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Idősebb Wekerle Sándor (Mór, 1848. november 14. – Budapest, 1921. augusztus 26.) magyar jogász, politikus, szabadkőműves, előbb a Szapáry-kormány pénzügyminisztere, majd a Magyar Királyság miniszterelnöke elsőként a Szabadelvű Párt színeiben 1892 és 1895 között, majd kétszer az Országos Alkotmánypárt színeiben 1906 és 1910, valamint 1917 és 1918 között. A Magyar Tudományos Akadémia tagja, egyúttal ő volt az első polgári származású magyar miniszterelnök. Nevét őrzi a pénzügyminisztersége alatt kezdeményezett kispesti lakónegyed, a Wekerletelep is. Halálának 90. évfordulóján – 2011-ben – Móron állították fel egész alakos köztéri emlékművét.

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Életpályája

Württembergi eredetű sváb polgári családból származott. Édesapja Wekerle Sándor (1811–1890), édesanyja Szép Antónia. Édesapja a Lamberg család jószágigazgatója volt. Elsőszülött fia, ifj. Wekerle Sándor még apja életében országgyűlési képviselő, majd az 1920-as évek végén a Bethlen-kormányban pénzügyminiszer lett. Wekerle Sándor állami tisztségei betöltése mellett maga is gazdálkodott, birtokait a kor legjobb színvonalán gépesítette, ezeken malmot, szeszgyárat és villanytelepet is létesített.

Székesfehérvárott, a Ciszterci Szent István Gimnáziumban végezte középiskolai tanulmányait, majd Pesten szerzett jogi diplomát. 1870-től a Pénzügyminisztériumban dolgozott, majd Tisza Kálmán kormányában, 1886-tól pénzügyi államtitkár, 1889. április 9-étől 1892. január 15-éig pénzügyminiszter, 1892. május 10-étől július 16-áig kereskedelemügyi miniszter.

1892. november 17-étől 1895. január 14-éig miniszterelnök, 1896. november 30-ától 1906. április 8-áig közigazgatási bírósági elnök. Utóbbiból kifolyólag a felsőháznak is a tagja lett, így több választáson (ideértve az esedékes 1896-os választásokat is) nem indult egészen az 1906-os választásokig.

Az 1905–1906-os magyarországi belpolitikai válság hatására személye megint az előtérbe került, a király többször is kért tőle tanácsot, a válságot lezáró megállapodás eredményeként pedig 1906. április 8-ától 1910. január 17-éig másodszor miniszterelnök, immár a szövetkezett ellenzék színeiben (kinevezése napján belépett az Országos Alkotmánypártba), s egyúttal saját kormányában pénzügyminiszter (végig), honvédelmi miniszter április 14-éig és április 23-áig egyúttal horvát–dalmát–szlavón tárca nélküli miniszter is. Később, 1909. szeptember 23-ától az 1910-es választásokig igazságügy-miniszter is.

1917. augusztus 20-tól 1918. október 30-ig harmadszor volt miniszterelnök, ez idő alatt stabil kormánypártot akart létrehozni, ezért megalakította a 48-as Alkotmánypártot. 1917. szeptember 16-ától 1918. február 11-ig pénzügyminiszter, 1918. január 25-től február 11-ig földművelésügyi miniszter, 1918. május 8-ától október 31-ig belügyminiszter, 1920-tól a Közművelődési Tanács, 1921. április 16-ától haláláig az Országos Pénzügyi Tanács elnöke volt.

A második miniszterelnöksége (1906–1910) alatti ciklusban fia, ifj. Wekerle Sándor is országgyűlési képviselő volt az Országos Alkotmánypárt színeiben.

Wekerle Sándor volt az első magyar miniszterelnök, aki vagyon és összeköttetések nélkül – saját tudásának és felkészültségének köszönhetően – jutott el a legmagasabb kormányzati tisztségbe. Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia reálpolitikusa volt, széles körű, európai műveltséggel és látásmóddal. A demokratikus haladásért, a gazdasági fejlődéséért, a nemzeti célokért és a népjólétért küzdött, ezért nagy népszerűségnek örvendett a középosztály és a munkásság körében is. A fővároson kívül több vidéki nagyváros is díszpolgárává választotta. Pénzügyi-közgazdasági tehetségét, szakmai és politikusi teljesítményét kortársai Európa-szerte elismerték.

Házassága és gyermekei
1877. szeptember 17.-én a budapest-belvárosi főplébániatemplomban kötött házasságot a nemesi származású parnói Molnár Gizella (Baracs, 1856. november 17. – Nyáregyháza, 1936. június 20.), kisasszonnyal, akinek a szülei parnói Molnár István (1825–1907), a főrendiház tagja, Zemplén vármegye főispánja és nyéki Nyéky Leona (1836–1894) asszony voltak. A menyasszony anyai nagyszülei nyéki Nyéky Albert (1803–1858), földbirtokos és zombori Rónay Anna (1802–1889) asszony voltak. Wekerle Sándor és parnói Molnár Gizella frigyéből született:
Wekerle Sándor Tivadar Pongrác (Budapest, 1878. június 26. – Budapest, 1963. december 23.), akadémiai oktató, gazdaságpolitikus, országgyűlési képviselő, pénzügyminiszter. Felesége csákói Geist Mária Lujza Erzsébet (Budapest, 1886. július 17. – Budapest, 1977. március 7.).
dr. Wekerle Géza (Budapest, 1894. november 15. – Budapest, 1971. február 18.), jogász, honvéd huszárezred. tartalékos hadnagy. Felesége kezdivásárhelyi Vásárhelyi Erzsébet (1893. április 26. – Nyáregyháza, 1963. február 2.).

Munkássága

Nevéhez fűződik az aranyvaluta bevezetése 1892-ben. Első miniszterelnöksége idején hozta meg az Országgyűlés az úgynevezett egyházpolitikai törvényeket. Wekerle a kötelező polgári házasságra vonatkozó törvényjavaslat elutasítása miatt nyújtotta be lemondását. 1906. április 8-án alakított koalíciós kormányt a Fejérváry-kormány bukása után. Kormányának bukása után (1910. január 17.) – részben cukorbaja miatt is – egy időre visszavonult a politikai élettől.

Harmadik kormánya 1917. augusztus 20-án alakult, már az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia szétesésének időszakában működött. Az utolsó magyar király, IV. Károly választójogi könnyítéssel, a nemzetiségeknek szánt engedményekkel próbálta egyben tartani a monarchiát. Ezek a kísérletek azonban 1918. október 30-án az őszirózsás forradalom alatt végleg kudarcba fulladtak. Nevéhez fűződik Kispest városrészének, a Wekerletelepnek a létrehozása.

1887–1896, 1906–1910, 1917–1918 és 1920–1921 között országgyűlési, illetve nagygyűlési képviselő, valamint 1914-től a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia igazgatója, 1918-tól tiszteleti tagja.

Az első magyar kormányfő, aki háromszor is kormányt alakíthatott Magyarországon. Rajta kívül csak Nagy Imre és Orbán Viktor alakított ennyiszer kabinetet.

Történelmi emlékezete és kultusza
A halála után bekövetkezett politikai változások miatt Magyarországon Wekerle Sándor érdemei sem a két világháború között, sem az 1945 utáni korszakban nem kaptak méltó elismerést.

Az 1990. évi rendszerváltást követően a történészek és a pénzügyi-közgazdasági szakemberek, majd a politikusok is szélesebb körben is újraértékelték, méltatták államférfiként és pénzügyi szakemberként felmutatott teljesítményét. 2006-ban vette fel nevét a Wekerle Sándor Üzleti Főiskola. A kispesti Wekerletelepen civil kezdeményezésre 2008-ban állították fel első köztéri szobrát. 2011-2012-ig Wekerle Sándor Alapkezelő néven működött a Közigazgatási és Igazságügyi Minisztérium pályázati forráskezelő intézménye. A Nemzetgazdasági Minisztérium 2012-ben Wekerle-terv néven hirdette meg a magyar gazdaság Kárpát-medencei léptékű növekedési stratégiáját.

Móron emlékezete megőrzését kezdetben lokálpatrióta értelmiségiek karolták fel. Szülőházán a városi könyvtár akkori vezetője kezdeményezésre 1988-ban emléktáblát helyeztek el, majd 1992ben megalapították a Wekerle Sándor Egyesületet. 1990-ben az első szabadon választott önkormányzattól a város egyik főutcája is visszakapta a Wekerle Sándor nevet. 1993-ban az önkormányzat posztumusz díszpolgári címet adományozott részre. A 2002-ben megépült modern móri szabadidőközpont is Wekerle Sándor nevét viseli.

2011-ben civil kezdeményezésre – Mór város politikai vezetése, a civil szervezetek, a gazdasági szereplők és a lakosság példaértékű összefogásával – a Wekerle Emlékév keretében állították fel egész alakos köztéri emlékművét. Az impozáns bronz szobor Nagy Benedek móri művész alkotása, amely Wekerle egykori szülőháza közelében a megújult Erzsébet téren található. 2014-ben avatták fel a Lamberg-kastély földszintjén a Wekerle-kiállítást, amelyben a nagy politikus után megmaradt levéltári anyagok, életrajzi és kortörténeti tablók láthatók. A Wekerle Emlékévet és a szoborállítást koordináló emlékbizottság tagjainak egy része magánszemélyként 2012-ben megalapította a Wekerle Sándor Életművét Gondozó Kulturális és Tudományos Alapítványt. Az alapítvány Mór város vezetésével és a civil szervezetekkel, hagyományőrzőkkel együttműködve ünnepségek és rendezvények szervezésével, díjak alapításával, népszerűsítő kiadványok és könyv megjelenítésével terjeszti és őrzi a nagy államférfi történelmi emlékezetét és példáját, honlapja a wekerlealapitvany.hu cím alatt érhető el.

Művei
Die passive Handelsbilanz; Manzsche-Buchhandl, Wien, 1913
A háború gazdasági következményei; Pallas, Bp., 1915 (Hadi beszédek)
Wekerle Sándor beszédei; Középeurópai Közgazdasági Egyesület, Bp., 1918

Történészi kutatások
Wekerle Sándor különleges történelmi alakját, rendhagyó életpályáját a dualizmus időszakát kutató történészek is érdekesnek, napjainkig ható tanulságokkal szolgálónak találták, a rendszerváltás után szakfolyóiratokban, népszerű történelmi magazinokban több cikkben is bemutatták, elemezték tevékenységét. Szakmaiságát és alaposságát tekintve kiemelkedő Kárbin Ákos történész ilyen tárgyú munkássága, aki a családi hagyatékban is végzett kutatást és szakértőként közreműködött a Móron megvalósult Wekerle kiállítás összeállításában.

PhD Dr. Kárbin Ákos részéről a Wekerle kutatás során nyilvánosan közreadott munkák és írások:

Kéziratok

Wekerle és a valutareform. Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, TDK dolgozat. Eger, 2008

Wekerle Sándor első miniszterelnöksége. Különös tekintettel az egyházpolitikai küzdelmekre. Eszterházy Károly Főiskola, Egyetemi Szakdolgozat, Eger, 2009

Wekerle Sándor és az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia valutareformjának kezdeti lépései, 1889–1893. Döntéshozatal és megvalósítás. PhD Disszertáció. Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Bölcsészettudományi Kar, Történelemtudományi Doktori Iskola, Budapest, 2014

Könyvfejezet

Görög-Staub Károly – Patay Géza: Wekerle Sándor. Budapest, Helikon Kiadó, 2011. 270–294. A kötetben szereplő személyek életrajzai.

Újat mondani Wekerle Sándor életéről. A Wekerle-biográfia lehetőségei és nehézségei. In: Személyiség és történelem – A történelmi személyiség. A történeti életrajz módszertani kérdései. Szerkesztette: Vonyó József. Budapest–Pécs, Kronosz Kiadó; Magyar Történelmi Társulat; Állambiztonsági Szolgálatok Történeti Levéltára, 2017. 475–491.

Szakcikkek

Ezüst vagy arany? Rendszerváltás a magyar pénzügyekben, az 1892. évi valutareform nemzetközi előzményei. In Rendszerváltások. Első Század tudományos folyóirat – különszám. Az Eötvös Lóránd Tudományegyetem Bölcsészettudományi Kar Hallgatói Önkormányzatának kiadványa. Főszerkesztő: Faragó Gábor. Budapest, 2010. 23-54.

Wekerle Sándor alakja a historiográfiában. In: Visszatekintés a 19–20. századra. ELTE BTK. Új- és jelenkori magyar történeti program. Főszerkesztő: Erdődy Gábor. Szerkesztők: Cúthné Gyóni Eszter – Wirthné Diera Bernadett. ELTE Történelemtudományok Doktori Iskola, Új- és Jelenkori Magyar Történeti Program, Budapest, 2011. 33–47.

Wekerle Sándor politikai karrierjének kezdeti szakasza – az államtitkárságtól a pénzügyminiszterségig. Gazdasági Élet és Társadalom. A Wekerle Sándor Üzleti Főiskola Tudományos Folyóirata. Szerkesztette: Fülöp Vince. Budapest, 2011. I-II. szám. 249–268.

Adalékok az 1892. évi magyar valuta-enquête történetéhez. In Mából a tegnapról. Képek Magyarország 19. és 20. századi történetéből. Főszerkesztő: Erdődy Gábor, Szerkesztők: Cúthné Gyóni Eszter – Wirthné Diera Bernadett, ELTE Történelemtudományok Doktori Iskola Új- és Jelenkori Magyar Történeti Program, Budapest, 2012. 11–28.

Kényszer, vagy praktikus megoldás? A Német Birodalom és az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia együttműködése az osztrák veretű egyesületi tallérok forgalmon kívül helyezésében. In: Fons XXIII. 2016. 4. sz. 485–527.

Az Osztrák–Magyar Bank és az 1892. évi valutareform előzményei. In: Történelmi Szemle, 2017. 1. szám LIX. évfolyam. 19–45.

A Német Birodalom diplomatáinak jelentései az Osztrák–Magyar Monarchia valutareformjával kapcsolatban 1889–1893. In: Múltunk, LXII. évfolyam. 2017. 2. szám 162–202.

Az osztrák pénzügyminiszterek szerepe a Monarchia 1892. évi valutareformjában. Julian Dunajewski vs. Emil Steinbach. In: VERITAS Évkönyv 2017. Szerkesztette: Ujváry Gábor. Budapest, Magyar Napló, 2018. 73–96.

Wekerle Sándor a kései Tisza-kormány pénzügyminisztere. A Monarchia 1892. évi valutaszabályozásának előkészítése. In: Szerk.: A szükséges dolgokban legyen egység, a kétségesekben szabadság, mindenben pedig szeretet. Egri Lokálpatrióta Egylet, Eger, 2018. 99–123.

A második Wekerle-kormány és az 1907. évi gazdasági kiegyezés. In: Szerk. Fodor Veronika–Gecsényi Patrícia–Hollósi Gábor–Kiss Dávid–Ráczné Baán Krisztina–Rácz János. ZINNER 70. Egy élet az (i)gazságszolgáltatás kutatásának szolgálatában. Budapest, Írott Szó Alapítvány–Magyar Napló, 2018. 157–166.

Wekerle Sándorról megjelent magyar nyelvű publikációk
Görög Staub Károly–Patay Géza: Wekerle Sándor (Helikon Kiadó, 2011)

Svéhlik Csaba: Wekerle. Arckép világtörténelmi háttérrel (Wekerle Sándor Alapítvány, 2014)
Zsugyel János: Wekerle Sándor életművéről, Polgári Szemle 2009/4 sz. https://polgariszemle.hu/archivum/48-2009-augusztus-5-evfolyam-4-szam/338-wekerle-sandor-eletmuverol

Wekerle Sándorról elnevezett szakmai díjak
Wekerle Sándor Díj (alapítva: 2004, Fejér Megyei Önkormányzat)

Wekerle Sándor Kárpát-Medencei Gazdasági Díj (alapítva 2011, FMKIK)

Wekerle Sándor Közgazdasági Életműdíj (alapítva 2013, Wekerle Sándor Alapítvány)

Wekerle Sándor Tudományos Életműdíj (alapítva 2013, Wekerle Sándor Alapítvány)

Fiatal szakemberek Wekerle Sándor innovációs díja (alapítva 2013, Wekerle Sándor Alapítvány)

Wekerle Emlékbor vándordíj
Wekerle Sándor kultuszának ápolása a Móri Borvidéken a borkultúrával is összefonódott. 2011-ben Wekerle Cuvée néven 1.175 palack különleges bort készített a borvidék négy pincészete. 2018-tól a Wekerle Sándor Életművét Gondozó Kulturális és Tudományos Alapítvány Fenyves Péter móri polgármester kezdeményezésre Wekerle Emlékbor vándordíjat alapított, amelyet a Móri Borvidék Szent-György heti borversenyén ítél oda legjobb bornak a szakmai és társadalmi zsűri. A borversenyt az alapítvánnyal közösen a Móri Borvidék Hegyközsége és a Brindisi Szent Lőrinc Borrend szervezi meg és bonyolítja le, ügyelve a szabályok betartására és a szakmai színvonal biztosításra. A vándordíj Mosberger Róbert Móron élő művész alkotása: szólófürtöt és kelyhet formázó bronz-márvány művészi kisplasztika. A díjat elnyerő borászat egy évre jogot szerez a nyertes borból 1.000 sorszámozott palack Wekerle Emlékbor néven történő forgalmazására.

Nyertes borok és borászatok
2018 év: generosa 2017 – Molnár Borház Kft. (94,2 pont, nagy arany minősítés)
2019. év: generosa gold 2018 – Molnár Borház Kft. (90,4 pont, arany minősítés)

A Wekerletelep
Wekerle Sándorról kapta nevét a kispesti Wekerletelep nevű lakónegyed, ahol az ő pénzügyminiszteri kezdeményezésére indult meg a munkáslakások építése állami pénzből.

Jegyzetek

Források
 Szabó Dániel: Wekerle Sándor – A válságmenedzser
 Magyar Országgyűlési Almanach 1906–1911 – Életrajza

További információk
 Wekerle Sándor Alapítvány
 Wekerle Sándor és kabinetje. Politikai jellemrajzok; Athenaeum Ny., Bp., 1892
 Politikai arczképek. Socialpsychologiai felvételek. Wekerle, gr. Apponyi Albert, Eötvös Károly, Polonyi; Légrády Ny., Bp., 1893
 Busbach Péter: Az utolsó öt év. Tisza – Szapáry – Wekerle. Parlamenti visszaemlékezések; Országgyűlési Értesítő Ny., Bp., 1895
 Bizony László: Pénzünk veszedelme a tőzsdén. Nyílt levél Wekerle Sándorhoz; Benkő, Bp., 1918
 Vargáné Kocsis Mária: Városunk szülötte Wekerle Sándor. A Radó Antal Városi Könyvtár Wekerle gyűjteményének születése; Radó Városi Könyvtár, Mór, 1992
 Géza Andreas von Geyr: Sándor Wekerle, 1848–1921. Die politische Biographie eines ungarischen Staatsmannes der Donaumonarchie; Oldenbourg, München, 1993 (Südosteuropäische Arbeiten)
 Egy szobor születése. Wekerle Sándor emlékév, 2011, Mór; szerk. Mosberger Róbert, Nagy Benedek; Képző- és Iparművészeti Szabadiskola Alapítvány, Mór, 2012
 Szabó Kálmán: Mórtól a kispesti Wekerletelepig. Wekerle Sándor öröksége; ÍMEA, Pécs, 2013
 Trosztmér Károly: 25 éves a móri gyűjtők Wekerle Sándor Egyesülete. 1992–2017; Wekerle Sándor Egyesület, Mór, 2017
 Vargáné Kocsis Mária: Mór – a mi városunk. A Móri Városvédő és Szépítő Egyesület története, 1990–2018. A 2011. évi Wekerle Sándor emlékév; Móri Városvédő és Szépítő Egyesület, Mór, 2019
 Kárbin Ákos: Wekerle Sándor, a Monarchia aranyembere. Az Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia valutareformjának kezdeti szakasza, 1889–1893; Gondolat, Bp., 2021
 Az Országos Közművelődési Tanácsnak Széll Kálmán és Wekerle Sándor emlékezetére 1928. október 14-én tartott XX. közgyűlése : Némethy Károly, Berzeviczy Albert, Vass József beszédei

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Possible free first year of community college amid flurry of education-related bills signed by governor
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Mikhail Zinshteyn, EdSource
Assemblymember Miguel Santiago speaks in support of AB 19 at Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles. Kevin de Leon, President Pro Tempore of the State Senate (middle), and Francisco Rodriguez, Chancellor, Los Angeles Community College District (right), listen.
The first year of Community College may be free to an additional 19,000 students under a new program called California College Promise, established in a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last week.
Brown signed 89 percent of the 977 bills sent to him by the State Legislature by the Sunday deadline. The governor considered some 127 bills related to education or children and signed about 100; some 26 were vetoed, according to an EdSource tally.
Details about this and other notable bills related to education that Brown has signed into law or vetoed — including those with wide-ranging implications for early education, K-12 schools and higher education — can be found below. In addition, EdSource has compiled a complete listing of education-related bills signed and vetoed.
While he rarely adds messages to bills he signs, Brown attached clarifying messages to at least three education-related bills — one seeking an amendment to a reserve cap bill, one clarifying how far the sanctuary state bill goes to protect immigrants, and one that suggests further tweaks he believes are needed to laws governing school construction financing. The bills become law on Jan. 1.
California College Promise/Free Community College Tuition (AB 19)
Assembly Bill 19 signed by Gov. Brown passed overwhelmingly with some Republican support last month. It opens up the possibility that California's community colleges will offer free tuition to all full-time first-year students, regardless of financial need. Details for implementing the bill, as well how it will be funded, still need to be worked out by the Legislature.
The new law does not specify exactly how tuition would be waived, and who exactly would benefit, reflecting some of the changes made to it in the final stages of the legislative process.
The law states that "it is the intent of the legislature that sufficient funding be allocated to each community college to waive all student fees" pursuant to another section of AB 19. That section, however, doesn't require community colleges to use the funds to waive student fees. Instead, it states that colleges "may use funding…to waive some or all fees" of first-year, full-time community college students, who also submit a federal financial aid form known as FAFSA or an application under California's Dream Act for immigrant students.
Tuition for full-time California residents ranges from roughly $1,100 to $1,400 a year, depending on course load. The free tuition, analysts predict, will cost $30 million to $50 million a year.
But the law doesn't have a funding mechanism yet. Backers of the bill say negotiations to fund AB 19 with additional state money will begin early 2018 as part of the 2018-19 budget process.
The law's implementation will be worked out as the 2018-19 budget talks continue, according to an aide to Assemblyman Miguel Santiago, D-Los Angeles, an author of the law. The aide, who requested anonymity because of office policy, said Santiago's expectation is that most colleges will use the money to offer free tuition, provided that they adopt key reforms, like partnerships with K-12 schools, additional guidance to improve students' chances of earning a degree, and other changes as spelled out in the law.
In 2015-2016, 43 percent of the state's more than 2 million community college students qualified for free tuition as low-income students through a fee waiver that was recently renamed the California College Promise Grant.
California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley said the law "will help foster a stronger culture of college participation hat will enhance upward social mobility in California." He said that he hoped the Legislature would come up with additional funds "to offset the non-tuition costs that create barriers to college attendance for students with financial need."
Sanctuary state (SB 54)
Senate Bill 54, by state Senate President pro Tem Kevin De León, D-Los Angeles, prohibits local police and other authorities — including those who work at schools — from cooperating with federal immigration agents without a warrant. De León said the bill will bolster trust between immigrant communities and state agencies, and lead to improvements in public safety, school attendance and public health.
Brown signed it Oct. 5 as part of a package of bills "to protect California's hard-working immigrants."
In his signing message, Brown outlined the protections provided by the bill, but noted that it "does not prevent or prohibit Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Department of Homeland Security from doing their own work in any way." Nor does it "prohibit sheriffs from granting immigration authorities access to California jails" or "prevent cooperation in deportation proceedings" for those in prisons or jails for certain "serious offenses."
Dozens of cities and school districts around California have already declared themselves safe havens or sanctuaries, offering varying degrees of protections for immigrants. The Trump administration, meanwhile, has threatened to withhold grants for so-called sanctuary cities and states, saying they hinder the federal government's ability to enforce immigration laws.
California Attorney General Xavier Becerra filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration in August, saying it had unconstitutionally attempted to "force California law enforcement officials to engage in federal immigration enforcement, rather than allow them to use their discretion to determine how best to keep their communities safe."
Ending meal shaming (SB 250)
Gov. Brown signs bill to end 'meal shaming' in schools
Students in California whose families owe money for school lunches will no longer be given only a snack — or nothing at all — until they're all paid up. They'll get the same meal as all the other students, under a bill signed by the governor on Thursday.
With the unanimous passage of SB 250, sponsored by Sen. Robert Hertzberg, D-Los Angeles, California will join a movement not to punish children because their parents fail to pay their lunch debts. The bill will also end "meal shaming," the practice used in some districts across the nation of verbally reprimanding students in the lunch line or stamping children's hands as a reminder to their parents that they owe money.
The bill specifically says that districts are not required to give parents a pass on not paying indefinitely. Instead it requires that districts do all they can to enroll families in the subsidized school lunch program and notify families of unpaid balances when they are 10 days behind.
The state PTA and the California Teachers Association were among organizations that backed the bill, which had no official opposition.
School District Financial Reserves (SB 751)
In 2014, the California Teachers Association persuaded Brown to include a cap on district reserves because it suspected districts were hoarding money. The cap would take effect, under some conditions, in favorable revenue years, after the Legislature put money for schools in a state reserve. In that case, districts would have to lower their reserves to an average of 6 percent of their General Fund revenue.
School groups said the limit was too low, potentially jeopardizing solvency — especially for small districts more vulnerable to unforeseen events.
Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell, D-Long Beach, and Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, negotiated a compromise in Hill's SB 751:
The cap on districts will take effect the year after the Legislature contributes 3 percent of the General Fund into the state K-12 reserve;
All districts with fewer than 2,501 students will be exempt, along with basic aid districts, which fund schools through local property taxes;
The combined cap on assigned reserves (designated for specific purposes) and unassigned reserves will be 10 percent of a district's General Fund.
As under current law, county superintendents can grant districts an exemption in two consecutive years and boards can set aside additional money for a specific purpose in a "defined reserve."
Brown's signing message endorsed local control, but said "further clarification in the form of a technical amendment is necessary regarding the application of the 10 percent cap to ensure that this bill is implemented as intended should the reserve cap ever be triggered."
Susan Henry, president of the California School Boards Association, lauded the bill's victory.
"We're thrilled that school boards now have more flexibility to make sound fiscal choices as dictated by the needs of their students and their communities," she said.
Visual and performing arts content standards in media arts (AB 37)
Assembly Bill 37, by Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell, D-Long Beach, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the Instructional Quality Commission, to recommend visual and performing arts standards in the subject of media arts to the State Board of Education. This is in addition to content standards in dance, theater, music, and visual arts, which were already required to be recommended and adopted, rejected, or modified by the state board on or before Jan. 31, 2019.
This bill requires the media arts standards to go through the same development, public review, and approval process as the other visual and performing arts standards.
"AB 37 establishes California's first set of stand-alone media arts standards as the fifth discipline within current visual and performing arts standards, supporting teachers and school districts that choose to teach media arts as a separate discipline in pre-K through 12th grade classes," O'Donnell said in a statement after the bill was signed in July. "These standards will offer students opportunities to explore artistic projects such as video production, sound design, and game design, among others."
School facilities design and construction regulations (AB 203)
On Sunday, the governor signed AB 203 by Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell, D-Long Beach, which requires the Office of Public School Construction to work with the California Department of Education to create rules that will give school districts more flexibility in designing school facilities and will require the department to offer assistance to small districts seeking to build or fund school buildings. But Brown attached a signing message calling for "additional steps to bring greater flexibility to the School Facilities Program."
"This could include some modifications to Prop. 51, which now makes the system far too rigid," he wrote. "I look forward to working with the author and school districts to achieve more substantial reforms."
Brown had come out against Prop. 51 before voters approved it, saying larger districts were in a better position to take advantage of the funding because of their robust staffs, while smaller districts could be left out.
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Native American Studies model curriculum (AB 738)
Brown signed AB 738 on "Indigenous People's Day," Oct. 9, which has taken the place of Columbus Day in many communities. The bill requires the state to develop and adopt, modify, or revise a model curriculum in Native American studies and to encourage schools that serve students in grades 9 to 12, which do not already offer a standards-based Native American studies curriculum, to offer such a course based on the model curriculum.
"AB 738 is about communities telling their own stories that can be passed on to future generations," said Assemblywoman Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, who authored the bill. "A school curriculum that draws upon and reflects the history of all students, especially underrepresented students, is critical in providing a positive, engaging and meaningful experience in the classroom."
To preserve Native American culture and history, the model curriculum will be designed with input from tribes. California has the largest Native American population in the United States and the third largest American Indian student population, according to Limón.
Kenneth Kahn, Tribal Chairman of the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians, thanked Limón and the governor "for making this dream a reality."
"The passage of this bill means that students will have an opportunity to learn about our history, our journey, our sovereignty and our culture through a curriculum that will be developed with vital input and oversight from Native American tribes," he said.
Charter schools pupil admissions, suspensions, and expulsions (AB 1360)
Assembly Bill 1360, signed by Brown on Friday, requires charter schools to provide a comprehensive description of how school policies will comply with federal and state constitutional due process requirements such as fair notice and the right to be heard when considering involuntary removal.
The bill, which was introduced by Assemblyman Rob Bonta, D-Oakland, strengthens due process rights for charter school students on matters related to expulsions and prohibits charters from using admissions policies to exclude student applicants. It also strengthens charter school "equal access" law by requiring charters to notify parents that parental involvement is not a requirement for student acceptance or continued enrollment.
Teachers' unions and the California Charter Schools Association supported the legislation.
"Charter schools are part of the statewide public school system and must have nondiscriminatory admission policies, as well as suspension and expulsion policies that guarantee all students appropriate due process rights," the California Teachers Association said in a statement. "Any practices that serve to weed out certain children or families — whether intentional or unintentional — are not acceptable and must be eliminated."
Carlos Marquez, senior vice president of government affairs for the California Charter Schools Association, praised the new law.
"Equity and access are pillars of the charter public school movement," he said. "By signing this bill, Governor Brown has made California's charter public schools stronger for students throughout the state."
Child care for parents in ESL classes (AB 273)
Approved by Brown on Thursday, AB 273 would allow parents who are enrolled in English as a second language classes or high school equivalency classes to be eligible for subsidized child care services. Families will be able to state, as a criteria for eligibility, that they need assistance with child care services because they are enrolled in English as a second language classes or a program to earn a high school diploma.
Under previous law, families were required to meet at least one requirement in each of two categories to be eligible for these services. In one of those categories, parents had to state the reason they needed assistance with child care services. This category will now include an avenue for parents who are learning English or attaining a high school degree.
"If you can't learn English or get your GED, you can't pursue higher education or enter job training," said Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, D-Winters, author of the bill. "If you can't afford childcare, you can't get these classes."
She predicted the new law would "support and empower parents who are taking the foundational steps to support their families and find work for years to come."
Early trauma screening (AB 340)
Assembly Bill 340, signed by Brown on Thursday, will expand screening for children impacted by trauma. It will require that the State Department of Social Services and others adopt, develop and employ protocols for screening children for trauma and will allow the department to develop uniform protocols for screening.
The bill will also require agencies involved to report findings and recommendations.
Under the previous law, through Medi-Cal, families could receive screening and treatment under the Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment program, or ESDPT. However, this program did not include a provision to specifically screen children for trauma. This bill will add the provision to include screening for trauma in the ESDPT program.
Restricting preschool expulsions (AB 752)
Approved by Brown on Thursday, AB 752 will prohibit state-funded public and private pre-school programs from expelling or unenrolling a child because of a child's behavior unless the school has explored and documented "reasonable steps to maintain the child's safe participation in the program." In addition, the school site will be required to consult with multiple parties and through due process indicate that the child poses a safety threat to other children enrolled in the program in order to proceed with expulsion.
The preschool program must also be prepared to refer the parent or legal guardian to alternative program placements for the child in the community.
Other Higher Education bills
Reforming remedial education (AB 705)
The other major update to the community college system is AB 705, which the Legislature passed unanimously last month.
The law requires community colleges to use students' high school GPA or coursework as part of the suite of tools to determine whether they are ready for college-level math and English classes. This is a break from current practice in which colleges largely rely on standardized tests, something many experts believe is an unfair practice because they say high school grades capture a more robust snapshot of how much students know.
The law will also bar colleges from assigning students to remedial classes unless their evaluations — including high school work — make it clear they "are highly unlikely" to succeed in college-level math and English courses. That provision is a response to research that suggests students who bypass remedial courses and are placed in college-level classes learn the material faster and are more likely to attain a degree or certificate.
California Community Colleges chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley called the bill "a win-win for our students, colleges and the state's taxpayers."
College Promise Partnership Act (AB 1533)
A program set to expire this year that is a national model for how a school district can partner with its local community and four-year colleges became permanent after Gov. Brown's signature last week.
Assembly Bill 1533 by Assemblyman Patrick O'Donnell, D–Long Beach, gave the Long Beach College Promise Partnership Act new life after its initial half-decade run in which it was credited with increasing transfer rates from community college to CSU Long Beach. The Promise, as it's known, includes a bevy of strategies for increasing college entrance and completion, like allowing high school students to take college courses, mentoring and clearer pathways for attaining a degree or certificate.
The bill received unanimous support from lawmakers in both chambers.
UC requests from the California State Auditor's Office: prohibition on coordination (AB 1655)
The governor signed a bill that seeks to ensure that the state Auditor has access to reliable information about the 10 University of California campuses without interference or manipulation by the UC's central Office of the President. The bill, AB 1655, was written by Assemblyman Tim Grayson, D-Concord, and passed both houses of the legislature unanimously.
It grew out of a controversy last spring in which an audit report alleged that the UC president's office had wrongly gotten involved in a survey about how the campuses rate the services provided by the UC system's central administration. The audit documented instances of how campuses' initial responses were changed to be more favorable after consulting with the president's office.
The new law prohibits campuses "from coordinating their responses with, or seeking counsel, advice, or similar contact" from the UC president's office when the state Auditor's Office asks for information about spending. It also requires the auditor to include an explicit statement in such requests that the president's office not be informed about it.
UC denied it was trying to block the auditor from doing its job. It also claimed that the auditor had mischaracterized $175 million in special UC funds as undisclosed. UC said that much of that money was committed to various projects and causes and were never hidden from view.
The law also demands more transparency when UC reports every other year about its total costs of education. It requires that the spending information be based on publicly available data and on actual expenditures in the prior year rather than estimates.
Notable vetoes
Paid maternity leave for school and community college employees (AB 568)
Gov. Brown must decide fate of maternity pay, summer fund for low-paid school workers
Brown on Sunday vetoed AB 568, sponsored by Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher, D-San Diego, which would have required school districts, charter schools and community colleges to provide at least six weeks of full pay for pregnancy-related leaves of absence for most employees. In his veto message, Brown said he had signed two other bills in 2015 and 2016 that allow for "differential pay" related to maternity and paternity leave.
"I believe further decisions regarding leave policies for school employees are best resolved through the collective bargaining process at the local level," he wrote. "I would also encourage districts to consider participating in the State Disability Insurance program that would allow these employees to receive pay in addition to what is already being provided."
Classified school employees Summer Furlough Fund (AB 621)
To help provide a steady income to some "classified" school employees who are not certificated teachers or administrators during the summer months when they are not working, Assemblyman Raul Bocanegra, D-Pacoima, authored AB 621 to create a Classified School Employees Summer Furlough Fund that would have provided a state match on a two-to-one basis for those who voluntarily contributed to the fund. But Brown vetoed the bill on Oct. 8, saying in his veto message that "employee compensation is a matter subject to local collective bargaining."
"This bill reduces the flexibility of local educational agencies and bargaining units to agree on employee compensation in a manner that reflects local needs, resources and priorities," he wrote.
Information about bills that didn't pass the legislature or make it to the governor's desk — but that could resurface next year — can be found here.
EdSource writers Theresa Harrington, John Fensterwald, Mikhail Zinshteyn, Larry Gordon, Ashley Hopkinson, George White and Carolyn Jones contributed to this article.
This report was updated on Oct. 17 at 8 p.m. to reflect the uncertainties about what students would benefit from the tuition provisions of AB 19.
Theresa Harrington covers education reforms in California, with a focus on the San Francisco East Bay
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The Mint Museum > News > Mint Museum Uptown to Host Lyle Owerko's "The Boombox Project"
August 28, 2014 Leigh DyerNews0
Chandra Johnson's SOCO Gallery organizes pop-up photography show in museum's Level 5 expansion space
The Mint Museum is offering the public an unprecedented opportunity to see expansion space representing the next phase of the museum's future growth by hosting photographer Lyle Owerko's The Boombox Project. This pioneering pilot program is anticipated to be the first of many future uses for this space that will provide special opportunities for artists, entrepreneurial projects, and community engagement.
Mint Museum Uptown will host the pop-up exhibition of works organized by SOCO Gallery, founded by Charlotte philanthropist Chandra Johnson, from September 17 through October 19. The exhibition will be free and open to the public, and will mark the museum's first public use of raw 15,000-square-foot expansion space on Level 5, opposite the Mattye and Marc Silverman Grand Room, which has been a popular community venue for weddings, business meetings, and Mint-organized events. Museum visitors will obtain special stickers at the Guest Services desk to receive free admission to the pop-up gallery during regular museum hours on Wednesdays through Sundays. The exhibition features approximately 15 photographs from Owerko's iconic series devoted to boomboxes of the 1970s and 1980s. Paid admission or museum membership will still be required to visit the museum's other galleries, except on Wednesdays from 5-9 p.m. when the museum's permanent collection is always free and open to the public.
In the time before Spotify, iPods, MP3s, and even the Sony Walkman, politics and identity were deeply woven into one's choice of music. Punk, rap, hip-hop, and New Wave movements were gaining momentum, and music was giving a new voice and strength to people on society's periphery. In the 1970s and early 1980s, some would blow through a paycheck's worth of batteries to share their music with the world. Music mattered. The boombox was their muse and their messenger, and The Boombox Project memorializes this exciting time in America's cultural history.
Lyle Owerko has been collecting and documenting boomboxes since he first discovered a mint condition late 1970s Victor JVC in Japan in 2001. Painstakingly photographing the boomboxes with his large-format Hasselblad camera, Owerko is able to bring out the most stunningly intricate details and personality of each machine. In 2010, Abrams published a book inspired by the series titled The Boombox Project: the machines, the music and the urban underground with a foreword by film director Spike Lee, and contributions by musical artists Fab 5 Freddy, LL Cool J, and Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys.
Owerko is a photographer, filmmaker, and modern day cultural anthropologist. His work has been featured on the cover of Time magazine as well as The New York Times, Communication Arts, The Village Voice, Blackbook, and New York Magazine. He was also included in Drawing From Life, published by Princeton Architectural Press, which includes works by Mike Figgis and David Byrne. Owerko has exhibited his work throughout America, and it is part of the permanent collection of The Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He has been named a Hasselblad Master, and has won awards from the New York Art Directors Club, the National Press Photographers Association, and American Photography.
As part of the construction of Levine Center for the Arts, a partnership between the City of Charlotte, Wells Fargo, and cultural institutions including the Mint, the expansion space was included on Level 5 and left unfinished, with many potential future uses, when Mint Museum Uptown opened in 2010. Level 5 represents a very different type of space for the museum – an industrial space that will address community needs related to experimenting with new and creative art concepts, accommodating larger exhibitions, and providing the ability to showcase more of its permanent collection. The pilot program marks the museum's first exploratory use of the space, which is currently still raw and gives a rare behind-the-scenes look at the building's architecture. The space is anticipated to be used for other pilot programs as the museum develops its longer-range plans for its next phase of growth.
The exhibition dovetails with the museum's recent focus on modern and contemporary photography. The museum has hosted groundbreaking photography exhibitions including Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment and the Mint-organized shows Bearing Witness: The New York Photo League and Sonia Handelman Meyer and Vik Muniz: Garbage Matters, both of which subsequently traveled to other institutions.
Johnson has a long record of supporting the Mint and is a member of the museum's Board of Trustees and active in the Mint Museum Auxiliary. She and her husband, NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson, served as honorary co-chairs of the museum's inaugural fundraising gala in May.
Schedule of events:
Invitation-only artist reception and book signing: September 17
Mint Museum members preview: September 18, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.
Exhibition open to the public: September 19-October 19, 11 a.m. – 9 p.m. Wed; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thurs. – Sat.; 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. Sun.
SOCO Gallery, opening in 2015, aims to become Charlotte's home for emerging and established photographers. Founded by Chandra Johnson, the gallery will focus on innovations in the photographic medium, as well as providing a platform for art education and community outreach. This is the second exhibition for the organizers, who exhibited Jimmie Johnson: On The Road in October, 2012.
For more information about Lyle Owerko at The Mint Museum, please visit www.popthatboombox.com. For more about SOCO Gallery, contact hellosocogallery@gmail.com.
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Nintendo's recently announced 3DS price reduction has cut current sales by half.
It's no secret that the 3DS hasn't been doing particularly well. A lack of noteworthy games, including the rather obvious absence of a Mario title at launch, some poor design decisions and paranoid rumor-mongering about how the device's vaunted 3D effects might set people's eyeballs on fire, certainly haven't helped sell the system. Last week, in an effort to get the 3DS off of shelves and into consumer hands, Nintendo announced a very dramatic price drop, less than six months after the handheld's release. Rather predictably, 3DS sales in Japan have plummeted as potential customers wait for the price drop on August 12th. Last week Nintendo sold just 16,415 units, a near 50% decrease from the 31,826 sold the week before.
While savvy customers are obviously going to wait the extra week for a full $80 dollar discount on the hardware what of the remaining 50% still buying the thing? Either they're unaware of the impending price cut, or they're looking to take advantage of Nintendo's 3DS Ambassador Scheme, which offers 20 free games, cribbled together from the NES' and GBA's library, to customers who purchase the 3DS before the price cut. A poll of current 3DS owners on popular Japanese gaming blog 4gamer suggests it may be the former, as a large proportion of the 6468 respondents indicated that the free games did little to increase their "appreciation" of the 3DS. Over 30% of current 3DS owners claimed that the Ambassador program did little to remedy their "anger or regret" regarding the price drop.
The poll also gave some indication of why Nintendo's latest handheld isn't selling in the first place.
Nearly half of the respondents said that they thought the 3DS' current game line up is anemic and, despite the promise of future titles, they are still "disappointed" with the system.
Of the respondents who don't currently own a 3DS 42.1% cited the lack of games as their reason for not owning one and only 5.4% said the upcoming price drop has convinced them to buy the system.
15.3% of those without a 3DS were miserable gits, and said they wouldn't purchase a 3DS regardless of price.
Nintendo President and CEO Satoru Iwata has already apologized both for the 3DS' poor sales (taking a 50% pay cut in the process) and the controversial price cut. A recent Nintendo product isn't selling and a CEO has apologized to customers for his company making its products cheaper? If that isn't proof we've slipped into some kind of terrible parallel nega-dimension then I don't know what is.


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I must say, 9Gag is the shiznitz. I really enjoyed the Facebook history of WWII.
Also, Frank Miller has been getting a lot of criticism for his attacks on OWS, as well as the political messages of his works. GOOD! He needs a dose of reality.
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With the exposure of OpenSSL Heartbleed, penetration testing on the servers is more common. To some scanning software, Intermapper appears be vulnerable to certain OpenSSL attacks. This document describes the upgrade of OpenSSL support in Intermapper 5.8.2 or later to address vulnerabilities in SSL-based services.
Note: If you make changes to the ssl.conf file, be sure to restart the Intermapper and Intermapper DataCenter services.
Intermapper 5.8.2 uses OpenSSL (v1.0.1j). Because the OpenSSL library is statically linked, introducing newer OpenSSL shared libraries through operating system upgrades does not remediate vulnerabilities. A new version of Intermapper is required.
Versions prior to 5.8.2 supported only SSLv3 and TLSv1.0. Through upgrade to OpenSSL v1.0.1, version 5.8.2 adds support for TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2. Intermapper supports SSLv3 and TLSv1.0 protocols by default. Intermapper's clients request TLSv1.2.
All of Intermapper's SSL-based servers use a single configuration file to control the SSL features supported by your particular Intermapper installation.
SSL protocols offered — You can disable protocols deemed vulnerable. For example, a common fix for the POODLE vulnerability is to disable SSLv3.
SSL ciphers offered — Vulnerable ciphers can be blocked to mitigate future issues. For example, an alternative fix for the POODLE vulnerability, without disabling SSLv3, is to disable CBC-based ciphers and promote RC4-based ones.
Behavior options — For example, you can disable client-initiated session renegotiation completely.
These enhancements provide access to newer protocols (TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2) and a number of new encryption schemes. If TLSv1.1 or TLSv1.2 is enabled, Intermapper's web interfaces (with an appropriate browser) and python clients for Intermapper DataCenter can take advantage of them. Intermapper's Mac and Windows installers include Java 7, which does not enable TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2. For this reason, TLSv1.0 was still required for Intermapper's Java clients.
Intermapper started shipping Java 8 with version 6.0 The requirement to include TLS 1.0 has been removed for Intermapper 6.2.3 and newer.
An example configuration file named "ssl.conf.example", is installed in the Intermapper_Settings directory.
If available (and readable), all Intermapper servers load "ssl.conf" during startup.
Make changes as described below to select the options you want.
Restart the Intermapper and Intermapper DataCenter servers.
Protocols — select SSL protocol versions to be offered by the server.
Ciphers — select encryption cipher suites to be offered by the server.
Options — control other security options for the servers.
# root of the Intermapper_Settings folder.
# It must be readable by the intermapper user.
# Protocols - select SSL/TLS protocol versions to support.
# Ciphers - select ciphers to allow.
Comment lines, beginning with "#", and empty lines are ignored.
This disables support for SSLv3, TLSv1.0, and TLSv1.1, and supports a requirement for TLS 1.2.
The servers will negotiate the highest possible protocol version in common with client support. At least one protocol must be supported, or the servers will resort to default configuration (ALL).
Note that Java-based Intermapper clients such as the Intermapper Console and Intermapper RemoteAccess currently require TLSv1.0 support. Without it, they will fail to connect to the Intermapper server.
The --ciphers argument to the Intermapper server program can be used to list cipher suites. It is functionally equivalent to the 'openssl cipher -v ' command described in the above document. A cipherlist of ALL will show all supported ciphers, DEFAULT will show the Intermapper default (without further configuration), and anything else will be interpreted as a cipherlist to be decoded.
This output comes direct from the OpenSSL library. The columns are: cipher suite, the minimum protocol version for that cipher suite, key exchange (Kx) algorithm, authentication (Au) algorithm and key size, hashing algorithm (Mac), and the final column indicates whether or not the scheme is an export version.
Note that you must configure at least one cipher that is available for your chosen protocol list (i.e. there's no point limiting yourself to ciphers only available with TLSv1.2 if you are not enabling, or will not always connect with, that protocol).
This is a colon-delimited list of Intermapper-specific settings.
ClientInitiatedRenegotiation — this controls the ability of the client to initiate renegotiation of security settings for the connection. Some scanners regard this as a vulnerability. It is enabled by default.
CipherServerPreference — in choosing encryption for the connection, normally the client preferences are used. This option allows the server configuration to take preference. It is disabled by default.
Security advice available on the web often describes Apache (mod_ssl) configuration directives to mitigate vulnerabilities. Here we discuss how they map to our ssl.conf settings.
we do not support SSLv2.
Identical to Ciphers. This is the OpenSSL cipher list format.
This is equivalent to our CipherServerPreference option.
Not supported (i.e. "off"). We disable SSL compression to guard against the CRIME attack.
A few words about some of the new log entries you might see in the various log files.
Warning: SSL protocol configuration does not enable TLSv1.0. Connections from Intermapper clients may fail.
In Intermapper 6.2.2 and earlier, our Java UIs (IM Console and IMRA) require TLSv1.0.
Check that it is not disabled in ssl.conf.
The above, in the Debug log, is a typical startup sequence. Here we have overridden the default protocols to disable SSLv3, and we have explicitly defined a cipher list.
Here we have reversed the defaults for both supported entries in Options in ssl.conf.
Indicates that the Ciphers list in ssl.conf was rejected by the underlying SSL support, and the default cipher list was used in place.
These are not new messages, but they show failures by a client to connect to the Intermapper server. In this case it was due to an SSLv3-only client attempting to connect when SSLv3 had been disabled in ssl.conf. Check Protocols and Ciphers in ssl.conf.
Similar to the above. These two together are typical of the case where a client which only supports earlier SSL/TLS protocol versions, attempts to connect to a server where those versions have been disabled in favour of later protocol versions. To fix: re-enable protocols in ssl.conf.
A client connection has been closed because it attempted to perform session renegotiation, with the ClientInitiatedRenegotiation option disabled in ssl.conf.
Indicates that the SSL configuration file ssl.conf has been located and will be loaded.
Indicates an error in the ssl.conf configuration file.
2014-11-05 09:51:01 CRITICAL Sorry, IMDC can't recover from the above problem, and must shut down.
This indicates a more serious problem with ssl.conf. Here, the Ciphers list was rejected by the underlying SSL support services because the list did not resolve to any supported ciphers. Check both Protocols and Ciphers configuration.
We now use OpenSSL v1.0.1j in both Intermapper Server and Intermapper DataCenter.
The Intermapper server default is to disallow low grade encryption schemes, through use of "!LOW:!EXP" in the cipher list.
Not vulnerable as we do not support SSLv2.
Customers concerned about this vulnerability can address it by disabling SSLv3 in the ssl.conf file, which is the simplest and most compatible fix.
This configuration is compatible with older Intermapper clients — which will continue to use TLSv1.0.
Not vulnerable as we now use a version of OpenSSL greater than 1.0.1g.
Not vulnerable as we now use a version of OpenSSL greater than 1.0.1h.
At the time of writing, Intermapper does not require client-initiated session renegotiation, so the feature may be disabled and still preserve compatibility with older Intermapper clients.
Not vulnerable as SSL compression is disabled.
Not vulnerable as HTTP-level compression is disabled.
It is possible to mitigate this threat by disabling SSLv3 and TLSv1.0. However, our current Java UI clients (IM Console and IM RemoteAccess) require TLSv1.0 support.
There are alternative methods, such as favouring stream ciphers such as RC4, but this is no longer recommended due to vulnerabilities in RC4 schemes.
Not vulnerable as we now use a version of OpenSSL greater than 1.0.1f.


The ability of drummers to use both feet when executing Bass drum patterns has revolutionised drumming as we know it. Before the use of either two bass drums or a double bass drum pedal the drummer was limited in what they could accomplish with the one bass drum foot.
There have been many great talents that could play incredible things with the one bass drum but the rest of us mere mortals either had to put great effort and time into learning the technique or simply accept that certain Bass drum patterns would never be accomplished.
The use of the double Bass drum, invented by the great Jazz Drummer Louie Bellson, has meant that the average drummer is now able to play patterns with the feet that they could never have hoped to have accomplished without.
The use of the double Bass drum is not just limited to Metal as most would believe. There are many artists that are able to tastefully utilise the Bass drums in all genres of music, even Jazz! The patterns you learn for the double Bass drum might not fit into every piece of music you're playing but will start to open your ears to the possibilities.
This drum lesson will be introducing you to some of the basic patterns that a double Bass drummer should be able to play. These patterns will build up your ability with the double Bass drum and will enable you to go on to execute more complicated patterns later. Think of these exercises as the foundations to build upon.
Double Bass drum patterns can be used in grooves or for drum fills. I personally like to use my double Bass drum pedal for embellishments (usually during drum fills). This lesson won't be looking at double Bass drum fills as that's a subject for another lesson. This lesson will be focusing on double Bass drum beats/grooves.
All of the ideas in this lesson will involve playing a double Bass drum pattern with the feet while maintaining either an eighth or quarter note Hi-Hat pattern (ostinato) with the hands. These two basic Hi-Hat patterns are great places to start when trying to learn some kind of independence with the feet.
All of the examples include a solid Snare backbeat on Beats 2 and 4 of the bar. Eventually you would want to include various left hand Snare drum patterns as well ghost notes but when first learning the double Bass drum its best to keep things simple (ish).
When first learning the double Bass drum its best to use a standard "footing" pattern. The basic rule of thumb is that all upbeats are played with the left foot while all downbeats are played with the right. Once you become more established with the pedals you can start to use your own footings but I recommend using the suggested footings first.
If you always play a pattern starting with a certain foot because you've practised it that way then your body will start to execute that pattern automatically, without you having to think about it! This is the learning of muscle memory and it makes drumming a lot easier. Its for this reason that I recommend using the suggested footings written beneath each exercise.
The first four grooves are meant to help you get used to playing eighth and sixteenth note Bass drum patterns underneath the two basic Hi-Hat/Snare ostinatos.
Make sure that your weaker Bass drum foot plays at the same volume and uses the same technique as your leading Bass drum foot. All of these patterns should sound smooth and even on the Bass drum.
Both feet should lock in with the right hand on the Hi-Hat.
Notice how the right hand plays with the right Bass drum foot.
You will probably find this hard to play fast as the space left by the quarter note Hi-Hat pattern can be tricky to "feel".
This next set of exercises are going to help you to break up the sixteenth notes into common two note rhythmic patterns. Eventually you will be able to combine these rhythmic patterns to create all kinds of cool ideas.
Although you might be able to play these ideas using just the one Bass drum foot, it's worth learning how to play them using two feet for later applications.
First two sixteenth notes within each Beat of the bar.
The second and third sixteenth notes within each Beat of the bar.
The third and fourth sixteenth notes within each Beat of the bar.
The first and fourth sixteenth notes within each Beat of the bar.
Playing three Bass drum notes or more, in a row, is really where the double Bass drum becomes useful and even essential. The previous two note section, as already explained, could have been played with the single pedal if you're technique is up to scratch. The next section will look at three sixteenth notes and where, within the beat, they can be placed.
Just like the previous section, there are four permutations possible for three sixteenth notes within each Beat of the bar.
The first, second and third sixteenth note of each beat.
The second, third and fourth sixteenth note of each beat.
The first, third and fourth sixteenth note of each beat.
The first, second and fourth sixteenth note of each beat.
As a drummer, you will also want to be able to play other subdivisions with the Bass drums. This next section will look at eighth note triplets.
Each Beat of the bar can contain three evenly spaced triplet notes. The eighth note Hi-Hat pattern does not quite line up with the triplet notes as each eighth note upbeat (the "+" on the Hi-Hat) falls in between the second and third partial of the triplets.
As you can see, the Bass drum and Hi-Hat do not line up. Its for this reason that the rest of the eighth note triplet exercises will only be shown with the quarter note right hand pattern. It is possible to play the grooves with the eighth note Hi-Hat pattern but it requires a solid technique and a very good ear for subdivision alignment. Its simply easier to leave the eight note Hi-Hat patterns for another time. They might not even be required as its very rare for eighth notes and eighth note triplets to be played together…its kind of an unwritten rule that these two subdivisions should never be played together unless a specific effect is required.
You can have a go at playing this groove but don't worry if you can't pull it off correctly.
When using the quarter note Hi-Hat pattern there are no issues with alignment.
The next step is to break up the triplets into groups of two. There are three possible permutations when the triplet is split into two adjacent notes.
The first two triplet notes.
Second and third triplet notes. This is a great sounding idea and has many cool uses within drum fills as will be shown in later lessons.
The first and third triplet note creates a rhythm know as the "shuffle". This double Bass drum shuffle pattern is a favourite amongst double Bass drummers and you can hear it being used in many Metal/Rock songs such as "Hot For Teacher" by Van Halen for example.
This Bass drum pattern also offers a great foundation to solo over the top of with the hands.
The next subdivision to get to grips with is sixteenth note triplets. Unlike eighth note triplets, sixteenth note triplets DO line up with the eighth note Hi-Hat pattern so they have been included in the next section.
This is where the double Bass drum really comes into its own, it simply would not be possible to execute these patterns, at any useful tempo, without the aid of both feet. This also means that there are a lot of Bass drum notes occurring so make sure to count carefully and keep a steady tempo when practicing.
Notice how the right hand lines up with the fourth triplet Bass drum note. Make sure the Hi-Hat pattern is played evenly and steady. The Bass drums should not cause the Hi-Hat to speed up or slow down.
OK, the same ideas apply to sixteenth note triplets when learning how to break up the subdivision into useful chunks.
To start off with we only want to focus on splitting the triplets up into half beat blocks. The syncopation would get too complicated at this stage if we started to play groups of two and fives for example.
The next set of ideas involve either starting a chunk of sixteenth note triplets on the downbeat or on the upbeat of the bar. These groove ideas are a great place to start when trying to get used to sixteenth note triplets on the Bass drum.
Take note of which foot starts each pattern as we really want the right foot to line up with the downbeat.
Starting a group of four sixteenth triplets on the downbeat so that they resolve on the upbeat.
Starting a group of four sixteenth triplets on the upbeat so that they resolve on the downbeat.
And finally we're going to look at playing thirty second notes on the Bass drum. These patterns are obviously going to be harder to play at fast tempos because of the sheer density of notes.
In order to play these grooves at a faster tempo your double Bass drum technique needs to be relaxed and confident. Start off slowly and don't worry about your top speed yet, if you practice these regularly then the speed will come naturally. You must stay relaxed though as the Bass drum strokes can't be forced out.
Again, to keep things simple, the thirty second notes have been split into groups that either start on the downbeat or the upbeat of the bar.
This lesson has given you the basic building blocks required to create double Bass drum grooves and fills. We can combine the ideas found in this lesson to create the majority of patterns heard being used in double Bass drum grooves.
If you focus on getting these ideas feeling comfortable and rhythmically accurate (using a metronome) then you're on your way. In later lessons we will be taking these ideas further by building up the complexity of the patterns so make sure you can play these first.


Papillon currently holds the #2 ranking in our list of favorite Modern & Creative Restaurants in Paris. We'll be adding our full review shortly. In the meantime you can scroll to see our photos and what others have said about Papillon.
I used to go there regularly when this place opened, but haven't returned since about 6 months ago. Since about a year ago, I started to feel that they were putting in less and less efforts into cooking, to a point where it became just throwing some ingredients of the season onto a plate. I don't know if it's their culinary philosophy that's changed or a financial decision. Architecturally, I never understood the layout of this restaurant.


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Anttoni Honka, född 5 oktober 2000 i Jyväskylä, är en finländsk professionell ishockeyspelare (back) som just nu spelar för Chicago Wolves i AHL. Han har även spelat för Finland i JVM.

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Looking Behind The Scenes Of Relay For Life
Oct 10, 2019 | News | 0 comments
Jocea Jordan Contributing Writer
The Relay For Life Club, associated with the American Cancer Society (ACS), elected a new president, plans to increase membership and plan publicity and fundraising events for the community. Relay for Life hosts two main events throughout the year which are the kick off bash in November and their main event at the end of the year in April.
Relay for Life is a club on campus which hosts events in hopes of raising money and awareness for ACS. This club also provides support for those who may have, have had, or know someone who has had cancer. The Relay for Life club hosts events throughout the year to help reach the fundraising goals they have created and to bring the community together.
Newly elected president of Relay for Life Alyssa Higbie, a senior studying psychology, has previously been involved with the club for three years as a team captain for the Community Residence Council (CRC). This year, Higbie is taking on the role as president of the club which involves booking rooms, doing paperwork, as well as planning and running meetings.
Higbie said "checking in with everyone, making sure things are going the way they need to, that everyone has support, and that we are a strong team together," are all important parts of her role as well.
This level of involvement as a president is different from what Higbie did as a team captain and she wanted to be able to help out even more by being apart of a different part of the Relay team."When the role of being the president was an option, I realized that I wanted to be more involved in the actual planning and set up of it, by building the team and getting things together on the Relay side of it," she said.
Cody Robinson and Alyssa Higbie, Relay Recruit and newly-elected President (Photo courtesy of Alyssa Higbie)
"I decided to join Relay for Life because my dad is a cancer survivor. When I found out about Relay three years ago, I said that sounds like something that would be really cool to get CRC together for and also to give back to another organization [ACS]," said Higbie.
She continued, "My dad was diagnosed this past summer with the same type of cancer he had 10 years ago, so to be president this year is a really powerful way for me to be able to tell that story as well. As he put it, he wants to be a two time survivor, and hopefully through my work with Relay. . .could help to impact that as well."
Higbie believes that by raising awareness of Relay for Life, helping to organize the event and raising money to host the event and for ACS that she will be able to support not only her father, but also others who have and are currently fighting cancer.
Cody Robinson, a junior early childhood education major, is the Relay Recruiter for the club. His role as recruiter consists of "engaging the community to come together, and to also just make a successful event. Reaching out to businesses for sponsorships and connecting to ACS," he said.
Robinson has been apart of the Relay for Life cause since 2012, and he has worked with both the campus as well as the community for Relay for Life. He has had many roles such as a team member, team captain, and committee member and has been a great source of information for the club.
Robinson said, "I have had several family members that have been diagnosed with cancer of one form or another and unfortunately none of them have survived the cancer so it's been a huge impact on my life, so joining Relay was kind of like that support net that I could turn to and find more research and help hopefully end this horrible disease."
"We want to have a great event in April, that brings the community as well as the campus together. We would like a bigger turnout than in years past. "We're looking to grow the support and raise awareness for cancer research and cancer supports that ACS supplies," said Higbie.
She said, "As Cody said he found support and connections through relay and having those connections when you have something you're going through is really important."
"I think as a committee we're always looking to have a good event and raise a lot of money, that's kind of why we do what we do. But through that have fun and meet new people and create some memories that are positive in light of something that isn't always so positive." Making Relay into an event where people can enjoy themselves and be involved with the Relay community is important to Higbie.
Zach Bolduc, a freshman secondary science education major, is a member of the club as well. He said, "When I saw that Relay needs help, and considering that it is for a really good cause I figured I would give it a try. Cancer runs very deeply in my family, so I would like to help and I am a very compassionate person in the first place, so anytime that I can give back, I do."
If students would like to reach out and talk about Relay for Life and learn more information about the organization and club as well as how they can help, they can contact umf.relayforlife-group@maine.edu.
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Q: PHP Regex: allowed no more 3 digits but any count for another chars I need to modify the exp:
/^[-\p{L}\d]+$/u

The purpose is to allow maximum 3 digits in whole string, but letter chars and dashes should be allowed without quantity restrictions. No matters where digits are located within string. For instance:
test345  //this should match
345te-st  //this should match
3454dtest  //this shouldn\'t match

I have already tried some patterns, but is don't work properly:
/^[-\p{L}\d{0,3}]+$/u
/^[-\p{L}]+[\d]{0,3}+$/u
/^([-\p{L}]+)([\d]+){0,3}$/u

A: The patterns that you tried don't work properly matching max 3 digits anywhere in the string because between the start and end anchors:

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*This notation is fully in a character class [-\p{L}\d{0,3}]+ which matches repeating 1+ times any of the listed characters  between [...] (So there is no digit limit due to the +)

*This notation [-\p{L}]+[\d]{0,3}+ matches 1+ times [-\p{L}] followed by 0-3 consecutive digits (So the digits can not be at the start for example)

*This notation ([-\p{L}]+)([\d]+){0,3} uses 2 capture groups, but the order here is also 1+ times [-\p{L}] and 0-3 consecutive digits (only here is the capture group repeated)

If empty strings are also allowed:
^(?:[\p{L}-]*\d){0,3}[\p{L}-]*$

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*^ Start of string

*(?:[\p{L}-]*\d){0,3} Match 0-3 times optional repetitions of [\p{L}-] and a single digit

*[\p{L}-]* Match optional repetitions of [\p{L}-] at the end

*$ End of string

Regex demo
Else you can assert that the string is not empty using (?!$)
^(?!$)(?:[\p{L}-]*\d){0,3}[\p{L}-]*$

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Training for African American/Black Interpreters
Advancing Healthcare through Training for African American/Black Interpreters
Advancing Healthcare through Training for African American/Black Interpreters.
According to Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc. (RID), there are only five African American/Black interpreters in Cincinnati who hold the generalist certification. This is a significant gap in workforce representation in a city where 43% of its population identifies as African American. The primary aim of this project is to increase the number of AA/Black interpreters who are RID certified in Cincinnati through the efforts of the community of practice.
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Amber Burley Munnerlyn
If You Can See It, You Can Be It
Diverse Role Models, Tapping New Resources, & Integrating Intercultural Development Across the Health Professions
If You Can See It, You Can Be It: Diverse Role Models, Tapping New Resources, & Integrating Intercultural Development Across the Health Professions
While the push for healthcare workforce diversity is slowly paying off for white women, there are still significant race, ethnicity, economic status, age, and disability gaps across the health professions. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) reported that 51.6% of medical school applicants were primarily white women in 2018, while the number of Black female medical students decreased. In addition, data indicates that people with disabilities make up between 0.3 and 2.7% of medical school students. Addressing the lack of diverse role models, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, has been proposed. There are many pipeline programs that focus on recruiting healthcare workforce diversity and provide financial assistance across the country. However, students are unaware of these opportunities and the wide network of "go-to" people are on campus to support them. Lastly, research efforts question "cultural competency" terminology that essentializes entire groups of people into certain characteristics and presumes one can become fully competent in another person's culture. The specific aims of this project is to embed the "if you can see it, you can be it" philosophy into the academic curriculum and by intentionally enlisting diverse healthcare professionals like African American nurses, Latino doctors, people in dentistry who identify as LGBTQ, to be speakers, host a Next Lives Here: Healthcare Workforce Diversity Symposium, and integrate intercultural development into coursework.
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PV taxes on the rise
By Brian Myszkowski Pocono Record Writer
Pleasant Valley School District's board of education approved a proposed budget for the 2019-2020 school year that will feature a 1.4% tax increase.
The budget, which was unanimously approved at Thursday's meeting, calculates for approximately $100 million in revenue, with expenditures amounting to $103.1 million. The $3.1 million deficit will be covered by the district's fund balance.
Notably, the budget calls for a property tax increase, which the district has been mulling over since early discussions in the fall of 2018.
"In looking at our property taxes again, we're looking at 2 mills, which will increase our revenues by $630,000," business manager Susan Famularo said.
This is the second year that Pleasant Valley has opted to increase taxes. In June 2018, the district approved a 2 mill increase as well, though taxes had remained steady for seven years prior to that.
According to a fall report from Public Financial Management, the tax increase may prove vital to keeping district costs under control in the next few years. Projections from the report called for a deficit of $10,484,022 by 2024 in the case of a zero mill tax increase, whereas the two mill increase would cut that figure down to $6,791,667.
Famularo said that the district was permitted to raise millage by up to 3.2% , or 4.7 mills, according to the state index.
"We could have taken more, we are not, we are still trying to look at minimizing the large swings in property taxes, trying to control expenses and utilizing fund balance as a resource to help with these rising costs," Famularo said.
For the average taxpayer, the increase will result in a $42 bump in property taxes, Famularo said.
An estimated $4 million in state gambling revenue will help to curtail the tax increase for qualifying home or farm owners. The $500 reduction would be available as an exclusion from the total amount due in the August property tax bill.
"This is an increase of $15 over previous years," Famularo said. "The driver of it is not the gaming funds increasing themselves, the resource is the fact that Pleasant Valley has fewer homestead, or owner-occupied, properties."
Pleasant Valley continues to derive the bulk of its funding, in this case 55%, from local sources - property taxes, earned income taxes, delinquent property taxes and transfer taxes. State sources will account for 40% of the budget, and federal funding is expected to sit at 2%.
Though state funding for the district is still up in the air, Representative Jack Rader said that negotiations between the governor's office and the legislative branch will hopefully yield positive results soon.
"I'm hopeful that we have quick negotiations so you don't have to wait for a budget from the state level," Rader said. "There's no reason why we shouldn't be able to. I also expect an increase in education funding, too."
According to Superintendent David Piperato, the budget will remain open for public comment for the time being. The final budget will be adopted at the June 13 meeting.
New initiatives, namely full-day kindergarten and Project Lead the Way, will rack up nearly $1.6 million in expenditures for 2019-2020.
Full-day kindergarten will account for $888,248 in the budget, and Project Lead the Way is set at $148,196. Project Lead the Way will be distributed across three "pathways" – engineering, computer science and biomedical – that utilize hands-on experiences for students to engage in the ever-growing areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Two math coaches, four building substitutes and additional department chairs make up the remaining $537,596 in expenses.
Piperato said that the budget accounts for the needs of the student population, first and foremost the improvement of performance and achievement.
"We're also hoping to provide a safe student environment, to improve communication with our community, provide comprehensive professional development, and study our current and future facilities and staffing needs for efficient operation," he said, adding that the social and emotional needs of the students are important as well.
Piperato also took aim at some recent concerns in the community related to administrative positions and their pay rates, hot button issues that have come up during public commentary at some board meetings.
"I think at one point I heard we added six administrators since I've been here," Piperato said. "I just wanted to point out to the board and the community that we have reassigned a number of positions. In grand total since I came on board, we've added one administrative position."
Certain positions were either rebranded or adjusted to take on additional responsibilities, Piperato said, such as the role of the cyberschool principal, which is now the Director of Technology. The only added position on the list was the Director of Curriculum.
Addressing accusations that too many administrators had "six-figure salaries," Piperato went on to present a table comparing the per diem rate of teachers versus administrators.
By applying the per diem rate of a teacher to the 247 working days of an administrator, the resulting figures were well over the six-figure mark. A teacher with a per diem rate of $438.33 working an administrator's schedule would take in a yearly salary of $119,382.51, greater than all but two of the listed administrative salaries: $130,000 for Director of Curriculum and $129,000 for the assistant to the superintendent.
According to Piperato, only seven of Pleasant Valley's 28 administrators currently earn six-figure salaries.
"The net effect to the taxpayer is that we have realigned, we have an additional administrator, and we are actually spending less money on administrators," Piperato said.
Some concerns for future budgets include upcoming building projects such as the high school renovation, the uncertainty of state and federal funding, charter school payments, out of district placements, declining enrollment and the maintenance of effective programs.
The district's legal costs were also discussed during the meeting, as expenditures for the current year have been higher than usual.
"I've been very, very concerned about the exorbitant amount of money that we're spending on legal fees," Vice President Donna Yozwiak said earlier on in the meeting. "To date, we have spent $243,000, and we're $106,000 in the red."
Famularo confirmed that the figure was extraordinarily high, though a contingency plan in the budget would cover the costs.
"My hope is that we would cautiously look at everything we are doing legally, because I really want to save some money with our legal fees," Yozwiak said.