Volume 2

Made available by the Northern Territory Library via the Publications (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT).Notices, advertisements and media releases. Invitation for suggestions. Invitation for comments on suggestions. Invitation for objections on proposed redistribution. Augmented Redistribution Committee, appointment of member. Consultations with the Augmented Redistribution Committee. Redistribution declaration notice.Chairperson of Augmented Redistribution Committee: Barry Chambers

ABSTRACT Optimal Decision-Making With Minimal Waste:

Mechanisms for coordinating group decision-making among self-interested agents often employ a trusted center, capable of enforcing the prescribed outcome. Typically such mechanisms, including the ubiquitous Vickrey Clarke Groves (VCG), require significant transfer payments from agents to the center. While this is sought after in some settings, it is often an unwanted cost of implementation. We propose a modification of the VCG framework that—by using domain information regarding agent valuation spaces—is often able to achieve redistribution of much of the required transfer payments back among the agents, thus coming closer to budget-balance. The proposed mechanism is strategyproof, ex post individual rational, no-deficit, and leads to an efficient outcome; we prove that among all mechanisms with these qualities and an anonymity property it is optimally balanced, in that no mechanism ever yields greater payoff to the agents. We provide a general characterization of when strategyproof redistribution is possible, and demonstrate specifically that substantial redistribution can be achieved in allocation problems

Miami Beach Redistribution Station special orders, October 28, 1944

Military orders from the U.S. Army Air Forces re-assigning various military personnel to new locations. C. Walder Parke is one of the re-assigned airmen, and the orders state that he is to arrive at Lockbourne Army Air Base in Columbus on November 3, 1944. Parke spent most of the next year at Lockbourne as a navigational instructor before he was discharged from the Army Air Forces. Charles Walder Parke was born on July 28, 1924, and grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. He enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces in 1942 intending to be a pilot during WWII, but spent most of his military career as a navigator on B-17 Flying Fortresses in the 94th Bombardment Group. Parke earned two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal with several Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his successful bombing missions, including some over Berlin. He is best known for being on board a B-17 which was shot down over France by German planes on June 25, 1944, during a non-combat mission. The crew managed to make an emergency landing, and everyone inside survived. After the war, Parke founded the Cleveland-based Laurel Industries Inc., which became a prominent supplier of antimony oxide to the plastics industry. He died of Lou-Gehrig’s Disease on September 15, 1996, at the age of 72