on the hardware itself).
