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Entrepreneurs trying to figure out social media often focus on the primarily text-based sites, Facebook and Twitter. But with more people spending more time watching online video, you have to start thinking of YouTube as a key marketing and relationship-building platform. Especially when you understand how to use the detailed analytics available to YouTube content providers.
Consider the numbers. According to a recent comScore study, 178 million Americans — or more than 50% of the population — watched 33 billion online videos in February, 2013. That's nearly 200 videos each in a single month. ComScore says 150 million of those viewers accessed videos through a Google site (which basically means YouTube).
Mark Hayes, who heads up public relations for Ottawa-based ecommerce hosting company Shopify, notes that YouTube is more than a home to cute cat videos; it's also the world's second-biggest search engine. In a recent blog post, he offered 10 ways that fledgling video marketers can monitor the performance of their videos in order to make their campaigns as efficient as possible.
While Hayes' post is primarily aimed at small retailers, who comprise most of Shopify's clientele, it should also interest any entrepreneur or marketer who wants to crack the code of online video. Here are five key analytics that Hayes says can help you learn what you're doing right, and fix what's going wrong.
1. Monitor views over time.
The fundamental metric to follow when gauging your content's success is the number of views your videos are getting. To find out, sign into YouTube and click on the "Views Reports" section. The site's analytics panel will tell you how many views each of your videos has garnered. By comparing the numbers for different videos, you can easily determine which have attracted the biggest audiences, and figure out what subjects or "tone" appeal most to your viewers.
2. Discover the source of traffic.
In analyzing your videos' reach, "it's vital that you figure out just where your viewers are coming from," says Hayes. Under the "Traffic Sources" page on your YouTube Analytics panel, you can view graphs displaying your most significant sources of traffic, along with the total viewers per source. This helps you understand how viewers are finding your videos.
Using actual Shopify analytics as an example, Hayes points out how your top traffic may come from embedded players, mobile apps, YouTube searches, YouTube "suggested videos," external websites, and Google searches, or many other sources. Shopify's results indicate that its own "front and centre" homepage videos are generating lots of traffic. But Hayes spots one problem: "Disappointingly, you can see that less than 1% of Shopify's YouTube views come from Google search, so this tells us that we should better optimize our videos for Google."
3.Determine audience demographics.
The "Demographics" page of your YouTube analytics can give you a deeper appreciation of your audience makeup, helping you fine-tune your content to reach the demographics you want. "The interactive pie-chart and graph allow you to visualize exactly who your product videos are already targeting," says Hayes. For instance, the analytics reveal that in the previous 30 days, 68.1% of the audience for Shopify's videos were male, primarily aged 35 to 54. Says Hayes: "Reviewing your video demographics will help you to achieve the audience you desire, and will alert you when you begin targeting the wrong demographics.."
4.Analyze audience retention.
"Monitoring your views over time is important, but evaluating the quality of your views is paramount.," says Hayes. Your "Audience Retention" page displays the exact times on your videos when people stopped watching. "Using this information, you can discover the weaknesses in your video content, thus preventing the same mistakes in the future."
Remember: online users have short attention spans. Hayes notes that one Shopify video, which runs five minutes and six seconds, had an average "view duration" of two minutes and 53 seconds — or just over half. "This might seem bad," he notes, "but it's actually considered slightly above average."
5. Study social share.
The essence of today's social media is interactivity between social-media sites. The best content on YouTube is "liked" on Facebook and tweeted on Twitter. "Always be aware of who is sharing your content, and how," says Hayes.
The "Sharing" page on YouTube Analytics tells you the number of "shares" your videos have received over time. You can view the shares for each video by social platform, date and geographical region. "Understanding your brand's social status on each major social networking website will allow you to take relevant action to expand your position within each one," advises Hayes.
Shopify's own analytics reveal it is big on Facebook and Twitter. But the numbers indicate Shopify has more to do to up its presence on sites such as Google+, Blogger.com, orkut, tumbler, and LinkedIn.
Reviewing your analytics is the "secret sauce" of any online campaign. Yes, it means more work, but it gives you deep insights that will make your job easier in the long run.
You can read Hayes' full post at http://www.shopify.ca/blog/6763696-youtube-analytics-10-ways-to-track-video-performance.


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It's not enough to stock up on firewood and crank up the radiator; other parts of your house also need to prepare for winter, including your household plumbing, seeing as freezing temperatures can cause leaks and breaks in the home.
See, science tells us that freezing water expands as it becomes ice. Winterising plumbing is recommended when a house will be vacant for a long period of time and no water will be running through the pipes. This process involves emptying the water heater, draining all water from the pipes and filling all fixtures with antifreeze solution.
Have a look at the following steps to effectively winterise your house's plumbing pipes for winter.
Check each one off your list so that you are sure all taps are open. A closed tap could create a vacuum that will hold water inside the pipe.
Ensure all valves and taps remain open throughout winter.
Watch out, as sometimes these hot water tanks don't have floor drains, meaning you'll need to connect a garden hose to it.
This includes the one located in the rubber diaphragm, the one that is used along with the water tank to build pressure.
To be extra safe, add some antifreeze to the jet pump case.
If you can't remove all the water from the tanks and toilet bowls, add antifreeze to prevent any water from freezing and cracking the toilet.
Add some antifreeze on each one of them to prevent water from freezing and cracking in the traps.
If there's time, we definitely recommend that you check the conditions of your house's plumbing to identify the pipes most vulnerable to freezing. Look for pipes located outside walls and windows, uninsulated pipes and pipes installed near unheated spaces.
Keep an eye out for cracks or openings in walls, floors and ceilings. Any holes that you come across must be caulked to keep cold air from entering those gaps.
Focus on the following:
• Insulate pipes with insulation sleeves, wrapping or slip-on foam pipe insulation. Do not leave any gaps without insulation, because cold air can affect the pipe in these spaces. Plastic piping is more tolerant of freezing than old copper or steel water pipes.
• Check the exterior of the house and double check that all visible cracks are sealed. Cold air can enter through the cracks and cause your pipe to freeze. If visible cracks are noticed, seal them using caulking or spray foam to fill the voids.
• Maintain a heating source inside your home to protect pipes against dropping temperatures.
• It is recommended to maintain a faucet dripping, allowing the water to move freely and continuously to prevent it from freezing.
• Make sure the crawl space is properly insulated. Block all vents that lead to the outside using cardboard or wood.
• Don't forget the hose bibs. Hose bibs are normally left unattended, which can cause them to burst during the night. Drain hose bibs and insulate with covers. Once this has been completed, deactivate bibs at the shutoff valve.
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Violent videos shared by Trump don't breach media policy, Twitter chief says
Jack Dorsey denied the videos were kept on the social media platform because of the publicity the US president generates.
Twitter has claimed its decision not to remove violent far-right videos shared by Donald Trump had nothing to do with the episode making global headlines.
A row erupted between Theresa May and the US president when he retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by the deputy leader of fringe political group Britain First.
Two featured violent scenes, including someone being pushed off a roof and another person being assaulted, leading Twitter users to suggest they breached the site's guidelines.
A previous statement from Twitter indicated the content was allowed to remain online as it stoked debate.
It pointed to guidance in its help centre which said: "There may be the rare occasion when we allow controversial content or behaviour which may otherwise violate our rules to remain on our service because we believe there is a legitimate public interest in its availability."
We mistakenly pointed to the wrong reason we didn't take action on the videos from earlier this week. We're still looking critically at all of our current policies, and appreciate all the feedback. See our safety calendar for our plans and ship dates. https://t.co/yGytH3eskM— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) December 1, 2017
On Friday, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey rowed back on the suggestion, saying: "We mistakenly pointed to the wrong reason we didn't take action on the videos from earlier this week."
In a series of posts shared from the Twitter Safety account, the social media giant appeared to set out why Mr Trump's tweets remained on the site.
It wrote: "Earlier this week Tweets were sent that contained graphic and violent videos. We pointed people to our Help Center to explain why they remained up, and this caused some confusion.
To clarify: these videos are not being kept up because they are newsworthy or for public interest. Rather, these videos are permitted on Twitter based on our current media policy. https://t.co/RqEQy3skgc— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) December 1, 2017
"To clarify: these videos are not being kept up because they are newsworthy or for public interest. Rather, these videos are permitted on Twitter based on our current media policy.
"We will continue to re-evaluate and examine our policies as the world around us evolves. We appreciate the feedback and will continue to listen."
One user replied to Mr Dorsey's post, asking him if he thought the reason the posts stayed up was due to Twitter needing Mr Trump to drive traffic to the website, to which the tech chief replied: "No, I don't."
No, I don't— jack 🌍🌏🌎 (@jack) December 1, 2017
According to Twitter's media policy, a post breaches guidelines if it contains "gory media related to death, serious injury, violence or surgical procedures".
It lists examples including the moment someone dies, a gruesome crime scene or bodily harm, torture, dismemberment or mutilation.
The Prime Minister previously said Mr Trump was "wrong" to retweet videos posted by Britain First's deputy leader Jayda Fransen, which she condemned as a "hateful organisation" dedicated to spreading division and mistrust.
The extraordinary flare-up between the two key allies came after Mr Trump responded directly to her assertion – originally made through her official spokesman – that his re-postings had been wrong.
.@Theresa_May, don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 30, 2017
In a trademark tweet, he wrote: "@Theresa_May, don't focus on me, focus on the destructive Radical Islamic Terrorism that is taking place within the United Kingdom. We are doing just fine!"
Mrs May has since rejected calls to cancel his controversial state visit, despite an outcry from MPs, insisting she remained committed to the "special relationship" between the UK and US.
Britain First leader Paul Golding boasted the group had gained hundreds of new membership applications and its Facebook posts were reaching hundreds of thousands more users.
Fransen, 31, from Penge, south-east London, is on bail facing trial over four charges of causing religiously aggravated harassment as part of a Kent Police investigation into the distribution of leaflets and the posting of online videos during a trial held at Canterbury Crown Court in May.
She will go on trial at Folkestone Magistrates' Court on January 29, alongside Golding, who faces three similar charges.
Fransen will also appear in court in Northern Ireland in December charged with using threatening and abusive language in connection with a speech she made at an anti-terrorism demonstration in Belfast on August 6.


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These days I've read (part of) a nice introductory book in french by Pierre Ageron on intuitionistic logic.
I haven't read the later chapters on category theory, about which I'll only remember the following sentence:
"[…] one distinguishes small categories, those for which the classes of objects and of arrows are sets, from large categories, which are all the others. Beyond merely the language of categories, common to both small and large categories, it's in reality the dialectic articulation between small and large categories which does constitute the heart of category theory."
I was more interested by the beginning of the book, which I'll summarize for myself as follows.


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Jessica is a PhD Researcher funded by the Web Science Centre for Doctoral Training and based in Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology. Jessica is currently researching web archival practice, as observed through various communities of practice engaged with archiving the Web.
Jessica's academic background includes a BA in Anthropology, a MSc in Archaeological Computing (Distinction) and more recently, a MSc in Web Science (Distinction). The Web Science MSc Dissertation focused on the key events and communities of practice that shaped the development and implementation of institutional repositories online. Through the use of key informant interviews and documentary evidence, a chronology was reconstructed of the socio-technical events that played a role in the development of software to support repositories. The research revealed two parallel but intersecting narratives that highlighted the roles of both the digital library and open access communities in the formation of institutional repositories as a means for supporting academic outputs.
More generally, Jessica has worked in the cultural heritage sector for over 10 years designing and implementing strategies for heritage data collection and management. She is a self-taught technologist with academic and professional experience in the use of web technologies for the curation and dissemination of heritage information.


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Back in July of, 2013, Governor Walker signed 2013 Act 25, creating a new exception to the public records law. Act 25 prohibits the release of customer information (which is specifically defined in the law) by a municipal utility unless the customer consents to the release of the information, or if another exception applies.
As is sometimes the case, there were unintended consequences which created some unwelcome roadblocks to real estate transactions, among others. Governor Walker recently signed a new law, Act 47, which creates four additional exceptions to the prohibition on releasing customer information. A municipal utility may now release information in the following situations:
- To a title agent, insurer, lender, mortgage broker, or attorney in connection with the preparation of real estate closing documents.
- To a lender or prospective purchaser in connection with the foreclosure of real property.
- To an owner of real property provided with municipal utility service or the owner's designated agent.
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Want to make money off of giving someone else your choice on-street parking spot?
There is indeed an app for that.
MonkeyParking, an Italy-based app, allows motorists to auction off their parking spots to other drivers for as much as $20, according to reports.
The app is promising users as much as $150 a month for letting other drivers know when they're leaving their spots, Uptown Almanac first reported.
It's odd, the ability to make money off of a public resource (and possibly not legal, as officials told the Chronicle).
However, MonkeyParking's representatives say that they're merely providing "information."
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Green Wing (2004)
Starring: Tamsin Greig, Pippa Haywood, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Stephen Mangan, Sarah Alexander, Karl Theobald, Katie Lyons, Lucinda Raikes, Mark Heap, Michelle Gomez, Oliver Chris, Olivia Colman, Sally Bretton, Paterson Joseph
A British "medical" drama with a mixture of comedy, bizarre soap opera and pure absurdity that would make Scrubs blush. The series was notable for being filmed in a real-live hospital (with genuine patients and doctors as extras), the plot... More
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September 3, 2004
Ep: 1 Caroline's First Day
After being locked out of her new house all night, Dr. Caroline Todd is forced to turn up to her new job at the local hospital tired and smelling like a mini-cab after using car freshener as a replacement for deodorant. She soon meets the strange... More
September 10, 2004
Ep: 2 Rumours
While Joanna is extra careful to make sure that her and Statham aren't seen arriving together, Caroline isn't quite so lucky when she is spotted turning up with Guy after having spent that night at his place. Despite Caroline assuring everyone... More
September 17, 2004
Ep: 3 Lodgers
Worried about her age Joanna is also concerned about the dreariness of her relationship with Statham, who in turn tries to spice up their relationship through spontaneity (with the help of playing his recorder to get himself sexually aroused).... More
September 24, 2004
Ep: 4 Joanna's Birthday
Joanna is turning 42, but her day brightens up when she mistakenly thinks she has received a locket as a birthday gift from Lyndon, when it is in fact from the ever doting Dr. Alan Statham (filled with his own "love juice"). Meanwhile Guy is... More
October 1, 2004
Ep: 5 Housewarming Party
Hormones are abound in the hospital with Mac the centre of both Caroline and Sue's affections, Boyce and Kim having fun together and Karen writing a love poem about Martin who in turn is desperate to impress Caroline. And of course there is... More
October 8, 2004
Ep: 6 Tests
Hungover and worse for wear, Caroline is feeling the effects of the party the night before, which she still can't completely remember. When her kissing exploits come back to her, she is forced to trawl the hospital to apologise to everyone she... More
October 15, 2004
Ep: 7 Tangled Webs
Statham still isn't completely over Joanna and spends all his day trying to win her back by pretending to hang himself, singing 'All By Myself' to her via a megaphone and by challenging Lyndon to a tug-of-war in the cafeteria for the hand... More
October 22, 2004
Ep: 8 Slave Auction
The hospital is hosting a charity Grand Slave Auction with Statham, Caroline, Guy and Lyndon all up for bid and while there is high competition for some, others aren't so lucky. Meanwhile Caroline falls on Sue's bad (and murderous) side when she... More
October 29, 2004
Ep: 9 Emergency
It's Mac's last day and Sue and Caroline are struggling to cope with the thought of losing him. While Sue offers to kill in order to keep Mac in the hospital, Caroline spends most of the day trying to find fault with Sheffield in order to deter... More
March 31, 2006
Ep: 1 Episode 1
It's eight weeks since Guy stole the ambulance and drove to a literal cliffhanger ending with Mac and Martin in tow. Mac is now in a coma and is receiving a constant stream of admiring visitors while Guy is not coping too well with the fact that... More
April 7, 2006
Ep: 2 Episode 2
Statham, when not drawing breasts upon his x-rays, is trying to make Joanna jealous with increasingly desperate pretend sexual exploits. Mac is back at work and, with no help from Guy, is causing Caroline grief as he can't remember the twenty... More
April 14, 2006
Ep: 3 Episode 3
A documentary crew visits the hospital, exciting the creative juices in Alan and the bitter rivalry between Sue and Joanna. Meanwhile, a tape of Guy being "intimate" with his mother is now in the possession of Sue who plays merry havoc with his... More
April 21, 2006
Ep: 4 Episode 4
Guy's got problems, he's looking for a place to stay while fulfilling his community service. Martin is in need of some cash so acts as a life model at an art class attended by the soon-to-be-gobsmacked Sue. Statham is distraught at his parking... More
April 28, 2006
Ep: 5 Episode 5
Dr. Statham enters politics but requires a voice coach and the use of a car with two loudhailers! Martin inadvertently becomes a pimp. Mac and Caroline get a little closer but Holly sticks her oar in with a little ginger surprise for Mac. Harriet... More
May 5, 2006
Ep: 6 Episode 6
Mac adjusts to his new rôle as a father while Caroline tries to make him jealous with Guy. Statham is rather pleased with himself for winning his radiologist's community weekly caption competition which does not please Joanna. She employs her... More
May 12, 2006
Ep: 7 Episode 7
Sue does some detecting; Martin comes into some money; Statham and Joanna try to keep the incident with the stuffed heron secret; Caroline has to be cruel to be kind.
May 19, 2006
Ep: 8 Episode 8
Demented dwarf killers Joanna and Dr Statham are amazed that they seem to have got away with their hideous crime so consider themselves above the law. Caroline gets no fewer than three proposals. Sue gives birth to an infant with a mane just as... More
January 4, 2007
Ep: 9 Episode 9
Caroline engaged to Guy, Mac getting closer to death, Statham and Joanna on the run, Karen acting strange and the admin girls letting their hair down a bit lower than normal.


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What is Inbox by Gmail?
+Inbox by Gmail is a complete new way to organize your emails developed by +Gmail team. It is developed using Material design.
Easy accessFirst of all it has very nice user interface. See the below image.
Big change in this "Google Inbox" is you can swipe emails right or left which means "Done" or "Snooze" just like reminders. When you swipe right (means "done") those mails moved to "Done" tab. And it will be stored in that tab permanently so that you can check back those emails.
If you swipe left it will ask to set reminder. you can see it in below image.
BundlesYou can Bundle the emails like categories in current gmail UI. For example you can create social bundle to deal with all social network related emails.
HighlightsYou can see the main information of email at glance. Suppose you got email from some e-commerce website that has Order details Gmail Inbox directly shows the order details without opening email. For this Gmail team suggests web developers use schemas in your e-mail so that Inbox recognizes it.
RemindersYou can set reminders in your Inbox. It is useful for to-do lists. Here is the steps to set reminder.


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Push Down Banners is an easy to use WordPress plugin that allows you to create banner that push any web content down.
Simply upload your banner which can be an image, flash or HTML, or HTML5 code, set your variables, preview and deploy.
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How long you decide to stay in China is entirely up to you. We do recommend a combined 10-12 day trip with the addition of Shanghai or Hong Kong. For those who prefer a longer stay 14-15 day trip is also ideal.
Where to go for first time visitor?
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for Chico Mendes' Legacy,of the Acre series, the Amazon forgotten at the film and video festival of the environment, Gavá, Barcelona.
Documania's best documentary award
for Chico Mendes' Legacy.
Award for best awareness work
for The colour of Africa: women in Mali, light and shadows, In the 4th edition of the video and environment festival of Gavá, Barcelona.
Award for best awareness work
for Art for African awakening, In the 5th edition of the video and environment festival of Gavá, Barcelona.
Golden sun for the best documentary
for How could I forget you, in the film festival of Sant Feliú de Guixols.
2nd Prize Imagery of the center of Andalusian Studies
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Isilon overhauls clustered storage line with X-Series
Isilon's latest IQ clustered system upgrade adds no functionality, but new hardware boosts performance.
Isilon Systems Inc. is overhauling its IQ clustered storage systems, bumping up the speeds and feeds in reaction to large storage vendors ramping up their own clustered offerings.
On Monday Isilon launched its X-Series platform, which the vendor claims increases performance for data writes and random access by 60% over its I-Series. The X-Series new motherboard includes a dual-core Intel Xeon 5130 processor that increases memory cache to 4 MB, memory speed to 667 MHz and the number of bus lanes to four. The X-Series also supports 10 Gbps Ethernet on the front end and double-data rate (DDR)
Like the I-Series, the X-Series scales to more than 1.6 PB and provides performance of 10 Gbps in a single file and volume with a 96-node cluster. The X-Series is certified to run VMware ESX Server 3.0 and work with Cisco Systems Inc.'s WAAS and Riverbed Technology Inc.'s Steelhead wide area file services WAFS appliances.
According to Isilon, more than 60 customers have upgraded to the new system, although two users told SearchStorage.com they haven't had it long enough to notice much of a difference.
Brad Stephens, systems engineering manager of Canadian seismic processing firm Arcis Corp., said he upgraded because he needed more capacity. Arcis now has two 24-node clusters and about 250 TB of raw data of Isilon storage. "We needed additional storage," he said. "But we're told there should be a performance benefit and we're looking to squeeze out every bit of performance we can get. High-performance storage is mandatory for what we do."
Jack Yudell, data center operations manager for Austin Radiological Association, said he doubled capacity to two 48 TB clusters in order to replicate between them. "We were looking to add capacity to our clusters," he said. "The anticipated boost in performance hopefully will be a welcome bonus."
Organizations seeking clustered storage have more options from large vendors these days. Among Isilon's competitors in file storage, Network Appliance Inc. offers OnTap GX for high-performance computing, Hewlett-Packard Co. last year acquired PolyServe Inc. for clustered storage, and Sun Microsystems Inc. is pushing ZFS for clusters. EMC Corp. plans to bring out a hardware/software-clustered system with code names Maui and Hulk this year. On the block storage side, IBM acquired Israeli startup XIV Ltd. and Dell Inc. paid $1.4 billion for iSCSI SAN vendor EqualLogic Inc. in recent months to beef up its clustered platforms.
"The big vendors are raising awareness in the market for users," said Brett Goodwin, Isilon marketing vice president.
They're also raising the competition level. Isilon had found a niche where NAS market leaders NetApp and EMC were slow to go. NetApp chief marketing officer Jay Kidd said demand for clusters is just developing in mainstream NAS environments. "For the mainstream, the urgency to get to a clustered model is not that high," he said. "Clustered file systems have been around a long time with a fairly modest uptake."
Nevertheless, NetApp is working to consolidate GX with its primary OnTap operating system, Kidd said. Integration has been slow, considering that NetApp acquired clustering technology when it bought startup Spinnaker Networks in 2003.
Besides the competition, Isilon must recover from what one analyst calls it's "post-IPO hangover." Isilon went public in late 2006 by hailing itself as the clustered storage leader, but its 2007 results were disappointing, and its stock price tanked. As a result, last October it switched CEOs from Steve Goldman to founder Sujal Patel.
But the pain isn't over yet -- an independent audit committee is reviewing the timing and treatment of revenue recognition, and whether the company's internal controls for revenue recognition are sufficient. The review has prevented Isilon from announcing its financial results for the last two quarters, and it faces delisting from Nasdaq for lack of compliance.
Yet from a technology standpoint, Isilon appears ahead of its rivals because it's been playing the clustered storage game longer. Despite its financial missteps, Isilon claims that it gained more than 300 customers last year, doubling its previous total.
"Irrespective of Isilon's ill-executed post-IPO hangover, they've sold tons of the stuff," said Steve Duplessie , Enterprise Strategy Group founder and senior analyst . "They're winning right now, but you'll see others doing it. The reason NetApp bought Spinnaker was to do this. Everybody has a skunkworks project set up to do this."
Duplessie said it will also take upgrades, like Isilon's new system, to stay in front in the cluster game. "It's never fast enough, it never scales enough," he said of storage. "You always need more, you never need less. You always play that 'mine's bigger' game."
Goodwin said that Isilon's focus on clustered storage will help it win. "We feel like we've got a solid two to three year technology lead," he said. "And we're not standing still. We're a 100% pure play on clustered storage."
Right now, Isilon's a 100% pure play on file-based clustered storage, but Goodwin hinted that could change. "Adding iSCSI capability for block storage would not be difficult," he said. "But we're not announcing that today."
Pricing ranges from $2,500 per terabyte for a nearline archive 12000 model to $12,000 per terabyte for a high-performance 1920 system.


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Sunday, December 25, 2011
Visiting my mother and youngest sister for Christmas in Pasadena, one of my bucket list items was to experience a local farmers market. I love perusing grocery stores and farmers markets when I visit a new place. It is fascinating to see what the exact same store carries in different areas of the country. It is great to see more and more local, organic items from produce to meat to coffee!
Mother and I visited the south Pasadena farmers market on Thursday. It was a well rounded farmers market with prepared food vendors, local produce, local grass fed meat, local raw milk (it is legal in CA to sell raw milk products directly to the public), local olive oil, local honey, live music, and even Santa.
We did several tastings-honey, raw milk, olive oil, and balsamic vinegars.
We enjoyed tastings of honey. It was amazing to taste the fruit or herb that the bee was pollinating come through so strongly in the honey. Bill's Bees had raw honey harvested from sage, wildflower, and orange pollen. They also had various beeswax beauty products.
The bees are wintering now at their home in Angeles National Forest. They will be brought to the almond farms in February to pollinate the almond trees. Without the bees, there would be no almonds. My mother purchased the wildflower honey.
My mother had been looking for a raw milk source since she moved to Pasadena from Kansas. Organic Pastures had a booth and refrigerated truck with pastured raised raw milk products and beef. The raw milk was delicious! For those that are nervous about raw milk, raw milk has to pass the same bacteria count as pasteurized milk.
We stopped by a local olive oil producer's booth and enjoyed tastings of their farm raised and processed olive oils as well as high quality, imported balsamic vinegars from Modena, Italy. The Ojai Olive Oil is grown and produced in California's Ojai Valley.
Only vinegar made to the Italian consortium standards and produced in Modena and Reggio Emilia can be called "Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale." They are made very differently than others labeled as "balsamic vinegar." They are a 30% reduction of Trebbiano grapes that is fermented in wood barrels for a minimum of 12 years. A little balsamic vinegar is all that is needed to flavor a dish.
I purchased their French olive oil, a rich olive oil face cream made from all natural ingredients that smelled good enough to eat, olive oil soap which is also great for hair washing, and a balsamic vinegar.


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Pellegrini: FFP breach never a concern
Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini has said there has never been any concern that the club would be excluded from the Champions League for breaching UEFA's financial fair play (FFP) rules.
UEFA president Michel Platini has said he does not think any of the 20 clubs who are being investigated for breaches will be banned from European competition next season.
City have been working closely with UEFA to try to ensure they comply with spending rules, which limit losses to €45m over the last two years.
"I felt here inside the club nobody feared we could be suspended for next year," said Pellegrini.
City insiders say they are confident that they will not face severe action from the European governing body. Any sanctions are likely to be made public at the end of next week.
Meanwhile, Pellegrini believes Sergio Aguero's return from injury could prove crucial as City try to push Liverpool all the way in the title race.
City travel to Crystal Palace today knowing that they must win if they are to have any chance of pipping Liverpool.
"It is very good to have him back because I always say Sergio is a good player, he is important, he makes a difference," he said. "Always he is very important for the team."
City got back on track against West Brom last Monday, but need another good result against Palace after their title charge was damaged by being beaten by Liverpool and held to a 2-2 draw by Sunderland. David Silva and winger Jesus Navas will both miss the trip to Selhurst Park with ankle injuries, but Yaya Toure should be available.
Pellegrini has admitted that Palace are now a daunting prospect and added: "Palace will be very difficult because they are a good team, they are playing very well and here at the Etihad we had a very difficult game and just beat them 1-0.
"Tony Pulis is doing a very good job, they are one of the best teams of the second round (half of the season) and I congratulate him."
Pellegrini also refused to blame City's involvement in all four competitions at a time when current Premier League leaders Liverpool were only involved in one for giving the Reds the advantage.
"I think it was good to be in the four competitions for so long. We can't now complain about being in them. I said when I started the season that the four competitions were important. We had to play in every game to try to win. We were the team which continued longest in all of them.
"We won one – now we finish the Premier League by playing in these last games and we'll see what happens."
Sunday Indo Sport


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Who says the NCAA is resistant to change? Today, the legislative council approved a rule change that will allow all Division I athletes unlimited meals and snacks.
Previously, scholarship athletes were allowed only three meals a day, which isn't always sufficient when you need 5,000 calories a day to maintain your playing weight, or when your practice and film sessions span an entire meal period at the dining hall. Walk-ons were just shit out of luck altogether.
Though this comes just weeks after UConn guard Shabazz Napier told reporters he's gone to bed hungry, this is just one of many incremental changes in the works as the NCAA kicks some pebbles to try and avoid a landslide.


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'Hitecherous' is the fresh EP offering from Steve Spacek and Mark Pritchard's new project Africa Hitech.
Keeping the pressure on after the digital dancehall minimalism of Blen – which drew frenzied comparisons to everyone from Wiley to Basic Channel and Vybz Kartel – this new 6-track bomb will rattle more than a few rooftop aerials.
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'How Does It Make U Feel' pushes the sonic vapors of 'Blen' into a futuristic bass anthem, replete with bubbling 303 bass, sonar synths and Spacek's commanding falsetto. Taking on the icy blueprint of Grime's early, street-stalking strains and updating them with far more warmth and depth, 'Said Speed', 'Lash Out' and 'Boingy' are some of the most speaker-shredding tracks in recent memory.
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#ifndef GNUPG_COMMON_IOBUF_H
#define GNUPG_COMMON_IOBUF_H
/* An iobuf is basically a filter in a pipeline.
Consider the following command, which consists of three filters
that are chained together:
$ cat file | base64 --decode | gunzip
The first filter reads the file from the file system and sends that
data to the second filter. The second filter decodes
base64-encoded data and sends the data to the third and last
filter. The last filter decompresses the data and the result is
displayed on the terminal. The iobuf system works in the same way
where each iobuf is a filter and the individual iobufs can be
chained together.
There are number of predefined filters. iobuf_open(), for
instance, creates a filter that reads from a specified file. And,
iobuf_temp_with_content() creates a filter that returns some
specified contents. There are also filters for writing content.
iobuf_openrw opens a file for writing. iobuf_temp creates a filter
that writes data to a fixed-sized buffer.
To chain filters together, you use the iobuf_push_filter()
function. The filters are chained together using the chain field
in the iobuf_t.
A pipeline can only be used for reading (IOBUF_INPUT) or for
writing (IOBUF_OUTPUT / IOBUF_OUTPUT_TEMP). When reading, data
flows from the last filter towards the first. That is, the user
calls iobuf_read(), the module reads from the first filter, which
gets its input from the second filter, etc. When writing, data
flows from the first filter towards the last. In this case, when
the user calls iobuf_write(), the data is written to the first
filter, which writes the transformed data to the second filter,
An iobuf_t contains some state about the filter. For instance, it
indicates if the filter has already returned EOF (filter_eof) and
the next filter in the pipeline, if any (chain). It also contains
a function pointer, filter. This is a generic function. It is
called when input is needed or output is available. In this case
it is passed a pointer to some filter-specific persistent state
(filter_ov), the actual operation, the next filter in the chain, if
any, and a buffer that either contains the contents to write, if
the pipeline is setup to write data, or is the place to store data,
if the pipeline is setup to read data.
Unlike a Unix pipeline, an IOBUF pipeline can return EOF multiple
times. This is similar to the following:
{ cat file1; cat file2; } | grep foo
However, instead of grep seeing a single stream, grep would see
each byte stream followed by an EOF marker. (When a filter returns
EOF, the EOF is returned to the user exactly once and then the
filter is removed from the pipeline.) */
/* For estream_t. */
#include "../common/types.h"
#include "../common/sysutils.h"
#define DBG_IOBUF iobuf_debug_mode
/* Filter control modes. */
/* Command codes for iobuf_ioctl. */
typedef enum
IOBUF_IOCTL_KEEP_OPEN = 1, /* Uses intval. */
IOBUF_IOCTL_INVALIDATE_CACHE = 2, /* Uses ptrval. */
IOBUF_IOCTL_NO_CACHE = 3, /* Uses intval. */
IOBUF_IOCTL_FSYNC = 4 /* Uses ptrval. */
} iobuf_ioctl_t;
enum iobuf_use
/* Pipeline is in input mode. The data flows from the end to the
beginning. That is, when reading from the pipeline, the first
filter gets its input from the second filter, etc. */
/* Pipeline is in input mode. The last filter in the pipeline is
a temporary buffer from which the data is "read". */
/* Pipeline is in output mode. The data flows from the beginning
to the end. That is, when writing to the pipeline, the user
writes to the first filter, which transforms the data and sends
it to the second filter, etc. */
/* Pipeline is in output mode. The last filter in the pipeline is
a temporary buffer that grows as necessary. */
typedef struct iobuf_struct *iobuf_t;
typedef struct iobuf_struct *IOBUF; /* Compatibility with gpg 1.4. */
/* fixme: we should hide most of this stuff */
struct iobuf_struct
/* The type of filter. Either IOBUF_INPUT, IOBUF_OUTPUT or
enum iobuf_use use;
/* nlimit can be changed using iobuf_set_limit. If non-zero, it is
the number of additional bytes that can be read from the filter
before EOF is forcefully returned. */
off_t nlimit;
/* nbytes if the number of bytes that have been read (using
iobuf_get / iobuf_readbyte / iobuf_read) since the last call to
iobuf_set_limit. */
off_t nbytes;
/* The number of bytes read prior to the last call to
iobuf_set_limit. Thus, the total bytes read (i.e., the position
of stream) is ntotal + nbytes. */
off_t ntotal;
/* Whether we need to read from the filter one byte at a time or
whether we can do bulk reads. We need to read one byte at a time
if a limit (set via iobuf_set_limit) is active. */
int nofast;
/* A buffer for unread/unwritten data.
For an output pipeline (IOBUF_OUTPUT), this is the data that has
not yet been written to the filter. Consider a simple pipeline
consisting of a single stage, which writes to a file. When you
write to the pipeline (iobuf_writebyte or iobuf_write), the data
is first stored in this buffer. Only when the buffer is full or
you call iobuf_flush() is FILTER actually called and the data
written to the file.
For an input pipeline (IOBUF_INPUT), this is the data that has
been read from this filter, but not yet been read from the
preceding filter (or the user, if this filter is the head of the
pipeline). Again, consider a simple pipeline consisting of a
single stage. This stage reads from a file. If you read a
single byte (iobuf_get) and the buffer is empty, then FILTER is
called to fill the buffer. In this case, a single byte is not
requested, but the whole buffer is filled (if possible). */
/* Size of the buffer. */
size_t size;
/* Number of bytes at the beginning of the buffer that have
already been consumed. (In other words: the index of the first
byte that hasn't been consumed.) This is only non-zero for
input filters. */
size_t start;
/* The number of bytes in the buffer including any bytes that have
been consumed. */
size_t len;
/* The buffer itself. */
byte *buf;
} d;
/* When FILTER is called to read some data, it may read some data
and then return EOF. We can't return the EOF immediately.
Instead, we note that we observed the EOF and when the buffer is
finally empty, we return the EOF. */
int filter_eof;
/* Like filter_eof, when FILTER is called to read some data, it may
read some data and then return an error. We can't return the
error (in the form of an EOF) immediately. Instead, we note that
we observed the error and when the buffer is finally empty, we
return the EOF. */
int error;
/* The callback function to read data from the filter, etc. See
iobuf_filter_push for details. */
int (*filter) (void *opaque, int control,
iobuf_t chain, byte * buf, size_t * len);
/* An opaque pointer that can be used for local filter state. This
is passed as the first parameter to FILTER. */
void *filter_ov;
/* Whether the iobuf code should free(filter_ov) when destroying the
filter. */
int filter_ov_owner;
/* When using iobuf_open, iobuf_create, iobuf_openrw to open a file,
the file's name is saved here. This is used to delete the file
when an output pipeline (IOBUF_OUPUT) is canceled
(iobuf_cancel). */
char *real_fname;
/* The next filter in the pipeline. */
iobuf_t chain;
/* This field is for debugging. Each time a filter is allocated
(via iobuf_alloc()), a monotonically increasing counter is
incremented and this field is set to the new value. This field
should only be accessed via the iobuf_io macro. */
int no;
/* The number of filters in the pipeline following (not including)
this one. When you call iobuf_push_filter or iobuf_push_filter2,
this value is used to check the length of the pipeline if the
pipeline already contains 65 stages then these functions fail.
This amount of nesting typically indicates corrupted data or an
active denial of service attack. */
int subno;
#ifndef EXTERN_UNLESS_MAIN_MODULE
#if defined (__riscos__) && !defined (INCLUDED_BY_MAIN_MODULE)
#define EXTERN_UNLESS_MAIN_MODULE extern
#define EXTERN_UNLESS_MAIN_MODULE
EXTERN_UNLESS_MAIN_MODULE int iobuf_debug_mode;
/* Whether iobuf_open, iobuf_create and iobuf_is_pipefilename
recognize special filenames. Special filenames are of the form
"-&nnnn" where n is a positive integer. The integer corresponds to
a file descriptor. Note: these functions always recognize the
special filename '-', which corresponds to standard input. */
void iobuf_enable_special_filenames (int yes);
/* Returns whether the specified filename corresponds to a pipe. In
particular, this function checks if FNAME is "-" and, if special
filenames are enabled (see iobuf_enable_special_filenames), whether
FNAME is a special filename. */
int iobuf_is_pipe_filename (const char *fname);
/* Allocate a new filter. This filter doesn't have a function
assigned to it. Thus you need to manually set IOBUF->FILTER and
IOBUF->FILTER_OV, if required. This function is intended to help
create a new primary source or primary sink, i.e., the last filter
in the pipeline.
USE is IOBUF_INPUT, IOBUF_INPUT_TEMP, IOBUF_OUTPUT or
BUFSIZE is the desired internal buffer size (that is, the size of
the typical read / write request). */
iobuf_t iobuf_alloc (int use, size_t bufsize);
/* Create an output filter that simply buffers data written to it.
This is useful for collecting data for later processing. The
buffer can be written to in the usual way (iobuf_write, etc.). The
data can later be extracted using iobuf_write_temp() or
iobuf_temp_to_buffer(). */
iobuf_t iobuf_temp (void);
/* Create an input filter that contains some data for reading. */
iobuf_t iobuf_temp_with_content (const char *buffer, size_t length);
/* Create an input file filter that reads from a file. If FNAME is
'-', reads from stdin. If special filenames are enabled
(iobuf_enable_special_filenames), then interprets special
filenames. */
iobuf_t iobuf_open (const char *fname);
/* Create an output file filter that writes to a file. If FNAME is
NULL or '-', writes to stdout. If special filenames are enabled
(iobuf_enable_special_filenames), then interprets special
filenames. If FNAME is not NULL, '-' or a special filename, the
file is opened for writing. If the file exists, it is truncated.
If MODE700 is TRUE, the file is created with mode 600. Otherwise,
mode 666 is used. */
iobuf_t iobuf_create (const char *fname, int mode700);
/* Create an output file filter that writes to a specified file.
Neither '-' nor special file names are recognized. */
iobuf_t iobuf_openrw (const char *fname);
/* Create a file filter using an existing file descriptor. If MODE
contains the letter 'w', creates an output filter. Otherwise,
creates an input filter. Note: MODE must reflect the file
descriptors actual mode! When the filter is destroyed, the file
descriptor is closed. */
iobuf_t iobuf_fdopen (int fd, const char *mode);
/* Like iobuf_fdopen, but doesn't close the file descriptor when the
filter is destroyed. */
iobuf_t iobuf_fdopen_nc (int fd, const char *mode);
/* Create a filter using an existing estream. If MODE contains the
letter 'w', creates an output filter. Otherwise, creates an input
filter. If KEEP_OPEN is TRUE, then the stream is not closed when
the filter is destroyed. Otherwise, the stream is closed when the
filter is destroyed. */
iobuf_t iobuf_esopen (estream_t estream, const char *mode, int keep_open);
/* Create a filter using an existing socket. On Windows creates a
special socket filter. On non-Windows systems simply, this simply
calls iobuf_fdopen. */
iobuf_t iobuf_sockopen (int fd, const char *mode);
/* Set various options / perform different actions on a PIPELINE. See
the IOBUF_IOCTL_* macros above. */
int iobuf_ioctl (iobuf_t a, iobuf_ioctl_t cmd, int intval, void *ptrval);
/* Close a pipeline. The filters in the pipeline are first flushed
using iobuf_flush, if they are output filters, and then
IOBUFCTRL_FREE is called on each filter.
If any filter returns a non-zero value in response to the
IOBUFCTRL_FREE, that first such non-zero value is returned. Note:
processing is not aborted in this case. If all filters are freed
successfully, 0 is returned. */
int iobuf_close (iobuf_t iobuf);
/* Calls IOBUFCTRL_CANCEL on each filter in the pipeline. Then calls
io_close() on the pipeline. Finally, if the pipeline is an output
pipeline, deletes the file. Returns the result of calling
iobuf_close on the pipeline. */
int iobuf_cancel (iobuf_t iobuf);
/* Add a new filter to the front of a pipeline. A is the head of the
pipeline. F is the filter implementation. OV is an opaque pointer
that is passed to F and is normally used to hold any internal
state, such as a file pointer.
Note: you may only maintain a reference to an iobuf_t as a
reference to the head of the pipeline. That is, don't think about
setting a pointer in OV to point to the filter's iobuf_t. This is
because when we add a new filter to a pipeline, we memcpy the state
in A into new buffer. This has the advantage that there is no need
to update any references to the pipeline when a filter is added or
removed, but it also means that a filter's state moves around in
The behavior of the filter function is determined by the value of
the control parameter:
IOBUFCTRL_INIT: Called this value just before the filter is
linked into the pipeline. This can be used to initialize
internal data structures.
IOBUFCTRL_FREE: Called with this value just before the filter is
removed from the pipeline. Normally used to release internal
data structures, close a file handle, etc.
IOBUFCTRL_UNDERFLOW: Called with this value to fill the passed
buffer with more data. *LEN is the size of the buffer. Before
returning, it should be set to the number of bytes which were
written into the buffer. The function must return 0 to
indicate success, -1 on EOF and a GPG_ERR_xxxxx code for any
Note: this function may both return data and indicate an error
or EOF. In this case, it simply writes the data to BUF, sets
*LEN and returns the appropriate return code. The implication
is that if an error occurs and no data has yet been written, it
is essential that *LEN be set to 0!
IOBUFCTRL_FLUSH: Called with this value to write out any
collected data. *LEN is the number of bytes in BUF that need
to be written out. Returns 0 on success and a GPG_ERR_* code
otherwise. *LEN must be set to the number of bytes that were
written out.
IOBUFCTRL_CANCEL: Called with this value when iobuf_cancel() is
called on the pipeline.
IOBUFCTRL_DESC: Called with this value to get a human-readable
description of the filter. *LEN is the size of the buffer.
The description is filled into BUF, NUL-terminated. Always
returns 0.
int iobuf_push_filter (iobuf_t a, int (*f) (void *opaque, int control,
iobuf_t chain, byte * buf,
size_t * len), void *ov);
/* This variant of iobuf_push_filter allows the called to indicate
that OV should be freed when this filter is freed. That is, if
REL_OV is TRUE, then when the filter is popped or freed OV will be
freed after the filter function is called with control set to
int iobuf_push_filter2 (iobuf_t a,
int (*f) (void *opaque, int control, iobuf_t chain,
byte * buf, size_t * len), void *ov,
int rel_ov);
/* Pop the top filter. The top filter must have the filter function F
and the cookie OV. The cookie check is ignored if OV is NULL. */
int iobuf_pop_filter (iobuf_t a,
int (*f) (void *opaque, int control,
iobuf_t chain, byte * buf, size_t * len),
void *ov);
/* Used for debugging. Prints out the chain using log_debug if
IOBUF_DEBUG_MODE is not 0. */
int iobuf_print_chain (iobuf_t a);
/* Indicate that some error occurred on the specified filter. */
#define iobuf_set_error(a) do { (a)->error = 1; } while(0)
/* Return any pending error on filter A. */
#define iobuf_error(a) ((a)->error)
/* Limit the amount of additional data that may be read from the
filter. That is, if you've already read 100 bytes from A and you
set the limit to 50, then you can read up to an additional 50 bytes
(i.e., a total of 150 bytes) before EOF is forcefully returned.
Setting NLIMIT to 0 removes any active limit.
Note: using iobuf_seek removes any currently enforced limit! */
void iobuf_set_limit (iobuf_t a, off_t nlimit);
/* Returns the number of bytes that have been read from the pipeline.
Note: the result is undefined for IOBUF_OUTPUT and IOBUF_OUTPUT_TEMP
pipelines! */
off_t iobuf_tell (iobuf_t a);
/* There are two cases:
- If A is an INPUT or OUTPUT pipeline, then the last filter in the
pipeline is found. If that is not a file filter, -1 is returned.
Otherwise, an fseek(..., SEEK_SET) is performed on the file
- If A is a TEMP pipeline and the *first* (and thus only filter) is
a TEMP filter, then the "file position" is effectively unchanged.
That is, data is appended to the buffer and the seek does not
cause the size of the buffer to grow.
If no error occurred, then any limit previous set by
iobuf_set_limit() is cleared. Further, any error on the filter
(the file filter or the temp filter) is cleared.
Returns 0 on success and -1 if an error occurs. */
int iobuf_seek (iobuf_t a, off_t newpos);
/* Read a single byte. If a filter has no more data, returns -1 to
indicate the EOF. Generally, you don't want to use this function,
but instead prefer the iobuf_get macro, which is faster if there is
data in the internal buffer. */
int iobuf_readbyte (iobuf_t a);
/* Get a byte from the iobuf; must check for eof prior to this
function. This function returns values in the range 0 .. 255 or -1
to indicate EOF. iobuf_get_noeof() does not return -1 to indicate
EOF, but masks the returned value to be in the range 0 .. 255. */
#define iobuf_get(a) \
( ((a)->nofast || (a)->d.start >= (a)->d.len )? \
iobuf_readbyte((a)) : ( (a)->nbytes++, (a)->d.buf[(a)->d.start++] ) )
#define iobuf_get_noeof(a) (iobuf_get((a))&0xff)
/* Fill BUF with up to BUFLEN bytes. If a filter has no more data,
returns -1 to indicate the EOF. Otherwise returns the number of
bytes read. */
int iobuf_read (iobuf_t a, void *buf, unsigned buflen);
/* Read a line of input (including the '\n') from the pipeline.
The semantics are the same as for fgets(), but if the buffer is too
short a larger one will be allocated up to *MAX_LENGTH and the end
of the line except the trailing '\n' discarded. (Thus,
*ADDR_OF_BUFFER must be allocated using malloc().) If the buffer
is enlarged, then *LENGTH_OF_BUFFER will be updated to reflect the
new size. If the line is truncated, then *MAX_LENGTH will be set
to 0. If *ADDR_OF_BUFFER is NULL, a buffer is allocated using
A line is considered a byte stream ending in a '\n'. Returns the
number of characters written to the buffer (i.e., excluding any
discarded characters due to truncation). Thus, use this instead of
strlen(buffer) to determine the length of the string as this is
unreliable if the input contains NUL characters.
EOF is indicated by a line of length zero.
The last LF may be missing due to an EOF. */
unsigned iobuf_read_line (iobuf_t a, byte ** addr_of_buffer,
unsigned *length_of_buffer, unsigned *max_length);
/* Read up to BUFLEN bytes from pipeline A. Note: this function can't
return more than the pipeline's internal buffer size. The return
value is the number of bytes actually written to BUF. If the
filter returns EOF, then this function returns -1.
This function does not clear any pending EOF. That is, if the
pipeline consists of two filters and the first one returns EOF
during the peek, then the subsequent iobuf_read* will still return
EOF before returning the data from the second filter. */
int iobuf_peek (iobuf_t a, byte * buf, unsigned buflen);
/* Write a byte to the pipeline. Returns 0 on success and an error
code otherwise. */
int iobuf_writebyte (iobuf_t a, unsigned c);
/* Alias for iobuf_writebyte. */
#define iobuf_put(a,c) iobuf_writebyte(a,c)
/* Write a sequence of bytes to the pipeline. Returns 0 on success
and an error code otherwise. */
int iobuf_write (iobuf_t a, const void *buf, unsigned buflen);
/* Write a string (not including the NUL terminator) to the pipeline.
Returns 0 on success and an error code otherwise. */
int iobuf_writestr (iobuf_t a, const char *buf);
/* Flushes the pipeline removing all filters but the sink (the last
filter) in the process. */
void iobuf_flush_temp (iobuf_t temp);
/* Flushes the pipeline SOURCE removing all filters but the sink (the
last filter) in the process (i.e., it calls
iobuf_flush_temp(source)) and then writes the data to the pipeline
DEST. Note: this doesn't free (iobuf_close()) SOURCE. Both SOURCE
and DEST must be output pipelines. */
int iobuf_write_temp (iobuf_t dest, iobuf_t source);
/* Flushes each filter in the pipeline (i.e., sends any buffered data
to the filter by calling IOBUFCTRL_FLUSH). Then, copies up to the
first BUFLEN bytes from the last filter's internal buffer (which
will only be non-empty if it is a temp filter) to the buffer
BUFFER. Returns the number of bytes actually copied. */
size_t iobuf_temp_to_buffer (iobuf_t a, byte * buffer, size_t buflen);
/* Copies the data from the input iobuf SOURCE to the output iobuf
DEST until either an error is encountered or EOF is reached.
Returns the number of bytes successfully written. If an error
occurred, then any buffered bytes are not returned to SOURCE and are
effectively lost. To check if an error occurred, use
iobuf_error. */
size_t iobuf_copy (iobuf_t dest, iobuf_t source);
/* Return the size of any underlying file. This only works with
file_filter based pipelines.
On Win32, it is sometimes not possible to determine the size of
files larger than 4GB. In this case, *OVERFLOW (if not NULL) is
set to 1. Otherwise, *OVERFLOW is set to 0. */
off_t iobuf_get_filelength (iobuf_t a, int *overflow);
#define IOBUF_FILELENGTH_LIMIT 0xffffffff
/* Return the file descriptor designating the underlying file. This
only works with file_filter based pipelines. */
int iobuf_get_fd (iobuf_t a);
/* Return the real filename, if available. This only supports
pipelines that end in file filters. Returns NULL if not
available. */
const char *iobuf_get_real_fname (iobuf_t a);
/* Return the filename or a description thereof. For instance, for
iobuf_open("-"), this will return "[stdin]". This only supports
pipelines that end in file filters. Returns NULL if not
available. */
const char *iobuf_get_fname (iobuf_t a);
/* Like iobuf_getfname, but instead of returning NULL if no
description is available, return "[?]". */
const char *iobuf_get_fname_nonnull (iobuf_t a);
/* Pushes a filter on the pipeline that interprets the datastream as
an OpenPGP data block whose length is encoded using partial body
length headers (see Section 22.214.171.124 of RFC 4880). Concretely, it
just returns / writes the data and finishes the packet with an
void iobuf_set_partial_body_length_mode (iobuf_t a, size_t len);
/* If PARTIAL is set, then read from the pipeline until the first EOF
is returned.
If PARTIAL is 0, then read up to N bytes or until the first EOF is
Recall: a filter can return EOF. In this case, it and all
preceding filters are popped from the pipeline and the next read is
from the following filter (which may or may not return EOF). */
void iobuf_skip_rest (iobuf_t a, unsigned long n, int partial);
#define iobuf_where(a) "[don't know]"
/* Each time a filter is allocated (via iobuf_alloc()), a
monotonically increasing counter is incremented and this field is
set to the new value. This macro returns that number. */
#define iobuf_id(a) ((a)->no)
#define iobuf_get_temp_buffer(a) ( (a)->d.buf )
#define iobuf_get_temp_length(a) ( (a)->d.len )
/* Whether the filter uses an in-memory buffer. */
#define iobuf_is_temp(a) ( (a)->use == IOBUF_OUTPUT_TEMP )
#endif /*GNUPG_COMMON_IOBUF_H*/


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The New American
Dumping the Dollar for Global Currency
Written by William F. Jasper
Friday, 22 May 2009 12:20
dollarsWill the Obama spend-a-rama finish off the dollar as the world's reserve currency? It well may, and sooner than most people think. Any day now we may wake up to headlines announcing that the International Monetary Fund's SDR (Special Drawing Rights) is being adopted as the new global currency.
That, of course, was the revolutionary plan adopted by the finance ministers, central bankers, and heads of state at the London G20 Summit in April. But you didn't read about it in the financial pages or see it reported in the extensive (surface) coverage of the summit meeting. One of the few reporters to reveal the real news of the conference was Ambrose Evans-Pritchard of Britain's Telegraph.
The headline of his April 7 report read, "The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency," while the subtitle ominously told the rest of the story: "The world is a step closer to a global currency, backed by a global central bank, running monetary policy for all humanity."
Evans-Pritchard expounds with these details:
A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order. "We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity," it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century.
In effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global "quantitative easing." In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it.
Three weeks after the G20 confab, on April 25, following the IMF's annual spring meeting in Washington, D.C., IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn announced the IMF would begin selling bonds as a way to raise additional funds, ostensibly to lend to struggling nations. Although issuing bonds has been discussed previously, the IMF has never before taken such a step.
China, Brazil, Russia, and other countries have been pushing this "solution" for the past several months, and we can expect the anointed financial gurus to begin churning this idea ever more frequently to prep opinion molders for the planned currency switcheroo.
Thus, we see articles appearing such as this one entitled, "The dollar's last days as the dominant reserve currency?" by Onno Wijnholds on May 20 in the European Voice. Now, J. Onno de Beaufort Wijnholds is far from being a household name, but in the rarefied atmosphere of global finance, the Dutchman is well known. A former executive director of the International Monetary Fund and a former permanent representative of the European Central Bank in the United States, he is a regular at the concalves of the financial elites. Wijnholds writes:
Zhou Xiaochuan, the governor of the People's Bank of China, recently suggested that replacing the dollar with the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) special drawing rights (SDR) as the dominant reserve currency would bring greater stability to the global financial system.
The idea of a supranational reserve currency is also, it appears, supported by Russia and other emerging markets. And a United Nations advisory committee has argued for a new global reserve currency, possibly one based on the SDR.
Somewhat quicker out of the gate was C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Bergsten, a protégé of Henry Kissinger, was a Treasury official in the Carter administration and a senior fellow at Brookings, the Carnegie Endowment, and the Council on Foreign Relations. On April 8, the Financial Times ran an op-ed by Bergsten entitled, "We Should Listen to Beijing's Currency Idea." In it, he wrote:
Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of China's central bank, has suggested creating a "super-sovereign reserve currency" to replace the dollar over the long run. He would sharply enhance the global role of special drawing rights (SDRs), the international asset created by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in the late 1960s and just given an enormous boost by the decision of the Group of 20 to expand its issuance by $250 billion (€189 billion, £171 billion). These are the first big proposals for international monetary reform from China or indeed any emerging-market economy and deserve to be taken seriously for that reason alone.
Several other Asian countries, Brazil, and Russia have expressed support for Mr. Zhou's ideas. The United States and several other governments, however, have been quick to reject them, reaffirming their confidence in the central global role of the dollar.
However, while Bergsten, Wijnhold, and other globalists refer to the move toward the SDR global currency as Beijing's idea, that is more than a bit disingenuous. In truth, as Bergsten admits later on in his op-ed, the communist economists in Beijing merely adopted the proposal as he had put it forward in the Financial Times back in December of 2007 ("How to Solve the Problem of the Dollar").
Even that admission, though, concealed the fact that Bergsten has been pushing for global economic management by elites for decades. Twenty years ago, in a 1989 interview with the Christian Science Monitor, Bergsten asserted: "The world economy is in trouble unless there is some central steering mechanism." And in his articles, speeches, and books, he has made it plain that he and his fellow "wise men" should be entrusted with that steering.
One of those fellow globalist elites is Richard N. Cooper Maurits C. Boas, professor of international economics at Harvard, like Bergsten a former high-level Treasury official, and a leading light in the CFR brain trust. In a 1984 piece for the CFR journal Foreign Affairs entitled "A Monetary System for the Future," Dr. Cooper baldly proclaimed:
I suggest a radical alternative scheme for the next century: the creation of a common currency for all of the industrial democracies, with a common monetary policy and a joint Bank of Issue to determine that monetary policy.
Cooper went on to acknowledge that "a single currency is possible only if there is in effect a single monetary policy, and a single authority issuing the currency and directing the monetary policy."
"How can independent states accomplish that?" he asked rhetorically. Naturally, he had the answer: "They need to turn over the determination of monetary policy to a supranational body." The IMF.
Global monetary control, as proposed by Cooper, Bergsten, Zhou Xiaochuan, et al., would lead rapidly and ineluctably to global political control: world government. Is that the plan behind the rush to destroy what's left of the dollar's value? It certainly seems so to this writer.
Related articles:
Global Fusion: The G20, IMF, and World Government
G20 Pledges Supersized IMF
"Conspiracy Theorists" Not So Crazy After All
Global-currency Call Gets Nod From Geithner, Others
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Yogi Ram will be in Europe from Nov 28th till Dec 22nd.
The programs will run as normal under our experienced staff with Teju as leading Teacher and Guide.
The Ashram is founded since 2012. Under the daily guidance of Yogi Ram many spiritual seekers enrich themselves by following the routine, participating in a Yoga Teacher Training or Ayurvedic healing program. Himalayan Yog Ashram is situated in Tapovan, a very peaceful area of Laxman Jhula - Rishikesh. Surrounded by mountains and with the ever-flowing Ganges nearby, the energy is soothing and calming the nervous system immediately upon arrival.
Everything about this ashram comes from the heart. The meditations, yoga classes, Ayurvedic treatments and food are all carefully prepared so that each guest in the ashram is fully supported in their healing, learning, and inner process. I stayed for four weeks in this ashram and underwent a personal transformation I did not anticipate or expect. Over the weeks I was presented with countless opportunities to delve deep within myself and look at what I really wanted in life. I feel I have emerged from this place a much steadier, calmer, freer person who is ready to start down the path of their dreams (now I know what they are!).
- Nikki (Sydney) -