Everybody’s going on about big data these days, from the Guardian’s Sustainable Business podcast (http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/big-data-sustainability-podcast) to the Financial Times (http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/21a6e7d8-b479-11e3-a09a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2xXga2LUN) to AT&T (http://adage.com/article/cmo-strategy/t-big-data-shape-tv-creative/292313/). IBM estimates that 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day and 90% of all the information in the world was created over the last two years (http://www.carbontrust.com/news/2013/10/big-business-big-data-big-sustainability). Le Monde declares […]
Cooked Pasta Sticks on a Grimy Wall
In the aftermath of the repeat first-grade convictions of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito for Meredith Kercher’s murder, Americans might consider cultural aspects that have tainted this case from its sorry, manipulated and blunder-ridden beginnings. Here is a cultural perspective, from the vantage point of a decades-long relationship with Italy and Italians, and living there […]
Amanda Knox, Raffaele Sollecito and the Obstacles to Justice
“Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.” – Horace Walpole The Meredith Kercher murder case has transfixed the media in three countries for six years and public interest shows no signs of […]
Traveling to Mexico – read this first!
I was absolutely shocked recently when I visited the U.S. State Department website section on “travel warnings” concerning Mexico. Here is what one section reads: “The number of kidnappings and disappearances throughout Mexico is of particular concern. Both local and expatriate communities have been victimized. In addition, local police have been implicated in some of […]
“POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTE POWER CORRUPTS ABSOLUTELY” THE HOLY INQUISITION OF AMANDA KNOX AND RAFFAELE SOLLECITO, ASSUMED GUILT
The following are my educated opinions based on over three years of study about this case. Many people are baffled by the arrest, trial and initial conviction of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito. However to clarify, the prosecutor’s methods can be compared to the methods the Roman Catholic Church used during the Inquisitions. Like the […]
Latin America: Remembering the Disappeared
Written by Laura Vidal · Translated by Kimberly Shiller This is the first part of a two-part article. The Latin American Federation of Associations for Relatives of the Detained and Disappeared [2] and the Organization for the United Nations declared August 30 as an international day of remembrance to commemorate the victims of forced disappearances […]
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