martes, 1 de diciembre de 2009

The challenges of veterinary

The current world challenges each discipline to constantly updated, which is why in the field of veterinary medicine should be aware of everything related to advances or other alternatives with which to improve both animal welfare as ours and clearly the economic welfare of the owner.

Among the important challenges it is facing a veterinarian constantly find "technology," because we need to avail ourselves of it for many things such as taking exams, sample analysis, genetic manipulation of viruses and bacteria in order to improve the quality of life for both people and animals, the latter also can be engineered to better manage their life expectancy. As we continually informing, and enabling us to be.

Moreover an even greater challenge is related to education, which goes hand in hand with very social affairs, as this is the most important point: if as a society will have a culture of responsible care to pets and will provide education about it from children, that would be much easier to do our job. Furthermore, if the authorities approve laws to punish animal abuse, which fined the irresponsible owners, etc. would create a very different society, and further progress could be made in techniques of all kinds and also go a long way in technology.

It is clear that in many fields related to the area of veterinary medicine that affect it and you can’t handle, such as the part related to the laws and the society as there are things that if, as both the veterinarian is trained to use techniques that don’t become obsolete. Beyond you this, what is important is that you should always try to improve and acquire new knowledge that will provide extra capabilities and help improve the quality of life of their patients.

The actual situation of Veterinary

Most state universities are known to permanently keep all sorts of problems, and the Faculty of Veterinary from Chile University is not exception to the rule.

Today we could call our faculty to be ineffective in many ways such as in the infrastructure side, where even though it has been arranging in recent years, it’s still insufficient in relation to total number of pupils, leading to problems when must occupy it especially in times of examinations where often the assessments should be deferred or set them at times that don’t fall for lack of rooms. This point is justified in part by lack of funds from the state or private companies to fund such activities.

On the other hand we have a deficiency of teachers and the administration, that a part is supported by the fact that due to the change of mesh, teachers should have received training where they would clearly know how to operate of this, to finally fulfill the main objective: integration. Within this same point should be noted that communication between teachers and administration are key to the good functioning of the faculty, as teachers often have one thing and does not allow management or otherwise available, resulting in the wrong come from both and often damaging to students.

With everything outlined above, is disclosed only part of the current situation in university, there are many other things that need improvement and this is important for students, who are the ones who really appreciate the shortcomings of the system, manifested and make themselves known, so that future generations don’t have the same problems we have today.

sábado, 21 de noviembre de 2009

The best of my city.

In general, Chile is a country quite visited and with many tourist attractions for possessing a variety of landscapes, who feel much interest in visiting our capital, in fact, it isn’t unusual to see tourists walking in many parts of Santiago, therefore is important like native people propose important places we know well (or maybe not , because even having lived here all our lives there are many typical and very nice places we don’t know, which should shame us) for a foreigner knows where to go and doesn’t live the city without knowing it.
The first thing that a foreigner must do, is to get a map of the city, after that they must find a good place to stay, after that he must thing and planning an itinerary of visit inside the city.
Taking into account that the order could be any the top five plcaes like suggestions are are:
1.- San Cristobal Hill: Is the main visit place because there are beautiful views of the city and many other attractions to enjoy for hours, also, in the top stays an imponent statue of the virgin Mary, which can be saw from almost anywhere of the city.
2.- O'Higgins Park: Is a very big park where you can walk by hours in a very nice ambient. The “Pueblito” is a very popular place inside to the park. If you are hungry, you can find typical food of all types and flavors and if you like amusement parks, you can also enjoy one called “Fantasilandia”.
3.- Museum of Contemporary Art: Is a great museum located in the middle of the Forestal Park, where you can see exhibitions of all kinds and various cultural activities that frmae our society.
4.- Central Market: Is a very popular place with a great variety of seafood. Is a good place to rest a while and eat exotic and typical food.
5.- La Chascona: And don’t forget to visit one of three Pablo Neruda's houses, where there are very important things about of his life.
This was a short list of places that I think are the most important, but there are many others that are worth a visit and show part of our culture.

viernes, 20 de noviembre de 2009

My experience with the English at the University.

English learning for the most of chilean people is a complex issue, bacause in most schools is not well disseminated by teachers an this was my case, the fact of not having a good basis I’ve played against since I left school, that’s why today despite not knowing much English as I would, I am equally proud of what I know and have get in university, because we can say that almost start from zero and therefore I know that I will get a better level of the Anglo-Saxon language.
I relly started learning at another institution I was before studying veterinary medicine and that was very hard because I already named little knowledge about the language, but I think that gave me some basis, however the place where it really understands things was the “Chilean-North American Institute of Culture” where I completed a very productive semester.
When I started my studies at this university in which I thought would never see more than the English, let us rest a half before learning of the sad reality, would have to take the compulsory course.
Despite my traumatizing past experiences, was not so here, the methods used were very educational and as I had some basis was not so difficult the thing what I thought would be terrible for me, was for this reason I decided to continue with the non-compulsory English courses, because I think it is a necessary tool for this career.
Compared with previous courses, I must admit the latter to be more difficult, focus on things much more specific and correct many flaws that bring including grammatically and phonetically.
With reference to above, I dare say that my experience at this university with English was good (and I hope it continues) and that was the proper wisdom to put it as fact required course, because it is too necessary for us as it is a good way to correct our shortcomings and supplement this.
Way of marking propose to include as many hours devoted to this subject (which can be divided into one hour a day, not necessarily putting everything together) in order to encourage and facilitate further learning of this language that is so important and we will continue for the rest of our job performance.

jueves, 19 de noviembre de 2009

My favorite animal is.....

Although as a future Veterinary must attend different types of animals without giving preference, always have had my favorite: the cats.
The cat is a domstic feline that exist since many time ago, was spoken in the time of Egyptians about them, even being adored by them for thier ability to get rid of pests such as rodents. This animal is characterized by its small size, generally covered with hair all over its body, has an excellent sense of smell, hearing and vision splendid, even more fantastic when used in a night. Is a strictly carnivorous animal, innate hunter and one of its main virtues is its ability to stand down in almost all situations (there are always exceptions), because it has a system so allows reflection.
The domestics cats or scientifically known as Felis catus are nocturnal, therefore sleep in the day (they need to sleep at least 18 hours), when living in groups have hierarchical structures, but usually they live along. In the number of pups per litter, fluctuating from 4 to 8, may be from different fathers per litter. With respect to longevity, they usually don’t exceed the average 10 years, but well cared have been known cases where they may live to 25 years old.
Usually suffer from diseases related to respiratory tract such as colds, rhinitis or sinusitis and can be victims of both external and internal parasites, wich can cause serious complications and even if they will be found immunosuppressed or taking some other frame can become death, implying a risk for the owner if there is.
To conclude we can say that in general cats are very territorial animals so their owners are also part of his dominions, being very affectionate and playful individuals with wich you can buy bonds, it is worth keeping as pets.

The positive and negative things to be Chilean

To be Chilean is a important part of me, I think that be it has a lot of good things as the country itself has very positive aspects and for that exists many things for feel us proud, but not everything is good, there is always negative factors of wich we should feel ashamed.
Within our main features it is to be solidarity, this based on consistent facts and knowing like for exemple the “Teletón”; we are the unic country within South America that have this institution that help to a lot of people and that uses the solidarity of all chileans. Other important positive feature of chilean people is to be persevering, because we always try to get what we want and we don’t give up esaily and for that we have got to be where we are and be well regarded internationally. But clearly not all can be good, exist negative aspects too in our personality as a nation and one of this is to be very depressive, and although it is not a characteristic we all share, it is common given the pace of life that has lately (especially in urban areas) has increased and it is difficult to find people who don’t go to any professional of the branch of psichology for solve certain aspects of their lives with those who feel anxious or unhappy. Other negative aspect is the ability we have to leave “everything” to lst minute (characterisitic that I share in all its extension), no matter what it is or how many time we have to do it, we “always” leave everything for when we don’t have time to do it.
Among the things that we should feel proud or ashamed to be aur ability that to fix the things like conutry without the need to enter in war, however, this fact is overshadowed by a truly shameful called “crime” either inside or outside the country, fact that unfortunately is growing and we as a country dirty.
In clonclusion we can say that we have a lot of positives aspects but for many good things that we have, always will highkight the negative ones that are we must minimize to grow.

lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2009

Transantiago.

Clearly no “Santiaguino” usuary to the public transport has been indifferent to new plan launched in February to 2007, the famous “Transantiago plan”, that would change our way to move us by the city, and it was, it really changed our way to do it because not only came to our streets the gigants busses those actually carry on us to everywhere, if not that with they came new busses stop too and a chaos of machiness that would make a real cirugy to ours old streets.
To the beginning for anybody was easy relearning how move us in Santiago, and the fact to have to walk many times more of one block for can take a bus that would have to get off and take the subway or another little bus for get off again anf take some amother green caterpillar that so far has not become a butterfly, in summary a procession of transports.
As to the places where the system works better or worse; actually and as always has been, is better in the centric places and huge avenues, but luckely all the places of the capital have with more of one route.
My experience with the system has been really good thank God, I live in a avenue where enough taffic flows, but I had to habituate me that they don´t stop in the door of my house and that I have to walk one block to the bus stop in that just some stops (is incredible how it takes time in the morning) and clearly the fact of have studient tariff is not a problem now with the driver, being able to travel with a single pasagge in many busses is really beneficial for my studient pocket too.
The changes that I would make would be related to the not payment by the called “barsas” that lately abound and always have the same faces, I belive that pay the tariff before to boarding to bus like in the peack hours would be a good method and the other change could be implement a special tariff for old people (like in subway) because they deserve pay less.

A country I would like to visit.

This is one of the most hard questions than sombody could do it me, because I want to know all the world if I can!, but if I must to choose just one country, I think that it would be Japan. Always caused me curiousity the oriental culture, specially the japonese culture, becuase when I was a child I liked the “manga”, in fact I studied for two years English- Portuguese- Japanese translation, but it was not the mine, the good part is that I knew the customs from a lot of places, because I has professors from EEUU, England, Brazil, Portugal and Japan of course and I must to say that I fell in love a little more with Japan. How they have managed to preserve their ancient traditions, despite to be one of the countries with more technology in the world, it is causes me the most curiousity, the form that there are in the same block an old temple and a built with the most modern architecture, and how they show respect for others, specielly for old people and the environment, even until to cook they are really methodicals and keep old forms for do it, which reminds me that I like a lot the tipically japanese food (less sushi, I really hate it), well there are too many japanese things that like me, even I think that I would have liked to had studied my secondary there (the school uniforms are really lovely), but when I will finish my college I would like to do some post grade in Tokio (for that I must to finish my language studies) that is the form how I could stay more time there, because I don´t know if I want to stay there all my life, and if not, I will go anyway, it is something that definilly I must to do someday, although will be just for one week I going to visit the country most interesting for me.

miércoles, 26 de agosto de 2009

My first term of 2009

In general, my demurrage during these years in this university have not been easy, but the last academic semester was one of the worst. I had heard say that third year was a year very hard, but I didn´t imagine that it was so terrible. The passage from basic to preprofessional cycle is really evident, the difficulty of the matters increase it in a 100%, making see the courses of the first and second years too easy, but anyway, it was not all bad, I think. Nevertheless I learned a lot of things very useful for my future profession and I realized that if I want to be a veterinary from “Universidad de Chile” I must put the maximum of effort, because I confess that there was little motivation for me and that was one of the principal reasons because I suffered a lot with the past semester.

On the sports side I was quite satisfied because I began to learn a new sport: Taekwondo, that despite the hard training I like very much and I pretend to continue with it this semester.

In my free time I must to say that I made the mistake to internalized me in the world of “Facebook” and its games, place where I was a lot of hours (and I confess that was lost hours in which I should study).

But anyway, doing a balance of all evil against the good things that happened to me, I think that my major challenge was not the last term, if not everything that comes, to finish being formed professionally and when that moment finally arrives, I will look back and I will see with pride all that I got with effort.

viernes, 30 de noviembre de 2007

"End of clone predicted as research scientists create stem cells from sfin"

Ian Sample, science correspondent , The Guardian, Wednesday November 21th

Apparently finally it has finished the worldwide race to turn ordinary skin cells into embryonic stem cells, than is a new beginning of the cell biology.

The researchers used a new technique for convert adult cells to embryonic cells with the help of harmless genetically modified viruses to smuggle genes. This implicates that the new cell could be any kind of cell and to be part of any organ of the body.

At the moment just will be for to trat some diseases, but the main use would be for to grow replacement organs and tissues, discarding the use of clone´s technique, impacting over all American people where Bush administration has set stringent controls on stem cell research and who avoid techniques that destroy life.

Dr. Shinya Yamanaka was the first who demonstrated the technique using mouse cells and then he did the experiment with humans cells (from an old woman and an old man). Another important professor called Jamie Thompson converted immature skin cells too (from a human foetus amd the foreskin of a newborn boy).

The discovery will definitely change the world of the cell biology.

The work was published yesterday in the journal science.

domingo, 16 de septiembre de 2007

“Advantages and disadvantages of shopping in Internet”

Nowdays the Internet has been converting in an indispensables element, where you can do a lot of things, like looking for an specific information, keep a conversation with a far friend, play computer games, load music or movies, even you can going to shop, in fact this last point has been the most popular lastly.

The most important advantage of shopping in Internet it`s you won`t fight for the article that you want to buy, that is really confortable. Reside this, one person take your product to your house, and you don`t need move from your couch and if you don`t have any money, you can use credit targget. A further advantage of this is that you can buy things from other countries or cities and you don`t need go to these place.

But, not all it`s perfect, because this method has some disadvantages, for exemple; you must wait days or weeks for recives your buying, so you can`t buy anything urgent. An additional disadvantage of shopping in Internet if when you buy clothes, because you can`t see if the T-shirt or the pants or whatever is the correct size or not, and if the cloth is not of your size, you must wait days or weeks again for the change.

In conclusión to shopping in Internet is rellay confortable because you don`t need move of your house, but you must take a good and sure decision and have a little patience because at the end you will obtain the artcle wished.

miércoles, 12 de septiembre de 2007

"How to arrive from the airport to Santa Lucia hill"

"By Bus"

From the principal access of the airport, take a blue bus called "CENTROPUERTO", after that don`t worry because you must get off at the final stop and you will see the subway access of "Los Heroes" station on your left, you might go down stairs and you will see the cash, there you must buy a "bip" targget and put on it money (Chilean money), then you have two options; you can take the subway and gett off in "Santa Lucia" station or you can take a bus. If you want take a bus, you may take a 210, 401, 403, 406 or 407 bus from out side the subway. After abuot ten minutes you will pass the "Moneda" palace on your left and after that you will see "Universidad de Chile" subway station on your right; gett off at the next bus stop, in front of "National Library". Cross the bigger street called Libertador Bernardo O`Higgins Avenue and keep walking for one block and you will be inmediately the hill, you might cross Miraflores srteet and that is all!!!!!!!! you are in Santa Lucia hill.

"By Car"

Leave the airport by the Vespucio round building in direction of the south, after about two kilometres you will see signs for Libertador bernardo O`Higgins Avenue in front of Cannan Cementery. Leave Vespucio Round building and follow the signs into avenue, after about two kilometres more you will see Pajaritos Subway Station on your right, follow stright for the avenue, pass the National Libraryon your left and stop in the next block (you will definitely see santa Lucia hill).... It`s really easy!!!!

sábado, 8 de septiembre de 2007

"Interview to Johnny Deep"

jajajaja, sorry, the title of the last article is not the correct one.... this is the correct....bye

Johnny Deep's Biography

Nowdyas there is a lot of important people who do it an interview, but I chose one in specilly, because he is one of my favorites actors... His name is...Johnny Deep.

Well, Johnny, tell me, when did you start like actor?

Let me see, I think that I started my carrer in 1984 like Glen Lantz in the horror movie "Nightmare in Elm Street", directed by Wes Craven, I remember it, I was so exited....and I remember it with affection.

Wow, a difficult job, I think....interesting, but in other matter, What do you do in your free times, no like actor, if not just like Johnny?

Ja ja ja....just like Johny....hammm.....well, I like so much to read.....all kind of books, but in specilly terror's books.... I recognize that I lost a lot of time reading things....Beside the new paper!!!!!! jajajajajajajaj......and I like the painting.....but just see it...I'm not a good artist!!!!!!.......and spend some money in works of art, it's like a bad habit.

jajajajaja, is not so bad habit.....like the music for exemple, I know you like it so much the music, in fact; you was in a group, say me something about that.

Yes!!! that is right!!!!!... well, the music is like a lamp that to light my memories. There is some music that transport me to specifics moments of my life. For exemple there is certain music that remember me when my childs were born, and when I listenning to I cry immediately!!!!!!. The music is indispensable in my life and my job. Before one scene I usually listenning to music and it help me for the paper and feel some emotiones. For this reason the sound track is so important for a movie.

So.... I hear that your next movie is a musical, Is the first time that you sing in a movie?

Yes, for these reason I thought it when Tim to offer me the paper. I don't want people think's that I know to sing, at all. I have musical education and good ear, but I had never sung. This is another challenger for I could not say no. For the moment they have not discharged me, and that it is a good signal, but we see the public opinion.

...and, will you miss to Jack sparrow?

Yes, so much, because I keep a great memory about this experience. It was three years working with the same astist`s group. We have a family and say them bye will be sad, but I feel me luckelly because I belonged to these group.

How did you confront the illness of your daughter?

The illnes of my daughter, who is better now, and she has come back to be the healthy and cheerful girl, have learn as to Vanessa and me to give thanks for everything, and focus as in our family's union. And now I just want health for my family in the future. Although it sound`s tawdry, the life is like the bird`s sing, the better is to take advantage to the present and enjoy it.

Ok, and the last question, Would you like have more childrens?

jajajajajaja, of course, I'ld like so much, a lot of.....jajajajajaja.

jueves, 6 de septiembre de 2007

My favorite website

Well, I must make a college's work, and I have to write about my favorite website, I usually visit one in specially.... The Fotolog web site!!!!!!!, because I like watch all kind of pictures of my friends, also of unknow people ( =P ) and that people watch my pictures.
It's like my journal where I can write stuff about my life, my thoughts, the things that happen to me during the day (good and bad stuff, also funny)....and people (specially my friends) leave messages for me (nice and mean messages, but I can delete the mean one).
Beside I can change the colours of the page (backgrounds and letters).
Every messages had his own link and you can visite others fotologs pages, you can see new pictures of your friends or unknow people and you can meet them if you want, you just have to leave a message!!!!!.
Even people can see the phisical evolution of my self through the photos.
Well, this is the reason of why this is my favorite website, and if you want to know my fotolog page, you can visite www.fotolog.com/konekomeyko .......