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Today's Highlights: See www.democracyusa.org for details on our major "Claim Democracy" conference in Washington, DC on November 21-23, 2003. Catch NPR's "Marketplace"program on October 7.
This is Rob Richie, executive director of the Center for Voting and Democracy: www.fairvote.org, info@fairvote.org. We shortly will send out our periodic e-newsletter, as it's been quite a season for democracy issues -- what with the madcap California recall election, the Texas standoff over a brazen redistricting plan and the ever-growing controversy over how we still haven't found (nor made a clear national commitment to fund) a fair and secure way to count votes.
We indeed hope you will visit www.fairvote.org and read about our take on the California recall (in particular why the multi-candidate race for governor once again shows the value of instant runoff voting -- as one of our new reports shows, more than half of our current governors have won a gubernatorial race with less than half the votes), our amicus brief in a potentially historic Supreme Court case this term about political gerrymandering, a new cumulative voting law in Illinois, ongoing international movement away from winner-take-all elections and much more.
1) On Tuesday, October 7, National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program will likely feature discussion of instant runoff voting, the hot new reform (www.fairvote.org/irv) that has drawn the support of political leaders like Sen. John McCain, Gov. Howard Dean and Rep. Dennis Kucinich and consideration in nearly two dozen state legislatures this year. We hope you can catch the program. Stay tuned for more NPR coverage of fair election systems in November.
2) On November 22-23, 2003, the Center for Voting and Democracy and most of the nation's leading civil rights, voter turnout and electoral reform organizations will come to Washington, D.C. for a major conference on "Claim Democracy: Securing, Enhancing and Exercising the Power of the Right to Vote."
If there is an electoral democracy issue you care about, it's almost certain to be the subject of discussion in high-profile panels and in workshops and training sessions -- be it campaign finance, instant runoff voting, full representation, initiative and referendum, election day registration, get-out-the-vote efforts, full franchise for ex-felons and the people of the District of Columbia, fair representation for women and people of color,amending the Constitution to secure the right to vote, term limits, ballot access, open debates, term limits, nonpartisan redistricting, open airwaves, voting requipment or Electoral College reform.
Earlybird registration for the conference ends on October 31, 2003, and the room block at the nearby hotel could fill up even sooner than that. We also have limited space for a "Celebrate Democracy" dinner, hosted by Common Cause and our Center for Voting and Democracy, on the evening of November 22. We urge you to visit the conference website -- www.democracyusa.org -- and to join us in November!
For more on the conference, please read below, which includes the conference call-to-action and the impressive list of groups that have signed onto that call-to-action. And note: even if you can't join us in person, we urge you to indicate your support for the individual call-to-action that mirrors the statement below -- see www.democracyusa.org today for details.
Tired of attempts to change electoral rules in the middle of the game? Wasted votes? Money-drenched politics? Bad voting equipment? Political failures to represent and inspire America's magnificently complex and diverse population?
If so, please join a broad coalition of pro-democracy organizations that have organized a major conference on: "Claim Democracy: Securing, Enhancing and Exercising the Power of the Right to Vote." Promising to be the largest gathering of its kind in years, the conference will take place at the Washington, D.C. Convention Center on the weekend of November 22-23, 2003.
The conference features an exciting mix of high-profile plenaries, hands-on workshops, book signings and break-out sessions specifically geared to youth, grassroots activists and democracy advocaes. Presidential candidates and Members of Congress are among those expected to address the conference.
* A Friday evening pre-conference welcome at the Washington College of Law at American University, with music and showing of pro-democracy documentaries, and a Saturday evening program with spoken word poetry.
* On Saturday, two plenaries and break-outs organized in particular for youth, state reformers and democracy advocates. democracy. There will be three sessions for each break-out group, all addressing: 1) securing the vote (including steps being taken to protect and secure voting rights, such as the Help America Vote Act, voting rights residents of the District of Columbia, election day registration and felony disfranchisement laws; 2) enhancing the vote (including reforms that address voter motivation such as campaign finance reform, full representation, Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act andinstant runoff voting); 3) exercising the vote (focused on efforts to encourage voter participation in 2004).
* On Sunday, there will be a series of four sets of 10-12 breakout sessions that will include a mix of workshops and trainings on different aspects of pro-democracy work, with some sessions organized around specific issues and some on tactics.
Reflecting the pressing demand to claim our democracy, the following conference call-to-action has been endorsed by a large number of leading civil rights and electoral reform organizations that are listed below.
that voters have no fundamental right to vote in presidential elections.
elections since 1945, and turnout has been dropping, particularly among young people and particularly in local and state elections. Nearly a third of adult Americans are not even registered to vote.
* The United States is 59th in world rankings of representation by women. Only 14% of Members of Congress are women, and the number of female state legislators has declined since 1998.
* The U.S. Senate lacks a single African American or Latino member, and the number of African Americans and Asian Pacific Americans in the U.S. House has declined since 1994. People of color are under-represented in nearly every state legislature.
* More than 4.5 million Americans are denied the right to vote because of felony disfranchisement laws that disproportionately impact low-income communities of color, including one out of every eight adult African American men.
* More than half a million Americans in our nation's capital are denied voting representation in the U.S Congress despite the fact that they fulfill all of the same responsibilities of citizenship shared by Americans living in states and despite Congress having the final say over all local matters.
* Only four U.S. House incumbents lost to non-incumbent challengers in 2002 -- the fewest ever. State legislative elections are often even less competitive, with fully 40 percent of state legislative races since 1996 not even being contested by both major parties.
* Although the 2000 election debacle led to federal and state action to improve the infrastructure of our elections, many states are making it harder to vote, not easier.
* Despite the passage of federal campaign finance reform legislation in 2002, money spent in campaigns and on lobbying at federal, state and local levels continues to have an excessively powerful impact on electoral politics and policy-making.
Given this "democracy deficit," it should not surprise us that our political leadership often fails to address the hopes and needs of average Americans.
To attain a democracy that addresses the needs and aspirations of the American people, we must embrace and strive to adopt a range of critical reforms. Just as reformers fought for and won the expansion of suffrage over the decades, we must be ready to take advantage of opportunities as they emerge at the federal level and in the states. Claiming democracy will require a sustained focused and coordinated effort, both within states and nationally.
We strongly believe that the pro-democracy movement would increase its effectiveness through greater coordination among national, state and local reformers, and that the articulation of a shared vision and concrete goals would facilitate stronger working relationships and more effective coalitions.
In the current climate of struggle for democracy in other nations, and given the aforementioned shortcomings of our own democracy, the time is ripe to launch an effort at home to celebrate, secure, expand and exercise the power of the right to vote. We believe that this vision has the potential to be the string that binds together the many diverse efforts to make our democracy more vibrant, more representative and more genuine.
We therefore join together in a call for a "Claim Democracy" conference on November 21-23 in Washington, D.C. We plan to participate in this conference and to encourage staff members and supporters to participate. We support the goal of bringing together a diverse range of scholars, elected officials and national, state and local reformers and activists to focus attention on the need to strengthen the power of our right to vote and to build a broad pro-democracy movement.
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Innovative project in UK: everybody can submit artworks to be displayed on LED screens around London.
Sign after the X is a net.art project from 3 Canadian artists: Marina Roy (content), David Clark (animation) and Graham Meisner (music). It is an interactive website revolving around the letter X and its meanings, and it is the digital extension of Marina Roy's book: "Sign after the X______".
Gunnerus Library of Norway University is making a further step for its digitized books collection.
Walt Disney Pictures is remaking 5 of its blockbusters with new 3D techniques.
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Hike choices: There are many magnificent choices of hikes from Fondsbu and Eidsbugarden. The hike to the summit of Utsikten ("The vantage point") is recommended! Popular poet Aaamund Olavson Vinje (1818-1870) named the peak, as he did the Jotunheimen range. Utsikten was his favourite place at Eidsbugarden, with good reason, as the view from it is magnificent.
In winter, there are staked routes in all directions from Fondsbu. Some of the routes are staked in February, when the lodge opens, and others are staked later in winter.


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I HAVE BEEN READING some devilish stories in a lovely little book recently. Folktales from Bohemia by Adolf Wenig, illustrated by Josef Wenig, and published as part of a fantastic folktales series by Hippocrene books (It was first published in 1923 as Beyond the Giant Mountains). The illustrations are lovely red and black wood/lino cuts and all the characters wear the most delightfully clumpy clogs. There has always been something about the devil who appears in old tales like these that I like. He is rather a silly blundering fellow with a sooty complexion and the odd telltale horn and hoof. In these tales he is repeatedly outwitted by clever peasants...
How an Old Woman Cheated the Devil
In a certain village there was an old woman who lived all by herself in her old weather beaten hut. She was very poor and her poverty troubled her greatly, but she could not go begging for people would say: "She has a home and yet she begs." One day she said to herself: "What reward have I for working hard all my days and leading an honest life? In my old age I am to die of hunger."
Hardly had she said it when someone tapped on the window. The old woman looked out and saw a black man grinning at her.
"Open the door," he said; "I am worn out from my journey and I would like to rest."
But the old woman angrily answered: "Indeed! Lodge tramps and vagabonds! Just go on your way, there is no room for you here!" and she reached out to shut the window. The black man quickly thrust in his hand, all hairy and with claws in place of nails, so that she could not close it.
She was angry and scolded. The black man chuckled and said: " Be still, old woman, I am not so bad. Look at this!" and on his black palm he held out a shining ducat.
Her eyes opened wide at the sight of it. She snatched the money and hurried to let the stranger in. She did not care now what her guest looked like, but led him into the room and asked him if he had any more of those shining yellow pieces. The stranger again spread out his palm and lo! there was another yellow ducat. The old woman eagerly took it and put it into her pocket. "Well, well," she thought, "after all this fellow is not as bad as he appears."
After giving her guest some smoked meat to eat (for that was the kind he liked best) she sat him down and told him that she was a great lover of those yellow birds which he had placed in her palm. He chucked to himself.
"I will bring you as many as you like, if you will promise me your soul. I am the Devil."
The old woman was not frightened a bit and she answered: "I will not promise, but I will sell. In the loft by the window hangs a bag. Fill that with ducats and when it is filled, you may have my soul."
At this the devil jumped up and flew off to hell for the money. Meanwhile the old woman hurried up to the loft and cut a hole in the bottom of the bag. When the devil arrived with the money and poured it into the bag, it fell through the hole into the loft. The devil had to fly back for more money again and again until there was so much money in the loft that the bag stayed filled.
Tired and angry at the way the old woman had served him, he demanded his reward. "You have the money, now give me your soul!"
But to that she answered: "It isn't yours yet. You must do one more thing for me and then you may have my soul."
To avoid a quarrel, the devil agreed and asked what he was to do. The old woman handed him a sieve and ordered: "Carry water from the pond into the barrel which stands in the garden. The vegetables need watering and there is no water."
The devil took the sieve and ran to the pond, but dip as he would and run as he would, he could never get the water as far as the barrel. When the sweat dripped from every pore and he had become so tired he could hardly drag his feet, he flung the sieve to the ground and angrily exclaimed: "Truly I am an old devil and a mean one, but you, old woman, are still worse."
He slapped her across the face so that stars flashed before her eyes, and then vanished.
Thus the old woman got rid of the devil and had a whole loft full of money. After that, everything went well with her, but the marks left by the devil's claws remained on her face all the rest of her life.
Still devil-hunting in Bohemia ... I now invite you to leaf through the pages of the Codex Gigas ~ ("gigantic book") the largest medieval manuscript in the world. It was created in the early 13th century in the Benedictine monastery of Podlažice in Bohemia, and is now preserved at the National Library of Sweden in Stockholm (taken in 1648 by the Swedish army as plunder at the end of the 30 years' war), where two librarians are needed to lift it. It is also known as the Devil's Bible due to a large illustration of the devil on the inside.
The codex includes the entire Latin Vulgate version of the Bible, Isidore of Seville's encyclopedia Etymologiae, Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews, Cosmas of Prague's Chronicle of Bohemia, various tractates (from history, etymology and physiology), a calendar with necrologium, a list of brothers in Podlažice monastery, magic formulae and other local records. The entire document is written in Latin.
On page 290 which is otherwise empty, there appears a unique picture of the devil, about 50cm tall. Several pages before this are written on a blackening vellum and have a very gloomy character, somewhat different from the rest of the codex.
According to legend, the scribe was a monk who breached his monastic code and was sentenced to be walled up alive. In order to forbear this harsh penalty he promised to create in one single night a book to glorify the monastery forever, including all human knowledge. Near midnight he became sure that he could not complete this task alone, so he sold his soul to the devil for help. The devil completed the manuscript and the monk added the devil's picture out of gratitude for his aid.
Bohemia in more recent years has continued to tell devil's tales, often with beautifully carved marionettes. If you have not yet sampled the dark and unnerving delights of Jan Svankmajer's animated films (such as Little Otik, Alice or Faust - which includes a life size devil marionette - left), then I heartily suggest you do .. if you dare.
Tags: bohemia, codex gigas, czech, devil, faust, folk tales, jan svankmajer, manuscript, marionettes, medieval
Wow! I love all that dark-eastern-folktale-lore. A dash of delicious creepiness is a great addition to ones personal recipe.
Tess Kincaid said...
That Codex is amazing. Always enjoy reading your little articles, Rima!
The book addict I am is now officially fascinated with the "Codex Gigas"(which I am now compelled to research). As for the story you took from "Folktales from Bohemia", it reminded me of the stories my aunt used to tell as a little girl after lunch, when we sat in the dark during "siesta" time-a mixture of folktales and Brother Grimm's stories with certain personal "portuguese" twist. I loved how her voice made the stories even more mysterious, almost incantatory.
Reimão said...
Greatest blog. thanks for sharing :)
I loved the story, thank you!
Gwen Buchanan said...
fascinating, charming, inspiring, delightful, imaginative... WOW... I totally love your blog... your stories... your paintings... everything...
we are craftspeople from New Brunswick Canada and if we never made most everything around us we would still be sitting in a field...It feels so good to create.
I recognize the Desiderata... that is my Muse... my hearts desire
good to meet you...
ps..Long time ago my ancestors came from Ireland after they came from Scotland...
I hearby claim this section mine....

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Watch a star-studded reading of the play '8' live on YouTube this Saturday night
I want to invite you to come to YouTube on Saturday, March 3, to watch a reading of a powerful new play, 8, about marriage equality and the Proposition 8 trial.
The play, written by Academy Award winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black (Milk), is an account of the case filed by the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER) in the U.S. District Court in 2010 to overturn Proposition 8, a constitutional amendment that eliminated the rights of same-sex couples to marry in the state of California. Framed around the trial's historic closing arguments in June 2010, 8 provides an intimate look at what unfolded when the issue of same-sex marriage was put on trial in the U.S.
At the time of the trial, the Supreme Court ruled against allowing cameras in the courtroom, preventing anyone outside the court from witnessing the proceedings. Today, we're able to give people around the world a look at what happened behind closed doors via the live stream of this reading of 8 on AFER's YouTube channel.
I hope you'll join me, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch, Matthew Morrison, Jamie Lee Curtis and others who will be performing in the West Coast premiere this Saturday evening at 7:45pm PT (pre-show begins at 7:30pm PT). Tune in to youtube.com/americanequalrights to watch the event live streamed from the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, Calif.
Rob Reiner, director of 8 and founding board member of AFER, recently watched "Prop 8 Unconstitutional: The Highlight Reel".
Editor's note: From time to time we invite guests to the blog to talk about a topic of interest. We're thrilled to have Rob Reiner, actor and director, join us today.
fshepinc March 3, 2012 at 9:46 PM
I just finished watching the live webcast. Wow. Thank you, YouTube, for bringing this to us. It was an exceptionally powerful piece, with outstanding acting. I hope you do this again.
To AFER, Mr. Reiner, and all of the cast -Thank you!


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.bss (Byte Saving Section 😉) sections are extremely useful for saving on size when dealing with uninitialized data. However in tiny executables where every byte counts they can take up more space in the binary than you might want.
That's 36 bytes of header to describe a section table entry for your uninitialized data. Can we do better if we just want a place to stuff our uninitialized data?
One solution would be to use the very top of the allocated stack region (upper limit) as a place to store your data. Since the Windows loader will allocate pages for the stack of your main thread when your process is initialized, we can tell the loader to allocate a little extra for us to use for general purpose data storage.
To do this you have to take into consideration how Windows allocates memory for thread stacks.
The default stack size that most compilers and assemblers will specify to be reserved in your PE headers is going to be 1 MB. However the entire 1 MB of stack space isn't going to be usable all at once. The 1 MB portion of your process' address space is reserved meaning that there can be no other allocations that overlap that consecutive region but there is no backing page frame for the region in physical memory. To actually use the pages in that reserved region you have to commit the pages you want to use. This will locate free pages in physical memory to fill into the corresponding page table entries and reserve space in the page file should the pages need to be paged out. By default the first page at the bottom of the stack (BOS) is committed and immediately usable before your entry point is called by the loader.
How do the number of committed stack pages grow so that we can use the necessary memory as rsp grows in the direction of the upper limit? That's the job of the stack guard page. Guard pages are special pages that will trigger an exception when accessed. You can register handler functions for these exceptions and do processing based on who touched the guarded page. In the case of a stack guard page, Windows will catch this exception, commit the page on demand, and make the subsequent stack page the next guard page. This allows the OS to not use physical memory for stacks unless absolutely needed. Why would this be needed? Imagine a process which has hundreds or even thousands of threads which all have stacks that are multiple megabytes. This can get expensive very quickly and committing on demand can help in saving physical memory. Once a page has been committed and the stack shrinks above it, it will not be uncomitted.
Implementing a guard page feature in an OS is fairly straightforward as all pages in the guard region need to be set as invalid in the page tables. On access, the kernel page fault handler can look in either the page tables or a data structure describing regions of the virtual address space to see if the page is really invalid and triggering an application exception, or if a callback needs to be fired off.
As you can see, this would skip the guard page if the required stack region hasn't been committed before. For this reason, MSVC will implicitly call _chkstk for large stack allocations behind the scenes to probe the stack and touch as many guard pages as necessary to make sure there is enough committed memory for the buffer.
All this to say, if we tried to blindly use the extra stack memory at the upper limit we requested it wouldn't be committed and segfault our process. Now that we understand the difference between memory being reserved and committed, this is a non-issue as we are able to specify to the loader how much of our stack we want to commit before our entry point is called.
Additionally, the stack is larger than before and we can start storing data in the newly committed upper area. If there is concern of the stack growing into our uninitialized data block we can always bump up the reserved/committed stack size though deep stacks can be indicators of poor program design.
; being the same size as the single and instruction.
And there we have it, the upper limit is now going to be in rax. We need to first align to the nearest page as we aren't sure exactly where in the BOS page we are after being called by the loader as part of process initialization on Windows runs in user mode on the main thread. We can now store as much data as we feel comfortable at the top of the stack.
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Patriots Notebook: Testaverde not retired yet
Vinny Testaverde is taking part in the Patriots passing camp this week, and it's not merely for kicks or to help out coach Bill Belichick.
According to Mike Azzarelli, a close friend and associate of the quarterback, the 43-year-old Testaverde has not hung up his cleats, nor does he have any plans to do so. He's looking for work. He's looking to add a 21st season to his distinguished resume.
``He's not retired. I doubt he'd be hanging out,'' Azzarelli said when asked about Testaverde's appearance in Foxboro this week participating in passing camp, which is part of the team's Organized Team Activities.
``He's intent on playing.''
Was anything in the works in terms of a contract?
``I can't comment on that,'' said Azzarelli, who had previously served as Testaverde's agent. Azzarelli is no longer an agent, per se, but continues to work for Testaverde.
Testaverde was signed by the Pats last November, serving as the third quarterback behind Tom Brady and Matt Cassel. Given his vast experience, having played in the NFL for two decades, he provided veteran counsel for Brady.
After Brady and Cassel, rookie free agent Matt Gutierrez is the only other quarterback on the roster.
Testaverde's locker has remained intact through the off-season, sitting to one side of Randy Moss' new stall in the Pats room, with Brady holding down the other side.
As of last week, there were still several game balls in Testaverde's locker. One of them, no doubt, is from the 6-yard touchdown pass he threw to Troy Brown in the December 31, 40-23 victory against the Tennessee Titans. That gave him at least one touchdown pass for the 20th straight season, breaking his own record.
It's been more than three months since the Patriots released Corey Dillon and, based on what's out there for him, agent Steve Feldman is saying that the 10-year workhorse back is leaning toward retirement.
``He's in a holding pattern right now,'' said Feldman. ``I'm not certain whether he's gonna play football anymore. He's happy, he's got every dime he's made, and he's busy taking his kids to school and working on his golf game. He's got his 10 years in the league, 10,000 yards, his Super Bowl ring, so it'd have to be a good spot for him to come back.''
But Feldman said that Dillon still hasn't filed retirement papers with the league. For now, the plan is to wait until summer to make a decision.
At that point, two circumstances could lead Dillon back to the field. One would simply be the itch to play again. The other would be a feature role opening up on a contending team. Dillon flirted a bit with the Titans, Bills and Eagles in March, but backed off scheduled visits to Nashville and Buffalo.
Peter Schaeffer, who represents free agent Chad Brown, continues to deny a report from last week the linebacker had come to terms with the Patriots.
``(There's) no deal,'' Schaeffer wrote yesterday via email, when asked if Brown had re-signed with the Pats. ``I don't know where the report came from.''
Schaeffer, however, did not respond when asked if there had at least been discussions or contact between the Pats and his client. ...
Junior Seau's contract, signed on Monday, is for one year with a base salary of $1 million, according to a league source. The deal includes $100,000 in likely-to-be-earned incentives, which pushes Seau's 2007 cap charge to $1.1 million.
There's no signing bonus attached to the deal, meaning the Patriots can cut Seau before the season starts without cap ramifications. But Seau is protected with a $500,000 split, which would be paid out if he's placed on injured reserve before the opener.


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Edited by Edited by Olivier Toussaint (University of Namur, Belgium) and Heinz D. Osiewacz (University of Frankfurt, Germany; Gordon J. Lithgow, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK)
This book covers a wide range of complementary research areas, including work at the molecular and cellular levels, theories of aging, molecular basis of the loss of homeostatic maintenance mechanisms, lower and higher model organisms, the genetics of human longevity, clinical and molecular aspects of age-related diseases, and integrated systems like brain and immune system aging. Additions to knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of aging provided by this volume may ultimately lead to the prevention of age-related diseases.
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Maurice Vrijmoed (* 8. Dezember 1988 in Voorburg) ist ein ehemaliger niederländischer Radrennfahrer.

Maurice Vrijmoed wurde 2003 niederländischer Meister im Straßenrennen der Jugendklasse. Im nächsten Jahr wurde er auf der Bahn Jugendmeister in der Einerverfolgung. In der Juniorenklasse wurde er 2005 nationaler Vizemeister im Straßenrennen. 2007 und 2008 fuhr Vrijmoed für das niederländische Continental Team Van Vliet-EBH Elshof. In seinem zweiten Jahr dort wurde er nationaler Meister im Mannschaftszeitfahren. 2009 wechselte er zum Rabobank Continental Team, mit dem er das Mannschaftszeitfahren zum Auftakt der Olympia's Tour gewann. Zum Saisonende 2010 beendete er seine Radsportlaufbahn.

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Congress Set for Biomedical, Defense Research Boosts
Legislators also created a rapid response fund for emerging disease outbreaks while providing NIH, DARPA with funding increases.
by: Matt Hourihan, David Parkes
Continuing their rapid pace of late, the Senate Tuesday adopted on an overwhelming 93-7 vote the second of three possible FY 2019 "minibus" packages. Released late last week, the package – negotiated by House and Senate conferees – continues to dismiss recommended funding cuts from the White House. Under the agreement, the Department of Defense and the National Institutes of Health are lined up for sizable research gains.
This package is by far the largest legislators will tackle this year, combining the Defense and Labor, HHS, & Education spending bills. Together the two tally up to over $800 billion, accounting for most of this year's discretionary spending. The bills separately represent top priorities for Republicans and Democrats, and were thus paired together to attract votes from both parties and ensure passage. The bill is likely to be adopted in the House of Representatives next week before going to the White House for a likely signature from President Trump.
A recap of select research provisions is below; full details and explanatory notes are available via the House Appropriations Committee. See also the AAAS appropriations dashboard for additional details.
National Institutes of Health. Following the Senate's lead, conferees provided NIH with a $2 billion increase: the fourth year in a row NIH will receive at least that much. The agency overall receives a better than five percent boost, with every individual institute increased by at least 2.6 percent. Several funding areas in the final agreement matched the proposals originally put forth in the Senate. Some noteworthy increases and funding provisions:
Alzheimer's research receives another massive boost of $425 million, increasing total spending to $2.3 billion. The National Institute on Aging would thus get the largest year-over-year increase, by 19.8 percent.
The agreement includes $1.3 billion total for research into opioid addiction, alternatives, and pain management.
A House recommendation to increase funding for universal flu vaccine research by $40 million, to $140 million total, was adopted in the agreement.
The agreement also includes an increase of $37 million to fund antibiotic resistance research at $550 million total. Both this and the flu vaccine are National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease initiatives.
BRAIN Initiative funding rises to $429 million, matching House and Senate figures. Precision medicine funding rises to $376 million.
Amid rising concerns over NIH-funded researcher relationships with foreign entities, legislators direct NIH to transfer $5 million to the Health and Human Services Inspector General for grant oversight.
As expected, conferees also rejected the Administration's recommendation to consolidate three other federal agencies within NIH, and also rejected a proposed tightening of NIH salary cap rules.
With continued funding increases these past few years, NIH will be 16.1 above FY 2013 sequestration levels in inflation-adjusted dollars once the House passes and President Trump signs the defense-health agreement into law, possibly next week. NIH will also reach its highest funding point since FY 2007 as it continues to close the gap with its all-time FY 2003 peak. FY 2019 funding will end up approximately nine percent below that peak (see graph).
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Excluding funding for CDC facilities – which received a large one-time boost in last year's omnibus – CDC programs receive a 1.6 percent increase, with many individual programs receiving flat or very modest increases from last year. Adjusted for comparability, final CDC funding is also 29.6 percent or $1.7 billion above the White House budget request. This means most program areas receive substantially more than requested. For instance, legislators provided CDC's Antibiotic Resistance Initiative with $31 million above the request, while CDC efforts to prevent birth defects received $45 million above the request. Legislators also added $5 million for a new initiative assessing the infectious disease consequences of the national opioid epidemic.
Notably, the conferees also included $50 million for an Infectious Disease Rapid Response Reserve Fund, which would give CDC quick access to funds during the next disease outbreak. It's a smaller version of a provision that appeared in the House version of the Labor-HHS bill this summer, though a similar idea has been floated by both parties in years past.
Department of Defense. DOD science and technology funding was boosted across all accounts and branches, including the defense agencies. Total DOD S&T funding rises by $1.1 billion above FY 2018, good for a 7.6 percent increase, and $2.3 billion above the White House request (see graph).
One of the big decisions facing Congressional conferees was what to do about DOD basic research: the House and White House had proposed moderate cuts of 1.7 percent and 3.2 percent, respectively, while the Senate wanted to ratchet spending up by over $400 million, close to a 20 percent increase. In the end, they about split the difference, with basic research receiving an eight percent or $186 million increase, with all military branches receiving similar relative boosts.
Programmatically, the bill includes an 8.2 percent increase for Defense Research Science program elements to $1.6 billion total. An additional $10 million was also added above the request for the Navy's Defense University Research Instrumentation Program. Within the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the National Defense Education Program was boosted by 31.6 percent above FY 2018 to $136 million total, with an additional $15 million added for manufacturing education. The Minerva Initiative also received $2 million above the request to reach $12.8 million total, a 25 percent increase above FY 2018 levels.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is another winner with an 11.7 percent increase above FY 2018 levels. Funding includes $30 million for the Electronics Resurgence Initiative, $40 million for artificial intelligence research, and $30 million for hypersonic weapons development and transition.
Elsewhere, the defense-wide manufacturing S&T program is funded at $175 million, a 6 percent drop from FY 2018 but substantially above the White House request: among other items, $10 million was added for advanced manufacturing innovation institutes and $15 million for the National Security Technology Accelerator. Legislators also again added $250 million for DOD's Rapid Innovation Fund, which assists small businesses in rapidly developing technologies, in spite of the Pentagon's request for no funding. $13 million was added for the new Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, while the related AI initiative known as Project Maven received $80 million above the request.
Lastly, legislators provided $2.2 billion for Defense Health Program research, development, test, and evaluation, a 6.9 percent increase from FY 2018. As is customary, the conferees added substantial funding for peer reviewed medical research across an array of disease areas, especially cancers; total funding is slightly above $1.0 billion this year.
In historical terms, DOD S&T (excluding medical research) will reach its highest point in FY 2019 since FY 2006, adjusting for inflation (see graph). DOD basic research funding will reach a likely all-time high in total inflation-adjusted dollars.
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In Memoriamadmin2021-09-26T23:54:41+00:00
The Australian Holistic Healers and Counsellors Association (AHHCA) would like to honour the following deceased members members for their contribution to the association.
Helen Bramley-Jackson
She specialised in Bioenergetic Therapies, Clinical Hypnotherapy, Holistic Counselling, Loss and Grief Counselling, Therapeutic Touch, Meditation, Past Life Regression, and Mediation.
She was an End of Life Consultant, a Holistic Death Doula, a Reiki / Seichim Master, a Social Worker, and qualified to provide supervision for Holistic counsellors and members.
She joined the AHHCA in 1996 because of the multi-modality aspect for holistic therapies.
In the past Helen had served as the President, Secretary, head of the Education Subcommittee, and general committee member.
Helen passed in 2021. While still a Life Member of the association she had not long retired from her leadership roles.
We will miss her smile and her vast repository of knowledge.
Vale Helen.
Belinda Harber
Belinda was an accountant AND an Angel Therapy Practitioner and a Master of Ascension Reiki and Angelic Attunements of Light.
Belinda joined the association at the end of 2013 at the invitation of the committee to serve as the Treasurer, which she did for 3 years. In that time she helped us cut costs and prioritise our income generating activities.
Belinda passed in 2017.
Vale Belinda. You are with the angels now for sure.
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package kg.apc.jmeter.http;

import kg.apc.jmeter.notifier.StatusNotifierCallback;
import net.sf.json.JSON;
import net.sf.json.JSONObject;
import net.sf.json.JSONSerializer;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpRequestBase;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.LinkedList;

public class HttpUtilsEmul extends HttpUtils {

    private LinkedList<JSON> responses = new LinkedList<>();

    public HttpUtilsEmul(StatusNotifierCallback notifier, String address, String dataAddress) {
        super(notifier, address, dataAddress);
    }

    public void addEmul(JSON response) {
        responses.add(response);
    }

    @Override
    public JSON query(HttpRequestBase request, int expectedCode) throws IOException {
        return getResponse(request);
    }

    @Override
    public JSONObject queryObject(HttpRequestBase request, int expectedCode) throws IOException {
        return (JSONObject) getResponse(request);
    }

    public JSON getResponse(HttpRequestBase request) throws IOException {
        log.info("Simulating request: " + request);
        if (responses.size() > 0) {
            JSON resp = responses.remove();
            log.info("Response: " + resp);
            return resp;
        } else {
            throw new IOException("No responses to emulate");
        }
    }

    public void addEmul(String s) {
        addEmul(JSONSerializer.toJSON(s));
    }
}

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Captain America #342-343 (June-July 1988)
These two issues focus primarily on the Captain and his team—now augmented by Rachel Leighton, aka Diamondback—fighting against Viper and her attempts to take over the Serpent Society. (Admittedly, the last part is mostly Diamondback's concern.) We also check in briefly with John Walker and Lemar Hoskins (the current Captain America and his recently renamed partner Battlestar) as they enforce the mutant registration act (very much contrary to how Steve Rogers will confront registration in the Civil War).
In issue #342, after three pages of Nomad and D-Man fighting over Vagabond (Jack's "friend," in the red, white, and blue), a strange aircraft appears, and Cap forgoes airstairs in favor of the diving board (and some showing off).
It turns out Cap was expecting the visitors… whose names, not to mention their "liege," should give a clue as to where they're from. (Please, no "Amazon" jokes based on the package K'Bali is "delivering" to Cap.)
Now here's a guy who might be offended Cap went to Tony Stark first for a new shield, although he didn't seem to be aware of Cap's new status (or non-status, as it were). (To be fair, T'Challa is a little busy at the moment, as he mentions, having lost his connection to the Panther Spirit and threatened with losing his throne, in July's Black Panther (vol. 2) #1.) Not surprisingly, T'Challa gives his apologies and Cap deflects them, as two men of humility and grace do.
(I love the Golden Age-ish look Cap has in the last panel above—I think the simplicity of the black outfit helps.)
Black Panther signs off with a pledge to help any way he can, while Cap and the two Wakandan pilots are focused on the shield and someone trying to come aboard.
It would have been cool if K'Bali or M'Daka has recognized their liege's handiwork in the Falcon's wings, but oh well. Sam tells Cap about Diamondback's call to his hotline (from the last issue), and Cap orders his team into action after hailing a very advanced cab.
Diamondback lets Cap know to meet her and Society leader Sidewinder (whom Cap tangled with in issue #338) at Fred's Lube & Pump in upstate New York, and while Cap is fully aware it may be a trap, I'm sure he didn't expect confirmation so soon… much less from Diamondback herself.
"Just checking," she says, becoming the umpteenth person who can't recognize Cap in a slightly different outfit (despite her massive crush on him, which is reasserted below).
Cap makes it clear that "I didn't kill Bill" is not particularly impressive to him. Try harder, Rachel!
As Cap's New Kooky Quartet Plus One—I'm not calling them a quintet yet, sorry—stakes out the Serpent Society's headquarters, Rachel and Jack clearly have other things on their mind. (And Sam looks like he's wondering if he left the oven on.)
After they sneak in to the building, the rest of the group tussles with various Serpents, including D-Man and Diamondback struggling with Anaconda, while Cap searches for the captive ones who refuse to side with Viper, displaying a Gruenwaldian memory for D-list villains.
He makes a mental note to adjust his shieldwork for this new one's slightly different feel—and is Rachel flirting with him, right now?
Cap/Gruenwald even remembers Slither from way back when.
Rachel frees Cottonmouth only to have him expand his massive jaw in an attempt to swallow her whole, and Cap gives him something else to chew on before confronting the classic dilemma between fighting crime and saving lives, even when those he must save are criminals themselves (which he struggled with in issue #340 as well).
They manage to get the antidote in time, but Viper gets away. In issue #343, Rachel shows him where Viper is leaving from, before dreaming of an Olympic career with him.
(I jump into water slides the same way.)
After failing to bring Viper's ship down with his shield—I guess he still hasn't got the hang of it—he takes a courageous leap, probably as much to get away from his stalker as anything else.
Viper tries to shake him off by speeding up, but she should know that Cap can do this all day.
On another ship commandeered by Diamondback and the fellas, Jack takes the opportunity to extract information from Slither more aggressively, and D-Man tries to remind him who they work for.
If that weren't bad enough, Jack wants to blow Viper's ship out of the sky, assuming that if Cap had latched onto it as Rachel said, he would have brought it down already. Rachel signs on to the plan, and D-Man objects yet again—and if his objections worked with torturing Slither earlier (which we don't know), it did not work this time, as we can see below.
Cap counts on the Black Panther to have put plenty of vibranium in his new shield to cushion his fall…
…which he did, even though the shield is still not the original item, as Cap laments.
Cap defeats Viper in time for his pals to land right next to him, and he's not even mad that they shot him out of the sky. (What a guy!)
The next issue is set up as D-Man tells Cap about Viper's plan, already in motion…
…and, despite Falcon's advance call, the final page of the issue shows the president of the United States taking a late night drink of water before the phone rings in the White House.
Before we finish the post, let's check in with John Walker and Lemar Hoskins, who are busy rounding up mutants who refuse to comply with the Mutant Registration Act—even if they deny being mutants at all (although he actually is a mutant). While Walker is satisfied to "just follow orders," Lemar has reservations, much like Cap did with a broader registration act during the Civil War, but for more personal reasons (and ones more relevant to the X-Men concept).
Walker and Hoskins get closer to Cap's orbit in the next issue when they run into Nomad, D-Man, and Diamondback. It's only a matter of time before they come up against Cap himself…
Captain America (vol. 1) #342, June 1988: Mark Gruenwald (writer), Kieron Dwyer (pencils), Al Milgrom (inks), Bob Sharen (colors), John Morelli (letters). (More details at Marvel Database.)
Captain America (vol. 1) #343, July 1988: Mark Gruenwald (writer), Kieron Dwyer (pencils), Al Milgrom (inks), Bob Sharen (colors), John Morelli (letters). (More details at Marvel Database.)
Collected in: Captain America Epic Collection: The Captain and Captain America: The Captain
PREVIOUS ISSUE: Captain America #341 (May 1988)
NEXT ISSUE: Captain America #344 (August 1988)
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Title: The Keynesian Revolution : a research school analysis
Author: Cord, Robert Anthony
Awarding Body: University of Cambridge
Current Institution: University of Cambridge
https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.16167
Various explanations have been put forward as to why the "Keynesian Revolution" occurred. Some of these point to the temporal relevance of the General Theory while others highlight the importance of more anecdotal evidence, such as Keynes's relations with the Cambridge "Circus". However, no systematic effort has been made to bring together these and other factors under one recognised framework of analysis. This thesis attempts to fill this gap by making use of a well-established tradition of work within the history of science literature devoted to identifying the factors which help to explain why certain research schools are successful and why others fail. This body of work is based primarily on the ideas of Jack Morrell and Gerald Geison. More specifically, Morrell and Geison make use of a combination of 14 intellectual, technical, institutional, psychological and financial factors which, they argue, help determine the relative performance of research schools. We apply the research school approach to the development very specifically of macroeconomics in the 1930s and 1940s. Our findings suggest that it does indeed provide a reasonably coherent explanation as to why the revolution in macroeconomics witnessed during this period was specifically labelled "Keynesian", this despite the fact that Keynes was far from being the only economist attempting to gain dominance for his ideas. Thus, as well as Keynes, we apply the same research school analysis to the cases of Hayek and Kalecki and use it to explain why they were overshadowed by Keynes. On a final note, although it is clear that Keynes independently possessed a number of the attributes necessary to establish a successful and sustainable research school, the thesis also identifies the theories and activities of Marshall as providing an important foundation from which Keynes was able to mount his own revolution.
Supervisor: Harcourt, Geoff Sponsor: Not available
Qualification Name: Thesis (Ph.D.) Qualification Level: Doctoral
EThOS ID: uk.bl.ethos.541867 DOI:
10.17863/CAM.16167


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Universal mechanism of regulation in plant cells discovered
video: Numerical simulation of the transition between passive and active states: The movement of the gating domain regulates the extent to which the zinc ion is available for the catalytic reaction.
Nature Catalysis (2021) 10.1038/s41929-021-00633-x
All plant cells obtain their energy mainly from two organelles they contain - chloroplasts (responsible for photosynthesis) and mitochondria (responsible for the biochemical cycle of respiration that converts sugars into energy). However, a large number of a plant cell's genes in its mitochondria and chloroplasts can develop defects, jeopardising their function. Nevertheless, plant cells evolved an amazing tool called the RNA editosome (a large protein complex) to repair these kinds of errors. It can modify defective messenger RNA that result from defective DNA by transforming (deamination) of certain mRNA nucleotides.
Automatic error correction in plant cells
Automatic error correction in plants was discovered about 30 years ago by a team headed by plant physiologist Axel Brennicke and two other groups simultaneously. This mechanism converts certain cytidine nucleotides in the messenger RNA into uridine in order to correct errors in the chloroplast DNA or mitochondrial DNA. RNA editing is therefore essential to processes such as photosynthesis and cellular respiration in plants. Years later, further studies showed that a group of proteins referred to as PPR proteins with DYW domains play a central role in plant RNA editing. These PPR proteins with DYW domains are transcribed in the cell nucleus and migrate through the cells to chloroplasts and mitochondria. However, they are inactive on their way to these organelles. Only once they are within the organelles do they become active and execute their function at a specific mRNA site. How this activation works, however, has been a mystery until now.
It doesn't work in a test tube
For many years, it was not possible to synthetically produce these DYW-type PPR proteins in the laboratory to study their function and structure more closely. Only now has a German-Japanese team headed by structural biologist and biochemist Dr. Gert Weber from the Joint Protein Crystallography Group at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin succeeded in doing so.
Now: 3D structure of the key protein decoded
Prof. Mizuki Takenaka's group had previously been able to produce the DYW domain in bacteria. Takenaka has been conducting research at Kyoto University since 2018 and previously worked in Axel Brennicke's laboratory in Ulm, Germany. Tatiana Barthel (University of Greifswald and now at HZB) was then able to grow the first protein crystals of the DYW domain. A large number of these delicate crystals have now been analysed at the MX beamlines of BESSY II so that the three-dimensional architecture of the DYW domain could be decoded. "Thanks to the Joint Research Group co-located at HZB and FU Berlin, we have the capability of beam time for measurements very quickly when needed, which was crucial", says Dr. Manfred Weiss, who is responsible for the MX beamlines at BESSY II and co-author of the study.
Mechanism of activation discovered
This three-dimensional architecture has actually provided the crucial clue to the mechanism of DYW domain activation that applies to all plants. It is due to a zinc atom located in the centre of the DYW domain that can accelerate the deamination of cytidine to uridine like a catalyst. For this to happen, however, the zinc must be optimally positioned. The activation switch is provided by a very unusual gating domain in the immediate vicinity of the catalytic centre - the structural analysis shows that this gating domain can assume two different positions, thereby switching the enzyme on or off. "The movement of the gating domain regulates the extent to which the zinc ion is available for the catalytic reaction", Weber explains.
A molecule like scissors
Now it has become clear why getting DYW-type PPR proteins to react with RNA in the test tube has been difficult until now: these PPR proteins are nominally inactive and require activation. In the plant cells, they are first produced in the cell nucleus and then very likely migrate in an inactivated state to the organelles, where they become activated. "This is ideal, because otherwise these molecules would be active along the way, altering various RNA molecules in an uncontrolled fashion harmful to the cell", says Weber.
Universal repair tool
This work is a breakthrough for plant molecular biology because it describes an additional level of sophisticated regulation in chloroplasts and mitochondria. The results are fundamental for plant science, but they could also play a role in our daily lives someday. The DYW domain might provide a useful tool for controllable and site-specific C-to-U and U-to-C RNA editing. This could open up new bioengineering and medical applications, such as reprogramming certain mitochondrial genes without changing a cell's nuclear DNA.
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Fortnite Update Version 1.72 Released To Fix PS4 Crashing Issue
The latest patch for Fortnite that updated the game to version 5.21 on all platforms. PS4 owners were complaining of crashes since installing the new update so this issue seems to have been resolved by now judging from this quick update.
The download size of this new update is under 350 MB on the PS4. It fixes the crashing issue that was introduced in the new update for PS4. There are no official patch notes given for this update but you can read the full patch notes for the last update version 5.21 from here, since this seems to be mainly a stability hotfix.
Fortnite: Battle Royale is currently going through its season 5. It has become a cultural phenomenon worldwide becoming the most played game on all platforms, surpassing its rival PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. It was recently released for Android smartphones after launching earlier for the iOS and Nintendo Switch. It is also available on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Fortnite: Battle Royale and Save the World are developed by Epic Games. The former is a free-to-play game based on the Battle Royale mode. The latter is a town defense shooter with a campaign and story mode. It is currently in early access and utilizes the Unreal Engine 4.
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Super Illu
Voice of the East
Super Illu was founded in 1990 after the fall of the Berlin Wall as a "magazine of unity" and remains the media home of people in eastern Germany.
In addition to the weekly print edition, specials such as Super-Ostsee from the travel guide series, the "Legends" series with monothematic editions about major stars from eastern and western Germany and online services, the Super Illu brand family also covers merchandising products. These include DVD and CD ranges such as "DEFA-Filmklassiker" (DEFA film classics) and "Die Musik unserer Generation" (The music of our generation), annual calendars on themes like "Our beautiful homeland", classic crime stories from the east and the cookery book "Unsere leichte Heimatküche" (Home cooking made easy), which reinterprets East German recipes. With the new, high-quality series "Mein Land" (My country), Super Illu is establishing a whole new position in the homeland magazines segment. The first issue, "Mein Land: Die Elbe" (My country: the Elbe) was released in March 2016 (€4.80).
Every year since 1995, Super Illu has honoured the year's most popular stars with the Goldene Henne, Germany's biggest audience award. The glamorous gala is broadcast live on MDR and rbb and is one of the year's most successful shows for both channels.
Links: Super Illu, subscription shop, Goldene Henne, Super Illu on Facebook, Super Illu on Twitter, Super Illu on Instagram
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Stefan Kobus has been editor-in-chief of Guter Rat and Super Illu since March 2016. He previously worked as deputy editor-in-chief at Super Illu (from 2004) and in various managerial roles at "Heinrich-Bauer-Verlag", for example as editor-in-chief, head of a developmental editorial team and chief editor.
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Gamma Eridani (γ Eridani, abbreviated Gamma Eri, γ Eri), formally named Zaurak , is a variable star in the constellation of Eridanus. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that varies around 2.9, and lies at a distance of about 203 light years from the Sun, as determined by the Hipparcos astrometry satellite.

Description

Gamma Eridani has been defined as a standard star for the spectral class M0III-IIIb.  It is a red giant on the asymptotic giant branch, fusing hydrogen and helium in separate shells outside its core.  Observations published in 1960 showed it to vary in brightness by a few hundredths of a magnitude.  In 1977, it was officially listed as a variable star in the General Catalogue of Variable Stars although the class of variable is uncertain.

Nomenclature
Gamma Eridani is the star's Bayer designation. It has the traditional name Zaurak, alternatively spelled Zaurac, which is Arabic for 'boat'. In 2016, the International Astronomical Union organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin of July 2016 included a table of the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN; which included Zaurak for this star.

In Chinese,  (), meaning Celestial Meadows, refers to an asterism consisting of γ Eridani, δ Eridani, π Eridani, ε Eridani, ζ Eridani, η Eridani, π Ceti, τ1 Eridani, τ2 Eridani, τ3 Eridani, τ4 Eridani, τ5 Eridani, τ6 Eridani, τ7 Eridani, τ8 Eridani and τ9 Eridani. Consequently, the Chinese name for γ Eridani itself is  (, .)

USS Zaurak (AK-117) was a United States Navy Crater class cargo ship named after the star.

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I decided I was going to learn from the families that people
were calling 'hard to reach,' " Moore says.
back big time."
With the help of parents, Moore wrote a handbook
advising families on how to navigate the district's
bureaucracy. It has been translated into some of the
100-plus languages spoken by families in Federal
Way, including Spanish, Russian, Ukranian, and Korean. Three of the parents she worked with eventually were elected to the school board, Moore says.
There's an accompanying booklet for teachers to
help them reflect on how family engagement can
improve instruction and offers them advice on how
to explain to parents how they can support their
child's learning at home.
A National Model
Moore's work has garnered attention beyond
Washington state. The district's family- and community-engagement initiative was one of six models
in the nation selected as a promising practice by the
Harvard Family Research project. Later, Moore was
selected as an "emerging leader" by the project.
Federal Way was also highlighted in an article by
the Latino Family Literacy Project and the Arizona
education department. What's more, Mary Jean
Ryan, the executive director of the Community
Center for Education Results, a nonprofit that is
spearheading an initiative to close the achievement
gap in a handful of districts in the region, including
Federal Way, says she relies on Moore for advice and
Moore has made parents part of nearly every committee or task force aimed at improving some aspect
of the district. They also weigh in on all important
decisions, including major hires.
For instance, when Moore's superviser, Melanie
Strey, the executive director of equity, engagement,
and student and family success, sought to move from
her job in a nearby district to Federal Way, she spent
an hour and a half interviewing with a team of
parents and community partners that Moore assembled.
Moore helped pave "the way for understanding
the role of a family liaison and exploring what parent leadership looks like" in the region, Strey says.
"What she has really done is to help the parent to
build the capacity to have their own voice. And that's
very powerful." n
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Q: Regular expression for matching php's constant definition I wrote a regular expression for matching php's constant definition.
Example:
define('Symfony∞DI', SYS_DIRECTORY_PUBLIC . SYS_DIRECTORY_INCLUDES . SYS_DIRECTORY_CLASSES . SYS_DIRECTORY_EXTERNAL . 'symfony/di/');

Here is the regular expression:
define\((\"|\')+([\w-\.-∞]+)+(\"|\')+(,)+((\s)+(\"|\')+([\w-(\')-\\"-\.-∞-\s-(\\)-\/]+)+(\"|\')|(([\w-\s-\.-∞-(\\)-\/]+)))\);

When I executed with ActionScript it works fine. But when I executed with C# it gives me the following error:
parsing "define\((\"|\')+([\w-\.-∞]+)+(\"|\')+(,)+((\s)+(\"|\')+([\w-(\')-\\"-\.-∞-\s-(\\)-\/]+)+(\"|\')|(([\w-\s-\.-∞-(\\)-\/]+)))\);" - Cannot include class \s in character range.

Could you help me resolve this issue?

A: You seem to be using regexes in a completely convoluted way:

*

*character classes: the - is special and it there to compute an interval; I guess you have an ordering inversion which .Net doesn't handle whereas PHP handles it (or maybe the collating order is different in PHP). Your character class should read [\w.∞] instead of [\w-.-∞], just to quote the first example;

*no need to put a group around \s: \s+, not (\s)+; similarly, , instead of (,).

*' is not special in a regex, and if you want to match two characters, use a character class, not a group + alternative: ['\"] instead of (\'|\") -- and note that the '"' is escaped only because you are in a doubly quoted string;

*your regex is not anchored at the beginning and it looks like you want to match define at the beginning of the output: ^define and not define.
The 1. is probably the source of your problems.
Rewriting your regex with all of the above gives this (in double quotes):
"^define\(([\"'][\w.∞]+[\"'],(\s+[\"']+[\w'\".∞\s\\/]+)+[\"']|([\w\s.∞\\/]+))\);"

which definitely doesn't look that it will ever match your input...
Try this instead:
"^define\(\s*(['\"])[\w.∞]+\1\s*,\s*([\w/]+(\s*\.\s*[\w/]+)*\s*\);$"

A: See fge's answer for the error you're having. Without knowing what your tring to do and not deviating too much from your original, here is an alternative regex:
define\(\s*(["'])\s*[\w.∞]+\s*\1(?:\s*[.,]\s*(["']?)\s*[\w/]+\s*\2)*\s*\);
define
\(
  \s* (["'])
  \s* [\w.∞]+
  \s* \1
  (?:
    \s* [.,]
    \s* (["']?)
    \s* [\w/]+
    \s* \2
  )*
  \s*
\);

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