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Positive Sentiments for "Life Itself"
The following is an ongoing collection of inspired and impassioned reviews for Life Itself. A majority of these pieces were written after the film's premier at the Sundance and Cannes film festival. Over the next month we'll continue to update this space with new reviews of Life Itself, which will be out in theaters and VOD on July 4th. To see when the film is scheduled to open in your city, click here.
"Far more than just a tribute to the career of the world's most famous and influential film critic, the often revelatory "Life Itself" is also a remarkably intimate portrait of a life well lived — right up to the very last moment." - Bruce Ingram, Chicago Sun-Times
"It's a work of taste and generosity, in keeping with its subject, and James ensures that it avoids the hometown-hero 'attaboy!' attitude some feared might come of such a project, especially so soon after the 70-year-old film critic's death in April. … Anyone who cared about Roger Ebert will find it necessary viewing." Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune
"Watching 'Life Itself,' what strikes me most about the way that Ebert lived out his final days, when his body was disintegrating yet his mind was purified, is that it truly was a continuation of the way that he had always lived: at full spiritual volume, hungry for the taste of experience. His ego was so implacable that it was truly at peace. In a lifetime at the movies, Roger Ebert consumed a lot of empathy, so there's something almost luminous about seeing him take that empathy and shine it back on himself." - Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
"The number one thing that comes through in 'Life Itself' is the distinctive, clean voice of his prose, a voice that was both full of love and trained by writing on deadline, expansive as the world of film and concisely shaped and sharpened by the physical constraints and physical nature of newspaper publishing. Ebert's genius was, as Trilling said of Orwell, that he was not a genius — his insights and ideas were always articulated simply, strongly and perfectly in the plain-spoken language of newspapers and lobby conversation." - James Rocchi, Film.com
"The main takeaway here is Ebert's unsinkable passion which lasted until the very end: he was a person who cared tremendously about the power of cinema as an art form, and that love will never die. Herzog refers to him as a true soldier of cinema and, by the end of this documentary, it's hard not to agree with the sentiment. The power of his influence reverberates to this day with a new generation of online critics (myself included) who will remember and cherish his legacy for many years to come." - Raffi Asdourian, The Film Stage
"No film in the festival is as critic-friendly; watching it, I finally understood how football players must feel about 'Brian's Song.'" - Jason Bailey, FlavorWire
"Even the best relationship in Ebert's life isn't viewed through some gauzy filter. Chaz Ebert, often depicted as an eternally patient angel, gets to be tough and feisty here, standing up to her husband and fighting for him. It's not an idealized relationship, even if there's something swoon-worthy about two people who found soulmates a little bit later in life." - Daniel Feinberg, HitFix
"Even those in journalism, the film business and elsewhere who knew Roger Ebert fairly well will learn a lot through James' richly satisfying film, and while some will flinch at what he went through in his final years, many more will admire the strength and perseverance that contributed to his becoming a genuinely resolved man." - Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter
"A large portion of the film takes place in the hospital during Ebert's last act in life. James gets up close and personal, showing the audience how much Ebert smiled through his tough, final days and managed to still enjoy his life. It's devastating and beautiful, sad and poetic, all at the same time, exactly what Ebert wanted." - Chase Whale, IndieWire
"I remember watching 'Life Itself' on my laptop as it was being screened online on Indiegogo's campaign. Seeing it alone was a solemn and somber experience, one of closure and reflection. But on the big screen with an audience, despite its moments of poignancy, it seemed to pulsate with life. Each viewer's heightened expectation resulted in emotional release, and the culmination of this mass release raised emotions further. It was cathartic and made me appreciate the power of cinema as a shared experience even more." - Michael Mirasol, Movie Mezzanine
"There's a lot between the covers of Ebert's fugue-cum-memoir that gives the film its title and some of its territory, but for a movie made in just over a year, it's a compact feat of determination and legerdemain. The filmmakers have provided a place of pride for the immortal line Ebert wrote for Russ Meyer's 'Beneath The Valley Of The Dolls': 'This is my happening and it freaks me out!' As well it should; as well it did." - Ray Pride, New City
"Working again with editor David E. Simpson ('Head Games'), James continues to show that he can really arrange life stories with great clarity and fluidity and with very little filler included just because its a good sound bite. Few directors comprehend their subjects so well let alone make the viewer comprehend them on the same level." - Christopher Campbell, Nonfics
"The true tragedy of 'Life Itself' is that Roger isn't around to write about it. No one would have been able to say whatever there is to be said any better." Simon Miraudo, Quickflix
"We also learn he is morbid enough to take some pleasure in dying a dramatic death, in giving his movie a killer ending. He did not believe in the possibility of somehow looking on, after death, from afar — cinema was his only religion, as testimony from the many filmmakers he championed and befriended, including an emotional Martin Scorsese, confirms. But the rest of us can still find him at the movies, just like he said." - Michelle Orange, SBS.com
"When I saw the scene showing him and Chaz arguing over whether he should climb the stair for himself or not, my mind went back to how stubbornly Roger argued with her when he found that he could not take me to the sneak preview of 'Robin Hood' (2010). They were quite honest about their feelings and thoughts even in front of a young guy from South Korea, and I was not surprised to see how frank they are about themselves in front of the camera – that is why I remember them one of the loveliest couples as I have ever met." - Seongyong Cho, Seongyong's Private Place
"As good as almost every moment in the film is, every once in a while, one stands high above from the rest. In particular, there's a devastating moment where Ebert acknowledges his health is deteriorating and he likely won't get to see the final product we're currently watching. Rather than staying in that dark place, 'Life Itself' goes on to show how Ebert turned his health into a positive motivator, pouring himself into online writing and becoming one of the leading voices in social media. The whole film is based around this kind of dichotomy and it leads to a rewarding emotional response." - Germain Lussier, Slash Film
"James' camera doesn't turn away; late in the film, Chaz and Roger sit together, she talking about how the doctors have been telling her since 2006, on one occasion or another, that he might only have one day left to live. She looks to him for approval or agreement, a tacit acknowledgment that he's not done fighting; he just looks at the camera and rolls his eyes a bit, a sign that he'd become aware that the end was near, and that he'd accepted it well before anyone else. It is here that we see, as Ebert demanded, 'the full reality.'" - Josh Spiegel, Sound on Sight
"Life Itself is one of the best films at Sundance." - Mike Ryan, Huffington Post
"It's the achievement of Steve James' wonderful, heartbreaking Life Itself to give us the whole man in all his personas, some graceful, some not-so-nice... That's what makes this a great documentary rather than a very good one: James comes to his subject with respect and affection, but he understands that a documentarian's job is to assemble the paints and then allow the portrait to paint itself." - Ty Burr, Boston Globe
"He was a strong presence in life and has a strong presence in this film, unconcerned about showing the pain he sometimes went through or talking about his alcoholism and youthful excesses – although it is his vibrancy and lust for life that shines brightest. … He signed off his final blog saying: "I'll see you at the movies." It seems fitting that we now have the chance to see him there." - Amber Wilkinson, The Telegraph
"The doc gains its universal impact in smaller, earthier revelations. Martin Scorsese comes close to tears speaking of Ebert's encouragement during a dark phase in his life. The city of Chicago, especially its late-night watering holes, becomes a window into the off-camera moments of a raconteur and showboat." - Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York
"Like the films themselves and life itself, things are often judged by their conclusion. Falter at the end, and you're left both unsatisfied and more ready to dismiss the earlier elements. Roger went out fighting, went out writing, went out talking about the movies he loved surrounded by the people who loved him. This film loves its subject in a way that is both adult and mature, a wide-eyed love shaped by an almost palpable desire to make it in a way that the highly critical and intellectually rigorous subject would have liked." - Jason Gorber, Twitch
"James also takes time to show that not everyone was so enamored of the TV program and its iconic thumbs-up, thumbs-down judgments, with some critics (including Film Comment's Richard Corliss, who published a lengthy attack piece later rebutted by Ebert) bemoaning what they saw as its crass consumerization of film reviewing. But compared to what passes for informed debate — of movies or anything else — on TV today, the "Siskel & Ebert" clips included here seem almost a model of erudite discourse." - Scott Foundas, Variety
"The story of Siskel and Ebert's complicated partnership has been told before … but 'Life Itself' enlivens the tale with new details: it reveals that Siskel, who appeared on television as something of a square, was once a member of Hugh Hefner's coterie and attended topless pool parties at the Playboy Mansion. And it contains the first in-depth interview with Siskel's widow, Marlene Iglitzen, who recounts Siskel's mounting fears that Ebert would leave the show to go solo, leaving him without his partner." - Casey Newton, The Verge
"'Life Itself' utilizes the voice talent of Stephen Stanton for the scenes in which Ebert is retelling stories from his book. His voice resembles that of Ebert so closely that if you did not remember that the book was written after he lost the ability to speak, you would think it is actually Ebert narrating the documentary. James brilliantly leaves in the computer-generated voice whenever Ebert communicated something new that was not from the book. The decision to use both types of voices for Ebert is as clever as it is functional, doing so helps distinguish Ebert's earlier thoughts from the present narrative." - Dustin Jansick, Way Too Indie
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Yay! The adorable Belen tagged me back in the day for a music survey thing, and it has taken me this long to respond, but here I go!
The rules: 1. Write down the title and the artist. 2. The songs have to be in English; it's universal.
I'm tagging Tay, Lola, MC, DJ, and Holland!


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The Young Digger……. Bullecourt, France
By Site Admin March 4, 2013
This figure, cast in bronze by sculptor Peter Corlett, was unveiled in 1993 as a memorial to the Battles of Bullecourt. The cocky slouch hat contrasts with his serious demeanour as he looks over the fields where 6000 German and 7000 Australian casualties resulted from the two Battles of Bullecourt.
The first was over the snowy landscape on April 11th, 1917 which was a resounding failure. It was the result of poor planning by the British Commanders and an unfortunate faith in the new tanks which floundered in the mud. The second battle was a resounding success as part of a major British assault on a 25 kilometre front and was planned in the extreme including two complete 'dress-rehearsals' over an actual layout of the battlefield. The battle began May 3rd and lasted until the 17th when the Australians settled into positions which were held intact until the great German Spring offensive of March 1918.
These are such beautiful fields that overlook Bullecourt…but they have such terrible stories to tell.

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Q: Is the product of two simply connected spaces also simply connected? this is a problem in my topology class:

True or false: the product of two simply connected spaces also simply connected.

What I have right now:
Let X1 and X2 be two simply connected spaces. Let f: $S^1$ --> X1 $\times$ X2. Define f1: $S^1$ --> X1, and use $\pi_1$(X1) = 0 to get a homotopy h1: $S^1 \times$ I --> X1 from f1 to a constant. Then because of the universal property of the product, h: $S^1 \times I$ --> X1 $\times$ X2, which projects to h1. And we can prove that h is a homotopy from f to a constant, so the product X1 $\times$ X2 is simply connected.
Is this correct? If not, please point out where I got wrong.
Thank you so much!

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Tuesday's AUC-sponsored lecture on Arab and Western views of current events in the occupied Palestinian territories began amicably enough with Osama El-Baz, chief political adviser to the president, and John Sawers, Britain's ambassador to Cairo, agreeing that any characterisation of the Arab and Western positions as diametrically opposed was inaccurate. Arab and Western perspectives, they concurred, run parallel on a number of issues: on the need to resolve the conflict through negotiations, the necessity of creating a Palestinian state, the injustice of Israel's occupation, the need for a stronger Palestinian Authority (PA), Israel's exploitation of the war on terrorism to serve its own goals, and excessive violence being inimical to negotiations.
The initial consensus began to show cracks, however, in defining the parameters of Palestinian resistance, the quality of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's leadership, and the allocation of prime responsibility for the current crisis.
The West, El-Baz argued, "appears to favour Israel over the Arabs" because of bias towards a nominally democratic state; it has also, he continued, shown itself perfectly willing to make amends for the Holocaust at the expense of Arab rights. While Sawers agreed that there were "subtleties in the differences, in the media images, in the emotions" between the West and Arabs, "recent appalling violence," he insisted, "has led to a consensus rather than a polarisation of opinion on what the next steps should be." There was, he said, a shared sense of "horror at the excessive and disproportionate violence the Israeli defence forces have been using."
The British ambassador was keen to distinguish between European and American perspectives on the peace process. The US, he said, was more sympathetic to Israel because it was thought to be "fighting terror" and there was much more frustration with Arafat in Washington than in Europe. With support for Israel on Capitol Hill at its strongest, he said, criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was severely limited, while American Jewry remained closely aligned with the Israeli government regardless of who was in power in Tel Aviv.
El-Baz took issue with Israel's "fragmented" body politic, and characterised Sharon's policy-making as "hallucinatory". "Nobody really knows Sharon's perspective on the peace process," he said, "and I'm not sure he has one... The Arabs have presented a vision for peace, but [Sharon] has a very different agenda."
El-Baz argued that the way forward was to convene an international conference with fixed terms of reference. "This should be possible," said the veteran diplomat, "within six weeks." It should be convened within the contextual framework provided by UN resolutions 242, 338, 1397, 1402 and 1403, the land-for-peace formula, the Oslo Accords and subsequent agreements; its objective should be agreement on the Palestinian and the Syrian and Lebanese tracks, and should include among its participants the US, EU, Russia, the Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Jordanians, Israelis and UN.
It was the impasse in the peace process, Sawers contended, that facilitated the swing to the far right in Israeli politics muffling, in the process, the Israeli peace camp and fragmenting the Palestinian leadership. To move forward, he argued, it was necessary to consolidate positions on the two- state solution, end violence, restart peace talks and strengthen the PA's ability to administer a future Palestinian state.
On the Palestinians' right to resist Israeli occupation Sawers made a blurred distinction between "indiscriminate resistance" and "indiscriminate violence": the latter, he said, was "damaging and makes a solution remote." To label Palestinian resistance to occupation as "nonsensical" was as invalid, he said, as arguing "that any act by any Palestinian against Israel is legitimate."
"There is violence on both sides and the fundamental problem is occupation, but there is no greater obstacle to bringing an end to Israeli occupation than the tactics being pursued by extremist Palestinian factions," he argued.
"If the majority of Palestinians see the light at the end of the tunnel, they will be able to prevent groups such as Hamas or Jihad from spoiling and destroying the peace process. But they have to see the light first," El-Baz responded.
Following the encounter Sawers told Al-Ahram Weekly that the Europeans were continuously pressuring the Israelis by "daily raising the issues of disproportionate use of force, denying access to humanitarian agencies, putting Arafat under a siege... a whole series of issues which we believe are unjustified and in the long run are contrary to Israel's interests." He was, though, unsupportive of sanctions against Israel: "There is responsibility on both sides and blaming and sanctioning only one side rather than encouraging both sides to go back to negotiations will not achieve the outcome you want."
Denying that the international community is assisting Sharon in replacing Arafat by supporting calls to reform the PA, Sawers told the Weekly that strengthening the PA had always been on the European agenda. "One of the reasons why the [PA] has been unable to reach a solution to the Palestinian question is because it is so weak," he said.
El- Baz, on the other hand, insisted that the PA, and the Palestinian people, must decide on issues relating to reform. "It should not be imposed or dictated from the outside," he told reporters after the lecture. "Sharon talks about this as if he's talking about reforming the Israeli government."
: Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM : ---------------------- : A parallel divergence : Everyone agrees the Arab-Israeli conflict must be steered to calmer waters. There is difference over how, though, writes Nevine Khalil : --------------------------------------------- : Tuesday's AUC-sponsored lecture on Arab and Western views of current events in the occupied Palestinian territories began amicably enough with Osama El-Baz, chief political adviser to the president, and John Sawers, Britain's ambassador to Cairo, agreeing that any characterisation of the Arab and Western positions as diametrically opposed was inaccurate. Arab and Western perspectives, they concurred, run parallel on a number of issues: on the need to resolve the conflict through negotiations, the necessity of creating a Palestinian state, the injustice of Israel's occupation, the need for a stronger Palestinian Authority (PA), Israel's exploitation of the war on terrorism to serve its own goals, and excessive violence being inimical to negotiations. : The initial consensus began to show cracks, however, in defining the parameters of Palestinian resistance, the quality of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's leadership, and the allocation of prime responsibility for the current crisis. : The West, El-Baz argued, "appears to favour Israel over the Arabs" because of bias towards a nominally democratic state; it has also, he continued, shown itself perfectly willing to make amends for the Holocaust at the expense of Arab rights. While Sawers agreed that there were "subtleties in the differences, in the media images, in the emotions" between the West and Arabs, "recent appalling violence," he insisted, "has led to a consensus rather than a polarisation of opinion on what the next steps should be." There was, he said, a shared sense of "horror at the excessive and disproportionate violence the Israeli defence forces have been using." : The British ambassador was keen to distinguish between European and American perspectives on the peace process. The US, he said, was more sympathetic to Israel because it was thought to be "fighting terror" and there was much more frustration with Arafat in Washington than in Europe. With support for Israel on Capitol Hill at its strongest, he said, criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was severely limited, while American Jewry remained closely aligned with the Israeli government regardless of who was in power in Tel Aviv. : El-Baz took issue with Israel's "fragmented" body politic, and characterised Sharon's policy-making as "hallucinatory". "Nobody really knows Sharon's perspective on the peace process," he said, "and I'm not sure he has one... The Arabs have presented a vision for peace, but [Sharon] has a very different agenda." : El-Baz argued that the way forward was to convene an international conference with fixed terms of reference. "This should be possible," said the veteran diplomat, "within six weeks." It should be convened within the contextual framework provided by UN resolutions 242, 338, 1397, 1402 and 1403, the land-for-peace formula, the Oslo Accords and subsequent agreements; its objective should be agreement on the Palestinian and the Syrian and Lebanese tracks, and should include among its participants the US, EU, Russia, the Palestinians, Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptians, Jordanians, Israelis and UN. : It was the impasse in the peace process, Sawers contended, that facilitated the swing to the far right in Israeli politics muffling, in the process, the Israeli peace camp and fragmenting the Palestinian leadership. To move forward, he argued, it was necessary to consolidate positions on the two- state solution, end violence, restart peace talks and strengthen the PA's ability to administer a future Palestinian state. : On the Palestinians' right to resist Israeli occupation Sawers made a blurred distinction between "indiscriminate resistance" and "indiscriminate violence": the latter, he said, was "damaging and makes a solution remote." To label Palestinian resistance to occupation as "nonsensical" was as invalid, he said, as arguing "that any act by any Palestinian against Israel is legitimate." : "There is violence on both sides and the fundamental problem is occupation, but there is no greater obstacle to bringing an end to Israeli occupation than the tactics being pursued by extremist Palestinian factions," he argued. : "If the majority of Palestinians see the light at the end of the tunnel, they will be able to prevent groups such as Hamas or Jihad from spoiling and destroying the peace process. But they have to see the light first," El-Baz responded. : Following the encounter Sawers told Al-Ahram Weekly that the Europeans were continuously pressuring the Israelis by "daily raising the issues of disproportionate use of force, denying access to humanitarian agencies, putting Arafat under a siege... a whole series of issues which we believe are unjustified and in the long run are contrary to Israel's interests." He was, though, unsupportive of sanctions against Israel: "There is responsibility on both sides and blaming and sanctioning only one side rather than encouraging both sides to go back to negotiations will not achieve the outcome you want." : Denying that the international community is assisting Sharon in replacing Arafat by supporting calls to reform the PA, Sawers told the Weekly that strengthening the PA had always been on the European agenda. "One of the reasons why the [PA] has been unable to reach a solution to the Palestinian question is because it is so weak," he said. : El- Baz, on the other hand, insisted that the PA, and the Palestinian people, must decide on issues relating to reform. "It should not be imposed or dictated from the outside," he told reporters after the lecture. "Sharon talks about this as if he's talking about reforming the Israeli government."


It's been well over a year since awards were announced in the FCC Rural Broadband Experiment program, but several projects have not started because funds have not been released. The recipients are ready to commence, but the FCC's own requirements have halted expansion of high-quality Internet access to areas that need it the most.
The Rural Broadband Experiments program has required Letters of Credit from the top 100 banks. Although it may have seemed like good regulation, it completely ignores the reality of small businesses.
The FCC touted the Rural Broadband Experiments as the answer for small, local, and nontraditional, Internet Service Providers (ISP). The program had $100 million in funding to encourage innovation in ill-served rural areas. After the FCC provisionally approved 37 of the 200 applications, those providers then needed to secure Letters of Credit to ensure that the projects were secure, reliable investments.
For my money, the best headline of last week was "The U.S.'s crap infrastructure threatens the cloud." The rant goes on to explain just how crummy our access to the Internet is.
As a patriotic American, I find the current political atmosphere where telecom lobbyists set the agenda to be a nightmare. All over the world, high-end fiber is being deployed while powerful monopolies in the United States work to prevent it from coming here. Some of those monopolies are even drafting "model legislation" to protect themselves from both community broadband and commercial competition.
He nails a number of important points, including the absurdity of allowing de facto monopolies to write the legislation that governs them. However, Andew Oliver's article is a bit muddled on the issue of "monopoly." I have argued with several people that the term "monopoly" has historically meant firms with large market power, not the more stringent definition of "the only seller" of a good. It is not clear how Oliver is using the term.
Because of this confusion, you can come away from his piece with the firm idea that it is primarily government's fault we have a duopoly of crap DSL and less crappy cable. He repeatedly says "state-sponsored monopolies." However, no local or state government may offer exclusive franchises for cable or telecom services and the federal government hasn't officially backed monopolies for decades.
This is a key point that many still fail to understand - a majority seem to believe that local governments bless monopolies when local governments actually are desperate for more choices. This is why they fall all over themselves to beg Google to invest in their community or they build they own networks (over 400 communities have wired telecom networks that offer services to some local businesses and/or residents).
Poor laws and regulations have helped the massive cable and telephone companies to maintain their status - that is why they spend so much on lobbying and political contributions at all levels of government. They want to and have successfully corrupted the process, neutralizing the power of government to protect consumer interests and prevent a few firms from dominating the market.
Really, I think the cable business in the U.S. looks very attractive. It looks like the telcos are not going to aggressively overbuild cable with fiber and so, cable has a definite advantage when comes to high speed broadband, which seems to be something the public is totally in love with.
But no, I think cable is very strong on the broadband side and I think the threat of wireless broadband taking away high speed connectivity is way overblown. There just is not enough bandwidth on the wireless side to substantially damage cable's unique ability to delivery very high speed connectivity. So I think everybody is going to do well in this mix.
I excised some middle comments that were also interesting - suggesting that cable may lose video customers but will do very well by continuing to grow broadband subscribers (a much higher profit margin service).
Credit to Susan Crawford's new book, Captive Audience, where I read it first.
A major difference between Main Street and Wall Street is that we view Comcast's lack of competition as a major problem. The prospect of Comcast increasing our rates year after year makes us want to scream. Prepare to scream. Or throw things.
Comcast's traditional Cable Communications continues to grow and generate copious cash flow. Video revenue, Xfinity and other cable TV products, grew 2.8% to $5 billion, while High-Speed Internet revenue grew 8.9% to $2.4 billion. We're big fans of the firm's Video and High-Speed Internet businesses because both are either monopolies or duopolies in their respective markets. Further, we believe that both services have become so sticky and important to consumers that Comcast will be able to effectively raise prices year after year without seeing too much volume-related weakness.
SeekingAlpha.com, describes itself as "…the premier website for actionable stock market opinion and analysis, and vibrant, intelligent finance discussion."
We want to empower local businesses and communities to control their own destiny. Monopolistic telecommunications companies, with their Goliath market share, Wall Street priorities, and armies of lobbyists continue to attack local control and self-reliance. They are extracting assets from Main Street and shipping it to Wall Street.
Yet we see the FCC, Congress, and many states pretending that the public interest is best served by giving more power to these massive companies. And we will continue to hear industry-funded think tanks claiming that broadband has robust competition and should be subject to less public oversight. Coming soon to an op-ed page near you.


In conversations with individuals who struggle with anxiety, it is more than clear that physical and mental health are: "essentially equivalent." After all, anxiety is an all-encompassing experience. One doesn't just have anxious thoughts. In addition to repetitive negative cognitive loops – the heart races, palms sweat, belly tightens, sleep evades, head muscles tighten, and face grimaces. For the anxious, the physical and mental expressions of stress are twinned.
As a yoga teacher for more than 20 years, I've heard hundreds of variations on these themes. Of course, yoga is but one of many stress reduction exercises that a person can adopt. Choosing to live of life of healthy eating, exercise, and sleep count a great deal too – in fact they are fundamental to living well and reducing unnecessary stress.
So, how to benefit? How to benefit if you are already insanely busy, over-stressed, and flooded with anxiety?
A good deal of anxiety has to do with an obsession with perfectionism – we want to be "perfect" and much of the attention in this relentless pursuit is preoccupied by exteriors. What do we look like? How much money do we make? Who do we know? Who likes us? Et cetera. A rather stern fear of negative judgment can keep us racing on a treadmill to nowhere. But what happens when the attention is turned within? What happens when screens are shut off and quiet descends? When the body moves softly and the breath begins to settle more deeply in the chest and belly?
So, unplug for a spell and move mindfully, breathe consciously. Try to pick a routine – a time each day that is your "yoga time." If that isn't possible, simply commit to take 10 minutes at some point during the day/night before you close your eyes for sleep. During this time, simply notice what is going on in your body. Notice the busyness of the mind. Yoga's purpose is to bring us to a deeper realization of what is real.
Yet, the wisdom of yoga teaches us to open into an acceptance of this anxiousness and the feelings underneath it – feelings and sensations we would so much rather avoid. Yoga strengthens us to stay present with the unpleasant and soften as we "hold space" for our own imperfections. Yoga literally rewires how our cells duplicate and express themselves. This remapping of the self through mindful movement and breath reveals something deeper than anxiousness. We may come to "walk slowly into the mystery" revealing aspects of the self untouched by time, change, age, death – let alone anxiety.
We learn to listen to the body's wisdom through yoga and then the body guides our yoga. We can choose to replace the addictive patterns that stem from dealing with anxiety with patterns of self-awareness and compassion.
All starting with 10 minutes a day.
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Axial symmetry and transverse trace-free tensors in numerical relativity
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Copyright: © 2012, Rory Patrick Albert Conboye
Citation: Conboye, Rory P.A. 2012. Axial Symmetry and Transverse Trace-Free Tensors in Numerical Relativity. PhD Thesis, University College Cork.
Supervisor(s): Ó Murchadha, Niall
Transverse trace-free (TT) tensors play an important role in the initial conditions of numerical relativity, containing two of the component freedoms. Expressing a TT tensor entirely, by the choice of two scalar potentials, is not a trivial task however. Assuming the added condition of axial symmetry, expressions are given in both spherical and cylindrical coordinates, for TT tensors in flat space. A coordinate relation is then calculated between the scalar potentials of each coordinate system. This is extended to a non-flat space, though only one potential is found. The remaining equations are reduced to form a second order partial differential equation in two of the tensor components. With the axially symmetric flat space tensors, the choice of potentials giving Bowen-York conformal curvatures, are derived. A restriction is found for the potentials which ensure an axially symmetric TT tensor, which is regular at the origin, and conditions on the potentials, which give an axially symmetric TT tensor with a spherically symmetric scalar product, are also derived. A comparison is made of the extrinsic curvatures of the exact Kerr solution and numerical Bowen-York solution for axially symmetric black hole space-times. The Brill wave, believed to act as the difference between the Kerr and Bowen-York space-times, is also studied, with an approximate numerical solution found for a mass-factor, under different amplitudes of the metric.
Physics - Doctoral Theses [81]
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Columbia Journalism School Announces the 2022 J. Anthony Lukas Prize Project Awards Shortlists
Columbia Journalism School and the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University are pleased to announce the 2022 shortlists for the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and the Mark Lynton History Prize. The Lukas Prizes, established in 1998, honor the best in American nonfiction writing.
The winners and finalists of the 2022 Lukas Prizes will be announced on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. The awards will be presented at a ceremony on Tuesday, May 3, 2022.
J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Awards (two winners each receive $25,000): The J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Awards are given annually to aid in the completion of significant works of nonfiction on American topics of political or social concern. These awards assist in closing the gap between the time and money an author has and the time and money that finishing a book requires.
Roxanna Asgarian, We Were Once a Family: The Hart Murder-Suicide and the System Failing Our Kids (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
We Were Once A Family: The Hart Murder-Suicide and the System Failing Our Kids explores the deeper story behind the white couple who drove themselves and their six Black adopted children off a California cliff to their deaths in 2018. The book focuses on the birth families of the children spanning generations, and illuminates how the failures of America's child welfare system contributed to the tragedy. It will be published in 2023.
Robert Fieseler, American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State (Dutton)
American Scare: A Cold War in the Sunshine State uncovers a largely unknown anti-Communist purge in the segregated South. From 1956 to 1965, residents of Florida were held for ransom by an extrajudicial committee with the power to investigate "subversion" by entering residences without warrants, employing secret informants, seeking medical records, and imposing penalties without bringing charges. It was an all-out domestic war headed by a charismatic state senator named Charley Johns. Called the Florida Legislative Investigation Committee, but more commonly known as the "Johns Committee," this group of white lawmakers led a Cold War crusade. Ostensibly targeting Communists attempting to integrate schools and destroy the American family, the Johns Committee in practice hunted civil rights workers and closeted gay teachers as enemies of the people. It is a true story of American tyranny.
Benjamin Herold, Disillusioned: How the Suburbs and Their Schools Undermine The American Dream (Penguin Press)
The nation's foundational promises — everyone is created equal, we all get a fair shot, success is determined by merit — are considered to be strongest in the suburbs and their public schools. Disillusioned: How the Suburbs and Their Schools Undermine the American Dream destroys that myth. Author Benjamin Herold traces the stories of five American families whose hopes for the future are colliding with suburbia's racist past. Herold describes a relentless cycle of racialized development and decline that now threatens many suburbs — including his hometown, where white families like his own extracted opportunity from the school system, then fled before the bill came due, leaving a new generation of mostly Black parents to pay off a staggering debt. Drawn from years of reporting and archival research, this portrait of America at a turning point shows why suburban public schools are ground zero in the fight for a true multiracial democracy.
May Jeong, The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America (Atria)
The Life: Sex, Work, and Love in America examines the forces shaping sex work and the lives of sex workers, and how these forces interact with race, gender, and class. Jeong explores the limitations of our criminal system when it deals with prostitution and sex trafficking, often criminalizing those who are victims as much as they are breakers of unjust laws. Investigating the various paths taken to sex work, Jeong shows how those in "the life" are often trapped in a cycle that punishes them for the crime of poverty and other misfortunes. Based on the deeply reported life stories of several sex workers, The Life probes the injustices, indignities, and redemptions they experience, and lays bare the intersections of sexuality, power, labor, and immigration.
Suki Kim, The Prince and the Revolutionary: Children of War (W.W. Norton)
The Prince and the Revolutionary: Children of War follows the author's search for a young North Korean named Kim Han-sol, who vanished following the 2017 assassination of his father, Kim Jong-un's half brother, at Kuala Lumpur Airport. Her investigation sheds light on the history of the Kim family members who were banished, killed, and disappeared, and brings the author face to face with Adrian Hong, the leader of the North Korean opposition. It is a story of assassination, rescue, and betrayal involving a gulag nation, a group of revolutionaries, and U.S. intelligence. A narrative portrait of a missing prince from North Korea and the underground movement trying to topple the Great Leader regime, this book is at heart an indictment of war and its consequences for the next generations as well an examination of the complicity surrounding North Korea, one of the most urgent political and humanitarian crises of our time.
2022 J. Anthony Lukas Work-In-Progress Award Judges: Rachel Louise Snyder (chair), Paul Golob, David Treuer
J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize ($10,000): The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize recognizes superb examples of nonfiction writing that exemplify the literary grace, commitment to serious research, and original reporting that characterized the distinguished work of the award's namesake, J. Anthony Lukas. Books must be on a topic of American political or social concern published between January 1 and December 31, 2021.
Andrea Elliott, Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Random House)
In Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City, Pulitzer Prize winner Andrea Elliott follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani, a girl whose imagination is as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Elliott weaves the story of Dasani's childhood with the history of her ancestors, tracing their passage from slavery to the Great Migration north. As Dasani comes of age, New York City's homeless crisis has exploded, deepening the chasm between rich and poor. She must guide her siblings through a world riddled by hunger, violence, racism, drug addiction, and the threat of foster care. Out on the street, Dasani becomes a fierce fighter "to protect those who I love." When she finally escapes city life to enroll in a boarding school, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning your family?
Scott Ellsworth, The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice (Dutton)
The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice tells the long-suppressed story of the notorious Tulsa race massacre. It also unearths the lost history of how the massacre was covered up, and of the courageous individuals who fought to keep the story alive. Most importantly, it recounts the ongoing archeological saga and the search for the unmarked graves of the victims of the massacre, and of the fight to win restitution for the survivors and their families. Both a forgotten chronicle from the nation's past and a story ripped from today's headlines, The Ground Breaking is a page-turning reflection on how we, as Americans, must wrestle with the parts of our history that have been buried for far too long.
Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty (Doubleday)
A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early 20th century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d'Antibes, to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. Exhaustively documented and compelling, Empire of Pain is a portrait of the excesses of America's second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super elite, and a relentless investigation of the naked greed and indifference to human suffering that built one of the world's great fortunes.
Jessica Nordell, The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias (Metropolitan)
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias is a deeply reported exploration into the far-reaching destructive effects of unconscious bias, one of the great challenges of our age, as well as a groundbreaking study of methods and interventions that have measurably succeeded in uprooting unintentional discrimination. Unconscious bias exists, to corrosive and even lethal effect, in medicine, the workplace, education, policing, and beyond. But when it comes to uprooting our prejudices, we still have far to go. With nuance, compassion, and ten years' immersion in the topic, Jessica Nordell weaves gripping stories with scientific research to reveal how minds, hearts, and behaviors change. Captivating, direct, and transformative, The End of Bias shows that biased behavior can change; the approaches outlined here show how we can begin to remake ourselves and our world more equitably.
Joshua Prager, The Family Roe: An American Story (W.W. Norton)
A masterpiece of reporting on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart, The Family Roe: An American Story was one of NPR's Best Books of 2021, one of Time's 100 Must-Read Books of 2021, and a New York Times Notable Book. Journalist Joshua Prager tells the story of abortion in America through Norma McCorvey, the complex woman behind the pseudonym Jane Roe. Prager discovered her personal papers, witnessed her final moments, and found her children, among them the unknown "Roe baby" whose conception occasioned the lawsuit. The book confronts a half-century of propaganda and myth, and abounds in revelations. Embraced by people on both sides of the abortion issue, The Family Roe is a work of profound empathy that will change the way readers think about America's enduring divide.
2022 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize Judges: Bruce Tracy (chair), Jessica Bruder, Julia Pastore, Thomas Chatterton Williams
Mark Lynton History Prize ($10,000): The Mark Lynton History Prize is awarded to the book-length work of narrative history, on any subject, that best combines intellectual distinction with felicity of expression. Books must have been published between January 1 and December 31, 2021.
Katie Booth, The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness (Simon & Schuster)
The Invention of Miracles: Language, Power, and Alexander Graham Bell's Quest to End Deafness provides a new perspective on an American icon, revealing the astonishing true genesis of the telephone and its connection to another, far more disturbing legacy of Alexander Graham Bell's: his efforts to suppress American Sign Language. Weaving together a dazzling tale of innovation with a moving love story, the book offers a heartbreaking account of how a champion can become an adversary and an enthralling depiction of the deaf community's fight to reclaim a once-forbidden language. Booth witnessed the damaging impact of Bell's legacy on her own family, leading her to spend more than 15 years poring over Bell's papers, Library of Congress archives, and the records of schools for the deaf across America. What she discovered overturned everything she thought she knew about language, power, deafness, and the telephone.
Noah Feldman, The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Abraham Lincoln led the nation into a bloody civil war to uphold the system of government established by the U.S. Constitution — a system he regarded as the "last best hope of mankind." But how did Lincoln understand the Constitution? The Broken Constitution: Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America is the first book to tell the story of how Lincoln broke the Constitution in order to remake it. To do so, it offers a riveting narrative of his constitutional choices and how he made them — and places Lincoln in the rich context of thinking of the time, from African American abolitionists to Lincoln's Republican rivals and Secessionist ideologues.
Amanda Frost, You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers (Beacon Press)
Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk — even for those born on U.S. soil. Over the last two centuries, the U.S. government has revoked citizenship to cast out its unwanted, suppress dissent, and deny civil rights to all considered "un-American" — whether due to their race, ethnicity, marriage partner, or beliefs. In You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers, law professor Amanda Frost exposes a hidden history of discrimination and xenophobia that continues to this day. You Are Not American grapples with what it means to be American and the issues surrounding membership, identity, belonging, and exclusion that still occupy and divide the nation in the 21st century.
Tiya Miles, All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake (Random House)
In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items for Ashley. Later, her great-granddaughter Ruth embroidered the family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language — including Rose's wish that "It be filled with my Love always." Ruth's sewn words evoke a sweeping family story of loss and love passed down through generations. Now, in All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, historian Tiya Miles carefully unearths these women's faint presence in archival records to follow the paths of their lives — and the lives of so many women like them — to write a singular and revelatory history of the experience of slavery, and the uncertain freedom afterward, in the United States.
Jane Rogoyska, Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth (Oneworld/ Simon & Schuster)
The Katyń Massacre of 22,000 Polish prisoners of war is a crime to which there are no witnesses, committed in utmost secrecy in April-May 1940 by the Soviet Union's interior ministry, NKVD, on the direct orders of Joseph Stalin. For nearly 50 years the Soviet regime succeeded in maintaining the fiction that Katyń was a Nazi atrocity, the story unchallenged by Western governments fearful of upsetting a powerful wartime ally and Cold War adversary. Surviving Katyń: Stalin's Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth explores the decades-long search for answers, focusing on the experience of those individuals with the most at stake — the few survivors of the massacre and the Polish wartime forensic investigators — whose quest for the truth in the face of an inscrutable and utterly ruthless enemy came at great personal cost.
2022 Mark Lynton History Prize Judges: Julia Keller (chair), Anthony DePalma, Kerri Greenidge
Read the full announcement, including authors' bios and more information on this year's nominees.


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Q: X Windows Server system on a console only based server Newbie to stack overflow and am experimenting with running an X Server so my colleagues and I can access our Linux GUI applications from windows machines.
I know all about XMing and other utils but my question isn't on the MS Windows side, it's on the Linux host machine.  You see right now the linux boxes all have GUI's installed (CentOS and Ubuntu) with the configs to access via Xming or any other SSH X forwarding client.
My question is can I just setup the server to run the x system in the background without having to install a GUI?  Did some research and can't really figure it out as I'm not an X Windows guru.
Thanks for everyone's help.
cmillo

A: There is no need to have a full X server running or installed on the same system that is running X clients; only the libraries required for implementation of the protocol are required, and the system's package manager will handle installing those.


Ok. So earlier I posted this about tales of symphonia. Just figured out trying to load another game that was running fine before hand. Dolphin crashes immediately. So I tried a game I haven't played yet. Opened it. Ran fine. Closed it and when I tried to reopen dolphin crashes. No matter which game its the same thing. The games will only open once and anytime after that trying to open just crashes Dolphin. Even tried reinstalling Dolphin which didn't work.
Switch to d3d11 for best results on intel.
After switching to d3d11 im not having to clear cache each time I wanna play. Thank you.


CHICAGO -- The NFL draft will return to Chicago for the second consecutive year.
This was the first year the draft had taken place outside of New York City since 1965.
The 2016 draft is scheduled for April 28 through 30.
Mayor Emanuel expected to make the announcement official during a press conference with NFL President Roger Goodell next hour.
Goodell and NFL team owners meeting are meeting today in Schaumburg regarding the possibility of a team relocating to LA.


to be elected to a state legislature in the United States.
Gwen Moore was one of nine siblings born to a school teacher and a factory worker in Racine. She grew up in Milwaukee, where she was student council president at North Division High School. With support from a program that helped low-income, first-generation students attend college, she earned her degree in political science from Marquette University. She was very active in her community, helping to start a credit union for her community VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) members and earning the VISTA "Volunteer of the Decade" award for the years 1976-1986.
Moore, a Democrat, was elected in 1989 to the Wisconsin State Assembly, where she served two terms. She then became Wisconsin's first female African American state senator, serving from 1993 to 2004. While in office, she earned a Harvard University certificate for senior executives in state and local government and advocated strongly to improve economic conditions for low-income communities and help the children of low-income families get through school. In 2004, Moore was elected to represent Wisconsin's 4th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is a member of the House Committee on Financial Services, which oversees the banking, housing, and insurance industries, and the House Budget Committee. She has been an outspoken voice for women's health and security, leading the effort to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act in Congress.
"Rep. Gwen Moore on Immigration, Cybersecurity, Terrorism And More." Wisconsin Public Radio, January 15, 2015. http://www.wpr.org/shows/rep-gwen-moore-immigration-cybersecurity-terrorism-and-more.
"Biography for Congresswoman Gwen Moore." U.S. House of Representatives. http://gwenmoore.house.gov/biography/.
"Explorations in Black Leadership." University of Virginia. http://www.blackleadership.virginia.edu/interview/moore-gwen.


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US Army warns of database breaches in South Korea
By Jeremy Kirk
Australia Correspondent, IDG News Service |
The U.S. Army warned Thursday that databases holding information on 16,000 South Korean civilian employees of the U.S. military and applicants for base jobs may have been compromised.
The military became aware on May 28 that the Korean National Recruitment System may have been breached, according to a letter addressed to Korean employees signed by Gen. Curtis M. Scaparrotti, head of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK).
Information that may have been disclosed includes peoples' names, contact information, education, work experience and Korean Identification Number, which is South Korea's national government ID issued to citizens.
That system may have been accessed through a server run by the Civilian Human Resources Agency Far East, according to a report in Pacific Stars and Stripes.
The agency manages the hiring of civilians to work for the U.S. military in Japan and South Korea.
The affected system was taken offline, and an investigation is underway, Scaparrotti wrote. South Korean government officials have been notified.
"USFK takes this potential compromise very seriously and is reviewing policies and practices with a view of determining what must be changed," Scaparrotti wrote.


Felix C. Rolon, 89, of Norwalk, CT passed away December 21, 2016 at Autumn Lake of Norwalk.
Born December 1, 1927, he was the oldest son of 14 children born to the late Liborio and Candida Colon Rolon. Felix was a resident of Norwalk for 51 years. He brought his wife Ofelia M. Rolon and two young children to Norwalk in the 1960's and was among the first Hispanics in the City of Norwalk. He was also a longstanding member of John 3:16 Spanish Pentecostal Church on Woodward Ave. and worked alongside Reverend Raymon Figueroa as they founded and built the historic church, welcoming Hispanic families to the community since the early 1960's. Felix worked at Swanks Crestline until his retirement.
He is survived by his 6 children, Miriam Y. Vega, Ivette Rolon, Felix Rolon Jr., Norma Hughes, Milagros Rolon, Vilma Rolon and 20 grand and great-grandchildren.


Brian Andrew Dunning (born 1965) is an American writer and producer who focuses on science and skepticism. He has hosted a weekly podcast, Skeptoid, since 2006, and he is an author of a series of books on the subject of scientific skepticism, some of which are based on the podcast. Skeptoid has been the recipient of several podcast awards such as the Parsec Award. Dunning has also created the Skeptoid.org spin-off video series, inFact, and The Feeding Tube both available on YouTube.
Dunning has produced two educational films on the subject of critical thinking, Here be Dragons in 2008, and Principles of Curiosity in 2017.
Dunning co-founded Buylink, a business-to-business service provider, in 1996, and served at the company until 2002. He later became eBay's second biggest affiliate marketer; he has since been convicted of wire fraud through a cookie stuffing scheme. In August 2014, he was sentenced to 15 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release for the company obtaining between $200,000 and $400,000 through wire fraud.
In 1996 Dunning co-founded and was chief technology officer for Buylink Corporation. Buylink received venture capital funding from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. In 2000 he participated in a presentation on Buylink at The Berkeley Entrepreneurs Forum called Bricks to Clicks in the New Internet Reality. He discussed the company on CNNfn's Market Call, in Rhonda Schaffler's Maverick of the Morning segment. In 2002, Dunning left his position as CTO of BuyLink.
Between 1997 and 2005 he was technical editor for FileMaker Advisor Magazine, and contributing editor of ISO FileMaker Magazine, 1996–2002, winning one of the FileMaker Excellence Awards at the 2001 FileMaker Developers Conference.
Beginning in 2006, Dunning hosted and produced Skeptoid, a weekly audio podcast dedicated "to furthering knowledge by blasting away the widespread pseudosciences that infect popular culture, and replacing them with way cooler reality." He is also the author of the book of the same title and a sequel.
Beginning in 2007, Dunning periodically released video episodes of his InFact series. Each episode is under four minutes long and covers issues similar to those explored in more depth in the Skeptoid podcast, but is intended to reach a wider audience due to its brevity and availability on YouTube.
In 2008 Dunning produced Here Be Dragons, a free 40 minute video introduction to critical thinking intended for general audiences, and received an award from the Portland Humanist Film Festival for this in November 2011.
In 2010 Dunning was awarded the Parsec Award for "Best Fact Behind the Fiction Podcast". In August 2010 he received an award recognizing his contributions in the skeptical field from the Independent Investigations Group (IIG) during its 10th Anniversary Gala.
In June 2017 Dunning's second film, Principles of Curiosity, was released. According to Dunning, this "presents a general introduction to the foundations of scientific skepticism and critical thinking... It is nonprofit, noncommercial, and licensed for free public and private screenings. It is provided with free educational materials for teachers, designed for high school through college. It is suitable for all audiences. Its 40-minute runtime should fit into most classes."
Dunning has written articles for Skepticblog.org, published by The Skeptics Society, and was an executive producer for the unreleased network television pilot The Skeptologists. He is a member of the National Association of Science Writers, and is the "Chancellor" of the non-accredited "Thunderwood College", a parody of unaccredited institutions of higher learning which offer "degrees" in a variety of subjects.
In August 2008, eBay filed suit against Dunning, accusing him of defrauding eBay and eBay affiliates in a cookie stuffing scheme for his company, Kessler's Flying Circus. In June 2010, based on the same allegations and following an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a grand jury indicted Dunning on charges of wire fraud. On April 15, 2013, in the San Jose, California, U.S. District Court, as part of a plea agreement, Dunning pleaded guilty to wire fraud.
From an agreement of the parties, the eBay civil suit was dismissed in May 2014 and Dunning was sentenced in August 2014 to fifteen months in prison for the company receiving between $200,000 and $400,000 in fraudulent commissions from eBay.
Skeptoid is Dunning's weekly podcast. The show follows an audio essay format, and is dedicated to the critical examination of pseudoscience and the paranormal. In May 2012, Skeptoid Media became a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit.
Along with similarly themed Point of Inquiry, Skepticality: The Official Podcast of Skeptic Magazine, and The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, it is listed on an iTunes (US) web page of popular science and medicine podcasts. In May 2014, Skeptoid's website reported that the podcast had a weekly average of 161,000 downloads.
Beginning in 2007, Dunning authored a series of books based upon the Skeptoid podcast episodes.
Despite his shift away from the technology industry, Dunning continues to do computer programming, and does web development for his Skeptoid website.
Skeptoid was a 2009 Podcast Awards finalist in the Education category.
Strapping Young Lads (1 ed.). Xlibris Corp. 2001. p. 272. ISBN 978-1401011680.
Strapping Young Lads (2 ed.). Thunderwood Press. 2014. p. 322. ISBN 978-1500854072.
Dunning, Brian; Knox, Allyson; Becker, Lori (2003). Special Edition: Using Adobe GoLive 6. Que. p. 650. ISBN 978-0789727275. OCLC 48678473.
Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena. Thunderwood Press. 2007. p. 213. ISBN 978-1434821669. OCLC 287154998.
Skeptoid 2: More Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena. Skeptoid Media. 2008. p. 265. ISBN 978-1440422850. OCLC 589083050.
Skeptoid 3: Pirates, Pyramids, and Papyrus. Skeptoid Media. 2011. p. 314. ISBN 978-1453881187.
Skeptoid 4: Astronauts, Aliens, and Ape-Men. Skeptoid Media. 2012. p. 349. ISBN 978-1475205657.
Skeptoid 5: Massacres, Monsters, and Miracles. Skeptoid Media. 2013. p. 359. ISBN 978-1492709060.
The Secret of the Gypsy Queen (illustrated by Jesse Horn). Skeptoid Media. 2013. p. 32. ISBN 978-1477626238.
Here Be Dragons: an Introduction to Critical Thinking (Video). Skeptoid Media. 2008. OCLC 270775142.
Principles of Curiosity (Video). Skeptoid Media. 2017.
Conspiracies Declassified: The Skeptoid Guide to the Truth Behind the Theories. Adams Media. 2018. p. 256. ISBN 9781507206997.
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Review: Solid Line Products RightShift 2 Removable Keyboard Case for iPad 2
May 17, 2021 11:54 AM UTC by Nick Guy
Following the mid-2011 release of RightShift, an iPad 2 keyboard case that was substantially similar to OEM versions we've previously tested, Solid Line Products went back to the drawing board for an improved sequel. Behold RightShift 2 ($99), which has tweaked pretty much everything: gone are the squishy rubber keyboard, ill-fitting tablet frame, and faux leather body. All have been replaced with better components that add up to a much stronger competitor; the new design even includes a fully detachable, hard plastic-keyed keyboard.
The outside of the folio-style case is now a matte-finished rubber hex pattern that feels somewhat like the bottom of a sneaker, held closed with an elastic strap. Solid Line's iPad 2 holder is a hard plastic frame with a fabric anti-scratch lining, nicely contoured at the top for holes and buttons, with a somewhat more open bottom near the speaker and Dock Connector. Notably, the rubber texture doesn't extend from edge of the back shell; some glossy black plastic is left exposed. Solid Line's shell looks virtually identical to The Joy Factory's SmartSuit 2, but regardless, it's better than the original RightShift design, which made it more difficult to access the ports and buttons.
RightShift 2's keyboard panel is magnetically attached to the left side of the folio. At only about 1/4" thick, it's quite light, and a battery inside offers the same 90 hours of continuous Bluetooth wireless typing as the previous version, rechargeable via a Micro USB port and included cable. It's easy to remove the keyboard by pulling at it, but it stays securely in place otherwise. Made from hard matte plastic, the keyboard has been improved with scissor-style larger and more naturally arranged keys. In fact, these are some of the largest keys we've seen on a third-party iPad keyboard; they're just about the same size as those on Apple's Wireless Keyboard, although there are much smaller gaps between them. We found typing to be a real pleasure. All of the keys were where we expected them to be, and thanks to the full-size keys, touch typing was as effective as on any computer keyboard. The iOS-function keys along the top are nice too, although the Pause/Break and Prt Sc/Sys RQ buttons suggest that this keyboard isn't wholly unique to the iPad.
Small feet on the iPad 2 frame fit into two sets of indentations, allowing for different screen angles. When the keyboard is removed, you can actually access a much larger range of angles by letting the feet rest against the inside of the rubber cover. Taking the keyboard off also allows the case to be used naturally on its own during times when extended typing isn't necessary, sort of a different take on the concept Nuu introduced with its Detachable Keyboard & Case. Despite the use of magnets to hold the keyboard in place, there are none to activate the iPad 2's automatic locking feature, which is a bit of a disappointment.
Given how similar they are in concept and overall quality, RightShift 2 should be considered in the same breath as Adonit's Writer 2 Plus, which is currently the best keyboard case for the iPad 2. Both of these options include high-quality, removable keyboards that are easy to type on; Solid Line's has the advantage when it comes to sheer keyboard size. Writer 2 Plus excels in certain areas too, providing better coverage for the iPad 2, especially along the bottom edge. It's also clear that Adonit takes design very seriously, and chose a slicker look and materials; as good as it is overall, RightShift 2 has some comparatively inexpensive-feeling touches.
Minor issues aside, RightShift 2 is definitely an improvement over the original. Pretty much everything that could have been made better is in fact markedly improved here. While there's still a certain less than premium feeling to each of the components, they all work, and generally work quite well. For all of these reasons, RightShift 2 earns an B+ rating and our strong general recommendation. It's a very good choice if you're looking for a superior keyboard; that said, superior materials and additional magnets to lock the iPad's screen would have made it even better.
Company: Solid Line Products
Website: www.Solidlineproducts.com
Model: RightShift 2
Compatible: iPad 2
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Bath Rugby Premiership Rugby 2021/22 fixture and results
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1 18/09/2021 17:00 AJ Bell Stadium Sale Sharks Bath Rugby 20 - 19
2 25/09/2021 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Newcastle Falcons 13 - 20
3 01/10/2021 19:45 Ashton Gate Bristol Bears Bath Rugby 25 - 20
5 17/10/2021 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Saracens 17 - 71
6 23/10/2021 15:00 Twickenham Stoop Harlequins Bath Rugby 31 - 17
7 30/10/2021 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Wasps 17 - 27
8 05/11/2021 19:45 Mattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium Leicester Tigers Bath Rugby 40 - 23
9 26/11/2021 19:45 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Exeter Chiefs 16 - 23
10 04/12/2021 15:00 Franklin's Gardens Northampton Saints Bath Rugby 40 - 19
11 26/12/2021 16:30 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Gloucester Rugby 20 - 40
12 03/01/2022 15:00 Community Stadium London Irish Bath Rugby -
13 09/01/2022 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Worcester Warriors 22 - 19
14 28/01/2022 19:45 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Harlequins 21 - 17
15 05/02/2022 15:00 StoneX Stadium Saracens Bath Rugby 40 - 3
16 12/02/2022 15:00 Coventry Building Society Arena Wasps Bath Rugby 41 - 24
17 19/02/2022 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Leicester Tigers 20 - 24
18 26/02/2022 15:00 Kingston Park Newcastle Falcons Bath Rugby 25 - 30
19 05/03/2022 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Bristol Bears 29 - 27
21 26/03/2022 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Sale Sharks 24 - 24
22 02/04/2022 15:00 Sandy Park Exeter Chiefs Bath Rugby 42 - 22
23 23/04/2022 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby Northampton Saints 31 - 36
24 30/04/2022 15:00 Kingsholm Gloucester Rugby Bath Rugby 64 - 0
25 21/05/2022 15:00 Recreation Ground Bath Rugby London Irish 27 - 24
26 04/06/2022 15:00 Sixways Worcester Warriors Bath Rugby 43 - 27


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