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17 años, 8 meses y 1 día. Juan Meléndez vivió casi dos décadas preso y enfrentó la pena de muerte luego de ser condenado por error Juan Roberto “Johnny” Meléndez Colón repite una y otra vez los números “17 años, 8 meses y 1 día”. No es para menos: fue el tiempo que pasó preso tras ser condenado a la pena de muerte por un crimen que no cometió. En el 2002, Meléndez Colón se convirtió en el reo número 99 (el total actual es de 140) en ser exonerado después de haber sido condenado a muerte en Estados Unidos. El gobierno tuvo que retractarse y liberarlo luego de que apareciera una grabación de un testigo que lo exoneraba del asesinato de un comerciante. Esta pieza de evidencia nunca se presentó durante el juicio efectuado en el estado de la Florida. “Lo más duro es decir que uno es inocente y que no le crean, y tú sabes que muchos lo dicen, pero yo era inocente.

Yo siempre rezaba para que algún día saliera la verdad”, dijo Meléndez Colón, natural de Maunabo, en entrevista telefónica desde Nuevo México. Admit complexity: a few takeaways from MSF’s “Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed” « Find What Works. I snagged a free copy of a recent volume published by Médecins Sans Frontières (aka Doctors Without Borders). Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed: The MSF Experience is a series of case studies from a range of humanitarian contexts, combined with a few essays that take broader looks at how MSF’s approach has evolved over the years. The value of this book stems from the willingness of current and former MSF leaders to take a critical look at how they’ve dealt with incredibly difficult situations over the years.

Here’s the meta-lesson I took away from it all: Admitting failure is for sissies. Let’s admit complexity instead. Much of the complexity discussed in the book arises from the politics of delivering aid. The case studies cover various conflict settings like Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Somalia and Gaza Strip, where provision of humanitarian aid — like almost any other activity — becomes immediately embroiled in the politics of the existing conflict.

Even logistics gets political. Like this: Mondialisation. Diplomatie & Geostrategie. Newsroom - Calendar - Europe Day 2012 – 62nd anniversary of the Schuman Declaration. La otra cara de la moneda: el rechazo 2.0. Are any of these the Web's next big thing? True World Order Part 1. Why the future of work is play - TNW Industry. Is this what you look like right now? You’re not alone. But it doesn’t have to be like that. On Friday at the annual PSFK conference in New York City, Founding Partner and CEO of Undercurrent, a digital strategy firm and author of Game Frame Aaron Dignan took the stage to discuss why the future of work is play. For years, society has polarized “play” and “work,” associating the former with laziness and the latter with grave importance. But in these two pictures below, who looks indolent and who looks filled with competitive ambition?

“There’s a clear difference in emotion, sensation and engagement when people are engaged in gaming because it’s rich in structure and there’s a reward. Why aren’t people doing what they want to do and why aren’t they engaged at work? Real life is full of unstructured spaces and in contrast, games are incredibly structured experiences. Why? “If you’re not playing you’re not learning,” says Dignan. Observatoire International des Crises. Département des Études de la Prospective et des statistiques- Enquête sur les pratiques culturelles des Français. The Future Of Work Is Play. Humans love games. Just check the current news cycle for evidence: The Xbox 360’s sleek, new controller-free gaming device, Kinect, is the fastest-selling consumer electronic product ever.

Foursquare has attracted millions of badge-seeking users and aspiring “mayors.” And new programs like Quest to Learn are bringing game dynamics into our educational system. What is it about games that makes them so appealing? And how can we translate our enthusiasm for play into the workplace? These are the subjects of a new book, Game Frame, by Aaron Dignan – a fanatical game lover who dressed up like a superhero for 180 days straight in first grade. What’s the most basic definition of a game? I’m partial to the definition put forth by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman in their book Rules of Play: A game is a system in which players engage in an artificial conflict, defined by rules, that results in a quantifiable outcome. Only in the early days. I find guilt works well. Future. Civilisation TWO | The Blueprint for a New Civilization. Introducing Waysphere: Holonic Social Mapping for Human Beings. OECD – Your Better Life Index.

Spain. How’s Life? Spain performs favourably in several measures of well-being, and ranks close to the average or higher in several topics in the Better Life Index. Money, while it cannot buy happiness, is an important means to achieving higher living standards. In Spain, the average household net-adjusted disposable income is 22 847 USD a year, slightly less than the OECD average of 23 047 USD a year. But there is a considerable gap between the richest and poorest – the top 20% of the population earn more than six times as much as the bottom 20%. In terms of employment, around 58% of people aged 15 to 64 in Spain have a paid job, below the OECD employment average of 66%. Some 64% of men are in paid work, compared with 53% of women. Having a good education is an important requisite for finding a job. In terms of health, life expectancy at birth in Spain is 82 years, two years higher than the OECD average of 80 years. Simulateur 2011 - Australie - Qui serez vous ? Où serez vous en 2011 ?

10 Deadliest Cities. Better World... Projetos. Noticias para Señales de los Tiempos mie, 18 jul 2012. Data Finder: WorldDevlopIndicators. Nanointervencionismo » Destaque » Instituto Millenium. O Estado encontra-se em pronunciada transição.

Transformam-se a matriz francesa de divisão entre poderes e o modelo anglo-americano de freios e contrapesos (checks and balances). Hoje, em diferentes nações, o Executivo julga. O Legislativo executa. O Judiciário legisla. O espectro esquerda-direita, a nós legado pelos “Estados Gerais” que antecederam a Revolução Francesa, é demasiado simplificador. O liberalismo econômico se confunde com o renascimento keynesiano no âmago da Grande Recessão de 2008. Tamanho ou coloração ideológica do Estado são menos importantes para comunidades que se querem prósperas, justas e livres.

Em muitos países, entre eles o Brasil, o esvanecimento de macro-objetivos ideológicos, que povoaram sonhos políticos, tem esvaziado agendas mais ambiciosas. Nos últimos 10 anos, o Brasil editou cerca de 4 milhões de normas. A esfera individual, célula-mãe da noção de “Ocidente”, passa a gravitar em torno do Estado. O Estado hipercodificador é economicamente ilógico. Futuristfi. Productivity Future Vision (2011) Share Conference | Social, Media, Music | April 7-9, Belgrade, Serbia | SHARE Konferencija | Social, Media, Music | April 7-9, Beograd, Srbija.

World Clock. What is going on in the world? Envisioning Development: What is Affordable Housing? I Do Not Want Mercy, I Want You To Join Me. Tim DeChristopher, who was sentenced Tuesday to two years in federal prison and a $10,000 fine for 'disrupting' a Bureau of Land Management auction in 2008, had an opportunity to address the court and the judge immediately before his sentence was announced. This is his statement: "… those who write the rules are those who profit from the status quo. If we want to change that status quo, we might have to work outside of those rules because the legal pathways available to us have been structured precisely to make sure we don’t make any substantial change.

" (Portrait by Robert Shetterly - Used with Permission) Thank you for the opportunity to speak before the court. Mr. There are alternating characterizations that Mr Huber would like you to believe about me. In nearly every paragraph, the government’s memorandum uses the words lie, lied, lying, liar. Mr Huber also makes grand assumptions about my level of respect for the rule of law.

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Future Pearlers. Magazines & News. Future Analysis. Devices, Tools, Inventions. Fracture numérique : 25% des Français n’ont pas accès à Internet. L’Observatoire des Inégalités, organisme indépendant d’information et d’analyse sur les inégalités, a mis en ligne début mai 2012 un dossier sur la fracture numérique en France intitulé Technologies de l’information : des inégalités qui se réduisent avec des données, chiffrages et pourcentages issus du dernier rapport annuel du CREDOC : La diffusion des technologies de l’information et de la communication dans la société française (2011).

L’organisme souligne des points-clés sur l’équipement et l’accès français à l’informatique, à l’Internet et aux outils connectés. Diminution des inégalités d’accès 85 % des Français possèdent un téléphone portable, 78 % ont un micro-ordinateur et 75 % sont équipés d’Internet à domicile. La situation s’améliore pour les populations les moins diplômées : entre 2001 et 2009, le taux d’accès à Internet à domicile a été multiplié par 6,8 passant de 8 à 54 % chez ceux qui ont un diplôme inférieur au bac.

Des disparités persistantes Licence : The Great Debate Contributors: Matt Ridley. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves Matt Ridley turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet.

Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200 years: calories; vitamins; clean water; machines; privacy; the means to travel faster than we can run, and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout.

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. LROC Image Browser - wac_nearside. The Rise of the New Global Elite - Magazine. F. Scott Fitzgerald was right when he declared the rich different from you and me. But today’s super-rich are also different from yesterday’s: more hardworking and meritocratic, but less connected to the nations that granted them opportunity—and the countrymen they are leaving ever further behind. Stephen Webster/Wonderful Machine If you happened to be watching NBC on the first Sunday morning in August last summer, you would have seen something curious.

There, on the set of Meet the Press, the host, David Gregory, was interviewing a guest who made a forceful case that the U.S. economy had become “very distorted.” This diagnosis, though alarming, was hardly unique: drawing attention to the divide between the wealthy and everyone else has long been standard fare on the left. This widening gap between the rich and non-rich has been evident for years. In a plutonomy there is no such animal as “the U.S. consumer” or “the UK consumer”, or indeed the “Russian consumer”.

Homepage | FuturICT. A conversation on TED.com: What is the next big thing? MERIP Home. Resource Center | Open Society Foundations. David Brin's Existence will make you think about the future a whole new way. WHITE POPPIES FOR PEACE. World population densities mapped. National Geographic has a look at where and how we live: The map shows population density; the brightest points are the highest densities. Each country is colored according to its average annual gross national income per capita, using categories established by the World Bank (see key below). Some nations — like economic powerhouses China and India — have an especially wide range of incomes. But as the two most populous countries, both are lower middle class when income is averaged per capita.

It's interesting, but the map is a little wonky, because the income levels and population densities differ in granularity. There are also three other slides that follow the map (like the one below), but they're mostly just run-of-the-mill list of facts with cutesy icons to show percentages. I dunno, I'm on the fence here. [National Geographic | Thanks, Laura] Complete Original '07 Zeitgeist With 2010 Updates by: Peter Joseph. Alternative Technology Association website.

FutureMe.org: Write a Letter to the Future. But does it float. L'Observatoire des Tendances. Futurity.org. World Future Society | Tomorrow is built today. The Future of Science 2021: A Multiverse of Exploration. For the last year, my colleagues and I at Institute for the Future have been researching the future of science to identify big areas of science we think will have a transformative impact over the next decade.

We read a lot of papers, conducted interviews, hosted an Open Science unconference, held an expert workshop with researchers from UC Berkeley, Stanford, MIT, UC Davis, SETI, and private industry, and spent many weeks synthesizing what we learned. The result is this map, titled "A Multiverse of Exploration: The Future of Science 2021.

" You can click the image to see it larger or download the PDF (front and back) here. Marina Gorbis, Ariel Waldman, and I wrote it. Ariel, Jean Hagan, and Karin Lubeck made it beautiful. The map focuses on six big stories of science that will play out over the next decade: Decrypting the Brain, Hacking Space, Massively Multiplayer Data, Sea the Future, Strange Matter, and Engineered Evolution. Invisibility cloaks. Report this ad. The next 10 years will be very unlike the last 10 years. Future Shock. Term[edit] Toffler argued that society is undergoing an enormous structural change, a revolution from an industrial society to a "super-industrial society".

This change overwhelms people. He believed the accelerated rate of technological and social change left people disconnected and suffering from "shattering stress and disorientation"—future shocked. Toffler stated that the majority of social problems are symptoms of future shock. In the introduction to an essay entitled "Future Shlock" in his book, Conscientious Objections, Neil Postman wrote: "Sometime about the middle of 1963, my colleague Charles Weingartner and I delivered in tandem an address to the National Council of Teachers of English.

Development of society and production[edit] Alvin Toffler distinguished three stages in development of society and production: Agrarian, Industrial and Post-industrial. Toffler proposed one criterion for distinguishing between industrial society and post-industrial society. Reprints[edit] Domínio Público - Pesquisa Básica. Como se tornar um líder do século 21. A julgar pelo que se diz no mundo dos negócios, uma revolução libertadora está a caminho.

“Deem ordens ao seu chefe o quanto antes; experimentem fazer isso logo no início. Se ele for o tipo certo de chefe, nada o agradará mais; se não for, ele não é a pessoa certa com quem vocês devam ficar”, afirmou um dos maiores nomes da siderurgia mundial. “Todo esse falatório sobre supergênios é besteira. Descobri que quando as estrelas vão embora, raramente seus departamentos sofrem”, adicionou um de seus pares. “Um empregador está sempre procurando mentes questionadoras”, disse o herdeiro de um dos grandes impérios automobilísticos.

Boas-vindas à Geração Y? O discurso libertário criou mofo faz tempo nas bibliotecas corporativas, mas o modelo autoritário de liderança dá sinais reais de esgotamento e algo novo começa, finalmente, a ser erguido em seu lugar. O século 21 trouxe com ele uma mudança de paradigma no modo como se gerencia. 025: The Next Big Thing. Telecom - Infraestrutura de Telecomunicações terá 12,7 bilhões até 2015. Home page - The Research Council of Norway. Knowledge Management and the Smarter Lawyer. Stand Up for Owners' Rights. If you buy something, you can do with it—and do away with it—as you want. Right? The digital age is challenging this most basic of expectations in a few ways, and EFF and its allies are on the lookout. The Supreme Court will soon review a court decision that, if upheld, could put handcuffs on our ability to sell digital goods, or even physical goods with copyrighted logos or artwork, simply because the goods were manufactured outside the U.S.

This case is important, but its also just a small piece of a larger assault on ownership rights. Over the past decade, courts and copyright owners have quietly been creating a world in which digital goods are never truly owned, but only licensed. And those licenses inevitably contain a plethora of legal restrictions on your ability to fully use the goods you "buy. " The petition was prompted by Kirtsaeng v. In Kirtsaeng, the U.S. The defendant (and EFF) asked the Supreme Court to review the case, and the Court agreed. RESPONSIBLE THINKING. 10 Questions for Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman.