document_title: List of Mr. Young episodes

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Season

Episodes

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1

26

March 1, 2011 (2011-03-01)

December 13, 2011 (2011-12-13)

2

26

March 12, 2012 (2012-03-12)

October 9, 2012 (2012-10-09)

3

28

October 16, 2012 (2012-10-16)

November 28, 2013 (2013-11-28)

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11"Mr. Young"[1]Adam WeissmanDan SignerMarch 1, 2011 (2011-03-01)TBAN/A
Adam Young (Brendan Meyer), a fourteen-year-old genius, starts work as a high school science teacher. When the school bully, Jordan "Slab" Slabinski (Kurt Ostlund), threatens to beat him up and steals Adam's master key and wreaks havoc throughout the school. Now Adam must get creative in order to resolve the conflict and outwit Slab.
Guest stars: Brett Dier as Hutch, Amit Josan as Fortran and Debbie Cameron as Nanna.

Recurring: Raugi Yu as Dang, Paula Shaw as Ms. Byrne, and Anna Galvin as Rachel Young
22"Mr. Roboto"[2]Adam WeissmanTim LongMarch 8, 2011 (2011-03-08)TBAN/A
When Adam has trouble controlling his class, he creates a robot student, Arthur (Gordon Myren), Automated Robotic Teenager Hippopotamus Umbrella Rainbow (as he claimed he needed something for the "HUR"), to enforce the rules. When Mr. Tater (Milo Shandel) finds out, he figuratively says that he is going to kill Adam. However, Arthur takes it literally and tries to destroy Tater, as one of his directives is to protect Adam. Adam and Derby (Gig Morton) must stop his creation, or he himself could be "terminated." They finally succeed by having the students of the school dress up as Mr. Tater, causing Arthur's system to overload. However, when ARTHUR is in the trash can, his hand rises, indicating he is not dead.
Guest stars: Brett Dier as Hutch and Gordon Myren as Arthur.
Recurring: Raugi Yu as Dang and Anna Galvin as Rachel Young

Note: This is the first time that Arthur is on the show. The title is a reference to Dennis DeYoung' song Mr. Roboto.
33"Mr. Detention"[3]Adam WeissmanDan SignerMarch 15, 2011 (2011-03-15)TBAN/A
Adam learns that Echo (Matreya Fedor) is taking the same route home from school and is excited to walk with her until he learns he has detention duty and the only way to get out of it is to prevent anyone from getting in trouble. Adam and Derby try the whole week to keep Slab from getting detention.
Guest stars: Amit Josan as Fortran.Recurring:Paula Shaw as Ms. Byrne
Absent: Emily Tennant as Ivy Young.

Note: The first episode to show Adam crossdressing. All the week Adam dresses as several characters from Star Wars: Chewbacca on Tuesday, Darth Vader on Wednesday, Yoda on Thursday and Princess Leia on Friday. Also Derby dresses as R2 D2 on Friday.
44"Mr. Inventor"[4]Anthony AtkinsHoward NemetzMarch 22, 2011 (2011-03-22)TBAN/A
Adam becomes jealous when Derby accidentally invents a miracle hair growth formula. When someone wants to market his formula, Derby has to recreate it but cannot remember what the formula was. Meanwhile, Ivy needs to pass her CPR course. By the end of the episode, Ivy (Emily Tennant) still did not pass, although she had saved Preston Pickles (she did not pass even if she did it on a real person because Mr. Tater said it only works on the dummy).

Guest star: Benjamin Wilkinson as Preston Pickles
55"Mr. Younger Man"Adam WeissmanChuck TathamMarch 29, 2011 (2011-03-29)TBAN/A
When Adam's "college buddy," a gorgeous twenty-three-year-old girl, comes to visit, Adam thinks she wants to be more than just friends. Derby finds out that she has a boyfriend and has to try to stop Adam from embarrassing himself on their date. Meanwhile, Echo convinces Slab to stage a non-violent protest to prevent Tater from getting rid of the vending machines while Slab gets her to bully people for him.

Guest star: Emilie Ullerup as Sydney Finkelbaum
66"Mr. DNA"[5]Mark SawersHoward NemetzApril 5, 2011 (2011-04-05)TBAN/A
Adam tries to get the school's ban on cheerleaders lifted by solving a twenty-five-year-old mystery. It turns out to be Slab's mother who put the glue on the chicken head to blame Rachel (Adam's Mom) . While Rachel was in suspension, Slab's mother kissed Slab's father and married him 11 years later. This story also explains why Mr. Tater is bald.
Absent: Emily Tennant as Ivy Young, as she is seen as one of the cheerleaders for the Finnegan Fryers and she is mentioned.

Note: Kurt Ostlund also plays as his "mother" and "father".
77"Mr. Honest"[6]Adam WeissmanKen CuperusApril 12, 2011 (2011-04-12)TBAN/A
A botched volcano experiment in Adam's lab creates a gas that makes everyone tell the truth. When Tater finds out, he places Adam, Echo, Derby, Slab, and Ivy under quarantine. Derby makes Slab cry and then tries to apologize, but he keeps saying the wrong things. Adam tries to prevent any form of communication between him and Echo because he's afraid that if he talks to her, he will tell her how he feels about her. Ivy tries to get out of the school to get to the mall, but Dang keeps stopping her.
88"Mr. Ballerina"Adam WeissmanRobin SteinMay 3, 2011 (2011-05-03)TBAN/A
When Adam discovers that Slab is secretly taking ballet, he and Derby follow him to dance class hoping to blackmail him into behaving at school.

Guest star: Jovanna Huguet as Mme. Krampinova and Madison Dejarlais as Cute Girl
99"Mr. Talent"Adam WeissmanRyan W. Smith & Jamie DavisMay 17, 2011 (2011-05-17)TBAN/A
When no one is willing to sign up for the talent show, Mr. Tater offers a get out of detention free card as incentive to sign up. Because no one is getting detention, except for Derby, Tater starts to make new rules in order to give out detentions. When he sees Ivy texting in the hall, he tells her that there is a new rule against it. To avoid getting detention and having to sign up for the talent show, Ivy tries to use different forms of long distance communication, but Tater bans them all. Echo signs up for the talent show at school and decides to sing, a decision which Adam encourages at first. But when he hears her singing voice, he tries to change her mind without hurting her feelings. Meanwhile, Derby searches for a talent to use in the show.

Guest star: Eric Pollins as Sergio
1010"Mr. Big Brother"Anthony AtkinsKen CuperusJune 14, 2011 (2011-06-14)TBAN/A
After Adam finds out that Echo is taking her "little sister" to the school carnival, Adam signs up to be a "big brother" so they can spend the day together. Unfortunately, Derby made a typo on the questionnaire which said that Adam was 41 instead of 14, so Adam ends up with a "little brother" who is older than him. Echo's "little sister" starts stalking Derby while Adam's "little brother" spends a lot of time with Echo.

Guest stars: Olivia Steele-Falconer as Chloe and Alistair Weir as Desmond
1111"Mr. Shakespeare"Adam WeissmanJennica HarperJuly 12, 2011 (2011-07-12)TBAN/A
Adam is made faculty advisor for the school play "Romeo & Juliet", but when Tater casts Echo as Juliet, Adam tries to prevent her from kissing another Romeo.

Guest stars: Brett Dier as Hutch and Amit Josan as Fortran
1212"Mr. Meteor"Anthony AtkinsKen CuperusAugust 9, 2011 (2011-08-09)TBAN/A
Adam holds an overnight astronomy class in the quad, but finds himself competing for his students' attention with principal Tater, who treats it like a camping trip. Adam tries to trick the class into camping with him. Meanwhile, Ivy plays a horsing game with Dang.

Note: Slab returns from a 2 episode absence. Also, this is the first episode Slab appeared in that was directed by Anthony Atkins.
1313"Mr. Impossible"Jon RosenbaumHoward NemetzAugust 30, 2011 (2011-08-30)TBAN/A
Adam wants to be paired with Echo in a computer match-making fundraiser and will go to any lengths necessary to ensure his questionnaire answers match hers.
1414"Mr. Marvelous"Adam WeissmanJennica HarperSeptember 6, 2011 (2011-09-06)TBAN/A
When Adam's mom sells his prized "Mr. Marvelous" comic book to Slab, Adam dresses up as the superhero in an attempt to get it back.

Guest stars: Connor Levins as Jimmy and Peter New as Dog Catcher
1515"Mr. Dog"Adam WeissmanDan SignerSeptember 13, 2011 (2011-09-13)TBAN/A
Adam believes that a professor has been nominated for a Nobel Prize, based on research he stole from Adam. When he and Derby break into the professor’s office to search for proof and discover he’s blind, Adam convinces Derby to become a seeing-eye dog, and sniff out the evidence.

Guest stars: Graeme Duffy as Professor Gallifrey
1616"Mr. School Song"Adam WeissmanRyan W. SmithSeptember 20, 2011 (2011-09-20)TBAN/A
With Adam, Dang, Mr. Tater, and Mrs. Bryne as the judges, the students try to write a school song for Finnegan High. When all the individual songs turn out to be bad, they all work together.

Guest stars: Jeremy Dangerfield as Bruce Willis, Mr. Tater's mentor
1717"Mr. Picture Day"Anthony AtkinsHoward NemetzOctober 4, 2011 (2011-10-04)TBAN/A
Echo shows Adam what he missed when he graduated at age 9. Ivy tries to keep herself clean for picture day and Slab becomes interested in photosynthesis and wants to produce his own food just like plants.

Guest stars: Aren Buchholz as Toby
1818"Mr. Tickleschmootz"Adam WeissmanJennifer DaleyOctober 18, 2011 (2011-10-18)TBAN/A
Adam offers to watch Echo's hamster while she's away, but it dies under his care. Adam panics and tries to clone the creature, with disastrous results. In the end, the hamster is actually hibernating.
1919"Mr. Mummy"[7]Adam WeissmanKen CuperusOctober 25, 2011 (2011-10-25)TBAN/A
It's Halloween night, and Echo invites Adam to go to a horror movie screening at the school. In order to attend, a grounded Adam must hide from his mom when she shows up at school.
Absent: Kurt Ostlund as Jordan Slabinski
Guest stars: Brett Dier as Hutch

Note: The Sand and Soil Chronicles is based on the series of novels The Twilight Saga.
2020"Mr. Elderman"Adam WeissmanJennica HarperNovember 1, 2011 (2011-11-01)TBAN/A
Adam tries to get his students to appreciate having a young teacher by pretending to be his own substitute, a cranky old man. The students appreciate his substitute so Principal Tater fires Adam.
Absent: Emily Tennant as Ivy Young

Guest stars: Dakota Hutchins as Child Tater
2121"Mr. Servant"Adam WeissmanDan SignerNovember 8, 2011 (2011-11-08)TBAN/A
Finnegan High School staff members are auctioned off as servants for a fund-raiser. Adam sees it as an opportunity to spend a day with Echo but is disappointed when she bids on Mrs. Byrne instead

Guest stars: Brett Dier as Hutch and Chelsea Powrie as Bethany
2222"Mr. Masterpiece"Jon RosenbaumKen Cuperus & Ryan W. SmithNovember 15, 2011 (2011-11-15)TBAN/A
The kids learn that a world-famous artist once taught at Finnegan High and embark on a hunt to track down his hidden artwork in hopes of striking it rich.
2323"Mr. Brain"Adam WeissmanHoward NemetzNovember 22, 2011 (2011-11-22)TBAN/A
Adam gets a new student: Joseph, a ten-year-old genius. At first, Adam is thrilled to have a younger version of himself to mentor. But when he is shown up by Joseph, he lets jealousy get the best of him.

Guest stars: Darien Provost as Joseph and John Barnett as Sound Effects Guy
24–2524–25"Mr. Space"[8]Jon RosenbaumDan Signer & Howard NemetzNovember 29, 2011 (2011-11-29)TBAN/A
After being pranked by his students, a fed-up Adam quits Finnegan high school and takes a job in the NASA Space Program.While trying to impress his friends with his new job at NASA, Adam accidentally launches them all into outer space.

Guest stars: Carmen Lavigne as Kale, Gary Peterman as Lord Snoutford, Colin Naples as Ringleader and Jason McKinnon as Bradbury.
2626"Mr. Moth"Anthony AtkinsJennifer Daley & Jennica HarperDecember 13, 2011 (2011-12-13)TBAN/A
When Adam is accidentally doused with moth pheromones, he suddenly becomes the object of Echo's attention... but fears he may be turning into a moth. This episode is shown to be Echo's dream where she cannot believe she was attracted to Adam, however she looks at him with a feeling that she really does like him.

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 271"Mr. Claus"[9]Jon RosenbaumDan Signer & Howard NemetzMarch 12, 2012 (2012-03-12)TBAN/A
After a prank gone wrong Derby accidentally knocks Santa out of his sleigh on Christmas Eve, causing him to lose his memory. So Adam, Derby, Echo, Ivy and Slab delivered the presents to the world. When they come back (everybody except Derby), they find out that Santa only pretended to lose his memory, and claimed he was lazy and he himself was on the naughty list. This show is mostly Derby's dream.
28–292–3"Mr. Spring Break (Canada)""Mr. Summer Vacation (United States)"Jason FurukawaDan Signer & Howard NemetzMarch 19, 2012 (2012-03-19)TBAN/A
Adam follows Echo to the exotic country of Sanduras in the hopes of spending time with her, but he keeps getting pulled away by his guardian, Mrs. Byrne. Meanwhile, Derby and Slab travel to Sanduras by hot air balloon, and Tater and Dang search for a legendary beast: the Sasquawk.

Guest stars: Giles Panton as Alejandro, Ryan Beil as Balloon Operator, Keith Blackman Dallas as Balloon Cop, Chad Bellamy as Snake, Ryan Ochoa as Diego and Victoria Duffield (as herself)
304"Mr. Matchmaker"Jon RosenbaumRyan W. SmithMarch 26, 2012 (2012-03-26)TBAN/A
With Principal Tater constantly on Adam's back, Adam and Echo decide to calm his frustrations by finding him a woman. This proves more difficult than expected. But when Echo convinces Adam to match Tater up with Adam's mom, Rachel, everyone is happy everyone, except Adam. Meanwhile, Derby tries to cure Slab's phobia of milk.
315"Mr. Sleep"Jon RosenbaumDan Signer & Howard NemetzApril 2, 2012 (2012-04-02)[10]TBAN/A
Set on teaching his students the importance of getting a good night's rest, Adam conducts a sleep deprivation experiment at Finnegan. He uses his students as the test subjects, and challenges them to stay awake for the entire night, while hanging out in his class. As the night wears on, the group endures everything from exhaustion to hallucinations, while the various effects of sleep deprivation set in.
326"Mr. TV"Jon RosenbaumJennica HarperApril 9, 2012 (2012-04-09)TBAN/A
The producer of the popular science-based TV show, "Science Schmeince" arrives at Finnegan, looking to hire Adam as the show's new host. Adam agrees, seeing this as a great opportunity to spread his love of science to a broad audience. But, when the producer grows bored of Adam's science-y technobabble, he hires Derby as the zanier host of the show.

Guest stars: Laurie Murdoch as Professor Les
337"Mr. Pickles"Adam WeissmanNathaniel MoherApril 16, 2012 (2012-04-16)TBAN/A
Having had his career ruined by Derby, Preston Pickles takes a job as Finnegan High's new shop teacher. But while no one else will believe him, Derby is convinced that Preston is trying to get rid of him. Derby must find a way to restart Preston's career as an infomercial pitchman, or face the wrath of the Derbinator 3000.

Guest stars: Benjamin Wilkinson as Preston Pickles
348"Mr. Student"Adam WeissmanDan Signer & Howard NemetzSeptember 3, 2012 (2012-09-03)TBAN/A
Adam pretends to be a student at Finnegan High, so that he can join the Quiz Team and help Echo win a trophy. But when Slab takes Echo's spot on the team, Adam tries to force Slab off, so Echo can take his place.

Guest stars: Brett Dier as Hutch, Nicholas Ekren as Ken and Taylor Hui as Molly
359"Mr. Film Festival [11]"Adam WeissmanJennica HarperApril 30, 2012 (2012-04-30)TBAN/A
The red carpet is rolled out for Finnegan's brightest stars to present their movies at the first annual Film Festival. With each student submitting a film, entries run the gamut from a sappy romantic comedy, to a 3D action thriller, to a Kung Fu extravaganza. May the best movie win!
3610"Mr. Elephant[12]"Anthony AtkinsJennica HarperMay 7, 2012 (2012-05-07)TBAN/A
A teenage girl, Brap, is accidentally transported from her home in the rainforest to Adam's classroom. She speaks no English, has superhuman strength, and believes she is an elephant! Impressed by her animal nature, Slab falls in love at first sight. But Brap only has eyes for Adam. While Echo and Adam try to help Brap fit in at Finnegan, Slab tries to win her affections. Then Ivy trains Brap to be like her and renames her Briannna (as she claimed it was with 3 n's) and teaches her to talk and teaches her that she is a homosapien.

Guest stars: Megan Thompson as Brap and Colin Naples as Ringleader
3711"Mr. Candidate"Adam WeissmanDan Signer & Howard NemetzMay 14, 2012 (2012-05-14)TBAN/A
In hopes of getting Derby to stop acting up, Adam and Principal Tater decide he needs some responsibility. They suggest Derby run for Student Council President. However, when Derby does them one better by campaigning for School Superintendent, Adam and Tater must stop him from winning or risk losing their jobs. Meanwhile, Echo helps Slab for his cousin's birthday.
3812"Mr. Roboto 2.0"Adam WeissmanDan Signer & Howard NemetzMay 28, 2012 (2012-05-28)TBAN/A
Adam's robot from a previous episode, ARTHUR, returns after being defeated and recycling himself and reprogrammed himself to make android copies of all humans, but the person he is based on comes and he knocks him unconscious at the end. Meanwhile, Echo writes a report about the dangers of robotics, but chaos ensues when the robot Echo holds a paper about the wonders of robotics. But the Derby robot does not get replaced.

'Guest stars: Gordon Myren as Arthur/Bronzon
3913"Mr. Rock Star"Keith SamplesDan Signer & Howard NemetzJune 4, 2012 (2012-06-04)TBAN/A
When Adam finds out that Echo is obsessed with Dark Demon, a heavy metal musician that Adam knew in college, he tries to get his old friend to come to Finnegan High. But when Dark Demon refuses to make an appearance, Adam pretends to be the leather-clad rocker, and must perform at Echo's Save the Ferrets benefit.

Guest stars: Nicholas Ouelette as Dark Demon, Ajay Parikh-Friese as Rupinder, Beverly Ndukwu as Esl Student No. 1, Joshua Pak as Esl Student No. 2 and Paulina Krulikowski as Esl Student No. 3
4014"Mr. Witness"Adam WeissmanDan Signer & Howard NemetzJuly 9, 2012 (2012-07-09)TBAN/A
After Slab threatens Derby for tattling on him to Principal Tater, Derby fears retaliation and asks Tater for protection. Tater offers Derby a chance to pose as an exchange student from Britain, Simon. As Derby masquerades as Simon, Tater must convince Slab that Derby has actually moved away.
4115"Mr. College"Adam WeissmanDan SignerJuly 23, 2012 (2012-07-23)TBAN/A
After Adam secretly tweaks Echo's science fair project, she wins first prize. With everyone thinking Echo is a genius, she is instantly graduated from Finnegan and offered a full scholarship to Great Northern University. Now Adam, with the help of Derby and Slab, must crash a frat party and convince Echo to come back to Finnegan.

Guest stars:Brent McLare as Natty
4216"Mr. Discovery"Jon RosenbaumDan Signer & Howard NemetzJuly 16, 2012 (2012-07-16)TBAN/A
When Adam can't get his class to stop talking, he assigns them oral presentations on the world's greatest discoveries. Through a series of flashbacks, our gang reenacts the events that led to the discovery of plutonium, the lightbulb, fire and more.
4317"Mr. Pixel"Jason FurukawaCameron LabineJuly 30, 2012 (2012-07-30)TBAN/A
Adam tries to get Derby off of a computer game called Pixel City. Derby is spending all his time on the computer, playing "Pixel City," as his virtual alter-ego, Antoine Bolognese. Set on convincing Derby to rejoin the real world, Adam enters the game to track him down. But it won't be easy, since Derby has digitally recreated the entire Finnegan gang to serve and protect him.
4418"Mr. Dance"Jon RosenbaumJennica HarperAugust 13, 2012 (2012-08-13)TBAN/A
Adam's plan to take Echo to the school dance is foiled by Principal Tater. Determined to catch a notorious prankster, the "Gagmeister General," red-handed, Tater recruits Adam for a stakeout. Meanwhile, Ivy tries to get sympathy votes for Queen of the Dance by taking Derby as her date.

'Animal' Canada goose
4519"Mr. Cyclops"Jon RosenbaumDan SignerAugust 20, 2012 (2012-08-20)TBAN/A
When Derby didn't get his free toy with his cereal, he and Adam goes to Cyclops Foods to talk with the head of the company, an actual one-eyed cyclops. Meanwhile, Slab joins the school's knitting club, and later gets obsessed with it, but it turns out to have caused more trouble as the nerds are messing around too much with the school.
4620"Mr. Switch"Adam WeissmanRyan W. SmithAugust 27, 2012 (2012-08-27)TBAN/A
Adam's neural-imaging unit goes on the fritz, accidentally switching the gang's personalities. In order for Adam, Echo, Derby, Slab, Ivy, and Dang to return to their own bodies, they must work together to fix the machine before Principal Tater discovers their secret.
4721"Mr. Scooter"Adam WeissmanDan SignerSeptember 3, 2012 (2012-09-03)TBAN/A
Adam, Echo, Derby, Ivy and Slab tell the principal how they destroyed Tater's scooter in aseries of flashbacks. When Adam, Echo, Derby, Ivy, and Slab find themselves waiting outside Principal Tater's office together, they realize they're all in trouble for the same crime - wrecking Principal Tater's scooter. We hear their stories, which include hamsters being born, chickens being freed, and trips to Ireland.
4822"Mr. Airplane"Adam WeissmanHoward NemetzSeptember 10, 2012 (2012-09-10)TBAN/A
When Adam coaches the Engineering Squad in a paper airplane competition he finds that Slab is a master at it and recruits him.Meanwhile Ivy is tring to look ugly so that the nerds will want to "obtain" her. With the paper airplane competition approaching, Finnegan High's Engineering Squad has no hope against rival Western High - that is, until Adam discovers Slab's untapped paper-folding genius. Adam must convince Slab to embrace his inner nerd and join the squad.
4923"Mr. Poet"Anthony AtkinsJennica HarperSeptember 17, 2012 (2012-09-17)TBAN/A
When a dreamy new English teacher shows up at Finnegan High and impresses Echo with his poetry, Adam becomes jealous and tries to make it so that he never sees her.
5024"Mr. Alligator"Adam WeissmanCameron LabineSeptember 25, 2012 (2012-09-25)TBAN/A
Echo gets "nurse" on her aptitude test, but when she decides to disbelieve it, Adam goes to great lengths to try to convince her that it is her ultimate profession; he becomes an alligator wrestler.
5125"Mr. 1812"Adam WeissmanJennica Harper, Ryan W. Smith, Cameron Labine, and Nathaniel MoherOctober 2, 2012 (2012-10-02)TBAN/A
The school loses power and the students try to live without technology when they accept a dare from Principal Tater.
5226"Mr. Invisible"Anthony AtkinsNathaniel MoherOctober 9, 2012 (2012-10-09)TBAN/A
Adam invents an invisibility suit and uses it to spy on Echo. Meanwhile, Echo tries to impress a boy when she has to work on project with him.

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531"Mr. Candy"David WinningJennica HarperOctober 16, 2012 (2012-10-16)TBAN/A
The morning after Halloween, the gang tries to remember what they did during their candy-fueled haze the night before
542"Mr. & Mrs. Roboto"Jon RosenbaumHoward Nemetz & Dan SignerNovember 6, 2012 (2012-11-06)[13]TBAN/A
Arthur returns and makes Adam & Echo babysit Arthur's kids. Meanwhile, Derby and Ivy decide to dress up as robots so they can make friends with Arthur. ARTHUR returns to Finnegan with his new robot family and asks Adam to babysit his "grandkids." Adam agrees and tries to impress Echo with his parenting skills, but soon realizes that dealing with kids is not as easy as it looks.
553"Mr. Magic"Adam WeissmanKen CuperusNovember 13, 2012 (2012-11-13)TBAN/A
The class goes to a Magic Mansion. Adam tries to get rid of everyone with a "magic box" so he and Echo can be alone, and in a string of odd events later ends up trying to saw Echo in half. Meanwhile, Principal Tater tries to get a new membership card.
564"Mr. Apartment"Howard NemetzJennica HarperNovember 20, 2012 (2012-11-20)TBAN/A
Adam can't get peace and quiet so he buys his own apartment. Thing go wrong when everyone piles in for their own reason. So now, with the help of his mom, they try to get out of the lease. Meanwhile, Tater enlists that Dang help in fooling his new girlfriend Gwen that he's a billionaire living in a mansion. He ends up telling her the truth thinking that she'll like him better but she doesn't and she leaves. Adam ends up selling Tater his apartment.
575"Mr. Hyde"Anthony AtkinsDan Signer & Howard NemetzNovember 27, 2012 (2012-11-27)TBAN/A
Adam makes a drink that will make him more confident to ask Echo out, but it ends up wrong when he turns into a monster. And even worse is that whenever he talks or thinks about Echo being cute he turns into the monster. Now he must stay away from Echo to prevent from turning into the monster. But in the end, Echo accidentally drinks the potion and now when she thinks about Adam being cute she turns into a monster.
586"Mr. Elf"Adam WeissmanRyan W. Smith & Nathaniel MoherDecember 12, 2012 (2012-12-12)[14]TBAN/A
Adam brings a reindeer to the north pole and convince Santa Claus to automate the work. Now Adam has to care for the now unemployed elves.
597"Mr. Time"Keith SamplesDan Signer & Howard NemetzJanuary 8, 2013 (2013-01-08)TBAN/A
Adam makes a mistake with a machine and causes class time to go extremely fast; Echo and Slab try to stop Mr. Tater from entering the class.
608"Mr. Pickles-In-Law"Keith SamplesRyan W. Smith & Nathaniel MoherJanuary 15, 2013 (2013-01-15)TBAN/A
Derby dates a girl and suddenly realizes that she is related to Mr. Pickles.
619"Mr. Sci-Fi"David WinningKen CuperusJanuary 22, 2013 (2013-01-22)TBAN/A
Adam is hired as a science advisor for a sci-fi movie being shot in Finnegan.
6210"Mr. Tutor"Jason FurukawaJennica HarperJanuary 29, 2013 (2013-01-29)TBAN/A
Adam tutors Ivy in exchange for sold-out tickets to a music festival.
6311"Mr. Club"Jason FurukawaKen CuperusFebruary 5, 2013 (2013-02-05)TBAN/A
Adam tries to get into Echo's secret club so they can have something in common.
6412"Mr. Heart"Jason FurukawaDan Signer & Howard NemetzFebruary 14, 2013 (2013-02-14)TBAN/A
Adam and Derby use a shrink ray to enter Echo's body to cure her cold, so that Adam can go on his date with her. They then have to find a way out.
6513"Mr. Sasquawk"Adam WeissmanRyan W. Smith & Nathaniel MoherFebruary 19, 2013 (2013-02-19)TBAN/A
Adam frees Sasquawk and the city is after them. Then, Sawquawk gets jealous of Adam's relationship with Echo
6614"Mr. Slumber Party"David WinningKen CuperusFebruary 26, 2013 (2013-02-26)TBAN/A
Ivy brings the cheerleaders for a slumber party at the house's basement. But that makes Echo see Adam's shrine for her to show Adam's true feelings for her, so he sets up his own Slumber Party at the basement so Echo won't notice.
6715"Mr. Double Date"Siobhan DevineRyan W. Smith & Nathaniel MoherFebruary 26, 2013 (2013-02-26)TBAN/A
Echo and Adam set each other up with a date to go on a double date, but Echo finds out that Adam might be the right guy for her.
6816"Mr. Love Letter"Jason FurukawaCole BastedoMarch 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)TBAN/A
Adam is scared his love letter will be shown to Echo until his signature is cut, but another student, Jared, claims he wrote it, he soon has to find a way to prove that Jared didn't write it, also to make sure no one knows it was him.

Guest star: Samuel Patrick Chu as Jared
6917"Mr. Freshman"Siobhan DevineJennica HarperMarch 5, 2013 (2013-03-05)TBAN/A
When Adam is Ivy's tour guide to a college Ivy wants to go to, he gets caught up meeting his old science professor who tells an old story about Adam.
70–7218–20"Mr. First Impression"Jon RosenbaumDan Signer & Howard NemetzMarch 12, 2013 (2013-03-12)TBAN/A
In order to make a better first impression on his crush Echo, Adam uses a time machine to travel back to the past to meet her for the first time all over again. After returning to the present he realizes his plan has backfired and he has to time travel back again to repair his relationship with Echo. However, the time travel mishaps multiply and spiral out of control and soon Adam’s meddling in the past has him scrambling to keep from being permanently stuck there.Eventually by the end Adam decides to not change the past and goes back to the present. There Echo tells Adam that she likes him and they start dating. They then kiss. They decide to keep it a secret from everyone else.
7321"Mr. Memory"Siobhan DevineJennica HarperMarch 19, 2013 (2013-03-19)TBAN/A
When Derby almost gives away the secret that Adam and Echo are dating, Adam plots to erase Derby's memory. However, Adam gets Preston Pickles to advertise and use Derby to volunteer the Memory-Erase machine but he uses Echo and erases her memory that she is in love with Adam!
7422"Mr. Kidd"Steve WrightKen CuperusMarch 26, 2013 (2013-03-26)TBAN/A
Mr. Kidd's students like him a lot and think he's fun even though he does the same thing Adam does. Adam tries to change the Memory-Eraser to make it bring back Echo's memory, then Mr. Kid finds out but promises not to tell anyone or to get together with Echo. Slab and Ivy have to do a book report on George Orwell's 1984. They borrow Mr. Tater tape of the movie and when they see it they find out that Adam's mom and Tater used to date and they kissed. Ivy states that she never knew her father. Adam and Ivy's hair consistently falls out, which may mean that their father is Tater. Mr. Kid uses the reversed Memory-Eraser on Echo and they start dating. Shortly after he uses it on everyone and they forget that Adam ever existed. At the end Echo remembers Adam when they kiss. Then he restores everyone’s memory by kissing them, Mr. Kidd gets fired.
7523"Mr. Court"Steve WrightKen CuperusApril 2, 2013 (2013-04-02)TBAN/A
When Mrs. Straupperson is thought to be dead, Ivy is the prime suspect and she is tested in student court.
7624"Mr. Budget"Howard NemetzDan Signer & Howard NemetzNovember 7, 2013 (2013-11-07)TBAN/A
After Adam and Tater struggle to find budget cuts at Finnegan High, Cyclops Foods buys the school and turns it into a product-testing facility. But when a faulty product transforms Derby into an actual cyclops, Adam must find a way to reverse the effects and save Finnegan.
7725"Mr. Interview"Howard NemetzDan Signer & Howard NemetzNovember 14, 2013 (2013-11-14)TBAN/A
A TV news program comes to interview Adam about being the world's youngest high school teacher. To ensure the interview goes smoothly, Tater has dumped Echo, Derby, and Slab in a fake version of Finnegan High.
7826"Mr. Spin-Off"Howard NemetzCole Bastedo & Nathaniel Moher & Jennifer Siddle & Ryan W. SmithNovember 21, 2013 (2013-11-21)TBAN/A
A Hollywood writer comes to Finnegan with the intention of making a TV show about Adam. But he is distracted by Echo, Derby, and Ivy, who all think they have better ideas for TV shows, starring themselves.
79–8027–28"Mr. Finale"Jon RosenbaumDan Signer & Howard NemetzNovember 28, 2013 (2013-11-28)TBAN/A
Dang is called back to Vietnam to take over for Master Ki as guardian of his village. The gang heads to Vietnam to try and convince Dang to come back to Finnegan for graduation. While there, Adam discovers an ancient scroll that points to the mythical fountain of youth, which if found, could make Master Ki young again, releasing Dang from his duties. But to find the fountain, Adam must go up against Echo who is trying to preserve the leaf monkey habitat. While Adam and Derby explore a hidden, underground temple in search of the fountain of youth, Tater helps Echo learn about monkey behavior, and Ivy helps Slab prepare for his first ever cover model photo shoot. All roads lead to a confrontation with a local fancy hat factory owner, who has been keeping a secret from the villagers for generations. In the end, Adam gets the gang back to Finnegan, just in time for graduation.

Special guest star: Nathan Kress as Pete


document_title: Zero tolerance (schools)

question_text: when did zero tolerance policy in schools start

root

text: Zero tolerance (schools)

text: Research[edit]

text: There is no credible evidence that zero tolerance reduces violence or drug abuse by students.[4] Furthermore, school suspension and expulsion result in a number of negative outcomes for both schools and students.[4] The American Bar Association finds that the evidence indicates that minority children are the most likely to suffer the negative consequences of zero tolerance policies. Analysis of the suspension rate of students show that black females and other racial minorities are suspended at a greater rate.[5] The American Psychological Association concluded that the available evidence does not support the use of zero tolerance policies as defined and implemented, that there is a clear need to modify such policies, and that the policies create a number of unintended negative consequences,[6][7] including making schools "less safe".[8]

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text: In 2014, a study of school discipline figures was conducted. It was found that suspensions and expulsions as a result of zero tolerance policies have not reduced school disruptions. The study's author stated that "zero tolerance approaches to school discipline are not the best way to create a safe climate for learning".[9] Zero tolerance policies are sometimes viewed as a quick fix solution for student problems.[10][11][12] While this seems like a simple action-reaction type of situation, it often leaves out the mitigating circumstances that are often the important details in student incidents. Even civilian judges consider mitigating circumstances before passing judgement or sentencing. If zero tolerance policies were applied in adult courtroom scenarios, they would be fundamentally unjust and unconstitutional due to neglecting the laws involving due process, along with cruel and unusual punishments. According to the U.S. Department Of Education, about 1 in 5 middle school and high school students will be suspended.[13]

text: History[edit]

text: The label of zero tolerance began with the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994, when Congress authorized public-school funding subject to the adoption of zero-tolerance policies.[14] Similar policies of intolerance coupled with expulsions for less serious behaviors than bringing a weapon to school had long been a part of private, and particularly religious, schools. The use of zero-tolerance policies in secular, public schools increased dramatically after the Columbine High School massacre, with principals declaring that safety concerns made them want zero tolerance for weapons. These have led to a large number of disproportionate responses to minor, or technical transgressions, many of which have attracted the attention of the international media. These cases include students being suspended or expelled for such offenses as possession of ibuprofen or Midol (both legal, non-prescription drugs commonly used to treat menstrual cramps and headaches) with permission of the students' parents, keeping pocketknives (small utility knife) in cars, and carrying sharp tools outside of a woodshop classroom (where they are often required materials). In Seal v. Morgan, a student was expelled for having a knife in his car on school property, despite his protestations that he was unaware of the knife's presence.[15] In some jurisdictions, zero-tolerance policies have come into conflict with freedom of religion rules already in place allowing students to carry, for example, kirpans.

text: In the "kids for cash" scandal, judge Mark Ciavarella, who promoted a platform of zero tolerance, received kickbacks for constructing a private prison that housed juvenile offenders, and then proceeded to fill the prison by sentencing children to extended stays in juvenile detention for offenses as minimal as mocking a principal on Myspace, scuffles in hallways, trespassing in a vacant building, and shoplifting DVDs from Wal-Mart. Critics of zero-tolerance policies argue that harsh punishments for minor offenses are normalized. The documentary Kids for Cash interviews experts on adolescent behavior, who argue that the zero tolerance model has become a dominant approach to policing juvenile offenses after the Columbine shooting.[16][17]

text: In New York City, Carmen Fariña, head of the New York City Department of Education, restricted school suspension by principals in 2015.[18] The Los Angeles Unified school board, responsible for educating 700,000 students, voted in 2013 to ban suspensions for "willful defiance", which had mostly been used against students from racial minorities.[19][20] A year later, the same school district decided to decriminalise school discipline so that minor offences would be referred to school staff rather than prosecuted -- the previous approach had resulted in black students being six times more likely to be arrested or given a ticket than white students.[21] The district saw suspensions drop by 53%, and graduation rates rise by 12%.[20]

text: Media attention[edit]

text: Media attention has proven embarrassing to school officials, and the embarrassment has resulted in changes to state laws as well as to local school policies. One school board member gave this reason for changes his district made to their rigid policy: "We are doing this because we got egg on our face."[22]

text:
A student at Sandusky High School in Sandusky, Ohio, was suspended for 90 days and flunked, after school authorities searched him for drugs in September 1999, and found a broken pocketknife. He had used the knife to clean his golfing cleats.[23]
The Christina School District in Newark, Delaware, has experienced multiple highly publicized cases of zero tolerance:

After bringing a Cub Scouts dinner knife to school to eat his lunch, a six-year-old boy was ordered to attend an alternative school for students with behavioral problems for nine weeks.[22] After a media uproar, the school board voted unanimously to reduce punishments for kindergartners and first-graders who take weapons to school to a 3-5 day mandatory suspension,[8][24] retaining the original definition of "weapons".[25]
A third-grader was expelled for a year because her grandmother sent a birthday cake, and a knife for cutting the cake, to school. The teacher used the knife to cut the cake, and then reported her to the authorities as having a dangerous weapon. The expulsion was overturned and led to a state law that gave districts the ability to, "on a case-by-case basis, modify the terms of the expulsion."[26]
Other cases include a straight-A student who was ordered to attend "reform school" after a classmate dropped a pocket knife in his lap,[26] and in 2007, when a girl was expelled for using a utility knife to cut paper for a project.[26]

Earlier in 2009, an Eagle Scout in New York was suspended for 20 days for having an emergency supply kit in his car that included a pocket knife.[27]
A kindergartner in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was suspended in March 2010 for making a finger gun.[28]
Another kindergartner, in Pennsylvania, was suspended for 10 days in January 2013 for referring to "shooting" a friend with a Hello Kitty bubble making gun.[29] The suspension was reduced to two days after the parent met with school officials.
A second grader in Baltimore, Maryland, was suspended in March 2013 for biting a Pop-Tart into the shape of a mountain, which school officials mistook for a gun.[30][31]
6-year-old Hunter Yelton in Colorado was suspended in 2013 for alleged repeated sexual harassment of a 6-year-old schoolmate, a charge the boy's family disputed. Following widespread negative media coverage and public disapproval, the school agreed to downgrade the suspension cause to "misconduct".
A freshman at MacArthur High School in Irving, Texas, was suspended for a week in September 2015 after he put a digital alarm clock in a pencil box, and took it to his school to show a teacher. When the device beeped while in one class, the student was suspended and detained on suspicion of creating a hoax bomb.[32][33]
In the Escondido school knives case, Brian Capalletti and another student in San Diego were suspended from school for between 2 and 3 weeks and faced criminal charges and possible expulsion after knives were found in their vehicles parked outside their Escondido high school.

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text: Promotion[edit]

text: Proponents of punishment- and exclusion-based philosophy of school discipline policies claim that such policies are required to create an appropriate environment for learning.[9][34] This rests on the assumption that strong enforcement can act as a psychological deterrent to other potentially disruptive students.[9]

text: The policy assumption is that inflexibility is a deterrent because, no matter how or why the rule was broken, the fact that the rule was broken is the basis for the imposition of the penalty. This is intended as a behavior modification strategy: since those at risk know that it may operate unfairly, they may be induced to take even unreasonable steps to avoid breaking the rule. This is a standard policy in rule- and law-based systems around the world on "offenses" as minor as traffic violations to major health and safety legislation for the protection of employees and the environment.[35]

text: Disciplinarian parents view zero-tolerance policies as a tool to fight corruption.[36] Under this argument, if subjective judgment is not allowed, most attempts by the authority person to encourage bribes or other favors in exchange for leniency are clearly visible.

text: Criticism[edit]

text: Critics of zero-tolerance policies in schools say they are part of a school-to-prison pipeline [37] that over-polices children with behavioural problems, treating their problems as criminal justice issues rather than educational and behavioural problems. Students that may previously have been given short school suspensions before the implementation of policies are now sent to juvenile courts.[38]

text: Critics of zero-tolerance policies frequently refer to cases where minor offenses have resulted in severe punishments. Typical examples include the honor-roll student being expelled from school under a "no weapons" policy while in possession of nail clippers,[39] or for possessing "drugs" like cough drops and dental mouthwash or "weapons" like rubber bands.[1]

text: A related criticism is that zero-tolerance policies make schools feel like a jail or a prison. Furthermore zero-tolerance policies have been struck down by U.S. courts[40] and by departments of education.[41]

text: Another criticism is that the zero-tolerance policies have actually caused schools to turn a blind eye to bullying, resulting in them refusing to solve individual cases in an attempt to make their image look better. The zero-tolerance policy also punishes both the attacker and the defender in a fight, even when the attacker was the one who started the fight unprovoked.

text: A particularly dismaying hypothesis about zero tolerance policies is that they may actually discourage some people from reporting criminal and illegal behavior, for fear of losing relationships, and for many other reasons. That is, ironically, zero tolerance policies may be ineffective in the very purpose for which they were originally designed.[42]

text: As schools develop responses to online bullying, schools that have overly harsh approaches to zero tolerance policies may increasingly police speech of students in their own time, that would normally be protected by free speech laws.[43]

text: The American Bar Association opposes "zero tolerance policies that mandate either expulsion or referral of students to juvenile or criminal court, without regard to the circumstances or nature of the offense or the students [sic] history."[44]

text: Critics of zero tolerance policies also argue that the large numbers of students who are suspended and expelled from school experience negative effects which can prohibit them from finishing high school. Students who experience suspension, expulsion and arrests pay higher psychological and social costs: such as depression, suicidal thoughts, academic failure, and run the risk of being incarcerated as adults. In a study by Forrest et. al., (2000), psychologists identified that a third of youths in juvenile detention centers were diagnosed with depression shortly after being incarcerated.[45] In addition to being diagnosed with depression many youths found themselves having suicidal thoughts (Gnau et. al. 1997).[46]

text: Research found that Black, Latino, and White adults with low educational attainment risked a higher propensity of being incarcerated in their lifetime (Pettit & Western 2010).[47] In the same study they found that the incarceration rate in 2008 rose to 37% since the 1980’s. This showed that incarceration rates of people with low levels of education were continuing to rise and that students were not completing their high school requirements.

text: According to kidsdata.org for the year 2012, 21,638 students were suspended and 592 students were expelled from San Diego County schools. A total of 10.1% of students did not complete their high school diploma.[48]

text: Despite a decrease in juvenile arrest, suspensions, expulsions, and drop out rates, many still argue that these disciplinary policies have helped contribute to students not completing their high school curriculum. Schools are struggling to keep students within the walls of the educational system rather than the walls of a juvenile detention center.

text: Escondido school knives case[edit]

text: The Escondido school knives case is a collection of school suspensions, possible expulsions, and protests surrounding knives that were found in the cars of two students at San Pasqual High School in Escondido, California.

text: Discovery and arrests[edit]

text: Brandon Cappaletti, an 18-year-old student at the school, had been on a fishing trip in early January, 2016. He says he had used the knives to cut line and would have used them to prepare fish. After the fishing trip, he left the knives in his truck. Another 16-year-old student had a pocket knife in his glove compartment.[49]

text: On January 27, police dogs were sniffing vehicles in the school's parking lot. Each student had Advil in the truck. In each case, the dogs alerted on the Advil. Cappaletti was called out of class to unlock the truck. The police found the Advil and the knives. In the case of the 16-year-old, the alert also which led to the police finding the pocket knife.[49]

text: Both boys were arrested. Cappaletti was later released to his mother. The 16-year-old's case was referred to the California's juvenile diversion program. Both boys have been charged with a misdemeanor for having a knife on school property with a blade longer than two-and-a-half inches. Both were also immediately suspended from classes.[49] A hearing on Feb. 25 will decide whether or not they will be expelled.

text: Impact and protests[edit]

text: Cappaletti has already joined the U.S. Marines Corps. If convicted of the misdemeanor, he might not be able to remain. His mother Amy Cappelletti said that “He’s the most patriotic student. He never gets into trouble. These weren’t Crocodile Dundee knives.”[50] At a School Board meeting on February 9, 2016, hundreds of people asked the Board not to expel the two students. Tony Coreley, the high school's football coach said that “There are rules and laws that the district has to follow, but this (situation) is unfortunate.”[50]

text: School District spokeswoman Karyl O’Brien said that the situation was unfortunate, but under California's zero-tolerance policy, there were rules the school had to follow.

text: Resolution[edit]

text: On February 11, 2016, the Superintendent of the Escondido Union School District stated that the students would not be expelled, and that they were expected to be allowed to return to school the following week.[51] As of February 13, the misdemeanor charges remain unresolved.[52]


document_title: List of World Series of Poker Main Event champions

question_text: who has won the wsop main event twice

question_tokens: who has won the wsop main event twice

text: Milestones[edit]

text: Johnny Moss was the first person to win the WSOP.  Since then only Moss and Stu Ungar have won the Main Event three times; Ungar is the only one to have won three times in the freeze-out format. Moss, Ungar, Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan are the only people who have won the Main Event two years in a row.  Johnny Chan's second victory in 1988 was featured on the 1998 film Rounders.[4] Peter Eastgate was the youngest person to win the Main Event when he won it in 2008, at 22 years of age.[5]  He held that record for one year, when 21-year-old Joe Cada became the youngest Main Event champion.

text: Key[edit]

text:
*

Elected to the Poker Hall of Fame.

†

Denotes player who is deceased.

Year

The year of the tournament linked to the WSOP for the given year.

Winner

The person who won the Main Event.

Nickname

Nickname of the player.

Hand

The two hole cards the winner held on the final hand.

Prize (US$)

WSOP Main Event prize money.

Entrants

The number of players in that year's Main Event.

Winnings

Lifetime winnings in WSOP and WSOP Circuit events as of April 15, 2013.

Bracelets

WSOP victories are counted in terms of bracelets, as of April 15, 2013.

Ref.

References

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text: World Series of Poker Main Event[edit]

text:
Image

Year

Winner

Nickname

Hand

Prize (US$)

Entrants[6]

Total tournament earnings (US$)

WSOP bracelets

Ref.

1970

Johnny Moss*†

The Grand Old Man of Poker[7]

N/A

N/A

7000700000000000000♠7

7005824922000000000♠824,922

9

[8]

1971

Johnny Moss*†

The Grand Old Man of Poker

6  6

7004300000000000000♠30,000

7000600000000000000♠6

7005824922000000000♠824,922

9

[8]

1972

Thomas Preston*†

Amarillo Slim[9]

K  J

7004800000000000000♠80,000

7000800000000000000♠8

7005436055000000000♠436,055

4

[10]

1973

Walter Pearson*†

Puggy[11]

A♠ 7♠

7005130000000000000♠130,000

7001130000000000000♠13

7005245740000000000♠245,740

4

[12]

1974

Johnny Moss*†

The Grand Old Man of Poker

3♥ 3♠

7005160000000000000♠160,000

7001160000000000000♠16

7005824922000000000♠824,922

9

[8]

1975

Brian Roberts*†

Sailor[13]

J♠ J♥ [14]

7005210000000000000♠210,000

7001210000000000000♠21

7005266650000000000♠266,650

2

[15]

1976

Doyle Brunson*

Texas Dolly[16][h]

10♠ 2♠

7005220000000000000♠220,000

7001220000000000000♠22

7006280894500000000♠2,808,945

10

[17]

1977

Doyle Brunson*

Texas Dolly

10♠ 2♥

7005340000000000000♠340,000

7001340000000000000♠34

7006280894500000000♠2,808,945

10

[17]

1978

Bobby Baldwin*

The Owl[18]

Q♦ Q♣

7005210000000000000♠210,000

7001420000000000000♠42

7005604900000000000♠604,900

4

[19]

1979

Hal Fowler†

—

7♠ 6♦

7005270000000000000♠270,000

7001540000000000000♠54

7005270000000000000♠270,000

1

[20]

1980

Stu Ungar*†

StueyorThe Kid[21]

5♠ 4♠

7005385000000000000♠385,000

7001730000000000000♠73

7006207883800000000♠2,078,838

5

[22]

1981

Stu Ungar*†

StueyorThe Kid

A♥ Q♥

7005375000000000000♠375,000

7001750000000000000♠75

7006207883800000000♠2,078,838

5

[22]

1982

Jack Straus[b]*†

Treetop[23]

A♥ 10♠

7005520000000000000♠520,000

7002104000000000000♠104

7005555000000000000♠555,000

2

[24]

1983

Tom McEvoy*

Grand Rapids Tom

Q♦ Q♠

7005540000000000000♠540,000

7002108000000000000♠108

7006129103100000000♠1,291,031

4

[25]

N/A

1984

Jack Keller*†

Gentleman[26]

10♥ 10♠

7005660000000000000♠660,000

7002132000000000000♠132

7006204876300000000♠2,048,763

3

[26]

N/A

1985

Bill Smith†

—

3♠ 3♥

7005700000000000000♠700,000

7002140000000000000♠140

7005788000000000000♠788,000

1

[27]

1986

Berry Johnston*

—

A♠ 10♥

7005570000000000000♠570,000

7002141000000000000♠141

7006226552300000000♠2,265,523

5

[28]

1987

Johnny Chan*

Orient Express[29]

A♠ 9♣

7005625000000000000♠625,000

7002152000000000000♠152

7006439774900000000♠4,397,749

10

[30]

1988

Johnny Chan*

Orient Express

J♣ 9♣

7005700000000000000♠700,000

7002167000000000000♠167

7006439774900000000♠4,397,749

10

[30]

1989

Phil Hellmuth[g]*

The Poker Brat[31]

9♠ 9♣

7005755000000000000♠755,000

7002178000000000000♠178

7007146122130000000♠14,612,213

15

[32]

N/A

1990

Mansour Matloubi

—

6♥ 6♠

7005895000000000000♠895,000

7002194000000000000♠194

7006601963000000000♠6,019,630

1

[33]

1991

Brad Daugherty

—

K♠ J♠

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002215000000000000♠215

7006116517000000000♠1,165,170

1

[34]

1992

Hamid Dastmalchi

—

8♥ 4♣

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002201000000000000♠201

7006164246300000000♠1,642,463

3

[35]

1993

Jim Bechtel

—

J♠ 6♠

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002220000000000000♠220

7006194462300000000♠1,944,623

1

[36][37]

1994

Russ Hamilton

—

K♠ 8♥

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002268000000000000♠268

7006126194000000000♠1,261,940

1

[38]

1995

Dan Harrington*

Action Dan[39]

9♦ 8♦

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002273000000000000♠273

7006349151300000000♠3,491,513

2

[40]

1996

Huck Seed

—

9♦ 8♦

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002295000000000000♠295

7006242684200000000♠2,426,842

4

[41]

1997

Stu Ungar*†

StueyorThe Kid

A♥ 4♣

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002312000000000000♠312

7006207883800000000♠2,078,838

5

[42]

1998

Scotty Nguyen*

The Trainor The Prince of Poker[43]

J♦ 9♣

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002350000000000000♠350

7006589573200000000♠5,895,732

5

[44]

1999

Noel Furlong

—

5♣ 5♦

7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

7002393000000000000♠393

7006107078500000000♠1,070,785

1

[45]

2000

Chris Ferguson

Jesus [46]

A♠ 9♣

7006150000000000000♠1,500,000

7002512000000000000♠512

7006503359300000000♠5,033,593

6

[46]

2001

Carlos Mortensen*

El Matador[47]

K♣ Q♣

7006150000000000000♠1,500,000

7002613000000000000♠613

7006316821600000000♠3,168,216

2

[48]

2002

Robert Varkonyi

—

Q♦ 10♠

7006200000000000000♠2,000,000

7002631000000000000♠631

7006211021200000000♠2,110,212

1

[49]

2003

Chris Moneymaker[c]

—

5♦ 4♠

7006250000000000000♠2,500,000

7002839000000000000♠839

7006253204100000000♠2,532,041

1

[50]

2004

Greg Raymer

Fossilman

8♠ 8♦

7006500000000000000♠5,000,000

7003257600000000000♠2,576

7006666941700000000♠6,669,417

1

[51]

2005

Joe Hachem

—

7♣ 3♠

7006750000000000000♠7,500,000

7003561900000000000♠5,619

7006826185900000000♠8,261,859

1

[52]

2006

Jamie Gold

—

Q♠ 9♣

7007120000000000000♠12,000,000

7003877300000000000♠8,773

7007120672920000000♠12,067,292[i]

1

[53]

2007

Jerry Yang

The Shadow[54]

8♦ 8♣

7006825000000000000♠8,250,000

7003635800000000000♠6,358

7006828091300000000♠8,280,913

1

[55]

2008

Peter Eastgate

Isser[5]

A♦ 5♠

7006915241600000000♠9,152,416

7003684400000000000♠6,844

7006943050600000000♠9,430,506

1

[56]

2009

Joe Cada

—

9♦ 9♣

7006857464900000000♠8,574,649

7003649400000000000♠6,494

7007103394480000000♠10,339,448

3

[57]

2010

Jonathan Duhamel

—

A♠ J♥

7006894413800000000♠8,944,138

7003731900000000000♠7,319

7007146122130000000♠14,612,213

3

[58]

2011

Pius Heinz

—

A♠ K♣

7006871563800000000♠8,715,638

7003686500000000000♠6,865

7006882105600000000♠8,821,056

1

[59]

N/A

2012

Greg Merson

—

K♦ 5♦

7006853185300000000♠8,531,853

7003659800000000000♠6,598

7007101740290000000♠10,174,029

2

[60]

N/A

2013

Ryan Riess

Riess the Beast

A♥ K♥

7006835953100000000♠8,359,531

7003635200000000000♠6,352

7006892067200000000♠8,920,672

1

[61]

2014

Martin Jacobson

—

10♥ 10♦

7007100000000000000♠10,000,000

7003668300000000000♠6,683

7007121022320000000♠12,102,232

1

[62]

2015

Joe McKeehen

—

A♥ 10♦

7006768334600000000♠7,683,346

7003642000000000000♠6,420

7007104808610000000♠10,480,861

2

[63]

2016

Qui Nguyen

Tommy Gun

K♣ 10♣

7006800531000000000♠8,005,310

7003673700000000000♠6,737

7006802228700000000♠8,022,287

1

[64]

N/A

2017

Scott Blumstein

—

A♥ 2♦

7006815000000000000♠8,150,000

7003722100000000000♠7,221

7006815522700000000♠8,155,227

1

[65]

N/A

2018

John Cynn

—

K♣ J♣

7006880000000000000♠8,800,000

7003787400000000000♠7,874

7006951307100000000♠9,513,071

1

text: World Series of Poker Europe Main Event[edit]

text: The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is the first expansion effort of World Series of Poker-branded poker tournaments outside the United States. Since 1970, the bracelet events have occurred every year in Las Vegas.  The inaugural WSOPE, held in 2007, marked the first time that a WSOP bracelet was awarded outside Las Vegas.[66]  The 2007 Main Event, a GBP 10,000 buy-in no-limit hold 'em tournament, was won by Norwegian player Annette Obrestad on the day before her 19th birthday. This made her the youngest person to win a WSOP bracelet, a record that cannot be broken in the Las Vegas WSOP under current laws because the minimum legal age for casino gaming in Nevada is 21. Obrestad could play in the WSOPE because the minimum age for casino gaming in the United Kingdom is 18.  The World Series of Poker Europe has a unique identity from the Las Vegas WSOP, but according to Harrah's will remain true to the traditions and heritage.[66] The 2011 WSOP Europe main event was an 8-handed event.[67]

text:
Image

Year

Winner

Nickname

Hand

Prize

Entrants[6]

Winnings

WSOP bracelets

Ref.

2007

Annette Obrestad [e]

Annette_15[68]

7♥ 7♠

£7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

362

$7006208643700000000♠2,086,437

1

[69]

2008

John Juanda[f]*

—

K♠ 6♣

£7005868800000000000♠868,800

362

$7006482581600000000♠4,825,816

5

[70]

2009

Barry Shulman

—

10♠ 10♣

£7005801603000000000♠801,603

334

—

2

N/A

2010

James Bord

—

10♦ 10♥

£7005830401000000000♠830,401

346

—

1

N/A

2011

Elio Fox

—

A♦ 10♠

€7006140000000000000♠1,400,000

593

—

1

2012

Phil Hellmuth[g]*

The Poker Brat

A♥ 10♦

€7006102237600000000♠1,022,376

7002420000000000000♠420

$7007140261670000000♠14,026,167

15

[71]

N/A

2013

Adrián Mateos

—

A♠ K♣

£7006100000000000000♠1,000,000

375

$7006137520000000000♠1,375,200

1

[72]

N/A

2015

Kevin MacPhee

ImaLuckSac

A♦ 4♦

£7005883000000000000♠883,000

313

$7006545629800000000♠5,456,298

2

[73]

N/A

2017

Marti Roca de Torres

—

Q♥ 5♦

€7006111520700000000♠1,115,207

529

$7006129556600000000♠1,295,566

1

text: World Series of Poker Asia Pacific Main Event[edit]

text: The World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) is the most recent expansion of World Series of Poker-branded tournaments outside the United States. On April 30, 2012, WSOP owner Caesars Entertainment and Australian casino Crown Melbourne announced that the first WSOP APAC would be launched with five bracelet events in April 2013.[74]

text:
Image

Year

Winner

Nickname

Hand

Prize (A$)

Entrants

Winnings (US$)

WSOP bracelets

Ref.

2013

Daniel Negreanu*

Kid Poker[75]

2♠ 2♥

$7006103882500000000♠1,038,825

405[76]

$7007163464860000000♠16,346,486

6

[76][77]

N/A

2014

Scott Davies

—

6♦ 6♠

$7005850136000000000♠850,136

329

$7006165359300000000♠1,653,593

1

[78]

text: Notes[edit]

text: a  The first World Series of Poker was not a freeze out tournament, but rather a game with a set start and stop time.  Benny Binion took a secret ballot that asked the players who the best player was.  According to poker lore, everybody said that they were the best player.  Binion then asked who the second-best player was, and Johnny Moss won.[79]

text: b  Jack Straus' 1982 WSOP tournament victory is considered to be one of the greatest comebacks in poker history.  At one point, Straus was down to one chip, and he came back to win.  This victory is considered the origin of the poker saying, "A chip and a chair."  A saying that means that as long as you have a chip and a chair you have a chance.  Modern lore indicates that this happened at the final table, but the 1983 book The Biggest Game in Town implies this occurred on the first day of the tournament.[80]

text: c Chris Moneymaker won the entry into the WSOP Main Event via a $39 online satellite.[81]

text: d Joe Cada is the youngest person to have won the WSOP Main Event.[5]

text: e  Annette Obrestad won the WSOPE at the age of 18 years, 364 days, making her the youngest person to have won a WSOP bracelet.  She is also the first woman to have won a Main Event tournament and in 2007 was considered to be one of the best online multi-table tournament players in the world.[68]

text: f The final table at the 2008 WSOPE Main Event, was the longest final table in the WSOP history.  The tournament lasted 22 hours (a WSOP record) and 434 hands (a WSOP record).[82]

text: g At the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, Hellmuth won his record-breaking 13th bracelet. This also made him the first player ever to win the Main Events at both the WSOP and WSOPE.[71] Hellmuth also holds the records for most WSOP cashes (100) and most WSOP final tables (53).[83]

text: h Doyle Brunson obtained the nickname of Texas Dolly when Jimmy The Greek mispronounced his name.[16]

text: i In recent years, the prize pool for the WSOP Main Event has become so large that the winner instantly becomes one of the top money winners in tournament poker.  Jamie Gold (2006) is number eight on that list, Joe Hachem (2005) is number ten, and Peter Eastgate (2008) is number eleven.[84]

text: j The Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 curtailed online gambling in the United States.[85]


document_title: eBay

question_text: what does the e stand for in ebay

question_tokens: what does the e stand for in ebay

text: eBay

text: History[edit]

text: Early years[edit]

text: The AuctionWeb was founded in California on September 3, 1995, by French-born Iranian-American computer programmer Pierre Omidyar as part of a larger personal site.[5] One of the first items sold on AuctionWeb was a broken laser pointer for $14.83. Astonished, Omidyar contacted the winning bidder to ask if he understood that the laser pointer was broken. In his responding email, the buyer explained: "I'm a collector of broken laser pointers."[6]

text: The frequently repeated story that eBay was founded to help Omidyar's fiancée trade Pez candy dispensers was fabricated by a public relations manager, Mary Lou Song, in 1997 to interest the media, which were not interested in the company's previous explanation about wanting to create a "perfect market".[7] This was revealed in Adam Cohen's book, The Perfect Store (2002),[5] and confirmed by eBay.[7]

text: Reportedly, eBay was simply a side hobby for Omidyar until his Internet service provider informed him he would need to upgrade to a business account due to the high volume of traffic to his website. The resulting price increase (from $30/month to $250) forced him to start charging those who used eBay, and was not met with any animosity.[8] It resulted in the hiring of Chris Agarpao as eBay's first additional employee to handle the number of checks coming in for fees.[citation needed]

text: Jeffrey Skoll was hired as the first new president of the company in early 1996. In November 1996, eBay entered into its first third-party licensing deal, with a company called Electronic Travel Auction, to use SmartMarket Technology to sell plane tickets and other travel products. Growth was phenomenal; in January 1997 the site hosted 2,000,000 auctions, compared with 250,000 during the whole of 1996.[9]

text: The company officially changed the name of its service from AuctionWeb to eBay in September 1997. Originally, the site belonged to Echo Bay Technology Group, Omidyar's consulting firm. Omidyar had tried to register the domain name echobay.com, but found it already taken by the Echo Bay Mines, a gold mining company,[10] so he shortened it to his second choice, eBay.com.[11]

text: In 1997 the company received $6.7 million in funding from the venture capital firm Benchmark Capital.[12]

text: Meg Whitman was hired by the board as eBay president and CEO in March 1998. At the time, the company had 30 employees,[13] half a million users and revenues of $4.7 million in the United States.[14]

text: eBay went public on September 21, 1998,[15] and both Omidyar and Skoll became instant billionaires. eBay's target share price of $18 was all but ignored as the price went to $53.50 on the first day of trading.[16]

text: As the company expanded product categories beyond collectibles into almost any saleable item, business grew quickly.[6] In February 2002 the company purchased iBazar, a similar European auction web site founded in 1998,[17] and then bought PayPal on October 3, 2002.[18]

text: By early 2008 the company had expanded worldwide, counting hundreds of millions of registered users as well as 15,000 employees and revenues of almost $7.7 billion. After nearly ten years at eBay, Whitman decided to enter politics. On January 23, 2008, the company announced that Whitman would step down on March 31, 2008, and John Donahoe was selected to become president and CEO.[19] Whitman remained on the board of directors and continued to advise Donahoe through 2008. In late 2009 eBay completed the sale of Skype for $2.75 billion, but still owned 30% equity in the company.[20]

text: In 2012 eBay was charged by the United States Department of Justice with entering into non-solicitation agreements with other technology companies involving their highly skilled employees.[21]

text: On September 30, 2014, eBay announced it would spinoff PayPal into a separate publicly traded company, a demand made nine months prior by activist hedge fund magnate Carl Icahn. The spinoff completed on July 18, 2015. eBay’s then chief executive, John Donahoe, stepped down from that role.[22][23][24]

text: On January 31, 2018, eBay announced that they would replace PayPal as its primary payments provider with Netherlands-based start-up Adyen. The transition is set to be completed by 2021, but PayPal will remain an acceptable payment option on the site until July 2023.[25]

text: Corporate affairs[edit]

text: Board of directors[edit]

text: As of November 2014 the board of directors was as follows:[26]

text:
Devin Wenig, new eBay CEO and president since 2015
Fred D. Anderson, former managing director of Elevation Partners, director of eBay since July 2003
Edward W. Barnholt, former president and CEO of Agilent Technologies, director of eBay since April 2005
Scott Cook, founder of Intuit, director of eBay since June 1998
John Donahoe, eBay’s former president and CEO since March 2008, former director of eBay since January 2008
David Dorman, non-executive chairman of Motorola, director of eBay since June 2014
William Clay Ford, Jr., executive chairman of Ford Motor Company, director of eBay since July 2005
Kathleen C. Mitic, founder and CEO of Sitch Inc, director of eBay since September 2011
David M. Moffett, former CEO of Freddie Mac, director of eBay since July 2007
Pierre Omidyar, director and chairman of eBay, since its incorporation in May 1996
Richard T. Schlosberg, former president and CEO of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, director of eBay since March 2004
Thomas J. Tierney, co-founder of the Bridgespan Group, director of eBay since March 2003

text: Logo[edit]

text: In September 2012, eBay introduced a new logo set in Univers font, but using a thinner variation of it,[27] installed on the website on October 10, 2012. It replaces the logo with a thicker variation of Univers) which had been use since its establishment in 1995.

text:
1995–2012

2012–present

text: Profit and transactions[edit]

text: eBay generates revenue by a complex system of fees for services, listing product features, and a final value fee for sales proceeds by sellers. As of November 2012, the US-based eBay.com charges $0.10 to $2, based on the opening or reserve price, as an insertion fee for a basic auction-style listing without any adornments. The Final Value Fee amounts to 10% of the total amount of the sale, which is the price of the item plus shipping charges.[28] Fixed-price listings have an insertion fee of $0.30, and the final value fee varies based on category and total amount of the sale (e.g., 13% for DVDs & Movies up to $50).[29] The UK-based ebay.co.uk[30] takes from £0.15 to a maximum rate of £3 per £100 for an ordinary listing and up to 10% of the final price. Reduced Final Value Fees are available to business registered customers.

text: Under US law, a state cannot require sellers located outside the state to collect a sales tax, making purchases more attractive to buyers. Although some state laws require resident purchasers to pay use tax on out-of-state purchases, it is not a common practice.[citation needed] However, sellers that operate as a business do follow state tax regulations on eBay transactions.[31][32] However Value Added Tax (VAT), the EU countries' sales tax, is different. eBay requires sellers to include the VAT element in their listing price and not as an add-on and thus profits by collecting fees based not only on the sale price "ex VAT" but also on the VAT.[33] In a similar manner eBay also charges its Final Value Fees on all shipping charges.

text: The company's business strategy includes increasing international trade.[34][35] eBay has already expanded to over two dozen countries, including China and India. Strategic international expansion has failed in Taiwan and Japan, where Yahoo! had a head start, and New Zealand, where Trade Me is the dominant online auction website. eBay also notably failed in China due to competition from local rival Taobao.[36] eBay entered the Chinese market in 2002 and shut down its Chinese site in 2007.[37] In India too, eBay's operations came to a halt[38] after it sold off its India operations[39] to country's largest ecommerce company Flipkart, in the latter's $1.4Bn fundraise,[40] where eBay was a participant too.

text: In its Q1 2008 results, total payment volume via PayPal increased 17%, but off the eBay auction site it was up 61%.[41]

text: For most listing categories, eBay sellers are permitted to offer a variety of payment systems such as Escrow.com,[42] PayPal, Paymate, Propay, and Skrill.[43] Propay and Skrill were banned effective September 27, 2015, citing low usage.[44]

text: Escrow.com is eBay's approved escrow site. The transactions processed through Escrow.com largely are in relation to eBay Motors; however, they are not restricted to this type of listing.[42]

text: eBay runs an affiliate program under the name eBay Partner Network.[45] eBay affiliate marketers were originally paid a percentage of the eBay seller's transaction fees, with commissions ranging from 50% to 75% of the fees paid for an item purchased. In October 2009, eBay changed to an affiliate payout system that it calls Quality Click Pricing, in which affiliates are paid an amount determined by an undisclosed algorithm. The total earnings amount is then divided by the number of clicks the affiliate sent to eBay and is reported as Earnings Per Click, or EPC. In October 2013, ePN launched a new pricing model. The new model is more transparent and is based on category-level base commission rates with bonuses available for referring new and reactivated buyers.[46]

text: On April 18, 2012 eBay reported a 29% Q1 revenue increase to $3.3 billion compared to their Q1 in 2011. Net income was reported to be at $570 million for the quarter.[47]

text: Environmental record[edit]

text: On May 8, 2008, eBay announced the opening of its newest building on the company's North Campus in San Jose, which is the first structure in the city to be built from the ground up to LEED Gold standards.[48] The building, the first the company had built in its 13-year existence, uses an array of 3,248 solar panels, spanning 60,000 square feet (5,600 m2), and providing 650 kilowatts of power to eBay's campus.[49] The array can supply 15–18% of the company's total energy requirements, reducing the amount of greenhouse gases that would be produced to create that energy by other means.[49] SolarCity, the company responsible for designing the array, estimates that the solar panels installed on eBay's campus will prevent 37 million pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the environment as a result of replaced power production over the next three decades. Creating an equivalent impact to remove the same amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere would require planting 322 acres (1.30 km2) of trees.

text: The design of the building also incorporates other elements to reduce its impact on the environment. The building is equipped with a lighting system that detects natural ambient light sources and automatically dims artificial lighting to save 39% of the power usually required to light an office building. eBay's newest building also reduces demand on local water supplies by incorporating an eco-friendly irrigation system, and low-flow shower heads and faucets. Even during construction, more than 75% of the waste from construction was recycled. eBay also runs buses between San Francisco and the San Jose campus to reduce the number of commuting vehicles.[48] In 2014, eBay and several other Oregon businesses signed the Oregon Business Climate Declaration to promote local job growth and slow carbon pollution.[50]

text: Acquisitions[edit]

text: PayPal[edit]

text: On October 3, 2002, PayPal became a wholly owned subsidiary of eBay.[51] Its corporate headquarters were sited in San Jose, California,[52] United States at eBay's North First Street satellite office campus. On September 30, 2014, eBay Inc. announced the divestiture of PayPal as an independent company, which was completed on July 20, 2015.[53]

text: Craigslist[edit]

text: In the summer of 2004, eBay acknowledged that it had acquired 25% of classified listings website Craigslist. Former Craigslist executive Phillip Knowlton was the seller, and he insisted that his former employer was aware of his plans to divest his holdings. Initially, eBay assured Craigslist that they would not ask the company to change the way it does business.

text: In March 2005, eBay launched the classifieds service Kijiji. In April 2008, eBay sued Craigslist to "safeguard its four-year financial investment", claiming that in January 2008, Craigslist took actions that "unfairly diluted eBay's economic interest by more than 10%."[54] Craigslist countersued in May 2008 "to remedy the substantial and ongoing harm to fair competition" that Craigslist claimed was constituted by eBay's actions as a Craigslist shareholder.[55] In September 2010, Delaware Judge William Chandler ruled that the actions of Craigslist were unlawful and that the actions taken by Craigslist founders Jim Buckmaster and Craig Newmark had "breached their fiduciary duty of loyalty", and restored eBay's stake in the company to 28.4% from a diluted level of 24.85%.[56] However, the judge dismissed eBay's objection to a staggered board provision, citing that Craigslist has the right to protect its own trade secrets.[57][58] eBay spokesman Michael Jacobson stated "We are very pleased that the court gave eBay what it sought from the lawsuit."[56]

text: Skype[edit]

text: In October 2005, eBay Inc. acquired Skype Technologies,[59] developer of the Skype VoIP and Instant messaging service, significantly expanding its customer base to more than 480 million registered users worldwide. eBay later sold a majority stake in Skype in November 2009, while retaining a minority investment in the company.[60] This eventually led to the sale of the entire Skype business to Microsoft for $8.5 billion in May 2011.[61]

text: StubHub[edit]

text: StubHub's acquisition by eBay was announced in January 2007 for a reported $310 million.[62][63][64] According to CNN Money, 2007 was a very successful year for the company, handling five million individual transactions, more than in the previous six years combined of its history.[65] Staffing at StubHub had increased to 350 workers by the time of the sale.[64] Eight months after the acquisition, StubHub reached an exclusive agreement with Major League Baseball (MLB).[65] They get a piece of the 25% in commissions StubHub earns on either end of a sale. Ticketmaster filed a lawsuit against StubHub and eBay in 2007, alleging "intentional interference" with Ticketmaster's contractual rights.[66]

text: Corrigon[edit]

text: In October 2016, eBay acquired Corrigon, a visual search engine, for less than $30 million.[67]

text: Use for data analysis[edit]

text: eBay is a publicly visible market which has attracted an interest from economists, who have used it to analyze aspects of buying and selling behavior, auction formats, etc., comparing them with previous theoretical and empirical findings.

text: Computer information systems researchers have also shown interest in eBay. Michael Goul, Chairman of the Computer Information Systems department of the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University, published an academic case based on eBay’s big data management and use in which he discusses how eBay is a data-driven company that processes 50 petabytes of data a day.[68]

text: eBay uses a system that allows different departments in the company to check out data from their data mart into sandboxes for analysis. According to Goul, eBay has already experienced significant business successes through its data analytics. eBay employs 5,000 data analysts to enable data-driven decision making.[68]

text: Third party[edit]

text: In 2006 the accounting software company Intuit launched a web-based donation tracking service called ItsDeductible. The service uses data from eBay to help users assign a market value to the items they donate.[69]

text: Visual search[edit]

text: In July 2017 eBay released an image search capability allowing users to find listings on the site that match an item depicted in a photo, using artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.[70]

text: GCHQ[edit]

text: UK's GCHQ has a suite of tools for monitoring target use of eBay, named ELATE.[71]

text: Items[edit]

text: Millions of collectibles, decor, appliances, computers, furnishings, equipment, domain names,[72] vehicles, and other miscellaneous items are listed, bought, or sold daily on eBay. In 2006, eBay launched its Business & Industrial category, breaking into the industrial surplus business. Generally, anything can be auctioned on the site as long as it is not illegal and does not violate the eBay Prohibited and Restricted Items policy.[73] Services and intangibles can be sold, too. Large international companies, such as IBM, sell their newest products and offer services on eBay using competitive auctions and fixed-priced storefronts. Separate eBay sites such as eBay US and eBay UK allow the users to trade using the local currency. Software developers can create applications that integrate with eBay through the eBay API by joining the eBay Developers Program.[74] In June 2005, there were more than 15,000 members in the eBay Developers Program, comprising a broad range of companies creating software applications to support eBay buyers and sellers as well as eBay Affiliates.

text: Numerous government and police agencies[75] around the world now use eBay as well as traditional auctions to dispose of seized and confiscated goods.

text: Controversy has arisen over certain items put up for bid. For instance, in late 1999 a man offered one of his kidneys for auction on eBay, attempting to profit from the potentially lucrative (and, in the United States, illegal) market for transplantable human organs.[76]

text: Beginning in August 2007, eBay required listings in "Video Games" and "Health & Beauty" to accept its payment system PayPal and sellers could only accept PayPal for payments in the category "Video Games: Consoles".[77] Starting January 10, 2008, eBay said sellers can only accept PayPal as payment for the categories "Computing > Software", "Consumer Electronics > MP3 Players", "Wholesale & Job Lots > Mobile & Home Phones", and "Business, Office & Industrial > Industrial Supply / MRO".[78] eBay announced that starting in March 2008, eBay had added to this requirement that all sellers with fewer than 100 feedbacks must offer PayPal and no merchant account may be used as an alternative.[79][80] This is in addition to the requirement that all sellers from the United Kingdom have to offer PayPal.[81]

text: Further, and as noted below, it was a requirement to offer PayPal on all listings in Australia and the UK. In response to concerns expressed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, however, eBay has since removed the policy on the ebay.com.au website requiring sellers to offer PayPal as a payment option.

text: On April 24, 2006, eBay opened its new eBay Express site, which was designed to work like a standard Internet shopping site for consumers with United States addresses.[82] It closed in 2008.[citation needed] Selected eBay items were mirrored on eBay Express, where buyers shopped using a shopping cart to purchase from multiple sellers. The UK version was launched to eBay members in mid-October 2006, but on January 29, 2008, eBay announced its intention to close the site.[83] The German version, eBay Express Germany,[84] was also opened in 2006 and closed in 2008.

text: At the 2008 eBay Developer's Conference, eBay announced the Selling Manager Applications program (SM Apps).[85] The program allows approved developers to integrate their applications directly into the eBay.com interface.[86] The applications created by developers are available for subscription by eBay members who also subscribe to Selling Manager.

text: eBay maintains a number of specialty sites including the discussion boards, groups, answer center, chat rooms, and reviews and guides. eBay's mobile offerings include SMS alerts, a WAP site, Java ME clients, and mobile applications for Windows Phone, Android OS, and Apple iPhone.

text: The initiative Choice in eCommerce was founded on May 8, 2013 by several online retailers in Berlin, Germany.[87][88][89][90][91][92][93][94][95] The cause was, in the view of the initiative, sales bans and online restrictions by individual manufacturers. The dealers felt cut off from their main sales channel and thus deprived them the opportunity to use online platforms like Amazon, eBay, or Rakuten in a competitive market for the benefit of their customers.

text: Unusual items[edit]

text: Many unusual items have been placed for sale on eBay, including at least two previously undiscovered species, including the Coelopleurus exquisitus sea urchin.[96][97]

text: Prohibited or restricted items[edit]

text: In its earliest days, eBay was nearly unregulated. However, as the site grew, it became necessary to restrict or prohibit auctions for various items. Note that some of the restrictions relate to eBay.com (the US site), while other restrictions apply to specific European sites (such as Nazi paraphernalia). Regional laws and regulations may apply to the seller or the buyer. Generally, if the sale or ownership of an item is regulated or prohibited by one or more states, eBay will not permit its listing. Among the hundred or so banned or restricted categories:

text:
Tobacco (tobacco-related items and collectibles are accepted.)[98]
Alcohol (alcohol-related collectibles, including sealed containers, as well as some wine sales by licensed sellers are allowed, some sites such as ebay.com.au allow licensed liquor sales)[99] (eBay announced September 21, 2012, it will begin removing listings for beer and liquor from its site after a story was aired on ABC series 20/20.)[100]
Drugs and drug paraphernalia[101]
Items that "promote or glorify hatred, violence, racial, sexual, or religious intolerance, or promote organizations with such views." This includes Nazi paraphernalia, although there are exceptions to this rule for Nazi items such as stamps, letters, and envelopes displaying Nazi postmarks (must comply with the currency and stamp policy)
Historically accurate WWII military model kits that have Nazi symbols[102] and items depicting the Confederate battle flag.[103]
Bootleg recordings[104]
Firearms and ammunition (as of January 1, 1999),[105] including any parts that could be used to assemble a firearm as well as (as of July 30, 2007) any firearm part that is required for the firing of a gun, including bullet slugs, brass casings and shells, slides, cylinders, magazines, firing pins, trigger assemblies, etc. Various types of knives are also forbidden.
Police and emergency service vehicular warning equipment such as red or blue lights and sirens (antique or collectible items are exempt)
Intentionally soiled underwear (see Panty fetishism) and dirty used clothing[106]
Forged, illegal, stolen, or confidential documents, which include passports, Social Security cards, drivers licenses, voter registration cards, birth certificates, school documents, medical records, financial information, government license plates, or government classified information documents. Any item that is used to modify documents is also restricted.[107]
Human body parts, organs, and remains (with an exception for skeletons and skulls for scientific study, provided they are not Native American in origin)[108]
Live animals (with certain exceptions)[109]
Certain copyrighted works or trademarked items[110]
Lottery tickets, sweepstakes tickets, or any other gambling items.[111]
Military hardware such as working weapons or explosives with the exception of demilitarized vehicles.
Any object of Iranian, Cuban, or North Korean origin.
Enriched uranium, plutonium, and other fissile material.
Certain categories of sexually oriented material, which must be listed in the "Adult Only" category,[112] notwithstanding certain items prohibited:[112]

Child pornography
Materials deemed obscene, including bestiality, necrophilia, rape, coprophilia, and incest
Used sex toys
Services including any sexual activity
Links to sites that contain prohibited items
Adult products that are delivered digitally

Virtual items from massively multiplayer online games, restrictions that vary by country[113][114]
Ivory products[109]
Knives, other than some cutlery, are prohibited in the UK following the criminal importation into the UK (by BBC Watchdog researchers) of several knives that were already illegal to own or import under existing UK legislation. The ban also includes empty leather knife scabbards if they are listed under the category of "knives" on one of the eBay sites[115]
Fortune-telling and witchcraft-related services[116]
Souls, ghosts, and other "items whose existence cannot be verified" are prohibited.[117][118][119]
Many other items are either wholly prohibited or restricted in some manner.[120]

text: Bidding[edit]

text: Auction-style listings[edit]

text: Bidding on eBay (old or new)'s auction-style listing is called proxy bidding and is essentially equivalent to a Vickrey auction (sealed-bid), with the following exceptions.

text:
The winning bidder pays the second-highest bid plus one bid increment amount (that is, some small predefined amount relative to the bid size), instead of simply the highest bid. However, since the bid increment amounts are relatively insignificant compared to the bid size, they are not considered from a strategic standpoint.[121]
The highest bidder's bid is sealed, as in a Vickrey auction, but the current winning bid (second highest plus one increment) is displayed throughout the auction to allow price discovery.[122]
Because eBay's auction-style listings are sealed-bid, it is usually to all bidders' advantage that bids are made only at the very end of the auction. Early bids will not always increase the bidder's chance of winning the auction, and will often raise the item's final price (winning bid) for the winner.
eBay also allows sellers to offer a "Buy it Now" price that will end the auction immediately. The Buy It Now price is available until someone bids on the item, or until the reserve price is met. When the Buy It Now option disappears, the auction-style listing proceeds normally.[123]

text: Seller ratings[edit]

text: In 2008, eBay implemented a system of seller ratings with four categories. Buyers are asked to rate the seller in each of these categories with a score of one to five, with five being the highest rating. Unlike the overall feedback rating, these ratings are anonymous; neither sellers nor other users learn how individual buyers rated the seller. The listings of sellers with a rating of 4.3 or below in any of the four rating categories appear lower in search results. Power Sellers are required to have scores in each category above 4.5.[124][125][126][127][128]

text: In a reversal of roles, on January 24, 2010, Auctionbytes.com held an open survey in which sellers could rate eBay, as well as competing auction and marketplace sites.[129] In the survey, users were asked to rank 15 sites based on five criteria: profitability, customer service, communication, ease of use, and recommendation.

text: eBay was ranked 13th,[130] after other large sites such as Amazon and Craigslist, as well as lesser-known selling sites such as Atomic Mall, eCRATER, and Ruby Lane. In individual category rankings, eBay was rated the worst of all the 15 sites on customer service and communication, and average on ease of use. Some respondents stated they would have given eBay a rating of 10, three to five years ago. eBay was rated twelfth out of fifteen in the Recommended Selling Venue category.

text: Charity auctions[edit]

text: Using MissionFish as an arbiter, eBay allows sellers to donate a portion of their auction proceeds to a charity of the seller's choice.[131] The program is called eBay Giving Works in the US, and eBay for Charity[132] in the UK. eBay provides a partial refund of seller fees for items sold through charity auctions.[133] As of March 4, 2010, $154 million has been raised for US nonprofits by the eBay Community since eBay Giving Works began in 2003.[134]

text: Some high-profile charity auctions have been advertised on the eBay home page.[135] As of June 2010, the highest successful bid on a single item for charity was for the annual "Power Lunch"[136] with investor Warren Buffett at the famous Smith & Wollensky Steakhouse in New York. The winning bid was $2.63 million with all of the proceeds going to the Glide Foundation. The winning bidder was not made public, but was able to bring up to seven friends to the lunch. In 2012, a higher bid, of $3.46 million, also going to the Glide Foundation, won a lunch with Buffet.[137] In 2016 an anonymous bidder won a $3.45 million lunch with Warren Buffett and the money raised from the auction was given to Glide Foundation.[138]

text: The previous highest successful bid on a single item for charity was for a letter[139] sent to Mark P. Mays, CEO of Clear Channel (parent company of Premiere Radio Networks the production company that produces The Rush Limbaugh Show and Glenn Beck Program) by Senator Harry Reid and forty other Democratic senators, complaining about comments made by conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh. The winning bid was $2,100,100, with all of the proceeds going to the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation, benefiting the education of children of men and women who have died serving in the armed forces. The winning bid was matched by Limbaugh in his largest charity donation to date.[140]

text: In 2007; eBay Canada partnered with Montreal-based digital branding agency CloudRaker to develop a campaign to raise money for Sainte-Justine children's hospital in Montreal. They aligned themselves with Internet phenomenon Têtes à claques to create an eBay auction based on popular T-A-C character Uncle Tom, an infomercial host who pitches absurd products. eBay and CloudRaker reproduced Uncle Tom's imaginary products, The Body Toner Fly Swatter, The Willi Waller Potato Peeler, and the LCD Shovel and sold them online. In six weeks, they raised $15,000 for Hôpital St-Justine with one fly swatter, one potato peeler, and one shovel, a world record. The Body Toner Fly Swatter sold for $8,600, the Willi Waller Potato Peeler sold for $3,550, and the LCD Shovel sold for $2,146.21.

text: Shipping[edit]

text: During auction setup, eBay provides shipping-method choices to sellers: ordinary mail, express mail, and/or courier service. The seller may choose to offer only one shipping method to buyers; or the seller may offer buyers a choice of options.

text: Very-low-value items shipped directly from China are sometimes shipped by surface mail (sea mail), which is inexpensive but takes one to two months.[141] If the buyer is in a hurry, he or she might be able to pay an extra fee to upgrade to second-class Surface Air Lifted shipping or to first-class airmail shipping.

text: Since 2012, eBay has been enlisting sellers into its "Global Shipping Program". If a seller uses the program, non-domestic buyers pay a fee to Pitney Bowes. The seller sends the item to a Pitney Bowes facility in the US (or UK), which then forwards it to the buyer, taking care of all international shipping requirements. The program is claimed to enhance the product selection available to international buyers.[142]

text: Controversy and criticism[edit]

text: Common eBay criticisms involve the policy of requiring the use of PayPal for payments and concerns over fraud, forgeries and intellectual property violations in auction items.[citation needed] There are also issues of how negative feedback after an auction can offset the benefits of using eBay as a trading platform.[citation needed] eBay has been criticized for not paying UK taxes: the Sunday Times reported in October 2012 that eBay paid only £1.2m in tax on sales of over £800m.[143]

text: 2014 security breach[edit]

text: On May 21, 2014 the company revealed that the consumer database of usernames, passwords, phone numbers, and physical addresses had been breached between late February and early March. Users were advised to change their passwords; to expedite this, a "change password" feature was added to profiles of users who had not yet done so. The Syrian Electronic Army took responsibility for the attack. The SEA said that even though the hack revealed millions of users' banking details to them, they would not misuse the data. They had replaced the front pages of the websites with their own logo, called "Defacing" in technical terms. The hack caused eBay's share price to crash in intra-day trade as a result of the breach of security.[144][145][146][147]


document_title: National Car Test

question_text: when does a new car need its first nct

question_tokens: when does a new car need its first nct

text: National Car Test

text: History[edit]

text: The National Car Test (the NCT) was introduced in 2000, since when all cars four years and older must undergo an NCT. The NCT due date is calculated by reference to the date of first registration of the car, with tests due every two years for cars younger than 10 years. Annual Testing was introduced in June 2011 and is now a legal requirement for vehicles that present for their 10th anniversary test and each subsequent test. Vehicles can be inspected up to 90 days in advance of the anniversary of the registration date. The waiting lists have proven to be long, with the 'priority list' taking in excess of a month.

text: Procedure[edit]

text: The NCT is available in 47 centres around the Republic of Ireland[2] and it tests various aspects of cars for safety, including tyres, brakes and shock absorbers. It also tests the exhaust fumes for compliance with EU emissions standards. Other safety features, such as the spare tyre, seat belts and lights are also checked.

text: As of 2012, the fee for the NCT is €55 for a full test, and €28 for a re-test that requires testing equipment (e.g. emission levels, aiming of headlights, etc.). Re-tests that do not require the use of test equipment (such as obscured registration plate, faulty windscreen wiper, etc.) are free of charge. However, if a confirmed appointment is cancelled with less than five working days' notice (Mon. - Fri., not including the day of the test or the day you contact NCTS), or failure to show up for the test, a €22.00 surcharge will be applied when the car is next brought in for testing. A similar surcharge of €11.50 will apply in the case of a re-test.

text: Upon successful completion of the test a valid NCT certificate is issued and this must be displayed on the front windscreen of the vehicle. A driver without a valid NCT on their car will incur three penalty points and a fine of €60, if paid within the first 28 days, and €90 if paid within the following 28 days. Thereafter, if the fine is not paid, a court appearance becomes mandatory and if convicted, five penalty points and a fine will be imposed by the court. This system was introduced on December 8, 2014, where previously all offenders were immediately faced with a mandatory court appearance and five penalty points upon conviction, in addition to a fine.[3] Enforcement is the responsibility of An Garda Síochána. Local authorities can (in theory) refuse to issue a tax disc to a vehicle not having an NCT certificate and insurance companies could (in theory) declare cover for an untested (or failed) vehicle invalid.

text: There are exemptions for certain categories of vehicles such as vintage cars (registered before 1980) and vehicles based permanently on some offshore Islands.

text: NCTS centres are run by Applus Car Testing Services, who are independent of the motor industry.

text: If you cannot get an NCT appointment within 28 days of applying for it, you get a free NCT.[4][5] This is assuming that

text: 1. You have not declined another appointment more than twice at a centre of your choosing. 2. You have not previously accepted a booking outside of the 4 week period.

text: Statistics[edit]

text: In August 2017 the Irish Sunday Independent reported that the best performing car in 2016 tests was the Nissan Juke and the worst the Hyundai Trajet. The same article revealed the existence of a data visualisation dashboard of 2016 NCT results.