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The 6 Craziest Ways Creators Hid Themselves in Video Games
When we're playing video games, we don't really think much about the people who make them. If you hate a movie, you may say, "Curse you, Michael Bay!" and if you hate a book, you'll probably think, "Why did I buy Steve-O's autobiography again?" But if you hate a game, it's usually the company that published it that gets the blame. And they get the credit if it's great.
So maybe it's no surprise that game developers come up with devious and quite frankly insane ways to insert their faces in hidden spots of the game. What's surprising is that players managed to find them at all.
#6. God of War -- Hit the Statues 400 Times and You Can Phone the Creator of the Game (and the Main Character)
Via Aidanmoher.com
God of War for PlayStation 2 follows a Spartan named Kratos who murders his way up the ladder until he can literally become the God of War, ending the game by climbing up Mount Olympus to assume the throne of Ares. There's a developer Easter egg here, but you sure as hell have to work for it.
As you walk to the throne at the end of the game, you may notice two statues standing on each side, but they appear to be nothing but part of the scenery: If you hit them, nothing happens. Well, it turns out that you're simply not hitting them enough times -- you actually can destroy them, it's just that it takes somewhere between 200 and 400 hits to do that. For each statue.
"Yes, this is absolutely the most worthwhile thing to do with my godly power."
And then, if you succeed in not getting bored with the mindless task and actually destroy both statues, the screen will show a code that, once decrypted, turns out to be a toll-free phone number -- the game is from 2005, but the phone was still working as recently as 2010 (although for all we know it might be a Taco Bell by now). So what happens if you call there? You get a recorded message from Kratos himself, who congratulates you for finding the secret:
Halfway through the message, though, the call is hijacked by the game's writer and director, David Jaffe, much to Kratos' confusion and irritation. Jaffe starts off praising you for wasting your time whaling on those statues for an eternity, but then decides you actually "kinda suck" if you simply looked the secret up online, or had it carelessly spoiled for you by some comedy website. Considering that most sane players are likely to whack the statues a few times, shrug their shoulders and move on to the ending, anyone who did find it on their own probably spent the entire game pounding on every piece of scenery for an hour.
Much like Kratos himself. Hiyooooo!
Finally, Kratos gets fed up with Jaffe's talk of "games" and "sequels" and murders him for experience orbs. Really, it was the only way that conversation could have ended.
#5. Doom II: Hell on Earth -- The Real Boss Is John Romero
Via Doomworld.com
Doom revolutionized gaming back in the '90s by following a very basic formula: drop an unnamed space marine in the middle of a horde of demons and boom, instant classic. One of the architects of Doom's success was programmer John Romero, who also had a hand in creating classics like Wolfenstein 3D and Quake.
Via Escapist Magazine
Not to mention hits like "Girl You Know It's True" and "Blame It on the Rain."
Apparently, Romero always had a bit of a reputation as an egomaniac: That might explain why either he or someone else at id Software decided to include him at a crucial part of Doom II in what is arguably the most important developer cameo ever created.
See, at the end of Doom II, the final boss is a bionic demon goat the size of a Walmart that you're supposed to kill by firing carefully timed rockets into his brain through the hole in his forehead that he was nice enough to leave open for you.
"You're welcome, asshole."
When you first enter the level, you can hear what sounds like a warped demonic chant, possibly the boss threatening to cut off your balls if you come any closer. However, it turns out that if you reverse that noise, it's actually a voice (presumably Romero's) saying "To win the game, you must kill me, John Romero" -- which is exactly how you beat the boss. Right behind the aforementioned giant demon goat, in a place that's usually inaccessible, there's this:
"Duckface. We meet again."
Yes, that's John Romero's severed head impaled on a spike. Every time you fire a missile into the demon's brain-hole and it explodes, you're actually inflicting damage on Romero until he dies and the game ends. Or, alternatively, you can type the cheat code "idclip," run through the goat and punch John Romero in the face until the room explodes.
"This is how happy employees usually compliment their bosses, right?"
Even the demonic howls of pain you hear every time you damage the boss are allegedly Romero's, so apparently he was the real boss all along -- the whole giant goat face was just a front, and Doom II is in fact the most disturbing Wizard of Oz adaptation ever.
#4. Chrono Trigger -- Win the Game Super Fast, Attend a Developer Party at the End of Time
Via Gamesdbase.com
One of the things that made Chrono Trigger for SNES a classic was the fact that there were multiple ways to finish it and multiple endings depending on how fast you did it. And if you beat the game fast enough, your ultimate reward was an ... interesting appearance from the people who made it.
See, another neat aspect of Chrono Trigger was that after you finished the game, it allowed you to carry your equipment and stats to a new one, thus letting you murder those early level enemies just by breathing next to them (probably). However, you could also use this to take on the final boss before you're supposed to, which is still incredibly difficult, since you're only playing with one or two characters instead of your whole team.
"It's a cash bar, though. Because screw you."
If you manage to kick his ass anyway, you'll reach a place at the "end of time" that's populated by what appears to be a bunch of characters and enemies from the game ... until you talk to them and find out that they're actually the developers, and this is some sort of huge endgame party.
"You won! Now go and fuck yourself!"
And then, after you've mingled for a while and talked to every single person (there are like 30 people at least), a final VIP room is unlocked, where you find these guys:
"Are you the prostitute we ordered?"
These turn out to be the heads of the development team, and they each have something important to tell you: Character artist Akira Toriyama sends a message to his kids ...
Messages that they'll never see because, ironically, they suck at video games.
Composer Nobuo Uematsu gives you a backward message that might make you reconsider your life choices if you've made it this far ...
And he's a floating mask, snapping fingers -- did we mention that?
Supervisor Yuji Horii leaves you with a riddle ...
Holy crap, he predicted the Olympics like 17 years in advance!
And finally, supervisor Hironobu Sakaguchi tells you that since you "blew through the game so fast," they've adjusted the credits to your speed -- next thing you know, the end credits scroll past the screen really fast and the game is over. Don't feel bad for the people listed there, though, because you just spent 10 minutes in an elaborate credits sequence.


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One lab I was in was paranoid about keeping it in a foil-wrapped conical tube; my current lab leaves it out on the bench (and it works fine for staining gels). It's the same company/concentration in both cases, but this second lab uses it up much faster.
Good question.
I found this reference in "Molecular Biology: A Project Approach"
Ethidium bromide fluoresces when it is in a hydrophobic environment, such as when its stuck between two base pair stacks in DNA- water quenches its fluorescence.
I also found this article citing the fact that sunlight can break down EtBr but only when a catalyst of iron and titanium dioxide is there to catalyze the reaction.
A lot of the original characterization of EtBr as a stain is very old, so I couldn't access it directly online... It looks like the compound itself is pretty stable, but UV can, somehow interact with it when its bound to DNA to bleach it out.
In my current lab we just leave the bottle out (but use it up pretty quickly as we have 20+ people). But we do buy 5 bottles at a time and leave them in the same spot as the bottle that is in use (inside a hood, with the light always turned on) and we've never had a problem with degradation/expiration

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I installed oregano for studying electronics circuits. But whenever I press simulate button it says:
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Can you believe woot! sold, and met3ora bought, a Bacon Coffin (with $5 shipping)?
In a true stroke of bacon meme death genius, woot! offered up one of the few, the proud, the ridiculously expensive J&D's Bacon Coffin at half price, causing thousands of wooters to laugh and groan and then cringe at the inevitable wait for the product to expire... But then, in what can only be called a move of absolute staggering brilliance, wooter @met3ora stepped in and scooped that coffin right up! Was it the thought of going to the grave in a steel coffin with a premium bacon interior and exterior? Was it the 50% off sale? Was it the complimentary bacon air freshener that J&D's throws in? Was it the $5 shipping? I would LOVE to know!
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I was expecting this coffin to be oversized. It would seem the death of someone obsessed with bacon that much would necessitate such a thing.
I'm about 99% positive that this "met3ora" person is a fake and just a name woot made up to finish off the woot off with a metaphorical death of the woot-off. It's the only rational explanation. They put it up and quickly "sold" it so that no one could actually buy it, this way the bacon coffin just sits there and the woot-off is "dead".
I think that with a little imagination @met3ora could be confused with an anagram of hormel. Just sayin'.
The user name should have been 3MTA3
I sure do miss members.woot.com. The best we have now is Google. This mystery bacon-lover has left tracks in one other place on the Woot sites: as the last to purchase this paella pan last Thursday. Infer what you will.
Whomever it is, they beat me to it. I haven't splurged in so long. That was supposed to be mine.
I think I found my new hero.....
I can just see the thought process of @met3ora now: "Okay! I'm determined to be the first sucker on the very next item. I don't care what the item is or what it costs, as God as my witness, I'm gonna be the first to buy it! Ooo! Here it is! Seriously? A bacon coffin? $1,499.99...dang it..." clicks the ridiculously large button
if he used his @jumbowoot! coupon, he could have received free shipping!
@supersox: the next item should be monkeys
Wow, didn't believeit was a real item until I searched it on Google and saw a bunch of articles on it. Apparently it was listed for sale aroundprilfirst so everyone thought it was a joke until j&d ppl said laterthat itwas really for sale.apparrntlyitcomes with a Bacon air Freshener. I don't doubt that soot reallysold one.
**sorry for my fail typing, posting from my tablet and I don't feel like going back and fixiing all the mistakes
Now if only he fills it up with years of Woot-Off! bacon lollipops...
People are dying to get in
At least it wasn't a refurb!
Ah Woot, fulfilling some one's bizarre last wish of "I want to be wrapped in bacon when I go..."
imagine what goes through the UPS guy's mind as he delivers this item
I guess if you had high cholesterol and died of a heart attack it would be appropriate. People could put bacon on your coffin instead of flowers!
Anybody here a Linkin Park fan?
Was the first thing I thought when I remember the name.
But, in the end.. it doesn't even matter.
Absurd. Even more so because it's probably a ruse.
I say it's the guy's couch. He can lie in here to watch TV, munch on his fave bacon snacks and, well, if he drops off at some point, he's in the right place.
You've got to admit it is a drop-dead price!!!
@dracodrago: I choose to believe in the validity of this sale... that someone, somewhere out there had the balls to make such a purchase... beyond that, without debating back and forth about it. This my friends, is a real American hero! lol
site:http://www.woot.com ") met3ora"
Shows nothing beyond the coffin purchase. I too believe it was a ruse to kill the bacon meme, but it was also very clever.
@dracodrago: I agree with you especially since he doesn't appear to have any stats.
@Met3ora has quite a presence on the interwebs. It seems like they are all the same person.
I think that @met3ora just doesn't obsess over Woot like the rest of us and picked up the coffin on a lark. $1499 for an impulse buy with limited use is a bit excessive, but the world takes all types.
People from Massachusetts are weird.Oh,i'm from Massachusetts.
Ive always wondered about those things. Often a single item comes up for a million $, several times it's been a BOC.
Met's on a few other websites. Honestly, this makes me want to ask everyone I know from Mass what really goes on up there.
@dracodrago: Watch out, or we could end up with a witch hunt, like the one @cowboydann started.
I'm pretty sure we'd never make a fake account to block other people from making purchases. What would even be the point of that? If you wanted to give us 1500 dollars, why would we decide to make it harder for you to do that?
@slydon: As long as we can still enjoy lunch on the awesome parking lot!
As I posted in the bacon coffin thread last night, Bacon Coffin posted on their facebook page yesterday that woot bought one bacon coffin around 6PM woot time (Bacon Coffin is apparently based in Seattle, so 4PM for Seattle woot HQ/Bacon Coffin).
Given that timing - relatively late in the woot-off - I suspect that woot staff had much fun with this yesterday.
@lumpthar: We wouldn't want another one of those. That was ugly.


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In this question, the OP asks about the problem of his wife's fingers being too short to cover the guitar's fretboard entirely. Similarly, my wife wants to start learning piano and her fingers are also short. I am just wondering if there is anything negative related to short fingers and playing the piano.
Naturally, someone with small fingers won't be able to make the larger reaches in some pieces. Some stretches aren't reachable even by people with average size hands. Not every piece is for everyone. In particular there are some Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff pieces requiring stretches of an octave or more (though I couldn't tell you which ones offhand). Rachmaninoff could reach a 13th!
That said, your wife should have no problem starting out. As she advances there may be some pieces she has difficulty with; these can either be skipped or modified. This question may be helpful here: Well-known composers or piano pieces generally suitable for someone with small hands?
I personally know a wonderful pianist and composer with small hands, so it's certainly possible to do well in spite of it. As noted in the answers to the question above there are famous composers and players with small hands.
As for other potential problems, I guess that it may be easier to strain small hands. Stretching is important as well as taking appropriate breaks, and not trying to force more than one can handle.
Music is not like sports, where a 5-foot-tall basketball player or 7-foot-tall jockey will have difficulty making money at it.
With small hands and short fingers probably won't be asked to play the Rachmaninoff concerti with the Berlin Philharmonic, but let's face it, how many of us ARE asked to play the Rachminoff concerti with the Berlin Philharmonic?
For most kinds of music -- jazz, rock, pop, blues, country -- small hands don't matter. You can play the chords any way you want -- all spread out, or all bunched up within an octave. For these kinds of music, playing all the notes as written is not important; conveying the feeling is what's important.
Most classical pieces from Mozart onwards have octaves and will be difficult to play as written for someone who can't span a full octave. You can still play them recognizeably, leaving notes out. Most listeners who aren't themselves pianists will not even notice the difference. You won't win any competitions, but then if you're in music for the competitions, you probably should be in sports instead.
Trivia: Josef Hofmann had very small hands, but that didn't stop him from being one of the greatest pianists of all time.
My grandfather was a pianist with extremely large hands (I don't know what he could reach), but he always said the pianist with small hands were lucky. He felt his large hands were a disadvantage and he had to work a lot harder to get them to do what was needed. Reaching chords is just one small aspect of what is needed to play well.
I would not say there's anything negative associated with having short fingers or small hands. Alicia DeLarrocha, easily one of the greatest pianists of all time, was famous for having small hands.
She increased the flexibility of her hands through specially developed stretching exercises which I may have a copy of (email me, and I may be able to get a hold of them.) I don't know if they're available in print or not.
In any case, your wife can always just arpeggiate chords that are too big to play. Lots of pianists have to do it, you just have to learn to be clever about hiding the fact that this is happening. Break chords up into groups instead of just "rolling" them. Also, experiment with arpeggiating before and on the beat. Keep in mind that arpeggiating on the beat will cause a tempo distortion.
If she can get up to an octave, she should have no problems playing at all. (I can reach a 12th, and I still have to arpeggiate chords from time to time :).)
With less than an octave span, you are going to have problems for quite a bit of literature.
There are a few keyboard types friendlier to smaller hand spans, but you won't find most of them, with the exception of Jankó keyboards, on a piano or grand piano. But that's not really an option when you don't play in a "bring your own piano" setting.
Note that the largest key width (and the only more or less standardized one) tends to be the grand piano, and that's what's used in concerts. Upright pianos might be slightly smaller, but when you are going for concert play, you have to scale a grand piano.
Smaller keyboards tend to be on harpsichords. They don't have the dynamic possibilities of a piano but still have a percussive character. Moving over to aerophones, you get harmoniums. You lose the percussive character but have a better chance of actually dragging your own instrument around given a reasonably sized convertible car and willing helpers.
Of course, the next smaller size is an accordion. Chromatic button(!) accordions with "converter mechanics" like a bayan can actually be used for executing an astonishingly large range of classical piano music while making do with much smaller hand spans. You can also "easily" carry them to performances as they are "compact" and don't tend to weigh more than something like 16kg. Slightly lighter than a typical electronic stage piano but less bulky.
However, the lack of per-note dynamics and percussive character make a lot of difference regarding the resulting character. There are a few recordings of the "Wohltemperiertes Klavier" and "Goldbergvariationen" by Bach around that are worth checking out and work out pretty well. Mozart tends to work out pretty nicely, too, and I'm rather impressed with how Grieg turns out (no idea whether anybody except myself is trying him, and as opposed to Mozart or, say, Strauss or Waldteufel or Scott Joplin, you definitely need converter type accordion for Grieg as the standard accordion bass chords are entirely useless for him). However, I should think that stuff like Rachmaninoff or Chopin make for quite a worse match.
One reason is that the left hand is separated from the right hand and the left hand buttons are less suited for virtuoso play than the right hand ones.
At any rate: the break-even point for seriously thinking about picking a different instrument altogether is likely whether or not you are able to stretch to an octave on a grand piano. Anything less will severely impact your choice of music and literature.
It is generally not much of a problem if you can reach an octave with the pinkie and thumb.
You can compensate somewhat for small hands and lack of reach with fingering changes, such has using the other hand for one of the notes, and occasionally leaving out a note.
I have discovered that Franz Liszt had significantly larger hands than I do!


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I've heard from a Japanese native speaker friend of mine that both 間違う and 間違える are correct usage, but he wasn't able to explain the difference in nuance between them. Is there a difference, and if so, what is it?
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When we say that someone makes a mistake about something, we can use both 間違う and 間違える and there is no difference in meaning or nuance. For example, 計算を間違えた and 計算を間違った mean the same thing.
[Added remark: As repecmps pointed out in a comment, some people consider this usage of 間違う as incorrect. Someone states that this usage of 間違う was originally incorrect, but I do not know if this statement is true or not.]
When we say that something is in a wrong state, we can only use 間違う. Examples from Daijisen with my English translations:
○ この手紙は住所が間違っている。 (このてがみはじゅうしょがまちがっている。) This letter has an incorrect address on it.
○ 間違った考え方 (まちがったかんがえかた) a wrong way of thinking
(○ denotes correct examples and × denotes incorrect examples.)
The answer is a simple point of grammar:
間違う is an intransitive verb. With no direct object, the particle を cannot be used.
間違える is a transitive verb, with a direct object (use of を possible as well as other particles)
According to the chat discussion with Tsuyoshi I understand that recent dictionaries allow the use of 間違う with a direct object, making all his examples correct.
More details in this link.
But as a grammar enthusiast, I think that using the rule above, you will always be correct.


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What is the proper way to connect two light bulbs in a circuit? in series or in parallel and why?
My thought is that it's better to hook them in parallel, since if we take into account Ohm's Law, the sum of their resistance will be less than when connected in series therefore the battery will last longer.
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I have an ensemble of homology models of a protein, and I now wish to remove those models which have backbone clashes. I could obviously check by eye but this is subjective and probably will not be accepted for publication.
What is the best (reproducible) method to determine if a particular protein model contains a backbone clash?


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Boston Conservatory to Honor Tommy Tune at 10/16 Performance
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2010 Tony Best Actor Nominee and Boston Conservatory Alumnus Chad Kimball from hit Broadway show Memphis to Perform
BOSTON, MA –The Boston Conservatory, the oldest performing arts conservatory in the nation, today announces Tommy Tune as the honoree and special guest at the celebratory performance commemorating the grand opening of the "Hemenway Project," a $32 million, 16-month-long renovation of the Conservatory's theater building, Saturday, October 16th.
Known as one of the most prolific theater men of the Twentieth Century, Tommy Tune has enchanted audiences for the past 50 years with his charisma, vision and innovation. He has won nine Tony Awards for Broadway favorites such as My One and Only, Grand Hotel, The Will Rodgers Follies, Nine and Seesaw. Mr. Tune's talents extend beyond the stage, however. His film credits include Hello Dolly, The Boyfriend, Mimi Bluette, Fiore Del Mio Giardino and Hollywood Blvd. He has been honored with a star on the legendary Hollywood Walk of Fame. Throughout his career he has toured extensively in productions of Irma La Douce, Seesaw, Tommy Tune Tonight, My One and Only, Bye, Bye, Birdie and his act with The Manhattan Rhythm Kings.
On several occasions, he collaborated with the late Thommie Walsh, a fellow Broadway director, choreographer and actor who attended The Boston Conservatory in the 1970s. Mr. Tune was recipient of the The National Medal of Arts, the Country's highest honor for artistic achievement. This year, Mr. Tune marks his 50th year in show business with his latest tour, Steps in Time, A Broadway Biography in Song and Dance.
"With Tommy Tune's career success, versatility and longevity, he models the talent, drive and work ethic our students aspire to achieve; we congratulate him on 50 phenomenal years in the industry," says Richard Ortner, President of The Boston Conservatory.
The Saturday evening performance --- which will feature a wide range of music dance and theatrical numbers performed by Conservatory students, faculty and guests --- will include a special return performance by Boston Conservatory Alumnus and 2010 Tony Best Actor Nominee Chad Kimball from hit Broadway show Memphis, winner of the 2010 Tony Award for Best Musical. "I am honored to be a part of the grand opening event of the Hemenway Project," says Kimball. "Approaching 400 shows doing Memphis on Broadway, I've used every tool that was imparted to me through my education at The Boston Conservatory. I know this new facility will allow current and future students to learn and practice their craft on their path to successful careers as the next generation of highly trained artists - taught at the best conservatory training program the world over."
The Conservatory's Opening Note! performance --- running October 13-16 --- will also include: Former Boston Symphony Orchestra Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein performing with The Boston Conservatory's Hemenway Strings (honors ensemble): Program: Winter" from the Four Seasons Op. 8, No. 4 Alwin Nikolais's visual masterpiece, "Tensile Involvement," reconstructed by Alberto del Saz and performed by current students; Fully-staged scenes from Puccini's La Rondine performed by current students A premier of new classical ballet work by dance faculty member Gianni DiMarco and performed by current students; Musical theater numbers from The Last Five Years, Sister Act, Curtains and The Wiz performed by current students; Full schedule of performances and events as follows: WEDNESDAY, October 13 8pm: Performance ($35 general admission; $25 Conservatory alumni and students THURSDAY, October 14 8pm: Performance ($35 general admission; $25 Conservatory alumni and students) FRIDAY, October 15 12:30pm: Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony (FREE and open to the public) 1-2:30pm: Guided tours of new building (FREE and open to the public) SATURDAY, October 16 12:30-2:30pm: Guided tours of new building (FREE and open to the public) 8pm: Performance featuring special guests Chad Kimball and Tommy Tune followed by Champagne & Dessert Reception ($150 general admission; $110 Boston Conservatory alumni & students)
All events take place at 31 Hemenway Street, Boston. Tickets can be ordered through The Boston Conservatory box office at (617) 912-9222.
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I've made an iPhone application that is a goal-setting workshop (that is - it doesn't just track goals - it helps users to decide upon them). That is quite a novel approach I think.
There is a New Year approaching so there will be many articles on New Year's resolutions (and in some cases - goal setting applications). I would like to let journalists know about my app.
I have already prepared a press release package and sent it to the app review sites. What more can I do?


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I have three circles. One is at $(0,0)$ and has radius $n$, another has is at $(1,0)$ and has a radius $m$, and the third is at $(0.5, \sqrt{0.75}))$ and has a radius of $o$. All of the radius values are integers.
How can I compute where these three circles intersect, for any value of $n$, $m$, and $o$? Edit: The values here are outputs, not inputs- that is, I want to determine possible values for $n$, $m$, $o$, not give them. For example, there are obviously no solutions with $n = m = o = 1$.
Bonus points for any solution that can solve for more than three circles under the same constraints.
Sorry: I want to know how to find the point(s) at which the three circles meet, if there are any.
Edit: My mistake! The initial positions for the circles actually violate the original constraint. The second circle is positioned at $(1, 0)$.
I appear to have asked a question of significantly higher difficulty than I had first imagined. My apologies.
$$x^2 + y^2 = n^2$$ $$x^2 + y^2 - 2x + 1 = m^2$$ $$1 - x - \sqrt3y + y^2 + x^2= o^2$$
$$-n^2 = 1 - 2x - m^2 = 1 - \sqrt3y - x - o^2 = -x^2 - y^2$$ $$ n^2 = m^2 + 2x - 1 = o^2 + \sqrt3y + x = x^2 + y^2$$
This places a number of simultaneous conditions if $m$, $n$, and $o$ are to be integral. I don't see how any
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working now. anyone have an opinion on this? My backup netbook needs to be just that, and I think this Asus fits my needs, esp. a non-furb
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Context: I have two cameras, the canon 50D (15mgx) and the Canon 7D (18mgx). I wanted to know if by using a sigma 8mm 3.5 on a R10 if there will any differences. The R10 set up proposed for -2.5 degree with four shots is 2.95. To test this I have repeated the same steps to get the picture and same software steps. The tripod+the lens on the R10 will not move and I will just switch the camera. The software steps using PTGui (latest beta version)will be simple, 1- align image 2- optimize by pressing F5 3-create at print size 4Mb than resize in photoshop to 1600X800 for each.
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An exhibition of sculptures by John Chamberlain from the "Gondola" series
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Athough Chamberlain's free-standing sculptures and wall reliefs have long been recognized for their singular importance in contemporary sculpture, the "Gondolas," a series of elongated, low floor pieces, have remained largely unknown and represent a key group of his sculptures. The exhibition will include seven of the total of thirteen "Gondolas" as well as the large-scale related sculpture "Dooms Day Flotilla" (1982). This exhibition will be the first presentation of these works as a series, as well as their first exhibition in New York.
Concurrent with Dia's exhibition, an outdoor sculpture "Memorial to Lost Souls at Sea" (1980) will be sited at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island in cooperation with Dia Art Foundation. Built in the nineteenth century as a home for retired sailors, Snug Harbor is now a center for the arts and cultural activities. The sculpture will be sited on the formal oval lawn of the Center overlooking New York harbor.
A catalogue documenting the entire "Gondola" series, "Dooms Day Flotilla", and "Memorial to Lost Souls at Sea" will be forthcoming in the fall of 1990. These works are documented in the Chamberlain Catalogue Raisonne of the Sculpture. 1954-1985 but not as a complete series.
Chamberlain is widely regarded as among the most important living American sculptors. He studied at Black Mountain College and began working in the mid- 1950s. His work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions. His last one-person museum show in New York was the 1972 survey at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. An installation of his sculptures was shown from 1982-1985 by Dia Art Foundation at 67 Vestry Street, New York. A retrospective of his sculptures was organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles in 1986. A one-person exhibition was shown at The Menil Collection in Houston in 1987. This spring, on April 3, Chamberlain will be inducted as a member of the American Academy of Art and Letters here in New York.
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I just found this App (Battery Repair) on the Google Play Store, my question is how can it make my battery last longer. What optimazions are they doing? Has anyone tested this tool, does it work?
No app can "optimize" or "maintain" the battery in any way as it can't get the necessary access to the hardware -- probably not even if it required root. This app explicitly advertises that it does not. Anyway, the manufacturer's engineers surely have already implemented all the necessary optimizations. There is no way that the app's developers knows anything useful about every phone's charging circuitry and battery that the engineers don't.
In short, there is no way this app does anything useful at all. (It might even be malware, but I don't get that impression in this case).
(Note: the following is probably not true)
The only thing an app can do (on a rooted phone) is to recalibrate the battery. If the battery is miscalibrated the OS might think that it is as good as empty and force a shutdown although there is still a useful amount of charge left. One app that does this is the aptly named Battery Calibration.
I installed this app yesterday with some uncertainty and it detected (and fixed) a number of problems. I then found this thread which made my suspicions even more so. Today I ran the app and it detected zero problems, not surprising since the battery presumably got no new problems overnight. Out of curiosity I set the date to a month in advance and ran the test again, and suddenly there are eight 'cells' with low charge and two inactive! So obviously all this app does is check when it was last run and the longer ago it was the more 'faulty' cells it throws up in a random pattern to make it look like it's found 'faults' which it can then fix.
Don't waste your time, I assume the only thing this does is provide ad revenue to the developer.
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I love free cookbooks. I got this one, looked through it and suddenly in the Kimchi Fried Rice recipe I found a curious ingredient. I'm tempted to write "Upvote when you see it" but passing a laugh is good enough.
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Right now, this is free only for Prime members, under Amazon's Prime membership.
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Roy Makaay was averaging well over a goal a game for me before i sold him for what seemed a ridiculous amount.
David Villa is right up there as well.
Roy Makaay was averaging well over a goal a game for me before i sold him for what seemed a ridiculous amount.
David Villa is right up there as well.
Just finished the 2032/33 season with my Oxford side on FM2010. The goals are drying up for 37 year old Felipe but he still managed to score in both the Champions League and FA Cup Final wins and notch up another 15 league goals. He also signed a new contract during the season and now has one year left till he hangs up his boots. He didn't feature for Brazil, depsite being called up for several squads..
Felipes record under me now stands at:
793 club games / 956 club goals (516 league games / 600 league goals)
169 International games / 122 International goals
Grand total since i signed him, including internationals:
962 games / 1078 goals
Hopefully he can break 1000 appearances in his final year..
Last edited by dave byrd; 14-12-2011 at 23:58.
i think it was CM3 using the legendary diablo tactic with Andri Sigporsson!! would score about 90 goals a season! those were the days!
Theo Walcott as a lone poacher averages over a goal a game for me. In the 2012/13 season he got ~60 goal in 45 games.
Seydou Doumbia...I bought him once so far on FM12 and he just couldn't stop scoring, I hate myself right now because I deleted that save and now I'm trying to acquire him again and CSKA Moscow playing hardball, but I will get him by the end on the season and hopefully have a striker that can score in consectutive games.
Not yet my most prolific by any means, but he will be as I'll never ever let him go. Part of the first season's batch of regen's, "Possibly one of the best players of his generation". Everything was just right. Model professional. Local lad, born in Bergamo. Favourite staff? Me! And he's a great player. To make it even better his influence started of high and has increased since, so he'll be captain and club legend.
That is, unless someone steals him away. But they won't!
I have just wrapped up my 22 year career save on FM08 and have two Colchester legends to share Thanner holds the league scoring record but Blanchet is only 26 years old and 14 goals behind.
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Can't find a more recent picture. He ended up with 20s everywhere and... sucked. At his very best he notched less than a goal per game. He was a beast for Brazil, but couldn't perform anywhere near the player he was brought in to replace.
Tunnicliffe ended up with over 1000 club goals in under 700 matches with nearly 150 international goals to go with them, but again no screenshot.
danny welbeck on my blackpool save, won golden boot in the premier league AND champions league, got 50 in total for from every competition
In FM2010...
Probably this guy before he got a major injury and went bald. Lost count of the number of times he ran from the half way line around an entire team before scoring.
There was also Álvaro González Ruiz who is by far the best regen I've seen in one of my saves. Would have scored more but played in lots of different positions (cutting in from RWB was effective) because of his ridiculously good all round stats.
In 2012 so far it has been Declan McManus, who scored 13 in 16 last season.
(props to deadpanda for the visual attributes btw)
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Current Brazilian newgen is, hands-down, the greatest player I've ever had.
Has 101 goals in 121 games for me across all competitions (entering his fourth season with the club)
I shudder to think of what his stats would be if I played him in the minor cup competitions...
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Good to see that this thread is still alive and well!
Michele Paolucci for AC Siena in FM11
this player was basically my one man team
not insanely prolific in goalscoring, but look at his assists and avg rating. and look at the (lack of) quality of my other players. i won the Champions League with this squad believe it or not, and it's all mainly due to the performances of Paolucci. he was my RVP/DiNatale, one-man team
I have a goal poacher who despite bagging between 35-50 goals a season, NEVER SMILES. It is hilarious. He must be one hell of a serious customer! Superb morale, performing well, week in week out, but you wouldn't know it from the look on his face!
LOL, any one else come across a dead serious player like this?
Got better every season gone by but in the earlier season's was playing in AMC/AMR positions rather than up front. Ony this and most of the season before has he been playing in the striker position.
Only problem is though atm he is the only person scoring my next highest scorer this season is on 6, where it is normally more spread among them all.
Season 2033/34 completed with my Oxford side on FM10. Highlights were that Oxford won their 16th Premier League title and their 9th League Cup under my stewardship.
My 38 year old Brazilian striker Felipe scored 32 goals in 40 starts and 14 sub appearances in all competitions. 20 league goals was a decent effort from him and an improvement on the 15 he scored in the Premier League last term. Stats still look good too despite his advancing years:
Felipe's league career stats. 18 seasons now played at Oxford:
Felipe has now appeared a record 844 times in all competitions for Oxford. He is 27 games short of breaking Engin Bekdemir's league appearance record of 578 for the club though, but he will hopefully eclipse that next season.
Felipe's record under me now stands at:
844 club games / 988 club goals (551 league games / 620 league goals)
169 International games / 122 International goals
Grand total since I signed him, including internationals for Brazil:
1013 games / 1110 goals
Nice to get him over the 1000 career appearances barrier. His next target for the new season is to score the 12 goals he needs to have 1000 goals for Oxford. The next goal he scores will also make him Oxford's oldest ever goal scorer, another record currently held by Engin Bekdemir.
Of the 36,000 players in my game database the oldest are aged 39, of which there are only 10 or so who are all goalkeepers. Next there are roughly 40 players aged 38 and of the 12 outfield 38 year olds only 2 others are strikers, so surely time is almost up on Felipe's amazing career.
I'm expecting the 2034/35 season to be his last but with a player as legendary as Felipe, who knows….
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Oh please make sure he cracks the big 1000 with you. That'd be sweet.
My best striker is a player called Rondinelli. He has scored 157 goals in 167 games in just under five seasons in the year 2037. He is only 22 years of age! I hope he continues to perform to such a high level.
Leandro Damiao.
First full season he hit 32 goals in 36 games.
This season he's hit 12 in 6. Epic player.
FM12 1st season (2011/12) Messi: 59 apps-90 goals 22 assists and 28 Man of the match awards
Leandro Damiao 36 goals in 38 games. Blitzed Adebayor's 56 in 62 on 08 by about 0.04 GPG.
Loved reading back through this thread!
Any new prolific striker heroes from FM12?
Someone posted one with 159 goals in a single season, thats the most I have seen - a couple other people posted others with 100+ from FM2012. I got one with 73 in a single season as Weston super-mare!
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Darren Bent on my Aston Villa save. He scored 63 goals from 40 Appearances (Including 7 as a substitute) last season. He's been injured at the start of this season which has given a chance for Yaya Sanogo to play (He scored 5 in my last game :P).
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This is my best effort for FM12, 56 goals in 88 appearances. I have only played the Norwegian leagues this version so its not on par with some of the other players in here!:o
Having an adventure in Australia on this one, and while I do have a striker who I think probably deserves 1000 goals (and would be my first ), I'm not actually sure if we play enough games in a season for him to do it in. He was second choice for his first season, and for him to get 50 goals a year for 20 years would be such a challenge. From a slightly selfish point of view, I'm only disappointed that I bought him in, rather than him being through the academy.
His best season to date was last year, he scored 45 in 40 in all competitions, mainly because we battered some lesser Asian teams in the Champions League. He can grab a goal a game in the 27 league games, he's so much better than anyone else in this division. I've got him playing as a lone poacher, ahead of two winger and an advanced playmaker. Such is the quality of the defenders in Australia, that he can just drop deep, collect a short pass, then run through a few players to poke it home. At age 21, he has 143 goals in 144 games for club and country.
Thankfully, he lists both me and the club as favoured now, so hopefully he won't demand his justified move to the big leagues.
Season 2034-35 completed on Football Manager 2010 and sadly, at the tender age of 39, my legendary Brazilian striker Felipe has finally called time on his illustrious playing career and hung up his boots after 19 glorious years with my Oxford side to take up his new role as my assistant manager.
In his debut season in England his goals fired Oxford to our first ever Premier League and European triumphs which kick-started a crushing spell of dominance for the club, with Felipe as the lynchpin.
He truly has been the most remarkable player I've had the privilege to manage since playing FM/CM since the early 1990's. His devastating pace and power terrorised defenders all over the world for over twenty years and his ruthless accuracy in front of goal won him and his team mates 61 winners medals and himself the crown of World Footballer of the Year a staggering ten times. He retires having set all time appearance and goal scoring records for both Oxford and Brazil which doubtless will ever be broken.
I think his greatest quality though, was his consistency. To have been that good for that long was just incredible.
Since signing from Palmeiras for a then record £4.7m at the start of the 2016-17 season, Felipe's final record under my stewardship at Oxford stands at:
897 club games for Oxford / 1002 club goals (586 league games / 628 league goals)
169 International games for Brazil / 122 International goals
Grand total since I signed him, including internationals for Brazil:
1066 games / 1144 goals
Profile after his final season:
Career (League) stats:
Oxford best 11:
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World Footballer of the Year:
In his prime aged 27:
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why is this guy the best striker in FM?
I hate that man with a passion. Was one reason why Juve are mostly invincible under Conte.
And a great example of how overrated either footedness is in FM.
It's December 2012 in my game, recently started a new Liverpool saved game with their new signings.
Iago Aspas - App 25 Goals 48
Luis Suarez - App 25 Goals 46
It's in ALL Competitions by the way. But getting in Edinson Cavani July 1st 2013. Moving Aspas to MC alongside Steven Gerrard & moving Luis Alberto to MR
100 goals in 1 season on FM13 is some achievement, Ackter.
Mine has to be Tom Solly.
Just gave him a new 5 year contract so hopefully he'll set a decent goal scoring record for the next Newcastle number 9 legend to try and beat
Llorente scores loads with his head on mine btw
I wouldn't put it past the game giving Llorente added aerial bonus points because he can use both feet.
Just kidding..
Best striker I had in FM12 was a Brazlian regen called Junior playing as Liverpool. His best single season he scored 81 goals and when I stopped playing the save he had 327 goals from 294 appearances.
In my current FM13 save my best is 44 goals in a season by Bastian Adami but he is still only 20 so has plenty of time to do better
I will always remember I had a player on FM07 handheld for the PSP called Matt Rowntree, he was a regen and he was scoring goals for fun for Port Vale.
In current saves I have had Tom Pope and Jermain Easter firing me to League One with Port Vale and Le Fondre and Gary Hooper banging in the goals for Birmingham City in the Premier League!
Ackter... and others who are getting 60+ goals in a season with a striker...
Could you be kind enough to upload your tactic so I can download it? I am interested in starting a new challenge of playing in Brazil and getting a forward (Neymar probably) to score 1000+ career goals.
I need to find a tactic that really maximizes goals form 1 position.
Everything I do can be found here:
neymar probably won't do it, he's already in his 20s
Yeah. But it's going to suck having to wait for the right regen to come through though. Neymar is only going to be 20 when the game starts, and he already has 40-50 goals for club and country accumulated.
The striker plays in this formation?
And he gets that many goals from that?
Yup. The entire team is there to give support basically.
The wingers run to the corners, the midfielders tend to stay outside the box, so every ball forward goes to the striker.
Oh that's a cool concept. I always wanted to create a team full of support for 1 guy but it's never worked out. Do you have any modified roles (ticked)? And I see the striker is a target man, hows he getting the ball? I see he's average at heading, is this an issue?
Do you change anything depending on the situation?
Nope, nothing is modified from there.
Pass to feet. Heading isn't an issue because he's fast enough to get in front of his man most times.
Shouts are the only real change, though a regular 442 is occasionally whipped out as well.
Ok so no point in downloading the tactic then, right? Any other notes?
I'll give it a try most likely, thanks.
Make sure you have the right types of players.
Massive creativity, massive technique, massive passing and massive first touch needed pretty much everywhere.
Ok. And when and how do you use your shouts?
My most prolific striker is a guy i have bought this season, a regen named clementini from Juventus.
I had a striker with 20's in all the important positions, but he just didnt fit into my tactics and only got 20 goals per season (which for my only striker isnt alot), but now in January 2025 clementini has been here half a season and has 33 goals already... IM man utd BTW
Any more prolific ones from FM13?
Hands down to Damiao. 48 in 40. On FM12 though, its another story. I had Cavani, with 350 goals in 320 matches. Brilliance.
Mine is easily Mickael Schmitt, the regen. He went under my radar when he signed for Manchester United but he caught my eyes when he was out on loan at Spurs and since then, I wanted him. Waited for 3 years until I finally signed him for £33.5m to Liverpool. Since then he went on and broke the French goal record at age of 24 and then later broke the record of Roger Hunt. Was planning to stop the game once he reached that but I have got the amazing squad and want to see Schmitt, Thompson and Topbasi (Both regen) to retire at my club. The last 2 were developed by the club and I cant be anymore proud of them. Screenshots is to be followed.
**EDITED** Seems like the forum/this PC don't want me to upload the pics.
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For real players would be Javier Hernandez, he was a beast for me on FM12, regularly scoring 40+ goals a season and ending his international career with over 100 goals for Mexico (!!!).
That said I did have another striker, a Brazilian regen called Daniel Silva (on the same save) who was also ludicrously prolific and when I got bored of that save he did have at least a 1:1 goals:games ratio. Interestingly I also had a German regen on that save who I signed when he was 15, he went on to score over 90 goals for the youth team that season (about 50 were assisted by the same player) and had 12 in 8 apps when he broke in to the first team the next season (that January was when I finished the save).
On my current save its this guy:
He scores about 35 a season in all comps with a ratio of about 0.9-0.95 a game. Only reason he doesn't score more total is I rotate the strike force and he got a long term injury in his first season for me
A german regen, Robert Geiger.. fast as hell, scored even more, in fm12..
Just reading back through this awesome thread. I'm once again feeling the love for prolific goalscorers!
I've often found that one of the most enjoyable achievements in FM can be to find a legendary goalscorer and watch with great satisfaction as his goal tally builds up and he achieves an amazing goals to games ratio under your management. Who doesn't like a prolific goalscorer in their team, honestly?
I'm interested to hear all about your prolific strikers (especially with screenshots). Perhaps we can bring this thread back to life. Screenshots from the new FM, and older versions, all welcome. Look forward to seeing some of your best ever forwards whether they are regens or real players!
Tbh, it was so easy to get strikers scoring a ridiculous amount of goals on CM01/02. Hitting the sweet spot using wibble/wobble could turn any average striker into a legendary goalscorer!


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First of all, a huge shout out to the Peachtree Road Farmers Market – they do an amazing job with providing an avenue for local Georgia farmers to sell their products to people like me
I've begun the process of following in my Grandmama's footsteps – I canned strawberry jam and froze green beans! Some EXCELLENT resources that helped me along the way:
- Homemade Living: Canning & Preserving with Ashley English: All You Need to Know to Make Jams, Jellies, Pickles, Chutneys & More – Read this first! It's a GREAT canning how-to.
- Canning for a New Generation: Bold, Fresh Flavors for the Modern Pantry – This has some fantastic canning recipes, including the one I used for the strawberry jam below.
- So Easy To Preserve New & Revised Edition – This book has been around since before I was born – it's created by the fine folks at the University of Georgia and will fill in the gaps for any home preservation questions you may have (including how long to blanch your green beans).
So my first venture was the jam. I purchased some beautiful strawberries from Burge Farms at the farmers market and was pretty darn proud of how it turned out! I made some shortbread to go with the jam and oh my goodness, why didn't I ever do this before?
So then, a couple weeks later, I purchased some green beans from Planted Rock Farm – they we so flavorful and the texture so spot on that the next week I went back for 3 lbs. to freeze. My favorite part of putting up beans and peas is how darn green they get once you blanch them. Truly beautiful!
I can't wait for peaches to come into season!


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I have installed ubuntu on an external hard drive, and i'm asked to restart the computer to finish the installation. But, if i choose "ubuntu" and not "windows xp" when starting up, I get a black screen who asks me to write something (i think).. (grub)
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U.S. Deco, as the Akzo Nobel unit is known, was hit hard by the slump in the US construction and housing market, struggling to compete with bigger US rivals, such as PPG and Cleveland-based Sherwin-Williams. Akzo Nobel originally acquired the business as part of its 2008 acquisition of UK chemicals group ICI.
By ROBERT VAN DEN OEVER
Akzo Nobel, the Dutch paints and coatings supplier
struggling with tough trading conditions in Europe, on Friday said it would sell
its North American paints business to US rival PPG Industries
for $1.05 billion.
Akzo Nobel, which is shedding the paints unit after four
years of losses and restructuring, said it would use the $875
million disposal proceeds to reduce debt and invest in
higher-growth markets.
The company wrote down the value of its paints assets by
EUR2.48 billion euros ($3.25 billion) in October.
U.S. Deco, as the Akzo Nobel unit is known, has been hit
hard by the slump in the US construction and housing market,
struggling to compete with bigger US rivals, such as PPG and
Cleveland, Oh.-based Sherwin-Williams Co.
Akzo Nobel originally acquired the business as part of its
2008 acquisition of UK chemicals company ICI. U.S. Deco had
revenue of $1.5 billion in 2011, about 7% of Akzo Nobel's
U.S. Deco "lacks critical mass and reaching the level needed
would require significant funds and management attention,"
which Akzo Nobel wasn't prepared to invest despite signs of a
recovery of the US housing market, said CEO Ton Buechner. The
company expects the division to break even at the operating
level in 2012.
Fabian Smeets, an analyst at ING, said Akzo Nobel has sold
U.S. Deco on the cheap, foregoing the restructured business's
longer-term potential as demand for paint should improve with a
recovering US housing sector.
But he suggested that Mr. Buechner had sent a strong signal
to Akzo Nobel managers that he won't tolerate poor performance.
Selling U.S. Deco shows there are "no sacred cows," Mr. Smeets
said. "Underperforming units within Akzo Nobel should
Mr. Buechner took the helm of Akzo Nobel in April this year.
In early September, he took a temporary leave of absence for
medical reasons. He made his first public appearance Friday
since returning to work Dec. 7. Mr. Buechner is due to give a
full strategic update for the group in February.
The transaction with PPG is expected to close in the first
quarter of 2013.
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Imagine I perform Random Sequential Adsorption (RSA) of discs of some radius $r$ on $[0, 1]^2$, eventually covering the surface to some density $Q \leq 0.543$ with $N$ total discs (where $\approx 0.543$ is the approximate jamming limit).
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RILEY COUNTY, Kan. (WIBW) -- Riley County has dedicated its Law Enforcement Center to a man who has served the local community for nearly 50 years.
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Let $y(z) = \sum_k y_k z^k$ be a holomorphic function in a vicinity of the point $z=0$. Define its Borel transform $By$ as a function $By(z) = \sum_k \frac {y_k}{k!} z^k$.
The well-know formula allows to reconstruct $y(z)$ from $By(z)$. It is given by an application of a simple integral operator. Namely $$y(z) = \int_{0}^\infty e^{-t} By(tz) dt.$$
I was wondering, if it is possible to construct a similar operator realizing the Borel transform ? A functional on the space of holomorphic functions, sending $z^k \mapsto \frac 1{k!}$ does the trick. So basically, I am interested in a realization of such a functional as an integral.


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Are child tax deductions a step down the slippery slope to serfdom?
This post, in which First Things contributor Greg Forster makes what he calls "The Moral Case Against Child Tax Deductions", is a strange piece of reasoning. Here is Forster's argument in a nutshell:
The rule of law is a much higher moral imperative for government than encouraging fertility. The rule of law is our only defense against arbitrary (and therefore, ultimately, tyrannical) use of political power. Fertility is encouragedthrough many social systems; no one argues either that government is the social system with primary responsibility for fertility, or that promoting fertility is a core competence of government. However, preserving the rule of law is governments core function and only the government can preserve it.What the rule of law requires above all else is stable rules that are fair and the same for everyone. Our current tax code is one of the primary threats to that core value, which is why the editors of the Journal have invested so much of their time, effort and social capital over the years in fighting to restore the rule of law to our tax policy.
Let me take a stab at diagnosing the fallacies here.First, it is just not true that whenever the law treats different people differently, it thereby embodies rules that are not "the same for everyone". For example, consider the law that sets the minimum voting age at 18: in one sense this law extends a right to some people and not to others, but clearly this does not amount to unequal treatment, as under this law everyone has the right to vote when they turn 18 (unless they forfeit this right in some way, perhaps by committing a felony). Similarly, a tax code that offers tax deductions for childbearing (or home ownership, or health care benefits, or ...) is a code under which the rules are "the same for everyone" insofar as under such a policy, everyone has the opportunity to receive the same tax deductions in the same life situations: that some people do receive them while others do not is evidence of inconsistency, not in the rules, but in the factors that determine the upshot of their application.Suppose, though, that when Forster says the tax code should be "the same for everyone" he means something more specific than this, namely that everyone (over some age, perhaps) should be taxed in exactly the same way, without any credits or deductions based on particular circumstances. Even if we were to accept this claim, it is pretty clear that it describes any number of possible but incompatible tax policies -- for instance, here are three of them:
- A traditional "flat tax" on income, where every citizen's income is taxed at a rate of n%.
- An even flatter tax, where every citizen pays $n in tax dollars.
- A national sales tax, where all expenditures are taxed at a rate of n%.
Each of (1), (2), and (3) admits of multiple descriptions, some of which make them look like policies where taxes are "the same for everyone", and others of which do not: for example, we could describe (1) as a policy where everyone pays the same rate but also as one where some people pay a larger number of dollars in taxes than others, (2) as a policy where everyone pays the same number of dollars in taxes but also as one where some people pay a greater portion of their income in taxes than others, and (3) as a policy where everyone is taxed on the same portion of what they spend and also as one where people who spend more pay more in taxes and people who spend a larger portion of their income pay a larger portion of their income in taxes. (And this is not all: for we need to determine who counts as a citizen, what counts as income and expenditure, whether to tax even those who do not earn any money, etc., and none of these are trivial tasks.) So how do we decide between these possible policies (preferring, hopefully, (1) and (3) over (2)), given that each has the same claim to make the rate of taxation "the same for everyone"? Clearly the answer is: by answering the question which of these tax policies is MOST JUST, where this requires appealing to factors -- such as the precarious financial situation of the working poor -- other than mere consistency. And once these factors are on the table, what could be wrong with using them to make the tax code even more just, in virtue of being flexible in yet further ways?Here is what I take to be Forster's response to that question:
Changing a tax rate doesnt implicate the rule of lawvery much because the rate is the same for everybody. If we are going to tax capital gains at all, we have to set a rate, and that makes it legitimate to argue about what the rate should be. You can make a case that it should be higher or lower, but whatever case you make, youre asking for the same rate for everybody. Youre not asking the government to tax capital gains at one rate for one set of people and another rate for another set of people. Youre not encouraging the government to use its power to create two sets of rules for two classes of people.Creating a tax deduction does implicate the rule of law. Youre taxing income, but youre taxing it at one rate for one class of people and at another rate for another class of people. Youre reinforcing governments perennial and pernicious habit of dividing the public into classes and showing favoritism to one over the other. This is the road down which the destruction of our freedoms awaits.
But we have already seen how this argument goes wrong. Just as a tax policy according to which rich and poor alike pay $n in taxes, and thus where the poor pay a greater portion of their income in taxes than the rich, is wrong not because it creates "two sets of rules for two classes of people", but because the set of rules it creates is obviously unjust, so a tax policy that employs progressive rates and offers various credits and deductions, all of which are equally available to any member of the population depending on income and circumstance, needs to be evaluated not in terms of its supposed "favoritism", but by asking whether its outcomes are just ones. Of course the possibility that a certain tax policy will lead to "the destruction of our freedoms" is among the considerations relevant to this inquiry, but we have been given no reason at all to believe that child tax deductions -- as opposed, say, to low birthrates or a widespread inability of parents to afford health care and quality education for their children -- are likely to have this consequence.
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"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." -- Anatole France
Yes, there is also that!
John, I agree, and I'm glad you posted this. I started to draft a response of my own on the FT website and gave up.Tax policy is one of the effective arrows - and there aren't many - in the government's fiscal policy quiver. Why would we want to take it out of play? I suppose the conservative purist would answer, Because there is overwhelming evidence that government can't be trusted to play fair with the tax code. That that government is unfair with its tax breaks is pretty much undeniable; but the answer, in my opinion, is not to hobble the government's ability to pursue sound fiscal policy via the tax code, but to work for good government that does the right thing for those who need the most help.
The Conservative complaint has been about progressive tax rates.. With the Romney/Buffet disclosure that the 1% pay at 15% we should all know that the 1% have successfully established a regressive tax structure, Romney pays @15% Obama pays at 33%. All other tax discussion is a dodge. the GOP wants the capital gains rate , their rate, to go to ZERO.. Please don't post that the mom and pop use capital gains too.. when they sell the house on the way to the 'home'.
Ed, I agree that the tax rate, as you've described it, is regressive. I disagree that this is a Republican monopoly. If you think that the 1% don't bankroll Democrats (certainly including President Obama) you haven't been paying attention.
Jim P. --The first question is: which party is most responsible for the tax laws? Obviously, it's the Republicans. Second question: are the tax laws fair? Answer: Obviously, no. They favor the very, very rich to the disadvantage of all the rest of us. The poor get poorer and the lower middle class turns poor. Third question: how can anyone seriously defend a candidate for president who champions these unjust laws? Your turn to answer.
The first question is: which party is most responsible for the tax laws? Obviously, it's the Republicans. Second question: are the tax laws fair? Answer: Obviously, no. They favor the very, very rich to the disadvantage of all the rest of us. The poor get poorer and the lower middle class turns poor. Third question: how can anyone seriously defend a candidate for president who champions these unjust laws?Note that if we applied that logic consistently, it would be impossible to support any candidate for the presidency. In fact I agree with this conclusion, but ...
John S. ==Sometimes logic leads to two bad alternatives, and our only choice is the lesser of two evils. That doesn't make a candidate's platform defensible. I'd vote for Romney over Paul in a trice if they were my only two choices.
Ann, you are forgetting the choice not to vote.
Whereas, what, raising your child in greater want as a result of not getting the deduction is the route to freedom? I won't even join this argument because the underlying, binary terms are so offensive. Tax POLICY has provided deductions for all manner of things for better than 100 years as a reflection of voter priorities. It's like they woke up one day with complete amnesia about the society they actually live in and instead appear to inhabit a vacuum where abstract principles are the ONLY thing that matter with respect to human happiness or freedom. Well, we ran out of money to feed the family for the rest of the week but thank God we live in a society without tax deductions for children!
"The first question is: which party is most responsible for the tax laws? Obviously, its the Republicans. "Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible. Republicans established the rates, and Democrats refused to let them die a natural death.
Barbara - I couldn't agree more.
Jim P. ==And why did the Dems permit the tax break of the super-rich to continue? Because the Republicans made that a sine qua non of a package deal that involved more important matters being passed -- health care reform or one of those other Democratic priorities, I forget just which. The Dems didn't just say, Hey, Mitt Romneys of this world, here's your free $2.5M for this year.
What else to expect from First Things. Again, where is that sense of the common good.
What else to expect from First Things.Well, this did follow two posts that argued the contrary position very forcefully.
I wonder if the people who have their knickers in a knot about child tax deductions would be as incensed about mortgage interest deductions, charitable contribution deductions, etc.? "Creating a tax deduction does implicate the rule of law. Youre taxing income, but youre taxing it at one rate for one class of people and at another rate for another class of people."But, middle class and upper class welfare is what is sacred, isn't it?
"Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible. Republicans established the rates, and Democrats refused to let them die a natural death."Or, to put it another way: "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Democrats and Republicans are equally responsible. Republicans established the rates, and Democrats refused to let them die a natural death.' The GOP held unemployment extention hostage and Dems caved. It is not true in any way that both parties want the tax rate to remain the same.. Watch Republicans refuse to pass anything unless the BUSH TAX CUTS for the top 3% are continued beyond Jan 2013.
Oops, thanks, Ed. I knew the compromise was something life or death for the less than affluent.Ah, the ever-generous Republicans extortionists -- generous to the "successful".
"The GOP held unemployment extention hostage and Dems caved."Is this statement supposed to exonerate our elected Democratic officials in Washington from responsibility for the tax rates now in effect?
Jim P. --Who is more responsible for a bad outcome -- the extortioner or the extortionee?
Ann, I don't accept the offered metaphor of Democrats as victims. I don't suppose their constituents sent them to Washington to be victimized.
Jim P. ==I wasn't thinking of the Democratic politicians as victims. It's the politicians' constituents who were/are out of work (having been laid off in a recession that should not have happened) whose unemployment insurance was being non-renewed by the Republicans. Make no mistake -- this Republican indifference is a matter of ideology -- if you can't support yourself and your family, it's your fault and don't expect any help from the rest of us, whether from the national or local level. Republican subsidiarity seems to fail when it means paying taxes to support the out of work for as long as is necessary. So the helpless (I mean that aliterally) continue to suffer.My point is that the Republican politicians held the laid-off hostage until the Democrats agreed to allow the super-rich tax rip-off to continue. Face it, Jim, your party is the party of the super-rich, and the super-rich have been very successful not only in making money but in persuading non-superrich conservatives that because the super-rich are "not like you and me" they aren't obliged to pay their fair share of taxes. Ah, Gatsby. The American nightmare.C'mon -- why do you think Romney is being coy about releasing his tax returns? As the saying goes, if there is nothing to hide, he would release them. If there is something to hide, he would not release them. So . . . OK, so eventually he'll have to, but only after he's sewn up as many delegates as possible.


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5 Inexplicably Horrifying Episodes of Classic Comedies
#2. Too Close for Comfort: Monroe Gets Kidnapped and Sexually Tortured
Too Close for Comfort was a show about a cartoonist named Henry Rush and his wife, Muriel. They had two adult daughters who lived with them, along with a moronic tenant named Monroe. This setting, which would seem to encourage at least a small amount of sexual tension, instead insisted on concentrating on a bunch of wacky personalities just trying to get along.
But the dynamic takes a dark turn in the episode "For Every Man, There's Two Women." Monroe does not come home one night from his job as a mall security guard. He finally returns in the morning with his uniform partially torn off, looking shell-shocked.
"I've just come out of the writers' room."
While it takes him awhile to calm down and explain what happened, he reveals that he had been kidnapped from a parking lot and forced into a van by two women. He was then taken to an apartment and raped throughout the night. He tells it all to his quasi-family, clearly shaken by the experience, and the studio audience laughs along.
Henry eventually calls the police department, which dispatches maybe the worst SVU detectives in the history of law enforcement. They take some basic information and then tell Monroe it's not worth pressing charges because it would be too embarrassing.
"You got to have sex with two women, you should be psyched."
To give the proper context, the drama 21 Jump Street came out with an episode called "Hell Week " around the same time as this episode aired, and it dealt delicately with the atrocity of sexual abuse. Too Close for Comfort builds so many jokes around rape as a concept that we almost suspect the audience is filled exclusively with prison inmates.
Henry and Monroe finally find and confront the women who raped him, and both of them are easily over 200 pounds and terrifying. It quickly becomes evident that this was a legitimate crime. Henry barely escapes before almost suffering the same fate as Monroe, and the women are arrested. Then, in one of the most unintentionally sad moments in sitcom history, Monroe thanks Henry, and tells him that it's nice to know that if this ever happens again, he will be there to help guide and protect him. Henry immediately tells him that next time this happens (read: Monroe gets raped), he's completely on his own.
"Don't come crying to me the next time you're kidnapped, tortured and raped, sonny!"
#1. Diff'rent Strokes: Sam Gets Kidnapped and Held Hostage
Yes, Diff'rent Strokes makes the list twice, the second time in a transparent attempt to top the whole bike shop pedophile affair. And this time, the plot is so egregiously dark and narrow in focus that it's not entirely clear what the moral of the episode is, other than that sometimes life is an unthinkable nightmare.
"Sam's Missing" starts when Arnold gets a new stepbrother, Sam, and immediately begins bossing him around by making him run errands for him. On one of these errands, Sam meets a man whose family is in an emotional tailspin due to the fact that their son was recently killed in some kind of accident. He convinces Sam that he needs help finding his lost dog, which is actually just a ruse to take Sam home as a replacement for his dead son.
"I can't wait to murder you all over again."
Worst of all, when Sam objects about the two-hour drive, the kidnapper tells him Sam's family will be harmed if he doesn't cooperate. The man introduces Sam to the rest of the family and, just like in Texas Chainsaw Massacre, it turns out they're all crazy. The father makes up a story about finding him in a box, and the rest of the family agrees that sounds like reason enough to keep him.
The mother also calls him by her deceased son's name, but it's whatever at this point.
To prove the show isn't just playing around with the idea of kidnapping to heal emotional scars, Sam isn't rescued right away. He stays with the family for around a week while Mr. Drummond goes on television and offers a $50,000 reward for Sam's return, along with a tearful plea to the kidnappers to do the right thing.
Over the next few days, Sam tries to keep from having a mental breakdown with his new family. When he has trouble showing affection or any emotion other than fear (which is always), he gets more threats of what will happen to his real family if he doesn't cooperate.
Meanwhile, in a staggeringly cruel turn, Sam's real family gets a call after five days from someone claiming to have the boy, but it just turns out to be a crazy ex-con trying to claim the ransom money. Keep in mind that from the perspective of a child watching this episode, it's terrifying enough to introduce a family so sad about the death of their child that they would steal another one. Then they have to introduce a despicable new character that would lie about kidnapping kids just to get some money? Damn, this show liked to pile it on.
Eventually, Mr. Drummond figures out where the boy is and comes to the rescue. The police burst in and rescue Sam while the kidnapper's family mentally unravels, only proving that even people who have never done anything wrong still get mentally tortured for no reason.
Sam is returned home, and the entire family goes back to being happy and normal ... or as normal as it can be for a child who just went through a week-long abduction where he was forced to call another family "mom" and "dad." Also, when the mother and father of that family are sitting in jail cells, we don't get any indication of what will happen to their other, surviving son.
"I'll just hide out in their massive underground apartment."
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Hi. My question is probably very simple to some of you that have experience in Convex Optimization. The dual function is defined as the infimum of the lagrangian $L(x,\lambda, \nu)$ over all $x\ $ in the domain. The lagrangian is: $f_0(x)+\sum \lambda_i f_i(x)+\sum \nu_i h_i(x)$
My question is, if $x\ $ is in the domain, it satisfies the equality constraints $h_i(x)$ and in that case, $h_i(x)=0$. So why do we even have to mention the equality constraints if they zero-out anyway?
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I have a SharePoint site which contains two pages. I don't want to enable anonymous access for the home page of this site but I do want to do it for the other pages it contains. How is this done?
You can enable Anonymous Access by going to Application Management in Central Administration, Highlight the WebApp where you want to enable Anonymous Authentication, Click on Authentication Providers, Click on the Zone where you want to enable Anonymous Access, then Check Enable Anonymous Access, Save.
Go to your Web Application and the top level of the site collection > Site Actions > Site Settings > Site Permissions > Anonymous Access > List and Library
After that you can set each of your page to give anonymous user permission to read your page
This link has a the above walkthrough with screen shots
You can go to site pages library, select this page and open list item permission settings. In this settings you can breake role inheritance and remove anonymous access from this list item.
This can be done through PS script as well