How To Stay Engaged After #Marchforscience

The #marchforscience happened this past weekend. In a truly heartwarming display of both political commitment and self-aware nerdiness, scientists and science-enthusiasts from around the globe took to the streets last Saturday sporting a series of exceedingly rational demands and some outstandingly witty signs. While of course some people found themselves poking holes through the actual level of commitment of many of the protesters, it is hard to argue that engaging the public to fight for evidence-based policy making can be at all a bad thing. However, a common risk of engaging people on such an emotional level is that the initial enthusiasm can easily fizzle out – after the march is over and the signs have been stored away, it is all too easy to go back to our old lives. However, there are many ways to stay engaged with science and policy-making year round.

Take part in a science outreach project

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A lot of what scientists perceive to be resistance to scientific ideas is often simply rooted in ignorance. Almost half of all adults in the US believes that life was created in seven days by divine intervention. Over half of the country still doesn’t believe in man-made climate change (an one wonders, how far under water do we have to be before that half of the populations stops blaming the media, or the self-serving academic interests of climatologists). We are still not doing a great job at teaching kids about science and math – which means adults will have trouble getting on board with science-driven policy they don’t understand. The great thing about this aspect of the problem, however, is that it is easy to fix. Engaging younger people to become excited about science is a sure-fire way to produce adults that will not only understand the scientific method, but trust it to make decisions on a day-to-day basis. If you are a scientist, or are simply passionate about science, there are thousands of programs you can join to make a difference.

Get involved in politics

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Much to the dismay of those who believe in democracy, our current political system means that the principal concern of those in office is to get re-elected by their constituency. This means that they will say or do anything that they know will carry favor with their electorate. This is true for elected judges, people on school boards, majors, congressmen, senators and presidents alike. Therefore, put your vote where your principles lie. This doesn’t necessarily have to wait until the next big election – local politics are often as important as the national stage if not more. You can probably make a difference in a lot of forgotten races you don’t care about – even tho you should! Who sits on your local school board? What are their policies on teaching science, evolution and sex education? Who is prosecuting criminals where you live? Do they show a bias in the cases they choose to go after? Are they looking out for the environment? These are all things you can take into account – and vote accordingly.

Make your voice heard

The world of policy-making is full of moments open to public opinion. The Administrative Procedure Act requires for every executive

decision taken by government agencies such as the EPA to have a public comment period, during which citizens like you can make their voices heard. Moreover, every elected representative has an office dedicated to listening to their constituent’s concerns (I refer to my previous point about voting with your head as well as with your heart). These are all excellent opportunities to email, call and write to make your voice heard. A common misconception is that making your voice heard won’t make a difference because the big political players will have their way either way. While of course the opinion of a single citizen is not going to change the world (and let’s face it, that’s probably a good thing), studies have shown that public opinion has the power to change public policy. Writing, calling and emailing does make a difference. The latest presidential election has shown how news shared on social media has the power to shape the way other people think, too. Sharing thoughtful, science-based opinion pieces can be a wonderful way to counteract the wave of fake news that is plaguing this particular segment of media history.

Talk to people

Dialog is the fundamental tenant of a democracy. people only change their mind when somebody engages with them. As a scientist, or a

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science-enthusiast, the best thing you can do is to engage in dialog with people who disagree with you. Assuming you can’t and never will change their mind is not the most productive attitude to look at things. While of course one conversation is unlikely to completely change somebody’s worldview, a lifetime of disagreeing with people they respect might. The key here is people they respect. Respect is almost always earned rather than granted. This means that engaging with somebody who holds polar opposite views to ours has to come with strict self-control. Aggressive language, excessive displays of emotion, passive-aggression and patronizing attitudes not only do not solve the problem, but make it worse. In a world that is increasingly “us” versus “them” talking to other side should be more about what we have in common than about what divides us. Somebody’s perception of the “pro-science” godless liberal elites might be challenged by an honest conversation with a pleasant person who shares in much of their daily problems, but who has a different approach to the solution. In fact, from suffragism to the civil rights movement all social change has been achieved though normalization and conversation, rather than confrontation. The popular show “Modern Family” has done more for gay rights in America than years of lobbying.

Put your money where your mouth is

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At the end of the day, the great thing about capitalism is that it puts the consumer in control. As somebody who presumably spends money to buy things, you have more power than you realize. If you disapprove of a company’s behavior, simply buy products from their competitors. Of course, sometimes you have no choice (or no reasonable choice) – in which case a small but better-than-nothing alternative is to make sure the company knows how you feel. Social media is a great platform to air your grievances – of course, your single tweet is not going to change the course of a billion-dollar company, but a rising momentum of dissatisfied customers is bound to be listened to eventually.

Of course, these are just some of the many things you can do. What are your ideas? Let me know in the comments below!


Refugee children: What is keeping them out of schools?

The Easter break is over and most pupils across Europe are now back to school. Sadly, school is just a distant memory for some of the 1 million children who have applied for asylum in Europe since 2015. No classroom, no homework and no playground for up to 4 years! Those children need to be sent back to school now!

European Institutions should ensure that Members States comply with the EU law.

Between 2015 and 2017, more than 3 million persons applied for asylum in the EU. A third were minors under 18 years. For them, education is a human right secured by several international conventions and European legislations. The EU’s Qualification Directive guarantees a full access to education for all minor beneficiaries of international protection, under the same conditions as nationals (mainstream curriculum), while its Reception Conditions Directive provides asylum seeker children with an access under similar conditions as national pupils (including parallel curriculum) within three months of lodging their application. Host countries have to comply with these legislations ASAP.

The vast majority of refugee children have already lost around 2,5 years of education when they arrive to Europe. You would think that they will be better off once they reach our borders. Wrong! Transfers from one refugee camp to another, lengthy asylum processes, absurd conditions and bureaucratic delays can add up to 4 years. They are kept out of schools for far too long without any justified reason and in total violation EU legislations. A new research report published by the Sirius network highlights the following common barriers:

Delays in the asylum (or relocation) process are common in Greece where children are stranded in one of the islands for several months and in Hungary where families spend months in transit zones, with no access to any kind of systematic education. When they finally move to respectively the mainland or a reception centre, they are likely to catch up with regular classes with very little support or attend a segregated school. In 2016, Greece launched a programme that provides special Greek classes to non-native pupils which has been progressively extended to asylum-seeking children under 15 since October 2017.

Age of compulsory education is another decisive factor, as children over 15 or 16 are not systematically enrolled. In some German Länder for example, young refugees might be denied the right to general education once they reach the age of 16 whereas there are no barriers for pupils at primary school or first secondary classes age.

Prospect of recognition also plays a role in the educational integration of minor age asylum seekers in Germany. Children from “safe countries” or with low perspectives for a long-term residence are accommodated in centres where schooling is at a minimum level. This implies a violation of Art. 28 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Lack of housing in urban areas in France (and transfers from centre to centre in Germany) as well as inappropriate transportation prevents refugee kids from attending classes regularly and puts them at a greater risk of dropping out of education. In Italy and in the Netherlands, issues might arise with the continuity of education throughout the asylum procedure, given that families change accommodations (thus schools) rather frequently. In Germany, due to the high numbers of arrivals in 2015/16, families stay in emergency accommodation for prolonged periods of time, which results in 7 to 8 months of non-school attendance.

Family situation can lead to double punishment for unaccompanied minors. Fleeing their home country, wandering months without knowing where to sleep at night and finally seeking asylum in another country is extremely difficult for children. Some are protected by their parents along the way, but others travel alone, making them vulnerable to all kinds of exploitation and abuse. For these unaccompanied minors, the process of resuming education takes even longer than for children with families: they firstly need to be appointed a tutor, even in countries such as Italy where children are more likely to continue their education without further major delays. This injustice has to stop. Sending unaccompanied minors back to school ASAP will protect from those risks.

Limited capacity prevents schools from offering extra support to learn the national language and catch up with the curriculum. Ad hoc initiatives are taken by civil society organisations to keep them busy and MOOCs are being implemented to bridge education gaps but like in a lottery, the destiny of these children largely depends on the places they are relocated to, available resources or the generosity of individual teachers.

All these barriers often demotivate refugee children and result in high rates of school drop-outs. The issue of refugee children integration in national education systems has repeatedly been raised since the beginning of the “crisis” in 2015. A study conducted in 2016 by the Migration Policy Group identifies their special needs and formulated recommendations. In 2017, a Sirius policy brief explained what it takes for refugee children to be successful in schools. But for them to perform well, refugee children first have to be included in schools, without the current unjustified delays and within three months following their first entry in the EU; as provided for by the EU legislation.

This process of integration currently depends on countries’ interpretation of “ensuring full access to education”. The EU legislation indeed allows Member States to organise classes separately from the mainstream curriculum and requires them to provide preparatory and language classes to facilitate asylum seeker children’s access to education but does not further clarify the organisational terms and quality of these classes. Consequently, support language courses for example can keep pupils out of school for prolonged periods. And so does many otherwise positive measures such as health checks and vaccination campaigns.

Therefore, in addition to ensuring compliance of current EU legislation, European Institutions should make the education of underaged refugees a priority of the new Common European Asylum System, with clear rules for all Member States.


Washington, Oregon and Idaho are struggling with an oversupply and wastage of wind power. The problem emerged from the utilities’ two opposing mandates: 1) to provide the cheapest possible electricity to rate payers; and 2) to meet state requirements for a percentage of power generated by renewable sources. With this in mind, energy markets experts convened in Vancouver this week to discuss the future of cross border markets for electricity. The International Trade Council of Canada and Clean Energy BC sponsored the morning conference and about 100 people attended.

Eliot Mainzer of the Bonneville Power Administration explained that the mandate for renewable power, known as Renewable Energy Portfolios or REPs, resulted in a six fold increased of wind generation over the last five years to a current capacity of 6,000 megawatts.

The oversupply happens when the wind is blowing, but demand is too low to use it all. Conversely, wind turbines cannot be brought online quickly to meet rapid upsurges in demand. The result is that Northwest wind turbines are turned off at night even when they could be creating power.

If they don’t sell power they lose their tax credits. Natural gas plants are kept spinning at night to ensure adequate power on short notice. The result is a mess of competing obligations that is headed toward litigation.

A price on carbon would solve much of the problem by closing the cost gap between wind and natural gas, allowing utilities to meet both their “cheapest power” mandate and their REP mandate simultaneously. The US Environmental Protection Agency or individual states may provide that, while the Obama administration slumbers.

Meanwhile, another answer being explored is a geographically diverse market with a variety of power sources so that the surplus electricity can go to the areas that need it. The Northwestern states would naturally look to big, thirsty California as a trading partner. California pays a lot for renewable electricity, but California also uses its REP obligation as a jobs programme and so requires generation of most of its renewable power within the state.

That’s where BC comes in as a geographically sensible trading partner, a part of the “Cascadia” bio region. Among the obstacles to be overcome in bringing energy trading to fruition, three stand out: 1) the transmission lines are inadequate; 2) the BC regulations don’t encourage trade; and 3) its not clear what BC stands to gain.

1: NEW TRANSMISSION LINES

The transmission lines between the western provinces and the northwestern states have a nominal path rating that is twice that of most transmission lines, indicating that it is physically twice as difficult to move electricity through them.

New transmissions lines are planned, one between Lethbridge Alberta and Great Falls Montana, and an underground cable between Washington and BC. James Waldo, partner at a Tacoma Washington law firm, advises Sea Breeze Power Corporation on that planned cable, known as the Juan de Fuca Cable Project.

“First, imagine what a system should look like,” he suggested, “then fill it in.” He showed the European plan for a “super grid” that would connect North Africa, Norway and all points in between for the purpose of energy trading. The Juan de Fuca cable would connect the Olympic Peninsula to Vancouver Island creating a Cascadia loop that runs up either side of Puget Sound, up the Olympic Peninsula and underwater to Vancouver Island, across to the BC mainland and back down the I-5 corridor. The permits are in place and it would be physically possible to build in 3 years.

“If there were no border, this would have been done years ago,” Waldo stated. “It makes the entire area more energy resilient.”

2: NEW REGULATIONS


The deadline for mandatory linking of Aadhaar to avail benefits of various government schemes would be extended till March 31 next year, the Centre told the Supreme Court. It told a bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra that the deadline for Aadhaar linking to avail benefits of the schemes was to end in December and it has now been decided to extend it till March 31, 2018. Also Read - Realme Narzo 20 series full specifications leaked ahead of September 21 launch

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“We have decided to extend it till March 31, 2018,” Attorney General K K Venugopal told the bench, which also comprised Justices A M Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud.

The counsel appearing for petitioners, who have challenged the government’s move to make Aadhaar mandatory for these schemes, raised the issue of the mandatory linking of Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) number with bank accounts and mobile numbers.

Senior advocate Shyam Divan, appearing for petitioners, said the main Aadhaar matter should be heard soon, as though the government has decided to extend the deadline till March 31 next year, it has not said that no action would be taken against those who do not want to link their Aadhaar with either bank accounts or mobile numbers. ALSO READ: Government simplifies Aadhaar-based verification of existing SIMs

“Final hearing of the matter is necessary. They can make a statement that they will not take a course of action against those who don’t want to link Aadhaar,” Divan said.

When the Attorney General said that he wanted to take instructions on certain issues, the bench asked the Centre to mention the matter before it on Monday.


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e of -11931*g*q**2 + 14942*g*q + 130*g - 430824 wrt q.
-23862*g*q + 14942*g
What is the third derivative of 2*b*d**3*j**2 - 154*b*d**3*j - 10*b*d**2*j**2 - 4*b*d**2 + 2*b*j**2 + 2*b*j - 3054*d**3*j + d*j**2 + 951*d*j wrt d?
12*b*j**2 - 924*b*j - 18324*j
Find the second derivative of -11540321*d**2 + 42*d - 860801 wrt d.
-23080642
Differentiate -1107254*h**2 + 150*h - 440175071.
-2214508*h + 150
Find the second derivative of 139737918*f**5 - 2*f - 51361649 wrt f.
2794758360*f**3
Find the first derivative of 5548306*v**2 + v - 18111962.
11096612*v + 1
Differentiate 710937*r**2 - 12215259 with respect to r.
1421874*r
Find the first derivative of -447*f**2*h - 1113*f*h + 40*f - 141202*h + 873 wrt f.
-894*f*h - 1113*h + 40
Find the second derivative of -36519*d**3 - 4*d**2*o - 65*d*o + 4*d + 314*o + 3 wrt d.
-219114*d - 8*o
Find the third derivative of 9*a**2*c*f**3 - 2*a**2*c*f**2*t + 5*a**2*c*f**2 + a**2*c*t + 971537*a**2*f**3*t - 20*a**2*f*t - a**2*f - 48*a*c*f*t - a*f*t wrt f.
54*a**2*c + 5829222*a**2*t
Differentiate -67810257*f*l - 4934*l - 589 with respect to f.
-67810257*l
Find the second derivative of 24*f**5 + 28*f**4 - 1223*f**2 + 25261575*f.
480*f**3 + 336*f**2 - 2446
Find the first derivative of -13934415*h*k*o + 8*h*k + 2000*h - k - 31 wrt o.
-13934415*h*k
What is the second derivative of -1006*x**4 + x**3 + 1705*x**2 + 113072844*x wrt x?
-12072*x**2 + 6*x + 3410
What is the second derivative of 74028362*p**3 + 150*p - 15417 wrt p?
444170172*p
What is the first derivative of -13181*z**2 - 2892*z + 109820663 wrt z?
-26362*z - 2892
Find the third derivative of -3938725*g**4*x**3 - 96356*g**2*x**3 - 7*g**2*x**2 + 3*g**2 wrt g.
-94529400*g*x**3
What is the first derivative of 4859625*w**2 - 684725?
9719250*w
What is the second derivative of b**2*k**3 - 2344*b**2*k**2 + b**2*k*l + 3*b**2*k - 220*b**2*l + 16*b**2 + 33*b*l + 842*k**2*l - 2*l wrt k?
6*b**2*k - 4688*b**2 + 1684*l
Find the second derivative of -1090301*f**2*y**2 + 1725*f**2*y - 231*f**2 + 3*f + y wrt y.
-2180602*f**2
What is the second derivative of 35331294*c**5 - 39*c + 497724?
706625880*c**3
What is the first derivative of 6*m**3 + 5099091*m**2 - 61207404?
18*m**2 + 10198182*m
What is the third derivative of 12364474*j**6 + 27*j**4 + 24166*j**2 + 196*j + 25 wrt j?
1483736880*j**3 + 648*j
Differentiate -94616720*d + 33948929 with respect to d.
-94616720
What is the second derivative of l**3*v - 5283722*l**3 + 2*l**2*r*v + 5*l*r*v - 9*l + r*v - 36*v + 472 wrt l?
6*l*v - 31702332*l + 4*r*v
Differentiate -1600*g**3*h - 19360256*g**3 - g*h + 10*h**2 - 57*h + 2 wrt h.
-1600*g**3 - g + 20*h - 57
Find the third derivative of 230243179*j**4 + 78*j**2 + 405302.
5525836296*j
Find the second derivative of 113255*x**3 + 30*x**2 - x - 1371239 wrt x.
679530*x + 60
What is the third derivative of -50*h**3*v**3 - 62*h**3*v**2 + 12818*h**3 + 2318*h**2*v**3 - 13*h**2*v + 990*v**2 + 3*v wrt h?
-300*v**3 - 372*v**2 + 76908
What is the third derivative of -37112897*y**4 + 207090657*y**2 wrt y?
-890709528*y
What is the third derivative of 940*d**3*n**3 + 43586585*d**3*n - 70035*d*n**3 - 5*d*n**2 wrt n?
5640*d**3 - 420210*d
Differentiate 1245997*s**2 - 2443244 with respect to s.
2491994*s
What is the second derivative of 387738671*h**5 + 524285266*h wrt h?
7754773420*h**3
Find the third derivative of 10817*n**6 - 5*n**4 - 19*n**3 + 10165952*n**2.
1298040*n**3 - 120*n - 114
Find the first derivative of -8610927*a*s*w + 351*a + 2*s**2*w + s**2 + 7352*w wrt s.
-8610927*a*w + 4*s*w + 2*s
Differentiate -188*i**3 + 98700*i*o + 164419187*o with respect to i.
-564*i**2 + 98700*o
Find the second derivative of -f**4 - 671*f**3 + 23625*f**2 - 133429710*f wrt f.
-12*f**2 - 4026*f + 47250
Find the first derivative of -a*y - 85200923*a - 792*y - 181034 wrt a.
-y - 85200923
Find the first derivative of -2141270*h**4 + h**2 + 18208236.
-8565080*h**3 + 2*h
Find the first derivative of -44*q*w**3 - 162*q - 76716*w**3 + 12125 wrt w.
-132*q*w**2 - 230148*w**2
What is the first derivative of 178685313*z**3 - z - 885575535 wrt z?
536055939*z**2 - 1
What is the first derivative of 506*u**3 + 7*u**2 + 7*u + 12196623?
1518*u**2 + 14*u + 7
What is the first derivative of 455121114*k**2 + 539174588 wrt k?
910242228*k
What is the first derivative of 25145*h**4 + 6202*h - 202888752?
100580*h**3 + 6202
What is the third derivative of -7*z**4 + 3278792*z**3 - 39590093*z**2?
-168*z + 19672752
What is the third derivative of 1127081*n**3 + 23544251*n**2 wrt n?
6762486
What is the third derivative of 230527233*t**3 + 63*t**2 + 3*t + 556114 wrt t?
1383163398
What is the second derivative of -112669112*h**2 + h + 2598601?
-225338224
Find the third derivative of 253*p**5 + p**4 - 2904*p**3 - 189082279*p**2 wrt p.
15180*p**2 + 24*p - 17424
What is the third derivative of -f**4*m - f**4 - 24987212*f**3*m - 1547*f**2*m - 22555*f*m wrt f?
-24*f*m - 24*f - 149923272*m
What is the first derivative of 232038*b*j*u - 35302855*b*j - 4*b*u - 12*j*u**2 wrt u?
232038*b*j - 4*b - 24*j*u
Find the first derivative of -2*s**3 - 665013*s**2 - 5656021 wrt s.
-6*s**2 - 1330026*s
Find the third derivative of -1030214*v**3 - v**2 - 3*v + 595693.
-6181284
What is the derivative of -2*f**2*j - 173*f**2 + f*j + 35*f + 67*j + 60151 wrt f?
-4*f*j - 346*f + j + 35
What is the second derivative of -185389701*l**4 - 72598258*l + 1?
-2224676412*l**2
What is the second derivative of 5*f**4 - 263*f**3 + 8*f**2 - 103156103*f wrt f?
60*f**2 - 1578*f + 16
Find the second derivative of 3634*m**5 - 2190*m**2 + 2*m - 79092925 wrt m.
72680*m**3 - 4380
What is the derivative of 4251342*c**3 + c**2*y - 51191782*y wrt c?
12754026*c**2 + 2*c*y
What is the third derivative of 5*a**3*m*w - 107934*a**3*w**3 + 10012*a**3*w**2 + 100*a**2*m*w**3 + 2*m*w wrt w?
-647604*a**3 + 600*a**2*m
Find the second derivative of 782*l**3*q**4 + 9466*l**3*q - 1291*q**5 + 415 wrt q.
9384*l**3*q**2 - 25820*q**3
Find the second derivative of 2*o**4 - 128*o**3 + 2708*o**2 + 6310874*o wrt o.
24*o**2 - 768*o + 5416
Find the first derivative of -81570*g*n*u + 7*g*n + 2*g*u - 2*n*u - 159664*u - 1 wrt g.
-81570*n*u + 7*n + 2*u
What is the second derivative of -221760*d**2*x**2 + 360208*d**2*x + 2*d**2 - 14*d*x + 15*x**2 wrt x?
-443520*d**2 + 30
What is the second derivative of 4606676*x**4 - 5158816*x wrt x?
55280112*x**2
What is the first derivative of 15149138*d**2 + d - 122714240?
30298276*d + 1
What is the second derivative of -571839885*p**4 - 192043461*p?
-6862078620*p**2
Find the third derivative of -8*y**5 - 2836813*y**3 + 122391772*y**2.
-480*y**2 - 17020878
Find the first derivative of -2894168*s**2 + 7932980.
-5788336*s
What is the third derivative of 9*l**3*q**3 + 113530*l**3 + 9*l**2*q**3 - 356016*l**2 wrt l?
54*q**3 + 681180
What is the second derivative of 7571*v**4 + 2855*v**3 + 1777892*v - 22?
90852*v**2 + 17130*v
What is the second derivative of -14272701*u**3 - 1033550*u wrt u?
-85636206*u
What is the derivative of 19607*u**2 + 8123*u + 436316525?
39214*u + 8123
What is the second derivative of 162*c**2*p**3 - 2*c**2*p**2 + 24*c**2*p - 298*c**2 + 3*c*p**3 + p**3 - 39*p - 10620 wrt c?
324*p**3 - 4*p**2 + 48*p - 596
Differentiate -75830*u**4 + u**2 - 251*u + 47202160 with respect to u.
-303320*u**3 + 2*u - 251
Differentiate -12*m**4 - 14378231*m**2 - m - 89641748.
-48*m**3 - 28756462*m - 1
What is the first derivative of -26773697*j*k - 336114879*j + k wrt k?
-26773697*j + 1
Find the second derivative of -f**2*t**2 + 195820*f**2*t + 4*f**2 + 3695934*f*t**2 wrt f.
-2*t**2 + 391640*t + 8
Differentiate 74931939*n**2 - 36965202.
149863878*n
What is the second derivative of -7557787*r**2 + 29808376*r?
-15115574
What is the third derivative of -4554868*l**3 - 9*l**2 - 20861*l - 8?
-27329208
What is the first derivative of -399*r**3*v + 5*r**3 - 1212779*r**2 + 27168*r*v wrt v?
-399*r**3 + 27168*r
Find the second derivative of 1278997*d**3 + 85*d**2 + 10*d + 1856807 wrt d.
7673982*d + 170
Find the second derivative of 151362986*c*d**2 + c*d + 2*c + 30013393*d wrt d.
302725972*c
What is the derivative of 81154425*z + 148052958?
81154425
Find the third derivative of 141924*j**5 - 390*j**4 - 9065962*j**2 - 40 wrt j.
8515440*j**2 - 9360*j
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Rats! Albany loses AHL affiliate of Carolina Hurricanes

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – After more than a year of trying, the Carolina Hurricanes are getting their wish: their top minor-league affiliate is coming to North Carolina.

Michael Kahn, owner of Charlotte’s ECHL team, announced Wednesday that he’s purchased the Albany River Rats and will move the money-losing American Hockey League club from upstate New York for next season.

They’ll be called the Charlotte Checkers – the same name the lower-tier ECHL team has had – and play in the downtown Time Warner Cable Arena.

“When we looked at our vision of hockey in North Carolina, it wasn’t just about going to Raleigh,” said Jim Rutherford, the Hurricanes’ longtime general manager. “It was about growing the sport throughout the whole state. We really feel that this is a huge step forward for hockey in North Carolina and the South.”

While the Hurricanes anticipate the agreement will widen their fan base, the move will mean more convenience for the hockey operations, too.

Sending players up or down will involve a car ride of less than three hours instead of a connecting flight through Charlotte from Albany. Charlotte’s airport is a US Airways hub, which will often allow a late call-up to quickly catch up with the team on the road with a direct flight.

“Most or all of our staff will be able to come on a regular basis to see the progress that they’re making,” Rutherford said. “It was a pretty easy ride down here today.”

The deal ends a 17-year run for the River Rats in Albany, which became Carolina’s affiliate in 2006. Owner Walter Robb, who bought the team in 1998, said he’s hopeful Albany will be able to secure another AHL team before the start of next season.

“My intention throughout this process has been to have an AHL franchise playing in the Capital District,” Robb said. “There have been constant negotiations with local officials, arena and county personnel, along with potential investors, a process we expect to continue beyond today’s announcement.”

Rutherford said the organization approached Kahn about a year ago with an offer that if he acquired an AHL franchise, the Hurricanes would be their parent club. Kahn, who wouldn’t discuss the financial terms of the Albany sale, said he expects to sell the Charlotte ECHL team to an outside group that will move that team elsewhere.

“Charlotte has become very much a professional town and this is taking it a level up,” Kahn said. “And having the local affiliation, Carolina, I think it’s going to help it even more. If this had been somebody else, Nashville, Atlanta coming to us, I don’t think I would have done it as quickly as we did this.”

The Checkers rank sixth in the 20-team ECHL with an average attendance of 5,292 fans per game. That would rank ninth in the 30-team AHL, which is more spread out. Charlotte’s closest opponent will be in Norfolk, Va., more than 300 miles away.

The increased travel costs in the AHL and a costly lease with the NBA’s Charlotte Bobcats, which own the arena, will bring the need for better attendance and perhaps higher ticket prices as the economy struggles. But Kahn and the Hurricanes envision cross promotion and marketing deals that will bring more attention to hockey in the heart of NASCAR and basketball country.

Rutherford floated the idea of holding training camp in Charlotte. The Hurricanes could also hold exhibition games here, although not next season since the schedule is already set.

“It’s the single most important factor in this whole deal, that it was the Carolina Hurricanes,” Kahn said of his purchase. “The synergy created, the marketing dynamics that are going to be created. For example, if the Carolina Hurricanes are on the road for the weekend, people might come down to see their prospects.”


225 Pubs and Bars found in or around Farringdon

Don't know why we've been ignoring this one - it's been up and running for a while now. To be honest, the fire didn't really make any massive difference to this place as we can't really see the difference from before the...

A decent enough office pub serving a few beers on the hand pumps - Adnam's, IPA and Black Sheep, last time we were in - and the usual range of gas-propelled beers on tap plus wines and spirits. There's also Thai food available...

The Sir John Oldcastle is a typical Wetherspoon pub - a large place with cheap beer, cheap food and open all day. As is becoming the norm in Wetherspoon pubs, it's going with the times and now sports a number of TV screens...

Fears about polycarbonate pints replacing glass ones are unfounded. The Jerusalem Tavern is, as it has been for many (award-winning) years, a haven for lovers of the excellent St Peter's beer. True, owing to its particularly...

This Adnam's house has kept its standards high over the years, and is a great place to try their range of beers. If you're looking for lager though, they only do Bitburger in the smaller continental glass - they won't pour you...

Clerkenwell House has had a makeover as an even loungier bar than before and if possible, it's even more achingly trendy than it was before: multiple retro wallpaper patterns, '60s and '70s-style chandeliers and furniture that...

Some people believe that only certain things should accompany a good pint: a pickled egg, a packet of prawn cocktail crisps or some dry-roasted nuts. But really, what do they know? For at Murphis, there lies a very different...

A very pleasant Fuller's pub in the heart of Clerkenwell. It serves a good pint (Pride, Adnam's, ESB), decent honest pub food and the clientele are usually a jolly crowd. It also has the added advantage of being able to open up...

A lively pub in trendy designer land. Despite the garish signage, this pub is a pretty solid, traditional local. It serves a good range of beers and wines, offers good service and has a lively clientele. Not being the biggest...

A modern looking pub from the Smith & Jones chain, the Gate seems a little confused as to whether it's a bar or a pub. There's Adnam's on the hand pumps and a typical range of gas-propelled lagers for the less nostalgic....

With a return to its original name, the Hat & Tun is solidly back into pub territory. Run by the same people who own the nearby Well and the further away Gun (amongst others) this is rather more focused on being a pub than...

This used to be a traditional (if grotty) boozer, then it had a makeover but it's had another refurb in the recent(ish) past. It's got the more bar-like mixture of stripped floors, dance music on the box, decent beers including...

Having reclaimed its name (it was until recently the Wicked Wolf), this pub hasn't followed the current trend for stripped-out style bars and appears to be intent on continuing life as a pub. Great - we're pleased about that,...

We've known this historic pub for more than two decades and, after a brief period of closure and uncertainty, it's with some relief that we can report the Fox and Anchor is finally back, although perhaps not quite in the form...

When the Three Compasses pub changed hands a few years ago, this pub improved dramatically. There's still a Thai restaurant upstairs, but the downstairs has kept the standards up for a while now and it's good to see things...


People started making money off Kobe Bryant hours after he died in a helicopter crash. On the afternoon of January 26, the basketball legend was killed, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash. When TMZ broke the news of Bryant’s death, friends and fans mourned the NBA legend. Almost immediately, the market for Kobe Bryant merchandise, from classic sneakers to homemade tees, skyrocketed.

On January 26 at 4:09 pm EST, a size 9 Kobe 4 Protro Undefeated in the Los Angeles Lakers colorway sold for $945 on StockX; these sneakers sold for $190 retail.

On January 28, I was covering a Donald Trump rally in Wildwood, New Jersey. Alongside shirts where Baby Yoda wears a MAGA hat, vendors were selling bootleg “Mamba Out” (referencing Bryant’s nickname) and other Kobe memorial shirts.

I’ve seen T-shirts with Kobe and Gianna’s faces for sale on street corners and road medians. In the weeks after the crash, they were for sale outside a Sixers game in Philly and outside an Islanders hockey game in Brooklyn. Stores online sold Kobe-inspired gear. In Los Angeles, vendors selling Kobe Bryant memorial merchandise lined Figueroa Street near the Lakers arena.

There was a run in legitimate merchandise as well. Nike sold out of Bryant merch online and did not restock it. (Some Bryant sneakers are still available at Nike retail outlets.)

Resellers are taking advantage of the situation. The $190 Kobe 4 Protro Undefeated that went for nearly $1,000 in the minutes after his death had sold for between $201 and $205 six days prior; flipping for profit was always the goal. It’s not clear how much these sales were driven by Bryant’s fans buying memorial merch and how much was pure sneaker market profiteering, but Bryant merchandise was a hot seller. Complex noted that one YouTuber who makes videos about reselling sneakers, Cody Thrive, made an Instagram story referring to it as “both the ‘quickest flip’ and ‘saddest flip’” he’s ever had.

These resales were criticized. To try to quell critics, the resale site StockX announced it would donate proceeds from sales made of Kobe merch the week after his death to a Bryant family charity. Some sneaker consignment boutiques decided not to accept Kobe sneakers or pulled them in the wake of his death. Other sneaker stores wrote things like “RIP #8 #24” — the two numbers Bryant wore during his career — on Kobe sneakers in an attempt to tank their resale value.

Bryant, who was accused of rape in 2003, leaves behind a not-uncomplicated legacy. His merchandise, especially his partnership with Nike, has long been deeply entwined with how fans understood and interacted with him; it was central to the remaking of his image. Now that he’s died young and suddenly, he becomes a myth, a legend. People are going to make money off it.

From the jump, Kobe announced himself to the world as a brand. In 1996, he came to his first major press conference with a catchphrase: “I have decided to skip college and take my talent to the NBA.” He was already famous. He took the singer Brandy to his high school prom.

Adidas announced his first sneaker deal on May 21, 1996. He hadn’t even graduated high school yet. In a write-up of the deal, the Philadelphia Daily News’s Rich Hoffman wrote about his “winning smile.” Another story in the paper even speculated on his future branding opportunities, predicting a bright future. The Daily News sports section put the dog-and-pony show on the front of the sports section, counting 56 Adidas logos at the introductory press conference. “He’s one of a new generation of athletes who will help transform sports in the next decade or two,” Adidas American president Steve Wynne said at the time.

For once, a boastful retail executive was right. Kobe became a global phenomenon. He did the most with that talent, winning five NBA championships and a slew of individual honors including two MVP awards. His success with the Lakers — Bryant won the first of three straight titles in just his fourth season — made him a prolific pitchman as well.

Bryant racked up endorsements in addition to his Adidas deal: He shilled for McDonald’s, starring in a bizarro ad where he was a late addition to a peewee basketball league team. Owing to his childhood in Italy — his father, a former NBA player, played professional basketball there in the 1980s — he endorsed Nutella, a product of the Italian chocolate maker Ferrero SpA. He had a deal with Coca-Cola and did Sprite ads. “If I was a window washer, an architect, a security guard, instead of a famous basketball player, would I be doing this commercial?” Kobe asked as the ad showed him in various costumes like a member of the Village People. “If Sprite not taste the same, would I be doing this commercial?” Deep.

Kobe’s brand seemed to be everywhere, but he wasn’t always cool. His rap single, “K.O.B.E.,” featuring Tyra Banks for some reason, flopped. People complained about him being too ubiquitous in ads even as he was helping the Lakers win three straight titles. Many of Kobe’s Adidas sneakers haven’t aged well, style-wise. The Kobe 2 is widely considered one of the worst-looking basketball shoes of all time; Bryant went back to an older model for the NBA Finals that year.

In the summer of 2002, just after winning that third straight NBA championship, Bryant paid $8 million to Adidas to get out of his contract. He became the highest-profile sneaker “free agent” ever. The 2002-’03 season was a memorable one for collectors: Bryant had no sneaker contract and wore a variety of brands on the court: Nike, Reebok, and even AND1 began courting him. Every sneaker company on the planet released versions in the Los Angeles Lakers’ purple and yellow, attempting to get some attention from the star. Sean Williams, one of the men behind the podcast and marketing company Obsessive Sneaker Disorder, says some of these are among his favorite Kobe-related kicks ever.

”On the sneaker resell market and in the annals of sneaker history, you see a lot of different LA Laker-colored sneakers from brands that you knew he was never signed to,” Williams says. These tell “the story of when they were coveting him.” One of the most beloved, which Williams happens to own, is the Air Flight Huarache in an LA Lakers colorway.

Still, Bryant was considered kind of a dork. When he signed a four-year, $40 million deal with Nike in 2003, even that classic arbiter of cool Dow Jones Newswires mocked him: “His last signature shoe with Adidas, a futuristic-looking sneaker reminiscent of an igloo, bombed in stores, and part of the shoe’s poor performance was attributed to Mr. Bryant’s lack of street credibility in the eyes of urban teens.” (By “urban,” Dow Jones Newswires meant “black.”)

Nike went about creating that street credibility. Bryant, upset with the look and reaction to his last Adidas shoes, began taking a more active role in designing his sneakers. He took a liking to Nike designer Eric Avar before he even signed with the company, and the two maintained a relationship throughout his career and afterward. Nike became the king of the basketball sneaker world, signing all the top players in the post-Michael Jordan era. Hot 1990s and early 2000s models like Reebok’s Allen Iverson line fell to the wayside. But Nike had other challenges with Bryant’s image.

Bryant signed his Nike deal in June 2003. The next month, he was accused of sexual assault by a 19-year-old hotel worker. Prosecutors suggested shortly before jury selection that DNA evidence had been contaminated. They dropped charges the next year after the woman, who had been named by some in the press, declined to testify at trial. Prosecutors said she was smeared by the defense. She sued Bryant; the case reached an out-of-court settlement.

When the charges were dropped, Bryant released a statement: “Although I truly believe this encounter between us was consensual, I recognize now that she did not and does not view this incident the same way I did. After months of reviewing discovery, listening to her attorney, and even her testimony in person, I now understand how she feels that she did not consent to this encounter.”

The rape allegations changed Kobe Bryant the brand because it changed the public’s opinions of Kobe Bryant the person. At the time, however, fans glossed over the fact that the woman said the encounter was nonconsensual, framing it as an indiscretion. “What’s shocking about Kobe’s infidelity isn’t the infidelity; it’s that the protagonist is Kobe Bryant, the infallible player who can do nothing worse, according to his fans’ mythology, than write bad poetry,” Elizabeth Kaye once wrote, taking the voice of Kobe’s fan base. “You see why his admirers are grappling with what might be called an identity crisis — the identity at issue being Kobe’s.”

McDonald’s dropped him. So did Nutella. Sprite increased LeBron James’s visibility in place of Bryant’s. Nike was one of the few companies that did not drop Bryant as an endorser. His career continued, and the sexual assault allegations began to fade into the background. He signed a massive new contract with the Lakers; the team won back-to-back NBA titles in 2009 and 2010.

Nike helped reshape Bryant’s tarnished image, leaning into qualities that brands had previously shied away from: his competitiveness, his ruthlessness, his ego. He went from family-friendly McDonald’s endorser filling in on a kids’ basketball team to the Black Mamba — “a character in Nike commercials and a vicious, selfish shooter,” as Deadspin’s Tom Ley called him. Bryant said he created the Black Mamba character when watching Kill Bill Vol. 2.

Bryant’s career continued, and for many, memories of the incident blurred to the point where they believed he had been exonerated. When questioned about it after Bryant’s death, basketball Hall of Famer Lisa Leslie told Gayle King: “I mean, there was a trial.” There was not a trial. It is worth noting, however, that others never forgot or forgave him for it.

Still, the rebrand largely worked, as some predicted it would. On September 3, 2004, Kurt Badenhausen wrote a story for Forbes headlined “Kobe Bryant’s Sponsorship Will Rebound.” When Bryant died, Badenhausen wrote a bit of a follow-up: “Kobe Bryant’s $600 Million Fortune: How He Won On—and Off—the Court.”

An underrated aspect of this image rehab was simply good sneaker construction. One of the reasons Byrant’s Nike shoes were so popular is because they were good to play in. Besides Michael Jordan — well, and Chuck Taylor — Bryant was the only athlete and brand pitchman whose sneakers continued to be worn by NBA and college players after his retirement.

“Even now to this day, Giannis Antetokounmpo, his latest line is based on the architecture of Kobe Bryant’s sneakers,” Williams says. The story behind Kobe’s sneakers, designed by Avar, was that they were based on soccer shoes because of Bryant’s dedication to footwork and lateral movement.

“NBA players and people on the street and college and rec ball league and everybody alike — Kobe’s shoes performed,” he says. “They did well on the court. They did exactly what they were supposed to do, and there was always a high expectation of performance for Kobe Bryant sneakers, and he never let people down. Michael Jordan sneakers can’t even say that.”

Many people are like Williams. They feel a connection to Bryant through his sneakers. And whether it feels crass or not, they are going to want Kobe Bryant merchandise long after his death.

Death does not end a celebrity’s life as a brand; the dead celebrity branding industry is vast. Authentic Brands Group, a company that recently brought the world Sports Illustrated-branded CBD, manages the brands of Muhammad Ali, Elvis Presley, and Marilyn Monroe. (It also manages Mini Marilyn, a Marilyn Monroe cartoon look-alike that appears to have a separate licensing agreement from the real Monroe.) A computer-generated likeness of James Dean is slated to appear in a future film. Deceased celebrities now tour as holograms. I saw the Roy Orbison hologram in real life — done with a mix of file footage, computer-generated imagery, and video capture of an actor — and it was pretty impressive, especially when he turned his back and said he wanted to “thank this remarkable orchestra.”

Robert Strand, a New York-based brand consultant, worked for the NBA for several years and even worked with Bryant on the release of his 2003 Hallmark ornament (it resells for about $25 on eBay). He was also part of the posthumous brand audits of Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson, where he learned of a patent for an unreleased pair of moonwalking shoes. Both Jackson’s and Houston’s estates had enormous unpaid tax bills; Bryant had no reported large debts. The Kobe Bryant brand appears to be able to start anew basically whenever his heirs want.

Derrick Daye, a Los Angeles marketer who lives just a few miles from where Bryant’s helicopter crashed, says a brand looking to do well with the NBA star’s image will consider the work he was doing in his post-retirement career. “He had a big unfinished life,” Daye said. “So I think to honor him, finish the work that he started out to do. And to do that, you’ve got to manage his memory, right?”

Even if no one’s really harmed by it, flipping Kobe Bryant sneakers online after his death feels gross. But the people criticizing it in the wake of Bryant’s death aren’t opposed to new, posthumous Bryant sneaker tributes.

A respectful — or at least respectful-ish — use of Bryant’s brand would likely funnel the profits to something like the Kobe & Vanessa Bryant Foundation or the Mamba & Mambacita Sports Foundation. Already, rumors of new Nike releases are coming: Lakers center Anthony Davis wore a new colorway of the Nike Kobe Protro 5 at the NBA All-Star Game. They will probably cause some consternation over the commerce revolving around a man who died in a tragic accident. They will still probably sell out.

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79 Md. App. 687 (1989)
558 A.2d 816
CHARLES JEROME SIMPKINS
v.
STATE OF MARYLAND.
No. 1466, September Term, 1988.
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.
June 9, 1989.
Michael R. Malloy, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.
Jillyn K. Schulze, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Atty. for Baltimore County, Towson, on the brief), for appellee.
Argued before GARRITY, ROBERT M. BELL and ALPERT, JJ.
ALPERT, Judge.
On September 30, 1988, Charles Jerome Simpkins, appellant, was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (Fader, J., presiding) of armed robbery and use of a handgun in a crime of violence. Subsequently, the trial court sentenced him to a mandatory life sentence without parole pursuant to Article 27, Section 643B. Appellant files this appeal, and presents three questions for our review:
1. Did the lower Court err by overruling Appellant's objection to the prosecutor's improper use of a peremptory challenge to strike the only black prospective juror from the jury?
2. Did the lower Court err by sentencing Appellant to a § 643B(b) life sentence?
3. Was the evidence insufficient?

1. The Peremptory Challenge

Prior to trial, the trial court conducted voir dire during which the prosecution exercised a peremptory strike against the only black potential juror in the sixty person jury pool. At the conclusion of voir dire, the defense attorney brought this fact to the court's attention. The court directed the prosecutor to state his reasons for striking the juror, to which the prosecutor responded, "Okay. The lady works for the Social Security Administration as a claims examiner. I do not like people who work for Social Security. I think they are sympathetic to defendants and I traditionally strike them." The trial court accepted the prosecution's explanation, and the case proceeded to trial.
On appeal, appellant, a black male, contends that under Batson v. Kentucky, 476 U.S. 79, 106 S.Ct. 1712, 90 L.Ed.2d 69 (1986), his equal protection rights have been violated by the prosecution's purposeful exclusion from the jury panel of members of his own race. Specifically, he contends that the prosecutor did not rebut the prima facie case of prejudice established when the sole black prospective juror was peremptorily excluded from the panel.[1] We disagree.
In Batson, supra, the Supreme Court articulated that the State's burden, once a prima facie case of discrimination is established, is to come forward with "a neutral explanation related to the particular case to be tried" for challenging black jurors. 476 U.S. at 98, 106 S.Ct. at 1723-24. This explanation need not, however, rise to the level of that required in justifying a "for cause" challenge, id. at 97, 106 S.Ct. at 1723; however, mere denials of discriminatory purpose or general assertions of good faith do not suffice to rebut the presumption. Id. at 98, 106 S.Ct. at 1723-24. In his concurring opinion, Justice White acknowledged that "[m]uch litigation will be required to spell out the contours of the Court's equal protection holding today ..." Id. at 102, 106 S.Ct. at 1725-26 (White, J., concurring).
We necessarily turn to the Court of Appeals for further explanation. In Stanley, supra, the Court articulated the burden the State must carry to rebut a prima facie case of discrimination:
At each hearing, the State is to present, if it can, honest, neutral, nonracial reasons for the challenges of each black potential juror who was stricken. Any reasons presented must be legitimate, clear and reasonably specific, as general assertions of assumed group bias or broad denials of discriminatory motives will be insufficient to overcome the defendants' prima facie cases. The reasons must be tailored to the particular facts of the case that was tried and related to the individual traits of the jurors. The defendant will be afforded the opportunity to rebut any explanations put forth by the prosecutor and to expose any justification that on its face may appear racially neutral, but is in reality a sham or pretext. The trial court must then articulate a clear ruling detailing the basis on which it was made, and explaining whether the established prima facie case of purposeful discrimination has been overcome by the State.
A new trial will be required if the State cannot produce satisfactory non-discriminatory reasons for every peremptory challenge exercised to exclude a black juror. A new trial will be ordered if any reasons given by the State are perceived by the trial court as only pretext and thus not satisfactorily racially neutral.
Id. [313 Md.] at 92-93, 542 A.2d 1267. Read narrowly, Stanley's proscription against strikes premised upon "general assertions of assumed group bias" and not "related to the individual trait of the jurors" would apparently invalidate the reasoning afforded the prosecutor in the case below. In light of later case law, further interpreting Batson both within this jurisdiction and in other states, and the dangers inherent in attempting to strictly regulate the use of a well-established and purposely broad doctrine of jury selection, i.e., the peremptory challenge, we perceive no Batson violation under the present circumstances.
Tolbert, supra, is the only Court of Appeals case that has actually reached beyond the establishment of a prima facie case of discrimination to examine the sufficiency of the prosecutor's explanation in rebuttal. In that case, the prosecutor exercised four of his peremptory challenges to strike four black potential jurors from the panel. The lower court found that a prima facie case of discrimination had been established, however, it was satisfied with the prosecutor's explanation that he was striking young women from the panel.
In reversing the trial court and remanding the case for a new trial, the Court of Appeals never reached the question of whether striking young women from the jury panel constituted "a permissible racially neutral selection criterion." Id. at 23, 553 A.2d 228. The court held, however, that with regard to the peremptory strike of two black, female potential jurors, 38 years of age and 54 years of age, the prosecutor's reason did not "hold water in the circumstances." Id. at 24, 553 A.2d 228. Although in Tolbert the court intimated that the prosecutor's gender-related reasons for striking potential jurors may, in and of themselves, violate constitutional or statutory law, a person's status as a claims examiner for the Social Security Administration does not invoke the same level of protection.
In other jurisdictions, reasons offered in rebuttal of a prima facie case of discrimination that have been found to be sufficiently neutral include the prospective juror's employment status. See, e.g., State v. Walton, 227 Neb. 559, 418 N.W.2d 589 (1988) (prospective juror was unemployed), United States v. McCoy, 848 F.2d 743 (6th Cir.1988) (same); Commonwealth v. Lloyd, 376 Pa.Super. 188, 545 A.2d 890 (1988) (same); State v. Minor, 755 S.W.2d 318 (Mo. App. 1988) (prospective juror was a postal employee); State v. Rogers, 753 S.W.2d 607 (Mo. App. 1988) (prospective juror was an employee at a state mental hospital). In Walton, supra, the reason proffered by the prosecutor to strike one of the prospective jurors was that she was married to a county social services worker. The Supreme Court of Nebraska stated:
The court held that the prosecutor's explanation was adequate to explain his challenge of the third black prospective juror. The prosecutor explained that the potential juror was married to a "Douglas County Social Services individual." The trial judge accepted this explanation, noting that he felt there is a tendency on the part of people engaged in social services to blame others than the individual involved after a wrongful act is done. A peremptory strike based on a trial attorney's explanation that he would prefer not to have jurors who work in the social services area, or their spouses, is not a racially discriminatory use of a peremptory challenge. The effect of the prosecutor's "neutral explanation" was that his peremptory challenge was based not on the prospective juror's race, but on the nature of the employment of the juror's wife. A white juror could be challenged on the same reasoning.
Id. at 593. See also State v. Rowe, 228 Neb. 663, 423 N.W.2d 782, 787 (1988) (upholding the removal of a prospective juror on the basis that she was a "Job Service employee ... engaged in a form of social work" and also that she was friendlier during defense counsel's questioning of prospective jurors than she was during the State's questioning).
In contrast, in Roman v. Abrams, 822 F.2d 214 (2nd Cir.1987), a case relied upon by appellant, the prosecutor attempted to justify his peremptory strikes on several bases including the assertion that "knowledge of electronics, bookkeeping and computers might prevent a person from accepting the reasonable doubt standard of proof." The Second Circuit found such explanations "were on their face unworthy of belief." Id. at 228. Further, in that case, a trial judge had expressly found the prosecutor's explanation to be "circumlocutory, trivial, childish, incredible, and designed to cover up the ADA's discriminatory intent." Id.
In the case sub judice, the court below found as a matter of fact that the prosecution's proffered reasoning was "an honest answer." Further, at the conclusion of the trial, the trial court supplemented his ruling with a factual determination that two other potential jurors, who were white and also worked for Social Security Administration, were peremptorily struck by the prosecutor. As we stated in Chew v. State, 71 Md. App. 681, 701, 527 A.2d 332, cert. granted, 311 Md. 301, 534 A.2d 369 (1987), "[o]nce the trial judge has made those determinations whichever way they go, any subsequent reviewing court must pay greater deference to those determinations." To be sure this deference applies only to first level fact finding, Walker v. State, 12 Md. App. 684, 695, 280 A.2d 260 (1971) and not to "the ultimate, second-level fact: the existence or non-existence of ..." neutral, non-racial reasons for striking a juror.
When the Tolbert court in "[its] independent constitutional appraisal of the undisputed facts and the rest of the record" concluded "that Tolbert was denied equal protection under the law guaranteed him under the 14th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States by the State's use of peremptory challenges. .," Tolbert, 315 Md. at 24, 553 A.2d 228, it did so by resolving the second level facts quite differently than did the trial judge. In effect the Court held that the striking of young females "[b]ecause my intuition and experience tells me that young females have a difficult time coming to decisions in cases like this" did not "present neutual, non-racial reasons". See id. at 24, 553 A.2d 228. That one of the female black jurors was 54 years of age was apparently a significant factor in the Tolbert court's decision for it stated that "[a]t least one of its peremptory challenges to black jurors appears to be exercised with a discriminatory purpose." The age and racial composition of the jurors may all be categorized as first level facts since these characteristics could readily be determined through the visual perception of the trial judge. The reasons given for their striking derive from the manifested intention of the prosecutor. Although the prosecutor's credibility and integrity enter into the formulation of the reasoning process, ultimately the decision to strike is the result of the prosecutor's conclusion and therefore falls into the category of a second level fact.
In the case sub judice the pattern of striking social security employees was consistent, thus eliminating the appearance of any discriminatory purpose. That pattern of striking was a first level fact and the Court's finding thereon ought not be tampered with unless clearly erroneous. Borgen v. State, 58 Md. App. 61, 79, 472 A.2d 114 (1984). Judge Fader's finding that the prosecutor struck all social security employees was not clearly erroneous. As in Borgen, supra, "declining to overrule the trial judge on his finding of first level fact(s), we constrain ourselves to analyze his conclusion." Id. at 80, 472 A.2d 114. Making our own independent reflective judgment as to what to make of those facts, we hold that the prosecutor's reasoning was not pretextural and adequately presented "neutral, non-racial reasons for striking" the subject jurors.

2. Sufficiency of the Evidence

Appellant contends that the evidence was insufficient for the jury to convict him of robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon. The State counters that appellant has waived the issue for the purposes of appeal by not arguing the sufficiency of the evidence as to this count either in his motion for judgment of acquittal at the end of the State's case or his renewed motion at the conclusion of the presentation of all the evidence.
Maryland Rule 4-324(a) requires that a criminal defendant "state with particularity all reasons" in support of his motion for judgment of acquittal. Failure to do so constitutes a waiver of the sufficiency of evidence on appeal. State v. Lyles, 308 Md. 129, 135-36, 517 A.2d 761 (1986). Our review of the record indicates that defendant did not sufficiently particularize his reasons in support of his original motion for judgment of acquittal as to the robbery with a dangerous and deadly weapon count. Thus, he waived the issue.
Even if appellant had not waived the issue, we would hold that sufficient evidence exists with which a "rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt." Jackson v. Virginia, 443 U.S. 307, 319, 99 S.Ct. 2781, 2789, 61 L.Ed.2d 560 (1979). The testimony at trial when examined in a light favorable to the prosecution indicated the following: (1) although appellant did not have a bank account with the bank, a palm print that was positively identified as appellant's was lifted from a counter in the bank shortly after the robbery; (2) it is the usual practice of the bank to clean its counters after closing every evening  thus, a rational inference could be drawn that appellant was in the bank on the day of the robbery; (3) the teller who was robbed described the robber as having similar features to the appellant; and (4) several months after the robbery the same teller identified appellant at a police line-up, stating that she was "pretty sure that he was the individual who had robbed her." Such evidence is more than sufficient to sustain appellant's conviction.

3. Sentencing Under Art. 27, § 643B

Article 27, § 643B(b) (1987 Repl.Vol.) provides:
(b) Mandatory life sentence. Any person who has served three separate terms of confinement in a correctional institution as a result of three separate convictions of any crime of violence shall be sentenced, on being convicted a fourth time of a crime of violence, to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Regardless of any other law to the contrary, the provisions of this section are mandatory.
Appellant contends that the trial court's imposition of a life sentence without the possibility of parole was error because he has not "served three separate terms of confinement in a correctional institution."
In 1965, appellant was convicted of robbery and sentenced to five years imprisonment at the Maryland Correctional Institution in Hagerstown. In 1970, appellant was convicted of robbery with a deadly weapon and sentenced to eight years of imprisonment with the Division of Corrections. Finally, in 1976, appellant was convicted in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland of bank robbery and sentenced to twenty years imprisonment with a recommendation of commitment to the Maryland Division of Correction "so that the sentence imposed by this Court may run concurrently with the [1970 sentence] imposed by the State Court ..." (United States District Court, Judgment and Probation/Commitment Order, 7-2-1976) (emphasis added). Relying on Montone v. State, 308 Md. 599, 521 A.2d 720 (1987), appellant contends that his confinement under the 1976 federal conviction cannot serve as a predicate "separate" term of confinement because the federal judge ruled that it was to be imposed concurrently with his 1970 state conviction.
Appellant's reliance on Montone, supra, is wholly misplaced. In Montone, the State attempted to utilize two convictions stemming from a single incident obtained on February 13, 1979 as predicate separate terms of confinement. The court held that the purpose of § 643B(b) "is to identify individuals incapable of rehabilitation and lock them up forever". Id. at 613, 521 A.2d 720. The requirement of separate terms of confinement is intended to allow individuals an opportunity for rehabilitation. Allowing for separate convictions, obtained on the same day, to serve as predicate separate terms of confinement thwarts the purpose of the statute by not providing for an intervening opportunity for rehabilitation.
Here, it is manifestly implicit that appellant was released from incarceration sometime during the period between his 1970 conviction and his 1976 conviction.[2] The fact that the federal court imposed a sentence concurrent with a sentence imposed six years earlier does not preclude that "term of confinement" from being a separate one for the purpose of applying the statute. Allowed this intervening period for rehabilitation, appellant committed the 1976 bank robbery, which constitutes a third predicate "crime of violence" for which he was confined. Thus, appellant, prior to this 1988 conviction, has served the statutorily required "three separate terms of confinement in a correctional institution."
JUDGMENT AFFIRMED. COSTS TO BE PAID BY APPELLANT.
NOTES
[1]  The trial court's demand for an explanation from the prosecutor for excluding the prospective juror constitutes an implicit finding of a prima facie case of discrimination. Stanley v. State, 313 Md. 50, 83, 542 A.2d 1267 (1988); Tolbert v. State, 315 Md. 13, 18, 553 A.2d 228 (1989). The state does not contest this implied finding by the trial court. Thus, we are relieved from explicating the standard a defendant must meet in presenting such a prima facie case of discrimination. Such an interpretation of these principles in Batson, supra, has already been exhaustively and insightfully delivered in Stanley, supra, 313 Md. at 71-75, 542 A.2d 1267; State v. Gorman, 315 Md. 402, 410-11, 554 A.2d 1203 (1989); Tolbert supra, 315 Md. at 16-18, 553 A.2d 228. In Stanley, supra, the Court of Appeals resolved affirmatively the question of whether Batson principles may be applied if only one potential juror has been stricken where "the State uses peremptories in a manner that assures that no blacks will serve on a jury that is to try a black defendant." See id. [313 Md.] at 87, 542 A.2d 1267.
[2]  To our knowledge, the banking industry had not set up branch offices inside state penal institutions.


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37 Cal.2d 1 (1951)
BANK OF AMERICA NATIONAL TRUST AND SAVINGS ASSOCIATION (a National Banking Association), Petitioner,
v.
ARTHUR L. MUNDO, as Judge of Superior Court of San Diego County, Respondent.
L. A. No. 21444.
Supreme Court of California. In Bank.
Apr. 3, 1951.
 Holbrook & Tarr, W. Sumner Holbrook, Jr., and Francis H. O'Neill for Petitioner.
 James Don Keller, District Attorney, and Carroll H. Smith, Chief Trial Deputy District Attorney, for Respondent.
 EDMONDS, J.
 Bank of America National Trust and Savings Association is the plaintiff in eight actions to recover taxes paid under protest. It now asks that, by writ of mandate, the superior court be compelled to order the production of certain records of the county assessor. The asserted purpose of having them before the court is to enable *3 the respondent judge, by an examination of them, to determine whether their contents are confidential and whether public interest would suffer by disclosure of the data.
 In the actions brought by the bank it is charged that, in assessing its property during certain years, the assessor discriminated against it and intentionally and systematically favored other property owners. Specifically, the bank alleges that the assessed valuation placed upon its buildings included vault doors and counterlines, classified as improvements, but in all nonbanking institutions, similar articles were classified and assessed as personal property. Such discrimination, the bank concludes, is prohibited by section 5219 of the Revised Statutes of the United States (12 U.S.C.A.  548) because the real property of a national bank may be taxed only "to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed" and also violates constitutional guarantees.
 The bank has endeavored to obtain evidence of discriminatory assessments by taking the depositions of three deputy county assessors. The witnesses testified that they had assessed or appraised buildings, trade fixtures and machinery in approximately 13 types of industries in the county. They stated the general factors and tests relied upon in making assessments. When asked how they had classified certain items in specific places of business, the witnesses replied that they could answer only after refreshing their memories by reference to the tax records. However, they declined to refer to the records upon the ground that the documents contain matter of prohibition and privilege under sections 408 and 451 of the Revenue and Taxation Code and section 1881, subdivision 5, of the Code of Civil Procedure.
 The bank then cited the witnesses to appear before the superior court. It also moved for an order directing each witness to refresh his memory by use of the particular document applicable, and thereafter to answer the questions asked of him.
 The superior court issued a subpoena duces tecum directing the county assessor to produce the documents. The assessor refused to comply with the subpoena upon the same ground stated by his deputies. The court then refused to order the witnesses to answer the questions and quashed the subpoena duces tecum.
 The bank's purpose is to secure evidence that, during the tax years in question, the assessor systematically classified *4 and assessed as personal property the counters and other business equipment in nonbanking institutions. Upon establishing that fact, the bank then proposes to show that such items are similar to the vault doors and counterlines in bank buildings which, pursuant to an intentional discrimination against national banks, were classified as improvements.
 None of the suits has yet been tried. Demurrers to the complaints have been filed, but the hearings upon them have been deferred pending the taking of the depositions. It does not appear from the record whether, prior to filing its action, the bank applied to the board of equalization for correction of the assertedly erroneous assessments. However, in one of the briefs, counsel for the bank states, "In certain of the cases appearance was made before the county board of equalization."
 [1] In those cases where the bank did not make timely application to the board of equalization for relief from the assessment complained of, it cannot maintain the action for the recovery of taxes. "It is the general rule that a taxpayer seeking judicial relief from an erroneous assessment must have exhausted his remedies before the administrative body empowered initially to correct the error. ... An exception is made when the attempted assessment is a nullity because the property is either tax exempt or outside the jurisdiction. ... But resort to the board of equalization is not rendered unnecessary by the fact that, as in the present case, the error is one in the classification of property ... and the tax is assailed as being discriminatory in violation of constitutional mandates ... or section 5219 of the Revised Statutes of the United States." (Security- First Nat. Bank v. County of Los Angeles, 35 Cal.2d 319, 320-321 [217 P.2d 946].)
 In the actions for the recovery of taxes paid after the board of equalization denied relief, the record does not indicate exactly what transpired before the administrative agency. However, it may be inferred that the board of equalization made a determination upon the issue of fact contrary to the claims of the bank.
 As to such actions, the purpose of the pending litigation is to obtain a review of the decision of the board of equalization. This conclusion logically follows from the fact that application to the board for the correction of an alleged discriminatory *5 assessment is a prerequisite to the maintenance of the action. (Compare Security-First Nat. Bank v. County of Los Angeles, supra, with Hammond Lbr. Co. v. County of Los Angeles, 104 Cal.App. 235, 241 [285 P. 896].) [2] The duty of determining the value of the property and the fairness of the assessment is confided to the appropriate county board of equalization. [3] Furthermore, in discharging this duty, the board's determination upon the merits of the controversy is conclusive; the taxpayer has no right to a trial de novo in the superior court to resolve conflicting issues of fact as to the taxable value of his property. (Universal Consol. Oil Co. v. Byram, 25 Cal.2d 353 [153 P.2d 746]; Eastern-Columbia, Inc. v. County of Los Angeles, 70 Cal.App.2d 497, 500 [161 P.2d 407].) [4, 5] The question presented to the superior court in such an action is whether there was evidence of sufficient substantiality before the board to justify the finding (Kaiser Co. v. Reid, 30 Cal.2d 610, 626 [184 P.2d 879]), and in the absence of fraud or malicious or arbitrary use of its powers the board is the sole judge of questions of fact and of the values of property. (Los Angeles Gas & Elec. Co. v. County of Los Angeles, 162 Cal. 164, 170 [121 P. 384].)
 [6a] By the present proceeding, the bank desires to obtain, and introduce in its actions for recovery of taxes, evidence of discriminatory practices by the assessor which resulted in overvaluation of its real property and attendant inequality in tax burden. Whether assessments were made as the bank charges and whether they resulted in unequal taxation were the issues before the board of equalization; it was within the power of the board to correct any discriminatory assessment. (Security - First Nat. Bank v. County of Los Angeles, supra, at p. 322.) Presumably the evidence now sought was not introduced in the proceeding before the board. [7] But it is the general rule that "... the decision of the board upon the evidence adduced cannot be collaterally assailed by new evidence on the point in a different tribunal." (Hammond Lbr. Co. v. County of Los Angeles, supra, at pp. 246, 247.)
 [6b] If the writ sought by the bank were to issue, and evidence of discrimination obtained, it would not be relevant in the pending actions. Such evidence would not tend to prove that the board of equalization acted fraudulently, or in arbitrary or malicious abuse of its powers. Moreover, the *6 bank has shown no legal ground for augmentation of the record made before the local board.
 The alternative writ of mandate is discharged and the petition for a peremptory writ is dismissed.
 Gibson, C.J., Shenk, J., Carter, J., Schauer, J., Spence, J., and Wilson, J. pro tem., concurred.


Mothers' Social Citizenship: The logics and effects of the German and Swedish welfare states

Martinek, Hanne

Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Government.

2016 (English)Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)

Abstract [en]

In recent decades, the strong influence of the male breadwinner model of welfare is increasingly being replaced by the adult worker model all across Europe. This development has had a crucial influence on mothers’ social rights. To determine the current character of mothers’ social citizenship, the tax system, cash benefits and care-services provided to mothers with young children in Germany and Sweden are comparatively explored.

Through the analysis of income from benefits of mothers with different labor market and marital status while they are on parental leave, the question how well the German and the Swedish welfare states protect mothers from poverty or financial dependence on a male breadwinner is examined. The analysis reveals that the social right structure of single mothers in the German and the Swedish welfare state are very similar today: While mothers with a stable connection to the labor market are well protected against poverty, those who mainly have to refer to means-tested benefits fall below the poverty line in both countries. For married mothers, the established characterization of Germany as a slowly changing supporter of the male breadwinner model and the Swedish welfare state as a supporter of individual social rights proves to be accurate. Mainly because of joint taxation, married mothers in Germany have a much higher risk of being financially dependent on their husbands than Swedish mothers.

Analysis of the childcare sector and women’s integration into the labor market further shows that the Swedish welfare state still provides a more generous and inclusive protection to mothers overall. This protection is not due to more generous benefits, but a better integration of women in the labor market, which in turn leads to a much higher coverage rate of benefits based on work-performance.

The results illustrate that to present a thorough picture of mothers’ social citizenship, it is crucial to analyze the interaction of different benefits, the tax system, the provision of care services, and women’s position in the labor market. Furthermore, I also stress the importance of measuring married mothers’ individual income in contrast to the commonly used household income in order to reach a realistic impression of their individual social rights.


Will Arnett’s LEGO Batman has found his Boy Wonder! The Hollywood Reporter today brings word that Michael Cera will voice Robin in the upcoming The LEGO Batman Movie. Cera’s Superbad costar, Jonah Hill, previously cameoed in The LEGO Movie as fellow DC Comics superhero Green Lantern.

Cera has recently been lending his voice to Rob Corddry, Jonathan Stern and David Wain’s Adult Swim comedy series, “Children’s Hospital,” and has another major voice role hitting the big screen next summer. He’s set to reteam with Hill as well as Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Salma Hayek, Edward Norton, David Krumholtz, Nick Kroll, James Franco, Craig Robinson, Bill Hader, Anders Holm, Paul Rudd and Danny McBride for the R-rated animated ensemble, Sausage Party. Set for release June 3, 2016, Sausage Party follows the adventures of some sausages determined to get back to their proper place in a grocery store before a big 4th of July sale.

According to the trade, Cera is also making plans to write and direct a big screen adaptation of Charles Portis’ “Masters of Atlantis.” Portis, a famously reclusive author, is best known for his 1968 novel True Grit, twice adapted for the big screen. “Masters of Atlantis,” published in 1985, is officially described as follows:

Lamar Jimmerson is the leader of the Gnomon Society, the international fraternal order dedicated to preserving the arcane wisdom of the lost city of Atlantis. Stationed in France in 1917, Jimmerson comes across a little book crammed with Atlantean puzzles, Egyptian riddles, and extended alchemical metaphors. It’s the Codex Pappus – the sacred Gnomon text. Soon he is basking in the lore of lost Atlantis, convinced that his mission on earth is to administer to and extend the ranks of the noble brotherhood.

The LEGO Movie animation supervisor Chris McKay will direct The LEGO Batman Movie, which features a script by Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter creator Seth Grahame-Smith. The LEGO Batman Movie hits theaters on May 26, 2017.

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Image caption Svetlana was a Soviet celebrity as a child - her defection as an adult embarrassed the Communist party

The only daughter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin has died in the US at the age of 85.

Svetlana Alliluyeva, also known as Lana Peters, died of colon cancer at a care home in the state of Wisconsin last Tuesday, officials say.

Her defection from the Soviet Union in 1967 was a propaganda coup for the US. She wrote four books, including two best-selling memoirs.

But she said she could not escape the shadow of her father.

'Little sparrow'

When Peters arrived in the US, she said she had come for the "self-expression that has been denied me for so long in Russia".

She said her defection was partly motivated by the Soviet authorities' poor treatment of Brajesh Singh, an Indian communist whom she had a relationship with.

Famous exiles from USSR Igor Gouzenko - spy, 1945, Canada

Rudolf Nureyev - ballet star, 1961, France

Anatoly Golitsyn - KGB officer, 1961, Finland

Alexander Solzhenitsyn - dissident writer, 1974, expelled to US

Viktor Korchnoi, chess grand master - 1976, Netherlands

Arkady Shevchenko, UN Under-Secretary General - 1978, US

Viktoria Mullova, violinist - 1983, Finland

Natan Sharansky, human rights activist - 1986, Israel

Although she later referred to Singh as her husband, the two were never allowed to marry.

Peters went to India in 1966 to spread Singh's ashes, but instead of returning to the Soviet Union she walked into the US embassy to seek political asylum.

She burned her passport, denouncing communism and her father, whom she called "a moral and spiritual monster".

She graduated from Moscow University in 1949, initially working as a teacher and translator.

Peters was married three times and had two daughters and a son.

Her first memoir, Twenty Letters to a Friend, was published in 1967 and made more than $2.5m (£1.6m).

She took the name Lana Peters upon marrying architect William Wesley Peters in the US.

The couple settled in central Wisconsin and had a daughter, Olga, before divorcing in 1973.

Image caption Svetlana Alliluyeva said people could not understand her past

She returned to the Soviet Union briefly in the 1980s, renouncing the US, but left again after feuding with relatives.

In an interview in 1990 with Britain's Independent newspaper, Peters said she had no money and was living with Olga in a rented house.

Stalin, who died in 1953, is deemed responsible for the deaths of millions of his countrymen.

Peters - who was six years old when her mother took her own life - was once close to her father, who called her his "little sparrow". But they grew distant in his final years.

He sent her first love, a Jewish filmmaker, to Siberia.

Her brother, Jacob, died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II when her father refused to exchange him for a German general, and her other brother, Vasili, died an alcoholic, aged 40.

Lana Peters bemoaned the constant association with her father.

"People say, 'Stalin's daughter, Stalin's daughter,' meaning I'm supposed to walk around with a rifle and shoot the Americans," she once said.

"Or they say, 'No, she came here. She is an American citizen.' That means I'm with a bomb against the others.

"No, I'm neither one. I'm somewhere in between."

While Peters denounced her father's regime, she also blamed other communist party leaders for the Soviet Union's policy of sending millions to labour camps.

Speaking to the BBC in 1990, Peters said that life in the USSR became much easier for everyone, herself included, after Nikita Khrushchev came to power.

She revealed that Khrushchev showed her his speech to the 20th party congress in advance, so she wouldn't be shocked. In this address, three years after Stalin's death, Khrushchev denounced his predecessor as a brutal despot.

Interviewed in Cambridge, Peters said "When my mother left us, he [Stalin] was left completely alone. And I think what came next, in the late 30s and after the war in the 40s - I think that was a result of his complete loneliness on top of the world. Nobody would argue with him anymore."


Hybrid and Mountain Bikes will only be allowed for the 21km category. (TT Bikes and Aerobars are not allowed)

All participants who sign up for all events of the Tri-Factor Series will be entitled a 10% series sign-up discount. Do note that you will not enjoy this discount if you do not sign up for the four events at the same time.

Age categories:

Kids:

6 years 12 years old (5km Non-Competitive Only)

Junior:

13 years to 15 years old (5km & 21km Only)

Open:

16 years to 44 years old (All Distances)

Veteran:

45 years old and above (All Distances)

The categories are calculated based on the age that is effective from 31st December 2015.

Bikes are available for rental, prices are as the following:

Racer bike 26″

$95 (For 21km, 35km & 56km Riders)

Normal Bike 26″

$45 (For 21km Riders only)

Please indicate your bike rental during your registration. Once selected, no refund will be provided if you do not take the bike on the day of the event. Any cancellation of the rented bicycle must be done at least 1 month prior to the event. A $15 admin fee will apply for this cancellation.