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Tips for Writing Op-Eds on National Issues Forums
On October 15th, 2007 David Mathews (president of the Kettering Foundation) sent the following message to Directors and Alumni of the National Issues Forums Institute. NCDD's Sandy Heierbacher was serving on the NIFI Board of Directors, so she received this message. We shared this message as part of the 2007-2009 Democracy Communications Network project, which encouraged leaders in public engagement to write op-eds and letters to the editor on a coordinated basis to increase our collective impact.
Endorsements of citizen juries and citizen congresses by two prominent politicians (Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the United Kingdom and John Edwards here) create an opportunity to get greater visibility for all types of citizen forums.
AmericaSpeaks and other organizations are preparing op-ed pieces, not to endorse particular politicians, but to create greater awareness of public deliberation. None have a stronger track record than the National Issues Forums, and the issue books in the National Issues Forums series can be used in any type of forum to move opinions from hasty reactions to more shared and reflective public judgment.
The National Issues Forums Institute has had an op-ed drafted that you can adapt to explain what you see as the benefits of the NIF forums and books. If you are so inclined, you might want to send what you write to your local newspaper.
Suggestions for Writing Editorials Concerning Public Deliberation Following Candidate Call for a Citizen Congress
Prepared for National Issues Forums Institute
October 15, 2007
We aware that some of you routinely write editorials and letters to the editor, and that some of you are also regular contributors to blogs and online forums. For those of you who haven't done this recently, we have some suggestions, as a reminder of what newspaper editors look for and how to get your editorial in print. We have also included suggestions about what you may want to include in your piece, and how to make the case for involving the public in policy making by referring to what you have experienced in your own community.
A few things to keep in mind when you write editorials*
- Check with your local newspaper for guidelines on editorials and how to submit them, which are posted on the newspaper's web site.
- Timeliness is essential. Editors link editorials to recent stories. It's important that you send your editorial over the next few days, linking it—preferably in the first paragraph—to the announcement of Sen. Edwards' proposal.
- Length is important. Keep your editorial brief, no longer than about 750 words. Editors generally will not take the time to cut down a piece that is too long for the space assigned to editorials.
- Be clear about your main point and state it clearly in your opening paragraph. Most readers look at the first paragraph to determine whether they should read the rest.
- Your editorial should feature what you have done locally in your own community with deliberation, and its impact on individuals and on the community as a whole. Write in your own personal voice. Newspaper editorials are not academic articles or analytic pieces. They are statements of personal opinion. The editorial should be about your own experience and your personal convictions about public life and deliberation's place in it.
- Make sure readers know why they should care. Why would expanded efforts to make deliberation a regular part of American public life make a difference?
- Your final paragraph should be a vivid summary of your main point.
- Remember to include your name, address, e-mail address, and telephone number. Newspapers routinely contact individuals in advance of running their editorials, or when they want to discuss suggested changes.
Suggestions about what you may want to say in your editorial
You might comment on symptoms of what has gone wrong with the nation's political system
- Sen. Edwards has endorsed a deliberative Citizen Congress as part of his repeated emphasis on acknowledging "how broken Washington is" and the need to change "the way Washington works."
- There has been serious erosion of public trust in the nation 's leaders, a decline in confidence in Congress and the President and their ability to do what is right. A July 2007 CBS News/NYT poll showed that the percentage of Americans who think they can trust the government in Washington to do what is right "just about always" or "most of the time" has declined sharply from its peak after September 11 from 55% in 2001 to 24% in 2007.
- There is widespread concern about legislative gridlock regarding some of the nation's most pressing issues (including health care reform, the federal debt, and the U.S. role in the Middle East) and the inability of the political system to achieve a workable consensus about what should be done.
- Increasingly, Americans think government does not care about what most people think. A March 2007 poll conducted by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that only 34 percent of Americans agree that "government cares about what people like me think."
- The American public needs a way of deliberating and then expressing its views beyond elections. On the issues of greatest concern—such as Iraq, jobs, taxes, and healthcare—most Americans have no way to wrestle with these issues or to express their considered views about them.
You might comment that the NIF was conceived to respond to these concerns…
- The NIF provides a way in which millions of Americans in communities across the country have a voice in nonpartisan forums, in which they move toward common ground on pressing issues. The idea that citizens should have a greater role in deliberating about public decisions has been tested over the past two decades, and occasions for public deliberation about pressing issues have proliferated. What has been happening in forums in your community [provide local examples] shows that this model works. More than 25 years after the NIF started, this is no longer a start-up enterprise. It is a familiar and well-established feature in [your town] and in hundreds of communities.
- The NIF provides a rejoinder to those who dismiss public deliberation as unrealistic and unrealizable. What has been happening throughout the United States in communities that convene NIF forums bears out the hope that something like the Citizen's Congress that Sen. Edwards has endorsed is both realistic and long overdue. The NIF network, the most extensive and one of the oldest networks for public deliberation, shows what can happen when a sustained effort is made to open the door and let the people back in.
- It's about time national candidates recognize that public deliberation deserves a prominent place on any list of ways to fix a political system that's broken.
- Former President Jimmy Carter, who along with former president Gerald Ford was co-host of one of the NIF's first national meetings, put it in these words: "Part of the responsibility of this association ought to be how we can magnify what has been learned, not doubled but magnified a thousand times over." The new proposal put forward by Sen. Edwards for a Citizen's Congress is likely to energize national discussion about public deliberation and its potential.
You might comment on what the NIF forums have achieved…
- The NIF forums are one of the few places in most communities where a public conversation takes place among people who hold different views and are allied with different political parties. These forums focus on issues and shared values, not personalities and political parties.
- The NIF forums have made a difference. Forums in Cincinnati on the race issue in 2002 helped to defuse a dangerously tense situation and helped to create new bonds and new community-wide organizations. In Austin, Texas, a series of forums on the future of Medicare brought together a wide range of participants, who discovered common values and visions across their differences. In these and many other situations, the NIF forums provide an example of how life in a democratic community ought to work.
- On some issues, deliberation has produced the kind of eye-opening, horizon-widening impact that advocates of deliberation have long foreseen. On other issues, these forums have helped people move beyond a narrow sense of self-interest to a more inclusive sense of how this affects us. In the process, they have opened up new ground for broadly acceptable public solutions, common ground for public acting.
- The habit of public deliberation helps to build skills and bolsters confidence that communities can respond effectively when problems arise. In many communities where NIF forums have been held, coming together as a community becomes a collective habit that changes the nature of public conversations.
* This document borrows from materials prepared by AmericaSpeaks and Duke News.
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Reunion stories are wonderful things to hear and read about. Here are 5 great reunion stories you won't want to miss.
Pregnant and unmarried, Roseanne had little choice—due to her parents—than to place her baby for adoption after living at the Salvation Army's home for unwed mothers. She placed her baby through Jewish Family and Children's Services when she was 18. Years later, a tabloid magazine told her that they found the birth certificate of her birth daughter and were stalking her adoptive family. Roseanne did not want her daughter, Brandi Brown, to find out she was her birth mother through a tabloid, so she hired a private investigator to find her. Within three days, they were in contact. They eventually met and have had a relationship ever since.
One of the most viewed adoption reunion stories in 2017 was the meeting of Catherine Su Pohler with her biological parents Qian Fenxiang and Xu Lida on the Qixi Festival in China. When Pohler was three days old, she was left at a market in China. She was adopted a year later by an American family. When she was 20, Pohler learned that her birth parents left a note and that annually they visited a famous bridge in Hangzhou with the hopes she would read their note and meet them. Their story and reunion was is the basis of the documentary, Meet Me On the Bridge.
A woman who regularly road on Dee Starkey's bus route looked just like her friend Molly. Dee told her often that she had a doppelganger, a woman with the same mannerisms, looks and was also biracial. Melanie Russell knew that her mother placed a baby girl for adoption, but knew little other than her birthday, July 29th. Years later, Dee, said to Melanie as she boarded her bus again that asked if she could take her picture to send to her friend Molly who knew she was adopted at 9 months. It was an emotional moment when both women realized they were likely sisters right over the phone, there on the bus. They spoke over Messenger and eventually met, along with their birth mother. The sisters have a beautiful relationship today thanks to a chance encounter Melanie had with her bus driver.
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Energy officials approve relief funding for Falmouth community wind project
Credit: Massachusetts Clean Energy Center | Catherine Williams (617) 315-9386 firstname.lastname@example.com | Matt Kakley (617) 315-9339 firstname.lastname@example.com | Mar 26, 2014 | www.masscec.com ~~
The Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) Board of Directors today approved up to $1.8 million in relief funds for the Town of Falmouth to help the municipality mitigate the financial impacts associated with the reduced operations of its town-owned wind turbine project located at the Town of Falmouth Wastewater Treatment Plant.
With this funding, MassCEC seeks to help the town recover costs associated with project curtailment. To date the town has incurred unexpected costs resulting from community concerns, voluntary reductions in operation due to unanticipated sound levels and related litigation.
"The state wants to be a resource to communities to seek to balance their clean energy goals with the specific needs of their communities. We are hopeful that this settlement will help this community move forward," said Energy and Environmental Affairs Secretary Rick Sullivan, who chairs the MassCEC Board of Directors.
"We hope this funding will help the town recover some of the unexpected financial costs associated with the reductions in operation of their wind project," said MassCEC CEO Alicia Barton.
MassCEC will make a $500,000 contribution to the town's wind turbine reserve account. MassCEC's contribution is contingent on the town making a $300,000 contribution to the fund, which is designed to provide a cushion for future project costs.
MassCEC will award the town up to an additional $85,000 annually for the renewable energy produced by the project.
The agreement amends the original agreement between the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center and the town signed in 2009. Under that agreement MassCEC agreed to prepay the town $1 million for Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) generated by the project.
Each year, utilities are required to obtain an increasing percentage of their energy from renewable sources. For 2014, the requirement is nine percent. For 2015, the requirement is 10 percent. Utilities may purchase RECs to fulfill those commitments. Each REC represents one thousand kilowatt-hours of renewable energy generated and delivered.
"We are grateful for this continued collaboration and for the state's steadfast support of the Town of Falmouth's businesslike operation of our important wind facilities," said Brent Putnam, chair of the Falmouth Board of Selectmen. "While this does not fully address all of the financial pressures on wind energy in Falmouth, it makes an extraordinary step in stabilizing our wind energy operations."
"The action of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to grant the Town of Falmouth financial assistance is a recognition of the ongoing strong partnership with the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the development of wind energy and other renewable energy facilities in Falmouth," said Falmouth Town Manager Julian M. Suso.
About MassCEC
Created by the Green Jobs Act of 2008, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) is dedicated to accelerating the success of clean energy technologies, companies and projects in the Commonwealth—while creating high-quality jobs and long-term economic growth for the people of Massachusetts. Since its inception in 2009, MassCEC has helped clean energy companies grow, supported municipal clean energy projects and invested in residential and commercial renewable energy installations creating a robust marketplace for innovative clean technology companies and service providers.
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Aston Martin Rapide
The Rapide is possibly the best looking four-door you can buy. It comes with a potent 6-litre V12 powerplant placed in the front, sending power to the rear wheels through a six-speed transmission. Unlike some family cruisers which try to hide what's lurking under the engine bay, the Rapide flaunts its V12 engine by way of its scintillating exhaust note. You know something special is headed your way when you can hear it from a mile away! The Rapide bears a strong resemblance to the rest of the Aston Martin line-up, so much so that you can't tell one model from the other unless you look at the badge at the back. That's not a bad thing, because this car is definitely lust-worthy.
There's only room for four inside the cabin, so you might have to choose favourites among your kids, but for the people that you do take, the sports seats are very comfortable, even over long distances. For the driver, the Rapide offers performance that rivals most supercars. So, you have something that looks like a supercar, handles like one and sounds absolutely amazing! If you fancy this in your garage, the Rapide is yours for Rs 2.2 crore, ex-showroom, Mumbai.
Porsche Panamera
The Panamera, Porsche's somewhat controversial four-door offering (purists hate it) offers the widest variety of performance you can think of. Starting with the bog-standard Panamera, which is powered by a 3.6 litre flat-six making 300 bhp, you can go all the way to the 550 bhp, V8-engined Panamera turbo. There's even a diesel version available for those looking to cross continents on the cheap.
Like most of the other models Porsche offers, the Panamera has great everyday usability mixed with hyper-car performance, so you can drop your kids off at school on your way to the track, finish a few fast laps and pick them up again on the way home. What more could you want?
If you're thinking of buying one, be sure of exactly what you want out of the car, or the sheer number of options on offer will confuse you! The Panamera also happens to be one of the cheaper four-door supercars you can get, starting at Rs 1.18 crore, ex-showroom Mumbai and going up to Rs 2.65 crore for the top of the line Turbo S variant. Of course, when you are in this league, there isn't a limit on the amount of options you can order.


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Estimating Greenhouse Gas Emissions on Cattle Ranches in the Brazilian Amazon (2016)
With the fastest-growing herd of any country, Brazil's cattle industry is frequently cited as the country's single largest contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. In the last 50 years, over 17% of the Amazon has been deforested, largely in support of ranching. But Brazil has been making strides in preserving the Amazon in recent years, and has also pledged to reduce carbon emissions by roughly 36 percent in by 2020. Considering growing global demand for beef, the cattle industry has an important role to play in meeting emissions goals in Brazil.
Our research focuses on quantifying GHG emissions as they relate to cattle and pasture management, paying particular attention to the role that participation in a sustainable intensification program or a sustainability certification has on GHG outcomes. The objective of this study is to answer the following questions: (1) Does the ranch-level balance of greenhouse gas emissions related to raising cattle differ between ranches that do and do not participate in an intensified pasture management program; and (2) What implications do these estimated greenhouse gas emissions have for the contribution of the cattle sector to total Brazilian emissions?
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The printing and dissemination of spurious news, now commonly called 'fake news', is not in fact 'news': it is hardly a new problem. Hypocrisy, lies, persuasion, seduction and flattery have always been present in public life; for centuries, alternative facts and fake news have been part of politicians' and journalists' repertoire.
Nevertheless, instantaneous mass dissemination has only been reached in the digital era. The internet has given us access to a world of instant information; it has also enabled the spread of disinformation on a scale previously unseen. It is this new form of digital fake news that has become so pervasive in challenging our fundamental freedoms, such the freedom of speech and the freedom of information, and ultimately our very democratic systems themselves.
The fragmentation of news media, in tandem with the digital revolution, and the trending decline of newspapers has contributed to the rise of fake news. Despite enjoying higher levels of trust, local and regional media have been hit particularly hard by the pressure for digital transformation and the decline in revenue from copy sales and advertising. The internet has dramatically lowered entry barriers for new media, but it has also empowered individuals to disseminate news in real-time, giving everyone a voice — and enabling everyone to become a potential 'citizen journalist'; this has led to a shift in consumers' reading habits. The shift from print to digital platforms has also brought about a shift in advertising revenues — once the lifeblood of newspapers and news organisations. The capitalisation of automated advertising monetisation which search and social media platforms provide also diverts revenue from real publishers. Along these lines, 'clickbait', whose main purpose is to attract attention and generate traffic — thereby garnering advertising revenue — is also a concern.
In this new context, news organisations should quickly seek innovative technologies and new business models to adapt to the digital revolution. For instance, media organisations should seek cooperation with each other and embrace new kinds of open business models which offer a paid unlimited subscription package for various news sources (as is the case with well-known platforms for music, films and series); people also tend to turn to social media for news consumption due to its aggregator element.
We need to reconstruct and empower the role of traditional media. For instance, we could imagine providing citizens a voucher to support a newspaper/media outlet of their choice or to develop a tax regime that would deduct part of the costs of our media consumption — a temporary measure in a transition phase to this new digital reality, and one in accordance with each Member States' rules. As a matter of fact, these kinds of measures would also expose citizens to trustworthy sources of information, which in turn would speed up the acquisition of digital literacy skills.
Our societies need professional, independent, ethical, investigative and facts-based journalism. Good journalists and editors, like politicians, are all custodians of freedom of speech and democracy.
Social networks
Social networks have allowed people to communicate and exchange information at a much greater speed and on a much wider scale than ever before, while publishing platforms have enabled anyone to easily create websites that contain information from self-published content. What is worrisome is that the same holds true for misinformation.
Social-media users tend to develop strong and well-defined communities around the news outlets they support, and they tend to make connections with likeminded people regardless of the geographic distance between them. Isolated communities (called 'echo chambers') filter the information people receive so that this information largely comes to reinforce existing opinions. The algorithms underpinning this phenomenon tend to relate people to others who are likeminded, rather than to create spaces for people to discuss, debate and find common ground. As a consequence, citizens are less exposed to pluralism and diverse opinions.
Social media companies should, therefore, boost their efforts to counter 'fake news'. But efforts should most of all be put on transparency and identification. Transparency and accountability are needed regarding the algorithms that generate the aforementioned 'echo chambers' — not to disclose the algorithms themselves but to clearly explain to users how they select content to be displayed on their feed and to give users the option to tweak or to personalise.
Identification processes should be strengthened online just as they are offline to fight against internet trolls, bots and fake accounts. As a solutions-based, digital identities should be explored by means of creating personal digital certificates — a sort of 'digital' passport issued by a certification authority and valid between the user (person) and the social media service — which would only publicly display its origin. This would limit disinformation attempts by foreign powers and help criminal investigations and law enforcement.
Trust and truth
Fake news is also a reflection of a general decline in terms of political debate (i.e. more polarised), the constant use of alternative facts, the pack of lies and half-truths used by populists (the Brexit campaign is the prime example) — all leading, somehow, to an erosion of public confidence in our institutions. Confidence in institutions is important not only for the legitimacy of government as a whole but also for ongoing political developments and potential changes, and affects political and civic activism in both direct and indirect ways. However, post-truth politics is pervasive and easier to achieve via these new forms of communication.
Citizens tend to rely on likeminded peers, on religion and on anecdote as forms of evidence to underpin their own versions of truth. Alternative facts with regard to scientific evidence and historical events are also changing citizens' perception of the world we live in. Hence, the continuous promotion of scientific advice and evidence as a bastion against post-truth or post-trust times is key.
External influences, such as Russian propaganda, disinformation campaigns and continuous support for anti-European political forces, are net contributors to undermining both the European project as well as liberal values per se: namely, our political independence and sovereignty.
We should not, nevertheless, fall into the trap of seeking to impose truth through government authorities or private entities, but rather by means of the free exchange of ideas and arguments.
We, as a political party, are committed to continuing to build trust and confidence in democratic institutions by means of innovative practices for citizen engagement and awareness, transparency and ethical behaviour.
Media literacy and education
As more of us move to online sources for news, we have become more exposed to unreliable news sources, even as we remain ill-equipped to spot them. A Stanford University study recently found that more than 80% of students cannot identify sponsored content from 'real' news stories.
Education would address the problem of fake news on the demand side: too many users currently forward content without reading anything but the headline, and too few care about the content's source. In the past, when we needed trusted information, we consulted an encyclopaedia; nowadays, thanks to the internet, we have at hand a whole complex myriad of encyclopaedias. Our critical-thinking levels are too low for filtering such a vast amount of information, which leads us to the most simplistic and quickest fix: accepting the 'first on the list' link as an unexamined and trustworthy source.
Distinguishing what is true from what is not is thus a critical skill today, one which both the youth of today and future generations would greatly benefit from learning at an early age. By incorporating knowledge and training as to how to spot fake news and unreliable sources into education at all levels, we would be giving these young people a great benefit and a useful set of tools.
By standing unequivocally for the freedom of speech and freedom of information as essential elements of our values system, we the European People's Party call on the European Commission and EU Member States to:
• Adapt school curricula at all levels such that they strive towards better awareness of fake news, greater fact-checking and deeper critical thinking; kids will be the easiest to educate, and they will push parents to act. A greater push for digital literacy and education will be key;
• Develop more awareness-raising campaigns: i.e. massive information campaigns throughout Europe, similar to those that changed attitudes on the environment, aimed to educate the public as to the threat posed by fabricated online stories and internet trolls;
• Develop strong disinformation counter-strategies not based on the attempt to refute or argue against fake messages (this has merely proven to amplify them), but rather on reaching the target audience by first disseminating positive messages with strong emotional content, inclining people to share that content and thus denying to 'fake news' the attention it might otherwise garner;
• Improve the rules, enforcement and transparency surrounding online advertisement: ads should be clearly identified as ads and should provide information as to who is running them; better assess ad content and context by either automated or manual means; and increase advertisers' requirements in terms of authenticity;
• Explore tech-led solutions: artificial intelligence (AI) allows the automation of human tasks and, with machine-learning algorithms, can train itself over time to become more efficient in fact-checking; use blockchain technology to build a system for recording trust in media sources so that citizens can easily identify and proactively participate in that identification process;
• Foster and fund fact-checking initiatives at local level and set up a network of independent organisations at EU level helping Member States to combat fake news;
• Reinforce the European External Action Service's (EEAS) East StratCom Task Force by increasing considerably its staff and budgetary resources so that it can truly fulfil its mandate;
• Further support the ongoing work being done by think tanks and civil society organisations in highlighting the full nature and extent of this threat to liberal democracy; welcome innovative solutions by both the private and public sectors in finding ways to expose 'fake news' and disinformation and to helpfully distinguish between credible and non-credible sources;
• Ensure transparency for NGOs, lobbyists and political parties, especially with regard to funding.
Heading at a fast pace towards the 2019 European Parliamentary Elections, we, the European People's Party, are committed to working and cooperating with civil society, NGOs, other political forces, our member parties — at national, regional and local levels — and with EU institutions to create a 'democratic shield' against fake news and misinformation.
Where challenges and risks appear, opportunities also abound; this era of 'fake news is thus an opportunity to become a more open, discerning, engaged and media-savvy society.


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Dozens of news vans surrounded Arthur Jackson III's church on Sunday, but the TV crews didn't stick around long when the pastor announced that Trayvon Martin's mother wasn't coming. Sybrina Fulton didn't show up at the Antioch Missionary Baptist Church's services because she was still processing George Zimmerman's acquittal.
The church was filled to capacity and its main stage undulated under a filter of waving, cardboard fans. Jackson III lectured in his Kobe Bryant tee, comparing himself to Job, Christianity's patron saint of unanswered questions. "To be honest, Church, I don't have an answer," he said. "We can't trust lawyers, but we can still trust the Lord."
See also: DOJ's Trayvon Probe Still "Open" As Thousands Urge Civil Rights Charges For Zimmerman
A short video segment played during the service called "Antioch News Network" did not mention George Zimmerman's acquittal, which would lead to large protests in New York and Los Angeles later that day.
And outside the building's front doors, Steven Roundtree was just trying to reassure the young kids he mentors. He was recently released from prison after serving a year for cocaine-related charges and now assists with the church's altar boy program.
As six youths in white polo shirts horsed around outside, arm wrestling or giggling, Roundtree didn't know what to tell them. Some said they had no opinion on the trial. "He'll get what he has coming," he told the wide-eyed kids who were waiting for some Honey Buns, their morning snack, to make it through the policemen with walk-talkies and the lingering reporters dictating notes over cell phones.
After the treats made it to the the kids, Roundtree relaxed. He admitted he worried about violence after the Martin ruling: "You let pressure build up in the bottle, and it's going to explode."
Terrel Gay, an eight-year-old, unwrapped his snack while telling the Riptide that he remembers hearing the verdict on the radio with his mom, and that all she said was, "He shouldn't have shot that boy."
Later on Sunday, a few hundred people gathered around 6 p.m. to protest the verdict at Bayfront Park, including several children around Terrel's age holding signs. Zeevah Verond inspired a feeding frenzy of reporters as she barely held onto a sign that was bigger than her. Later, a nine-year-old named Clarissa stole the show, giving an impassioned speech in a fedora.
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"A trained doctor said he only needed bandaids," she said of Zimmerman. "How did he get away with it because he's white? It's just not fair."
A woman behind her screamed: "That's coming from the youth, and adults can't see that." Later, parents picked up their sign-holding children and marched them north on Biscayne toward the Freedom Tower. Just before 7:30 it started to rain and the protest scattered.
Click through for photos from the church service and the Bayfront protest.
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The following is a guest blog post by Michelle Weiss, an attorney with Bay Area Bicycle Law, the only firm in Northern California that exclusively represents cyclists.
A bill introduced earlier this year mandating helmet use for California adults (SB-192) was scaled back following opposition from bike organizations statewide. So for the time being at least, helmet use remains optional for adult cyclists in California. This means the issue of whether plaintiffs are contributorily negligent for not wearing a bicycle helmet remains a legal gray area.
The bike helmet issue is somewhat comparable to when a plaintiff fails to wear a seatbelt or rides a motorcycle without a helmet; in these instances, the defense can argue comparative fault. This is a very big deal, because comparative fault is a finding that reduces an entire judgment based on the percentage of fault attributed to the plaintiff. But bicycle helmet use has some fundamental differences from seat belts and motorcycle helmets.
Here are four arguments plaintiff's counsel can use to combat allegations of comparative fault due to helmet nonuse:
- Legislative intent. Unlike seatbelts and motorcycle helmets, cyclists aren't legally required to wear a helmet. This suggests that nonuse is considered acceptable. Further, the legislature has considered mandating helmet use for all cyclists, but has so far only required it for minors, thus implicitly considering and rejecting a helmet requirement for adults. This shows legislative intent that unhelmeted adult cyclists should be treated differently than unbelted drivers or unhelmeted motorcyclists. You can argue that it would be inappropriate for a judge or jury to decide that an adult cyclist had a duty to wear a helmet when the legislature has already considered and rejected that notion.
- The circumstances. The first element of comparative fault requires that the plaintiff's conduct violated the applicable standard of care. The fact-finder has no obligation to find that reasonable care requires the wearing of a helmet. Consider the individual facts of your case: If your client was just riding his or her bike two blocks to the grocery store, argue that the circumstances didn't call for helmet use. Note that the further your client was traveling and the more hazardous the roadway, the weaker this argument becomes.
- Causation (or lack thereof). The second element of comparative fault is causation—that wearing a helmet would have made a difference. This requires expert testimony. The extent to which helmets prevent head injuries is unclear; many cyclists suffer serious head injuries even while wearing a helmet. Without expert testimony, jurors can only speculate what would have or could have happened had the plaintiff worn a helmet. If the defense hasn't retained an expert qualified to opine on what difference a helmet would have made, move to exclude any arguments on helmet usage.
- Inequitable results. A finding of comparative fault can be highly inequitable if the plaintiff has other, non-head injuries. There's no logical reason why compensation for non-head injuries should be reduced for failure to wear a helmet. If you're unfortunate to have a judge who allows the defense to argue comparative fault based on helmet nonuse when the cyclist also has other injuries, request a special verdict form that separates the comparative fault to be applied to the damages resulting from the head/brain injury from the rest of the cyclist's damages.
Don't forget that the burden of proving comparative fault (along with causation) is on the defense, and emphasize that in your closing; by arming your jurors with this legal standard, they'll be prepared to stand up to opposing jurors.
For more on general principles of negligence and defenses (including comparative fault), turn to CEB's California Tort Guide. Also check out the effect of comparative fault on damages in CEB's California Tort Damages.
Other CEBblog™ posts you may find interesting:
- Before Taking on the Government for that Pothole
- Get Technical in Your Next Personal Injury Case
- A Picture Is Worth…a Winning Case?
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Adaptive Digital Curricula Lagging in Science, Social Studies
New resources emerging
Educators have much to choose from when they're looking for adaptive digital curricula to personalize learning for math or English/language arts. But those who want high-quality, adaptive offerings for science and social studies have a limited menu of options. Those educators are increasingly searching for curricula that will allow them to personalize the learning experience for students and collect highly relevant data without having to build it from scratch themselves.
"There are some programs and software out there, but in general, nobody is addressing science and social studies," said Kwame Carr, the area executive director of schools for the 25,500-student Douglas County school system in Georgia. Educators "are at a loss now. They're scrambling."
That doesn't mean there aren't a plethora of digital resources available in those subjects. Vast online repositories allow social studies teachers to find everything from interactive maps to history games, and science teachers might incorporate digital laboratory experiments into lessons. Digital textbooks provide another level of tools.
But the type of adaptive curricula that uses sophisticated algorithms allowing students to leap ahead, or review concepts they struggle with, and that provide teachers with in-depth data, is rare outside of reading and math, said Justin de Leon, a product manager for Education Elements, a San Carlos, Calif.-based company working with districts on personalized-learning projects.
"There are a lot of modular content objects out there, but they're not adaptive and prepackaged," he said. "They don't get at the cumbersome nature of curating them. It's certainly not making it easy for teachers."
Testing Fuels Priorities
The Common Core State Standards in math and English/language arts and the testing associated with those standards, as well as the federal No Child Left Behind Act's emphasis on them, have spurred vendors to create a steady flow of products in math and English/language arts and provided school districts with money to spend to personalize learning.
"If we're testing on it, then people are looking for it," said Lurinda Ward, the director of learning services for the 10,000-student, K-8 Yuma School District One in Arizona. "Testing places more emphasis on those subjects."
Even aside from testing, the calibration of educational standards across a large number of states also makes it significantly easier, and more cost-effective, for education companies to design products that will appeal to a wide range of schools, said Scott Ellis, the chief executive officer of The Learning Accelerator, a nonprofit that seeks to expand blended learning in schools. The organization did an informal study several years ago of the state of the market for educational products for science and social studies, Ellis said. "There's the promise of a bigger, more standardized market, which improves economics for companies," he said.
As more states adopt the Next Generation Science Standards, or make moves to craft social studies standards around the College, Career, and Civic Life Framework, known as C3 and issued by the National Council for Social Studies, more companies may feel there is a wider audience for products in those areas.
But some educators caution that there are inherent differences in teaching science and social studies that don't lend themselves to prepackaged, adaptive curricula. In social studies, there isn't always an agreed-on progression—akin to math concepts that build on each other—and much of the early-elementary-grade curricula often focus on local issues such as a student's family and community or state history, said Jaraun Dennis, the chief technology officer for the 2,800-student Uinta County School District 1 in Evanston, Wyo. "Is a software company going to develop something for every community? I don't think so," he said.
Science instruction is moving toward more open-ended questions, exploration, and hands-on learning, which may not mesh with an online curriculum, even one that is adaptive, said Al Byers, the associate executive director of services for the National Science Teachers Association.
"It's true that these adaptive systems are not out there in science," he said. But science instruction should be "practice-based. There's a strong need to talk and to do hands-on science where deeper and more flexible learning occurs."
In fact, said Marty Creel, the chief academic officer for Silver Spring, Md.-based Discovery Education, which produces digital "Techbooks" in science and social studies, "in science, when you're trying to develop a student's sense of wonder, an adaptive model can be prohibitive to that. It can be counter-intuitive in developing good thinkers in science and social studies."
'Labor Intensive'
But without the same resources as other subjects and with an increased emphasis on personalizing learning, some science and social studies educators find themselves at a disadvantage.
Teachers "have to piecemeal it," Ward said. "It's a lot more labor-intensive."
Teachers are using individual digital resources they find online and fitting them into their own lessons, but that can make it difficult to tailor learning to each student, she said. Some products go part way, allowing teachers to adjust reading levels, for example, on articles that pertain to social studies or science content, or to provide options for text, graphics, or video, she said.
In subjects outside math and English/language arts, teachers often have to "cobble this together themselves," said Alice Reilly, the social studies coordinator for the 167,000-student Fairfax County, Va., schools. That is why, Reilly said, professional development must play a significant role, so teachers can share the lessons they've created, as well as learn to use the existing digital resources.
Kala Compton, a middle school instructional coach for the Yuma district, said she advocates for teacher paid time off from regular teaching duties to collaborate and share their lessons. But this reliance on individual teachers to be repositories of lessons and data can be a problem in a district that has significant teacher turnover, she said. Teachers leave and take their resources with them. With digital curricula, teachers don't have to worry as much about losing institutional knowledge, she said.
"That's a lot of work upfront that would not be sustained if some of the teachers left and we'd have to start with new people," she said.
The same issue can be a problem for students. In districts with a transitory student population, those that are using an adaptive digital curriculum in math, for example, can switch schools within districts and pick up right where they left off, Ward said.
"Your content is saved for you personally. You can withdraw on Friday from one school and move to another school within our district and pick up on Monday with the same program," she said. "It's pretty seamless, … unless it's social studies or science."
But some think a shift is on the horizon.
Adaptive-learning company IXL, which began with math in 2007, then English/language arts in 2013, launched both elementary-grade social studies and science products in November.
Jeremy Murphy, a senior product analyst for science content at IXL, said science and social studies are tricky when it comes to creating adaptive curricula. That kind of learning "quickly gets complex and messy," he said.
But company officials said school and district customers were clamoring for new subjects.
Even though developing adaptive-learning systems for science and social studies was "a challenge for our team," Murphy said, "it's really going to surprise the market in terms of what you can do."
With standards for both science and social studies spreading, the marketplace is likely to catch up, said Ellis of the Learning Accelerator. "We think market forces are working, and vendors are trying to solve this problem. It's happening and it's coming."
Vol. 35, Issue 17, Page s11Published in Print: January 13, 2016, as Adaptive Tools Lag in Science, Social Studies
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General Election Special: The Labour Party Manifesto
As part of a series of special pre-election articles, we look at the Labour Party manifesto and the potential impacts that it may have on football.
Labour under Jeremy Corbyn has placed great emphasis on sport, particularly football in their electoral campaign, with a wealth of policy and political debate on the issue. The headline promise has been the commitment to ensure 5% of the Premier League's domestic and international television rights' income is diverted to the grassroot level of the game.
The Pledge
The other footballing commitments include the following:
- Put fans at the heart of their clubs – by legislating for accredited supporters trusts to be able to appoint and remove at least two club directors and to purchase shares when clubs change hands. We will also review fan participation in sports governance more widely.
- Fix the broken ticketing market – by enforcing anti-bot legislation and implementing the recommendations of the Waterson review to ensure fair opportunities for fans to buy tickets.
- Improve access provision for disabled sports fans – by ensuring that rapid improvements are made and by prioritising action to make clubs comply with obligations under the 2010 Equality Act.
- Ensure that investment and support is given to grassroots women's football so as many women and girls as possible can benefit from participating in football
Jeremy Corbyn made the following comments in relation to these manifesto pledges (Labour Press Association):
"Despite the game we all love receiving lucrative domestic and international TV deals, the grassroots game has been shamefully starved of funding over recent years.
"Too often, youth football teams cannot find pitches to play on and when they do they are expensive and the facilities are not fit for purpose. All-weather pitches are like gold-dust and coaching badges can cost unaffordable amounts. Under these circumstances, it is no surprise we are not nurturing the talent that we all know exists within the beautiful game.
"To address this lack of funding and lack of facilities, Labour in government will ensure that 5 per cent of domestic and international TV rights money is diverted to the grassroots game. This will ensure the footballing talent of young girls and boys is harnessed, and football is a game for the many, not the few."
Despite being an outline vision rather than detail specific, these promises do fit nicely with the Corbynist view of Britain; 'for the many, not the few'. Football, especially in the Premier League, has seen a trend towards wealth being concentrated in the hands of the few. At least financially, top level Premier League clubs have never had it so good, lucrative commercial and TV rights deals have meant that most clubs have moved away from the billionaires play thing model to actually being viable and profitable multi million pound businesses.
The concern though is the gulf between the bright lights of the Premier League and the grass roots level below, an area that has been painfully starved of investment and one that lags worryingly behind our continental rivals. A great barometer of this is the number of licensed coaches that we have in the country, crucial to developing precocious talents. 2014 data from UEFA has England on 1,395, Germany 6,934 and Spain 15,423 for A and Pro license qualification badge holders. This ensures that fledgling talents of all ages and genders in countries like Germany and Spain have access to top level professional coaching.
The great barrier of course is funding, the top badges in the UK can cost as much as £5,000 to complete. Most coaches in the UK are only volunteers or work part time, making such a step largely unfeasible.
It is for reasons like the above that Labour's commitment to 5% is on the face a very sensible and practical pledge. Not only that, but it has the potential to be popular with voters; hitting the few financially to the benefit of the many. Clearly Labour are doing their upmost to return to some semblance of a peoples' party as opposed to pandering to big business.
The proof will be in how this commitment plays out in reality, and to do this Labour would need to prevent a Conservative election win. Where will the 5% actually go? We have seen all too many seemingly prudent legislative changes that have been largely wasted through inefficient spending and administrative cost. Labour would do well to leave the investment down to those within the game, the Football Association and other relevant organisations. What the public and country needs are more pitches, coaches and opportunities for those on the very first rung of football's ladder.
Are Labour naively tapping into football supporting voters, or is this a prudent policy commitment from Corbyn?


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"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." –George Orwell
Today's workforce is the most diverse in history. With the sheer number of Millennials in the workforce influencing how work is done along with the number of seniors who are continuing to work well past traditional retirement age, managers and leaders today are faced with increasingly complex generational needs and differences. From communications style preferences to expectations of appropriate behavior, each generation has its own perspective and works accordingly.
This workshop explores the generational differences, similarities and expectations important for every manager today. We explore how each generation was shaped and provide insight into their expectations. This powerful workshop addresses many of the challenges managers of multi-generational teams currently face and provide a concrete action plan to leverage each generations' strengths.
How You Will Benefit
- Adapt your leadership style for each generation and for the common ground that all generations want.
- Leverage the unique skills and experiences from each generation.
- Facilitate cross-generational dialogue and understanding for more cohesive teams.
Workshop Outline
- Exploring Current Generational Perceptions
- Generational Characteristics, Values, Preferences and Rewards
- Becoming a Multi-Generational Leader
- Finding Common Ground
- Developing and Growing the Generations
- Action Planning for Leveraging Generational Strengths, Influencing Your Multi-Generational Team and Flexing Your Leadership Approach
Who Should Attend
Executives, directors, managers, team leaders and other business professionals who are required to work with, manage or lead people from different generations.


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Los Angeles, Dec 2
After the sudden death of Hollywood actor Paul Walker, his girlfriend Jasmine Pilchard-Gosnell is reportedly devastated.
The 40-year-old actor died Saturday in a crash after a charity car show in Santa Clarita, California.
The two first got together when "The Fast And The Furious" star was 33 and she was just 16-year-old.
Gosnell, who lives in Santa Barbara, is being comforted by her mother, Julie, as she struggles to cope following the horrible accident.
"Paul was a really good guy and Jasmine is broken up by this. I went to Thanksgiving with him, played golf with him," Gosnell's uncle Barton Bruner told dailymail.co.uk.
"They had their ups and downs, but they were together and looking to spend a bright future together. This is horrible news and unexpected. Her mother is with her and she is comforting her," he said.
A huge number of Hollywood stars have expressed their sympathy to Walkers's family via Twitter, including Olivia Wilde, Jessica Alba, Liam Neeson and Rihanna.


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The year is 1942. Quit India movement was well under well underway. The location, in front of the Patna secretariat. Despite police warnings 7 young college boys took to the streets with the 'Tiranga'- the tricolor, a sign of hope for the Indians and of defiance to the British. All eyes were locked on the seven lads, who made their way to the pedestal in front of the secretariat building, the flag above their shoulders. They were immediately fired upon. They fell one by one, but the national flag never fluttered. It was passed forward before any one of them succumbed to their injuries. The Tiranga, shining in all its glory never backed down, and finally replaced the Union Jack. All the seven students were dead, while a country of millions was still watching on, silent and fearful.
Only those 7 had the courage, the dynamic spirit, the unconditional love for their motherland. And there were lots of other people standing there who did nothing. This is the stark reality of our country.
We are born and raised to obey, to be an inferior person. An idea has grown into us that everything foreign is better while we boast that India is great. All the new technological goodies, the hot topic of today come from the land of opportunity, a place of never-ending creativity and innovation. This is what we lack. But another thing we are lacking is patriotism. What's the point of pretending that our country is great, when deep inside, we feel less than our foreign counterparts. It has been a trend to become a part of the brain drain. Indians have long ago lost their spirit, their indomitable energy extinguished already. Why shouldn't we invest in our selfs? Why not develop on our own? With the building of our own technology, infrastructure and institutions and the kind of brain power available, we can really rule the world.
The country is slowly developing a western identity. This is good. Swamiji wanted an Indian society with western science coupled with Vedanta. But what about the latter part? Forget, Vedanta, we are slowly losing our own identity. All our languages are systematically disintegrating, and traditions are being forgotten. We must globalise but must never forget who we are or where we come from. Our past glory only justifies that all must be preserved and cherished and that we must live up to it. Bharat Mata is slowly dissolving into a lifeless allegory with no meaning.
Only a small percentage of Indians opposed the British while most remained ignorant. It is said that under the reign of evil, love for the dearest rises manifold times. And to think that so few fought for India even then!
15th august is celebrated for a purpose. It is the day we remember our martyrs. It is the day when we draw inspiration from our heroes. The day when we pay homage to our mother and take the oath of eternal devotion to her. This day we remember our struggles, rebuild our pride, and rediscover our nation.
Feel thy spirit. Remember thy nation. Live like a true Indian. If everyone emanates with the same conflagration, India is sure to prosper and rise even higher than the nation it was once before. In Swamiji's words,
India will be raised, not with the power of flesh, but with the power of the spirit; not with the flag of destruction, but with the flag of peace and love, the garb of the Sannyasin; not by the power of wealth, but by the power of begging bowl. One vision I see clear as life before me: that the ancient mother has awakened once more, sitting on Her throne rejuvenating, more glorious than ever. Proclaim her to the world with the voice of peace and benediction.
Jai hind!
This post was submitted to a Daily Post Prompt: Breaking The Ice, Doubters Alert and I Pledge Allegiance


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When Does Comet C/2020 J1 (SONEAR) Rise and Set from Aur, Marshall Islands? Precise Rise and Set Times
Location: Aur, Marshall Islands [change]
Latitude: 8° 08' 59" N
Longitude: 171° 10' 08" E
Timezone: Pacific/Majuro
Today's Comet C/2020 J1 (SONEAR) rise, transit and set times from Aur, Marshall Islands [change] are the following (all times relative to the local timezone Pacific/Majuro):
The rise and set times are defined as the time at which the upper limb of Comet C/2020 J1 (SONEAR) touches the horizon, consideting the effect of the atmospheric refraction. As the atmoshpere conditions cannot be modeled precisely the times reported here should be considered correct with an approximation of few minutes.