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SATAN SOLDIERS AND THE MEDIA IS ACTIVELY RUNNING THE SOCIAL
MEDIA PURGE OF CONSERVATIVES…
The media had orchestrated the false claims of Russian Facebook election interference that began the purge of speech when President Trump won. The media's election deniers then pivoted to claims of fake news, later renamed disinformation when President Trump adopted the term, that posed a threat to democracy.
Now the media is actively running the social media purge of conservatives.
After the coordinated Big Tech speech cartel takedown of Parler, the media has pushed stories about Zello, Signal, and Telegram, claiming that these apps now host conservatives, and need to purge.
Considering what Apple, Google, and Amazon did to Parler, there's every reason for the companies in question to take that threat seriously.
Except that Telegram and Signal are built around privacy. The media wasn't objecting to the widespread use of Telegram by Islamic terrorists. Much like Apple had a very different policy on unlocking the iPhone of the San Bernardino terrorists than it did on purging Trump supporters after the election.
The Forbes hit piece on Telegram and Signal notes that the latter was used by BLM rioters. Not a problem. It's only a problem when conservatives use it.
What that really says, without having the honesty to say it, is that the lefty media's goal is to eliminate open platforms and replace them with closed platforms that protect and promote abusive behavior by lefties, while cracking down on any conservative speech.
The media is at war with the First Amendment. It's at war with the internet. It's at war with freedom.
Everything is right on schedule and, now, the time is come to remove one of the final obstacles standing in the way of a New World Order: The United States Constitution – even if, over the course of many decades, it has already been greatly diminished by the B.E.A.S.T. system; or, more specifically, Bullshit Emerging As Strategic Totalitarianism (B.E.A.S.T.).
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Biden Seeks to Dismantle American Energy Production.
The World Is In Big Trouble, for Those That Believe We Will Go Back to Some Sense of Normal Life Here on Earth, You Will Be Sadly Disappointed, Seven Years of Hell on Earth Which Began January 1, 2020
"Our courts oppose the righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth stumbles in the streets, and honesty has been outlawed" (Isa. 59:14, NLT)…We Turned Our Backs On GOD, Now We Have Been Left To Our Own Devices, Enjoy…
While Mainstream Media Continues to Push a False Narrative, Big Tech Has Keep the Truth From Coming out by Shadow Banning Conservatives, Christians, and Like-Minded People, Those Death Attributed to the Coronavirus Is a Result of Those Mentioned, They Truly Are Evil…
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In police-state fashion, Big Tech took the list of accused (including this site), declared all those named guilty and promptly shadow-banned, de-platformed or de-monetized us all without coming clean about how they engineered the crushing of dissent, Now more than ever big Tech has exposed there hand engaging in devious underhanded tactics to make the sinister look saintly, one of Satan's greatest weapons happens to be deceit…
The accumulating death toll from Covid-19 can be seen minute-by-minute on cable news channels. But there's another death toll few seem to care much about: the number of poverty-related deaths being set in motion by deliberately plunging millions of Americans into poverty and despair.
American health care, as we call it today, and for all its high-tech miracles, has evolved into one of the most atrocious rackets the world has ever seen. By racket, I mean an enterprise organized explicitly to make money dishonestly.
All the official reassurances won't be worth a bucket of warm spit. The Globals are behind the CoronaVirus, It Is a Man-Made Bioweapon.
and Telegram, claiming that these apps now host conservatives, hnewswire StevieRay Hansen, Signal, THE MEDIA IS ACTIVELY RUNNING THE SOCIAL MEDIA, Zello
Representatives grilled two Biden administration appointees on U.S. pipeline infrastructure, energy costs, and a potential ban on liquefied natural gas exports at a House Energy…
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"What we see all around us is conflict between authoritarian minds wishing to dominate, control and exploit on the one hand and, on the other hand, citizens wishing to maintain and improve the standard of living and quality of life for the population as a whole by democratic (grassroots level) decision-taking."


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From the unsend button to the label technique: 5 email hacks that will change your work life.
Emma Gillman
Emails can be a huge time suck.
Log on to work a little later than usual and chances are you'll be greeted with a barrage of fresh emails that are simply too much to handle.
But I'm going to let you in on a little secret. It doesn't have to be like this.
Side note: Check out the things successful women do every day. Post continues below.
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We've consulted our most productive workers (and the internet) to hear about all the ways we're emailing wrong.
Here are the five best tips we found to get (and keep!) on top of your inbox.
The label technique that will have your inbox at zero every day.
Mamamia's host of The Quicky, Claire Murphy, never goes home with an email in her inbox, and it's all thanks to her rigid filing system.
"Set up labels [on Gmail or similar] and name them [according to] the people you have coming through," she told the 8 Minutes To Change Your (Work) Life podcast.
You can then automate messages from these people straight to their designated folder.
"[That way] my inbox is things that come in that are urgent and need to be dealt with immediately," Claire said.
"I take time to go through those emails, and if there is something easy to respond to, I respond to it immediately... then I file it away into a label so it's out of my inbox.
"If I need to deal with it at a later time, I file it away in its folder but I leave it as unread. That way, my inbox at the end of the day is at zero."
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If labels sounds particularly intense for your first go at email organisation, Claire suggests trying the star or flag system to separate your inbox.
Just flag the emails you need to come back to later and get on with your day.
"It allows me to focus on creativity and not admin," she says.
Life-changing.
The quick way to unsubscribe from all those pesky emails in one go.
It turns out there's actually a website that will quickly scan your whole inbox for the subscriptions you accidentally signed up for months ago, but haven't managed to shake.
Unroll Me will show you a list of all your email subscriptions arranged in alphabetical order, and even offers an option to 'rollup' the ones you want to keep, so you only receive one 'subscription email' each day or week.
Oh, and did we mention; it's free!
Just pop in your email and you'll be able to clear up years worth of sales mail in less than five minutes.
The genius way to un-send an email when you click send to early.
Save yourself the accidental send panic. There's a very simple way to un-send your email when it's just not ready yet.
In most email accounts, there will be an "undo" option hidden in your settings.
Decide how long you'd like your email delay to be, and Voila! You've got anywhere between five and 30 seconds to 'undo' your send.
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If a trip to your email settings sounds like far too much work for you, try and fill in the "to" field last instead.
The two-minute rule that will clear your inbox in no-time.
Okay, it's time to get past the procrastinating.
Set a rule in place for yourself. If a reply will take less than two minutes, reply on the spot.
If not, file it away for later.
The time-savvy way to keep on top of your inbox.
According to organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber, you need to stop dipping in and out of your inbox throughout the day, and start treating your inbox like a clothes dryer.
Yes, really.
By popping in and out of emails over your workday, you're effectively spreading the workload across hours instead of in shorter intervals.
Think: taking your clothes out of the dryer one by one, 27 times throughout the day, rather than in one go.
"Research led by Professor Elizabeth Dunn from the University of British Columbia found the people that check their email just three times a day were significantly less stressed than those who constantly dip in and out," Imber said on the 8 Minutes To Change Your (Work) Life podcast.
But checking your inbox just three times a day or "batch checking" as Imber calls it, can reduce that pesky procrastination from creeping in.
Wanna get even fancier?
Imber suggests sorting your emails by category and going through each one separately depending on your productivity level at any given time of the day.
"The first pile is 'to-do' - things that need to be actioned and don't require input from anyone else," she says.
"The second pile is 'to-do waiting'. So things that need to be done but also require waiting for someone else's input or response before they can get done.
"The final pile is a 'reading' pile, which is things that need to be read, but aren't urgent."
So when it hits Friday afternoon and your energy levels are depleted, you can spend your afternoon going through the 'reading' pile instead of trying to get stuck into the 'to-do' pile!
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Ditch folders altogether.. Just have inbox and an archive folder. Anything dealt with goes into archive and use the search function to find the email again if you need.

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These winter playdough recipes are a delightfully simple way to enjoy icy winter play indoors. Since we've been blasted with freezing temperatures outside, I decided to whip up a few batches of winter playdough with my 2.5 and 5 year old that would let them imagine playing in the icy cold outdoors without the runny noses and stinging fingertips.
For most of the dough we simply added extracts or cocoa to our smooth and squishy One Pot Playdough Recipe. The recipes below make enough dough for two children to play.
For each recipe, we simply add all the ingredients to a pot, mix until all the lumps are gone, then cook over low heat, stirring often. The dough will start to thicken and pull away from the sides of the pot. I turn off the heat once the dough thickens but is still a little sticky, and allow it to cool enough to handle. After several minutes I dump the still tacky dough onto a clean counter and knead it until smooth and no longer sticky.
Once the playdough was kneaded, I grabbed several sticks, rocks, some arctic animals, and invited my very eager kiddos over to play. They giggled for a good hour as they built a frozen tundra and created some pretty hilarious storylines, one of which had a wolf caught in a tree.
After building with their icy playdough, I suggested taking a break to warm up with some "cocoa". My 5 year old thought it was hilarious that I'd get in on the pretend play and loved pretending to sip her tiny cocoa.
Later in the week we used these doughs along with our snowman play dough to create more winter wonderland scenes. The kids love the subtle scents and hours of imaginative play and I love that they can enjoy winter play without having to put on and peel off all those layers!
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Lantern bearers are entrusted with secretly eliminating the drow and containing any knowledge of their existence. While the vast majority of lantern bearers are elves, a rare few members of the organization have proven themselves trustworthy and dedicated enough to join their ranks despite their non-elven heritage.
A lantern bearer treats daylight as a 3rd-level ranger spell.
A lantern bearer hones his senses to better combat subterranean enemies. He gains low-light vision. If the lantern bearer already has low-light vision, he can instead see three times as far as humans in areas of dim light.
At 3rd level, a lantern bearer gains a +4 bonus on saving throws against poison.
At 3rd level, a lantern bearer selects a favored terrain as normal. The skill bonus and initiative bonus granted in this favored terrain increase by 2 at 8th level and every 5 ranger levels thereafter.
At 7th level, a lantern bearer's movement is unimpeded by non-magical difficult terrain underground and non-magical webs.
At 8th level, a lantern bearer's senses fully attune to the darkness, granting him darkvision to a distance of 60 feet. If the lantern bearer already has darkvision, its range increases by 30 feet.
At 12th level, a lantern bearer gains immunity to poison.
At 13th level, a lantern bearer learns to increase the effectiveness of bright light on creatures with light blindness. Daylight spells cast by the lantern bearer or other sources of bright light wielded by him cause creatures with light blindness within the area of bright light to become stunned for 1 round in addition to being blinded.
This replaces the favored terrain gained at 13th level.
At 17th level, a lantern bearer gains camouflage.
At 18th level, a lantern bearer can stop light-blind enemies in their tracks, often gaining a great edge in battle. Daylight spells cast by the lantern bearer or sources of bright light wielded by him cause creatures with light blindness within the area of bright light to become paralyzed for 1 round in addition to being blinded and stunned.
This replaces the favored terrain gained at 18th level.


A pair of Fort Smith directors ended the year with spotless meeting attendance records according to the City Clerk's Office.
Ward 2 Director Andre Good and At-Large Director Kevin Settle made it to every board meeting in 2013. This year, the board held 24 regular meetings, 22 study sessions, four special meetings, four ward meetings, two budget sessions, a two-day, out-of-town retreat, and a followup, one-night retreat in Fort Smith.
Settle, who's spent seven years on the board, is on a six-year roll of perfect attendance.
"The first year I missed one meeting," he said. "If you're there and you can discuss and vote at all the meetings, I think it shows you're representing the people the best that you can."
Good, who missed one study session in 2012, said he tries to stay in touch with the community and its residents.
"Not only am I committed to make the evening board meetings and study sessions, I'm also on the (Fort Smith Advertising & Promotion Commission), so I make those meetings," he said. "I try to make all the parks board meetings, the transit system meetings, and when I can, the appeals board meetings."
During his first year on the board, Ward 1 Director Keith Lau missed one study session. To make the meetings, he said, "is critical."
"It's part of the responsibility of the position," he said.
Another first-year leader, Ward 3 Director Mike Lorenz missed one regular meeting and a pair of study sessions. Ward 4 Director George Catsavis missed one regular meeting, four study sessions, a ward meeting and the two-day retreat. Last year, Catsavis missed one regular meeting, two study sessions and a special meeting, according to the city.
At-Large Director Pam Weber missed one regular meeting this year. She missed one study session in 2012, and recorded perfect attendance in 2011.
At-Large Director Philip Merry Jr. missed one regular meeting, two study sessions and a special meeting this year. In 2012, Merry missed three regular meetings, two study sessions and a special meeting.
Mayor Sandy Sanders missed three regular meetings in 2013. Last year, he attended all regular business meetings, but missed four study sessions and a special meeting.
The directors' calendar this year included built-in vacation days for the first time.
"We did make those adjustments this year, which I think helped to make sure everybody was there," Settle said.
Settle added that study sessions are just as important as the board's voting meetings.
"They allow us to hear about what's coming up and discuss the topics in a free-flowing discussion," he said. "It's easier to do that than have a four-hour board meeting."
"It kind of gets you off track if you don't make the study sessions," Lau said. "It gets you behind the eight ball."
In 2014, the board will also host "brainstorming meetings" quarterly. The meetings will focus on long-term issues and policy matters, according to the city.
The brainstorming meetings are scheduled for Feb. 24, May 27, Aug. 25 and Oct. 27.
"I'm looking forward to those informal meetings," Lau said. "Just because of the nature of it, I hope we'll be able to sit around and bounce ideas. They're just that — ideas to discuss."
Settle compared the new brainstorming meetings with quarterly neighborhood gatherings held in the city's four wards.
"When we presented those, the people kind of wondered what was going on," he said. "It's been two years now, and they seem very successful. We're getting a lot of participation. It gets us out in the public. This will be another way to get us out there."
The mayor and directors also host an informal, town hall-style forum following the first regular meeting of the month.
"It allows citizens to come and talk to us," Settle said. "We've had some come to us that I don't think would ever have come in front of us the old way. We're not going to get participation every month. But the participation we do get, I think, is wonderful."


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Here's Why Traders Are Obsessing Over These 5 Stocks Today
Published on August 16, 2016 at 11:52 am by Insider Monkey Team in Market Movers, News
It's a red day on Wall Street, as all three indexes are off by around half a percent due to profit taking. In this article, we'll take a closer look at five stocks that are in the news, including Praxair, Inc. (NYSE:PX), American International Group Inc (NYSE:AIG), Dicks Sporting Goods Inc (NYSE:DKS), E*TRADE Financial Corp (NASDAQ:ETFC), and Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC). In addition to finding out what's going on with these companies, we'll use SEC filings to determine what the smart money in our database thinks of each stock.
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Mental Health Research Is Stagnant. Here's Why.
Posted in Care for Your Mind
Mark Rasenick, Ph.D., University of Illinois Chicago College of Medicine
Care for Your Mind acknowledges and appreciates the collaboration of the National Network of Depression Centers and the American Brain Coalition in developing this post.
This is a wildly exciting time for cancer research. Work on new drugs is barreling ahead; thanks to years of hard work, scientists are starting to understand the biology of cancer better than ever. This knowledge is helping them develop personalized treatments that can potentially save millions of lives.
Considering that nearly 40 percent of people will face a cancer diagnosis, these developments come not a moment too soon. We might, in our lifetime, transform cancers from a death sentence to chronic diseases.
So why aren't we seeing the same kind of innovation for one of the other epidemics facing our nation: depression? 350 million people worldwide suffer from depression, and more than 44,000 people die by suicide annually in the U.S. alone. Depression leads to $51 billion in lost productivity per year, yet we've woefully failed to help people get well.
As the Advocacy Committee Chair for the American Brain Coalition (ABC), I know we can do better. Unfortunately, persistent stigma and inadequate funding have led to a severe lack of scientific innovation in the field.
To stop the painful, expensive, and unjust consequences of untreated mental illness, we need to demand that depression and brain research become a priority in this country.
Current treatments just don't work for everyone
Despite its prevalence, there's so much we don't know or understand about depression and the brain. Antidepressants have always been effective with a percentage of patients — but not all — and we still aren't entirely sure how or why they work.
And while antidepressants may help symptoms lessen for some people, a significant number don't get truly well (i.e., free from symptoms altogether). For many people, depression drags them down for years, if not an entire lifetime.
Missing our "targets"
Part of the problem with the science of antidepressants is a lack of specific "targets." Essentially, a target is a biological process or area that a drug is created to address. The newer chemotherapy drugs, for instance, target specific enzymes and pathways involved in the growth of individual tumors. The more specific a target is, the better the drug is likely to work.
In psychiatry research, however, we haven't come up with a new target in ages; we're still chasing the same ones we were working on decades ago.
One example of those targets is the serotonin transporter. SSRIs, or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (including fluoxetine (e.g., Prozac®), paroxetine (e.g., Paxil®), and sertraline (e.g., Zoloft®) bind to serotonin transporters and inhibit serotonin reabsorption. However, that process happens immediately in a patient's brain, so why do these drugs take two months to work? We really don't know.
The truth is that the actual targets could be completely different. In so many ways, scientists are still clueless. The primary reason for this is the lack of government funding. Scientists find targets and pharmaceutical companies make drugs aimed at those targets. Without the government funds to find new targets, psychiatry has languished in the pharmaceutical industry.
Without those new targets, instead of developing new drugs, many pharmaceutical companies have made minor changes to old drugs in order to extend patent life. So new-and-better options remain out of reach for patients in need.
Stigma and lack of parity
One of the major reasons for this lack of forward movement in brain science can be traced back to stigma. Although parity is now law — meaning, mental health and substance abuse benefits, if provided, must be covered by insurers in a way that is no more restrictive than similar medical and surgical benefits — stigma remains a massive problem among doctors, patients, and our society in general. Stigma also prevents adequate government funding for psychiatric disorders, especially relative to the enormous impact on society.
Many people still view mental illness as somehow less "real" than physical illness. If you get diagnosed with cancer, for instance, people tend to feel sympathetic. Many will even offer to help you in any way they can. Get diagnosed with schizophrenia, however, and people's reactions are likely to be much different.
In my profession, I frequently see how widespread stigma still is. When I do presentations, I'll often ask the audience, "How many of you are taking statins (drugs to lower cholesterol)?" Several hands will raise. Then I'll ask, "How many of you are taking antidepressants?" And there'll be one or two hands. Statistically we know that's just not accurate, yet people are still afraid to admit to mental health struggles.
Although we have laws that are supposed to prevent discrimination and inequality when it comes to mental health, that hasn't translated into actual change. Insurers continue to find ways to limit mental health coverage. Funding for all basic research is pathetic, especially with respect to the financial implications of disease. Neuroscience research is particularly underfunded and the problem is magnified in psychiatry. New drugs for psychiatry are particularly expensive and, lacking incentive, industry is loathe to create such drugs. And the truth is, pharmaceutical companies have little incentive to produce new mental health treatments if they can make huge profit on novel cancer treatments.
Addressing the crisis
According to the World Health Organization, depression is the leading cause of disability worldwide. This is an enormous problem, with millions of people suffering — and it's completely unacceptable that we've failed to fix it. In truth, this is a social justice issue. Just as racism is completely inexcusable, so is stigma or segregation towards those with mental health conditions.
At the American Brain Coalition, we're striving to bring together scientists from many fields in order to force change and innovation in this field. Depression and other mental health issues demand our full attention and our full financial commitment.
Upcoming posts will further discuss this crisis in mental health research, and how we can work together to gain a better understanding of the brain and find a way to beat depression, once and for all.
What do you think can be done to spark more interest in and financial support of research into depression and other mental health disorders?
What would you tell someone who says that research into other diseases is more important than research into mental health disorders?
Mark M. Rasenick, Ph.D., is Distinguished Professor of Physiology & Biophysics and Psychiatry at the University of Illinois Chicago, College of Medicine and Research Service. Dr. Rasenick's work has focused on G protein signaling in the nervous system and the relationship of neurotransmitter activation to rapid modification of the cytoskeleton. He is principal investigator of an NIMH training grant, "Training in the Neuroscience of Mental Health", which supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the neurosciences. He is also the co-founder of UIC's Graduate Program in Neuroscience. He is an elected fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and an elected member of the Dana Alliance for Brain Research and the Cuban Academy of Science. He has served on many scientific review panels (NIH, NSF, DOD), and editorial boards and is the author of numerous publications. Dr. Rasenick has received honors both for teaching and research, including the Searle Young Faculty Award from the Chicago Community Trust, the University Scholar Award and Distinguished Faculty Award from the University of Illinois, a Research Scientist Award from the NIMH, and a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship from the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences. While a Robert Wood Johnson Fellow (1999-2000), he was a staff member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions with the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy, (D Mass.). During this time, he worked on legislation concerning Cancer screening, Medicare Prescription Drugs, Organ Transplantation Policy and Mental Health Policy. In addition to research and teaching, Dr. Rasenick is active in public policy. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Brain Coalition and the National Association for Biomedical Research. He served as a member of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism and the Chapters committee, Government and Public Affairs Committee and International Affairs Committee of the Society for Neuroscience. He also serves or has served on the Public Affairs/Outreach committees of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology, and chaired that Committee for ACNP. He currently chairs the Advocacy Committees for the American Brain Coalition and for the National Network of Depression Centers.
Due to the Memorial Day holiday, Care for Your Mind will post on Wednesday, May 30. See you then!
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Q: Convolution of uniform random variables I've 2 continuous random variables $X$ and $Z$ and I'm asked the p.d.f of $Y = X + Z$. $X$ is uniform over the interval $-\frac{1}{2} \leq x \leq \frac{1}{2}$ and $Z$ is uniform over $-\frac{a}{2} \leq z \leq \frac{a}{2}$.
I'm not sure how to break the intervals here. Cleary, $a \leq 1$ and $a > 1$ should be considered seperately but then I'm not sure how to proceed.

A: $Y$ will lie within the range $-\frac{a+1}{2}\leq Y\leq \frac{a+1}{2}$.
Then by convolution:
$$\begin{align}f_Y(t)&=\int_\Bbb R f_{X,Z}(t-z,z)\operatorname d z~\cdot \mathbf 1_{-(a+1)/2\leqslant t\leqslant (a+1)/2}\\[2ex] & = \int_{\substack -1/2\leqslant t-z\leqslant 1/2\\ -a/2\leqslant z\leqslant a/2}\operatorname d z~\cdot \mathbf 1_{-(a+1)\leqslant 2t\leqslant (a+1)} \\[2ex] & = \int_{\max\{2t-1,-a\}}^{\min\{2t+1,a\}}\tfrac 12\operatorname d u~\cdot \mathbf 1_{-(a+1)\leqslant 2t\leqslant (a+1)} & z\gets u/2 \\[2ex] & = \int_{\max\{2t,1-a)\}-1}^{\min\{2t,a-1\}+1}\tfrac 12\operatorname d u~\cdot \mathbf 1_{-(a+1)\leqslant 2t\leqslant (a+1)}\end{align}$$
From here you partition into three subintervals for $2t$.
$$\begin{align} & ~\{-1-a\leqslant 2t\leqslant \min\{1-a,a-1\}\}\\ \cup &~ (\{1-a\leqslant 2t\leqslant a-1\}\cap\{1<a\}) \\ \cup &~ \{\max\{1-a,a-1\}\leqslant 2t\leqslant a+1\}\end{align}$$

A: Hint:
Can you compute $\mathbb{P}(Y \leq x)$? From this you get the cdf of $Y$, and then the pdf is the derivative of this.

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Missing Time: Watch out for it, you won't know until it has gone!
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The story that terrified me and for a little while got me worrying about abduction by aliens was a letter in a magazine. By I had read it my mind was filled with the idea for a while. Yes it was a letter, and yes it was in Fortean Times – I love that magazine but I do find many of the articles over analytical and rather too sceptical; almost as if they are desperate to disprove everything (I wonder if the lizards have taken over in a subversive plot!?). The letters pages though, that is where I start getting drawn in, in particular the It Happened To Me section.
There is something about an individual going out of their regular life to 'admit' to an unexplained experience many years after the fact which has me believing it totally. Of course, anyone can write anything; just look at how this storyteller works up the truth into a tale to intrigue! There is something about the decision to share which makes me think most of these tales are genuine.
This one really got to me, this guy, let's call him Albert, recalled his experiences from back in the nineties and the on-going effects on him over the years ahead.
As I recall the story it was much like this…
He and his partner were organising security for a large upcoming event and they needed to test the walkie-talkies. So he set off in the car and kept a dialogue going with his wife and she recorded the range and power. So there was constant contact.
As he described his journey to maintain the dialogue level he turned into a long country lane which they both knew well. Ahead he commented that he could see a strange bank of fog stretching across the road.
As he drove through it he heard a high pitched piercing sound, his left ear started bleeding and the side of his face was burning. He started to scream and tried to describe the experience at the same time.
He drove out of the fog after only around a minute and turned for home. His wife was screaming into the walkie-talkie asking where he went, why he had gone silent for so long and what had happened? He said he had been talking to her throughout but when he got home he discovered she had been calling to him for a long time and that half an hour was missing.
She was shocked at the dishevelled way he was dressed and there was blood all down his burnt face. He expelled large amounts of clear fluid and then lay shaking in his bed. He awoke in the night and ran screaming from the room tearing at the door.
He has been terrified of being trapped ever since and his anxiety levels went through the roof yet he had always been a calm confident person before.
A psychologist was called in and eventually arranged a hypnosis session. When Albert was awoken the therapist said that he regretted he could have no more to do with this situation and would have to discharge him from his care. He was left alone in the room and offered the recording.
He was shocked to hear his own voice and the things he was saying. He had been stripped and placed on a large metal bed, there were many such beds, a girl was calling across to him asking if it was a dream. Grey figures experimented on them. Then a human-like being filled his mind with atrocities and then spoke directly into his mind saying that humankind must change their ways.
He was led to what was described as a Dimensional Shift Device and told he would be returned but not to the same time.
He has never fully recovered and sometimes even now wakes up with bruises, marks where long spindly fingers had gripped him and sometimes with his pyjamas on inside out.
That story was brought to us by 'Albert' in the letters page of ForteanTimes in an edition with the cover tagline, 'The Truth is in Here'.
After all, who would miss half an hour.
Five hours! That is going to be noticed, and it was. Sue and Robert both worked office hours and were looking forward to getting off work and home in time to watch a television program of a special event.
Robert texted here and said he would pick her up. She texted back to say would he meet her in the supermarket car park across from her work and they would run in for some food.
As they dashed in she mentioned a desire to have some ice-cream and he suggested that they picked it up last so it didn't start to go soft. Even though they were going to be home within twenty minutes she agreed. They grabbed pizzas, salad and garlic bread and then went to the ice-cream aisle.
When they got to the counter and lifted up the purchases to the conveyor belt she noticed a sloshing sound.
The ice-cream was completely liquid. The till operative went and fetched them a fresh one and they went home. They popped the oven on and prepared the food and then turned on the television.
Their program had finished! When Sue looked at the clock it was half past ten. Five hours had gone.
They were terribly worried and after a sleepless night Robert suggested they contact his friend who was a police officer. The friend pointed out that no crime seemed to have been committed but as it was him he trusted his word and would look into it.
The officer friend went to the supermarket and asked to check the CCTV footage. The cameras showed then entering, and making all their purchases, until the ice-cream aisle. There was footage of them entering the aisle, but there were no cameras down there.
He sat and watched for them emerging, he sat a very long time. There at last was footage of them coming out of the other end of the aisle. Yes. Five hours later.
Footnote: If any of the people in these accounts wish to come forward I will gladly correct any details and use real names and the actual places if they prefer. (The 'girl' will be grown up now and may also want to make contact.)
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Communication from the realms of spirit from Gene Rodenberry beamed directly into my mind as I was watching Star Trek:
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Pon Far –
If research was done into the reactions to the Pon Far it may be found that the vast majority of both Vulcans and other races they seek to engage with do not actually experience post-passion regret, I expect that the results of such a survey would agree with my anticipation, and therefor if you are ever in the presence of a Vulcan in the seven year cycle of Pon Far it is most advisable to acknowledge their advances and engage in the 72 hours of amorous encounter.
Do not in any circumstances buy the storyline that it will be best if this urgent desire is not satisfied; this is a false premise.
Now one should presumably look around for the next Pon Far experiencer.
It could become quite a hobby I imagine. I wish you well in your quest, and apologise if I am unavailable, I have left my Star Trek com badge at home.
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Finding iPad's Future
Neil Cybart (via John Gruber):
A product that carries so much brand relevancy that it still represents the entire tablet market now finds itself the leader of a category that has lost all momentum as other product categories marginalize the tablet form factor. Although Apple is still selling more than 10 million iPads per quarter, there is something about the iPad that just doesn't sit right with me. We have gotten to the point that the status quo will likely lead to the iPad and the modern-day tablet becoming irrelevant over time. A new direction for iPad is needed based on a fundamental rethink of tablet computing.
A quick look at iPad and tablet shipment data would show that things have gotten bad in recent quarters. However, in reality, things are much worse than quarterly shipment data would suggest. The seasonality found in the tablet segment makes it difficult to see these long-term problems. A much better way at understanding what has been taking place is to look at the year-over-year change in shipments on a trailing 12-month (TTM) basis, highlighted in Exhibit 1. This smoothing effect highlights that the iPad and tablet have been on the decline for years and things continue to worsen with the overall tablet market hitting negative territory for the first time. All momentum has been lost.
Many didn't see it, but tablets were quickly turning into content consumption devices where price was a leading purchase decision.
We now find ourselves with a tablet market where Apple and Samsung are losing share to "Others," which is represented by dozens of firms selling mostly generic tablets used to consume media, depicted in Exhibit 2.
The iPad market is in trouble and if there are no changes made to the lineup, Peak iPad is on the table. Peak iPad is a simple concept driven by the belief that underlining structural changes to the tablet market would result in the iPad losing most of its value propositions, leading to a permeant decline in sales. For example, Peak iPod is alive and well as even though Apple is still selling iPods, the product category will never reach record quarterly sales. Meanwhile, while some argued that we had seen Peak Mac, we instead were just in a sales slump that quickly reversed itself with a revamped product line. The Mac's value propositions were still alive and well. In a world where smartphones are getting larger and laptops are getting smaller, the Peak iPad theory is starting to look more likely as time goes on.
Lukas Mathis:
The PC market relies on upgrade sales. The plastic spoon market relies on upgrade sales. The pants market relies on upgrade sales. But a device as young as the iPad should not be relying on upgrade sales to this degree. If Apple thinks that the iPad's sales are falling because of a long upgrade cycle, the implication is that the iPad has already reached a large portion of all people it's ever going to reach.
Better hardware would help, but I think it's very important to acknowledge that the thing standing in the way of productive work on the iPad is not its hardware. It's iOS.
iOS is a cumbersome system for even reasonably complex productive tasks.
Fixing this problem does not mean «giving access to the file system.» When I say that Apple needs to fix document management, people sometimes assume that I'm saying that they should bring something like the Finder to iOS. I'm not. The Finder approach to file management is broken. It was designed for a time when people had a tiny number of apps, and almost no storage space. That time doesn't exist anymore, and neither should the Finder.
I think this last part is wrong. When the iPad was released, the jury was still out. After eight years of iOS, we've seen that no one has figured out a good alternative to the filesystem. iCloud and iOS seem to be converging on a design that is less capable and possibly more complicated for non-basic uses. Meanwhile, the Mac has gained iCloud Drive, sandboxing, and rootless, which offer many of iOS's simplicity and safety advantages without (in theory) compromising functionality.
Of course, the Finder does have problems. But something like the Finder—as an icon on the home screen, rather than the home screen itself, like on the Mac—would straightforwardly solve a lot of iOS's current document management problems. And, tucked away as an icon that many people wouldn't need, it wouldn't cause much trouble.
Update (2015-08-20): Jason Snell:
I think we're all down on the iPad because we got too excited about it to begin with, and the hangover hasn't faded yet.
I suspect the iPad's initial sales were so good that Apple was fooled into thinking it didn't need to improve the iPad—which is a mistake that the company may be paying for now. But Apple sure seems to be paying attention to it now!
Update (2015-08-31): See also Accidental Tech Podcast #132.
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"After eight years of iOS, we've seen that no one has figured out a good alternative to the filesystem."
I haven't seen any examples of anyone really trying.
I *am* seeing plenty of examples of people struggling with the Finder (or other file system-driven document management systems), so if that's the solution to iOS's document management problem, it's a terrible one.
Of course, if I can choose between having a Finder-like App on iOS, and not having any file management, I'd rather have the Finder. But the idea that it is impossible to come up with anything better than the Finder seems implausible.
If we were in a pre-Ford era, Google would be the company selling you a horse buggy. Apple would be the company selling you just a buggy, because horses are kind of hard to maintain, so let's get rid of them. But now I have to push the buggy to get it to go anywhere, so that's not great, either.
So you could ask Apple to give you back the horse. But if they do, you also get all of your horse problem back. What you *really* want is not for Apple to give you back your horse, but to give you a car instead.
Assuming the Lukas comment here is from Lukas Mathis, whose blog I've been devouring via RSS for a while now, and while I agree with his basic contention that problems are baked deep in the OS, and that while a Finder would certainly help, it wouldn't solve all the problems.
I've also been noting his case that while Surface solves productivity issues far better than the iPad, it still leaves a world to be desired as productivity tool.
At the end of the day, I've always though this is really just a form factor issue, at base. While there is certainly long-hanging fruit to be fixed on both platforms, I just can't imagine solutions that will make either platform a decent productivity tool except for relatively edge-case scenarios. There really is a simple case to be made that the laptop form factor has immense advantages that simply can't be overcome, or even really approached, by tablets.
So the Surface will improve as a productivity device, and the iPad will too if Cupertino ever bothered to deal with it. But, still, except for edge-cases, my theory is that it's always going to be a massively inferior, stop-gap productivity solution. Form factor is destiny, to a not-insignificant degree...
Michael Tsai
@Lukas I'm not saying it's impossible, just that no one seems to have any idea how to do it. So I think it's premature to say that horses should not exist. It also may turn out that document management has a certain amount of essential complexity, so that there may exist a solution that's better than the Finder, but not markedly so.
@Chucky I tend to agree with you about the form factor. Even with better software, I wouldn't see myself spending a lot more time with a tablet.
"I've been devouring via RSS for a while now"
That's me. Thank you!
"There really is a simple case to be made that the laptop form factor has immense advantages that simply can't be overcome, or even really approached, by tablets."
This is true in some sense: hardware keyboards are better for text input, a mouse is better for precise interactions, the hinged screen design of laptops work well in many situations where tablets don't. However, here's how I use my Surface: if I'm in a meeting, taking notes, or I have an idea at night and need to write it down so I can go back to sleep, or if I want to draw, I use it as a tablet. But when I go to my desk, I put it into the dock, and now it *does* have a keyboard. And when I'm in a train and want to respond to some email, I attach the keyboard cover, and now it *does* have a physical keyboard.
Tablets can change based on the current need, and offer the correct form for whatever you're currently doing.
Is that a lot more true for Surface? Because using a keyboard with my iPad feels like the worst of both worlds.
"I'm not saying it's impossible, just that no one seems to have any idea how to do it."
I don't know if it's true that nobody has any ideas. I think the problem is rather that nobody is in a position where the incentives to fix this problem line up correctly.
On the desktop, people are very change-averse, so anything Apple or Microsoft do with file management is received with extreme pushback.
On mobile, both Apple and Google are quite content with just ignoring the problem, at least for now. I'm not sure if either company really accepts that this *is* a problem on mobile. On phones, it's probably not a huge issue, and tablets barely seem to matter to either company.
Third-party developers have zero incentives to fix the problem, because the people who would most profit from a solution are the people least likely to use a third-party tool for file management. People who *do* use third-party tools for file management are power users; hence, third-party file management tools add more features (Path Finder) or offer specialized file management for specific use cases (Eagle Filer). They don't fix fundamental file management problems in a generic manner. Also, many of the required fixes would need OS-level support.
As to what ideas for solutions might be, think about how you manage files. Here are some of the things I do:
I sort file lists by date, because I have a rough idea of when I created or edited a file.
I know who sent me a file, so I search for email from that person, and re-download the file.
I know what application I created a file in, so I search for all documents from a specific application.
I know what kind of topic a document is about, so I search for keywords I expect to be in the document.
I search by file type, because I know what kind of thing a file is (e.g. an image).
It would be easy to extend this list, maybe also by observing what normal people do to retrieve files. Now, if you think about these things — time, people, applications, topics, keywords, file types — these are all things that your computer knows about. Your Mac knows who sent you a file. Your Mac can analyze the contents of a file to figure out what it is about. Your Mac knows when you created or edited a file. Your Mac knows what app you used, and so on.
So why does it not surface that data, and allow you to easily and visually browse your documents based on time, based on people, based on applications, topics, etc.?
(As an aside, the application I work for in my day job has to solve many of the same problems as a file system. It manages tens of thousands of file-like entities, and different people have access to the same repositories, so one person's order might be another person's mess. The way we do it is by using metadata, and by using context, to auto-organize things based on what we know about the relationship between them, and what we know about what the user is doing.)
Finally, I'm not saying that horses shouldn't exist. Horses still exist, and for some use cases, they're better than cars. But these use cases are limited, and the people who use horses for work are trained professionals. I think the analogy holds :-)
"Is that a lot more true for Surface? Because using a keyboard with my iPad feels like the worst of both worlds."
I think the reason why it doesn't work well with the iPad is that you can't *control* it with the keyboard. All you can do is enter text (well, almost all). I suspect that the result of this is that people used to notebooks somehow mentally switch to "notebook usage mode" when they use an iPad with a keyboard, when really, it's still an iPad, it's just easier to enter text now. That makes the interactions feel weird.
On the Surface, you are free to mentally switch to "notebook usage mode" if you want to. Attaching a keyboard means you can use it like a notebook — or use it like a tablet, but type text using the keyboard. Or do both, and switch between mouse and touchscreen depending on what feels better at the moment.
Also, the way the Surface's hinge works, it pushes against the center of the screen, so touching it in "laptop mode" feels stable. Touching an iPad in a dock or docking keyboard doesn't feel good, because most docks don't offer much resistance or stability. It's just a small thing, but I think it makes a difference.
One area where the iPad still has an advantage, at least for me, as a productivity device over a MacBook (and I love my 11-inch Air), is built-in cellular networking. For example, while in Colorado for a week, with little to no wifi access, I had two occasions where I needed to type out a lengthy email and send. I had two bars worth of 4G in our cabin, and it managed the text just fine.
I can certainly see a future for myself where, if MacBooks gained built-in cellular networking, I wouldn't use an iPad any more, except for maybe Comixology. 8^)
My kids, however, well, their primary computer is an iPad, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out, too.
PS: I apologize for the long comments, and for the space between the words "Eagle" and "Filer".
"I apologize for the long comments, and for the space between the words "Eagle" and "Filer"
Not my blog, of course, but IMHO, long worthwhile comments are fine, but posting "Eagle Filer" should get you shipped off to the Gulag.
"posting "Eagle Filer" should get you shipped off to the Gulag"
I humbly accept that punishment, as it is fair, justified, and fitting the crime. I'll use Apple Maps to find my way there.
@Lukas I appreciate your long comments, and apology accepted. I'm left not quite understanding your position, though, since you started off by saying "That time doesn't exist anymore, and neither should the Finder," but now you seem to be retracting that. Are you agreeing with my idea that (like horses today) the Finder should exist but that everyone shouldn't need to use it? Or are you drawing a finer distinction?
@chris For me, that advantage no longer holds because my iPhone's AT&T account now includes free tethering and more bandwidth than I am ever likely to use. On our last road trip, we had four nights in a row of hotel Wi-Fi that didn't work, and I had forgotten my Thunderbolt-to-Ethernet adapter, but it was easy for my MacBook Pro to just use the phone's connection.
"I humbly accept that punishment, as it is fair, justified, and fitting the crime. I'll use Apple Maps to find my way there."
As we both know, that's cheating. If you use Apple Maps to get to the Gulag, you'll probably end up in the Caribbean or Tahiti. Use Google Maps, so you'll correctly end up in Siberia.
@Michael: I think the Finder, as it is today, should no longer exist. It should be replaced with a higher-level document management system that is consistent with modern computer usage, and modern computing environments (e.g. it should seamlessly tie in with cloud services like Dropbox, it should use metadata to organize documents automatically, it should allow users to access files in a way that makes sense to them, it should not just show the file system — that's an implementation detail).
I don't equate "access to the file system" with "the Finder". So while I think that the Finder needs to go, I think access to the file system should still be available to the people who want it. That doesn't mean having a Finder. It can mean leaving this open for third-parties (e.g. Path Finder), or it can mean having a file system power user app that most people will never see or use (similar to Terminal). Positioning this explicitly as a power user application means that it will no longer have to take an uncomfortable middle-ground between being accessible to everyone (because that's the first thing they see when they boot up their Mac), and providing power user features to those who know what they're doing.
(Conceptually, it actually kind of used to be like this before Mac OS X. While the Finder just showed the file system, the file system was much simpler back then, and the real complexity was hidden in files' resource forks. So normal people saw the simple document management tool, but power users could download ResEdit and access a deeper hierarchy that was hidden from regular users.)
@Chucky: Dang, I thought I'd found a loophole...
Adrian B
"My kids, however, well, their primary computer is an iPad, so it will be interesting to see how that plays out, too."
This! When it comes to the future of iPad I think this is the most interesting question. Right now iPad seems to have gone from bright to bleak future, but if we look at it long term things could be different. I've not conducted proper research but from what I've seen the iPad is the primary computer for kids these days. If my kids could wish for anything they would both wish for an iPad (and I wish I could afford them each an iPad).
What happens when this generation grow up? Will they continue to use tablets or will the large phones and traditional laptops make them abandon tablets?
Pierre Lebeaupin
*pops head*
While I think that Apple should do better than a "Finder for iOS", it is important to recognise that this is a secondary matter compared to the sorry state of the iPad operating system and the fact Apple hasn't really proposed solutions to the matters of document filing, exchange between apps, or management in general in the first place (or if they have, they have done so way too slowly). It seems in particular that nobody has really tried to improve on the "Finder" model: Apple hasn't, obviously, and its competitors were too content to just slap a traditional filesystem view on their gizmos and be able to boast about providing something Apple doesn't provide. It doesn't necessarily mean something different is viable (I believe it would be, but that's only my belief), but so far we don't know.
Mind you, things will be improving with iOS 9, but their track record so far indicates that Apple hasn't really got a vision for this aspect of computing.
@Pierre That's quite a bind. Apple doesn't seem to have a vision, and they've locked the system down so that no one else can implement one, either.
Michael Tsai - Blog - Sketch Leaving the Mac App Store
[…] T being an actual car. There are not even rumors about improvements to the store. And, like the iPad filesystem, no one else seems to have a better idea, either. At this point, the problems have been common […]
James Thiele
@AdrianB makes a good point. See Ben Bajarin's iPad Pro review (https://techpinions.com/the-ipad-pro-the-start-of-something-new/42336), specifically the section "The Most Eye Opening Observation" where he writes about how his daughter and her school mates are using iPads.
Saying that computer type X is more productive than type Y depends on what you are producing. Making music or a movie involves very little use of an alphabetic keyboard. Force touch in conjunction with the stylus is much better than drawing with a mouse.