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|Reviews for Second Bloom
| Jebusroxs chapter 30 . 7/28
What happens next...?!
| RustedEagleWings chapter 30 . 7/18
Oh wow! Brilliant story! I'm so happy to see a Sakura centric time travel fic! Great story! I really really really hope there will be an update and wait (im)patiently to read more!
| Yorozuya chapter 30 . 7/3
askjghdnkajbndakjd you left off on SUCH A CLIFFHANGER aksdjksadbksaja.
I first read this on AO3 but then I saw you HAD MORE HERE. asjdbskasadnsakdj
idk even know if you plan on continuing this after you finish cleaning up but I really hope you do.
| Guest chapter 11 . 6/27
Okay well, I have to convince that I slightly delayed reading this fanfiction after its discovery. Well I'm kind of glad I didn't put it off anymore. This chapter was particularly my favourite and had me reeling over in excitement and that last part. SHIT ALSKJNASD
nice job writing this, the pacing is remarkable, I love your Sakura and your OC Jinya as well, they are so well thought out. Good job!
| NayliJubilee chapter 30 . 6/12
| Jaybird chapter 30 . 5/22
I have to say, I have REALLY enjoyed reading this. It's actually really interesting, how it's an AU, because the different surprises keep taking some getting used to, but become pretty cool. Like how Sakura's family was almost completely annihilated by ROOT, Sai being her cousin, and so on.
I really pity Jin nowadays, he must be feeling so horrible. His relationship with Sakura is going down the tubes, and he has no idea why (hell, he's afraid she's being controlled by the Hokage or Danzo), he's trying to keep Itachi from self-destructing, and he's terrified that he's seeing hallucinations of his (not)dead father. Although honestly, at some point, his encounter with Daisuke became kind of hilarious, just with him freaking out about his father being a ghost, and Daisuke going "Nooooo, you need to help Sakuraaaaa", and how that basically just added to the confusion.
Well, the odds of you continuing this seem a bit unlikely, considering the last time it was updated, but if you ever happen to have the plot bunny bite you, I'd love to see what happens next. As it is, I've really enjoyed what you've written here; I think one of the things that makes this such a terrific time travel fic is that you're absolutely fearless in showing how time travel isn't like following a road map, that your foreknowledge will become less useful and more outdated as you make more changes, that your changes for the better can inadvertently bring about more problems (possibly ones that outweight the benefits), and that no matter what you do, you can't accommodate for the changes in behaviour and actions of others, which can lead to them contributing in a large way to even more changes to the time line. I just think that your fic here is possibly the best I've seen in tackling the true scope of what happens when someone tries to redo time.
| Guest chapter 30 . 5/14
This story is absolutely beautiful. So much intrigue. I need to know what will happen. You have so many characters with good plotlines and everything is coming together. Things from the begininning of the story coming back and Sakura with her time traveling issues and gaah.
| Sook03 chapter 6 . 5/7
Ohmigod. Poor Naruto, every time I see him suffering from someone else's misplaced anger I feel so sad for him.
| Sook03 chapter 4 . 5/7
Clever girl. She's training the boys early on.
| Sook03 chapter 3 . 5/7
Commitment is key. Smart girl.
| Sook03 chapter 2 . 5/7
Oh my. Naruto is a really smart little kid. He should have a study date with Sakura :3
| Sook03 chapter 1 . 5/7
Ohmigod. I really hope she can protect her brother.
| titpuce86 chapter 30 . 4/7
Goig through my alerts' list, I decided to reread your fic and I must say I had forgotten how good it was. But it's been a while since you last updated. Did you forget the story or has your muse gone away? Here's to hoping we will have the next chapters pretty soon.
| deathgrunty chapter 22 . 4/2
The story is dragging too much in their six year old time and story is dragging again, and what did Hinata just do?
| deathgrunty chapter 17 . 4/2
OMG! Are you sure you don't read about Naruto? That was one hell of a ripple effect that Sakura caused! Tobi!? Yagura?! Village hidden in the mist?! It was shocking!


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Advisory Opinion 1988-2 An attorney has requested an advisory opinion on the following question: It is an ethical violation for a plaintiff's lawyer to communicate directly with Risk Management Division to explain or negotiate settlement of a case, without defense counsels consent? Risk Management Division is a division of the General Services Department of the State of New Mexico. its principal function is to administer the insurance risks of the State and State agencies. See N.M. Stat. Ann. § 15-7-1 et seg. (1986 Repl.). Among its other duties, Risk management Division retains private law firms to defend claims against public employees and public entities in situations where a defense is not provided by a private insurance carrier. N.M. Stat. Ann. § 41-4-4(B) (1986 Repl.). Risk Management Division also has authority to "compromise, adjust, settle and pay claims." N.M. Stat. Ann. § 15-7-3(A)(4) (1986 Repl.). In these capacities, the role of Risk Management Division is similar to that of a private insurance company. The relevant ethical consideration is New Mexico Rule of Professional Conduct 16-402: In representing a client, a lawyer shall not communicate about the subject of the representation with a party the lawyer knows to be represented by another lawyer in the matter, unless the lawyer has the consent of the other lawyer or is authorized by law to do so. Except for persons having a managerial responsibility on behalf of the organization, an attorney is not prohibited from communicating directly with employees of a corporation, partnership or other entity about the subject matter of the representation even though the corporation, partnership or entity itself is represented by counsel. The first sentence of the above rule is identical to ABA Model Rule of Professional Conduct 4.2. When a private insurance company acts on behalf of its insured in the conduct of litigation and settlement of claims, it assumes a fiduciary relationship with the insured. Chavez v. Chenoweth, 89 N.M. 423, 430, 553 P.2d 703, 710 (Ct. App. 1976). in such situations, the insurance company is the real party in interest, Grammar v. Kohlhaas Tank & Equipment Co., 93 N.M. 685, 692, 604 P.2d 823, 830 (Ct. App. 1979), cert. denied, 94 N.M. 628, 614 P.2d 545 (1980), and the relationship is one of agent and principal. 44 Am. Jur. 2d, Insurance § 1422 (1982); Bennett v. Conrady, 180 Kan. 485, 305 P.2d 823 (1957). A.B.A. Informal opinion 1190 (August 27, 1971) states that "[even though the insurance carrier is not a named party to the litigation, in most cases it stands in the shoes of the individual defendant in asserting the defense in the litigation and in protecting its insured, who is the named defendant." The opinion holds that an insurance company may authorize a lay adjuster to negotiate directly with plaintiff's counsel with the express consent of defense counsel, so long as the activity does not constitute the unauthorized practice of law. A.B.A. Informal Opinion 570 (August 23, 1962) suggests that defense counsel represents both the insurance company and the insured until such time as the insured should elect to retain separate counsel. Although the interpretation does not appear to be uniform, state bar opinions from other jurisdictions have considered it improper for plaintiff's counsel to communicate directly with insurance companies. Virginia State Bar opinion 687 (May 29, 1985); Colorado Bar Association opinion 73 (May 17, 1986). But see Maine Professional Ethics Commission, Board of overseers of the Bar, Opinion 63 (January 7, 1986). In such situations, therefore, a private insurance company acts as an agent for its insured, in a fiduciary relationship. Unless and until a conflict develops, its interests are allied with those of the insured. Under these circumstances, it is the Committee's opinion that it is improper for plaintiff's counsel to initiate direct communication with the insurer without the consent of defense counsel. The Committee does not express a formal opinion on whether the insurance company may authorize or initiate direct communication with plaintiff's counsel. The rule against direct communication with a represented party is designed for the protection of the represented party. A.B.A. Formal Opinion 108 (March 10, 1934). There may be circumstances, therefore, in which the insurance company could waive its right to this protection. The Committee believes, however, that the safer course of action for plaintiff's counsel is not to engage in substantive discussions with the insurance company or its agents, even when the communication is initiated by the company or agent. We must next consider whether this opinion is changed by the fact that Risk Management Division is not a private insurer, but a governmental entity. Rule 16-402 contains an exception to the general rule prohibiting direct communication if the communication is "authorized by law." The official comment to A.B.A. Model Rule 4.2 states that "communications authorized by law include, for example, the right of a party to a controversy with a government agency to speak with government officials about the matter." Despite the broad nature of this language, however, the restriction against direct communication has to date been applied to government agencies and boards in the same manner as it has been applied to corporate parties. A.B.A./B.N.A. Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct, 71:317 (1987). Instances where the "authorized by law" exception (or its predecessors) have been invoked appear to be limited to instances where specific statutes or court rules require or permit direct communication with an adverse party. See, A.B.A./B.N.A. Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct 71:307-308 (1987). The general rule appears to be the same as for private corporations, and that management level employees of a governmental agency may not be contacted directly in such circumstances. A.B.A/B.N.A. Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct 71:318-319 (1987). It is, therefore, the Committee's opinion that Risk Management Division's status as a public entity does not change the general rule, in the absence of a specific statute or rule permitting direct communication; and that it is, therefore, improper for plaintiff's counsel to initiate communication with Risk management Division concerning matters for which Risk management Division has retained counsel to provide a defense for a public employee or entity, without the consent of defense counsel.
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Had a great meal with my gal, old fashioned Fish and Chips...... as good ad my mum made. Great gardens, fab staff.... A great Sunday..
In Karen, virtually across the road from Karen horse riding school, tucked away is the real gem of a place. Amazing lawns, they usually open up a bouncy castle for the kids, in addition to the many permanent playground attractions. Food and service are OK, nothing exceptional (unlike you're really into English pub sort of food), though they do have some interesting items. The marshmallow and chocolate samosas - how could you not try such a desert?! - are highly recommended. Great place for a weekend breakfast/lunch
Best Beef and Guinness pie in Kenya! Cold Tusker! Love the jukebox tracks! Will have to make it my local! Good job!
We go here at least once a week! Good service, fun atmosphere, and the best chicken wings in town! The fillet is really great w the salad and pepper sauce, tender and juicy! Nice dining room separate from pup area so two very different atmospheres to suit your mood.
A great place with a great garden with outside seating and a great bar. Food is better than average pub grub and is very good value. Service is excellent. A very friendly and welcoming venue! Also has some rooms for B & B. I had a look at some of them and they are very nice and excellent value for the quality.They also open for breakfast- haven't tried this yet but will give that a go soon!Will definitely be back to try more of their menu and would recommend anyone to check out the B & B if they have a trip out to this side of Nairobi
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It's not often you hear a huge room full of journalist get wowed by a new product - unless it's by Apple of course. But Asus Chairman Jonney Shih managed to pull this off at the company's press conference in Taipei at Computex when he announced the Asus Taichi dual-screen notebook-tablet.
Having seen the Taichi up close in person and even had a chance to prod one ever so slightly, we're intrigued by the concept, but left wondering if it'll be worth the asking price.
Unlike Acer's new Aspire S7 models, Asus decided not to go with Thunderbolt connectivity, but the Taichi still sports USB 3.0 and a mini DisplayPort - or possibly a custom VGA connector - as well as a micro HDMI port.
Asus has also implemented a simple lock switch, which prevents the screen from auto rotating when you're moving the tablet part around, which is a pretty nifty feature.
What we're not so sure about is how comfortable the Taichi will be to use in tablet mode thanks to its "wedge" shape, which doesn't seem like the most comfortable shape to hold for extended periods of time and it reminds us ever so slightly of the Sony Tablet S design.
As for a price? We tried to ask around, but were told that this had been a top-secret product within Asus that only a handful of people had been involved with it.
The Taichi is still quite a way from hitting retail, as far as we understand, but judging by how impressed people at the event were, we expect Asus will make every effort to bring it to market as soon as possible.
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Last season was nothing but a disappointment for Reggie Bush and the Miami Dolphins as the running back broke the 100-yard rushing mark just once over the final 14 games of the regular season–which was frustrating after he rushed for 241 yards and two touchdowns over the first two games of the season. With the potential surrounding Daniel Thomas and Lamar Miller, it wouldn't be a surprise if the Dolphins ended up parting ways with Bush during the offseason since it wouldn't make that much sense to spend the extra money.
However, there appears to be one team that may be in pursuit of Bush–the Detroit Lions.
NFL rumors are beginning to heat up about the Lions being interested in bringing Bush on board for the 2013 season and with the way things turned out last season–it wouldn't be a bad idea to give it a shot if the price was fair. Despite having one of the league's best duos in Matthew Stafford and Calvin Johnson, Detroit's ground game struggled for most of the 2012 season as they ranked 23rd when it came to rushing yards per game (100.8).
Bush has proven to be effective with the right system, but whether or not that would be the case with the Lions is a different story. If he could figure out a way to return to the level he played at in 2011 (or better), this would certainly be worth the risk for Detroit as they look to bounce back from a disastrous 2012 season in which they finished with a 4-12 record.
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — It's an unimaginable feat — even to the man who is accomplishing it.
Park City native Steve Holcomb won his seventh consecutive bobsled race in the final competition of the Lake Placid World Cup. Just this weekend, he went 3-for-3, which makes him a perfect 7-for-7 in this pre-Olympic World Cup season.
"If you told me that I would have won everything a month ago, I would have thought you were crazy," Holcomb said. "It is surreal and a little overwhelming."
He's won all three four-man World Cup races with his Night Train crew — Steve Langton, Curt Tomasevicz and Alpine's Chris Fogt. He's won every two-man competition, alternating races with Langton and Fogt. No matter who is in the sled, Holcomb is winning — which says a lot about his driving, as well as the depth of the U.S. bobsled team.
Sunday's feat was among the toughest wins as intermittent snow gave Holcomb and the Night Train crew what was likely a slower track than earlier sleds had. But the four men have set a new standard, and at least one start house record, with their scorching fast start times. They were the only sled to start in under five seconds — and they did it both runs.
"Things are starting to come around," Holcomb said. "Today's win is definitely because of our push, and that is what kept us in the mix. I made some mistakes driving."
Holcomb's team won gold with a combined time of 1:51.15, beating British pilot James Jackson and his crew by a mere .07. The German sled driven by Thomas Florschuetz was third .25 seconds behind Holcomb.
Sunday's gold medal was the 11th medal won by the U.S. bobsled and skeleton team in this weekend's World Cup. The rest of the world combined for the other 10 medals.
Both coaches and athletes said the new sleds — two-man from BMW and four-man from Bodyn — along with dedicated technicians and the world's best athletes is responsible for the impressive showing that included the first-ever U.S. men's sweep in two-man bobsled on Saturday.
"You can't just point to one thing," said USBSF CEO Darrin Steele, whose team had at least one medalist in all seven races contested on their home ice this weekend. "We've got really strong pushes, our pilots are improving, starts are improving and our equipment is doing great. Everything's building toward the Olympic Games."
Alpine's Chris Fogt won two gold medal this weekend, one of which came with Holcomb in leading that historic sweep.
"I'm very happy," said Fogt, who will return to Utah for Christmas break. "It took me six years to win a gold and now I've won five of them."
He said the team won't relax simply because it has won every race in the first half of the World Cup season.
"It couldn't have gone any better," he said. "The thing is, everyone is trying to knock us off the top though. So we have to keep training really hard through Christmas break."
He said he's looking forward to working out in Utah County with his friends, family and former track teammates at Utah Valley University.
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I applied through other source. The process took 2 weeks – interviewed at CEB.
The first round was an online process. Once cleared, the next was an in-person round. Then on clearing that, was a telephonic round with HR. Then if we are good, there was one more with a senior person in the office.
Interview Questions
- Past Experience and Required skills. Answer Question
- Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceDifficult Interview
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks – interviewed at CEB.
I was contacted by an outside recruiter who introduced the idea of interviewing. I was then contacted by the talent acquisition department for the initial interview. They dove straight into behavioral questions, which caught me a little off guard. I made it to the second round with an assessment that takes around an hour. Following they requested I complete an accomplishment record to have written record prior to my final interview.
Interview Questions
- Tell me a time when you had to solve a problem quickly and what was the result. Tell me a time when you were influenced by another's culture and what impact did that have. Tell me a time when you used the art of persuasion and how did you influence someone to your idea. Answer Question
- Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceAverage Interview
I applied through a recruiter. The process took 3 weeks – interviewed at CEB (Chicago, IL) in May 2015.
Recruited followed by a phone interview with the recruiter to gauge potential fit that involved generic description of resume and previous work experience. Invited back about a week later for an onsite interview and video interview. Generally related to fit with CEB and how i could see myself fitting in. still awaiting back on response.
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- Previous situation where I had to correct an error Time where I wasn't as prepared as I would like and how I tried to fix that issue Answer Question
Helpful (1)Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceDifficult Interview
I applied through college or university. The process took 4 weeks – interviewed at CEB.
I came from a target school, so my process may have been different from others. But it essentially consisted of a resume drop, and a number of coffee chats/informational interviews/meet and greets, before the actual process started. From there I experienced nothing less than a positive experience. It consisted of an assessment, a first round behavioral, and then a final round behavioral and case study.
Interview Questions
- Tell me about CEB? Answer Question
- When have you faced adversity? Answer Question
Helpful (3)Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceAverage Interview
I applied online – interviewed at CEB.
I sent my application through their website. I received an email a little more than a month afterward. There was an initial 1 hour phone call with a recruiter with basic questions exploring my background, discussing my interest in CEB, and recalling times when I had to work on a team or how I conduct research. I was also sent a test online that gauged basic reasoning skills and personality. A few weeks later I was scheduled to do two 1-hour interviews. The first hour was dedicated to behavioral questions. All of these questions had multiple parts to them and it was difficult to address every aspect of the question. I suggest writing everything down and asking the recruiter to repeat the question. Also, don't be afraid to relay experiences outside of internships or academics. Immediately following the behavioral portion, I had to do a case interview. The case was the city bus system case mentioned in previous reviews. Case interviews are designed to puzzle your brain and test how you think. There is no right answer. I suggest reading up on case interviews and make sure you bring a pen, paper, and calculator (there were numbers). They are inherently challenging, but don't lose your cool. Overall, the recruitment process was very straight forward and a very pleasant experience. Everyone I encountered seemed genuinely interested in figuring out whether I'd be a good fit and actually thrive in the position. The interviews were the right degree of challenging.
Interview Questions
- You can find interview questions on their website and a mock case interview where they go through the logic. Answer Question
Helpful (2)Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceAverage Interview
I applied online. The process took 2 weeks – interviewed at CEB (Washington, DC).
Went through 2 phone interviews, one live. First phone interview was the normal HR screen. Second one was with the hiring manager to see if it's a skills match. After passing that to see if it's a cultural match - there was a heavy emphasis put on this throughout the process - they flew me out to headquarters where I met with 5 people. Three were one-on-one discussions and one was a two-on-one conversation. Prior to the interview they reiterated it was not a very formal company and encouraged me to "be myself".
Interview Questions
- Why CEB? 1 Answer
- Accepted OfferPositive ExperienceEasy Interview
I applied online – interviewed at CEB.
Phone interview, Standardized assesment, they flew me up to the Arlington office and had an interview with their revenue support managers. Cool people, cool office. Not an overly hard interview-I recieved my offer within a week of live interview.
Interview Questions
- Walk me through your resume 1 Answer
There was no negotiation. All entry level sales jobs start at 40k
Helpful (2)Declined OfferNeutral ExperienceAverage Interview
I applied through college or university – interviewed at CEB in February 2015.
Very heavy on the behavioral side of interviewing. At first my resume was walked through in detail where they asked me about my previous work experience. One the formal interview questions began, I was taken aback on how in-depth they expected answers to be. I was able to answer them, but somebody who has not had quite a bit of experience in a sales role would struggle with some of the questions.
Interview Questions
- Tell us about a time where you'd sold something to somebody, but they came back with disappointment. What did you tell them, and what was the result? Answer Question
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Last week, the NY Times did a piece on Dan Price, CEO of Gravity Payments, who announced in April that each of his employees should make at least $70,000 a year. You might think that this announcement would make him a very popular figure, but I guess you would be wrong. Polarizing, maybe. Story here. You can read the details, but Price, who was raised in a very religious home, believed very strongly in creating an atmosphere in which employees would not need to worry about basic human needs and therefore be more productive and creative and happy. Where would the new money come from? Well, from his own salary, leveling the pay chart. But not everyone is happy.
Here is probably an incomplete list of the haters: (1) clients who feared their bills would be increased to cover the shortfall; (2) other employers who compete in the labor market; (3) other employers who don't compete for the same labor but who don't want to look bad; (4) Gravity Payments employees who feel that some employees don't deserve $70,000; and (5) Dan's brother and co-founder Lucas Price who feels that as a shareholder, he is being denied a return on his investment. That last number (5) reminds us corporate law geeks a little of Dodge v. Ford. I'm also interested in number (4), having written before on the hatred of so-called "windfalls."
Price v. Price. Here is the complaint. It is brief, and the answer is more brief. The brothers started the company as a 50/50 LLC in 2004. After disagreements, the brothers reorganized as a corporation in 2008, with Daniel having a majority share. This would seem to be a definitive moment for Lucas and possibly his downfall. The complaint does not give any hints as to why Lucas would agree to this, but there must be more to the story -- My brother was trying to grab control of the company, so we reorganized and gave him control to solve the problem? As part of the reorganization, the brothers entered into a Shareholders Agreement, which is not attached. The causes of action are breach of fiduciary duty, not breach of the agreement. The complaint states that Daniel used his majority control to grant himself "excessive compensation and to deprive Lucas of the benefits of ownership in Gravity Payments. Daniel's actions have been burdensome, harsh, and wrongful, and have shown a lack of fair dealing toward Lucas." The complaint does not give examples of the wrongful actions. The complaint was filed shortly after the minimum wage announcement, but had been in the works before. Further litigation may flesh out whether this complaint has a future, but shareholder oppression is a hard case to make out. Most notably, and possibly good news for Lucas, Gravity Payments is a Washington corporation, not a Delaware corporation. Lucas wants, among other things, either dissolution or to be bought out without a minority/marketability discount. Corporations aren't partnerships, Lucas. Dissolution seems a stretch. How does this affect Daniel's minimum wage plan? Well, he wasn't counting on having high litigation expenses when he changed the salary structure.
Employee Envy. According to the article, several employees have left Gravity Payments because they suddenly felt undervalued when junior employees and recent hires received raises, even though they themselves did also. When I wrote The Windfall Myth, I researched the use of the term "windfall" in the NYT and WSJ in a 12-month period. I was astounded at the depth of bitterness people have against other people's "windfalls," even when the windfall does not affect the observer at all. Hundreds or thousands of experiments have tried to capture why subjects will give up money if they believe under that regime others will get more (the Ultimatum Game). Here, GP employees were given raises, but others were given larger ones, and some small raise receivers left for jobs that paid less.
This story is a great case study in how to tackle wealth inequality in the U.S., where a fidelity to pure meritocracy is heavily ingrained. Even when the founder and CEO is willing to reduce the salary disparity at his company, some of his employees were not. Fascinating.
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So, I'm sure loyal readers were wondering if I were ill or at the International Space Station given the fact that I had yet to review Ant-Man, the latest edition to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Actually, my middle guy has been at back-to-back camps for 4 weeks, so we literally went to the first showing after he returned on Saturday morning. It was worth the wait.
First, the answers to the obvious questions. Yes, Ant-Man will be an Avenger (in the second tier with Falcon and Quiksilver). Yes, one of the Avengers is in Ant-Man (Falcon). No, Agent Coulson does not show up in the movie, and the current state and future of S.H.I.E.L.D. is not discussed. No, in the movie Hank Pym is not linked to Ultron, a clear break from the "historical record" of the comic books. Yes, Hydra is still out there. Yes, there are special effects ants, and scientist agree that the ants are realistic, except that they would all be female.
Scott Lang (the very likeable Paul Rudd) has served three years in prison for a very likeable crime. An electrical engineer at VistaCorp, he discovers that his employer has been bilking clients and hacks into the network to return the funds to their rightful owners. He also releases secrets. (I've only seen the movie once, and his actual crime is alluded to only once.) He's a combination of a hacker and a self-proclaimed cat burgler. And, he seems to be a small folk hero. Anyway, he's determined to go straight, but after finding it difficult to obtain employment with his record and thus be able to have visitation with his daughter, he decides to do one burglary offered up by his former cellmate and friends. (This hilarious trio of good-hearted thieves makes the movie.) The whole thing is a set up by Dr. Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, scientist and Ant-Man. Pym uses the job to confirm his belief that Scott should be the next Ant-Man.
Why does the world need a new Ant-Man? Because, Pym's former mentee Darren Cross has developed the mothballed Pym Particle (a formula to reduce the space between atoms -- in other words shrink living beings) and wants to sell it as a weapon. Just as Captain America had to defeat Red Skull and Winter Soldier, Iron Man had to defeat Obadiah Stane and Anton Vanko, and Hulk had to defeat Abomination, our superheroes always seem to be coming up against frenemies who "steal their tech." All the scientific breakthroughs in the Marvel Universe seem to be double-edged swords and the tension always between saving mankind and weaponization. Anyway, Scott needs to don Pym's Ant-Man suit to steal back/destroy Cross' research and his new Yellowjacket suit. There will be a brief training montage with Hank's daughter Hope Pym, and then Scott will need to enlist the good-hearted thieves to help.
Rudd's Ant-Man is very self-aware and doesn't take himself or the movie very seriously. he's much like Guardians of the Galaxy's Peter Quill, cracking jokes while saving the world. His niche in the superhero ensemble is that he is smart in a practical way and humbly selfless, an altruistic engineer to Tony Stark's narcissistic genius. Though in the end all the Avengers throw themselves on the grenade, Scott seems to come to the job with a clear knowledge that he is, in his own words, expendable.
Hope (Evangeline Lilly) is, at least in this movie, fairly underused and underdeveloped. In fact, there is a moment when it is clear to cast and audience alike that Hope would make a much, much better Ant-Man than Scott. Hank's reasons for recruiting Scott seem quite sexist at first, but are revealed to be more admirable than that. After the credits, the audience is treated to a hint that we will see much more of Hope (the new Wasp) in the future.
So, the plot isn't all that new, but at least it isn't as hard to follow as Avengers 2. The ending turns very Big Hero Six, but it works. The movie is here to introduce us to the new characters and does that well. The dialogue is witty, the characters are likeable, and the appetite for Ant-Man is sufficiently whetted for future appearances.
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Over at the New Rambler Review (which I'm really enjoying), I've got a review of Philip Wallach's legal history of the financial crisis. The kick-off offers a riff on the crisis:
The government's response to the financial crisis was an example of messy policymaking that occasioned a happy ending, although not everyone sees it that way. Some are unsure about the ending – they have decried the very modest meting out of punishment that followed the recovery of the economy. Others are unsure that the policymaking was messy – they are likely to think of the government's response to the financial crisis as an inevitable manifestation of executive preeminence as the doer of last resort, institutionally capable of acting when courts and legislatures cannot.
But I will take a stable economy over a few prison sentences, especially when it is possible that you can't have both at the same time. And you won't convince me that the things government officials did during the crisis – last minute deals, concluded late at night and paired with creative reimaginings of underused statutes and regular resorts to Congress for more legislation – was the mark of the smooth progress of an imperial presidency.
Go over there and read the whole thing!
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The White House recently released an excellent report on occupational licensing. The purported goal of occupational licensing is to improve the quality of services, but the costs of licenses on workers and consumers can be substantial. As noted in the Executive Summary, "There is evidence that licensing requirements raise the price of goods and services, restrict employment opportunities, and make it more difficult for workers to take their skills across State lines." The report recommends alternative forms of occupational regulation, notably certification, to strike a better balance of costs and benefits. Amen!
The new report follows License to Work, a report by the Institute for Justice on the effects of occupational licensing. Most of these licenses (including law) look like protectionism to me, and I am not sure this new report will significantly change the landscape. The report offers a list of "best practices," but in a world of regulatory capture, it would be nice to see governors and legislatures pressing the issue more forcefully.
Fordham's Sean Griffith is putting his motions where his writing is, and taking positions against "deal tax" shareholder settlements. If you missed it, here's a bit from the Wall Street Journal story on the approach.
Over the past few months, Mr. Griffith says he has bought a small number of shares in about 30 companies following the announcement of a takeover. When the expected shareholder lawsuits are ultimately settled, he plans to use his standing as a shareholder to formally object.
His first salvo came Monday at a Delaware hearing to approve a settlement of litigation over Riverbed Technology Inc.'s sale. Under terms of the settlement, Riverbed, now owned by private-equity firm Thoma Bravo LLC, would pay plaintiffs' lawyers a $500,000 fee and provide additional details on the buyout process. Riverbed and its new owners also would get immunity from future litigation stemming from the buyout, which closed in April.
Riverbed and Thoma Bravo declined to comment.
Mr. Griffith, who owns 100 shares of Riverbed, said the agreement would enrich plaintiffs' lawyers while delivering no real benefits to investors, and he asked a judge to reject it.
Matt Levine thinks it is the lord's work. Bainbridge approves. And Alison Frankel is interested. I approve as well - it's nice to see a law professor doing a research based quasi-clinic, and if Sean gets his law students to help out, he'll be following Lucian Bebchuk's very effective model.
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My colleague Peter Conti-Brown has an op-ed in the Times today regarding the Fed's crazy regional bank system. A taste:
Congress should let the Board of Governors appoint and remove the 12 Reserve Bank presidents, as they may do with other employees of the board. The 12 regional Feds would then become branch offices of our central bank, continuing to do research and data analysis, while leaving policy making to Washington.
This plan has several benefits. First, the next time the Fed makes an egregious mistake — like failing to predict the meltdown of the housing market — we would know for certain whom to hold accountable. Second, it would allow the Fed to modernize the distribution of the 12 Reserve Banks. There is strong evidence that the cities for the 12 banks were chosen as much for politics as economics. In 2015, do we really need two regional Feds (Kansas City and St. Louis) in Missouri, but only one (San Francisco) west of Texas?
Everything Peter writes about the Fed is worth reading, and this is no exception. Give it a look here.
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I was looking at Dan Scwarcz's lastest paper on Shadow Insurance, which is a thing:
Shadow insurance – defined as life insurers' reinsurance of policies with captive insurers that are not "authorized" reinsurers and do not maintain a rating from a private rating agency – creates important risks to policyholders, the insurance industry, and potentially even the broader financial system. Although the standard state regulatory safeguards help mitigate some of these risks, they leave other hazards of shadow insurance largely unchecked. Even granting that shadow insurance likely helps reduce the cost of insurance associated with the excessive conservatism of some state reserving rules, the practice ultimately undermines insurance markets by impeding accurate risk assessments and tradeoffs by policyholders, regulators, and other market participants.
It's a nice paper, but it made me think we're at peak shadow. There's Shadow Banking, Shadow Bankruptcy, and there if a firm called Shadow Financial Systems.
Of course, there may be a real world reason for this - shadow institutions are in theory nimbly entering markets that heavily regulated incumbents can't serve well. This is the regulation is bad story of the growth of shadow finance.
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Here are a couple of takes.
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A bit of a Friday digression, but it involves the oversight of a publisher by corporate types, so perhaps you'll allow it.
After Gawker published a lurid story about a medium-at-best profile media executive, and received a great deal of criticism for doing so, the publisher decided to take the post down, over strong criticism from the firm's editorial director. That director, and Gawker's editor in chief then resigned, and their stated reason for doing so was that, regardless of the quality of the original story, removing it over the objections of editorial violated the church-state separation between the business side and the writers.
I would describe this sort of argument as a procedure based argument, and I've always been convinced by Lawrence Tribe's criticism of process based theories. He was thinking about con law, but the point is familiar to many lawyers; it's impossible to defend a process without adopting underlying substantive values. Indeed, the very existence of those values makes a defense of process totally epiphenomenal. So you can't be, like: our constitutional system of separation of powers is fantastic because of the way it separates powers. What if it does so in ways that facilitate racial discrimination? Or disenfranchises people? Or results in Stalinist levels of business regulation? It's impossible to defend a process without reference to the outcomes that it facilitates.
And so that's what I don't quite get about the free speech martyrdoms in the Gawker case. You don't want to generalize from a sample of one, at least not too much, but in my view saying, as many Gawker editors have, that "this story was a mistake, but being told by management to take it down violates our essential freedoms" is at least somewhat incoherent. Managerial noninterference is a process, and it's a process only worth having if it produces good outcomes. I'm unconvinced that the story illustrates a good outcome.
A very strong legal studies group, and as you all know, Athens is a paradise. Announcement after the jump:
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Years ago at the dawn of my career, someone advised me that there is no reason to write a negative book review. If that advice holds for movies, I should stop here.
Minions is not a good movie. For those who read my posts regularly, you'll know that I have a low bar for family films; I can find the good in almost any children's movie. Not this one. As my FB friends read today, my status was "Wednesday we got Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 from Redbox and thought it was the worst movie ever, until we saw Minions."
OK, what is good about the movie? The new characters. We all know the Despicable Me minions, though I wasn't quite sure about their names. The three main minions here are Bob, Stuart and Kevin. But the new characters are great: Scarlet Overkill (Sondra Bullock) and her husband, Herb (Jon Hamm). How can you go wrong there? Also, our minions hitch a ride with a bad-guy family, the Nelsons, voiced by Michael Keaton and Allison Janney. OK, surely those four are a good "soup starter" for an excellent film, right? No. The producers seemed to spend all their money on voice talent and a good soundtrack (Beatles, the musical Hair, Mellow Yellow, etc.) and forgot to buy a script.
The movie starts out fine as an original story of how the minions came to be and how they got to modern times with Gru. All of their evil bosses die, starting with T-Rex, and so they are continually looking for new villains. (I didn't know that the minions were immortal, a fact that would seem important to keep consistent.) In 1968, our brave trio leaves the minions in the cave where they are hiding out, in search of a new boss. Their travels take them to 1968 New York City, where there are great visual gags, if you were alive and remember 1968. Judging from the lack of laughs in our theater, I would say the number was 1. Still, the movie seems ok. The minions stumble upon an ad for "Villain-Con," and hitchhike there with the Nelsons. A joke is set up about how wonderful Orlando is, but it is a pre-Disney swamp. Again, lost on everyone in the audience. The scenes with Villain-Con are great, and could have taken up more of the movie. The minions win the temporary favor of the greatest villain of the time, Scarlet Overkill, and go home with her. Again, the scenes with Scarlet in her house were great and could have taken up more of the movie. Instead, the movie got so stupid it's hard to write about here.
Scarlet sends the three out on a quest for Queen Elizabeth II's crown. If they fail, they will be "blown off the face of the earth." (Again, if they have lived for tens of thousands of years, this is hard to get interested in.) From here, things could have gone a right way or a wrong way, and the writers chose the superwrong way. Let's just say that there's a moment where one of the minions (Stuart, maybe) hypnotizes the Tower of London guards into taking off their clothes and dancing to a minion version of the title song in Hair, the musical. No one else in the theater knew what song that was or why they were taking their clothes off. I guarantee you no seven year-old did.
I hate to say it, but the minions are the most boring part of the movie. They are great for comic relief, but like the Ice Age squirrel or the Madagascar penguins, they don't need a whole movie. If the movie had centered more on Scarlet or the Nelsons, with the minions alongside, then it would have been better. And, funny bits that children could understand that don't assume a knowledge of the summer of 1968 would have been better. My seven year-old, after the movie was over said, "We are never seeing that again." This from the guy who wanted to keep Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 an extra day.
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There's not too much new in the indictment for insider trading of the former partner of Philly firm Fox Rothchild. The partner didn't work on the deal, but he overheard a conversation between one who was working on the deal and the legal assistant they shared. And then he traded so unbelievably transparently you can barely believe that he was a lawyer. He bought shares in his wife's IRA account, and then he bought shares in his own IRA account. The next day, the merger was announced, the shares went up 80ish percent, and he instantly sold, making $75 grand. Which doesn't do his wife any favors, in the end.
The SEC's complaint filed in federal court in Philadelphia names Sudfeld's wife, Mary Jo Sudfeld, as a relief defendant for the purpose of recovering insider trading profits in her brokerage account through trades conducted by Sudfeld. The complaint charges Sudfeld with violating antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws and an SEC antifraud rule. The SEC seeks a permanent injunction and financial penalties against Sudfeld and return of allegedly ill-gotten gains and prejudgment interest from Sudfeld and Mary Jo Sudfeld.
That is insider trading of the most "please, catch me!" variety. But maybe this guy hasn't head of the duties of quasi-insiders, and thought he was an accidental tippee.
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Alexia Brunet Marks and Scott Moss (my former Marquette colleague) have an interesting paper on SSRN this week that was also profiled on the WSJ Law Blog. "What Makes a Law Student Succeed or Fail? A Longitudinal Study Correlating Law Student Applicant Data and Law School Outcomes" should be of interest to anyone either applying to law school or admitting students to law school. The two authors collected seven or eight years of applicant data from the University of Colorado Law School and Case Western Reserve Law School for 1400 enrolled students and matched the applicant data with resulting law school grades to see which application factors had the most predictive power for law school grades. I was on an admissions committee with Scott Moss for two years, so I was very interested to see whether this study confirmed or disproved some of our heuristics.
Table 3 sums up the findings. "Positive Predictors" are LSAT, UGPA, LCM (LSAT College Mean), STEM or EAF (economics, accounting or finance) major, post-college career last 4-9 years, being a teacher, and a rising UGPA if the UGPA is not old. Though the abstract states that the LSAT underperforms compared to conventional wisdom, I think the actual findings resemble what most of us thought about the LSAT: it predicts first-year grades, but not necessarily cumulative grades. UGPA does correlate with long-term grades, but it seems like only somewhat better than the LSAT. This is surprising to me only because I tend to discount UGPA in the era of grade inflation. The combination of high LSAT/low UGPA has a negative correlation with grades, confirming a gut feeling I have been spouting off for years. The variable of have a teaching career being positively correlated with law school grades is intriguing, though it seems to match my experiences with the very small number of ex-teachers I have taught.
I will let others pore over the statistical findings. The authors do a good job of describing the limitations of their data -- grades, not job placement or satisfaction, are used as a proxy for law school "success." Only matriculants are in the pool, so these are students who may have been chosen despite low UGPAs or LSATs because of other qualities that may not show up in the data -- in other words the pool is selected to succeed. And of course, the data cannot code for personal qualities such as ambition and drive.
What is an interesting thought experiment is whether law schools would have changed any admissions practices if Marks and Moss had proven zero correlation or even a negative correlation between LSAT and law school grades. Given the oppression of the USNWR rankings, which have worked to put undue emphasis on LSAT scores, then other things would have to change before law schools could throw out the LSAT (including changes at the ABA).
As an aside, having been in admissions meetings with Scott, the most interesting finding is that a disciplinary or criminal record has a negative predictive value equivalent to over a 7 point drop in LSAT. This is fascinating to me because the applicants who are admitted with disciplinary or criminal records generally are admitted because the infraction is minor, isolated or both. In other words, most of those applicants are let in under the assumption that their records do not reflect any cause for concern. Apparently, admissions committees should be paying more attention to random minor-in-possession records than we thought! Yikes!
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Over at DealBook, I have a piece up on the state of cost-benefit analysis at the SEC. Inadequacies in the CBA were how the SEC used to lose all its rulemakings in the D.C. Circuit; its latest rulemaking on clawbacks sets the stage for how seriously the agency takes cost-benefit analysis now, and how much it believes that analysis should be quantified. A taste:
Throughout the cost-benefit analysis, the agency warns that it is "often difficult to separate the costs and benefits," and that various effects of the rule are "difficult to predict."
I suspect the agency thinks it doesn't need to blow the court of appeals away with some numbers to survive, though of course the S.E.C. can do more cost-benefit analysis in the final rule. It does, however, believe that a lengthy consideration of the costs and benefits of a rule should be part and parcel of any proposal.
For those who think that cost-benefit analysis slows the pace of regulation, this may not be good news. Economists might wish that numbers were being appended to the discussion.
But I am happy enough to see rules without numbers. Justifying rules only with regard to their costs and benefits is pretty routine. As routines develop, it may become difficult for regulators and judges to consider new sorts of costs, and unforeseen benefits contained, for example, by the simple expression of what the rule favors and what it discourages.
Go give it a look!
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