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Q: How to calculate $\lim_{x \rightarrow \infty} (4x\arctan(x)-2\pi x)$ How to calculate $$\lim_{x \rightarrow \infty} (4x\arctan(x)-2\pi x)$$
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I checked Wolframalpha and the answer is -4, shall I use some kinda standard limit? I dont get anywhere.

A: $$\begin{align}\lim_{x\to\infty}(4x\arctan(x)-2\pi x)&=\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{\arctan(x)-\frac{\pi}{2}}{\frac{1}{4x}}\\&=\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{\left(\arctan(x)-\frac{\pi}{2}\right)'}{\left(\frac{1}{4x}\right)'}\\&=\lim_{x\to\infty}\frac{\frac{1}{x^2+1}}{-\frac{1}{4x^2}}\\&=\lim_{x\to\infty}-4\cdot\frac{1}{1+\frac{1}{x^2}}\\&=-4.\end{align}$$

A: $$4x\arctan x-2\pi x=-4x\left(\frac\pi2-\arctan x\right)=-4x\cdot\text{arccot}(x)$$
Setting $\dfrac1x=h$
$$\lim_{x \rightarrow \infty} (4x\arctan(x)-2\pi x)=-4\lim_{h\to0^+}\frac{\text{arccot}(1/h)}h=-4\lim_{h\to0^+}\frac{\arctan h}h=?$$
See also : Simplifying an Arctan equation

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Mountains erode faster when climate changes
November 24th, 2015 Posted by Anton Caputo-UT Austin
"Humans often see mountain ranges as static, unyielding parts of the landscape," says John Jaeger. "But our work has shown that they are actively evolving along with and responding to Earth's climate, which just shows how truly dynamic and coupled this planet is." (Credit: Jeremy Taylor/Flickr)
University of Florida, University of Texas at Austin
For the first time, researchers attempted to measure all the material leaving and entering a mountain range over more than a million years and discovered that erosion caused by glaciation during ice ages can, in the right circumstances, wear down mountains faster than plate tectonics can build them.
The findings add insight into a longstanding debate about the balance of climate and tectonic forces that influence mountain building.
Scientists studied the St. Elias Mountains on the Alaskan coast and found that erosion accelerated sharply about 1 million years ago when global climate cooling triggered stronger and more persistent ice ages than times past.
Researchers first used seismic equipment to image and map a huge fan of sediment in the deep sea in the Gulf of Alaska caused by erosion of the nearby mountains and took short sediment cores to understand the modern system. They then collected and dated almost four kilometers of sediment from the floor of the gulf and the Alaskan continental shelf, revealing millions of years of geologic history.
Their findings are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
[These mountains float on hot molten rock]
"It turned out most [sediments] were younger than we anticipated, and most rates (of sediment production and thus erosion) were higher than we anticipated," says lead author and co-chief scientist Sean Gulick of the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics.
"Since the big climate change during the mid-Pleistocene transition when we switched from short (about 40,000-year) ice ages to super long (about 100,000-year) ice ages, erosion became much greater. … In fact, there was more erosion than tectonics has replaced."
"We were pleasantly surprised by how well we could establish ages of the sediment sequences as we were drilling, and the composition of the sediment gave clear evidence of when the glaciation started and then expanded, in synch with global climate trends over the past several million years," says coauthor Alan Mix of Oregon State University. "Only by drilling the sea floor where the sediment accumulates could we see these details."
[Rockies prepped mammals for life in the cold]
Mountain ranges form when tectonic plates thrust into one another over millions of years and scrunch up the Earth's outer crust. But even as mountains are built by these titanic forces, other agents—some combination of tectonic and climate processes—work to remove the accumulating crust.
Since the mid-Pleistocene, erosion rates have continued to beat tectonic inputs by 50 to 80 percent, demonstrating that climatic processes, such as the movement of glaciers, can outstrip mountain building over a span of a million years. The findings highlight the pivotal role climate fluctuations play in shaping Earth's landforms.
"Humans often see mountain ranges as static, unyielding parts of the landscape," says co-chief scientist John Jaeger, an associate professor of geology at the University of Florida. "But our work has shown that they are actively evolving along with and responding to Earth's climate, which just shows how truly dynamic and coupled this planet is."
The US National Science Foundation and the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program funded the work.
Source: University of Texas at Austin
Original Study DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1512549112
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Schitt's Creek Series Finale Review
David and Patrick get hitched, and Johnny and Moira hit the road, in the quiet but no less emotionally resonant Schitt's Creek series finale.
By Natalie Zutter | April 7, 2020 |
Photo: Pop TV
This Schitt's Creek review contains spoilers.
Schitt's Creek Season 6 Episode 14
The folks behind CBC and Pop TV's Schitt's Creek knew that we were going to cry regardless of how we said goodbye to the Roses, so why not do it at a wedding? David and Patrick's nuptials were, of course, the perfect sendoff for the Roses, both from the town of Schitt's Creek and from our televisions. Yet the fact that David's dream day opens with a downpour is what really encapsulates this tender show's ethos: making the best out of a shitty situation.
When a nasty storm scuttles David and Patrick's outdoor venue (they chose a wood-fire oven over a tent, which, same) and compels their officiant to cancel, it looks as if the wedding might have to be called off. But what was already a tight timeline to account for Alexis' prior move to the Galápagos is still unmovable, because Johnny and Moira need to get to California the next morning to get started on the Sunrise Bay reboot, and Alexis is preparing to fly to New York City. No one understands better than Moira, who takes on the role of officiant, that the show must go on.
And so the residents of Schitt's Creek—business partners, fellow Jazzagals, friends—all come together to cobble together David's dream wedding, or something like it: They have the frankly inspired idea to hold it in the Town Hall, with a delightfully emotional Ronnie compensating for her waterworks with an overabundance of flowers that even David would approve of, and perhaps the line of the episode: "When I say I know the florist, I know the florist." This in and of itself is a triumph, considering the prickly relationship the Roses have had with the town for the last four years, but the genuine warmth behind their soggy hustle is wonderful to behold.
What keeps it from being as twee as Gilmore Girls' own rainy bon voyage party for Rory Gilmore is that this ersatz wedding is tempered by David's persistent crankiness that nothing is going according to plan. Thankfully, Patrick had already anticipated that his fiancé might be a little histrionic on his their big day, and arranged for a thoughtful private massage at home. Just how thoughtful, he'll soon learn…
The wedding both feels like usual series finale fare yet also almost disappointingly understated; the episode clocks in at the usual tight 25 minutes, no super-sized finale here. There are no outrageous twists, nor last-minute chases to the airport. No one's secretly pregnant or getting paired off before the credits roll. In terms of typical series-finale action, it's almost, dare we say, anticlimactic—but that's because the characters all tied off their various loose ends in the preceding episode, "Start Spreading the News." The series finale delivers what it says on the tin: a heartfelt ceremony, and an even more heartstring-tugging goodbye.
Well, except for one wedding-day shocker: David's unexpected happy ending, thanks to a misunderstanding with Patrick, an envelope of cash, a vaguely-worded note, and an imaginative masseuse.
This was the one moment that dampened the finale for me. Maybe I'm still emotionally scarred from Six Feet Under's happy ending subplot. Alternately, I found myself squinting slightly at questions of complete consent, though David clearly enjoyed his "gift." Most of all, I was briefly gripped with the agonizing worry that after all this—after the kerfuffle with the cottage, which illustrated their different views of home—that this misconstrual would highlight the vast difference between them. How better to have Patrick's humble views on love and sex clash with David's cosmopolitan, pansexual, nonmonogamous past than with one groom scandalized and the other… well, definitely not regretting it?
But what soothed my worries and turned this beat around was how David incorporated it into his teary vows, grounding the emotion with a snarky inside joke: "You're my happy ending." Gotta love these people for making Roses out of Schitt. What's more, for a series that has consistently pushed the boundaries of conversations around sexuality, and in doing so proven that these don't need to be taboo, it's heartening to see them introduce a sexual dilemma into this wedding day that doesn't become a late-stage dealbreaker.
Even though the framework of the wedding is all Schitt's Creek, the content is so uniquely the Roses. If Ronnie has the line of the episode, then Moira takes the look: When she comes swanning down the aisle dressed like some queer fantasy bishop (Madonna could never), raising so many questions about whether she used a preexisting wig or had this one waiting in a special case, it truly feels like a blessing. Especially great is that Moira doesn't get the same shit for her all-white ensemble as poor Alexis does for her bridal-looking gown for walking David down the aisle. The siblings' sweet moment in the back, where she confesses to wanting to impress him and then boops him on the nose, is perfectly them. The Jazzagals singing "Simply the Best" for David's walk down the aisle, and Patrick crooning Mariah Carey as his vows, prove that you don't need a big blowout musical number to conclude your series.
Despite all the words devoted to it, David and Patrick's wedding is not the centerpiece of the finale. It shares almost equal space with the harried preparation, which reveals just how much the Roses have become part of Schitt's Creek; and with the morning-after goodbye, in which the still-drunk kids see off their biological/surrogate (in Stevie's case) parents to Hollywood.
That all could have been enough, but the series brings itself full-circle with Johnny's look back on Schitt's Creek—and Roland's going-away present. The redesign of Schitt's Creek's sign is a flawless callback to the Roses' apprehensive and skeptical first impression in the pilot: It reiterates Johnny's sales pitch for Rosebud Motel Group that if they can find a home there, anyone can; while still feeling like Roland got one over on Johnny one last time. Most of all, it reframes Schitt's Creek as somewhere they actually want to return.
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Robert Kurzban is a psychologist specializing in evolutionary psychology.
Kurzban was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on September 29, 1969. He received his undergraduate degree in psychology from Cornell University in 1991. Interest in Disney productions throughout his youth led him to take a job at Euro Disney in 1992.
He entered graduate school in 1993 and completed a Ph.D. in psychology at UCSB in 1998. He continued his training with postdoctoral work in the department of anthropology at UCLA, and the division of humanities and social sciences at Caltech. He also spent two years at the Economic Science Laboratory of the University of Arizona studying with Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith.
Kurzban's research focuses on evolutionary approaches to understanding human social behavior.
Robert Kurzban was trained by two pioneers in the field of evolutionary psychology, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, and his research focuses on evolutionary approaches to understanding human social behavior. He takes an adaptationist view of human psychology, studying the adaptive function, or, survival value, in the adoption of traits by humans. His work is aimed at understanding the functions of psychological mechanisms occurring in human social life. He uses methods drawn from social psychology, cognitive psychology, and especially experimental economics.
His early work investigated the social category described as "race" and it was directed at a hypothesis being proposed at the time, that people "automatically" encode the race of people they observe. Kurzban argued that because humans evolved in a world in which they rarely, if ever, encountered people of significantly different physical appearance from themselves, it was unlikely that the human brain evolved with a mechanism to encode what is currently referred to as "race". A series of experiments  showed that with a relatively minor manipulation in the laboratory, the extent to which people categorized others by "race" could be reduced. He also has done research on cooperation, morality, and mate choice (including speed dating).
In 2003, Kurzban founded the Pennsylvania Laboratory for Experimental Evolutionary Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. He previously served as the editor-in-chief of Evolution and Human Behavior, the official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society.
Evolutionary psychology has come under attack from a number of critics. Kurzban has been active in defending the discipline from prominent detractors and also has worked to clarify the principle of cognitive modularity, which plays an important role in the discipline.
In 2009, he gave a plenary address at the annual meeting of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society in Fullerton, California.
His first book, Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind, was published by Princeton University Press in 2010. His second book The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit It, co-authored with Jason Weeden, was published in 2014 also by Princeton University Press.
with Jason Weeden: The Hidden Agenda of the Political Mind: How Self-Interest Shapes Our Opinions and Why We Won't Admit it. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 2014, ISBN 978-0-691-161112.
Barrett, H. C.; Kurzban, R. (2006). "Modularity in cognition: Framing the debate". Psychological Review. 113 (3): 628–647. doi:10.1037/0033-295X.113.3.628. PMID 16802884.
Kurzban, R.; Aktipis, C. A. (2007). "Modularity and the social mind: Are psychologists too self-ish?". Personality and Social Psychology Review. 11 (2): 131–149. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.373.1027. doi:10.1177/1088868306294906. PMID 18453459.
Kurzban, R.; Houser, D. (2005). "An experimental investigation of cooperative types in human groups: A complement to evolutionary theory and simulations". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (5): 1803–1807. doi:10.1073/pnas.0408759102. PMC 547861. PMID 15665099.
Kurzban, R.; Weeden, J. (2005). "HurryDate: Mate preferences in action". Evolution and Human Behavior. 26 (3): 227–244. doi:10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2004.08.012.
Kurzban, R.; Tooby, J.; Cosmides, L. (2001). "Can race be erased? Coalitional computation and social categorization". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 98 (26): 15387–15392. doi:10.1073/pnas.251541498. PMC 65039. PMID 11742078.
^ Kurzban, R. (2002). "Alas poor evolutionary psychology: Unfairly accused, unjustly condemned. [Review of Alas Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology edited by H. Rose and S. Rose]". Human Nature Review, 2: 99–109.


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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Authorities say courthouse shooting suspect Brian Nichols held Ashley Smith hostage for hours in her suburban apartment northeast of Atlanta before she was able to get away and call 911.
On Sunday, Smith, 26, recounted her ordeal to reporters in her attorney's office.
SMITH: It was about 2 o'clock in the morning. I was at -- I was leaving my apartment to go to the store. I noticed a blue truck in the parking lot with a man in it pulling up. And he parked in the parking space. And I really didn't think too much about it because I just moved into that apartment, you know, two days prior. So I thought maybe he was a neighbor coming home or something.
So I left and went to the store. And I came back to my apartment about five minutes later. And the truck was still there. And he was still in it. And it was in a different parking space. It was actually behind one where I had left. So I pulled back in there.
And I kind of got a little worried then. I thought there's somebody still in that truck. So I got my key to my house ready. And I opened up my car door, and I got out and shut it. And I heard his shut right behind me.
I started walking to my door, and I felt really you know scared. And he was right there. I started to scream, and he put a gun to my side and he said, "Don't scream. If you don't scream I won't hurt you. ... He told me to go into the bathroom, so I went to the bathroom. And he followed into the bathroom and he said, "Do you know who I am?" and I said no because he had a hat on.
And then he he took his hat off, and he said, "Now do you know who I am?" And I said, "Yeah, I know who you are. Please don't hurt, just please don't hurt me. I have a 5-year-old little girl. Please don't hurt me."
He said, "I'm not going hurt you if you just do what I say." I said, "All right." So I got -- he told me to get into the bathtub, so I got in the bathtub. And he said, "I really don't feel comfortable around here. I'm going to walk around your house for a few minutes just so I get the feel of it."
I said, "OK."
He said, "I don't want to hurt you. I don't want to hurt anybody else, so please don't do anything that's going to hurt you." He said, "You know, somebody could have heard your scream already. And if they did, the police are on the way. And I'm going to have to hold you hostage. And I'm going to have to kill you and probably myself and lots of other people. And I don't want that."
And I said, "OK. I will do what you say."
He looked around my house for a few minutes. I heard him opening up drawers and just going through my stuff. And he came back in. And he said, "I want to relax. And I don't feel comfortable with you right now. So I'm going to have to tie you up."
He brought some masking tape and an extension cord and a curtain in there. And I kind of thought he was going to strangle me. I was -- I was really kind of scared.
But he told me to turn around and put my hands behind my back. And he wrapped my hands in a prayer -- in a praying position, so I did that. And he wrapped masking tape around my hands.
And then he told me to go into my bedroom. And I sat down on the bed like he asked. And he wrapped my legs with masking tape and an extension cord. He also took a curtain and put it around my stomach. And he asked me if I could get up. And I got up.
He said, "Can you walk?"
And I said, "No."
And so he picked me up and took me to the bathroom. And he put me on a stool that I have in my bathroom. He said he wanted to take a shower.
So I said, "OK. You take a shower."
He said, "Well, I'm going to put a towel over your head so you don't have to watch me take a shower."
So I said, "OK. All right."
He got in the shower. Took a shower. And then he got out of the shower. And he had the guns laying on the counter. But -- I guess he really wasn't worried about me grabbing them because I was tied up.
He asked me if I had a T-shirt. I told him where to find one.
So he got dressed. He put on some clothes that I had in my house that were men's clothes. And then he came back in the bathroom.
He said, "Can you get up?"
So I got up.
He said, "Can you walk now?"
I said, "No, but I can hop."
So I hopped to my bedroom and sat on the bed. And he cut the tape off of me, unwrapped the extension cord and curtain.
I guess, at that point, he kind of made me feel like he was comfortable enough with me that he untied me.
So -- we went back in the bathroom. That's where he felt more comfortable -- in the bathroom away from the front of the house, I guess. And we just talked.
I asked him if -- I told him that I was supposed to go see my little girl the next morning. And I asked him if I could go see her. And he told me no.
My husband died four years ago. And I told him that if he hurt me, my little girl wouldn't have a mommy or a daddy. And she was expecting to see me the next morning. That if he didn't let me go, she would be really upset.
He still told me no.
But I could kind of feel that he started to -- to know who I was. He said maybe. Maybe I'll let you go -- just maybe. We'll see how things go.
We went to my room. And I asked him if I could read.
He said, "What do you want to read?"
"Well, I have a book in my room." So I went and got it. I got my Bible. And I got a book called "The Purpose-Driven Life."
I turned it to the chapter that I was on that day. It was Chapter 33. And I started to read the first paragraph of it. After I read it, he said, "Stop, will you read it again?"
I said, "Yeah. I'll read it again."
So I read it again to him.
It mentioned something about what you thought your purpose in life was. What were you -- what talents were you given? What gifts were you given to use?
And I asked him what he thought. And he said, "I think it was to talk to people and tell them about you."
I basically just talked to him and tried to gain his trust. I wanted to leave to go see my daughter. That was really important. I didn't want him to hurt anybody else.
He came into my apartment telling me that he was a soldier. And that people -- that his people needed him for a job to do. And he was doing it.
And -- I didn't want him to hurt anybody else. He didn't want to hurt anybody else. He just told me that he wanted a place to stay to relax, to sit down and watch TV, to eat some real food.
I talked to him about my family. I told him about things that had happened in my life. I asked him about his family. I asked him why he did what he did.
And his reason was because he was a soldier.
I asked him why he chose me and why he chose Bridgewater Apartments. And he said he didn't know, just randomly.
But after we began to talk, he said he thought that I was an angel sent from God. And that I was his sister and he was my brother in Christ. And that he was lost and God led him right to me to tell him that he had hurt a lot of people. And the families -- the people -- to let him know how they felt, because I had gone through it myself.
He told me that he didn't -- he didn't want to hurt the agent that he hurt. He begged and pleaded with him to do things his way, and he didn't. So he had to kill him.
He said that he didn't shoot the deputy, that he hit her. And that he hoped she lived.
He showed me a picture of the -- the agent that he did kill. And I tried to explain to him that he killed a 40-year-old man that was probably a father, a husband, a friend.
And he really began to trust me, to feel my feelings. He looked at pictures of my family. He asked me to -- if he could look at them and hold them ...
I really didn't keep track of time too much because I was really worried about just living. I didn't want to die. I didn't want him to hurt anybody else. And I really didn't want him to hurt himself or anyone else to hurt him. He's done enough -- he had done enough. And he really, honestly when I looked at him, he looked like he didn't want to do it anymore.
He asked me what I thought he should do.
And I said, "I think you should turn yourself in. If you don't turn yourself in," this is what I said, "If you don't turn yourself in, lots more people are going to get hurt. And you're probably going to die."
And he said, "I don't want that to happen."
He said, "Can I stay here for a few days? I just want to eat some real food and watch some TV and sleep and just do normal things that normal people do."
So, of course, I said, "Sure. You can stay here." I didn't want -- I wanted to gain his trust.
Most of my time was spent talking to this man about my life and experiences in my life, things that had happened to me.
He needed hope for his life. He told me that he was already dead. He said, "Look at me, look at my eyes. I am already dead."
And I said, "You are not dead. You are standing right in front of me. If you want to die, you can. It's your choice."
But after I started to read to him, he saw -- I guess he saw my faith and what I really believed in. And I told him I was a child of God and that I wanted to do God's will. I guess he began to want to. That's what I think.
He got to know me. I got to know him. He talked about his family. How -- he was wondering what they were thinking. He said, "They're probably -- don't know what to think."
We watched the news. He looked at the TV and he just said, "I cannot believe that's me on there."
About 5:36 -- well, 6, 6:30, he said, "I need to make a move." And I said, "A move?" He said, "I need to get rid of this car before daylight, this truck [the agent's]." I said, "OK."
I knew that if I didn't agree to go with him, follow him to get the truck -- he'd just take the truck, then one thing -- or two -- one of two things. He would kill me right then, and say, "All right, well, if you're not going to help me, then I won't need you anymore." Or the police would never find him, or it would take longer. And someone else would get hurt, and I was trying to avoid that.
So I went. ... "I said, can I take my cell phone?" He said, "Do you want to?" I said, "Yeah." I'm thinking, well, I might call the police then, and I might not. So I took it anyway. He didn't take any guns with him. The guns were laying around the house. Pretty much after he untied [me], they were just laying around the house.
And at one point, he said, "You know, I'd rather you shoot -- the guns are laying in there -- I'd rather you shoot me than them." I said, "I don't want anyone else to die, not even you."
So we went to take the truck, and I was behind him, following him. And I thought about calling the police, you know, I thought, he's about to be in the car with me right now. So I can call the police, and when he gets in the car, then they can surround me and him together, and I could possibly get hurt, or we can go back to my house.
And I really felt deep down inside that he was going to let me see my little girl. And I said -- or then when I leave, he can be there by himself, or he -- he finally agreed to let me go see my daughter. I had to leave at 9, 9:30. And I really believed that he was going to.
From the time he walked into my house until we were taking that truck, he was a totally different person to me. I felt very threatened, scared. I felt he was going to kill me when -- when I first -- when he first put the gun to my side, but when I followed him to pick -- to take the truck, I felt he was going to -- he was really going to turn himself in. So he took the truck.
He got in the car, and I said, "Are you ready now?" And he said, "Give me a few days, please." I said, "Come on, you've got to turn yourself in now." I didn't feel like he might -- I felt like he might change his mind, that he might not want to turn himself in the next day, or a few days after that, and that if he did feel that way, then he would need money, and the only way he could get money was if he hurt somebody and took it from them.
So we went back to my house and got in the house. And he was hungry, so I cooked him breakfast. He was overwhelmed with -- "Wow," he said, "real butter, pancakes?"
And I just talked with him a little more, just about -- about -- we pretty much talked about God ... what his reason was, why he made it out of there.
I said, "Do you believe in miracles? Because if you don't believe in miracles -- you are here for a reason. You're here in my apartment for some reason. You got out of that courthouse with police everywhere, and you don't think that's a miracle? You don't think you're supposed to be sitting here right in front of me listening to me tell you, you know, your reason here?"
I said, "You know, your miracle could be that you need to -- you need to be caught for this. You need to go to prison and you need to share the word of God with them, with all the prisoners there."
Then 9 came. He said, "What time do you have to leave?" I said, "I need to be there at 10, so I need to leave about 9:30." And I sat down and talked to him a little bit more. And he put the guns under the bed, like ... I'm not going to mess around with them anymore.
He gave me some money when I was about to leave. Just kind of like he knew. I said, "You might need this money." And he said, "No, I don't need it. I'm going to be here for the next few days."
I basically said, keep the money. And he said, "No, I don't need it." He asked me if there was anything I could do -- or he could do for me before I left, or while I was going. He says, "Is there anything I can do while you're gone?"
I know he was probably hoping deep down that I was going to come back, but I think he knew that I was going to -- what I had to do, and I had to turn him in, and I gave him -- I asked him several times, you know, "Come on, just go with me." He said, "I'll go with you in a few days."
But when he asked me, "Is there anything I can do while you're gone, like hang your curtains or something?" And I said, "Yeah, if you want to."
He just wanted some normalness to his life right then. He -- I think he realized all this -- all this that I've been through, this is not me. I don't know, that's my opinion of what he ...
Then I left my house at 9:30. And I got in the car. And I immediately called 911. I told them that he was there, and she asked me where I was. I said, "Oh, I'm on my way to see my daughter." I felt glad to just really be on my way to see my daughter. She said, "You've got to turn around and go to the leasing office." So that's what I did.
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Why you should care about the FCC and "Net Neutrality"
If you're at all familiar with the Internet, you're aware that it's supposed to be "Free and Open". Sure you pay your Internet Service Provider (ISP) money to access it, but in general you can find anything. From the scores to last night's games, to recipes on your favorite snacks, everything is available. There are largely no measures in place to limit your ability to visit sites. "Net Neutrality" is basically unfiltered access to sites, regardless of who or what it is, without being for or against the content.
The FCC aims to change that.
In a 3-2 ruling yesterday, 5/15/2014, the FCC has decided that Internet "Fast Lanes" are OK for ISPs to create and maintain. These fast lanes would allow ISPs to charge content providers (Netflix, Facebook, LinkedIn) for "priority" access. Those that choose not to, or can't afford to pay, are automatically going to be at a disadvantage compared to larger companies. It's (fairly) common knowledge that every 100 milliseconds (ms) of delay on a site loses customers. In 2006, Amazon posted a report stating that 100ms is equal to roughly 1% revenue. To many people browsing sites, 100ms isn't much. For people who are gamers, who rely on twitch-abilities, 100ms can be the difference between winning a match, and losing entirely.
Now imagine you're not in control of how fast you can access content.
You're already at the mercy of ISPs who are not upgrading hardware because they believe speeds are fast enough, aren't updating their protocols to use the latest DOCSIS, or some other reason that they have decided is "good enough". Comcast has been quoted saying that a majority of their customers don't need more than 25Mbps. Other countries across the world have a higher default, and many people don't even understand how fast they could be potentially downloading/streaming things. This is largely due to the same problem that exists with automobiles – Often times people don't know much about what's under the hood, they just know that they need to drive.
You're paying your ISP (Comcast, AT&T, etc.) for 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) speed. You notice when going to Comcast's Internet TV service you get all 50Mbps. However, when you go to Netflix, you're noticing that you're barely able to stream in Standard Definition (SD). Did something happen? You check speedtest.net, you look into your wiring, everything looks good. Turns out Netflix didn't pony up, and now Comcast is artificially throttling their speeds by not putting them in the "Fast Lane". Does that mean you should be penalized?
These "Fast Lanes" are the same as putting a toll road in place. However, instead of charging you, the driver, they're charging other people. If these other people don't pay, you can't drive quickly. You're forced to drive at speeds they set, and there's no going over it.
This is exactly what you could see more of if "Net Neutrality" gets passed.
Local governments had already helped create local oligopolies years ago by providing breaks to cable companies when they were laying down copper and wiring, effectively shutting out competition. That's why there aren't many ISPs to begin with, and why new ISPs have to fight so hard to get into the game.
The goal of the Internet is to provide access to machines the world over. It's not to be a utility that's run by big businesses. Allowing these kinds of actions to move forward will severely limit our ability as consumers of the Internet. Different ISPs will be able to offer different packages depending on the deals they've struck with content providers. If you want Netflix, you might have to use ISP A. If you want HBO Go? ISP B. Sound bad? It is.
There's a way to try to make a change in this, though.
You can reach out to your local representatives, the FCC, and anyone who will listen. I implore each and every one of you to take action, even if it's only this one time. Call, e-mail, send letters. Tell the FCC and your local government that this is not OK. bgr.com has a full reading of the ruling by the FCC, and there's information available about how to contact your local representatives. There's also a petition online that you can sign.
Additionally, it should be noted that some of the people in charge of the FCC aren't fighting for our best interests. Tom Wheeler was a lobbyist for big cable companies before joining the FCC, and his plan for "Fast Lanes" shows he'd rather focus on earning a profit for the companies he used to lobby for, instead of working to help improve our standing as a technological power in a constantly changing and growing virtual society.
Please, for the sake of the Internet everyone loves to use, take action. If we don't do something now, we'll be paying for it later.


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Getting Things Done (GTD) is an interesting system for managing one's time and making things happen. It was originally pitched at CEO, with a lot of different projects on their plates at the same time. Lately, however, I have noticed a significant uptake of it by system administrators, programmers and other IT geeks.
Being a geek myself, I think it is because we also have to juggle multiple projects simultaneously. Some people I know could probably beat most CEOs by number of projects they are involved in.
I have not implemented GTD fully yet, but keep taking small steps towards it. The benefits exist in any level of implementation though - apparently - they are exponentially higher with a full implementation. But while I am perfecting my process, I am on the lookout for good material on GTD that will help me get there faster and (being honest) will motivate me by example.
GTDInbox - a freeware Firefox extension for Gmail to implement GTD on top of Gmail interface . I use this one, since I spend most of my time near always-on Internet connection and most of my action items flow through email anyway.