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Defending the One Percent? Mankiw on Inequality and Just Deserts
Harvard economist Greg Mankiw has written a forthcoming article, titled "Defending the One Percent," that should be required reading for anyone interested in economic justice and inequality – perhaps especially for those like myself who will dispute Mankiw's conclusions. As a WaPo opinion piece rightly suggests, Mankiw's anecdotal affirmation of equality of opportunity is problematic. However, it would be wrong to dismiss the piece because of this, for it is a remarkable (and remarkably candid) laying-out of the fundamental challenges from mainstream economics to Catholic concerns about inequality.
Mankiw's overall argument suggests that we have three possible ways of deeming whether wealth inequality is wrong: a strictly utilitarian perspective, a "veil of ignorance" perspective, and his preferred alternative, what he calls the "just-deserts" perspective, in which "people should receive compensation congruent with their contributions." In defending the latter perspective, Mankiw makes a number of provocative claims:
He disputes the claim about inequality-of-opportunity partly on grounds that genetic inheritance plays a role in various traits that correlate with high income. He rejects claims that most high-income individuals are compensated beyond their productivity, and (rather carefully) refutes the standard arguments against such compensation. He instead argues that high compensation at the top is the result of increasing demand for high-skilled workers relative to low-skilled, and technological change which allows some of these high-skilled individuals to leverage their talents across enormously large fields of demand. If the best possible doctor could be seen by as many people as Twins catcher Joe Mauer, he would probably make more than Joe Mauer. He accepts that the wealthy benefit not only from government infrastructure and research but also from transfer payments, but suggests that the 1% already contribute disproportionately to public funds through progressive taxation, and that over time, government spending has increasingly shifted from infrastructure investment toward transfer payments.
Mankiw is a worthy conversation partner, largely because he is not a doctrinaire conservative. He actively supports Pigovian taxes on negative externalities (e.g. higher gas taxes), and is far more careful to accept the existence of distorting, "rent-seeking" problems in present systems. He accepts, for example, the claim that some activity in the financial sector is excessive not because of its primary work of efficient allocation of investment capital, but because of opportunistic use of split-second information and the like. So Mankiw is not blind to our problems. But he does want to fundamentally defend the present system as largely just and effective. I want to call attention to three underlying tenets of his argument, because I think these – and not the empirical issues above – are what should be disputed by Catholic social thought:
First, he argues that both utilitarian and "veil of ignorance" approaches fail because they support conclusions that contradict our "innate moral intuitions." He gives examples: strict utilitarianism would have to support not simply national but global progressive taxation and redistribution, as well as lead to a "best-case" scenario where the most productive workers actually had less leisure and consumption than less productive workers (since this would create the maximum total utility for the society); "veil of ignorance" tests would support programs like forced kidney donation (since you don't know if you will be the one in need, and surely if you were, you'd want one available).
But we should note something about his (quite standard) use of utilitarianism: he explicitly assumes that consumption and leisure equal utility, while work effort equals disutility. This is really where Catholics – who have a rich encyclical, Laborem Exercens, on the dignity of work as not only good, but imago Dei – should pick the argument. So long as work is fundamentally a disutility, then no doubt Mankiw's central conclusion – that higher compensation should come from more work productivity – follows. Even in the article, Mankiw is forced to defend his (lower) compensation as an economics professor on the grounds of "personal and intellectual freedom" – that is, on leisure and consumption grounds, rather than on the more obvious grounds: he likes the work more! On his grounds, one goes into academia (despite lower salaries) not because one wants to teach or write, but because one wants the more flexible schedule. What needs to be challenged here is the whole perspective that work is a disutility. Is it really a disutility for Joe Mauer? C'mon… as the WaPo article nicely captured in a closing vignette on a late-night highway tow truck patrolman, the guy who has to drive around all night and stop to helping stranded motorists seems to do encountering some real disutility, doing work that many of us would refuse. How is it that he only "deserves" $31,000 a year?
The second challenge is the story Mankiw tells about rising inequality as hinging on education and skill development. Setting aside genetics, he commendably suggests that we "focus on the left tail" of the income distribution spectrum, for it is "easy to believe that children raised in these circumstances do not receive the right investments in human capital." A bit inhumanly-worded, but the point is well-taken. However, this is followed by the problematic anecdote of the equality of opportunity had by the middle-class relative to the 1%. The argument here is, don't knock the 1%, just bring up the bottom.
Such an argument is appealing to those who have succeeded in the meritocracy. Like Mankiw's, my parents didn't go to college, and I have ridden the meritocracy to where I am (such as it is), and certainly could have ridden it further (in monetary terms) if I'd taken other available choices in my life. But Mankiw's perspective seems to neglect exactly the "winner-take-all" point that he made before. My Jesuit high school education, my prestigious liberal-arts college education – both were vastly more affordable and less competitive 15 years ago than they are today. Education and skill development cannot be universally available if the post-graduation employment market is increasingly competitive and winner-take-all – what happens is that the dynamics of the job market just "backs up" into the educational universe.
The third and final point is Mankiw's recourse to the piece of economics that I find the most problematic of all: the assertion that, because consumption utility is based on subjective preferences and we have no way to quantify those preferences, "it is impossible to compare utilities across people" and so there "is no scientific way to establish whether the marginal dollar consumed by one person produces more or less utility than the marginal dollar produced by a neighbor."
What this means concretely is that we really can't figure out if medication for a poor child's simple illness "produces more utility" than the $50 spent on the gizmo in the SkyMall to keep you dog amused for an extra hour… or to monogram your designer light-up bathroom mirror… or, well, you get the picture. If there's any observation in the article that should go against our "basic moral intuitions," it is this one. From Aquinas' distinction between natural and artificial wealth to Keynes' distinction between absolute and relative (emulative) needs, there are crucial arguments that suggest satiable basic needs should have priority over insatiable, socially-competitive ones. This moral scrutiny of spending really should be the Christian response to inequality, as it was in the works of earlier Catholic writers like John Ryan, who criticized the "higher-standard-of-living fallacy" which believes that "right life consists in the indefinite expansion and satisfaction of material wants." The problem isn't having a lot of money, or even that they got it in some "unjust" way; the problem is believing that there is no social claim on that money, simply because it is a "just desert" based on their economic productivity. Mankiw may be right economically that, in a lot of cases, it really is a just reward. The problem is that the 1% should be challenged on how they spend it.
Of course, it's easier for Christians to avoid this problem and make other arguments, because it would (rightly) call attention to our own non-1% spending habits as open to moral scrutiny. I say, bring it on.
About the Author
David Cloutier is associate professor of theology at Mount St. Mary's University and editor of catholicmoraltheology.com. He is the author of The Vice of Luxury (2015), Walking God's Earth: The Environment and Christian Ethics (2014), and Love, Reason, and God's Story: An Introduction to Catholic Sexual Ethics (2008). In fall 2016, he is starting a position at the Catholic University of America.
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Let me suggest the following like of reflection:
Let the distributable goods available in a society be thought of as a banquet. Some of the goods, e.g., the music played at the banquet are equally available to everyone in attendance. No one loses by what another gains. But other goods can be distributed to individual participants. There may well be reasons to distribute these goods such that some people get more than others. Among these goods, some tend to give their recipients opportunities for greater protions of these distributable goods.
If this picture has any plausibility, then would it not be proper to claim, from the perspective of Christian principles of social justice, that no one ever has an absolute title to whatver his or her portion, regardless of the consequences of his or her having that portion impact his or her fellow banqueters?
If so, then public policies and practices e.g., taxes, budgets, grants, etc. should always provide occasions for redistributions aimed to ensure that every participant has sufficient goods to lead a normal life. The "market" (whatever that means) may well be included in the these policies and practices, but it is never sufficient of itself.
More abstractly, economic rationality alone does not yield either sound political practice or moral principles.
"...because consumption utility is based on subjective preferences and we have no way to quantify those preferences"
The same is true of productivity. There's no way to measure it, unless we assume that employers are generously giving their employees the value of their marginal productivity, which is laughable, So there's no way to "scientifically" assure ourselves that the rich are more productive than the poor. This is especially true of the banking sector. There are long-running academic arguments about how to measure the banks' role in the economy, with some even suggesting that they have no economic productivity. Yet they consume an ever growing share of income.
You don't have to be a Marxist to be extremely skeptical of orthodox economics. Having any job other than being an economist will do.
Or maybe Greg Mankiw has Peter Principled out:
But we should note something about his (quite standard) use of utilitarianism: he explicitly assumes that consumption and leisure equal utility, while work effort equals disutility.
I expect that, by "quite standard", you are indicating that this framework is not actually his own, but Mirrlees'?
This is really where Catholics – who have a rich encyclical, Laborem Exercens, on the dignity of work as not only good, but imago Dei – should pick the argument. So long as work is fundamentally a disutility, then no doubt Mankiw's central conclusion – that higher compensation should come from more work productivity – follows. Even in the article, Mankiw is forced to defend his (lower) compensation as an economics professor on the grounds of "personal and intellectual freedom" – that is, on leisure and consumption grounds, rather than on the more obvious grounds: he likes the work more! On his grounds, one goes into academia (despite lower salaries) not because one wants to teach or write, but because one wants the more flexible schedule. What needs to be challenged here is the whole perspective that work is a disutility. Is it really a disutility for Joe Mauer? C'mon… as the WaPo article nicely captured in a closing vignette on a late-night highway tow truck patrolman, the guy who has to drive around all night and stop to helping stranded motorists seems to do encountering some real disutility, doing work that many of us would refuse. How is it that he only "deserves" $31,000 a year?
My take on Mankiw's arguement here (presumably following Mirrlees) is not that "work is fundamementally a disutility" but that work *effort* is fundamentally a disutility. I do think the latter insight is intuitive, and doesn't contradict the Catholic social-teaching view you're propounding here.
Suppose I am a heart surgeon. And suppose I love what I do - curing serious ailments and saving lives brings me a lot of satisfaction, high wages, enjoyable collaboration with colleagues - all things that, bundled together, add up to "utility" for me. I would think that Catholic social teaching would approve of my career, because it is what I am meant to do - what I am called to do; it imparts on me the dignity of a profession; it contributes to the well-being of those in need and society as whole; and for other reasons.
Because my services are highly in demand, I can do heart surgery 40 hours a week, or 65 hours a week, or 100 hours a week. I might save more lives working 100 hours than working 40 (which is to say, my total productivity would increase). But at 100 hours every week, the quality of my work would be at risk; and my time for my family, or golfing, or teaching, or whatever other things I do when I am not practicing medicine, would need to give way for it. Thus, I am disincentivized (after a certain point) to apply more work effort to my work. And I think the church is fine with that way of thinking.
Utility is all about trade-offs and the criteria we use in making them. Mankiw seems to think of himself what quite a few of us think about our professions: that had I chosen Y instead of X, back at that critical stage of life where we make the choices that determine the rest of our working lives, I might be earning more money. As a professional economist, he might have approached it more rationally than most of us do, and said to himself, "Slaving at a big law firm for 80 or more hours every week to make partner is not what I want to do; I won't make as much money in the long run teaching economics at Harvard, but I love the work, I love teaching, I love the lifestyle, I love the flexibility it gives me to write." All of those things, in combination, add up to that thing that economists call "utility".
Regarding the tow truck worker - if the labor market for tow truck drivers is efficient and fair, then he "deserves" $31,000 in the economic sense that it is what the market will bear for that skill set. Driving a truck, hooking up disabled vehicles and bringing them to the nearest garage is not nothing, but it's something that an awful lot of people are qualified to do, or can easily become qualified to do.
Btw, I agree pretty strongly with Mankiw that the proper focus for our social concern - and in this forum, we could say, the proper focus for our Catholic moral concern - is the situation of that tow truck driver: a worker who is relatively near the left tail of the income distribution. He is trying to support a family of three on $31,000/year. What can be done for him?
Paul Krugman has something to say about Mankiw's article on June 22nd at his blog. See "Greg Mankiw and the Gatsby Curve". Krugman summarizes the thoughts of several other critics: 1) the size of the rewards of the 1% is determined ultimately by policy and taxation as well as by productivity, 2) that the children of the rich have more opportunity than those of the non-rich, and 3) perfect equality would require unacceptable force (I'm not too sure of this point).
He adds a few thoughts about"equal opportuniy and the boomers not realizing that times have changed since he/they were young. See "We Were Middle-Class Once, and Young".
Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The Conscience of a Liberal - NYTimes.com
To repeat one of my mantras: the most important unanswered questions in economics are: what is a fair wage? And: what is a fair price?
I think it's obvious that both utility and disutility have a lot to do with the answer about a fair wage. But I ask: WHY should productivity count for so much (as the conservatives tend to think it does)? Sure, no product, no reward. Still, there's more to a fair wage than that.
what is a fair wage?
Perhaps our perception of 'fair' is the real issue. The gospel story of the vineyard owner paying all the workers the same daily wage despite the fact that some worked all day and others only an hour certainly contradicted the early workers sense of 'fair' and it does mine as well. In our market economy, the concept of 'fair' isnt even considered; its a replacement cost concept: if I dont work for you, what will it cost you to find another worker to produce the same output. And as an employee, I go through the same thought process: if I leave this job, what will another employer or career pay. Fair never really enters the process.
While I agree with much of your last remarks some of it seems tenuous. The time and effort required to defend the notion work "effort" is disutility will likely show no such defense can reasonably be made. Is a person who is paid well for sleeping a laudable goal? When the value of one's work involves extensive personal perception and a huge number of possiblities well beyond an individual's control, any attempt to place a tightly argued box around it is doomed to fail. Doesn't mean we should not try.
No economist can successfully argue to the value of an economic model while utterly ignoring reality. Capitalism in practice is not the same as capitalism as an economic model. When proponents of a free market will in the same discussion express concern for a lack of certainity in that same market one is literally forced to wonder why it is they so clearly assume the rest of us will not notice their remarkable inconsistency. Have they utterly redefined the word "free"?
As a case in point. I assume you are aware of the tragic results of the 1% literally robbing the ciitizens of Zambia of what can reasonably be considered their birthright. A few individuals became billiionaires and a few more became millionaires. What was their productivity exactly?
As for any reasonable argument that capitalism as practiced is consistent with the teaching of Christianity, well, success in that arena will require a significant degree of rationalization. A long winded way of saying it can't be done.
MightBe - I am not sure I understand your point about the disutility of work effort, but it does seem to me to be intuitive that work effort is a disutility. I don't think I'm unusual in preferring to work less to earn the same amount of (or more) money, hence the seemingly absurd tuitions we're willing to pay to get a college education.
I bow to no one in my ignorance of all things Zambian, but I assume that "well-developed", "fair" and "ruled by law" are not terms that one would normally apply to the Zambian economy. I don't consider Warren Buffett or Bill Gates or Steve Jobs (or even, to use Chait's not-very-thought-through example, Paris Hilton) to be warlords, kleptocrats or thugs. I don't think of sub-Saharan Africa when I name places where a prudently regulated and mature free market economy operates.
"what is a fair wage?"
Ann - Mankiw seems to have a "just deserts" theory of fair wages, which, from what I can tell from this article, is really just a defense of supply-and-demand theory: a fair wage = a just wage = a market-clearing wage.
One of the problems is that terms like "fair", "just" (as in "justice") and "deserts" (as in "deserving") are all terms that, in common usage, have moral content. But in describing a market-clearing wage (i.e. the wage at which the demand and the supply for labor intersect - the wage that generates job offers), economics seems to bracket morality, and just tells us what the wage is. (I suppose a more complete explanation is that there may be moral views embedded in supply and demand, as labor suppliers (workers) and labor demanders (employers) both factor moral considerations into their supply and demand. For the worker, this is utility; morality can be a component of the worker's utility.)
Practical Catholic morality needs to understand and respect economics. If the labor market for tow truck drivers is fair and efficient, then the wage is what it is. Inasmuch as the wage is market-determined, then pointing to ideals of Catholic social theory doesn't address the root cause of the problem. In effect, Catholic social teaching is reduced to just one more utopian scheme built on an incorrect understanding of human behavior.
The socially conscious Catholic who seeks to improve the wages of tow truck drivers needs to understand economics well enough to be able to identify which *economic* levers can effectively raise drivers' wages. Perhaps organizing the drivers is one answer, or part of one answer, at least in the short run.
Jim P. ==
I agree. So what IS a just wage? How do you know one when you find one? The only hint of an answer that i can find is: an UNjust wage is often very easy to spot. Ten cents an hour in this economy is obviously unjust. I'd say that most of us would say that "It's unjust because you can't survive on that rate". But is survival the factor that should be considered? I think not. We also seem to agree that if an employee contributes to greater productivity beyond what is needed for him/her to survive, then that employee should be paid more than survival rate. So there is a correlation between productivity and fair wage. But how can we get down to particulars?
Again, we can sometimes make negative judgments about productivity and unfair wages -- it is not fair when productivity is increased and the employer takes all the profits. (That is what has been happening in the U.S. for some time now. Middle class wages are not even keeping pace with inflation while owners' profits are soaring.)
Jim Pauwels and Ann, I find your talk about what a just wage is for some occupation, e.g., tow truck drivers, to be far too limited. Is not the justice issue in a society funddamentally a question of whether every person, has the resources needed to have adequate food, shelter, clothing, decent medical care, educational opportunities to lead a normal complete life in that society? If so, in a modern soiety such as ours is, the wage for a particular job has all too often proven to be inadequate for a number of the citizens. To supply the insufficiency they need some version of a safety net. The function of civil government is to insure through its policies and practices that this safety net is sufficiently robust that no member of the society is left without basics. Obviously, there will be need, in practice, to regularly adjust these policies and practices to fit changing resources and needs. So talk about "just wages" ignore issues of fair taxation, sensible subsidies, rationing if necessary, etc.
In short, a system of distribution of resources that is genuinely just is one in which the dictum "From each according to his or her abliity to each according to his or her needs is always the objective" is what one aims for. Whatever resources may be left over after satisfying this dictum can be safely distributed without too much concern about committing gross unfairness. But before one decides that there is great abundance, one does have to consider sustainability.
Note that what I say does not ignore the economic considerations of the society's economic resources. But it wholly rejects the atomistic tendency to talk as though we can measure some individual's or occupation's just claim for remuneration with no regard for whatever is transpiring elsewhere in the society's population. Sooner or later the measure of a society's justness is a politicl-moral matter, not basically an economic one. One need not agree with the details of John Rawls's work, but it's on the right track in its rejection of exclusive reliance on consideration of economic utillity. Such reliance almost inevitably begets victims.
Questions of justice should always be central to those who work in morals – which is to say, all of us at various times. The discussions of Mr. Pauwels and Ms. Oliver touch on important points. But we should be careful about too enthusiastically latching onto the rubric of "utility" as the proper basis, or even of treating "utility functions" as they are used in formal economics as exhaustive of the content of utilitarianism. Utility functions in the simplistic sense used by Mankiw are part of the effort to disguise the qualitative analysis of economics – especially as it touches on deeper matters such as justice – as if it were one of the exact sciences. That is, it is being used to confound preferences and values, and it is predicated on ranking quantitative analysis above qualitative. It is such simplistic pseudo-analysis that permits corporations to accept exploding fuel tanks in autos unless/until the utility function turns negative because of adverse liability costs.
As an example of the subtlety of thinking that can go into a formal utilitarian analysis – but cannot be grasped by "utility functions" as any quantitative economist would use them – I would point to the work of Peter Singer. I appreciate he is not admired (to say the least) in Catholic discussions of morality, but his applications of utilitarianism to say animal rights shows the level of sophistication that utilitarianism can encompass, and they highlights the severe limitations of the simplistic use of "utility" in most if not all economic analysis, certainly including Mankiw's instant case.
What was George Carlin's line, "Whenever the other side has you talking their language, they've got you. That, to me, is what it's about in a nutshell and it's almost that simple."
Bernard --
Do I understand you correctly? Are you saying that in calculating a just wage that the costs of the necessities of life (whatever they amount to) must be the minimum wage that any employer must offer? I would agree with that. But the problem is that some employers don't make enough profit to pay such wages to all employees. Capitalist theory would say that the choice is between justice to the employees and the survival of the business, but in such a case the just wages would bankrupt the business!
What to do? I'd say that the business should fail, but the employees should get assistance from the government until they can get other jobs. And that is the way it's supposed to work now, except that there aren't enough jobs for all those out of work and workmen's compensation ends eventually.
I don't agree with the dictum "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs". Too simple except in times of famine or other catastrophe. Unless there is added reward for added input and productivity a healthy economy just does come to pass and everyone is affected adversely.
The problem is, however, how to measure those added inputs which are not themselves quantitative. In other words, the problem of just wages is a problem of trying to add apples and oranges (quantitative and non-quantitative factors). The logicians tell us it can't be done. But the moralists say we must try. What to do?
Mark L. --
I don't understand all your economic terms, but you seem to be saying that the problem is in trying to measure qualitative factors using quantitative measures. Is that right? As I just mentioned to Bernard above, the logicians say this can't possibly be done. You cannot add incommensurables. e.g., you can't add apples and oranges (though you can add pieces of fruit). Very discouraging, but the ethicists tell us that we have to try.
So just how do we even begin to measure more and less of qualitative entities? Do we do it purely on the basis of how much we are attracted to or repulsed by the entities? Keynes did try to define "just wage" but gave up. I wonder what he did say about it. Might be a start.
The NYT's The Stone offers some blunt criticisms of the contemporary "Gospel According to Me". Simon Critchley and Jamieson Webster are the authors.


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What is the best setup using this lens camera setting? I would like to get the advice from someone using PTGUI as the sticher.
What is the best setup using this lens camera setting? I would like to get the advice from someone using PTGUI as the sticher.
Personally, I prefer smaller nadir over smaller zenith. So I would use -7.5 deg tilt for 6 shots around followed by a zenith shot.
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Thank you. Do you shoot the Zenith by keeping the camera on the R1 mount and tilt 90 degrees?
* When the tripod is moved approx. 9cm (!) in the proper direction and the center column is lifted approx. 9cm (!) then the position of the lens will be within a few cm of the optimum NPP.
(!) the exact value is depending on the tilt for the round shots and the lens that is used but will be close to 9 cm.
* The more precise the tripod is moved and the more precise the center column is lifted the better the stitched result will be.
* Only when there are close by objects in the zenith shot then moving of the tripod and lifting of the center column is needed so for a zenith shot of the sky it is not necessary to move the tripod or lift the center column.
* By setting the Blend priority of the zenith shot in the Image parameters tab of PTGui Pro to a lower value , f.i from the default 100 to 70 or 50 you can narrow the part of the zenith shot that will be included in the stitched result, this can be very handy if you get visible errors at the seem of the zenith patch in the stitched pano, with a little tweaking of the Blend priority value it is often possible to get rid of the error.
* You can check the result of the tweaking realtime in the Panorama Editor.
Hi Nick
Just to let you know that after all the testing with different lenses and cameras and brackets the best solution is the following giving the best quality enabling full Zenith stitch automatically.
Nikon D3X full frame (or any full frame) with 10.5DX shaved (I shaved the lens myself and it is brilliant) at 10 deg up on an R1 or R10
Taken 4 shots with perfect Zenith stitch in PTGui and created in Pano2VR
The Nadir is always easy to patch in Pano2VR using photoshop, as most times the tripod is on a floor, road or on a carpet - see samples below
and as the Zenith is much more difficult the 10deg will sort it perfectly
see below
Winchester Cathedral
And to all you car lovers - The Morgan Factory
Love to hear from any
Erik Hoffman
Sorry guys I ment 5deg not 10
When you do not have any photographer shadows to deal with, down tilt and a Zenith shot makes sense. When dealing with the photographer's shadow, you will need to take at least 1 Nadir patch shot in order to eliminate the shadow. In this case, up tilt will close the Zenith and leave you with the Nadir to deal with. If you tilt down and have shadows, you will have to take a Zenith shot, patch it in, take a Nadir patch shot and patch it in. Why not save yourself a lot of time and headaches and deal with only 1 patch shot? Tilt up and take a hand held Nadir patch.
I use 5 degrees up tilt and a hand held Nadir patch shot. Here is how I deal with the photographer's shadow using PTGui. http://www.dlsphoto.net/Tutorials/NadirShadow/index.htm
WOW. I do not know how I totally missed that small but very significant detail. Thanks for pointing that out. It does make a difference. That changes the technique significantly. If anyone has the same question using the Sigma lens, then I have an answer all ready for them.
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Hi Nick
Ever wondered about the artist who worked for months and years and his masterpiece is left in the basement never sold or looked at, that is passion
For anyone who had a chance to visit the amazing Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg - Russia is a great proof of passion, and some of the greatest artists works of art are kept here
Some of the masterpieces were bought for millions when the artist died penniless.
The link below is a taste of the Hermitage (15 room in all) in 360Panorama that took me hundreds of hours to create, so PLEASE dont just skip it - I know it takes time to load but believe me it is beautiful, and not because I have created it,
I was not allowed a tripod, so it is hand held (yes hand held) my friends and with a shaved 10.5mm DX is a treat no need for extra shot for the Nadir or the Zenith if you tilt up 5deg - a bit of work on the nadir in Photoshop but the ceiling is brilliant
The most amazing one is the Rembrandt room (click on the blue pin on the map - room 117) because it is very very dark and you cannot take photographs easily, especially without a tripod but thanks to a new technology and hours of work you can enjoy for the first time the full glory of this room - the cost of the photographs in this room will set you back in Billions.
I was privileged to get in after closing time! as in normal time there are hundreds of people storming the room with temperature exceeding 35 degrees so photography is almost impossible.
Music (room 112) and Champagne have made this visit one of the best I have ever encountered.
Please be patience to load and let me know what you think
Special thanks to Martin Hopkins who helped me to understand how to create a map etc,
Special thanks to the guy at Topaz who created the best software enhancing program ever.
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"I hope that I can be a brother to some, a father to others, a mentor to those in need, and a friend to everyone here on campus," he said.
Swoon. You could hear the administration's knees buckle. Valentine couldn't have said it better. This was really going to be great. Sacred Heart student-athletes jammed the back of the room, wearing their Pioneer red sweatsuits, hoping to catch a glimpse of the new boss. This was not just an AD. This was celebrity. A brand name. The camera phones went up. Click.
Was this supposedly curious hire really so curious? Valentine was a guy from the neighborhood, down the road in Stamford, Conn. He was not a stranger to Sacred Heart. Went way back with the school's retiring AD. The university began talking to Valentine and the idea started making a lot of sense, even if the candidate had no experience running an athletic program at a Division I school. Bobby V! Native son. Grand return. How do you pass that story?
"We're known as the Pioneers, and once again, we are pioneers—we're doing something unconventional…with the appointment of Bobby as our AD," said the bow-tied university president John Petillo.
Fifteen months ago a similarly enthusiastic scene had played out in Boston. The Red Sox hired Valentine as manager to replace Terry Francona, a two-time World Series winner brushed out the door like a stray cat. Francona's 2011 Red Sox had crumbled in September, and the team was surly and unlikable, humiliated by comical reports of mid-game chicken and beer soirees in the clubhouse.
Valentine would polish that up. Once more he was an outlier—it had been a decade since he'd managed in the majors for the Mets; his most recent iteration had been as a blunt analyst on ESPN—but the Red Sox made it sound so sensible. Boston needed an unflinching boss, who would tell put an end to the millionaire mishigas. Bobby V was going to open a window, and let the fresh air rush right in.
It didn't go well. At all. Valentine maintains he did a respectable job in Boston under lousy circumstances, but it never felt like a fit. The whining and surliness continued and festered. Boston's lavish roster was eventually gutted, its expensive parts dumped upon Los Angeles. The final months of the season felt like a lost walk through a corn maze. In October Valentine was dismissed.
He said he was over it. Setbacks were part of the Bobby V narrative. He reminded that he had risen and fallen, with plenty of detours, including tours as a manager in Japan. People thought he'd never last there, but Bobby V wound up thriving overseas.
"One thing you can't teach is experience, and I have a boat load of life's experiences," he said. "I have lived in five different counties. I have spoken different languages. I've been fired. I've been up. I've been broke. I've been rich. I have things that I think every person in life wants to experience. I can't experience those things for anyone here, but I think I can share my experiences and make the situation better."
He said he was learning what it needed to be done. A man who has walked the hot coals in Boston and New York will be fundraising and studying NCAA regulations and trying to figure out where the women's lacrosse team can practice if it can't practice outside. Was he really all-in for this new career path? "Some people ask if this is kind of a joke," a reporter said to Valentine.
"Ouch," Valentine said. He acted wounded, as if this was the first time anyone had ever suggested this move was unusual. "I'm a guy who loves challenges," he said, launching into an answer that was virtuosic in its Valentine-osity: "You know, I was a ballroom dancer during the Babe Ruth League state and regional championships. I was a third base coach, first day of a season, and I'd never coached third base before. I was a manager at 35 years old and I'd never managed before. I opened up a restaurant in 1980 and I'd never flipped a hamburger before."
Now he was an AD, as of July 1. Why not? To question his motivation was to be narrow-minded about the curvature of life. Why define yourself? Not long ago Valentine had been the Director of Public Safety in Stamford. He had taken the Mets to a World Series but also had a claim as the inventor of the wrap sandwich. Didn't everyone know these things?
Valentine was asked what he would do if a Major League team called. He gave a digressive answer about contracts and how he once had a lifetime contract in Japan, or so he thought. "I found out it was the lifetime of the owner's dog," he said. The room broke up in laughter.
"Some team calls? I always answer the phone," he continued. "That doesn't mean I am going to rush to judgment and run away from a situation I think is a very good situation."
This was where the road had arrived. Bobby Valentine is going to be a college athletic director. The journey continues. It all sounded fun.
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I've been using optional parameters in a limited fashion for some time now with .NET 4. I've recently thought about how the optional parameters are implemented and something dawned on me.
Take the following example:
public interface ITest
void Go(string val = "Interface");
The only requirement for implementing this is that the largest form of the signature
void Go (string val) be implemented, in fact we need not implement the optional parameter because the compiler takes care of that wire-up (although the option to use optional parameters will not be available when using the concrete class directly).
With this said, to provide the functionality in both places, and for it to be discover-able in the implementation, one could implement the optional declaration in both interface AND implementation. In fact, the productivity tool ReSharper will pull this optional declaration up to the concrete type automatically when implementing an interface. This seems the logical thing to do. However...
What's to stop us from using different values in the concrete type and interface? This set off my alarm bells this morning as if someone goes in to change that value, and forgets to persist it down the inheritance of overrides / interfaces, the behaviour will be completely different depending on how you access the object. This could be very frustrating to debug.
Try this LINQpad Script:
void Main()
IA iface = new A();
A cls = new A();
interface IA
void Go(string val = "Interface");
class A : IA
public void Go(string val = "Class") { val.Dump(); }
The output will be:
Which brings me to my actual question:
What (if any?) way can we safeguard this, without losing the ability to use the optional parameter variant from the concrete class, and so it's discoverable / readable to the coder?
Has anyone encountered this problem before? How did you solve it? Is there any best practices that could help prevent this problem from becoming prevalent in a multi-developer large-scale codebase?


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An excellent performance, with the exception of our finishing. The only downside to come from the game was a knock picked up by Jason Malpass, ruling him out for 12-14 days. He will be in a race against time to get fit for our opening group game against France.
Another good performace, this time against much better opposition. Wayne Rooney, now 31, continues to show his importance the the team. Jack Wilshere's injury is nothing to worry about, he will only be out for five days.
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The Economic Whodunit
The policy mystery of our time is why politicians in the United States and across much of the democratic world are so obsessed with deficits when their primary mission ought to be bringing down high and debilitating rates of unemployment.
And since last week saw a cross-party celebration of the opening of George W. Bush's presidential library, I'd add a second mystery: Why is it that conservative Republicans who freely cut taxes while backing two wars in the Bush years started preaching fire on deficits only after a Democrat entered the White House?
Here is a clue that helps unravel this whodunit: Many of the same conservatives who now say we have to cut Social Security to deal with the deficit supported Bush's plan to privatize Social Security -- even though the transition would have added another $1 trillion to the deficit. The one thing the two positions have in common is that Bush's proposal would also have reduced guaranteed Social Security benefits.
In other words, deficits don't really matter to many of the ideological conservatives shouting so loud about them now. Their central goal is to hack away at government.
This goes to the larger argument about jobs and deficits. For a brief time after the Great Recession hit, governments around the world, including President Obama's administration, agreed that the immediate priority was restoring growth. Through deficit spending and other measures, the 20 leading economies agreed to pump about $5 trillion into the global economy.
Obama and Democrats in Congress enacted a substantial stimulus. The package should have been bigger, but Obama -- thinking he would have another shot later at boosting the economy -- kept its size down to win enough votes to get it through Congress.
The second chance didn't come because conservatives stoked anti-government deficit mania -- and never mind that the deficit ballooned because of the downturn itself, the stimulus needed to reverse it, and those fiscally improvident Bush-era decisions.
Then along came academic economists to bless the anti-deficit fever with the authority of spreadsheets. In a 2010 paper cited over and over by pro-austerity politicians, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff argued that when countries reached a debt level above 90 percent of their GDP, they almost always fell into slow growth or contraction.
Financial Times columnist Philip Stephens compactly takes the story from there: "The implication was that deep retrenchment was the only route back to prosperity. Now, economists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst say the results reflected a data 'coding error' and some questionable aggregation. The assumption that high debt always equals low growth is not sustained by the evidence."
While Reinhart and Rogoff acknowledged their error, they dismissed the controversy in a New York Times op-ed as an "academic kerfuffle" and insisted that their findings had often been "exaggerated or misrepresented" by, among others, politicians. (They also complained about the "hate-filled, even threatening, email messages" they received. I'd be happy to share my email with them. Friends, if you have the good fortune to be engaged in public debates, you get a lot of angry missives these days.)
The two economists would have added to their credibility by showing a bit more humility about their data problem. But the damage was done. Europe and the United States moved prematurely to austerity. Tens of millions of people have suffered from joblessness or lower real incomes. Reinhart and Rogoff didn't force these decisions, but they abetted them.
Now, through the sequester cuts, we are compounding the problem. It's outrageous that Congress and the administration are moving quickly to reduce the inconvenience to travelers -- people fortunate enough to be able to buy plane tickets -- by easing cuts in air traffic control while leaving the rest of the sequester in place. What about the harm being done to the economy as a whole? What about the sequester's injuries to those who face lower unemployment benefits, who need Meals on Wheels, or who attend Head Start programs?
Instead, we should be using this period of low interest rates to invest in our infrastructure. This would help relieve current unemployment while laying a foundation for long-term growth. But anti-government slogans trump smart-government policies. For reasons rooted in both ideology and the system's bias against the less privileged, we hear nothing but "deficits, deficits, deficits" and "cuts, cuts, cuts."
To paraphrase a French statesman from long ago, this is worse than a crime. This is a mistake. Its costs are being borne by good people who ask only for the chance to do productive work.
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E. J. Dionne Jr. is a syndicated columnist, professor of government at Georgetown University, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. His most recent book is Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent (Bloomsbury Press).
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The other economic whodunit is the enormous cash on hand that big corporations are sitting on without a thought of hiring or raising wages. HS students all know that Henry Ford paid $5 dollars ,way above the prevailing wage so the workers could buy his cars. Much better data then the fraudulent data by Fox news and WS beholden economists.
Whether or not "austerity" is good policy in the current economic environment, "sequestration", as enacted by our Congress and President, is probably the worst way to assure getting real value for every dollar spent on infrastructure, defense, or aiding the unemployed. A far better approach might be to establish an overall Federal spending budget and allow the President to allocate the authorized funds among the various agencies. This is a slight twist on line item veto--an authority that presidents of both parties have recommended. Sequestration employs a meat cleaver where a scalpel would serve better.
Mr. Dunn, Congress would never yield that much power to a president, any president.
Before the legislative fix that ended the furloughs, conservatives were insisting that the president had wide discretion under the sequester rules to make sure that furloughs didn't happen. I heard several calls of "Why doesn't he shut down some of the small regional airports?" -- presumably so that the controllers could be deployed to larger airports.
Why doesn't he indeed. Probably for the same reason that the president can't shut down military bases by executive order: because Congress wouldn't stand for it. Every member of Congress thinks the airports and military bases in his or her own district are indispensable, so close the facilities somewhere else.
While I agree with Ms. Stockton that the current Congress is unlikely to give much discretion to the current President, there is historical precedent for my suggestion.
The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of 1935 gave President Franklin Roosevelt discretion to open new agencies, close existing agencies, and allocate or re-allocate funds by executive order. Within weeks he established the Works Progress Administration (WPA) the Rural Electrical Administration, the Resettlement Administration (to relocate farmers to more productive lands) and others. FDR moved funds among these agencies at his own discretion, often abruptly, to the consternation of Cabinet members who lost funding and the joy of those who received. Defense spending in those years was minimal, so the discretion given to FDR extended to almost all areas of Federal spending in that and successive years.
For the sake of full disclosure, I should add that the plan failed to meet expectations. Harry Hopkins, whom we might today call FDR's "economic recovery czar," privately committed to FDR when the law passed (April 8) that all "employables" (their term) would be hired by July 1. Hopkins later pledged to complete re-employment by November 1. In fact, as late as 1939, the unemployment rate was still 14 percent, and about one-third of all employed were earning below the poverty level, either as full-time government workers or part-time private sector workers, as the economy was still limping along. Even those years of heavy infrastructure and stimulus spending are part of the decade still known today as the Great Depression.
Joseph J. Dunn Author of After One Hundred Years: Corporate Profits, Wealth, and American Society
Let us be clear: the uber rich and 1% have already got all they need. The poor, sick, elderly and unemployed should not look to them for any solutions. They are not interested and will just create another reason why not.
As for Social Security President Bush never proposed privatizing SS but proposed giving people 50 or perhaps 55 and older the choice of remaining in the current program or placing a small percentage of their SS contribution, 2% was suggested, into a personal retirement program similar to a 401K. Younger people would be in the in second program. While not an FDR historian I am familiar with his SS proposals and the President's plan closely follows FDR's original intent for SS as highlighted in thesecond and third points in the following: President Roosevelt on Social Security MESSAGE TO CONGRESS ON SOCIAL SECURITY. JANUARY 17,1935 "In the important field of security for our old people, it seems necessary to adopt three principles: First, non-contributory old-age pensions for those who are now too old to build up their own insurance. It is, of course, clear that for perhaps thirty years to come funds will have to be provided by the States and the Federal Government to meet these pensions. Second, compulsory contributory annuities which in time will establish a self-supporting system for those now young and for future generations. Third, voluntary contributory annuities by which individual initiative can increase the annual amounts received in old age. It is proposed that the Federal Government assume one-half of the cost of the old-age pension plan, which ought ultimately to be supplanted by self-supporting annuity plans." PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT SIGNING THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT. http://www.timeswatch.org/articles/2007/20071109120401.aspxAUGUST 14,1935 "We can never insure one hundred percent of the population against one hundred percent of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, but we have tried to frame a law which will give some measure of protection to the average citizen and to his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-ridden old age."
When President Obama declared that SS contributions were a tax and temporarily suspended 2% as a tax cut those who opposed allowing individuals to invest 2% of the SS contribution into a private saving account widly applauded Obama's 2% "tax" cut to be spent. They also objected loudly when the temporary 2% "tax" cut was allowed ot expire.
Mr.Dunn referenced Harry Hopkins but another FDR cabinet member Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau,Jr., wrote in his diary and told the House Ways and Means Committee in1939:
"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work. And I have just one interest, and if I am wrong…somebody else can have my job. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises…I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started…And an enormous debt to boot!" It isn't necessary use the Roosevelt administration failures to end the Great Depression but to simply study the absolute failures of European countries that have taxed, borrowed and spent their way to bankruptcy as welfare states. Does history repeat itself? Yes, it does. And there is every indication that Obama and the democrats are intent on repeating the errors of FDR and European countries today.George Santayana wrote "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to it repeatit."
It's good to know that we had surpass our economic recession despite of many obstacles,still we're trying to cope with it. A recently released study by international children's development organization Plan and the anti-poverty Overseas Development Institute suggests that female and girls have survived the most during the worldwide economic recession. According to international research, women and girls are most likely to be poor, drop out of school and die early. Source of article: why possibly not carry out a favour and check out?


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PRetty much what the title says.
Im in the USA, Salem, Oregon to be excact. Does anybody know where i can buy FM 2010 in stores or from an online retailer?
Any help woul be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys.
PRetty much what the title says.
Im in the USA, Salem, Oregon to be excact. Does anybody know where i can buy FM 2010 in stores or from an online retailer?
Any help woul be greatly appreciated.
Thanks guys.
There's probably a similar thing to steam in the US I would imagine. Perhaps you could even try steam itself.
I'm in Eugene ha, I've gone with steam the past two years, but don't like much this year. I don't know what the non steam version is like, but steam can take awhile to load some times. Online would be your best bet, or maybe you could get bestbuy to get you a copy.
In terms of boxed product, Amazon is the only retailer stocking FM in America.
Otherwise digital download is an option - see the sticky thread at the top of the forum.
I use Steam. Haven't had any problem...other than constantly buying games when they go on sale!!!
I bought steam and my game has crashed 4 times
I live in Ohio and for every versio, I have always ordered from gameplay. I never had issues with this. This year, I was happily suprised to see that Amazon was offering the game. It was shipped about a week earlier than originally thought and Im hoping to get it tomorrow.
So Amzaon is really the only US way to order or from somewhere in the UK. Either way works wells I think, except for the time it takes from the UK to arrive.
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GoGamer.com seem to have boxed copies. I got my FM09 from them, but went Steam this year.
I live in Ohio. Amazon said it would be released on Nov 2. I pre-ordered it on Oct 31 and it came to my door on release day! You can't beat that!
Alternately, Gogamer.com sells FM10 as an import, which nicely avoids issues with patches and what not that have existed with past WSM versions.
I have ordered in the past from Gogamer, they have FM 2010 as a import as mentioned already. Here is the link
I went with Steam last year with no problems. May buy from Steam this year, just a little worried with some of the comments about Steam and FM.
I live in the States too, and had no idea Amazon were selling it... Might consider a boxed copy next year then and activate via Steam.
EDIT: Matt: maybe for next year include a link to Amazon for the purchasing options sticky?
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I also ordered it from Amazon and that worked perfectly...
I ordered it from Amazon and even was able to select a free shipping option.
I vote for Amazon all the way. As I said in an earlier post I got my copy on release day! The price wasn't bad either. I had no problems installing it offline.
Do you have anything against Steam? That's how I got mine and it's working great, no problems so far after a season.
Steam all the way.
Cheapest price
No wait for delivery (except download times)
Automatic updating
just much easier for me
It's on sale right now at GoGamer for $29.99!
Or you think the game uses up more space?
Neither is true as far as my understanding goes - so I dont think you can use that as a reason.
Also, if you want to play on more than one computer, steam is the way to go - install it on as many pcs as you want, shove your last save on a memory stick (or on email if it can handle it) and you can play your save from whereever the hell you are.
Steam is the way to go in the USA.


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Anything your partner can do for your baby (except for breast-feeding), you can do, too. Among many other things, you can:
Of course, just because you're now expected to share (if not equally, at least wholeheartedly) in baby care doesn't mean you'll be a natural at it (though you may very well be). You may have to work on building the patience, tuning in the radar, expressing the gentleness, and unleashing the playfulness that caring for an infant often demands. But it may surprise you to find that many mothers, including your partner, probably need to develop these skills, too.
The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act applies to you as well as your partner, provided that you work for a company with 50 or more employees. By law, you can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year for family reasons, yet too few new fathers take advantage of this law.
In addition to love and caring, all you need to become a good father is time. You've got to put in your hours, whether it means changing diapers, bathing your baby, feeding her, putting her to bed, hugging and kissing her, or playing, singing, and reading with her.
If you already feel pressed for time as the family breadwinner, this amount of time can seem like a big demand. Even if you work 60 or more hours a week, however, you can still probably manage to set aside at least four hours a day to spend with your baby. (Time when one or both of you are sleeping doesn't count.) But you have to make your baby and family a real priority in order to accomplish this scheduling feat. You may need to cut back on leisure activities, for example. Set aside blocks of time, daily if possible, when you will have absolutely nothing to do but devote yourself to your baby. Your baby will come to cherish these special times with her daddy-and you probably will, too.
The more hours you put into baby care, the better you'll feel about your parenting skills. In addition, given enough time, your baby is just as likely to attach to you as to your partner. Indeed, when hurt or scared, your child may even begin to turn to you for comfort as often as or even more often than she turns to her mother. But again, you need to put in your hours in order to win your baby's confidence, build her trust in you, and help her to feel secure in your presence.
Your willingness to feed your baby from a bottle will become especially helpful at weaning time. You can give your baby a bottle while your partner stays out of sight-and hopefully, out of mind.
If you possibly can, take a good chunk of paternity leave when your baby is born or shortly thereafter. Both you and your partner could use the extra rest you'll get by sharing baby care duties in the first weeks. In addition, you'll have the opportunity, never to be repeated, to get to know and enjoy your new baby in a relaxed, leisurely way. Paternity leave affords you the chance to get comfortable with your child. If leave is either not available or not affordable, then take some vacation time or personal days.
If spending time with your baby is a priority for you, consider some of the alternative employment options discussed in Deciding to Work After Baby Is Born. You, too, can perhaps customize your work schedule to spend more time with your family. You may be able to take advantage of flex time or working part-time (at least for a month or two). If you have a marketable skill, you might want to consider starting a freelance business from your home. Or you and your partner might work out an arrangement where you both work part-time or you stagger your work hours to share baby care.
Even if you cannot or will not alter your work schedule after the baby is born, try to make yourself available for emergencies. After all, you are just as capable of taking time off from work to take your baby to the doctor or to stay home with him when he's sick (or the baby sitter is unavailable).
Whether feeding your baby, playing with her, or doing any other activity with her, try to maintain as much eye contact as possible. Eye contact is as important as physical contact in creating and sustaining an intimate relationship with your child. Singing or cooing softly to her while feeding her or cuddling her can not only keep her gazing up at you, but can also deepen your relationship. A warm smile will also keep your baby's eyes glued to your face.
You may be able to put your baby back to sleep in the middle of the night more easily than your partner can. Precisely because you don't have breasts to excite your baby, your hugging, rocking, and singing lullabies may have a more soothing effect on her than your partner's attempts to do the same. Your partner's breasts can become a distraction or obsession no matter how tired your baby seems.
Some new fathers wonder whether their inability to nurse will prevent them from bonding as completely as their partners do with their babies. Though it's true that if your partner breast-feeds you can't bond with your baby in quite the same way she does, you can demonstrate your love in so many other ways besides nursing that this one area should not interfere with your ability to get to know and love your baby.
Your baby will bond with both you and your partner not just through breast-feeding, but through smiling, clinging, seeing, hearing, and crying. If you respond to your baby in a loving way, she will love you regardless of whether you have the ability to lactate. Besides, just because you don't have breasts that produce milk doesn't mean you can't feed your baby and take advantage of the opportunity it presents to forge a stronger bond between you both. If your baby needs bottle-feedings to supplement breast-feeding or to give your partner some time away from baby care, you can give all, or at least most, of them.
If and when you do feed your baby, take full advantage of the opportunity that feeding provides to bond with her in a special way. Don't nonchalantly prop a bottle in your baby's mouth while you watch TV or read the newspaper or talk with friends. The food (whether formula or expressed breast milk) you give your baby is important. But just as important (if not more so) is the warm physical contact that comes with holding her close. Loving, gentle touch gives your baby an all-encompassing sense of support, calm, security, and love. So cradle your darling in your arms, hold her against your chest, and stare into her beautiful eyes.
If your baby gets fed breast milk exclusively, you can still participate in the feeding process. You can help, for instance, by getting your baby out of her crib when she cries in the night. You can also help out with any other middle-of-the-night activities: changing soggy diapers, for instance, or getting your baby to go back to sleep.
If you can feed your baby an occasional bottle, great! If not, then make the most of all your other opportunities to do for your child. When your partner is nursing your baby, admire the miracle of breast-feeding (as long as it doesn't make your partner feel too self-conscious). But try not to feel jealous or left out. You are not in a competition for your baby's affections or attention.
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13 Sep 2012 6:49 AM #1
[CMD3] sencha generate app ... creates unusable ressources (win7)
all the resources in icons, loading and startup seem to be unusable (corrupt) somehow. had to copy them manually from the sdk.
13 Sep 2012 8:00 AM #2
Can you post any additional details and a test case so we can reproduce the problem. We need to know what platform you are targeting as well.
Sencha Inc
Jamie Avins
13 Sep 2012 1:43 PM #3
I assume the source of these resources is within [sdkpath]\myapp\resources\.. and they all look fine. This is a Win7/32 machine, nothing fancy. Don't know what else I can tell you. I just recreated a new app and it's happening again.
Will download the sdk again and try with a fresh one tomorrow.
14 Sep 2012 3:57 AM #4
I can confirm this problem, from Win8 x64Sven Tore Iversen
5 Oct 2012 11:21 PM #5Don Griffin
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So when i started playing i first chose a local game. I played around abit and went to the tavern to discover my portal gun and TF2 familiars. The next day i decided to go play ranked so a made a character and went to play around abit. After going to my own tavern the familiar or gun boxes were not to be found.
So my question is how do i find them? Or get them?


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With a focus on crisis intervention rather than long-term counseling, this 2-day training will deepen your understanding of sexual assault and the major roles of an advocate/counselor. This training is designed primarily for sexual assault advocates/counselors who are volunteers or staff at rape crisis centers. Others who may benefit include nurses, physicians, law enforcement officers, and professional counselors who do not have specific sexual assault training. Through case studies, role-playing, and other interactive exercises, you will build the basic skills necessary to provide competent, effective crisis intervention services to sexual assault victims/survivors effectively and sensitively. Specifically, you will:
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Let $P(j,k,n)$ be the probability of getting $j$ uniform runs of length $k$ from $n$ fair coin flips. What's the best way to compute $P$? I have no idea how difficult it might be; if it's a very complicated combinatorial argument, I'm looking more to understand the mathematical tools than to actually be able to do this explicitly in nontrivial cases. If anyone wants to show off, is $P(j,k,n,\alpha)$ for $\alpha \in [0,1]$ the weight of the coin much harder?
For large $n$, this sort of question can be tackled via concentration of measure. The idea is that the typical case should be very close to the average case, so that the probability is essentially either zero or one, depending on whether the property holds on average.
One useful tool is Talagrand's inequality. Let $\Omega = \Omega_1 \times \cdots \times \Omega_n$ be a product space and let $X$ be a random variable on $\Omega$ satisfying
Let $m$ be the median of $X$. Then Talagrand's inequality states that $\mathbb{P}(|X-m| \geq \epsilon m) \leq 4 \exp(-\frac{\epsilon^2m^2}{4f(m)c^2})$.
If the concentration is good, then the median will in fact be close to the mean $\mu$, so there is a similar (slightly more complicated) inequality in terms of $\mu$. (This is worked out carefully in Molloy and Reed's Graph colouring and the probabilistic method.)
Let $X$ be the number of runs of length $k$ in $n$ trials. There are two possible interpretations of your question, depending on whether you want the runs to be disjoint. In either case we have $f(t) = kt$, as the $t$ runs of length $k$ are themselves a certificate.
In the case where the runs must be disjoint we can take $c=1$, so the factor on the right hand side becomes $4 \exp(-\frac{\epsilon^2m}{4k})$. So provided the median grows at some reasonable rate (and it looks like it should be linear in $n$, or almost that) there is very tight concentration of $X$ around a single value, and your $P$ is either approximately 0 or approximately 1 for large $n$ and almost all values of $j$.
If the runs do not need to be disjoint then we can take $c=k$ so that the right hand side becomes $4 \exp(-\frac{\epsilon^2m}{4k^3})$. Again, provided $m$ grows, concentration is good and there is a sharp threshold for $j$ at which the probability rapidly goes from $\approx 1$ to $\approx 0$ as $j$ increases.
The only place $\alpha$, the probability of success, enters this picture is in the calculation of the median.
This doesn't say anything about how to calculate the median (or mean), but that usually turns out to be easier than calculating the probabilities of interest directly.
Here's a short blog post on expected maximum run length with a reference to a longer but still accessible paper. You could use the techniques in the paper to study more than maximum run length.


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Second Tied to Alleged Cannibal Plot
Authorities arrested a New Jersey man Friday in a conspiracy that involves a New York City police officer who was charged with plotting to kidnap, cook and cannibalize women.
Michael Vanhise, 23 years old, was arrested in his Hamilton, N.J., home by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and charged with conspiracy to commit kidnapping, according to a criminal complaint.
He is accused of exchanging multiple emails with New York City police officer Gilberto Valle last year, including one chain in January in which Mr. Valle allegedly offered to use a "solvent" to render a woman unconscious and then deliver her to Mr. Vanhise.
Mr. Valle, 28, pleaded not guilty in the alleged conspiracy after being arrested in October on that charge, as well as improperly using a police computer to look up information about one woman.
Wearing a T-shirt for the heavy-metal band Slipknot, Mr. Vanhise was arraigned Friday evening before U.S. Magistrate Judge Andrew Peck in Manhattan federal court and remanded to prison. His attorney, Alice Fontier, didn't contest his detention, asking for a bail hearing onMonday.
She said his actions were nothing more than being part of a group that is involved in "fantasy" games.
Ms. Fontier said Mr. Vanhise is a married father of two children, including a daughter who was born last month.
"He strikes me as a very vulnerable young man," she said, adding that he's "very upset" to be away from his kids.
Ms. Fontier said her client has been cooperating with the FBI since Mr. Valle was arrested, meeting with them more than once.
She said "he had not stopped cooperating" and wondered why authorities had decided to arrest him now.
According to the criminal complaint, Mr. Vanhise tried to haggle over the price of the unconscious woman with Mr. Valle, asking to pay $4,000 instead of $5,000.
"I am putting my neck on the line here," the officer replied.
"If something goes wrong somehow, I am in deep [expletive]. $5,000 and you need to make sure that she is not found. She will definitely make the news."
In another email, according to the complaint, the officer allegedly offered to deliver a woman unconscious, tied up and "stuffed into a large piece of luggage" to Mr. Vanhise who, the complaint states, planned on raping her.
"Just make sure she doesn't die before I get her," Mr. Vanhise wrote, according to the complaint.
"No need to worry. She will be alive. It's a short drive to you," the officer allegedly replied.
Following the hearing, Mr. Valle's attorney, who had been sitting in the courtroom for Mr. Vanhise's arraignment, called the arrest a calculated move by prosecutors in the run-up to her client's trial, which is slated to begin on Jan. 18.
"If he would have been called as a defense witness, he would have exonerated my client," said defense attorney Julia Gatto.
"I think it's strategic. He is being used as a pawn by the government to try and bolster a very weak case. "
Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement that there will be more arrests.
"Michael Vanhise engaged in conduct that reads like a script for a bad horror film, but fortunately, neither he nor his co-conspirators were able to act out the twisted conspiracies," Mr. Bharara said.
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Just 20 months after it capsized off the Italian coast, the Costa Concordia cruise ship was finally pulled completely upright early Tuesday morning. The "daring and unprecedented" operation took 19-hours, but you can watch the whole parbuckling in the one-minute video above.
From the Associated Press:
"We completed the parbuckling operation a few minutes ago the way we thought it would happen and the way we hoped it would happen," said Franco Porcellacchia, project manager for the Concordia's owner, Costa Crociere SpA.
"A perfect operation, I must say" with no environmental spill detected so far, he said.
The ship will be floated from the Giglio Island coast and converted to scrap metal.
The Concordia crashed into a reef on January 13, 2012 and eventually capsized, killing 32 people. Francesco Schettino, the ship's captain, has been charged with manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning the ship during its evacuation.
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3 Aug 2012 8:48 AM #1
Convert VS store.each
This is just a quick post for anyone who may need to set derived data into the models in a large dataset.
I have just over 1100 items I load from xml, one of the fields (distance) requires some math that I have to calculate each time the store loads. I did quite a bit of playing around with how to make the about 6-8 load faster when I remember the convert function.
I originally added a load listener that would run over each item:
store.each(model) { model.setDistance(); }
fields : [{ name : 'distance', type : 'float', // The key convert : function(value, record) { // calculate distance and return. } }]
Anyone looking to add a little performance though should remember that! I know I'll keep it in the back of my mind from here out.
6 Aug 2012 5:44 AM #2
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I don't, nor have I really had time to dig into the source.
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Join Voice of the Rampage Dan Weiss as he offers his unique insight to all things hockey in his weekly blog! Have a question or comment for Dan? Be sure to join the discussion of the San Antonio Rampage Facebook page to interact with other hockey fans! You may also submit your questions though Twitter by tagging @sarampage and using the hashtag #RampageVoice. Don't forget to follow us on Twitter by clicking here!
Sifted through the pieces of the recently released 2013-14 San Antonio Rampage schedule and uncovered these fun nuggets:
- The 30 weekend home dates at the AT&T Center continues the recent trend of promoting both a fan and family friendly schedule, and while it is two short of last year's 32 weekend dates, the 12 Friday home games (and ever popular $1 Drink Nights) this season exceeds last year's total of 10.
- The Rampage will play on just four Sundays during the upcoming NFL season.
- Also continuing a recent trend, six of the first nine games will be inside the friendly confines, but the competition will be stiff. Seven of those first nine tilts are against Texas and Oklahoma City who both advanced to the Calder Cup Playoffs last season, and a re-tooled Chicago Wolves roster under former championship bench boss John Anderson.
- Speaking of Chicago, the Rampage will open at home against the boys from Rosemount for the third time in the last four seasons. The Silver & Black have won both of their previous home openers in 2010 and 2011 against the Wolves.
- Speaking of Oklahoma City, the Rampage and division rival Barons will meet five times in the first 17 games of the year. Thankfully the Barons will not be accompanied this year by Jordan Eberle, Taylor Hall, and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins.
- After nine November home dates last season, the Rampage will skate on AT&T Center ice just six times in November this year, but that doesn't mean they'll be lounging around otherwise. November and March are the busiest months with a season-high 13 games apiece.
- January will be a perfect time to pitch a tent on AT&T Center Parkway. The Rampage will play 10 times at home in the first month of 2014, including a season-long eight game home-stand from Jan. 7-26. It's the longest home-stand since an 11-game run in San Antonio back in the 2007-08 campaign.
- And after the Jan. 31 game and fourth annual "Pink in the Rink" night against Toronto, you can put away that tent on AT&T Center Parkway until March. For the first time in franchise history, the Rampage will not play a single home game in the month of February. The team's annual Rodeo Road Trip will span 10 games over 22 days and see the club log more than 5,000 miles.
- Wednesday, December 4 will mark the return of the former Houston Aeros to the AT&T Center as the Iowa Wild pay their first visit to San Antonio. The Wild return to the Alamo City for a two-game weekend set on Jan. 24-25, and you can bet there will be a large contingent of green, red, and gray jerseys making the drive west across Interstate 10 to see their former team in action.
- The two biggest consequences of losing the Aeros to Des Moines? Nearly 60 nights on the road this season for the Rampage which isn't great, but also just three of those dreaded three-in-three sets which is a huge benefit to the team from a fatigue factor. That's down from eight last season and 10 in 2010-11.
- There are two grueling portions of the season that the Rampage will have to find a way to battle through. The first is from Nov. 9 through the final game before the holiday break on Dec. 21 when the Silver & Black will play 12 of 20 on the road, including a 3,000 mile cross-country jaunt from Abbotsford to Charlotte. The second is a wicked six games in 10-night stretch from March 7-16, which features three home games, but also includes single trips to Oklahoma City, Milwaukee, and Iowa.
- And finally, like last season, the Rampage have a great opportunity to finish strong and cement a playoff spot. Last year the Rampage played seven of their final 10 games at home and their three road dates were all in Houston. This year the Rampage play nine out of their last 10 at home with their only road game a 90-minute trip up to Cedar Park. That's a stretch where the team can hopefully do some damage and pick up valuable points.
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I am given the equation:
$$P(t) = 3 + 2 \cos \left(\frac{1+t}{26}\right)\pi$$
Where $t$ = time in weeks and $P$ = pollutant released into the atmosphere
I am told to integrate:
$$\int_0^4 3 + 2 \cos \left(\frac{1+t}{26} \right)\pi dt$$
in stages:
(i) $$\int_0^4 3 dt$$
(ii) $$\int_0^4 2 \cos \left(\frac{1+t}{26}\right)\pi dt$$ Where, for (ii), I am told to use the substitution $u = \left(\frac{1+t}{26}\right)\pi$
I know that after integrating, (i) $= 12$.
For (ii), I have tried differentiating $u$ with respect to $t$ using the quotient rule with varying results. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, so any help would be appreciated. Thanks.


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cd /serv
screen -R node
{in the screen}
node test.js
C^a d
ls -l /dev/pts
total 0
crw--w---- 1 tick-tock tty 136, 0 2011-04-19 16:41 0
crw--w---- 1 tick-tock tty 136, 1 2011-04-19 16:41 1
but after just a few seconds
ls -l /dev/pts
total 0
crw--w---- 1 tick-tock tty 136, 0 2011-04-19 16:47 0
crw--w---- 1 root tty 136, 1 2011-02-21 20:00 1
How is the screen's terminal getting switched to root? Does this mean the node server is actually running with root permissions? It shouldn't be. The only other factor that might be an issue is that iptables forwards port 80 to port 8000 where the node server listens, so it doesn't have to run as root. I apologize if this is the wrong place to ask this, perhaps I should ask in a node.js community?
I have not su root or done any sudo commands beforehand, either.


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It was a trip down memory lane for veterans from the Robert J. Dole VA Transitional Living Center as they visited the World War II History Center.
The veterans started out by getting to look at and hold replicas of several guns from that time period, followed by a tour of the museum.
Among the veterans was Wilburn Shrum, who was from Hutchinson and doing rehabilitation at the VA Center. He served in the Army from 1952 to 1954 and was a special investigator. He said he was deployed several places, but never got to leave the United States, something he would have liked to have done.
Also visiting the museum was Brian Kirkland, who served in the Army from 1968 to 1971. He was in special ops.
"I went everywhere," he said.
Another veteran attending was Fred Calkin, who served in the Air Force from 1970 to 1994. He too traveled to many countries during his deployments, starting out in munitions. By the time he returned to the U.S. he was loading B-52s, then moved to boom operator.
Following the tour of the museum, the veterans went to Pizza Hut for lunch.
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Noisebridge Distilled
From Noisebridge
Noisebrige Distilled
This page gives people some info about the art of building, maintaining, and/or operating a still
The Equipment
Still Components
A pot, and a condenser :). Optionally, a reflux column. Some Noise Extraction and Brewing equipment is available in the space, and could potentially be used to accomplish some of this.
- Glass is awesome for teaching and for beginners, but has crappy thermal properties.
- Copper with integrated heating coils is the choice of many pro distillers, but it is a real bear to keep clean, and reacts very badly to acids and bases.
Table of Boiling Points
- Methyl Acetate = 56.9C [1]
- Methanol = 64.7C [2]
- Ethyl Acetate = 77.1C [3]
- Ethanol = 78C [4]
- 1-Propanol = 97.1C [5]
- Acetic Acid = 118C (though this and other acids can react to form esters!) [6]
Incredibly Useful Graphs
- Vapor Phase composition vs. Distillate Temperature - for EtOH / Water
- Vapor Phase composition vs. Pot Composition - assists in determining efficient reflux ratios when operating a reflux still (EtOH / Water)
Other Neato Stuff
- Proofing table - relates specific gravity of a liquid to its US Proof value.
- Industrial Data for Ethanol - otherwise known as everything you could have ever possibly asked about the solvent ethanol, in a 47 page document.
Owning and operation of a still is legal in California as given by part 23367 of the ABC code. Full unabridged (read: annoying) text of the 2010 ABC code can be found here: [7]
Note: Still laws vary state to state, so check to make sure you aren't breaking any laws!


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14 Dec 2011 10:11 PM #1
Dropbox upload feature
When we export html5, uploading Dropbox's folder feature.
It make us can check fast.
Hype has the feature. but it is only setting as public folder.
If realize the feature, Sencha will win.
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It is necessary to try...


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If the shul doesn't have a full minyan at the time when Selichot is supposed to start, and waiting for a minyan to gather before starting is not an option, what are the rules for what you say or don't say before the minyan is complete, and once the tenth man arrives?
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Say Ashrei and continue Lecha Hashem haTzedaka. If a Minyan comes during those points, Chatzi Kaddish is said provided some pesukim were said while the minyan was there. Mateh Efraim 581:17, Elef Lemateh. It is somewhat mashma that when the pesukim end and the main selichos start, you wouldn't say chatzi kaddish. If a minyan didn't come until the end, some selichos should be said together to say kaddish shalem.
The 13 middos or any reference to them are not said without a minyan (Matte Efrayim 581:21)
Aramaic selichos are not said without a minyan (581:21)
(I don't know the source of saying Elokeinu... before the selichos or why we skip it w/o a minyan, but that's what people do.)