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The Atlantic The Chauvin Trial’s Jury Wasn’t Like Other Juries Its guilty verdict resulted not just from the strength of the evidence, but from a jury-selection process that departed from American norms. 8:50 AM ET Image Source / Getty / The Atlantic The jury convicted the former Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin on the weight of the evidence before it: video footage, expert testimony, and eyewitness accounts. But even with all that evidence, convictions don’t happen on their own. Twelve people, selected by lot from the public, must come to a unanimous decision. That jury—who it ...

GEF Project ID: 9182 Executing Agency: WWF Markets Countries: Brazil, Sierra Leone, Indonesia, Paraguay Focal Area: BD, LD, SFM GEF Operational Program: GEF 6 Total GEF Approved Budget: $ 8,098,060 Total Co-financing Approved: $ 42,334,902 RELEVANT DATES Agency Approval Date: 3/27/2017 Implementation Start: 4/1/2017 Midterm Evaluation: 11/2019 Period to Be Evaluated: 4/1/2017 – 09/2021 INTRODUCTION AND PROJECT OVERVIEW World Wildlife Fund, Inc. (WWF) policies and procedures require all GEF financed projects to complete a terminal evaluation (TE) at the end of project implementation. The fol...

French IDC MarketScape: European Professional Services for Smart Cities 2020 Vendor Assessment’ 1. The IDC MarketScape evaluated nine of the service providers delivering smart cities services that can, notably, deliver value to citizens, develop social inclusion, enforce sustainability and decarbonization policies. The IDC MarketScape recommends “that cities and communities consider Atos when they need a reliable managed service provider to transform the workplace or migrate city ICT infrastructure into the next normal of multi-cloud environments;  and when they need a platform to share...

Published February 2, 2021, 9:11 AM The term Web Docs is often associated with the MDN (Mozilla Developer Network) Web Docs — a documentation repository for web developers used by Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, and Samsung. MDN Web Docs is the single best definition of online collaboration, with individual community members constantly making big and small fixes to help incrementally improve its content. To ensure the long-term health of web platform documentation on the de facto standard resources like the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN) Web Docs, Open Web Docs was launched to the public. Acco...

By Josh FeldmanDec 18th, 2020, 6:13 pm Fox Business host Lou Dobbs has recently taken to raising questions about voting machine companies, which have been cast as complicit in the supposed grand conspiracy to steal the 2020 election from President Donald Trump. One of those companies, Florida-based Smartmatic, responded to his comments and those of others with demands for retractions from Fox News, Newsmax, and OAN. In a lengthly demand letter threatening legal action, the company cited comments from Dobbs and others that falsely implied a nefarious link between Smartmatic and Dominion. Th...