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The beam on the front and back walls of a shed and will be extending out to support the roof overhanging the sides of the shed. So instead of using a typical 2x4 top plate for the walls and putting the beam on the top of that, can I just nail the studs into the 4x6 beam?
I am confused as to the purpose of a 4X6 to support the roof overhang. Are you using rafters and collar ties? The rafter tails are usually what an overhang is created from.
You should consider the conventional way of using a double 2X4 top plate. The second or top 2X4 plate overlaps corners to lock adjacent the walls. A top plate of 4X6 would be very difficult to nail or screw to your studs without metal plates. I see no advantage to using an oversize plate.
Maybe I'm missing the point of the question however.
It doesn't sound like a bad idea, provided that beam is well-supported along its length (for instance, consider doubling or tripling up on the 2x4s for one stud every few yards). The only thing you'll have to consider is that, if you don't have a top plate and you ever want to take the wall down but leave the beam in place, it'll be more of a job because you can't just take the spikes holding the plate to the beam out.
If the 4x6 is going to be enough to support the roof overhangs (and depending on the design of your shed, potentially the whole roof + any snow load), there's no reason you couldn't use it for a top plate.
However, a 4x6 of any length is going to be heavy, and if it's doing double duty as your top plate it could make raising and setting the wall difficult if you're working solo. If you go with a conventional set of 2x4 plates you can raise the walls and then lift the 4x6 onto them, which might be an easier job.
The conventional way of extending out to support a roof system is to use your top plate like you should and run a 2x10 or 2x12 band nailed upright with the outside of your wall on the top plate. You would then place blocks about 2 ft apart and place another 2x10 or 2x12 against it doubling the band on the outside where your roof is going to sit. After you would run another plate on top. You would want to band your building all the way around and set you joist in between the bands. This will allow you to run a plate on top of your joist for the rafters.
What you can do after is run your joist out to catch your beam on the outside of the house. If your joist run the other way, you would leave your last joist on the inside of your top plate and then run your joist out to your beam on the outside.
A 4x6 beam is a little over kill for a top plate.


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I have to prove that any number of the form $3n+2$ has a prime factor of the form $3m+2$. Ive started the proof
I tried saying by the division algorithm the prime factor is either the form 3m,3m+1,3m+2.
Case 1: $3m$ suppose $3m$ does divide $3n+2$. That means $3mr=3n+2$ where $r$ is some integer. But we get $mr-n= 2/3$ and since $mr-n$ is an integer that's a contradiction. Thus $3m$ does not work.
Case 2: $3m+1$ Same argument here
Case 3: $3m+2$ By the fundamental theorem of arithmetic every integer is divisible by a prime. But not sure what to do from here.


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I was sparring and received a pretty hard thigh kick. I have been in a tremendous amount of pain since it happened three days ago. I usually bruise easily but there isn't an bruising yet. The pain feels deep and the leg is tight. I can barely put weight on it or bend it. I've been putting ice on it and taking ibuprofen. Does anyone have more suggestions, I'm getting married tomorrow, I want to be able to walk!
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See a doctor.
They may give you stronger pain killer and/or muscle relaxants than you can get OTC, both of which will help you to stop stressing the leg and heal faster.
Aside from that stay off it as much as possible (you can walk down the aisle), go easy, keep up the ice until the swelling recedes then switch to mild heat.
I didn't at first but instead kept training on it. Stupid. I was out for six weeks after the leg actual gave out just walking down the hall.


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To put that into context, the No. 11 slot in the batting order is a little like the pitcher's spot in National League baseball—it's reserved for a team's weakest batter and little production is expected from that spot. The average score for a No. 11 is just 8.56 runs, according to ESPN Cricinfo.
Batting alongside Phil Hughes, who finished on 81 not out, Agar's remarkable innings also helped Australia produce the highest combined score by a team's final two batters at international cricket's highest level. Their partnership yielded 163 runs, or 12 times the 13.48-run average produced by 10th-wicket partnerships in Test history.
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In baseball, it's the rough equivalent of a team in the World Series scoring seven runs in the bottom of the ninth inning with two outs—from the bottom of the order.
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Irregular time signatures in balleta couple of questions.
Posted 20 May 2010 - 07:31 PM
Would it be difficult to keep the counts for a dancer who can't follow this irregular time...?
Are there other examples of the surviving XIX Century ballet repertoire with some type of irregular time...?
Thanks in advance!
Posted 20 May 2010 - 09:51 PM
Nureyev changed the gemstone to gold and turned it into a male role, but he used the music.
Posted 20 May 2010 - 10:12 PM
The greater challenge, likely, is to the choreographer.
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Posted 21 May 2010 - 01:55 AM
When I was a dancer, I always loved the chance to dance to things which were not so "common"; and I try to incorporate irregular time signatures in my classes when I can.
'Probably just takes hearing again and again to get used to it.
Good point about the choreography, carbro. ;)
If I am not mistaken, in other cultures what we call "irregular" times are much more common.
Posted 21 May 2010 - 04:36 AM
EDITED TO ADD: So sorry, didn't see the post above that already discussed this!
Posted 21 May 2010 - 04:42 AM
Posted 21 May 2010 - 07:17 AM
The nineteenth-century dancer was rather more familiar with 5/4 time than we are; all we've got, practically, is Dave Brubeck's "Take Five",
If you mean dancers and dance music, maybe, but 5/4 and 5/8 is pretty frequent throughout the 20th century, even if it's not the most usual even so. All of the cutting-edge composers from the 20s and 30s on used a lot of 5/4 and 7/8, etc,. before they even dispensed with meter completely when the needed to serialize rhythm as well as dynamics and pitch.. Responding here mainly to your citing of 'Take Five', which I didn't know had been made into a dance, although it would seem logical for it to have been used a lot. Everybody from Elliott Carter back to Virgil Thomson and Copland and Stravinsky, and Hall Overton and Vivian Fine and Jacob Druckman and David Diamond, and there's lots of those time signatures in Leonard Bernstein. These irregular meters are different from 'no meter' for dancers than 'no meter at all', which is itself an interesting further matter along the same lines. I'm sure Balanchine's 'Pythoprakta' to the Xennakis piece must be danced without much attention to 'keeping with the meter', and there are dozens of dances like that, where the dance rhythm and meter has to be independent, even in Steve Reich; this would be different from irregular, but definite, meters, esp. if they are sustained for long passages, which the dancers could not 'dance against and with', but would be in some kind of synchorinization with the music. I thought there might even be some irregular-meter passages in 'Fancy Free', but don't know the score that well. And surely there must be in lots of Robbins and Graham--whether the never-seen 'Age of Anxiety' or in Wm. Schuman's 'Night Journey.' Also probably in DelloJoio, although I don't know about 'Diversion of Angels', I think it's pretty regular throughout, but not sure.
Interesting about 5/4 'waltzes' though. Never heard of that.
Posted 21 May 2010 - 07:25 AM
Interesting about 5/4 'waltzes' though. Never heard of that.
I think people just say that as a way to try to categorize it, Tchai. 6 being exemplary in this regard--the movement where it's used appears in the symphony where a waltz movement might appear, and it has a kind of lilt to it, like a waltz. And if you were to do a step to it on every beat, as one does in a waltz, it would alternate feet/sides. But one need look no further than Sapphire in Beauty to hear a 5/4 that doesn't evoke a waltz at all.
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Posted 21 May 2010 - 08:06 AM
By irregular I usually think of signatures that do not fit into the usual duple or triple categories. I've also seen them being referred as complex or asymmetric.
You know, looking back at the title and original post of this thread, I think we need to clarify what "irregular" means.
Posted 21 May 2010 - 08:21 AM
Think back to the original run of Bernstein's Candide: Audiences felt uncomfortable with the composer's unusual (for then) shifting-meter melodies - "Oh Happy Pair" is two bars of 2/4, followed by one in 3/4 before breaking into a coda of all 3/4. Today at Pops concerts it's a frequent practice for the conductor to come on, give the downbeat, walk away from the podium, and just let the orchestra play the overture as a kind of big parlor trick.
A thought about "Le Papillon" - Offenbach's music, in its time, was considered rather eccentric. Interpolating a 5/4 march might not have seemed like such a shock to audiences faced with Offenbach's already "crazy" score.
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Prevailing wage is a type of minimum wage that is used on government projects that cost more than $250,000.
To put this in perspective, let's look at the recent Parker Bennett School Construction.
If there was no prevailing wage, it would have cost a little over two million dollars. With prevailing wage, the cost was almost twice as much at $3.9 million.
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Now the Kentucky Department of Education is supporting a proposal to suspend the prevailing wage requirement for two to five years to study the impact.
Daryl Wheeler is the president of Venture Contracting. He says with prevailing wage: "We pay the same people different rates depending on what kind of job they're working on and they do the same job."
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Plus – Minus: Advantages and Disadvantages of Printed Circuit Boards
Printed circuit boards are electronic boards that have copper tracks. The boards are made of glass fabricated plastic. The copper acts as the wire which connects the components. Holes are drilled so that the components will be properly placed. They are also soldered for a stronger hold. The top side of the PCB is the component side and the lower side is the track side. Once the components are placed and soldered, the circuit will already run. Now, printed circuit boards have their own advantages and disadvantages. However, it is still one of the most convenient boards to use.
Disadvantages of Printed Circuit Boards
There are four disadvantages of using PCBs. Since bread boards are also a type of electronic board, it would be easier to compare it to PCBs.
1. You need different designs for different circuits.
Unlike the bread board, PCBs are fixed. Once you have designed it for a specific circuit, you cannot use it for another kind of circuit.
2. Updating is not Possible
Once you have printed it, you cannot add parts. You should reprint the design over again. This is actually a hassle when you just need to add one component to test a specific circuit.
3. When Damaged, It is hard to repair
Once it gets damaged, for example a short circuit or overheating, it would be hard or impossible to fix it. Compared to the bread board, you can just remove the components and replace the damaged parts.
4. Etching of PCBs are sometimes harmful to the environment
There are chemicals used in etching that is harmful for the environment. If you are a environment friendly advocate, PCBs would be the least kind of board you may want to choose.
Advantages of Printed Circuit Boards
The disadvantages of PCBs are actually minor and not a big deal. There are actually more advantages than disadvantages. Here are those.
1. Short Circuit and Wrong Wiring is Minimal
Because the copper tracks are embedded on the board, there is a lower chance that there would be short circuits or wrong wiring. Plus, this circuit is already been designed on a computer which means it has been tested for errors. There are applications wherein you can design your boards test it before you print it.
2. No need to inspect it
As it was said on the previous point, since it is designed on the computer, you do not need further inspection. You will not have to worry about broken circuits. There is a bigger possibility that it will work than manually making the board. Printed circuits are very easy to use.
3. Components are Fixed
This makes the circuit board simple. No more complex wires attached all over the board. No more loose components. Everything is fixed and the components are easy to identify. Also, the maintenance of the components are easier because of the simplicity of its look.
4. Ideal for Reproduction
If you will be using a number of circuit boards of the same design, PCBs have a larger advantage. Uniformity of the design is a plus because it is printed from the computer. Every board will be exactly the same as the previous. In manually attaching the components without a guide like the PCBs, it would be hard to create something identical.
5. Cheaper with Mass Production
If you are going to reproduce one design, PCBs are cheaper. You just need to print your design and etch it in a piece of copper board. Plus, it is easy to create. You can create multiple boards at a time. So, if you are wandering about what kind of board to use, PCBs have the cheapest, easiest and fastest manufacturing compared to other boards.


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The most awesome bad ass mother fucker any one person could hope to have as a friend. Be aware if he does not know you because most likely he will con, jip, or hustle you out of any money left in your piggy bank or even life savings. Any person named Jamison is is exponentially the most charming, sexy, intelligent, most hilarious individual another could ever meet.
RICK: Dude Jamison is totally bad ass.
ASHLEY: And hes one sexy mofo.
ASHLEY: And hes one sexy mofo.
by iBurn420 April 17, 2009
A confusing, charming, extremely smart, artistic, gorgeous guy who will sweep you off your feet and then throw you on the ground. He'll never tell you if he wants you or if he doesn't. He's a sweet guy and a great friend but he'll never put as much into a relationship/friendship as you do. He knows what he wants and what he's capable of getting, but he doesn't realize when he hurts people. In a way, he doesn't care, no matter how badly you want him to. He'll make you laugh harder than ever and you'll be bestfriends for a month and then things will suddenly change. He'll talk to you less, spend less time with you, etc., but then the cycle repeats itself, and you're closer than ever again. You don't want to get in a fight with him, because he'll just turn it around on you. He's clever enough to get away with it, too. Don't fall for him, because you'll never get over him, no matter how hard you try. He's an asshole sometimes, but you'll never forget him and never stop being his friend. In the end, he's always going to be there for you, you just can't give up. He's a great guy.
Is your name Jamison cause you're really funny?!
by littlekittens000 April 11, 2011
A really sweet, nice, and athletic guy. He is also very funny and is fun to be around. Be careful around him, he will easily steal your heart.
Aww look it's Jamison! He steals my heart every time I see him.
by thatamazinglyawesomeperson October 18, 2013
Jamison is an amazing guy. A life saver. When you feel as if there is no point to living any more, he will sweep in and give you hope. He'll make you feel special.
Jamison is the most amazing guy I have ever met.
by lovedbysomeone October 18, 2013
A small, upper-class, town in Pennsylvania, in between Doylestown and Warrington. There's absolutely nothing to do here and no outsiders have heard of it.
I live in Jamison, PA, and there's nothing to do here.
by blondie123456 August 02, 2009
the most funny, sweet, attractive & outgoing guy ever.❤ he will always keep a smile on your face and is always saying something cute or funny.👍💋 no matter what he will always be the guy you want to talk to at any giving time because he is so fun to talk to🎊💖and there charming asf 😉 they will always wait for you.💜
I'm glad I got a Jamison by my side.😉😘
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What to Expect in a C-Section
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Risks; post-opThe Pitfalls of Surgery
Compared to a vaginal delivery, the risk for the mother in a C-section is generally twice that of a vaginal birth for bleeding, infection, and other complications. Having said that, the overall risk of having a complication is one to three percent.
The mother could also have injury to other organs, including the bladder and intestines. In rare cases, the uterus may continue to bleed despite conservative efforts to stop the bleeding. In those situations, it's possible that a hysterectomy might have to be performed. This would be done as a last resort to save a woman's life. The decision is never taken lightly. With any surgery, there is also the risk of scar tissue or adhesions, which could cause pain later.
One of the obvious risks for the baby is that the doctor could cut the baby's skin with the scalpel. Because the baby's head or face is pressed against the uterus, the doctor has to go very slowly and carefully when incising the uterus, clearing away blood before making his every cut. That is where experience and touch come into play for the surgeon, who is often blinded by the extensive amount of blood. Other injuries the baby could suffer might be a neck injury, as it is being pulled out.
Post-Op and Recovery
After the woman is all stitched up, she is transported (referred to as towed in the Navy) to the recovery room for at least an hour. There her vital signs are monitored to make sure there are no significant complications from surgery that would require her to go back to the OR. If the baby is doing fine, she may see the baby at this point, or she may have to wait until she goes to her room. Sometimes, it's hard for family members to visit in the recovery room due to privacy issues with other patients, so don't expect a lot of visitors.
Typically, your OB will sit down and explain how the surgery went and answer any questions. Afterwards, the patient is transferred to a recovery room or a postpartum room, where she will stay until she is discharged, which will probably be in two or three days, barring complications.
The Day of the Surgery
The day of the surgery, if you're the patient, you will feel pretty tired and have some pain issues. You will be required to rest a lot. The catheter will stay in place so that you don't have to get out of bed to go to the bathroom. Pain medicines will be administered through an IV. You will not be allowed to eat at first, although fluids are provided. Mostly, you'll just want to rest (and see your baby, of course).
The First Day Post-Op
By the first day after surgery (post-operative Day 1), the doctor will evaluate you to make sure you're stable. The bandage will be removed so the doctor can look at the incision, and then it will be left uncovered. The Foley catheter is removed. The patient is asked to begin walking, if she hasn't already done so.
Walking will be a little bit challenging at first, but with effort, the majority of women find they can walk pretty well by the end of the first day. Dr. John always asks patients to sit up for a few minutes first to make sure they aren't dizzy, and then stand up with a hand close to the bed to give themselves another minute before they walk around the room.
You will still have an IV with fluid flowing. You should sit in a chair if you're tired but don't feel like sleeping. If you're tired, use the bed to sleep, but if you're not tired, doctors prefer that you try to use the chair. Sitting and walking not only restores confidence, but also helps prevent clots from forming in the legs. You'll be asked to increase your walking daily.
It's time for food, if you feel like eating. The first meal you will eat will be a soft diet of easily chewed foods. If those are tolerated well, you'll advance to eating regular foods.
The Second Day Post-Op
On the second day, the hospital staff and your doctor will evaluate your progress and take a blood test to make sure you haven't lost too much blood. You'll continue to walk the hallways, obviously more than the day before. In some instances, patients may recover so well that they can be discharged at the end of the day, but this is usually reserved for post-op Day 3.
The Third Day Post-Op
On post-op Day 3, you'll be examined, the staples will be removed if necessary, and you'll be given instructions on how to take care of yourself at home. Things to watch out for include fevers, increased vaginal bleeding (more than a period), and pain that is not responding to pain meds that could indicate complications from surgery. The doctor will recommend that you don't lift anything heavier than your baby.
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So we tried out the Dresden Files RPG earlier. Overall, we had a great time. Some issues came up, though. Specifically, when you compel an aspect, the player has the choice to either accept the compel (gain a fate point) or spend a fate point to ignore the compel. What if the player has no fate points remaining? At that point, it feels cheesy to compel, as the GM winds up effectively railroading the character, frequently at a plot critical point. Is that the intention? Is this the risk you run when you spend your last fate point?
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Yes, that is exactly the risk a character runs when they run out of fate points. Fate points represent a character's ability to modify... fate, or their free will. IF they don't have any fate points then they are locked into doing what their core character would do. This is the same as being an npc with 0 or less refresh, you are bound by your nature.
It may seem unfair for a GM to compel a character with no fate points, but the flip side is that the character now has a fate point to determine the outcome of a future situation.
A character out of fate is unable to reject a compel. He MUST accept it. Which will, of course, give him one to spend. But being that low should be rare.
A GM should not be limiting his compels to when a character is out of Fate Points. He should be offering compels any time the narrative makes them make sense.
Nor should the GM compel just because a player is out of Fate.
Compels should always and only be used when it makes either good story sense or good drama to do so.
Really, players should not be running out very often. If they are, you as a GM need to compel more during game, and work those aspects of theirs. If you are already working them a lot, then the players need to get over themselves and start accepting some. It's a balancing act... but so long as you're using compels that make sense in story, they should be fine.


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When something bad happens, sometimes you'll hear Oh, dear! or Oh, dear me!
Why is this? Is it a shorter version of another phrase that makes sense in these situations?
When something bad happens, sometimes you'll hear Oh, dear! or Oh, dear me!
Why is this? Is it a shorter version of another phrase that makes sense in these situations?
Two possibilities I can think of. Firstly, it could be a contraction of:
to avoid blasphemy. This makes sense as it is an admonishment.
Or the other possibility is that 'Dear' was another name for god, like 'the Almighty' or 'the Lord', possibly as a result of the contraction mentioned above.
It crops up rather a lot in Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey/Maturin novels (brilliant on many levels, not least their meticulously researched use of early 19th century language), in phrases like:
Apparently the interjection dates from the 1690s.
Edit: Upon further review, it appears to be a contraction of "Dear Lord!" — an expression of surprise or amazement in the form of a supplication.
Also removed the misleading attribution about unknown origin.
I know that here in Wales, we say "Duw Duw" (pronounced similar to Dee-oo Dee-oo) to mean 'Goodness me!". This literally translates as "God God" ( similar to Italian Dio, or Irish Dia) which would fit with the hypothesis that 'Dear' was a term originally referring to the Latin form for God, i.e Deus.
Interestingly, we just moved to Spain, where people frequently say "Dio Mio!" meaning "My God." It very often sounds like "Dear me!" because they drop the final "o" sound. I wonder if it's a corruption of that?
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5 Inexplicably Creepy Episodes of Family Friendly TV Shows
#2. Tiny Toon Adventures -- The Tiny Toons Get Shitfaced and Die
Via Jungleanimal
Tiny Toon Adventures followed the antics of "the next generation of Looney Tunes," each of them suspiciously resembling a classic Looney Tunes character even though none of them were ever acknowledged as their legitimate children. Other than the implication of parental neglect, the show itself was usually pretty innocent ... except for one episode titled "One Beer," in which Buster Bunny, Plucky Duck and Hampton J. Pig get drunk, steal a police car and die in a horrible accident. It was only aired once and then banned, for some reason.
The episode starts when Buster finds a beer on his fridge and pressures the other kids into drinking it -- when Hampton says they shouldn't, Buster points out that it's OK because "in this episode, we're showing the evils of alcohol," smiling wickedly and growing devil horns. At this point it's unclear if Buster is being ironic or not, since this is exactly the sort of meta-joke the show would normally do.
Like that time Buster talked Babs into "showing the evils of blowjobs."
The kids decide to go drink the beer at the park, and after they each have a sip, they are all instantly trashed.
"You know what we should do? Get our dicks pierced. I love you guys, I really do."
In the next scene, an unspecified amount of time later, the kids are dressed like hobos, have grown stubble and are living in an alley. All because they had one beer. Plucky then finds a cop car parked outside a doughnut shop and decides to steal it -- the others agree that this sounds like a great idea, because their alcoholism has impaired their judgment.
Which also explains the fedora.
The kids end up being chased by the police and escape into a tall mountain ... where Drunky drives off the edge of a cliff and kills everybody. Seriously, we see the car land directly on top of a cemetery, and then the spirits of Buster, Plucky and Hampton ascend to heaven. This is like one of those urban legends you read about a lost Simpsons episode where Bart commits suicide or something, except it's completely real.
So, kids, the lesson here is: drinking, theft and suicide equals an instant ticket into heaven.
In the last ten seconds, we learn that the kids are actually fine: They were just trying to show us that "drinking is uncool" by creating an episode-within-the-episode where they end up dead. But that's kind of the problem -- depending on the age of the viewer, it's either an incredibly dark episode full of tragic death (as the little kids will see it), or else it's an incredibly sarcastic episode making fun of all those other shows that tried to legitimately show the dangers of underage drinking (as it will come off to the older ones). The irony is that either way, we're pretty sure the creative team was wasted when they made it.
#1. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood -- Nuclear Armageddon Reaches the Neighborhood of Make-Believe
Via Popchassid.com
If there's one show on this planet that you could trust to not suddenly unleash abject horror on your children, that's Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Although every show we've mentioned so far was supposed to be family-friendly, they all had something a little unsettling to begin with: Tiny Toons and Family Matters had child abandonment; The Fresh Prince had unseen gang violence; Pokemon was Japanese. Mister Rogers, on the other hand, was a perfectly innocent educational puppet show for preschoolers ... which makes what we're about to show you even more disturbing.
A weeklong storyline called "Conflict" that originally aired in 1983 revolves around the puppet inhabitants of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe descending into an arms race that almost ends in nuclear war. It all starts when King Friday becomes suspicious about some unknown packages that are sent by Corny the Beaver to the City of Southwood. King Friday immediately assumes that the packages are full of bomb parts.
Via Neighborhoodarchive.com
"Look at me like that again, mailman, and you'll be dropping bombs out of your asshole."
King Friday calls Corny, who only makes things worse by mentioning that he's making a million of those parts. The King concludes that Southwood must be manufacturing a million bombs, and reacts by forcing everyone in the kingdom to drop what they are doing to build even more bombs in retaliation.
Via Neighborhoodarchive.com
"I'll pull you out of that one-bunk Hilton and cast you down with the Sodomites. You'll think you've been fucked by a train."
Now, it's pretty obvious that there's been some misunderstanding here, but that doesn't change the fact that King Friday is now forcing his people to build actual bombs. Many of the characters resist his tyrannical orders, but King Friday doesn't let up. He appoints Bob Dog as a spy, has the school teach the children about air-raid shelters and arms his generals with the real bombs, holding them ready in some kind of perverted puppet version of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Finally, Bob Dog reports to King Friday that the parts that Corny was making for Southwood weren't for bombs after all -- they were for a bridge. Everyone celebrates the new peace, while completely forgetting about King Friday's recently acquired nuclear arsenal and apparent willingness to use it.
Via Neighborhoodarchive.com
Days later, King Friday was assassinated by the CIA and replaced by a puppet puppet ruler.
These episodes would have been bad enough if they hadn't been aired at a time when nuclear war seemed like a frighteningly real possibility, but they totally were. To give you an idea of the state of mind kids were in at the time, an article right below the one announcing this storyline says that 75 percent of students thought that they would die from a bombing. All this storyline did was remind them how easy it is for countries to go to war based on a small misunderstanding. If it can happen in Puppet-Land, it can happen anywhere.
That probably explains why these episodes haven't been aired since 1996, and aren't even available on Amazon. What do you have to say for yourself, Mr. Rogers?
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This hill is called the Hill of Love because it is where people from different religions can gather and worship side by side as a symbol of religious and peaceful harmony. Five houses of worship are here, a Catholic Church, a Christian church, a temple, a mosque and Hindu temple built on the second peak. On the first peak is a 53 meter tall white cross which can be seen even from the Boulevard beach in Manado. In addition, this place is believed to be the original place where lived original ancestors of the Minahasa tribe, Toar and Lumimuut. Their faces are carved on the hillside beneath the second peak.
For visitors who wish to stay overnight near this tourist attraction, they can choose either to go to Tondano or Tomohon to stay as it takes only about 30 minutes drive from here. In these cities are available hotels, bungalows and guest houses. Bukit Kasih is two hours' drive from Manado.
If you wish to walk around this compound from the second peak to the first peak, do wear comfortable shoes considering the steep stairs. For those with heart problems, it is not advisable to take the stairs as this requires strong stamina.
To reach the Bukit Kasih peak, you have to walk up 2,435 steep steps or use a safer access to the right side of the monument.
When climbing the stairs, you can see beautiful scenery of sulfuric cauldrons where its hot water is used by the local community to cook corn, beans and eggs.
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Whilst recently on site with a client, it was requested to provide a simple Oracle streams demonstration with documentation that showed how to replicate a single table to another table within the same database and schema.
The attached document gives the scripts and step by step workings for the example. It is aimed for those new to Oracle streams and wanting a simple working example to follow. It should be noted that if looking at replication technology it is recommended to look first at the product Oracle Golden Gate.
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Question: Find all possible continuous functions $f:[0,1]\to \mathbb{R}$ such that $\forall x \in [0,1]$ we have $(f(x))^2=1$
My Work: I truly am not sure how to go about this. I don't quite understand what they mean by find all continuous functions. Any help on explaining what this question is asking would be great. Thanks


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I'm the curious type of person that likes to learn more, do things in less time, do things better, etc. I take that as a personal challenge and I honestly love it. Of course, it IS a challenge, not always easy and it frustrates me sometimes not to be able to apply this, or even force to do other stuff... but that's another subject.
I would love to introduce people to this situation, and knowing that they'll auto improve and they'll get better at what they do, so they'll be better themselves and more valuable to me and to the company (plus, the feeling of self-improvement).
But... how do I motivate someone to self-improve? Would it be ok to start through criticism of mistakes (in a very polite and soft way, of course)? Or just pointing out good things and pretending the wrong ones do not exist?
Also... is this possible for everyone, or there are people who just won't catch it?


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$$ f(x) := x^T A x = 0 $$
where $A \in \mathbb{R}^n$ is symmetric but may be singular and indefinite. The constraint set $C$ is a (nonconvex) cone, since for any $x \in C$ we also have $ux \in C$ for all $u \in \mathbb{R}$.
Given a point $x_0$ not necessarily in $C$, I am seeking a cheap computational procedure for finding a nearby (in the Euclidean sense) point $x \in C$. "Nearby" means something like the distance between $x$ and the closest point $x^* \in C$ can be bounded in terms of the distance between $x_0$ and $C$. "Cheap" means something like $O(n \log n)$ or some (very) small polynomial at worst.
Performing exact line search along the constraint gradient $-2Ax$ is one idea, yielding a single scalar quadratic equation for the shortest time t: $\min_t f(x_0 - 2tAx_0)$. Unfortunately, the roots of this equation are not always real.


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"I hope I'm not interrupting, Saul," said a quiet voice.
"Revan!" Karath sputtered, bolting up from his desk. "Don't shock me like that!"
"My apologies. But I did not wish to be seen," he said, stepping out from behind an open door. "There are many things to discuss, and few with whom I wish to discuss them."
"What do you - " started Karath.
"Not now, Saul. First we must insure we are not overheard," he whispered, while shutting the door to the admiral's office. He reached into the folds of his robes and produced a small black device, half-circular in its shape. He touched several buttons, and then gently pressed the flat side against the wall. A lens flicked open and several red lights flashed softly, before entering a quiet humming as if to say all was well.
"Good, we won't be overheard," said Revan, pulling up a chair for himself in front of Saul's desk. "Now let's move on to important business. Your paperwork can wait," he declared, sweeping it off the desk with a flick of his arm.
Saul raised an eyebrow at the sudden mess he'd have to sort out, but made no comment. "You're being awfully secretive about this," he frowned.
Why doesn't Revan trust my men?
"I am afraid I can make no allowances," said Revan, shaking his masked head. "I cannot be too careful about this."
Saul paused a moment. What is this about?"
"Let me ask you," Revan said, while slowly reaching into his hood as he removed his mask. Saul stifled a gasp; it was traditional for Deralians to keep their faces covered at all times, revealing them only during the most personal of moments. Supposedly, they claimed, one could never know an individual by their appearance. A physical thing like that could only help distort the truth of what a person was really like. It was only by removing such facades entirely that you could truly hope to understand someone. Thus only those who knew someone well enough to discount their physical nature entirely were worthy of seeing it.
Normally Saul would have been honored at such a gesture; but in this case the hairs on the back of his neck could not help but stand up.
He was surprised at Revan's face. It was very lean, with unnaturally pale skin tightly stretched across high cheekbones, giving him a skull-like countenance. A stubbly beard was visible on his chin, while a scar that looked a week or so old jutted down from under his right eye. A grisly trophy of his victory over Mandalore the Ultimate in single combat, no doubt. It was definitely more pleasing to look at than the eyes above it; both were colored a sickly yellow with flecks of crimson at the edges, with whites turned a light grey.
"Saul," Revan asked, "do you trust me?"
The answer was as obvious as two plus two to Karath. "With my life!"
Revan arched an eyebrow and frowned. "Why?"
"I've always thought one of the most important things in a commander is how well he looks after his men. How honorable he is, and how well he inspires loyalty. True loyalty, not something bought with credits. You got us through the wars, Supreme Commander I can recall a dozen battles where I'd have been dead if it weren't for you. You are an honorable man. I'd give my life for yours without a second thought."
Revan's smile sent chills down Saul's back, making the Deralian philosophy on appearances seem all the more true to him.
Revan's face is truly nothing like the rest of him.
"Good. Would you be willing to help me with something, then?"
"I am interested in..." Revan paused, drumming his fingers on the table as he searched for the proper word. "Shall we say, reforms."
Revan nodded. "Indeed. The Republic is in dire need of them." His gaze as he stared at Karath was solemn. "A very dire need."
"I won't say the Senate is entirely uncorrupt, but the system itself is - "
Revan waved his hand, cutting the admiral off. His tone was cold and harsh, dripping with a disdain he had not even used when speaking of the Mandalorians. "Unsound. Ineffective. Outdated. It's more than just corrupt."
"What do you mean?
"It doesn't work and has shown it can't, Revan scowled. It can't stand on its own two feet. Just look at how the Mandalorian Wars went before I showed up. It was pathetic."
Saul nodded sadly. "We were losing. Very badly. The only question was when the Mandalorians would conquer us, not if."
"Well said, Saul. If I hadn't rallied the Jedi to help you, the almighty Republic would have fallen. Don't deny that. What kind of a nation do you serve when it has proven it is not strong enough to defend itself? How do you know the only reason the Republic has lasted so long is simply due to an absence of enemies than its own strength?"
"The Mandalorians were a fearsome people," Saul protested. "We were unprepared for a war on such a scale."
Revan shook his head. "The Republic knew for twenty years that the Mandalorians were conquering planets in the Outer Rim -
But the magnitude of it! We were estimating maybe a few sectors worth of trouble at the most, certainly not one of the largest wars of this millennium!
Don't interrupt me, Saul, Revan hissed. They knew that the Mandalorians enslaved more than just 'a few' sectors. Enough to make them half the size of the Republic, more like! And twice as armed! It was only a matter of time before they chose to attack us - the Republic was the strongest foe they could test themselves against, after all. And instead the Senators chose to stuff their own faces and let the galaxy burn!" he snarled.
"But the resources, Revan..." Saul sighed. "We were still recovering from the war with Exar Kun. We simply couldn't spend vast sums of credits on a fleet that could stay in the drydocks for decades. That would've cost trillions, and completely broken our economy. You can't mobilize for a galactic-scale war only decades after fighting another one."
Revan scoffed. "Apparently we weren't short enough on credits for Senator Braxis to build a fleet of space yachts out of pure gold. We weren't short enough for Senator Mal'sro to convert twelve fortress worlds in the Outer Rim to his private resort worlds. We had enough credits for Senator Tuznor to build dozens of miles-long palaces. There was enough to go around for Senator Nako to buy himself an army's worth of Twi'lek slave girls. The defense budget would've been more than adequate to build a great fleet for the Navy if the Senators hadn't embezzled it. And don't deny it either, Saul. You were on the committee that tried to throw them out of office on those charges."
"The Senate has honest elements too - "
Revan rolled his eyes. "Not honest or powerful enough to stop the corrupt elements. If there are any honest Senators, that they were unable to do anything is only further testament to the sad state the Republic is in."
"I've not been arguing that the Senate is a shining light of honesty and democracy," Saul sighed. "But what can you do about it? It would be preferable if the Republic was in a different state, it already - "
"Institute reforms," Revan smiled. "Radical ones by today's standards."
"But..." Saul couldn't help but feel wary. "The Senate is quite happy where it is. They wouldn't pass. What will ensure they are instituted?"
"Approximately one third of the Republic's armed forces."
Saul thought to himself, his eyes widening in shock,
this is treason of the highest order. The Senate would have our heads.
"So you're essentially proposing a coup?"
Revan smiled.
Could we succeed?
Saul thought to himself. With Revan as their leader they might have a chance... He'd made short work of the Mandalorians that had nearly destroyed the Republic. They'd failed there, and he had succeeded - perhaps he could succeed again where they were still failing? Revan was no mere general, after all - he was a leader the likes of which Saul had never before seen, with a charisma equaled only by his military genius. Would a galaxy under such a ruler be a bad thing?
Of course not,
Saul thought.
There might be bloodshed at first, but Revan could do so much good in the long term.
If I accpet I'll be betraying the oath I swore, to defend the Republic with my life. Yet why would I throw it away for this man without a second thought, and scoff if asked to do so for the Republic?
"Remember why you took that oath, Saul," Revan said, as if reading his thoughts.
Saul hesitated.
I wanted to make a difference,
he thought.
I wanted to help create order and peace.
But... he swore an oath because he believed in what the Republic stood for, not the Republic itself. What if something else could better uphold those ideals? What if, worse, the Republic was now a threat to them? And if the Republic no longer upheld the principles that were the very reason he'd sworn to serve it for, why was he still doing it?
How obvious. I never believed in the Republic,
he thought.
Only what it stood for. Isn't that why we believe in things in the first place? Because of what they stand for?
That's what's beneath the surface of all loyalties. No one is loyal to anything, only the principles they stand for.
Saul stared at Revan. Surfaces could be deceptive, indeed. The Republic looked glorious on the outside, and was riddled with corruption if you ever took a closer look. This man's face looked liked something out of a horror holovid, yet he had done so much despite his surface appearances.
Perhaps I've never taken a close enough look at things... But now's the time.
He took a deep breath. "Count me in."
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