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For-Profit Search Platforms, with Art Shneyerov, accepted by the International Economic Review (Supplemental Appendix)
We consider optimal pricing mechanisms of a profit-maximizing platform running a dynamic search and matching market. Buyers and sellers enter in cohorts over time, meet and bargain under private information. The optimal direct mechanism is shown to involve no delay and can be decentralized through participation fees charged by the intermediary to both sides. The sum of buyers' and sellers' fees equals the sum of semi-elasticities and their ratio equals the ratio of bargaining weights. We also show that a monopolistic intermediary in a search market may be welfare enhancing.
"On Platforms, Incomplete Contracts, and Open Source Software", accepted by the International Journal of Industrial Organization
We consider a firm A initially owning a software platform (e.g. operating system) and an application for this platform. The specific knowledge of another firm B is needed to make the platform successful by creating a further application. When B's application is completed, A has incentives to expropriate the rents. Netscape claimed e.g. that this was the case with its browser running on MS Windows. We will argue that open sourcing or standardizing the platform is a warranty for B against expropriation of rents. The different pieces of software are considered as assets in the sense of the property rights literature (see Hart and Moore (Journal of Political Economy, 1990)). Two cases of joint ownership are considered beyond the standard cases of integration and non-integration: platform standardization (both parties can veto changes) and open source (no veto rights). In line with the literature, the more important a party's specific investments the more rights it should have. In contrast to Hart and Moore, however, joint ownership can be optimal in our setting. Open source is optimal if investments in the applications are more important than in the platform. The results are driven by the fact that in our model firms invest in physical (and not in human) capital and that there is non-rivalry in consumption for software.
Breaking Up a Research Consortium, with Jianjun Wu, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Volume 31, Issue 4, July 2013, 342-353
Inter-firm R&D collaborations through contractual arrangements have become increasingly popular, but in many cases they are broken up without any joint discovery. We provide a rationale for the breakup date in R&D collaboration agreements. More specifically, we consider a research consortium initiated by a firm A with a firm B. B has private information about whether it is committed to the project or a free-rider. We show that under fairly general conditions, a breakup date in the contract is a (second- best) optimal screening device for firm A to screen out free-riders. With the additional constraint of renegotiation proofness, A can only partially screen out free-riders: entry by some free-riders makes sure that A does not have an incentive to renegotiate the contract ex post.
"Applying Markowitz's Critical Line Algorithm", with Daniel Niedermayer, 2010, "Handbook of Portfolio Construction: Contemporary Applications of Markowitz Techniques" edited by John Guerard, London: Springer
working paper version, provided software
We provide a Matlab quadratic optimization tool based on Markowitz's critical line algorithm that significantly outperforms standard software packages and a recently developed operations research algorithm. As an illustration: For a 2000 asset universe our method needs less than a second to compute the whole frontier whereas the quickest competitor needs several hours. This paper can be considered as a didactic alternative to the critical line algorithm such as presented by Markowitz and treats all steps required by the algorithm explicitly. Finally, we present a benchmark of different optimization algorithms' performance.
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Fee-Setting Mechanisms: On Optimal Pricing by Intermediaries and Indirect Taxation, with Simon Loertscher, supercedes our previous paper titled "When is Seller Price Setting with Linear Fees Optimal for Intermediaries?"
Mechanisms according to which private intermediaries or governments charge transaction fees or indirect taxes are prevalent in practice. We consider a setup with multiple buyers and sellers and two-sided independent private information about valuations. We show that any weighted average of revenue and social welfare can be maximized through appropriately chosen transaction fees and that in increasingly thin markets such optimal fees converge to linear fees. Moreover, fees decrease with competition (or the weight on welfare) and the elasticity of supply but decrease with the elasticity of demand. Our theoretical predictions fit empirical observations in several industries with intermediaries.
Assessing the Performance of Simple Contracts Empirically: The Case of Percentage Fees, with Simon Loertscher
This paper estimates the cost of using simple percentage fees rather than the broker optimal Bayesian mechanism, using data for real estate transactions in Boston in the mid-1990s. This counterfactual analysis shows that intermediaries using the best percentage fee mechanisms with fees ranging from 5.4% to 7.4% achieve 85% or more of the maximum profit. With the empirically observed 6% fees intermediaries achieve at least 83% of the maximum profit and with an optimally structured linear fee, they achieve 98% or more of the maximum profit.
Fee Setting Intermediaries: On Real Estate Agents, Stock Brokers, and Auction Houses, with Simon Loertscher
Mechanisms according to which intermediaries charge commission fees and let sellers set prices are prevalent in practice. We analyze such fee-setting mechanisms within a dynamic random-matching model, in which, in every period, privately informed buyers and sellers are randomly matched with intermediaries. We show that every intermediary can achieve the maximum profit with a fee-setting mechanism. Consequently, fee setting is an equilibrium outcome. We derive the conditions for optimal fees to be linear and show that equilibrium fees decrease and become more linear in rematching frequency. The model fits many stylized facts observed in real estate brokerage.
"Informational Hold-Up, Disclosure Policy, and Career Concerns on the Example of Open Source Software Development," (with Marc Blatter, University of Bern)
We consider software developers who can either work on an open source project or on a closed source project. The former provides a publicly available signal about their talent, whereas the latter provides a signal only observed by their employer. We show that a talented employee may initially prefer a less paying job as an open source developer to commercial closed source projects, because a publicly available signal gives him a better bargaining position when renegotiating wages with his employer after the signal has been revealed. Also, we derive conditions under which two effects suggested by standard intuition are reversed: a pooling equilibrium (with both talented and untalented workers doing closed source) is less likely if differences in talent are large; a highly visible open source job leads to more effort in a career concerns setup. The former effect is because a higher productivity of talented workers raises not only the value but also the cost of signaling; the latter stems from more effort and the choice of a high visibility job being substitutes for the purpose of signaling. Results naturally apply to other industries with high and low visibility jobs, e.g. academic rather than commercial research, consulting rather than management.
"Does a Platform Monopolist Want Competition?", (Revise & Resubmit Journal of Economics & Management Strategy)
We consider a software vendor first selling a monopoly platform and then an application running on this platform. He may face competition by an entrant in the applications market. The platform monopolist can benefit from competition for three reasons. First, his profits from the platform increase. Second, competition serves as a credible commitment to lower prices for applications. Third, higher expected product diversity may lead to higher demand for his application. Results carry over to non-software platforms and, partially, to upstream and downstream firms. The model also explains why Microsoft Office is priced significantly higher than Microsoft's operating system.
Other Work
"Java vs. Microsoft: Compatibility, Innovation and Anti-Trust Law", Extended Essay as part of the MSc Economics program, London School of Economics, 2003
"Bank Regulation: Effects of the Capital Adequacy Requirements of the New Basel Accord", Masters Thesis, University of Bern, 2002


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As pressure mounts to reduce inpatient and some physician office visits, a leading Massachusetts health system has moved toward a growing reliance on risk-based contracts to offset losses from fewer patients. Peter Markell, CFO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston, has helped lead his organization's move toward contracts that require hospitals and physicians to absorb financial losses when healthcare spending exceeds targets. Such contracts also can reward both parties when cost-reduction or care-quality goals are met.
Public and private payers view such contracts as a way to give providers incentives to help avoid unnecessary and too-long hospitalizations. But providers facing losses from fewer and shorter inpatient stays are beginning to see global risk-based payments as a means of offsetting losses stemming from the move away from traditional fee-for-service care. In Massachusetts, the movement toward such global payment contracts reached 39 percent of total commercial payments in 2012, according to the Center for Health Information and Analysis. That was reflected in revenue at Partners, the state's largest health system, which received one-quarter of its revenue in 2012 from financial-risk contracts.
Markell sees growing potential in the use of risk-based contracts to curb spending growth while strengthening his system's long-term financial future. Here, he shares his views in a conversation with hfm about the role of risk-based contracts in an evolving healthcare marketplace.
hfm: Could you outline your experience to-date with risk-based contracts and what the future outlook is for them?
Markell: If you go way back into the late 1990s and early 2000s, we were in risk contracts back then. People referred to them as capitated or managed care contracts in those days. After coming out of that approach to some degree, we moved into performance-based risk contracts versus global or capitated-risk contracts.
Then, Massachusetts enacted its own healthcare reform focused on access. Once that was done, people shifted their mindset: "OK, now that we've got everybody insured, how do we deal with cost of health care?" A state commission was formed to focus on costs. The commission concluded that the way to really control cost is to encourage providers to take on greater risk—to make them accept global payments because doing so would force them to become more efficient. The combined push toward global payments and greater transparency was really the big driver.
After the commission issued its report, another piece of healthcare reform legislation—affectionately known as Chapter 224—came with a real emphasis on improving quality of care and reducing costs through increased transparency, efficiency, and innovation. So we thought, "OK, if global payment, or capitation, is the way we're going to go, and providers are going to need to take on more risk, then how should we proceed?" That led us to put a heavy focus on population health management, which is really about the continuity and the coordination of care for patients or members—the lives we take on.
Our first focus has been around high-risk patients, both in the Pioneer ACO [accountable care organization] and in our commercial contracts. Figuring out how you manage high-risk and high-cost patients is important, because 5 percent of the population drives about 60 percent of healthcare costs. So if you can make a dent in costs related to that population, that's where you should focus.
That led us to set up population health management programs and patient-centered medical homes and really work with our primary care physicians and their patients on better managing their health care.
Once you start such an effort, you learn that the real issue in population management is the need to reduce emergency department visits, hospital admissions, and specialist visits. That's how you reduce the cost of health care. And the only way to achieve those reductions is to reward the provider for essentially taking on risk or getting the premium dollar. That's really the big transition going on right now, so we're evaluating how much risk we should take on in our contracts and how well we can manage all of that risk. How far up the risk continuum do we go? Do we take all the risk, or do we share the risk with insurers?
In our last round of commercial contracts, we structured the contracts to share risk with payers, but there's a cap in there on how much we can lose or gain. The purpose of those caps was to allow us to determine how well we can manage these types of contracts. Then, based on our experience, we could decide whether to take on more or less risk going forward.
At the same time, we also entered the Pioneer ACO program. We had already been in the Medicare high-cost program, and we knew we had performed well under that program at Massachusetts General Hospital. We expanded the program to a couple of our other organizations. The first full year of risk-based performance was in 2012, and fortunately, we did very well under the Pioneer ACO program; we were one of the best performers in the program, if not the best performer. In our commercial contracts, we generated a positive surplus. We've met or beat our targets under both of those risk programs.
Overall, I'd say not only that this approach is working on a reasonable financial level, but also that our clinical leaders, physicians, nurses, and others are telling us that population health management and the patient-centered medical home are delivering better care and a better experience for our patients.
hfm: Could you tell us about the types of targets in those programs and give some examples of how Partners is meeting its targets?
Markell: In the Pioneer ACO, a shared-savings program, we've got a 2.4 percent outperformance of the trend. On the commercial side, we are outperforming the trend by 1 percent. Some may hear "1 percent" and "2 percent" and say, "Well, that's not very much." But 1 or 2 percent positive performance on trend is significant.
hfm: What is the scale of the risk-based contracts within Partners' overall revenue?
Markell: About 30 percent of our revenue is at risk. That translates to a little more than 500,000 patients.
hfm: Are there any targets for expanding risk-based contracts in the future?
Markell: Well, we don't control the insurance market, and the way that the market evolves partly determines how much growth we will see. But we'd love to see the 500,000 covered lives in those risk-based contracts grow larger so that we would have many more lives under risk agreements and management. A lot depends on how the marketplace evolves between HMOs and PPOs. Risk taking under a PPO is pretty difficult, because there are no primary care physicians, per se, to whom savings or costs can be attributed. But insurers are working on models for tracking costs and savings.
hfm: Has there been any impact from risk-based contracts on the prices that Partners has charged?
Markell: Yes, but there are a lot of factors that affect the price increases. The rate increases we've been getting in the commercial marketplace are in the 1 to 3 percent range, with the bulk of them around 2 percent. Those increases are pretty much in line with general inflation, which is what we've committed to be in line with the payers.
hfm: Are there any lessons learned from Partners' experience with these risk-based contracts, so far?
Markell: I would say there are two lessons. You really have to have alignment around the continuity of care, and particularly focus on your high-risk, high-cost patients. And then, like everything else in life, it's all about execution, execution, execution. You have got to execute, you have to measure, you have to execute again, measure, and keep on going. So it's about alignment and continuity of care. You've got to be focused on your high-cost, high-risk patients, and then you've got to have real good execution. And we're blessed here to have some very talented people who are experts in population management driving this effort, putting the care plan diagram together, and building systems to really measure, monitor, and provide real-time information to the caregivers.
hfm: In terms of the future, you mentioned that a lot depends how the market evolves. Are there any other factors that are going to affect how much further down the road Partners intends to go toward these kinds of contracts?
Markell: I think there are two issues: There is the way the market evolves, and then there is the matter of how well we can execute and achieve what we say we want to do. If I were a betting man, I'd say we're going to be more and more into this. But we can't do it ourselves. The market has to evolve that way, and then the burden is on us to make sure we effectively execute. The basic part of the challenge is to develop agreements with payers and execute well. But most places still have to find the reward mechanism for participating physicians in hospitals and determine how the funding flow will work and how the success or pain will get distributed to everyone.
hfm: Are the rates that you are receiving under the Pioneer ACO and in your private commercial contracts sufficient?
Markell: Our assumption, at least for the near term, is that our pricing is going to increase at best only by general inflation. So we're modeling everything around that.
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May 12-18, 2014 is Children's Book Week! Established in 1919, Children's Book Week is the longest-running national literacy initiative in the country. As children were among photographer J.B. Hostetler's favorite subjects and books one of his favorite props, we thought we … Continue reading
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Very, Very Interesting
Blogging is bizarre.
When people say things like, "Oh, you're so brave to put yourself out there," which they often do, it is so decidedly not my experience. Finding a rare moment to myself to sit and type into the WordPress box doesn't feel the least bit brave. It is, in fact, an over-scheduled introvert's wet dream. I know that what I write will be out there once I hit "Publish," but the act of writing–at least while I'm doing it–is mine. It's just for me.
I am in no way abdicating responsibility for what I write. When you put stuff on the internet, like I do, you have to be prepared to take responsibility for it. I have to be prepared for fallout, and I get some. 99% of the comments made on my site are pretty loving. They're mostly left by people who know me personally, or who feel like they do cuz they've followed my blog for a while.
Sometimes people don't agree with me. Duh. I'm okay with that. Fair's fair. If I put it out there, I have to expect people to have their own opinion: to disagree, to concur, to be under-impressed, over-impressed, pissed, bored, you name it.
Dissenting comments, I publish. Every now and then–pretty rarely, actually–someone gets nasty. I consider myself lucky that it's the anomaly, not the norm. Usually, the nasty stuff is left by someone writing under an obvious pseudonym. The first time it happened, the venom knocked the breath right out of me. I was all boo-hoo-hoo hurt, astonished, and indignant. I mean, why would someone who doesn't even know me–sniffle–want to be so mean?!?!
After 24 hours of feeling victimized and misunderstood I decided that, since sensitive people have no business writing on the intarnets, I had better hurry up and develop a tougher skin. Now, mostly, I try to let stuff like that roll off my back, usually pretty successfully.
Anyway, a few zingers here and there are probably good for me. They keep me honest, and from believing my own hype.
(Oh, for the record: I feel zero obligation to post the nasty stuff on a site for which I personally foot the bill. No apologies there. Go 'head and get your own site, though, and good luck to you.)
On Wednesday, I published a post with my thoughts on the the value that I place on advanced asana (bendy, stretchy stuff done on a yoga mat). Yesterday, it was featured on Yogadork. I like Yogadork. I have felt very fairly treated by the site.
Reading the comments is interesting to the point of surreal for me.
It's fascinating–to me–to see commenters interpret my post. Some claim that my post is my way of distancing myself from my former professional affiliation. Okay. I have already done that in the most overt way I could think of, but okay.
Some people took exception to the gallery of asana photographs on my website. I get why they might. I want to reiterate that I don't have a problem with advanced asana. I find the pursuit of advanced asana interesting to the degree that I do.
One commenter felt that the photo on my website of me in Hanumanasana made my post hypocritical. I get why someone might feel that way. I don't agree but I get it. To the point, I am certainly bendier than the average human. For my body, Hanumanasana is not an advanced asana. I could do it long before I began an earnest asana practice. That doesn't make me virtuous or accomplished. It just makes me long muscled on the backs of my legs.
There are plenty of other poses that don't come naturally to me, and I am only so interested in logging the hours that would be required in order to "stick" them. That was really the point I was trying to make.
I have zero problem with this:
In fact, I think it's exquisite. I admire the discipline it requires. I dig it. It is one beautiful expression of a sadhana. It's just not my expression.
I'm not calling for people to disavow advanced asana. I'm calling for people to invest in what's truly valuable to them–whether that includes advanced asana, or not.
Anyway, I'm not complaining about the Yogadork comments. I'm not outraged.
I'm interested, I guess.
The internets are very, very interesting.


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Size isn't everything, they say, but sometimes it's mighty impressive. The yearly Family Winemakers tasting has as one of its many claims to fame that it is the single largest tasting of California wines in the world. That alone would not be reason for excitement, were it not for the generally very high quality of the wines that are on offer, year after year.
Regular readers know that this tasting, now in its 24th year, is one of my favorites. While the definition of a "family-run" winery is stretched a bit to include behemoths like Jackson Family Estates and Gallo, the organization consists mostly of smaller, family-run wineries, many of whose wines are made in such small quantities that they do not receive wide distribution. The chance to taste the wares of these wineries remains the single best reason to attend this tasting. Because of the scope of the tasting, a trip around the room also becomes a very good way to get a sense of recent vintages.
This year's tasting features a seminar by Master Sommelier Evan Goldstein that has been given the most ungainly name in history: "Not the Usual Suspects: Unexpected Wines from Expected Places/Producers and Expected Wines from Unexpected Places/Producers." Despite this awkward moniker, the session will likely be great, as Evan is a good presenter, and the wines promise to be very interesting.
If you've never been to a large public tasting of wine, then this might very well be the best one to experience for the first time. Such tastings are a fantastic way to learn about wine in a way that you simply can't anywhere else -- by tasting many dozens of wines in comparison with one another.
After 23 years of being held in San Francisco, this year's tasting will now be held in San Mateo, a move that will be watched carefully by many to see if moving 20 minutes south results in a dramatically reduced attendance from the San Francisco wine scene (or a boost of folks from the Peninsula and South Bay).
Even if this tasting were held an hour away, it is worth attending.
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|GREATER SPRINGFIELD Dr. Vincent J. Mariano and Dr. Thomas J. Vergo of EMA Prosthodontic Associates of Western Massachusetts, the only prosthodontists in the Pioneer Valley since 1984, are looking forward to National Prosthodontics Awareness Week, which runs through April 9.
National Prosthodontics Awareness Week is sponsored by the American College of Prosthodontists in an effort to educate the public about the specialty of prosthodontics.
Prosthodontists are recognized by the American Dental Association as dental specialists with two to three years of additional training after dental school in the prevention and treatment of tooth loss.
Tooth loss occurs as a result of decay, gum disease, traumatic injury, cancer or wear. Losing teeth places stress on the mouth's structures and shape causing the bone to shrink and possibly changing a person's facial appearance.
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If patients are missing one or more teeth; are interested in dental implants; wear dentures or removable partial dentures; and/or want to improve the esthetics of their smile, they should ask their dentist about a referral to a prosthodontist.
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Now that New Year's Day has come and gone and the college bowl schedule is winding down, the postseason all-star game invitations have begun to flood in. A number of top players, including several from the ACC, were selected Wednesday to play in the prestigious Senior Bowl.
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Also accepting an invitation to play in the showcase game, which is scheduled for Jan. 26 in Mobile, Ala. and will be televised by the NFL Network, was Clemson defensive end Malliciah Goodman.
Previously announced ACC players on the Senior Bowl roster include N.C. State quarterback Mike Glennon, Florida State quarterback E.J. Manuel, defensive tackle Everett Dawkins and kicker Dustin Hopkins, and Virginia offensive tackle Oday Aboushi.
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~Ten minutes walking distance to Workers Stadium (2008 Olympic Boxing, Soccer Game)
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14. Deadliest Temper Tantrum: On The Originals, Klaus tries to rectify the fact that he turned over his daggered brother to his current foe. After a drawn-out plan that costs quite a few lives, Klaus leads Marcel to believe he saved him and, in turn, would return his brother. But in the final scene, Marcel's bratty little mini-witch throws a hissy fit and refuses to give back Elijah before learning how to kill an Original. Klaus better steer clear of Rebekah when she finds out their brother is still gone.
13. Most Mysterious Transformation: On Tuesday's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., viewers get yet another hint as to who or what Agent Coulson is after his death in The Avengers. Coulson and the team help save his former protégé, who is surprised by how different he is from when she knew him. "But what did they do to him?" she questions Melinda May. Seriously, we're asking...read more
Chester and Ephraim went from first place to a more dubious Amazing Race first on Sunday's episode: After a booking mistake by a ticket agent and a string of flight delays set them back nearly 24 hours, the former Houston Texans teammates became the first team to get eliminated in an airport before even having a chance to do the tasks. "It's not the thing we want to be first in!" Chester tells TVGuide.com. "We weren't looking for that trademark. It's never over 'til it's over, but we knew we were in a hole." Find out why the two, who can currently be seen on Texans Insider and Fox Sports Live, respectively, decided to roll the dice with a double connection and why they could've arrived even later in Portugal.read more
Phil Keoghan promises that he isn't overselling when he describes Season 23 of The Amazing Race as the most competitive yet. "I know people probably think I say this every season, but it's true," he tells TVGuide.com. "This group is just out-of-their-minds competitive. They might be hard to top. It's so much fun, especially when we get back and we know we have good material in the can."Meet the cast! See photos of Amazing Race's new teamsThe new season (premiering Sunday at 8/7c on CBS) includes former Houston Texans players Chester Pitts II and Ephraim Salaam, married ER doctors, baseball wives, Queens of Bingo theater performers and members of the L.A. Kings Ice Crew. Their first stop: Iquique, Chile, where the Double Express Pass is once again up for grabs for the first-place team. The second Express Pass must be given to another team by the end of the fifth leg. Get the scoop from Keoghan on what else you can expect this season.read more
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A lot of celebrities decide to turn to politics when they get bored with acting, Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger being two of the most notable ones. According to the New York Times, Alec Baldwin, at age 53, might want to add his name to the list and run for mayor of New York someday soon.
Don't worry, though. Alec Baldwin wants to do this right. He has said that he is not planning on running in the upcoming 2013 election. First, he wants to finish his contract with "30 Rock," attend graduate school, and then move from Long Island to New York City. He's in this for the long haul.
"30 Rock" will wrap up in April and after that, Baldwin will only returning for the occasional episode, although I'm not sure how long the show will last without Jack Donaghy.
Baldwin wants to enroll in school for the fall semester of 2012. He told the Times that he is currently talking to two major universities and will study politics and government "to help me better understand what the fiscal imperatives of the job are."
The next step will be moving out of his long-term home in Ammagansett on Long Island, selling his Upper West Side apartment, and moving to downtown New York to be closer to his girlfriend (a 27 year-old yoga instructor).
In the interview, Baldwin appeared knowledgeable of current government issues. He had a coherent conversation with the interviewer about Mayor Bloomberg, city council speaker Christine Quinn, and former representative Weiner. Surprisingly, this isn't the first time he has considered running for a public office. He has previously been asked to run for the Senate in Connecticut and governor of California, but he has never wanted to leave New York.
He feels that it will be his turn to run for office in the city he loves very soon, but first, he wants to be as prepared as possible so as to avoid making a fool out of himself.
I think Mr. Baldwin is very committed to these ambitions, but the question still remains, will he be a good mayor?
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Even in the heart of the largest city in the Philippines, a landscape architect manages to create his own unique vision of Arcadia
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Today, post-renovation, the house is filled with light. Gopiao says his goal was to create "an homage to Philippine antiquities and contemporary art." To that end, crisp white walls serve as a gallery-like backdrop. In the sunny living room, they display a truck painting and tire sculpture by Pam Yan Santos and a surreal portrait of a headless man by Ronald Ventura.
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And protect your heart from being inclined toward what you have renounced of people and desires and wishes and option and effort and from losing patience and harmony and pleasure with God at the time of the befalling of calamity.Abdul Qadir Gilani
Words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.Lord Byron
You'll discover that real love is millions of miles past falling in love with anyone or anything. When you make that one effort to feel compassion instead of blame or self-blame, the heart opens again and continues openingSara Paddison
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Confucius
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.Emma Goldman
OPTIMISM, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof --an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.Ambrose Bierce
Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.Lucinda Franks
Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.Caryn Leschen
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.Germaine Greer
Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.Dave Barry
Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.Edna St. Vincent Millay
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.Jane Austen
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.Michelangelo
The leading cause of death among fashion models is falling through street grates.Dave Barry
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.Jane Austen
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Thus falling, falling from afar, As if some melancholy star Had mingled with her light her sighs, And dropped them from the skies.Washington Allston
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Covance Board Authorizes $300 Million Stock Buyback
PRINCETON, N.J., Jan. 25, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Covance Inc. (NYSE: CVD) said today that its Board of Directors has authorized the repurchase of up to $300 million of its outstanding common stock. This authorization is in addition to the approximately 800,000 shares remaining under a previously-announced repurchase authorization and currently represents approximately ten percent of the Company's common stock. Any purchases under this buyback would be dependent upon business and market conditions and other factors. The stock purchases may be made from time to time and may be made through a variety of methods including open market purchases, privately negotiated transactions, block trades, and 10b5-1 plans.
Covance, with headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, is one of the world's largest and most comprehensive drug development services companies with annual revenues greater than $2 billion, global operations in more than 30 countries, and more than 11,000 employees worldwide. Information on Covance's products and services, recent press releases, and SEC filings can be obtained through its website at www.covance.com.
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Not my favorite book
By Sf Nicole
from Sebastopol, CA
About Me Developer, Educator
Comments about oreilly Head First Java, 2nd Edition:
The effort to makethe book unique detracts from the usfulness of the book, The multiple text streams on each page do not help.
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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By Wesley Egberto
from Barueri, São Paulo
About Me Designer, Developer
A great book which can teach stuffs that any other cannot!
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Head First Java Rules!
By svetliobs
from Buchholz in der Nordheide, LS, Germany
About Me Developer, Educator, Maker
The only way for it to be at all possible to work through a whole book about programming is to use Head First Java. This book made my life better and happier. I can only recommend it.
good book!
By Red_Ninja2
from Lorain, OH
Before I bought this book, I knew nothing about Java except for how to use and setup the compiler. I previously knew Python, but other than that no other programming experience. This book has taught me so much about Java and programming in general. Highly recommended.
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This book was advised by our faculty. At this time I find it reasonably expensive compared to newer materials. This book covers Java 5 while we evolved to Java 7.The layout is frustrating. Different styles, different fonts, ... It is a good book for those who are into hip-hop and programming livestock.
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The "I want to learn Java" book.
By thejartender (The Jar Bar).
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This book would be my first choice book if I were to learn Java again. The book has a humerous, neat and accurate methodology to teaching Java to a beginner.After reading it you may find yourself regularly looking up a few sections of the not so often used API (like Swing), but if you're looking for a reference book then consider the "in a nutshell" book.
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Dive head first into Head First Java
By Zero2Programmer
from Draper, UT
Head First Java is an excellent book to teach new developers the basics of Java. The first chapter starts with an explanation of how some of the basic Java syntax and operators work and the book goes on to teach about objects, GUIs, file readers, and many other topics. The authors of this book hit the perfect note between engaging and patronizing; they act like you don't know anything about Java but know that you aren't stupid and that you can understand the topic. At the end of each chapter is a list of exercises that vary from matching a code to its output to assembling snippets of code. The exercises are engaging and difficult enough to need time but simple enough that you can understand them. In each chapter it gives you a list of bullet points, topics the chapter covered and the core of information; these are usually quick and to the point (unless it was a really long chapter). The book is excellent and, as a new developer, this is an excellent resource that all beginners should have.
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Great Book for a newbie to Java!
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My thirteen year old son who is new to programming started writing Java programs after reading this book.He had so much fun writing a battleship game after reading this book!
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The best Java book, acredite.
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I readed it togheter with another book and this book, make me enjoy it, while the other did me stay stressed having to read the same thing twice to understand it.
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awesom book,but lots of bugs
By Sznot
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it is a awesome book i love the approach that they have, but there is nothing more irritating then a book that have not been cleared of its bugs, i would have expected that after 6 years that have at least fixed the bugs in the PDF version, at this state i would say don't bother buy it, it will kill the learning process.
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By BILL KURTIS January 8, 2013 4:48PM
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Updated: February 10, 2013 5:51PM
In the search for answers to the problem of guns in America, we would be wise to consider the years 1870 to 1885 when young drovers terrorized the cowtowns of the West. We're led to believe by the media — dime novels and wild West movies — that gangs of these hooligans fresh off the trail from Texas would ride into Kansas towns, shooting and hollering and heading for the local saloon filled with gamblers and prostitutes. This was the lawless West where our gun culture was born.
Who among us can't conjure the image of the steely-eyed roughneck spitting tobacco through his beard while he fingers the hammer of a Navy Revolver resting nervously in its holster, coiled and ready to strike? The pulse quickens. Beads of sweat furrow down his temple through caked trail dust. And then, fast as lightning, the eyes flash. The gun is out. An explosion pushes lead out of a barrel. And a body falls.
It's a wonder anyone survived the West. A real man had to face down evil in the barrel of a gun, probably every day. Really?
It's hard to fathom that this allegory of the Western experience has contributed to America's gun culture in a major way — especially since it is pure baloney.
There's only one credibly recorded instance of a six-gun face-off. It happened in Springfield, Mo., between Wild Bill Hickok and Davis K. Tutt on July 21, 1865. It was a gambling quarrel. Hickok felt disrespected. They faced off in duel-style. Tutt fired and missed. Hickok shot him in the chest. Hickok was tried for manslaughter and acquitted — self defense.
In the span of 15 years between 1870 and 1885, according to Robert Dykstra, author of "The Cattle Towns," there were just 45 homicides in the five major cowtowns of Kansas, only a few of them committed by legendary lawmen like Hickok, Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. The main reason was that when they rode into town they had the support of the townspeople, who passed strict gun control ordinances. In Dodge City, the cowboy handed over his gun at the edge of town. He could womanize, fight 'til he was bloody and drink himself blind. But if he tried to carry a gun, he'd be in jail. Only one person carried a gun: the lawman.
The gun myth of the West has created some of our American ideals of honor and self-defense, but we should separate facts from entertainment.
The reality is that even the wildest denizens in the world weren't stupid enough to let their fellow citizens walk around with guns on their hips.
Bill Kurtis donated his fee for writing this column to Diane Latiker's Kids off the Block, Kidsofftheblockinc.ning.com.


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Mirror Worlds, LLC v. Apple, Inc. Doc. 372 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS TYLER DIVISION DATE: August 26, 2010 JUDGE LEONARD DAVIS LAW CLERKS: Kori Anne Bagrowski REPORTER: Shea Sloan MIRROR WORLDS, LLC CIVIL ACTION NO: 6:08-CV-88 V PRETRIAL CONFERENCE APPLE, INC. ATTORNEYS FOR PLAINTIFFS ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANT SEE SIGN-IN SHEETS On this day, came the parties by their attorneys and the following proceedings were had: OPEN: 9:00 am TIME: 9:00 am MINUTES: Case called. Parties announced ready. (SEE SIGN-IN SHEETS) Opening statement by Otis Carroll. The Court addresses counterclaim. Ken Stein addresses the court. Jeff Randall addresses the court on behalf of Apple. Allan Soobert addresses the Daubert motion (dkt no 220). Response by Ken Stein re claim construction testimony. The court asks for clarification re: diary term. Allan Soobert responds to the Court. The court responds. Response re bounded or unbounded by Ken Stein. Jeff Randall addresses the court. Otis Carroll addresses the court. Jeff Randall addresses the claim theory of bounded or unbounded. Court moves to timestamp. Allan Soobert addresses the issue. Ken Stein responds. Otis Carroll addresses the court. Mr Soobert responds. ADJOURN: 11:45 am DAVID J. MALAND, CLERK FILED: 8.26.2010 B Y : Rosa L. Ferguson, Courtroom Deputy Dockets.Justia.com PAGE 2 - Proceedings Continued TIME: MINUTES: The court addresses timestamp. Jeff Randall responds. Mr Soobert addresses Dr. Levy's report regarding indirect infringement. Ken Stein responds. The court asks about claims in Daubert briefing. Mr. Soobert responds. Ken Stein responds. Jeff Randall responds asking that the infringement issues in the summary judgment motion be ruled on. Mr Stein wishes to pull back the claims. The court wants the parties to get together and determine what they are going forward on . A stipulation will be filed by 5:00 on Monday, 8/30/2010. Jeff Randall addresses the court. Mr Randall lists the claims involved. The parties are supposed to file by noon on Monday all claims that do not require a stream. The court asks for argument re claims re sealed motion 236. Christian Platt addresses the motion. The portion of the transcript dealing with this motion is Sealed. Ian Dibernardo addresses the court. The court asks for other summary judgment argument. Jeff Randall addresses motion 225. 11:08 am Response by Ken Stein. Jeff Randall addresses claims of 227. Court asks pltf if they agree with deft's claim about their identification of documents. Jeff Randall addresses claims re 427, 768 and 999. Ken Stein responds. Jeff Randall responds. Ian Dibernardo responds. Jeff Randall addresses the 427, 313 and 999 claims.. Ken Stein responds. Jeff Randall addresses motion 226. Ken Stein responds. Court will take up any motions in limine that have to be ruled on the morning of trial. Jeff Randall addresses the court. 11:45 am Court in recess.