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New Sheriffs in Town
by Barry Yeoman on January 4, 2019
African Americans win top law enforcement posts in North Carolina.
Originally published in the The Washington Post.
Durham's Clarence Birkhead cast himself as a representative of the county's inclusive values. Photo courtesy of Durham County Sheriff's Office.
DURHAM, N. C. — THREE DAYS AFTER HE WAS SWORN IN as Durham County's new sheriff last month, Clarence Birkhead ended his department's cooperative relationship with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Within a week, his staff rebuffed ICE 11 times, releasing immigrants from the county jail rather than holding them for the federal agency to pick up as a first step toward deportation.
Other new sheriffs were doing much the same. In Mecklenburg and Wake counties, North Carolina's largest jurisdictions, they notified ICE that their offices would no longer participate in the federal program that delegates immigration enforcement to local agencies.
The collective snub was the first move in a looming upheaval in how the state's urban sheriffs do their job. In the fall, all seven of the most populous counties elected African Americans as their top law enforcement officer — not only a reflection of the shifting dynamics here, but a sharp break from the nation's historical pattern of picking white men for the position and then keeping them there in perpetuity.
"Most of the stress and the tension with law enforcement comes from the minority community," Birkhead said. "Who better to rebuild those relationships than African American law-enforcement executives, and in this case African American sheriffs?"
All seven counties have white majorities. Buncombe County, which includes Asheville, is 91 percent white. Yet five of the new sheriffs defeated white incumbents. Another beat the retiring sheriff's white heir apparent. The seventh, Cumberland County's Ennis Wright, was appointed in 2017 to fill a vacancy and faced voters for the first time.
An additional historic mark in November was the election of Paula Dance in Pitt County in the eastern part of the state. She is North Carolina's first black female sheriff.
"It's wild," said Mirya Holman, a political scientist at Tulane University who co-authored a 2015 report that found that 95 percent of sheriffs in the country were white. That figure, she argued, is no accident.
"There's a lot of history of sheriffs being key upholders of racist institutions," Holman noted recently. "Sheriffs played key roles in Jim Crow, in enforcing racist laws in the South. They played key roles in instigating race riots in the American Northeast and Midwest, on the West Coast."
Still, urban voters have long overlooked the office. In many states, she said, it was only during the 2018 election cycle that "organizations that are interested in electing people of color started paying attention to sheriffs."
Part of the shift can be traced to the contentious national conversation about how law enforcement treats communities of color — from the Trump administration's policy of deporting immigrants without criminal records to high-profile police beatings and killings of African Americans. In North Carolina, those issues were at the core of several urban sheriffs' races.
In Mecklenburg County, which includes Charlotte, an immigrant-led revolt against the 287(g) immigration enforcement program helped elect Sheriff Garry McFadden. The longtime homicide detective promised to withdraw from the program.
"It doesn't keep the community safe," said Oliver Merino, co-founder of the advocacy group Comunidad Colectiva, who helped organize the resistance and campaigned independently for McFadden. Studies by the University of North Carolina's Latino Migration Project and the libertarian Cato Institute have concluded 287(g) erodes trust between immigrants and law enforcement, with little to no evidence the program reduces crime.
In Buncombe County, the political mood was reinforced by the videotaped beating in 2017 of an African American jaywalker by Asheville city police. "What I heard at the community level is people wanting leaders and law enforcement engaging honestly [and] coming up with concrete solutions around use-of-force issues," said the Rev. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara, a Democratic county commissioner.
Buncombe voters rejected the retiring sheriff's endorsed candidate. They instead chose Quentin Miller, a retired police sergeant who embraced the findings of President Barack Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Its report emphasized de-escalation training and urged officers to adopt "a guardian — rather than a warrior — mind-set."
But beyond the law-enforcement issues, the sheriff races signal North Carolina's changing demographics. The state has long been purple politically; the governor is a Democrat, but Republicans control the legislature. Assessing the recent electoral outcomes — with the defeat of three Republicans, all seven urban sheriffs are now Democrats — Duke University political scientist Kerry Haynie sees a "blue tint" in the future.
"Blacks and Latinos are becoming an increasingly larger share of the population and the electorate, and that's beginning to have a political effect," he said. "This may be a precursor for North Carolina being a battleground in 2020."
Durham County was the scene of one of the most lopsided upsets. Long a cigarette-manufacturing hub, its morning air for decades had a thick, sweet tobacco scent. But the Liggett & Myers factory closed in 2000, and now the county of about 312,000 has a tech-and-health-care economy, two universities and a reputation for liberal activism. Political discussions in Durham, from the courthouse to the coffee shops, often center on racial justice.
Until last month, the sheriff was a white veteran lawman named Mike Andrews, 60. His performance was the topic of many of those discussions.
Andrews faced protests over conditions at the county jail, where nine inmates died since he took office in 2012. (All but one were African American.) Detractors also accused him of grandstanding after he tried to slap felony charges on 12 activists who toppled a Confederate statue in 2017, days after the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville.
"The felony charges were completely political," said Durham Mayor Pro Tempore Jillian Johnson. "There was no justification."
Andrews did not respond to several interview requests.
As in other North Carolina sheriff's races, immigration played a central role here. Andrews routinely honored "ICE detainers," requests that inmates be held for up to 48 hours beyond their scheduled releases. "I'd rather [ICE] come to a single location than to be in our community, causing fear and panic times 10," he told a television reporter in May.
His office released 87 inmates to ICE last year. That cooperation left many immigrants fearful, particularly in light of the Trump administration's stepped-up enforcement.
Enter Birkhead, a 58-year-old former semipro football player who had headed the police forces of Duke University and the nearby town of Hillsborough. He cast himself as a representative of the county's inclusive values — a protector of "everyone who's here, regardless of their immigration status" — and he pledged not to cooperate with ICE unless legally compelled. Winning the trust of Durham's Latinos, he said, meant distancing himself from a federal agency known for tearing families apart.
"If I'm over here cooperating with ICE and facilitating the deportation process," he said in an interview, pointing in one direction before pivoting his body, "that's not going to play well when I'm over here trying to build relationships."
Birkhead links his views on immigration to a larger philosophy of encouraging "second chances" for small-time offenders and concentrating on serious threats to public safety rather than marijuana misdemeanors, for example. "There are other issues that need to be addressed, [like] the presence of guns in our neighborhoods," he said.
Birkhead built strong relationships before and during his campaign with advocates of criminal justice restructuring and minority communities. He promised regular meetings with immigrant leaders. "He would come to every single event that we organized," said Ivan Almonte, a co-founder of the local group Acción Política Latina. "He was eating our food. He was sitting with us."
In the end, the challenger won endorsements from across the political spectrum. He crushed Andrews in the May Democratic primary with 69 percent of the vote, then racked up 92 percent in November against two write-in candidates.
Immigrant leaders say it is a relief to have a sheriff who will not voluntarily cooperate with ICE. Some undocumented immigrants have faced deportation after minor traffic violations, when the officers ticketing them discovered they were driving illegally. North Carolina does not issue licenses to residents without Social Security numbers.
The groups still plan to remain vigilant. "We trust him," Almonte said of Birkhead. "But he knows that, if he does something with [ICE], we'll keep him accountable."

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Lady Elizabeth Dickins sighted!
March 27, 2011 at 8:58 am	(people, places, research) (castle ashby, drawing, further recollections of a diplomatist, lady elizabeth compton, lady elizabeth dickins, sir horace rumbold)
Ah, just gotta love these 19th century published memoirs! Here is one, entitled Further Recollections of a Diplomatist where the biographer has gone "on to Castle Ashby…" Sir Horace Rumbold describes being "at first much bewildered by the size of the beautiful old Jacobean pile, with its intricate passages and long, creepy galleries. But although a thoroughly haunted-looking house, no uncomfortable traditions appear to attach to Castle Ashby."
He goes on to talk of the inhabitants: "We spent upwards of a fortnight here, our host taking a great fancy to the boy, and to the quaint German patois songs they had been taught to sing in parts by one of their nurses. Lord Northampton [the 3rd marquess; son of Spencer and Margaret] was already then in the very last stage of decline, but his conversation was still delightful, and, like his gifted sister, Lady Marian Alford, he was an admirable draughtsman, and worked with pencil and brush to the very last. Artistic gifts are indeed hereditary in the family, for staying in the house was old Lady Elizabeth Dickins [or Dickens, I see the name spelled BOTH ways…], Lord Northampton's aunt, who used to amuse the children with very clever pen-and-ink sketches which she did, for choice, kneeling by the table, although then considerably past eighty."
One letter, written in 1824, from Augusta (Emma's sister) to Lady Elizabeth discusses her "scratches" and "sketches". What precious items these would be to locate — but I am on the trail…
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In Remembrance: Joseph Chomyn '53Dra Died on March 11 2019
Joseph Chomyn, 93, born in Rochester, New York, on November 7, 1925, to Kyrillo and Yadowkia Chomyn, passed away in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, on Monday, March 11, 2019. His wife of 61 years, Anita, predeceased him by 20 months.
Joe grew up during the Great Depression, was the youngest of five siblings born to immigrant parents, and was the first in his family to be born in a hospital; he also was first to complete college, but dropped out of high school to enlist in the Army Air Corps during World War II. He completed his GED, used the GI Bill to attend Center College, then earned his BFA from Drake University, and an MFA from the Yale Drama School.
Joe began his career in theater, but soon moved into the emerging television industry. He was an assistant director and a floor manager, then began directing live commercials. He directed documentaries for CBS News, and was most proud of his subsequent work directing the television coverage for John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign.
After Kennedy's election, Joe returned to Manhattan where he and Anita were living, and began work with Captain Kangaroo. He then moved on to direct soap operas, including As the World Turns, The Edge of Night, The Guiding Light, Another World, and Somerset.
In his retirement, Joe spent most of his time in Freeport, Maine, greatly enjoying work in the stockroom and as a "greeter" at the LL Bean flagship store. During those years, the joy of his life was spending time with his grandchildren, watching them sail on Casco Bay, and reaping the benefits of recipes cooked up in the kitchen with grandma. His five grandchildren were his pride and joy.
Joe is survived by his son, Dr. John Chomyn, his wife June, and their children, Mallerie and Claire; and his son, Chris Chomyn and his wife Lindsay, and their daughters, Anneke and Alexis. Joe's grandson, Joey, was a sailor, scholar, and musician, predeceasing his grandfather by seven months.
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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Nathan Conyers.
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Entrepreneur and civil rights lawyer Nathan G. Conyers was born on July 3, 1932, in Detroit, Michigan. He earned B.A. and J. D. degrees from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Conyers began his legal career as a special assistant attorney to the Michigan State Attorney General, then as a closing attorney for the Veteran's Administration and the Small Business Administration. In 1960, he entered private practice, joining the firm of Keith, Conyers, Anderson, Brown and Wahls, which specialized in civil rights litigation. In 1970, Conyers and his brother, U.S. Congressman John Conyers, opened a Ford dealership in inner city Detroit. In 1979, with the assistance of Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr., Conyers established the Ford Lincoln Mercury Black Dealers Association. Conyers was the longest-working African American car dealer in the country. He also operated a Jaguar dealership. He was one of only six businesses on the Black Enterprise Top 100 list for twenty-five years.
The HistoryMakers video oral history with The Honorable John Conyers, Jr.
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Nathan McCall.
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AndrewWinston - Finding the gold in green
What Sustainability Should Learn from Steve Jobs
The passing of Steve Jobs was in no way surprising – we knew it had to be serious for him to leave the company he loved. But it's still a shock that we're robbed of his brain and all the amazing things that he would have invented.
I had always hoped that this once-in-a-generation genius would turn his prodigious mental powers to solving the world's largest challenges. Imagine a Jobs-designed, must-have iCar that people would want as badly as an iPad…Or an iHome that uses drastically less energy with its iFridge and iWasher…Or how about an iCity or iTrain to tackle urban design and transportation challenges?
We'll never get those products from Jobs, so other innovators will have to fill the void. But there is one incredibly important lesson that sustainability-minded leaders can learn from Jobs' legacy: you should lead your customers and show them a better way.
Steve Jobs did not ask people if they could use a tablet computer. In fact, in a long list of amazing quotes from the man, one of the most powerful is this: "It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."
Before the iPad came out, plenty of pundits asked why anyone would really need a tablet. After all, laptops were fairly small already and we had connectivity and games on our phones. Why add this midsize device to our lives? Steve Jobs made us want to.
In my experience, most large companies today are "fast followers" – a strategy that has seemingly lower risk for a public company. But just look at the playing field littered with tablet computer also-rans to see how expensive second-place can be. And yet it still seems like the preferred (or default) approach for most companies.
This fiscal and strategic conservatism breeds a culture where execs prefer to wait and talk to customers before doing anything drastic. Of course customer (and other stakeholder) perspectives are critical. But as with tablet computers, when it comes to sustainability, often the customers don't really know what they need.
Companies often gather data on what their business customers think a sustainable product should be, and the survey might show that including recycled material is important, even if that's a tiny part of the real footprint story. Nobody knows the value chain of your product and service as well as you do (or if someone else does, get them in the room pronto). So figure out where the impacts really lie and what you can do to reduce your customer's footprint in ways they hadn't considered. This might require asking heretical questions about whether the product should even exist in its current form or should be converted into more of a service.
Do most people think they need a hybrid car, or would they even imagine that they'd share a car using a service like ZipCar? Probably not, but if the experience can be made fun and profitable enough, perhaps they will. The Toyota Prius has sold well, in part, because it did some exciting new things (ran quiet on no gas at times) in a familiar midsize car framework, much like the iPad looked like a big iPhone but could do so much more.
I wish I could come up with more examples of companies truly leading with sustainable products. It's a sparse field for now, but that will change. The next generation's Steve Jobs will most likely focus on sustainability since that's where the largest challenges and business opportunities lie. Consider the case of William Kamkwamba, a boy from rural Malawi, one of the poorest countries in the world. At 14, this self-taught "Boy Who Harnessed the Wind" built a working wind turbine from scraps. He's now at Dartmouth College.
The world contains some true innovators. Will our big companies find these leaders and harness them…or be brought down by them? I know which one I'd pick if I were normally a "fast follower."
Here's hoping we find the next Steve Jobs quickly, someone who can bring us green things we never knew we wanted so badly. Rest in peace, Steve.
On October 11, 2011 8:52 AM, Dennis Tracz said:
Nice article! We need to figure out how to make sustainability a consumer product. 70% of the US economy is consumer spending; how can we make sustainability a player in this economic reality is an important question.
On October 12, 2011 9:13 AM, Sophie Hobson said:
Companies often jump in head first as soon as they hear an idea without considering if it is really right for them. Steve Jobs had found the right way of going about it by creating the product first and showing the world why it was right for them.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted critics after she was labeled a "bull in a china shop" on Fox News Thursday.
Journalist Charles Payne, normally seen on Fox Business Network, suggested freshman Democrats like Ocasio-Cortez "just want to create havoc" in Congress.
Payne was discussing how the newly-blue House of Representatives might put pressure on President Donald Trump with Washington Examiner's Phil Wegmann. Twitter users recently lashed out at fellow Examiner reporter Eddie Scarry, when he shared a photo of Ocasio-Cortez in a "creepy" tweet about her clothes.
"Older, established Democrats" like Maxine Waters want to investigate Trump's past business dealings," he said. "Whereas the upstarts, the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's of the world, maybe they just don't know, they're like bulls in a china shop, they just want to create havoc."
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the Fox News broadcast on Twitter, criticizing "the same folks who bow to Trump." "The idea that [they] are clutching at their pearls is laughable," she wrote. "That's how they should feel.
This isn't the first time the congresswoman-elect has sparred with Fox News talking heads. On November 14, Fox News host Laura Ingraham attacked Ocasio-Cortez's "wacky" views during a segment criticizing her and fellow House freshmen Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley.
Ingraham denounced "radical" policies the women support, including free healthcare and free college education for all. "These women may as well be the four horsemen of the apocalypse for the Democratic Party if you ask me," Ingraham said.
"Currently watching the latest Instagram live story from @Ocasio2018 and she addressed a question I asked on faith and politics, and it's just so great to be able to interact with a politician like this," wrote Twitter user Micah Wimmer on Wednesday.
"I truly hope that this is the future of politics," added user Chris Brackett.
But others are less impressed with Ocasio-Cortez's use of social media. "Real accomplishment comes with age and maturity and years of work," one user commented. " I'm...old and find the constant navel gazing on her social uninteresting. Go make some policy happen," wrote another.
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Jeopardy! fans slam show as 'immensely offensive & shameful' after Savannah Guthrie reads off inaccurate answer
Jorge Solis
Updated: 17:48 ET, Jun 22 2021
JEOPARDY! fans slammed the quiz show as "immensely offensive and shameful" after Savannah Guthrie read off an inaccurate medical answer.
Savannah, 49, incorrectly mentioned that Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome was also known as "the Grinch syndrome" during the program.
Savannah told the audience an inaccurate medical answerCredit: Jeopardy Productions vis Youtube
Dysautonomia International demanded an apology from the show
The quiz show issued an apologyCredit: Twitter
Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) has nothing to do with the "Grinch syndrome," and the condition also has no connection to the heart being "too small," according to myheart.net.
The nonprofit organization known as Dysautonomia International accused the ABC show of using an "offensive" term to be "funny."
The trivia game show offered an apology for using an "outdated and inaccurate term" and tweeted: "Yesterday's program included a clue about postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS).
Jeopardy! apologized for its 'outdated and inaccurate term'Credit: Twitter
The show received tons of hate from fansCredit: Twitter
"After hearing from the community, we found we used an outdated and inaccurate term for this disorder, and we apologize."
Despite its apology, the competition program though still received backlash from the fans on social media.
One fan wrote: "Not cool Jeopardy! As if people with POTS, including my daughter, haven't to deal with enough stigmas that come with this serious condition."
A fan thought the inaccurate medical answer was shamefulCredit: Twitter
The POTS community were offended by the inaccuracyCredit: Twitter
Another fan tweeted: "Hey Jeopardy I was diagnosed with POTS after contracting #COVID19 and subsequently developing #LongCovid I guarantee you that my heart didn't shrink two sizes.
Dysautonomia is brutal, life limiting and sorely misunderstood. Shameful. Disability is no laughing matter."
A third fan objected: "Oh Jeopardy this is shameful. I have POTs and am sad you would resort to this. How low.
And I might add, incredibly incorrect. Would you seriously tell a kid he has a condition that makes him Grinch? I just...can't believe this."
POTS has nothing to do with the heart being 'too small'Credit: Twitter
Fans thought the 'Grinch syndrome' was 'ridiculous'Credit: Twitter
A fourth commentator stated: "I had to Google "grinch syndrome" because I couldn't spell the clinical term. I surmised it was a condition where the patients heart was too small...but that wasn't the nature of the condition when I looked it up...so I'm unclear how "Grinch Syndrome" was first coined?"
A fifth person ranted: "In my many years of dealing with POTS and speaking to/being tested by countless doctors.
"I've never even heard anyone mention anything related to abnormal heart size, let alone that being the hallmark feature.
"I've also never heard of that ridiculous nickname."
Alex passed away laty yearCredit: NBC
Jeopardy! continued with different celebrity hostsCredit: AP
A Jeopardy fan noted: "This is...objective false and immensely offensive."
Ever since Alex Trebek passed away in November last year, the game show has been hosted by various celebrities.
The TODAY Show host has been scheduled to serve as Jeopardy! host for about 10 episodes from June 14th to the 25th.
Vale, Charles, and Savannah pictured togetherCredit: Instagram
Last week, Savannah spoke about how she prepared for her new hosting duties on the TODAY show.
Savannah said: "I watched a lot of Alex's episodes. If you want to learn how to be good at something, you watch a person who is the absolute best.
"Being here, standing behind this podium, I have a new appreciation.
"It was hard. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's also one of the best things I've ever done."
The broadcaster has been married twice - to Mark Orchard, 45. from 2005 to 2009 and to Michael Feldman, 52, whom she wed back in 2014.
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Savannah shares two children, Vale Guthrie, six, and Charles Max, four, with her husband Michael.
Savannah said hosting Jeopardy! was 'one the best things I've ever done'Credit: Jeopardy Productions vis Youtube
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From our Clergy, Writings: Rabbi Dow Marmur
Netanyahu and Israel's Arabs
By Rabbi Dow Marmur.
That Binyamin Netanyahu made alarmist statements – interpreted by many as hostile to all the Arab citizens of Israel – before the elections last March, reprehensible though they were, could have been seen as an attempt to woo Jewish Israelis to vote for his party, Likud. It seemed to have worked. Likud got several more mandates than the polls predicted and Netanyahu remained prime minister.
It's more difficult to offer a corresponding explanation for Netanyahu's outburst against what sounded like all of Israel's Arabs when he visited the pub in Tel Aviv where two men had died and several persons were injured, two of them severely, by the indiscriminate shooting by an Israeli Arab. He seems also to have killed a third person, the taxi driver he hired after the shooting – ironically, an Israeli Arab from Lod, married to three wives and father of about a dozen children.
Those who are prone to explain the antics of public figures by delving into their private lives may be tempted to speculate that Netanyahu's latest outburst was because his wife is currently being investigated for maltreatment of staff and abuse of funds at the prime minister's residences. He may, therefore, be under great pressure.
But a more obvious interpretation is that Netanyahu is simply hostile to Israel's Arabs – it may be called racism in some quarters – and dresses it up in the customary way of politicians as the need for security that demands more policing in Arab communities, "silencing" the mosques where opposition to his government – perhaps to every Israeli government – is being voiced and where unlicensed guns abound. The inference is, of course, that the murderer in Tel Avis, identified by his own father and described as mentally deranged, was a product of anti-Jewish incitement by all or most Arabs.
Many Israelis were very critical of Netanyahu's unjustified outburst. In response he has added fuel to the fire. And he didn't speak in similar terms about religious Zionist settlers after the arrest of the Jewish terrorists from their midst who burnt down the house and destroyed the Arab Dawabsha family in the village of Duma.
This had made some Israelis despair of their present government, indeed of the future of their state because Netanyahu's statement is one of several outrageous acts of late. Another is education minister Bennett's latest attempt to censor what Israeli literature students should read and his effort to impose his kind of nationalism on the school curriculum. Yet another manifestation is justice minister Shaked's efforts again to curb the Supreme Court. A full list would include many more examples.
However, an article in Monday's Ha'aretz by the Israeli psychiatrist and brain researcher Dr Yoram Yuval, grandson of the late Yeshayahu Leibovitch, who was one of Israel's most original Orthodox thinkers, tells us not to panic. Governments come and go, he reminds us, but the State of Israel is there to stay, presumably with its 20% Arab minority. The Jewish people will continue to exist and thrive in the Jewish state all disputes, quarrels and unresolved issues notwithstanding.
I fervently hope that he's right. It's unthinkable that the magnificent creation that Israel has become and the way it withstands hostility from all sides, would go under because of the folly and mismanagement of their own who've been elected to govern. Let's protest as much as we can but not lose hope of better governments to come.
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I love making cookies with the family. The kitchen is the happening place at this time of the year. I make the cookie dough the day before to give it time to firm up. Then with the Christmas music playing in the background, I call the family to duty. I typically roll the dough and the others decorate. There are big cookies and little ones. Some are very artistic cookies and some really silly looking ones. Through it all there are smiles and laughter—that's the magic ingredient.
3. Align the pretzels, side-by-side. They can touch. I always squeeze as many as I can on a tray.
4. On each pretzel place a candy kiss.
5. Place in over for 3 minutes or until chocolate is just soft. Be careful not to leave in too long.
6. Press one holiday M&M's in the top of each softened kiss.
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Q: Spring Boot @ControllerAdvice / @Valid I am working on sample demo application for Exception Handling in Spring Boot.I am trying Exception Handling With @ControllerAdvice.
I would like to handle exception thrown by validator. It handles other exceptions but not MethodArgumentNotValidException.
For more details following are the classes I am working on:
Query.java
@Getter
@Setter
@NoArgsConstructor
@Validated
public class Query implements Serializable{
    @Size(min = 7, max = 24, message = "Size must be between 7 and 24")
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    private String number;

    @Size(max = 2, message = "Size must be between 0 and 2")
    @Pattern(regexp = "[a-zA-Z0-9 ]+", message="Invalid characters")
    private String language;
}

ErrorResponse.java
@Setter
@Getter
@NoArgsConstructor
@JsonInclude(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL)
@Data
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{

    @JsonFormat(shape = JsonFormat.Shape.STRING, pattern = "yyyy-MM-dd hh:mm:ss")
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    private HttpStatus status;

    private int code;

    private String error;

    private String exception;

    private String message;

    private String path;

    private List<String> errors;

}

CustomExceptionHandler.java
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@ControllerAdvice
@Component("error")
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    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.NOT_FOUND)
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    public final ResponseEntity<Object> handleNotFoundError(NotFoundException ex, final HttpServletRequest request) {
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        error.setTimestamp(LocalDateTime.now());
        error.setMessage(ex.getMessage());
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    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR)
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        error.setCode(HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR.value());
        return new ResponseEntity(error, HttpStatus.INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR);
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    @ExceptionHandler(ConstraintViolationException.class)
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        response.sendError(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST.value());
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    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.BAD_REQUEST)
    @Override
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        List<String> errorList = ex
                .getBindingResult()
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A: I just ran into this issue and here's how I solved it:
@ControllerAdvice
public class ApplicationExceptionHandler extends ResponseEntityExceptionHandler {
    @Override
    protected ResponseEntity<Object> handleMethodArgumentNotValid(MethodArgumentNotValidException ex, HttpHeaders headers, HttpStatus status, WebRequest request) {
        // handle validation exception here
    }
}

Note: if you have multiple classes that extend ResponseEntityExceptionHandler and are all @ControllerAdvice, you may have some trouble getting this overidden function to be executed. I had to have this overidden in a base class for all my exception handlers in order for it to finally be used. I may, in the future, put all my exception handlers into one class to avoid this.

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A: You create List<String> errorList but never use it and return just empty ErrorResponse

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Bury, United Kingdom ▾ Bury
Distance between Bury, United Kingdom and the Equator
5967 km = 3708 miles
During our calculation of the distance to the Equator we made three assumptions.
1) We assumed a spherical Earth as a close approximation of the true shape of the Earth (an oblate spheroid). The distance was calculated as great-circle or orthodromic distance on the surface of a sphere.
2) For each city we chose a particular point inside the city as the "city centre" and calculated the distances using the coordinates of these "city centres". Real distances to other points inside or near the city, for example, to its airport, will differ from our calculation.
3) We calculate the distance between a point on the Earth's surface and the Equator as the length of the arc of the meridian passing through this point and crossing the Equator.
Find out the distance between Bury and the North Pole, the South Pole, the Tropic of Cancer, the Tropic of Capricorn, the Arctic Circle, the Antarctic Circle
Bury, United Kingdom: basic facts and figures
Bury coordinates: 53°36′00″ N, 2°17′59″ W
Find out what time it is in Bury right now
See the map of Bury
Wikipedia article: Bury
The Equator: basic facts and figures
The Equator is an imaginary line on the Earth's surface created by the intersection of a plane, orthogonal to the Earth's axis and passing through the Earth's centre, with the Earth's surface.
The Equator is the longest circle of latitude or parallel on the Earth's surface.
The latitude of each point on the Equator equals 0°.
The Equator divides the Earth's surface into the Northern and the Southern Hemispheres.
The points that lie north of the Equator belong to the Northern Hemisphere.
The points that lie south of the Equator belong to the Southern Hemisphere.
Wikipedia article: the Equator


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Toward a Creative Ecosystem: Relationship Management, Access and a Culture of Invitation
Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
Elizabeth Merritt, Founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums, American Alliance of Museums
In TrendsWatch 2015 I cite YBCA:You as an example of personalized museum services, one which integrates individualized curricula into a membership-based community engagement program. But (as with so many great museum programs) most of what I know about the project I gleaned from the web. This week, Julie Potter, Creative Ecosystems Senior Program Manager at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, shares more details about this program, now in its third year.
YBCA:You
Conceived by Director of Community Engagement Joel Tan, YBCA:You was developed through various pilot ideas addressing the visitor experience with the goal of building deeply engaged and ongoing relationships with participants by increasing the frequency, diversity and community of art-going. Just as one might work with a personal trainer at a gym to improve physical health, YBCA:You fosters one's artistic, creative and social health with the help of a caring and skilled guide.
The Invitation – Access
The first benefit is an All-Access Pass to film, performance and visual art programs at YBCA. This "all-you-can-art" benefit encourages YBCA:You members, or "YOUers", to more frequently engage. The pass removes the barrier to risk taking or trying something new to which they may not have bought an individual ticket. In this way, the arts center becomes more like a creative gym, a learning haven and a community hotspot.
The Social – Community
The second benefit includes YBCA:You exclusive programs, open just to YOUers, which provide opportunities to meet other arts lovers while gathering around culture. These programs have become communities of practice responding to art with their own unique social architecture and ritual. They are often intimate (no more than 30 or so people at a time) and include food and drink, a culture of openness and respect, as well as modeling behavior and co-teaching. Friendships are formed, social learning occurs and tools for processing art are developed. After all, in today's digital world getting people talking in a room together can be a radical thing. My background is in performance and I'm partial to encounters in real life.
The participatory nature of YBCA:You exclusive programs invites an active response or feedback loop with the art. Experiential components of the art encounter are highlighted through embodiment, facilitated discussion, play and discovery. The contextual content often illuminates the cultural, social and historical elements or themes of the work. Additionally, many of these exclusives are process driven. Since contemporary art frequently addresses process as well as product, going behind the scenes offers opportunities to examine the full life cycle of an artistic work as well as the ongoing practices of artists. We build in opportunities for meaning-making to support individual and group processes, guiding sense perception, reflection, creation of emergent narratives and layering of ideas.
The Personal – Relationship Management
The third benefit of YBCA:You is the opportunity to build a one-on-one relationship with program staff serving as what we call a Live Guide. It's like having a coach for your art life, a sort of librarian, concierge or creative case manager. The Live Guide is an experienced and caring arts educator who learns about members, their values, experiences, wants and dislikes, and helps identify art goals and resources, providing tailored referrals to YBCA programs and other cultural organizations and venues. The interaction draws loosely from the case management model used in social work, as well as Rogerian human-centered therapy communication approaches.
When someone joins the program they can go through an intake process in which our program staff asks questions about the participant's current and desired relationship to art. What disciplines or content do they gravitate toward? What are they curious about? What venues do they frequent? What time do they have available to braid art into their life? The goal is to distill the desired modalities, subjects and style for that individual.
After the initial meeting, program staff sends personalized recommendations for activities both at YBCA and offsite in the larger Bay Area ecosystem. The Live Guide relationships develop organically from there based on the needs and interest of the member. In general the personalized sessions occur most frequently during onboarding, after someone first joins. Once YOUers become more comfortable navigating their art life, they move toward self-directed participation.
In addition to scheduled Live Guide appointments, YBCA:You offers monthly drop in "Happy/Office Hours" to accommodate the different schedules and preferences of members at a Free Advice booth (think Lucy from Charlie Brown.) The incorporation of individualized curricula or "Artistic Development Plans" at YBCA reflects institutional values of providing customized programming to enhance creative agency and meaning-making for broad and diverse constituencies.
A Three Pronged Approach to Wellness
Any combination of the three benefits are intended to make art a habit in one's life with the idea that increased frequency of cultural participation, increased diversity in one's exploration of arts and ideas, and social modes of engagement result in healthier and happier individuals. These components combined offer breadth and depth. YOUers enjoy the combination of art, community, accessibility and value.
The program costs $15 for the general public and we offer a limited number of free, year long YBCA:You memberships to those who qualify for the subsidy program, which provides benefits to any low income resident (which in San Francisco translates to anyone earning less than $39,600).
The Evolution – Towards a Creative Ecosystem
YBCA:You cuts across age and economics. Most members are highly educated and fit the profile of students in an evening division or continuing education program. These are people taking ownership for their growth and wellness and we're meeting them where they're at. The result is that participants feel welcome at YBCA, which cultivates loyalty and a valuable constituency of ambassadors. As in social work, people move from an individual program to interacting with a group, to then linking subgroups and mobilizing to affect. In this way we hope to also foster an artistic citizenship.
At YBCA we are intentional about developing cohorts and networks of belonging through a culture of invitation. What is the structure of belonging? Of wellness? Of inquiry? To belong is to be in a relationship containing both the experience of feeling valued and accepted, and the perception that we somehow complement the system or environment.
Whether social work or arts work, the common thread is the power to facilitate well-being, desired change and self-determination. Moving forward we're looking to expand the ways YOUers connect with other cohort groups hosted at the museum and further develop pathways of stewardship. We're fostering a creative ecosystem that looks at human rights through a lens of creativity, utilizing skills, strategies and ideas of planned change from public health and social justice to engage communities through art.
To quote Lois Silverman's writing about social work of museums:
"The greatest treasures of culture are not sculptures or specimens, but rather human relationships. Magnificent and precious, ourselves, close pairs, families, and groups belong in the worlds museums create, although living culture has quite different needs than rocks or bones. The next age is demanding change of global proportions and a nearly infinite capacity for human caring. Let us meet these needs with courage and creativity, one relationship at a time through the social work of museums."
Taking a Moment: Reflecting on our DEAI Responsibilities, webinar from March 2021	Category: On-Demand Programs: Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion
IMPs Talk: Social Media from February 2021	Category: On-Demand Programs: Marketing and Public Relations
What Does It Mean to be Trustworthy?	Category: Center for the Future Of Museums Blog
AAM Announces 2021 Publication Design Competition Winners; National Gallery of Victoria Receive Top Award	Category: Press Release


In this episode of One For The Road, we bring you Shine by Shaa'ir + Func!
A space where the musicians bring their music to their fans -- live, untouched and direct. #ONEFORTHEROAD finds some of the best Indian indie bands busking on the streets with some of their most popular songs, with their fans and passers-by as an impromptu audience.


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Moondyne Joe - A Picturesque Outlaw
Moondyne Joe - A Picturesque Outlaw (1928)
by Charles William Ferguson
Published as "Moondyne Joe", in The Sunday Times, 27/5/1928. A final draft of foolscap typescript has been found in the archives of Houghton Winery.
58396Moondyne Joe - A Picturesque OutlawCharles William Ferguson1928
Photograph of Moondyne Joe that accompanied the The Sunday Times article.
Although not distinguishable by outward appearance from the hundreds of other cells in Fremantle Gaol, there is one cell which has a particular interest because of the picturesque with which it is associated.
'Moondyne Joe' was, perhaps, Western Australia's most noted bushranger. He was not an outlaw of the bloodthirsty type, such as the Kelly's, Steve Hart, and the score of others who killed and plundered on the eastern side of the continent during last century, and was notorious more for his prison breaking exploits than for his crimes.
It was because the authorities found it impossible to keep Moondyne behind prison walls that a cell in Fremantle Gaol was specially prepared for him, and it remains today as it was when he occupied it many years ago. The walls of the confined space are heavily timbered and appear to have been laboriously carved and patterned, but is the triple-barred window which is of special interest. Moondyne laughed at ordinary locks and bars and prison walls, but when he first saw the cell prepared for him after many escapes, he must have realised that he would never be able to break through the bars which covered the small window space. First there was a series of thick iron bars, then a second series not quite so heavy, and outside a steel plate had been fixed, sufficiently perforated to permit the entrance of light and air. This was the penalty imposed on Western Australia's bushranger because of the facility he had displayed in escaping from legal custody.
Moondyne's most successful exploit in eluding the watchfulness of his custodians occurred on March 8, 1867, when he is reputed to have escaped through a hole he had tunnelled under the walls of the Gaol. He had received a sentence of some years imprisonment for a number of thefts but had escaped time after time, and at length, the prison authorities determined to put an end to his exploits. It is said that a big cage of strong bars was made, into which Joe, heavily leg-ironed, was placed during the day and kept at work within cracking stones.
The cage was placed near the south wall of the gaol, and at night the prisoner was taken out and confined to his cell until morning. The story goes that he piled a heap of stones within the cage so that he would be more or less out of view when working and would not attract the attention of the armed sentries on the walls. What subsequently transpired shows that Moondyne must have used every possible opportunity of excavating a tunnel from the earthen floor of the cage beneath the prison wall; then, when the day came on which he had determined to make yet another bid for freedom, he stood his hammer handle up in the heap of stones, placed a piece of bent wire across the top, put his coat and then cap on top, giving it the appearance of a tall figure to deceive the sentries. Having done this he crawled through the tunnel and escaped to the outside, where, it is thought, he had some confederate or sympathiser, who successfully hid him from the authorities. His escape was not noticed until the warder in charge came to take him from his cage to the cell for the night. It is said that the warder went up to the dummy figure and actually shook it before he discovered Joe was not there. A hue and cry was immediately raised and the country was scoured for the missing man. He could not be found, however, and people at length began to believe that he had left the state. For two years he remained at large and then his recapture was made in sensational circumstances.
On February 25th, 1869, when I was living at the Upper Swan, I had been to Perth on business, and just after returning home I received a message stating that a man had been drowned in the river and requesting me to notify the police at Guildford. I did so, and two mounted troopers were despatched to undertake the dragging of the river at the spot where it was believed the man had been drowned. The troopers were assisted by about a dozen other men, but it was not until one o'clock the next morning that the body was recovered and taken by the police to the man's home. I had been one of the searchers and invited the police officers and the others to come across to the cellars at the Houghton Vineyards, which I owned, and have a drink of wine, as we were all very wet and cold.
Unknown to us at the time, another man, Moondyne Joe, had selected that very night to force an entry to my wine cellars. He had apparently come from far away in the hills. I knew Moondyne, whose proper name was Joseph Bolitho Johns, fairly well. He was a tall man, standing well over 6 feet in height, and although spare of build, was extremely powerful and was a first rate bushman and rider. He knew every inch of the country between the Helena River, the head of the swan and Chittering Brook. He allowed his hair to grow in long plaits over his shoulders, and he also grew a very long beard. In anticipation of the plunder he expected to carry away with him from the cellars he had cut a hole in the centre of a wheat stack and fitted it over his head. In each end of the sack he had a two gallon keg, one in front and one at the back. He had covered his boots with sheep skins to disguise his tracks. In a small canvas bag around his neck were six skeleton keys, a brass tap, a dark lantern and a waddy, made from a piece of York Gum about 2 feet long.
It was unfortunate for Moondyne that he arrived at the cellars not long before the Police search party, at my invitation, also arrived. When I put my key into the lock of the cellar door I found it unlocked, and it creaked ajar. I thought it was strange, but concluded that it had not been closed when work had ceased for the day. I therefore lighted a candle I was carrying and commenced to walk along the cellar between the rows of wine barrels. The cellar was about 60 feet long and the spluttering flame of the candle did little more than dimly light the few feet of space immediately in front of me. One of my men was carrying a large jug and we commenced to walk towards a cask of wine which was on tap. We had only gone a few yards from the door when there was an unearthly yell and the tall figure of a man, with hair streaming over his shoulders and looking extremely weird, with the contrivance he carried over his head and shoulders, sprang out of the darkness. He made a tremendous blow at me with his waddy which just grazed my shoulder, made a second plunge at the man who was carrying the jug, and dashed past us towards the door straight into the arms of the police officers and the other men who were following. The cellar had been plunged into darkness as the candle had dropped from my hand, and my man had also dropped his jug. I confess that I was quite scared for the moment as, I think, most men would have been in similar circumstances, and was relieved when I got outside to find that my attacker had been captured by the police and was sitting on the ground securely handcuffed.
No one at first recognised the intruder, and then someone called out - "Why it's Moondyne!" "Yes!" replied the prisoner, 'you have got him at last'. Moondyne cooly asked me to give him a drink as he had not had time to get one for himself. He had, he declared, just put the tap he had brought with him into the cask when he had heard voices outside and was afraid that he would have to fight his way out. He said he was sorry he had struck me as he had no ill-will towards me. He also said he had seen my mother walking up and down whilst he had been hiding amongst the vines waiting an opportunity to break into the cellar.
Moondyne had apparently lost control of himself somewhat, for, if had had only rolled under the numerous rows of gantrees in the cellar, I would have walked to the cask, filled the jug, and walked out again, and he would have been left undiscovered to make his way out at his leisure, after we had retired. Moondyne had arrived on horseback and he asked me allow someone to go and release his horse, which he had tied up at a place nearby, known as the Sand Pit. I did so, but no horse was there, and it was evident that the animal had been released by one of his numerous friends. Joe got three years' imprisonment on a charge of being a prisoner at large and of assaulting the man who had entered the cellar with me, whose head was badly cut by the the blow aimed at him by Moondyne. After his sentence he worked for sometime at Fremantle for Mr. Wrightson, the boat builder.
Although Moondyne was regarded as a bushranger, I never heard of him baling anyone up at the point of a revolver and threatening them with their lives if they did not hand over their money and valuables. He was very cunning and crafty and more a petty thief than a highwayman. An an instance, I remember that my father lost a pony which had been bred in country familiar to Moondyne. The pony made its way back to this country and my father offered £3 for its recovery. Joe found the pony and brought it to Houghton and was paid the reward of £3. He was asked to put the pony in a paddock which he did, but the next day when I went to see if the horse was there, I found that a post had been cut down and tracks showed where the horse had been driven over the fence. Joe, after receiving the reward, had apparently repossessed himself of the horse, which was never seen again.
During the two years Moondyne was at liberty preceding his capture at Houghton, several robberies were committed in the Swan District and Herne Hill. The store was broken into and Cruse's Mill was also robbed and a quantity of flour stolen. No one, however seemed to connect Moondyne with these robberies. From doing a bit of sawing and shingle splitting, he took to horse hunting, and was well known on Toodyay Road. He was wise in his generation and made many friends, who stood to him in times of need, although he often failed to discriminate between these friends and other people.
Many old residents of Western Australia will remember the publication of verses which were written and sung to the tune of "Pop Goes the Weazle" at the time of Moondyne's sensational escape from Fremantle Gaol. There was an epidemic of measles in Perth at that time and one of the victims was the then Governor. One of the doggerel verses was as follows:-
"The Governor's son has got the pip,
The Governor's got the measles.
But Moondyne Joe has give 'em the slip,
Pop goes the weazle."
All the urchins in Perth used to sing and whistle this tune. Residents of Augusta and surround districts state that the Coronation Cave, near Augusta, was originally known as Moondyne Joe's Cave and that he used it as a refuge when chased by the police. Personally I never heard of Moondyne being in that country his favourite haunt being the Darling Range, and particularly a spot known as Moondyne, a pool in the upper reaches of the Swan. I believe that is was his desire to celebrate the second anniversary of his escape from Fremantle that led to his capture in the Houghton wine cellars, because he would have been out exactly two years in the week following his capture.
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Die Laborschule Dresden ist eine freie Schule in Trägerschaft des Omse e. V. in Dresden-Gorbitz. Sie ist eine staatlich anerkannte Ersatzschule für den Bereich Grundschule sowie staatlich genehmigtes Gymnasium. Das Konzept der Schule folgt einem reformpädagogischen Ansatz.

Entstehung
Die Laborschule Dresden gibt es seit Beginn des Schuljahres 2004/05. Der Omse e. V. (früher BioTop Kümmelschänke e. V.) war zu dieser Zeit bereits Betreiber mehrerer Kindertagesstätten im Dresdner Westen. Als Konsequenz aus der Arbeit mit (älter werdenden) Kindern war die Idee zum Aufbau einer Schule in freier Trägerschaft entstanden. Eltern und Pädagogen erarbeiteten ein Konzept, das den Rahmen für die pädagogische Arbeit und die wirtschaftliche Realisierung setzte. Mit dem Gebäude der ehemaligen 137. Mittelschule, das der Verein samt Außengelände und zwei Turnhallen durch Erbbaurecht übernehmen konnte, wurden auch die geeigneten Räumlichkeiten in Dresden-Gorbitz gefunden. Am 23. August 2004 begannen die ersten zehn Schüler einer ersten Klasse den Unterricht.

Pädagogik und Schulalltag
Die pädagogische Arbeit der Laborschule Dresden folgt im Wesentlichen dem reformpädagogischen Konzept des Jena-Plans von Peter Petersen und dessen in den 1980er Jahren überarbeiteten Basisprinzipien. Unterrichtet wird in altersgemischten Lerngruppen. Dadurch sollen die Schüler ein Helfersystem untereinander entwickeln und mit ihren unterschiedlichen Erfahrungen verschiedene Wege zur Lösung von Aufgaben finden. Die Lerngruppen sind derzeit vier Stufen zugeordnet (Stufe I: Klassenstufen 1 bis 3, Stufe II: Klassen 4 bis 6, Stufe III: Klassen 7 bis 9, Stufe IV: Klassen 10 bis 12).
Die Laborschule Dresden ist eine Ganztagsschule. Neben dem Unterricht ist die Projektarbeit wichtigster Bestandteil des Bildungsangebotes. Neben den grundlegenden Fähigkeiten des Lesens, Schreibens und Rechnens, neben dem Wissenserwerb, dem kognitiven und sozialen Lernen, ist auch das praktische Arbeiten wichtig für die Entwicklung der Heranwachsenden. In der Laborschule können die Schüler viele Dinge praktisch ausprobieren, um eigene Fähigkeiten kennen zu lernen und auszubauen. In Projekten, Kursen kann interessenbezogen gelernt werden.

Projektorientiert wird an der Laborschule nicht nur in Kursen oder Projekten gearbeitet, sondern phasenweise oder durchgängig in nahezu allen Unterrichtsfächern. Handwerkliches Arbeiten und das Erlangen praktischer Fähigkeiten sind fester Bestandteil der Pädagogik (der Name der Schule leitet sich von laborare, lat.= arbeiten ab). Schüler sollen lernen, selbstständig Themen und Lösungen zu finden und demokratische Teilhabe zu üben. Dem Leitbild des Trägervereins folgend sollen die Heranwachsenden lernen, ihre Lebensumwelt zu achten und nachhaltig zu denken.
Wichtig für die Gestaltung des Schulalltags und das Bestehen der Schule ist die Einbeziehung der Eltern. Dies geschieht zum Beispiel durch die Mitwirkung in Arbeitskreisen und Interessengemeinschaften, die Übernahme von Projekten und durch Arbeitseinsätze.
Petersens Jena-Plan wird als Entwicklungskonzept verstanden, nicht als starres Dogma. Daraus ergibt sich, dass es konzeptionelle Anpassungen an gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen und regionale Besonderheiten gibt und geben wird.

Umbau
Dem größeren Platzbedarf durch steigende Schülerzahlen und der Ausweitung der Gymnasialstufe soll mit einer umfassenden Sanierung und Neugestaltung des Plattenbaus begegnet werden. Dabei sollte die Laborschule Dresden zum ersten Schulgebäude mit Passivhausstandard in Dresden werden. Dieses Vorhaben wird jedoch aufgrund mangelnder öffentlicher Förderung derzeit nicht weiter verfolgt.

Die Laborschule wurde seit 2012 schrittweise saniert. Zuerst wurden Fenster und Fassade erneuert, im Sommer 2016 zudem die Toilettenanlagen und offenen Lernbereiche in den Gängen. Auch Brandschutztüren wurden überall eingebaut. Im Jahr 2017 wird ein Aufzug eingeweiht, der es nun auch Menschen mit Handicaps ermöglicht, die Schule zu besuchen.

Zusammen mit anderen Einrichtungen in Dresden-Gorbitz wurde dazu die Stiftung "Sonne und Wind" gegründet, die möglichst alle Dächer des Plattenbaugebietes mit Photovoltaikanlagen ausstatten möchte.

Fakten
In der Laborschule Dresden lernen 320 Schüler. Derzeit arbeiten über 40 Pädagogen an der Schule. Sie ist anerkannter Einsatzort für Praktikanten eines pädagogischen Studiengangs. Die Schule finanziert sich neben den staatlichen Zuschüssen über Einnahmen aus Spenden und durch Schulgeld der Eltern. Die Schule wird von einem Schulleiter geführt, der von Stufenkoordinatoren und der Hortleitung unterstützt wird.

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Einzelnachweise

Grundschule in Sachsen
Gymnasium in Dresden
Dresden, Laborschule
Modellversuch (Schulwesen)
Gorbitz
Gegründet 2004


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Most Americans Don't Realise What Companies Can Predict From Their Data
Data can be used to predict other kinds of information– information people might not be comfortable with revealing.
By Emilee Radar	 On Feb 12, 2019
A team competing in the CTF contest at DEFCON 17 in Las Vegas.
Sixty-seven percent of smartphone users rely on Google Maps to help them get to where they are going quickly and efficiently.
A major of feature of Google Maps is its ability to predict how long different navigation routes will take. That's possible because the mobile phone of each person using Google Maps sends data about its location and speed back to Google's servers, where it is analyzed to generate new data about traffic conditions.
Information like this is useful for navigation. But the exact same data that is used to predict traffic patterns can also be used to predict other kinds of information – information people might not be comfortable with revealing.
For example, data about a mobile phone's past location and movement patterns can be used to predict where a person lives, who their employer is, where they attend religious services and the age range of their children based on where they drop them off for school.
These predictions label who you are as a person and guess what you're likely to do in the future. Research shows that people are largely unaware that these predictions are possible, and, if they do become aware of it, don't like it. In my view, as someone who studies how predictive algorithms affect people's privacy, that is a major problem for digital privacy in the U.S.
How is this all possible?
Every device that you use, every company you do business with, every online account you create or loyalty program you join, and even the government itself collects data about you.
The kinds of data they collect include things like your name, address, age, Social Security or driver's license number, purchase transaction history, web browsing activity, voter registration information, whether you have children living with you or speak a foreign language, the photos you have posted to social media, the listing price of your home, whether you've recently had a life event like getting married, your credit score, what kind of car you drive, how much you spend on groceries, how much credit card debt you have and the location history from your mobile phone.
What data brokers know
Data brokers can collect data and make predictions about a wide array of your personal traits, such as those listed below.
Identifying data Name, previously used names, address, address history, longitude and latitude, phone numbers, email address
Sensitive identifying data Social Security number, driver's license number, birthdate, a birthdate of family members in the household
Demographic data Age, height, weight, gender, race/ethnicity, country of origin, religion (by surname at household level), language, marital status, presence of elderly parent, presence of children in household, education level, occupation, family ties, demographic characteristics of family members in household, number of surnames in household, veteran in household, grandparent in house, Spanish speaker, foreign language household, households with a householder who is Hispanic origin or Latino, employed (white or blue collar occupation), work at home, length of residence, household size, congressional district, single parent with children, ethnic and religious affiliations
Court and public record data Bankruptcies, criminal offences and convictions, judgments, liens, marriage licenses, state licenses and registrations, voting registration and party identification
General interest data Apparel preferences, attendance at sporting events, charitable giving, gambling (casinos or state lotteries), thrifty elders, life events (e.g., retirement, newlywed, expectant parent), magazine and catalog subscriptions, media channels used, participation in outdoor activities (e.g., golf, motorcycling, skiing, camping), participation in sweepstakes or contests, pets, dog owner, political leanings, assimilation code, preferred celebrities, preferred movie genres, preferred music genres, reading and listening preferences, donor (e.g., religious, political, health causes), financial newsletter subscriber, upscale retail card holder, affluent baby boomer, working-class moms, working woman, African-American professional, biker/Hell's Angels, Bible lifestyle, New Age/organic lifestyle
Social media data Electronics purchases, friend connections, internet connection type, internet provider, level of usage, heavy Facebook user, heavy Twitter user, Twitter user with 250+ friends, is a member of more than 5 social networks, online influence, operating system, software purchases, type of media posted, uploaded pictures, use of long-distance calling services, presence of computer owner, use of mobile devices, social media and internet accounts (e.g., on LinkedIn, Amazon, Flickr, NBA.com)
Home and neighbourhood data Census tract data, address coded as public/government housing, dwelling type, heating and cooling, home equity, home loan amount and interest rate, home size, lender type, length of residence, listing price, market value, move date, neighbourhood criminal/demographic/business data, number of baths, number of rooms, number of units, presence of fireplace, presence of garage, presence of home pool, rent price, type of owner, type of roof, year built
It doesn't matter if these datasets were collected separately by different sources and don't contain your name. It's still easy to match them up according to other information about you that they contain.
For example, there are identifiers in public records databases, like your name and home address, that can be matched up with GPS location data from an app on your mobile phone. This allows a third party to link your home address with the location where you spend most of your evening and nighttime hours – presumably where you live. This means the app developer and its partners have access to your name, even if you didn't directly give it to them.
In the U.S., the companies and platforms you interact with own the data they collect about you. This means they can legally sell this information to data brokers.
Data brokers are companies that are in the business of buying and selling datasets from a wide range of sources, including location data from many mobile phone carriers. Data brokers combine data to create detailed profiles of individual people, which they sell to other companies.
Combined datasets like this can be used to predict what you'll want to buy in order to target ads. For example, a company that has purchased data about you can do things like connect your social media accounts and web browsing history with the route you take when you're running errands and your purchase history at your local grocery store.
Employers use large datasets and predictive algorithms to make decisions about who to interview for jobs and predict who might quit. Police departments make lists of people who may be more likely to commit violent crimes. FICO, the same company that calculates credit scores, also calculates a "medication adherence score" that predicts who will stop taking their prescription medications.
Research shows that people are only aware of predictions that are shown to them in an app's user interface, and that make sense given the reason they decided to use the app. SIFO CRACHO/shutterstock.com
How aware are people about this?
Even though people may be aware that their mobile phones have GPS and that their name and address are in a public records database somewhere, it's far less likely that they realize how their data can be combined to make new predictions. That's because privacy policies typically only include vague language about how data that's collected will be used.
In a January survey, the Pew Internet and American Life project asked adult Facebook users in the U.S. about the predictions that Facebook makes about their personal traits, based on data collected by the platform and its partners. For example, Facebook assigns a "multicultural affinity" category to some users, guessing how similar they are to people from a different race or ethnic backgrounds. This information is used to target ads.
The survey found that 74 per cent of people did not know about these predictions. About half said they are not comfortable with Facebook predicting information like this.
In my research, I've found that people are only aware of predictions that are shown to them in an app's user interface, and that makes sense given the reason they decided to use the app. For example, a 2017 study of fitness tracker users showed that people are aware that their tracker device collects their GPS location when they are exercising. But this doesn't translate into awareness that the activity tracker company can predict where they live.
In another study, I found that Google Search users know that Google collects data about their search history, and Facebook users are aware that Facebook knows who their friends are. But people don't know that their Facebook "likes" can be used to accurately predict their political party affiliation or sexual orientation.
Facebook predictions
In a survey of American Facebook users, the majority said that they did not know that Facebook predicts their interests and personal traits. 51 per cent were not comfortable with the practice.
What can be done about this?
Today's internet largely relies on people managing their own digital privacy.
Companies ask people up front to consent to systems that collect data and make predictions about them. This approach would work well for managing privacy, if people refused to use services that have privacy policies they don't like, and if companies wouldn't violate their own privacy policies.
But research shows that nobody reads or understands those privacy policies. And, even when companies face consequences for breaking their privacy promises, it doesn't stop them from doing it again.
Requiring users to consent without understanding how their data will be used also allows companies to shift the blame onto the user. If a user starts to feel like their data is being used in a way that they're not actually comfortable with, they don't have room to complain, because they consented, right?
In my view, there is no realistic way for users to be aware of the kinds of predictions that are possible. People naturally expect companies to use their data only in ways that are related to the reasons they had for interacting with the company or app in the first place. But companies usually aren't legally required to restrict the ways they use people's data to only things that users would expect.
One exception is Germany, where the Federal Cartel Office ruled on Feb. 7 that Facebook must specifically ask its users for permission to combine data collected about them on Facebook with data collected from third parties. The ruling also states that if people do not give their permission for this, they should still be able to use Facebook.
I believe that the U.S. needs stronger privacy-related regulation, so that companies will be more transparent and accountable to users about not just the data they collect, but also the kinds of predictions they're generating by combining data from multiple sources.
Emilee Rader Associate Professor of Media and Information, Michigan State University.
(This article was originally published on The Conversation and has been republished under the Creative Commons license.)


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Q: Why does OpenLayers load OSM-like tiles, but does not show them? I created a tile server with OSM-data in the German style. The data is quite similar to the official tile server for openstreetmap.de, provided by Fraunhofer IOSB.
http://tile.iosb.fraunhofer.de/tiles/osmde/${z}/${x}/${y}.png

If I include the standard OSM-server
http://a.tile.openstreetmap.org/${z}/${x}/${y}.png

with the following constructor
new OpenLayers.Layer.OSM("OSM",myOSMURL,{...});

I get a valid map. The OpenCycleMap tile server works as well.
If I want to use my own tile server or the one from Fraunhofer, the browser successfully gets an respond to the GET-request from the tile server and loads the tiles needed, but doesn't show them in the map.
Following the steps here, I generated a map with local data successfully.  Nevertheless, if I replace the link of the local data with a link to Fraunhofer or my tile server, the browser still loads the tiles, but doesn't show them.
// This is the layer that uses the locally stored tiles
//var newLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.OSM("Local Tiles", "tiles/${z}/${x}/${y}.png", {numZoomLevels: 19, alpha: true, isBaseLayer: false});
var newLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.OSM("Local Tiles", "http://tile.iosb.fraunhofer.de/tiles/osmde/${z}/${x}/${y}.png", {numZoomLevels: 19, alpha: true, isBaseLayer: false});
map.addLayer(newLayer);
// This is the end of the layer

Image in full resolution: http://i.stack.imgur.com/73jOX.jpg
How do I get the tiles from my tile server or Fraunhofer to my map?

A: You could use an XYZ layer in Openlayers. This layer should be used in OpenLayers, whenever you have tiles arranged by a standard XYZ grid. This tileset format has been popularized by OSM & then Mapbox.
A Sample is presented here: http://openlayers.org/dev/examples/mapbox.html
For an OSM-like layer you should set the property sphericalMercator: true, so that properties like maxExtent and projectionare set to default values for OSM. For more details see the source code of the XYZ layer.

A: If the problem depends on the browser you use, it might well be a question of Same Origin Policy.
See http://romkey.com/2011/04/23/getting-around-same-origin-policy-in-web-browsers/
for some hints.


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My daughter's doctors have had us using a sliding scale for her insulin. At the age of four, my daughter has had diabetes for three years. I read an article about the use of sliding scales for insulin and I am now worried. Is there a better way to dose her insulin? If, so how? After I know these other ways to do her insulin, I will go to her doctor about a change if there is a better way.
There are many ways to manage diabetes. The use of "flexible" insulin (for what is eaten and the blood glucose) is commonly used today....and with good results. The other way is with fixed doses of insulin. I expect your doctor worries that in a child so young, you may be faced with insulin given but refusal to eat "enough" for the insulin and a low. This is a great discussion for you and your doctor. Engage in it so you understand WHY you are managing as you are.


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Congratulations to Christina Barilla, Mike Godfrey, ABC and Denise Tanguay from Scripps Health, and Steve Hubert from the San Diego County Water Authority.
The global awards competition recognizes outstanding achievement in communications. Entries comprise two parts: the work plan and the work sample. Judges are IABC members.
Christina and Mike,were recognized with an award of merit in the category of Electronic and Digital Communication Skills. Their win is for the "2009 Scripps Health Annual Report" and marks Mike's fourth consecutive Gold Quill for this publication.
The awards will be presented at the upcoming IABC World Conference right here in San Diego.


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Mike Brant song 'Laisse-moi t'aimer' in English uncovered
Army Radio revealed an English recording of 'Laisse-moi t'aimer' 43 years after singer's death.
Updated: OCTOBER 22, 2018 15:21
Mike Brant album cover
Israeli pop singer Mike Brant - who became world-famous singing in French - died at just 27 years old in 1975, at the peak of his career.
On Monday, never-before-heard recordings of Brant, including in English, were revealed for the first time on Israel's Army Radio.
Jean Renard, the composer who wrote many of Mike's most important songs, called my daughter who lives in Paris," said Tzvika Brand, Mike's brother, in an interview with Army Radio's Kobi Mandel. "He told her he was organizing his basement, and they went down there together and there they found a number of recordings – practices, warmups – really rare recordings of Mike – and he gave her those recordings."
One of those songs played for the first time on Army Radio on Monday morning, was an English version of Brant's most famous tune, "Laisse-moi t'aimer" ("Let Me Love You").
"Don't say goodbye/ To me my love/ You know I need you so," Brant sings in English.
Brant, who was born Moshe Brand in an internment camp in Cyprus and moved to Israel as an infant, began his career as a performer in Israel. In 1969, at age 22, he signed a deal with a French producer and recorded "Laisse-moi t'aimer" in French – despite not speaking the language. The song became an instant success, and Brant went on to record four albums in French, performing in front of thousands of people around Europe.
In 1975, at age 28, Brant took his life by jumping out of the window of an apartment in Paris.
Brand, Mike's brother, told Army Radio that his songs are still regularly played in Paris, and his fanbase remains strong. Brand said that earlier this year, fans of the late singer attended a sale of his belongings in France in order to save the mementos.
"They bought things and sent them to my home," said Brand. "One fan, named Muhammad, bought a shell casing that Mike received as a souvenir from the IDF, and [sent it to me], and that moved me to tears."


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Google says no one is reading your emails, except...
Your Gmail is (mostly) safe from prying eyes, but you still need to be careful.
Image: Mashable
By Stan Schroeder 2018-07-04 10:23:33 UTC
Google would like you to know that no one is reading your emails on Gmail without your permission. While that may be true, things aren't that simple.
After a Wall Street Journal report (published Monday) described how third-party developers might be reading your emails on Gmail, Google on Tuesday responded with a blog post, describing the measures the company takes to ensure your security and privacy within the service.
SEE ALSO: Everyone's getting new Gmail — and old Gmail will soon go extinct
The post, signed by Suzanne Frey, Director of Security, Trust and Privacy at Google Cloud, admits that Google allows third party developers to access your Gmail messages, but only if you've granted them permission, and only after they pass a strict review process.
"Before a published, non-Google app can access your Gmail messages, it goes through a multi-step review process that includes automated and manual reviews of the developer, assessment of the app's privacy policy and homepage to ensure it is a legitimate app, and in-app testing to ensure the app works as it says it does," Frey says.
In contrast, the WSJ's report claims that Google "does little to police these developers," which in some cases actually have their employees read users' emails. According to the report, employees of a company called Return Path read about 8,000 user emails two years ago in order to help train its software.
The practice of sharing user data with third-party firms became common knowledge after it was revealed that Facebook let numerous third-party apps harvest massive amounts of user data for their own purposes.
Google has been a little more careful than Facebook when it comes to protecting your privacy. For example, the company stopped using contents of user emails on Gmail to personalize its ads back in 2017.
But if you're not careful about granting permissions in Gmail to third-party apps, your emails could still theoretically fall into the wrong hands. To check which third-party apps you've allowed to access your Gmail, go to myaccount.google.com and click on "Apps with account access."
In the post, Frey also points out that "no one at Google reads your Gmail." There are exceptions to that rule, though. According to the company, these include "very specific cases where you ask us to and give consent, or where we need to for security purposes, such as investigating a bug or abuse."
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