Exhibit 11.12

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Company Dodgeball Team A - Adam Peterson activated from disabled list and placed on waivers. Claimed by Company Dodgeball Team B.

Company Dodgeball Team B - Acquired Adam Peterson off waivers from Company Dodgeball Team A.

Exhibit 3.10

Fun with the GRE Literature Subject Test.

I took my first practice test yesterday, and while it mostly 2.5 hours of soul crushing inanity--interrupted by brief glimpses of the romantic sublime and the warming of my feelings for somebody's mistress who, frankly, seemed a little fey--a few questions stood out as particularly mocking the very idea of this test in the first place. The worst example:

• "Are you not happy in Hertfordshire, Mr. Raskolnikov?" asked Elizabeth. "Would you be happy," he replied, "if you had killed a miserable pawnbroker?" "How easily may a bad habit be formed!" cried Elizabeth, and with this in mind, though she hoped he was not in earnest, she very soon afterwards too leave of him.


• Which of the following titles would be most appropriate for a work containing this passage?
• (A) Murder at Thirteen Rue de Toot
• (B) Elizabeth and Anna Kremlina
• (C) The Importance of Being Elizabeth
• (D) Pride and Punishment
• (E) The Golden Fawn

This was from a real test, by the way. I love the idea that somewhere deep in the heart of ETS, presumably in a room with only one light to illuminate the smoke lingering over a large conference table, a group of adjuncts from local universities meet, exchange the secret handshake, and proceed to throw out title puns for hours. Howards End of the Affair? Accepted. A Room With A View To a Kill? Rejected - reason: Too many Bond questions already.

At times, this test doesn't test how much you know about literature as much as how good you are at Before and After questions on Wheel of Fortune. This may, however, actually be a greater indicator of future success.

Another:

• His hero Septimus Harding, a benign clergyman, plunges into a crisis of soul when the sensational press unjustly assails him as an avaricious wastrel. No sooner has this tiny storm abated than the new bishop, Dr. Proudie, arrives with his despotic wife and slimy, ambitious chaplain, Obadiah Slope.


• The passage above is from a discussion of novels by:
• (A) Dickens
• (B) Trollope
• (C) Fielding
• (D) Thackeray
• (E) James

According to the answer key, only 17% of test takers answered it correctly, tying it for the most difficult question (and making it the most difficult not tied to an excerpt).

Sadly, I didn't know the answer either. You?