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Sometimes life's most difficult problems can be solved in the most unexpected ways. In fact, even when a situation seems downright hopeless, a little resourcefulness and ingenuity can lead to surprising solutions.
Editor's note: "The Spoken Word" is shared by Lloyd Newell each Sunday during the weekly Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast.
Sometimes life's most difficult problems can be solved in the most unexpected ways. In fact, even when a situation seems downright hopeless, a little resourcefulness and ingenuity can lead to surprising solutions.
This truth was illustrated in dramatic fashion during the American Revolution, when a fledgling nation struggled to assert its independence against one of the great military powers of the time. What the American soldiers lacked in training and resources they made up for with determined ingenuity.
One great example of that ingenuity took place not far from here, near what is now the campus of the United States Military Academy at West Point. During the Revolutionary War, this bend in the Hudson River became a key point of defense. They knew that if they could defend the river, they could defend themselves. So to prevent British ships from passing, they blocked the waterway with every obstacle they could think of: logs, underwater spikes and even sunken vessels.
The revolutionaries didn't have a lot of resources, but it just so happened that only a few miles from West Point was one of the largest iron deposits in the world. They determined to use that iron to make a massive chain and stretch it from bank to bank to make the river impassable. Under the direction of Gen. George Washington, in a manufacturing feat that would be remarkable even by today's standards, they built a 500-yard chain in six short weeks. Each link in the massive chain was two to three inches thick and two to three feet long. Men worked on seven forges and 10 welding fires around the clock to complete the 65-ton chain and place it underwater. The huge chain held and effectively blocked passage on the Hudson River for the rest of the war. Now memorialized here at West Point, this piece of the chain reminds us of the ingenuity and determination of those early patriots.
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WASHINGTON - Federal Reserve policymakers appear less inclined to take further action to stimulate the economy.
Minutes released Tuesday showed members of the Fed's policymaking committee spent little time at their March 13 meeting discussing the possibility of purchasing more bonds as a way to drive down long-term interest rates and promote more borrowing and spending.
The minutes also showed that only "a couple" of members expressed support for bond purchases, given that the economy is showing signs of improvement. At the previous meeting, there was support from "a few" members for more bond purchases.
The Fed currently has 10 voting members.
Wall Street appeared disappointed by signs that the Fed is moving away from further efforts to stimulate the economy. Traders reacted by selling stocks and, more tellingly, bonds. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note rose to 2.30 per cent from 2.16 per cent. A bond's yield moves in the opposite direction of its price.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell as much as 133 points and ended the day at 13,199, a decline of 65 points.
Since the financial crisis of 2008, the Fed has completed two bond-purchase programs that have helped to drive down rates on mortgages and other loans. They were intended to encourage lending.
"Even though Fed officials remain cautious about the economic outlook, there is little, if any, support for any new (bond-buying) program," said Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics, in a note to clients.
David Jones, chief economist at DMJ Advisors, put it more bluntly: "More bond buying may still be on the table, but just barely."
Opponents are worried that more bond purchases could stoke inflation. Consumers are already paying higher prices for gasoline.
After its March 13th meeting, the Fed sketched a slightly sunnier view of the economy. Members pointed to strong hiring gains from December through February. Employers added an average of 245,000 jobs a month from December through February. The unemployment rate has fallen from 9.1 per cent in August to 8.3 per cent in February.
Still, they noted in the minutes that there have been similar bursts of hiring in the past two years that ended up fading. Members said the Fed's policies are still needed to help the recovery and stuck with their plan to keep short-term interest rates at record lows until at least late 2014.
The Fed is concerned that the recovery could falter, as it did last year. Americans aren't receiving meaningful pay increases. Gas prices are high. And Europe's debt crisis could weigh on the U.S. economy.
Most economists don't think Fed officials will change their interest-rate policy at the next meeting on April 24-25.
But pressure could build for the Fed to begin raising rates sooner if the pace of economic growth picks up.
U.S. consumers boosted their spending in February by the most in seven months, raising expectations that the economy grew at a stronger pace in the first quarter the year. The Commerce Department will release its growth estimate for the January-March quarter on April 27.
Many people are more confident in the economy, despite stagnant wages and higher gas prices. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Survey index rose last month to its highest level since February 2011.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke said the combination of modest economic growth and rapid declines in unemployment is something of a puzzle. Normally, it takes roughly 4 per cent annual growth to lower the rate by 1 percentage point over a year.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - Local 6 sat down with the attorney for George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watchman who was recently acquitted of second-degree murder in the death of Trayvon Martin.
Former Local 6 legal analyst Mark O'Mara told Local 6 anchor Lauren Rowe he is surprised by the national reaction of the verdict and protests.
"I was maybe hoping it would happen because I knew it was self-defense fora year or more. I knew once we got to trial we would present it as self-defense," O'Mara said. "So I thought those people who had made up their minds ahead of time with less than the full facts would listen and would understand what happened or didn't realize that they were just. What I didn't realize is that they had their decision made, they had their belief systems set and they weren't going to change it no matter what."
Local 6 also asked O'Mara if he will go after the prosecutors who he says acted inappropriately, acting as if Zimmerman was convicted.
"It's inappropriate. It goes against the very fabric of the system that we have been sworn to protect," O'Mara said. "She denigrates the jury's verdict, she denigrates the system and she denigrates her own position as a prosecutor. I hope that one day she can answer for all of that, whether it's to a court, a bar matter or to her electorate."
O'Mara said he has never filed a grievance against another attorney but didn't say he wasn't considering filing sanctions.
"I haven't made any decision about what is going to happen. But there is a lot that happened in the 15 to 16 months I was involved in the case that I could not figure out why or how it was happening," O'Mara said. "Now that I look back and I see as apart of a system it seems intentional, it seems consistent and it seemed with purpose and the purpose denigrated the system hardly and almost got an absolutely innocent man convicted."
Local 6 also asked O'Mara about Martin's mother, Sybrina Fulton, who said on morning talk shows that the verdict sends a message to teenagers that you can't walk too fast or too slow to risk seeming suspicious.
"I wish the Martin family, like the prosecutors, would maybe learn some of the lessons that we all should learn from this, which is, we need to teach our children, our teenagers that you can't be violent. It's not a reset button on a video game," O'Mara said.
O'Mara said he never wanted to call Martin's father, Tracy Martin, to the stand but said that he was forced to because the state didn't call him as a witness."
"Why would I ever want to call the father of a 17-year-old that passed away to the stand?" O'Mara said. "I thought it was a cheap shot or strange maneuver by the state not to call Mr. Martin."
You can see more of Rowe's interview with O'Mara on 'Flashpoint,' which airs on Local 6 Sunday at 7:30 a.m.
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Pascale Honore loves watching her sons tackle the Australian surf. A woman not easily intimidated, she would join her boys in the waves were it not for a 1995 car accident that left her paraplegic. Bound to a wheelchair, surfing was not an option—until one of her sons' friends had an idea.
Tyron Swan, 23, is a strong and skillful surfer. "I could duct tape you to my back and surf," he said to Pascale, 50. Pascale didn't see why he couldn't, and, armed with several rolls of tape, they set out to test their plan.
Pascale "can't find the words to explain" what it's like to move through the ocean, to feel like she's "part of the water" after years of immobility. For his part, Tyron notes that surfing with an extra 88 pounds taped to his body is "a pretty good challenge." But his nonchalance can't mask the significance of his gift. "It's changed her life in a way," he admits.
Pascale and Tyron's adventures have been chronicled in a short documentary, Duct Tape Surfing. It's the sort of clip you think would take the Internet by storm, and that's exactly what it has done. How could anyone not be moved by Pascale's courage and Tyron's tangible friendship?
If my fellow Christians are anything like me, I suspect they can't watch the footage without seeing a powerful metaphor for spiritual friendship. Is there any more vivid embodiment of "bear one another's burdens" (Gal. 6:2, ESV) than a sturdy Tyron rising up on his surfboard with a grinning Pascale on his back? Is there any richer example of the way trust can make possible things once thought impossible? When we use words like evangelism and discipleship, ...1


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From Orion: An Epic Poem
Richard Henry Horne
Meeting of Orion and Artemis
the hunt in vales below has sped,
But now behind the wooded mount ascends,
Threading its upward mazes of rough boughs,
Mossd trunks and thickets, still invisible,
Although its jocund music fills the air
With cries and laughing echoes, mellowd all
By intervening woods and the deep hills.
The scene in front two sloping mountain-sides
Displayd; in shadow one, and one in light
The loftiest on its summit now sustaind
The sun-beams, raying like a mighty wheel
Half seen, which left the front-ward surface dark
In its full breadth of shade; the coming sun
Hidden as yet behind: the other mount,
Slanting opposd, swept with an eastward face,
Catching the golden light. Now, while the peal
Of the ascending chase told that the rout
Still midway rent the thickets, suddenly
Along the broad and sunny slope appeard
The shadow of a stag that fled across,
Followd by a Giants shadow with a spear!
Hunter of Shadows, thou thyself a Shade,
Be comforted in this,that substance holds
No higher attributes; one sovereign law
Alike develops both, and each shall hunt
Its proper object, each in turn commanding
The primal impulse, till gaunt Time become
A Shadow cast on Spaceto fluctuate,
Waiting the breath of the Creative Power
To give new types for substance yet unknown:
So from faint nebulæ bright worlds are born;
So worlds return to vapor. Dreams design
Most solid lasting things, and from the eye
That searches life, death evermore retreats.
Substance unseen, pure mythos, or mirage,
The shadowy chase has vanishd; round the swell
Of the near mountain sweeps a bounding stag;
Round whirls a god-like Giant close behind;
Oer a fallen trunk the stag with slippery hoofs
Stumbleshis sleek knees lightly touch the grass
Upward he springsbut in his forward leap,
The Giants hand hath caught him fast beneath
One shoulder tuft, and, lifted high in air,
Sustains! Now Phoibos chariot rising bursts
Over the summits with a circling blaze,
Gilding those frantic antlers, and the head
Of that so glorious Giant in his youth,
Who, as he turns, the form succinct beholds
Of Artemis,her bow, with points drawn back,
A golden hue on her white rounded breast
Reflecting, while the arrows ample barb
Gleams oer her hand, and at his heart is aimd.
The Giant lowerd his armaway the stag
Breast forward plunged into a thicket near;
The Goddess pausd, and droppd her arrows point
Raisd it againand then again relaxd
Her tension, and while slow the shaft came gliding
Over the centre of the bow, beside
Her hand, and gently droopd, so did the knee
Of that heroic shape do reverence
Before the Goddess. Their clear eyes had ceasd
To flash, and gazd with earnest softening light.
O Meropé!
And where art thou, while idly thus I rave?
Runs there no hopeno fever through thy veins,
Like that which leaps and courses round my heart?
Shall I resign thee, passion-perfect maid,
Who in mortalitys most finishd work
Rankst highestand lovst me, even as I love?
Rather possess thee with a tenfold stress
Of love ungovernable, being denied!
Gainst fraud what should I cast down in reply?
What but a sword, since force must do me right,
And strength was given unto me with my birth,
In mine own hand, and by ascendancy
Over my giant brethren. Two remain,
Whom prayers to dark Hephaistos and my sire
Poseidon, shall awaken into life;
And we will tear up gates, and scatter towers,
Until I bear off Meropé. Sing on!
Sing on, great tempest! in the darkness sing!
Thy madness is a music that brings calm
Into my central soul; and from its waves
That now with joy begin to heave and gush,
The burning Image of all lifes desire,
Like an absorbing fire-breathd phantom-god,
Rises and floats!here touching on the foam,
There hovering over it; ascending swift
Starward, then swooping down the hemisphere
Upon the lengthening javelins of the blast.
Why pausd I in the palace-groves to dream
Of bliss, with all its substance in my reach?
Why not at once, with thee enfolded, whirl
Deep down the abyss of ecstasy, to melt
All brain and being where no reason is,
Or else the source of reason? But the roar
Of Times great wings, which neer had driven me
By dread events, nor broken-down old age,
Back on myself, the close experience
Of false mankind, with whispers cold and dry
As snake-songs midst stone hollows, thus has taught me,
The giant hunter, laughd at by the world,
Not to forget the substance in the dream
Which breeds it. Both must melt and merge in one.
Now shall I overcome thee, body and soul,
And like a new-made element brood oer thee
With all devouring murmurs! Come, my love!
Come, lifes blood-tempest!come, thou blinding storm,
And clasp the rigid pinethis mortal frame
Wrap with thy whirlwinds, rend and wrestle down,
And let my being solve its destiny,
Defying, seeking, thine extremest power;
Famishd and thirsty for the absorbing doom
Of that immortal death which leads to life,
And gives a glimpse of Heavens parental scheme.
Within the isle, far from the walks of men,
Where jocund chase was never heard, nor hoof
Of Satyr broke the moss, nor any bird
Sang, save at times the nightingalebut only
In his prolongd and swelling tones, nor eer
With wild joy and hoarse laughing melody,
Closing the ecstasy, as is his wont,
A forest, separate and far withdrawn
From all the rest, there grew. Old as the earth,
Of cedar was it, lofty in its glooms
When the sun hung oerhead, and, in its darkness,
Like Night when giving birth to Times first pulse.
Silence had ever dwelt there; but of late
Came faint sounds, with a cadence droning low,
From the far depths, as of a cataract
Whose echoes midst incumbent foliage died.
From one high mountain gushd a flowing stream,
Which through the forest passd, and found a fall
Within, none knew where, then rolld towrds the sea.
There, underneath the boughs, mark where the gleam
Of sunrise through the roofings chasm is thrown
Upon a grassy plot below, whereon
The shadow of a stag stoops to the stream
Swift rolling towrds the cataract, and drinks deeply.
Throughout the day unceasingly it drinks,
While ever and anon the nightingale,
Not waiting for the evening, swells his hymn
His one sustaind and heaven-aspiring tone
And when the sun hath vanishd utterly,
Arm over arm the cedars spread their shade,
With arching wrist and long extended hands,
And graveward fingers lengthening in the moon,
Above that shadowy stag whose antlers still
Hang oer the stream. Now came a richtond voice
Out of the forest depths, and sang this lay,
With deep speech intervalld and tender pause.
If we have lost the world what gain is ours!
Hast thou not built a palace of more grace
Than marble towers? These trunks are pillars rare,
Whose roof embowers with far more grandeur. Say,
Hast thou not found a bliss with Meropé,
As full of rapture as existence new?
T is thus with me. I know that thou art blessd.
Our inmost powers, fresh wingd, shall soar and dream
In realms of Elysian gleam, whose airlightflowers,
Will ever be, though vague, most fair, most sweet,
Better than memory.Look yonder, love!
What solemn image through the trunks is straying?
And now he doth not move, yet never turns
On us his visage of rapt vacancy!
It is Oblivion. In his handthough nought
Knows he of thisa dusky purple flower
Droops over its tall stem. Again, ah see!
He wanders into mist, and now is lost.
Within his brain what lovely realms of death
Are picturd, and what knowledge through the doors
Of his forgetfulness of all the earth
A path may gain? Then turn thee, love, to me:
Was I not worth thy winning, and thy toil,
O earth-born son of Ocean? Melt to rain.
Level with the summit of that eastern mount,
By slow approach, and like a promontory
Which seems to glide and meet a coming ship,
The pale-gold platform of the morning came
Towards the gliding mount. Against a sky
Of delicate purple, snow-bright courts and halls,
Touchd with light silvery green, gleaming across,
Fronted by pillars vast, cloud-capitalld,
With shafts of changeful pearl, all reard upon
An isle of clear aerial gold, came floating;
And in the centre, clad in fleecy white,
With lucid lilies in her golden hair,
Eos, sweet Goddess of the Morning, stood.
From the bright peak of that surrounded mount,
One step sufficed to gain the tremulous floor
Whereon the palace of the Morning shone,
Scarcely a bow-shot distant; but that step,
Orions humbled and still mortal feet
Dared not adventure. In the Goddess face
Imploringly he gazd. Advance! she said,
In tones more sweet than when some heavenly bird,
Hid in a rosy cloud, its morning hymn
Warbles unseen, wet with delicious dews,
And to earths flowers, all looking up in prayer,
Tells of the coming bliss. Believeadvance!
Or, as the spheres move onward with their song
That calls me to awaken other lands,
That moment will escape which neer returns.
Forward Orion steppd: the platform bright
Shook like the reflex of a star in water
Movd by the breeze, throughout its whole expanse;
And even the palace glistend fitfully,
As with electric shiver it sent forth
Odors of flowers divine and all fresh life.
Still stood he where he steppd, nor to return
Attempted. To essay one pace beyond
He felt no poweryet onward he advanced
Safe to the Goddess, who, with hand outstretchd,
Into the palace led him. Grace and strength,
With sense of happy change to finer earth,
Freshness of nature, and belief in good,
Came flowing oer his soul, and he was blessd.
T is always morning somewhere in the world,
And Eos rises, circling constantly
The varied regions of mankind. No pause
Of renovation and of freshening rays
She knows, but evermore her love breathes forth
On field and forest, as on human hope,
Health, beauty, power, thought, action, and advance.
All this Orion witnessd, and rejoiced.
T was eve, and Time, his vigorous course pursuing,
Met Akinetos walking by the sea.
At sight of him the Father of the Hours
Pausd on the sand,which shrank, grew moist, and trembled
At that unwonted pressure of the God.
And thus with look and accent stern, he spake:
Thou art the mortal who, with hand unmovd,
Eastest the fruit of others toil; whose heart
Is but a vital engine that conveys
Blood, to no purpose, up and down thy frame;
Whose forehead is a large stone sepulchre
Of knowledge! and whose life but turns to waste
My measurd hours, and earths material mass!
. . . . . .
Whereto the Great Unmovd no answer made,
And Time continued, sterner than before:
O not-to-be-approvd! thou Apathy,
Who gazest downward on that empty shell,
Is it for thee, who bearst the common lot
Of man, and art his brother in the fields,
From birth to funeral pyre; is it for thee,
Who didst derive from thy long-living sire
More knowledge than endows far better sons,
Thy lamp to burn within, and turn aside
Thy face from all humanity, or behold it
Without emotion, like some sea-shelld thing
Staring around from a green hollowd rock,
Not aiding, loving, caringhoping aught
Forgetting Nature, and by her forgot?
Whereto, with mildness, Akinetos said,
Hast thou considerd of Eternity?
Profoundly have I done so, in my youth,
Chronos replied, and bowd his furrowd head;
Most, when my tender feet from Chaos trod
Stumbling,and, doubtful of my eyes, my hands
The dazzling air explord. But, since that date,
So many ages have I told; so many,
Fleet after fleet on newly opening seas,
Descry before me, that of late my thoughts
Have rather dwelt on all around my path,
With anxious care. Well were it thus with thee.
Then Akinetos calmly spake once more,
With eyes still bent upon the tide-ribbd sands:
And dost thou of To-morrow also think?
Whereat, as one dismayd by sudden thought
Of many crowding things that call him thence,
Time, with bent brows, went hurrying on his way.
Slow towrds his cave the Great Unmovd repaird,
And, with his back against the rock, sat down
Outside, half smiling in the pleasant air;
And in the lonely silence of the place
He thus, at length, discoursd unto himself:
Orion, ever active and at work,
Honest and skilful, not to be surpassd,
Drew misery on himself and those he lovd;
Wrought his companions death,and now hath found,
At Artemis hand, his own. So fares it ever
With the worlds builder. He, from wall to beam,
From pillar to roof, from shade to corporal form,
From the first vague Thought to the Temple vast,
A ceaseless contest with the crowd endures,
For whom he labors. Why then should we move?
Our wisdom cannot change whateers decreed,
Nor een the acts or thoughts of brainless men:
Why then be movd? Best reason is most vain.
He who will do and suffer, mustand end.
Hence, death is not an evil, since it leads
To somewhat permanent, beyond the noise
Man maketh on the tabor of his will,
Until the small round burst, and pale he falls.
His ear is stuffd with the graves earth, yet feels
The inaudible whispers of Eternity,
While Time runs shouting to Oblivion
In the upper fields! I would not swell that cry.
Thus Akinetos sat from day to day,
Absorbd in indolent sublimity,
Reviewing thoughts and knowledge oer and oer;
And now he spake, now sang unto himself,
Now sank to brooding silence. From above,
While passing, Time the rock touchd!and it oozd
Petrific dropsgently at firstand slow.
Reclining lonely in his fixd repose,
The Great Unmovd unconsciously became
Attachd to that he pressd,and gradually
While his thoughts drifted to no shorea part
O the rock. There clung the dead excrescence, till
Strong hands, descended from Orion, made
Large roads, built markets, granaries, and steep walls,
Squaring down rocks for use, and common good.
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I sipped wine around a campfire.
I stayed up too late.
I watched my 13-year-old nephew battle ocean waves...and win.
I breathed in salty sear air, clean mountain air, and the first tantalizing hints of autumn air.
I convinced Dan to pull over at (most of) the scenic views.
I paid $10 for day-old sandwich in colonial Williamsburg, which I suspect would have horrified the Founding Fathers as much as the $3 water and $9 "Freedom Burger."
I got lost.
I got sunburned.
I got rained on.
I got buried in the sand by giggling nieces.
I read Barbara Brown Taylor from a rocking chair on my sister's front porch, where a troupe of cows are her closest neighbors and where even in August it's cool enough she doesn't need air conditioning.
I ate Marie Callender's razzleberry pie and my sister-in-law's gourmet cupcakes.
I made up for it by racing kids across swimming pools and running like a maniac from a Virginian skunk.
I wrote down silly stories, imagined sentence by sentence by Uncle Dan, Uncle Dave, Aunt Rachel, Grandpa, Chloe, Katie, Ryan, Michael, and Jon.
I got annoyed with family.
I laughed till my stomach hurt with family.
I prayed with family.
I remembered that I don't live on the internet or in my writing, but in my body—in feet that sink in wet sand, in skin that burns in the sun and sweats in the humidity, in hands that thumb wrestle, in lips that kiss, in hair that gets stiff in sea water and soft in well water, in breath that can turn hot coals into flame.
I recalibrated.
I repented.
I got over myself.
I got ready.
I came home—simultaneously exhausted and refreshed— with sand in my shoes, stories scribbled on paper plates, jeans that smell like campfire, towels that smell like chlorine, and a laptop I didn't open once in seven days.
I came home with the true treasure of rest: the realization that the world doesn't need me as much as I need the world, that as much as there is to give, there is so much more to receive.
I stopped and paid attention for a while.
And it was good.
When was the last time you took a real rest? What did you learn from it?
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The 13-year-old defendant, standing before a jury of his peers, hears the verdict: guilty of battery. The teenage jury foreman then reads the punishment:
"We sentence the defendant to a daily curfew, anger counseling, and 50 hours of community service, Your Honor," he says. "Also, he is not to have any associations with gangs, will write a letter of apology to his parents and the victim, will submit to regular drug testing, and will be put on academic probation. We also will put him into regular auto shop and art classes."
Teen peer court is in session at Dorsey High School in South Los Angeles – and this is no mock trial. The defendant, Garry V., is accused of a real crime. Student jurors mete out a real sentence. Presiding Judge David Wesley is a jurist from Los Angeles Superior Court. The school's Thurgood Marshall Courtroom is complete with a judge's bench, a witness stand, a jury box, and, yes, oak paneling.
The juvenile defendants who come to this place, one of 17 peer teen courts in Los Angeles County, are facing their first criminal charges – misdemeanors such as graffiti tagging, theft, prostitution, drug possession, and battery. The intent of the juvenile justice system is to drive down the re-offense rate and keep kids out of jail; the means is a forum whereby fellow teens ask the questions, decide the case, and assess the penalty.
The thinking is that teen peers understand, better than adults, what sentences will deter delinquent behavior and what is a proper way to pay back the community or the victim.
"Using a system of peer-based judgment may have an influence on the adolescent that does not come into account when in front of adults," says Elizabeth Dowdell, associate professor of nursing at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. The possibility that adult professionals will misread a juvenile's case is eliminated, "since all of the jurors are near the same age and from similar backgrounds" as the defendants, she says. "Parents may also be involved ..., which may bring to light their teen's behaviors and their own responsibilities."
So, are teen courts any better than traditional juvenile courts at cutting the rate at which kids re-offend? Results of studies are not definitive, but they are encouraging. Comparisons of the two are difficult, researchers note, because teen courts tend to deal with lesser offenses while juvenile courts take cases of more serious crimes and repeat offenders. What's known so far is that 89 percent of the young people who were sanctioned in teen court the previous year completed their sentences, according to a 2005 study of the American Youth Policy Forum. Some even went on to serve as teen jurors themselves.
The idea is not new. Teen peer courts have been around for about 25 years and now number about 1,000 nationwide. But backers say they are ripe for further expansion – given their track record and relatively low cost. Where such courts exist, they divert about 9 percent of cases from standard juvenile court, research shows.
"Our municipal and county governments are at a critical crisis in funding," says Jack Levine, president of the National Association of Youth Courts. "We think we have developed the vaccine, which is this preventative investment in young people at the very earliest stage of their transgressions ... at school, home, or in the community."
The court at Dorsey High, where about half the students are African-American, thrives because of volunteers. They include 70 students from local law schools who advise the teen jurors about the law, community mentors who monitor defendants' compliance with the sentences, and the high school jurors, who can fulfill graduation requirements for their hours in court.
For Mr. Levine, keeping kids out of jail, where they can be exposed to more serious offenders, is key. He notes that, across America, budgets for counseling and other treatment services are being slashed or eliminated, making it harder to include crime prevention and rehabilitation in crime-fighting strategies.
Judge Wesley concurs. "The major thought behind this was the realization that you cannot lock everyone up," says Wesley, who has nearly two decades of experience starting all 17 teen courts in the county. "There have to be other ways of dealing with these children who have issues.... The hope is that we can catch them before they end up in my adult court and get sentenced to prison."
In the case of Garry V., his parents sat in the courtroom to hear questions the jurors asked of their son and to answer questions directed to them.
"Did you know your son was doing drugs?"
"Did you know he hangs out with gang members every day after school?"
The judge is there to explain the charges to defendants and jurors chosen at random from among the students who sign up to serve on the court. After charges are read, Wesley asks the defendant and the parents if they know any of the jurors – or if jurors know them – before proceeding.
"In this age of bullying, harassment, and in some cases payback – both in person and via the Internet – confidentiality would be important," notes Professor Dowdell.
Court usually convenes at 3:30 p.m. once every other week, and lasts about three hours. Three cases may be heard each session.
Education about court procedures and legal concepts is one side benefit of teen courts, say authorities.
"This has been an absolutely fabulous program," says Laura Cohen, director of a street law clinic and community outreach for Southwestern Law School, which has a pool of about 70 law students who attend peer court sessions and answer questions from high school students.
Part of the value of teen courts is that jurors can hear answers from victims, parents, and others, which are usually withheld from court proceedings, says Jo Ann Allen, director of Santa Cruz County Teen Peer Court, who has 16 years of experience with such courts.
"Sometimes the back-and-forth between jurors and parents will be so revealing it brings tears to everyone's eyes," says Ms. Allen. "No matter what the verdict, everyone goes home in a different mental space that has the quality of catharsis, something you almost never get in a real courtroom."
During the 2-1/2 years that probation officer Meado Broddie has served as teen court coordinator for the section of L.A. that includes Dorsey High, 90 percent of defendants have not reoffended. They have some incentives to succeed: They had to promise to abide by the teen peer court decision and, if they follow the judge's and the jury's orders, the case against them will be dismissed.
"The perhaps counterintuitive observation I notice from watching this is that the sentences are probably stricter and harsher than those given out at juvenile court," Ms. Broddie says.
Egypt Brown, a student on the jury in the Garry V. case, says teen court verdicts usually become deterrents to future illegal behavior.
"In this particular case, I worry that the defendant was too entrenched in his ways, that this court got to him too late to do any good," she says. "It looked like he had already made up his mind to do things he did."
Los Angeles Superior Court regularly gets requests from local schools to start new teen courts, but funding restrictions prevent it, says Camilo Cruz, community relations administrator for the court.
"Judge Wesley has done an amazing job at keeping our teen court a [volunteer-based] program," Mr. Cruz says. There is no budget, other than in-kind services donated by judges, probation officers, and administrative staff. "What we do need is much more support and/or resources for probation, which is a department spread extremely thin."


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The IDV Court Model is a synthesis of core principles
that have emerged based upon research, experience, best practices
and an analysis of the court system's current methods of addressing
domestic violence. The IDV Court model provides an opportunity
to address the myriad of inter-related family problems that
may bring a family into the court system in a comprehensive
manner while providing integrated service delivery and improving
both court efficiency and informed judicial decision-making.
The key components of the New York State IDV Court Model are
defined below.
Each IDV Court should empower a single judge with the authority
to handle family, criminal and matrimonial matters. These
inter-related cases constitute the crux of the IDV Court's
jurisdiction. Criminal allegations of domestic violence
should form the threshold requirement for entry into the
IDV Court, with related cases in at least two of the three
areas of the law.
Planning and Technical Assistance
The planning process should include creating a local working
group of stakeholders and should culminate in the creation
of a "planning document" that will serve as a
guide to the new integrated court. IDV Courts should take
advantage of ongoing technical assistance during planning
and implementation to ensure consistency across the state.
Case Identification
IDV Courts need to create an administrative process through
which eligible cases will be identified. This process should
include searching New York State's Domestic Violence Registry
and each court's database at the earliest possible stage
(i.e. pre-arraignment, intake, etc.).
Court Calendaring
The IDV Court must develop protocols for identification
of eligible cases and ensure that these cases are moved
at the earliest stage from the originating part to the
IDV Court. Individual cases are not consolidated but retain
their distinct identities.
IDV Courts should work closely with representatives from
the legal stakeholder agencies (i.e. prosecutors, defense
attorneys, family court attorneys, law guardians, etc.)
in order to ensure representation for all litigants. IDV
Courts should be mindful of the availability of these legal
resources and should work creatively to assist stakeholders
in actively participating in the Court.
Monitoring, Offender Accountability
Judicial monitoring of offenders in both criminal and family
cases is a cornerstone of the IDV Court model. Offenders'
compliance with court mandated programs should be immediately
communicated to the judge in order to facilitate regular
and intensive judicial oversight.
and Non-judicial Training
Training and education for judges and non-judicial personnel
in the IDV Courts is an integral part of the Court's ability
to handle related family matters in a consistent and comprehensive
manner. Intensive domestic violence training will be provided
to the judges and court staff in order to keep all personnel
abreast of the latest research and best practices in the
Technology applications in an IDV Court can serve to ensure
that relevant information flows continuously, quickly and
reliably to and from the judge. Technology is also crucial
for tracking the results of the Court. In the past, the
Lotus Approach application enabled jurisdictions to log
in and track their own cases to capture basic data on individual
family units as well as information on each type of case
in the IDV Court. Currently, the Lotus Approach has been
replaced by the new IDV Application, which provides a unified
and comprehensive database that also captures important
information regarding services and compliance.
Courthouse Safety
IDV Courts must provide a safe and secure environment in
which to adjudicate family related civil and criminal court
proceedings. Planners should reexamine existing security
plans and protocols to ensure that there are sufficient
security personnel who can identify and respond to potentially
volatile situations, safe waiting rooms for victims of
domestic violence and their children with access to services
and separate spaces for offenders.
IDV Courts must pay particular attention to the fact that
there are different information sharing rules and policies
for different types of cases. Care in ensuring appropriate
levels of confidentiality of court records and proceedings
must be maintained.
Domestic Violence Services
Victim safety is one of the primary goals of the IDV Court.
Each IDV Court should facilitate a victim's immediate access
to victim advocates who can provide safety planning, counseling,
and access to a multitude of social services.
Stakeholder and Community Resources
Each IDV Court should form relationships with a variety
of stakeholder agencies, organizations, and social service
providers. Interagency collaboration provides many benefits
including: increased communication and coordination of
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"Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul." – Democritus
Four years ago, we decided to begin living with fewer possessions.
The decision was based entirely on outward emotions. I was tired of the never-ending cleaning and organizing that my possessions required. I was tired of living paycheck-to-paycheck. And I was getting frustrated that I couldn't find enough time and energy to be with my family and the people that mattered most. Somehow, I had been unable to notice that my desire to own possessions was the cause of this discontent in my life. Luckily, my neighbor pointed it out with a simple statement, "Maybe you don't need to own all this stuff."
My life forever changed. Owning less has allowed me to spend less time and money chasing (and caring for) possessions. It has provided me far more opportunity to redirect my time, energy, and money towards the things that I most value. Ultimately, it brought great resolution to the emotions listed above.
But it has also provided me with even greater opportunity to change than I had ever imagined. The outward change of behavior has brought along with it the opportunity for inward change as well. It has allowed my very heart to change and adopt values I have always admired in others.
For example, consider how the intentional decision to live with fewer possessions allows our hearts to embrace the following desirable qualities…
1) Contentment: being mentally or emotionally satisfied with things as they are. So much of the discontent in our lives revolves around physical possessions and comparing our things to others. An intentional decision to live with less allows that discontent to slowly fade away.
2) Generosity: willingness and liberality in giving away one's money, time, etc. When the selfish, hoarder-based mentality is removed from our thinking, we are free to use our resources for other purposes. We are allowed (and have more opportunity) to redirect our energy, time, and money elsewhere.
3) Gratitude: a feeling of thankfulness or appreciation. One of the most important steps that we can take towards experiencing gratitude is to think less about the things we don't possess and more time focusing on the things we already do. Intentionally living with less (minimalism) provides that opportunity.
4) Self-Control: the ability to exercise restraint or control over one's feelings, emotions, reactions, etc. Many people go through life having no clear sense of their true values. Instead, their desires are molded by the culture and the advertisements that bombard upon them each day. As a result, they find no consistency in life. No self-control. The decision to live your own life apart from an ever-shifting culture provides opportunity for self-control to emerge.
5) Honesty: honorable in principles, intentions, and actions; upright and fair. Many – not all, but many – of the lies and mistruths that are told in our society are based in a desire to get ahead and possess more. Finding contentment with your lot in life eliminates the need to be dishonest for financial gain.
6) Appreciation: the act of estimating the qualities of things and giving them their proper value. As the desires of our life stop focusing on others and what they have that we don't, we are more able to appreciate their accomplishment, their success, and the beauty that they bring to the world. We are able to fully appreciate others without being jealous of them (or worse, hoping for their downfall).
Now, please don't misread me. I am not contending that minimalists are necessarily more content, generous, grateful, or honest than others. I know many incredibly generous people who would not describe themselves as minimalist. I'm sure there are some self-defined minimalists who would chart obnoxiously high on the selfishness meter. And I would never self-confess to have arrived fully in any of the categories listed above.
But I do believe with all my heart that the intentional rejection of possessions does allow greater opportunity for these positive heart habits to emerge. What you do with that opportunity is up to you.
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David Cameron unveils marriage tax breaks plan
Plans for some married couples to get tax breaks worth up to £200 a year have been announced by David Cameron.
The prime minister said four million couples would benefit from a £1,000 transferable tax allowance from 2015.
The move, announced ahead of the Tory conference, comes after a deal with the Liberal Democrats to introduce free school meals for children under eight.
Labour said Mr Cameron was "out of touch" if he thought the people would get married "for £3.85 a week".
The tax break would apply if couples are both basic rate tax payers with one spouse earning less than the personal allowance - the amount of income you can receive each year without having to pay tax on it. This will be just over £10,000 in 2015.
The measure would also include 15,000 couples in civil partnerships.
The basic tax rate of 20% is currently in place for up to £32,010 of taxable income. That means that - including a personal allowance - at current rates people would have to earn less than £41,451 a year to be eligible.
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Benefits from the scheme would come through initially at the end of the tax year in 2016.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Mr Cameron said: "I believe in marriage. Alongside the birth of my children, my wedding was the happiest day of my life.
"Since then, Samantha and I have been a team. Nothing I've done since - becoming a Member of Parliament, leader of my party or prime minister - would have been possible without her.
"There is something special about marriage: it's a declaration of commitment, responsibility and stability that helps to bind families.
"The values of marriage are give and take, support and sacrifice - values that we need more of in this country."
He later tweeted: "The £1000 marriage tax allowance will apply to straight and gay couples, as well as civil partners. Love is love, commitment is commitment."
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The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby praised the initiative, saying in a statement: "We welcome all support for married life and we're pleased that this initiative includes both married couples and those in civil partnerships."
Mr Cameron said stay-at-home mothers and women who worked part-time would be the main winners.
Explaining how the scheme would work, he wrote: "From April 2015, if neither of you are higher rate taxpayers, you will be able to transfer £1,000 of your tax-free allowance to your spouse.
"In effect, if you pay the basic rate of tax and your partner doesn't use all of their personal allowance, you'll be able to have some of it.
"Most couples who benefit will be £200 a year better off as a result."
He promised tax breaks for married couples when he ran for the leadership of his party in 2005, and it was also part of the Conservative election manifesto in 2010.
The Liberal Democrats are opposed to the measure but under the coalition agreement they would not be able to vote against it in any parliamentary vote but could abstain.
The party's Treasury spokesman Stephen Williams branded the move "a tax cut for some, paid for by everyone else".
He said: "You don't build a fairer society by using the tax system to favour one type of family over another.
"We should support all families, not just the minority of married ones where one person stays at home."
It has been suggested the Lib Dems were able to announce plans for every child in England between reception and year two to get free school lunches in exchange for the Conservative's proposed tax break.
The free school meals policy will begin in September next year and will be worth about £437 per child.
Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said that each political party had launched policies which were roughly equal in their cost.
"So the Liberal Democrats had something on free school meals, Labour had something on childcare, the Conservatives have got something on tax allowances," he said.
"Each one is a small lollipop in the context of £25bn of cuts being expected over the following two years - none of them have said much about how they're going to do that."
'All families'
Labour said the Conservatives were "out of touch" and the move was outweighed by higher VAT and cuts to child benefit and tax credits.
Ed Miliband's party said around two-thirds of married couples would not save money under the plans, including higher rate taxpayers and couples in which both partners earn more than the personal allowance.
Shadow chief secretary to the Treasury Rachel Reeves said: "The vast majority of children will see their parents get not a single extra penny from this so if you are a mum and dad and you're both earning £20,000-£25,000 a year, so on average earnings, you won't get any extra support.
"So it's not a proper tax allowance for married couples. And even for those who do benefit it's just £3.85 a week."
But Conservative Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the policy recognised the value of the institution of marriage.
"It is an institution that is the building block of our society and we want to recognise that and this is a measure that's going to help four million hard working couples where life is pretty tough."
Dr Samantha Callan, the director of families at the think tank Centre for Social Justice that seeks to address poverty and its causes, also welcomed the announcement.
"We've been calling for this since 2007," she said.
"We did a report into the state of the nation and why family breakdown is such a problem in the UK today. Half of all children born today will not still be with both their parents by the time they're 15 and marriage is a more durable relationship."
She added: "Ninety-three percent of all couples still together by the time the child is 15 are married."
'Promoting a fantasy'
Tim Yeo, the Conservative MP for South Suffolk, told BBC Radio Suffolk that while he welcomed any institutions that support stability in society, in 2013 marriage "is not the only model for a family".
"I don't see why, for example, someone who has been widowed, whether it's a man or a woman, at a young age, and is trying to bring up children perhaps on a relatively low income, I regret the fact that the current proposal may exclude those people," he said.
Campaign group Don't Judge My Family criticised the move as "promoting a fantasy 1950s family" and it would not benefit many of the families who needed most support..
The Conservative Party conference takes place in Manchester from Sunday. Mr Cameron will close the conference with his keynote speech on Wednesday.


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For many, the quintessential image of a salesperson is still that of a slick, pushy man in a suit. But these days nearly everyone, including teachers, is involved in selling—or "persuading, influencing, and convincing others," says author Daniel Pink. And in an Internet-fueled world where knowledge is readily available, sellers need new tactics.
In this webinar, Pink will offer strategic advice for educators from his new book To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others. He'll explain what he calls the new ABC's of selling—attunement, buoyancy, and clarity—and how educators can use these tactics to "move" students. Drawing on a wealth of social science findings, Pink will also discuss the qualities of an effective salesperson, ways to make a message clearer, and the importance of understanding others' perspectives.
Daniel H. Pink is the author of five books about cognitive science and the changing worlds of work and learning- including the long-running New York Times bestseller, A Whole New Mind, and the #1 New York Times bestseller, Drive. His latest book, To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others, offers a fresh look at the art and science of sales. Pink has provided analysis of business trends on CNN, CNBC, ABC, NPR, and other networks in the U.S. and abroad. He also lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace.
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