English singer-songwriter Ben Howard will make a stop in D.C., continuing his Noonday Dream Tour at The Anthem on Oct. 11. Howard started his career modestly by self-releasing acoustic folk E.P. These Waters in 2008 and Old Pine EP in 2010, which launched early hits "Keep Your Head Up" and "The Fear." In his early years, Howard was well known for his light, uplifting tracks and unique guitar style, which includes a fluid mixture of strumming and picking. Over time, Howard has added more depth and darkness to his repertoire, experimenting with electric guitar, heavier bass, and moodier tones.
Howard is at his best when it comes to establishing place. The cover of Howard's 2018 third full-length album Noonday Dream depicts an open, dusty desert with Howard squatting in the middle. The album could easily be the ethereal soundtrack to a film, with songs that feel both expansive and intimate. Noonday Dream finds the middle ground between the lighter, acoustic folk of his 2011 debut album Every Kingdom and the darker tone he adopted in 2014's I Forget Where We Were. The record showcases Howard's ability to blend together intricate guitar patterns with deeper synth beats, resulting in a multi-layered collection of songs that drifts seamlessly from one to the next.
During opening track Nica Libres at Dark, Howard croons hauntingly "Door is locked / my gums are bleeding / outside she reads / outside she's reading / the evacuation procedure out loud" over intricate guitar riffs. On A Boat to an Island on the Wall, Howard sings over light guitar chords above heavy bass, synth beats, and percussive patterns that build on top of one another in satisfying unity.
Ben Howard will be performing at The Anthem on Oct. 11 at 8:00pm. You can find more information here.
Devon O Dwyer Devon, a junior in the College studying Government, is the Voice's former assistant podcast editor and a former leisure editor. She spends a lot of time making playlists.


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The SFFaudio Podcast #590 – AUDIOBOOK/READALONG: Creatures Of The Light by Sophie Wenzel Ellis
The SFFaudio Podcast #590 – Creatures Of The Light by Sophie Wenzel Ellis; read by Kathy Wright. This is an unabridged reading of the story (1 hour 10 minutes) followed by a discussion of it. Participants in the discussion include Jesse, Paul Weimer, Maissa Bessada, Evan Lampe, Will Emmons
Astounding Stories, February 1930, the second issue, the subtitle, slimemold and flivver, super-science, there's a reason we don't SUPER-SCIENCE stories, this whole issue is on LibriVox.org, Into Space by Capt. S.P. Meek, here's some volume for you, a retelling of The First Men In the Moon by H.G. Wells, a one bullshit gimme, not a scientific bone in the actual, bullshit science is everywhere in this story, launch into a defense of this story, an interesting story, a very silly story, intended, she's kinda silly, between Frankenstein and 2001: A Space Odyssey, an evolutionary destiny to be god-like, can we create a better kind of person through science, the ideology of science, a Fantastic Voyage quality, hey have you read this Science article, a scary looking beautiful man, Antarctica, the fourth dimension, everything this exists, how deranged these experiments are, a crazy romp, it lives on in comics, Superman, Superboy, Superdog, villain mustaches, a good silent movie, a good bad movie, Captain America is a product of super science, one of the first super hero story, so amazing, Francis Stevens invented the superhero in 1904, The Curious Experience Of Thomas Dunbar, Sampson, bitten by a radioactive spider, unique, the fun, very sensuous bodies, lips, splattered with startling features, people are so beautiful they are magnificent scenery, getting into arguments on twitter, attacking Lovecraft for being racist, she fundamentally misunderstands, genetics and evolution, Philip K. Dick's The Infinities, teleological evolution, racism is tied up with an evolutionary ladder, Evan's podcasts on H.P. Lovecraft (the sea and forgetting), racism is bullshit, there is no end state, no perfection, humpbacked German scientist, the first creature that crawled out of the sea was a Man, man is going to evolve into God, all life is a part of an experiment, her bursting ideas, the solar powered helicopter, everything turns gray, new scientific ideas that are not really science, if you get a life ray you get a death ray, she's like Ed Wood, hilarious, earnest, not hard SF, a science fable, the overreach of the German scientist, they're all chill about it, Adam and Eve at the end, she's the anti-eve, Lilith, She's Ayesha, so funny, somebody's head has been on this pillow, hey let's build igloos and live on penguins, yo-yo-y, the Savage Land, a continuation of the Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Andre Norton's The People Of The Crater, its all there, madcap bursting at the seams with concepts, she's juggling, a low mileage, life-ray, super-race, solar sphere, telepathic, death-ray, superman, LibriVox, invisible man, time travel, an unconventional form of invisibility, telepathy, the story needs an interlocutor, Ed Wood needs to do the narration, this perfect black age woman, she had the good genes, keeping his disability, hilarious and amusing, like a kitten being angry at you, Beggars In Spain by Nancy Kress is an evil book, a new race of people who are superior to you, they're eugenically more pure, none of the defects that we have, only for the richies, the liberal elites vs the basket of deplorables, Plan 9 From Outer Space is not a good plan for the space program, this is 1930s, what sexual selection is for, modern science is permitting the unfit to live, she doesn't even get Paradise Lost, its 9 hours, comedic on purpose, a story with a happy ending in marriage, The Tempest has the greatest fart jokes on the planet, a slef concisncous commediane , Heard In A Grocery, The White Wizard, her letter to Weird Tales, the happiest days of the month for me, The Woman Of The Wood by A. Merritt, The Moon Bog, The Outsider, The Dreamer of Atlânaat by E. Hoffmann Price, Dwellers In The House, White Lady, a hunch nose, he smells bad, an Arabic scholar judge, it goes without saying, courting the judge's daughter, personality change, its a Lovecraft ripoff, split people into multiple bodies, a happy ending, burn down the house that all the book were in, chaste and tortured romance, they don't have houses, our whole lifestyle, we're locked up in our houses, you need a gym membership, more logical, that's crazy, a role playing game plot, Spirit Of The Century, E.E. "Doc" Smith, "they've adapted", "only human ingenuity", technobabble heavy Star Trek: The Next Generation, Will's definition for super-science: science is part of modern mythology, the mythological power of science, fantastic and godlike things, The Flash, magic with science as the explanation, an ideological component, GURPS,
'"Superscience" technologies violate physical laws – relativity, conservation of energy, etc. – as we currently understand them. (…) By definition, it is impossible to set a firm TL for superscience – we might discover faster-than-light travel tomorrow, a thousand years from now, or never. Equipment TLs are always debatable, but superscience TLs are arbitrary.
The Super-Friends wiki,
Super-Science is a term that refers to any type of science that is considered beyond that of the normal mainstream science. The Raven was a super-scientist, but his experiments were considered unethical.
a great episode, erasing the Super-Friends from the timeline, The Boys From Brazil, Teen Titans, Nazis are a combination of throwbacks to medievalism and super-science, In Our Time with Melvyn Bragg, The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, Eagles or Legions, 2,000 year old consequences, they're their own people, a moral screed against Romans by Romans, German psychology of the 20th century before and after WWII, the chances of finding a couple Germans hiking in the mountains of British Columbia, blue eyed and yellow haired, he's got the WILL!, the classification system, novel and cute hunchback, she would get destroyed if she was used in a touchstone, a womanthology, forgotten, wrong about everything, not a single correct move in any scene, the right guy, he's a dilettante who doesn't have a job because he has good genes, what about Mary?, she's not beautiful so we don't care, Friedrich Engels's common-law wife, what's going on psychological here?, dude, it's so obvious, interested in girl stuff, this handsome handsome man, a middle-class housewife, totally fun to hang out with, disabuse her of her eugenics beliefs, almost everybody was ideologically deranged, H.G. Wells' The Country Of The Blind, a lost world story, different kinds of assholes, H.G. Wells assholes vs. H.P. Lovecraft assholes, Æpyornis Island, that's my ride, this æpyornis comes out, taking on Will's mannerisms, …the one eyed man is king, sight (which is not a thing), these two growths in the front of your face, a scientific story, sickle cell anemia and malaria, its a mistake, Huntington's disease seems to be bad, way to sophisticated for Sophie Wenzel Ellis, one thing everyone sort of got wrong, "survival of the fittest", social Darwinism, there is no path that we're on that is going towards a destiny, you don't need breeding if you have a life-ray, confronted in the raw, Jesse went to university for 16 years, cloning, Kate Wilhelm's Where Late The Sweet Birds Sang, The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis, cloning doesn't make any sense on a large scale because of , Hitler's clone army, monocultures are terrible, what genetic diversity is for, this problem with bananas, sexual selection is about diversity, stupid but fun, emerald ash borers, tree farming, economically too, no ventilators, British Columbia's Agricultural Land Reserve, you're setting yourself off for a massive die-off, trying to diversify, riding the wave, stuff is complex, complex is hard to explain, its a bush not a ladder, seed pods, Paul is right again, an alternative to this story, eugenics and race stuff, Milo Hastings' City Of Endless Night, all coincidence and fortuitousness, a pandemic and a plague and we're all gonna die, how come he can fly, its not the right (or fruitful) critique of this story, it might reinforce your distorted ideas, now that its so silly its mostly harmless, the ubermensch, Superman: Red Sun, a great super-science ending, the story ideologically undermines itself to work as a story, inching himself towards godhood, we're meant to be gods, horrible people who needed to be destroyed, watching the gods destroy themselves, a viewpoint character, René Girard, distracted boyfriend meme, Where No Man Has Gone Before, very super-sciency-stupid, but what does it mean?, this is inevitable, you can not rush it otherwise you will get monsters, Babylon 5, supercharged psi-guy, I'll see you again in a million years, down the tubes, supercharged by Vorlons, another Star Trek: Voyager episode, when Paris goes to super-warp and becomes a lizard, retconing conversations with your mother, when Larry David was a writer on Saturday Night Live, pretended it never happened, George Costanza quits his job, that's gaslighting so don't do that, this really terrible Star Trek episode, another really annoying novel by Kurt Vonnegut (Galapagos), Margaret Atwood, humans as sea-lions flopping around on the beach, when Olaf Stapledon does it it's cool, Will thinks seal people are a good idea, push straight through, a silly silly book, Maissa defends Kurt Vonnegut 100%, feted in a way that Jesse doesn't think is reasonable, when Jesse watches an Ed Wood movie, he is dead, we must honour him by never talking about him again, day six I got displaced from time, I ran myself to my destruction, my humpbacked's father: Jesse, Harrison Bergeron, The Marching Morons.
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Reading, Short And Deep #099 – The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
Wednesday, December 27, 2017 Jesse Willis	Leave a comment
Reading, Short And Deep #099
Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss The Damned Thing by Ambrose Bierce
The Damned Thing was first published in Tales From New York Town Topics, December 7, 1893.
Here's a link to a PDF of the story.
Podcast feed https://sffaudio.herokuapp.com/rsd/rss
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The SFFaudio Podcast #238 – AUDIOBOOK: The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells
Monday, November 11, 2013 Jesse Willis	2 Comments
The SFFaudio Podcast #238 – The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, read by Cathy Barratt (for LibriVox.org).
This audiobook, 4 hours 35 minutes, is complete and unabridged.
Griffin, a scientist, devoted himself to research into optics – he invented a chemical that could change his body's refractive index to that of air – he absorbs no light, he reflects no light – he is completely invisible.
First published in Pearson's Magazine, June 12, 1897.
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LibriVox: The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
Thursday, November 8, 2012 Jesse Willis	Leave a comment
If I had to name the one story that's influenced my reading, and thinking, most in last couple of years I'd name The Horla by Guy de Maupassant. It possesses my mind like a dark and deep tunnel running through my imaginative landscape – if you haven't heard it yet you should. Below you'll find my preferred version, but there are more readings, and adaptations HERE – and we did a whole podcast about it, that's HERE.
One new thing though is this |PDF| which I made from a scan of an issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries – it features the 1911 George Allan England translation.
The Horla
By Guy de Maupassant; Read by Gregg Margarite
First published in Gil Blas; Oct 26, 1886.
LibriVox: What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 Jesse Willis	4 Comments
I've posted about this story before. It's worth posting about again and again. What's new now is this reading, which is PUBLIC DOMAIN, and therefore extremely handy. Included also, for the first time, is some really stunning art!
I've also added a PDF, for handy printing!
What Was It?
By Fitz-James O'Brien; Read by Peter Yearsley
Published: May 2006
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One of the earliest known examples of invisibility in fiction is What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien – He's been called "the most important figure after Poe and before Lovecraft" and this story serves as a kind of a bridge between the supernatural and the scientific, between the likes of de Maupassant's The Horla and Wells' The Invisible Man.
First published in Harper's Magazine, March 1859.
Here's a |PDF| complied from the Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1949 publication.
The Shadow And The Flash by Jack London
Saturday, April 7, 2012 Jesse Willis	Leave a comment
Here's one of Gregg Margarite's earliest narrations for LibriVox. Because it was so early it sounds like one of his more amateur recordings – mostly because Gregg reads it too fast. But one thing that didn't really change, that needed no refinement, his skill at picking stories to record. This Jack London short story is fun Science Fiction. It's about a pair of nearly identical, ferociously competitive, brothers. The tale was written in 1902, five years after The Invisible Man, by H.G. Wells, was published as a novel.
Indeed, the plot is rather … how shall I put this ? … familiar ? … with the The Invisible Man. But that's okay as there's a line aknowledging it by one of the brothers. At least it's a hat-tip in that direction. But instead of one mad scientist as in Well's novel, we have two in The Shadow And The Flash – in fact were they a pair of superheroes (or supervillains) that'd be each of their names (The Shadow and The Flash) as they get their powers from the way they approached the problem of invisibility – that is to say from opposite ends, as it were.
It was at about seven minutes in before the story really took off – here's the part that grabbed me:
Lloyd warmed to the talk in his nervous, jerky fashion, and was soon interrogating the physical properties and possibilities of invisibility. A perfectly black object, he contended, would elude and defy the acutest vision.
"Color is a sensation," he was saying. "It has no objective reality. Without light, we can see neither colors nor objects themselves. All objects are black in the dark, and in the dark it is impossible to see them. If no light strikes upon them, then no light is flung back from them to the eye, and so we have no vision-evidence of their being."
"But we see black objects in daylight," I objected.
"Very true," he went on warmly. "And that is because they are not perfectly black. Were they perfectly black, absolutely black, as it were, we could not see them—ay, not in the blaze of a thousand suns could we see them! And so I say, with the right pigments, properly compounded, an absolutely black paint could be produced which would render invisible whatever it was applied to."
"It would be a remarkable discovery," I said non-committally, for the whole thing seemed too fantastic for aught but speculative purposes.
The Shadow And The Flash
By Jack London; Read by Gregg Margarite
1 |MP3| – Approx. [UNABRIDGED]
A tale about two brothers who take different routes to achieving invisibility, as narrated by their best friend. First published in The Bookman, June 1903. Later published in The Windsor Magazine, October 1904, and in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, June 1948, Leoplan #502 (May 18, 1955).
Here's The Windsor Magazine edition |PDF|, here's the Famous Fantastic Mysteries edition |PDF|, and here's a Spanish translation from Argentina's Leoplan |PDF|.
Illustrations from The Windsor Magazine publication:
Virgil Finlay's illustration from Famous Fantastic Mysteries:
Raul Valencia's illustrations from LeoPlan 502:

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Bonnie Maginn – 'Dashing Bonnie Maginn' – New York City, 1898
Bonnie Maginn (Bonalin Maginn, active before 1898 – 1906, still living 1931), American burlesque actress, singer and dancer
(cabinet photo: B.J. Falk, New York City, 1898)
'MAGINN, Miss Bonnie:
'Actress and dancer, was born in Chicago and made her first appearance there at the Grand Opera House, under the management of David Henderson, when she was a mere child, in "The Mikado." She then joined Weber and Fields in New York, with whom she remained nearly six years. In 1903 she played in "Mr. Bluebeard," under Klaw & Erlanger, and then joined Frank Daniels in "The Office Boy." In 1904 she again joined Joe Weber's company and remained with him two and a half seasons. She then went into vaudeville.'
(Walter Browne and E. De Roy Koch, editors, Who's Who on The Stage 1908, New & York, 1908, p. 297)
'DASHING BONNIE MAGINN.
'There are few prettier or sprightlier soubrettes on the stage than Bonnie Maginn, who for several years has been one of the idols of Broadway. She made a bit hit as Ines Dasher in "Mr. Blue Beard" and in the Weber burlesques shared honors with such veterans of comedy as Joe Webr, Edward Connelly and even the redoubtable Marie Dressler. Miss Maginn has a good voice – is a better singer in fact than many of the higher salaried soubrettes – and as a fun maker she has few rivals.'
(Centralia Daily Chronicle, Centralia, Washington, Saturday, 15 August 1908, p. 4b)
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F. Wilbur Hill and Willette Whitaker
F. Wilbur Hill (1870-1959), American banjoist and musician, and Willette Whitaker (Mrs F. Wilbur Hill, 1875-after 1941), American harpist and singer
(photo: unknown, circa 1907)
Saratoga Springs, New York, 7 August 1897
'Vaudeville entertainments were given in the Theatre Saratoga on Wednesday evening and in the Town Hall on Thursday evening, for the benefit of a New-York City free-ice fund. The cast of players included Marie Dressler, C.I. Wiegand, Mme. Rotta, Bonnie Thornton, Mme. Ida Talbot Albert, Vivian Dell, Willette Whitaker, Ella Gertrude Gustaw and F. Wilbur Hill, all of New-York City.'
(New-York Daily Tribune, Sunday, 8 August 1897, p. 2e)
Bismarck, North Dakota, week beginning Monday, 18 June 1900
'Wilbur Hill and Miss Whitaker.
"'Away down Souf" with Wilbur Hill and Miss Whitaker, for five days, July 9th to 14th. To see and hear these delightful people is worth a long journey. Mr. Hill plays the banjo as that instrument is seldom played. They at once captivate their hearers and prove themselves worthy of all the good things said of them. There will be no feature of the assembly more pleasing than the series of entertainments given by Mr. Hill and Miss Whitaker.
'One of the biggest hits yet made in this city was made by Hill and Whitaker at the Grand this week [i.e. Grand Theatre, New York]. Their act is out of the ordinary run and while highly artistic musically and of great interest to musicians, it pleases the ordinary mortal. The beauty of Miss Whitaker impresses the beholder and she is made the favorite of the whole show immediately. The skill of the twain in playing the banjo is remarkable and the instrument in their hands loses its negro strumming character and assumes the tone and beauty of the 'cello. Miss Whitaker sings coon songs and old melodies to perfection. Her voice is much better than May Irwin's and her stage presence is much more pleasing. – N.Y. Journal.'
(Bismarck Weekly Tribune, Bismarck, North Dakota, Friday, 22 June 1900, p. 10d)
Orpheum, San Francisco, week beginning Monday, 2 June 1902t
'The banjo playing of Wilbur Hill and Willette Whitaker is exquisite. Their work is in reality quite out of the ordinary.'
(The San Francisco Call, San Francisco, Tuesday, 3 June 1902, p. 9c/d)
Chase's, 'polite vaudeville,' Washington, DC, week beginning Monday, 12 September 1910
'The added attraction will be the dainty comedienne, Willette Whitaker, assisted by the comic impresario, F. Wilbur Hill, in "A Personality," the identical feature in which they were recently an unusual hit in London.'
(The Washington Herald, Washington, DC, Sunday, 11 September 1910, p. 6d)
'Willette Whitaker and Wilbur Hill have purchased a summer home at Harrington Park, N.J.'
(Variety, New York, 9 June 1911, p. 7b)
'B.F. Keith's Theatre, Cambridge, Massachusetts, week beginning, Monday, 6 February 1911
'Willette Whitaker, the harpist and entertainer, who has just completed a long and very successful European tour, will be another strong feature, singing some of her Southern plantation melodies. Miss Whittaker will be assisted by F. Wilbur Hill, the banjo soloist.'
(The Cambridge Chronicle, Saturday, 4 February 1911, p. 11c)
New Tivoli Theatre, Grote Street, Adelaide, October 1913
'AMERICA'S GREATEST INTERPRETER OF DARKIE FOLK SONGS.
'WHILLETTE WHITAKER
'Assisted by Mr. F. WILBUR HILL,
'who created a perfect furore in Miss Whitaker's World-Famous song,
"'WILL THE CONGREGATION PLEASE STAND UP AND SING HALLELUJAH."'
(The Advertiser, Adelaide, South Australia, Monday, 6 October 1913, p. 2b, advertisement)<br.
Orpheum Theatre, week beginning Monday, 28 September 1914
'Miss Willette Whitaker, interpreter darky folk songs [sic], assisted by F. Wilbur Hill.'
(The Herald, New Orleans, Thursday, 24 September 1914, p. 5a)
Cromwell Hotel Shore Club, Miami Beach, March 1941
'Memories of the days of the wondering minstrels of ancient Ireland and Scotland will be stirred … a week from Sunday when Miss Willette Whitaker will present the first open air harp concert ever given in Florida … The harpist … will present a series of classical numbers and also a group of Southern folk songs, learned from her grandfather, who was a Mississippi rive steam boat captain… . Miss Whitaker is internationally known, having made several world tours, and she has played before the king and queen of England in a command performance. In addition, she played at the wedding of Joan Bennett of the screen, and Gene Markey…'
(The Miami News, Sunday, 9 March 1941, p. 11Bc)
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Just like time clock clients can connect to the time clock server software over the local area network, remote clients can connect to the time clock server over the Internet to provide the same employee time clock software functionality from a different location.
If you've been running Virtual TimeClock for some time and your remote time clock client stops connecting, there are a couple of easy troubleshooting steps you can take.
Verify the time clock server is up and running at the main location.
Make sure your Internet is still working.
If the time clock server software is still running at the main location and you've tested your Internet connection, then you'll need to look deeper.
The IP address of the time clock server may have changed. This will invalidate the port forward that's part of the router configuration at the main office. If the port forward is broken, local clients can still connect but not remote clients.
If you're having trouble connecting remote time clock clients for the first time, then there are a couple of things to check.
The number one culprit is likely the built-in firewall on the time clock server computer. You'll need to set up a couple of port exceptions within the firewall configuration.
The second possibility is that the port forward was never set up in the router configuration at the main office.
We've got full instructions for setting up your Internet time clock on our website. If you're still having trouble connecting your time clock clients, contact time clock software support for assistance.


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3rd Grade Vocabulary Parade
The alphabet has never been so much fun to explore! Episcopal's 3rd grade students and teachers got into the act of dressing up to illustrate a letter of the alphabet. Students paraded their creative concepts to a packed house in the Visual and Performing Arts Center the morning of September 30. Enjoy the slide show. Congratulations!
Michael Henry '12 Named a Semi-Finalist for the Prestigious Campbell Trophy
Michael Henry, an Episcopal graduate from the Class of 2012 and current Nicholls State University student-athlete, has been named a semi-finalist for the William V. Campbell Trophy.
During his time at Episcopal, Mike was a football standout and now credits Episcopal for his outstanding preparation in academics and athletics. The Campbell Trophy is awarded annually to the nation's most outstanding football scholar-athlete. From the semi-finalist pool, 15 finalists will be selected and will travel to New York City for the 58th National Football Foundation Annual Awards Dinner on December 8th. That evening, the winner of the Trophy will be officially announced and awarded a $25,000 postgraduate scholarship. To see the full article about Mike, click here. Congratulations, Mike!
Rev. Melissa Zuber Hollerith '80 Attends Pope Francis Welcome Ceremony at the White House
The Rev. Melissa Zuber Hollerith '80, chairwoman of the religion department and chaplain of the upper school at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia, was invited to attend a welcoming event held at the White House for Pope Francis, all because of a short note of gratitude. See http://richmondmagazine.com/news/gratitudes/ for more.
Melissa is one of three Episcopal alumni who now serve as Episcopal priests. Here's a touching connection to her alma mater: on her office wall at St. Christopher's hangs a mother-to-daughter gift of a framed watercolor of Episcopal's Lews Family Chapel of the Good Shepherd.
Around Campus This Week...
It was a busy week on campus! We said farewell to our Spanish exchange students; alum Trey Bacon '07 visited with his BBQ sauce, Tres Bien Que; and much more!
It's Homecoming Week at Episcopal
With dress days, decorations, Powder Puff football, the dance, and of course, the game, we look forward to a fun-filled and spirited Homecoming week!
Alumni - be sure to join us under the tent on Friday, October 2nd, for cochon de lait, refreshments and good times. The event begins at 6:00 p.m.
Homecoming Events:
Monday, 9/28 -"Old School" Spirit Day
Tuesday, 9/29 – Twin Day Tuesday
Wednesday, 9/30 – "May the 4th Be With You" (4th of July or Star Wars)
Thursday, 10/1 – Theme Dress Day
Seniors- Mardi Gras
Juniors- Valentine's Day
Sophomores- Earth Day
Freshmen- Tax Day
Powder Puff Football Game, 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Homecoming Decorations, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, 10/2 – "Homecoming T-Shirt" Dress (Spirit Day for the rest of the school)
2:30 p.m. – Homecoming Pep Rally in the Main Gym where the Homecoming King will be crowned.
Alumni Reunion under the tent begins at 6:00 p.m.
Homecoming football game versus Capitol High School. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. Homecoming Queen will be crowned during halftime.
Saturday, 10/3 - Homecoming Dance, Phillips Gym
8:30 - 11:00 p.m. (Doors will be locked from 9:00 - 10:30 p.m.)
Happy Homecoming!
Lower School Celebrates International Pinwheels for Peace Day
In today's world, peace needs to become more than just a word. On September 21, Episcopal Lower School celebrated an International art and literacy project, Pinwheels for Peace by "planting" pinwheels with messages of peace under the trees of Episcopal's front lawn.
Chaplain Charles deGravelles led students and guests in prayer and noted that the blessing of the morning's wind, "will lift and carry their spirits to do God's work and spread the spirit of peace throughout the world." Father Skully Knight and Chaplain Charlie accompanied the group in song.
Pinwheels for Peace is an art installation project which started in 2005 by two art teachers, Ann Ayers and Ellen McMillan, of Coconut Creek, Florida, as a way for students to express their feelings about what's going on in the world and in their lives. Last year, over 4.5 million pinwheels were spinning in over 3,500 locations, including the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, Africa and South America.
EHS Art Teacher, Kate Trepagnier, Featured in Opening
Kate Trepagnier's work was featured in the Capital City Contemporary 2 Landscape Invitational which opened at The Louisiana Art and Science Museum on September 18th.
Ms. Trepagnier's paintings and prints have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in museums and galleries, including the Zigler Museum in Jennings, Louisiana; the Jackson Art Museum in Jackson, Mississippi; the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana; LeMieux Galleries in New Orleans; Fay Gold Gallery in Atlanta; Perry Nicole Fine Art in Memphis, Tennessee; Eastern Shore Art Center, Fairhope, Alabama; Southeastern University in Hammond, Louisiana; and the Foster Hall Art Gallery of Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. In addition, her work is in corporate and private collections, including those of Chevron's Corporate Headquarters, Covington, Louisiana; Harrah's of New Orleans; the University of South Florida in Fort Myers; SteelCase, Inc., in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Gerhardt, Inc. in Metairie, Louisiana; and the Arts Council of New Orleans' Percent for Art Program.
You can view more of Ms. Trepagnier's work by visiting here.
Around Campus this Week
Enjoy a few snapshots of campus life from the week!
The Princeton Review Talks "College" at Episcopal
The highly energetic Rob Franek from The Princeton Review spoke to Episcopal families on Tuesday night about finding their "best-fit" schools without breaking the budget. This 22-year veteran in the college admissions field shared his experiences and explained what families should look for in a college besides reputation.
Episcopal's College Counseling team was thrilled to be able to offer the opportunity for families to hear from and meet Mr. Franek. The session was recorded by Episcopal's own Christopher Clarke, and we plan to have the final edited version available to families who were unable to attend.
Photos: Diamond Spears, Accolade Editor
Lower School Science in Action
Fun things are always happening in Lower School! Betsy Minton, Science, Math and Creativity Instigator, shared some of the activities our students are up to in the Instigation Lab.
Second graders are currently learning about body systems as part of a project-based learning unit. Students started off the unit by looking at cells close up so they can better understand how tissues and organs make up their body system. They visited our new Instigation Lab to look at cells and learn how to use the new microscopes that were donated by the Parents' Guild.
A third grade project-based learning unit, the hurricane challenge, was designed to bring engineering to a unit of study on weather. Students were tasked with designing a 12" tower with newspaper and masking tape that could hold a toy fish and withstand the wind from an Airzooka air cannon.
Geaux young scientists!


These are the tiny nylon components which, accurately meter the flow of water into your humidifier.
They allow a specific amount of water to go into the humidifier, some of which is evaporated and some which performs the important flushing action. This keeps the Water Panel clean and reduces maintenance to a minimal amount.


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New 'pier show' is fascinating visitors
Richard Batson
RICHARD BATSON A new "end of the pier show" is fascinating visitors and locals at Cromer - as workmen tackle its landmark lifeboat slipway from above and below.A tall jack-up rig is now sitting alongside the Pavilion theatre, currently hosting the summer season show.
A new "end of the pier show" is fascinating visitors and locals at Cromer - as workmen tackle its landmark lifeboat slipway from above and below.
A tall jack-up rig is now sitting alongside the Pavilion theatre, currently hosting the summer season show.
It is ready to hoist parts of the sloping slip, which is being reshaped and improved for a new lifeboat due to arrive in the autumn.
Under the sea, divers are working - sometimes in zero visibility - to remove rusted nuts and bolts so the old 12 tonne sections can be lifted off by a crane.
Conditions have varied this week - ranging between 10m visibility enabling the divers to see the slipway, and the masses of bass swimming around them, to none at all as buffeting swell, waves and tides stir up the murky waters.
10 Revealed: Travelodge behind multi-million pound hotel development
It can mean divers from Anglian Marine, connected to the pier by an umbilical cord supplying air and communications, working "blind" and having to feel their way with tools such as spanners and bolt-splitters.
The profile of the 38m-long slip is being steepened to fit the hull of the new Tamar class boat coming to Cromer in October. It means new metal plates being added, by main contractors John Martin Construction, and an iron-rollered keel slot being covered in slippery plastic.
A tilting table which tips the lifeboat on to the slipway will also be lengthened, and the lower sections of the roller door replaced by stronger storm doors after it became jammed by pounding waves in February.
The crane's 120ft jib will be lowered on Wednesday lunchtime - out of the way of the traditional carnival day display by the Red Arrows, which swoops low over the pier at noon.
A new pictorial history book featuring Cromer lifeboats will be published in November, with the final chapter looking at the new boat the Lester.
It will show some rare photographs, including lifeboat days at the resort in the 1920s and 30s, and the Henry Blogg boat being built in Shoreham.
They are a combination of leftovers from a 2004 book charting the first 200 years of the town's lifeboats, and others that have been sent in since. But the publishers are still seeking any other archive pictures lurking in people's albums and attics.
Anyone with potential material should send it to station press officer Paul Russell at 28 High Street, Cromer, NR27 9HG or phone 01263 512221.
Pre orders for book the book, at a special offer price of £14.99 before September 30, can be done through Landmark Publishing on 01335 347349.


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Entertainment & Artistry => Gaming => Topic started by: Mike on October 28, 2012, 11:59:01 PM
Title: Modern Military Shooters in a nutshell
Post by: Mike on October 28, 2012, 11:59:01 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOHyD49DaeA
Title: Re: Modern Military Shooters in a nutshell
Post by: Jake on October 29, 2012, 09:45:11 AM
That is why I never play single player/campaign mode. I think the last one I played through was return to castle wolfenstein...
Post by: Mike on October 29, 2012, 09:51:49 AM
Half life had a decent story mode from what I recall.
Post by: kermi3 on October 29, 2012, 09:54:48 AM
The original CODs were great cause they let you do anything....same with Far Cry...Yea - Half Life was great....
Post by: ober on October 29, 2012, 10:17:47 AM
That guy is a douche. There is a point to the single player portion. They build a half-ass set of worlds and objectives and the ONLY purpose in playing it is to get used to the worlds, the weapons, and the vehicles. That is the ONLY purpose. Beyond that, no one gives a shit about it. Everyone is WELL aware of the restrictions of single player/campaigns in modern FPS. To expect more is just pointless. The only thing they care about is multi-player but everyone bitches when a company even mentions releasing a game that is multi-player only.
Except past FPS had rich, expansive, and non-two-feet-linear single player modes. I don't play many FPS (not my thing) but the ones I did play I played in single player way more than multi-player. I can't tell you how many hours I spent in Rainbow Six. The guy did point out that the developers aren't the sole cause. If people demanded more and didn't buy the crap that was put out then the games would get better.
The last R6 I played had to be a good 10 years ago or so, but if I remember correctly those were very linear as well.. :dunno:
Quote from: Jake on October 29, 2012, 10:53:14 AM
The campaign as a whole was linear but the individual missions were pretty open. You had a map and an objective but how you did it and where you went was open.
Another good one: Hitman. I remember circling an entire base picking people off before entering the compound itself.
Post by: kermi3 on October 29, 2012, 12:00:07 PM
Fallout....
Post by: ober on October 29, 2012, 12:53:10 PM
Quote from: Mike on October 29, 2012, 11:26:44 AM
Loved Hitman... but I don't think that even had a MP portion. Let's not confuse the two.
In my opinion, these newer FPS games are designed to be MP, so don't bitch about the shitty SP.
Quote from: ober on October 29, 2012, 12:53:10 PM
TBH I don't recall. You very well could be right.
Which is part of the bitch/complaint.
Quote from: Mike on October 29, 2012, 01:00:21 PM
How can you bitch about something that was never intended to meet your expectations? Go find an FPS that IS intended to fill the SP role!
FPSs used to do it, then it shifted to the MMS with crappy single player. People eat up the shit so the game companies make more of them and less of the FPSs with decent single player. That's the bitch/rant.
The desires of the average user changed. You're bitching about a business decision. Get over it.
The average users (hell with MMSs I'd say more than average) are idiots
BTW, it is along the same lines with dumbing down of MMORPGs. As gaming has become more mainstream the games are getting dumber in order to increase market size :(
Post by: KnuckleBuckett on October 29, 2012, 04:25:14 PM
Borderlands 1 and 2
Aliens vs Predator series
CoD 1 and 1.5 -United Offensive
L4D 1 and 2
Red Orchestra 2
Quake 2, 4 Arena
Unreal Tournament (all of them)
Mech Warrior 2,3, + (except Mech Commander)
Serious Sam 1, 1.5, and 3
Portal 2 (guns - no killing per say)
Half Life 2
FEAR series
Dead Space 1 and 2 (OTS)
I know I am missing plenty.
Could be. But I love me some GW2.
Halloween fun! Watch it full rez/screen.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzT5265T4sw
Quote from: KnuckleBuckett on October 29, 2012, 04:25:51 PM
Sadly, the job change and move have me missing most of the GW2 events :(
Post by: Steve on October 31, 2012, 10:43:40 PM
1 & 2 both. Plus you could always load the first level of 1 then run around the facility killing innocents.


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Q: Too many CSRF tokens generated (PHP), how do I deal with them? I run into a problem. Following OWASP cheatsheet, I implemented a one-time-use CSRF token system in PHP (basically copy&paste from OWASP). Each form or link (link that generate some action) will create its own CSRF token, once it's used, it will be deleted. Application is a website, so multiples tabs could be opened at the same time.
The problem is that each time it load a page, it create a new CSRF token (even if you just hit reload and not send the form). For example, in the admin panel, there's a list of the items, each item could be deleted with a link which have a CSRF token (same CSRF token for all links), but if you reload the page, a new csrf is generated.
At the end of the day, I ended with more un-used tokens than I wanted to. This is a problem in certain servers.
TLDR; I generate a token per request. I deleted all used token (except for ajax request tokens, that after an hour I delete then). My problem is with UNUSED tokens, at the end of the day, there're too many of them.

A: There is no (practical) way of knowing if your user will still use the token or not. Thus, you will have to automatically delete (and thus invalidate) them after x hours, for example by using a cronjob.
Just a suggestion: Are you sure that you really need one-time tokens? OWASP themselves say that it is not absolutely necessary for security: "In general, developers need only generate this token once for the current session. [...]) (https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cross-Site_Request_Forgery_%28CSRF%29_Prevention_Cheat_Sheet).
Keep in mind that one-time tokens also make tabbed browsing or using the browser history a huge pain.

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The Vice-President Technical Services and Marketing Programmes with Canada Pork International says Canada is positioned to become the number one supplier of chilled pork to Japan in the coming year.
The Canadian pork sector has been focused on producing the kinds of pork global customers are looking for in terms of colour, marbling and flavour.
Michael Young, the Vice-President Technical Services and Marketing Programmes, with Canada Pork International, told those attending the Banff Pork Seminar earlier this month, while the US is by far Canada's largest market by volume, it's primarily a commodity market where as the most lucrative and the hardest market to satisfy is Japan.
Mr Young said, "Canada has a long history, over 50 years of service for that market, so we've done a great job developing our market share.
"There's only really three major countries that are able to do high-quality chilled pork to Japan and that is Canada, USA and Mexico so that is the sector that we focus most of our time and efforts in. It's very high value, it's very demanding and it's and it's an enviable position for Canada to be in because a lot of exporters are sitting back thinking: how can I get into this market?
"The perception of Canada as a whole has always been good.
"The Japanese have a long history of buying agri-farm products from Canada so we've done a great job of selling our products. They've worked with us over the years to refine some of the things we do.
"Our suppliers work with the Japanese customers to change the specifications, to correct the packaging sizes, to change the meat quality, to select it based on colour, to select it based on firmness just for that market. We don't really do that for any other market on the planet, just Japan."
Mr Young says that, based on last month, Canada has 48 percent of the chilled share in Japan and the US has 49 percent, but the country fully anticipates that it will become the number one supply partner for Japan in the coming year.


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Stealing Glimpses: Of Poetry, Poets, and Things In Between / Essays
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In her first collection of essays, Molly McQuade performs the role of the ideal reader-passionately interested in ideas and irrepressibly ambivalent. She considers poetry from its composition or translation to its publication, critical reception, and consumption. Her close readings of poems by Emily Dickinson and John Ashbery, among others, offer new insights for those readers blinded by familiarity. She reflects on the consequences of literary friendships, such as Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop's, and contends with hostile influences and their benefits-in her own case, confronting and absorbing the work of E.B. White.
But McQuade refuses to stay within the lines that describe poetry per se. Her thoughts on the genre are also enriched by discussions of distinctly nonverbal poetic expression in painting and film, theater and dance. McQuade invigorates prosody's perennial questions-form and function, fashion and faction-and addresses the importance of humor as an elixir for thinking. She dares to define the subject of poetry itself as pleasure. "Poetry," she ventures, "doesn't need to be literary."
In every instance, these essays feature a fine mind's play on the page as well as McQuade's characteristic expertise: an awareness that is at once historically informed and hip. If metaphor itself expands the mind's capacity for contrary ideas, then McQuade is a metaphor made manifest. Among writers on writing, here is a writer who is utterly and remarkably unlike any other.
Molly McQuade's essays and criticism have appeared in The Village Voice, Hungry Mind Review, New England Review, Boston Review, Newsday, the Chicago Tribune , and elsewhere. She has served as editor of the monthly Poetry Calendar magazine and previously founded and edited the poetry review column of Publishers Weekly. Her writing has received fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Council of Teachers of English, and the Illinois Arts Council. Her first book, An Unsentimental Education , a collection of biographical portraits of writers, was published in 1995 by the University of Chicago Press. Her poetry, nominated twice for a Pushcart Prize, ha
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A Word Predator
Lately, I've been taking dream dictation from E. B. White. He tells me sinuously in my sleep how to write and what to think. He urges me to be more serious, yet light on my feet—virtuous, like a verb that spins away. White's style, a passion while he lived, is assertively nonchalant. His wisdom is impossible to retrieve, word for word, the morning after. Still, I wake up knowing that I have been instructed in loomingly small points of how to fashion words into something good enough, if not better. The form taken by the words—poetry or prose—seems unimportant. The lesson offered concerns precision, composition, and boldness. I hardly dare learn it well enough to repeat it.
This tale must sound freakish. Yet the experience is dauntingly actual. I can't quarrel with it. If anything, I wish that these dreams were more fanciful. For it's terrifying to submit, against your will, to a teacher who's a stylist. The sensation of learning can break you. You may have to decide to give up what you knew, losing your cynicism, your common sense, and the skill you taught yourself when certain that the world had mainly bad things to teach you. It all makes you feel incontinent and larval. Since you are in New York, there are times when you feel still worse, like a pulp on the street about to be kicked or killed by a large seeing-eye dog.
I would have accepted a nocturnal tutorial more readily from Emily Dickinson or Allen Ginsberg, difficult as that, too, might have been. They're poets; I would have listened. Unlikethem, White is not regarded as one, although from time to time he wrote and published verse. "To me," he remarked, "poetry is what is memorable, and a poet is a fellow or girl who lets drop a line that gets remembered in the morning. Poetry turns up in unexpected places, in unguarded moments." It turns up even in the manuscripts of blithely self-abasing poet-journalists. In a poem called "H. L. Mencken Meets a Poet in the West Side Y.M.C.A.," White wrote, perhaps in part about himself, "Poetry is the sleepy weed/The dumb, the sick, and the dizzy need." He confessed in the preface to his collected verse: "Having lived happily all my life as a non-poet who occasionally breaks into song, I have no wish at this late hour to change either my status or my habits even if I were capable of doing so, and I clearly am not. The life of a non-poet is an agreeable one: he feels no obligation to mingle with other writers of verse to exchange sensitivities, no compulsion to visit the 'Y' to read from his own works, no need to travel the wine-and-cheese circuit, where the word 'poet' carries the aroma of magic and ladies creep up from behind carrying ballpoint pens and sprigs of asphodel."
In the 1930s, '40s, and '50s, White instead wrote essays for The New Yorker; his cool, plain-mannered chic and wit are closely linked with that magazine's. And he is well known as the author of two novels for children, Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. But whatever his disclaimers, I now believe that White was essentially a poet, and was also a frustrated poet. If he hadn't been both at once, he wouldn't have mattered as a writer. And he wouldn't matter to me.
Because I didn't always accept White naturally as a writerly influence, I have had to listen harder to him now. There has been a fight. (The fight continues.) He talks to me when, semiconscious, I can't answer back, in an unevenly matched set-to over writers' issues: diction, concision, accuracy, imagination, and other midnight fantasies.
So now I am supposed to explain and justify this ghostly, scampish influence.
The likely source of his frustration: his merit as a journalist would have seemed to rule out poetic accomplishment, even footloose dallying with the notion. And at times, journalism did rule this out for him. But not often enough to deny poetry's potential place in a paragraph. Somehow, he fit poetry in.
Frustration actually consolidated his strength. Frustration honed and qualified his fascination with a word, or with a few words. The few did battle with the many. The goal was to choose. We all do choose, yet may forget the stakes. He reminds me what they are. Subtleties like these have been a part of my initiation and instruction.
Owing to my own frustration with White's nightly partnership, I have been spending the days rereading him, trying to fathom him as a poet. Maybe because expository prose rarely radiates the sheen of poetic choice—of these several words, and not those—I am irrationally smitten, finding in White's typical modesty the élan or bravado of a word predator.
The predator, even if frustrated, is impelled by nerve and gaiety, like a stray cat at large in an old-fashioned bookshop. He specializes in anachronistic intricacy, recording life's commonplace details (the earmarks of a proper canoe; a raccoon's creaturely descent from a tree) as seen by a canny, gleaming eye despite passing shadows. Poetry is not just a matter of form but a habit of insight, and White's has snuck into impressively cramped, apparently anonymous quarters.
Another predatorial poetic instinct of his was to make a list. White tended to itemize scenes of gluttony and carnage with a matter-of-fact insouciance that avoided coming to any overweening moral conclusion. The saturation of garbage, say, in a barnyard or a fairground was enough to restore his spirits, if he could describe its overripe luxuriance briskly and simply.
To capture character in the flicker of an action, and in the flicker of a verb to equal it, was another favorite strategy. White's laconic preference was strangely effective and lankily mirthful.
A perfectly realized tone meant whimsy was allowable and affectation wasn't. This lesson is especially tricky.
Another: he could forget his worries and think about a piglet as a piglet would, if it could. (Negative capability.)
"Parvum opus" was a term he coined on behalf of someone else, but it applied well and positively to him. He thrived as a writer on the useful small parts of things. Words, punctuation, syntax, and informal rules of tongue were small enough, and they were useful. The smallest of all, as some poets know, can be the most germinal.
The smallest and most germinal is best shown when there is least of it to see. "Omit needless words!" a teacher had advised him, and White enthusiastically did.
His sense of humor was stealthy but well-mannered. He cared for the motor tenderhandedly. I'm unsure of what this has to do with poetry, since so few poems now are both humorous and earnest. Perhaps more of them should be.
He was fast, and he was gracious. Poetry is partly the craft of fashioning invisible transitions from thing to thing and thought to thought. White's observations of speed as a symptom of life in New York flit like Art Deco figures across the ice rink of the page.
Yet these qualities of White's aren't enjoying a full expression or fair impact as I grope for them. The poet in him was an extremist, even if the journalist wasn't. Extremism will briefly guide each of us, now.
My direct contact with this stylist has been ruddy, fraught, revealing. White has tempted me to put aside everything else, because his single-minded intensity, however clean and crisp the sentences, has been bombarding me. It's like this. On a chilly March evening after the monotonous forward zigzag of an industrious day, who wouldn't like to sit down on a hot dictionary? Having cooked in a history, the words in the book are ready to sting and sustain us, as White's are. Some people may require the intake of a fierce sparsity—selected syllables—through their wan, wintry pores.
Not a very Whitean sentence at all!
I so regret being literary. Wise to the literary compulsion, and resisting it successfully, he didn't need to regret anything—or need to be literary. Poetry doesn't need to be "literary," either, a fact that tantalizes me about White and helps to lure me to him.
But regardless, one danger of literary influence is the unpredictable outcome. If I am nagged now and again by this punctilious mind, he may mean only the best, and yet be ill-served in the end. His usefulness depends as much on me as on him.
All influences worth having must be cunning, like his, to undermine your opposition. The process of becoming influenced is parlous, a belligerent romancing. The protagonists must also be antagonists. After all, you'd have little to gain from a mere, safe, congenial second self. He needs to be different or estranging. It isn't sweet or fitting to serve your own interests, really. You need to be contradicted. You've almost got to seek out someone who won't bother to respect you. I know I deserve no respect from E. B. White.
Sometime, will I feel compelled to mumble, late at night, to a stupefied sleeper?
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Sinuous and sensual, the poems of In Full Velvet interrogate the nuances of desire, love, gender, ecology, LGBTQ lineage and community, and the tension between a body's material limits and the forms made possible by the imagination. Characterized by formal ...
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Q: Origin of the LaTeX3 term "coffin"? The documentation for the LaTeX3 xcoffins package introduces the concept of coffins as follows:

In LaTeX3 terminology, a "coffin" is a box containing typeset material. Along with the box itself, the coffin structure includes information on the size and shape of the box, which makes it possible to align two or more coffins easily.

Those objects are very welcome as they ease the process of achieving a particular page layout (in comparison to LaTeX2e tools), as shown, for instance, by Frank Mittelbach in LaTeX3 and pauper's coffins.
I find the choice of the term "coffin", if not morbid, at least rather peculiar. That's in no way a criticism; who doesn't like the Addams family? I imagine the LaTeX3 team needed a term that conveys the idea of a "box", but couldn't use the latter term because of its very specific meaning in TeX.
Which member of the LaTeX3 team came up with the term "coffin"? Is there any anecdote related to that choice of word?

A: The history of that name (as I remember it at least) goes way back to a stroll in some town in the UK sometime in the last century, probably 1997 (may have been Nottingham, but I don't remember) with David Carlisle and Chris Rowley and perhaps a few others on which we discussed those ideas about boxes with handles and somehow somebody came up with "rather like a coffin" and that is how it got born. And no, I don't remember whether it was David, Chris or myself.
Somehow the name stuck; initially as a working title when we first implemented a prototype, but later I must confess I rather liked it -- a bit morbit for sure, but also catchy :-) ... and it made for few a great lines in my talk in San Francisco, such as

Now in 2010 coffins are back – exhumed, cleaned up – and ready for
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what else can you hope for?


As colder weather approaches, some people are utilizing space heaters to assist be sure that their house is heated adequately by means of the winter months. Brokers could cost a price for each service, similar to a flight, charge a flat rate, or earn a commission. Count on to compensate the agent for his or her time, advice, planning experience and work. Nonetheless, it is a good idea to find out the charges and deposits up front so there are not any surprises.
Plan ahead: Planning ahead earlier than you go to Vietnam, means to look for reservations and e-book a place to remain beforehand. Have a travelling agency picked out which might provide a full tour information and aid your travelling plans such because the Sapa Vietnam tours. Also, plan your itinerary for the area and the cities you propose on visiting, so that you've an concept what to do while you get there.
Early editions of the atlas are classic delights – the detailed maps are wrapped in eye-catching covers that celebrate the freedom afforded by highway journey. The covers may be always altering, however perhaps the appeal of the American street trip is how little it's actually changed because the introduction of the motorcar.
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On April 28 – April 29, 2018, Mission Federal ArtWalk will rework 17 blocks of Downtown San Diego's nationally recognized Little Italy neighborhood creating an arts and tradition event visitors travel 1000's of miles to experience and purchase art from over 350 local, national and worldwide rising and established artists at the free two-day competition.
It is going to be a high-stakes meeting, beginning Thursday. U.S.-China financial relations have sunk to their lowest level in decades with the U.S., offended over alleged Chinese strain on U.S. companies to switch technology to Chinese language partners and different misdeeds, threatening tariffs on $one hundred fifty billion in Chinese language goods and prohibitions on Chinese buy of U.S. expertise.


This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff Sherry Sue Cothran's appeal of the Commissioner's decision denying her claim for disability insurance benefits (DIB). (Doc. # 14.) Exercising jurisdiction under 42 U.S.C. § 405(g), this Court affirms the decision of the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ).
In October 2013, Plaintiff applied for DIB, alleging disability beginning in March 2012, due to a number of impairments. Plaintiff's claim was initially denied, and she requested a hearing. The ALJ conducted two hearings-one in October 2015 and the other in April 2016-ultimately finding that Plaintiff was not under a "disability" as defined in Title II of the Social Security Act. Plaintiff appealed the ALJ's denial, submitting new evidence to the Appeals Council in support. In August 2016, the Appeals Council denied Plaintiff's request for review, making the ALJ's decision the final decision of the Commissioner.
Review of the ALJ's disability finding is limited to determining whether the ALJ applied the correct legal standards and whether the decision is supported by substantial evidence in the record as a whole. Angel v. Barnhart, 329 F.3d 1208, 1209 (10th Cir. 2003). The district court may not reverse an ALJ simply because it may have reached a different result based on the record; the question instead is whether there is substantial evidence showing that the ALJ was justified in her decision. Ellison v. Sullivan, 929 F.2d 534, 536 (10th Cir. 1990). "Substantial evidence is more than a mere scintilla and is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion." Flaherty v. Astrue, 515 F.3d 1067, 1070 (10th Cir. 2007). The Court will not "reweigh the evidence or retry the case" but must "meticulously examine the record as a whole, including anything that may undercut or detract from the ALJ's findings in order to determine if the substantiality test has been met." Id.
42 U.S.C. § 423(d)(2)(A). The claimant bears the burden of proving that he is disabled. 20 C.F.R. § 404.1512(a); Wall v. Astrue, 561 F.3d 1048, 1062 (10th Cir. 2009).
The Commissioner has established a five-step sequential evaluation process to determine whether a claimant is disabled. 20 C.F.R. § 416.920(a)(4). The steps of the evaluation are whether: (1) the claimant is currently working; (2) the claimant has a severe impairment; (3) the claimant's impairment meets an impairment listed in Appendix 1 of the relevant regulation; (4) the impairment precludes the claimant from doing her past relevant work; and (5) the impairment precludes the claimant from doing any work. See 20 CFR 404.1512(g), 404.1560(c), 416.912(g), and 416.960(c); Pisciotta v. Astrue, 500 F.3d 1074, 1076 (10th Cir. 2007). A finding that a claimant is or is not disabled at any point in the five-step evaluation process is conclusive and terminates the analysis. Casias v. Sec'y of Health & Human Serv., 933 F.2d 799, 801 (10th Cir. 1991).
[Plaintiff] can perform lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling 20 pounds occasionally and 10 pounds frequently, standing and/or walking for about six hours in an eight-hour workday, and sitting about six hours in an eight-hour workday. She is able to understand, remember, and carryout tasks learned in up to and including six months. She is limited to occasional climbing of ladders; no work at hazardous heights; occasional work around moving machinery and occasional driving for work; frequent stopping, balancing, and climbing of ramps and stairs; and occasional kneeling crouching, and crawling.
On appeal, Plaintiff contends the ALJ failed to adequately consider the medical opinions of several physicians and erred in her evaluation of Plaintiff's symptoms in light of the entire medical record. Plaintiff also argues that the Appeals Council erred in declining to consider the new evidence she supplied to it. The Court addresses each of Plaintiff's contentions in turn.
The ALJ must identify the weight accorded to the opinion of medical consultants and examiners and also explain the basis for said weight. Watkins v. Barnhart, 350 F.3d 1297, 1300 (10th Cir. 2003); Langley v. Barnhart, 373 F.3d 1116, 1119 (10th Cir. 2004). The ALJ's explanation must be sufficiently specific to make clear to any subsequent reviewers both the weight given to the medical opinion and the reasons therefor. Id. The question governing this Court's review is not, as Plaintiff argues, whether the physicians' opinions were "well supported, " but rather whether the ALJ's findings with respect to the weight given to those physicians' opinions were based on substantial evidence. This Court cannot re-weigh evidence or resolve conflicting medical opinions. See Haga v. Astrue, 482 F.3d 1205, 1208 (10th Cir. 2007) (noting that "the ALJ is entitled to resolve any conflicts in the record"); Zoltanski v. FAA, 372 F.3d 1195, 1200 (10th Cir. 2004) (stating that we may not "displace the agency's choice between two fairly conflicting views") (brackets omitted). Moreover, "the ALJ, not a physician, is charged with determining a claimant's RFC from the medical record." Chapo v. Astrue, 682 F.3d 1285, 1288 (10th Cir. 2012).


The War Department in the early 20th Century erected four observation towers at corners of the field. These were used by cadets and others studying the battle. These pictures were taken from the South Tower, where Longstreet assembled his forces for the Day 2 attack. The above picture is taken to the North. The Virginia Memorial is just out of sight to the left.
Panning right, Cemetery Hill is in the distant center. Again, the rise in ground going left to right, towards the Peach Orchard, is visible.
One of the few shots taken with the zoom lens attached. Cemetery Hill from the South Tower. The Emmitsburg Road and Codori Farm are hidden among the trees. The Angle Tree and its companion monument are just visible on the right.


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By Jeremy Chan
Asia's Rising Scientists: Sherry Aw
Making discoveries on the fly is all in a day's work for Dr. Sherry Aw, one of three scientists from the Asia-Pacific to be recognized as a L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science International Rising Talent in 2019.
Sherry Aw
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology; Agency for Science, Technology and Research
AsianScientist (Mar. 14, 2019) – Leave a banana out in the open and before long it will attract fruit flies—Drosophila melanogaster, as they are known in scientific circles. Looking at these tiny insects, it may be hard to imagine that they have played a significant role in our understanding of human biology.
Indeed, the short life cycles and relatively simpler genetic makeup of fruit flies means that scientists today still rely on these insects to tease out the underlying molecular mechanisms of organismal development, health and disease. It has been estimated that 75 percent of human disease genes have a counterpart in D. melanogaster.
In the field of neuroscience, Dr. Sherry Aw, group leader at the Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), Singapore, is using fruit flies to understand how movement disorders occur in neurodegenerative disease. Her research has revealed how molecules known as microRNAs help protect and maintain the functions of specific neurons. For her outstanding work, Aw was honored with the 2019 L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women In Science International Rising Talent fellowship.
Aw spoke to Asian Scientist Magazine about why she is passionate about her research and what she hopes to achieve in the coming years.
How would you summarize your research in a tweet?
I study movement disorders—neurodegenerative diseases that are accompanied by uncontrollable movement abnormalities—in a less complex animal, the fruit fly. Through my research, I seek to shed light on what happens in neurons to cause movement dysfunctions during aging and disease.
Describe a completed research project that you are most proud of.
As an early career scientist, it took time for me to build up confidence that I was asking interesting and viable scientific questions. During my time as a postdoctoral research fellow, I had an idea to develop a molecular sensor for microRNAs. The technique was based on modifying a previously-published fluorescent RNA complex.
When I got my idea to work, I felt very proud as it was something I had conceived and for which I had obtained the grant funding to complete. We have now patented the sensor, which we named 'Pandan' after our beloved fragrant plant, and are working to further develop it as a tool for disease diagnosis.
What do you hope to accomplish with your research in the next decade?
I hope to uncover the molecular and physiological basis of movement dysfunctions, such as tremors, that manifest in many neurodegenerative diseases. Also, I hope that our molecular sensor can be used as a clinical diagnostic to detect microRNAs as a class of disease biomarkers.
Who (or what) motivated you to go into your field of study?
I was drawn to the problem of neurodegenerative diseases because of their growing prevalence in our aging societies. For example, one to three percent of people aged over 60 will develop Parkinson's disease.
Hence, my passion for research stems from the hope of discovering something that can be used in the treatment of neurodegenerative disease in the clinic. At the same time, I believe that there is still much to be learned about how our motor systems degenerate with age, and what that tells us about the normal functioning of our nervous systems.
Dr. Sherry Aw (third from right) with her lab members. Credit: Sherry Aw.
What is the biggest adversity that you experienced in your research?
A lack of self-confidence has always been my greatest challenge, and I think this is something that many women face. Fortunately, I have had mentors who really believed in and encouraged me. Even now, there are senior researchers who spend precious time reading my grants and papers, and helping me perfect my presentations, simply because they want me to improve.
Such mentors are invaluable, and I really appreciate their efforts and guidance. I remind myself to pay it forward by encouraging the next generation of researchers in the same way.
What are the biggest challenges facing the academic research community today, and how can we fix them?
Peer review is a problem that comes to mind. Preprint servers like bioRxiv are an important part of the solution as they allow the community to weigh in on work pre-publication.
I feel that this is a big advantage for lesser-known research groups, as journal editors can see how the scientific community as a whole views the research, rather than rely on just two or three anonymous reviewers.
Dr. Sherry Aw (far right) with her parents and husband at the L'Oréal-UNESCO International Awards For Women in Science award ceremony. Credit: Sherry Aw.
If you had not become a scientist, what would you have done instead?
I would probably have gone to medical school. Later in life, I might have become an entrepreneur or worked in a field related to entrepreneurship.
Outside of work, what do you do to relax?
I spend time with my two children (aged 2 and 5), my husband, family and friends every weekend. I'm very close with my two sisters. We eat, play games, talk about current events, new movies or TV shows and just about any other topic of the day. I also enjoy handcrafting jewelry, checking out new restaurants and catching up on science twitter.
If you had the power and resources to eradicate any world problem using your research, which one would you solve?
I would like to eliminate poverty and the related problem of childhood malnutrition.
What advice would you give to aspiring researchers in Asia?
Find good mentors who care about your scientific development, as you'll need people in your corner every step of the way. Surround yourself with people who will encourage you when you're down and celebrate with you when you succeed. Finish one project before moving on to the next one, and don't give up!
This article is from a monthly series called Asia's Rising Scientists. Click here to read other articles in the series.
Copyright: Asian Scientist Magazine; Photos: Sherry Aw.
#A*STAR #Asia's Rising Scientists #Developmental Biology #Editor's Pick #Fruit Fly #Genetics #Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology #Neuroscience #Singapore
Jeremy Chan
Jeremy received his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he studied the role of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression.
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Women Wunderkinds To celebrate this year's International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we take a look at eight shining examples of scientific excellence in Asia.
Asia's Scientific Trailblazers: Ashok Venkitaraman Having discovered BRCA2's crucial role in genome stability, Professor Ashok Venkitaraman continues to drive research into cancer detection and treatment at the Cancer Science Institute of […]
Singapore Creates World's Largest Asian Genetic Databank The genomes of some 5,000 Singaporeans representing 80 percent of Asia's ethnic diversity have been sequenced by researchers in Singapore.
Asia's Rising Scientists: Justin Song Theoretical and experimental physics inform and complement each other, says Dr. Justin Song of the Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore.
Two Letters Added To The Genetic Alphabet Scientists have determined the structures of two artificial DNA bases, Ds and Px, which have expanded the genetic code.


The Foundation reflects on the life and work of Sir Bernard Lovell, the astronomer and physicist who died earlier this month aged 98.
Sir Bernard was the founder of the Jodrell Bank Observatory, home to the third largest steerable telescope in the world (the largest at the time of its completion in 1957). The development of the observatory remains a seminal project, not only in the history of the Nuffield Foundation, but in the history of British post-war scientific and industrial development generally.
Sir Bernard studied physics at Bristol University; where he stayed on to take a doctorate before moving to Manchester University and joining its cosmic ray research team led by Patrick (later Lord) Blackett. He became an expert in radar, and his contribution to military radar systems during the Second World War earned him an OBE in 1946.
Returning to Manchester after the war, Sir Bernard persuaded the army to tow two trailers of redundant radar equipment to the university's botanical plot. This primitive radar station was to become the Jodrell Bank Observatory.
As the project and Sir Bernard's aspirations grew larger, so did the need for funding. Lovell, Patrick Blackett and the University Vice Chancellor, Sir John Stopford, were frustrated by the limitations of the fixed dish, and wanted to build a new, steerable dish capable of scanning across the sky. Having received an earlier £1,000 contribution from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Sir Bernard applied to DSIR again, this time for the significantly larger sum of £259,000.
Not only was this a huge amount of money, but in the early 1950s, there was no precedent for government funding of 'big science' projects. The Nuffield Foundation, at that time spending in the region of £600,000 annually (equivalent to about £15 million today), had already gained a reputation for making significant contributions to large scale scientific projects. In 1951, former Nuffield Trustee Sir Henry Tizard approached the Foundation for the sum of £300,000, the estimated entire cost of the telescope. Following negotiations with the DSIR, the two funders agreed to split the cost, and the Foundation awarded a four year grant of up to £200,000.
Somewhat inevitably, the costs soared, and both the Foundation and DSIR had to commit further funding over the following five years. Indeed, it was only the personal intervention of Lord Nuffield in 1960 that cleared the final £50,000 overspend on the telescope, half of which came from the Foundation and half from his own private funds.
Although the Jodrell Bank Observatory has been important within the political and military context of the Cold War, Sir Bernard also presided over a string of important discoveries which shed light on the origins of the universe. For example, the Lovell Telescope was the first to glimpse quasars, mysterious star-like objects which radiate with the violence of 100 million suns. Almost two-thirds of all known pulsars, pulsating stars, have been discovered by Jodrell Bank astronomers from signals received from deep space. And Jodrell Bank scientists have used echoes from the moon to improve the accuracy of measurement of the solar system.
Originally called Mark 1, the telescope was renamed the Lovell Telescope on its 30th anniversary. In 2006, it came top in a BBC poll of unsung landmarks, and in 2011 it was shortlisted to bid for World Heritage site status. Today it remains operational in the Merlin array of observing stations.
The Foundation extends its condolences to Sir Bernard Lovell's family. Though today funding big science is outside our means, we remain committed to science education and are proud of our role in supporting the work of this remarkable man, and the Jodrell Bank Observatory.


Direct Deposit enables you to have your paycheck safely and automatically deposited directly into your KALSEE account. Even if you are retired, you can easily make arrangements to have your pension checks and/or Social Security checks deposited.
Saving money or making loan payments is easiest when it's automatically deposited into your KALSEE account. Payroll Deduction is the handy way to save money by automatically sending funds from your paycheck directly into most any type of KALSEE Savings account OR by making payments to any KALSEE loan.
Either or both of these convenient services are available without any fees, simply by asking your employer (they'll need our routing #272481855 and your account number with 3-digit account suffix) or calling KALSEE Credit Union at 269.382.7800.


This section provides permissions and examples for policy on the provider::/ realm.
The first example gives "tom" the ability to create, read, and delete providers from the root (/) provider namespace. The second rule grants "bob" read-only permissions on providers in the /apcera namespace, and create, read, and delete providers in the /dev namespace.


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/**
 * Title 319 :
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 * There are n bulbs that are initially off. You first turn on all the bulbs. Then, you turn off every second bulb. On the third round, you toggle every third bulb (turning on if it's off or turning off if it's on). For the i-th round, you toggle every i bulb. For the n-th round, you only toggle the last bulb. Find how many bulbs are on after n rounds.

Example:

Input: 3
Output: 1
Explanation:
At first, the three bulbs are [off, off, off].
After first round, the three bulbs are [on, on, on].
After second round, the three bulbs are [on, off, on].
After third round, the three bulbs are [on, off, off].

So you should return 1, because there is only one bulb is on.

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 * @author bramanarayan
 * @date Jun 23, 2020
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public class BulbSwitcher {

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	public static void main(String[] args) {

	}

	public int bulbSwitch(int n) {
		return (int) Math.sqrt(n);

	}

}

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In this quick tutorial you will learn how to sync apps on your Android Wear watch.
In the previous tutorials from the Android Wear series, we already talked about a lot of things. And we are only starting out!
You know both how to install and uninstall apps from your Android Wear watch as well as how to take wearable screenshots.
Today I will show you probably one of the most useful features: how to sync apps on Android Wear so that the information displayed both on your watch and your phone is always up to date. Ready to start?
Make sure that your Android Wear smartwatch is paired with your Android phone.
You can pair your devices only with the use of the Android Wear app (and you need to have Bluetooth turned on both on your phone and your watch). I also advise you to have the latest Android version for phones installed on your device.
If your devices are paired, you will see "Connected" under the name of your watch in the Android Wear app and on your watch main face the icon of the crossed-out cloud will disappear.
Even though both your devices (when connected) try to sync apps and data between each other regularly, there might sometimes be moments when apps are not synced or up-to-date and you need to sync them manually.
Open the Android Wear app on your phone.
Click on the settings icon to enter settings of your device and click on the name of your watch (to access even more of its settings).
As you can see, there are now a few extra settings available for your watch. You probably remember how we used Watch battery and Watch storage in previous tutorials to analyze the storage and battery of our wearable.
All you need to do now is click Resync app and all the apps on your watch will be resynced. You will see the notification saying that apps are being synced to your smartwatch. Syncing will take a few moments and you won't be able, for example, to take screenshots while apps are syncing.
After syncing apps on my Android Wear watch, it displayed some information about apps that have been updated.
If you use app Wear App Manager we talked about in the previous tutorial, the app will also display the detailed information after syncing (e.g. what apps have been updated).
Did you manage to successfully sync apps on your Android Wear watch? Are all the apps now up-to-date?
If you have any questions or problems, feel free to leave me your comments in the comment box below or contact me directly. I would love to hear from you.


Introducing the Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3525i, part of Canon's new C3500 range of multifunctional photocopiers. The new range features an upgrade to Canon's latest 'Gen 3' engine and interface. The Canon imageRUNNER C3520i replaces the Canon imageRUNNER C3325i office printer.
The new Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3525i office printer is now shipping. This model is a simple facelift of the Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3325i to the new generation 3 advance platform and livery.
Colour quality is far superior to all others in its class and features include true Adobe level 3 postscript and searchable pdf scanning. Canon have improved the day to day running costs and the performance of this product which compares favourably with all other names in the entry level A3 market.
Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3525i is a powerful A3 colour multifunction with a large colour touchscreen, fast scanning and flexible connectivity all on the consistent imageRUNNER ADVANCE platform, making it ideal for busy offices looking for a workflow optimiser.
With outstanding quality and reliable performance, the Canon mageRUNNER ADVANCE C3525i multifunction printer is designed to help save time and resources while promoting productivity. For workplace environments that require a compact and efficient device capable of printing high quality color documents, the Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3525i all-in-one printer delivers a valuable solution that can help streamline workflow.
The compact and sustainably designed Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3525i device runs on the intelligent imageRUNNER ADVANCE platform, designed to support businesses and their documents' lifecycles from start to finish. The device offers printing speeds of up to 25 ppm (BW/color) and supports media up to 11″ x 17″ in various weights while offering several available finishing options. The imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3525i also comes standard with a single-pass duplex scanner for scan speeds of 160 ipm (300 dpi)/51 ipm (600 dpi) and the ability to convert and send documents digitally for efficient results.
The Canon imageRUNNER ADVANCE C3500 series is small in size but big in its ambition to solve your challenges around managing your documents. It is the perfect addition to support and optimise any busy working groups day-to-day workflows.
• Robust design and engine, with up to 2,300 sheet paper capacity, perfect for handling workloads of busy workgroups.


For babies and toddlers, this attractive trike has been specifically designed to evolve and grow with your child. Use the adjustable push handle to keep control while they ride with their feet on the footrests. When they're a little older, you can remove the footrests for toddlers to practice pedalling and with the steering unlocked.
Removable shade canopy and 4 position seat.
Durable, quiet-ride tyres and non-slip pedals that fold away and detach.


Latest project is complete - approx 1:50 scale replica of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors on Parliament Square, London. This has been commissioned in time for their 150th anniversary in 2018. Lighting effect achieved by tracing paper behind the windows and LED fairy light strings inside. The tracing paper hides the supporting structure for the roof when you look in the windows, and spreads the light more evenly.


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Q: How to turn off the bells and whistles of myeclipse I want to turn off the bells and whistles of myeclipse 8.6 like validations etc. I just want to use it as a simple text editor. I dont know from where i should do this.

A: why not to use vim then? :) .. or the classic eclipse distro?


Alex Stamos: "Our experience is we have intelligence guys that go out and buy, every time there's a bad password dump, our guys go buy it off the black market. Then we go run a big [unknown word] job and go crack those against our own password hashes, and we find 10% to 20% of them match. So we'll take, if it's a Gmail account we'll strip off the Gmail and see if the first username is still a Yahoo user. And we'll do some transforms and stuff. And it turns out, obviously as everybody in here knows, a ridiculous number of people use the same password at every single web site in their lives. And so, if they lose one password they've lost their entire life."
[In response to a audience question] "The biggest challenge facing Yahoo? I think by far the biggest challenge is user security. It's not people breaking into us, it's making our product safe for normal users. The 'death of the password' paradigm and replacing it is by far the worst thing. I have a constant Twitter feed in Tweetdeck for 'Yahoo' and 'hacked'. And every day people are saying 'my Yahoo account is hacked'. And I'll go find a random sampling, and we'll go look, and we'll say 'yep, we figured out Sally, her password was in the Ebay dump' or something like that, or some crappy little place. And this is where the bad guys came in and they did it. There's, in theory, nothing we can do. In practice it means we need to rebuild how we interact with Sally so that she isn't using the same password everywhere. And if she loses her password it's not a complete disaster. So yeah, by far the password problem is my biggest problem."