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Following is a listing of events for the National and DC Chapter of the Marshall-Brennan Project. For a list of events for other local chapters please visit your local chapter webpage.
- February 10, 2017: 2017-2018 Marshall-Brennan Fellowship Application is due
- March 24-26, 2017: National Marshall-Brennan High School Moot Court Competition, Suffolk University Law School, Boston, Massachusetts
- April 3, 2017: 2017-2018 Marshall-Brennan Fellows announced
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- November 18, 2016: William H. Karchmer High School Moot Court Competition
- August 18-20, 2015: Mandatory orientation for new Marshall-Brennan Fellows
- May 13, 2015: End-of-Year Arts Celebration with guests La Ti Do and the DC Youth Slam Team held at Busboys and Poets
- March 27-29, 2015: National Marshall-Brennan High School Moot Court Competition
- November 15, 2014: Marshall-Brennan Local William H. Karchmer Moot Court Competition
- April 4, 2014: Jamie Raskin debates Eric Lerum on the school closure issue, please click here to watch!
- April 3, 2014: Marshall-Brennan Conference: From Constitutional Literacy to Political Change. Please click here for the program schedule, and here for speaker bios. To watch live coverage of the conference, please click here.
- Summer 2013: Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Conference: Public Constitutional Literacy , Published by the Denver University Law Review
- May 15, 2013: Chicago Activist Brian Stirgus and Other Students Honored at End-of-Year Celebration
- September 17, 2013: Constitution Day with the Department of Jusitce.
- September 17, 2012: Constitution Day Forum with the Department of Education. Please see the program event here.
- April 1-2, 2011: National Marshall-Brennan High School Moot Court Competition, Drexel University Law School, Philadelphia, PA
- April 8, 2011: Spring Karchmer Moot Court Competition for DC area Marshall-Brennan High School students.
- March 29, 2011: Secretary of Education Arne Duncan applauds the Marshall-Brennan Project in his talk on "The Next Generation of Civics Education.
- February 16, 2011: Careers in Education Law Panel - This fabulous panel featured attorneys working in Education Law with great insight into careers available in the field.
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- May 19, 2010: William H. Karchmer End-of-Year Celebration for Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project schools
- April 16, 2010: Spring William H. Karchmer Local Moot Court Competition
- March 17, 2010: Founders' Event: "Student Privacy and Dignity in an Era of Fear"
- August 17-18, 2010: Marshall-Brennan DC Fellows Orientation, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC
- September 17, 2010: Constitution Day! See teaching modules on Marshall-Brennan homepage.
- September 24-26, 2010: Constitution From the Courts: The Next Amendment, national conference, American University Washington College of Law, Washington, DC
- November 13, 2010: DC Chapter Fall Moot Court Competition, American University Washington College of Law , Washington, DC
- February 22, 2009: C-SPAN commemorates the 40th Anniversary of the landmark First Amendment case Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District. Guests on the show include petitioner Mary Beth Tinker, Professor Maryam Ahranjani, and Tom Hutton, a senior attorney with the National School Boards Association.
- April 16, 2009: Symposium on the 40th Anniversary of Tinker v. Des Moines School District
- May 21, 2009: William H. Karchmer End-of-Year Celebration for Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project schools
- August 18-19, 2009: Orientation for new Marshall-Brennan teachers in Washington, D.C.
- August 24, 2009: Law students begin teaching in D.C. public high schools
- August 31, 2009: Law students begin teaching in Montgomery County public high schools
- September 17, 2009: Celebrate Consitution Day
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parallax n. : The apparent displacement of an object caused by a change in the position from which it is viewed.
Generating dollar values for fantasy players can be tedious. A common approach is to sum the stats above replacement level in a category and then divvy up those stats among a portion of the total budget and add up the contributions for each player. That's doable, but there are challenges. For one thing, there are wrinkles to handling rate stats like BA and ERA and "clumpy" stats like saves and steals. Also, there is something unrealistic about treating categories as freely floating when there are obvious dependencies, such as between home runs and RBIs, or ERA and wins.
There is another approach. This one has its own challenges, including a longer time to derive the values, but it sidesteps the bumps with the usual method, and it's easily tailored to many formats.
The key is to look at fantasy value from a different angle. Suppose that Roy Halladay is valued at $30 in your league. It's true this says that Halladay's stats are "worth" $30. But you could re-state this to say that paying $30 for Halladay neither helps nor hurts your odds of winning. If you get Halladay for less than $30, then your odds of winning go up, and if you pay more than $30, then they fall. But paying $30 neither raises nor reduces your odds; if it did, then $30 would be the wrong price.
So we have turned a statement of value ("Halladay is worth $X") into a statement of probability ("Drafting Halladay at $X neither raises nor lowers your odds of winning your league"). Why is this good? Because now, to find the value of a player, we need only to find the price at which ownership of the player doesn't alter your odds of winning. There are no other calculations—no defining of the spread of player stats, no breakdowns of categorical value.
Note that this method works in fantasy because we have a fixed budget. In the real world, things are looser—there is no price at which owning C.C. Sabathia "hurts" your odds of winning. However, real businesses are in the business of maximizing profits, and C.C.'s salary can surely hurt those.
So we have the bare bones of an approach. Let's create a two-team league. (In this exercise, we'll stick with pitchers, so that we don't have to worry about accommodating multiple positions.) On one roster, we'll put our player of interest—in this case, Roy Halladay. Halladay always appears on this roster. The other eight slots on Roy's roster, and all nine slots on the other one, are open:
Roster #1 Roster #2 ============ ========= ROY HALLADAY Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher Pitcher
The open slots will be randomly filled with 17 distinct pitchers (no duplication within or across rosters.) After populating the rosters, we will determine the side that "won," based on whatever categories we have in our league, and behaving as if these were the only two teams in our league. For example, in standard 5×5 roto league, there would be five categories—wins, saves, ERA, WHIP, and strikeouts. Finishing first in a category in our two-team league is worth two points, and finishing last is worth one. We'll repeat this exercise 1,000 times for various roster configurations and track the winners.
(Why do we need to track only two rosters, even if our real league has more teams? Because each Halladay-less roster is identical. Suppose that there are 10 other rosters like Roster No. 2. Each is indistinguishable from Roster No. 2, because all rosters draw from the same pool. If we can balance Halladay's roster with Roster No. 2, then we'll also have balanced Halladay's roster with the other rosters. A one-in-two chance of beating Roster No. 2 equates to a 1-in-12 chance of beating the league.)
Our ultimate aim is to make Halladay expensive enough that his team wins exactly half the time. "That's swell, but you have no dollar figures. So you can't turn your probabilities into prices." And that's true. We need points of reference.
How many points? Perhaps as few as two. If we have two points of reference, we might be able to adapt the method of parallax, which is used by astronomers to determine the distance to stars. But that's getting ahead of ourselves, because we don't have two points of reference.
But we do. For any fantasy league, there are two statements that we can say with certainty (both statements require us to identify the draft-worthy pool of pitchers—we'll tackle that later):
1. The last drafted player is worth $1.
2. The worth of a slot that freely floats among all draft-worthy players is the average price spent on that slot. If owners in a 12-team league historically spend $99 on nine pitchers, then a pitching slot that freely floats among all 108 draft-worthy pitchers is worth $11.
Now, in a real auction, you can't draft a "freely floating" slot. However, in our simulation, we can—in fact, in our diagram, each slot labeled "Pitcher" is exactly that. In a particular run of the simulation, the slot could be worth $1, or it could be worth $50. But the expected value of the slot is $11. (Actually, it is slightly less, since one pitcher—Halladay—is not available. But $11 works for our purposes.)
Armed with our two points of reference, we can employ parallax. Here's the approach: Roster No. 2 will never change—it will always contain nine freely floating pitching slots. For our first 1,000 runs, Roster No. 1 will also be the same. Over time, though, we'll swap free-floating slots (worth $11) for the last drafted player (worth $1). Each switch means a drop in value of $10 for Halladay's team.
Eventually, we'll reach a point at which Halladay's roster wins only half the time. Since the odds are the same, the total value of each team must also be the same. We know the value of Roster No. 2 ($99), and of the non-Halladay slots on Roster No. 1 (either $1 or $11), so it's easy enough to solve for Roy's value.
If we replace all eight floating pitchers, we could end up with a graph like this (not real numbers):
Here, when Halladay is paired with eight freely floating pitchers, his team wins more than 75 percent of the time. However, when he's stuck with eight $1 pitchers, he wins only about 15 percent of the time.
To find Halladay's value, just read off the point at which the trend line crosses 50 percent. In this case, that's around 3.5. So Roster No. 1 would be balanced with Roster No. 2 if 3-1/2 slots worth $11 were replaced with the same number of slots worth $1. Ergo, Halladay is worth $35.
That's the idea, anyway. Will it work?
NEXT WEEK: Will it work?

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Katy Perry Helped Deliver a Baby!
The same day the news broke that Katy Perry broke up with John Mayer, she let her 50 million Twitter followers know she helped deliver a baby!
She wrote: "Finally you can add 'helps delivers babies in living rooms' to my resume! It's been a miracle of a day. Auntie Katy aka Stylist Auntie."
Katy didn't go into detail about the birth experience, but her sister, Angela, was expecting her first child. Last month, Angela had a baby shower, so the timing sounds right.
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More than 65 students are in the cast, headlined by John George as Harold Hill, Leah Bezozo as Marian the librarian, Mike Del Mauro as Marcellus and Giorgio Samartine as the mayor of River City.
Maria Stankiewicz, music teacher at the middle school, is the director, with John Seremula as musical director and Sean Convery as stage manager; both are also teachers at the school. Parent Kim McConnell, the proprietor of a North Plainfield school of dance, is the choreographer, while another parent, Roberta Monahan, is involved with many aspects of the production, including business management.
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Port-Au-Prince (AFP) June 7, 2011
Torrential rains lashed Haiti on Tuesday, flooding shanty towns, swamping the squalid camps erected after a 2010 earthquake and killing at least 13 people, officials said.
The worst rains to hit the impoverished country this year -- at the start of the hurricane season -- paralyzed the capital, where most of the deaths took place, Yolaine Surena of Haiti's civil protection agency told AFP.
Thunderstorms were pounding several north Caribbean islands early Tuesday, but there was little chance of the large low pressure area developing into a hurricane, according to the US-based National Hurricane Center (NHC).
Several days of rain had already swelled rivers, however, and the NHC warned that the rains "could cause flash floods and mudslides over portions of Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Cuba."
Two people died in Haiti as waters rose in the downtown tent camp near the ruined presidential palace, two children were buried when their home collapsed and another six people died in the upscale Petionville district, Surena said.
A civil protection agency official, speaking on condition of anonymity, later confirmed that the toll had risen to 13, with two people killed in the Centre region and another in Nippes, west of the capital.
Newly elected President Michel Martelly headed to the city's poorest neighborhood, Cite Soleil, which officials said was completely swamped by the rainfall and where people sought higher ground on the roofs of their homes.
"I was in the streets during the rain, and I got home, put my boots on, and I'm back in the streets to assess the situation," Martelly said in remarks broadcast on national television.
"I'm now trying to help people and distribute some food. I hope people can find shelter," said Martelly, who handed out supplies with members of his new cabinet.
The rains brought the city to a standstill, with waters coursing through the streets and cars jammed up in long lines, some abandoned by their owners. The floodwater was reportedly four feet (1.2 meters) deep in some camps.
The rain let up during the day but the forecast called for another downpour overnight and into Wednesday, raising fears that mud slides could sweep away entire camps perched on the bare slopes around the capital and other cities.
More than 3,000 people died in Gonaives, a Haitian city of some 300,000, when it was flooded by Tropical Storm Jeanne in September 2004.
In the Dominican Republic, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti, more than 8,000 people have been evacuated in recent days and authorities have put several regions on high alert for severe flooding.
In one southern Dominican province some 400 families were cut off when the Ozama river flooded, officials said.
In Jamaica, the national meteorological service issued flash flood warnings for low-lying areas, parts of Kingston and surrounding towns.
But Haiti was most at risk of devastation from the wet weather, due to its crumbling infrastructure and ramshackle shelters for tens of thousands left homeless after the catastrophic 7.0 magnitude earthquake in January 2010.
Health officials here also fear an uptick in fatalities from a cholera outbreak that erupted last October.
The quake ravaged Port-au-Prince, killing more than 220,000 Haitians and leaving 1.2 million homeless,based on official data. Little has been rebuilt since the disaster despite pledges of billions of dollars in foreign aid.
That toll has meanwhile been significantly downgraded in recent weeks by a not-yet released USAID-commissioned report, which contends between 46,000 and 85,000 people were killed in the quake.
Foreign donors were expected to step up efforts to use the roughly $10 billion earmarked for Haiti's rebuilding following Martelly's assumption of office, which came after a months-long political and electoral crisis.
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Bake It, Don't Fake It! is a great and wonderfully descriptive title for this straightforward seminar on baking from scratch. Heather Bertinetti, a super-talented pastry pro who has worked in some of the best restaurants in New York City, has made it her mission to dispel the fear of baking that lurks in so many home kitchens and keeps otherwise competent cooks from making pies, pastries, party cakes and beyond. She starts with the basics: measuring (really important), ingredients and necessary equipment. Then you'll move on to Baking 101, a collection of basic recipes for cakes, cookies, pies and pastries—Basic Yellow Cake, Basic Chocolate Cake, Shortcut Puff Pastry, Pâte à Choux, muffins, frostings, fillings, etc. When you graduate to the "Next Level," you'll find PB&J Whoopie Pies, Palmiers and Brown Butter Pizzelle—and then, the "wow!" provokers like St. Honoré Cake, Black and White Crêpe Cake or Red Velvet Macarons. Bertinetti's insider chef tips—both practical and tactical—on how to make the bake easier to handle, vary the ingredients or posh-up the presentation are boons for beginners and veterans alike.
Krieger's latest foray into fighting the dinner-time blahs, Weeknight Wonders, will leave you without any excuses to eat out, order in or complain about not having enough time to put a healthy, home-cooked meal on the table. Krieger focuses on using fresh, minimally processed, additive-free, low-fat (when possible) ingredients and using smart shortcuts (e.g. prewashed greens). She promises that each of the 150 recipes included can be ready in 30 minutes or less—and to that desirable end has organized her cooking instructions to maximize the natural rhythm of a home cook.
A bevy of satisfying salads—from small and simple to substantial, like a hearty, guy-pleasing Steak au Poivre Salad—start things off, followed by a super selection of dinner winners from Pork Chops with Pears in Port Wine, warming, spicy Rush-Hour Chili and Hawaiian Mahi Lettuce Wraps to Thai Vegetable Curry for the meatless contingent. Finish off with the likes of Amaretti-Peach Parfait, and you'll get applause and appreciation seven days a week.
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The world of chocolate has had a renaissance since Seriously Bitter Sweet was originally published more than 10 years ago, and Medrich has meticulously retested and retinkered all of the book's 150 recipes to get just the right flavor and texture. She's also added "Chocolate Notes," essential sidebars that explain how using the many different cacao percentages now available will affect a particular recipe. So, go for it—make your Valentine a real Truffle au Chocolat, a Warm Bittersweet Mousse or some cold, creamy, seriously chocolate ice cream. It'll be love at first bite.


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Candidate fields are set
In Walhalla and Westminster, identical numbers of city residents are seeking city council seats in November. The candidate fields were set today with the close of filing. For three Westminster seats, there are six candidates. They are incumbents Reid Adams and Rusty Cater. Challengers are Bill Brockington, Yousef Mefleh, Susan Ramey, and Doug Williams. Walhalla also has six candidates for three, four-year terms on its city council. They are incumbents Jennifer Woodward Crawford and Josh Holliday. Joining them are Frances Guldner Devoe, Chris Grant, Kathy Rogers, and Duane Wilson. Walhalla also seeks to fill the unexpired term of a councilman who resigned. For that seat there's one candidate, Danny Woodward. City Administrator Nancy Goehle says because Danny Woodward is unopposed November 5, he'll go into office automatically and his name won't appear on this fall's ballot.


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How to drive a database front end using general semantic information
B.K. Boguraev, K. Spärck Jones
November 1982, 20 pages
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If you are thinking of going into the social work profession, a question that you may want to ask yourself is, "Am I passionate about making a difference?"
If you answered, "YES!" then social work is the field for you. Social work is a profession dedicated to helping people function to the best of their ability in their own environment. We are individuals who care about people, who want to help people live improved and healthier lives, who assist others to relieve suffering, and who strive professionally to make our social "work" make a difference.
Social Work is the professional activity of helping individuals, groups, families, organizations, and communities to enhance or restore their ability for social functioning and to generate societal conditions favorable to their goal. As a field of practice, it seeks to develop the capability of clients to understand their environment, make choices, and influence their life situations through organization and advocacy.
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There are multiple agencies in this field that need qualified individuals to work with people in need. The social services worker can assist in many areas, including but not limited to children's services, community health and education, elderly, mentally ill, abuse and neglect and the disabled. In addition, welfare and other social service agencies need individuals to work with the underprivileged, disadvantaged and special needs populations.
The WSCC experience encompasses actual field experience with local mental health agencies as part of the second year curriculum to apply classroom theory to actual case knowledge.
Social Workers advocate, develop new programs, work with organizations, communities and government to change legislation, policy and embark upon communal social problems. A social work career will prepare you in assisting individuals, families and groups with a wide variety of issues such as child welfare, mental health, substance abuse, domestic violence, family services, criminal justice, foster care, adoption, suicide prevention, alcohol abuse, and the elderly. Social Workers assist clients to needed social and community resources, verify eligibility or provide direct service.
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Gorilla remake King Kong has been named the Best Film of 2005, picking up top prize at Empire Magazine's film awards held March 13th, 2006
Not only is "King Kong" big in its size, but also in its quality. Approvingly, the action adventure flick has at Empire Magazine's film awards held Monday March 13th, 2006, been named Best Film of 2005, beating the Oscar winner "Crash" which also is nominated for the same category.
Despite such fact, the racial drama mystery movie brings home at least one award for the category of Best Actress which goes to Thandie Newton. In pair to her, Johnny Depp is named Best Actor thanks to his portrayal in the adventure fantasy "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
In the meantime, the cast of Harry Potter movies are all honored for their Outstanding Contribution to the British film industry and there the film prominent figure Daniel Radcliffe, represents his fellow actors to pick up the award. Movie legend Tony Curtis, in addition, is granted the Lifetime Achievement Award which recognizes his roles in hit films including "Some Like It Hot," "Spartacus" and "The Defiant Ones."
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Throwdown Thursday- Katy Perry vs. The Script
This week's Throwdown Thursday is Katy Perry vs. The Script. We need your help to decide what music we should spotlight more. Which breakup song is the best this week?
Katy Perry with "The One That Got Away"
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This sweet pop ballad about lost love finds KatyPerry and her guy falling in love, then falling out. The video shows the sad love story, and how it plays out. "Sometimes you promise someone forever but it doesn't" work out that way.
The Script with "Nothing"
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This ballad was written after a drunken phone call The Script's Danny O'Donoghue made to his girlfriend after they split up. He explained to The Sun September 3, 2010: "I was heartbroken and the last thing I needed was to be taken out for a drink. I ended up making a fool of myself by calling her when I was in such a state."


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Then in 1838, the enraged beer-drinkers of Pilsen / Plzen (W Bohemia) stormed the only brewery in town to protest against the too sweetish top-fermented "moonshine" beer the brew-masters had been able to produce at that time. In a quite revolutionary mood, Bohemian citizens rolled out the barrels and spilled the beer over the market-place or into the nearby river.
The city's senators hired a Lower Bavarian brew-master, Josef Groll, who got his reputation by the beer he had produced in Vilshofen, Lower Bavaria. The main task was to calm down the beer-drinking people and make them happy citizens who can enjoy their "after work" beer again.
A new production facility was built, and the promise was given that only beer experts would take care of the new brewing copper in order to make "quality beer".
When Josef Groll (then 31) first used the brewing copper at his new brewing facility on October 5th, 1842, he revolutionized the brewing culture. He used his domestic Lower Bavarian "Saatz hops" and only slightly roasted barley malt. The Bohemian water was soft and low on salt, so his bottom-fermented beer, he produced, was clear and yellowish in color, with a "crown" of foam and a slightly bitter taste by the hops taken.
This method made the ultimate hit; words and recipes spread, and since 1863 the Pilsner-type beers have been domestically and internationally produced for the big markets in North America, Great Britain, Germany and beyond with unimaginable success.
The brand "Pilsner Urquell" has been belonging to the South African brewing company SAB Miller since 1999. The brewing location is still at Plzen, Bohemia, Czech Republic. The facility there has 2.500 employees, and it churns out about 10 millions of hectoliters annually.
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The head of international financial group LCH Clearnet will fly into Australia to hold talks with the federal government ahead of a decision on whether to allow the company to compete with the
Ian Axe, chief executive of London-based LCH, will land in Sydney on Friday and meet with Treasurer
The ASX has a monopoly over the clearing of sharemarket trades in Australia, but the government and financial regulators have been examining whether the area should be opened up to global competitors.
Mr Axe will also meet with representatives of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, Treasury, finance industry bodies and sharebroking companies as he steps up LCH's bid to break the monopoly.
LCH, one of the world's biggest clearing houses, formally applied for a licence for the Australian market earlier this year but its fate depends on winning government and regulatory support.
Mr Axe's high-level visit comes as the powerful Council of Financial Regulators finalises recommendations to the government on whether competition in clearing should be allowed.
The council – which includes ASIC, Treasury, the Reserve Bank of Australia and the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority – has been looking into the issue for more than a year and is expected to hand down its finding next month.
While the exact make-up of its recommendations remains unclear, earlier consultation papers released by the council have focused on establishing the regulatory structures to allow overseas groups to clear trades for Australian investors.
However, the final decision on whether offshore groups will be granted a licence to operate in Australia will rest with the government, which is being urged by the ASX to block international competitors.
Clearing involves a third party taking on the counter-party risk by guaranteeing contracts on an exchange and is considered a vital part of Australia's financial infrastructure.
As a decision on competition draws nearer, ASX chief executive
"Risk will increase and if clearing takes place overseas, it will increase materially," Mr Funke Kupper said in a speech last week.
"Australian regulators will not be able to manage this directly. They will have to rely on overseas regulators."
LCH Clearnet told regulators in a written submission earlier this year that it did not pose any risk to Australian investors but Mr Axe's visit is the first opportunity for the group to put its position directly to the government.
The government ordered a review of the ASX's clearing monopoly after it rejected an $8 billion takeover of the exchange by the Singapore Exchange in October last year.
At the time, regulators were concerned they could not adequately supervise the area if the ASX was owned by an offshore parent.
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Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 - October 5, 2011) was an American businessman and co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc. Jobs was also the CEO of Pixar Animation Studios He was a Buddhist and a vegetarian..
In the late 1970s, Jobs, with Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, created one of the first commercially successful personal computers. In the early 1980s, Jobs was among the first to see the commercial potential of the mouse-driven graphical user interface. After losing a power struggle with the board of directors in 1985, Jobs resigned from Apple and founded NeXT, a computer platform development company specializing in the higher education and business markets. NeXT's subsequent 1997 buyout by Apple Computer Inc. brought Jobs back to the company he co-founded, and he has served as its CEO since then. Steve Jobs was listed as Fortune Magazine's Most Powerful Businessman of 2007.
In 1986, he acquired the computer graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd which was spun off as Pixar Animation Studios. He remained CEO and majority shareholder until its acquisition by the Walt Disney Company in 2006. Jobs became the Walt Disney Company's largest individual shareholder and a member of its Board of Directors, becoming a leading figure in both the computer and entertainment industries.
Jobs' history in business has contributed greatly to the myths of the idiosyncratic, individualistic Silicon Valley entrepreneur, emphasizing the importance of design and understanding the crucial role aesthetics play in public appeal. His work driving forward the development of products that are both functional and elegant earned him a devoted following.
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Jobs traveled to India with a Reed College friend (and, later, the first Apple employee), Daniel Kottke, in search of spiritual enlightenment. He came back a Buddhist with his head shaved and wearing traditional Indian clothing (although this isnot required in Buddhism) During this time, Jobs experimented with psychedelics, calling his LSD experiences "one of the two or three most important things [he had] done in [his] life." He has stated that people around him who did not share his countercultural roots could not fully relate to his thinking
Jobs married Laurene Powell, on March 18, 1991. Presiding over the wedding was the Zen Buddhist monk Kobun Chino Otogowa. The couple had three children. Jobs also had a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs (born 1978), from his relationship with Bay Area painter Chrisann Brennan. She briefly raised their daughter on welfare when Jobs denied paternity, claiming that he was sterile; he later acknowledged paternity. Lisa Brennan-Jobs is a journalist who wrote for The Harvard Crimson, and Apple's Lisa Computer was named for her.
Steve Jobs was also a devoted Beatles fan. He referenced them on more than one occasion at Keynotes and also was interviewed on a showing of a Paul McCartney concert. When asked about his business model on 60 Minutes, he replied: " My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each other's negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Great things in business are not done by one person, they are done by a team of people. "
In 1982, Jobs bought an apartment in The San Remo, an apartment building in New York City with a politically progressive reputation, where Demi Moore, Steven Spielberg, Steve Martin, and Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, daughter of Rita Hayworth, also had apartments. With the help of I.M. Pei, Jobs spent years renovating his apartment in the top two floors of the building's north tower, only to sell it almost two decades later to U2 frontman Bono. Jobs never moved in.
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Ranked top Test batsman in the world following an extraordinary run of form from May 2002 until January 2003, Vaughan initially struggled to maintain that form as England captain.
The opener took charge of the side after Nasser Hussain's surprise resignation after the first Test against South Africa at Edgbaston and managed a top score of just 33 in the rest of the series against South Africa.
Bounced back to form in the first Test at Dhaka with scores of 48 and 81 not out and his captaincy there showed more imagination as he guided the team away from the potential banana skins of Bangladesh.
Vaughan is settling into the captaincy now although as a player it remains to be seen if he will ever be as consistent in one-day internationals as he is in Test matches.
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LARAMIE, Wyo. - A Mollee Ramsay header from a Liz O'Reilly corner kick in the 26th minute proved to be the difference as Wyoming earned a 2-1 exhibition victory over Colorado School of Mines Tuesday evening at the Louis S. Madrid Sports Complex.
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When natural rainfall falls, crops are cultivated. But what happens when there is no natural source of water? Irrigation is nothing but artificial application of water to the land or soil. Irrigation is helpful in the growing of agricultural crops, sustenance of landscapes, re-vegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall.
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Palomar College
#13 Oxnard at #3 Palomar
May 08, 2010 at Oxnard College (Condors Nest)
Score by Innings R H E
Oxnard.............. 211 330 000 - 10 14 0
Palomar............. 202 010 105 - 11 13 3
Note: 1 out, 1 runner LOB when the game ended.
Umpires - HP: Bryan Rodgers 1B: Dave Shedlock 2B: Chuck Hare
Start: 11:00 Time: 3:23 Attendance: 253
Aguayo,J.C. faced 2 batters in the 9th.
Palomar College
#13 Oxnard at #3 Palomar
May 08, 2010 at Oxnard College (Condors Nest)
Oxnard starters: 9/cf Greve,Brad; 4/2b Mahan,Jake; 19/p Aguayo,J.C.; 34/3b
Wilson,Bryan; 27/1b Erb,Jonathon; 31/lf White,Harper; 23/c McDonell,Zac; 15/ss
Adame,Blake; 21/rf Weiss,Eric;
Palomar starters: 2/cf Cline,Jeremy; 4/2b Buchanan,Ter; 37/dh Casillas,Alf;
1/lf Martinez,Vic; 36/1b Rodriguez,Jo; 30/rf Muehring,Aus; 18/c Santy,B.K.;
9/3b Gage,Zach; 8/ss Afenir,Ty; 14/p Smith,Patric;
Oxnard 1st - Greve,Brad reached on an error by ss,
out at second ss to 2b. Mahan,Jake singled. Aguayo,J.C. singled; Mahan,Jake
advanced to second. Wilson,Bryan singled, RBI; Aguayo,J.C. advanced to second;
Mahan,Jake scored. Erb,Jonathon walked; Wilson,Bryan advanced to second;
Aguayo,J.C. advanced to third. White,Harper flied out to rf, SF, RBI;
Erb,Jonathon advanced to second; Wilson,Bryan advanced to third; Aguayo,J.C.
scored. McDonell,Zac struck out. 2 runs, 3 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Palomar 1st - Cline,Jeremy singled. Cline,Jeremy
stole second. Buchanan,Ter walked. Casillas,Alf singled, RBI; Buchanan,Ter
advanced to second; Cline,Jeremy scored. Martinez,Vic reached on a fielder's
choice; Casillas,Alf out at second p to ss; Buchanan,Ter advanced to third.
Rodriguez,Jo hit by pitch; Martinez,Vic advanced to second. Muehring,Aus out at
first 1b to p, RBI; Rodriguez,Jo advanced to second; Martinez,Vic advanced to
third; Buchanan,Ter scored. Santy,B.K. lined out to 1b. 2 runs, 2 hits, 0
errors, 2 LOB.
Oxnard 2nd - Adame,Blake singled. Weiss,Eric out at
first 1b to 2b, SAC; Adame,Blake advanced to second. Greve,Brad grounded out to
ss; Adame,Blake advanced to third. Mahan,Jake singled, RBI; Adame,Blake scored.
Aguayo,J.C. flied out to cf. 1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Palomar 2nd - Gage,Zach struck out, out at first c
to 1b. Afenir,Ty grounded out to ss. Cline,Jeremy grounded out to 2b. 0
runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Oxnard 3rd - Wilson,Bryan walked. Wilson,Bryan
advanced to second on a balk. Erb,Jonathon struck out. White,Harper flied out
to cf. McDonell,Zac singled, RBI; Wilson,Bryan scored. Adame,Blake grounded out
to 3b. 1 run, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Palomar 3rd - Buchanan,Ter singled. Casillas,Alf
singled; Buchanan,Ter advanced to third. Martinez,Vic reached on a fielder's
choice, RBI; Casillas,Alf out at second 1b to ss; Buchanan,Ter scored.
Martinez,Vic stole second. Rodriguez,Jo flied out to cf. Martinez,Vic advanced
to third on a wild pitch. Muehring,Aus doubled, RBI; Martinez,Vic scored.
Santy,B.K. grounded out to 2b. 2 runs, 3 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Oxnard 4th - Weiss,Eric struck out. Greve,Brad
struck out. Mahan,Jake doubled. Mahan,Jake advanced to third on a wild pitch.
Aguayo,J.C. singled, RBI; Mahan,Jake scored. Wilson,Bryan doubled, RBI;
Aguayo,J.C. scored. Erb,Jonathon singled, out at second rf to 1b to ss to 2b,
RBI; Wilson,Bryan scored. 3 runs, 4 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Palomar 4th - Gage,Zach struck out. Afenir,Ty
singled. Afenir,Ty stole second. Cline,Jeremy grounded out to 2b; Afenir,Ty
advanced to third. Buchanan,Ter lined out to 3b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors,
Oxnard 5th - Philipps,Sha to p for Smith,Patric.
White,Harper flied out to cf. McDonell,Zac singled. Adame,Blake singled;
McDonell,Zac advanced to second. Weiss,Eric hit by pitch; Adame,Blake advanced
to second; McDonell,Zac advanced to third. Greve,Brad infield fly to 2b, RBI;
Weiss,Eric advanced to second; Adame,Blake advanced to third, scored on an
error by 2b; McDonell,Zac scored. Mahan,Jake walked; Weiss,Eric stole third.
Aguayo,J.C. singled, RBI; Mahan,Jake advanced to second; Weiss,Eric scored.
Mott,Evan to p for Philipps,Sha. Wilson,Bryan grounded out to 3b. 3 runs,
3 hits, 1 error, 2 LOB.
Palomar 5th - Casillas,Alf singled. Casillas,Alf
stole second. Martinez,Vic grounded out to 1b unassisted; Casillas,Alf advanced
to third. Rodriguez,Jo singled, RBI; Casillas,Alf scored. Muehring,Aus hit into
double play ss to 1b; Rodriguez,Jo out on the play. 1 run, 2 hits, 0
errors, 0 LOB.
Oxnard 6th - Erb,Jonathon struck out. White,Harper
singled. McDonell,Zac grounded out to 3b. Adame,Blake grounded out to 2b.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Palomar 6th - Santy,B.K. grounded out to p.
Buford,Camer pinch hit for Gage,Zach. Buford,Camer struck out. Afenir,Ty struck
out. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Oxnard 7th - Rodriguez,Jo to 3b. Schrimpf,Hay to 1b
for Buford,Camer. Weiss,Eric grounded out to 2b. Greve,Brad grounded out to 3b.
Mahan,Jake popped up to 3b. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Palomar 7th - Cline,Jeremy singled. Buchanan,Ter
struck out; Cline,Jeremy stole second. Casillas,Alf walked. Martinez,Vic popped
up to 3b. Rodriguez,Jo singled, RBI; Casillas,Alf advanced to third;
Cline,Jeremy scored. Rodriguez,Jo out at first c to ss to 1b, caught stealing.
1 run, 2 hits, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Oxnard 8th - Aguayo,J.C. flied out to rf.
Wilson,Bryan flied out to lf. Erb,Jonathon flied out to rf. 0 runs, 0
hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Palomar 8th - Cusack,Austi to rf for Cline,Jeremy.
Muehring,Aus to cf. Muehring,Aus grounded out to 3b. Santy,B.K. grounded out to
ss. Schrimpf,Hay struck out. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Oxnard 9th - White,Harper grounded out to ss.
McDonell,Zac reached on an error by ss. Adame,Blake hit into double play 3b to
2b to 1b; McDonell,Zac out on the play. 0 runs, 0 hits, 1 error, 0
Palomar 9th - Afenir,Ty hit by pitch. Cusack,Austi
walked; Afenir,Ty advanced to second. Greve,Brad to ss. Aguayo,J.C. to rf.
Wilson,Bryan to p. Adame,Blake to 3b. Weiss,Eric to cf. Buchanan,Ter hit by
pitch; Cusack,Austi advanced to second; Afenir,Ty advanced to third.
Casillas,Alf struck out. Ring,David pinch hit for Martinez,Vic. Ring,David
singled through the left side, 2 RBI; Buchanan,Ter advanced to third;
Cusack,Austi scored; Afenir,Ty scored. Tybroski,Mit pinch ran for Ring,David.
Rodriguez,Jo singled, RBI; Tybroski,Mit advanced to second; Buchanan,Ter
scored. Meza,Anthony pinch ran for Rodriguez,Jo. Muehring,Aus doubled, 2 RBI;
Meza,Anthony scored; Tybroski,Mit scored, unearned. 5 runs, 3 hits, 0
errors, 1 LOB.


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The RPD's Identity Insight program, an "intelligence-led policing" program that helps police figure out relationships and associations between people and crimes, gets a writeup in the current issue of Fast Company. There are big advances planned for use of this program -- we'll have more in the days ahead.
"Essentially, the RPD's app lets police officers conduct background searches on vehicles and their drivers in near-real time, and to quickly generate social network graphs of anyone associated with a particular car, motorcycle, or truck. InfoSphere Identity Insight is one of a series of applications made by IBM and other large vendors such as Microsoft for law enforcement to conduct searches on the fly. The massive computing power of smartphones and easy access to server power via cloud computing have changed law enforcement."


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> I'm having problems getting pptp working on m0n0wall. I created a rule
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Do you have a rule on the PPTP interface permitting appropriately? as
described here. http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-pptprules.html
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Humboldt State University will have many fresh faces on campus this year, including a new chief of police.
A law enforcement veteran with nearly three decades of experience, is getting accustomed to the University and getting ready to begin his first semester as part of the campus police.
Donn Peterson was sworn in on January fifth. Since then, he has not only moved into his new office, but has been doing foot patrols, ride alongs with HSU police, talking with staff and finding out what's important to those working at HSU. He says he wants to build and maintain good relationships, while developing new ones.
"A big initiative for me is to reach out to the various student groups. All the student groups have faculty advisors and I want to be very closely in contact with those faculty advisors. So I can facilitate some invitations and get into those groups. To say, hi this who I am, this is what I believe in and make sure everybody has my cell phone number, my direct lines and that they can call me anytime day or night and be able to reach me," said Chief of HSU Police, Donn Peterson.


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The examination took place before the chief justice of the district, Mr. cranch; by whom he was committed in default of bail.
When their hands separated, the father still hesitated, looking at cranch.
Mounted my horse, in a very rainy morning, for Barnstable, leaving my dear brother cranch and his family at my house.
"But—I did," said cranch, laughing and shaking between the clenching of the little hands.
The next moment he was plucked out into the air, and fell with a "cranch" upon the rocks!
cranch is poor, and a friend of friends of mine; do your best for him.
He thought he had confessed the secret of the child's sex to cranch, but whether the next morning or a week later he did not know.
"Francisco," interrupted the priest with a single stride, laying his hand upon cranch's arm, and staring into his eyes.
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Election Protection, a non-partisan coalition that protects voters' rights, is accepting calls until 9:30 p.m. tonight from people with questions or problems relating to voting in the state's primary today. The hotline number is 866-OUR-VOTE, and assistance is available in English and Spanish. Legal volunteers for the group are monitoring poll sites in all New York City boroughs today and conducting surveys of voters' experiences with the new voting system. (We'd appreciate hearing on the blog, too, if you're having any problems!)
This is the first election in which all New York voters will use the state's new system of paper ballots and optical scanners, rather than the mechanical-lever machines the state used for many decades. People with disabilities and any other voters also have the option of using a ballot-marking device to fill out their ballot, rather than doing it manually. Dozens of counties piloted the system last year — either countywide or in some polling places — but Westchester and Rockland counties and New York City were not among them.
Election Protection is particularly concerned about the paper ballots allowing people to "overvote." Unlike lever machines, which prevented voters from choosing too many candidates, there is nothing to stop them from filling in too many ovals or squares on a paper ballot. The optical scanners detect this problem and give voters the option of getting their ballots returned and filling out new ones, or casting their votes anyway. Voting-rights advocates think the use of the term "overvote" is confusing and that people who receive this message may decide to cast their ballot anyway. Doing so means their votes in contests in which they overvoted will not count.
"There is often an increase in problems and confusion at polling places any time a jurisdiction implements a new voting system for the first time," Eric Marshall, manager of legal mobilization at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said in a statement. "Unfortunately, these types of problems could be compounded on September 14 by the lack of overvote protection and lead to the disenfranchisement of countless New Yorkers. Election Protection is ready to do its part to ensure traditionally disenfranchised voters are able to fully participate in Tuesday's primaries," Marshall continued.
The toll-free hotline is open to the entire voting public but targets historically disenfranchised communities, including blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, senior citizens, young people, low-income voters and people with disabilities.
Election Protection is a nationwide voter-protection program that had more than 10,000 legal volunteers helping voters, poll workers and election officials in 25 states two years ago.


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By Evan Mohl
Killeen Daily Herald
GATESVILLE – Tom Leib recites his daughter's numbers by heart.
Four no-hitters. More than 200 strikeouts, also a Gatesville school record. ERA under 1.00. And 28 innings without a hit.
Emily doesn't remember the last time she allowed a run; although, to her defense, it could be several games ago. But she knows her dad can, and that's perfectly fine with the Lady Hornets ace. Without his help, Emily knows she never would have developed into a dominant pitcher.
"My dad really got me going and got me working," Emily said. "He caught for me when I had no one else. If I didn't have him, I'd probably lose thousands of hours of practice."
Tom sits on a bucket in the backyard three days a week, catching his daughter. He doesn't say much. Dad merely provides the backstop for Emily to get in the necessary work.
Fastball. Riser. Offspeed. Two curve balls. Screwball. Drop ball. Tom sees it all, often acting as the guinea pig while Emily sends new pitches three feet wide and four feet short.
When Emily works so does her dad. He sweats for her benefit. She gets rewarded with a college-bound arm. Tom receives bruises.
"It's fun," Tom said. "It's worth it to see her succeed."
Emily doesn't remember when the practice started. She estimates that the first time occurred shortly after she took up softball at age two.
She hopes Tom still has a few more innings left. Emily's just a junior so she's got one more year in Gatesville.
"He's probably caught thousands of innings for me," Emily said.
The result has been a dominant pitcher, who leads the Lady Hornets to the playoffs for the second season in a row. Leib also bats third in the Gatesville order and leads the team in sacrifice bunts.
"Emily's success is pure hard work," Gatesville softball coach Michell Bartch said. "The time she spends out there, throwing with her dad has all paid off. She does anything she can to help the team win."
Leib will open the postseason on the hill next Friday against 8-3A district champion Wimberley in Marble Falls. They'll play two games of the 3-game series at 6 and 8 p.m. Game three, if necessary, will be at two on Saturday at the saem location.
If it goes that far, Leib will almost certainly take the mound.
"The team just believes in Emily when she's on the mound," Bartch said. "The defense picks up and everyone just has confidence in her."
And there's little doubt Leib will show any nerves. The righty's poise is one of her key strengths.
When Leib surrendered her first hit after 28 innings without one, she allowed another. But then she went on another four-inning hitless streak.
"She's just so poised," Bartch said. "Emily never gets frazzled or rattled. Sometimes its hard to know when to pull her from the mound because she settles down so well. She'll allow a few hits, and I think she's finished, but then she'll retire the next eight hitters."
Leib says her calm style comes from years of travel and practice. Those afternoons and early evenings with dad also helped.
"You get put in those situations and you learn to deal with them," she said. "You get used to it and you know you have to come through for your team."
The postseason, though, is a different animal. Gatesville won its first playoff game in school history a year ago before bowing out in the regional round.
This year, the Lady Hornets were ranked as high as No. 11 in the state. But close district games got the best of the team as Gatesville dropped to third in 7-3A.
They were picked to win the league.
"I think we're getting used to those tense situations," Bartch said. "We didn't get those until district so we're tyring to work on in-game, tight situations."
So Leib's sucees and ability to stay poised will be paramount to Gatesville's success. The Lady Hornets need her arm for a deep run into the University Interscholastic League state playoffs.
Gatesville will ride Leib's coat tails whereever it takes the team.
"Having Emily on the mound helps." Bartch said. "We're going to need her and not hesitate to use her. When she gets in the zone, she's pretty unhittable."
Which is why all those afternoons with dad on the bucket all seem worth it.
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Richard Sherman signs four-year extension with Seahawks - May 7, 2014
Richard Sherman #25 of the Seattle Seahawks addresses the media during Super Bowl XLVIII media availability at the Westin Hotel January 30, 2014 in Jersey City, New Jersey. The Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks will meet in Super Bowl XLVIII at Metlife Stadium on February 2, 2014. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
by Curtis Crabtree
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RENTON - Just eight days after making S Earl Thomas the highest paid safety in the league, the Seattle Seahawks have made CB Richard Sherman the league's highest paid cornerback.
The Seahawks announced a new four-year contract extension with their All-Pro cornerback on Wednesday. Sherman posted on his website the new deal is worth $57.4 million over the next four years with $40 million guaranteed. He is now under contract with the team through 2018.
"It's a surreal moment when you realize that it's really going to happen. I'm finally going to get treated like a first rounder for once," Sherman said.
The Seahawks have now dished out over $80 million in guaranteed money to Sherman, Thomas and DE Michael Bennett this offseason.
"We treaded lightly in free agency to take care of our own guys," general manager John Schneider said.
Sherman's new contract will pay him $14.35 million a year on average over the four years of the extension. Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network reported that Sherman will receive an $11 million signing bonus.
Sherman says the new contract won't change who he is or the way he plays on the field.
"I'm still the raggedy dog off the street," Sherman said. "That mentality isn't something I could change, I don't think, even if I wanted to. Even if wanted to be, 'Yeah, I'm a millionaire.' I can't do it. It's not a switch that I have. I've been in this mentality. I don't know anything else. This is how I'm going to be until I hang the cleats up. Then, I might try to eat caviar and drink wine, or whatever they do."
And the chip of being a fifth-round draft pick would be leaving his shoulder any time soon either.
"There were still 23 (cornerbacks) picked ahead of me," Sherman said. "That didn't change. Forty million didn't erase that and nothing will erase that. Nothing will erase that chip. Nothing will erase that mentality. That's something that keeps me hungry, keeps me attacking, keeps me angry."
Sherman has been named a first-team All-Pro in each of his last two seasons. Since assuming a starting job in 2011, Sherman has been the best cornerback in the league. He has racked up 20 interceptions in just 42 starts for the Seahawks.


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"You might be an economist if you go to a Chinese restaurant and open the fortune cookie and add 'at the margin' at the end of it." –The Stand-Up Economist
I was thinking about this quote because I feel that I should add "You might be an economist if you are at dinner with a friend and are more intrigued by how to split the bill than by what your companion is saying." (I swear that my friends should not be offended by this. I just have issues.) In my defense, I don't usually act on my impulses and usually just go along with whatever my friends suggest, though I will admit that there was that one time when I was at dinner with a group and the person who had consistently ordered the most expensive items on the menu suggested that everyone split the bill evenly. I made some sort of snide comment and the suggestion was quickly rejected, but I have a suspicion that now my friends know what I am thinking in such situations. 🙂
So what is the best thing to do when you go to dinner with friends and the bill comes? (Hint: the answer is NOT "pretend to go to the bathroom and escape via the window." Yeah, you know who you are…) The efficient solution is the one that gives incentives that encourage neither overconsumption nor underconsumption. I did some brainstorming about the different ways that the bill sharing could work and took the liberty of evaluating them all in terms of efficiency and logistics. This is what I came up with…
Option 1: Each person looks at the itemized bill and pays for what he or she ordered. This is the most efficient option since each person is fully internalizing the cost of his or her choices. In other words, your choice of whether to another $1 of food results in you paying exactly another $1, so your desicion-making processes result in the "right" level of consumption. The downside here is that it's somewhat cumbersome, it requires people to be able to add properly, and it can lead to awkward situations when there are shared items (eg. "Um, I only had 25% of the nachos, so…"). I mean, you don't really want to end up like this guy:
Option 2: Split the bill evenly. This takes the cumbersome aspect partially (but not totally) out of the picture, but it introduces some misalignment of incentives. Why? Say you know that the bill is going to get split evenly, and assume that you are pondering whether to order that extra cocktail. Now, the extra cocktail is going to add, say, $10 to the overall bill, but because the bill is getting split down the middle you will only be paying $5 extra. Therefore, you are likely to order more than is actually optimal because you don't have to internalize the full cost.
Option 3: Take turns paying the bill. This is probably the most logistically simple option, but it still suffers from incentive problems on the part of the non-paying party. It's very tempting to order too much when you know that it's not your turn to pay! The situation could get even worse if the non-paying friend tries to "get his money's worth" by making up for the last time when the other guy ordered a lot and didn't have to pay for it. Now you run the risk of being this guy…
Option 4: Flip a coin at the end of the meal. If the coin comes up heads, whoever flipped the coin pays. If it comes up tails, the other person pays. So now for each additional item you order you have a 50% chance of not paying anything for it and a 50% chance of paying for all of it. Therefore, on average (or in expectation, in mathematical terms) you'll pay for half of every additional item that you order. This is different, however, from knowing in advance that you will be paying half of the bill. If a person is risk-averse, the 50% chance of having to pay for all of something looms larger than the sure knowledge that you will have to pay half. Therefore, the uncertainty serves to mitigate the incentive problem to a degree, but it could result in some lack of parity if the realization of the coin flips doesn't match the 50/50 split perfectly. (Note here that it is important to flip a coin at the end of the meal rather than before!)
Option 5: Don't talk about how to split the bill until dinner is over. If you go with this option, you know that you might be splitting or might be paying for what you ordered. In this case, risk-averse individuals are likely to order closer to their true preferences than in any of the sharing scenarios since there is some chance of having to pay for 100% of what they ordered. However, once dinner is ordered it becomes clear which sharing strategies are better for which people, and you could end up arguing about what to do. (See my introductory example above.)
Shortly after I started thinking about this, Russ Roberts voiced his opinion on the matter and also explained how this problem relates back to the moral hazard problem in insurance. Luckily, I think that, at least in the restaurant example, satiation and other factors (not wanting to be obese, etc.) play a role in mitigating the overconsumption problem. Furthermore, social pressures probably prevent people from being too opportunistic even when it is theoretically possible. One could argue that there are also factors that serve to mitigate the moral hazard in healthcare, if for no other reason than it's not generally pleasant to go to the doctor!
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Oh look, another Facebook worm – this one seems pretty nasty and as usual it's going for Facebook access details and then diving into banking credentials if it can find them. It's mostly targeted at the UK though, worms of these type usually are geographically limited as they are targeting bank information – it's better […]
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BySamuel Rubenfeld
A roundup of corruption-related news from Dow Jones and other sources. You can also receive a newsletter version of Corruption Currents here.
Pleading guilty costs money: Former New York State Sen. Carl Kruger spent more than $1 million from his campaign account on legal fees, prison consultants and financial planners before pleading guilty to bribery. (City & State NY)
The FCPA Blog runs a response by the original author of a paper the day after publishing a critique of that paper, and talks to the defense lawyer for John O'Shea. The FCPAProfessor revisits a compliance defense and analyzes the Marubeni enforcement action. Thebriberyact.com explains what the Mabey & Johnson recovery of dividends really means. Mike Volkov discusses anti-corruption risks for private equity pertaining to portfolio companies. The FCPA Americas blog calls a Mexican delay in the implementation of the OECD anti-bribery convention the "mañana syndrome." James McGrath tells you what to do when the internals don't hurt.
Two Filipino-Americans pleaded not guilty in a corruption scandal rocking a San Diego County school system. More here. (GMA News, ABS-CBN News)
Wilmer-Hale reviews 2011 and previews this year in its latest client alert (pdf). K&L Gates published its 2012 outlook. Covington & Burling's client alert (pdf) discusses the Mabey & Johnson case. Bryan Cave has a client alert about dividends at risk due to bribes.
The Cato Institute is worried sick about what it calls runaway prosecutors pursuing FCPA cases.
Richard Alderman, outgoing head of the U.K. Serious Fraud Office, would like broader crime definitions so the agency's work could be improved (FT Adviser)
The sentencing of a former Secaucus mayor for taking a bribe has been postponed until March. (Bergen Record)
Montenegro's sale of its telecom still haunts the place years later. (SE Times)
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The U.K. dropped one of the corruption charges lodged against a former Nigerian state governor. (All Africa)
Zambia's former first lady was summoned to face money-laundering allegations. She doesn't appear to have been contacted for comment. More here. (Bernama, Africa Review)
Pakistan arrested 13 currency dealers on money-laundering charges. They don't appear to have been contacted for comment. (Express Tribune)
In less than a month, Rwandan authorities intercepted Rwf714 million in suspicious funds at the airport. (All Africa)
U.S. officials uncovered an effort by Iran to help it mask oil exports and evade embargoes by America and Europe. France sees new European Union sanctions against Iran coming by next week. China's premier defended its country's vast oil trade with Iran while stressing its help in preventing Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Japan's government is not yet talking to refiners about cutting oil imports. More here, here, here, here and here. (Wall Street Journal, Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg, Guardian, Dow Jones Newswires sub req, Reuters, AFP, Bloomberg)
Sanctions are threatening the production of Iran's first thermal power plant. Meanwhile, Iran said it's ready to talk about its nuclear program, though the U.S. had no proof of that. The U.S. rejects the notion from Israel that its sanctions program has been ineffective. More here, here, here and here. (The National, Wall Street Journal, Haaretz, Reuters, BBC, Commentary, EU Observer)
Could the economic downturn in Syria caused by sanctions hurt worse than the crackdown by the Bashar al-Assad regime? Time is running out on the mandate for the Arab League monitors. More coverage of planned new EU sanctions. China says the Arab League has been effective so far. More here, here and here. (Al Jazeera, Reuters, CNN, AFP, Global Post, BBC, Al Arabiya)
Much of the assets tied to the regime of Zein al-Abidine Ben Ali and his associates is still inaccessible to the new Tunisian government. (Financial Times sub reqi)
Ethisphere announced its top-100 influential people in business ethics for 2011.
Malaysia's anti-graft agency is going to monitor the declaration of assets by judges. (TrustLaw)
Angola's government denied a report by Human Rights Watch that $32 billion is missing that is said to be linked with the state's oil company. (Reuters)
General Anti-Corruption:
Pakistan's prime minister appeared at a contempt hearing, during which the supreme court said the country's president could lose his immunity from prosecution of corruption. The contempt ruling was adjourned. More here, here and here. (Al Jazeera, Reuters, NY Times, Guardian, McClatchy)
Peru's vice president resigned amid a corruption probe but had, as of earlier this week, held onto his seat in the Congress. More here and here. (Reuters, Global Post, Univision News)
Chinese bureaucrats like their cars fancy. An uprising in Wukan exposed corruption underlining the Chinese system. China was warned about corruption by a rising star in the People's Liberation Army. More here. (Ottawa Citizen, Vancouver Sun, Sydney Morning Herald, China Daily)
India's Odisha state "set a record of sorts" in enforcing corruption. A fund manager gives some perspective on corruption risks in investing in India. Another view is here. (Odissa Diary, Daily Telegraph, Reuters Breakingviews)
Albania's Supreme Court acquitted a former prime minister of corruption charges connected to a state hydropower contract. More here. (AP, Reuters)
As an investigation into alleged campaign finance violations by New York City Comptroller John Liu continues, his fundraising dries up. More here. (Wall Street Journal, NY Times)
The latest on a corruption trial against Toronto cops is available here, here and here. (CBC News, Postmedia News, CBC News)
Bahrain may set up an anti-corruption panel. (Gulf Daily)
Nigeria's anti-corruption officers raided the offices of the agency that oversees the sale of fuel. Activists say corruption at the agency is what sparked protests recently, though they also say the unions that led them have been compromised. (BBC, Sahara Reporters)
If the West is really serious about combating corruption in the rest of the world, it can start by cleaning up its own act, according to this column. (Foreign Policy)
A Maldivian judge was arrested for alleged corruption. He had, as of the report, not yet commented. (BBC)
Can you make a film about corruption in Africa and not be corrupted? (The Independent)


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Should you give a holiday gift to employees or make it a bonus geared to performance? Incentives expert Paul Hebert suggests opting for giving a gift to everyone, sending a message that you're happy they're on staff. "Maybe gift giving is a corporate value," he muses. "Simple. Heartfelt. Without strings." 2i-align.com
Do you really need to know speakers in advance?
What if your industry had a conference and didn't announce the schedule or the speakers until the people showed up on site? That question is posed by trend analyst Eric Garland, who believes business conferences need to be spiced up. What if the keynote speech were given by your industry's most vociferous critic, with a Q&A allowing ample time to fight out differing views? What if people elected speakers once they were at the conference? Harvard Business Review Blogs
Go as far as you can, and then keep going
While working out with his trainer recently, careers coach Robin Sharma managed about 40 push-ups before his chest and arms froze and he prepared to stop. "Now go for 15 more," his trainer ordered, and to Mr. Sharma's surprise, he managed it. The message is that we can push beyond our mental limits, if we try. Wisdom Newsletter
Free iPad app helps get you unstuck
Unstuck is a free, playful iPad app that explores the emotions involved when you're stuck on an effort; according to innovation blogger Chuck Frey, they might help creative people through moments when they don't seem to be progressing. InnovationTools.comReport Typo/Error
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