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Financial Literacy: Deflation: When an Economy Implodes on Itself
by johnbechtel on August 3, 2009
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As I have discussed in other posts, every good, service, and commodity has a value, and that value is denominated, or measured in terms of the national currency; in our case the value of anything is measured in dollars. (Go to Billionaires Who Can't Afford a Loaf of Bread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGfsQimC0mw) Even money has a value that fluctuates, and there are events that trigger changes in the value of money. Money is measured by it's purchasing power, and economists spell this with capital letters Purchasing Power (PP). Money by itself has no value; it is only a symbol and a medium of exchange, so the real question is how much of anything can you exchange a dollar for?? I have covered what happens during a period of inflation, and the costs of everything as measured in dollars goes up, which means the value of the dollar (or its purchasing power) goes down. People think they are better off with rising wages, but factoring in the decreased ability of those wages to purchase, they are actually worse off.
Something needs to be said about the effects of inflation and deflation on debt at this point. During times of inflation, prices (including wages, the price of labor) are going up; the purchasing power of those dollars is going down. If you owe fixed-interest debt during a period of inflation, your wages will inflate with the rest of the economy, but your debt, which is fixed by contract with your creditor, remains the same. That means you will be paying your debt back with cheap dollars, dollars that are worth less than they were when you incurred the debt. During inflation, debt can be your friend, and the enemy of your creditor.
During deflation, however, debt is your enemy. Your debt is once again, fixed by contract to a certain amount of dollars, but your wages, along with the rest of the economy, are deflating, or going down. Your debt can hang you during a time of deflation.
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Bills notebook: A healthier Spiller is up to his old tricks
The first half of C.J. Spiller's season was disenchanting.
His production disappointed. Injuries were bothersome.
Even so, the respect opponents have for Spiller apparently never waned, not when he gained 155 yards from scrimmage and Kansas City Chiefs cornerback Brandon Flowers said they "did a great job" containing him Sunday in Ralph Wilson Stadium.
One week after Buffalo Bills coach Doug Marrone pulled him from the lineup to rest a sprained ankle, Spiller posted season-highs in rushing and receiving yardage. Spiller ran 12 times for 116 yards and caught two passes for 39 yards.
"He's always a tough guy," Flowers said. "You can see every week whenever he's healthy that he can do some things with every touch.
"He's going to get his yards, but we just try to limit his plays, and I think we did a great job of it."
For the first time since Spiller ran for 103 yards in Week Two, he looked like the superstar who could go the distance on any play.
Spiller accounted for three of the Bills' four longest gains. He had carries up the middle for 61 yards and 29 yards and added a catch-and-run for 27 yards on a flare pass.
"It's still not there, but it's definitely very close," Spiller said of his ankle. "Today was very encouraging to me.
"My cutting ability and exploding off it was good, but tomorrow'll be a good day to see how it responds because this is the most work that it's got since Week Four."
Spiller's 14 touches were the most since he carried 23 times for 77 yards in a victory over the Baltimore Ravens in Week Four.
Spiller has been on the injury report since the week of the Ravens game. First it was a strained quadriceps, then the high ankle sprain.
"He was banged up, and I think he came back explosive today," Bills center Eric Wood said. "It's not really fair to put a player like that, whose game is explosion, out there injured. I thought a week off did a lot for him."
The Bills amassed 470 yards against one of the NFL's best defenses. They rushed for 241 yards, averaging 6.3 yards a carry. Fred Jackson ran 16 times for 77 yards.
Spiller dismissed any notions about being relieved to get back to his game-breaking ways.
"To me, I don't get caught up in the stats," Spiller said. "It's a great day for us to run the ball the way that we did today against a good team. They're 9-0 for a reason.
"But at the end of the day, we lost. That's the only thing that matters."
Jeff Tuel became the 46th undrafted quarterback to start as a rookie since the NFL-AFL merger in 1970.
If that number seems high, then consider 17 of those were strike replacements in 1987. A slew of quarterbacks who came through other pro leagues (Warren Moon, Jeff Garcia, Bobby Hebert, et al) also count.
So for the proper context to underscore Tuel's lack of pedigree and experience, know that he became only the 13th undrafted rookie under 25 years old and not from the strike season to start since the merger.
Tuel's start moved the betting lines two full points in Las Vegas.
Kansas City opened as a three-point favorite and remained there all week amid reports Thad Lewis would overcome his sore ribs and play against Kansas City. Those reports proved false, and bettors pounced.
Las Vegas handicapper and former oddsmaker Joel Staniszewski, a St. Joe's and Buffalo State grad, reported the line nudged to 3.5 points overnight and then jumped to 5.5 points Sunday morning with big money wagered on Kansas City.
Stephon Gilmore faced a tough challenge Sunday. He switched sides to cover Chiefs receiver Dwayne Bowe.
The Chiefs weren't deterred by the Bills' best cornerback, targeting Bowe a game-high 12 times. Bowe had seven catches for 67 yards, also game-highs.
"I think he's doing the best he can," Marrone said of Gilmore. "He's going out there against a guy … you've got to remember that's Dwayne Bowe out there, and he's covering him man-to-man in a lot of situations."
Marrone last week accepted full blame for his lack of success challenging on-field calls. He went into Sunday unsuccessful on all three attempts. He dropped the red flag again with 6:43 left in the game.
Marrone challenged a ruling that Marquise Goodwin didn't catch a long throw that would've gone for 42 yards. Goodwin laid out for the ball and got a hand around it, but the ball moved when it hit the ground.
Replays didn't overturn the call, keeping Marrone winless.
"I thought it was a catch all the way," Marrone said.
"I struggle sometimes. I'd love for someone to tell me what the definition of a catch is. He bounced once, and he had it. Second time he bounced, he didn't. I was told that the first time he bounced that he lost the ball."
Former NFL head of officials Mike Pereira, now a Fox Sports analyst, tweeted during the game: "The BUF receiver has to hold on to the ball as he goes to the ground. That's the process. He did not."
The Bills signed defensive tackle Stefan Charles off the Tennessee Titans' practice squad Wednesday, and they weren't afraid to play him. One of his two tackles stopped Chiefs star running back Jamaal Charles for no gain.
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Dean of Green: new dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design is CSUEB grad
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Jennifer Wolch '75, '76, an urban planning scholar and advocate for sustainable urbanism, in July became dean of the College of Environmental Design at University of California, Berkeley. It is considered one of the most important and influential integrated architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning schools in the nation.
Wolch grew up in Castro Valley, attended public schools, and graduated from Canyon High School. "I went to Chabot Community College in between my graduation from high school and starting Cal State," she explains. "I had a class in anthropology that was interesting and intriguing and exciting, and I said, 'I want to be an anthropologist!' As is the case for so many kids, I got a great teacher and found what I wanted to do." She enrolled at then–California State University, Hayward as an anthropology major, focusing on physical anthropology. "I was so impatient to do work in anthropology that I pretty much took my major courses first," Wolch recalls with a smile.
Her undergraduate experience at Cal State East Bay was "terrific," she says: "The department had an excellent faculty, and it wasn't so big that we didn't get lots of personal attention. I worked directly with faculty on research projects." She stayed at CSUEB for a master's degree in geography, and began integrating anthropological concepts of social justice into the science of geography. She completed a Ph.D. in urban planning at Princeton University.
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Denise Richards may already be a mom to daughters Sam and Lola, but she has added another little girl to the bunch!
A rep for the actress, 40, confirms to People that she has adopted a baby girl.
So, what is the little bundle of joy's name?
Denise named the little girl Eloise Joni Richards. Joni after Denise's late mother and her daughters picked the name Eloise.
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music is one of the most important thing in my life.I am playing piano, guitar, ukulele and also singing.Also I like nature, forest, to walk in the dark, to swim in the rain, and mountains is something special for me, so I like climbing.
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Where is Malaysia Flight 370 ????
36 Hours after the Boeing 777-200 disapeared in (presumabley in the Gulf of Thailand) there is no sign of it. Dozens of ships and planes have searched the flight path and haven't found any clues!
That search was widened today.
Now CBS news says the FBI has been asked to help investigate the ID's of four people who were on the plane. We know that two of them had stolen and false pass ports.


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Is Miley Headed for Meltdown?
She's not one to shy away from shocking hairstyles and full on fashion but has Miley finally lost it? Her usual punk, blonde hairstyle has been replaced with a washed out blue tone, yet the singer tweeted her fans saying 'My hurrr ain't blue. That s**ts PLATINUM.'
With the news of her fiance, Liam Hemsworth, possibly having cheated on her with January Jones after he was spotted sharing a car with her on a night out, we're not surprised to see Miley acting a little off.
It seems that in recent months, ever since Miley went all punk rocker on us with the piercings and drastic hair cut, combined with the constant snaps of herself on Twitter, the actress is really looking for some reassuring attention.
When the rumours of Liam's infidelity started circulating, all the pieces of the puzzle started to fit together. While Miley continues to defiantly wear her engagement ring, these rumours aren't going anywhere. Only last week at Elton John's Oscars after party, Miley turned up but Liam was nowhere to be seen.
Further cementing the idea that these two are on a rocky slope, they haven't set a date for their wedding and have been engaged a whole eight months. Now eight months may not sound long for the average couple but engagements are usually only spread out due to having to save up enough money. These Hollywood stars are hardly scraping the barrel for wedding funds, so why the long wait?
Miley's blue hair fiasco feels a little 'Britney's-shaved-head-circa-2007′ and we all saw how that went down. Like Britney, Miley was a child star and with the pressure put on these little stars the pressure can end up too much and push them over the edge.
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Missouri deserved better fate
Published Wednesday, January 21, 2004
The hour was getting late, so the Missouri Tigers were making it easy for the ESPN SportsCenter folks. The script went something like this: troubled team learns the errors of its ways, starts playing a better brand of basketball and takes a huge step toward the NCAA Tournament with a victory over Texas.
Cue the tape of Rickey Paulding slashing along the baseline, dunking violently and chinning himself on the rim with 32 seconds left in the game. Offensive aggression rewarded. Cut to Arthur Johnson rotating to impede the progress of a driving Royal Ivey and rejecting Ivey's shot with 10 seconds left. Team defense rewarded.
In two highlights, Missouri's transformation from underachiever to Big 12 title contender would be summed up neatly.
Unfortunately for the Tigers, that wasn't a wrap.
Johnson's blocked shot happened to land at the feet of Texas forward Brian Boddicker, who tied the game with a 3-pointer. Yadda, yadda, yadda, the Longhorns won 75-69 in overtime. I could rehash the details, but unless you're a fan of bitter irony as it applies to free-throw shooting, you wouldn't relate.
If the Tigers turn up missing when the NCAA Tournament field is announced on March 14, they might look back on last night and cringe. They'll remember 12 missed free throws and 13 errant 3-pointers and Ivey's overtime magic and Brian bleepin' Boddicker.
But they should remember something else. For 45 minutes, they played defense with passion and purpose. Despite the best efforts of the whistle-happy referees, who killed the mood more often than a skipping Barry White album, Missouri and Texas put on a heck of a show. That the Tigers lost is a not-insignificant detail, especially considering their flimsy postseason credentials, but regret would be better spent on lackluster losses to Memphis, Belmont, Iowa State and Syracuse.
This time, Missouri deserved better than it got.
"We played liked the team we want to be and we've talked about being and we've practiced being," Missouri Coach Quin Snyder said. "Doing it in a game against a team like this, you wish you would have come out on top. We played the right way."
But you can't blame the loss on luck either. Texas makes a habit of this, having now gone 29-12 in Big 12 road games under Coach Rick Barnes. The 16th-ranked Longhorns were tough enough to hang around despite shooting 18 fewer free throws than Missouri and despite an invisible two-point performance from leading scorer P.J. Tucker, who barely looked at the basket after Johnson and Travon Bryant swatted his first two shot attempts.
As for Missouri, its season allotment of good fortune apparently was spent on one missed shot by Oklahoma's Drew Lavender at the end of regulation on Saturday. Boddicker didn't miss. That and the normally dependable Paulding's 6-of-12 performance at the foul line were the only real differences between beating Oklahoma and losing to Texas.
Unfortunately for the Tigers (7-7, 2-2 Big 12), their previous wobbles have left them with little wiggle room for the NCAA Tournament. With 13 regular-season games left, they probably need to go at least 9-4 to feel hopeful about an at-large berth.
That's the bad news. The good news is that they are quite capable of going on a late-season run if they play the way they did last night.
"We can't be discouraged because it didn't turn out for us this time," Snyder said. "We put ourselves in position to win that game. It didn't happen this time, but if we keep playing like that, we'll win a few."
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This is the fifth and final stage in a series of 5 free-form discussions related to where a couple is in the process. Unlike the topic-centric discussions that adhere strictly to the subject, these are much more open to a multitude of subjects that would naturally present themselves during this stage.
For those who did not read about the forum's structure within "About this Forum", here are the five stages of these free-form discussions:
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Ken Starks, my good friend in the Lone Star State, was firmly plopped into a predicament recently when SolusOS sadly suspended operations. We'll look at Ken's solution in a minute, but I wanted to give the passing of SolusOS its due: I tried it, liked it, I thought Ikey Doherty was on the right track and, sadly, I find it incredibly unfortunate that there were not enough hands on deck to keep the distro going.
So Ikey suspended operations. Perhaps someone will pick up the ball and run with it, but that remains to be seen.
On several occasions, I've given this assessment of how distros thrive or die: In short, I've said that distros live and die by their quality and what they have to offer; the better ones keep going, and the not-go-good ones atrophy to varying degrees before becoming obsolete.
I was wrong, and I apologize now, when I said only bad distros go by the wayside. I've changed my tune accordingly.
Sometimes good distros get suspended in the limbo of closing up shop due to various reasons — life changes by the lead developers and/or higher-ups, a shrinking community that cannot maintain the distro because, well, there are only 24 hours in a day, or any other reasons that a distro stops moving forward.
SolusOS falls under this category, just as Wolvix did several years ago (shortly after I reviewed it here — hopefully that is a coincidence). Wolvix, a Slack-based distro, was developed by a single lead developer and had, for all intents and purposes, one of the best control panels I've ever seen in a distro — an excellent control panel I haven't seen since.
Anyway, back to Ken's predicament: I know that Reglue, the Austin outfit that keeps Ken out of trouble while he supplies underprivileged kids with Linux boxes in the area, was planning to use a verison of SolusOS for its hardware, along with the educational respin of Linux Mint 13/Cinnamon by Randy Noseworthy (no, he and I are not twins, as someone suggested recently, though we have never been seen in the same place at the same time) and also with the Zorin 6.4 educational spin.
Not anymore: Ken writes very eloquently, as usual, here and finds that the next candidate up for the kids in Austin with the Reglue hardware is OpenSUSE: Education-Life.
That's a good call. OpenSUSE does not get the skylit, red-carpet adoration and accolades many think it deserves, but it consistently puts out a solid distro with a solid community. Also, since Ken is a keen observer on distro quality and ease of use (or lack thereof), it's a great endorsement for OpenSUSE for Reglue to be at the top of the list.
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ZaReason Alto 3880: The honeymoon continues
When I reviewed the ZaReason Alto 3880 earlier this year, I liked it so much I got one, and I told Cathy and Earl Malmrose of ZaReason that I'd write my impressions of the Alto three months later.
That was in February and now it's May — three months hence — and I have to say that I have not had one bad experience with the laptop.
To recap: Until I gave the Alto a test run, I was a dyed-in-the-wool ThinkPad guy, utilitarian to the core. All my ThinkPads — and there are several — look like NASCAR entries with their sticker-laden covers displaying the best of FOSS programs.
Since February, though, I've been using the Alto for hours on end on a daily basis, giving it the rigorous workout that the ThinkPads normally got when I was using them exclusively. The Alto 3880 has proved to be a very tough machine going step-for-step, measure-for-measure with the ThinkPad in all categories.
The advantage that the Alto has over the ThinkPad is that it looks good — no, it looks great — doing it.
Which of course brings me to the keyboard: As I wrote earlier, I thought the keyboard in the Alto 3880, at first touch, was a little light. With the pounding I normally give the sturdy ThinkPad keyboard, I openly worried about my heavy fingers and not-so-gentle touch on what I thought might be a less-than-sturdy keyboard. I was completely wrong about this — the keyboard is tougher than the first impression lets on, and it is one of the Alto 3880's outstanding features. If it handles the range of tapping I give it — and it has — then it passes that test with high marks.
As I've written before, I'm running CrunchBang Statler on this machine and it runs flawlessly on the Alto. In the original blog, I mentioned that I had also run other distros on the Alto as well, but I choose to run CrunchBang for a variety of reasons I write about in another blog. For the unenlightened, CrunchBang — which is on the verge of releasing another version soon — is a Debian-based distro running the Openbox window manager. On the Alto, the combination of Openbox with Debian rumbling under the hood makes this laptop a digital rocket.
The ZaReason Alto 3880 is an outstanding machine that continues to earn my highest recommendation. The specs are here and, as I mentioned in the original blog item, the price is higher than you'd pay for something off the shelf at a big box like Best Buy (and, in a word, don't!). But the Alto is worth every bit of the extra cost, and one of many features that ZaReason offers is that they provide a wide variety of distros to choose from on their hardware — though I don't use it often, I understand Linux Mint would be a good off-the-shelf choice — and they even will install a distro at your request.
Like — oh, I don't know — CrunchBang, if you ask for it.
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Welcome to the pre-Post-PC era
Joe Brockmeier wrote an insightful piece on ReadWrite entitled "What We Lose in a Post-PC World" that starts off with this: "Tim Cook, Ray Ozzie, and a host of others have proclaimed that we're in a "post-PC world." Well, not quite yet, but you can see it from here."
You can see it all right, with the Hubble. It's that far off in the distance.
I agree with most of that Joe writes, incidentally. In fact, I agree with all of what Joe writes, except for the "see it from here" thing (I'm assuming he didn't use a telescope, space-borne or otherwise). There are things that you can do with your post-PC apparatus, like surf the web, watch videos and all those important digital experiences. But bear in mind that you're not going to be using Blender on your Android tablet anytime soon.
So while we wait for Hallmark to make up cards heralding the Post-PC era, allow me an introduction of a new placeholder era: the pre-Post-PC era. In the pre-Post-PC era, discussions we're now having involve the how and what you can — and can't — do with new technology like tablets and smartphones, followed by heated discussion about the same, punctuated by name-calling, general flaming and hurt feelings around issues of disagreement at which time parties go to neutral corners and take a 10-count before coming back into the proverbial ring and discussing the issue with cooler heads.
Meanwhile, technology marches on and as evening falls on the pre-Post-PC era — which might be called the post-pre-Post-PC era by purists, opening another argumentative can of worms as a sideshow — Blender developers will actually get an Android version for tablets up and running, just proving the point that you can do it, but ignoring the important question around why you would make software to run on something that's not built for the job.
"Because they can," they might say, and that's a valid answer.
One more prognostication: Sailing through the Post-PC era, there will be a post-Post-PC era, after the advent of the pre-post-Post-PC era, where people will start thinking, "You know, I had a laptop (or desktop . . . or both) once where I didn't have to strain my eyes on such a small screen, and where I actually got stuff done rather than just wasting time." Or something like that.
At that time, the post-Post-PC era will allow everyone to realize what most of us already know: That what's nebulously referred to as post-PC hardware works in tandem with, not as a substitute to, the hardware like laptops and desktops that already exist.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
An appeal to reason
A little over an hour ago, I was giving the final read on what was originally this blog item, under a different title and with a metric ton or two of humor, cutting criticism and the high quality of commentary that you'd expect from this blog. It was in derisive and cutting response to what Mark Shuttleworth considers "innovation" as outlined in this morning's ZDNet blog item by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Having the ability to use the English language to slice and dice the ridiculous with the accuracy of a Benihana chef with a complete set of Ginsu knives — whether it's an idea or a person or both — is both a blessing and a curse. The Mark served up some pretty meaty fastballs right in my wheelhouse — a baseball metaphor now that we're in spring training — and if he puts them where I can hit them, they're gone. And I tattooed them, right into the next time zone.
But reading the blog item over again before deleting it, I felt like Bill O'Reilly. That alone forced me to take a shower and rewrite this blog item.
In any case, rather than put you through an eye-rolling, arm-waving rant on this screen about how The Mark's vision of reality differs from — well — reality (to say nothing of his uncanny knack for hyperbole and a penchant for exaggeration, followed by responses to criticism that redefine ad hominem), I'm just going to appeal to reason and let the reader decide.
Quoting Shuttleworth from the ZDNet blog: "Yes, we are moving beyond the desktop, but we are also innovating to make the desktop itself, better."
No, you're not, Mark. Here's why.
Unity: This is a one-size-fits-all solution to a situation that requires a wide range of flexibility, unless of course you don't consider the user interface for a tablet any different than that of a 17-inch monitor, and everything between. How this can even be remotely considered innovation when, for all intents and purposes, it's a round peg trying to go into different shaped holes?
Wait for the improvement? No, thanks. I tried Unity for an entire day, and I wanted to like it. I spent a couple of hours tweaking it, reading wikis (thanks, Google) and getting it to where it would best work for me. But it got to a point where its functionality failed on so many levels, in large part to a UI that was not suited to my hardware. I wanted very badly to say something nice about it — "Um . . . it's a nice color" — but I even couldn't do that. Unity is a digital cowpie, and no matter how many improvements you make to a cowpie, it's still a cowpie.
As a result, I'm glad to use Xubuntu on one of the lab's machines, which is the one distro in the 'buntu universe that shines.
HUD: Head-Up Display — no, I'm not going to ask "head-up" what? Nope, I'm not going there. Having tried this (HUD, that is, not . . . um, never mind), I can't see how this is an improvement: I have to type the name of a program I want in order to get the program I want. Couldn't I do this — oh, I don't know — from the command line? And if so, doesn't this make HUD a GUI for the command line?
A more important question: This is innovation? The only way this is innovation is that Canonical had this ill-advised, counterproductive concept of doing things this way before anyone else did. Being the first to do something counterproductive is not innovation; arguably, it's regression.
If you like Unity and it works for you, use it. Like HUD? Same thing. I have no problem with people using what they want — that's a key to using Free/Open Source Software — and you should be glad that FOSS provides a wide range of choices on many levels, including the user interface.
But innovation? No, that's not a good word for what Canonical is doing with Unity and HUD. Or at least it's not a word that describes it.
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
Counting to four
The recent FOSS hubbub-in-a-teapot has Linus Torvalds ranting about security — again (remember the "masturbating monkeys"?). The rant deals with having to use root passwords on OpenSUSE for basic daily usage, which Linus find a bit much and says so with inspired prose.
Arguably, he has a point, or several. How he makes it, though, is a bit over-the-top.
Pot, meet kettle. I have a reputation for being quick on the proverbial draw when it comes to things that annoy me — to the point where my Santa Cruz Sentinel colleague Tony Solis has made a chart designating the "Larry Threat Level" on any particular newsroom day. And if you permit me a Captain Obvious moment, writing when you're furious is not the best thing to do. I've had to backpedal on more than one occasion because the white-hot prose that flew from the keyboard here sounded great in the fury of anger, but later it paled in comparison.
So I don't mind so much that Linus went off like a Roman candle about this incident. What I do mind a bit — and I think it's way beneath him, no matter how annoyed he is — is this line from his "venting," as he puts it: "So here's a plea: if you have anything to do with security in a distro, and think that my kids (replace 'my kids' with 'sales people on the road' if you think your main customers are businesses) need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper, or to change the date-and-time settings, please just kill yourself now. The world will be a better place."
Calling security-obsessed programmers "masturbating monkeys" is one thing. Suggesting suicide for something that, at best, is an annoyance that can easily be fixed is akin to spraying down someone with automatic gunfire after they kick you in the shin.
Truth in advertising: I have a stake in this, sort of. Years ago, a friend of mine had a spouse who commited suicide. On a variety of levels, it was extremely traumatic for family and friends, and it's not something you fix from the command line or by writing better code. It's permanent.
When things annoy me — which is more often than I'd like — I go walk in the woods. Fortunately for me, I live within walking distance of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, where I go to put things in perspective; 200-foot trees can do that. Linus, I know redwoods are native to northwestern Oregon, so a walk among the trees might be good idea before hitting the keyboard to vent. Or dive, since I know you're a scuba diver (the Pacific is not far from Portland, if I remember correctly).
So Linus, and everyone else, it's also good to take Mark Twain's advice: "When angry count four; when very angry, swear."
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
Stop the presses
It consistently awes me, sometimes to tears, to see how consistently wrong some Free/Open Source Software commentators are about things like the current state of the desktop. To hear some of them tell it, it's a hand-wringing, brow-furrowing situation in which the fate of the entire paradigm rests in the delicate balance.
Let me explain this in simple terms: It's not. If anything, it's an invitation to a front-row seat to witness digital Darwinism at its finest.
So stop acting like this is a crisis. It's not.
Unity is a dog — it's a textbook case of incredibly bad judgment by The Mark to make a cookie-cutter, all-in-one user interface across a wide range of different hardware. But that's all it is. Is it the death knell of the desktop? Hardly. It's not even the death knell of Ubuntu.
The same with GNOME 3: Arguably a bad move, but not one that is forcing GNOME to fold up the tents and go the way of the Studebaker or the hula hoop.
KDE thriving? In my opinion, it is. That's a good thing, and they have weathered some bad times recently to come out stronger and with a good product for those so inclined to use it.
Xfce making progress at GNOME's expense? Tough if you're a GNOME guy or gal, but not bad in the grand scheme of things. Xfce has always been a good desktop environment which is finally getting the recognition it deserves — it will be interesting to see how they take advantage of this (and good luck, guys and gals).
There is even more attention now toward window managers like Openbox and Fluxbox, as the current desktop environment "crisis" ushers in a sort of renaissance for window managers that gives users a new look at a facet of Linux that is not often discussed.
The bottom line is that's what it's all about: choice. Choice is good. Having choices is a virtue, not a vice. It's simple: Get that and you get FOSS.
[Note to the Linux Foundation: You may think that email@example.com works, but I'm still getting bouncing e-mails across a wide variety of machines using various e-mail programs on FOSS and non-FOSS platforms. Tell you what: I'll just print out my blog from yesterday and mail it to you. Watch your mailbox.]
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)
What I do
Yesterday started out in uncharacteristically annoying fashion and, to be honest, I was counting on it to make a thrilling comeback to become a typically normal day sometime before mid-afternoon.
No such luck.
One of the several things that made it a day to shake one's head at and try to forget as soon as it's over is a form letter I got from the Linux Foundation rejecting my request to attend the Collaboration Summit. "If you would like us to reconsider our decision, please email us at and provide more specific details about your job function and why you would like to attend."
Email? Oh, I'll do one better, Linux Foundation.
In reality, Linux Foundation, if you think that there are others more worthy than me to attend the Collaboration Summit, I'm completely OK with that. Additionally, not going to the Collaboration Summit — as much as I'd like to attend — allows me to rearrange time that I can put toward attending another Linux event elsewhere in the country.
But here's why I think I should be allowed to attend the Collaboration Summit, and I'd be grateful if you'd keep this in mind for future applications for other Linux Foundation events.
I started using Linux in 2006 — the PowerPC version of Debian on an Indigo iMac G3 — while campaigning for Insurance Commissioner in California as the Green Party candidate. You can blame Cameron Spitzer, then the Greens' IT guy, for showing me Linux and the Free/Open Source Software paradigm.
Since the end of that campaign where I just missed being elected by a paltry 47 percent of the electorate, I have been an advocate for Linux and FOSS. I formed the Cabrillo College GNU/Linux Users Group in 2007 while attending school there. In 2008, I organized an event called Lindependence in Felton, California, where the town had three opportunities in July of that year to try out Linux. We gave away 300 live CDs of various distros in the course of the month and we estimate that we could have converted between 30-40 people to the ranks of the Linux users.
The offshoot of Lindependence — the Felton Linux Users Group — thrives in our area, and is a regular attendee at farmers markets in the Santa Cruz County area, providing "organic software" free of proprietary additives and preservatives.
In 2009, I formed a partnership that became Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy providing Linux and FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment. Our client roster is small — an asbestos abatement company, two restaurants, an electrical contractor and a grocery store — so we don't pull in Gatesian or Jobsian numbers on our ledger. But we do OK.
There are other things I do on behalf of Linux: I'm the publicity co-chair for the Southern California Linux Expo, the largest community-run Linux show in the country. I held what others (not me) describe as a "leadership position" in the Fedora Project, including serving as an Ambassador mentor. These days, I primarily work with a distro called CrunchBang, a Debian derivative, which I find provides the best Linux experience for any user choosing to try it.
I also write this blog, "Larry the Free Software Guy," and its distro-specific sibling, "Larry the CrunchBang Guy." The former is commentary on FOSS issues of the day, written with what I hope is always a high degree of insight and humor.
That may not be enough, but that will have to do. I also have a family — my daughter, now 14, has been giving Linux presentations for two years as well — and a full-time job, so I make no apologies if this does not clear the proverbial high bar set for Collaboration Summit admission.
Again, I don't mind if you want to give the pass to the summit to someone you think is more deserving — and there are thousands of folks out there in the FOSS world who are more deserving than me. I get that, and I would completely agree. But you should know that I'm not your standard-issue casual Linux user, either.
Oh, and one more thing, Linux Foundation: Thanks for all the great work you do.
[EPILOGUE: The address email@example.com — which is included in the email sent with the rejection as a link at which to appeal the Linux Foundation's decision — does not work, and I have the bounced e-mails to prove it. Is it email@example.com maybe? Maybe.]
(Larry Cafiero is one of the founders of the Lindependence Project and develops business software at Redwood Digital Research, a consultancy that provides FOSS solutions in the small business and home office environment.)


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text: Hi, I sent an email to mauiusers at supercluster.org but I think my issue is more about Torque then Maui so I'm forwarding it here. Also, I discovered something else while trying to diagnose my problem. I've been trying to setup a Torque+Maui without success. The cluster here is composed of 70 nodes connected with InfiniBand (IB) and 5 nodes without IB but better processors. Each node have 2 quad-core processors with hyperthreading enabled for a total of 16 cores per node. I want to setup a queue to run on the non-IB nodes which I call the supernodes. There is 80 cores on these. Here is Torque's queue config: > set queue supernodes queue_type = Execution set queue supernodes resources_available.nodes = 5 set queue supernodes resources_default.neednodes = supernode set queue supernodes resources_default.walltime = 00:10:00 set queue supernodes enabled = True set queue supernodes started = True set server scheduling = True set server acl_hosts = mydomain.com set server operators = root at mydomain.com set server operators += me at mydomain.com set server default_queue = supernodes set server log_events = 511 set server mail_from = adm set server resources_available.ncpus = 1200 set server resources_available.nodect = 75 set server scheduler_iteration = 600 set server node_check_rate = 150 set server tcp_timeout = 6 set server auto_node_np = False set server next_job_number = 90842 The node file "/var/spool/torque/server_priv/nodes" contains (for the super nodes): > node101 np=16 supernode node102 np=16 supernode node103 np=16 supernode node104 np=16 supernode node105 np=16 supernode I can submit and run a job only if the number of cpu requested is less or equal then the number of cores of a single node: -l nodes=1:ppn=5. But if I request 5 cores on 2 different nodes (-l nodes=2:ppn=5) the job stays in a "queued" state indefinitely. Maui's log file does not seems to report anything suspicious, even at log level 7. Checkjob reports which nodes it is scheduled to run on (node104 and node105): > $ checkjob 90843 checking job 90843 > State: Running Creds: user:me group:me class:supernodes qos:DEFAULT WallTime: 00:00:00 of 00:00:30 SubmitTime: Tue Nov 30 18:04:11 (Time Queued Total: 00:12:19 Eligible: 00:12:19) > StartTime: Tue Nov 30 18:16:30 Total Tasks: 10 > Req[0] TaskCount: 10 Partition: DEFAULT Network: [NONE] Memory >= 0 Disk >= 0 Swap >= 0 Opsys: [NONE] Arch: [NONE] Features: [supernode] Allocated Nodes: [node105:5][node104:5] > > IWD: [NONE] Executable: [NONE] Bypass: 0 StartCount: 739 PartitionMask: [ALL] Reservation '90843' (00:00:00 -> 00:00:30 Duration: 00:00:30) PE: 10.00 StartPriority: 12 But then checking each node using checknode the node seems idle: > $ checknode -v node104 checking node node104 > State: Idle (in current state for 00:00:00) Expected State: Running SyncDeadline: Tue Nov 30 18:27:34 Configured Resources: PROCS: 16 MEM: 23G SWAP: 23G DISK: 1M Utilized Resources: PROCS: 5 Dedicated Resources: PROCS: 5 Opsys: DEFAULT Arch: [NONE] Speed: 1.00 Load: 5.000 Location: Partition: DEFAULT Frame/Slot: 1/1 Network: [DEFAULT] Features: [supernode] Attributes: [Batch] Classes: [supernodes 11:16] > Total Time: INFINITY Up: INFINITY (73.79%) Active: 00:01:42 (0.00%) > Reservations: Job '90843'(x5) 00:00:00 -> 00:00:30 (00:00:30) JobList: 90843 > Google does not say much about the "ALERT: jobs active on node but state is Idle". Looking at the pbs_mon log file on the two nodes, I get these: node105: > 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0008; pbs_mom;Req;send_sisters;sending ABORT to > sisters 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0008; pbs_mom;Job;90857.unicron.cl.uottawa.ca;Job > Modified at request of PBS_Server at mycluster 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0080; pbs_mom;Svr;preobit_reply;top of preobit_reply 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0080; > pbs_mom;Svr;preobit_reply;DIS_reply_read/decode_DIS_replySvr worked, top of > while loop 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0080; pbs_mom;Svr;preobit_reply;cannot locate job that > triggered req 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0080; pbs_mom;Svr;preobit_reply;top of preobit_reply 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0080; > pbs_mom;Svr;preobit_reply;DIS_reply_read/decode_DIS_replySvr worked, top of > while loop 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0080; pbs_mom;Svr;preobit_reply;in while loop, no > error from job stat 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0008; pbs_mom;Job;90857.mycluster;checking job > post-processing routine 11/30/2010 20:10:09;0080; pbs_mom;Job;90857.mycluster;obit sent to server 11/30/2010 20:10:10;0001; pbs_mom;Svr;pbs_mom;Bad UID for job execution > (15023) in 90857.mycluster, job_start_error from node 10.0.0.104:15003 in > job_start_error 11/30/2010 20:10:10;0001; pbs_mom;Svr;pbs_mom;Bad UID for job execution > (15023) in 90857.mycluster, abort attempted 16 times in job_start_error. > ignoring abort request from node 10.0.0.104:15003 [repeated many times, until I cancel the job] node104: > 11/30/2010 20:31:31;0008; pbs_mom;Job;90858.mycluster;no group entry for > group me, user=me, errno=0 (Success) 11/30/2010 20:31:31;0008; pbs_mom;Job;90858.mycluster;ERROR: received > request 'ABORT_JOB' from 10.0.0.105:1023 for job '90858.mycluster' (job > does not exist locally) [repeated many times, until I cancel the job] On the headnode, running "groups" as my username returns my username as the group, but on each nodes it returns 1009, the group ID. Could that be the problem? Using "getent" on the headnode I get: > $ getent passwd me me:x:1001:1009:My Name:/home/me:/bin/bash while on a compute node I get: > $ getent passwd me me:Password_checksum:1001:1009:My Name:/home/me:/bin/bash On either the headnode or compute nodes, using "ypcat group" returns nothing. Shouldn't that return the same groups as "groups" on the headnode? I really don't know what to check next. Thank you very much for any suggestion. Regards, Nicolas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.supercluster.org/pipermail/torqueusers/attachments/20101130/0b22758e/attachment-0001.html


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Lowongan Kerja PT Timah (Persero)
Lowongan Kerja PT Timah
About PT Timah (Persero)
PT Timah (Persero) Tbk is a state owned enterprise which is engaged in tin mining. There abouts 35% of its share are owned by the public which makes this company go public. This is in line with government objectives to make the company independent and transparent in performance. As the largest tin mining company in Indonesia as well as world largest exporter, PT Timah (Persero) Tbk having tin mining rights for 522,460 hectares by total numbers of 114 mining license both onshore and offshore with the area of operation covering Bangka Belitung Province and Riau Archipelago Province based on the existing of Indonesian Tin Belt.
As a holding company, PT Timah (Persero) Tbk forming five subsidiaries and expand the business scope into many different field among other things mining, engineering service, exploration service and dockyard and shipyard. This creates a unique, one-stop services, but also to keep offering the highest quality products and services.
Moreover, PT Timah (Persero) Tbk is acting as an institution that formulating the corporate control, capital budgeting, and procurement, company financial management, and its subsidiaries, formulate norms and values, determine the basic attitude of corporate business development both acquisitions and alliances.
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Music Review: Bill Evans Trio - 'How My Heart Sings!' [Remastered]
Published 10:00 pm, Wednesday, July 17, 2013
In a 2011 Fresh Air interview with Bill Evans' longtime drummer Paul Motian, Terry Gross points out that for many critics the distinguishing characteristic of the Bill Evans Trio was the musicians' willingness to share the stage. Most such trios featured the piano. Bass and drums were simply supporting characters. Not the Evans trio. These musicians were equals and they played music that soared over the sum of its parts. Motian, Evans and bassist Scott LaFaro were something special together and you could hear it in their music.
So it is not strange that when LaFaro died in a 1961 auto accident, Evans fell into a state of depression. It took well into the next year before he was emotionally ready to move on with another bassist, but move on he did. In the spring of 1962 he and Motian began working with Chuck Israels, first recording as a rhythm section for a Herbie Mann album, and then resurrecting the Bill Evans Trio for a session for Riverside Records.
Producer Orrin Keepnews wanted an album of ballads, but fearful that lengthy sessions limited to recording ballads might drain all their energy, he decided to have the trio perform a mixed bag of material, take out the ballads for one album, and use the other tunes for a second album. The ballads album entitled Moonbeams was released first, and the uptempo album How My Heart Sings! followed. A remastered edition of Moonbeams was released by Concord Music Group last year, and now happily it is following that up on July 23 with the reissue of the second of the albums. You can never have too much Bill Evans.
The current disc includes the eight tunes from the original album plus three bonus tracks, two of which are previously unreleased. The album takes its title from an Earl Zindars song. Zindars, who composed classical music as well as jazz tunes, was a favorite of Evans. "How My Heart Sings!" has a gorgeous melody and the trio's treatment sets the tone for the rest of the album. They do a killer version of the Gershwin classic "Summertime" to begin the album's "B" side, which takes the well-known tune in a fresh direction.
There are two takes of Dave Brubeck's "In Your Own Sweet Way" which really swings in Evans' hands. His treatment makes a nice contrast with what Brubeck does with it. There are three original Evans compositions: "Walkin' Up," "34 Skidoo," and "Show-Type Tune." All three were new to Motian and Israels, who were challenged to see how they would handle the unfamiliar material. Ultimately their inclusion is a sign of the pianist's faith in their abilities. "I Should Care" and "Ev'rything I Love" fill out the set.
In Chuck Israels, the trio had found its new bassist. Between Moonbeams and How My Heart Sings!, that much was clear. How My Heart Sings! shows the Blill Evan Trio once again at the top of their game.


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"The so-called Internet in a suitcase -- a State Department-funded project to sneak stealth satellite Internet capacity to dissidents in autocratic states -- has drawn the attention of the Iranian regime.
The Islamic Republic's powerful Revolutionary Guards denounced the project in the most recent issue of "Sobhe Sadegh," its weekly publication, and suggested Iran should hire "revolutionary hackers" to combat it, according to a report from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, a sister agency to the U.S. government's foreign broadcasting service Voice of America.
"Accessing information is the main and most important method used by the enemies of the establishment," the elite military unit and powerful economic interest said, according to the RFE/RL translation. "This issue is of such importance that the enemies of the Islamic republic are ready, in order to access the information they need, to abuse information and help the spread of false information that is in line with their aims, to invest heavily in this area, and carry out costly projects."


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Inactivity by WA police in moving against shops selling synthetic marijuana has led to one family taking direct action.
A northern suburbs woman has spoken on condition of anonymity because of concerns of the drug's impact on the mental stability of an affected relative - and his unpredictable reaction to the story.
She contacted WAtoday after reading a report on Thursday that charted how the drug had become widely available throughout Perth.
The woman told how a concerned family member had stormed into a Wangara store, which she alleges sold the drug to the family member.
"She [the family member] told them 'Come here you four' to the staff members," she said.
"Then she showed them a photo and said: 'That shit has destroyed this man. If you sell it to him again, the cops will be here'."
The store staff were also told of bank statement evidence allegedly proving the man had bought product from the outlet.
"The next time he went to the store, they told him they'd run out," the northern suburbs woman said.
"He'd been going really well for about six months, but then we started to notice a difference in his personality.
"The drug seemed to disappear for a while, but now it's everywhere and we knew he was back on it - we think the store messaged him a new supply was in."
She said visits to the police had proved fruitless.
"They just say how difficult it is to get the evidence and to get a search warrant," she said.
"If they want evidence, just hang outside the shop for half-an-hour."
The northern suburbs woman said she was perplexed police didn't seem to have the power - or the motivation - to act despite having the laws to help them take action.
"This stuff destroy lives and families. It's got to stop. Why aren't they doing something? she said.
A police spokeswoman said they couldn't comment on current operational strategies or specific investigations.
"WA police will continue to target any person or business involved in the distribution of illicit drugs including psychoactive substances and will prosecute in accordance with new legislation," she said.
"Every retailer within the metropolitan area that was likely to be affected by the new act was visited before its proclamation and supplied with a letter informing them of the legislation and its impact."
Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
The fight against synthetic cannabis in WA
June 2011: Kronic is banned in prisons after the state government says it is rife within the system. WA becomes the first state or territory to ban synthetic cannabis sold under such names, adding them to the state's Poisons Acts. Within days a 30-year-old man is the first person charged.
August 2011: Police investigate whether the death of a 38-year-old man is linked to his smoking Kronic Black Label. He suffers a suspected cardiac arrest and later dies. A further 14 synthetic cannabis products are added to the ban list
November 2012: Police seize kilograms of Venom, marketed as a "legal high", during searches of two premises in Perth's south. A tobacco retailer says the drug is popular with mine workers as it can't be detected in drug tests.
June 2014: Liberal MP Phil Edman says legislation can't keep up with manufacturers, who use a legal loophole by altering a product's chemical composition. Edman gets a staffer to buy them in the Rockingham area.
May 2015: State government announces stronger laws to close the legal loophole.
October 2015: Misuse of Drugs Amendment (Psychoactive Substances) Bill 2015 passed in parliament.
March 2016: Federal member for Perth Alannah MacTiernan raises concerns in parliament about a "lucrative business thriving in plain sight of law enforcement", Cloud 9, saying police are not taking enough action.


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Sooo many news to catch up such especially updates on the wind energymarket, green plastics, regulations and developments in the cleaningindustry, and a little bit of green chemistry overview. Hopefully I'llbe able to post a lot of them this week.
I'll also attendtomorrow's Society of Cosmetic Chemists' (NY branch) Suppliers' Day andmaybe will get some updates on new green ingredients [and processing]development for cosmetics and personal care. Stay tune!
For now, here are last week's new roundup:
Europe wants woodchips
Green Energy Resources a 5-year contract for thirty-six (36) shipments per year of woodchips forenergy use valued at $61 million/year. The company's target is tocapture a 20% market share of European woodchip energy imports by 2011.
Green Americhem
Color and additive solutions provider Americhemsays it is switching its primary coolant use in manufacturing to liquidnitrogen to reduce CO2 emissions. The company also plans to have zerolandfill output from all their facilities by the end of 2013. Braskem ups money on green plastic
Brazilian plastic producer Braskemis investing R$8.5 million to expand research on green polypropyleneproduction from ethanol. Braskem is already producing the green polymeron a small scale and now wants to scale up to commercial production.(Google-translated English version of the press release here).
Wind turbine venture
Ashland formed a joint effortwith Amtech, LLC and Endurance Wind Power to produce wind turbineblades at Amtech's North American manufacturing facility in Washingtonstate. Ashland will contribute its new resins and associated productsfor Amtech's composite manufacturing and wind blade production.
Ashland's green connection
AshlandDistribution, a commercial unit of Ashland Inc., in alliance with JHMTechnologies, Inc., New Boston RTM and SR Composites, LLC, introducedthe "Green Connection" to offer customers a program for closed-molding processes focused on improving productivity and environmental performance.
And in ICIS news (requires subscription):
The US Supreme Court ruled last week that Shellwas not responsible for the clean-up of an agricultural-chemical wastesite in California, reversing a decision of a lower court.
Belgian organization Bio Base Europehas started work on a pilot plant to explore the use of bio-basedchemical products aiming to expand the bio-based economy in theFlanders-Netherlands border region.
BioMCN has restarted its methanol plant at Delfzijl, the Netherlands, and expects commercial bio-methanol production within two weeks.
Ontario'sproposed legislation to reduce toxic substances is flawed andunnecessarily costly for producers,according to Ottawa-based CanadianChemical Producers Association (CCPA).
Weekly News Roundup
Sooo many news to catch up such especially updates on the wind energymarket, green plastics, regulations and developments in the cleaningindustry, and a little bit of green chemistry overview. Hopefully I'llbe able to post a lot of them this week.
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Jared Padalecki Posts Pic of Baby Son Shepherd on Twitter
Supernatural star Jared Padalecki's wife Genevieve Padalecki took to Twitter to reveal their son's name along with posting a picture of little Shepherd Padalecki for the world to see.
Just after his wife posted the pic, Jared took to Twitter himself.
@jarpad and Shepherd watching some late night #supernatural pic.twitter.com/WtWtKBAwxl
— Genevieve Padalecki (@realGpad) January 22, 2014
Ok. There it is, my wife @realGpad just revealed Tom's little brothers name…. Here goes ;)
— Jared Padalecki (@jarpad) January 22, 2014
Padalecki, 31, and Cortese, 33, welcomed Shepherd on December 21 2013. Their first son Thomas was born on March 19, 2012.
What are your thoughts on the name Shepherd? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.


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Have Finance Questions? Ask a Financial Expert Online.
Disposable income is your income left to save and spend after paying taxes.
Discretionary income is the amount of income left after essentials are taken care of, such as food and shelter. http://www.investorwords.com/1483/discretionary_income.html
I am not familiar with a specific term referring to income after ALL bills are paid, but I think the term you are looking for is discretionary income.
No, the accounting term is "Net Income". To be more exact, on the Income Statment, you have Revenue (or Sales) and you deduct Cost of Goods Sold from that to get the Gross Profit, you then decuct your Operating Expenses and would then get "Operating Income"
After that you deduct Interest Expense & Income Tax Expense and you get Net Income. If you pay Dividends, then what is left is "Retained Earnings". If you do not pay Dividends, then your Net Income is the same as your Retained Earnings.
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(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Edward Kennedy vehemently rejects President Bush's nomination of John Ashcroft for attorney general, but he is giving a much more upbeat assessment of the education package Bush plans to send to Congress Tuesday.
"It seems to me we could make important progress," said the liberal Democrat from Massachusetts.
Kennedy was among a group of lawmakers who met with Bush at the White House Tuesday morning for a briefing on the administration's education plan.
President Bush is scheduled to announce details of his education package in a Rose Garden ceremony early Tuesday afternoon. The package includes a school voucher plan, which many Democrats, including Kennedy, oppose.
"His position [on vouchers] is unchanged from the time of the campaign," Kennedy said of Bush. "We understand that. We have some differences in that area."
But, said Kennedy, "The areas...where we are in agreement, I thought, were very substantial...and can make a very important difference."
Kennedy said he is interested in "getting some action" on those areas of agreement, and as for differences of opinion - he said lawmakers will have an opportunity to deal with those issues in committee and in floor debate.
"I think what is important today is that we have a president that wants to make this a strong priority," Kennedy said. He also noted there are leaders in the House and Senate "who want to work with him to get something meaningful done."
Kennedy said he agrees with the "broad outlines" of the Bush plan, which calls for quality teaching, accountability, literacy, expansion of Pell grants for higher education, and early intervention for disadvantaged children.
Kennedy said Bush offered him and other Democrats "the basis of an agreement" - assurances and guarantees that limited federal resources would go to the neediest children.
Although they had a "frank and open" discussion about vouchers, Kennedy left the meeting with Bush focusing on the positive: "I can't emphasize enough the other areas where the president was reaching out... and where there's very broad agreement and meaningful agreement and the basis for a very important education legislative initiative."


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TOP STORY >>High court could soon decide suit on funding
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Jacksonville businessman and former Rep. Mike Wilson says he hopes the state Supreme Court will rule in his favor against funding what he calls pork projects and before the January session of the General Assembly is finished. All briefs have been filed in Wilsons appeal of a lower-court decision allowing General Improvement Funds to be used toward a new Jacksonville public library and for certain other purposes, according to Matt DeCample, spokesman for the state attorney generals office.
On Nov. 9, the Supreme Court granted the states petition for a late filing but denied Wilsons request for accelerated consideration.
Wilson sued the state Department of Finance and Administration to prohibit it from issuing the General Improvement Fund checks to local projects, mostly in the Jacksonville area. Statewide, legislators appropriated $52 million in General Improvement Funds last year. Its already high on the docket, Wilson said. I thought it was important to get this decided before it gets very far into the (January legislative) session.
Thats why he waived oral arguments, fearing that would delay a decision until late January. Wilson says General Improvement Funds are not appropriate for projects unless they benefit the entire state and he would like the matter settled before members of the new state Legislature begin dividing up a new surplus pie at the end of the new session. The attorney generals office is involved as the lawyer for Richard Weiss, director of the state Department of Finance and Administration. They write the GIF checks.
The ruling in Judge Willard Proctors court allowed local state legislators last session to earmark general improvement funds for the new Jacksonville library and several other projects including the Jacksonville Senior Center, the Museum of Military History, the Reeds Bridge Preservation Society and a Bigelow (Cleburne County) libraryabout $260,000 in all. Wilson seeks to overturn Proctors ruling, which allowed $190,000 toward the new Esther D. Nixon Library; $50,000 for the Jacksonville Senior Center; $10,000 for the Jacksonville Museum of Military History; $10,000 for the Reeds Bridge (Civil War) Preservation Society and $10,000 toward the Bigelow library.
Wilson prevailed in the lower court in his challenge of a $10,000 earmark for the Jacksonville Boys and Girls Club and a $20,000 award to the city of Jacksonville without a specified purpose, but he lost on five other challenges. Wilson sued to stop the state from releasing general improvement fund money for several projects, saying Amendment 14 of the state Constitution prohibits funding local projects. Wilson argued that allowing state legislators to earmark general improvement funds for local projects is pork plain and simple.
If the state is going to simply give money away to anybody, that would require a constitutional amendment, said Wilson, a vote by the people. In his arguments last year, Wilson maintained that state funding is appropriate only on projects that benefit the entire state, but Proctor, in allowing most of the challenged projects, accepted a broader interpretation of benefiting the states residents. Jacksonville voters in July 2005 approved a one-mill property tax increase to finance $2.5 million in bonds to build the new library.The city has bought or condemned the land it needs for the Library on Main Street and has torn down three buildings and an outbuilding in preparation for its construction.


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Cochlear Implants in Adults and Children – Ep. 732
Cochlear Implants in Adults and Children – Ep. 732
Record date: Jun 23, 2012
Ruth Litovsky, a professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at UW-Madison, discusses the recent advances in cochlear implants and their future possibilities. Litovsky explains that the desired goal has progressed to having hearing impaired adults and children able to hear on an equalized basis with people who have normal acoustic hearing.
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Allen blazes through eight innings06/05/2013 1:44 AM ET
By Josh Jackson / Special to MLB.com
Mavericks Stadium is not known as a pitchers' park. Winds and its approximately 3,400-foot elevation tend to side with the hitters. And over the first two months of the California League season, nine games at the ballpark featured one team scoring in double digits.
James Allen of the Bakersfield Blaze figured out the key to pitching well at High Desert: don't give up any fly balls.
"I'm a ground-ball pitcher," he said. "Or I try to be, anyway."
Allen definitely was on Tuesday night, yielding two hits over eight innings as the Blaze beat High Desert, 1-0, for the first shutout of the season at Mavericks Stadium.
The 23-year-old right-hander fanned three batters and walked two as he attacked the lower part of the strike zone with fastballs. He induced 13 ground-ball outs, including a pair of double plays.
"Our organization does a great job of appreciating ground-ball pitchers," Allen said. "Great American Ball Park is not the biggest place, and they like to coach you to be a good ground-ball pitcher all the way up through the different levels. Last year, I was not the best at it; this year, I've been better. I'm getting the mechanics down."
The Mavericks probably agree. They threatened in the opening inning after Chris Taylor led off with a single and stole second. Allen got Jamal Austin on a comebacker, then walked Kevin Rivers.
"I got behind 2-0 on Rivers, their three-hole guy -- he's a real good hitter," Allen said. "I was trying to make perfect pitches, to just paint the corners."
With Rivers aboard, Allen got Jibari Blash to bounce to shortstop Juan Perez, who started Bakersfield's first double play.
"You're only good as your defense, and my defense was great," the Kansas State product said. "I can't tell you how many outs the left side of the infield got for me."
After that, it was an uphill battle for High Desert.
"I was just trying to find my rocker [in the first], or get in my rocker, so to speak. I was actually kind of sluggish. Not lackadaisical but a little sluggish," Allen explained. "Then, after the first, my catcher, Chris Berset, said, 'Let's get locked in. Let's get going.'"
Allen issued a leadoff walk to Daniel Paolini in the second but got another double-play ball off the bat of Ramon Morla. Other than a third-inning single by Taylor, he cruised. In the fifth, he struck out the first two batters.
"You can look at the stats, I'm not really a strikeout pitcher," Allen said. "I was just trying to keep it in the zone. It used to be when I got an 0-2 count, I'd try to get the strikeout on three pitches, but tonight I was getting to 0-2 and staying in that ground ball mentality. I was pretty locked in, just focused, and my mechanics were right there. I made good pitches and those guys just so happened to strike out."
Juan Silverio busted out of a 1-for-23 slump with a solo homer in the ninth, giving the Blaze a 1-0 lead. Allen turned the game over to Jamie Walczak, who worked a 1-2-3 frame for his second save.
Mavs starter Jordan Pries matched Allen for seven innings, limiting Bakersfield to four hits and three walks while striking out four.
For Allen, the next task is pushing the development his off-speed stuff.
"My fastball was there today, but that doesn't mean it will be there every day," he said. "I didn't need to throw too many of the off-speed pitches, but I want to be able to when I really need them."