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April 1, 2014, was to be the day that mandatory water rationing would begin in Marin County's largest water district, following a 2013 that "proved to be the driest year in 135 years," according to General Manager Krishna Kumar.
[caption id="attachment_89510" align="alignright" width="350"] Rainfall remains lower than historic average for the Marin Municipal Water District (image credit: Krishna Kumar)[/caption]
In a region heavily dependent on rainwater runoff, officials at the Marin Municipal Water District were starting to draw comparisons to the most intense drought in recent memory, a two-year period from 1976 to 1977. The region had seen no rain since December of 2012, and planned to ratchet up its mandated rationing if those conditions were to continue.
"2013 started even worse than '76, '77," said Mr. Kumar, speaking as part of the water panel during North Bay Business Journal's Impact Marin conference March 13.
That all changed when a "special package" -- a massive rain storm -- broke through a long-lived high-pressure system off the western United States to dump 20 inches of rain on Mt. Tamalpais from Feb. 6--8. Continuing rains boosted half-full reservoirs to around 75 percent of total capacity as of mid-March, allowing Marin Municipal Water District officials and their 185,000 customers to breathe a sigh of relief.
"That's how lucky we were this time," Mr. Kumar said. "But we can't expect these 'special packages' to arrive each time."
It is a near-miss scenario that has played out throughout the state in recent years, obscuring what panelists said is an ongoing need to augment current infrastructure with measures that acknowledge the ongoing risk of drought in California.
"Droughts occur, and they will occur again," said J. Dietrich Stroeh, a partner at CSW/Stuber-Stroeh Engineering Group who served as general manager of the district during the mid-1970s drought. "We should be doing more and more planning, but when it rains, we don't plan for more water."
Unlike water districts in Central and Southern California that rely on water piped from distant regions, the North Bay benefits from a system that hinges largely on regional watersheds able to collect and store enough rainwater for local use in a typical year.

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Paul,Do you have a VIN for that tag?
I think it was on TC. I'll search.
according to jerry's book, 124379n636 vin should be 05A production. this is 04C. is that close enough?
I looked at another 04C Z10 and it had a vin of 124379N631601 which fits the vin/build date correlation.Paul


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What is Reiki Energy?
It is believed by many that Reiki is the same as what Jesus did and taught to his disciples. However Reiki is not affiliated with any one religion, it is open to everyone.
It's believed to have been re-discovered by a Mikao Usui in the early 1900's in Japan while on a Buddhist retreat at the top of a mountain.
It is a process of awakening and allowing the Divine/God/Yahweh/Christ to work through us for ours and the good of others. It is said the more one practices Reiki the stronger the flow becomes, and more enlightened the practitioner can become.
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So how did I get into Remote sessions, and Reiki training courses? Well, bit of a long story, but I'll try to keep it short.
Well, by the time I was in my 30's I found out I had a brain tumor. It was pretty big by now, told it must have been growing since I was a teenager. It had grown into my brainstem and needed to come out ASAP!
So I went in for conventional surgery.
It was 7 years later after a visit to Brazil, where I had some amazing experiences. After that I began teaching Reiki.
So that's my personal story, now for the credentials/resume'.
I am a Reiki Master trained in traditional Usui, Tibetan and Intentional Reiki. I have been a practitioner/teacher since 2002. I teach the three levels of Reiki. I have given talks on Reiki at Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center's Happy Hearts support group as well as for New Jersey's Seeing Eye, and St. Barnabas Hospital . I also trained as a Reiki hospice volunteer at JFK Hospital.
I've also conducted Reiki sessions on horses, dogs, cats, and birds. I am also a Certified Reconnective Healertm, and have studied other Spiritual energy techniques, while continuing to explore, yet even more, various energy techniques. Besides this, I am an Animal Intuitive, artist/painting instructor, and a Young Living Essential Oils distributor. I offer remote Energy sessions for people and pets.
From February, 1996 to April, 2003 I worked as a stockbroker at a small Princeton, NJ firm. I volunteered with the pet rescues out of New Orleans, La. after Katrina giving many animals there Reiki (Horse in photo above with bandaged eyes)*. I also worked as a veterinary technician and wildlife rehabilitator for about 13 years. For 5 years I managed a small boarding kennel in Belle Mead, NJ. I have been working with humans and their pets since 2002.
* Katrina horse story- If you are wondering what a horse with bandaged eyes under that flynet has to do with Reiki, he was a client while I was volunteering with the pet rescues out of New Orleans after Katrina. It was late in the day, I'd been working with the dogs for about 10 hours, so decided to take a break and walk around for a bit. I came across this horse standing at the far end corner of his stall, with eyes completely bandaged. I put my hands up between the bars of his stall and decided to beam him some Reiki. He turned around and made a B-line right towards me. When he got to me he lowered his head, putting his bandaged eyes right in the palms of my hands, while I was sending the Reiki. I found that pretty amazing. I felt honored that he trusted in me so.
Also, short comment on Kwan Yin photo. Because I have been asked about this photo I thought I'd post this here. I know Kwan Yin, Quan Yin, Guan Yin, Kuan Yin is most known as a Buddhist Bodhisattva of compassion, but she actually was (is) originally a Hindu Bodhisattva. Originally this Bodhisattva was known as Avalokitasvara, diety of compassion and healing. As Buddhism arose from Hinduism they kept this compassionate diety but translated the name into Chinese, Guanshiyin. This later became Guan Yin, Quan Yin… The name spelling is based on geographical location and translation. If anyone was curious about that photo, here's the explanation.
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Co-op deal for 632 Lloyds branches 'has hit rocks'
There are growing fears the deal codenamed 'Project Verde' to sell 632 Lloyds branches to the Co-op could hit the buffers.
Lloyds advisers are expected to start putting the feelers out to other potential buyers in case it has to go back to the drawing board.
The transaction – involving the transfer of almost five million Lloyds customers – was announced in July after a fraught bidding process.
Verde's requiem: The deal to sell more than 630 Lloyds branches to the Co-op has hit the rocks, sources close to the negotiations say
Last month Lloyds claimed it was on course to sign the sale and purchase agreement in the first three months of the year.
This would trigger the Co-op's initial payment of £350million to the state-backed lender and turn it into the eighth biggest bank on the High Street.
But sources close to the negotiations
said on Friday night the deal has hit the rocks and Lloyds is ready to sound
out alternative buyers.
This raises the grim prospect of
Lloyds having to sound out potential new buyers and accepting even less
for the branches, which it was forced to sell as a condition of
receiving a £20billion bail out from taxpayers.
It would also create more uncertainty
for 4.6million Lloyds customers who were due to be transferred to the newly
created TSB Bank. Last month Lloyds started writing to its customers
informing them of the change.
The news comes just weeks after
Santander pulled out of a £1.65billion deal to buy 316 branches from state
backed Royal Bank of Scotland, blaming problems with the lender's IT
The Co-op's long running bid for the
branches has been fraught with problems, including concerns over the
lack of banking experience on the main board and its ability to raise
sufficient capital.
There were also fears about Britain's
biggest mutual's ability to integrate its IT systems with Lloyds'
systems. These concerns were thought to be behind Lloyds' decision to
break off exclusive talks with the Co-op in April.
The mutual then managed to fight off other bidders again – including NBNK, set up by City grandee Lord Levene.
A compromise was reached in which the
Co-op pays a fee to Lloyds to use its IT systems. The transaction is
also being managed by Paul Pester from Lloyds, who will run the Project
Verde branches. Co-op boss Peter Marks boasted he had 'taken the shirt'
off the back of Lloyds chief executive Antonio Horta Osorio.
A Lloyds spokesman last night said the deal was still on track.
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The former Chelsea boss was appointed in 2012 when Monaco were in Ligue 2 and steered the principality club to second place in the Ligue 1 this season but that was not enough to save his job.
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"I confirm that Claudio Ranieri is leaving soon. We decided to break up. I would like to pay tribute to Claudio Ranieri, who did a good job," Vasilyev told a news conference.
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some of them look like as something out of space and from another planet. great work Alexey!
The Mick: That's beautiful! Very nice image. Congratulations on a top spot!
thank you, Mick
The Mick: Just beautiful! I'd love to find and photograph such a place. Congratulations, es70.
Take care,
Thank you, Mick
great shot! Very beautiful. I just wonder how you managed to catch the moment?
good shot! like it
I don't see any reasons why BW or sepia image shouldn't go in. It is not that kind of the post processing to DQ pictures.
good shot! the child bring life to it
I used the following equipment to make the shot
1. Nikon D7000. The price is about 800EUR
2. Nikon 70-200/2.8 Lens. The price is about 1800EUR
RaptorUK: Nice image, if you have read and followed the rules I would have given it much more than the 0.5 that I gave it, such a pity.
Hi Raptor
well, in this way you are right. However it is not a big deal and can be easily fixed. Please see the latest comment
RaptorUK: Nice image, if you have read and followed the rules I would have given it much more than the 0.5 that I gave it, such a pity.
Hi Raptor. Please explain what you meant with the rules? In which way I didn't follow it?
My camera is D7000 - this is not a full format one - so this goes along with the rules!
I used 70-200/2.8 lens to make the shot. Is the use of this lens against of the rules? Sure not.
Please read the rules and you will not find there anything mentioned about lenses.
also el: high marks. imo... very 'on theme'
not many challenge entries would have a life outside of the challenge. i think this one would.
thank you, Also El
ysal: It's really great concept and find, but the subjects are just so small..... Not sure how you can fix that.
maybe it doesn't need any fixes since the subjects show how the vast is the sea?
mjdundee: Hi,
Congratulations. Never recognized so many views on a winner photograph.
Even from the original size it is hard to figure out that this is not a Antarctic shore but the Mediterranian Sea around Cyprus. Well done.
thank you, mjdundee
Stefano M: Nice photo, well composed and beatiful colours. Congratulations!
thank you, Stefano
pen araneae: Congratulations. First for having been to such a wonderful place and second for capturing such an enchanting photo.
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One teenager didn't have a place to live, let alone shampoo or soap to shower with.
Another Whiteland Community High School student was marked down on a class presentation because he didn't have all the clothing to meet the presentation's dress code.
A group of educators at the school will open the Warrior Wardrobe this fall, a clothing and toiletry pantry for high school students, to address the needs they see in the classroom every day.
While students in need can get food if they are hungry at school, the school wasn't equipped to help with other basic needs that might affect their education.
Teachers would see students without coats, without a way to get basic toiletry items or without the clothing they need for formal presentations.
Students who need everyday school clothes can easily go into the Warriors Closet at the freshman center when it is open a few times a month after school, teacher Casey Moeller said.
"I thought some of our kids needed everyday clothing," she said.
Nearly every teacher in the school has a story about helping a student get clothing or toiletries. A teacher bought a coat for a teen who was wearing a thin jacket in the middle of the winter; guidance counselors give necessities to homeless students.
Moeller considered the closet when she heard that a student lost a point on an assignment for wearing black sneakers instead of dress shoes, because he had no means to get another pair of shoes.
"It really broke my heart," she said. "At the time, he did the best he could."
Some students who come to the closet may not be on the cusp of poverty, Moeller said. Often, students may need clothing for one event that their parents can't afford at that moment, or because a younger sibling needed something that was more important, she said.
High school students whose families live on just the brink of poverty are usually the ones who offer to make do with whatever they already have, Moeller said.
"I would almost say (high school) students are the forgotten ones in the family," she said.
Stocking the closet has been a schoolwide effort, she said.
Custodians turned over clothing that was left in the school's lost-and-found bins. Teachers have come to the school during the summer to wash clothes and hang them on racks.
Family and consumer science students will repair clothing with tears or stains. Students in a mentor group will make an effort to stock the closet with items students would need to participate in special events such as spirit week, Moeller said.
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Toposition(s)#6 est un pièce installative pour violon et piano amplifiés, (2015-2016, 30')
+ Works by Ustvolskaya, Dorokhov and Dufour-Laperrière.
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Purple patch for Michael (and Gabriel)
Congratulations are due to Michael who is currently in a purple patch riding a wave of recognition and achievement over the last two or three weeks. (I had look up why it's called a purple patch and not a green patch or a chartreuse patch etc.)
First, we heard that his latest ARC Discovery Grant application (along with Li and Gabriel) has been successful for a project involving symmetries of directed graphs, about which much less is known than for undirected graphs.
Secondly, he won a UWA Research Award in the "mid-career" category – these are internal awards across the whole university designed to recognise excellence in research; Gabriel also won the same award, but in the "early-career" category.
Then to top things off, we heard yesterday that his promotion to "something" was granted. Unfortunately it is not entirely clear what "something" should be. UWA used to use the British system of "lecturer/senior lecturer/associate professor/professor", with only a handful of people in latter category. In other words, "Professor" is quite prestigious and only a few people will reach that level.
Then a few years ago, we decided to change to the US system of "assistant professor / associate professor / professor". I'm not entirely sure why this change was made, but I think that it was partially to allow UWA to attract strong American academics (looking for jobs due to the hiring freeze in the US during the GFC) for whom dropping down to an "associate professor" would be seen as a backward step, and generally to align ourselves more with the US nomenclature than with the UK.
But then the local medical research funding body, the NHMRC, said that anyone who called themselves a professor would be evaluated as though they were an old-style prestigious professor, suddenly making some perfectly good research records look relatively mediocre.
So the edict has come down to, well, we don't actually know what we're meant to do. New jobs are to be advertised under the old titles, but holders of old jobs who chose to go to the new titles can continue to use the new titles or revert to the old titles depending on their preference or the day of the week or something. At least, I think I've got that right.
Anyway, there's one thing that is clear. Congratulations to Michael on his promotion to Level D, his ARC Discovery Grant and his UWA Research Award. And to Gabriel for the latter two.
Is there a 5-chromatic cubelike graph?
I'm in Singapore at the moment, spending the weekend watching my 11-year old daughter Amy in a gymnastics competition and the weekdays visiting Dave Roberson (currently at NUS) and Fengming Dong (currently at NTU).
Meeting up with Dave and thinking once again about the annoyingly resistant conjecture that the core of a cubelike graph is cubelike, reminded me of another "cubelike" question that is still unresolved.
First some terminology: a cubelike graph is a Cayley graph for the elementary abelian 2-group ; the term "cubelike" arises for two reasons:
- The -dimensional cube is cubelike
- If you talk, or write, anything about these graphs, you rapidly need something snappier for the phrase "a Cayley graph for an elementary abelian 2-group"
It has been known for decades that a cubelike graph cannot have chromatic number 3, and this was proved in a beautifully elegant fashion by Payan. A very ambitious conjecture that all cubelike graphs have chromatic number equal to a power of 2 can be disproved by exhibiting a cubelike graph on 16 vertices with chromatic number 7, and cubelike graphs on 64 vertices with chromatic number 6.
But what about 5?
I simply cannot find any cubelike graph with chromatic number 5, and according to Brouwer's website, this is unknown. Chris Godsil and I thought about this a few years ago, and someone said they had heard someone tell someone else that they had heard that perhaps some Russians had found such a graph on 128 vertices.
So, what's the problem? Why not just construct all 128-vertex cubelike graphs and check their chromatic number?
The trouble with this is that the number of cubelike graphs grows very rapidly. There are only 1372 such graphs on 32 vertices, and we can find all the chromatic numbers. This jumps to 475499108 on 64 vertices (actually a handful less, this overcounts the number by about 10, due to some "accidental" isomorphisms), and although I don't know the exact chromatic number of all of these, I can rule out enough of them as potential 5-chromatic graphs to complete the search.
But on 128 vertices, we have 1038397981840994509577948 graphs to work through (that's just about and so unless we stumble on one somehow (perhaps someone knows who "the Russians" are) or make some theoretical advance, this problem is likely to remain unresolved for the time being.
Peace and quiet
In a colleague's research grant proposal, under a heading about resources and equipment, he wrote something along the lines of:
All a mathematician needs is some paper, some pens, good access to online journals, and most importantly, a quiet place to work.
Of course, we also rely on good coffee, a buzzing environment of enthusiastic colleagues, natural light, and administrative support.
For other disciplines, lab equipment and technicians are extremely important, and not having the best equipment would severely cripple an experimental chemist, for example. So if you needed to find a way to stifle the progress of a group of mathematicians, what changes to their work environment would you make?
- You could take their blackboards/whiteboards away, but they might be just as happy with their endless supply of foolscap paper.
- You could take their paper away. This is difficult to do, as paper is easy to buy and very cheap. Mathematicians would bring their own paper, or just write on their desks and other flat surfaces.
- You could take their pens away. Again, pens are cheap and easy to buy, so it would be difficult to outlaw pens in the workplace. And anyway, where would you draw the line? Pencils, chalk, and crayons would have to be outlawed too.
Perhaps the best way is to create tension within the group, and somehow put in place a situation where the ambient noise in the workplace was disruptive and unpredictable. For those who wear headphones, they would need to be distracted by visible movement in their periphery. How can this be done effectively? Even more insidiously, we could create an environment that would increase the rate of infection due to colds, influenza, or other airborne viruses. Have you tried to solve a difficult mathematics problem whilst your head is congested and your joints feel like jelly?
So I leave the question to you: how can you create a work environment that not even a resource-minimalist mathematician can bear? To summarise:
- it needs to organically create tension between colleagues,
- it needs to be cost efficient,
- it needs to be noisy,
- it needs to have visual distractions,
- it needs to foster airborne viruses.
I can only think of one solution to this problem. What is your solution?
Some Tikz pictures
Most LaTeX-ers know about Tikz, which allows the user to create images in LaTeX without having to embed images created from an external program. The main advantages are that
- The ambient LaTeX fonts are used in the image, so labels and such conform to the ambient style of the document.
- The size of the .tex file is kept small, since it is only text you are creating.
- It yields a picture that is smooth and that looks good upon zooming in (i.e., the resolution of the picture is good).
- It is functional code so that you can automate the drawing of many pictures by giving commands such as "draw a line between these two points".
The main disadvantage, is that there is a steep learning curve. The best way to learn is through examples, and even though I'm still a hack, my tikz code has improved via my copying segments of other people's code. For geometry, there isn't much out there, so I thought that I would dump some images here. Below are some Tikz pictures of configurations in finite geometry that I've collected and think should be available for everyone else to use. A big thanks to Stephen Glasby who went to a lot of trouble to make the two generalised hexagons of order 2. If you have suggestions on how I can simplify my code, please let me know.
Desargues' configuration, two ways
\begin{tikzpicture} \tikzstyle{point1}=[ball color=cyan, circle, draw=black, inner sep=0.1cm] \tikzstyle{point2}=[ball color=green, circle, draw=black, inner sep=0.1cm] \tikzstyle{point3}=[ball color=red, circle, draw=black, inner sep=0.1cm] \node (v1) at (0,8) [ball color=blue, circle, draw=black, inner sep=0.1cm] {}; \node (v2) at (0,6) [point1] {}; \node (v3) at (2,5.5) [point1] {}; \node (v4) at (1.5,4) [point1] {}; \node (v5) at (0,0) [point2] {}; \node (v6) at (2.75*2,8-2.75*2.5) [point2] {}; \node (v7) at (1.5*1.5,8-1.5*4) [point2] {}; \draw (v1) -- (v2) -- (v5); \draw (v1) -- (v3) -- (v6); \draw (v1) -- (v4) -- (v7); \draw (v2) -- (v3) -- (v4) -- (v2); \draw (v5) -- (v6) -- (v7) -- (v5); \node (v8) at (intersection of v2--v3 and v5--v6) [point3] {}; \node (v9) at (intersection of v2--v4 and v5--v7) [point3] {}; \node (v10) at (intersection of v3--v4 and v6--v7) [point3] {}; \draw (v3) -- (v8) -- (v6); \draw (v4) -- (v9) -- (v7); \draw (v4) -- (v10) -- (v7); \draw (v8) -- (v9) -- (v10); \end{tikzpicture}
\begin{tikzpicture} \tikzstyle{point} = [ball color=black, circle, draw=black, inner sep=0.1cm] \foreach\x in {0, 72, 144, 216, 288}{ \begin{scope}[rotate=\x] \coordinate (o1) at (-0.588, -0.809); \coordinate (o2) at (0.588, -0.809); \coordinate (c1) at (-1.1, 4.6); \coordinate (c2) at (1.1, 4.6); \coordinate (o3) at (0, 3.236); \draw[color=black] (o3) -- (3.236*-0.588, 3.236*-0.809); \draw[color=blue] (o1) .. controls (c1) and (c2) .. (o2); \end{scope} } \foreach\x in {0, 72, 144, 216, 288}{ \begin{scope}[rotate=\x] \coordinate (o2) at (0.588, -0.809); \coordinate (o3) at (0, 3.236); \fill[point] (o2) circle (2pt); \fill[point] (o3) circle (2pt); \end{scope} } \end{tikzpicture}
The generalised quadrangle of order 2
I think Gordon gave me the original tikz code for this and then I tweaked it.
\begin{tikzpicture} \tikzstyle{point}=[ball color=magenta, circle, draw=black, inner sep=0.1cm] \foreach \x in {18,90,...,306}{ \node [point] (t\x) at (\x:2.65){}; } \foreach \x in {54,126,...,342}{ \draw [color=blue, double=green](\x:1cm) circle (1.17557cm); } \fill [white] (0,0) circle (1cm); \foreach \x in {54,126,...,342}{ \node[point] (i\x) at (\x:1cm) {}; \node[point] (o\x) at (\x:2.17557cm) {}; } \draw [color=blue,double=green] (t90)--(o126)--(t162)--(o198)--(t234)--(o270)--(t306)--(o342)--(t18)--(o54)--(t90); \draw (t90)--(i270)--(o270); \draw (t162)--(i342)--(o342); \draw (t234)--(i54)--(o54); \draw (t306)--(i126)--(o126); \draw (t18)--(i198)--(o198); \end{tikzpicture}
The two generalised hexagons of order 2
These pictures were originally drawn by Schroth in his 1999 paper, and then appeared in Burkard Polster's book "A geometrical picture book".
\begin{tikzpicture} \foreach\n in {0, 1,..., 6}{ \begin{scope}[rotate=\n*51.4286] \coordinate (a0) at (10,0); \coordinate (b0) at (7,0); \coordinate (c0) at (1.45,0); \coordinate (d0) at (4.878,-0.4878); \coordinate (e0) at (2.1729,0.37976); \coordinate (f0) at (1.45,0.612); \coordinate (g0) at (2.78,-0.585); \coordinate (h0) at (4.074,0.7846); \coordinate (i0) at (6.0976,2.9268); \foreach\k in {1, 2,..., 6}{ \foreach\p in {a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}{ \coordinate (\p\k) at ($ (0,0)!1! \k*51.4286:(\p0) $); } } \draw[thick,blue] (a0)--(b0)--(c0); \draw[thick,blue] (d0)--(e0)--(f0); \draw[thick,black] (g0)--(h0)--(i0); \draw[thick,black] (a0)--(g1)--(a3); \draw[thick,green] (i0)--(d1)--(i2); \draw[thick,black] (c0)--(g3)--(d3); \draw[thick,color=purple] (b0) .. controls (5.7,-1.8) and (4.6,-2.2) .. (h6) .. controls (1.5,-3.2) and (-1,-2.4) .. (e4); \draw[thick,black] (b0)--(h0)--(e2); \draw[thick,purple] (f6)--(c0)--(f0); \foreach\k in {1, 2,..., 6}{ \foreach\p in {a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}{ \draw[fill] (\p\k) circle [radius=0.12]; } } \end{scope} } \end{tikzpicture}
\begin{tikzpicture} \foreach\n in {0, 1,..., 6}{ \begin{scope}[rotate=\n*51.4286] \coordinate (a0) at (85,0); \coordinate (b0) at (55,0); \coordinate (c0) at (12.5,0); \coordinate (d0) at (8.5,1.3); \coordinate (e0) at (16.2,9); \coordinate (f0) at (30,14.3); \coordinate (g0) at (26.6,17.0); \coordinate (h0) at (26.3,22.4); \coordinate (i0) at (29.5,28); \foreach\k in {1, 2,..., 6}{ \foreach\p in {a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}{ \coordinate (\p\k) at ($ (0,0)!1! \k*51.4286:(\p0) $); } } \draw[thick,black] (a0)--(e1)--(a3); \draw[thick,green] (b0)--(h0)--(b2); \draw[thick,purple] (f0)--(g0)--(f1); \draw[thick,blue] (h0)--(i0)--(a1); \draw[thick,purple] (h6)--(c0)--(d0); \draw[thick,purple] (f0)--(e0)--(i3); \draw[thick,black] (b0)--(i6)--(g6); \draw[thick,color=blue] (g0) .. controls (27,2) and (17,-5) .. (d6) .. controls (-7,-5) and (-5,-5) .. (c3); \draw[thick,color=blue] (c0) .. controls (16,3) and (17,5) .. (e0) .. controls (15,13) and (8,15) .. (d1); \foreach\k in {1, 2,..., 6}{ \foreach\p in {a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}{ \draw[fill] (\p\k) circle [radius=1.1]; } } \end{scope} } \end{tikzpicture}
The first is the Split Cayley hexagon as it is usually given, whilst the second is its dual.
The projective plane of order 2
\begin{tikzpicture} \tikzstyle{point}=[ball color=cyan, circle, draw=black, inner sep=0.1cm] \node (v7) at (0,0) [point] {}; \draw (0,0) circle (1cm); \node (v1) at (90:2cm) [point] {}; \node (v2) at (210:2cm) [point] {}; \node (v4) at (330:2cm) [point] {}; \node (v3) at (150:1cm) [point] {}; \node (v6) at (270:1cm) [point] {}; \node (v5) at (30:1cm) [point] {}; \draw (v1) -- (v3) -- (v2); \draw (v2) -- (v6) -- (v4); \draw (v4) -- (v5) -- (v1); \draw (v3) -- (v7) -- (v4); \draw (v5) -- (v7) -- (v2); \draw (v6) -- (v7) -- (v1); \end{tikzpicture}
Go Akshay!
Tomorrow the winner(s) of the Fields medal(s) for 2014 will be announced at the Seoul ICM and we'll be eagerly awaiting the outcome.
Although he is only an outside chance (at least according to http://poll.pollcode.com/p6es9_result) one of the mathematicians "in the mix" is the UWA graduate Akshay Venkatesh. Actually Akshay went through Uni at the same time as Michael, although he's 5 or 6 years younger than Michael. I remember first meeting them when I was chairing a seminar by Jack Koolen, and Akshay and Michael turned up. I must admit that on seeing this fresh-faced youngster (Michael) with someone barely of high-school age (Akshay), I assumed they were strays from some high-school visit and enquired whether they knew what sort of talk they were coming to!
Anyway, while I wish Akshay all the best, this post is really about the consequences of a possible award to him. Our university is obsessed by rankings and while the official goal "Top 50 by 2050" doesn't specify which ranking system it is referring to, it is widely understood to be the Shanghai Jiao-Tong ranking of world universities. Personally, I don't find this goal at all motivating – firstly it is totally unachievable without either a truly massive increase in resources or by such a severe distortion of university activities to focus only on the ranking criteria that it would no longer be recognisable as a university.
The problem is that the SJT criteria are incredibly narrowly focussed on extreme events such as Fields Medals and Nobel Prizes. For each university, 10% of the score is based on alumni with Nobel prizes/Fields Medals, while a further 20% is based on Faculty with Nobel prizes/Fields Medals. Another 20% is based on highly-cited researchers, of which UWA has a handful (including Cheryl). So 50% of the ranking is based on a tiny number of individuals. Of course universities devious enough about the rankings can appoint a few Nobel prize winners on reasearch-only positions and move up a few slots, whether or not the Nobel prize winner ever meets a student, or indeed ever steps on campus.
Despite this, I'm willing to accept that a university with 20 Nobel prize winners is statistically different from a university with one, like UWA. But is there really a difference between a university with one Nobel prize winner and two, or zero? If Akshay wins tomorrow, then UWA will score some points in the 10% and move up the rankings, and be deemed a better university than it was before.
But does this make sense?
Akshay was at UWA nearly 20 years ago, and by all accounts he was prodigiously talented when he arrived at UWA and prodigiously talented when he left. It's not clear to me that this reflects on UWA today in any particular way.
Nevertheless, a win for Akshay still might have some direct benefit for us in the publicity that follows a high profile win. Since Akshay's day, the Maths department has dramatically shrunk due to being the main target of relentless rounds of budget cuts, staff sackings, more budget cuts and so on. Although we pride ourselves on being a member of Australia's "Group of 8" universites, we now have by far the weakest Mathematics course, with fewer than half the options of any of the others. Meanwhile, competitors like Monash are investing heavily in Maths with 15 new positions currently advertised. So if Akshay wins and the light of publicity shines on us, it might be a nice time to point out at the highest level that there aren't any Top 50 universities with an emaciated Maths department.
So, one way or the other – good luck and Go Akshay!
PS Another candidate "in the mix" is our old friend Harald Helfgott who has visited a couple of times and tried to teach us the mysterious properties of the sizes of triple products in groups. When we first invited him, we were told that he was of "Fields medal" quaility, but since he's proven the ternary Goldbach conjecture, his odds are rapidly shortening. So good luck Harald!
Parameters of generalised hexagons
Up to duality, there are two known families of finite (thick) generalised hexagons:
- the Split Cayley hexagons of order related to the Dickson exceptional groups .
- the Twisted Triality hexagons of order related to the Steinberg exceptional groups .
Since I will only consider generalised hexagons up to duality, I will assume that the order of a given one has . The parameter is one less than the number of points on a line, and is the number of lines on a point. To date, we do not know much about the possible values of these positive integers and . Here is what we know:
- and (Haemers and Roos, 1981)
- divides (from the multiplicities of the eigenvalues of the point graph).
- There are two (up to duality) generalised hexagons with and they have respectively (Cohen and Tits 1985).
We do not know that divides , even though the known examples satisfy this simple divisibility relation.
Here is a cool number theoretic thing I've observed recently, but I can't (quite yet) prove that it is true:
Claim: If are integers greater than 1, satisfying and , then apart from a small finite number of exceptions, we have or .
I claim that the only exception is .
We know that the known examples satisfy the extra relation , and it is conceivable that such a simple looking relation holds for generalised hexagons and that it arises for some combinatorial reason. It's simplicity is the only reason to believe that it might hold, but wouldn't it be cool if every generalised hexagon satisfied it?
Symmetries of Graphs and Networks IV
Last week I was at the Symmetries of Graphs and Networks IV conference at Rogla in Slovenia. The conference webpage is here. At the same time was the annual PhD summer school in discrete maths. As usual it was a very enjoyable and well organised conference. It was good to catch up with some of the regulars and meet a few new people as well
I was one of the invited speakers and spoke about some of the work that I have been doing recently with Luke Morgan on graph-restrictive permutation groups. The slides are available here. The two relevant preprints are on the arxiv here and here.


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Zacks Investment Research downgraded
Vera Bradley Inc
) to a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell) on Dec 14. Weak margins and
comps in the third quarter of fiscal 2014 and tempered
expectations for fiscal 2014 led to the downgrade.
Why the Downgrade?
On Dec 11, Vera Bradley, known for its colorful luxury
handbags, reported third quarter of fiscal 2014 (ending Nov 2,
2013) results. The company struggled amid a challenging
macro-economic environment. Though both revenue and earnings beat
the Zacks Consensus Estimates, they declined on a year-over-year
basis. Also, Vera Bradley slashed its outlook for fiscal 2014. In
fact, the company cut its guidance for the third time this fiscal
Comparable store sales decreased 6.5% in the quarter due to
underperformance of the products and less traffic at stores.
Traffic reduced owing to the difficult macroeconomic retail
environment. This also led to cautious ordering from specialty
retailers, which lowered the company's indirect revenues by
17.3%. E-commerce revenues fell 7.8% as a result of lower traffic
and lower average transaction size.
Management believes that the decline in traffic trends has
been taking a toll on the company's results in the last few
quarters. This will eventually impact fiscal 2014 results. Though
the company has taken initiatives to drive performance, these are
expected to reap benefits over the long term.
Gross margin declined 270 basis points to 55.3% in the third
quarter due to sales of lower-margin products as well as
increased promotional activity. Operating margin also declined
130 basis points to 18.6% in the reported quarter.
Outlook Slashed
The uncertain consumer environment forced the company to lower
its outlook for fiscal 2014. Vera Bradley now expects net sales
in the range of $523 million to $528 million for fiscal 2014,
lower than prior expectations of $535 million to $540 million.
The company also slashed its earnings outlook and now expects
earnings per share in the range of $1.41 to $1.44 per share
compared with the prior range of $1.47 to $1.52 per share.
This retailer witnessed sharp downward estimate revisions for
the fourth quarter and fiscal 2014 after announcing its third
quarter fiscal 2014 results. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for the
fourth quarter decreased 19.6% and that for fiscal 2014 went down
4.7% over the last 7 days.
Other Stocks to Consider
Not all stocks are performing as poorly as Vera Bradley. Some
better-ranked retailers worth considering include
Bon-Ton Stores Inc
Citi Trends Inc.
) and
Harris Teeter Supermarkets Inc.
). While Bon-Ton Stores sports a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), Citi
Trends and Harris Teeter carry a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
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The cloud is everywhere and here at Microsoft we're flying high with our cloud computing release, Windows Azure. As most of you saw at the Professional Developers Conference, the reaction to Windows Azure has been nothing short of "wow" – and based on your feedback, we organized this special, all-day Windows Azure Firestarter event to help you take full advantage of the cloud.
Maybe you've already watched a webcast, attended a recent MSDN Event on the topic, or done your own digging on Azure. Well, here's your chance to go even deeper. We start by revealing Microsoft's strategic vision for the cloud, and then offer an end-to-end view of the Windows Azure platform from a developer's perspective. We also talk about migrating your data and existing applications (regardless of platform) onto the cloud. We finish up with an open panel and lots of time to ask questions.
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Poels wins Britain stage 5; Boasson Hagen leads by one second
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Wout Poels and Edvald Boasson Hagen duke it out on Tour of Britain's climbing day — the former wins, the latter takes race lead.
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Elia Viviani claims his second stage win as Vakoc crashes out of race lead. JJ Lobato now holds the yellow jersey.
Tour of Britain announces 2015 route
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The 2015 Friends Life Tour of Britain will feature a new summit finish midway through the eight-day race and the race will start in Wales
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Dylan van Baarle third second and takes the race lead with two stages left
Brandle wins again in Britain, as Dowsett seizes yellow
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- Updated Sep. 12, 2014 at 2:33 PM EDT
The peloton underestimates a three-man breakaway, and Movistar's Alex Dowsett jumps into the lead at the Tour of Britain
Kwiatkowski draws closer to Tour of Britain win
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- Published Sep. 12, 2014
The 24-year-old Polish rider hopes to stamp his season with a GC victory
Matthias Brandle solos to win stage 5 in Britain
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We recently received a bottle of Absolut Berri Açaí, their new flavored açaí, blueberry and pomegranate flavored vodka, and so I had to make some drinks. For this week's drink, I combined the açaí with some Pama pomegranate liqueur and fresh lemon juice. What I got was a slightly sweet and refreshing cocktail loaded with anti-oxidants. Tasty and good for you.… Read more
The Hal Ligon originated in Key West sometime in the 1930's when famous local/author Ernest Hemingway and fishing buddy, Hal Ligon, began ordering the drink at nearby bars.
The drink migrated north into mainland Florida but its name eventually evolved into today's Screwdriver. You can still order the drink by its original name in many South Florida bars. We encourage you to revive its name in your local bar or wherever fine cocktails are enjoyed.
March 12 marks the birthday of the woman credited as the inspiration for the World War II icon Rosie the Riveter.
A true American icon, whose can-do spirit captured the hearts and minds of Americans for decades,
Rose Will Monroe was a Jill-of-all trades out of necessity, and a fun loving, ambitious woman by nature. She joined thousands of Kentuckians who left their rural homes during World War II in search of good-paying defense jobs.… Read more
The Oscars are upon us once again which means cocktails! What night out with the stars would be complete with out them?
This week's drink was created by Kim Haasarud of Liquid Architecture. The cocktail, Moët's "Golden Glamour" signature cocktail, will be served on the red carpet and inside of the Governor's Ball.
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The 2010 Winter Olympics are wrapping up in Vancouver this weekend and this week's drink celebrates the games well. The fair amount of Canadian whisky should help insulate you from the cold. Canadian whisky and maple syrup, this may work on pancakes as well. Let us know!… Read more
February 22 is National Margarita Day, so of course we're gonna have a margarita recipe this week. Sure, this isn't a "traditional" margarita, but who doesn't like churros? The tequila blends well with the Licor 43 and Irish Creme, replacing lime juice and Tuaca is nice substitute for triple sec.
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This prohibition era cocktail was named after the 1922 film Blood and Sand, the story of a young boy who becomes a famous bull fighter staring Rudolph Valentino.
It seems like an odd mixture, but it works. What you get is a well balanced drink with a hint of fruitiness and some kick.
Top bartender Dale DeGroff tells the the story of how he thought it would be "godawful" until he tried it. So good, … Read more
Bourbon, pear and cherry … seriously, how can you go wrong with those flavors?
When you see maraschino liqueur in the ingredients, don't think of those neon-red cherries that never go bad! It's actually a liqueur made from real cherries, pit and all, that has a light nutty flavor.… Read more
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Anybots Names Former Cisco Exec David Rogan CEO, Company Enters Into 'Rebuild Mode' Collaboration Is the New Competition - Ben Hecht. By Ben Hecht | 9:00 AM January 10, 2013 Leaders and organizations are acknowledging that even their best individual efforts can't stack up against today's complex and interconnected problems.
They are putting aside self-interests and collaborating to build a new civic infrastructure to advance their shared objectives. It's called collective impact and it's a growing trend across the country. Quantified Self. Early prototype of "Quantimetric Self-Sensing" apparatus, 1996 (body sensing apparatus with Digital Eye Glass for realtime display of ECG, EEG, EVG, and other body sensing apparatus output[1]).
The above-pictured "Quantimetric Self-Sensing" apparatus when removed from the body harness: Left-to-right: Respiration Sensor; ECG; EEG; Skin Conductivity; EVG (ElectroVisuoGram=Quantimetric EyeTap).[2] The Quantified Self[3] is a movement to incorporate technology into data acquisition on aspects of a person's daily life in terms of inputs (e.g. food consumed, quality of surrounding air), states (e.g. mood, arousal, blood oxygen levels), and performance (mental and physical). Such self-monitoring and self-sensing, which combines wearable sensors (EEG, ECG, video, etc.) and wearable computing, is also known as lifelogging. History[edit] According to Riphagen et al., the history of the quantimetric self-tracking using wearable computers began in the 1970s: The Team Brain: Beyond Email, Meetings, and Middle Management. Editor's note: Justin Rosenstein is the co-founder of Asana.
He'll be speaking at Disrupt SF on the future of work. This article is a precursor to a larger vision which he has offered to share at SXSW; you can vote for his talk here. When you watch a skilled guitarist play, it's fascinating to see her left hand and right hand doing entirely different things, yet synchronized perfectly towards a common effort. The guitarist can perform complex tasks with many moving parts because she has a central nervous system with a sophisticated, unified brain. Her brain maintains a model of her external environment and goals within it and coordinates her hands to achieve them: One strums the strings to create the notes, the other presses the strings against the frets to set the pitch. It's a Bird, it's a Plane...it's The Digital Workplace.
InShare13 Intranet owners and other IT product or service owners are often confused when they hear the term "Digital Workplace". What is it? Is it the same thing as an intranet? Is it a virtual desktop? What the Yammer Acquisition Says About Microsoft – and Enterprise Social Networking. By Al Campa On July 11, 2012 Much of the recent analysis on Microsoft's $1.2B acquisition of Yammer focused on the slick application Yammer had built, their rapid viral adoption, and how it represented the assent of the social enterprise as the next hot category.
Certainly all this is true, as Yammer is a very simple and intuitive application, and had a devoted following of several million users. And Microsoft's $1.2B speaks volumes about the value of the social enterprise to an established industry leader. Survey shows Office Workers, Bosses Want to Work from Everywhere and Anywhere. Microsoft Canada survey results found workers and bosses often feel more productive working remotely.
Continuing with the Social Enterprise and Flows. [Note: This is the fifth in a series of posts about the Social Enterprise and the Big Shift.
The first post provided an introduction and overall context; the second looked specifically at collaboration, working together; the third looked at optimising performance, enjoying work, working more effectively. On Collaboration. Introduction Last week I spent some time looking at the Social Enterprise through the lens of The Big Shift.
Cirovski defines leadership formula. During their run to a second straight CIS women's basketball championship last season, Windsor Lancers head coach Chantal Vallee agonized over some personnel decisions and the domino effect it would have on her team.
2012 Global CEO Study. Overview For some time, businesses have been refining and optimizing their networks of suppliers and partners.
But something just as meaningful has been happening – the sudden convergence of the digital, social and mobile spheres – connecting customers, employees and partners in new ways to organizations and to each other. In speaking face-to-face with 1,709 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders around the globe, leaders confirmed that our new connected era is changing how people engage. How are CEOs responding to the complexity of increasingly interconnected organizations, markets, societies and governments? Our key findings center on: Empowering employees through values CEOs see greater organizational openness ahead. Videos: CEOs discuss their employee priorities Shared values driving key decisions. The Power Of Coordination. The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu once wrote that "power comes from formation."
Street art to takeover The Rocks, Sydney - Arts & Entertainment - Lifestyle - Fairfield Advance. General Assembly Incubator Takes in $4.25 Million. Arlene Weintraub9/7/11 General Assembly, a New York-based technology incubator, has raised $4.25 million, as announced today on the company's blog by co-founder Brad Hargreaves. The funding round was led by Maveron, the Seattle-based firm co-founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, with participation from Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Yuri Milner, Tom Vander Ark, Alexis Ohanian, Hosain Rahman, and Alex Asseily.
General Assembly opened in January in a 20,000 square-foot space that more closely resembles a college than a typical incubator. It was initially supported by organizations like Skype, Ideo, Silicon Valley Bank, and the New York City Economic Development Corp. Google: Mobile, social, cloud changing the way we work. 3 February 2012Last updated at 00:05 By Sebastien Marotte VP, Google Enterprise, EMEA Mobile multi-tasking: Google believes that mobile technologies and the rise of the tablet is changing the way we work As part of our Future of Work series running throughout February, we asked some experts to give us their take on how the way we work is going to change. Google's Sebastien Marotte is responsible for leading sales teams across EMEA, developing business strategy and identifying new growth opportunities for Google Enterprise in the region. He joined Google from Oracle where he was senior vice president of technology for the Asia Pacific region. Prior to that, he spent 15 years in sales management at Hyperion Solutions, subsequently acquired by Oracle.
Draw Diagrams Online using Collaborative Diagram Tools. 15 Free Tools for Web-based Collaboration. No man (or woman) is an island – and this statement can't be any truer if you're a designer or developer. Though paid/subscription services like Basecamp and Zimbra are great, individuals strapped for cash have a ton of alternatives that provide similar (if not better) features. In this article, you'll find 15 free tools to help you facilitate remote/web-based collaboration. Whether you need basic whiteboarding/brainstorming tools or fully-featured project management applications – you should be able to find a tool or two that's worth checking out. Google Docs Google Docs is an excellent application for collaboration.


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As union membership has fallen, the top 10 percent have been getting a larger share of income
May 24, 2016 | By Lawrence Mishel and Jessica Schieder | Economic SnapshotAs union membership has fallen over the last few decades, the share of income going to the top 10 percent has steadily increased. Union membership fell to 11.1 percent in 2014, where it remained in 2015.
Explaining the differences between EPI and DOL estimates of workers affected by the new overtime salary threshold
May 20, 2016 | By Ross Eisenbrey and Lawrence Mishel | BlogEPI counts everyone who is covered by the FLSA and earning a salary between the old threshold and the new one as benefitting from the new rule. This is because they will know—most of them for the first time—that they are entitled to overtime pay. Until now, many of those 12.5 million employees were denied overtime pay based on the duties tests and treated as exempt, even though they were not clearly or legitimately exempt. At the very least, all of these workers have now had their rights strengthened and clarified.
Tired of economists' misdirection on globalization
April 26, 2016 | By Lawrence Mishel | BlogAn interesting story in the New York Times this morning looks at the effect that job losses from trade have had on people's political views. It's no surprise that voters on the losing end of globalization are disenchanted with the political mainstream, as the Times puts it. They have every right to be.
Unions and the allocation of teacher quality in public schools
April 7, 2016 | By Emma García and Lawrence Mishel | ReportIntroduction and executive summary A renowned California court decision in 2014 declaring that teacher tenure laws violated the state constitution has highlighted the issue of tenure and its relationship to the allocation of teachers across schools (Vergara v.
California and New York's bold $15 minimum wage proposals are exactly what we need
April 1, 2016 | By Lawrence Mishel and David Cooper | BlogUnder the planned higher minimum wages and with various social supports (EITC and others), even the lowest-paid workers could attain a decent standard of living. That is a goal worthy of bold policy making like a higher minimum wage, which is essential to making sure that working people get a fair return on their work and enjoy shared prosperity. It's about time.
Are Uber drivers employees, contractors, or something new?
March 18, 2016 | By Ross Eisenbrey, Lawrence Mishel, Dan Essrow, and Susan Balding | Infographic
Uber business model does not justify a new 'independent worker' category
March 17, 2016 | By Ross Eisenbrey and Lawrence Mishel | ReportWhether drivers for ride services such as Uber and Lyft are employees or independent contractors has become an important issue for city administrators, labor policymakers, and the businesses and drivers themselves.
State of the Union Economic Proposals
January 14, 2016 | By Lawrence Mishel | VideoEPI President Larry Mishel joined C-SPAN's "Washington Journal" to discuss economic policies and goals put forth by President Obama in the State of the Union.
An annotated reading of Obama's flawed framing of wage and income problems in the SOTU
January 14, 2016 | By Lawrence Mishel | BlogAn annotated discussion of the discussion of wages and inequality in President Obama's State of the Union address.
Despite Freelancers Union/Upwork claim, freelancing is not becoming Americans' main source of income
December 9, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | Briefing PaperWhile there are important issues regarding the economic security of freelancers, hype about freelancing and gig work perhaps distracts from broader issues that deserve attention, such as the spread of employee misclassification.
Wages for top earners soared in 2014: Fly top 0.1 percent, fly
November 3, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel and Will Kimball | BlogAfter dipping slightly in 2013, annual earnings of the top 1.0 percent of wages earners grew 4.9 percent in 2014, and the top 0.1 percent's earnings grew 8.9 percent, according to our analysis of the latest Social Security Administration wage data.
Claims of an exploding gig economy are contradicted by the lack of growth of self-employed workforce
October 28, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | Economic SnapshotOne way to track growth in the "gig," or Uber, economy is to identify the share of workers that are self-employed. As Justin Fox has written, self-employment has actually fallen, contradicting the notion of an exploding gig economy in which everyone will soon be a freelance worker.
Wrong Question Answered Badly: Industry Data Can't Be Used To Infer Individuals' Productivity
September 17, 2015 | By Josh Bivens and Lawrence Mishel | BlogIn the debate over the relationship between economy-wide productivity and typical workers' pay the numbers are clear: typical workers' pay hasn't come close to keeping up with productivity, and a wide gap between the two has developed.
Income Stagnation in 2014 Shows the Economy Is Not Working for Most Families
September 16, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa Davis | BlogWe learned from the Census Bureau this morning that the decent employment growth in 2014 yielded no improvements in wages and, not surprisingly, no improvement in the median incomes of working-age households or drop in the number of people living in poverty.
Comments on Proposed Overtime Rule
September 3, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey and Lawrence Mishel | TestimonyThe proposed rule will restore or strengthen overtime protections for millions of salaried workers, protections that have been eroded by decades of bureaucratic hostility and neglect.
Understanding the Historic Divergence Between Productivity and a Typical Worker's Pay: Why It Matters and Why It's Real
September 2, 2015 | By Josh Bivens and Lawrence Mishel | Briefing PaperThe data series and methods we use to construct our graph of the growing gap between productivity and typical worker pay best capture how income generated in an average hour of work in the U.S. economy has not trickled down to raise hourly pay for typical workers.
4.7 Million Millennials Would Directly Benefit from Raising the Overtime Salary Threshold to $50,440
August 5, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | Economic SnapshotIf the overtime salary threshold is raised to $50,440, then 6.7 million millennials, or 4.7 million more than are currently covered, would directly benefit from the proposed salary threshold, with most of them gaining new rights to overtime eligibility.
News from EPI › SEC Rule is a Solid Step in Recognizing the Contribution Skyrocketing CEO Compensation Makes to Inequality
August 5, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | Press ReleasesI am heartened that the SEC is finally adopting its CEO pay ratio disclosure rule. EPI has been studying CEO pay and worker pay for more than 20 years.
Raising the Overtime Threshold Would Directly Benefit 13.5 Million Workers: Here is a Breakdown of Who They Are
August 3, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey and Lawrence Mishel | Technical PaperThese tables give a detailed breakdown of who is included in the estimated 13.5 million salaried workers who would directly benefit from the Department of Labor's proposal to raise the salary threshold below which salaried workers are automatically eligible for overtime pay.
Estimating the Number of Workers Directly Benefiting from the Proposed Increase in the Overtime Salary Threshold
August 3, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel and Will Kimball | Technical PaperThis technical memo explains the methodology we used to estimate the number of workers affected by the Department of Labor's proposed update to the overtime salary threshold.
The New Overtime Salary Threshold Would Directly Benefit 13.5 Million Workers: How EPI's Estimates Differ from the Department of Labor's
August 3, 2015 | By Ross Eisenbrey and Lawrence Mishel | Issue BriefAn estimated 13.5 million workers would directly benefit from the Department of Labor's proposal to raise the salary threshold under which salaried workers are eligible for overtime pay regardless of their duties.
How Many Salaried Workers in Your State Would Gain Overtime Protections under the New Proposed Threshold?
July 29, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel and Will Kimball | Economic SnapshotUnder the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers are required to pay covered workers 1.5 times their regular rate of pay for each hour of work per week beyond 40 hours.
Inequality is Central to the Productivity-Pay Gap
July 29, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | BlogMatt Yglesias is an insightful writer, but his recent article, "Hillary Clinton's favorite chart is pretty misleading" is itself very misleading.
Pay Is Stagnant for Vast Majority, Even When You Include Benefits
July 15, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | Economic SnapshotBetween 2007 and 2014 the median worker's wages and compensation declined, respectively, by 4.0 and 1.9 percent. Among the bottom 40 percent of workers there was an even greater decline in compensation than there was in wages, indicating that including benefits as well as wages in an analysis results in a more adverse trends
Clinton Speech Confirms That Presidential Campaigns Will Focus on Wage Stagnation
July 13, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | BlogHillary Clinton appropriately defines her economic policy goal as raising "incomes for hardworking Americans so they can afford a middle-class life" rather than "hitting some arbitrary growth target untethered to people's lives and livelihoods."
Professor Hubbard's Claim about Wage and Compensation Stagnation Is Not True
July 4, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | BlogGlenn Hubbard, a leading conservative economist and key adviser to GOP candidate Jeb Bush, does not seem to believe there is a wage stagnation problem.
CEO Pay Has Grown 90 Times Faster than Typical Worker Pay Since 1978
July 1, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa Davis | Economic SnapshotOver the last several decades, inflation-adjusted CEO compensation increased from $1.5 million in 1978 to $16.3 million in 2014, or 997 percent, a rise almost double stock market growth.
Top CEO Compensation Soars, and Why We Do Not Look at "Average CEOs"
June 22, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | BlogThe reason to focus on the CEO pay of the largest firms is that they employ a large number of workers, are the leaders of the business community, and set the standards for pay in the executive pay market and probably in the nonprofit sector as well (e.g., hospitals, universities).
Top CEOs Make 300 Times More than Typical Workers: Pay Growth Surpasses Stock Gains and Wage Growth of Top 0.1 Percent
June 21, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel and Alyssa Davis | Issue BriefThe chief executive officers of America's largest firms earn three times more than they did 20 years ago and at least 10 times more than 30 years ago, big gains even relative to other very-high-wage earners.
News from EPI › A Well-Deserved Defeat on Trade Policy
June 12, 2015 | By Lawrence Mishel | Press ReleasesI have been engaged in policy deliberations around trade adjustment for thirty-seven years. What was being considered in Congress today was a shell of the initial program and funded by cutting Medicare to boot.


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New York
Tonight's event has been canceled.
As Barnard prepares to celebrate its 125th Anniversary, the College and its rich history will be featured in a WNET Treasures of New York documentary hosted by alumna and award-winning actress Cynthia Nixon '88.
Join a panel of scholars as they explore the issues of transparency and accountability in the management of public good in New York City. For the Public Good is a multi-year, interdisciplinary project bringing together scholars and activists from a range of disciplines to generate a thoughtful critique of the "public good."
First-year students Toby Milstein and Malvina Kefalas talk about their behind-the-scenes tour as part of Barnard's Emerging Leaders Program.
Photograph by Dorothy Hong
Illustration by Vidhya Nagarajan
The Harlem Semester Engages Students With Harlem's Rich History in New Ways
The class "Romare Bearden: Home is Harlem" was taught in partnership with the Studio Museum in Harlem.