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Bike Gangs - 1%ers
10 Notorious Motorcycle Gangs
- Outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs) got their start in the 1940s and '50s as spinoffs of more mainstream motorcycle clubs. After World War II, motorcycling began to spread in popularity as a hobby. Veterans settling into lives in the suburbs working average jobs wanted to get a taste of the more adrenaline-charged life they'd lived overseas. Riding along the country's highways with friends -- partying and often drinking -- was a perfect way to do that [source: Dulaney].
The outlaw groups began to develop after a 1947 bike rally in Hollister, Calif., that erupted into a riot. According to reports, drunken bikers rode through town (even in and out of buildings and restaurants) causing trouble and destroying property [source: Thompson]. Journalists and historians have since claimed that Hollister was not the all-out chaos portrayed in the media. Still, during a widespread public outcry over Hollister, and the danger of motorcycle clubs, the American Motorcycle Association released a statement aimed at calming the public. Ninety-nine percent of motorcycle clubs were law-abiding, fun-loving citizens, the AMA said. It was the other 1 percent that caused all the trouble and got all the attention [source: Serwer].
Over the years, as certain clubs began to drift toward illegal activity, they claimed the moniker "1 percenter" as a badge of honor. Even today, most of these "outlaw motorcycle gangs" maintain that they aren't criminal organizations. For example, famous Hells Angels founder "Sonny" Barger claims that while some Angels may deal drugs or commit acts of violence, the organization itself doesn't endorse those activities [source: Serwer]. Still, law enforcement agencies from the U.S. and Canada to even Australia and Europe see the OMGs as a serious threat. The FBI considers the gangs organized crime syndicates whose drug dealing and turf wars put rival gangs and the public in danger.
Read on to find out which motorcycle gangs are among the most dangerous and notorious.
10: Finks
America may be the home of the rugged, leather-clad biker image. But Australia, with its wide open country and endless lengths of highway, has become a perfect place for outlaw motorcycle gangs to set up camp. On top of local chapters of gangs like the Outlaws and the Hells Angels, there are several Australian-based OMGs, including the Rebels and the infamous Finks.
Formed in Adelaide, Australia in the 1960s, the Finks were at the center of an all-out war with Australian police during the late 2000s. Like many other biker clubs, Finks' leaders claim the group is misunderstood, and that they are just a group of guys who sometimes end up in trouble with the law [source: Guilliatt]. Even the colors they wear on their riding jackets aren't your typical OMG logos. Instead of the usual threatening images of flaming skulls or scowling demons, the Finks' colors depict a tipsy-looking court jester with a silly grin.
But the Aussie government doesn't buy the Finks as a gang of fun-loving trouble makers. Finks members have been charged with crimes like drug trafficking, violent assaults and even planning a hit on a police officer [source: ABC Adelaide]. The government of the province of South Australia went so far as to name the Finks the province's No. 1 criminal threat in 2009 [source: The Gold Coast Bulletin].
9: Mongols
It might be named after Genghis Khan's mighty empire, but the Mongols, formed in the late 1960s in East L.A., is a relatively small club. It has 70 chapters in the United States, and 800 members, most of whom are California-local [source: National Gang Intelligence Center]. But, while it may not be one of the Big Four outlaw motorcycle gangs -- the four largest and most powerful biker gangs, as identified by United States law enforcement agencies -- the Mongols has made up for its lack of size with violence and ferocity. (Keep reading the list to find out who the Big Four are.) Despite being only a quarter of the size, the Mongols successfully wrested control of Southern California from its rivals, the Hells Angels, in the 1980s, after a protracted gang war. The Hells Angels still hasn't taken back the territory [source: National Gang Intelligence Center]. The Mongols' success in controlling the turf is due largely to their alliance with L.A.'s Hispanic street gangs. That alliance has also resulted in the Mongols engaging in racially motivated violence against African-American gang members, and even black civilians not affiliated with any type of gang. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms considers the Mongols the single "most violent and dangerous OMG" [source: National Gang Intelligence Center]. In 2008, 61 of the gang's members were indicted in a huge bust, for charges including drug trafficking, racketeering and murder in L.A., Las Vegas and other parts of the Southwest [source: Goldman]. "Machine Gun Preacher" Sam Childers and Big Al Aceves, founder of the Mongols, are now reformed from the motorcycle gang lifestyle.
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8: Black Pistons Motorcycle Club
One of the youngest OMGs to make this list, the Black Pistons Motorcycle Club was just established in 2002. In that short time, the Black Pistons has grown quickly. It not only has 70 chapters in 20 states, but also upwards of 200 members [source: U.S. Office of the Attorney General]. The club also operates in Canada and several European countries, including Germany, the U.K. and Belgium. The Pistons are the official support club for the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, one of the world's largest 1 percenter gangs. In other words, the BPMC are the enforcers for the Outlaws, doing the dirty work that the parent club doesn't want to be associated with. Black Pistons are tasked with dealing drugs and assaulting the Outlaws' enemies [source: U.S. Office of the Attorney General]. The explosive growth of Black Pistons chapters has led to outbreaks of violence and tension with rival gangs. During the summer of 2002, for example, a new Pistons chapter in Portland, Maine attracted contingents from several local gangs to the city. Police worked overtime to tamp down a potential turf war from erupting [source: Hench].
7: Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club
Based out of Colorado, and controlling much of the Southwest and Rocky Mountain States, the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club boasts 30 chapters across the United States and five splinter clubs in Germany. Altogether, the SOSMC is 275 members strong [source: National Gang Intelligence Center]. Founded in the town of Niwot, Colo. in the 1960s, the Sons of Silence have been engaged in a long turf war with rivals like the Outlaws since the beginning [source: Abbott]. The Sons are one of the few 1 percenter clubs to be allied with the Hells Angels, which means they have a lot of enemies for a relatively smaller club [source: Serwer]. They make up for the disadvantage in fire power. In 1999, a huge multi-state raid of Sons of Silence clubhouses in Kansas, Colorado and Arizona uncovered enough weapons to run a small army. Among the confiscated ordnance were dozens of machine guns, pipe bombs and even hand grenades [source: Abbott]. The club knows how to intimidate. Their motto, incorrectly translated into Latin in their colors, is "Until Death Separates Us" [source: Serwer].
6: Vagos Motorcycle Club
With around 300 members and 24 chapters, the Vagos Motorcycle Club is one of the most formidable gangs on the West Coast of the United States [source: U.S. Office of the Attorney General]. Wearing the symbol of the Norse god of mischief, Loki, Vagos have been engaged in a long, bloody turf war with the Hells Angels members in California [source: McDonald]. They also have operations in Hawaii, and along the U.S.-Mexico border. According to U.S. law enforcement, Vagos MC works with chapters in Mexico to smuggle drugs back and forth to the United States [source: U.S. Office of the Attorney General].
Like most of the other 1 percenter clubs, Vagos was founded in the 1960s [source: Dulaney]. The gang has become increasingly violent in later years, though. In 2009, a former president of the club's San Bernadino, Calif. chapter was put on trial for murder after allegedly ordering club members to drive a man to the dessert and kill him. The reason? The two men disagreed over the price of a bike [source: Cruz]. In another crime, a Vagos member broke into a home, stole the homeowner's money and some drugs, and then shot him in the head [source: Cruz].
5: The Pagan's
The Pagan's, founded in Maryland in 1959, is one of the Big Four outlaw motorcycle clubs. The Pagan's is much smaller than the other Big Four clubs, with only about 200 to 250 members spread over 41 chapters [source: U.S. Office of the Attorney General]. Their turf is mainly centered on the Mid-Atlantic region in the United States, especially Pennsylvania. While they may not be as big as rival gangs, the Pagan's are considered extremely dangerous by both the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Among other reasons, the gang has close ties to other organized crime enterprises, including the Italian mafia and the Aryan Brotherhood, a powerful prison gang that has declared war on non-white races [source: Barker].
On top of dealing drugs like meth, cocaine and PCP, Pagan members have been tied to arsons, assaults, bombings and murders. They have also been known to illegally purchase and stockpile machine guns. Just to be initiated into the group, members first need to steal motorcycles to prove they're worthy [source: Peirce]. In the early 2000s, Pagan's chapter leader Pete Overly was convicted of assault for attacking a couple in which he shocked them both with a taser, broke the woman's foot with his steel-toed boot and bludgeoned the man with a steel baton -- all over an argument about bike parts [source: Peirce].
4: Bandidos Motorcycle Club
In terms of membership alone, the Bandidos Motorcycle Club is one of the largest outlaw motorcycle gangs. The group has risen to a total of 2,000 members since it was started in 1966 [source: National Gang Intelligence Center]. Add to that a number of puppet clubs or "duck clubs" that do the Bandidos bidding and take the heat for some of their illegal activity, and you have a huge organization. The gang is powerful enough, with chapters in 16 states and at least 14 countries, that U.S. law enforcement officials have labeled it one of the Big Four OMGs [source: National Gang Intelligence Center].
The Bandidos name and logo come from the Frito Bandito, the mascot for the popular brand of corn chips [source: O'Hare]. But don't let that whimsical association fool you. Based out of Texas and controlling turf across much of the Southwest, the Bandidos are heavily involved in cross-border drug trafficking [source: National Gang Intelligence Center]. They also have been involved in violent turf wars all over the world. This fierce warfare with rival gangs has led to bombings via grenade in Norway, arson in Brisbane, Australia, and multiple shootings in Canada [source: Skelton].
3: Outlaws Motorcycle Club
They may not be as famous as their rivals, the Hells Angels, but the Outlaws Motorcycle Club (aka the American Outlaws Association or Outlaws Nation) has exclusive bragging rights to at least one honor. They can genuinely call themselves the first outlaw motorcycle club, started in 1936 as the McCook Outlaws in Cook County, Ill. Later, they took inspiration from the 1953 Marlon Brando movie "The Wild One," even borrowing their colors from the design on Brando's leather jacket [source: Dulaney]. Ironically, that film was based on the Hollister riot that got many of the outlaw clubs started. The club is still one of the largest today, with 1,700 members in 176 chapters in 13 countries [source: National Gang Intelligence Center].
Today, the Outlaws are considered one of the Big Four and control the Great Lakes region of the United States. Much of their violent activity is the result of their ongoing feud with Hells Angels. To fund their operations, the Outlaws cook and sell crystal meth and deal other drugs like cocaine and MDMA, better known as ecstasy. They have a heavy presence in Canada, where they fight opposing gangs for control of the cross-border drug trade. Among other crimes, the Outlaws have been tried in the United States for (but not always convicted of) arson, murder, kidnapping, explosives, robbery and even running prostitution rings [source: National Gang Intelligence Center]. In Australia, the Outlaws have been charged with crimes such as assaulting police officers, attempted murder and planting bombs in rival gang members' cars [source: Barker].
2: Warlocks
Even in the criminal underground of outlaw motorcycle gangs, the Warlocks, an OMG active in Pennsylvania and Florida, have a bad reputation. Other clubs like the Pagan's see themselves as too upstanding and respectable to associate with the Warlocks, who are seen as "low lives" by many other gangs [source: McGarvey]. So what kind of activities do bikers get involved in when even their fellow bikers don't respect them? Wearing the image of a harpy, a winged monster from Greek mythology, as their emblem, the Warlocks have been involved in dealing drugs and violence crime since they were founded in the late '60s.
One example of a Warlock's violent streak is the 1988 kidnapping of a rival biker gang leader. Retaliating for an attack by The Breed Motorcycle Club on Warlocks members who were drinking at a Pennsylvania bar, fellow Warlocks kidnapped Breed chapter leader Craig "Coyote" Gudkneckt, tied him up and beat him repeatedly with the butt of a handgun. The offending Warlocks went to jail once "Coyote" reported the beating to the police [source: McGarvey]. In 1995, a Warlock known as "Mudman" was convicted of murdering a cop after being pulled over, worried that he would be taken back to prison for violating parole [source: Graham]. "Mudman" died in a prison brawl a few years later [sources: Knipe Brown].
1: Hells Angels
Even if it's not the most dangerous, or the oldest, the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club is the most well-known and notorious of the outlaw motorcycle gangs. The name has become synonymous with the word "biker." They still get the most press, too. A 2009 study that surveyed coverage of OMGs in international newspapers found coverage of 51 different alleged crimes perpetrated by the Angels between 1980 and 2005 [source: Barker]. The Hells Angels have almost 2,500 members worldwide, spread out across 250 chapters, 26 countries and six continents [source: National Gang Intelligence Center].
Today, the Angels are considered one of the Big Four OMGs by the FBI because of their involvement in dealing drugs, trafficking weapons and violent crimes. The gang is involved in bloody turf wars, like a battle with the Mongols for control of California, and a bloody war with several rival gangs in Quebec. One Canadian Angel confessed to murdering 43 people in the 1970s and '80s [source: Serwer]. In 1985, when Canadian Angels decided one of their chapters wasn't worthy of the name Hells Angels, they killed six of the members and dumped their bodies in the St. Lawrence River [source: Serwer].
The gang has been around since almost the beginning of 1 percenter clubs. Members of some of the clubs involved in the infamous Hollister incident of 1947 went on to form the Hells Angels a year later in San Bernadino, Calif. The gang quickly rose to fame as books like Hunter S. Thompson's "Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga," and exploitation films of the '60s based on the Angels turned them into countercultural heroes [source: Dulaney]. That reputation was destroyed after the infamous Altamont Music Festival organized by The Rolling Stones in Northern California. A Hells Angel who claimed to be working as paid security for the Stones stabbed a woman in the crowd to death. That biker was acquitted of the murder, but the incident was enough to transform HAMC's public image from rugged individuals to dangerous thugs [source: Dulaney].


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You can't manage what you can't measure. That's a favorite expression of Steve Robisky, product manager of John Deere Ag Management Solutions.
With new equipment from the company, you can monitor tractors and drivers from a computer in your office. It's called JDLink Machine Messenger and is available now on John Deere Twenty series tractors with cabs.
JDLink doesn't add any sensors, but it does allow you to keep track of the data from the current ones on your tractor via a Web site, according to Robisky. "We can tap into the CCD or CAN bus and pull off whatever information is in there," he says.
Collected data. The JDLink hardware consists of a communications controller, a cellular antenna and a GPS package. The components tap into the tractor's electrical system to monitor machine functions and collect the data. The system is separate from GreenStar.
The data are forwarded to a central John Deere server. From there the producer can access the information via the JDLink Web site. It's cataloged into four different reports.
The Status and Location Report identifies where each tractor is, via GPS, whether it's operating, idling or in transport, engine hours and fuel level.
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"We're finding row-crop tractors that idle 50% of the time," Robisky says. "But other rental fleets idle only 9%. Again, you can't manage what you can't measure. This system allows farmers to access data that will help them operate more productively and more profitably." The Alert Log keeps a list of all "warning" and "stop engine" alerts generated by the tractor's computer, along with a short description of the alert code. "Stop engine" alerts are e-mailed immediately to the producer. A Maintenance Log may be used to keep track of all services performed.
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A Buddhist Sensibility
Jacqueline Ruyak
Korean artist Ki-hyang Lee designs works infused with a rich aesthetic and spiritual depth rare in fashion. A dedicated Buddhist, she says that clothing is life itself. For the last decade Lee has united Buddhist motifs with the human body. By bringing religion into the realm of the everyday, her beautiful clothing is already changing the way people think about Buddhist design. Korea has produced some of the most sublime Buddhist art in the world but Buddhism today, says Lee, has a "corny and old-fashioned" image. Her aim is to make Buddhism more attractive to the world while keeping its teachings intact.
Lee has had several solo fashion shows and taken part in numerous group exhibitions in Korea, Germany and the United States. Since 1996 she has been an assistant professor in the department of clothing and textiles at Hansung University in Seoul, where she teaches courses in wearable art and design process. She also researches a variety of topics related to Korean textiles and costume. Now a luminous light in the Korean design world, Lee reached this point in her artistic and academic career by a roundabout path.
As an art student in Seoul in the late 1970s, Lee majored in sculpture, finding, however, that working with mass only made her realize how much she missed color. In 1979, while a student at the Art Institute of Chicago, she switched to printmaking; working with color made her happy but using acids and solvents did not. At the time, she had a friend studying fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and this friend, Lee noted, was always satisfied with what she was doing. Lee herself was interested in fashion design but that was simply not an option when she was first in art school.
Yet, in 1985 while her husband was pursuing a doctorate at Harvard, she started taking classes at the School of Fashion Design in Boston. "I was never happier in my academic life." says Lee. "I knew this was it for me." After finishing school, she worked as a children's fashion designer but about eight months later her husband received a six-month position in Germany and the family left the United States.
Back again in Korea after almost ten years abroad, Lee was confused about herself and her country. "When I came back to Korea," she says, "I wondered who I was, where I had come from, what I was doing. I had to find out what my country was all about." Trained in the European art tradition, she knew little about Korean art. Her mother-in-law, a devout Buddhist who has supported Lee in her career, suggested that she attend lectures on Buddhism. Lee at first resisted the idea, then ended up going. The lectures, an introduction to Buddhist fundamentals, caused a profound change in her life.
"I was stunned to discover what Buddhism was really about," she says. "I was chagrined that I hadn't encountered it until age thirty-five, but so happy that I finally did. Buddhism teaches that everyone is a buddha and able therefore to do whatever she of he wants. I felt there was much to do before I died, much to show the world." Buddhism also brought her a precious appreciation for Korean arts, culture and history.
Shortly after her return, Lee was offered a teaching job at a two-year college of fashion design. "That led her, in 1992, to a master of arts degree in design. Her mentor in graduate school was Bae Chun Bum, a noted Korean designer and scholar. "He taught me what fashion design was," says Lee, quick to compliment those who have helped to shape her. "He made me strong and gave me the basis of my future. If he had been able to speak English, he should have been very famous."
Lee credits her husband Pil-hwa Yoo, a professor of marketing and fellow Buddhist, with her love of travel, particularly to Buddhist countries. She has made a pilgrimage to India, toured Buddhist sites in China and looks forward to visiting Tibet. In 1994 Lee went to Japan to study ar the Bunka Fashion College in Tokyo. At first hesitant about going because of the history of Japanese treatment of Koreans, "like what Germans did to Jews," she was curious, on the other hand, because Japan is a prosperous Buddhist country with much to offer.
When Lee returned to Seoul from Japan in 1995, she immersed herself in preparing for a solo exhibition, Towards the World Beyond, which was held late that year. It took nine months of concentrated work to create the nine costumes in the show. Inspiration for her images was derived from the Buddhist hanging paintings displayed in temple courtyards for sacred performances of music and dance; these performances, by masked priests in homage to Buddha, were common at Korean temples.
Made of one hundred percent cotton and sometime embellished with quilting, the costumes in Towards the World Beyond are handpainted with often dramatic yet always refined images of Amitabul (Amitabha), the paradisiac buddha, Sokkamoni (Sakyamuni), the historical buddha, Kwanseum (Avalokitesvara), the bodhisattva of compassion, Jijang (Ksitigarbha), the bodhisattva of the nether world, and Tongjin, the bodhisattva who protects the lotus of the True Law. Others depict graceful mudras (hand gestures), deva(celestial beings), and lotus blossoms.
Though inspired by Korean and Chinese Buddhist paintings and murals, Lee did not just reproduce ancient images; she was always aware, for one thing, that the images would ultimately be fitted to the human body. "I was always thinking about breasts, waists, hips and legs and exaggerating those parts of the body, making the waist slimmer, hips begger and such. Then I would put the painted fabric onto a mannequin, move it around and decide where to change and deform things. After that, I made the pattern, then cut the fabric."
The faces of her buddhas and bodhisattvas are not those of traditional Korean Buddhist art, which Lee terms conservative. Rather, the images reflect her viewpoint in 1995. Some Buddhist priests who attended the show were not happy with her faces, but Lee shrugs off such criticism. "My job is to make Buddhist art live in the modern world and to make people happy. I want to be a messenger of the Buddha's teaching to the world. To me making fabric and religion are the same."
Nonetheless, she "hates" being called a Buddhist artist. "I'm an artist. I do what I do not just for Buddhists but for people all over the world. I admire American artists who make art out of their flag, and that's the kind of thing I'm trying to do."
Color and how to use it, says Lee, was an "agony" for her. Both Buddhism and shamanism, another important part of Korea's spiritual heritage, use strong colors that are not much to Lee's liking. She prefers complementary colors, and even these are toned down with gray. "I like aqua blues through emerald greens but have to be careful not to use them too much. Oranges and greens are much more Korean." For the show she used greens and oranges in subtle shades, toned down with natural lights and darks to suggest the patina of age. "I cannot work without gray," emphasizes Lee, who also antiqued the fabric surface by later painting cracks on it. "I very much like the delicate patina that comes from age."
Mandala Revelation, Lee's next major solo show, was held in 1999. If the underlying theme of the 1995 show was Buddhism in general, that of her new show was the Lotus Sutra. In this sutra, one of the most important in the Buddhist canon, Sakyamuni preaches the true law to the entire universe, which includes among others, heavenly beings, humans, demons, beasts, hungry ghosts and hell-dwellers, to the delight of all.
Lee based her show on yongsanjae, Korea's oldest and most elaborate Buddhist ceremony, which is performed in praise of the Buddha and the truth of his teachings. The purpose of the ceremony, Lee explains, is to bring the Buddha's teachings to all beings, living and dead, through song and dance. In this way, dead souls are led to salvation and paradise. The ceremony, once occasion for a village festival, starts with the symbolic arrival of buddhas and bodhisattvas from all over the universe, followed by the ritual cleansing of the dead souls. Tapestries, paintings and handmade paper lotuses and other flowers decorate the temple courtyard and hall, and chants, songs and dances are performed. The souls listen to the teaching and are saved.
Lee approached the show in the manner of an opera or a zen ceremony. She put in two years of preparation, designing nineteen costumes, as well as the setting and lighting and commissioning of music and dances. Handpainting the costumes for the 1995 show had taught her a lesson; for these costumes patterns were stenciled on black tussard silk and sheer organdy. Though she used the basic oriental colors of red, blue, yellow, black and white on the costumes, she muted them with gray to make them compatible with the black fabric. She found herself again struggling to eliminate the tint of shamanism from the colors being used. "I just can't use vivid colors. I try and try but just can't do it."
Models, as bodhisattvas, wore nine of the costumes; the other ten were displayed on the first floor of the two-floor gallery, which was strewn with paper lotuses. A symbol of the Buddha, the lotus is a flower that blooms in mud yet is unstained by the dirt of its environment. Lee had her elegant bodhisattvas come walking down the stairs from the second floor to the surprise of the audience waiting among the paper lotuses below.
Audience reaction was overwhelming; ordinary spectators and art critics alike were stunned and moved. Best of all for Lee, perhaps, the show made people thing about what Buddhist design was and could be. There is little, she points out, between the refined art that can still be seen in temple halls and the cheap souvenirs sold at temples. Her aim was to make something between those two extremes, while developing her ideas as art. With her show she had succeeded in creating and presenting "things with beautiful motifs for everyday life."
Sincere, reflective and determined, Ki-hyang Lee is on an artistic and spiritual journey of self-discovery that embraces the world. "I want to serve people," she says, "while expressing Buddha's world to the world through art. My dream is to make a wonderful museum filled with my Buddhist design, with a Korean-style teahouse and lotus ponds. I would like to serve guests there and make them happy. There are many costume museums but this will be a Buddhist costume museum. If it becomes world famous, Buddha should be happy with what I have done. In my next life, I want to do this kind of work again."
_Photo: (1st image) LONG SHAM with traditional geometric patterns of a gentle wave washing over a rock; the lotus motifs are primarily in a golden color to contrast with the black organdy and traditional Korean knot ornament dangles in the front of her dress.
-LOTUS FLOWER IN MUD ENSEMBLE, cape and dress with mandarin style collar, 1988.
The appeal of these two bodhisattva front and back of cape are reminiscent of the innocence and beauty of the lotus that reveals its elegance in the muddy water.
-SCENT OF THE BLOOMING LOTUS SERIES I, dress and bolero jacket of tussard silk and organdy, 1988.
Her hairdo is inspired by traditional hairstyles but modified for a contemporary context.
Photographs courtesy of the artist.
Jacqueline Ruyak writes about artists and translates Japanese literature. She lived in Japan for fifteen years and now devides her time between rural Pennsylvania and rural Japan.


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Every year I ask the best PhD
students in my class to be research
and teaching assistants. David Booth
was the best of his group.
He went through the academic part of the program with flying colors but then came
to me and said, "I don't think I want to do research and teaching. I want to go out
into the world of business." I said, "Fine, there are a lot of rich and famous people who
don't have PhDs from the University of Chicago."
So I called up Mac [John A. McQuown] who was head of investments at Wells Fargo
and had come to all of the Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) conferences,
and I said I had a very good student he might want to hire. So David went to work for
Mac. In 1980 or 1981, David came back to me and said he was thinking of starting his
company, Dimensional Fund Advisors.
The idea was that people to whom he was selling institutional products weren't getting
exposed to small stocks, and he thought products that gave them that exposure
would sell well. I told him we just had a PhD thesis here that studied the returns on
small stocks, and it said they seemed to be somewhat higher than what can be explained
by the asset pricing model we had at that time. What a way to kick the game off.
David also asked me to join him and Mac on his company's management
The boards of directors of the funds have always been Chicago people, either
graduates or current professors, and the company is very Chicago oriented. The general
philosophy is that prices work, and you want to give people a way to develop risk
profiles that they find acceptable. But basically no stock picking.
Then in 1992, Ken French and I developed material on the returns on stocks with
high book-to-market ratios. I told David about it, and he said, I think I have a client
who would be interested in that. He brought this fellow to my office and—the paper
hadn't even been written yet—he just looked at my computer screen and I showed him
the results. That launched Dimensional's value products, which subsequently became
big portfolios in the package.
Now they have value products everywhere in the world and they have more general
kinds of stock portfolios. But all of it is based on the proposition that you want
to give investors a way to get exposure to various dimensions of risk that seem to be
compensated in long-term returns, with a bottom-line presumption that everything
is priced correctly and you get returns in the long term appropriate to the risks that
you take. Asset allocation rather than stock picking is the motivation behind it, so it's
very "Chicago efficient markets."
I'm nominally the director of research of the company, but as far as I can tell, I've never
directed anything. Rex [Sinquefield, '72], David, Ken French, and I would just sit down
and talk and talk. Rex retired and there's now a fellow from Cal Tech, Eduardo Repetto,
who's the chief investment officer. The four of us develop the products, raise questions
about the existing products, and monitor the process. The time I spend with them is
much less time than I spend on research, and research is, in the end, what generated
the big stuff that gave them these products to begin with.
Dimensional opened an office in Newport Beach and eventually moved up to Santa
Monica, around the time I was starting to visit UCLA. We became much more friendly
in that period of time—David and Suzanne are great friends of ours.
You know, you have this theory that you believe is going to work, but to actually
see someone base a company on it and succeed has been fun. In the beginning,
it wasn't clear if the firm would survive or not because, although small stocks on average
have generated higher returns than big stocks, during the first few years we were in
business, it went the other way. That's not usually very good for an investment company
just coming on line. Even with the recent crash, we're at the top of U.S. money managers,
in terms of funds under management. That's not so bad.
I've always had a philosophy here at the university that we want the business
school—the faculty—to be more than the sum of its parts. That requires an openness
and an acceptance among faculty so that even if you disagree with others extremely,
you accept that they believe in what they're doing, and they're doing work that we
want to have here. Dick Thaler and I are great friends even though we're on opposite
ends of the spectrum.
It's similar at Dimensional. We've never had harsh words among us—Ken,
Rex, David, and me. This is part of the success of the company. David and Rex are
not your typical corporate executives. They're very humble people. They listen and
think they have something to learn from almost everybody. I think that's a quality to
have in a business leader—and I don't think a lot of business leaders have it. If they
listen and disagree, they say we'll disagree with you. Usually I'll say OK, but on other
things, I'll dig my heels in and say, I don't think you're right on this one. In the end,
no one cares, and in that sense, it's very much like the best academic discussion.
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One of my oldest friends just sent me an e-mail in which she said those words, meaning them in the kindest possible way (and bookending them with lots of lovely compliments), but she hit a button. I've been wanting to write something on my hatred of those words for a long time, but I keep not getting around to it, so I'm just going to post my response to her e-mail.
Note that in the first paragraph, I'm explaining this:
which I had on the blog for a couple of weeks.
First of all, just to clear up a misunderstanding, the "candy heart" was not that, but a game piece from a vintage board game I read about on Feministing. It's the "exciting game of career girls," in which you move around the board until you become a teacher, actress, nurse, model, ballerina, or stewardess. That's ALL. And obstacles in your path are things like getting a card that tells you you're overweight.
I found the whole thing hilarious–in a "Thank GOD I was born as late as I was" sort of way–and because of the context in my head, I thought everyone would get that it was ironic. Oops.
The longer, more serious answer, though… I appreciate what you're saying, but I do identify as fat, if you will, and it's important for me to be able to use the word without thinking of it in terms of calling myself names. I'm at the point where I really think of "fat" as a word that's equivalent in value to "short" or "blonde." It just describes me. Of course there are a lot of potential interpretations of it, even as a value-neutral adjective–but the same is true of "short" and "blonde." Next to a basketball player, you're short; next to Peter Dinklage, I'm tall. We're different kinds of blondes. I look chubby next to you and small next to my siblings. All those words are just, you know, a ballpark.
I can totally see how that wouldn't be clear because A) very few people in this country think of "fat" as anything but a dirty word, and B) you knew me at my most self-loathing, self-deprecating and borderline body dysmorphic–which was, um, a LOT of the time you've known me–so you have good reason to assume I have a skewed view of myself and think of fat as a terrible thing. But the thing is… I really don't anymore. I can't say I have an absolutely perfect body image, but my god, it is WORLDS away from where it was even a few years ago. You can pretty much stop worrying about me there. For reals.
Yoga has helped with this a LOT. Amazing Yoga Teacher was commenting last week on how I have so much body awareness, which "has always made [me] really easy to teach." And I laughed my ass off, because dude, that has ALL come in the last year of yoga; she's revising our history pretty hard. When I started with AYT, she would tell me to engage my abs, and I'd engage everything from my upper thighs through my shoulders, because I just didn't know where to find them. And, because of my non-verbal LD, I still have trouble with figuring out how to mimic a pose for the first time. Wait, my left arm is where, and my right foot is where? Give me a goddamn Twister map!
But I really have made incredible strides with all that stuff. I know where the vast majority of my muscles are now, so if she says, "Engage your abs," I can do it automatically. Hell, if she says, "Engage the tiny muscles above your knees," I can do it automatically. I have a much better sense of where everything is in space (even if I still struggle with new poses), and the muscle memory comes a lot quicker now. That blows my mind, and I'm really proud of it. But the best part of all that is, it means I've learned to really inhabit my body, to think of it from the inside out–literally, for the first time in my life.
For the first 31 years–or at least the last 20–I just thought of myself as a floating head, and I tried to think about my body as little as possible. When I did think about it, all the thoughts were negative, because I seriously just had no experience of my own damned body, apart from how it stacked up externally to other people's, and how people reacted to it (or how I perceived their reactions), and how I was told by SO MANY SOURCES to feel about bodies that weren't perfectly thin.
Now, since I've spent so much of the last year wearing spandex around other human beings, while focusing on how my body feels, and what it's doing, I just have a whole different frame of reference for my body. When I'm actually present inside it, I know my body is fine–it's strong and getting stronger, it can move into all sorts of poses, it can even do some things that look really cool. And that totally carries over when I'm off the mat.
It's not that I'm not concerned with how I look–I'm probably more obsessed with hair and make-up and fashion than ever (you think??)–but that I am IN my body all the time. So once I've looked in the mirror and pronounced myself properly dressed and made-up, I walk out the door and just stop thinking about how I look–I can't see myself anymore, so it doesn't occur to me to wonder what other people are seeing. I'm just out in the world, being myself, being… whole. It's a nice change. I mean, if I think about it, I still know intellectually that there are people who don't like how I look, or what I'm wearing, but I just don't give a rat's ass anymore. I think I look good, and I feel good, so instead of obsessing about other people's perceptions (and assuming the worst), I just assume people see me as I see myself… and if I'm wrong, what I don't know can't hurt me.
I'm sure that's what you saw in me when you were here. I am a gazillion times more confident than the last time you saw me, because I don't constantly have the "Everyone thinks I'm fat and ugly" tape going in my head anymore. I'd give anything to get back all the years I lost to that tape–but on the upside, at least I got rid of it by my early thirties. Plenty of people never do.
Now, about the fat thing, specifically… I've been meaning to sit down and write a post about the phrase "You're not fat." I hate it, even though I know the way you just said it was meant with nothing but love. The problem is, I've been hearing it all my life–at times it was a statement of fact, but more often than not, the question of my fatness was open to interpretation, and the meaning behind it was, "You're not ten other things I associate with fat." Coming from skinny people, it usually means, "You're not unattractive, lazy, stupid, smelly, unhealthy, disgusting, etc." Coming from fatter people (some of whom I'm related to), it means, "Quit whining. You don't even KNOW what it's like to be fat." (And coming from anyone, for many years, I just registered it as a great, big lie, as if the person saying it thought I was too naive or idiotic to know what I looked like and what everyone thought of me.)
Either way, saying I'm not fat ignores a massive part of my life experience. When well-meaning friends say it, I want to say, "Yes, I am!" because it IS important to me to stop regarding fat as a bad word. The reality is, I'm a size 16. I shop at Lane Bryant. I'm significantly larger than most of my friends, and a bit larger than the statistical average American woman. I think BMI is utter horseshit precisely because of fun facts like this, but as of recently, my BMI officially qualifies me as obese. You're absolutely right that I'm healthy (except for smoking), and I look good, and I have no reason to feel ashamed of my body. It's just that those things are true, AND it's true that I'm fat.
And when fatter people say it, it's equally frustrating, because I have had my own experiences of discrimination, even though I know they're nowhere near what bigger people endure.
I think maybe the best way to describe myself is "culturally fat," the way I'm culturally Catholic. It's seriously impossible to underestimate the role fat has played in my life from day one–because of my family; because my body exploded from scrawny to VERY curvy, practically overnight; because every friend I had in grade school ditched me in 7th grade on grounds that I was "so fat and ugly"; because I spent half of my twenties dieting, and the other half gaining it back… and a whole bunch of other reasons. When I was a size 4, I didn't feel like a thin person. I knew I WAS thin–and yeah, people actually did treat me a hell of a lot differently–but I had a fat girl's memories, and a fucked-up body image even then, and a fat family, and a constant awareness that statistically speaking, I would almost certainly be fat again. (My heaviest ever phase was indeed immediately after that phase.) I've spent about $5,000 on commercial weight loss programs and lost about 110 lbs. on them, total. And I've gained 100 back, total. (The amusing thing is, having kept 10 of those lbs. off over several years actually makes me a more successful dieter than, oh, 90 percent.) At this point, it really doesn't even matter what my body looks like; I am fat and always will be, because it has colored my world so deeply–stained my world, in fact–that I'll never be able to see myself as anything else.
So all I can do is own it. And I mean that on a lot of levels, one of which is owning that I get to decide what it means. I've decided it's not bad to be fat, and it's definitely not bad to live in my body. I've decided I'm pretty. I've decided I can try all sorts of physical things I wouldn't have dreamed of trying, for fear of humiliation, when I was younger. I've decided this is who I am and the body I've got, so I might as well be nice to both, because it makes everything a ton easier. I've decided to become quietly political about fat. And I've decided to openly call myself fat, because it's actually a pretty decent adjective for what I am. (I don't like "overweight," because… by whose standards? And "curvy" is accurate but has become a vague euphemism claimed by everyone from Salma Hayek to 300-lb. women on online dating sites. "Voluptuous" adds a sexual connotation, even if we're talking about my body in yoga pants and one of Al's sweatshirts, or asleep, whatever… "Fat" is actually the best of a poor lot in terms of simplicity and accuracy.)
So thank you for what you were trying to say here, and for noticing the change in me, but I'd honestly rather have you say "You're fat AND hot and vibrant and blah blah" than say, "You're not fat."
And really, the important point is that my body image is fine these days… AMAZING, relative to my past, and solidly good most days. I still get bathing suit panic, but I am so much more comfortable in my skin than I have ever been, and it feels awesome, and I do believe–as you've confirmed–that that shows, on top of, you know, objective facts like how I have FANTASTIC FUCKING HAIR.
The point is not that I can't get beyond thinking of myself as a fatty. The point is, yes, I am fat, actually, and IT'S OKAY. I'm awesome and attractive and I deserve love, all while being fat.


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Discussion of "Opportunities for Assurance Services in the 21st Century: A Progress Report of the Special Committee on Assurance Services" Katherine Schipper University of Chicago INTRODUCTION Conventionally, a discussant's task is to comment on a research paper which typically contains a statement of the research question and its importance, a design for answering that question, a description of methods used and approaches taken, and a presentation and interpretation of results. The progress report which I have been asked to discuss does not fit this pattern; instead of being a research paper, it is a description of an ongoing process or a set of as-yet uncompleted activities. Therefore, a conventional discussion would not be appropriate, and my discussion will take the unorthodox approach of commenting on the processes and preliminary recommendations of the AICPA Special Committee on Assurance Services (the Special Committee) as they are laid out in Richard Lea's paper. As I interpret the assignment of the Special Committee, it is to provide answers to two questions: (1) What new lines of business should CPA firms enter? (2) What threats and opportunities are likely to be encountered in doing so? It is noteworthy that these questions are being addressed at the level of the accounting profession—it is not easy to imagine similar activities occurring in most industries. Would we, for example, expect to see the major U.S. airlines or the major U.S. auto manufacturers jointly sponsoring research into how they could extend their current lines of business? Attempting to carry out this inquiry at the level of the profession (as opposed to the level of the individual firm) clearly has advantages and disadvantages, which are commented on in Professor Lea's report and which I will address in section 3 of this discussion. Sections 1 and 2 contain my comments on the Special Committee's proposals for answering the two questions posed in this paragraph as those proposals are reported in Professor Lea's paper. WHAT NEW LINES OF BUSINESS SHOULD CPA'S ENTER? What is the appropriate definition of "assurance services"? In answer to the first question—what new lines of business should CPA firms enter—it would appear that the Special Committee will recommend that CPA firms become providers of "assurance services." Under the proposed definition provided by Professor Lea in section I of his report, "Assurance services are independent professional services that improve the quality of information or its context for decision-makers." In the text discussion accompanying table 1 in his report, however, Professor Lea broadens this definition to include "any services that assist information users in improving the quality of their decision-making information, including their decision model." Relative to the first definition, the second drops the notion of professionalism/independence and adds the idea of improving users' decision models. Both definitions of assurance services provided in Professor Lea's report are expansive relative to that provided by a group whose 1993 conference was the impetus for the formation of the 37
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PHOENIX (Wednesday, September 19, 2012) - The state of Arizona has filed a lawsuit against McKesson Corporation, the nation's largest drug wholesaler, alleging the company violated Arizona's Consumer Fraud Act by artificially inflating the prices of more than 400 brand-name prescription drugs, costing consumers millions of dollars, Attorney General Tom Horne announced today.
Among the drugs that are alleged to have been marked-up inappropriately are: Allegra, Azmacort, Celebrex, Coumadin, Flonase, Lipitor, Neurontin, Nexium, Prevacid, and Valium.
The complaint, filed September 14th in Maricopa County Superior Court, alleges that several of McKesson's executives constructed a scheme beginning in 2000 to mark up the average wholesale price of many prescription drugs, resulting in higher prescription costs for Arizona businesses and consumers. McKesson distributes pharmaceuticals to retailers including Albertson's, Costco, Safeway, Target, Wal-Mart and Walgreens.
McKesson controls approximately one-third of the national wholesale drug distribution market.
"The complaint states that McKesson's illegal scheme inflated the prices of a broad range of pharmaceuticals costing Arizona consumers millions of dollars," said Horne. "The prices of nearly all brand-name prescription drugs were inflated, including several of the most popular drugs on the market."
Horne added, "For example, in 2004 under this scheme, an additional McKesson markup of 5 percent for the drug Nexium could result in an added $100 million in profit based on $4 billion in sales of Nexium that year. Since this claim alleges markup irregularities on more than 400 drugs over multiple years, the consumer damages were enormous. We will ask the court to impose a penalty that recognizes the scope of the scheme."
Specifically, the suit alleges that McKesson raised the spread between the published average wholesale price and the actual acquisition costs in an effort to increase profits for its pharmacy customers. Those prices were passed along, the complaint alleges, to third-party payors and consumers.
The complaint seeks civil penalties of up to $10,000 against McKesson for each violation of the Consumer Fraud Act, as well as restitution.
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text: Born in Ohio and now based in New York City, photographer and videographer Josh Azzarella creates historically minded works that force unsettling questions. His photographs of Iraqi prisoners of war, for instance, are edited so that the scene's animating activity or feature—a gun, a body—are removed. What's left is a disquieting and boldly incomplete image. Clocking in at 120 hours, Azzarella's 2011 film based on a small clip from The Wizard of Oz is one of the longest experimental films ever made. He has exhibited across the country, and has works in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.


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Understanding Society (USoc) is the largest longitudinal study in the UK. Every year, around 40,000 people take part in household interviews covering a wide range of topics relevant to UK society.
Access Economics was commissioned by RNIB to update the 2009 Access Economics report on the economic impact of sight loss and blindness in the UK adult population, including the direct and indirect costs of sight loss and blindness, and the burden of sight loss and blindness on health.
Based on interviews with over 1,200 participants, the aim of My Voice is to better understand the circumstances, views and experiences of registered blind and partially sighted people.
This report takes information from two national surveys, the Life Opportunities Survey and Understanding Society, to describe the extent of inequalities for British adults in the period 2010 to 2013. The report updates the findings of the previous publication from NatCen Social Research and RNIB, Circumstances of People with Sight Loss (2012).
A secondary analysis of adult social care data.
This briefing summarises the key trends presented HSCIC in their publication of statistics on registered blind and partially sighted people for the year ending 31 March 2014. The statistics relate to adults and children registered in England, by councils with social service responsibilities.
Report on the certificate of vision impairment statistics April 2012 - March 2013. This research briefing presents the findings from analysis of the CVI data from England and Wales between April 2012 - March 2013.
Sight loss UK 2013 is RNIB's annual evidence review, based on 70 key indicators that show us what life is like for people with experience of sight loss, their carers and those at risk of sight loss. Published 2013.
This report provides an update on the experiences of blind and partially sighted people in relation to travel, shopping, money, technology, reading and television in 2013.
This report provides a secondary analysis of Understanding Society and the Life Opportunities Survey. These are both large-scale general population surveys, and they allow us to use independent survey data to describe the circumstances of people sight loss.
Sight loss UK is an annual evidence review based on 45 key indicators that show us what life is like for people with experience of sight loss, their carers and those at risk of sight loss. Published 2012.
This report provides an update on travel, shopping, money, technology, reading and television. It is based on the findings from interviews with 176 blind and partially sighted people. Published 2012.
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All 5800 system store operations return a system record, which encapsulates information about the stored object. In particular, the system record contains the OID, which can be used to retrieve the stored object data or metadata.
typedef struct hc_system_record_ { char is_indexed; hc_oid oid; hc_digest_algo digest_algo; hc_digest data_digest; hc_long_t size; hc_long_t creation_time; hc_long_t deleted_time; char shredMode; } hc_system_record_t;
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oid — The objectid for this object, equivalent to the system.object_id field.
digest_algo — Always set to "sha1" for this release. Equivalent to the system.object_hash_alg field.
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size — The size of the data in this object, in bytes. Equivalent to the system.object_size field.
creation_time — The object creation time, expressed as number of milliseconds since the epoch. Equivalent to the system.object_ctime field.
deleted_time — The deletion time of this record, if any, as the number of milliseconds since the epoch.
shredMode — Not used in this release.
is_indexed — indicates, after a store_data or store_metadata operation, whether the metadata for the object was successfully inserted into the query engine, and the object is hence available for query. 0 if false, 1 if true.


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It recently acquired a small site similar to Gawker but focused on the U.S. Hispanic market called Guanabee.
Guanabee Media's founder, Daniel Mauser, is already working for Gawker and he'll be running Gizmodo en Español.
The goal is to take international revenues from 5% to 20% of the company's total in the next five years.
Gizmodo, a site focused on gadgets and tech culture, is Gawker's most popular site, with 9 million monthly unique visitors and 100 million pageviews. About one-third of its traffic is international.
In addition, Gawker is launching a native-language site in Hungary, where it has the bulk of its engineering operation. It's also hiring producers for the Budapest office and Denton says he's close to a deal in India with a local partner to expand Gawker's presence there.
Gawker has previously relied on partners who have syndicated or translated Gawker content and sold ads locally, like NetMediaEurope and Australia's Allure Media.
Denton says the goal of the Guanabee acquisition was to accelerate growth in Latin America and obtain the services of Mauser. Guanabee and Gawker have been longtime advertising partners.
Denton didn't say the terms of the deal, only that it wasn't "financially material" to Gawker.
Gawker's only previous acquisition, the 2010 deal to buy a New York-focused site, Cityfile, was disappointing. Its founder, Remy Stern, served as Gawker.com's editor-in-chief until he left in late 2011. Cityfile is not active today.
But rather than bolster Gawker's New York cred, Denton is chasing what he feels is a big growth opportunity abroad.
"About one-third of our traffic is international—and with those sites operated by our partners, that would rise closer to a half," says Denton. 'We see quite a bit of growth coming from international—I'd expect it would quadruple as proportion of total."
Gawker Media has 180 employees, 40 whom are international. The network has about 35 million monthly unique visitors and serves up 560 million monthly pageviews.


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Market status report: AustraliaThe rate of installed wind capacity in Australia continued to slow over 2010 and Clean Energy Council (CEC) figures show only 167MW of installed capacity was added last year, against an increase of 400MW in 2009 and 800MW in 2008.
But the government has moved to arrest the collapse in the price of Australian renewable energy certificates (RECs) – the main instrument for achieving the country's renewable-energy target of 20% by 2020.
The price of RECs began falling in 2009, from around A$45-50 (US$45.60-51) – the estimated price needed for large-scale wind projects to obtain finance – to less than A$30 after the market was saturated with RECs for small-scale solar hot water projects, heat pumps and rooftop solar schemes.
The spike in small-scale renewables and collapse in the REC price drove investors to shelve projects. The government introduced amendments in late June that split the RET into two parts, starting January 1: the small-scale renewable energy scheme and the large-scale renewable energy target (LRET).
The LRET, covering large-scale projects including wind farms, commercial solar and geothermal, will deliver the majority of the 2020 target at around 41TWh.
The move brought immediate dividends. AGL Energy, Australia's largest retail energy supplier, announced it would revive around A$1.6 billion of planned investment in wind, including a proposed A$800 million 420MW Macarthur wind farm in the state of Victoria. This, when completed, will be one of the largest in the southern hemisphere.
Other investors, including Pacific Hydro, which has around A$1.5 billion in planned investment across three sites, said they would wait to assess the impact of the renewable-energy target amendments before pressing ahead. By the end of 2010, RECs were trading at around A$28.
Elsewhere, Origin Energy's Stockyard Hill project near Ballarat, also in Victoria, received planning approval and will comprise 157 turbines with an installed capacity of between 314MW and 471MW, depending on the size of the turbines installed. This was followed by approval of Renewable Energy Australia's 247.5MW project in Ararat, Victoria, which will comprise 75 turbines, and the green light for Windlab and Investec Bank's 206MW Collgar project in the state of Western Australia, which is expected to begin operating in late 2011.
Meanwhile, after years of delay, the introduction of a carbon-pricing scheme in Australia over the next three years now looks nearly certain after the establishment of a minority Labour-led government backed by the Greens following the tightly fought August federal election.
An emissions trading scheme could help unlock the nearly A$50 billion of investment needed in renewable-power generation to enable Australia to reduce its carbon emissions by a minimum of 5% below 2000 levels by 2020, and potentially by as much as 25%.
With the backing of the Greens, Prime Minister Julia Gillard has now established a powerful cross-party climate-change committee holding that a carbon price is needed to cut carbon pollution. The committee will try to establish either an emissions trading scheme, a carbon tax or a combination of both.


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Hundreds protest Wal-Mart shareholders meeting
Signs read, "What do we want? Respect!"
Hundreds of people gathered at the Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville Monday morning to protest the 2013 Wal-Mart shareholders meeting.
Organizers said the protesters are from all around the country. According to their signs, they are protesting unfair labor practices. They are shouting, "what do we want? Respect! When do we want it? Now!"
The strike was put on by the Organization United for Respect at Walmart (OUR Walmart.) A national organization of Walmart associates calling for the company to "end retaliation against employees against employees and for the company to publicly commit to providing full-time work with a minimum salary of $25,000 a year so workers don't have to rely on tax-payer funded programs to support their families," according to a news release from the group.
The week-long company pep rally starts Tuesday with top entertainer Elton John performing at Bud Walton Arena. Country music star Luke Bryant will perform Wednesday with a mystery guest.
Company shareholders will meet at 7 a.m. Friday where business leaders will talk strategy for the upcoming fiscal year. Last year, Wal-Mart increased sales 5% to more than $450 billion worldwide.


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Microsoft's Facebook Deal Might Make Sense If It's An Ad Subsidy... But What About The Hedge Funds?
from the still-scratching-my-head deptWe had some good comments on yesterday's post trying to do the math on Microsoft's $240 million investment in Facebook, for just 1.6% of the company. A few people pointed out that if you ignore the ownership part, and just think of it as something of a marketing statement for Microsoft's ad network, then perhaps it could make some sense. Maybe. Since the deal does come with a big advertising deal, if Microsoft thinks of the $240 million as a marketing spend or ad subsidy with the chance of eventually having some payback then it could potentially make sense -- depending on how valuable Facebook ads turn out to be, and whether or not it then helps Microsoft sign up additional ad partners. However, what's a lot more difficult to figure out is the corresponding rumor that on top of the $240 million from Microsoft, two hedge funds combined to dump another $500 million into Facebook at the same valuation. It's been reported that Facebook had been looking for $750 million, but those hedge funds don't get any of those additional benefits that Microsoft gets. For them, the best has to be on the fact that Facebook is going to be worth a lot more than $15 billion at some point in the relatively near future. That seems like an awful lot of money to bet on a risky situation without that much upside.
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Spending some time this weekend updating the spreadsheets I've created to track the DNA matches for myself, Eileen and mom and dad. There is a lot of data to track, but have had some success in making connections. Kitty Cooper's blog has a lot of good tools for DNA research.
Finding out that the autosomal matching works much better if you have a fairly extensive family tree. Without it, it is nearly impossible to find the matches just from a few surnames listed. Also, find that 23andMe is a bit clunky in their family tree. Having more success with those who have a tree at Ancestry or somewhere else.
Will be sharing some of the stories in a later post.