Skillet Lickers Stokes (Marcus Lowell Stokes 1898-1983), who played the fiddle, was born in Elijay, Georgia. A superb fiddler, considered McMichen's equal and one of the finest recorded fiddlers of the time, he won many fiddle championships in the region. Stokes lost his right hand to a shotgun blast in the late 1920s, in the midst of the Skillet Lickers' popularity. He eventually began fiddling again using a prosthetic attachment to hold his bow, and he can be heard playing on some later Skillet Licker records in this manner (for example, on "Broken Down Gambler"). Later, Stokes moved to Chouteau, Oklahoma where
Envy-free item assignment the agents' utilities are not additive, the MNW solution is not necessarily EF1; but if the agents' utilities are at least submodular, the MNW solution satisfies a weaker property called "Marginal-Envy-Freeness except-1-item" (MEF1). There is an alternative criterion called Envy-freeness-except-cheapest (EFx): For each two agents A and B, if we remove from the bundle of B "any" item, then A does not envy B. EFx is strictly stronger than EF1. As of this writing, it is not known whether EFx allocations always exist. Given an allocation "X", define the envy ratio of "i" in "j" as: so the ratio is